Love of Friends in the Red Chamber

Bihen ran to say that Xiren's elder brother was coming to pick him up, which was another surprise to Baochai.She knew that Xiren's elder brother Hua Zifang was very successful in doing business outside, and had already managed a considerable family business. Although Xiren's parents had passed away, this elder brother was still very concerned about his only sister. When someone was promoted to a concubine, only the Hua family made a decent dowry and carried it in through the corner gate in a dignified manner. This also made Xiren's position in Jia's mansion more secure than the other concubines. some.It's just... Baochai couldn't help but frowned. Why did she come to take her home when she heard that Xiren fell ill due to some leisurely anger?This is too ignorant.

Thinking like this, Baochai stepped into the courtyard gate to Xiren's room, and saw Xiren's sister-in-law sitting on the footsteps of Xiren's bed with low eyebrows, and when she saw Baochai, she hurriedly got up and saluted. Naturally treat each other with courtesy.Grandma Hua sighed and said: "Although my girl was born as a slave in this mansion, she is not a child of the family. She was also spoiled and spoiled since she was a child. It's just that my father-in-law failed to manage the business and had to sell the girl to your mansion. I also hope that when the family business is restored, I will redeem it and go home. Who would have thought that the girl wanted to be with the second master Bao, and she became the housekeeper of the second master Bao, and there is a master who understands pity like the second grandmother. The family breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that my sister was in a good place, whoever thought of it would get this disease, and she would vomit blood at a young age, but what happened? So our guy asked me to ask for the grace of my grandma and wives, and let our girl go to her house first. Let’s talk about recovering from illness.”

Baochai was not upset when she heard her nonsense, but just looked at Xiren and said: "I know Xiren's nature, and I can see her grievances naturally. If she can't get out, I will I can't make up my mind, but I have to report back to my wife and master. After all, Xiren was appointed as an aunt with a fair banquet. How can she just leave? However, I still have to listen to Xiren's own opinion. If she makes up her mind I must go out, I can also be this villain and fulfill her."

Hearing what she said, Xiren, who was lying on the bed with his head covered and crying, turned over and got out of bed, knelt down in front of Baochai and cried, "Second Mistress, don't drive me out, I will die here if I die—I It's just chilling, why did the second master insist that I sued Qingwen for being tricky? Even if I die, I will be a wronged ghost."

Baochai knew very well that it was because of this depression that she fell ill, so he helped her up and said politely, "You know Er Ye's temper best. What kind of character does he have? Naturally, he will figure it out in two days. Hurry up, don’t suffer yourself, it’s serious to take care of your body.” Then she said some polite words to Xiren’s sister-in-law, and Grandma Hua said that she had gained face and inner feelings again, so she took advantage of the situation and went down the stairs. , as usual, flattering Baochai and not mentioning it—their couple naturally didn't want to take the girl back.

After comforting this side, Baochai went back to her upper room, and saw that the bed was deserted and the lonely lamp was only a shadow, which was also sad.However, she still has a lot of melancholy that she can't let go of—the money for atonement for her brother has not been settled yet.Seeing the time to light the lanterns, Baoyu had gone somewhere and hadn't come back yet, but snow particles fell rustlingly outside the window, making the plantain leaves rattle, adding to the melancholy.Baochai went to the Grand View Garden with Baoyu at the same time, and was saddened by the Xiaoxiang Hall of Yihongyuan. Although he was very angry and funny, he was really worried that he would be sick from the cold—the autumn pattern was not so delicate, so Yinger had to let Yinger hold the hood Cloak, go to the garden and look for him back.

Baochai sat alone by the window, flipping through a book, but it turned out to be "Shu Yu Ci", which happened to turn to a page, and it read: "Whoever sits alone with the bright window, I will have two shadows. The light is gone." When I want to sleep, the shadow also throws people away. Wuna, Wuna, what a desolate me." After reading it, I felt heartbroken, put aside the book, and lost my mind for a while, and I didn't feel tears falling.

When I was secretly feeling sad, I suddenly heard the door of the courtyard, but it turned out that it was the azalea.Zijuan held an oil-paper umbrella, and someone picked it up at the door, and Zijuan hurried in with a book in her hand.

Baochai laughed and said, "It's so late, why is sister Lin still awake?" Zijuan took a careful look at Baochai's cheek, but didn't dare to look closely, so she just lowered her head and replied, "Our grandma asked me to see my second grandma. A letter." Baochai took it, and when she took out the letter paper to read, she wrote on a piece of paper with only a few lines:

Sister Bao Huijian: My sister is naturally dull, and I don’t understand my sister’s troubles. I suddenly recall what I said during the day and suddenly recall it at night, and I begin to understand the deep meaning of my sister.A bank note is hereby sent to celebrate the New Year.sister

Baochai quickly took out the silver note from the envelope, and saw that it was a leading bank note with 3 taels of silver written on it. It was the largest bank in Beijing, and it paid on sight.Feeling grateful in my heart, I hurried to the desk, wrote a reply in a hurry, and handed it to Zijuan: "Unexpectedly, sister Lin is so affectionate. I will go with my mother to thank me later."

Zicuckoo didn't say much, and went after saluting.But Baochai couldn't wait for a while, so she immediately called a dowry confidant woman and asked her to send the bank note to Xue's house overnight, and send Xue Biao on the road.Baochai was about to take a rest when the old woman went to take orders, but she heard the noise of people at the gate of the courtyard, but Baoyu was drunk somewhere.

Baochai wanted to ignore him, but she faintly heard Qiuwen's weeping and hatred. She was puzzled, so she came out of the room, stood under the corridor, and listened quietly. It turned out that Baoyu went to the garden today. When I met Liu Wu'er, who was drawing water by the Qinfang Pavilion, this Liu Wu'er used to be pretty. When the Grand View Garden was in its heyday, she wanted to work in Yihong Courtyard with all her heart, but she gave up because of Qingwen's expulsion. When I saw Baoyu for the first time, I was somewhat surprised and happy, shy and resentful.

Baoyu was full of selfish desires and melancholy, when he saw Liu Wuer standing by the water like a hibiscus emerging from the water, he immediately lost his soul, and immediately followed Liu Wuer to the small kitchen in the garden, no matter where it was pickled, just be with Liu Wuer Let's chat.The daughter-in-law of the Liu family is the best at drinking water. When she saw Baoyu coming back with her daughter, she seemed to be a treasure.

Baoyu was in a trance in his heart, and in his drunken eyes, he mistook Wu'er for Qingwen, took her hand intermittently, and said, "Do you know how regretful I was when you said you had vainly carried your fame! It hurts! Qingwen, don't leave me..." Wu'er was shy and anxious, and didn't dare to push him hard, so he was dragged back in a chaotic way.At the gate of the courtyard, when Qiu Wen saw it, she couldn't help being furious, and wanted to drive Liu Wu'er away, and yelled to tell his wife and Second Grandma Bao to drive Liu's mother and daughter out of the house. Cry until pear blossoms bring rain.Baoyu became angry, and stepped forward to reprimand and push Qiuwen, making a fuss for a while.

Baochai saw such a situation, how could he bear it?He just waved his hands and went back to his room, ignoring this scandal.Liu Wu'er followed Baoyu into the room with half-pushing and half-pushing, and accomplished a good deed in a daze that night.The next day, Baoyu woke up from wine, and his heart became clear, but he didn't want to shirk his responsibility, so he ran to tell Mrs. Wang and took Liu Wu'er into the room, but Wang Because Wu'er was born too low, the madam refused to ask him to take care of his aunt any more, and only agreed to open her face and be a roommate.Baoyu had no choice but to do it. For the mother and daughter of the Liu family, they were willing to do something good that had been unexpected, so a newcomer was added to Baoyu's room.In the past few days, I only saw the newcomers laughing, but how could I hear the old ones cry?Autumn pattern, musk moon, Ying'er, etc. inevitably feel sour in their hearts, even the Xiren who are recovering from illness are even more sparse, but Baochai seems to have never heard of it, and lives his life as usual every day.When people in the two mansions heard about this, they all shook their heads and sighed.

Not to mention Baochai's disturbed mind, but Zijuan went back to report to Daiyu that day, and said a little bit about Baochai's situation, and finally said: "If you want me to say, Second Grandma Bao is also suffering a lot. In such a big family, the old ladies and wives above are just rich and honorable, and do not support her. There are many old rules and bad habits that are undesirable, and everyone is used to being extravagant. Now that Second Mistress Bao is in charge of the house, she wants to be frugal in everything.

Xueyan, who was brushing Daiyu's hair next to her, had a different opinion: "However, Second Grandma Bao's talent doesn't frighten these people. I heard that she has done two or three things in her hands, so she made those women in charge dare to be angry." I dare not speak."

But Zijuan said: "These are still small things. I am afraid that the most troublesome thing for Second Grandma Bao is that Second Master Bao is becoming more and more ridiculous now..." Xueyan was excited, and blurted out without thinking: "That's because He married Miss Bao, if he married our girl, it would definitely be different." Zijuan glared at her, Xueyan regretted her slip of the tongue, looked at Daiyu, but just silently looked at the light and thought, without making a sound, for a long time, Fang said lightly: "It's so exciting to talk about other people's affairs, hurry up tomorrow and send you to Second Grandma Bao to be a fire girl." Xueyan stuck out her tongue and hurried down.

Here, Daiyu ruthlessly took off her attire because Jia Cong was in the palace on duty tonight. Zijuan and Biye came over to wait for her to sleep, then put down the bed curtains, and quietly withdrew, but Daiyu was After tossing and turning for an unknown amount of time, I couldn't fall asleep after thinking about it, until it was almost dawn before falling asleep.

In the early morning of the second day, Daiyu got up late, and Jia Cong returned home before she could wash up.Jia Cong walked back through the light snow, he was covered in cold air, and when he entered the room, he only felt that the heating was pleasant, and there was a faint fragrance, which made his heart flutter.Seeing the silence inside and outside, and the maids and women coming over lightly to change his clothes and bring water for him, he knew that Daiyu hadn't got up yet.He was not in a hurry, he just waved his hand to order people to retreat, and sat outside quietly drinking tea and reading a book, waiting patiently.He knew what happened last night, but he was not worried or in a hurry, he had a lifetime to wait slowly, waiting for the moment when Daiyu woke up.