Old things in the Red Chamber

Mrs. Tong watched Lin Daiyu drink a bowl of medicine, and her bitter faces squeezed together, "This medicine, you must drink it, and after it has been adjusted, you can raise your child."

Lin Daiyu had already rinsed her mouth with water.

It will soon be February, Lin Daiyu's last birthday before she gets married. Mrs. Tong means to invite a group of actors to come to the mansion, and then send some posts to Lin Daiyu's little sisters, and have a lively day.But Qi Jing'an was about to give birth, Lin Daiyu pushed and pushed, and in the end it was only divided into two days, the day before invited some little sisters whom Lin Daiyu knew later, and the day after invited some girls from Rongguo Mansion.Quietly, there is no need to disturb Qi Jing'an, Madam Tong and Lin Daiyu discussed it, and it was decided.

Just as he was talking, Jia Gui's family came to the door with the greeting card and said, "It was sent from Cheng'en Gong's mansion, saying that he wanted to pay a visit to Madam."

Mrs. Tong read the post, and it turned out that Mrs. Cheng Engong was going to visit her. Mrs. Tong had a bad impression of her. She knew what she meant when she came to the door at this time. The brothers and sisters didn't count Cheng'en Gong's mansion, and they were all Gu Yun's sister and sister-in-law when they came out to socialize. I don't know what Mrs. Cheng'en Gong thinks, this meeting is probably to show off the in-laws' money Son.Gu Yun's sister-in-law is Mr. Gu Yu's daughter, Gu Yu's younger sister, the husband and wife love each other, and have raised five children. A few days ago, a child was brought here, who was naughty and lively. He heard the sound of horseshoes in the backyard. He was clamoring to ride a horse, but he didn't say anything clearly. With his eyes wide open, he kept saying to Madam Tong, "Madam, Madam." Riding a horse is actually putting him on the horse's back and taking him for a walk.

"Look, I can't wait. At the beginning, I put on airs and wanted to ask Gu Yun to go back and beg. I didn't want to show up, and I wanted to overwhelm him. Now that I don't need him, the brothers and sisters huddled together and took care of things." It's too late, it's too late to show up." Said to Lin Daiyu, "If you marry, don't worry about her, don't worry about the family, you have your own mansion, just live in it, if you are invited to talk, don't go, Just push it to the fourth master. Like me, your uncle also has to deal with a big family, so I don't care about the affairs between him and the Rongguo Mansion, and don't blindly be filial, and don't persuade the fourth master to be filial. You have to listen to fourth master about this matter."

Lin Daiyu bowed her head to be taught.

Before her birthday, Qi Jing'an started early, and gave birth to a boy at night, and she had already given birth to two, and when she gave birth to the third, she was familiar with the road, and after the birth, she still had the energy to ask her mother-in-law, "Is it a young man or a girl? "

Although the imperial doctor said it was a boy, her own mother, Princess Anyang, also sent a bunch of things for boys, but she didn't hear what Wen Po said with her own ears, she didn't see it with her own eyes, and she felt uneasy.

"Congratulations, grandma, you are a young master, four catties and three taels." At this time, one catty is equal to 16 taels.

Qi Jingan was in the delivery room, and when she saw her son who hadn't been cleaned, she wept with joy.

Quickly cleaned the blood and stains on the child, held the child's grandmother in swaddling clothes, showed the child's father a look, and quickly carried the child back.Jia Gu didn't even see his grandson's face. Mrs. Tong worked all night, and fell asleep in the yard the next day. Jia Gu was in the yamen, still wondering what his grandson looked like.

Jia Gu has a grandson, Jia Amnesty came over immediately after he knew about it, he also wanted to see the child, and told Jia Gu, "Your grandson is my grandson, I haven't seen him yet, don't worry, I will prepare for the grandson early. It's a gift."

Jia Gu thought to himself that I haven't seen my grandson either.

The two old men were circling in the study, and then they looked at each other, oops, I can name my grandson.

But the father of the child does not want to give up the naming rights.He said to Jia Gu who was holding two pieces of paper, "Father, I will use the name you found after I have Xiaosi. I thought about it before he was born. Jia Nan, Nanmu's Nan, what do you think?" Sample?"

not so good.

Jia Gu picked up the guy and hit Jia Yu, "You are not filial, your father lit a lamp and spent wax to find a bunch of auspicious characters for your son, they are not as good as a piece of nanmu, no, you have to use my father to find them. "

Jia Huan showed that he would never change to death, "I will not change if you kill me. Let me tell you, after finding out that my wife is pregnant, I dreamed that I was sleeping under a nanmu tree, so I decided to call my son Janan."

Jia Gu never twisted him.Jia Xun was in a high mood and wished that the whole capital would know that he had a son, and his son's name was Jia Nan.

Having a son, is it different? When Jia Huan and Gu Yun were talking together, they laughed to themselves, "You don't know, my son spit up milk after drinking the milk yesterday. gone."

It is worth showing off that the child spits up milk... Gu Yun stood up and left, ignoring the bastard.

This is nothing, the most obvious thing is that he has no cold face to the people in Rongguo Mansion.Lin Daiyu's birthday, Qi Jing'an was still in confinement, inside the Rongguo Mansion, Wang Xifeng led a team with Xue Baochai, Shi Xiangyun and Jia Tanchun, Jia Xichun took a carriage and went directly into the backyard.Jia Lian and Jia Baoyu came to the front.

In fact, Jia Baoyu wanted to follow into the backyard, but was invited out at the place where a few rough women got off the carriage in the backyard.But his two maids, Xiren and Qingwen, were left behind.

Jia Gu didn't want to see the Jia family other than Jia Amnesty. Jia Xun happily took the job. His purpose was to show off that he had a son, and he didn't think about it. Jia Lian didn't have a son yet. It will make people uncomfortable.

Jia Lian and Jia Baoyu were forced to listen to his "My son..." "Our brother Nan..." "Our brat..." "My son..."

Wang Xifeng took the girls to Mrs. Tong's room first. Mrs. Tong's yard is relatively large, and Jia Gu usually lives here, plus he has two granddaughters, and there are many people serving him. They came in the morning, and the housekeeper The ladies reported back and forth, and since Xuan'er and Furong were young and were making trouble with their grandmother, Madam Tong sent the maids around her to invite them to Lin Daiyu's yard.

Lin Daiyu lived in the yard with Jia Yingchun at the beginning. There are only six main rooms. Peach trees are planted in the yard. Lin Daiyu's room is relatively spacious.

The sisters are here, please sit down first, and start serving tea. Wang Xifeng was still thinking about whether to visit Qi Jingan, but was persuaded by Lin Daiyu, "These few days, some mothers from the Princess Mansion are here, and my sister-in-law just gave birth. My little nephew, plus the child was crying at night, thank you when I was sleeping for a hundred days, even me, I can’t disturb you at any time, I will ask later, if my sister-in-law is awake, we will go, if my sister-in-law is asleep, we will Go later."

A few people started talking. It was not the first time for Xue Baochai to come to Lin Daiyu's room, but she dressed up differently every time she came.

In the place where the decorations were placed last time, there are now a few small and cute potted plants. The calamus in them is full of vitality. There is also a glass tank with four or five palm-sized koi. Through the translucent fish tank, the shadows are faint Watch the koi swimming around.When I came in just now, there were still a few children's rattles and dolls, a brass nine-link ring, and a few bells, and they were cleaned up when I sat down.At this time, a snow-white cat ran in, with a red silk rope tied around its neck, and transferred it to Lin Daiyu's arms, meowing a few times.

"It's such a rare raccoon slave. Sister Lin didn't raise it last time. It doesn't look big, it's small." Xichun looked at it enviously.Lin Daiyu handed it to her, "You can hold it for a while, it is the least afraid of being hugged."

Xichun took it and began to tease the cat.

Others began to gossip, Lin Daiyu took a look, and there were Xiren and Qingwen among the maids in the room, she knew them, these two were Jia Baoyu's maids, so they shouldn't come with them.I can't help but look a few more times.

Shi Xiangyun saw her looking at Xiren Qingwen, and said, "Brother Ai came with us, I don't want to be invited outside, Sister Lin, you sent someone to call Brother Ai, so we can talk together."

Xue Baochai hurriedly stopped her, "Sister Lin has talked about others now, it's not easy to meet outsiders, let's talk quietly."

"Why is Brother Ai an outsider? Sister Lin grew up with Brother Ai in a green gauze closet when she was young, so she can't be considered an outsider. What's more, Brother Ai fell ill once because of Sister Lin a few years ago."

Xue Baochai quickly stopped her, "Which year does Baoyu not get sick once or twice in winter? Years ago, he caught a cold."

Baoyu was ill a year ago, and she was also involved in this matter. Xue Baochai had to think more about Jia Huan's phone call, and his subsequent actions became even more unassuming.

Wang Xifeng also knew that no matter what the little sisters said, it would not sound good after all, so she changed the subject and talked about the gift she brought today.

"It's still the old lady who loves you. She gave you all the things in the bottom of the box. I'm jealous and I can't wait to take it home." As he said, Ping'er came in with a box in his hands. After opening it, there was a The head and face inlaid with rubies are magnificent and splendid.

"The old lady is very loving, it's just..."

"This is makeup. You have to accept it. The old lady is just a niece of you. It hurts like something. In the past, she treated you better than the girls at home. Naturally, the old lady talked about your big things. "

Lin Daiyu's heart was full of guilt again, the old lady treated her really well, although she lacked a little, she did her best.With tears in the corner of his eyes, he stood up and thanked Wang Xifeng.

Then came gifts from Wang Xifeng, and the little sisters who came with them all gave gifts, and Lin Daiyu also distributed some things in her boudoir.When it was time to leave, the attacker went up and sent some poems by Jia Baoyu up.

Xiren held a thin booklet, looked at Lin Daiyu's face, and said slowly, "Baoyu specially selected these, please Miss Lin to share."

Lin Daiyu couldn't tell whether it was remorse or anger, and her chest was filled with emotion. She closed her eyes and opened them again, "I will take care of the housework, raise the children, and serve my husband in the future. I won't read the books anymore. You won't need them. Take them back with you. Bar."

In May, after worshiping Lin Hai, the people invited by Jia Gu also arrived.The original witnesses came from Yangzhou and Suzhou in a carriage with the property list of the Lin family, together with Lin Hai's living senior brothers, more than a dozen people, went to the other courtyard of the Lin family, opened a warehouse, and counted five or six people. God, it's time to order everything.After re-attaching the seal of the Gu Mansion, several old men tore up the form in the yard, divided it into two equal parts according to the Lin family's property, and rewrote the form. One part was Lin Daiyu's dowry, and the other part was reserved for his heirs.

In this way, after a few days of busy work, Jia Xuan and Gu Yun sent away a few old men from other places, and thanked the few in Beijing, and they were relieved.

The house in Gu's mansion has been completely repaired. Gu Yun's brother-in-law and second brother also hired many craftsmen to renovate the garden in Gu Yun's mansion.He spent all the money that Gu Yun had accumulated over the years.

On October 26, the sedan chair of the Gu family arrived at the gate of the Lin family and picked up Lin Daiyu. Lin Daiyu bid farewell to her parents' tablets and became the daughter-in-law of the Gu family.

After all, Jia Amnesty was his uncle, he was invited to the wedding, and when he came back, he told Shi Taijun about today's event.Shi Taijun was guarding Baoyu at home. For the past few days, Baoyu had been groggy and sick, unable to get out of bed, which scared the old man out of bed until he woke up just now, and he was clear. He drank the medicine and fell asleep slowly. Mrs. Wang is still watching, Shi Taijun is getting old, seeing his grandson getting better, he will come back and rest for a while.

"How? Is it lively? Gu family, do you follow the rules?"

"Old lady, my old brother handled this matter openly. He was married from the old yard of the Lin family. The young couple worshiped the tablet of their younger sister and brother-in-law. It was Yu'er who pretended to be a brother and sent the niece to the sedan chair. Mr. Zhang from Dongcheng was invited. The girl is getting married, her grandparents, parents, brother-in-law and younger brother are all complete, and people are also happy. There are more than 30 people who are ordered to go to Gu's house with sedan chairs to have a feast. Anyway, before my son comes back, those who go to sit at the table will have jobs."

After hearing this, Shi Taijun felt relieved, and sighed, "Girl Lin can be regarded as reliable for life, and we can be regarded as worthy of your sister."

Jia Amnesty retreated, and the mandarin ducks waited on Shi Taijun to sleep.

Lin Daiyu got married, and that night, next to Gu Yun, the two of them were covered with a big quilt, hugging each other, only felt that someone outside called her, pushed Gu Yun a few times, and said in her mouth, "Fourth Master, there are people outside. .”

Gu Yun didn't respond, and because the calls became more and more urgent, Daiyu lifted the big red silk quilt, put on her clothes and got out of bed. Lingering, as if in a fairyland, Lin Daiyu wondered, looking back, she had long since disappeared from her home, front, back, left, and right, empty and lonely.

"My child, how did you appear here?"

Lin Daiyu heard someone talking, looked back, and saw her parents standing in front of her, crying and bowing down, and was pulled up by her mother.The beautiful woman hurriedly asked her, "How did you get here?"

Lin Daiyu looked at her parents anxiously, and hurriedly told her about her wedding, "Today when my daughter left the cabinet, she heard someone calling me, so she opened the door and came out, and found out that she was here."

The beautiful woman and the middle-aged man beside her looked at each other, and the middle-aged man asked him, "Who are you married to?"

Lin Daiyu blushed, "It's my cousin's friend, the fourth master of the Gu family."

The beautiful woman and the middle-aged man looked at each other, and both saw each other breathe a sigh of relief.The beautiful woman said, "Brother Hai, since this is the case, let's send the baby back."

"Qingmei, of course you have to send the baby back. Good boy, you follow us. After you go back, you should treat yourself well and be open-minded in everything."

The two of them sandwiched Lin Daiyu, one step away was thousands of miles away, Lin Daiyu was full of joy, with her parents beside her, she felt a feeling that she didn't want to go back here, and she heard someone behind her calling sister and other words, wanting to turn back, her mother hugged her again Her father dragged them away, then suddenly remembered that the fourth master had promised to adopt a child to his parents as grandchildren, and he forgot the increasingly urgent calls behind him and said, "Fourth master promised his daughter to adopt One son inherits the Lin Family Clan..."

Before he finished speaking, he was pushed forward by his parents, and he woke up immediately.

She moved violently under the quilt, opened her eyes, and was still in the new room.Gu Yun's arm made her a little breathless, so he pushed her with his hands, and Gu Yun woke up, seeing that she was already awake, he hugged her in his arms, "Why don't you sleep, madam?"

Lin Daiyu hid a little shyly, "I dreamed about my parents."

Gu Yun smiled silently, "I know my father-in-law's poems are good..."

The husband and wife talked about poetry when the sky was about to dawn.

When it was almost dawn, Mrs. Wang was awakened by a commotion, and her maid Jin Chuan came over and said, "Baoyu was dreaming, and she woke up and kept calling for sister Lin..."

Mrs. Wang's face twisted a bit, this foxy girl is still restless after being married.

"Madam, why don't you go and have a look? Baoyu has tears all over her face, and now she is in a daze."

Mrs. Wang stood up quickly, put on her clothes, and went to the upper room. Except for a bunch of little girls, Sheyue and Xiren sat on the edge of the bed, letting Baoyu lean on them, and the other fed him water.

Baoyu's eyes were red, seeing the mother come in, he said "Ma'am..."

Seeing that Baoyu was a little weak, her eyes were clear, and there was no sign of being muddled a few days ago, Mrs. Wang was relieved a lot.

Jia Baoyu lowered his head, "Today is Sister Lin..."

"Sister Xiu Tilin, she is the fourth grandma of the Gu family. Let's talk about it later, she will be the fourth grandma of the Gu family."

The maids in the room agreed.Jia Baoyu closed his eyes and tilted his head. It looked like he was exhausted and extremely sleepy.Mrs. Wang didn't dare to disturb his sleep, so she sat outside for a while, and Xiren came out to report that Baoyu had fallen asleep.Mrs. Wang saw that it was about to dawn, and she was not ready to go to sleep, "Clean up and greet the old lady."

Not long after Lin Daiyu returned home, Gu Yun canceled her marriage leave and went back to the Yamen to be on duty. In the past, there were a lot of things to do, and he came home late, and sometimes even slept in the Yamen.Now after getting married, when it's time to go to the Yamen, they don't want to stay any longer.There is a wife waiting at home, and you can have a hot meal when you get home. The wife's education level is not low, and she laughs and scolds very vividly. Even when she hates others, she thinks she is full of wit and wit. In addition, the two embrace each other at night. The first poem, one word reading for half the night, no longer feel lonely and proud.In his heart, he hoped that the two of them would have a child soon, and he would be considered consummated.

Stand up here, wave your hand to the subordinate, "I'll continue with the matter tomorrow..."

Before he could finish his sentence, a yamen servant ran over and prostrated himself in front of the hall, "My lord, just now the doctors from several medical clinics came to report and found several cases of pox. It seems that at the end of the year, children in the capital are likely to get sick. Acne."

This is a big deal, so I have to work overtime, Gu Yun ordered Chang Sui to "go back and tell the backyard that there is something in the yamen, let grandma eat first, don't wait for me."

Chang Sui turned out, and Gu Yun quickly dispatched people to check whether the children of ordinary people in Kyoto had acne, and then called the doctor from the hospital for questioning, and sent the other Chang Sui to Zhongwuhou's mansion. There are three children in the mansion, and they all have to say something.

Mrs. Tong got the letter, prepared medicinal materials with Qi Jing'an, sealed the two doors, and did not allow Mr. and Mrs. Jia to come in. The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law took care of the three children. After a day, they found that all three children had symptoms.I heard that in Rongguo Mansion, the eldest sister of Jia Lian's family also developed acne.Brothers Jia Gu and Jia She were uneasy, and Jia Huan even went outside the second gate every day to ask how the child was doing.Scratching his heart and lungs anxiously, he was afraid that the three children would have an accident.

Finally, after half a month, the sealing board on the second door was removed. Jia Xuan ran back to the backyard and saw three children sitting on the couch and playing, each listless. As if suffering from a serious illness, he slumped on the chair and gasped for breath.

Qi Jing'an wiped his face, "Master, don't worry, you seem to have lost some weight, after all, you have suffered. It's the end of the year, and there are many delicious and fun things to eat. You will be able to raise them after a few days."

Qi Jing'an's second elder brother also came to visit his three siblings on horseback. In the Princess Mansion, one of his elder brother's children had acne, and he also brought him back.Choosing a day is worse than hitting the sun, the two ran to a restaurant near Shuntian Mansion, and waited for Gu Yun to go down to the Yamen, and the three had a few drinks.

"In Kyoto, because of acne, five children were lost. They were all from Nancheng, and they were all little girls. The family valued boys more, and they didn't take much care of them, so they didn't survive." Gu Yun spun the cup, "Xin Fortunately, it was discovered early, otherwise, there would be no more."

Jia Huan also sighed, "These three little things almost killed me."

After drinking, Jia Huan missed her children even more. The son can't call anyone yet, but the daughters are very affectionate.Gu Yun wanted to go home to accompany his wife, and Qi Erye's daughter-in-law was pregnant with her second child, and she also wanted to go home. The three of them parted ways under the restaurant, wrapped their clothes tightly, and rode home with their own horses.

When passing by a silver building, the sky had already darkened. Jia Xun heard someone calling him, and a Chang Sui said, "Master, it's the second master Lian of Rongguo Mansion." Several people reined in their horses and saw Jia Lian coming out of the silver building. In the backyard, besides the servant, there was also a woman.

Jia Xuan got off the horse, and Jia Lian came up to talk to him, "Is your brother Nan safe?"

"Well, I was quite noisy when I went out today. How is the eldest sister? I heard from my uncle that the eldest sister has also avoided acne."

"It's safe now, I moved back in the past two days."

It's about the child, Jia Xun wanted to say a few more words, but the woman behind Jia Lian kept winking at him, she didn't look like a decent person, Jia Xun couldn't say anything , Thinking that Jia Lian has always been a vegetarian, swallowed what he had not finished, and said goodbye to him.