A Dream of Red Mansions: Zhu Yan drunk

(Dragon Boat Festival)

Before the Dragon Boat Festival, the Holy One rewarded the Jia family with some gold, silver and jade wares. It turned out that the team that went to see off the relatives in spring arrived in the southern border, and the King of Minyue withdrew his troops as promised.I also heard that the situation in the East China Sea is a bit more stable, and most of the rebellious bandits have been recruited, but from time to time some people surrender and rebel, the imperial court decreed that all generals with titles, or themselves or their sons and brothers, should produce an adult man Going to the front line of the East China Sea, Jia She of the Rongguo Mansion was deprived of his title, but Jia Lian was not included in it. Jia Zhen of the Ningguo Mansion was the head of the clan. , Qi went to the East China Sea.

Jia Rong has always been very skilled only in housework, and has never thought of galloping on the battlefield to make contributions, so these days, she looks sad and asks Jia Qiang to go out to have fun and get drunk.Qia Feng Ziying just came back from the East China Sea not long ago to rest, and she will go back to the army in a few days. I heard that Wei Ruolan and Jia Rong are also going. I haven't seen Baoyu for a long time, so I made an appointment with Baoyu, Wei Ruolan, and Jia Rong. We went to the racecourse to practice riding and shooting together. Jia Qiang went with Jia Rong, Jia Lanyang Baoyu took him with him, and Jia Huan was going too. Study and write well at home, and it won’t be your turn to die on the battlefield, so what a hero you are.” Jia Huan had no choice but to give up.

A few people ran to the racecourse in the outskirts, and saw some young princes who were also practicing. Some knew some, and some didn't. Feng Ziying knew most of them, so he would introduce them when they met.Jia Lan came here for the first time, looked fresh, and asked Feng Ziying: "Uncle Feng, what are we practicing today?" , this means that I don’t move the enemy.” Jia Lan asked, “What if I move the enemy?” Feng Ziying laughed and said, “Then it depends on whose skill is better.” So everyone carried a quiver on their backs. Pedaling on the horse and running, Wei Ruolan ran around and only missed one target, Baoyu hit three, Jia Lan shot well backwards, Feng Ziying praised him, "Better than your uncle." Turning around, he called Jia Rong Jia Qiang, I saw the two of them riding together, chatting about something.Wei Ruolan rode over and asked Feng Ziying for advice. Feng Ziying said that the wound on her body had just healed, and she would not draw the bow today. Everyone hurriedly asked what happened. .So Baoyu asked Feng Ziying about the situation in the East China Sea in the past six months, and Wei Ruolan and Jia Lan went to ride and shoot for a while.

After practicing for half a day, everyone got off their horses, led by the servants to graze by the Qingxi River. This stream passes through the racecourse. Although the water level is shallow, it is more than ten feet wide. The big mouth of the gourd was sawed and then plugged, leaving a few air holes in it, and the cooing of pigeons could be faintly heard inside.Pigeons fluttered in the gourd from time to time, and there was a gust of wind blowing outside. The gourd was swinging back and forth, and there was no right direction. It was really difficult to shoot. Baoyu and others shot several arrows, but they missed. It was Feng Ziying who guided them. After a few words, both Wei Ruolan and Jia Lancai hit one, and the pigeon in the gourd fluttered out and flew so high.Jia Rong shot a barrel of arrows, but missed a single one, and two arrows went directly into the water. She lost interest and just stared at the stream in a daze.Feng Ziying saw that he was bored, so she said: "Today is almost the same, let's go to my house for a drink." Then everyone rode back to the city.

When I came to Feng's mansion, after drinking tea, Feng Ziying invited Baoyu to wait in the weapon room next to his study, and saw that there were all kinds of swords, guns, swords and halberds in the room. Feng Ziying said to Wei Ruolan and Jia Rong: "It is important to be on the battlefield When it comes to saving your life, the most practical thing is the knife technique. The few knives I have here are all forged by experts. Today, I invite you to pick one each.Wei Ruolan hurriedly thanked her, and picked out a Yunyue golden saber, Jia Rong tried them one by one, but couldn't find which one was more suitable for her, so she chose the lightest one and thanked her.Back at the wine table, when everyone was seated, they could only hear Wei Ruolan's waist clinking, Feng Ziying laughed and said: "Your waist is full of gold and jade, so it's not too cumbersome." Seeing a jade pendant and a golden unicorn hanging around his waist, Baoyu recognized that the unicorn belonged to Xiangyun.Wei Ruolan said with a smile: "It's all gifts from my family, so I take them with me. I don't know whether it's life or death. If I die in battle, these things will be buried with me." Everyone hurriedly spat: "Farewell Say such bad things."

After drinking for three rounds, Wei Ruolan said to Baoyu, "Brother Yu, you have always been good at literary talents. I have a poem for you to comment on." Baoyu said, "Don't dare, let's learn from each other." Just listen Wei Ruolan read:

The shadow of the sword under the moon is cold,

Gallop to Yanshan.

The flames of the flames burn the blood,

Listen to the meaning and strive to be the first.

After listening to it, Baoyu said, "Good poems. Now it's time to write a few frontier poems to meet the occasion. How about we write one for each of us according to the number of seats?" Jia Lan quickly responded, "I already have one." read:

Holding a bow and holding a golden arrow,

Chasing the deer to open the mountain gate.

call the forest birds,

Frightened flying gully on the eagle.

After hearing this, all the people boasted: "I have ambition." Then I heard Baoyu read:

Clouds and geese fly south,

Send spring boudoir tears away.

Under the solitary lamp of folded letters,

Every word looks forward to your return.

Everyone said: "It's still Baoyu who has a delicate mind."I also heard Feng Ziying write:

Tilv night sneak,

Avoid the pursuit of suspicion.

The war is still undecided,

Grinding the knife to cover his voice.

Everyone said: "A man who has been on the battlefield after all." The next one should be Jia Qiang, who hesitated for a long time, and said with a sneering smile, "I'm good at composing music, but I'm hard at poetry." Jia Rong was drowsy, and when she heard it, she continued, "It's just that, Uncle Bao, it's okay for me to be your nephew, but it's hard for me to write poems." Everyone laughed and said, "It's true. I'm drunk." Then they chatted and laughed for a while and then broke up, and the servants who came with them also had dinner, so they went home.A few days later, Feng Ziying, Wei Ruolan, and Jia Rong reported to the army and went to the front line.

Besides going to school, Baoyu still wanders around the Grand View Garden every day, and all the outside affairs seem to have nothing to do with him.It's just that there have been fewer sisters in the garden recently, and so have the maidservants. In the past, they talked and laughed and made noises, but now Li Wan is quiet and Daiyu likes to be quiet and doesn't like to move. In summer, the sky is long, and Baoyu I feel even more bored. I played with the sachet one day and suddenly changed my mind. I started to mix the fragrance by myself. If I went to the school every day, I would come back to play with it. If I didn’t go to the school, I would be immersed in it for most of the day. He never tires of his affairs, and the housekeepers and women are used to seeing him messing around, so as long as it is not very out of the ordinary, no one will bother him.First, I found some spices such as sandalwood, cypress bark, rose root, etc., and then asked Mingyan to go outside and buy all kinds of cooking, cooking, and grinding utensils to practice. It was like opening a spice shop in Yihong Courtyard. There were a lot of scents flying around, and then gradually mastered the method, and the taste gradually became more elegant.

I don't know how many days it took to concoct a blind letter incense and send it to Jia Mu and Mrs. Wang to read scriptures. Mrs. Wang only said, "it smells good, which shows that you are smart, but you don't work hard on books." He said it was very good after using it, and said that it is better to use his brain for entertainment and entertainment than to be bored all day long, so he found a little agarwood and ambergris for him to study and process. Zijuan said that Daiyu has been sleeping more and more restlessly recently, so she plans to make another sleeping incense.After preparing it every day, I lighted it twice in the room for an experiment. Xiren advised him: "Miss Lin is weak, and this incense also has medicinal properties. You can tell the difference. Don't make a mistake." Baoyu Said: "Don't worry, I have consulted medical books, Dr. Zhao is also very good at making incense, I asked him for a few magic prescriptions, and I will be sure in these two days." Sure enough, the incense was burned that night , Xiren, Sheyue, etc. all said that today the fragrance has benefited again, faintly if there is nothing, but I am lazy in my heart, just after eating, I want to find a pillow, Baoyu is already lying on the bed and unconscious Fainted, I heard what they said, and wanted to reply again, but I didn't say anything, and gradually fell asleep. Sure enough, Xiren and the others also went to bed earlier than usual.

And Baoyu seemed to be shaken by someone in his sleep. When he opened his eyes, it was Qingwen. She turned over and held her, saying, "You really are back." Waiting for the moon, Baoyu understood, afraid of waking them up, followed Qingwen out quietly, and the two of them walked outside the house. The bright moon was shining brightly, and the silver glow was everywhere. Where is this going?" Qingwen said: "Don't ask, just follow me, and you will like it if you keep it." The two walked for a while under the moonlight, and the moonlight slowly turned into sunlight. Baoyu looked at the surrounding The scenery seems to be still in the Grand View Garden, but the flowers and plants everywhere are more prosperous than the Grand View Garden. There are large pieces of eucalyptus and viburnum everywhere. The sweet wind blows, the petals are flying all over the sky, and the sound of the orchestra is faintly heard. Baoyu sighed with joy: "Good! A location!" Busily asked Qingwen where this is, Qingwen said: "This season is the festival of worshiping flower gods in the world. Today, all the flower gods gather here. You know that I am named the God of Lotus Flowers, and I know you I will definitely like this scene, so I quietly lead you here to have a look, according to the rules, strangers are not allowed to come here, so you just follow behind me and enjoy it silently." Baoyu said happily: "Excellent."

The two walked around in this environment, and saw a tall pomegranate tree in front of them. The pomegranate flowers on the tree were all in full bloom, and the blossoms were extremely coquettish, like a cloud of red. Under the tree, a woman in red was reading a book on military tactics. , because she could not see her face clearly with her head down, Baoyu only felt very kind, and wanted to go forward, Qingwen said quietly: "This is our eldest lady. She has been named the pomegranate flower god, and she has many important things to do." Think about it, and let's not disturb her." Then he led Baoyu away.Suddenly there was another row of more than ten pear trees in front of them, and the trees were full of pear blossoms and snow. Baoyu secretly praised: "What a clean place!" Then he asked Qingwen, "Who is this pear blossom god?" Qingwen said: "It's the second lady of our family." Baoyu said: "Yes, the girls in our family can also be these flower gods." Then asked: "Why don't you see the second sister?" Qingwen said: "There It's not her." As she spoke, she pointed behind the pear bushes, and she saw a woman in white gauze sitting under the tree, ecstatic with a game of chess, Qingwen said: "I don't know when her game of chess will end, let's Let's go ahead and have a look before it's too late." So the two of them went forward again and admired the apricot and peach blossoms. The flower gods are all women from other families, each with a graceful appearance, and Baoyu doesn't know each other.

Suddenly there was another pool of water, and there were lotus flowers everywhere, but seeing the lotus leaves reaching the sky as green as newly cut, and the hibiscus emerging from the water as bright as the morning glow, when she was admiring, Qingwen said: "Today we are going to seal a new flower god here, and it is our My dear, Second Lord might as well guess who it is." Before he finished speaking, he only heard one sentence: "Baoyu, why are you here?" Baoyu didn't see clearly where a person came from, and it was Daiyu who came in front of him. .Baoyu asked doubtfully, "Sister Lin, why are you here?" Qingwen laughed and said, "Miss Lin is going to be canonized today, so she's here too. You two talk for a while, and I'll go back as soon as I go. Then he walked away." Baoyu asked Daiyu, "Sister Lin, when did you become the God of Flowers? Why didn't I know? Not only." At this point, my heart skipped a beat. Only the dead can be named Flower Gods. , not good!Baoyu hurriedly pulled Daiyu up and said, "Let's go!" Lifting his feet to leave, suddenly a strong wind blew up the two of them in a puff of white smoke and soared into the air. The body couldn't help it, not knowing what was going to happen, so Baoyu grabbed Daiyu tightly. Shouted: "Don't let go! Don't let go!" Suddenly he sat up from the bed, it turned out to be a dream, he was so startled that his head was sweating, and he saw outside the window that it was still dark.

Baoyu was wiping his sweat to regain his senses, when he heard Xiren whispering outside, "Who are we going to sell to again?" Baoyu called twice, woke Sheyue up, and said, "Go and wake Xiren up, She is having a nightmare." Musk Moon got up and shook Xi Ren, which woke her up. Xi Ren let out an ouch, saying that fortunately it was a dream, rubbed his heart, and Musk Moon said: "Stop your Nightmare, but it disturbed my good dream." Knowing that she was also dreaming just now, she went to pour tea while talking, and the three of them woke up from the dream at this moment, their thoughts were turbulent for a while, and they could not fall asleep any more, so they all drank After taking a few sips of tea, he lay down and talked, but he said that he had dreamed of something strange and weird, and they all said that he had never had such a vivid dream. Xi Ren said: "It seems that the formula of this sleeping incense needs to be improved. It's sleeping incense, it's a shocking fragrance." Sheyue said: "Go and make a new one, and give me the rest." Baoyu said with a smile: "I'll give you all, it shocked your dream, and you can use it yourself some other day. Make it up." The three of them talked for a while, and the sky soon dawned.After Baoyu washed, because he remembered what happened in the dream, even though it was false, he still felt uneasy, so he hurriedly went to the Xiaoxiang Pavilion to see how Daiyu was doing.

When I came to the Xiaoxiang Pavilion, the summer morning light was rising, and there was a breeze in the bamboo forest. I saw Daiyu leaning on the porch looking at the bamboo in a daze.Baoyu asked, "What's your sister thinking?" Daiyu replied, "I just realized that we have written so many poems, but we haven't written about bamboo. Fortunately, I'm still living in the Xiaoxiang Pavilion, so I turn a blind eye to it. Baoyu clapped his hands and praised: "Very well, I often praise this piece of bamboo, but I have ignored it. The ancients lived for bamboo. Now that we have bamboo, we have to praise it." Yudao: "It's not just bamboo. You have a crabapple and a plantain in Yihong Courtyard. We only made crabapple poems, but the plantain was left out in the cold. Let's do it together today." Baoyu said, "Very good. Although we are human If there is less, we should set up a society, you will write green bamboos, I will write plantains, and the apricot blossom season in Daoxiang Village has just passed, and invite Daoxiang old farmers to write apricot flowers." Said let the little girl go to invite Li Wan, Daiyu again Ask the women to move out a book case and put it in the courtyard, and Zijuan Xueyan takes out the pen, ink, paper and inkstone for preparation.

After a while, the little girl came back, but she didn't see Li Wan, but Xi Luan and an old woman followed her.Xiluan came over and said to Baoyu and Daiyu with a smile: "Second brother, sister Lin, the eldest sister-in-law is talking to her natal Aunt Li. If I can't make it through, I will come in today to greet the old lady, so I will come and compose poems with you." " Baoyu asked, "Have the two elder sisters Li Wen and Li Qi come here?" Xiluan said, "No." Baoyu asked Xiluan again, "Can you compose poetry?" Xiluan said, "My mother asked me I have learned a lot of needlework at home, but I have never learned to write poetry. Today, my brothers and sisters don’t mind asking me for advice.” Baoyu said: “You first write a few words for me to see.” Xiluan dipped his pen in ink and wrote a few small letters, Baoyu After reading it, he said: "It's very neat. Come and transcribe this society, just learn from your sister Lin. My poetry has never been good, so don't learn it." At that moment, he discussed with Daiyu again: "Let's Don't light the incense, I will be punished every time I fail." Daiyu said: "I think the same way. If it is about bamboo and plantains, the ancients have already chanted countless poems, and they will have to make them at a time. No one can do anything new." Xiluan asked, "Then how many bamboo poems and plantain poems are there?" Daiyu said, "Zijuan, go and get some Tang and Song poems for her to count. Learn, no matter how much people today can't write from the ancients, if you want to learn poetry, you should learn from the ancients." After hearing this, Xiluan helped Zijuan to bring a stack of books, and went to flip through the books.

Then I heard Daiyu say: "In Song Ci, I love Huang Tingjian's Water Tune Song Tou Tour the most. I've always wanted to imitate one, so I'll try it today." Baoyu laughed and said, "I love his song too. Which sentence?" Daiyu said: "I want to ask the way through flowers and go straight into the depths of the white clouds." Baoyu said: "I like Xiaque the most. I am the fairy grass of Ganoderma lucidum, not the red lips and red face. I want to imitate one too. First." So the two wanted to go separately.Daiyu meditated: There has always been a gentleman's bamboo, and I also need to compare bamboo to a gentleman to praise Fang Tuo.Baoyu also thought about it: All famous paintings depict bananas and beauties together, so I need to compare bananas to beauties.

The two of them thought about the time for half a stick of incense, and suddenly Amber came up and said, "The old lady is looking for you to talk." Seeing that Xiluan was also here, she said with a smile, "You are here too, so let's go together, there are so many people." It's lively, the second girl's case is also settled, and the old lady hasn't been so happy for a long time." The three stood up and agreed, and Amber said: "You go there first, I will go to Daoxiang Village and tell Grandma." After finishing speaking, she went out.Here Baoyu said: "I just made half of the que, and I didn't even fix the rhyme. Let's write it out first and then make it up later, or I will forget even the half of the que tomorrow." Daiyu said, "I only have it now." The half que is not very satisfactory." So the two read it, and Xiluan wrote it out. It turns out that Daiyu wrote the first half of the que, but Baoyu wrote the second half first, and they made it into a water melody song:

Yuzhu circles the fence, Xiaofeng wears through the leaves, Diewu suddenly separates up and down, plucking strings and playing several steps.I would like to connect the roots and stems, stand upright through the ice and break through the ground, and try to endure the sound of the waves.Splitting the abdomen vertically into simplicity, also retaining the words of the past. (Daiyu)

Facing the Qian window, it is covered with green leaves and cascades of emerald greens.The new makeup is not rewarded, and Shulang is tired of his fame.I was half-drunk by leaning on the Xuan stone, I was tired of chatting with the film, and I didn't hear the cicadas making trouble.In the evening, the clouds pass the rain, and the sound sends the dream to follow. (Baoyu)

After Xiluan finished writing, he put down his pen to read carefully, clapped his hands and laughed, and said, "I just turned over the book and saw a poem that says 'The rock monks hear each other through the bamboo language', and another poem that says 'The wind makes the sound of red banana leaves'. There are bamboos and plantains, otherwise it is called "bamboo language and banana sound", okay?" Baoyu wondered: "You little girl, you have a really good memory, you can remember it after reading it once." Daiyu laughed and said: " It's hard for her to pick out this topic, and today the three of us worked together to come up with a four-character poem." So the three of them chatted and laughed all the way, and went to Jiamu's place to talk about poetry and Ci.

The three of them came to Jia's mother and saw that Jia Zheng and Mrs. Wang were also there. Li Wan and Aunt Li also came first to say hello.Mother Jia smiled to Aunt Li and said, "There are fewer and fewer people in the family now, so we need to walk around more." Aunt Li smiled and said, "With such clever grandchildren and grandchildren, the old lady doesn't have to worry about us wives." We are here." Everyone laughed.After talking for a while, Jia Zheng told Jia's mother that he had housework to deal with, so he went out with Mrs. Wang and returned to the study. Mrs. Wang asked Jia Zheng, "What did you say in the letter?" Uncle Yu has just taken the post of border guard and is far away in Lingnan. He said that he is not in good health and that he might not be able to return to his homeland in his lifetime. The poor Lin family is weak and they are getting closer to each other. See Suzhou for the last time, or make a marriage, or take her to the south together."

Mrs. Wang asked: "What is the old lady's plan?" Jia Zheng said: "The old lady didn't say anything, but I, a son, who waits for my mother to speak up, is already unfilial. The two marriages of Baoyu and Daiyu should also be discussed." We discussed it, first to make the old lady happy, and second, to put the Lin family at ease." Mrs. Wang hesitated and said, "Although Miss Lin is good, she is just sick and troubled, so I am afraid she is not a blessed person." Jia Zheng said: "If everything is wrong, To be fair, there are a few perfect people in the world, just pick two more and put them in the room. As for Zhu'er and his wife, who would have thought that he would leave so early. Taught Lan'er like this again." Mrs. Wang was even more sad when she heard this, and said: "The old lady always praises Baochai, and the master often praises her for being educated and reasonable." Jia Zheng nodded and said, "Bao girl is not as bad as Lin girl. It's a pity that she and Baoyu are not in the same way, don't let this bastard ruin it, their mother and daughter are here alone, as aunts and aunts, you should take care of her and find another good match." After a while, Mrs. Wang sighed, helpless talk.

It just so happened that Jia Lian came back with a message these two days, saying that he would go to Ping'an Prefecture on business in the near future, which is not far from Suzhou. Jia Zheng proposed to Jia Mu that Jia Lian send Dai Yun to the south, and propose marriage by the way, so that Dai Yu could be with her family. They will come back when they meet and reunite. Because of Jia She's matter, the marriage will be settled first this year, and it will not be too late to get married next year.Mother Jia was very happy to hear that, and asked Jia Zheng to write back to the Lin family as soon as possible.Here, Amber got the letter and quietly went to tell Baoyu that a stone in Baoyu's heart finally fell to the ground, and she was both happy and sad.The happy thing is that the good thing finally came true, and the sad thing is that Daiyu is going south again, and I think of the dream I had, and I want to ask Mother Jia not to let Daiyu go, but I feel that if I don't go, I will be so unkind to the Lin family. Since I was ill in the past, it is absurd to say that people surnamed Lin are not allowed to enter the garden.