The Red Mansion is so charming

Chapter 179 A Gathering in the Xiaoxiang Pavilion
Jia Baoyu naturally saw the Ou Guan, the Ou Guan was not the best of the twelve little actors bought by the family back then, but he was the most well-behaved one.The girls in Lixiangyuan all have quarrels with their godmothers, but the lotus officials are honest and never jealous.It's a pity that her appearance is a bit plain, not as smart as Fang Guan, and even less charming than Ling Guan, she is one of the middle-class people.

Jia Baoyu curled his lips: "Of course I saw it, but the girl Ouguan, I called her a few times, but she just didn't seem to hear me."

Zijuan thought about it for a while, and couldn't help but smile: "Yes, that girl had a fight with Chunxian this morning, maybe she was feeling uncomfortable, so naturally she didn't talk to you. Wait until the girls have finished drinking at night , those little maids don’t get together to play together? Ou Guan naturally pays attention to you!”

Jia Baoyu said anxiously: "Oh, I mean why didn't Fangguan come with Ouguan? Both of them were rewarded by the old lady, aren't they together?"

Zijuan seemed to realize something, and her tone became a bit cold: "Of course we are not together. Ouguan is with our girl. Fangguan was given to Miss Xing by the old lady. If Ouguan comes back, she may not bring Fangguan with her." .”

Seeing Zijuan turning around to leave, Jia Baoyu also sensed something was wrong, grabbed Zijuan, and said sincerely: "Good Zijuan, don't go, Fang Guan begged me to bring her something last time, I was worried I have nowhere to leave it to her, and if she doesn't come, how can I fulfill her entrustment? After a long time, wouldn't I become a person of little faith?"

Zijuan glanced into the house twice, and then lowered her voice: "Don't ask, we don't dare to talk about the things in Miss Xing's room, we only know that Fangguan did something out of the ordinary, and was punished by Xing The girl committed a crime, and now I don’t know where she is locked up.”

Jia Baoyu was even more anxious. When the twelve little opera singers were scattered in the garden, Lingguan was the first thing Baoyu set his eyes on.In order to ask for the age officer, Jia Baoyu went to You Shi himself, hoping to go through the back door and ask You Shi to put the age officer in Yihong Courtyard.

Lingguan is the one with the best voice and the most outstanding appearance in the small opera troupes. Jia Baoyu has long been in love with her, but who knows that when she asked Youshi, Youshi told her that Lingguan had begged the second wife long ago and hoped to let her back in the future. go home.

Jia Baoyu was full of disappointment, but he didn't do such a twisted thing. It happened that Fang Guan also came to find a way out. The second best thing is to keep Fang Guan in Yihong Courtyard.

The old lady went one step further and told You Shi directly that she gave the Fang Guan to Sister Xing and the lotus official to Sister Lin.Baoyu had to be a civil servant, although it was good, but after all, the grapes were the sweetest, and Jia Baoyu was always thinking about Fangguan.

Hearing what Zijuan said today, Jia Baoyu was very anxious: "How can such an honest girl like Fangguan offend Elder Sister Xing?"

"Hurry up and take this back," Zijuan said angrily, "Miss Xing must be so sad to hear that, after all, you are relatives, and there's no need to make trouble with Miss Xing because of the little actor."

Jia Baoyu was reprimanded, and said in a low voice: "It's not that I deliberately offended Big Sister Xing, but I just don't understand, what kind of big deal can happen to the Xing family, and I have to catch it because of the fault of a little maid? No. Fang Guan will eventually She went out from our house, and I should intercede for her."

The more Jia Baoyu thought about it, the more he felt that his idea was right, so he raised his foot and went into the room. Zijuan hurriedly grabbed her from behind, but he was still a step too late.

The room was warm and fragrant, and several girls gathered around the desk and seemed to be looking at something. Jia Baoyu immediately forgot the irritability just now, and crowded around full of curiosity.It turned out that Xichun gave up his position early, and it was indeed Xing Xiuyan who was drawing.

On the pure white snow wave paper, an old plum tree full of twisted branches leaps on the paper, and the scarlet plum blossoms flutter and fall on those branches. It is not lifelike, making people feel unsatisfactory, but there are living things in front of them.

The girls all opened their eyes wide. Sister Xing's brushwork was obviously different from what they had learned, but they couldn't tell where it was.

Shi Xiangyun pointed at Xuelang paper for a while, and pointed at Xing Xiuyan for a while, dumbfounded, not knowing what to say.

Daiyu took Xiuyan's arm triumphantly: "My sister hasn't painted for a few days, this technique is getting more and more outstanding."

Baoyu couldn't put it down and circled the scroll, asking east and west, and Xiuyan replied in a good-tempered manner: "Where did you learn from a famous teacher? But when we were young, there was a priest from the West in Suzhou City who preached. He is very good at realistic oil painting. At that time, my father had already become the county magistrate. This pastor was cared for by my father and had a very good relationship. He taught me a few strokes by chance. Now he has returned to Xiyang early, but every two or three years So I asked someone to bring me some painting tools from the West."

Xichun's eyes lit up: "Sister Xing means, if you have those painting tools, this flower will be very different?"

Xing Xiuyan looked at the little girl's obsessed and yearning look, and said, "Of course, he gave me a few picture albums, all of which are rare and exquisite. I'll ask Meilian to find them sometime, and I'll show you them."

Xichun joyfully held Xiuyan's hand and couldn't wait to run to Xing's house immediately.But Jia Baoyu sighed: "It's a pity that such a good master can't be invited to our house. The younger sisters are all very good at fine brushwork, especially the fourth younger sister. If they can be trained by a good teacher, they may not be able to achieve great achievements."

Xiuyan smiled and said: "Brother Bao, I don't understand. In the West, only the nobles can learn these techniques. The pastor, who has a good relationship with my father, is also the prince of his country, the orthodox heir to the throne. People have never had to worry about food and clothing, and teaching me is just to repay the favor, so how can you go to someone else's house to be a teacher?"

Everyone was stunned when they heard it.

Jia Baoyu looked embarrassed, but refused to give in, and still argued: "Since he is the prince, why would he come here to be a missionary? I heard from the King of Beijing that those missionaries have ulterior motives. The hearts of the people come. The prince also said."

Daiyu had already cut off his words: "Okay, okay, our sisters are talking about poetry and painting here, and we don't understand the important affairs of the court. If you want to talk about this, why don't you ask uncle's disciples to clean up the guests!"

The girls burst into laughter, no one knew that what Baoyu was most impatient with was entanglement with these cleaners, and now that Lin Daiyu said this, everyone started joking about Jia Baoyu even more.Several maids serving at the door also chichi laughed.Baoyu didn't dare to offend these beautiful sisters, so he could only stare at the girl, flimsy, and ran away. Those who were familiar with Baoyu could handle his temper, and smiled even more.

Everyone was talking and laughing, when the felt curtain was raised from the outside, it was Xue Baochai who brought Ying'er in.Everyone was overjoyed, and they all went up to hold Xue Baochai.

"You little girls, sister Xing came, and no one sent me a message. It was because I heard that Sheyue was going to Xiangling to show off, so I just mentioned it casually, so I knew." Baochai Blaming everyone, everyone was so guilty, Tanchun quickly laughed and said: "It's not that we don't tell my sister, it's just because my sister is waiting to get married at home, who dares to bother me? It would be no fun to ask my aunt to blame us!"

The girls hadn't seen Xue Baochai for a long time, and found that Sister Bao had lost a lot of weight, but she looked even more beautiful, and Jia Baoyu's eyes almost didn't look straight.Xue Baochai looked slightly ashamed, and turned to Xing Xiuyan and Lin Daiyu without showing any signs of expression: "I guessed that sister Lin would come back for the new year, but I didn't expect that sister Xing would follow."

Xiuyan smiled and said: "The old lady's kindness is hard to turn down, but Sister Bao knows that our family affairs are complicated, and I just stay for one night, and I have to go back tomorrow."

Xue Baochai nodded: "Other people may say this as excuses, but I know about your family, and I can't do it without you. I heard that my uncle has been promoted again?"

"Sister Bao is so well informed!" Xing Xiuyan looked at Xue Baochai nervously: "I think I heard it from the brother-in-law of the Mei family?"

Baochai blushed, but she didn't hide it: "The Mei family's mother came to give the new year's gift yesterday, and I accidentally mentioned it."

When everyone heard this, they were infinitely delighted that Xue Baochai was respected by her husband's family.Although Xue's family still lives in a small courtyard on the side of Rongguo Mansion, their food, clothing, housing and transportation have long since stopped going to Rongguo Mansion's side. The daughter was busy preparing the dowry, and rarely had time to visit Mrs. Wang.

Hengwuyuan was given to Shi Xiangyun to live in, and everyone was not very familiar with the current situation of Xue's family.Aunt Xue also came to tell the old lady that when the weather gets a little warmer, their family will still move out until the Mei family comes to get married.

Baochai's marriage is full of ups and downs, and everyone is inevitably worried about her.

Xiuyan took Baochai and sat beside her, and personally poured a cup of warm wine for her: "Long live said my father's paintings are very good, so I raised half a grade, but now it's only the fifth grade, among the nobles in the capital It's really nothing. But you, when is the marriage scheduled?"

Everyone sat around the stove, and the maids waiting for Yingchun handed over hand stoves, some of them held them timidly, and some of them took them lazily, but they all listened to Xing Xiuyan's words and stared at Xue Baochai in unison.

"Mother means to catch up with the joy of the New Year and get married in the first month, but the Mei family means that the eighth day of the fifth lunar month is an extremely rare and auspicious day." Baochai was a little embarrassed.

Aunt Xue's wish is of course that the sooner the better, she didn't think so before, but now that Mei Yusen is getting more and more popular, Aunt Xue didn't expect the duck in her hand to fly like this, let alone Mei Yusen is still a fat duck.The Mei family hoped that the matter would be discussed after the palace examination, so that their son's imperial examination would not be delayed just because he married Xinjiao Niang. This was not what the Mei family wanted to see.

Tanchun's mind was clear, and he took the lead in understanding the reason. Xichun was still young, so it was true if he didn't understand, but Yingchun's eyes were also puzzled.

Seeing this in her heart, Xiuyan couldn't help but sigh for a while.Yingchun's temper is quite tough, but in the end it is still.
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