The soy sauce life of the second daughter of the Xue family in the Red Chamber

When Baozan arrived at the side hall, Aunt Xue had already gone to prepare the bedroom in person, and wanted to stay with Baoqin for a few days.When Baochai saw what Baozan brought, she couldn't help smiling and said to Baoqin: "It can be seen that she has a heart for you. It took a whole year to embroider such a thing." Baozan asked the maid to put the things down. , took Baoqin's hand and said: "I wanted to give it to you a long time ago, but you went out with your father again. Now it's hard to come back, so I will stay for a few more days. Let's have fun with this thing." Ask Baochai again, "Sister, where does Sister Qin live?" Baochai said with a smile, "Look at how confused you are, you still live in the Lingbo Pavilion."

Baozan secretly thought that he was really confused, so he wanted to change the topic, so he spread out the things he had brought for them to see. There were landscapes, pavilions, mansions, and alleys on it.Baoqin clapped her hands and said: "My good fellow, this thing has to be embroidered for a year? The grid embroidered with red, yellow, blue and green threads is particularly eye-catching." Baozan said: "What do you know? This is what you want. The grid, the landscape and so on are just a foil." Then he took out four-color chess pieces, including agate, emerald, beeswax, and topaz, and there were four pieces of each color, all carved In the shape of a bird, he proudly said: "This thing is called flying chess." He took out another dice and explained the rules of playing this chess in detail.

Baoqin wondered: "It's really interesting and easy to play. Anyone can play it. The loss is the second sister. No one else can think of this thing." Seeing her like this, Baochai smiled and said, "Second girl is weird. It's about five years old. Years ago, my brother brought a stack of cards from outside, called Three Kingdoms Kill, for us to play. There are some characters in "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" on it, and everyone has blood, some have three squares, some have four squares, There are six squares, if you are the protagonist, you will add one more square, what skills are marked on the characters, there are peaches that replenish blood, suits are divided into spades, hearts, clubs, diamonds, and there are other things such as crossing rivers and demolishing bridges, leading sheep, Nanman invasion, Thousands of arrows are fired, it's complicated. To put it bluntly, I also claim to be a smart person, and I figured it out after studying for half a day. Your second sister is only five years old, and she got started as soon as she came. If I didn't watch When she grew up, she thought she had played before." Well, after you got started, I was tortured to death, Baozan complained.

Baochai said again: "Later I met her painting and asked her what it was. She said that after the painting was finished, I asked my brother to find someone to make playing cards, and I would know when I brought it back." Baoqin hurriedly asked, "What is it?" Baochai picked up the teacup and took a sip: "She said that the deck is called Battle Monster Card, and it has trap magic. In her words, it's high-end and foreign. I don't know what's good about foreign style. It's basically Western style. The thing that came here is rather novel. I didn’t see anything good about it. There were a group of monsters drawn on it, which was very scary. When I got it back, she played with her brother a few days ago. I didn’t even dare to look at it. Play." Well, then you dared to watch and play, and I was tortured to death, Baozan complained.

Then Baochai talked about military chess, the Great War of the Four Kingdoms, and said that she would not be surprised to see this flying chess piece now. It's really exquisite and unique.Baozan nodded in agreement, then turned to Baoqin and said, "This chess piece is the rough stone given to my brother by the second master of the Zhao family in Yangzhou the year before last, but I snatched it from my brother when I saw it last year, so I found a craftsman to carve it." Yes, when the sculpture was just completed, she also saw it, and she didn't see her saying yes, but now it is like this, she naturally thinks it is okay." Baoqin knew that Xue's family and Zhao's family had already agreed on a marriage, and they only had to wait for September Engagement, listening to Baozan say such tricky words, I wanted to pick up the words but couldn't even say a word, I just covered my mouth and couldn't stop laughing.When Baochai heard her talking about Zhao's house, she knew she was going to arrange it, so she was not ashamed, so she came forward and twisted Baozan's face with a smile, "Open your mouth and let me have a look, it must have no ivory." Baozan didn't break away either, but said with a bitter face: "Sister who is merciful and compassionate, please forgive me this time." Baochai let go of her hand with a smile, and Baoqin calmed down and said with a smile: "You can see that big sister She is very merciful, if I have a younger sister, I can't tolerate her being so goofy all day long." As they spoke, the three of them laughed together again.

He also said that in the outside world, Xue Biao was originally in the South China Sea with Master Xue Er and Baoqin. When he learned that Baochai was going to be engaged in September, but his father had something to do there, he asked them to go back to Jinling first. On the way, I didn't hear that Liu Xianglian passed the examination of Wu Xiucai and Xue's family wanted to serve wine for her. I just heard about it and praised: "It's good to be a martial artist. People like Brother Liu will be Wuju people in two years. In the future I don't know if he is a champion of martial arts." Liu Xianglian only said absurd praise.Xue Biao said: "Brother Liu, don't belittle yourself. Now the big brother has won the Juren, and he will be a Jinshi in the future. You two will help each other with a literary and a military. It's the best." Otherwise, I would not be where I am today. I can’t study well, although I love to play guns and swords, I can also play the flute and the piano, I’m afraid I’m just a person who gambles, eats wine, sleeps with flowers and sleeps with willows, how can I get fame from martial arts.” Said Here he was startled, thinking of what Baozan had just said about the Qinglou Chuguan, he knew what his temperament was, and if Xue Pan hadn't mentioned something, he would have lingered in those places, so he just sat down and said nothing.

Although Xue Pan didn't know why he was like this, but he knew there must be a reason. Thinking of Liu Xianglian leaving home because of the matter of Third Sister You, he was afraid that he would suddenly realize something, so he hurriedly called him, and Liu Xianglian just woke up. .Then he asked Xue Biao to talk about the customs of various places, and it was really interesting after hearing it, and the three of them talked about the time for dinner.

Because Liu Xianglian was not there to send Master Zhao home, there were only eight people at dinner, Mr. Xue, Aunt Xue, Mrs. Xue, Xue Pan, Xue Biao, Baochai, Baozan and Baoqin.During the banquet, there was a porridge made by Baozan, called Rainbow Porridge of Seven Colors, which Baozan shamelessly plagiarized Liu Angxing's creation. Your second girl is willing to spend these thoughts, I don't know which family will get it in the future, that family must be blessed." Aunt Xue laughed: "Don't say that, this second girl is weird, she always calls The master and Pan'er brought her fashionable rouge, gouache, silk flower jewelry and the like. After using it once or twice, she would not use it. She was not as diligent and thrifty as the eldest girl. On weekdays, she seemed to be eloquent, and she also read some poems and songs, and had a few friends with her. When the handkerchief was handed over to compose poems for fun, people were stunned, it was a layman, not as good as your qin girl." Baozan laughed and said: "Mom is right, just tell me quietly in the future, just don't embarrass me at this time Ah." Everyone laughed.

Second Mrs. Xue said again: "Sister-in-law, don't talk about the second girl like that. I see that the objects she gave to Qin girl are very well done. I heard from Qin'er that the things that the second girl thinks up on weekdays are also very interesting. , Now I see that she looks beautiful, speaks well, she is a good female celebrity, and now she is good at cooking, I don't think there is anything better." He praised Baozan again.

Baozan originally wanted to mobilize the atmosphere, but felt depressed for no reason. Listening to the conversation between the sisters-in-law also felt boring and ruthless, so she just lowered her head to eat and refused to talk anymore.Baochai saw that she was not coming, and asked her what was wrong in a low voice, but Baochai just shook her head and remained silent.Baochai saw that it was not a problem for her to be so bored, so she found an excuse and led her away from the banquet, went into the garden and sat down on a stone by the pool.The two just sat quietly without speaking, and after a while, Xue Pan also came.

Xue Pan said: "I saw that the second sister was wrong, what's the matter?" Baozan said: "I thought of Baoyu's words." Xue Pan was taken aback. Give Baozan a wink.Baozan thought to himself, "I'm living quite comfortably now, will I become fish-eyed in the future?" Seeing her like this, Xue Pan was extremely impatient, but he didn't know what to say.

Seeing this, Baochai asked, "Did Baoyu say that when a girl marries someone, she looks like that fish-eyed pearl?" Zan even put aside the worries about becoming fish-eyed in the future, all three of them sat still for a while, and after a whole meal, Baozan replied: "Yes." Xue Pan He hurriedly said: "Sister, don't listen to her nonsense. She doesn't know what Baoyu said." Baochai said: "Brother, don't talk. I haven't asked what happened to Lengxiangwan." Pan actually dared not say any more.

I just heard Baochai say: "I have had a fever since I was a child, and I need to take that Lengxiang pill. My elder brother has always loved me more than my younger sister. I knew that the prescriptions were all ready, but I didn't say anything, and I didn't ask anyone to find the medicine. I'm afraid I knew earlier that the medicine was going to be found and there was nowhere to find it, and I needed it from the scarlet monk, right?" Baochai was extremely clever, and since she asked this question, she might discover more than that, Xue Pan didn't know how to hide it. She said that being exposed would hurt her relationship, so she had no choice but to remain silent.Upon seeing this, Baozan replied, "Yes."

Seeing that she should be sincere, Baochai sorted out some past things in his heart and said: "The monk said that he wanted to inlay the words on the gold vessel, and my sister was only three years old when she said whether it was worthy of jade, so she must know something. Nowadays, all the better families have jade, so there is nothing rare. Except for the royal seal, there is only the precious jade that was born from the missing jade in the aunt's house. Is the jade my sister said is his jade? Yu came to match, but you think he is not good?" Xue Pan replied for Baozan: "It is true."

"That's true. No wonder my sister was shocked when I heard that Brother Bao was gone. I'm afraid he should not have disappeared at this time." Baochai looked at Xue Pan and Baozan, "I just think you often It's weird to talk in one place without letting anyone know about it. Now my brothers and sisters don't look like they want to hide it from me, so it's hard for me to ask any more. There's only one thing I don't know if you've noticed, since I was a child I hated money very much .”