【New Red Mansion】Perfect World

The last ones to be appreciated were the lacquer fans of Lin Pin'er and Li Shuirong. Yuanyang looked at them together because she realized at a glance that the two fans were a pair.

She simply wrote two lines of poetry and stamped it. Pin'er chose macaron-colored powder with a few strands of gold. It was fresh, elegant, and a little delicate.

Shui Rong cooperated with her, using blue and green and adding a little white to create Tiffany blue and then adding a few strands of gold.

"It's obviously a couple's lacquer fan. I'm just feeding you some dog food by attending this event." Tanchun joked again.

"But it is really delicate and elegant. The refreshing color scheme is suitable for summer, and you can add some spices to it. When you use it next summer, you can gently fan it and the sweet fragrance will waft in. Then you can hide the coolness in your dreams." Jia's mother added.

"I think the lacquer fan is not the protagonist today. The comments of our ancestors are the most exciting part of today's event." Wang Xifeng stood behind the crowd without knowing when. Her words were appropriate and made Lady Jia happy.

Even Lady Jia was rarely modest and listened to her praise with great delight, expressing how much she benefited from it.

"It's getting chilly in the autumn, both in the morning and at night. I brought a coat for you so you can put it on when you go back. I also brought the prizes you arranged. After you're done appreciating them, you can go in for the selection and have some hot tea to warm your bodies." After saying that, he invited everyone into the house like he was herding ducks.

After everyone sat back on the sofa in the living room, Grandmother Jia asked Yuanyang to take the box from Wang Xifeng and open it to show everyone:

In the lacquer box, there is a jade brush, with a cloisonné enamel brush holder and a Hetian green jade barrel. There are two dragons in relief playing among the auspicious clouds. On the top of the brush, a small dragon lies down and looks down.

"This is from my collection. It would be hard to find if I went to an auction nowadays. Today's event is about calligraphy and painting, so it is of course suitable as a gift. As the saying goes: If you want to do your work well, you must first sharpen your tools! That's what it means." Xichun could no longer hear what Grandmother Jia was saying. She was only admiring the pen at this moment.

Li Wan stepped forward to host the event: "Our selection is for contestants to vote. You cannot vote for yourself. You must vote from left to right."

"I vote for Sister Xichun." Yingchun on the far left raised her hand first.

"I vote for my eldest sister-in-law." Tanchun raised her hand.

"I vote for Sister Lin." Xichun raised her hand.

"I vote for Sister Lin." Baoyu hesitated for a long time. He thought Xichun's and Tanchun's were both good, but he thought Sister Lin's was the most suitable for summer, so-called making the best use of everything. The first two were only suitable for appreciation, but Pin'er's would make people imagine lying on a recliner on a hot summer evening, waving the fan in their hands.

"I vote for Sister Xichun." Li Wan raised her hand.

"I vote for mom." Jia Lan is cute, he also wants that pen. Now the score is 2-2-2, if mom gets it, she can study the pen herself, so he votes for mom.

At this moment, the three parties were tied, and the problem was handed over to Lin Pin'er and Li Shuirong. If Shuirong voted for Lin Pin'er, then no matter whether Lin Pin'er voted for Baoyu or Tanchun, the pen would belong to Pin'er. Everyone seemed to have guessed the outcome. Jia Mu, who was sitting in the middle, also analyzed the situation on the field, but she felt that Pin'er might not do that.

Wang Xifeng was watching the situation from the sidelines and was secretly happy. This was even more exciting than the comments on the lacquer fan just now! What a coincidence that I caught up with her.

"I vote for Sister Xichun." Pin'er raised her hand.

"I vote for Xichun." Shui Rong raised his hand.

The two of them spoke almost in unison, and then looked at each other and laughed.

Wang Xifeng was almost dying of anxiety watching from the side, wondering if these two people were not good at math. The number of votes on the field was so obvious that they could easily get the votes in her hand. How could the duck in her hand fly away? But she didn't dare to show it on her face.

Yingchun, who was taking notes in a notebook, was also slightly stunned. She didn't expect this result. But Jia's mother spoke up: "Pin'er, don't you like my prize? Why don't you fight for it?"

Pin'er smiled and said, "I don't know what Shui Rong is thinking. This pen is very good, of course I want it. But if you give it to me, I will just keep it for appreciation and use it occasionally. If you give it to sister Xichun, then it will be put to good use."

Shui Rong waited for Pin'er to finish speaking before he spoke up, "I followed my feelings and I really think Xichun's painting is great. I love painting myself. Her fan looked ordinary at first, and I even thought it was just a few random strokes. But after being painted and dyed over and over again, it seemed to show us the mystery bit by bit. After it dried, it was even more stunning. The combination of color and light and shadow was the best in the show, I sincerely think."

Pin'er also agreed immediately: "Yes, sister Xichun can create such a work of artistic conception on a small fan. She will definitely produce better works in the future, so I think this is the most suitable for her."

In the end, Xichun naturally got the prize. Everyone agreed to hold an event at Baoyu's place next week, and after some discussion, they went home.

Wang Ziyan found out that they had all dispersed, and then asked someone to call Xiren to her room.

When Xiren hurried over after settling Baoyu, Wang Ziyan was already getting a little impatient. Seeing Xiren coming, she dismissed everyone in the room and asked, "I heard that there was an event in Miss Lin's yard today?"

"Madam, they just left." Xiren answered while standing. She observed that Mrs. Wang looked a little unhappy today and guessed about 70% of the answer, but she still pretended to be stupid.

"I heard that Miss Lin was frightened last night?" Mrs. Wang took a sip of the tea in the cup.

"I haven't heard about it. But Baoyu came back late last night and seemed unhappy." Xiren replied.

Mrs. Wang put the teacup on the table and said, "This tea has no taste." Xiren hurried over, took the teacup out, replaced it with new tea, and personally presented it to Mrs. Wang.

Wang Ziyan took another sip of tea before speaking: "Did the ancestor mention Baoyu today?"

"No, they seem to be in a friendly mood."

Mrs. Wang nodded: "Perhaps I didn't hear it correctly. How is Baoyu's appetite today?"

Xiren replied seriously, "My appetite is the same as usual. I ate a bowl of rice and drank half a bowl of mutton soup with angelica, ginger and mutton in the evening. Baoyu said that he always felt the mutton had a strong smell and felt sick. So he only drank the soup."

"Then we will use beef to make soup from now on. I have some fresh beef shanks that they brought here. I will ask someone to send them to you later and make it for him tomorrow." After a pause, he asked again: "Do you think the sisters are still getting along well?"

"How can I not be kind? Master Baoyu is the most kind and easy-going."

"Ms. Lin, did you give him a cold shoulder?"

"That's not the case at all. But let's talk about what happened last night. Master Baoyu seemed to have gone out to play with a female classmate. I heard that it was to send this female classmate off that Miss Lin was left alone at the dance. In my humble opinion, it was all because of this female classmate that caused all the trouble."

"Tell me in detail, and I promise not to let anyone know that it was you who said it." Mrs. Wang wanted her to explain in more detail.

"Master Baoyu is grown up now, and he doesn't even come with me when he attends banquets. We don't know what happened specifically. But I have seen that female classmate. On the day Master Baoyu moved into his new house, she came to give him a pair of pillowcases embroidered with the word 'treasure'."

Madam Wang frowned slightly: "Did you give it to him?"

"That day I felt something was wrong. The pillowcase was such a close fitting item, and it had words embroidered on it. It didn't look right, so I bought him a better pillowcase and coaxed him into putting it away."

Mrs. Wang nodded again after hearing this: "I could discipline him well in the courtyard before. He was a little afraid of the old lady's control. He couldn't come back too late every day, otherwise he would miss the greetings. Now that he has moved to the garden, I am worried about him not having to pay respects. I am afraid he has made bad friends."

Xiren now understood the reason why Wang Ziyan asked her to come, and she followed suit and said, "I thought so too. I often want to follow him when he goes out, so that I can give him advice from time to time. But I think about how much the old lady loves him, and he is used to going out by himself. Who would have thought that he would get into trouble if he was not careful. It would be better if the lady arranged someone to follow him, so that I can feel at ease."

"My son, you understand. What I said is exactly what I feel. Why don't you go out with him from tomorrow and say it was me who said it."