A Dream of Red Mansions: Zhu Yan drunk

(Before Mid-Autumn Festival)

Until the beginning of August, there was still no news of Daiyu and others.On this day, Baoyu greeted Jiamu and came out. Seeing the mandarin duck coming, she hurried forward to bow to him. Seeing him like this, the mandarin duck couldn't go away and asked, "What is this for?" Baoyu said: " Good sister, I just want to bother you with one word, please don't ignore me." Yuanyang asked, "What is it?" Baoyu said, "Did Sister Lin find it?" Yuanyang heard him ask this again, and sighed, "If If you have news, why don’t you be the first to tell you. The old lady loves you for nothing. She is so old, and her son and grandson have gone first. If you ask me this every day, it will make her even more sad. Ping’an Prefecture Suzhou is much closer than the capital, and now we and the Lin family are inquiring, and we only hope that there will be news after the battle is over soon." After finishing speaking, he went in.Baoyu had no choice but to go back sadly.

In a few days, it will be the time for the provincial examination. Baoyu has been in a daze recently, so he doesn't have the time to focus on his books. When he returned to Ming Jiamu and Mrs. Wang, he only said that he was going to make a wish before the examination, and Li Guimingyan and others followed him to Yueshen Temple. To worship is to pray for the dead souls of Jia Lian, Sister Feng, Ping'er, etc., and pray for Daiyu and Zicuckoo.When he got off his horse and came to the temple, Li Gui said he was going to buy some things, and asked Mingyan Haosheng to follow, so he took two young men and slipped to the temple fair in the back street to have a good time.Baoyu and Mingyan went in to the main hall, knelt in front of the statue of Dongyue Great Emperor, kowtowed their heads and said silently in their hearts: I heard that those who have reached the end of their lives in the yang world should report to the Emperor. If the Emperor looks through the list and sees My sisters in the Boming Division should treat them more generously. If you see Lin Daiyu's name, no matter which province or state she is from, you must hook her up.After reading it, he kowtowed several times before coming out of the hall.Mingyan dragged him into Wenchang Emperor's Palace again. Before Baoyu knelt down, he knelt down first, muttering: "Mr. Wenchang, we don't ask for any ranking, just bless the second master at least if he wins. I was scolded." Baoyu saw that he was about to tell him to leave when he finished talking, when suddenly a woman kneeling next to her turned around and shouted, "Second Lord!" Baoyu saw that it was Qianxue.I saw a little girl beside her, who was a little fatter than before.

Because the kowtowers came and went, the two avoided talking.Qianxue asked, "Second Master must be here for this autumn's test." Baoyu said, "I'm not here to meet the occasion. I haven't seen you in the past few years, and I haven't heard about you." Qianxue smiled and said, "Thank you, Er Lord, my husband will also take part in this autumn test, but he is a nerd and doesn't believe in ghosts and gods, so I can't do it myself, so I have to make a wish for him." Baoyu sighed inwardly when he heard that she was married.Qianxue said again: "You don't have to worry about the second master. Even if you don't pass the exam, there will be a master who will donate to the second master in the future." Baoyu felt bored when she heard her talking about it. I took out a piece of origami full of small script from my purse, and whispered to Baoyu, "I just bought this from a fortune-teller, who said it contained this year's composition topic, and I didn't understand it. Lord, let's see if it's something to deceive people." Baoyu took it over and looked at it, and said to Qianxue: "These are just some words of Confucius and Mencius, and there is no harm in reviewing them more." He said a few more words Then he said goodbye.Seeing Qianxue today, I couldn't help thinking of Qingwen, Wu'er and others, and sighed again.

On the eighth day of August, Jia Zheng called Baoyu Jiahuan and Jialan Jiajun over. Because the next day was the day of the exam, he didn't reprimand them, but told them to go back and rest earlier today.The four went to kowtow to Jia Mu before going back separately.Seeing Baoyu coming back, Xiren took a blue gown and asked Baoyu, "Wear this one tomorrow. It's light and loose, and your writing arms can be stretched." Baoyu hummed and lay on the bed in a daze. How about the girl's letter, Baoyu got up and ran out. It turned out that Amber was talking to Musk Moon outside. Baoyu hurried over and grabbed Amber and asked, "Where is Miss Lin's letter? How about Miss Lin?" Amber was frightened I jumped, ouched, and said with a smile: "It's not Miss Lin, it's Miss Qin. Miss Baoqin wrote to greet the old lady, and sent someone to send a lot of things. I just sent it to Grandma. This is her Agarwood beads for you." Baoyu only listened to the first two sentences, but didn't listen to the rest, so he went back to the room in a daze, and after a while, he remembered that he didn't ask Amber, and he didn't know Baoyu How Qin is doing now, after another thought, even if life is good, so what, not so good, what can I do, so I don't care about it.

The next morning, when Baoyu entered the examination room at an estimated time, Mrs. Wang went to the inner hall to light incense and read the scriptures. Doing needlework in the garden to pass the time.But it is said that Baoyu has finished the first two exams. This one is stereotyped essay writing. to self.Baoyu was about to make up a random article, when he suddenly felt that these two sentences seemed to be read recently, and then remembered that there were these few sentences on the paper that Qian Xue had shown him, so he ignored them immediately and just made up a few words. Articles are waiting to be handed in.

It is only said that after the exam, Jia Huan, Jia Lan, and Jia Zhu came back with their respective boys, and explained the exam questions and answers to Jia Zheng and Ren Qiong in detail. Ask: "Why don't you see Baoyu?" Li Gui replied tremblingly, "Baoyu is lost." Jia Zheng said, "How could it be lost? What about his boy?" Li Gui said, "I'm still looking around the examination room. Come back and report a letter, begging the master to assign some more people, most likely they will be found in a while." Jia Zheng said: "He is such a big man, even if the people he follows are not paying attention, don't he know the way home?" He ordered Lai Dao: "Find a few more people and bring him back quickly." All the boys were ordered to go out to look for it again, but they still couldn't find it in the morning of the next day.Jia Mu asked, "Why didn't you see Baoyu after the exam?" Everyone hurriedly replied, "Just after the exam, the King of Beijing invited him to relax." Jia Mu nodded and said, "It's time for him to relax for two days. "

Besides, many servants from Jia's mansion have been sent out, but there is still no news from Baoyu. Here Mrs. Wang was waiting anxiously, when she suddenly saw people coming and going: "Someone saw a rich young man going north with a monk and a Taoist priest, but he didn't see the truth. I don't know." Is it Baoyu?" Mrs. Wang couldn't bear it any longer, so she called the attacker over and said, "My boy, he still listens to what you say, if you see him, at least persuade him first, and send someone to tell him quickly. Me." Xiren hurriedly took the little girl Jiahui, accompanied by He and Saohong, and went out to search.The four of them drove a car and went north out of the city gate. They inquired as they went. Because the three of them were dressed in strange clothes, many people had seen him. They drove for a whole day, but luckily the road was flat. At that time, from a distance, I only saw a monk and a person in front of him, rushed to the front, and saw that it was Baoyu, and they were so happy that they said: "It can be regarded as found."

Xiren rushed forward to pull Baoyu and said, "Second master, go away, my wife is crying at home." Baoyu waved his hand and came back and said, "I've had enough of staying at your house, and now I'm going back to where I was." People heard him say these nonsense, so they had to coax him: "Okay, okay, it's just that you have to go back and say goodbye to the old lady, the master, and the wife. Besides, since you have followed these two masters, let's go to our house to treat you well." It's the right thing to do." Baoyu was stunned, and tore off the psychic jade from his neck, and gave it to Xiren, saying: "If you still miss it, go back, I'm leaving." The monk laughed together. : "After all, you are smarter than that idiot." After finishing speaking, the three turned their heads and went away.Xiren hurriedly handed the psychic gem to Saohong, and asked him to take it back and report: "Just say that I can't persuade you, please send someone more quickly, my wife." Saohong drove away quickly, where Xiren, Jiahui and Banhe hurriedly chased after him.

Xiren and others chased for more than two miles, and saw that Baoyu and the other three seemed to be flying ahead, walking faster and faster. Xiren knew that he would not be able to keep up if this continued, so he said to Banhe, "My two legs are not strong enough, you follow up quickly." Don't lose it." So Banhe hurried forward to chase, Xiren and Jiahui walked for a while, and their ribs broke down, and they had to sit on the side of the road to rest due to the pain.Then another black cloud came over, and the thunderbolt drenched the two of them thoroughly. Xiren felt anxious and panicked, with rain and tears on his face. When he was at a loss, he saw a carriage coming in front of him. The servant shouted, "But from Jia's mansion?" Jiahui responded, and the servant turned around and asked the people in the car, and said, "The two girls are coming up to avoid the rain. Mr. Baoyu has gone far." Xiren felt a pain in his heart, and he didn't care much, so he let Jiahui help him into the car and went.The boy handed Jiahui a bamboo hat to wear, and sat in the front of the car with him, letting Xiren sit in the car.

It turned out that the person sitting in this car was none other than Jiang Yuhan.He had just left Baoyu and came back, expecting to meet someone from Jia's mansion chasing him on the way. Seeing this maid getting into the car, he handed her a handkerchief to dry her face, and was about to persuade them to go back, when he accidentally saw the big red sweat towel Hanging on her waist, she couldn't help asking: "But sister Xiren?" Xiren was thinking about why Baoyu was so unfeeling, when he suddenly saw him asking this question, he said, "How can you recognize me, sir?" Jiang Yuhan said with a smile: "I gave Baoyu this belt on my sister." Xiren immediately understood: it turned out that he was the cause of Baoyu's beating last time.He touched the belt on his body again, because he had been in a hurry for the past two days and didn't have the time to dress up. He had put it on indiscriminately, but at this moment he suddenly felt that the belt was either faded or not, which was very embarrassing.

Then Jiang Yuhan met Xiren at this time, and saw the rain washing away her face. Although she was not stunning, she spoke well and behaved well. That day, she and Baoyu were waiting for a drink while composing lyrics, and she didn't mean to mention "baby". As a "treasure", when I saw that the things I gave Baoyu in the past were taken away by the attackers, I had a thought: such a appearance is worthy of the palace of a prince. I have also been in and out of rich families, and I have seen some thick emerald powder However, I hate my poor family and poor life, and it is inevitable that I will be abused by the world. Although I have accumulated some family assets, but the people are dangerous and cannot stay for a long time, but go to the secluded village in the cold and smokey place, buy a few acres of courtyards, and spend a few years It's okay to live a clean life, but I hate that my friends and confidants are all gone. Now Baoyu has left the world of mortals, adding to the sigh of floating life, and I can't help but want to go for the attackers.At this time, Xiren was also in trouble: Baoyu saw that it was difficult to turn back. She was sold to Jia's house, and she served the old lady, Xiangyun, and Baoyu with one heart and one mind.Seeing Jiang Yuhan's situation now is like bumping into a window in a dark room with your head covered, and you have to ask questions.

The two of them were thinking wildly about each other, when Jiang Yuhan asked Xi Ren what his plan was, and Xi Ren saw that there was already a relationship in the past, and since he was outside, there was no one around to discuss with, so he didn't care to avoid suspicion, and shared his thoughts listen to him.Xi Renyin said: "Baoyu has been a little dazed since he was a child. We, the people around us, have never been less persuasive. It's just because of the changes in the mansion this year, and he has experienced some life and death. This is helpless. How could he be so true?" He made up his mind and abandoned us. What can I do now, since I have lost him, I have to rush back to confess to my wife, and I can only resign myself to fate in the future. Do you have any good ideas that can be discussed? Discuss." Jiang Yuhan said with a smile: "I would advise my sister to think about it, the prosperity is nothing but a fleeting moment, and I have seen some wealthy people abandon their homes and businesses, but they are more determined than the poor. Most of the poor are desperate to escape from the world. The rich Mostly the heart has already realized it. As the saying goes, wealth and honor are charming eyes, and being able to give up wealth and honor is the most difficult thing to recover, and Baoyu was born with the protection of psychic Baoyu, so he is not a mortal person after all."

After hearing these remarks, Xiren thought to himself: Sure enough, they were messing around together, and their ideas are so grotesque.Yin asked him: "Since you think so, is it possible that you will abandon your family and business in the future?" Jiang Yuhan laughed and said, "My sister misunderstood. It's still far away from that step. Besides, how can I compare with Baoyu? With someone like my sister coming to assist me, who else would be willing to do it except Baoyu." Before he finished his sentence, he felt that his words were abrupt, and he was about to attack someone. Pleading guilty, but seeing that there is no expression of anger on her face, only two hands are twisting the handkerchief where she is, and she knows what she is thinking.The rain outside was beating on the roof of the car, and the two of them were a little impetuous. Every time you said something to me, the more you talked, the more speculative they became, and there was no manners.The car has gone to nowhere.

In addition, Baoyu was lost that day, and Mingyan was too scared to come back. At night, she quietly asked the servant of Jia's mansion to inquire about it, and said that Baoyu had not returned, so she was still looking around outside.When the curfew came at night, Mingyan sneaked into his home, but couldn't fall asleep, remembering that he was just looking around in the street without a clue, so he went through Baoyu's recent words carefully in his mind, remembering in a trance, Baoyu recently said that he had a dream that Zhen Baoyu became a monk, and the two of them were good brothers in the dream, so he also went to the Great Barren Mountain to find Zhen Baoyu, and he kept talking about where I would go, because his nonsense was more serious than ordinary people. Ming Yan didn't pay much attention to talking too much, but now that he thinks about it, he really went there.Thinking of this, early the next morning, I hurriedly asked several temples and Taoist temples. The monks and priests had only heard of it, but they didn't know where the Great Barren Mountain was located. They asked an old Taoist with a gray beard, and finally Said: "Go out of the city to the north, along the Wenchou River, just pick up the most difficult road by the river, and when there is no way to go, you will be there." After hearing this, Ming Yan hurriedly galloped away .

Mingyan rode his horse back upstream along the Wenchou River, and found that the road was getting more and more rugged. People and horses were stabbed by gravel and thorns from time to time, and Mingyan cursed: "Don't talk about the second master, I haven't seen a single person. What kind of road is this old man pointing to? Go back and pull his beard off." While cursing, Suddenly I saw a person sitting on the ground in front of me, with torn clothes and a haggard appearance. It was not Baoyu.He was so happy that Mingyan shouted: "My lord, I have found you." He hurried forward, only to see that Baoyu's clothes were torn, jade was gone, and his expression was also sluggish. Mingyan asked him where Yu went. Baoyu only said that he was hungry. Fortunately, Mingyan had brought some dry food, so he quickly let him eat, and then fed him half a pot of water with the kettle.While eating, he touched his whole body carefully, and saw that there was no bump or injury, so he was relieved, knelt on the ground and recited Amitabha Buddha dozens of times.Fang supported Baoyu and walked back slowly until the morning of the third day, when they returned to the city.Mingyan said again: "Although the masters and wives are anxiously waiting for the second master at home, we can't just go back in ragged clothes. It must be that the second master has done something wrong outside, and the young one will inevitably be beaten to death." Fortunately, Mingyan He always has some broken silver on his body, bought a new suit of clothes, went to an inn to wash his body and changed it for him, and then led him back home.

Let's say that Saohong came back early in the morning. Jia Zheng went to the Ministry of Rites and was not at home, so he took the jade and went back to Mrs. Wang. I was about to find the chariots and horses in person. In a panic, Lai everyone hurried over and shouted: "Reassure your wife, Baoyu is back." After hearing this, Mrs. Wang wiped her tears and came out of the courtyard. A group of people came over with Baoyu in their arms, and saw that their hair had not been shaved, so they were relieved for a while. They approached and pulled them over to look around carefully. Said: "What's the matter?" Baoyu hurriedly said: "I worried my wife, but after the exam, I felt that I didn't do well in the exam, so I wanted to hide outside for two days." Mrs. Wang was just relieved.I wanted to scold him, but seeing everyone present, I just stared at Mingyan fiercely and said angrily, "I'll deal with you when I come back." See Jiamu.When Jia Mu saw Baoyu come to say hello, she pulled him to her side and said with a smile, "I'm thin, why haven't I seen this dress?" Then she asked, "Where's the jade? Why is the jade missing?" Mrs. Wang hurriedly took it out from her body. .Mother Jia took it for him to wear, and ordered someone to pass a message to Jia Zheng, saying that the exam was hard, and Baoyu was asked to rest for two months and not to mention homework anymore.

Mrs. Wang came out from Jiamu's place and hurriedly ordered someone to find the attacker and wait for her to come back. After searching for two days, she couldn't find it.Everyone said it was strange, the lost one came back, and the found one was lost again, and after waiting for ten days, only the little girl Jiahui came back alone, Xiren and Companion Crane were gone, Jiahui took Jiang Yuhan and The benefit of Xiren was vague in his words, and he only said that he was separated from Xiren at the fork in the road to search for Baoyu, and perhaps he was lost and could not come back.Mrs. Wang knew that she might not be lucky if she didn't return for a long time, so she gave Hua Zifang money and told him to find her sister.Baoyu was also worried about the attackers at first, but many days later, he received a letter of guilt from Jiang Yuhan, and he sighed secretly all night, but still kept it from the two of them.

The Mid-Autumn Festival is approaching, the victory of the war in various places has been determined, the news of victory is frequent, and the atmosphere in the capital is also festive. Jia Zhen came back and said that Longyan was happy, and that the frontline soldiers came from victories. Rewards and promotions are indispensable.Unexpectedly, within two days, Jia Rong suddenly became a deserter, ran home secretly, knelt down in front of Jia Zhenyou, dragged their clothes and skirts and cried at his feet: "Flesh and blood are flying everywhere, swords and guns have no eyes, father and mother If you ask me to go back again, our family will die." Jia Zhen had no choice but to let him spend the Mid-Autumn Festival at home, and then sent him to hide in the Zhuangzi.On the Mid-Autumn Festival, Jia Zheng and Jia Zhen worshiped their ancestors in the ancestral hall as usual. In the evening, Jia's mother asked Jia Zhenyou's Jia Rong to have a reunion at home for one night.Only Mrs. Wang, Li Wan and other women's relatives, together with Nanny Lai and other old nuns, worshiped the moon on the water-facing platform outside the Aujing Pavilion.Because of the continuous funerals this year, there was no banquet prepared. They just sent Jiamu back after the worship, and everyone dispersed.

In the sweet-scented osmanthus season, the township examination released the rankings, and all four of them were on the rankings. Among them, Jia Lan ranked the best, followed by Baoyu, Jia Huan, and Jia Zhu.While Jia's family was celebrating, they were told that the exam fraud case had occurred, and the results of all candidates in the examination room where Jia Lan and Baoyu were located were cancelled.Jia Zheng knew the inside story because he was in the Ministry of Rites.It turned out that after review, many highly similar test papers were found. I thought it was caused by plagiarism, but there were some from the same test room and some from other test rooms. Thesis exam questions are mixed with a bunch of famous quotes from Confucius and Mencius, and sold together with dozens of written model essays, only saying that they are betting questions, and candidates who have money to buy them are willing to memorize these dozens of essays only as real Because the question was hit, there was not much discussion outside, because leaking the question would be a serious crime, and all the examiners could not get rid of their ties, so they concealed the matter, and only voided the scores of all candidates in the examination room with similar test papers.

When Jia's mother found out, she didn't care much. She just asked Baoyu Jialan to come over and comfort her, saying that she was still young, and fame would come sooner or later.Li Wan taught her son alone for several years, a joy fell to nothing, and a disease fell due to loss. Youshi Lou persuaded her: "Jialan is so outstanding, and the old lady came to visit you again, but wait a few more years, why bother?" Troubled." Mrs. Wang couldn't bear it at all, and said to Jia Zheng, "Master is an official in the Ministry of Rites, why don't you go and walk around, if you don't make sure, you can restore Baoyu and Jia Lan's grades." Jia Zheng said: "That's why, in order to avoid suspicion , I can't interfere, who knows whether the two of them have plagiarized, as long as they learn the truth, why not wait another three years?" Mrs. Wang had no choice but to give up.When Jia's mother heard about it, she said that Jia Zheng did the right thing, and that's what an official should do.Seeing that everyone was unhappy about Baoyu Jialan, Aunt Zhao decided to go to Mother Jia to mention it: "It also makes the old lady happy. Don't forget that she has a grandson who has gone to high school." persuaded.

In addition, since Baoyu came back that day, he didn't go out much in the daytime except to say hello. At night, he ordered the little girl to carry a lantern and follow him to Xiaoxiang Pavilion, Qiushuangzhai, Changcui Nunnery, Zilingzhou, and Nuanxiangwu. Wandering around, Xueyan doesn't live in the Xiaoxiang Pavilion now, but settles in Jiamu's house.Therefore, these places are quiet and gloomy, without the half lively atmosphere of the past. Baoyu occasionally thought of composing poems and sighing for a while, but he couldn't arouse his interest after all.