The Red Mansion's Late Welcome Spring

When Jia Baoyu entered the room, he went to Jia Mu, who smiled and asked, "I heard that you asked the master to write poems in the garden. Did he praise you or scold you?"

"Master didn't say whether it was good or bad, but the cleanup guests around him all praised me for my good work, and said that when eldest sister comes back, she will be very happy to see my poems." Jia Baoyu replied with a smile .

"That's good, that's good, huh? Where are the sachets and purses on your body?" Jiamu nodded with a smile, and suddenly asked again.

"Isn't it because those boys saw that I was praised by those cleansers, and they stalked me as soon as I left the garden, chasing me to beg for rewards. How could I get so many things to reward them? I had to let them take what they had." What's wrong?" Jia Baoyu sighed innocently.

"The psychic treasure didn't let them go, did they?!" Mother Jia was startled, thinking that those young servants in the mansion are usually ignorant of the importance, afraid that they would touch the most valuable thing on Jia Baoyu's body. .

"No, no, it's still here, old lady, look, I dare not give them this thing, or you and your wife will be sad and anxious later." Jia Baoyu quickly took out the psychic jade hidden in his clothes and gave it to Jia. The mother looked over, and her heart was relieved.

"Which poems did Baoyu make so that those literati praised them so much? Why don't you tell us two of them as well." Jia Tanchun asked with interest from the side.

"Well...Let me think about it..." Jia Baoyu's poem just now was just a casual work, although Qing Ke wrote it down, but he didn't remember it carefully, so he thought for a while before saying: "Yes! I made a song, "The cardamom is still beautiful when you sing it, and the dream is also fragrant when you sleep enough", and, also, "The new green is added to the Huange place, and the fragrance of the cloud protects the celery pickers." Old lady, you Do you think my poems are good?"

"Our Baoyu's poems must be good. It seems that you are not decent here. Let Xiren take you back to clean up." Jia's mother listened to those literati and elegant guests saying that Jia Baoyu's poems were good, so she naturally believed that Jia Baoyu His literary talent is very good, so he didn't ask any more questions, and just urged Jia Baoyu to go back with the attacker to freshen up and change clothes.

When Jia Baoyu was happily about to go out with the attacker, he suddenly turned to Lin Daiyu again, and said to Lin Daiyu with a look of wanting to cling to her: "My dear sister, I gave all my things to those boys just now, can you Give me the sachet you made? I see that lotus flower looks pretty, so give it to me."

"Second cousin wants a sachet and purse, are you afraid that no one will make it for you? You just want to ask for something on my body. I have already worn it and there is no reason to give it to anyone. If you want it, call me another day. Someone sent ten or eight, and I guarantee you won't run out of them."

"No, no, I only want this on you, so you can give it to me!" Jia Baoyu said, reaching out to grab the lotus-shaped sachet.

Lin Daiyu didn't expect that Jia Baoyu would directly take things from her, so she was so frightened that she quickly hid at Jia Yingchun's side, and said angrily, "How can my second cousin just grab things from the girl's house?! It's too much !"

"Girl Yu, hurry up and give that sachet to Baoyu. It's not something valuable. I'll give you some nice things later." Mother Jia didn't want to make the two jades a pair. Seeing this scene now, she naturally chose to help Jia Baoyu.

"Yu'er doesn't like to hear the words of the old lady. How can I give away things from a girl's house to others casually? If it gets out, do I still want the reputation of my father and me? That's all! Yu'er is just dialing today." I just came to visit the old lady for nothing, since I know you are well, Yu'er won't stay here, I'd better go home earlier and come to see the old lady again some other day." Although Lin Daiyu's tone was soft, it also revealed firmness , Jia Baoyu is an outsider to her. Her things can be given to her father and brother, but it is impossible to fall into Jia Baoyu's hands, but she never thought that her grandmother would not help her. Naturally, she is unwilling to do superficial efforts .

"How can you talk like that!? How can Baoyu be considered an outsider? He is also your cousin. You can make clothes for your brother-in-law, but you can't give Baoyu a sachet? You really regard us as outsiders, don't you?" ?” Mother Jia spoke in a questioning tone with an unhappy expression on her face.

"Where does Yu'er dare to think so, it's just that if you just ask for a few purses, Yu'er also said that she will send someone to deliver them some day, and she doesn't mean to refuse, but what the second cousin wants is the purse on Yu'er's body." Things, this is against the rules, the old lady has always followed the rules, so naturally she will not condone her second cousin to behave like this." Lin Daiyu replied indifferently with her head bowed.

"Xi Ren, send Baoyu back to the room. A broken thing is worth grabbing? You don't have to lower your status. Since Yu'er wants to go back, go back earlier. I'm tired too." Jia Mu dared not say that she was right. What Jia Baoyu did was right no matter whether it was reasonable or not, so he gave Xi Ren a cold look and asked her to pull Jia Baoyu back to the room, and belittled Lin Daiyu along the way.

Lin Daiyu was very disappointed with Jiamu's reaction from the bottom of her heart. After saluting Jiamu calmly and politely, she left Jiamu's courtyard together with Jia Yingchun who had just saluted Jiamu as farewell.

After Jia Yingchun brought Lin Daiyu back to Jia's own courtyard, both of them sat there sullenly and looked at each other. After an unknown period of time, they suddenly heard Lin Daiyu sigh slightly, and turned to face her. Said: "That place is really impossible to go to. The old lady thinks that I don't know what she's thinking, but how can someone like my second cousin be entrusted with her life? Sister Bao is stupid and insists on betting her whole life on For him, if Second Sister can do it, she might as well persuade Sister Bao a few more words, and she will ruin the rest of her life like this without being alone."

"Why didn't I remind her? But she insisted on doing that, so what can we do? It's just that she is also pitiful. I heard that the imperial merchant Xue's family used to have a wealth that is not enough to describe their wealth, but it happened to Sister Bao In this generation, there is only a prodigal son, no amount of money is enough for him to spend, and he will always get into trouble. There is one of them named Xiangling, you probably haven’t seen it yet, right? It was for her back then, Uncle Xue’s younger brother You just beat someone to death, and now you put that girl by your side, I don't know what troubles will happen in the future." Jia Yingchun shook her head and sighed helplessly.

"Since she has made up her mind, I have nothing to say to an outsider, but I have some good news to tell my second sister. The result of my brother's exam in Suzhou has come out. I heard that he won the No. 90 seventh place. My father said this result It's not very good, but he originally thought that his brother's chances of passing the exam were not high at his age, and he must have studied hard there for many days to get this grade." Lin Daiyu didn't mention Xue Baochai's matter anymore after listening. , and turned to Jia Yingchun to talk about Lin Heng's return to Suzhou for the exam.

"So, Brother Lin will be a scholar in the future? Is he going to participate in next year's Qiu Wei?" Jia Yingchun did some calculations. Lin Heng just took the college entrance examination, and it happened that the next year would be the three-year Qiu Wei, and Lin Ruhai didn't know Will Lin Heng go?

"No, my father said that it is not too late to take the exam after three years. After all, he is only 14 years old, so there is no need to be so conspicuous, and my brother has not met any friends in the capital. He intends to let him go to the Imperial College to study and make friends Some of the children of the same age in the royal family in the capital gradually established his own personal connections." Lin Daiyu shook her head and said.

"That's what it should be. Regardless of whether Big Brother Lin will stay in the capital as an errand in the future, there will always be a few friends here." Jia Yingchun nodded and echoed clearly.

"Actually, I think it will be more beneficial to my brother after my second sister gets married. I heard from my father that the second master of the Xiao family knew many children from aristocratic families in the capital, and they all have good abilities... But I just thought of it for a while. I just mentioned to Second Sister by the way, you must not force Second Master Xiao, this kind of thing has to be yours, and if Second Master Xiao annoys Second Sister because of this, I will feel guilty." Lin Daiyu said only Halfway through the talk, I realized that I was talking too fast. Although the upper-class circle mostly relied on in-laws as the starting point for interpersonal communication, the Lin family and the Xiao family were not directly related after all, so she shouldn't have made such a request.

"You are also doing it for the good of Brother Lin, but I think Second Master Xiao is a military officer after all, and Brother Lin is going to be a civil servant in the future. I am afraid that Second Master Xiao will be of limited help to him, but it is Mr. Lin's personal connections." It may not be missing, Mr. Lin is still the second-rank official in the dynasty, as long as Brother Lin does not go out of his way and knows how to keep his duty, naturally he will not have to worry about finding friends who are like him." Jia Yingchun didn't think so. smiled.

"Hmm!" Lin Daiyu felt much lighter in her heart after hearing Jia Yingchun's persuasion, her delicate face was filled with a smile, and because her mood improved, she also had an appetite for the delicious food in front of her: "Second sister really knows how to live better, It's not even noon, and there's a lot of food on the table."

"Miss Lin is wrong. It's not that girls know how to live. It's true that my uncle loves her in the future. The food you saw was brought by my uncle's servants early in the morning. They are all just out of the oven. Girls love them Snacks to eat." Xiuju replied with a smile on the side.

"Really?! It turns out that Second Master Xiao is so kind to Second Sister!? In this way, I don't have to worry, but Second Sister still doesn't need to specifically mention what I just said to Second Master Xiao. Mother Chen said something outside It's not something the women in the inner house can understand, if father feels the need, he will naturally go to the eldest uncle and the others to mention it." Although Lin Daiyu often lives in the inner courtyard, Nanny Chen, like Nanny Zhou, is not a person with shallow knowledge , so I always mention something about her occasionally.

"Isn't it? In the past, going out to buy snacks was a job of playing chess, but now someone has done a good job for her, causing her to yell every day that her job has been robbed." Xiuju said again It was a chuckle.

Jia Yingchun was also eating candied fruit with a smile on her face, and she didn't care about Lin Daiyu's teasing look at her. She was still thinking about the day that Pan entrusted Xiao Yun's servant to ask her about marrying Siqi. It's time to make arrangements, anyway, after Siqi gets married, he can still come back to be the nanny in charge, and Lianhua'er and Heye can be brought up to serve by his side at any time, um...Let's let Nanny Wen arrange this matter.