Love of Friends in the Red Chamber

Unconsciously, spring is coming and summer is coming, the lilac trees in Jia Cong's small courtyard are full of shade, and the grape racks are full of fruits. Although they are not yet ripe, the green and plump fruits are still a joy to look at.With the scheming and skill of modern adults, Jia Cong has already subdued the servants under his name, so he has some leisure time to tidy up his house.

He asked people to place a few wicker chairs under the grape arbor in the yard, and set up a tea set. In the morning and evening, when the sun was not too harsh, he could drink tea and read in the shade.After the beginning of spring, the room was completely white and green window screens were newly pasted. Jia Cong asked people to take down the "Warm Winter Picture" hanging on the wall and replace it with a picture written by Huang Tingjian: "Green trees are thick with shade in summer. Long, the reflection of the tower into the pond. The water essence curtain moves and the breeze blows, and the roses are all over the courtyard." The room was suddenly cool and quiet.Of course, there is no crystal curtain here, only Xiangfei bamboo curtains, but there is indeed a rosebush in the courtyard, which is blooming vigorously and has a strong fragrance.

He is not qualified to use the crystal curtain, but he has seen it in Baoyu's Yihong Courtyard. It is crystal clear and really beautiful. At that time, sister Lin was also in Baoyu's room, and she was talking about this crystal curtain. Jia Cong chanted the poem "Green trees are thick with shade and summer is long", Jia Cong turned his head and searched everywhere. Finally, he exchanged a Western tribute music box from Jia Huan for this picture of Huang Tingjian's calligraphy. Not to mention the big deal, Baoyu praised him for being childish, which is quite affectionate.

Speaking of Jia Huan, he has gotten very close to Jia Cong recently.Firstly, the two are classmates and sit at the same table, and secondly, the two have the same status, both are bastards, considered half masters, and their identities are neither awkward nor embarrassing. In the past, when Jia Huan's child was reckless and got into trouble, he often tried to help him out of the siege quietly. Jia Huan was very impressed, and gradually became obedient, and came to play with him when he was free.

At noon that day, because Jia Dairu was old and sleepy, he left school early.When Jia Cong returned to the room, it happened that the housekeeper delivered ice to each room, and piled it in a blue and white porcelain ice basin, like a small crystal mountain, cool and pleasant.Seeing Jia Cong's return, Jin'er put the sour plum soup from the kitchen in an ice basin. There was also a fruit plate in the basin, which contained fresh water chestnuts, lotus pods, sand fruits, fresh walnut kernels, fresh chicken head rice, etc. Jia's mansion pays attention to the way of keeping in good health, even in the hot summer, they don't drink ice, they only put drinks and fruits on ice to take the coolness.

Jia Cong lazily leaned on the bamboo couch, pouring a few lotus seeds into his mouth from time to time, the bamboo curtain reflected the sun, the ice basin was cool, the cicadas were singing, and his leisure was like water.Unconsciously returning from the afternoon dream, I heard Xiang'er's crisp voice: "Master Huan is here." When the curtain was lifted, Jia Huan came in, still shaking a diabolo in his hand.Jia Cong laughed and said, "Where did you learn to be so delicate and naughty?" This was the voice of the second master, Jia Zheng. I begged for it from him. Every time Brother Bao went out, he would buy some novelty things. My third sister gave him back the money and asked him to buy it." Jia Cong laughed and said, "What's the matter, take a few hundred I will keep the money in Changdian area and buy a car back.” Jia Huan then pestered Jia Cong to take him to play, Jia Cong agreed, and asked him what his son was doing here because of the heat.

Jia Huan then said that it was because the master in the family school left homework today, which was to write a five-character poem "Summer Immediate Scenery".Jia Cong said with a smile, "I've never been good at poetry. Why don't you ask Brother Bao?" Jia Huan said with a sad face, "Why didn't you go? I just said three sentences. Sister Lin and Sister Feng went. Brother Bao Just drive me out and just joke with them."

Jia Cong nodded and said nothing, looked at the shadow of the sun outside the window, took a sip of the cold and sweet plum soup, refreshed his spirit, couldn't help feeling poetic, and sang a song:

After a few days of steaming in the scorching heat, the ice basin is suddenly cool.

In the afternoon, the sky seemed to be washed, and the breeze filled the courtyard.

Gu Pan feels the streamer, and the cicadas sing for another summer.

Ande meets the old farmer and talks about grains with each other.

Jia Huan was so happy that he had nothing to do. He first applauded and applauded, and then said sadly: "It's good, but it's just too good. I don't understand. How can Mr. believe that I did it? Good brother, it's yours, do it for me." Let’s make one too, and you don’t need verses, just quatrains.” Jia Cong couldn’t get enough of him, so he had to compose another one indiscriminately:

It's good to spend summer with an iceberg, but I forget about the scorching sun.

Since there is no troublesome summer, I feel sassy and smooth in my heart.

It was done for Jia Huan, and I wrote it down and explained it to him in detail. The younger brothers talked about poetry once, read a book once, talked about the gossip of everyone in the school, and ate two new coins. Lingfen cake, Jin'er came to add sour plum soup again, but Jia Huan said no, drinking it all day long made me tired.Then I talked about Baoyu's place just now, the sugar-steamed crisp cheese that the empress gave from the palace, it was sweet and delicious, but unfortunately not everyone has it, even a bite of food is so favoritious, and I feel aggrieved again.

Jia Cong laughed at him for asking for trouble, explained a few words, and talked about going to Changdian one day after school was early, Jia Huan regained his interest.Before dinner, Aunt Zhao sent someone to call several times before Jia Huan went back.

After Jia Huan left, Mammy Cai directed the maids and women to serve dinner.After entering the hot weather, all the meals are light. Today's staple food is the cold noodles of Sophora japonica Lengtao. The noodles are boiled with freshly drawn well water. There are many kinds of noodles. , green shreds of tender cucumber, juicy shreds of red radish, snow-white pickled vegetables, green pea shoots, thinly sliced ​​garlic cloves, and tender shallots, all neatly arranged on a large blue and white plate .Jin'er picked the noodles into the bowl, and Xiang'er put the vegetables on the noodles according to Jia Cong's taste, and then Madam Cai poured the sesame sauce prepared with Sanhe oil on the noodles After mixing it carefully, he handed it to Jia Cong.Jia Cong picked up a chopstick to taste it, the deliciousness was indescribable, he felt so relieved, he ate two bowls in a row, but he didn't put down the chopsticks for the four hot meat and four cold vegetarian dishes.After eating to her heart's content, she put down her chopsticks and asked Jin'er and the others to take down the untouched dishes and share them.

Nanny Cai and everyone else went out, Fang smiled at Jia Cong, "Brother Huan just said that steamed custard with sugar, it is so good, I heard it is the snowflake cheese that is often sold on the street. It’s not worth anything, just now I sent my kid out to buy it, and I’ll have it in a while, brother, try to see if it’s the same taste.” Jia Cong smiled happily and said: “I’m sorry, I’m sorry.” Not much time, then Mammy Cai's son brought in a bowl of cheese. If Jia Cong had never eaten steamed cheese with sugar, he only looked at the creamy cheese in his hand. It was white and crystal clear, tenderer than soft tofu, trembling. The earth is served in a large bowl, like the beauty of the country and heaven has been reduced to the folks. There is air conditioning in the bowl. There is a piece of bright red hawthorn cake on the snow-white cheese, dotted with a pinch of golden sweet-scented osmanthus. Tasting mellow wine, cooling and refreshing, is incomparable to all the ice cream and ice cream that Jia Cong ate in his previous life.

Jia Cong was overjoyed, so he begged Nanny Cai to send someone to buy something to cool off the heat every day, and took a handful of copper coins and a piece of silver from the money box in the cabinet to Nanny Cai, and Nanny Cai took the money and smiled happily. out.Here, Jia Cong savored the delicacy of snowflake cheese, and shook his head to appreciate the poems he had just written on the desk, very satisfied with his progress.

Speaking of which, he has been in this time and space for almost half a year. Apart from the slower progress in poetry and lack of spirituality, his reading and making fusses really impress Mr. Wang.Jia Dairu has praised Jia Cong's wisdom and hard work in front of Jia She several times, and suggested that he take the boy's test next year, and Jia She agreed.Jia Cong used to be known as a test master, and hearing this, it was as if he had been beaten with chicken blood, arousing infinite motivation.

This time he suddenly became interested, so he asked Xianger who had come in after dinner to spread paper and grind ink, and picked up a pen to copy out the regular script of the song "Summer Scenery" just now, admiring it for himself, and he still couldn't finish it , Then he picked up a pen and wrote down the three big characters "Xi Mo Zhai", and handed it to Madam Cai, and asked her to find someone to mount it tomorrow, and hang it on the door of the study.He was thinking about asking a master print maker among his father's followers to engrave him a badge of "Master of Ximozhai", when Mrs. Xing's little maid came in to spread the word that all of them should go to Jia Mu's room to eat watermelon.

Jia Cong then knew that the old ancestor felt that there were too many people, so he asked people to chat more often, saying that it was to eat watermelon, mainly because everyone gathered around the old lady to have fun.He quickly agreed and called the maid to change his clothes.Knowing that Jia's mother likes rich and colorful dresses, Jia Cong changed into a blouse of fragrant cloud gauze that was nearly [-]% fresh after the rain, tied a sweat scarf with a royal blue silk ribbon, and hung a hollow sapphire around his waist. Shuangruyi dragon-shaped jade pendant, holding a green and gold-sprinkled ivory fractured fan in his hand - it is bright, rich and noble, in line with the wishes of the old lady, and will not be criticized as vulgar by others, this is what Jia Cong concluded in half a year A little bit of experience - he grew up very fast.

Entering Jia Mu's room from the steamer-like courtyard, I felt cold all over my body. It turned out that there were ice buckets in the four corners of Jia Mu's room. The cold air was sent out slowly, and Jia Cong said in his heart: "This old lady will really enjoy the blessing." Seeing that everyone had already arrived, Jia Cong hurried forward to say hello, Jia Mu told him to sit down, and asked with a smile: "Brother Cong, I heard from your mother that you have been very motivated in your studies recently, and you are always praised by the teachers in the school." Mrs. Xing and Mrs. Wang sat beside them smiling and listening, and Baoyu sat next to Jiamu, looking a little shy.

Jia Cong replied obediently: "Mr. said that I can memorize books well. As for poetry and couplets, let me learn from Brother Bao, who is the most spiritual." Mother Jia and Mrs. Wang immediately smiled. Hua'er, Wang Xifeng, who was standing next to him, answered, "That's not true. I heard the day before yesterday that Baoyu often composes poems for these brothers, lest they be beaten by the master."

Baoyu laughed and said, "Cong'er made it all by himself. Although the poems are plain, they are neat. But Huan'er can't do it nine out of ten times. Last time, the husband asked him to match the pair, but he couldn't get it right." , or I told him quietly, that’s all. Didn’t he give me the grasshopper cage later?” Jia Mu laughed and said, “I said Cong’er is not that opportunistic child. Stealing things is really something that can't be put on the table." She turned her head and told Baoyu, "Don't tell him next time, let the master hit him a few times, so that you can remember it."

Aunt Zhao and Jia Huan were standing in the corner, and they were timid. After hearing these words, Jia Huan seemed wronged, so he wanted to tell them apart. Aunt Zhao pinched his arm and shut up.Tanchun, who was sitting on the chair, also turned pale, twisting the sweat towel tightly in his hands.Seeing it in Jia Cong's eyes, he knew there must be a reason, so he just didn't know what to do at the moment. After talking with Xiao Chengse for a while, the maid said, "Miss Lin is here." Jia's mother became more and more happy, and sent Jia Cong and others. People go to the outer room to eat watermelon, and their wives are talking and laughing in the inner room.

Jia Cong, Jia Huan, and Jia Lan went out to the outhouse, and Jia Huan cried, "Who am I offending again, and you just bully me like this?" Jia Cong hurried to persuade him, but Jia Lan had a calm expression on his face. Guan Zi walked to the table in the hall and sat down as if he was unknown. There was a delicately carved iceberg on the three-foot-square table. The story was that Magu offered her birthday. The sculptor is not perfunctory in the melting things, and the facial features and clothing of the characters are clearly identifiable.Melons and fruits of various colors were scattered on the iceberg. The maids brought the cut watermelons to the masters, and the three uncles and nephews buried their heads in the watermelons. thing, said while eating: "It's so sweet!"

But saw the mandarin ducks come out, instructing the women and maids to choose the best watermelon and break open, take the sweetest part of the melon with a silver spoon, scoop it into small watermelon balls, and fill it into a set of twelve rich and noble twigs. Put it in the lotus white agate bowl with a crystal plate, Jia Huan became frustrated again, and dropped the half-eaten watermelon in his hand. Jia Lan kept biting the watermelon in his hand slowly without even raising his eyelids.

Let's listen to the laughter of the warblers inside. Most of them are Lin Daiyu and Wang Xifeng joking with each other, and Baochai and Tanchun make fun of each other from time to time, which makes Jia's mother very happy.After a while, the crystal plate and the agate bowl were brought out, and the maid, Hu Po, smiled quietly and said to Yuanyang, "How come Miss Lin only took two bites of such a good thing, and then put it down?" Yuanyang said seriously, "Miss Lin Your body is weak and you can't help cold things, so don't talk too much!" Hu Po stuck out her tongue and went out.The waiters here brought tea in one after another, while Jia Cong and the others just waited outside, not daring to disperse, lest Jia Mu would remember and ask them to come in and talk again.

They stayed like this until the next night, when everyone saw that Mother Jia was short of spirits and knew that she was about to go to bed, so they all resigned. Jia Cong followed Mrs. Xing back to his side until Mrs. Xing was sent to the car. Jia Cong dared to turn back by himself and took a shortcut back from the mansion.When passing by Wang Xifeng's yard, I only heard Xifeng's sharp voice from inside: "Can't stand it after a few words like this? How dare you complain to the master? Don't even look at your own identity! A slave girl, muddleheaded Confused, I dared to harm my old lady, and my old lady disciplined her and walked around..."

Jia Cong speculated that Wang Xifeng knew that the person who assassinated her and Baoyu was Aunt Zhao, so from what Jia Mu said today, Jia Mu naturally knew, otherwise she would not deliberately embarrass Jia Huan in public. .He couldn't help worrying about Jia Huan.

The author has something to say: try to create the atmosphere of the Red Mansion!

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