Red Mansions Become Baochai

During the seven-day annual leave, the ancients took it seriously, and the relatives and relatives of each family sent gifts for the New Year, and it was not until the Lantern Festival that it came to an end.

Xue Pan continued to "recover from illness" at home and was not allowed to go out.Xue Ke took Xue Tiao and Gu Yunzhen to socialize.The two children were handsome and well-groomed, well-groomed and behaved politely. Who wouldn't the elders like when they saw each other?Those wives are even rarer.

Xue Biao is away with his father all year round, and it is common to be a guest.Gu Yunzhen was a little shy at first, but after going out a lot, his mouth became sweeter.Calling everyone grandpa, grandma, uncle, and uncle, and then paying New Year's greetings with Xue Biao, the New Year's purse was almost softened.

As soon as the purse bulged, Gu Yunzhen began to think about it.He had already found out that the 21st of this month was Baochai's birthday, thinking that there would be various temple fairs in Jinling City during the first month, so he went out to collect a gift for his cousin.

But after visiting the shops in the streets and alleys, the things I saw were nothing more than children's toys such as sugar figures, snare drums, flippers, leather tigers, and wax ducks, and ordinary women's things such as velvet flowers, handkerchiefs, and purses There are people who sell flowers, birds, fish and insects, but none of them suits him.

If you can't buy it, you can only do it yourself. Gu Yunzhen pondered for a few days, thought about it, and came up with an idea, which was interesting, so he quietly prepared it.

The Xue family had a really festive year this year, and it was lively and lively until the Lantern Festival.This festival is also known as the Shangyuan Lantern Festival in ancient times.Everyone in the world says that the lights of the Qinhuai River are the best in the world. From the eighth day of the first lunar month, every house began to decorate with lights.

The Xue Mansion also hung up its own newly made gauze lanterns outside the mansion.Baochai saw that this group of lamps was as tall as three of her, and they were telling the story of Liu Yi's encounter with a dragon girl in Dongting.This gauze lantern is made by craftsmen who first built the frame with bamboo and wood, and pasted it with various colors of top-quality tulle.Candles are lit inside, and the outside looks colorful. This lamp is almost alive.The pavilions and pavilions in the Dragon Palace in the Dongting on the gauze lantern, the faces and ornaments of the scholar Liu Yi and the Dragon Girl are all drawn with fine brushwork, and various fish, shrimps, crabs and shells seem to be swimming slowly in the sea, attracting many people to stop and watch.

On the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, the entire city of Jinling became a nightless sky, and the streets became a sea of ​​lights.Xue Pan made a fuss early in the morning to go out to watch the lights.Mrs. Pianxue said that in the past few years, there have often been unscrupulous human traffickers from other places who sneak into the city during the Lantern Festival, and abduct well-growth children from wealthy families, and they are not allowed to go.

Only then did Baochai think of the poor Zhen Yinglian, who seemed to be lost with her family just because of the lamp.Thinking of this, he gave Xue Pan a hard look.Pian Xue Pan saw it at a glance, and asked stupidly: "My sister didn't rest well last night, your eyes are cramping."

Everyone outside went out to watch lantern riddles and a hundred operas, and the legendary Qinhuai River with the sound of oars and lanterns could not be seen. Baochai was a little depressed, holding her chin in boredom, and remembered the poems about the Lantern Festival. , very evocative.

A little more subtle is like last year’s New Year’s Eve, the flower market lights are like day, the willows are on the moon, and people make appointments after dusk.On the night of the Yuan Dynasty this year, the moon and lights remain the same.I don't see the person from last year, and the sleeves of the spring shirt are full of tears.More gracefully, Dongfeng puts flowers and thousands of trees at night, and suddenly looks back, but the man is in a dimly lit place.It's still more straightforward, the lights are everywhere, and the streets are full of smiles and hands.

Speaking of which, Shangyuan Festival is actually Valentine's Day in ancient China.It's called watching the lamp, but it's actually watching people.Between laughing and playing, under the fiery trees and silver flowers, the fragrant BMW car, the phantom with a slender waist, and the dark fragrance hit.Well, it is indeed a little unsuitable for children, Baochai obediently went to play goldfish lanterns with his cousin.

After entering the first month, Baochai lives on her fingers. Tomorrow is the 21st day of the first month, her first birthday in this world, and she is finally one year older.

In order to pray for his daughter, Xue Ke set up a porridge shed outside Qiyun Temple to give porridge for ten days, sent hundreds of catties of commonly used medicinal materials to the Jinling City Huimin Bureau, and donated 3000 cotton-padded jackets to Yangjitang.After all this, at least it will cost two or three thousand taels of silver.

When Baochai heard what his mother said, he felt very grateful for his father's kindness.In the original book of Red Mansions, when I went to live in Jia's house, on the fifteenth day and Jiji's birthday, Jia's mother only paid 20 taels of silver, so it's better to be my own father.

This day was Baochai's birthday, and when she got up early, she put on makeup and changed into a dress. Madam Xue personally made longevity noodles for her daughter, and everyone shared the meal.After eating Baochai, we must salute the elders.

Tongxi spread out the red felt, and Baochai knelt down in front of her parents, asking Ruixiang to bring out a small tray.He said: "A daughter's birthday is the day when the mother suffers. It depends on the loving care of the parents, so that the daughter can grow up safely. This is a little gift from the daughter to the parents, please accept it."

Hearing these words, Xue Ke felt ironed in his heart, with a smile on his face.Mrs. Xue thought of the hardship she had endured in giving birth to her daughter, and felt that it was worth it. She was only curious about what her daughter gave her?

I saw two small cloud pattern papers in the tray. Xue Ke picked it up and looked at it. There were only three words written in the middle: massage coupons.Mrs. Xue was puzzled, and hurriedly asked her daughter what is this for?

Baochai smiled and said, "This massage coupon is for parents only. Within one year, my daughter can help me massage [-] times. It doesn't matter if it's shoulders, legs, or waist. .I draw one stroke at a time, and it will be invalid after writing six orthographic characters.”

The daughter is so eccentric and filial, Xue Ke likes her more and more.Baochai's calligraphy was taught by him personally. Looking at the handwriting written by his daughter on the cloud pattern paper, even he himself had never seen it before, so he hurriedly asked: "Chaier, what kind of font did you write? It looks like an ancient seal, and How thick is the face, where does it come from?"

Baochai wrote the pop font that is common on posters in later generations, which is a kind of artistic calligraphy. Seeing his father’s question, he had to answer: “I wrote it scribbled by myself, because it looks round, so I called it round body."

Xue Ke has some attainments in calligraphy and painting, and he knows that even great literati and talents may not be able to create a calligraphy of his own.Although the daughter's round body is just a whim of a urchin, and there is no such thing as a stroke of the pen, but Baochai can be ingenious and not stick to the framework of the sages, which is much better than herself.

Mrs. Xue was also very happy, and pretended to say: "I feel a little sore in my legs when I go down first, my good daughter comes up and beats your mother twice."

Baochai pursed her lips and said, "Mother, I'm a little birthday star today, let sister Tongxi help me beat it. The massage coupons won't be used until tomorrow." Everyone was happy to see her like this.

Baochai picked up a small ledger from the tray, handed it to his father, and said, "This is the account that my daughter kept blindly following my father's example. Daddy has time to look over it, but there may be some mistakes."

Xue Ke had heard Mrs. Xue mention Baochai's bookkeeping a long time ago, and praised her daughter's eagerness to learn. He smiled and nodded in agreement, and took out a square box with a blue background and gold, and gave it to her daughter.

When Baochai opened it, she was almost dumbfounded. What was inside turned out to be a set of play toys for children.They are all small silver pocket tables, small jugs, small cups, small bowls and small plates, etc. Dad really thought too much about it.

Baochai bowed to Xue Shen and his wife again and said, "Chai thank you, my second uncle and aunt, for your care and love." Mrs. Liu hurriedly took out a small Western gold enamel rose pocket watch as a birthday ceremony for her.

Xue Shen teased her with a smile, "Chaier, can Second Uncle have a share of the massage voucher?"

Baochai's little face was flushed with anxiety. Sure enough, people don't worry about being few but about being uneven. She had no choice but to say: "Everyone has a share in the elders." She stretched out a small claw and showed five white and fat fingers , and said: "But the second uncle and the second aunt can only enjoy five free massages."

Aunt He laughed and said, even me?Baochai bowed to her aunt and said, "Of course there are. Baochai thanked aunt for her teaching. Aunt can massage ten times."

"Why is it ten times for your aunt, but only five times for me and your second aunt?" Xue Shen continued to ask with a smile.

Baochai thought about it for a while, then said with a twist: "Now my aunt is teaching me to read..."

It turned out that the student was flattering her husband, but Baochai openly flattered her aunt, and everyone burst out laughing when they heard it.

Aunt He also laughed for a long time before asking the servant girl to bring out a set of clothes she made for Baochai herself.

An ivory-colored lychee-red jacket trimmed with Lu silk, embroidered with two multicolored koi swimming under green leaves and red lotuses.There is also a small Yuehua skirt with a hundred thin pleats at the waist.Each pleat has a color, from moon white to pink to rose purple, and it is blurred layer by layer. The skirt is also rolled with lychee red lace, which is very elegant and chic. Baochai can't wait to put it on to show off right away.

Mrs. Xue and Mrs. Liu praised Aunt He's ingenuity out of nowhere, because speaking of this Yuehua dress took a lot of work, and it would take a month to make it sooner or later.After hearing this, Baochai thanked her again.

Xue Pan gave his younger sister a set of Die Erpu. This thing is a kind of ancient building blocks, which can be used to build pavilions and small buildings, but it is usually played by girls. Considering that he has been unable to go out for several months, he let the boy They went out to buy themselves birthday presents, and Baochai felt that this brother was really not bad.

When I arrived at Gu Yunzhen's place, I saw him take out a small album. Baochai opened it and saw that it was a six-picture album, all of which were pictures of a little girl.The eyebrows are curved, the pear dimples appear slightly on the cheeks, and the big eyes are not just herself.

The paintings are all about her usual appearance.There are those of her swinging, some reading, some picking flowers, some playing the piano, some feeding the fish, and there is a painting of her pulling out crane feathers and being chased by big white cranes.The proportions of the painting are a bit out of balance, the head is big and the body is small, and the brushwork is very immature, but the composition is lively and full of innocence and childishness.

Baochai looked at it again and again, unable to put it down.Seeing that Baochai liked it, Gu Yunzhen finally felt relieved.

Liandong, the maid next to him, smiled and recited a sentence of Buddha: "Amitabha, Miss doesn't know, Master Biao always said that the painting is not good. These days, I draw and tear, tear and draw again, every day until the second watch.