The Rebirth of the Red Chamber Xue Pan married Lin Daiyu

Xue Pan called Xu Qian over.

Xue Pan ordered Xu Qian to buy good wine, good tea, good water, good wine vessels, and good tea utensils all over the capital, and then invite several well-known tea brewers and sommeliers.Don't be afraid to spend money, just pay as much as you need.

Xue Pan himself took Shou'er to plan out a can of the rainwater stored under the pear tree, the dew of Bailu, the frost of Frost's fall, and the snow of Xiaoxue. The peony stamens, white lotus stamens, white hibiscus stamens, and white plum stamens were found, and some wine vessels, tea vessels and good wine and tea from the warehouse were also found.

Although Xu Qian didn't know what Xue Pan was doing, he went to the antique market in Kyoto to find good wine and tea utensils, and went to major hotels and tea houses to find good tea and wine.For a while, I couldn't find the old dew and snow water that Xue Pan said, so I had to go to Yulong Mountain in the suburbs of Beijing to get the spring water from the spring on the top of the mountain.

Xue Pan looked at Xu Qian's 60-year-old daughter Hong and couldn't help but wonder.

"Is there a 60-year-old Nurhong?" Xue Pan asked curiously.

"Master, this daughter red was brewed by an official for his daughter. It was brewed in the year she was born. She only drank it at the wedding when she was married. However, her husband who was engaged to her died of illness. She She was never married, and this daughter Hong never drank. After her father died, she lived with her brother and sister-in-law, who also left, and lived with her nephew. Her nephew was also very good to her, but the family business was ruined. She decided to dig out the daughter red and sell it to supplement the family. She is 60 years old this year, so the daughter red is from the 60th year. I also happened to meet her nephew selling wine when I went to the winery. After inquiring about the matter clearly, I bought a carload of daughter Hong." Xu Qian praised: "This girl keeps chastity for her fiancé-in-law and never gets married, and the imperial court awarded her a chastity memorial archway."

After Xue Pan heard it, he was a little bit embarrassed, he didn't know whether to praise or sigh.

It has been more than ten days since Xu Qian gathered all kinds of things.

It happened to be snowing on this day, and there was a lot of snow.

Xue Pan posted posts to Baoyu, Jia Lian and Liu Xianglian, inviting them to taste tea and wine at home tomorrow.

On the second day, the snow stopped, and the pavilions and pavilions were covered with silver everywhere.In the courtyard of Xue Pan's house, there is a red plum blossom, which just bloomed. The snow-white red plum is proud and beautiful.

Xue Pan was afraid that Jia Baoyu would not come, so he got up early to pick him up in person.

When Xue Pan arrived at Jia's mansion, Baoyu hadn't set out yet, but Jia's mother stopped him from leaving the mansion.

Xue Pan was a little anxious. All the preparations today were for Baoyu. If Baoyu didn't go, he would set up a stage and show the opera to someone.

Xue Pan sent someone to report, and he greeted the old lady.

After a while, Amber came to pick him up.

I came to the backyard of Jia's mansion again, wondering if I could see Miss Lin again.Xue Pan thought in his heart, but he followed behind Amber in a well-behaved manner without turning his eyes.

When he came to the backyard of Rongxi Hall, Xue Pan greeted Mother Jia and said with a smile, "Old lady, I will come to pick up Baoyu myself, so you can rest assured now."

"Baoyu is still young, and the snow is so heavy outside, you can play some other day." Jia Mu still disagreed.

"Old lady, my plum tree is in bloom today. It's red and beautiful, and it looks good against the snow. Besides, not only Baoyu is going, but Lian's second brother is also going. There are two of us watching Baoyu." Xue Pan continued, Seeing that Jia Mu was still a little hesitant, she continued: "After our banquet is over, I will personally send Baoyu back to you intact. If it is late today, it is okay to let Baoyu rest with me for a night. Our Xue family We moved here, and Baoyu hasn’t been there yet, so let’s warm our house today.”

Seeing what Xue Pan said, Jia's mother couldn't stop her anymore, but told Baoyu, "Don't be greedy for cold, and don't drink alcohol."

"Old lady, don't worry, we will watch him." Xue Pan reassured.

Finally, Jia's mother finally let go, and Xue Pan and Baoyu went to pick up Jia Lian again before returning to Xue's house.

Xue Pan had already told Baochai in advance that Baochai should stay in his mother's yard and not come out for the banquet at home today.

Xu Qian arranged everything properly, and put up straw curtains around a pavilion near the red plum grove, which could be rolled up. Buck meat, as well as other vegetables, seasonings and spices and so on.There is also a small stove next to it, on which the wine is warmed.

Xue Pan took Baoyu and Jia Lian to the pavilion. Liu Xianglian had already arrived and was sprinkling seasoning on the meat.

"Brother Xue is very elegant. This is really looking for plums in the snow, and enjoying the snow around the stove. It's really like a romantic and refined scholar in the Wei and Jin Dynasties." Baoyu praised this scene first.

"It's ridiculous." Xue Pan said, "I'm just a layman, but I dare not say that I am a refined scholar. I found a lot of good wine and tea from the capital, and I wanted to invite you to taste tea and wine today. Meihua, I have arranged these again. Let's eat first, and then go and see my preparations later."

"I heard that there is also a 60-year-old Nuuhong, which is a rare wine." Jia Lian continued.

"My daughter's family never gets married, and it's a blessing to be clean," Baoyu said.

Baoyu has made many remarks like this, but this is the first time Xue Pan has heard Baoyu say this with his own ears.He only felt that Baoyu's argument was very strange and contrary to harmony.

If the daughter's family doesn't get married, the luck is not good, it just depends on whether it is passive or active.It is a blessing that the daughter's family does not want to marry on their own initiative.And keeping the festival for a fiancé-in-law whom she has never met, and staying unmarried all her life is really not considered a blessing.

Baoyu does not agree with the ethics of this world. He despises ethics and thinks that daughters are more noble than men.

But ethics itself suppresses women, and is much more tolerant of men.

He could not protect women from being suppressed by ethics.He didn't bear the consequences of his wantonness, but let the daughter beside him bear it.Etiquette is the rule, and he pushed hands, Jin Chuan jumped into the well, Qingwen, Si'er, and Fangguan were kicked out, Qingwen died, and Miss Lin died of illness.

If Baoyu really disapproved of this etiquette, he should change the etiquette and the rules.Instead of trampling on the rules by yourself, then shrink back, and let your daughter bear the consequences.

Xue Pan felt that if you can't change the rules, then you follow the rules.If you don't want to play by the rules, then live with the consequences.

Baoyu said that daughters are noble, men are filthy, and that daughters become fish-eyed when they are contaminated by men. At the same time, they tried their love with Xiren, and took a bath with Bihen for two or three hours.Why, when it's his turn, isn't he a filthy man?Aren't you afraid that you will pollute your daughter's house?

On the one hand, Baoyu despises that people in the officialdom are all lucratives, so he does not enter the officialdom, does not study, does not care about the family, does not do business, and plays with his daughters wantonly all day long. Come to the family business.Because he knows very well that no matter how empty the Jia family is, it will not be short of him.

But he never thought about how he got these things in exchange for them.

Behind this, there are Jia's mother's partiality, Mrs. Wang's calculations, Jia Zheng's pretending to be ignorant, Jia Yuanchun's entry into the palace, the neglect of Jia Amnesty, the exile of Jia Lian and the persecution of his children, and the delay in the marriage of Yingchun and Tanchun. , the oppression of Jia Huan, the neglect of Jia Lan, and the calculation of the Lin family and the Xue family.

Obviously enjoy everything that can only be obtained through other people's active or forced support, but throw it away casually, without cherishing it at all.

Xue Pan thought about it a lot, and felt that Baoyu was standing up and down again.

Xue Pan didn't answer the topic, and directly led the two of them into the pavilion, "Xiang Lian has already started to roast the meat, let's hurry up, don't keep him waiting." He said three steps and two steps into the pavilion.

This pavilion is an octagonal pavilion with straw mats hung on the eight sides to shield it from the wind, and now it is rolled up on all sides to make it easier for them to view the scenery.

Several people ate meat, drank wine, admired plum blossoms, and praised snow. After playing for a while, after washing and changing clothes, Xue Pan took them to the front yard, his courtyard room.

Xu Qian brought a tea master and a wine master to wait here.

The incense burner on the side of the house is not as heavy as sandalwood, but as fresh as the fragrance of flowers.

Behind the screen in the corner of the room, sat a luthier, playing soothing tunes.

The tea master is sitting at the table, making tea.The slightest mist rises from the teapot.

"It smells so good, so good tea!" Baoyu praised directly as soon as he entered the room, "Brother Xue, what do you use to make this tea? I've never smelled this kind of aroma."

"Taste it and see if you can guess it." Xue Pan invited.

After the tea master made the tea, he took out four shallow wooden cups and poured tea as thin as copper coins into the cups.

"Pan'er, you are too stingy, what's the use of this little tea?" Jia Lian said.

"Second brother Lian, you don't understand, literati, drinking tea is called drinking tea, not to quench your thirst, but to taste the taste of that tea." Liu Xianglian said while picking up a cup of tea and put it on her nose He sniffed lightly and praised, "It's so fragrant!" Then he took a sip of tea, aftertaste for a while, and said: "This tea is far less fragrant than this tea. It tastes very light, like white water. The scent is lingering, lasting for a long time, as clear as plum blossoms." After Liu Xianglian finished speaking, she looked at Xue Pan and asked him for proof.

Xue Pan just smiled and didn't answer, but said to Baoyu and Jia Lian, "Try it too."

Baoyu had been feeling itchy for a long time, so he went to get a cup, smell it first, taste it again, and it really tastes great.

Jia Lian was a little disdainful, it was just a cup of tea, how could there be so much talk, he took a cup of tea and drank it down, licked his lips after drinking, and said: "It's quite fragrant, but it's too little, not enough to quench your thirst."

Liu Xianglian replied: "You are chewing peonies, wasting this good water and tea."

Xue Pan also took a cup, smelled it first, then sipped it, and drank it down in one gulp. His feeling was actually very similar to that of Jia Lian. He felt that it was not enough to quench his thirst. Drinking this tea is not interesting, it is better to drink it.But one life has passed, and he is quite a bit of a city now, just think about these words, and never say them out loud, so as not to be ridiculed.

After Baoyu finished drinking, he asked, "Brother Xue, what kind of tea is this that smells so strange?"

"This water is snow water that fell on the pistils of white plum blossoms in Xiaoxue this day. The kiln has been hidden for two years, and it was only opened today. The tea made is made of the pistils of white plum blossoms under the snow water, and this cup is made of plum trees. The cups I made were specially found out today to entertain you."

When Baoyu heard that this tea was so rare, he wanted to have another cup, but Xue Pan refused.

"Baoyu, there are other teas, you only drink this, how can you taste other teas when you've had enough?"