Edge of the Red Chamber

The tea was refilled three times, and the women who watched the night urged them outside, and then they all dispersed.

The next day, three of Daiyu got up and went to Sanchun. Xiangyun slept with Yingchun the day before, and the seven of them saved Jiamu together before going to celebrate Baoyu's birthday.Just now when Baochai came in, Baoyu ordered good tea.

Everyone knew that he was going to worship his ancestors, so all the sisters said, "Go quickly, I'm afraid we don't have tea to eat." So they got up to talk to Jia Mu.Baoyu couldn't keep it, so he gave up. He still said, "I'm really ashamed of receiving your gift. I'll talk to you when I come back."

For a while, Baoyu went to worship the ancestral hall, and then gave way to various places before coming in.Seeing that he was sweating profusely from the heat, Jia's mother asked him to change his clothes. When he came out for a while, he changed into homely clothes. Jia's mother asked, "Have you been to your aunt?" Baoyu said, "It's really hot. Come back and change your clothes first, then go there."

Jia Mu scolded with a smile: "Then why change your clothes? Why don't you change your clothes quickly?"

Baoyu stood up and was about to agree, when Baochai said, "When I came out, my mother said, 'There's no need to pay attention to these things. It's hot this year. If you get up early, it's too hot. There's no need to go. She'll come here soon'." Presumably This meeting is on the road, it is the sun when it is bright, and you have to wear these big clothes, and you will be sweating when you go out. This meeting is over, and it is okay to meet on the road. If you miss it, it will be a waste of time. I thought, it’s better not to go, since I’m not an outsider, I’ll take all these empty gifts.”

Jia Mu nodded with a smile and said, "That's all right, let him kowtow a few more times later."

Just after saying this, Aunt Xue and Mrs. Wang came, and Mother Jia laughed and said, "I just told Baoyu to let you go, and you came."

Baoyu rushed to kowtow, and Aunt Xue accepted his gift and said, "My son, it's cold on the ground, get up quickly."

After lunch, Mother Jia asked their sisters to go to drink and play by themselves. She and Aunt Xue, Mrs. Xing Wang, wiped cards to pass the time.

A party played cards, and a party chatted some gossip. Aunt Xue said: "I see, this girl looks good, I'm afraid she is a blessed one."

Jia Mu didn't think much about it, she glanced at the cards for a while, pulled out one and asked Yuanyang, "Is this the one?"

Yuanyang nodded and said, "This is the one."

Jia's mother threw it out, and Fang said: "Last time I said that the old lady in-laws will be good at people. It's nothing more than appearance, but she has a good temper, calm and generous, and behaves like a big man. I just looked at it with blank eyes. I don't want to give up Bao girl."

Mrs. Wang asked: "I didn't pay attention either, are you in your teens this year?"

Jia Mu just realized that Aunt Xue wanted to marry her.It has nothing to do with her, Mother Jia has nothing to do with it, she just asked Yuanyang as a gossip, "I don't have a good memory, I asked them last time when I went to their house, but I can't remember clearly, do you still remember?"

Yuanyang said, "It's fourteen."

Aunt Xue liked it, and said: "At this age, I'm afraid I've decided to marry someone. Seeing how their old lady likes it so much, I'm afraid they will stay for two more years."

Mrs. Wang then said: "I don't think so. It's just the old lady in-laws who like it. If you have a good family, is it because of reluctance to delay the child's life?"

Jia Mu nodded and said, "That's the reason. When we raise our sons and daughters, we just hope that they will have a good future. How can there be any reason to stand in the way?"

Aunt Xue was taking the cards, and when she heard the words, she held the cards and lost her mind for a while, then she took them over, drew another card and put it on the table, and said slowly: "Have you never heard of it? There are fathers and mothers, why are they raised by their old lady's side?"

Yuanyang laughed, and Aunt Xue thought she had something to say, and when she looked over, she heard her say, "Auntie may have dealt the wrong card?"

Aunt Xue was about to look at the table when Wang Xifeng came over and said, "Don't be too honest, Yuanyang, I'll take a look for you, but it's really a mistake."

Aunt Xue knew that Jia Mu was full, and said with a smile, "I'm just this one. I don't rely on both sides. It's useless to keep it. If the old lady wants it, just take it."

Jia Mu asked with a smile, "You really don't want it?"

Wang Xifeng looked at Aunt Xue's hand for a while, and said, "I really don't want it."

"Then I want it," said Jia Mu with a smile. Then she threw down the cards.

Jia Mu's rule is that the mandarin ducks shuffled the cards, so she asked Wang Xifeng, "I told you to look at their sisters. Why did you come here?"

Mrs. Xing got up and said, "You will have a baby for me."

Knowing Mrs. Xing's character, Jia's mother had never liked her very much, so she said, "then you go, it's the same with your wife here." She ordered Wang Xifeng to sit down.

Mrs. Xing agreed, and Wang Xifeng helped her to the door, and then she came back and sat down, saying: "The old lady is afraid that they will lose their scruples and drink too much, I said that the old lady doesn't have to worry about it, but the old lady still doesn't believe it. Sister Zhang and Sister Lin don’t drink alcohol. I thought that all of them are weak. If they said they wouldn’t eat, I was afraid that they wouldn’t drink alcohol, so I didn’t persuade them. I was afraid that they would eat too much, so I only gave a small jar. In the past. I was worried about eating and came to me again. Should I give it or not? I gave it to them and got drunk and the old lady blamed me. There, they were afraid that they would bump into me carefully, and they would not be able to enjoy themselves, so I came here. Sister Zhang and the other mothers are all careful, and nothing will happen."

Jia Mu scolded with a smile, "You're a lazy boy."

Because she took another card, Wang Xifeng casually asked what she was talking about, and Aunt Xue took advantage of the opportunity to mention what she had just said.Wang Xifeng didn't know the foreword, so she just thought it was their elders who were gossiping about their sisters, and said with a smile: "I don't blame my aunt for thinking this way, there is a reason here. Her mother is the niece of the old lady in the family. I haven't contacted her for years, and when she found out, her mother was gone again. The old lady in-law took pity on her, so she took her to her side."

Aunt Xue then sighed, "That's the way it is, but it was her luck."

Just as he was talking, Xiren came to Wang Xifeng and said, "Just now Baoyu and the girls were discussing what kind of cherry wine they want. Grandma asked someone to look for it and see if there is any at home."

Wang Xifeng said with a smile: "It's hard for me. If you want Huiquan and Xifeng, I have it there. What kind of cherry wine is this, not to mention that I haven't tasted it, and I haven't even seen it. Where can I find it?" Say it again, and then say: "I still have two bottles of the wine I got last year. Let's see if they want it. If so, go to my room to find Pinger and ask her to bring it to you."

The attacker hurriedly said, "It's okay if you have this." Then he thanked Wang Xifeng.

Mother Jia smiled to Aunt Xue and said, "Baoyu must have led this, and girl Yun has made it happen. There is no one else but the two of them."

Sure enough, Xiren went to Ping'er. Ping'er thought about it for a while, and asked a little maid to pour tea for Xiren, because he said, "Just wait a while, and I will come as soon as I go."

Ping'er went for a while and came back, holding a one-foot-high glass bottle in his hand, and said: "This is the only one. My grandma must have remembered it wrong, or it is unknown whether it was given to someone else first."

Xiren took a look in her hand, and even though she was used to the good things in Baoyu's house, she also thought they were beautiful, thanked her repeatedly, and said, "my mother, where did you find such a favorite thing?"

Ping'er handed it to her and said: "Our grandma doesn't like to drink this. She said that it tastes like hogwash, but it looks good, so she found a few glass bottles and put them in it. It's only been set up for a day. There are many people in the year. The child came in and broke one of them, and then pricked his hand, and the second grandma thought it was a bad omen, so she put it away." At this point, she clapped her hands suddenly, and said, "I'm confused too, it's not that one was broken. what?"

Hearing this, Xiren also laughed and said: "Last year when Baoyu and the girls ate, they gave me a cup too. They all agreed that Miss Bao didn't eat too much. When they joked afterwards, it was your grandma who said that, right? How could they bear the smell." He added: "At that time I also saw the color was good, but I didn't expect it to be so good."

After talking and joking for a while, Baoyu sent a little maid to follow her, and the attacker laughed and said, "What do you mean, is it so urgent? I didn't stop a step, and I just took my things and was about to go back."

Ping'er said, "Go quickly, don't tell them to wait."

Xiren resigned her, and the little maid wanted to come up to help get the wine, but Xiren didn't give it to her, because she said: "There is only one bottle in total. If it falls again, where can I find another bottle like this? It's me." Take it yourself."

Baoyu urged him twice before he saw Xiren come in with the wine in his arms. Without asking if it was right, he immediately ordered it to be poured, picked up the wine, smelled it, and said, "It smells like wine."

Xiren was pouring wine for Zhang Feng'e. Hearing the words, he smiled and said, "Isn't it just wine?" Then he said, "Second Grandma only has this at her place. The one you want, I'll send people out to look for it tomorrow. Today is the wine." I can't."

Daiyu has long been a little bored, but the ordinary things at home, how can I expect such a scene.Yesterday it was peanuts, now it's wine, so everyone here knows about it, it's as if they have good things and don't use them to honor their elders.Hearing what the attacker said about going out to look for it, he became more and more unhappy.

Hongxiao glanced at her with a smile, and said: "What are you talking about? Where else can I find it? When I go back, I will naturally send someone to deliver it. It's just the fruit harvested in the garden at home, brewed in the kitchen, It’s not a good thing either, so I didn’t expect it.”

Jia's mother raised Jia Min. Although she was not as close as her biological mother and daughter, she was not an enemy either.Those who should be filial every year should be filial as well.The recipe for this cherry wine was originally given here when I was in Beijing.

Jia's mother is just greedy for a moment, and she is filial to her daughter, so she is talking about it.It was brewed once, but few people liked it because the brewing was not good.It was a waste of hard work in the kitchen, and there was no benefit. Naturally, they were happy even if their superiors didn't mention it.

Xiren was not born at that time, how did he know this?When Jing Hongxiao said it, she only knew that it was wrong. She knew that the cherry wine was drunk by the three of Tanchun in Lin's mansion and mentioned to Baoyu, who remembered it.Because she was only thinking of Baoyu, she forgot Daiyu.Immediately blushing, she came over to apologize to Daiyu again, and said, "Miss Lin, don't take offense, I'm clumsy, and I can't speak, so I offended the girl, girl, don't be as knowledgeable as I am."

Daiyu waved her hand and said, "It's not a small matter. Besides, I can't afford you as the old lady's side." , I would rather be happy.Otherwise, it won't be worthwhile not to say that I am angry, and I will make fun of others for no reason.Therefore, just after being angry for a while, he put it away, ignored the others, and just talked and joked with Sister Sanchun.After drinking, he chatted a few more gossips with him, and then went to Jiamu's side to say goodbye.

Mother Jia has already left here, and she is joking with Aunt Xue, Mrs. Wang.Hearing that he wanted to leave, he naturally refused, saying: "It's so easy to come here once, why do you have to go back again?"

Mrs. Wang asked, "But Baoyu bumped into you? You sue me, and I'll tell him."

Daiyu said, "Where is it..." Before the next words were said, someone came in and said that someone from the Lin family was coming.

Instead, Mother Jia laughed angrily, hugged Daiyu and rubbed it in her arms, and said, "It was agreed by you, but your father is afraid that I will wrong you?"

Daiyu then said, "Where can it be?"

It's not easy for Jia Mu to stop her. While inviting people to come in and talk, she ordered them to pack up and said, "Remember to come and see me often in the future. Don't wait for me to send someone to pick you up." Daiyu responded indiscriminately.

The things in the red gauze had already been packed, and when I answered the question over there, I took it out here. Mother Jia couldn't help nodding Daiyu hard, and scolded: "You little thing with no conscience, I've been thinking about it all day long." You, but you just want to go back." After explaining some things in a casual manner, they let the sisters go back.