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Xichun said: "Caiping, I just want to leave here these days, because the old lady hasn't explained the marriage to me. If I say so, and I say no, they will definitely ask people to persuade me to watch me. I say yes, wait If we decide to get married and then run away, our family may not be the only ones looking for me. Even if Sister Lin is willing to take me in, one day the old lady and wife and my elder brother and sister-in-law will find out the truth, and they will blame Sister Lin! "

Caiping thought for a while and thought: "Since the girl has made up her mind, let me go tomorrow. I should tell Yuanyang that these days the wife and the old lady are discussing the matter of entering the palace to see the imperial concubine and the third girl on the first day of the new year, so won't pay attention to us."

After hearing this, Xichun said: "Okay, Caiping, you can go to the East Gate Ferry this afternoon and ask if there is a boat to Gusu tomorrow or the day after tomorrow. We will go to Gusu in the next few days. Sister Lin will go back like this, at least It will take ten days and a half months. We just stay there for a few days. With the help of Sister Lin, we should get to know each other quickly. When Sister Lin returns to the capital, we will be no strangers there. I think as long as Sister Lin If my sister didn't tell me, who would have thought that we would go to Gusu?"

Caiping listened and said: "Young lady is right. The old lady and your brother and sister-in-law here will look for us for a few days at most. After waiting for a long time, for example, after a year or so, who will have the patience to look for a girl? We will come back when the time comes. , Find an alley to live in, and no one will know."

Xichun sighed: "Caiping, I have made up my mind now that I don't want to marry, but I feel that I have wronged you by letting you stay with me like this for the rest of my life. Don't worry, once I leave here and settle down, or you meet a good man , you get married, and then we will be good sisters."

After hearing this, Caiping hurriedly said: "Miss, don't say that, I know what the girl is thinking. I have also seen through those men. You see that Second Grandma Lian is so powerful, how is she doing now? At the beginning, she and Second Master Lian were not the same. Speaking of being well-matched to men and women, why is Lian's second grandmother always sick? It's not a heart disease. Lian's second master went to Chang'an County and never came back. I heard that the family letter was only written once when he first arrived there, and he still wrote it to the elder together. Yes. I think even if it is Baoyu, it is inevitable that it will still be like this in the future. If you don’t marry, at least you won’t suffer such grievances!”

When Caiping said this, she quietly said to Xichun: "Girl, Baoyu is good to all the girls. I don't know how many aunts and people in the house there will be in the future. I heard that Xiren—"

When Cai Ping said this, he felt that it was a bit embarrassing what to say to Xichun, after all, Xichun was still a 14-year-old girl.

Who knew that Xichun heard this, and hurriedly asked: "Caiping, what's wrong with Xiren? Didn't Madam say she was sick and went back?"

Cai Ping said: "I heard some people say that Xiren was sent out to have a baby."

Xichun heard this, and said in surprise: "What did you say about the color screen? Xi gave birth to a child?"

Caiping nodded and said: "Yes, I also accidentally heard it from a few wives in private. I guess that many people must know about the matter of attacking people, but the wife and the old lady ordered it, so it didn't spread. I still want to say Maybe Miss Lin and Zijuan also know about it."

Xichun thought for a while and said, "I understand now. No wonder Brother Baoyu got married so quickly. When talking about Baoyu's marriage, the old lady said that Brother Baoyu was destined to marry early. But since Xiren fell ill, the old lady and The wife was busy getting married to Brother Bao. I heard from Sister Lin that the old lady went to Xiaoxiang Pavilion to find her and asked her if she would like to marry Brother Bao together with Sister Bao. Sister Lin told me, don’t say and Sister Bao married Baoyu together, even if she married Baoyu alone, she would not be willing. I know that Sister Lin has not been as good with Brother Bao as before in the past two years, and it should be because Brother Bao likes to hang out with girls like this. .”

Caiping said: "Girl, since we have decided to leave tomorrow, should we leave during the day or at night? I think we can't just carry these coins with us. There are many bad people outside, so we should take precautions to prevent accidents."

Xichun pondered for a while and said: "Caiping, you go to the Dongmen Ferry this afternoon to find out when there is a boat to Gusu. If there is no boat tomorrow, there will be a boat the day after tomorrow. We will try to go out tomorrow night. You can look again. Is there an inn closest to the Dongmen Ferry?"

Caiping nodded and said: "Okay, I'll go and find out about these first. Girl, I thought of a way. Let's separate these banknotes and sew them into these clothes. We sew some for each dress, and we only carry a few hundred taels on us." Silver tickets are fine. We also have some broken silver, which can be conveniently used on the road.”

Xichun thought for a while and said, "Caiping, you are right in reminding me. According to what you said, we will clean up these things today. The rest depends on your inquiries. Anyway, if you don't leave tomorrow, you will leave the day after tomorrow!"

In the evening, Caiping came back and said to Xichun, "Girl, I found out that there will be no boats going directly to Gusu tomorrow or the day after tomorrow, and it will be the first day of the new year. There will be a boat to Gusu in the morning of the first day of the new year."

Xichun said: "Tomorrow is the 29th, so, Caiping, we will go out on the night of the [-]th. Have you found out about the inn at Dongmen Ferry? We will stay there for one night."

Caiping said: "There is an inn, and many guests who want to go south live there."

Xichun said: "Caiping, if we go to Gusu on the first day of the lunar new year, should we book a boat first?"

Cai Ping said: "I asked the owner of the ship, he asked how many of us there are, and I said there are only two of us, siblings, so it's okay for him to decide. His ship is not small, and there are not more than two of us."

Xichun said: "That's good, we'll leave here at thirty nights."

Caiping said: "Girl, if we go out at night, we should think of the best way."

Xichun said: "Don't worry, I've been thinking about it for half a year, and I naturally have a good idea."

In Yihong Courtyard, Baoyu and Baochai have been married for ten days, and have moved from Jiamu's new house to Grand View Garden.But careful people found that Baoyu was not as happy and loyal as a person who just got married should have.

After being busy for a while, Jia Zheng asked Baoyu Jiahuan and Jialan, saying that from the beginning of March together, Baoyu and Jiahuan Jialan must insist on going to home school and go to the exam together next year.Because by this time next year, Baoyu will be 17 years old, Jia Huan will be 15 years old, and Jia Lan will be 14 years old.At the beginning, Li Wan's husband, Jia Zhu, was also Baoyu's brother, who had already entered school at the age of 14.

After lunch, Baoyu walked out of Yihong Courtyard, Sheyue and Qiuwen hurriedly followed and said, "Where is Second Master going?"

Baoyu said calmly: "I just had dinner, and I just walked around in the garden. You don't have to follow, I won't go out."

Qiuwen and Sheyue stood, but did not leave. Baoyu suddenly got a little angry and said, "Didn't you hear me? What do you usually say to me? My words are useless in front of you. I will go back to my hometown tomorrow." Ladies and gentlemen, send you out!"

After hearing this, Qiuwen Sheyue hurriedly said: "Second master, don't be angry, we are servants, so we naturally listen to the master! Since the second master said so, we will go back, but please don't send us out!"

Seeing that Sheyue and Qiuwen had turned back, Baoyu walked towards the garden full of melancholy.

Although it is still the first lunar month, the willow branches in the garden have already sprouted small buds, showing that spring is coming everywhere.However, the laughter and laughter of the sisters and many maids who could be heard everywhere no longer, in Baoyu's heart at this time, it seemed that those were a distant dream.

Now in the Grand View Garden where the relatives lived, only Yihong Courtyard and Daoxiang Village Xie Xiangou are still inhabited, and the rest of the courtyards have no owners. It is estimated that there may be no maids and women who own the courtyard.

Baoyu walked through the corridor and crossed the small bridge, and saw a few couplet houses faintly visible on the edge of the whitewashed wall in front of the Xiaoxiang Pavilion.The clump of green bamboos is still the same, swaying in the wind, and falling leaves from time to time.

Baoyu walked over and saw that the gate of the courtyard was closed, so he had to sit on a stone next to the rock where he sat last time, staring at the Xiaoxiang Pavilion in a daze.

In this place, Zijuan once tested herself, saying that Daiyu was going back to the south, and at that time she felt like a needle pricked her heart.It was also from then on that Daiyu seemed to be getting farther and farther away from her.The friendship between the childhood sweethearts of the childhood sweethearts, I don’t know when it started, and it gradually became a memory and helpless sorrow.

After a while, I saw a woman bringing two rough girls over.Seeing Baoyu sitting here alone, the woman hurriedly approached Baoyu and said, "Second Master Bao, why are you here alone today? Why didn't the girls come with you?"

Baoyu had no choice but to respond: "Mommy, I'm going to study at home soon. I thought I haven't been in the garden for a long time, so I came in to have a look. Why are the doors here locked?"

The woman laughed and said, "Second Master Bao doesn't know, since Miss Lin returned to Gusu, all the things that Miss Lin brought here have been moved away, and those useful furniture and decorations, my wife also asked people to move them to other places for use. I said it was impossible for Ms. Lin to come back to this place anyway, so she arranged for us to work in other places, and only told us to come here to clean it every few days. There is no one guarding the yard here, so the door is usually locked If the second master wants to go in and have a look, I will open the door and let the second master in."

After hearing this, Baoyu stood up and said, "Mother, then you open the door, and I will go in and have a look before I come out."

The woman opened the door, and Baoyu walked in.I saw that although the yard was still clean, some grass had grown on the ground.Looking at the eaves again, the parrots and big swallows raised by Daiyu before are gone, leaving only a bird cage and a parrot stand. When a gust of wind blows, the empty bird cage and parrot stand sway with the wind, making it even colder. Affection.

Baoyu hurriedly asked, "Nurse, where is Sister Lin's parrot and big swallow?"

The old lady smiled and said, "Second Master Bao, we don't know, we only heard that Miss Lin released the parrot and swallows the day before she left here."

Baoyu said to himself: "Sister Lin returned to the south, just like this parrot and the big swallow, she is free from now on."

Thinking of this, Baoyu walked into the room full of melancholy, and saw that there was only a broken bamboo chair inside, and the floor and window sills were covered with dust.It's just ten days, like years of changes.

Baoyu tried to find a piece of paper that Daiyu might have left, but found nothing. There was not a single piece of paper left in the house.Looking at the wall again, Daiyu's original calligraphy and paintings are gone.

Baoyu sighed in her heart: Sister Lin took everything she brought away, and she didn't leave anything here that people can think about.She will not come here again!She has made up her mind to forget all about it!

Baoyu looked outside the house where Daiyu usually lived, and the couch was still there.On this couch, I have left so much happiness and fun with Daiyu: lying down together, chatting and laughing, and taking some rest, I still tell my sister Lin the story of mouse essence and sweet taro.Daiyu's Nong Nong whispered with a Wu tone, and her bell-like laughter seemed to be right next to her ears:

"Baoyu, if you make trouble again, I will be annoyed!"

"You idiot, if you have Baoyu, someone will have a golden lock to match you!"

Baoyu held the door frame with his hands, feeling a burning pain in his heart.

I have always kept sister Lin in my heart.However, because of the stupid things he did, he gradually made Daiyu farther and farther away from him.Can Daiyu be blamed?It is true that Xiren and Xiren slept together in the same bed, and he was engaged first, even though it was the idea of ​​the old lady and his wife.It's justifiable for Sister Lin to leave here, and now I have no reason to keep her, I am no longer worthy!

However, since Daiyu resolutely rejected all my hopes, I realized that Daiyu is not the fourth in my heart, but the first!

Without Daiyu, my heart is always empty.I wake up every day and don't know what to do, and every night I lie in bed, and I don't know what I have done in a day.

What is love?Call life without regret!

If Daiyu suddenly appeared here at this time and said to herself: "Baoyu, I am willing to be with you!" Baoyu believed that he would never worry about the old lady, his wife and the master, let alone Baochai and others. As a human being, Baoyu felt that he would definitely take Daiyu with him without hesitation, or leave with Daiyu.

However, why do I have to repeatedly emphasize in front of Daiyu that Daiyu is the fourth in my heart?

If everything can happen again, Baoyu believes that he will definitely say: "Sister Lin, you are not the fourth in my heart, but the first in my heart! Old lady, wife and master will all be behind you!"

The love of parents is greater than the sky, but only when you fall in love with someone do you realize that there are people who are more important than the sky than your own life!

The Seven Fairies abandoned their parents and sisters in heaven for the sake of Dong Yong in the mortal world; Brothers and sisters, you still have your own life!

These people have become a good story through the ages, but I have unknowingly become a heartless person!

The mother-in-law ordered the two girls to clean the yard, but the grass on the ground was still there.Baoyu believed that, perhaps in a short time, these grasses would become "full of branches", and the carved beams under the eaves would also be full of spider silk.

I don't know how long it took, but the woman saw that the two maids had cleaned the house and yard, smiled at Baoyu and said, "Second Master Bao, you'd better go back. There are no stools to sit on here, and standing is tiring." , Maybe the old lady, madam, Second Grandma Bao and the girls are looking for you, so go back quickly!"

Only then did Baoyu come back to his senses, and hurriedly said, "Thank you Mammy, I'll go back right away!" Said and walked out.

The woman locked the courtyard door, took the two maids with her, and left.

Baoyu walked back along the stone steps, feeling that he didn't want to go back to Yihong Courtyard at all, so he went to Qiushuangzhai, where Tanchun lived.

It turned out that Yingchun lived in Tanchun and Xichun lived not far away. Among them, Xichun lived in Xiexiangou, also called Liaofengxuan, Yingchun lived in Zhuijinlou in Zilingzhou, and Tanchun lived in Qiushuangzhai. It is a big pond.

Baoyu saw Zhuijinlou and Qiushuangzhai from a distance, and thought that Yingchun and Tanchun had already gone out, and their place would only be more deserted than Xiaoxiang Pavilion, and they were probably locked, so he went to Xichun.

Xichun was sewing clothes in the room. Hearing that Baoyu came to visit suddenly, she hurriedly put away her things and went out to welcome her.

"Brother Bao, are you free to come to my place today?"

Xichun poured tea for Baoyu herself, and asked with a smile.

Baoyu sighed: "Fourth sister, now only we and my sister-in-law live in the garden. I walked around for a long time, and remembered how happy we sisters were when we formed an association and wrote poems! Now I'm afraid that the king of heaven and my father will come, and I won't be here again." Such joy."

Xichun said: "Brother Bao is sad because of this?"

Baoyu said: "Fourth sister, I can't be as calm as you. At the beginning, you named me 'Nothing Busy', 'Rich and Idle Man'. Now I think of the situation at that time, it's like a dream. Look at this garden, just look at it. I’m afraid I’ll be the only one left soon.”

Xichun hurriedly said: "Brother Bao, after reading so many poems and books, haven't you heard the saying 'There is no feast that never ends'? You are still good, girls like us, how can we stay in our own home for a long time? In the end, it's not just us, but those girls who are going to leave in the end. The fate of our girls, regardless of the master's girl, is just to be dismissed indiscriminately, sold, married, and driven out. But you don't With all these experiences, what are you still sighing for?"

To know how Baoyu answered, let's read the following!