[Red Mansion] The Story of Sister Lin's Cultivation

Yuan Chun smiled, "Mother, don't cry about being poor. How can I not know what's going on at home? Not to mention our family's situation, just like what my mother said, the emperor's permission to visit relatives this time is really for the purpose of testing. We must not This holy grace must be experienced at home. But the ceremony doesn’t need to be too big, as long as it doesn’t make people feel careless. There is no need to build a family visit garden. It’s enough to tidy up a yard inside, but it’s just a place to sit. Eat, drink, play and use it together with the opera singers, as long as it’s better than usual, don’t take it too seriously. Does the emperor know who has it? How many family fortunes have been cherished too much this time, the emperor will see it, and I don’t know how to deal with it in the future. It turns out that this is the bait laid by the emperor, we can’t fall for it.”

When Madam Wang heard this, she felt much more comfortable.As long as Yuan Chun understands that she has a right to do things, she can save herself a lot of trouble.Thinking about going back, I have to talk about it with Jia Zheng, an unsophisticated person. If I can't tell, I might quarrel with Jia She, Jia Zhen and others.Especially Jia Mu, this old lady is so good-looking, she will definitely not agree to visit her relatives and keep things simple.So before Mrs. Wang left, she asked Yuan Chun to draw up a letter for her to take back.

This matter became Yuan Chun's intention, so she lost a lot of things.Wrangling these with Jia Mu and others, it can be seen that it is a waste of energy to kill brain cells.

After arriving home, Mrs. Wang first talked to Jia's mother about it.Seeing her entering the house, Mother Jia said cheerfully, "Did you see our mother? Can you see the little prince and princess?"

Mrs. Wang came in front of Jiamu and said with a smile: "Old lady, I see you. The empress and the little prince and princess are all well. Those two are as tender and cute as dough. I can't bear to come back."

When Jia Mu heard this, she became more and more happy, so she just asked Mrs. Wang to sit down and said, "What about the province of relatives, did you tell me?"

Mrs. Wang took out the letter from her sleeve, looked at Jia's mother and said, "the old lady also knows that we are just women. I don't understand what your mother told me. About this matter, your mother drafted a letter. It’s all detailed in the letter, and I’m told to hand it over to the master.”

When Jia's mother saw the letter, she didn't open it without authorization, and hurriedly asked the maid to go out and call Jia Zheng and Jia Amnesty back.This matter is a big family matter, not her mother Jia and Mrs. Wang can decide, that is, talk about it in private.Or tell Jia Zheng that he has to take the lead in handling this matter.

He only said that Jia Amnesty and Jia Zheng arrived in the room after a while, greeted Jia's mother and sat down again.Mother Jia asked Yuanyang to deliver the letter to Jia Zheng, looked at him and said, "It's written by your mother, and it's about visiting relatives. Open it and see what your mother means."

"Yes, old lady." Jia Zheng responded, opened Yuan Chun's letter, and opened it for a closer look.After Jia Zheng looked at it, he looked at Jia's mother again and said, "Old lady, my mother said in the letter that this matter should not be extravagant, especially the construction of a garden. Just ask to clean up the yard and come out to display and enjoy things, which is better than usual. As long as it’s better. It’s enough to have the troupe’s activities that should be there. It’s not necessary to be the best, just better than what the family usually invites. The people in the house are tightly packed, so there’s nothing wrong with it.”

Mother Jia frowned after hearing this, and hurriedly wanted to believe it and read it for herself.After looking at it for a long time, she looked at Mrs. Wang and said, "From the second family, is this really a letter from your mother?"

Mrs. Wang said: "Yes, old lady. Even if you give me a hundred courage, I wouldn't dare to pretend to be your mother to write a letter. Besides, how can I write such words."

Mother Jia heard the same thing, then looked at Jia Zheng and Jia She and said, "What do you two say?"

The daughter is not Jia She's, Jia She doesn't care, just said: "It depends on what the second brother has to say."

Jia Zheng frowned and thought for a while, then looked at Jia Mu and said, "This matter of visiting relatives is related to the face of our family and your mother. I think it must not be too simple. Even if we can't do it, we should have some time." There is still a battle there. I heard that the father of Zhou Guiren had already started work at home and built a provincial house. There was also Wu Guifei and the Wu family, who also went out of the city to see the place. We have nothing to do. If you don't do it, won't you be laughed at?"

After Jia Zheng finished speaking, Jia's mother nodded, and Mrs. Wang just sat still.After Jia She heard this, he also said: "Second brother is right. This kind of honor is beyond the reach of ordinary people. Since I have won this once, I must have a good time. The second brother agrees on how to do it. Next, Jane and I Let's talk about it again, Er Lian Er, and then we can start to deal with this matter."

Mrs. Wang lowered her eyebrows and said nothing, thinking to herself that they are really a family who don't know how to live or die.Jia Mu thought for a long time, and then said: "But this letter..."

"Your Majesty is afraid that we will be troublesome, so she is sympathetic to us. Your Majesty has such thoughts for the sake of the family, why don't we earn this face for your Majesty? Let me tell you, this matter has to be taken seriously." Jia She said. explain.

Mrs. Wang finally raised her eyes to look at Mother Jia, and said, "Old lady, my mother said that if this matter gets worse, she won't come back."

Mother Jia frowned, "What do you mean by the second child's family?"

Mrs. Wang cleared her throat slightly, and said in a low voice: "The emperor's mercy is the emperor's kindness, but after this kindness, how do you know that you don't have other thoughts? The holy meaning is unpredictable, and the empress only said so much. You have to be careful about this matter." Do it, if someone gets caught, I don’t know what to do in the future.”

"Your Majesty, did you really say that?" Mother Jia looked at Mrs. Wang with a cautious and serious expression on her face.

Mrs. Wang nodded, "It's a big deal for my mother to visit my relatives, so how can I not want to do it with dignity? It's just that if it trips my mother because of this, it's doing bad things with good intentions, and the gains outweigh the losses. We think Decent, doesn't the empress herself not want to be famous? There must be a reason why the empress wrote this letter."

As soon as Mrs. Wang said this, Jia She, Jia Zheng and Jia Mu stopped talking.After a long while, Mother Jia finally said, "Boss and second, what do you think?"

Jia Zheng held the letter in his hand, and said for a long time: "Since this is the case, then listen to your mother. Your mother has her own ideas and vision. If it is ruined by our short-sightedness, it will be our sin. Don't waste face in this situation. Forget it. As long as the empress thinks it is appropriate, we are still afraid of losing face."

Mother Jia nodded, and said so far, there is no other objection.Things that originally required a big deal were simplified in the end.Jia Zheng asked Jia Baoyu to live with Jia's mother first, cleaned up his yard, and renovated it again.All the curtains and furnishings inside were replaced with new ones, and all the good things that could be used were also used.The theater troupe was hired from outside, and they trained for a while.The little novice, the sister-in-law, and the like were all found from the Shuiyue nunnery of the Tiekan Temple, but it was simple.

Jia Zheng was not used to ordinary affairs, but this matter was simple, and he took care of it in a short time, just waiting for the day of visiting relatives.Looking at the Lantern Festival, since the eighth day of the first lunar month, eunuchs have come out to look at the direction first: where to change clothes, where to sit, where to receive gifts, where to have a banquet, where to retire, etc.

On the [-]th day, five drums, from Jia Mu and other nobles, all wear big makeup and wait for Yuanchun.Jia Amnesty was waiting outside the gate of West Street, and Jia Mu was waiting outside the gate of Rongfu.The streets and alleys are tightly surrounded.

The family waited for a long time before they finally got Yuanchun's golden-roofed and yellow-embroidered phoenix version, and their faces were frozen blue.Mother Jia waited by the roadside to salute Ban Yu, and was helped by several eunuchs, and Ban Yu entered the gate and went to the cleaned up yard.When they stopped in front of the gate of the courtyard, Zhaorong and Cai concubine led Yuanchun to go down.

Yuan Chun looked around, seeing that the family hadn't changed much, and felt relieved.Entering the courtyard, this courtyard is considered a luxury, but after all, it is much more subtle than Jianshenyuanyuan.Yuan Chun saw the courtyard and sat down in the room. Everyone in the family who could see followed in and stood outside the bead curtain.Mrs. Jia Muwang and others went up to salute one by one, and cried with Yuan Chun.

When Jia Baoyu came to salute, Yuan Chun directly pulled him to sit on the seat and held him in his arms.In this family, the one who has the best relationship with her is Jia's mother, and the second is Jia Baoyu.Because she was raised by Jia's mother, and Jia Baoyu was raised by her.Having seen you all, Yuanchun was naturally thinking about Daiyu, so he only asked, "Why are Aunt Xue, Baochai, and Daiyu missing?"

Then Aunt Xue, Baochai and Daiyu were invited in.For a while, Aunt Xue waited to come in, and wanted to perform the national ceremony, but she was spared, so she came up again to chatter.The family talked for a while in this room, and Jia She and Jia Zheng and others saluted and spoke outside the bead curtain, which took a lot of time.

After the ceremony here, Li Wan of Youshi came up and said, "The banquet is ready, please concubine to visit you." The concubine Yuan waited for her to get up, ordered Baoyu to guide her, and they came to the banquet together to sit down.Yuanchun liked Baoyu, so he naturally stayed with him.Everyone sat down in order, and Yuan Chun called Daiyu to the side again.Yuan Chun's behavior caused many people to speculate, what did she mean by leaving Daiyu to sit next to her?

Jia's mother just thought that this granddaughter was in the same heart as her, and she presumably fell in love with Daiyu.Everyone else thinks the same way. Yuan Chun didn't deliberately match Baoyu and Daiyu, but she owed Daiyu, so naturally she was better to her.When Daiyu gave her the ring, she had said to Daiyu: If there is anything in the future, it must be given by Daiyu.

After taking a seat, it's easy to eat, drink and watch a play.Yuan Chun was very happy talking with Baoyu and Daiyu.Seeing that Daiyu was at the same level as her own, Baoyu felt very at ease, and forgot her sister Bao for a moment.Seeing Baochai's eyes during the dinner, he woke up just now, and scolded himself for being careless, so he lost a little bit of joy.

Yuanchun asked Baoyu how he was doing at school, and asked how Daiyu was living in Jia's house.Both Daiyu and Baoyu answered one by one, and Jia's mother over there looked very happy and said, "Look, those two children look really good beside the imperial concubine."

Youshi laughed and said, "One is the grandson of the old lady, and the other is the granddaughter of the old lady. How can it be unattractive?"

Mother Jia breathed a sigh of relief as she touched the handle of the chair, and said with a smile, "Baoyu is old enough to talk about marriage."

Mrs. Wang's hand holding the chopsticks was stiff, and she put the chopsticks down.Baochai had an ugly smile on her face, but Aunt Xue didn't smile.Everyone has their own thoughts, and Baoyu's marriage is really uncertain.

Yuan Chun didn't stay at home for long, when a eunuch came to report that the time had come and it was time to return to the palace.Yuan Chun didn't stay much longer, but bid farewell to everyone in Jia's family with tears in his eyes, and then went back to the palace.

The Jia family's prosperity has not been perfect this time, and Jia's mother and Jia Zheng always have regrets in their hearts.But after Yuanchun went back, he told the emperor about all the relatives, and the emperor rewarded him with a lot of things, which made up for the regrets of Jia Mu and others.

Aunt Xue and Baochai, however, were uneasy. At the banquet, it seemed that Yuanchun meant to match Baoyu and Daiyu, and Jiamu's meaning was even more obvious.It is indeed a bit difficult for her and Mrs. Wang's sisters to want Baochai to marry Baoyu.

Aunt Xue found Mrs. Wang, she just sighed and slapped her hands: "The old lady and the empress both mean the same thing, what should I do?"

I couldn't talk to Yuan Chun alone all day yesterday, and Mrs. Wang didn't understand what Yuan Chun meant.If this girl really got Baoyu and Daiyu right, she would really do something bad with good intentions.Mrs. Wang thought for a while, then said to Aunt Xue: "Don't worry about it, I'm your mother's own mother, so I can ask her about it before it's too late."

How can Aunt Xue not be in a hurry, seeing Baochai getting older day by day, it will be too late if she doesn't marry again.She looked at Mrs. Wang, and said: "Your Majesty is not in a hurry, what about the old lady? You can see that she has taken a fancy to Miss Lin."

Mrs. Wang was a little annoyed seeing Aunt Xue's anxious behavior, and said: "What's wrong with your precious girl? Are you afraid that you won't get married? The more you behave like this, the more the old lady will look down on your precious girl."

Aunt Xue fell silent after being told by Mrs. Wang.Didn't she belittle her own daughter by being so in a hurry?Women hate to marry, which is not a good thing.

Compared with Aunt Xue, Baochai is calm and calm, showing nothing special.After a few days, she came to look for Daiyu.Daiyu had never been close to her, and she always came looking for her these days, and Daiyu also felt a little uncomfortable.When Baochai unfolded a piece of crumpled paper in front of Daiyu that day, Daiyu felt even more uncomfortable.

What was written on the paper were some reactionary paragraphs, and the handwriting was Daiyu's, which was what she usually wrote.Daiyu's face changed when she saw the piece of paper, she quickly grabbed it and squeezed it in her hand, looked at Baochai and said, "Sister Bao, why are you just taking things from other people's houses?"

Baochai smiled, "Why are you panicking? Even though I read it, I can't do anything about it. Since you know it's not good, why don't you have nothing to write about it?"

"Whether I write or not is my business, and what does it have to do with Sister Bao?" Daiyu held the paper in her hand, feeling a little more at ease, and said, looking at Baochai.

Baochai was not annoyed when she saw that her words were thorny, she still smiled and said, "Tell me to see it, how can I not see it? You can't write scribbles just because you like it? My wife doesn't understand these things, let you mess around." , then if I see it, I can let you mess around? This matter can be said to be big or small, and you have to know how powerful it is. "

Daiyu saw Baochai "teaching her earnestly", a smile slowly formed on the corner of her mouth.She didn't understand what Baochai said, and of course she knew the nature of what she was doing, and she didn't need others to remind her.Baochai deliberately took things from her wastebasket, and only now came to tell her.The tone of the words was worried about her for her, so naturally he didn't use this matter to blackmail her.

So... what is Baochai's purpose?