The Honor of the Red Chamber

"Wow, you know Baoyu so well, what kind of hands do you need from me if you want to enter Rongguo Mansion? Are you mistaken?" Jia Rong raised her eyebrows and teased nonchalantly.

Liu Xianglian raised her head and looked at the few servants at the porter's side, who were wandering back and forth, and her eyes like thieves glanced over, she couldn't help but blush, and wandered around the back door of the house for a long time Now, let those vigilant people be put aside, and they would have been kicked out as a ruffian long ago, that is, Jia's family is not strict, uh, bah bah, I miss his precious young master, and whisper bad things in private, That's too much--then he smiled coyly, "I originally agreed with Baoyu to meet, but who knows that it's been a few days, but there is no news at all, and no boy told me, and I don't know." Is something wrong with him, I think about it, it’s not easy to break into the empty door, I can’t help it, why don’t I beg you!!”

The relationship between Liu Xianglian and Jia Rong is said to be too close as a friend, and too far away as a colleague. There is a sense that they can be trusted but not close friends. Perhaps it can only be described as sympathy. Jia Rong originally treated him Now that his heart is clear, he must not be brought in to see Baoyu. If something happens in the future, people will think that it was the first time he brought him into the mansion, so why don't they blame him?

I just saw Liu Xianglian looking at her eagerly, with a playful smile on her face, but there was a hint of pleading and fear in her eyes. Such a suave and suave character has such a humble mood. I think he is also trapped by love, but he is not an ordinary dude. Jiantu played with his mentality happily for a while, Jia Rong finally sighed, no one can say right or wrong about feelings, he should just be a good person, who knows if the Jia family will still be in the future, it is impossible to say that this ending will be worse than that. It's better to be a monk.

"I heard that you got a pair of colorful sparrows that were tributed by Qianxiang Kingdom. They are so clever and pleasing..."

Liu Xianglian widened her eyes, looking at the looting guy in front of her, she wished she could pounce on him and take a bite, "That's what I left for Baoyu... that's all, how about I send it to Prince Zhongding's mansion for you later?"

Jia Rong didn't care about the irony in Liu Xianglian's words, she nodded confidently, "That's natural, otherwise why would I want a pair of sparrows that I can't eat or drink? But you have to explain clearly, I entrusted you to give them to me." !"

"...Can you be any more shameless!"

Jia Rong came here respectfully, and Jia's mother was very happy. Although she could not be closer than Baoyu, she was also comparable to Jia Lian. She hurriedly sent him to see Baoyu. Yushu is facing the wind, handsome and extraordinary, wearing silk and satin, a suet jade crown, and a gem-inlaid sword. He is obviously not an ordinary official's son. He praised his good looks and demeanor, but he has no name. Ask more, the old lady never thought that this was leading wolves into the house, and she was still hoping that the two of them could persuade Baoyu to seriously marry a relative and come back, and have another beneficial wife from the Yue family, but she didn't know that she would marry her. The tall baby grandson was sent into the arms of the big-tailed wolf with malicious intentions.

But it is said that Baoyu has already moved out of the Grand View Garden, and is now placed behind Jiamu's courtyard. , This is even more difficult. In the words of Jia Mu, this is to prevent those vicious things from seducing Baoyu. Therefore, after Baoyu came back from Jia Rong, no outsider had seen it. The elder sisters and sisters in the family were restrained by Jia's mother, and they couldn't easily come to see Baoyu, and he was so bored.

But Yuanyang led Jia Rong and Liu Xianglian to Baoyu's house, and there was no taboo against Jia's sisters, so they led them into the house, only to see Baoyu lying on the desk, thin and small. His body couldn't even hold up the luxurious and glittering bird-gold fur, his slender fingers held the writing brush, and scratched the paper repeatedly, his skin was so transparent that his finger bones could be seen clearly, and his eyes looked like spots of lacquer. , but stared at the fresh green outside the window, as if nothing caught his eyes, empty and dazed, Bai Yu's face was thinner, with a haggard and numb expression, his appearance was very pitiful, and Liu Xianglian felt heartbroken. They were all caught up, at a loss for what to do for a while, they could only look at Baoyu pityingly, not knowing what to say.

The noise here woke up Baoyu. When he turned his head and saw the two of them, his lifeless and empty eyes seemed to be slowly injected with life, and he slowly recovered. His expression changed from dull to shocked, from shocked to shocked. I couldn't believe it, and then changed from disbelief to surprise, and finally was replaced by a face full of grievances, just like a wronged child who found his mother, hugging the two and began to cry.

Liu Xianglian couldn't care less about other things, hugged Baoyu deeply, and subconsciously put Baoyu's other hand holding Jia Rong back into her arms, and placed Baoyu on the side of the couch while half hugging and half supporting her. He coaxed the person in his arms in a good voice, but he couldn't utter any coherent sentences, he just repeated a few words over and over again, "Don't cry...I've wronged you...don't cry...I'll help you vent your anger ..."

Although simple and monotonous, it is unreasonably touching.

Baoyu didn't say anything, just lay in Liu Xianglian's arms, muttering sobbingly, no one could hear what he was talking about, just like a child complaining to his parents while crying, childish but also heart-wrenching.

Jia Rong stretched out her hand to stop Yuanyang with an embarrassed look on her face, and raised her chin at her. Yuanyang had no choice but to back out and close the door quietly, her heart was in a mess, but she didn't know why.

Jia Rong was forced to hide herself as a wallflower, driven away by Liu Xianglian's eyes of throwing away after using up, and let someone clumsily coax a young man who didn't know the sinister heart, while eating tofu until he After drinking a pot of tea, they slowly stopped there.

When Jia Rong slowly picked up the last cup of tea, I saw the two people who had already adjusted, one triumphant and the other embarrassed, walked towards him and sat down. No idiom.

"...Brother Rong..."

Jia Rong raised her hand to stop him from talking, put away her dishonest expression, "Since Uncle Bao refuses to get married, I would like to ask Uncle Bao what his future plans are?"

Baoyu shook his head in frustration, "I don't know, I never thought about it, I always thought... but all these things happened, so I was wrong. I don't know what I want to do in the future, I hate reading, I am not good at martial arts , I don’t want to be an official, but my sisters gave me the title of ‘rich and idler’ and ‘Mr. Yihong’, but I am complacent, thinking that ‘everyone is drunk and I am sober’. Now I understand that everyone is not what I imagined Perfect, so kind, and I don't know anything, I... I seem to be... like nothing..."

Liu Xianglian couldn't see Baoyu looking listless like a pitiful puppy, and hurriedly patted his head and said, "Why, you are handsome, elegant in literature, excellent in poetry and poetry, have always been talented, treat your friends sincerely and righteously, and treat your servants You are also kind and amiable, if you are useless, then..."

Before Liu Xianglian could finish her words, she tilted her head and was forced by Jia Rong's expression that seemed to be a smile but not a smile. When she looked back and thought about the words she blurted out, she immediately wanted to give herself a few mouths—the ancients praised people in words On the one hand, it is still very reserved and has a spring and autumn style of writing. How can it be as straightforward and bold as Liu Xianglian? His skin is thicker than a city wall, and he is too embarrassed to show off any longer.

Jia Rong sneered and said, "Okay, okay, I know he has no shortcomings in your heart—"

Baoyu blushed when she heard this, but Jia Rong ignored him and continued, "In this case, why don't you keep him by your side? Anyway, those around you are all from similar backgrounds, so it's not afraid that they don't have a common language hobby. It's just that It's not easy to convince that..."

Liu Xianglian directly ignored Jia Rong's last words, and only listened to what he wanted to hear. She was overjoyed immediately, stood up and patted herself on the head vigorously, "Yes, such a simple solution, why didn't I think of it?"

Jia Rong sneered, "This is the difference between a smart person and an idiot."

Seeing Liu Xianglian's posture of pulling Baoyu away forever, Jia Rong hurriedly stabilized the two of them, "Okay, this matter still needs to be discussed in the long term, how can we just do it? Is there any rules? Baoyu's age is too old. Not too young, even if he can really enter, he still needs to practice hard from the beginning, his bones are hardened at this age, if he really wants to achieve something, why not go through all kinds of hardships?"

Liu Xianglian smiled and said, "It doesn't matter, my Liu family has its own method of training children. Although it is a little hard work, the effect is good. It is suitable for Baoyu's situation."

Jia Rong shook her head and saw that Baoyu looked at them in a daze, with big watery eyes, red eye sockets and small nose, and a white and tender innocent appearance. If you want to suffer that inhuman crime, it's better to become a monk at last and finish a hundred times. Now you don't have to tell me with a half-smile, "You don't have to tell me, just take Baoyu back to practice a few times, you can really endure the hardship, and you can go up again If he didn’t get the approval from the higher-ups, he would run away in fright, but can he have some good fruit for you?!”

The two finalized Baoyu's future in a few words. From Jia Rong's point of view, he was willing to do his best to leave such a single seedling for the Rongguo Mansion. He really looked down on the rest of the children and grandchildren, anyway, they would not die in the end, they would just become ordinary people. In this era of imperial power, this may not be a bad thing.

In March and April, there was a sensational news circulating in the elite circles of the capital—the son of the Jia family who was born with a jade title, disappeared.

It is said that this incomparably handsome Mr. Jia was still discussing marriage in a big way, and he was only one step away from exchanging invitations with the woman's family. It is said that the old lady and the second wife of Jia's family were surprised by the bad news and agreed by coincidence. The land fell ill, and the Jia family is now run by the eldest wife's daughter-in-law; it is said that this Mr. Jia disappeared without warning, and there are countless maids and servants around him, and no one knows about it. It can be called one of the top ten mysteries in the capital. [-]. Some people say that Mr. Jia was taken away by others; others say that Mr. Jia left with others voluntarily, and others say that Mr. Jia became a monk, suffered a blow, lost his fun, and so on...

All in all, before the two armies on the Western Expedition and the Eastern Expedition left the capital with great vigor, this gossip news provided countless fun and entertainment for the boring and empty life of the rich and powerful circles-but no one knew that those who spoke too much were all arrested by someone. A person hiding in the dark gritted his teeth and made a secret account that cannot be erased, and he only waited for some day to settle the new account and the old account together quietly!