People from the Red Chamber in the Times

Because Baoyu didn't want to go to ethnology, he was scolded by the master again. He felt unhappy, so he drank two more sips of fruit wine, fell on his head, and fell asleep in a daze after returning to the room.

When I woke up, before I opened my eyes, I felt that someone was blowing on my face.I thought it was another girl who was naughty and playing with me.

But immediately after, there was another very bad smell coming from the nose.The girls in the family are all well-groomed. When did Bao Erye's nose suffer from such abuse?

"Ah!" Baoyu opened his eyes to see what was so stinky, but was startled by the two big eyes that appeared in front of him and screamed.Subconsciously, he hid back, his head hit the wood on which he was pillowed before with a bang, and he passed out immediately.

When he yelled, he became dizzy, but he startled the old scalper who was pushing him, mooed, turned around and went to gnaw the ground.

About half an hour later, Jia Baoyu woke up leisurely again. As soon as he woke up, the pain in the back of his head came over.The touch made him grin his teeth in pain again.

At this time, a gust of wind came, and Baoyu felt cool and comfortable.But I felt something was wrong.

Before I could figure it out, when I lowered my head, I saw my bare legs.Look up again, oh my, the whole body, except for a big underpants, there is nothing naked?

"Ah..." The cry this time was worse than the last time.He jumped up with a swish, never before sensitive, like the big girl who was bullied, hugged his body hard, and started looking for someone from left to right, wanting to see which one is the one who has no conscience, the bully over him.

There is no one there, except for a dozen steps away, the skinny old scalper is gnawing grass roots by the pond, and there are more than a dozen ducks swimming in the pond, and there is no one.

Only now did Jia Baoyu see the surrounding environment clearly.

Behind him was a sparse forest with ragged poplars growing in an irregular manner.In front of it was an earthen pit not much bigger than the fish pond in the mansion, the water only reached half the height of the earthen pit, glowing with green light, there were still a few old willow trees growing on the edge of the pit, the branches had already hung down into the mud.

The place where he just fell was a poplar tree lying down. Half of the tree was buried in the soil, and the other half was growing obliquely, half dead. The leaves didn't know where to go, and they were bare.If it weren't for the green on the branches, it would make people think it was a dead tree.

Looking farther away, behind the woods, he could see several low earthen houses, surrounded by earthen walls in the yard, with plants he didn't recognize growing inside, higher than the earthen walls.A few tens of paces away to the south is an earth dam. He is standing on the edge of the pit now, the terrain is low, and the earth dam is as tall as him.Can't see what's on the other side of the dam.To the east, after passing the big pit, there is a piece of farmland. The crops grow sparsely, and he doesn't know them.Then there is a village, surrounded by woods, with the same low earthen houses.There are also farmlands in the north, and there are houses in the northwest.There are low-growing crops planted on the side of the pit, which look like pods, should they be beans?

"What kind of place is this?" Jia Baoyu looked at it for a long time, but couldn't remember when he had been to such a place.

I couldn't find any clothes when I looked around. Except for the old scalper and a few ducks, there was no one who could ask the way.He hugged his body, feeling extremely embarrassed.He also has such a silly temperament, when he gets anxious, he doesn't know what to do, no one around him is there, except for being stupid and anxious, he doesn't know which way to step.

"Brother Xiaobao? Brother Xiaobao?" Baoyu was so anxious that he was about to cry when finally a few cries of a child came from the south dam.Then two little boys aged seven or eight, holding glass jars in their hands, shouted and rushed down the dam, running towards him.

Baoyu was very surprised.Why are those two children obviously the same as him now, with only one underpants to cover their bodies, but they are holding precious glass jars in their hands, not cherishing them, and not afraid of breaking them?There is still a lot of mud hanging on the jar!

"Brother Xiaobao, look, there is a big harvest, a jar of loach and toads, where are the firewood?" The two children walked up to Baoyu, and the taller child who called him before spoke and picked up the glass. Show the jar to Baoyu.

"Ah..." Baoyu looked at the loaches and frogs in the pot. It's not that he didn't know these things, but he didn't see them alive at such a close distance.

"Brother Xiaobao, brother Xiaobao?" The child put the glass jar on the ground and shook Baoyu's hand.

"Second brother, is little brother stupid again? Or, let's go home and find the second uncle?" The younger child was a little scared when he saw Baoyu's blank look, and asked the taller one directly. A child called Erzi.

"Everyone in the family has gone to work in the production team." The second son is also a little numb. His name is Jia Erbao. Baoyu is the child of his second uncle's family. , but when he gets sick, he seems to have lost his soul, bewildered, and loves to talk nonsense.

"Then why don't we send Brother Xiaobao back to find your milk?" Another child came up with an idea. His name was Wang Jiazhu, and he was a child of the second son's neighbor. The two were together when they were still breastfeeding. It's time to play.

"Okay. Let's go." The second son looked at Baoyu again, and saw that his eyes were dull, and he didn't look aura at all. This was really a stupid disease, and he didn't dare to delay, so he agreed Pillar idea.

Each of the two children took Baoyu by the hand and led him home. The two children hadn't forgotten the jar of loach.

"Grandma, grandma." Passing through the grove, the second house in the east of the village has two simple gates pierced with wood on the earthen wall. As soon as Erzi and Zhuzi led Baoyu in, they began to shout at the top of their voices.

"What are you shouting, what are you shouting, it's like howling. What's wrong?" The door of the one and a half small earthen room in the yard opened, and a little old man with several layers of patches on his body and neatly coiled hair came out. Ma'am, hoarse, but very loud.

"Grandma, take a quick look, my brother Xiaobao has fallen into an idiot again." The second son yelled.

"Why are you sick again? Hurry up and bring Bao'er into the house." Seeing Baoyu's dull look, the little old lady came up and grabbed Baoyu's hand, and raised her hand to touch it. His face was distressed and worried.Baoyu was not used to being dragged by this old lady whom he didn't know at all. He wanted to break free, but when he saw those eyes, his heart softened again, and he let her lead him into the house.

"Bao'er, lie down quickly. Grandma will make egg water for you." The little old lady led Baoyu to the edge of the kang, took out a pillow from a little under the quilt of the kang, let Baoyu lie down, and groped on her body again. After waiting for a long time, I took out a small key, opened the lock on the lid of the wooden wardrobe against the north wall, took out an egg from it, and went to the kitchen.

"Grandma, this is the loach we dug up just now, and I stewed it for my little brother." The second son took out the canned bottle in his hand and handed it to the little old lady.

"Okay, let's put it away. I'll make it for you next afternoon, and then I'll stick corn pancakes for you. You and Zhuzi will both come to eat." The little old lady took the bottle, found a small basin, and poured out the loach. There are six or seven, the thickness of a little finger.The two little frogs were not wanted.He returned the jar to the second son.

"Hey! Grandma, Zhuzi and I will go to herd the cows and watch the ducks first." The second son was very happy, and had loach and corn pancakes to eat at night.He pulled the pillar and left happily. They were going to pick up branches and roast the two young children that he didn't want.

"Come on, Bao'er, drink the egg water, lie down for a while, and the milk will cook for you." The little old lady quickly boiled the water, took out an enamel pot, and beat the eggs in it. Break it up, then rinse with hot water, and the egg water will be ready.In the heart of the old lady, this is a panacea, which can cure any medicine.

"Ugh..." Baoyu was really sickened by the fishy-sweet smell of the egg water, her mouth was tightly shut, and she refused to drink the egg water brought to her mouth by the old lady.

"Hey, Bao'er, drink the egg water, it will be fine." The old lady became more worried when she saw how Baoyu's jaw was clenched, and kept coaxing her.

"It smells strong." Baoyu saw that the old lady's posture would not give up, so she had to speak.

"This child, there is no medicine that can't be washed. It's better than taking medicine soup or big pills, right? Drink it soon, go to sleep, and eat when you get up." The old lady didn't listen to what Baoyu said. When I still want to say something, I pour the egg water into my mouth.

"Cough, cough, cough..." Baoyu was really coughing after being fed, swallowed most of it, and didn't drink the rest. The old lady didn't force her, she put the jar on the edge of the kang, and told him to sleep well. He scooped two small bowls of cornmeal out of the egg cabinet and went to work in the kitchen.

Baoyu was lying on the kang by herself, not feeling sleepy.

In this strange environment and strange people, I somehow knew in my heart, and I knew with certainty that I would never go back, never see the old lady, wife, master, and my sisters and sisters. I can't see it anymore.

As Baoyu thought about it, her tears kept streaming down uncontrollably.

The more I think about it, the more uncomfortable I feel, and the more uncomfortable I feel, the more I can't stop my tears. I feel so dizzy thinking about it, it seems like I'm about to explode.Not long after, he passed out from the pain.

The little old lady was worried about Baoyu, so she reconciled and went into the room to see him. Seeing that there were still tears on his face, she raised her hand to wipe it off, and yelled twice. Seeing whether Baoyu woke up, she thought Baoyu was asleep.So I let him sleep, and went out to dig wild vegetables in the fields of the private plot with wicker baskets. It was the time when wild vegetables grew wildly in summer, and it was not difficult to find them. Pulled two green onions from the vegetable garden, went into the house and saw that Baoyu was still "sleeping", didn't call him, washed the wild vegetables, cut them up and mixed them with cornmeal.I also took the potatoes I saved the previous winter, cut half a pot, and started cooking.

There is a rough pottery jar the size of a basketball behind the pot table. The old lady took a small spoon and filled half a spoonful of meat oil out of it, put it in the pot, and fried the pot with green onions, and the aroma came out.Put the loach and potatoes into the pot, add salt and seasonings, stick the reconciled cornmeal on the edge of the pot, cover it, and burn it.

Baoyu was awakened by the fragrance.

It's been a long time since I came here, and I only drank half a tank of egg water, what can I do, it's no wonder I'm not hungry!

When she woke up again, Baoyu had already "remembered" the memory of this body.Before he fainted from a headache, it was because he received too much data at once and his head couldn't stand it.

His original name was Jia Xiaobao.He is the youngest son of Jia Changfa, the captain of Sankeshutun.There are two Jia Changfa brothers and thirteen cousins ​​in total, ten of them live in Sankeshu Tun. There are less than one hundred households in the Tun, and Jia's relatives account for more than half of them. It is an out-and-out big family.Jia Changfa and Jia Changhong are two brothers, and Jia Changfa is the youngest son.Of the four old brothers of the old man Jia Siwa's generation, only Jia Erwa is still alive.

Jia Siwa and the little old lady had two sons and a daughter, and the daughter married to the town.Jia Changhong married the daughter of Yu's family in a neighboring village and gave birth to three sons and a daughter.The second son, Jia Baoshiliu, is studying at a technical secondary school in the county, and the youngest is the second son.The daughter, Jia Ying, is two years older than the second son. She is twelve years old. During the summer vacation, she went to the fields with her parents to help earn work points.

Jia Changfa married Erya, the daughter of Wang Changgui, an old accountant of the production brigade in the same village, and gave birth to two sons and two daughters.The eldest son, Jia Dabao, is seventeen years old. After graduating from technical secondary school, he works as a cashier in the sewing factory in the town.The second child is Jia Yuan, a 15-year-old daughter who does not read well and is working at home.The third child is Jia Xiaobao, who is Baoyu's original body now.When he was born, he was white and fat, and it is said that he was very clever when he was a child.It's just that when I was four or five years old, I had a cold, and after I got better, I got a stupid disease, and I would suffer from it from time to time.When sick, people will foolishly ignore people and ignore them, don't know what to eat and drink, and sometimes talk nonsense that no one can understand.The duration of the illness can be as long as a day or two, and as short as one or two hours.

When it's good, it's no different from normal people, but even more clever.

But also because of this disease, I went to school when I was 12 years old, and I never went to school!

Jia Xi, the youngest daughter in the family, is nine years old and went to her grandma's house for the summer vacation.

The place where Baoyu is staying now is the house of Grandma Jia Xiaobao, also known as the little old lady. The little old lady is only in her 50s and has a very strong body. She doesn't live with her son and lives alone in the old house.

After receiving Jia Xiaobao's memories, Baoyu became more and more certain that he had come to this place that was completely different from the world he lived in, and it was not a dream.

"Bao'er, why are you crying again? What's the matter?" The old lady let the rice simmer in the pot after the fire was finished, and she sat next to Baoyu to flick the cotton from the old cotton clothes, so when Baoyu woke up, she Just found out.

"Grandma?" Baoyu tried to open his mouth to call out.It was the first time for him to be called by this name. The old lady in the family didn't like to be called grandma.

"Hey. Look, this is all right! Don't cry, get up, wash your face, and Erzi and Zhuzi will be able to eat when they come back from sending the cows and ducks to the production team." The old lady saw that Baoyu would Calling people, it's just that the stupidity has passed, and I'm very happy.

"Yeah." Baoyu hadn't calmed down yet, she was so numb, she just did what the old lady said, got up and got off the kang, and saw that there was a basin shelf by the door, he already knew it, that was to wash his face Basin, the old lady has filled the water and washed her face.After splashing the cold water, I became more refreshed. Looking at the face towel on the shelf, it was a coarse cloth cut out of old clothes.

"Grandma, I'm going to help the second son." He said and went out.I don't look for clothes anymore. In this world, every family is so poor that they can't eat enough to eat. It's good to have a whole set of clothes for a year. It's not cold in summer. If you're half a child, you don't have any clothes. They are all fastidious people, I don't know how many children have bare buttocks!

"Let's go." The old lady sat still, and ignored it after saying yes.

Before Baoyu left the yard, Erzi and Zhuzi had already returned.

Old people and children who don't have to work in the fields don't have three meals a day. It's good to have a meal that can eat pancakes that are mostly vegetables.Today, a little old lady is stewing fish, and the two boys are so greedy that their saliva is about to flow out. How can they be willing to herd cattle honestly, and drive the old scalper and those few ducks back home early in the morning? After leaving the production team's threshing field, I went to the livestock pen, and ran to the old lady's house.

The old lady got off the kang when she heard the voices in the courtyard. When the three monkey children rushed in, she had already set up the kang table and was serving vegetables in the kitchen.

When the food was served on the table, the second son took a couple of mouthfuls of corn tortillas, and then picked up the chopsticks to eat, but only aimed at the potatoes.But Zhuzi, after all, is separated by a floor, not as comfortable as the second son. When the old lady gave way, he ate pancakes with one hand and chopsticks in the other, but the speed was not slow at all.

Baoyu saw that the two were eating well, but he still thought it was impolite, and they didn't know how to respect the old. The old lady hadn't served the table yet, but they ate first, which was really ugly.

"Bao'er, why don't you eat? Eat quickly." The old lady was surprised to see that Baoyu was standing on the ground and not on the kang, just watching Erzi and Zhuzi eating.

"That's right, brother Xiaobao, why don't you go to the kang, hurry up, I'll pick out all the loaches for you." The second son also kept calling Baoyu, digging treasures from the small half pot of potato cubes. He picked out the five or six loaches and put them aside for him to eat.

"Grandma, why don't you eat, there are so many!" Baoyu still didn't move, although in the memory just now, this place doesn't have those etiquette, every time the original body is so hungry, he comes to the old lady's place to eat , I don’t know why, it’s just the education he has received in the mansion over the past ten years, he really can’t ignore the old lady and eat a lot by himself.

"Eat first, you eat milk late in the morning, and you are not hungry yet!" The old lady just said that she was not hungry, and dragged Baoyu to the kang, put all the chopsticks in her hands, and insisted on letting him eat.

Baoyu has been hungry for a whole day, the food looks rough, he is really hungry if he can't help it, and he also imitated the second son, picking up the corn cake with his left hand and putting it in his mouth, but why is it so unpalatable after biting it?

In the past, the mansion often made whole grain snacks, and they were delicious. He always liked to eat them, and the old lady made them with wild vegetables. In his heart, it was very wild.And in my memory, pancakes like this are the best, let alone loach meat to eat, they are so delicious.

As a result, this bite was eaten in the mouth, why did it sting the throat so much?It is not at all soft and delicious as the whole grain pancakes that I have eaten in the past, and I can't swallow anything.

After chewing in his mouth for a long time, Baoyu repeatedly looked back and forth between the pancake in his hand and the pancake in the hands of Erzi and Zhuzi. They were obviously the same, so why did they eat so deliciously?

Looking at the concerned expression on the old lady's face, Baoyu couldn't spit out the pancakes that she wanted to spit out anyway, so she tried her best to swallow the pancakes.

The pancakes didn't taste good, so Baoyu changed his target and went to pick up vegetables, but he was really embarrassed to pick up loach and a piece of potato.

Ouch, this smell of meat and oil!

It made him nauseous.

Obviously, there is no oil star in the dish, why is the oil smell so strong?

It's not as easy to swallow as pancakes!

Baoyu put a mouthful of potatoes in his mouth and almost cried.

After a lot of effort, I choked on half of the pancake and put it down.

"Bao'er, why did you only eat half of the pancakes? You don't even eat any vegetables! What's wrong with you?" Seeing Baoyu's loss of appetite, the old lady asked with concern.

"Grandma, I'm fine. I fell asleep on the side of the big pit at noon, and slept for half the afternoon when I came back. I just slept, and I'm not hungry!" Baoyu found reasons for herself.

"Okay, I'll pack the milk for you later, and go home to eat at night." The old lady didn't think her grandson was the kind of polite child. In her understanding, if he didn't eat, he must be really not hungry. .

"Mom, why did you make egg water for Xiaobao again? It's for cough and lung disease, so I can't care about that. The eggs are for nothing." When the commune members came back from the field in the evening, Jia Changfa heard that his son had another stupid disease. I went to the old lady to pick up people, and when I entered the room, I saw the enamel jar with egg water on the side of the kang.

"You know what, Bao'er will be fine after drinking the egg water!" The old lady was sitting cross-legged on the kang, playing her old cotton again. As for water, none of the three of them knew how to carry water with a pole. The big wooden barrel was heavy by itself, and no one person could carry a bucket of water, so each of them carried half a bucket back.There is only one big well in Sankeshutun, which is used by all the villagers. It is located in Tunxitouer, and there are more than 20 households separated from the old lady's house, more than half a mile away!Usually it was Jia Changfa and his brother who took the time to fetch water for the old lady, but today Baoyu insisted on doing it, and the two boys also joined in the fun.

"The doctor said that there is nothing wrong with Xiaobao. It is just that he was weak when he was a child and was invaded by external evils. He will be fine when he grows up. You see, he hasn't had much illness in the past two years!" Jia Changfa sat down on the edge of the kang, and the old man Growing up chatting with the old lady.

Whoever's child has a problem can't be watched. When Xiaobao fell ill for the first time, he took him to the health center in the town to have a look. Doctor Chen in the health center was his cousin who turned eighty times. Brother-in-law, after looking at it for a long time, he didn't see anything wrong, and he said that he lost his soul.The old lady believed in it very much, and even asked the great god in the village to summon the soul, but it didn't help.Later, I took it to the county hospital, but I didn't find out what was wrong with it. These days, the doctors are honest, there is no pressure from performance, and those who are not happy to get injections when they are not sick, let them go home to raise them.

Otherwise, it wouldn't be possible for the child to grow up so big, and it would be really useless to let him get sick.

"It's true, after the age of ten, there are fewer crimes! You didn't see it this afternoon. I think the second son was not as serious as usual when he was sent here. He didn't talk nonsense, and it got better soon. It's probably true. It's almost ready." The old lady recalled for a while, and agreed with her son.

"Hey, that's right! You can do good things for yourself, why are you wasting those eggs." Back to the eggs again.

"I'm happy to give it to my grandson, you don't care about it." The old lady gave her son a look, and saw that the three children brought back half a bucket of water, and lifted their legs to the ground.

"Bao'er, that's enough, the water tank is full. Don't pick, it's enough." The old lady went to the kitchen as she spoke, lifted the covered pot, and took out the remaining pancakes and vegetables from it. .

"It's getting dark, let's all go back. Bao'er, take these, and eat when you're hungry at night." Put the basin into Baoyu's hand, and then looked at Jia Changfa, "I took a bite at noon, I must be hungry. .”

When Jia Changfa saw the half-vegetable and half-flour corn tortillas, and the big bowl of stewed loach with potatoes, his heart throbbed with pain.

"My old lady! No one is so used to children." These strong laborers are reluctant to eat so well. This old lady is really a prodigal...

Jia Changfa raised his hand and took out the broken iron basin that the old woman had stuffed into Baoyu's arms and put it on the pot table.

"Don't worry about it. It's so hard to save such a little thing from your mouth. It's a disaster for these little bastards. They are all eating and not working. You keep it for yourself. No matter what he does, if he doesn't eat, he won't be hungry. Besides, the family has prepared meals, so how can he still be hungry?"

While talking, he gave Baoyu a hard look, this one has no eyesight, so just take it if you give it?Heartless thing, don't think about how his grandma saved these things.

Although the old lady occupies the house with two gardens in the front and back by herself, and there are two private lands for two people, the old man has been gone for these years, and no one has said that he wants to return the land.There are also rations for the production team.The two sons are also supported every year, and the daughter feeds the pigs in the pig farm in the town, and occasionally secretly sends back some rice bran mixed with grain.But the years are here to stay. There have been several years of disasters in a row, the grain harvest in the field is very bad, and the vegetables in my garden are half dead.That is to say, there is green everywhere in summer, and there are a lot of wild vegetables and weeds growing in the field, so you can’t go hungry. Who is not full of muddy water for half a year all year round.Which family's children are not young or old, how much can the old lady be subsidized?

When Baoyu let her father stare at her like that, she trembled in fright at that time, and the feeling of being called to the study by her master every time to criticize her head and cover her face for a reprimand came back.He raised his legs and ran towards the direction of the home in his memory.

Jia Changfa's house is behind the old lady's house, separated by a row of other houses. The old lady's house is the first row in the village, theirs is the last row, and the first house in Xitou. It is exactly diagonal to the old lady's house. They are almost the two furthest apart in the village.

"Mother, I'm back." Baoyu trotted back to his home and shouted as soon as he entered the door.

The layout is the same at home.Entering the door is the kitchen. The stove is separated from the big kang in the back room by a table. There is a wooden cupboard with a door on the north wall, and six or seven jars are placed on a low wooden shelf.There are three large water tanks against the corner of the wall and the east gable. From the end of autumn to the end of spring, two of the tanks are filled with pickled vegetables, and they are used as water tanks at other times.Next to the door was a firewood pile, with dry branches and two bundles of cornstalks.

The difference from the old lady's house is that there is a table between the stove and the main room in the old lady's house, which is transparent.As the production team leader, Jia Changfa obviously had a relatively good life, and this table was closed.The downside is that the light in the kitchen is not as good as in the old lady's house.

There is no door between the kitchen and the main room, not even a curtain.There is also a big kang by the window when you go in. There is a wooden cabinet on the north wall, with a small glass mirror on it, and two bottles of cream with white body and green cover. Baoyu remembers that one of them is still empty, purely for decoration.Facing the cabinet to the east is the rear mansion with a small kang separated from it, which is the residence of the two brothers, Dabao and Dabao.

A door was opened on the west wall of the main room, and a new room was opened in the beginning of spring. Dabao was going to say goodbye, and it was going to be used as a wedding room for him to get married.It is now used as a warehouse.

"Come back when you come back, why are you making so much noise?" The particularly tall and strong woman who came out of the west room following the voice was Xiao Baoniang.

This big body has a great impact on Baoyu.

Obviously, he didn't think there was anything special about Xiao Baoniang in his memory. Only when he saw it with his own eyes, did he know that there were women who grew up like this in the world.In the past, among the girls and maids in the mansion, which one is not delicate, soft and weak, is the sharp and sharp person like Sister Feng, but she looks the most decent.Even those rough women, who are tall, thick and vulgar, are not like this, they are taller than men.