Love of Friends in the Red Chamber

After Jin Chuan'er fell into the well, his wife regretted and made amends in every possible way, rewarding her with money, clothes and clothes, and invited several monks to chant sutras for her.Just when the rumors gradually subsided, the news reached Jia Zheng's ears somehow. As a result, Jia Zheng beat Baoyu half to death, even the old lady was alarmed, and the whole family was uneasy.

When Jia Cong heard the news, the fight was over. The old lady beat Jia Zheng up, took Baoyu back to the garden, and asked the imperial doctor to bandage the wound and recuperate the injury.Jia Cong hurriedly changed his clothes and went into the garden to visit his elder brother. He saw that the Yihong courtyard was full of people with red flowers and willows. It seemed that every time Baoyu was beaten was a big deal.He was laughing at himself, but saw his uncle Jia Zheng coming out dejectedly, with tears on his face, he must have been kicked out by Jia's mother, Jia Cong was afraid of inconvenience to each other, so he retreated to the side, waiting for Jia Zheng to go Just entered Baoyu's room.

At this time, Mother Jia, the eldest wife, the second wife, Aunt Xue, all the sisters, Mrs. Li, Sister Feng and others surrounded Baoyu. backed out.At the door, seeing Jia Huan looking in through the door frame with gloating face, Jia Cong said with a smile, "Well, Brother Huan, stand out here, be careful that the old lady vents her anger on you—it hasn't happened in the past two days." Be a man with your tail between your legs!" Jia Huan stuck out his tongue and ran away in a hurry.

In the next few days, Jia Cong came into the garden every day after school to visit Baoyu—if he didn't come, I'm afraid Jia Mu would know that he would not follow him.In the afternoon of the same day, he came to Yihong Courtyard again. When he entered the room, he saw Baochai, the eldest daughter of the Xue family, sitting in front of Baoyu's bed talking. Surprised in my heart, I knew that I had come at the wrong time, but it was not easy to leave, so I had to pretend to be okay and come over to say hello to Baoyu. What's more, I'm already ready." Jia Cong only agreed, Xiren brought tea and dim sum, and invited Baochai and Jia Cong to taste it, Jia Cong saw that the dim sum was like a snowball, wrapped in very fine glutinous rice flour , only the size of a thumb, with a little blush in the filling, not like food, but like a work of art, it really makes people reluctant to eat.He was not polite at the moment, so he ate slowly one by one.

Baochai and Jia Cong had nothing to talk about, and her thoughts were all on Baoyu. After drinking a sip of tea, she returned to normal, and then talked to Xiren.She only heard her ask: "It's really unexpected, and I have received such a good beating. Didn't you say that Brother Bao has been very motivated in his studies recently? Why did uncle beat him?" Those who defended Baoyu sighed: "It's just those things. Our young master of Niuxin will not listen to persuasion, and finally suffer a loss. I sent Mingyan to inquire about it, saying it was for one thing. The matter of Jin Chuan'er was told by Brother Huan to the master, and there was another matter that came to the door because of that handsome official who was loyal to the palace."

Baochai sighed: "Brother Bao is also careless, how can he associate with such a lowly person?" Baoyu didn't like to hear her say so about Jiang Yuhan, so he said, "Actually, it was just an accidental acquaintance. If Brother Xue hadn't sent him If you tell me about my red sweat scarf, how can the people from the palace find it..." Before he finished speaking, he already knew that he had made a mistake, and he was afraid that Baochai would lose his mind, so he hurriedly closed the gap: "Actually, it might not be Da Xue. Brother said..."

Baochai blushed. Hearing that it was her elder brother who had caused Baoyu to be beaten, she was in a mess.Ever since her mother told her about her plan with Mrs. Wang and wanted to match her with Baoyu, she naturally paid attention to Baoyu and refused to make a mistake in front of everyone in the Jia family, but her own brother was so disrespectful. Compete.Naturally, Baoyu couldn't understand Baochai's thoughts. He saw Baochai's eyes were red, thinking that he had offended her because of his inattentive words. Oops" and fell down again.

Xiren hurried over to have a look, Baochai couldn't sit still and got up and went out, Xiren didn't bother to send him off.Jia Cong just ate his snacks with his head down, listening to the commotion, his heart was like a mirror.Here Xiren complained to Baoyu: "Second master is also true. Why did you say Uncle Xue in front of Miss Bao? Besides, there are so many people drinking with you, how do you know it is Uncle Xue?" Baoyu sighed: " You don't know, but that day only Big Brother Xue saw it..."

He didn't say any more, but chatted with Jia Cong about visiting Liulichang, saying which one had first-class calligraphy and painting, which one had authentic fans, and finally asked him to bring back a few things for him.Jia Cong knew that it was Daiyu who wanted it, and because Baoyu couldn't go out these days, he had to pretend to be Jia Cong's hand and quickly agreed to come out.I wanted to go out of the garden, but when I walked halfway, I remembered that Yingchun told him the day before yesterday that the third girl Tanchun wanted to buy something from him, and I happened to want to borrow a few copybooks from Tanchun, who is good at calligraphy, so I turned around and went to Qiushuang Fast here.

Unexpectedly, as soon as he walked to the Qinfang Bridge, he saw Baochai standing in the shade of flowers wiping tears from a distance, so he quietly avoided it and made a detour to Qiushuangzhai. Before he entered the courtyard, he heard Jia Huan inside. The voice was yelling: "If you have a good thing, don't ask me, but this kind of burying thing will remind me of me." Tanchun said angrily: "What are you pretending to be! Everyone knows that you said it, and you still blame it." Is it?" Jia Huan rushed out blushing, and said as he walked, "Everyone says I killed someone, do you believe it? It's obvious that I didn't show my courtesy, and they attacked me again. Don't worry, I won't hurt you!" Jia Huan didn't see Jia Cong, so he straightened his neck and walked away. Tanchun's cry and the maid's mother-in-law's persuasion came from the courtyard.Jia Cong thought to himself, none of these brothers and sisters were happy, so he didn't want to be annoying, so he slipped away without saying a word.

On the surface, the matter of Baoyu's beating was settled, and Jia Cong ate several meals of fine vegetables that were not available at home, especially the soup with small lotus leaves and small lotus pods was very delicious.However, because of Baoyu's beating, Jia Zheng, Jia Huan, Jia Lian, Jia Rong, etc. have been severely scolded by the old lady. Some embarrassing.

Jia Cong was afraid of getting burned, so he didn't go to the garden these days, and played less with Jia Huan.Judging from the current situation, in the battle between Chai and Dai, Daiyu had the upper hand because of Jia Mu's support, and he himself could not do much anyway, but it was serious to learn stereotypes as soon as possible and get a good reputation.

For a scholar in this world, a good handwriting is a must, so Jia Cong has to write one hundred big characters and two thousand lower case letters every day, and he always spends two hours practicing calligraphy in the morning and evening, which annoys the maid in his room Zizi discussed in private that Brother Cong is going to take the No. [-] Scholar exam.

After writing "Jiucheng Palace", "Guifeng Monument" and "Duobao Pagoda" for a while, Jia Cong gradually understood the samadhi in the characters, and he could tell good or bad about a picture, so Now I start to post "Zhang Menglong".Yingchun gave him a small dark purple Duan inkstone, with a lively eye, which is very ink-rich. It turns out that the plaque of "Xi Mo Zhai" has already been taken down, so how can such words be placed there? What about outside?

Because Jia Dairu suffered from heatstroke a few days ago, the family school was scattered for a few days. Recently, the weather has turned cold, and Dairu has become more healthy. He urged the students to practice calligraphy and reading more intensively than before. Jia Cong worked hard every day, and he had already learned the last lesson of the Four Books. This "Mencius", but the teacher's evaluation of him in the poems is still "Zhongping".Fortunately, Baoyu took sick leave, but no one in the school could compare him, and Dairu loved him even more.

In August of that year, Jia Zheng was sent to school and went out. Baoyu and other children were more and more uninhibited. They played games every day like letting go of eagles. For a few minutes, Baoyu devoted himself to setting up some kind of poetry club in the garden, and lived a chic time of "playing piano, chess, calligraphy, painting, poetry, wine and flowers" with her sisters.Since Jia Zheng left, Jia Cong has devoted himself to studying poetry and books, without looking at the garden, and has no other distractions. Although Mammy Cai often tells him some gossip about his parents, he just listens to the fun and doesn't take it to heart.

In fact, there was quite a lot of excitement. First, Mrs. Wang's natal relatives, a poor woman, Grandma Liu, came to the house to enjoy the autumn breeze. That little family member joined in to celebrate Sister Feng's birthday, and the result was extreme joy and sorrow. Jia Cong's brother Jia Lian took advantage of his wife's drinking at Jiamu's place, and found a good friend to mess around in the room, but was smashed by Sister Feng and made a big fuss , It was another good show; and Uncle Xue provoked Liu Xianglian by mistake outside, was tricked out of the city and beat him up, he was embarrassed to see people, so he went south to do business - these things have nothing to do with Jia Cong , there is only one thing that makes Jia Cong feel ashamed, that is, his cheap father, Mr. She, who is over 60 years old, suddenly fell in love, fell in love with Jia Mu's maid, Yuanyang, and insisted on begging for it Concubine, ended up with a bad nose, not only Yuanyang himself was unwilling, but also clamored to twist her hair to become a sister-in-law. The eldest son is a family.Therefore, Jia Cong has no sense of existence, except for morning and evening, he only studies hard in his room every day.

The only thing he cares about is sister Lin, but it is not good to listen to the gossip in the house.When he first came, everyone said that Miss Lin was the best candidate for Bao's second grandmother, but now eight out of ten people said that Miss Bao was more generous and stronger than Daiyu.Jia Cong was a little worried. After all, Daiyu's future was closely related to him. He didn't want to be punished for failing to do the work of the gods and be sent to the six realms of reincarnation.

When you're free, naturally think about the fact that the rise and fall of Chai and Dai's power is closely related to their family status and backing.Daiyu now has nothing to rely on except for the love of Jia Mu, while Baochai comes from the Xue family of the four major families. Don't give the Xue family face, judging from the reward from the imperial concubine and empress last time, Zhongyi Baochai is also the sister-in-law... He got a headache thinking about it.

Just when Jia Cong was lamenting that there was no one in Lin's family and Daiyu was lonely, one day someone came to report: "Please go to the old lady's house quickly. There are many girls and grandmas here. We don't know each other. Young master, go and recognize relatives." When Jia Cong thought about it, he remembered that Mrs. Xing's brother and sister-in-law brought their daughter to Beijing to join Mrs. Xing because of their difficult livelihood. Mrs. Xing was Jia Cong's aunt, so the members of the Xing family were Jia Cong's uncles. Home, he had to go, so he sighed and stood up, the girl who sent the message said with a smile: "Master, why don't you go soon, I heard that there are many beautiful girls here, Baoyu has already flown away."

Jia Cong scolded, "Where are so many girls?" The girl counted her fingers and said, "They are from three or four families, including Miss Bao's sister, Mrs. Zhu's niece, and Grandma Zhu's two younger sisters." Oh, it looks like a handful of four green onions." Jia Cong thought to himself that Baoyu was going to fly away, but he didn't know how sad Daiyu was.

When he got to Jiamu's room, he realized that Daiyu didn't care about being sad, because there were so many people who came to see relatives this time, even Miss Lin's family came.

The author has something to say: Aunt Lin is one of the few original characters I added without authorization.