Edge of the Red Chamber

After looking at several of them, Zhang Feng'e recognized that she was the second girl from the family of a scholar of the Hanlin Academy, whose nickname was Ma Lijuan.Because I saw her during the New Year's Eve, I knew she was a careless person, so I'm afraid I've heard half of the story.If he cares about it, he looks stingy, so he smiled and said: "Exactly, if the girls and mothers don't remind me all the time, I don't know how many jokes will be made."

Ma Lijuan didn't realize it, and said: "I just thought you said that the maid is naughty." Because they asked what to say, before they said anything, someone called her from the other side, so she said: "I'm afraid I have something to do, I'll go there first , talk later."

Lin Daiyu was still a little annoyed at first, but when she saw her go, she felt it was funny, so she didn't break up for a while.Seeing that she was silent, Zhang Feng'e pulled her clothes and asked: "She has such a temperament, if you get angry because of this, I'm afraid you won't be able to get angry."

Lin Daiyu spat at her and said, "I'm such a stingy person? I got to know you for nothing," she said, laughing herself. Wasn't she angry just now?He also said: "It's hard to get angry with a person like her who speaks but has no intentions."

When the banquet was ready, sisters Lin Daiyu, Zhang Feng'e and Lin Jun led all the daughters to the hall.The sisters have a separate table, just inside the door, and they are just like a few acquaintances.

There are eight fruit dishes on the table, which are red dates in honey juice, raisins, dried apricots, lotus seeds in sugar, fish skin peanuts, longan, melon seeds and walnut cakes.

As soon as she sat down, the servant girl brought tea to eat.

Cui Jiayi picked up a fish skin peanut and asked Zhang Feng'e, "Still going to the theater in the afternoon?"

Zhang Feng'e knew that she couldn't sit still, so she asked with a smile: "What else?"

Cui Jiayi said, "It's so boring," and then she leaned into Daiyu's ear and said, "They like to go to the theater in the afternoon, so let's go somewhere else."

Tanchun covered the corner of his mouth with a handkerchief, and said with a smile, "Sister Cui must have been very stubborn, but she didn't teach us to know, but I didn't follow."

Daiyu said: "Why did you ever have such a heart, but your mouth is not forgiving?" After that, she asked again: "After dinner, sister Yi and I will go out for a walk. How about you? Are you going out with us?" Go shopping, or go back to the theater?"

Tanchun then said: "Then I'll go out for a stroll too. Speaking of which, Sister Lin has been in Beijing for two years, and we haven't been here for a day."

After Tanchun said so, Yingchun and Xichun were not easy to place orders, so they also said to go shopping together.

Lin Jun was also going, so Zhang Feng'e said, "Since that's the case, you go shopping, I'd better go back."

Just as he was talking, the maid came up to remove the fruit plate, and then served hot dishes.The first thing is Yuanzi, Zhang Feng'e held up a spoon to give it away, and Cui Jiayi and Sanchun did it.

After the banquet, Zhang Feng'e still went there to watch the show with her, and Daiyu Linjun led Cui Jiayi and Sanchun out from the back door, and out the corner door on the west side, which was a narrow passage, and there was another door on the opposite side.The door was ajar, and someone could be heard talking inside.

As soon as a group of people entered the aisle, two women came out to greet them, "Girls want to enter the garden?" said the group, and let the group go inside.

Hongxiaoyin said with a smile, "Why don't you come over and guard the gate for you?"

The two women hurriedly apologized with a smile: "Don't dare," and said: "It's eating, so I went in."

After all, when a group of people entered, it was a small back seat, and there were indeed several bowls of vegetables, two sets of bowls and chopsticks, a bottle of wine and two wine cups on the small table beside them.

Daiyu glanced at the wine bottle, and unconsciously frowned slightly. Because there were outsiders around, she didn't say anything, so she led Sanchun out of her seat and said, "We didn't go this way in the past. This way, just go this way."

Hung Hom took a few steps back, and when everyone had gone out, she asked, "Is this what you used to do?"

The two only pretended that no one was watching outside, and one of them said, "It's just a coincidence, the girls came right after I came in."

Hung Hom didn't care whether she was telling the truth or lies, and she didn't say that she might get it wrong. She pointed to the wine bottle on the table and said, "It's also a good day when there are outsiders and grandpas and grandmas. One day, you just want to think about the year when we came here."

Only then did the two women understand that what they were talking about was the bottle of wine, and they both turned pale when they heard what Hongxiao said, and when they were about to break it down, Hongxiao had already turned around and went out, the two of them didn't dare to chase after it, feeling regretful in their hearts inexhaustible.It was a pity that it was about to be smashed, so I had to put it away.

Out of the inverted seat, there is a Wangbitan head-on. There is an apricot tree of unknown age beside the pool, and the apricot blossoms all over the tree are in full swing.

Tanchun couldn't help sighing: "It really is the right time."

Cui Jiayi suddenly said: "I don't know what it would be like if the tree is full of fruits." She laughed.

Cui Jiayi blushed and said, "Don't laugh too, don't you just enjoy the flowers and not eat the fruits?"

Daiyu stopped laughing and said: "Sister Yi is right. There are thousands of people in the world. Some love red, others love green, some love leaves, some love vines, and some love flowers." Yes, naturally there are those who love fruit, and those who love to play, and naturally there are..."

Cui Jiayi was reasonable at first, but when she heard it later, she knew that what she said was not good.Before she could finish speaking, he hurriedly stepped forward to cover her mouth, and said with a smile, "I only thought you were a good one, but you were also a naughty one. I'll sue the old lady when I look back."

Daiyu went up to hold her arm, salivated and said, "The dried apricots were dried last year," she said, pointing to the apricot tree, "Sister, try it later, it's sweeter than the ones bought outside."

Cui Jiayi couldn't help laughing again, stretched out her fingers and tapped her forehead, and said: "No wonder everyone loves you when they see you, because you are also attractive." Then she said: "That's all right, turn around You give me that bag of sweet and spicy peanuts."

Before Daiyu remembered it, Lin Jun untied a purse and handed it over, saying, "I also like to eat that, and I often make it at home in previous years, and it was just made yesterday, and the peanuts are new ones from last year. "

Cui Jiayi didn't agree with her, she poured out a few after taking it, and said, "Exactly this one." Then she handed it to Yingchun, who picked one and returned it to her.Cui Jiayi didn't answer, she just asked Tanchun, "Do you want it?"

Tanchun said: "Why don't you? It tastes weird, but after eating it, I feel strange." Then he took the purse in Yingchun's hand, poured a few onto the handkerchief, passed it to Xichun, and asked Daiyu Said: "Sister Lin is also stingy, and she didn't take it out. I only tasted it today. Don't sister Lin hide it?"

Daiyu said with a smile, "I'm ashamed of you to say this. Come back to you. What's good about me? When didn't I show it?" , pointing at Lin Jun, "This is what she did when she came here. I thought it would not be easy to do it once, so I simply made more. Today I made up for it. I thought that some of you would love this, so I took it out." No, there’s no such thing outside.”

Xichun poured out three or four of them, returned the pouch to Lin Jun, and said, "I think most of them like this, but I don't see many other people eating it. Only this one is left."

Seeing that they all liked it, Daiyu said, "It's spicy, sweet, and salty. It's really weird. I didn't expect you all to like it." , I’ll give you some later.”

Seeing Daiyu frowning, Lin Jun smiled and said, "It's just that you don't like it." Then she said to Cui Jiayi, "I still have a few other flavors, and I will send them to my sister's later, and you will also eat them." Try it."

Daiyu shook her head, regardless of them, seeing the Luoying Pavilion in front of her, she asked, "Do you want to go in and sit for a while?"

After hearing Lin Jun's words, Cui Jiayi smiled and said, "What are you waiting to do when you go back, why don't you take it out and let's try it, if it's not good, I don't want it."

Hearing this, Tanchun said, "That's fine, after walking all the way, I also want to take a rest."

A group of people entered the pavilion, and the maids hurriedly brought some mattresses, and they sat down around the table. Seeing that the windows on the three sides facing the water were closed, they asked, "Why don't you open them?"

Daiyu told her servant girl, "The weather is fine today, let's close the windows. Otherwise, it's not the same as being in the house. What's the point?"

The servants agreed, and hurried over to close the window carefully. One of the women in the middle suddenly snorted and said, "I didn't see it yesterday, but it's grown today."

Daiyu then asked what it was, and the woman hurriedly said, "It's lotus leaves. I haven't seen so many of them yesterday."

Cui Jiayi and Lin Jun walked over and leaned out to look out. They really saw many palm-sized round leaves floating sparsely on the water, and some were still curled up, protruding out of the water, or clinging to the water.The two of them were about to sit here, and the servant girl hastily brought another big brocade mattress to spread on the slump of the railing before asking them to sit down.

Daiyu also went to look at it, Hongxiao was about to go up to serve, when someone pulled her skirt, turned around and saw that it was a little maid, she stretched out her hand and pointed to the outside of the pavilion, looked, and saw that it was a woman , came out and asked, "What's the matter?"

The woman said: "Save the box for the wine, and ask the girls if they go back to the theater and eat wine or just put it in the garden."

Hung Hom guessed that they would not go back, so she said, "Just wait, I'll ask for you."

Seeing that she didn't follow, Daiyu had already seen her, and when she saw her coming, she asked what was the matter. When Hongxiao said it, Daiyu asked Cui Jiayi and Sanchun, "How are you doing?"

Cui Jiayi smiled and said, "I'm free."

Yingchun also said it was random, seeing Cui Jiayi's face, Tanchun knew that she was actually willing to be here, but because of her and Yingchun Xichun, he refused to say, so he said: "If we wait for us to go back, I'm afraid we will teach you to come here." It's not good for them to wait in vain, we've already come in anyway, so why not just enjoy the scenery and have a drink here."

Hongxiao asked a little girl to go back to the old lady, and she was here to serve Daiyu and the others.After a while, Cha Guo came up and persuaded them, saying: "Although the weather is getting warmer, the waterside is very humid after all, so you should not stand too long, and the girl should go over and have a drink of hot soup."

They went over together again, and saw that besides a few plates, there were several fist-sized glass bottles with various patterns printed on the table, so they knew that it was the peanuts that Lin Jun was talking about.

When Xichun saw it, she held it in her hand and played with it. After touching it with her fingers, she realized that the petals and stamens on the top were all carved out in Yang, because she said, "It's hard to understand how they were made."

Lin Jun smiled and said, "Don't just look at the bottle, I didn't bring it for you to reward the bottle."

As he said that, he picked up a fish-skin peanut and poured it on the plate, it was also round, but the skin on the outside was green, taking advantage of those orange-red ones before, they looked really good.

Xichun also took off the cork and poured it into a plate, but it was pink again. Daiyu picked up the bottle and looked in through the bottle, and it was yellow again. Where is the color shop?"