Red Mansions Become Baochai

Fine borneol, agarwood, nutmeg, jiangzhenxiang, gold and silver frankincense and other spice baits.The two largest boxes contained a pair of large ivory tusks, large pieces of sandalwood logs, rhinoceros horns, bloodstones of various colors, Shoushan stones, Qingtian stones, and a few pieces of Baochai that looked like tortoise shells, but they were actually tortoise shells. He likes seal cutting, so he looked around for Maopei stone materials for his daily knife.Xue Ke twitched his beard and reprimanded lightly: "Stop mentioning it soon. This is what I did when I was young. I still have time to do this now." I am also very happy with my heart.

Pointing to a smaller box, Mrs. Liu said: "This box is for my sister-in-law and niece. They are rare in the market. They are very good for jewelry." There are several ebony carved boxes, one for Baochai One was opened, and there was a box of coral beads, a box of amber beads, and a box of agate. The largest wooden box was full of gemstones of various colors. Mrs. Xue took two pigeon blood rubies and planned to make two long hairpins. Seeing that there were emeralds, topaz, aquamarine and tourmalines of other colors, she brought them to Mrs. Liu, and said that she would make a necklace of seven treasures for each of Baochai and Baoqin's sisters.Baochai dug out the largest sea sapphire and quietly hid it in her purse. The heart of the ocean hahaha, it can be a family heirloom in the future.

Mrs. Liu took out another small black velvet bag and said: "That foreign devil sold it to us desperately. He said it was a treasure obtained in Tianzhu. We have to exchange five bolts of lake silk for a stone. I see it shining brightly." Yes, although there is no color, it is still pretty good, because the price of his other foreign goods is still fair, so I decided to change it. My husband said that this stone is extremely hard, and it is used by the jade porcelain craftsman to drill jade to repair porcelain. Sister-in-law, look What can I do?"

After finishing speaking, dozens of crystal-clear and shiny small stones were poured out. Baochai saw that they were diamonds, each of which was four or five carats in size, shining dazzlingly on the black velvet.Just one of these things is enough for a modern person to buy a house.Now grab it casually, just a handful, like a child playing with glass beads.Eyes full of jewels and jewels, Baochai was a little dizzy from the smoke, and felt very unreal, and couldn't help but hate to spurn her pettiness.

Mrs. Xue looked at one carefully, and said: "I saw this thing in my mother's house. I heard it was called a diamond. Westerners like it. According to me, the colored gemstones are bright and attractive."

Baochai hurriedly said: "This thing must be made by a foreign craftsman who can cut it. It can be used to set necklaces and earrings are beautiful."

Mrs. Xue put the diamonds in a black velvet bag and threw them to Baochai, saying, "I'm going to look for craftsmen from Tianzhu there. If you like it, keep it for fun. Cut off your hands carefully so you don't cry." Baochai happily accepted it.

Mrs. Liu said with a smile: "There are also some groceries used by Western women's family members. I picked them myself. My sister-in-law sees if you like them?" Laughed, except that there is no "sixgod" trademark on it, there is not much difference.In addition, there are four western silver pocket watches inlaid with precious stones, and the red-haired ghost brags that it is four sets of silver mother-of-pearl inlaid gold glass silver mirrors and silver combs that flowed out of European courts.

Mrs. Xue first gave way to Aunt He and asked her to choose a pocket watch and a set of mirror combs.Aunt He waved her hand and said, "Save it for Baochai, I don't need these things now."

Mrs. Xue was heartbroken when she heard that, and Mrs. Liu picked up one of them and handed it to her, saying: "Who says it's not necessary, you already have your cousin. If you don't accept me, I won't accept it." That set of mirror combs, said: "I'm not going out now, there is already a western clock given by my sister-in-law in the house, this pocket watch can be used by someone else." Mrs. Xue couldn't force her any more, so she gave the silver pocket watch to her. He lost his nephew Gu Yunzhen.

Xue Pan also got a pair of saddles inlaid with gold, and a fragrant wooden sword with elephant skin pattern and ruby ​​scabbard.There, he and Xue Biao were inseparable. One of them took a wooden sword and shouted to fight and kill, forcing Xue Biao to play with him.Mrs. Xue saw it at a glance, hurried over, snatched the wooden sword, and beat Xue Pan desperately: "Your younger brother just came home today, so you took him to be naughty. Your father saw it, even if there are guests at home, it's the same." If you want to beat you, why don't you learn how to be gentle with your cousin." Xue Pan was in high spirits, and was very uncomfortable when his mother scolded him, but suddenly saw his younger sister waving at him, and ran over with a smile.

Baochai found a frangipani multicolored red glass snuff bottle. In her previous life, she helped a buyer buy a similar one from an auction house. It cost 8 yuan, and the workmanship was not half as good as this one.In my memory, Baoyu also had one in Dream of the Red Chamber. Qingwen caught a cold, and Baoyu asked someone to find a flat box of gold-encrusted double-button Venus glass. Inside was a naked woman with yellow hair painted in Western enamel, with fleshy wings on both sides. Let Qingwen sniff snuff to cure a cold.

Look at this snuff pot, which is small and exquisite, with a flat red glass body, painted with enamel decorations around it, and a picture of a child playing is engraved on the gilt flower cover, and there is a small ivory spoon underneath.The blue glaze near the mouth of the snuff bottle is painted with cloud patterns of Wanfuliu, and the two sides of the middle part are gold glazed with pictures of babies playing. Angel.Four colors of red, white, blue and gold, with strong color contrast, very rich and bright, I just wanted to show his brother.

Xue Pan came over, looked at the bright place, clapped his hands and said with a smile: "Mother, come quickly and have a look, my sister found a snuff bottle with a picture of a naked and fat baby."

Seeing that everyone heard this, Baochai turned to look at her and smiled, even her usually gentle cousin looked at her, blinked mischievously, and couldn't help but flushed with shame.He stammered and argued: "What, what is a naked fat baby? This is an angel of the Westerners, just like our gods."

Mrs. Liu also laughed and said, "Exactly. I heard people say that this fat baby is a god in foreign religions, similar to our Bodhisattva Vajra. Don't you see, this baby has a pair of fleshy wings that can fly."

Mrs. Xue came over, saw that the doll was indeed facing the little white wings, and also saw that the doll looked like a foreign boy, and said with a smile: "Could it be similar to our Songzi Guanyin, even foreigners pay attention to this kindness." Woke up, thinking of leaving it as a gift to my niece Wang Xifeng in the future, wishing her a big fat son soon.

Everyone wondered and talked and laughed for a while.The rest of the boxes were silver candlesticks, glass hanging lamps, bird's nests, carpets, etc. Baochai glanced at them, not interested.After distributing the gifts, the whole family entered the west hall and had a big banquet.

Because Officer Ai was a foreign visitor, Mrs. Xue asked someone to carry a mahogany and carved Xiangzhu face, inlaid with silk silk and silk painting happy eyebrows, separated from the screen, and set up a table outside, and Mr. Xue and his guests sat down. .The others all sat on the kang table inside, Baoqin had just turned three years old, and her body was not very comfortable, so she was held by the nanny to feed her.

Baochai saw her beautiful pink makeup, natural curly black hair, a pair of big black jade-like eyes on her snow-white face, and a small mouth that opened to reveal eight small white teeth. It was like a fairy tale. Snow White in the story.She was a beautiful woman at a young age, no wonder when she grew up, even Jia's mother praised her, saying that Baoqin has folded plums under the snow, like the beauty in the double-colored picture painted by Qiu Shizhou hanging in her house, and wanted to beg Baoyu to be her partner .He also asked Mrs. Wang to recognize Baoqin as her goddaughter, and she slept with Jia's mother at night.

The food was served in a while, Xue Shen found some bottles of Western red wine, and let the female relatives drink with him, Xue Pan immediately asked him to pour him a glass, Xue Ke was about to reprimand, Xue Shen said with a smile: "This wine is fruit wine , the sweetness is not too intoxicating, just suitable for women and children, today is a good day, brother don't restrict these children, just let them taste the taste."

Mrs. Xue was afraid that he would drink cold wine and her writing hands would tremble, so she wanted to ask the maid to warm it up before letting him drink it. Mrs. Liu quickly stopped and said with a smile: "Sister-in-law doesn't know, this Western wine tastes better when it's chilled. If it’s hot, it’ll be sour.” Then she called a servant girl and said, “This poem talks about luminous wine cups for grapes, although we don’t have luminous cups at home, we have several sets of crystal wine glasses, let’s find two sets.”

The chopsticks have not been touched here, and the men outside are already drinking. Xue Shen talked about what he saw outside, the foreigner's sea boat, covered with iron sheets, was not sinking, and it was faster than the speedboat made in China. be quick.There are even black muzzles on both sides of the merchant ship.Xue Pan and Gu Yunzhen were fascinated by what he heard, so Xue Pan boldly went to sit outside.

Xue Pan asked: "Second uncle, is that foreigner really like a stranger, with a height of eight feet, a waist circumference of eight feet, red hair, eyes like evil spirits, and eating raw meat?" Most of them are tall and burly, and most of them are blond and blue-eyed, except that their hair, skin, and eye color are different from those of Chinese people, and everything else is similar.”

Mrs. Xue said in the room: "Pan'er, don't pester your second uncle to drink." She asked Liu Shi with a smile, "Have you seen that foreign woman?" Yes, he smells bad, he wears a big skirt, holds a parasol, wanders around, and salutes when he sees people, not that uncivilized barbarian."

Baochai felt envious when she heard that, of course she met a lot of foreigners in her previous life, but she was busy with making a living and went abroad twice for business, so she never had a good time shopping.I finally have time to rest, and I don’t want to go to tourist attractions to join in the fun.As a modern Chinese, even the great rivers and mountains of the motherland are basically appreciated from film and television pictures.

In the ancient times when transportation was inconvenient, the second uncle's family could travel around the mountains and rivers and appreciate the customs and customs of various places.No wonder Baoqin is so beautiful and talented.I think Baoqin has traveled all over the world with his father since he was a child, and has seen a lot.