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The two rough envoys laughed and scolded all the way, appraising Baochai and Daiyu's temperament, appearance, family status, dowry, and relatives one by one, and gradually went away.Then Baochai came out slowly from behind the rock, feeling irritable, sad... all kinds of emotions.

Although the spring is beautiful in the Grand View Garden, she no longer has the interest to enjoy it, she just feels like a huge stone is crushed in her heart, making her unable to breathe.

All of a sudden, she heard hurried footsteps approaching from far to near. When Baochai looked up, she realized that it was Xueyan, a maidservant in Daiyu's room. She hurriedly greeted her with a smile on her face.

Xueyan hurriedly returned the gift with a smile, walked quickly a few steps, walked up to Baochai, and asked her, "Miss Xue, have you ever seen our girl?"

Baochai shook her head and said she hadn't seen it, so Xueyan worried and said: "Our girl asked sister Zijuan to prepare flower pouches and brooms early in the morning, and said that she was going to bury the flowers. I went out to look around, and I heard from Sister Qingwen that our girl and Second Master Bao were sitting on the edge of the Qinfang Gate Bridge reading a book, so I hurried there to look for it. But on the way, I met Sister Xiren looking for Second Master Bao, Said that the old man was not well, the old lady sent the second master Bao to pay his respects. Later, we met the second master Bao, but our girl didn't know where to go. "

"Reading? This is a new thing. The side of the Qinfang gate bridge is full of moisture. Your girl has always suffered from three disasters and six diseases. She has only recovered a little in the past few days. How did she go there to read?" Baochai frowned.

Xueyan stomped her feet and sighed: "That's what I said too. I'm afraid there is some other reason. The girl of our family knows her temper, and she is the most thoughtful one. I'm afraid that Miss Bao will persuade her a few times before she listens." go in."

While talking, I saw Zijuan coming over there again. After asking twice, I didn't see Daiyu, so I agreed to look for it separately.

Seeing that they were in a hurry, Baochai hurriedly said a few words of consolation, but slowly remembered the reason in her heart, and for a while she had mixed feelings.

It turns out that there is a reason for Daiyu and Baoyu to sit together under the Qinfang Gate and read a book.

Baoyu is at the age of twelve or thirteen years of frivolity, what things are he afraid to do, and what things are he unable to do?

In order to make money in the partial bookstore, there is a kind of person who specializes in writing Fengyue novels. They have written the unofficial love history and various legends of the famous woman in ancient and modern times, and polished them one by one. Ancient and modern novels, operas and dramas.

It is said that in order to please Baoyu, Mingyan, Baoyu's number one servant, bought all those ancient and modern novels and legends, and attracted Baoyu to read them.

The book is the thing that can transfer people's temperament the most.

When Baoyu was young, he only read "The Analects", "Mencius", "Great Learning", "The Doctrine of the Mean", "Shangshu", and "Historical Records". Jia, however, had long been reprimanded by Jia Zheng as not doing his job properly, so he only asked his teacher to listen to some old-fashioned scientific examination stereotypes.

So as soon as Baoyu got the book, Baoyu loved it like a treasure and never let go of the book. Although he knew that there was some relationship between it and must not be seen by others, he still had no choice but to take it into the garden and study it carefully when no one was around. It is to pick up a few sets of the finely-textured books and take them in.

Today, Baoyu was reading "The Romance of the West Chamber". Because Daiyu bumped into him and couldn't hide it, she handed it to Daiyu to read it together.

Originally, Baochai didn't know this story.It's just that in the previous life, Daiyu slipped her tongue for a while, and she didn't realize it until she said a few words at the banquet that Jiamu entertained Grandma Liu.Later, because of using this to persuade Daiyu, the relationship between Chai and Dai seemed to have changed day by day, and gradually they talked about everything, so Daiyu told the truth about all the past.

Baochai then told Daiyu all about reading "The Romance of the West Chamber" and "The Peony Pavilion" when she was a child, and secretly persuaded Daiyu several times when there was no one else.

Now that time has turned back, when Baochai recalls this past event again, he doesn't know what it feels like in his heart.The two of Bao Dai became closer because they watched "The West Chamber" together, but because of this incident, she and Dai Yu also let go of the past, but no one expected that they would end up in such an ending!

She just felt a little out of breath for a moment, but she refused to let Zijuan and Xueyan see that she left as if nothing had happened, and went to rest on her own.

Here Xueyan asked Zijuan: "You are not in the Xiaoxiang Pavilion, but why did you run out?"

Zijuan replied with a smile: "I was watching the little maids decocting the medicine, but I saw that the second grandma sent someone to bring tea. She said that it was the new tea used in the two small bottles, and the girl knew about it in advance. I don't know either." What is it, I don't know how to answer, and you haven't come back for a long time, but you can't think of talking to Miss Bao here."

Although both of them were dedicated to Daiyu, they were amiable on the surface, but they were also a little unhappy in private.

The snow goose was a maid brought by Daiyu from Gusu in the south when Daiyu was very young, and she grew up with her since she was a child, but the Zijuan was a second-class maid who was given to Daiyu by the old lady in Jia's mansion to serve her. The food and daily life in the weekdays, the original name is Yingge, but later changed the name.

Because Zijuan is a few years older, she handles affairs properly on weekdays, and the people in this mansion are familiar with each other, so she is quickly relied on by Daiyu to help her, while the snow geese have retreated more than one shot.

It turned out that Xueyan was still young, full of childishness, and didn't pay much attention to everything. She really treated Zijuan like her sister.Unexpectedly, in the past two years, Zijuan has been trying to encourage Daiyu to be friendly with Baoyu, but in private she is very jealous of Baochai, and often tells Daiyu the rumors about gold and jade that are rumored outside.Daiyu still treats Zijuan like a sister, but she knows that Zijuan belongs to the old lady, and she praises Baodai's fate and fears Baochai, but she has inherited the fighting spirit of mother-in-law and daughter-in-law in Jia's mansion, so she is a little reluctant to do so. She wanted to alienate Baochai, but she often sent Xueyan to find Baochai to talk.It's been a long time, Zijuan is not aware of it, seeing snow geese is not as good as before, and the conversation between each other becomes more and more subtle.

At this time, Zijuan said that Xueyan hadn't come back for a long time, and she was talking to Baochai, with a slight sense of blame in her words.As Xueyan got older, she was not as ignorant of the world as before. She hurriedly defended herself and said, "I just met Miss Bao on the road and asked casually if I knew her whereabouts. It didn't mean anything else. I just met Miss Bao on the way. It's because I heard that the girl was reading with the second master Bao, and then the second master Bao went back, and the girl didn't know where she went."

At first Zijuan listened to Xueyan's talk, and she still wanted to blame her, but when she heard that Baodai and her were reading a book together, she couldn't help smiling and said: "If this is the case, it will be more harmonious. The old lady must have heard it. I am happy." But he didn't care about the blame.

But it was said that Daiyu met Baoyu because she was out to bury flowers, and she watched "The Romance of the West Chamber" with Baoyu on the way, and when she was packing up the fallen flowers, she saw Xiren coming, saying that the old man Jia She was not good, and that the old lady was called Baoyu went to see him and asked Baoyu to go back and change clothes earlier.

For a while Baoyu responded and hurried away. Daiyu was bored by herself. When she wanted to bury the flowers again, she and Baoyu had packed up the fallen flowers and buried them properly. De Yingchun, Tanchun, and Xichun must also go to Jia She's place to pay their respects, but they are not in the room. They plan to send someone to greet them afterwards, which is appropriate; Visiting, it happened that when my father was seriously ill, there were no children around me, and no one to comfort me. When I hurried south, it was time to tell my funeral.Thinking of this, I sighed for a long time; then I thought of Zijuan's usual things about her and Baoyu, and the words that Zijuan said quietly, unconsciously, I became crazy, thinking to myself: a thousand miles of marriage is tied by a thread, but I don't know where my marriage is.

Daiyu was lowering her head and thinking about something on her mind, when she unconsciously heard the melodious music coming from far and near, when she looked back, she saw a courtyard wall protruding from the shade of leaves.But it was Rikain.

When the Xue family's mother and daughter lived in Lixiangyuan, Daiyu also came here every now and then, so the route was quite familiar.Now it is for twelve girls whom Jia Qiang bought from Gusu and they are learning to sing, so it is not surprising that there is some music.

Daiyu was originally Huixiao and Xiangguan, but happened to pass by here, and she couldn't help thinking of Baochai, and she felt very emotional.

Suddenly, she heard the sound of flute and singing on the wall of Lixiang Courtyard, and Daiyu guessed that it was twelve girls practicing opera.It just so happened that the scene of the "Peony Pavilion" was scheduled for this day. What "it turns out that "the flowers are blooming all over the world, like this, they are all ruined", and what "whatever the day is beautiful and beautiful, who's house is a place to enjoy the pleasure", Daiyu from After listening in, you will know the beauty of the predecessors' dramas.

All the operas were sung in a short time, but Daiyu was still sitting on a rock, chewing the opera text carefully, thinking of the eight words "beautiful like a flower, like a fleeting year", she couldn't help being moved.

I don't know how long it took, but suddenly heard the sound of rustling, and when Daiyu looked intently, it was two little opera singers walking through the grass hand in hand.The makeup on the faces of the two little opera singers was not removed, one was pretending to be a Xiaosheng, the other was pretending to be a Xiaodan, one in front of the other, as if they were about to pass through the rocks and go to the front to enjoy the flowers.

When Daiyu first saw her, she thought these were actors from outside dressed up as men. She was taken aback, hurriedly covered her mouth, and wanted to hide for a while. After thinking about it again and again, she remembered that these two were Lixiangyuan. Seeing the girls who were practicing opera, they calmed down, seeing that they hadn't found themselves yet, but they didn't want to show up rashly, so they just hid behind a rock and watched how the two of them acted.

It's just that Daiyu couldn't understand more and more, but she saw that once in this life, the expressions and behaviors of the two girls were quite ambiguous, as if they were acting, respecting and loving each other like husband and wife, one said "lady", the other said The phrase "Xianggong" is a bit of a fake show.