Raiders of the maid who crossed the Red Mansion

As soon as Baoyu ran out of the door, he ran into Aunt Xue who was walking towards him. Before Jia Zheng's office returned to work, she came to see her daughter Baochai first. Seeing Baoyu running in a hurry, she stopped and asked, "My son, you Where are you going, in such a hurry?"

Baoyu just saluted her hastily: "Go to the garden, and I'll be back in a while!"

The voice fell, and the person had already run several feet away.

Aunt Xue looked at his back, and before she could regain her senses, two people ran out of the door in a panic, but it was Xiren and Xueyan. Inside, I have to go after the second master, don't blame my wife."

"Hey, hey—" Aunt Xue didn't have time to agree, Xiren and Xueyan also disappeared behind the rockery.

Aunt Xue was at a loss, feeling a little uneasy in her heart. Baoyu's illness was still not clear, but let alone something happened again. Thinking of this, she also quickened her pace, stepped into the courtyard, and went to Baoyu and Baochai's room up.

The window was half up, and looking in from the outside, Aunt Xue saw that Baochai was embroidering with her head down, so she tapped on the window lattice: "It's so dark inside, and you didn't open the window when you were doing needlework? I just saw Xiren and Xue The geese chased Baoyu out, why is there no one in the yard?"

Baochai hurriedly put down her work, opened the door and let Aunt Xue in: "Mom, why are you free to come today? It's a coincidence, half a month later, it will be sister-in-law's birthday. I was just about to ask you, brother, do you plan to come?" Do you want to do it? If so, I should also prepare a big gift."

When Aunt Xue heard Baochai mention Xia Jingui's birthday, she couldn't help her nose sore, thinking that her brother was still in prison, and he didn't know if he would be released in half a month, so why did she mention planning for his daughter-in-law's birthday.

She only felt that her eyes were hot, afraid of being spotted by her daughter, she hurriedly picked up Baochai's embroidery, pretended to look at it carefully, and asked, "What are you embroidering, it's not a big job, call the maids Just do it, huh?"

Aunt Xue was stroking the delicate flowers and leaves on the silk, but her hands were wet and cold, she felt strange, looked back at her daughter, and found that she turned her head away, as if she didn't dare to look at her.

Aunt Xue was suspicious, she put down her embroidery, got up and went to Baochai, lowered her head to check her expression, she was surprised to see that her eyes were still a little red and swollen, she asked quickly, "What's wrong with you? Can Baoyu bully you? A few days ago, your mother-in-law said that the two of you have already..."

After all, she couldn't say the word "consummate the house", and she was anxious, so she pulled Baochai hard: "Oh, you tell me, what's wronged, I will accompany you to the old lady, the lady Come on, even if they love Baoyu and treat you slowly, I will not obey!"

Baochai hurriedly opened the window, pulled Aunt Xue in, and lowered her voice to persuade: "Mom, don't say anything, it's nothing."

After all, she is a mother, and she can tell at a glance that her daughter is smiling reluctantly, and she refuses to believe her, so she just asks: "Don't lie to me, just now I saw that Baoyu was very wrong, did he run out because he was annoyed with you?" ? We are married, we should be a man, so what is this?"

"Mom, Mom!" Baochai anxiously shook Aunt Xue's arm, looking out frequently, lest anyone would hear her.

"Okay, then tell me, where did Baoyu go, and are you still being chased by attackers and snow geese?" Aunt Xue was worried about her daughter and insisted on asking to the end.

Baochai couldn't hide her love, and because she was really distressed, she wanted to get some comfort from her mother, so she took Aunt Xue's hand and sighed: "He... went to the Xiaoxiang Pavilion to see Sister Lin. "

Aunt Xue was surprised again: "Sister Lin? Didn't your sister Lin move out to recuperate and ward off evil spirits?"

Baochai smiled sadly, and said quietly, "No matter where you move, you will never be able to move his heart."

Aunt Xue understood what she meant, she groaned in her chest, and hugged Baochai in her arms, tears also fell down: "It's really a crime, your brother is a man, and I expected him to be the one who made the family, but he is so unbelievable, you are not happy." She is a good boy, but she is a woman, she can't control everything, alas..."

Although Baochai is used to pretending to be stupid, she is actually a very intelligent woman. When she heard that Aunt Xue's words were wrong, she hurriedly asked, "Mom, is there something going on at home? Is my brother causing trouble again, or is my sister-in-law restless?"

Aunt Xue knew that she couldn't hide her love, and since the incident happened, she was carrying it so hard that she was almost on the verge of collapse. Now that she was hugging her dearest daughter, she couldn't help it any longer, and thumped her chest, crying loudly Lai: "Don't mention it, your brother who didn't live up to expectations, who ate wine outside and beat someone to death, has been sent to prison by the Shuntian Mansion, and he is going to piss me off too!"

Baochai turned pale in shock, and quickly helped Aunt Xue to sit back on the bed, leaving herself and Baoyu aside for a while, only asking about her brother: "Then how is brother now? Mrs. Jia from Shuntian Mansion has a lot of connections with my uncle's mansion." , can mother go and ask uncle?"

Aunt Xue withdrew her tears a little, and instead comforted her daughter: "Yang is Yang, and your uncle also promised to try his best to make things right. Your elder brother Xue Biao found another way in Shuntian Mansion. It took a little money. Maybe that evil obstacle can be solved." come out."

Baochai was still worried, and asked again: "What is the way? Brother Xue Biao is very prudent, but it is a life lawsuit after all?"

Aunt Xue told her daughter in detail how to get Master Mo to point out how to bribe someone to take the blame for Xue Pan.

Baochai waited, bowed her head and said nothing for a long time, Aunt Xue was a little anxious: "Why, but what do you think is wrong?"

After much deliberation, Baochai took Aunt Xue's hand and said, "Mom, we certainly want to exonerate my brother, but it's not a good law to let others take the blame, not to mention deceiving the court or breaking the law. That person repented in the middle way and confessed the truth, brother is adding to the crime."

Aunt Xue did not think of her daughter's concerns, but she was helpless, so she had no choice but to go this way.

"Your brother did it on his own, and he will suffer on his own if there is any good or bad in the future. It's just your marriage, don't let your mother harm you!"

Seeing the old mother's sad expression, her haggard face, and the faint wrinkles at the corners of her eyes deepened, Baochai also felt pain in her heart, so she had to force her to persuade her lightly: "Mom, you know that Baoyu has always been honest and self-willed, and with Sister Lin ...The affection is the deepest, and it is not uncommon for it to not turn around for a while, but after a long time, I get used to it, and it will gradually fade away."

Hearing what her daughter said, Aunt Xue also felt that it was reasonable, she was a little relieved, and asked: "Baoyu lost the Xiaoxiang Pavilion in such a reckless way, why don't you follow me to have a look?"

Baochai smiled faintly: "Don't be busy, Xiren is very reliable. With her following, Baoyu will not mess around. Besides, if I follow, it seems that I don't want him to see Sister Lin, and even more suspicion will arise. "

Aunt Xue had no choice but to pat the back of her daughter's hand: "Oh, good boy, it's really hard for you..."

Baoyu ran all the way and arrived at the gate of the Grand View Garden. Because the sisters in the courtyard were married and walking, there were fewer people coming and going.

Suddenly Baoyu ran up to him, and jumped up in shock. He was busy beating thousands of children, but he heard a yell from the head: "Get out of the way!"

Before the boy could react, Baoyu had already pushed him away, and watched him run past him helplessly.

Looking at his back, the servant was dumbfounded, and it took him a long time to let out his breath: "Grandpa, look at what happened to Second Master Bao today, as if his butt was burned by fire?"

The old man had a serious face, so he wanted to teach him "don't talk nonsense behind the master's back", and when he saw Xiren and Xueyan running into the garden one after the other, he was so surprised that he couldn't speak.

The powder wall of the Xiaoxiang Pavilion is in front of it, and several couplets of small houses are exposed from the top of the wall, surrounded by green bamboos, which looks extraordinarily quiet and peaceful.

Then Baoyu stopped and patted his chest with a smile: "Okay, here we are, it's still the same as before, but he lied to me that sister Lin is gone."

Even though he was happy, he was always guilty inside. He wanted to see Daiyu but was ashamed to see Daiyu. As soon as he stepped on the pebble path, his chest would thump. He was used to the Xiaoxiang Pavilion, but now "Being close to the nostalgia is more timid".

However, when he walked in front of the two red-painted doors, he was stunned immediately, only to see a copper lock hung on the door, which had been covered with a thin layer of dust, obviously no one had touched it for some days.

Baoyu stayed for a while, then suddenly threw himself on the door, slammed the door loudly with his fists, and shouted: "Zicuckoo, Zicuckoo, come and open the door! Sister Lin, I'm here to see you. How angry are you? You can beat me or scold me, but please open the door for me!"

His fists were numb from the beating, his throat was fishy from shouting, how could there be any sound from inside?

After a while, Xiren and Xueyan also chased after him.

Seeing Baoyu go crazy, with flushed cheeks and tears all over his face, he was still screaming and screaming, talking crazy words, and the attacker was also frightened. , persuading him bitterly: "Second Master, Miss Lin is really not here, it's useless for you to knock on the door, it's better to go back, and when you recover from illness, Miss Lin will come back from outside."

Unexpectedly, when Baoyu heard "knock the door down", he immediately pointed forward angrily, and ordered the attacker: "Sister Lin must be very annoyed with me, so she won't teach people to open the door. Go and call for someone to open the door. I see Believe it after!"

Xiren saw that his eyes were full of blood and tears, he was pitiful and afraid of people, and worried that he would do something out of the ordinary, so he had to hold him down first: "Okay, Xueyan, go and invite Uncle Lin to come and open the door." door."

Xueyan hurriedly agreed, and hurriedly ran to the supervisor Lin Zhixiao.

Xiren turned around to comfort Baoyu again: "Stop yelling, whether sister Lin is here or not, she always loves quietness the most. How dare you yell like this on weekdays?"

Sure enough, Baoyu kept his voice back obediently, let the attacker lead him, sat down on a big bluestone by the path, stared at the closed door, and said with a smile: "Okay, I won't call, sister Lin must be taking a nap inside. I'm going to disturb her, and I'm going to be even more angry."

But Daiyu got up early, and after copying a few pages of scriptures, she walked around the lotus nunnery again, feeling a little tired. She usually has the habit of taking a nap, so she told Zijuan to lie on the bed for lunch. Time to wake up naturally.

Zicuckoo helped her to lie down, put up the curtain, lit up a sweet stove again, and then closed the door to do her own work.

She and her sister-in-law in the nunnery picked some fresh vegetables from the vegetable bed they planted themselves, packed them with bamboo plaques, and put them in the yard to dry in the sun.

During the chat, I heard Daiyu say that she misses the small dishes in the south. It happened that she grew up in Changzhou when she didn't wear them. It is not far from Daiyu's hometown Yangzhou, and the taste is quite similar.

Having nothing to do left and right, I just wanted to get some dried pickles, which I and Daiyu both loved.

She was in the yard, lying on the ground, turning over the half-dried vegetables one by one, when she suddenly heard a scream from the meditation room: "Baoyu, you, you—"

Zijuan hurriedly dropped what she was doing, ran to Daiyu's room, pushed the door open and went in, only to see Daiyu sitting on the head of the bed, touching her chest with her hands, pale, sweating profusely, staring and panting, as if suffering from pain. Great fright.