[Red House Chai Dai] Salted Pork Knuckle, Crab Rice Wine

The capital Chang'an.Lixiangyuan in the northeast corner of Rongguo Mansion.

Xue Baochai suddenly woke up from her sleep.

She only felt hot and dry all over her body, pushed the quilt aside, and hurriedly unbuttoned the red cotton gauze double-breasted jacket on her body, and fanned herself with the thin sheet, only then did she feel better.

Ying'er, the maidservant in the room, heard the movement, got up quickly, and asked in surprise, "What's the matter, Miss? Are you having nightmares again?"

When she saw Xue Baochai sweating profusely from the heat, she suddenly realized: "Could it be that the girl has suffered from that disease again?" Then she said worriedly: "It's just that the Lengxiang pills were buried under the roots of the pear tree. In the middle of the night, it's a bit difficult."

Before Xue Baochai could speak, Ying'er gritted her teeth and said, "The sky is big and the earth is big, and healing is the most important thing. But now I don't care about anything else. In my opinion, there is no need to call people. It would be unbeautiful to disturb my wife. Call Xiangling from the next room, and the two of us dug out the old magnetic altar containing Lengxiang pills from under the pear blossom tree overnight."

Hearing this, Xue Baochai smiled helplessly, "You babbled so much before I even spoke. In the middle of the night, you went to dig trees for what. It's hard not to disturb my mother. It's serious for you to fetch me a basin of water to wash." As he said, he couldn't help coughing.

Ying'er had been serving Xue Baochai since she was very young, so she was naturally obedient and obedient to her.Hearing that I went there for a while, I really got a basin of warm water from outside.

Xue Baochai washed it with warm water, and her dryness calmed down a little. When she walked to the door, she saw the moonlight shining like water outside and the breeze blowing, so she thought about it, so she said to Yinger, "I want to go out for a walk. Be alone. You don't have to follow."

Ying'er said hesitantly: "I heard people say that you should not be blown by the wind when you warm up..." Seeing Xue Baochai raising her eyebrows slightly and looking at herself, she couldn't help being in awe, she didn't dare to persuade her again, and put a silver fox cloak as a Baochai put it on, but she didn't resist when she saw Baochai, so she calmed down a little and said in a low voice, "Miss, be careful."

Xue Baochai nodded, although there was a bit of unbearable hotness on his face, his eyes were frighteningly bright, and his overall demeanor was still calm and quiet, Yinger couldn't help but stare blankly.After Xue Baochai had gone a long way, Yinger came back to her senses, found the shining gold collar from the house, chased it all the way, put it on Xue Baochai's neck, and said in a low voice: "Girl, don't forget this."

Xue Baochai sighed and said nothing more.

Everyone in Xue's family knew that Xue Baochai suffered from a strange disease since he was a child. He often had strange dreams. When he woke up from the dream, he was very hot and coughed constantly.When Xue Baochai's father was alive, he valued Xue Baochai very much and regarded her as the apple of his eye. For her illness, he didn't know how much money was wasted until a monk with a scarlet head floated up and gave him a pack of medicinal powder with a strange fragrance as an introduction. It is said that Haishang prepared all the Lengxiang pills and decocted the soup with [-] fen cork, which was a bit effective.

From then on, Xue Baochai's family obeyed the monk with a scarlet head, and specially made a gold necklace with glittering pearls and glittering gold for her, and ordered her to wear it around her neck every day.

It's just that everyone doesn't know that the Lengxiang Pills from Qianxiang Cave in Fangchun Mountain can cure Xue Baochai's burning disease, but the bright and glittering gold necklace can't ward off Xue Baochai's strange dreams from time to time.Not to mention that no one knew when Xue Baochai started to hear a strange voice, nagging non-stop all day long.

Xue Baochai doesn't like the eccentricity and cynicism of this voice, but she has to admit that sometimes what this voice says makes sense.If it weren't for this voice's constant persuasion, the Xue family might have been in a lot of trouble.However, as a boudoir's daughter, how can she control her head and feet, and control Xue Bawang's troubles?Is there any reason in the world for a younger sister to control her elder brother in everything?Furthermore, the mother, Aunt Xue, has soft ears and dotes on her son, so how could she help her?So although Feng Yuan did not die, Yinglian followed Xue's family to the capital, changed her name to Xiangling, and temporarily stayed by Baochai's side to serve.

It's just that after coming to the capital, Xue Baochai was shocked by what the voice said.That was the first time she met Lin Daiyu and Jia Baoyu.The voice that had been silent for a while suddenly spoke up and said that of those two people, one was her love, and the other was her rival in love.It's really scary when you think about it.She, Xue Baochai, has read poetry and books since she was a child. How can an orthodox lady dare to talk about love?

However, it was not the thing that disturbed Xue Baochai the most at the moment.

"Yo, it looks like you're having that dream again?" the voice whispered in her ear.There is no need to worry about frightening others, Xue Baochai has tried many times in silence, this is a voice that only she can hear.

It was early winter, the night was as cool as water, the moon was full of the ground, a gust of wind blew by, the shadows of the trees whirled and rustled, everything was silent, and there was no sound around, Xue Baochai was silent, but she heard her voice clearly. My heart is answering: "Yes. In the dream, I said that I was incompetent. I can't remember what happened later."

That voice gloated: "I thought it was another dream. It turned out to be this one. How, what I said is absolutely right. You are wearing this golden necklace, and you are destined to find a rich jade to match it. Of the two of them, one is the love in your heart, and the other is your rival in love, you still refused to believe it before."

Xue Baochai felt flustered and confused, but it disappeared in a flash.She changed the subject calmly: "Why don't we discuss another dream. According to you, how did the person in the dream end?"

It was a dream of great joy and sorrow.Since coming to the capital, Xue Baochai had dreamed about it several times, but after waking up, she couldn't remember the face and expression of the person in the dream.In the dream, there seemed to be many bright and beautiful young women laughing and playing together, but the background of the laughter was a very slow and sad flute sound in the ethereal.

Among the flute sounds, some voices were speaking intermittently:

"In the end it will inevitably be too defeated... It is...frivolous and rootless...but according to my idea...it may not be what you want..."

"I always feel that I can't make ends meet, and if things go on like this, I'm sure I won't be able to catch up..."

"We are a family of flesh and blood. We are not like black-eyed chickens. I wish you could eat me and I would eat you..."

"You have to commit suicide at home before you can be completely defeated..."

"If you don't worry about it early at this time, I'm afraid it will be useless to regret it at the end of the day."

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The yin and yang voice sneered and said: "You still ask me? You are usually the most intelligent and watertight person, and you never listen to my advice. Why don't you tell me what that dream means?"

Xue Baochai sighed softly. This voice has been urging her to draw a clear line with her elder brother Xue Pan, saying that sooner or later he will implicate herself, and that she should plan for herself early and find a way out, which is better than suffering in the future when she is down. Brother-in-law's cold eyes and all kinds of disgust.However, how could Xue Baochai bear to give up such a family relationship so easily?She knew it was useless to ask for it at this time, so she frowned slightly and stood on the porch thinking.She was originally a very smart person, she knew the autumn when a leaf fell, and saw the whole leopard with her eyesight. Over the years, many nights, fragments of various fragmented strange dreams were connected one by one, like pearls being strung together by a silk thread. Taking shape, she draws closer and closer to that truth:

"In my dream, I seem to have written a song "Linjiang Fairy":

In front of Baiyutang, there is a spring festival dance, and the east wind blows evenly.Bees and butterflies are in chaos.How many times have passed with the water, so it is not necessary to appoint Fangchen.Thousands of threads will not change in the end, let him gather and divide as he likes.Shaohua Xiuxiao has no roots at all, so the wind and frequency take advantage of it to send me to Qingyun! "

"Everyone praised me for doing a good job, and even sister Lin said that I had great strength in turning over. So, I have a higher opinion of me. ——Why did I say the word 'Geng'?"

As soon as she thought about this, she naturally had an answer, so she tentatively asked the voice: "Although the Jia family is big, it is only a centipede. Out of decline. I was greatly appreciated by Sister Lin, and I planned to use what I learned in my chest to turn the tide, but no one can beat the sky, so I am sad and angry, so I have these dreams, right? "

The voice was a bit surprised: "You are a girl in the boudoir, how can you have such insight, know that the centipede of the Jia family is dead but not stiff?"

Xue Baochai didn't take it seriously, and replied: "Well, the brilliance of a gentleman will be cut off for the fifth generation. Who didn't come here like this? Don't say anything else, let's just talk about our Xue family. Was it the same situation before? In my opinion, It's getting worse day by day. It's imperative to put away the ostentation of the past and live a down-to-earth life. Besides, after living in Jia's mansion these days, my brother is like a fish returning to the water. Uncle Zhen, Uncle Rong, Uncle Qiang and others are messing around. Judging by their behavior, the long house is still like this, and the future is clear at a glance. —— But I still have some puzzles. I am a woman who has not yet left the cabinet. My family name is Xue. After all, they are only relatives of the Jia family, and their reputation is not right. Why should they take over this mess of his family, even if they have the heart. What's more, sister Lin is not from his family, so why is she not doing things for the Lin family? Entrust me, why entrust me with Jia's affairs instead?"

Hearing this, the voice laughed even more strangely: "What a boudoir lady, you haven't left the cabinet yet, don't you think you will never leave the cabinet for the rest of your life? Your hair is not from the Jia family now, isn't it true that you will never be from the Jia family for the rest of your life?" person?"

When Xue Baochai heard this, she felt a little bit understanding, but also a little bit confused, she couldn't help blushing, she couldn't ask further questions, and she couldn't get angry, so she forced herself to ask: "So, I guessed right?"

The voice suddenly became sad: "The paper is full of absurd words, tears of bitterness. How can you guess it all? Besides, you are not the only one who tried to turn the tide. It is Unexpected Loyalty Ming Boudoir! What a pity! What a pity! "

Xue Baochai was surprised when he heard it, and when he wanted to ask again, the voice refused to say anything more.She stood quietly outside for a while, and when she felt a little better, she went back to the room to rest, and fell asleep not long after.

Coughing incessantly all night is a common occurrence.In the dream, she saw clearly that she was dressed in rags, coughing and saying, "Hi-er, I am incompetent, and I wasted your entrustment that day..."

In fact, she also said a few words later, in the dream every word and every word was clear, and she had memorized it carefully, but it was a pity that when she woke up, it turned into a cloud of mist and a few wisps of light smoke.