Love of Friends in the Red Chamber

After that day, Baoyu gradually became normal, maybe too normal, but Baochai couldn't adapt to it.After that, Baoyu also threw away the Buddhist scriptures, and Baochai asked him why, and he muttered to himself: "There is no Buddha nature in the inner scriptures..." Baochai persuaded him: "Since those foolish thoughts are gone, , It is better to read and write serious books, even if you don’t take the exam, it’s better than wasting your time every day. Besides, the master and wife can also get some comfort.” However, Baoyu didn’t want to, but he couldn’t. It disappeared with the loss of the psychic jade. As soon as I picked up the book, I fell asleep. I knew every word, but I didn't know what it meant when I connected it.After several trials like this, Baochai became desperate, and pinned all her hopes on her son.

Mrs. Wang doesn't care about these things now, as long as Baoyu doesn't make a fuss about becoming a monk, she feels lucky.However, Jia Zheng did not give up. Seeing that Baoyu was no longer insane, he often detained him and asked Jia Huan about the books, but he found that he had forgotten most of the four books and five classics he had learned, and the rest The one or two is also upside down, a mass of paste.That's the case with endorsements, let alone writing stereotyped essays?It was only now that Jia Zheng felt that his son was considered useless.

On that day, Jia Zheng finally made up his mind.During the day, he suddenly called Baochai and Baoyu to the hall, and Mrs. Wang was also present. Jia Zheng said to Baoyu, "The old lady raised you up and expected you to make a career. Who would have thought you Such absurdity is a waste of the old lady's painstaking efforts. Today you are considered an adult, married a wife and have children, and once you have a family, you should start a career. This is your duty, but you are wasting every day in the boudoir, What is it to rely on my father for support? If it was prosperous in the past, there would be no shortage of your husband and wife and family members, but now the family situation is getting worse day by day. I can't support such a big family, so I might as well live separately while I am now. You can see that Zhu'er's daughter-in-law and Lan'er are living well after being separated, and Baoyu should also take up the burden of supporting the family."

Mrs. Wang burst into tears when she heard this, but because of the catastrophe she caused by ransacking the family, her status in this family is not as good as that of Aunt Zhao. She has already divorced her, so she herself is very humble in front of Jia Zheng. Even so, she has to fight for her son: "Master, although Baoyu is not up to date, after all, he is your own flesh and blood. If you drive them out like this, they won't be able to make a living, and their lives will be bad, and others will laugh at the master..."

Jia Zheng suddenly became angry with no reason, and angrily said: "How can I have the face to go out to meet people? Others have made enough jokes, it's not bad, if you don't like it, follow them." Mrs. Wang refused Dare to speak, just swallow and cry, feel even more miserable.Aunt Zhao is quite proud at this time, but there is some regret in her pride: she has fought with Mrs. Wang for a lifetime, and now she finally won, but what is left for Huan'er in this family?She was a little confused.

When Baoyu saw his father angry and his mother sad, he knelt down and kowtowed three times, and then said, "Madam, don't be sad. It's Baoyu who made the master angry and the wife sad. What the master said is that I am also an adult. I should have Going out and doing something is not in vain of God's grace and virtue. I am so stupid now, I don't think I can win the first place, and I should go to support the family early and find an errand to support the family. I shouldn't rely on it Let my parents take care of me at home, what kind of person have I become if the boss fails? So please don’t be sad, my wife, I will go out from today, I will always make a career to make my wife feel at ease, so it is not a waste of raising me.”

Mrs. Wang covered her mouth with a handkerchief, and she was choked with sobs. Jia Zheng didn't expect Baoyu to say such a word, which was unexpected. Instead, she became sad and sighed, "Since you have such a thought, It's not considered unfilial. I just let you find a job to support the family, and I didn't want to drive you out. After all, Baochai is still my daughter-in-law and Zhi'er is my grandson. Let you live on the street. In this way, you will still live in the original house and come in and out through the side door, even if you are separated, and the things in each house belong to each person, and you can eat your own food." He said tears like rain, and waved his hands Let them go out, Baochai, with tears in his eyes, followed Baoyu to kowtow to Mrs. Jia Zhengwang, and then went back to his room.In the afternoon of that day, Jia Zheng sent someone to block the door of the inner courtyard and open a side door from the wall facing the street in the west, so that Baoyu could go out.

So Baochai rearranged the house and added a new kitchen. She felt that the shelter was cramped, and all the servants complained, so Baochai sent out the complainers one by one. He and Wu'er came to do it, and the only boy outside was Mingyan who hadn't left yet.

Baoyu was helpless in these matters, and the only problem he solved for Baochai was Qiuwen. When Qiuwen made trouble again, he sent her home quickly.Qiuwen is a servant of Jia's family. His parents originally had small savings. Seeing that Jia's family was defeated, they begged Mrs. Wang, and the whole family was released. They bought a shop to make a living, and they were relatively well-off.As soon as Qiuwen went out, she naturally went to seek a good job elsewhere. She knew that Baoyu could not count on her, so she made a fuss when she was young, but she didn't know that it was so easy. Instead, she felt a little unwilling. But Baochai couldn't bear it, and rewarded her with some taels of silver from her own body, and the matter of Qiuwen stopped.

However, Bao Yuguang wanted to support the family, and it was not easy to implement. He couldn't carry a basket with his hands, and couldn't carry a burden on his shoulders, so he was a worthless person.Every day I go out in a daze to look for old friends, most of them are friends of wine and meat, he is poor now, whoever is willing to court him is loyal enough, but he is poorer than him, and he went out twice, but spent a lot of money, Baoyu I had to stay at home again.Now that he has nothing else to do, he begins to drink away his worries.

There is always no need to worry about eating, and there seems to be always money for drinking. Baoyu never knew where the money for buying rice and wine came from. He hadn't learned to think about these things until one day when he woke up from a hangover At noon, he was lying on the bed in a daze, and was about to call someone to come in to serve him, but he heard Yinger talking to Sheyue outside the curtain: "Sister Sheyue, the second grandma ordered this to be given to Mingyan, let him For some rice, remember to go to Chunhe Building to sell a bottle of lotus white to the second master."

Sheyue promised to go out when Baoyu called out, "Come in, Muskyue." Sheyue hurriedly agreed to come in, and said with a smile, "Second master is awake, so I'll go and bring hangover soup. The second grandma was hot in the morning. It's there, and I said I'd better drink it when the second master wakes up." Baoyu supported his head, his headache was about to split, but he insisted and asked, "What are you holding in your hand?" Hearing this, Sheyue was puzzled, so she He showed Baoyu what he was holding, and when Baoyu looked at it, it was a plum blossom powder box with enamel inlaid with turquoise. When it was opened, there was still half a box of jasmine powder inside.Baoyu felt a pain in his heart, and said: "This jasmine powder is so easy to get. How many high-quality materials were used to find out such a box. It's still easy to use. Don't sell it, keep it for use."

Musk Moon hesitantly agreed, but did not go, and said nazily: "Second Grandma probably has nothing else to sell, those clothes and jewelry that can't be worn have already been pawned, and those that are sold are now sold. I’m using something.” Ying’er heard it from outside, so she came in and winked at Sheyue, and then said with a smile: “Second Master, don’t feel bad, this powder box is worn out, and it won’t sell for much anyway. How about I take it and talk to Second Grandma, and change it to something that I don’t use often..."

Baoyu had already got up and put on his shoes, neither washed nor washed, and did not eat. He just said: "If I say no to sell, I will not sell. I will find some money myself..." Saying this, he hurried out .Yinger was worried, so she ran back to Baochai, Baochai ordered Mingyan to follow, and when Yinger told Mingyan and Mingyan came out again, where would Baoyu be?

It turned out that Baoyu came to Zongxue Hutong that day. He had an acquaintance here. He once said that Zongxue was looking for a painting teacher, and he could recommend him to teach painting for the clan's children in Zongxue. Baoyu thought that he would know how to do this. After drawing two freehand brush strokes, I entrusted him with ideas.Although the man agreed, he never replied. Today, Baoyu was stimulated by the powder box, and at noon, under the sun, he stood at the gate of Zongxue waiting for his friend.

Unexpectedly, the friend did not wait, but Baoyu saw Lin Jiarui and Sun Shaozu coming hand in hand from a distance, talking and laughing very affectionately.Baoyu didn't want to see these two people, so he dodged and hid behind the Zhaobi wall, only to hear that Sun Shaozu was full of flattery, one mouthful of Xie Lin's cultivation, and one set of gratitude pictures. Sun Shaozu is a character whose eyes are above the top and whose nostrils vent his breath. When did he bow his knees so lowly?But I heard Lin Jiarui say: "Commander Sun must do his own thing when he goes to Xijiang, and contribute to the court with all his heart, and his future will be limitless." His younger brother Jia Cong, Lord Jia strongly recommended him, and now he has done a great job in harnessing the river, and his family is full, that's why the Holy Majesty appointed him."

Sun Shaozu smiled flatteringly and said: "This is the grace of Prime Minister Lin and the kindness of Mr. Jia. Mr. Sun must train his soldiers with heart, fulfill his duties, and live up to his master's knowledge..." The two talked, and gradually walked away, and Baoyu slowly walked around Passing the screen wall, he walked out in contemplation, but unexpectedly he walked out with his head down, and bumped into a person inadvertently.

Baoyu was startled, and hurriedly bowed, only saying that he was offended.But the man supported Baoyu with both hands, and said, "Isn't this the second master Bao? How did you meet him here?"

The author has something to say: Guess who I ran into?