Jinpingmei

Chapter 97

The word said: I regret my deep wish at the beginning, but after the price of years, [-]% of the grudges.Ren Yueshui and Wushan Mountains are like screens and barriers to play, but Nai raises his eyes lazily alone.

Appreciating the fireworks, listening to the stringed pipes, just entertaining, and heartbreaking.Always turn to Danqing, forcefully read the letters frequently, and once seemed to see it with my own eyes.

It is said that Chen Jingji got off his horse in the garrison mansion, and Zhang Shengxian went in to report to Chunmei.Chunmei paid for it, and taught him to bathe his body with fragrant soup in the class outside, and then asked his adoptive mother to wrap a new set of clothes and boots and hats, and exchange them with him.Then he reported to Chunmei.At that time the garrison had not left the hall, Chunmei invited Jingji to the back hall, dressed up in full makeup, and came out to meet each other.When Jingji entered the door, Wang Chunmei bowed four times and eight times, and let her sister accept the gift.Na Chunmei received a half-respect and sat down opposite her.Recounting the cold and warm parting feelings, each other's eyes were weeping.Chunmei was afraid that the garrison would retreat to the hall and come in. Seeing no one in front of her, she winked and respected Ji, and said quietly: "If he asks you when I come back, he will only say that he is a cousin. I am one year older than you. I am 25 years old. April Born at noon on the [-]th."

Jingji said: "I know."

After a while, the servant girl brought tea, and after the two of them had tea, Chunmei asked, "Why have you become a monk and become a Taoist priest? I don't know if it's my relative who hit you by mistake. I regret it. If It's not that I left you at that time, because there is that bitch Xue'e here, it's not easy to install you. So I let you go. After sending that bitch away, Zhang Sheng couldn't find you everywhere, who knew you Working outside the city has brought me down to this position."

Jingji said: "To tell the truth from my sister, it's hard to say a word. Since I left you, I was going to marry my sixth sister. My father died in Tokyo, and he came too late. He never got married, and was killed by Wu Song. Hearing your kindness, I buried him Yongfu Temple, I also went there to burn paper. I lost my mother when I was late. I just sent a funeral, and I was trapped in the capital. When I came home, my eldest sister died, and I was sued by my mother-in-law, that prostitute. The dowry was moved. A lawsuit was fought and the house was sold, leaving me impoverished. Thanks to my father’s friend Wang Xing’an’s generous donation, I was sent to Linqing Yangong Temple to become a monk. Unexpectedly, I was again I was beaten as a bachelor and tied to our mansion. Since I went out from our mansion, I have ignored my relatives and friends, so I have been working as a servant in the temple. Thanks to my sister's concern, Steward Zhang asked me to come and see my sister, as if I was reincarnated."

Speaking of sadness, both of them cried.

In the middle of talking, I saw the garrison retreating from the hall, opening the curtains left and right, and the garrison came in.This Chen Jingji stepped forward and bowed down.The guard replied in a panic and said: "Xiang Ri didn't know that he was a good brother, but was concealed by his subordinates, and there was a collision by mistake. Don't blame the good brother."

Jingji said: "I don't have words. I have always been impolite, and I have lost closeness. I hope to beg for forgiveness."

Kowtow again.The guard pulled it up with one hand and let him sit up.Jingji is so obedient, he is willing to pull down the chair and sit next to him.Guarding the closed seats, Chunmei sat down opposite him.After a while, the tea will be served.After eating, the guard asked: "My dear brother Gui Geng? Why haven't you seen me all this time? How did you become a monk?"

The envoy Jingji said: "My little brother wasted 24 years. My sister was one year older than me and was born at noon on April 25. Both parents died, the family business withered, and his wife died. He became a monk in Yangong Temple. I don't know. My sister is married in the mansion, so I miss visiting her."

The guard said: "Since the day my virtuous brother left, you have caused my sister to worry day and night, and you have been chirping and chirping all the time, uneasy until now. You have always kept people from looking for your virtuous brother. I don't expect to meet you today. It is a fate for three lives."

The judge heard that if Zhou Shoubei and Ximen Qing had acquaintance, he should also recognize Chen Jingji. It turned out that Shoubei was an old and upright person. Although he had been in contact with each other in the old days, he didn't pay attention to his family's business.That is, there are frequent banquets, and the officials of Jing Dujian and Xia Ti Xing are all the same, and they have not met Jingji.Kuang became a Taoist priest the day before yesterday. How could he still think of Ximen Qing's son-in-law?So he was deceived by the two of them, and they only recognized him as Aunt Chunmei's cousin.On the one hand, pay for the left and right tables, and arrange for the wine to be served.After a while, many cups, plates, delicacies, soup, rice and snacks were piled up on the table, silver pots and jade cups, and the wine was flooded with golden waves.The garrison will accompany you to talk, eat until late, and let's just hold a candle in your palm.The garrison is assigned to Zhou Ren, a family member, and the West Academy is cleaned, where there are bed tents.Chunmei took out two blankets and pillows to rest with him.He called another servant, Xi'er, to promise him.He wrapped up two sets of silk clothes and exchanged them with him.For daily meals, Chunmei please come in and eat later.It's exactly: once the time comes, you can't help it at all.The time is fast, the sun and the moon are like a shuttle, but you can see: you can see the plum blossoms when you go, and suddenly it is new on New Year's Day.I don't feel the bright apricots are full of branches, and the new lotus sticks to the water.

Jing Ji lived in the Garrison Mansion for more than a month.One day is April 25th, Chunmei's birthday.Wu Yueniang bought Lilly, a plate of birthday peaches, a plate of birthday noodles, two geese in soup, four fresh chickens, two plates of fruit, and a jar of Nanjiu.Dai'an wears Tsing Yi and sends it with stickers.The guard was sitting in the hall, and the person at the door reported it and carried it into Lilai.Dai'an handed over the post and kowtowed on the ground.Guard looked at the gift post and said, "Thank your grandma for your troubles, and give me another gift."

While distributing to the family: "Take it in as a gift, and ask for tea to eat with the senior officials. Take the gift stickers as a gift to your uncle. Seal a handkerchief, three coins and silver with the senior officials, and carry the box of money. One hundred Wen, take back the post, and make more replies."

After finishing speaking, the guard put on his clothes, got up and went to worship.Dai'an just waits in front of the hall and asks for the post.I saw a young man, wearing a corrugated hat, a green gauze gown, sandals and clean socks, coming out of the corner door, holding a reward note in his hand, handing it to his little companion, and going all the way to the back. "But it's a mischief all of a sudden, and he looks like brother-in-law Chen. Why is he here?"

I saw my little companion handing over Dai'an's handkerchief and money, and sending it out.

At home, return to Yueniang's words.Seeing the post that said "Zhou Men Pang's knees down to worship", Yueniang asked, "Did you see your sister?"

Dai'an said: "I didn't see my sister, but I saw my brother-in-law."

Yueniang laughed and said, "Weird Prisoner, you have a big brother-in-law in your family! Be careful when you are old, you can call him brother-in-law too."

Dai'an said: "It's not guarding, it's brother-in-law Chen of our family. When I first entered, Master Zhou was in the hall. I handed over the post and kowtowed to him. He said, "Your grandma gave me a gift again." The distribution partner should take tea with me, "take the post with your uncle, and ask for a handkerchief, three coins and a senior official, and the person who carries the box is one hundred coins." After finishing speaking, Master Zhou put on his clothes and came out. , got on the horse and went to pay homage to someone. Half a day later, I saw him coming out of the corner gate, handing it to his companion as a reward, and then he went in the back, and I came out with the box. If it’s not him, but who is it?”

Yue Niang said: "Blame the prisoner, don't talk nonsense. The lamb knew where he was living to beg for food? Either he died of freezing or starving to death. What was he doing in that mansion for nothing? What kind of pornography did he recognize by the guards? Recruit him?"

Dai'an said: "Grandma dares to bet with me, I see the truth, even if it is burned to ashes, I will admit it."

Yue Niang asked: "What is he wearing?"

Dai'an said: "He's wearing a new corrugated hat and a golden hairpin. He's wearing a green gauze robe, sandals and clean socks. He's ready to eat."

Yueniang said: "I don't believe it, I don't believe it."

There is nothing wrong with talking here.

But when Chen Jingji entered the back, Chunmei was still painting her face and drawing moths in front of the mirror in the room.Jingji took Wu Yueniang's gift post and showed it to him.Yin asked: "How did his family send gifts to you? Where is the reason?"

This Chunmei told the story of meeting Yueniang in Yongfu Temple on the outskirts of Qingming.Later Zensheng Ping'an got to know the head of the pawnshop, Wu Xunjian beat Ping'an and questioned Yue Niang about her adultery, how could Mrs. Xue talk about favors, and the guards ended the matter for him, leaving behind his family to buy gifts. Thank you.In the first month, I went to his house to celebrate my brother's birthday, and we have hooked up to this day.He promised me to buy a gift for my birthday and come to see me for a day, and he said it again.Jingji listened, took a look at Chunmei, and said, "Sister, you are so unambitious. Thinking about this thief whore, let's break up our sisters and kill the sixth sister, forever. For thousands of years, it's better not to meet each other inside and outside the door. Instead, talk about favors for him. Even if Wu Dian'en tortured Dai'an's boy, confessed his adultery, and tied him with a rope to his adulteress, she made an embarrassment to see the official. What's the matter? He didn't have an affair with Dai'an, so why did he match the girl Xiaoyu with him? I've been here for a long time, and I will never teach you to speak for him. He is your enemy, and he came to visit him What are you doing? It's cloudy in June—I miss him so much!"

A few words left Chunmei speechless.This Chunmei said: "It's all about past activities, I still have a good heart and don't think about old enemies."

Jingji said: "Nowadays, people with good intentions can't get this newspaper."

Chunmei said: "Since he gave the gift, why not accept it for nothing? He is still waiting for someone from me to invite him."

Jingji said: "I don't need to talk to that prostitute from now on, so why invite him?"

Chunmei said: "It's embarrassing not to invite him. Leave a note with him, and it's up to him whether he comes or not. If he comes, you are in the academy over there, don't come out to see him, and we won't provoke him in the future." He is."

Jing Ji was annoyed and said nothing, walked to the front, and wrote a post.Chunmei sent her family member Zhou Yi to invite Wu Yueniang.Yueniang dresses up and goes out, and teaches her grandma Ruyier to hold Xiaogeer in a small sedan chair. Dai'an follows and comes to the mansion.Chunmei and Sun Erniang all dressed up, greeted each other in the back hall, and sat down.Ruyi'er hugged Brother Xiao and kowtowed to each other.Jingji hid in the academy over there, and did not come out, letting Chunmei and Sun Erniang serve tea and wine in the back hall.Called two prostitutes Han Yuchuan and Zheng Jiaoer to play and sing, needless to say.

Dai'an waited in the front wing.I saw a little companion, who walked to the Xijiaomen Academy with a plate of soup, rice and snacks behind him.Dai'an asked him who he took it for, and his little companion said, "It's with my uncle."

Dai'an said, "What's your uncle's last name?"

The little companion said: "The surname is Chen."

The Da'an thief quietly followed him to the West Academy.The little companion immediately lifted the curtain and went in, letting Zhuoer eat.This Dai'an quietly walked out, still sitting in the wing.Until the evening, the lanterns at home came to pick them up, and Wu Yueniang got up in the sedan chair.When they got home, they told Yueniang one after another, "Sure enough, brother-in-law Chen lives in his house."

Ever since Chunmei was blocked by Jing Ji, the two families have not reciprocated.It's exactly: Who knows that there are many obstacles in Lizi, and one thought turns into a matchmaker of resentment.

Jing Ji secretly colludes with Chunmei in the mansion, but no one knows about it.Or when the guard is not there, Chunmei and Jingji will eat and drink in the room, play chess and make fun of them in their spare time, doing everything.When he was on guard at home, he asked the girl and servant to take food to the academy to eat with him.Or during the day, Chunmei would often go to the academy and sit with him for half a day before returning to the back.There is no need to elaborate on the passion for each other.

One day, the garrison leaders went on a tour, which coincided with the Dragon Boat Festival in May.Chunmei set up a Zhuo banquet in the flower pavilion of Xishuyuan, and had realgar wine with Sun Erniang and Chen Jingji, and had fun with rice dumplings.Maids and concubines serve on both sides.Chunmei ordered two concubines, Haitang and Yuegui, to play and sing in front of the banquet.At the moment, we eat until the scorching sun falls to the west and the light rain makes it cool.Chunmei picked up the big golden lotus cup to persuade her.After several rounds of drinking, Sun Erniang was overwhelmed with alcohol, so she got up and looked in the back room first.Duluoxia Chunmei and Jingji are having wine on the flower pavilion, guessing the order, you have a drink, I have a drink.After a while, the servant girl came with a gauze lantern in her palm, and the adoptive mother Jin Kui and Yu Tang sent Brother Jin to sleep.Jingji lost, so he went into the study to hide from the wine.This Chunmei first sent Haitang to invite her, and when she saw that Jingji would not go, she then sent Yuegui to pay her a visit: "If he doesn't come, you'll be with me anyway. If you don't come back, come back and slap you, bitch, ten times. "

This Yuegui went to the west study room, opened the door, and saw Jingji lying on the bed, snoring and sleeping, not moving.Yuegui said: "Grandma told me to come and invite you, old man. If you don't go, you will beat me."

Na Jingji murmured, "It's none of my business to beat you. I'm drunk and can't eat anymore."

Yuegui pulled him up and pushed him: "I'll pull you away anyway, if I don't pull you away, I'm not considered a good man."

Jing Ji, who was pushing and pulling, was in a hurry, pretending to be drunk in the black shadow, and playing seriously, he hugged Yue Gui in his arms and kissed her.That laurel also raised her head and said: "If someone calls you with good intentions, you will be very wrong, and you will make a living by doing this instead."

Jingji said: "My son, if you are willing, will that good intention become a big deal?"

After kissing again, Fang went to the flower pavilion.Yue Gui said: "Grandma wants to beat me, or I dragged my uncle into the future."

Chunmei ordered Haitang to serve the big clock, and the two played chess and gambled for fun.Now you play one dish, I have one dish, and the maids who are boiled all go to sleep.Chunmei also asked Yuegui and Begonia to fetch tea from behind. The two were on the flower pavilion, untiing the jade that looked like Peilu, and burning the fragrance of Han Dynasty on their vermilion lips.It's exactly: how many flowers are slanted by the lamps of the curved sill, and there are falling hairpins and double phoenixes beside them.There are poems as proof: the flower pavilion is happy and the temples are slanting, and the pink sweat is fragrant and fragrant.The deep courtyard is full of people every day, so try to see the yellow bird pecking at the famous flowers.

The two were doing well, when suddenly the servant girl Haitang brought tea: "Grandma, please go later, brother Jin woke up, crying and looking for grandma."

Chunmei drank wine with Jingji for another two minutes, rinsed her mouth with tea, and then walked back.The maid cleaned up the housework, and Xi'er helped Jingji go back to the study to rest, no problem.

One day, the imperial edict came down, ordering the garrison leaders to join forces with Zhang Shuye, the magistrate of Jeju Prefecture, to conquer Song Jiang, the thief king of Liangshan Po, and get up sooner or later.The guard said to Chunmei: "You take good care of your brother at home and ask a matchmaker to find a marriage for your brother. I will bring his name to the military gate. If he succeeds by luck, the court will favor him and promote him to an official position. There is also light on your face."

This Chunmei promised.Two or three days late, the guards packed up their luggage and organized their troops, leaving Zhang Sheng and Li An to look after the house, and stopped taking his family Zhou Ren to follow.No problem.

One day, Chunmei called Mrs. Xue to come, and said to him in this way: "His lord is going to pay the money and ask you to find a marriage for my brother. You must find a good family for your daughter, regardless of the age of sixteen or seventeen. Forget it, as long as he looks good, Lian Ming is smarter. His personality is also a little bad."

Sister-in-law Xue said: "I don't know what's wrong with him? You don't need to pay the old man. It's still disgusting to think that the elder sister is waiting."

Chunmei said: "If you can't find it well, see if I beat you or not? I'm going to drive him to call you little concubine, don't play tricks on him."

After finishing speaking, Chunmei ordered the servant girl to set tea with him.I saw Chen Jingji coming in for dinner.Mrs. Xue said all blessings to him, and said, "Uncle, you haven't seen me all this time, where are you here? Congratulations, just now grandma paid me to find a good wife for you, how can you thank me?"

Chen Jingji kept his face silent.Mrs. Xue said: "Why is the old man silent?"

Chunmei said: "Don't call him Uncle, that's been covered, you can just call him Uncle Chen."

Mrs. Xue said: "I really should hit you. I'm such an idiot. As long as I call you wrong, I will only call you uncle."

Na Jingji couldn't help it, he laughed eagerly, and said: "This is what I like."

That Mrs. Xue acted foolishly, hurriedly hit him, and said: "Look at the good things the old man said, I'm not what you insinuated, how can I be in your heart?"

Even Chunmei laughed.

After a while, Yue Gui arranged tea and food to eat with Mrs. Xue, and said: "I will take care of you for the old man. If there is a good woman who is suitable for you, let me tell you."

Chunmei said: "Wealth gift soup, fruit gift, flower wine gift, hair and clothes, many of his things, as long as a good family and a good girl can come into my house."

Mrs. Xue said: "I know, it's easy for you old man who cares about the situation."

After a long time, Jingji ate and went forward.Mrs. Xue was still sitting, and asked Chunmei, "When did the old man come?"

Chunmei said in the section about being a monk and becoming a Taoist priest: "I found him, and he will be my relative."

Mrs. Xue said: "Okay, you old man has back eyes."

He said again: "Your old man had a good time the day before yesterday, did you say that his aunt was here for her birthday?"

Chunmei said: "He brought the gift first, then I asked someone to invite him, and sat there for a day."

Mrs. Xue said: "I was making a bed at someone's house that day, and it was a mess all day. I want to come in my heart, and I want to do it in a hurry."

He asked again: "He, Uncle Chen, also saw his aunt come?"

Chunmei said: "Will he be angry to see him? In order to please him, he won't get into a mess with me. I'm angry at me for his family's favor, saying that I have no ambition. Even if Wu Dian'en hits the servant and pulls him out of office Okay, take care of your legs? Are you looking for points for him, thinking about his past friendship?"

Mrs. Xue said: "The old man also said that when it comes to it, he doesn't care about the old enmity."

Chunmei said: "Since we have received his gift, we don't want to invite him to sit down. We would rather teach him to be unkind than us to be unrighteous."

Mrs. Xue said: "It's no wonder you're such a lucky old man, Hugh's heart is so good!"

At that moment, Sister-in-law Xue talked for a long time, took her flower box, and said goodbye to go out.

After two days, let me say first: "Ms. Zhu Qianhu's family in the city is 15 years old this year, and she can be married as a dowry, but she has lost her mother."

Chunmei doesn't like it too small.He also said that Earl Ying's second daughter was 22 years old.Chunmei also suspected that Earl Ying was dead, so she was married in the hands of the uncle, and she didn't have much to accompany her, so she couldn't do it.They all posted wedding posts.A few days later, Mrs. Xue brought flowers, and took out a wedding sticker from her sleeve. The big red script said: "The eldest daughter of the family who opened the Duan shop is two years old. She belongs to the rooster. She is born in November. It was born on the fifteenth day, and the small characters are Cuiping."

"I was born with a picture-like appearance, five short stature, melon-like skin, gentle and elegant, bright and clever, needle-pointing female workers, needless to say. Both parents are present and have tens of thousands of money. Open a joke shop on the street, go to Suzhou, Hangzhou, and Nanjing. , an extremely nice family. The dowry is all Nanjing bed tents and cages."

Chunmei said: "Since it's good, let's become this family's."

Let Mrs. Xue communicate first.Mrs. Xue said it quickly.It is exactly: if you want to seek beauty from the embroidery house, you must rely on red leaves as a good match.There are poems as proof: there are many marriages for thousands of miles.The Cowherd in the sky is with the Weaver Girl, and the gifted man is with Jiao'e.

Here Mrs. Xue wrote a letter. Member Ge's family knew that he was in the garrison's mansion, and he was willing to be married, so he asked a matchmaker Zhang to do the same.Chunmei prepared two loads of tea, grain cakes, and soup fruits here, and taught Sun Erniang to sit in a sedan chair, and went to Yuan Ge's house to betroth her daughter.When she came back, she said to Chunmei: "Sure enough, she is a good-looking girl. She is as talented as a flower, and she is quite good."

Chunmei chooses an auspicious day here, and accepts it to salute.Sixteen plates of soup, fruit and tea cakes, two plates of noodles, two plates of emerald pearls, four plates of wine, two plates of sheep, one topknot, all gold and silver hairpin rings and the like.Two Luo Duan robes, four seasons clothes.The rest of the cotton cloth and silk cost 20 taels of gift silver, so there is no need to elaborate.Yin and Yang are born on the eighth day of the sixth month, and they are allowed to marry.Chunmei first asked Mrs. Xue: "Is there a bed maid in his house?"

Mrs. Xue said: "There are bed curtains and dowry, but there is no maid to accompany the bed."

Chunmei said: "Let's buy a thirteen or fourteen-year-old girl here, and let him play around in the room. It's more convenient to pour water from the bucket."

Mrs. Xue said: "Yes, I will bring one tomorrow."

On the next day, he really took a girl and said, "It's the girl in the house of the son of the merchant Huang Si's family. She is only 13 years old this year. Huang Si used the money and food from the lower officials to go out with Li San and our family's security officer." They were all arrested for money and food, and were imprisoned for more than a year. The family property was wiped out, and the house was sold. Li San died first, and his son Li Huo was detained. Our family's security officer, Seng Baoer, is now living outside. With others and horses."

Chunmei said, "Are you here for protection?"

Mrs. Xue said: "He is not called Lai Bao now, but has changed his name to Tang Bao."

Chunmei said: "This girl is a girl from Huang Si's family, how much money do you want?"

Mrs. Xue said: "Only four and a half taels of silver. I'm waiting to hand over the spoils."

Chunmei said: "What four and a half, let him keep the three and five coins."

On the one hand, he paid three, two or five dollars in Xuehua official silver to him, and wrote the paperwork.He changed his name and called him Qianqian.

Don't talk about it, it's as early as the eighth day of June.Chunmei dresses up with a beaded emerald phoenix crown, a big red robe with full sleeves, and a gold inlaid jasper belt.Sitting in a four-person sedan chair, playing drums and lanterns, marrying a girl from the Ge family, and passing by with geese.Chen Jingji rode a big white horse, picked up a silver saddle and bridle, and the Tsing Yi soldier shouted.He wears a Confucian scarf, a green round collar, powder-soled soap boots, and two golden flowers on his head.It's exactly: a long drought meets sweet rain, and an old friend meets an old friend in a foreign land.The night of weddings and candles in the bridal chamber, when the gold list is listed.It was dismantled and washed anew.When they arrived at the garrison mansion, the newcomer's sedan chair dropped off.The head is covered with red and gold, the makeup is added, and the food is included, and the vase is carried into the gate.Yin Yangsheng led into the painting hall, visited the hall first, and then returned to the bridal chamber.Chunmei made him sit in the tent, and then came out.After the yin and yang students spread the tent, they sent out the happy money, and the drummers all dispersed.Jing Ji and this Miss Ge Cuiping sat back to the tent, rode on horseback and played lanterns, and went to the father-in-law's house to thank his relatives.Eat drunk and return.In the late evening, the girl is beautiful and talented, so it is inevitable that Yaner will be newly married and have sex.It's exactly: how much you get--in spring, the apricots and peaches are red and the pistils are blooming, and the wind bullies the willows to turn green.

That night Jingji and Miss Ge Cuiping got along quite well.Two mandarin ducks under the quilt, and a phoenix in the tent, are like fish like water, enjoying together.After three days of dinner, Chunmei held a banquet in the back hall of the mansion, played drums and played songs, and invited relatives to eat and drink, needless to say.Every day when Chunmei eats, she will invite the two of them to eat together in the room.They called each other aunts and sat together.Who dares to say no to a girl, adoptive mother, or family daughter-in-law?It turned out that Chunmei tidied up three rooms in the west wing and made it a room with him. The inside was covered with bed nets, as neat as a snow cave, with curtains hanging down.The west academy outside is his study.There are also beds, a few seats, ancient books, and guarded letters and stickers, and manuscripts and stickers are handed out everywhere, all of which have been beaten in his hands.Chunmei would come out to the academy from time to time to sit and talk with him, and the two secretly made friends.It's exactly: to accompany the Golden Valley Banquet in the morning, and to accompany Qilouwa in the evening.At the place of rest and entertainment, the streamer chases the sunset.

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