The Red Mansion's Late Welcome Spring

Jia Yingchun and his juniors were talking in the yard accompanied by Li Wan, and not long after, Shi Xiangyun was also invited by Jiamu to the historian's house. Talking and laughing, when it was almost noon, the woman in charge of the kitchen came to say that the banquet prepared by Jia Yingchun was ready, and everyone got up and went to the small courtyard where Jia Lian and his wife used to live.

The courtyard where Jia Lian and his wife lived in Rongguo Mansion was originally small. After they moved back to Jia She's place, Jia's mother called Jia Tanchun and Jia Yingchun to move here, and the original small Baoxia became Li Wan's residence. This is much better than in the original book, where Li Wan and Jia Lan nest in the same house, and San Chun resigns to three small buildings.

Jia Yingchun had asked Siqi to come to Rongguo Mansion the day before and told the kitchen staff to set up a few banquets today, and even gave them money. Seeing that a group of women and maids have already set up the table, one table is the main table in the house, shared by her and Jia Tanchun, Jia Xichun and Xue Baochai, and the other table is set in the corridor for the waiters Shu, Ruhua and other maids, big and small, and the women in the yard were having fun with the master.

Jia Yingchun looked at the things prepared in the kitchen with satisfaction. Because it was early summer, the things prepared in the kitchen tended to be refreshing. In addition, there were six or seven bottles of fruit wine, which she asked Siqi to bring from her yard.

Jia Yingchun greeted Li Wan, Jia Tanchun, Jia Xichun and Xue Baochai to the table, but when she turned her head and saw Jia Baoyu, a little green among the thousands of flowers, Jia Baoyu disappeared from Jia's mother without a trace. He has been following them all the time, and now even when he came to the yard, he never left. Although Jia Yingchun knew very well that Jia Baoyu would never miss this kind of lively scene where sisters and sisters get together, she just felt very unhappy .

It was at this time that Xue Baochai, Jia Tanchun and the others formally said a few words of congratulations to Jia Yingchun on her birthday, and then they each sat at the table, and then the waiters and their servant girls also came to congratulate Jia Yingchun one by one, and sent gifts to Jia Yingchun. When it came to the congratulations, Jia Yingchun never paid special attention to the importance of each of these people, but asked Siqi and Xiuju to put things away carefully.

After everyone calmed down from the chaos, they saw Jia Baoyu looking around in the crowd in a daze, and then asked in a very unpleasant way: "Why haven't I seen Sister Lin for so long? Is Second Sister Didn't Sister Lin come over? I haven't seen her for a long time. I don't know how she is doing now. I thought I could see her today. She is the only girl in her family now. She must be boring, right? The old lady asked someone to invite her Several times, she always said that she didn't have time, but today is the second sister's birthday, isn't she coming too?"

"I don't know if Sister Lin will come or not, but even if she doesn't come in person, she will send someone to give gifts." And Sister Lin has always been reluctant to visit Rongguo Mansion... people will be afraid of asking for trouble, okay? !When Jia Yingchun heard Jia Baoyu's first sentence, she only remembered to ask why Lin Daiyu didn't come, and couldn't help but cast a contemptuous glance at Jia Baoyu, and said a few words perfunctorily, but didn't say the rest of the sentence .

Jia Tanchun and Jia Xichun didn't seem to notice Jia Baoyu's behavior, and each drank tea with the cups in front of them, only Xue Baochai took the initiative to scold Jia Baoyu: "Did Brother Bao just notice that Sister Lin didn't come?" But don’t forget that today’s host is Yingyatou, so it’s fine if you don’t congratulate Yingyatou, but you still want to be annoyed that she didn’t invite someone? Why don’t you hurry up and punish yourself with three cups to apologize to Yingyatou.”

Hearing this, Jia Baoyu immediately patted his head in frustration, then stood up, raised his glass and bowed to pay his respects and apologized: "Second Sister, I didn't mean to forget to wish you a birthday, but I just had no intention of talking quickly, and I still hope that Second Sister There are a lot of them, don't annoy the kid."

"Forget it, I'm not the kind of petty person. I don't need to punish myself for three cups. Although the fruit wine is not strong, I will get drunk if I drink too much." He hastily stopped him after drinking the third cup.

"Second Sister is always talkative, so naturally she wouldn't bother with Baoyu about such trivial matters, but Sister Lin and Second Sister are not very close? Why didn't she come on such an important day?" Shi Xiangyun smiled and sighed unintentionally .

"How do I know her? Anyway, she remembers my birthday, so she will come when she wants to, and it's not a big day, so why don't I make a special trip to post a post?" Jia Yingchun replied lightly.

"Oh!" Shi Xiangyun didn't say any more, probably thinking that anyway, Jia Yingchun didn't know how to care about others, and what she said was in vain, but she was quite happy to think that she didn't have to see Lin Daiyu today.

"It must be that the second sister didn't send someone to invite her, so she didn't come. Otherwise, I'll ask the old lady to invite her. Today is the second sister's birthday. Why can't she come and play with us?" Jia Baoyu got up as he spoke. I want to go out to find Jia Mu and ask her to send someone to pick up Lin Daiyu.

"Hey! No need, it's too late to invite her now, why bother? Don't go! If you want to leave, I won't let you come back." Jia Yingchun quickly grabbed Jia Baoyu's sleeve and said .

"Oh..." Seeing that Jia Yingchun insisted on refusing to send someone to invite Lin Daiyu, Jia Baoyu sat back on his seat in disappointment.

Jia Tanchun and the others didn't like Lin Daiyu very much. Seeing that Jia Yingchun refused to let Jia Baoyu invite him, they naturally didn't persuade her, so the atmosphere became a little deserted.

Xue Baochai saw that the atmosphere had suddenly turned cold, and she had a fit of kindness again, intentionally or unintentionally talking about what she had seen and heard in Beijing: "Two days ago, I went to the shop to look at the account book, and I heard that a few days ago, the concubine Shu had returned to Wu Visiting relatives, it is said that the phoenix chariot coming out of the palace is very magnificent, and the dozens of maids who follow just take up half of the street, but I don’t know what it will be like when our mother and mother visit relatives.”

"I definitely won't lose to Concubine Shu. The wife said that now the empress is very favored in the palace, and even the empress often rewards her with many good things. Didn't we also receive many rewards during the Dragon Boat Festival? It is said that The queen empress specially ordered the servants to prepare it for the empress." Jia Tanchun replied with a smile.

"It's just a few vulgar things, fortunately, the third sister can be happy like anything." Jia Xichun sneered coldly.

"Fourth sister can't talk like that. It's a rare honor for our family to be rewarded by the palace. Naturally, we should be grateful." Li Wan hurriedly pulled Jia Xichun's sleeve, and then reprimanded as if nothing had happened.

Jia Xichun twitched the corners of his lips, thinking that none of the men in Rongning and Ningxia are capable, so what use can a single empress do?Moreover, the things sent were only gold and silver porridge, which was relatively affordable, and the others were not worth mentioning at all.

Jia Yingchun laughed and said: "The rewards in this palace are not available to everyone, but the fourth younger sister doesn't like it. I really hope that the mother will send more gold and silver, so that they can be used to make the bottom of the box someday."

"Yes! I really want it, but it's a pity that the Xiande concubine doesn't know me." Shi Xiangyun echoed enviously.

On the contrary, when Jia Tanchun heard Jia Xichun's words, she was still a little annoyed, but when she heard these words again, she couldn't help laughing and said, "How can Second Sister say such things? People think that Second Sister I want to get married."

"Oh! I'm just talking casually, and it's in front of my own family. As long as you don't talk nonsense, who will know?!" Jia Yingchun quickly covered her mouth with remorse, and said anxiously.

At this time, Ping'er and Xiren walked in from the outside, just in time to hear what Jia Tanchun and the others said, Ping'er rolled his eyes slightly, and laughed as if unintentionally: "It's so far away!" I just heard your voices, what are you talking about so happily?"

"Ping'er and Xiren are here too, hurry up and sit here." Xue Baochai hurriedly got up when she saw them enter the door.

"No hurry, no hurry, I was busy serving grandma in the morning, and I haven't had time to congratulate the second girl." Ping'er said, then turned and walked towards Jia Yingchun, ready to kneel down and kowtow to Jia Yingchun to celebrate her birthday.

"Oh! Why does Sister Ping'er make such a grand ceremony? You pay homage every year, and I have to say it every year. If you are not tired, I am too tired." Jia Yingchun hurriedly stopped her.

"So we have to say the same thing every year. The second girl is a lucky person. We should pay a big gift to you. What's more, it only happens once a year. How can I bear it?" Xiren laughed. After speaking, he knelt down and kowtowed like Ping'er.

"I'm afraid that I'm not lucky enough. I've saved up for a year, but in one day you all get it all. In the future, I have to get it back one by one. How troublesome!" Jia Yingchun pretended to be annoyed.

"It's really nonsense. Only you, the birthday star, dare to say such things. Ping'er, Xiren, please sit down quickly and ignore her." Yingchun took a look, and then asked the two to sit down.

Ping'er followed Li Wan's words and sat down, but Xiren stood behind Jia Baoyu, looking like a well-behaved little daughter-in-law, carefully serving Jia Baoyu to drink and eat. Pay attention to them.

Ping'er sat there, but didn't intend to continue the topic just now. He just drank two glasses of wine with a few people, casually chatted with Xue Baochai and Li Wan, and then got up and said that he would go back to take care of Wang Xifeng. Yingchun and the others knew that Ping'er was always by Wang Xifeng's side, so they didn't say much to keep her.

Not long after Ping'er left, Jia Tanchun proposed to play thumb fights. Jia Yingchun thought that today was a good day for her, and she seldom played with Jia Tanchun and the others on weekdays, so she nodded in agreement, and Li Wan accompanied her. After arguing with the girls for a long time, when they saw that the sky was getting darker, they hurriedly persuaded them: "We have a lot of people in our family. If you want to have fun, it's not too late. Everyone drank too much today. If you drink any more, you can drink it tomorrow." I still don’t know how uncomfortable it is, why don’t you leave early, Siqi, take your girl back to rest, look at her, it’s the first time I’ve seen her drink so much.”

"Hey? Girl, let's go back, don't be so foolish." Siqi hurriedly agreed, supported Jia Yingchun, and whispered to persuade her to go back.

Siqi discovered that Jia Yingchun and the others drank up all the fruit wine fifteen minutes ago, and she knows Jia Yingchun's drinking capacity best. She is already half-drunk at most five or six glasses on weekdays, let alone today she made an exception and drank a few more cup.

"Oh... Really... I seem to have drunk too much, no wonder I feel dizzy." Jia Yingchun pouted and said in a daze.

"Maybe it's because people are in high spirits on happy occasions. It's inevitable that they are a little bit uncontrollable. You just go back and rest. There are me and sister-in-law Zhu here." Xue Baochai looked at the other three and only Jia Baoyu was still very energetic. Jia Tanchun and Jia Xichun were also in a state of drunkenness, so they smiled helplessly.