A Dream of Red Mansions: Zhu Yan drunk

No.80 Eight Chapters Xue Baochai Cautiously Persuading Bao Yuxiang Shi Yunzui Untitled Poem

Let's say that Mrs. Wang came to Aunt Xue and told Aunt Xue about the troublesome housework for a while, then asked Aunt Xue, "Why don't you go for a walk, and ask Baochai to go to the garden more when you have time." Aunt Xue said with a smile: "Recently There are many things, I know that the old lady and you are unhappy, so I don't bother you in the past." Mrs. Wang said: "It's not an outsider, can you hide anything? I haven't seen Baochai for several days, and I have lost weight." Aunt Xue then Xiang Baochai said, "Talk with your aunt for a while. I'll ask Xue Biao for something." After that, he went out.Mrs. Wang said to Baochai: "Your brother Bao said that all the sisters have gone away. It's boring to leave him alone. You also know about his exams. If you have time, you can teach him for me anyway. I'm afraid He is so stupid that he can't get out for a while." Baochai said with a smile: "Aunt, don't worry too much. Brother Bao has also gone through some things now, so you should understand it after thinking about it." Mrs. Wang sighed: "He is better than others. Be naughty, I think it would be nice if he grows up a little bit like a little guy, who knows that he hasn't been so arrogant recently, and his silent appearance makes me feel even more worried. Reading is still secondary, but The matter of your sister Lin may be more dangerous than good, but there is still no news about it. It makes people worry about it day and night. After all, it is not a solution. After a while, it will make the old lady sad, so I have to mention this matter. When Baochai heard Mrs. Wang talking about Baodai and Baodai, she was embarrassed to say more, stood up and smiled and said, "Auntie came by coincidence. I just finished finishing the painting in the Grand View Garden today, and I am going to discuss it with Brother Bao." When Mrs. Wang heard this, she also got up and smiled, "In that case, go and discuss it, and I will go." Baochai came to Yihong Courtyard, and waited for half a day before seeing Baoyu coming back from the garden. Baoyu came into the room and saw it, and said, "Sister Bao, sit down for a while and wait for me." Baochai saw him go to burn incense on the case, and changed another plate of melons and fruits, and a bowl of clear water. Don't bother him, just sit down.Sheyue came over to get some tea, and Yinger put the painting on Baoyu's desk, and took Muskyue out to talk.Baochai saw a copy of "Zhuangzi" on the desk, spread out a piece of paper, and wrote "Mengdiehu, Diemenghu", knowing that he was stupid to read again.Baoyu finished the sacrifice silently, came over and asked, "Sister Bao, how is Auntie? Is there any news about Brother Xue?" These words are well written, and they are beneficial, but the book "Zhuangzi" can be read occasionally, and it must not be studied as a serious matter." Baoyu said: "I have a saying, everyone has it, but I am the only one who is stubborn. It seems despicable, if I don’t ask again, it’s really a stubborn rock.” Baochai said: “I also have a saying that an elephant has no form, and the way is hidden and nameless. It is also said that those who build up can’t stand, those who cross can’t, and those who see themselves don’t know. , Self-righteousness is not obvious. Taoism is natural, but if you deliberately seek Taoism, you will lose the unrestrained temperament of Taoism."

Baoyu thought for a while and then said: "I understand what Sister Bao said. Even my life has a limit, but knowledge has no limit. If there is a limit, follow the limitless, and it is over!" Baochai said: "Understanding this way, I have gone to another extreme. Yes, all things are born destined to end in death, but Zhuangzi also pointed out that there are small knowledge and great knowledge. It's normal. If we live in chaos for dozens of years, if we don't do anything, we're just like worms." Baoyu asked Baochai again: "Then what should we ask for, and how should we ask?" Baochai laughed and said, "Isn't it said However, those who know are not as good as those who are good, and those who are good are not as good as those who are happy. You can ask for whatever you are good at and whatever you like." Baoyu asked again, "What if I can't ask for what I like?" Baochai knew that he still cared. Regarding Daiyu's matter, he persuaded: "This is what Mencius said to seek it in the right way and to get it. You can only look at it." Baoyu looked out of the window and sighed: "If you are destined not to find it, it is It's time to let go of the cliff, and be willing to take it upon yourself to turn into a wisp of smoke and disperse with the wind." Baochai heard that he had the intention of abandoning the world again, and said with a smile: "Brother Bao, there is a saying in Zen, and the ginseng is actually ginseng. You must realize that if you are not exhausted, you will always fall into the devil world, and you are a little bit into the devil world now. What the cliff says is that you will no longer be involved in the trouble after you try your best, and let your fate go. It does not mean that you give up responsibility and ignore it. .And there is another sentence, you can die at any time with your heart, and you can survive at every step by doing things. No matter what you think in your heart, you must always work hard to do things well." Having said this, Baochai thought to himself: Youdao is a murderous knife. Human sword, it can’t be said that he is at the maze ferry at the moment, and his words were slightly inadvertent, which made him even more dazed. It is better to divert him from these delusions by other things, so he suggested to look at the painting .

It turned out that two or three out of ten of Xichun's paintings in the Grand View Garden were still unfinished. Everyone said that apart from Baochai, there was no one else who could continue painting, so Baochai couldn't refuse anymore, so she had to take over and finish the painting.The two unfolded the long scroll and discussed it while admiring it. They saw that the first painting of the scroll was the scene of Jia Mu and Grandma Liu visiting the Grand View Garden last time. She, Baoyu couldn't help laughing when she thought of the excitement that day, and suddenly felt that there was one person missing, so she asked, "Why is there no fourth sister in this painting?" But no, she missed herself, and I didn't see it." Baoyu looked around carefully again, and asked: "I remember that we were eating crabs when Grandma Liu came, so the peonies in this painting are just in bloom. Baochai laughed and said, "It's not that I misremembered it. I think the scenery in this garden is different throughout the year. It would be a pity to only paint one season, so I added flowers and plants in different seasons." Baoyu laughed and said, "It's still Sister Bao is so smart, she thought of this kind of spring and autumn painting." Baochai laughed and said, "This is not my first creation. Look at the painting by the four younger sisters here in Changcui Temple. You and Baoqin fold plums in the snow. Isn't it just the scene in midwinter? " Baoyu praised: "That's right, so the same space has different times, it's really wonderful!" Suddenly, the parrot on the shelf called: "Idiot!"fool!Who will bury me!Who will bury me!

At the end of August, Jia Rong and the other two deserters from aristocratic families were finally exposed, and they were brought before the emperor by the Inspectorate. Jia Zhen and Jia Rong were dismissed from their titles and expelled from the capital, so Jia Zhen and his son had to return to their hometown in Jinling in a hurry, leaving Youshi to stay in Ningfu temporarily as housekeeper.Jia Zhengyin discussed with Jia's mother: "Now my family is not as good as before. Living in the capital for a long time may not be a long-term plan. I intend to resign and go back to my hometown in Jinling, but I am afraid that my mother will be relocated due to her old age." It’s nothing.” So Jia Zheng resigned on the grounds that his mother was old enough to return to her hometown to serve, but the emperor praised Jia Zheng’s honesty and integrity as an official, and gave him the post of Minister of Rites in Jinling, letting him go back to his hometown.

Jia Zheng, Lai Da, Lin Zhixiao and others discussed the matter of returning to their hometown. They all said that in addition to the family temple must be properly moved back to Jinling, it would be better to resell the mansion and courtyard to the upstarts in the capital to make up for the shortfall. Not to be constrained by money everywhere.As for the servants of the family, You Shi discussed with Mrs. Wang: "It's better to ask someone, if you want to go back to Jinling, hand over the utensils you want to take away to them for safekeeping; if you want to stay in the capital, leave the utensils you want to keep in the courtyard Hand over the things to them to guard, and then even the house and property will be sold at a price to the new owner." After discussing everything, she returned to Ming Jiamu, and Jiamu said: "If that's the case, let's get everything done before the end of the year." Jia Zheng and others replied: "Forget about the time, we can settle down by the beginning of the twelfth lunar month at the latest." Jia Mu nodded and said, "The friends and relatives who have made friends with Beijing over the years will also arrange houses for them in Jinling and call them Going south together, if there is any business in staying here, everyone knows that they are from here, and it is not appropriate to count them together. Besides, the Lai family, Lin family, Zhou family and other big stewards' families, choose A few decent nephews stayed in the capital, and let them live in the back porch, and I will hand them over to the people in the capital to pass on the news." Jia Zheng waited for the answer, and he has been busy every day since then.Jia Zheng personally took Jia Cong, Jia Duan, Jia Yun, and Jia Qiang to arrange the affairs of the family temple, Lai Dalin Zhixiao and others went to the house buyer to negotiate and set the price terms, Mrs. Wang Youshi Li Wan and others took the housekeepers and wives to do the calculation. The population and belongings of the two prefectures are kept in Jinling. Letters are exchanged between the two places. Jia Zhen and Jia Rong have packed up the ancestral hall and house in Jinling to welcome them. Zhou Rui and others are preparing boats, boats and horses.

It is said that after Baoyu knew that he was going back to Jinling, he wandered around in the garden every day, and only said that he had a few more glances. In the past two days, the autumn rain has been continuous, so he still took an umbrella and went out from Ningyezhu to Huaxu, standing in the garden. Watching the rain beating the residual lotus on the shore, after watching it for half a day, I went back to Yihong Courtyard, went to the porch to put away the umbrella, and heard the maids grinding their teeth in the room, only to hear Sheyue say: "Of course all Baoyu's things must be brought together. Wherever you go, you are in a hurry to share what you keep and what you don't." Qiuwen said: "We just collect some of our own things, and some of the things that my wife rewarded before. Where did you see that we moved Baoyu's things?" Sheyue said: "Of course you won't. It's just that the little girls saw that you cleaned up, so they naturally cleaned up. It's inevitable that they took the wrong one." Just as he was talking, seeing Baoyu come in and blowing rain on his body, Muskyue hurriedly changed him. After cleaning the clothes, Qiuwen brought tea and put it on the table, then walked away awkwardly.It turned out that a group of maids including Sheyue Tanyun and others in Yihong Courtyard returned to Jinling together, while another group of maids such as Qiuwen Bihen stayed in the capital, waiting for the new master with the garden, and each of them decided whether to go or not to go. If you don't want to stay, there is a rift in some things about taking care of things or even serving errands, Baoyu doesn't ask a word, let them quarrel and put things away, but seeing Qiuwen and others gradually becoming separated from him, she leans on the bed and sighs secretly , Fate is like flying through the gap, and friendship is just like this.

In the twinkling of an eye, at the end of September, the coffin in the family temple had been transferred back to Jinling and placed in place. Half of the household belongings in the two houses had just been cleaned up. When I was raised at home, I had never traveled far. Now that the imperial court has won a great victory in suppressing the rebellion, and the places are stable and peaceful, so when I returned to Jiamu, I asked Baoyu to follow her. When you are young, remember not to reprimand him in front of others outside, and tell him what you have to say behind your back." Jia Zheng agreed, and in order to save more people to take care of the southward relocation, he only brought Lin Zhixiao and four young servants with him. Going, Baoyu only took Sheyue, Mingyan and hoeing medicine, and heard that Xiangyun was also going south, so Jia Mu ordered her to take them with her.It turned out that Wei Ruolan fought bravely in the army, and was transferred from the East China Sea to Ping'an Prefecture to suppress the rebellion. In the last battle of Jiuhuizhu, although the officers and soldiers fought hard and won, many soldiers lost their lives. Ruolan has no conclusion. Some people saw Wei Ruolan fleeing to the enemy, while others said that he was exhausted and died in the river. His whereabouts are still unknown. This Wei Ruolan is the only son in the family. Wei's mother passed away in grief. Unable to bear it, she insisted on going to find her whereabouts in person, but everyone couldn't persuade her, so they had to obey her.

On the second day of October, Jia Zheng and Baoyu bid farewell to Jia's mother, reunited with the Wei family's boat and went south together. The whole group stayed on the boat day and night. Jia Zheng and Baoyu, father and son, rarely stayed together. Baoyu was tense all day long, and Jia Zheng felt uncomfortable looking at him, so Baoyu often went back and said to comfort Xiangyun on the boat, and Jia Zheng agreed.For the convenience of going out, Xiangyun changed into men's clothes a long time ago. He tied his head with a headband, wore a long gown, and had no cosmetics or jewelry. It was a little more simple. The two of them often stood on the bow of the boat and talked, and they looked very different from a distance. Just like two brothers, because each has sad things, it is inconvenient to mention them, so they just pick up some irrelevant words and say a few words. Xiangyun asked about the attacker, Baoyu said: "She has her own results, so don't mention it." Yun asked again: "Sister Bao's family will stay in the capital or go back to Jinling?" Baoyu said, "I don't know. I'm afraid that if I ask, my relatives will misunderstand that I am in a hurry to vacate the house, so I haven't asked." Said: "When you were young, you always liked to chatter non-stop, asking why the boat always followed the river, why the river didn't pass by our house, and why the fish in the river didn't swim into the sea, do you remember?" ?” Xiang Yun thought for a long time and sighed, “But, I don’t know where all these words come from.”

After the boat sailed for more than ten days, the waterway divided into two branches. The south went to Jinling, and the southeast went to Jiuhuizhu and Ping'an Prefecture. Baoyu returned and Jia Zheng said that he would go southeast with Xiangyun. Scrolling books and traveling thousands of miles is all progress." So he wrote a letter, instructing him to go to Ping'an Prefecture and hand it over to Lu Futai, and also instructing him to take good care of Xiangyun on the way, and write letters if you have something to do, so don't let Jia Mu worry, He left the big boat and the silver for expenses to the two of them, and went to Jinling by himself in another boat.Baoyu Xiangyun and his party drove another four or five days to the section of Jiuhuizhu, moored the boat, visited the villages along the bank carefully, and hired several boatmen to search along the river. There will be no news for more than a month. When they came to a shoal, a boatman couldn't help persuading him: "Miss, although you have given money and said that you want to see people and dead bodies, we just need to look for them, but at least you have an idea in your heart. The area where two rivers meet is a fortress. The rebels, those who suppressed the rebellion, and those who cleaned up the battlefield have swept back and forth countless times. They are living people who will always be taken away. Where can I recognize them, but they were buried indiscriminately, and some people couldn't find them, so I made a sacrifice to the river, that's all." Xiangyun burst into tears when he heard this, and Baoyu said to the boatman: "Look for it again." While talking, a group of people came from a distance, and when they approached, they saw officers and soldiers escorting a dozen prisoners. Men, women, children, and children were all wearing shackles and chains. If some of them walked slowly, the officers and soldiers went up. Before scolding and whipping, all of them were covered in blood, and they stumbled all the way to the north.The boatman sighed to himself: "Whether it's life or death, these exiled people have no choice but to seek death from now on. They just have to wait until they are exhausted and reincarnated in the next life."

That night, Xiangyun cried for a long time on the boat, and Baoyu didn't know how to comfort her. When the tears gradually stopped and she said she wanted to drink, Baoyu drank with her until she was drunk, and fell asleep at some point.When I woke up the next day, I heard Mingyan say by my side: "The second master is awake. You can't wake up if you are drunk. Go and see Smith, she jumped into the river last night." Baoyu bluffed Jump, hurried to the cabin at the back, saw Sheyue Cuilu serving at the side, Xiangyun lying with eyes closed, bluish-purple forehead, murmuring some drunken words, Muskyue said: "It's our carelessness. Well, in the middle of the night last night, Smith jumped into the river quietly. Fortunately, Mingyan heard the movement and rescued her, but the river was cold at night, and she knocked her forehead on the boat again. Feed her, but she is still not awake, and I don't know if it is correct or not." Baoyu tried Xiangyun's forehead with his hand, and it was slightly hot, so he moored the boat to the ferry, and hurriedly got off the boat with Mingyan to find a doctor .The war in this area has just stopped, and most of the villagers have already fled to other provinces. They searched for two or three villages, but they couldn't find a medicine shop. Finally, they met an old farmer. Ming Yan hurriedly asked about it. There is a small earth temple in the middle of the road, beside the temple there is a doctor who dispenses medicine. Baoyu and Mingyan turn back to the ferry. Passing through the paddy field ridge, who knows that Baoyu didn't pay attention to his feet, and staggered and fell into the paddy field. Mingyan hurried forward to pull him back, but the two of them rolled in muddy water together, got up and walked for a long time, and finally found it. A small temple, there is indeed a medicine shed next to the temple, and a porridge shed on the other side. It turned out that the local gentry Shemi gave out porridge here to facilitate the refugees returning home.

I saw that the medicine shed was not big, with thatched roof, the back was blocked by a fence, the front was open, and there were several rows of shelves inside. There were many medicinal herbs in large and small packages on the shelves, and there were small wooden signs on the mouths of the big bags, which said: Artemisia annua, licorice, realgar, peach branches, etc., a middle-aged doctor is sitting in the shed, taking out the medicinal materials from the big bag, dividing them into small bags according to the amount of medicine, and handing them to the pedestrians who come to get the medicine. It is noon at this time There were ten or twenty people in twos and threes around the porridge shed next to the porridge, but there were not many people taking medicine.Baoyu went up to say hello, and said to the doctor, "doctor, my sister accidentally fell into the water last night, her forehead was bruised and swollen, and she was palpitated and feverish again this morning. Please prescribe a prescription for her. I will grab two for her." Take the medicine back." The doctor didn't look up, and continued to grab the medicine on his own, saying: "I don't see a doctor here, I only distribute medicine, and there is only one kind of medicine, to prevent and control the plague, and nothing else, so don't bother." Baoyu heard so Said, asked Mingyan to ask for a piece of silver and handed it to the doctor, and said, "may I ask the doctor to come with me for a consultation?" With a radius of tens of miles, the beacon smoke has just stopped and the population is not complete. I advise you to save some trouble." Baoyu said: "Come on, come on, I also prepared some commonly used medicinal materials when I went out. Please ask the doctor to prescribe a prescription. I will go back. Prepare it yourself." Seeing this, the doctor wrote a prescription for him, and gave him a pack of anti-plague medicine.

When Baoyu thanked Fang and was about to leave, his stomach suddenly growled several times. It turned out that he hadn't had any soup after walking for half a day, and he was already hungry. He was a little embarrassed, and when he looked up, he saw that Mingyan had gone to the porridge shed next door to beg for two bowls of porridge. I drank a bowl with a few gulps, and brought another bowl to Baoyu. There was only a simple square table in front of the porridge shed, and two scholars were occupying it. They sat and ate the porridge to rest their feet. The clothes are dirty, but the manner is still gentle. He raised his hand to invite him and said, "ah, it is destiny to meet each other, and white porridge can also be used as wine and food. Why don't you come and sit together, brother?" Turning their heads and walking away, the two of them saw him being so rude, they couldn't help squinting and mockingly said: "He must be a country bumpkin from somewhere, it's not to be praised." There were a few village girls sitting on a fallen tree trunk, Two of the young ones saw Bao Yusheng's picturesque eyebrows, and couldn't help eating porridge while raising their eyes and smiling at him. The other older one said with a sneer: "This little white face is either a singer or a human trafficker. He uses his beauty to deceive young women. Look at him again." I'll hook you up and kidnap you." The two young village girls were so frightened that they hurriedly lowered their heads and didn't dare to look any further.Suddenly several children were full of food and were playing, and they all ran over to surround Baoyu. A childish child asked him, "You look like the person in the painting. Are you from the Immortal Village?" Said: "Immortals don't need to eat. Look at the two of them. They don't have a single burden. They are dirty. They must be beggars." The urchins then laughed and pointed at them: "Beggars! Beggars! That!" Mingyan was so angry that he waved his hands and said, "Go, go! Let's play!" Baoyu had never eaten like this since he was a child, so he picked up Mingyan and left, and Mingyan hurriedly put the bowl of porridge on the ground , followed Baoyu away.

Let's say that Baoyu was about to leave here and go back to the boat. He happened to see a list of virtuous people posted in front of the temple. When he came closer, he saw line by line how much money a certain squire donated, and how much food a certain squire donated. There is a line that says "Shijiner" donated a golden unicorn. Baoyu turned around and asked the doctor in the medicine shed, "Do you know this Shijiner, and where does he live?" This is just a false name, some people have done bad deeds, stole some valuables from the dead, and in the end, they donated it with this name to reduce their evil and obstacles because they have a bad conscience or no good fortune to bear." Baoyu asked again. "Doctor, have you ever seen this golden unicorn?" said the doctor, "I've seen quite a few golden unicorns with golden locks and collars. Is there any difference between this golden unicorn?" Unable to make a gesture, Mingyan said: "Second Master, Miss Smith is still waiting for medicine on the boat. Let's get back the one she wears, which looks similar to the one on her body. The other one of a pair of unicorns will not be too late to inquire about it." Baoyu nodded Went with Mingyan.Back on the boat, seeing that Xiangyun's fever had subsided, but the wine hadn't fully awakened, he felt relieved, took the medicine box, prepared the medicine according to the prescription, and asked Cuilu to decoct it. Sheyue hurriedly changed his dirty clothes. Clothes, took off the sachet and small mirror that he was wearing next to him, and put them on the table by the window. Baoyu looked down and saw a piece of paper pressed on the table, and asked Musk Moon, "Who wrote this?" Musk Moon Said: "Mrs. Smith wrote this when she was drunk yesterday. I don't know if it's important or not. I'll show it to you." Baoyu saw an untitled poem on the paper:

After drinking the love in the cup, the mirror is empty when drunk.

I haven't been in a dream for a long time, why wake me up.

Baoyu was stunned for a while, then asked Sheyue, "Sheyue, who do you think I am?" Sheyue laughed and said, "Aren't you Baoyu?" Baoyu asked again, "What if I don't have this piece of jade?" Said: "Then you are also the treasure of the old lady and the wife." Baoyu said: "Don't care about the past, just say who I am in front of me?" How could Musk Moon know what was going on in his mind? There was a bamboo hat hanging on the wall, so he took it off and put it on his head, and said with a smile, "You can be a fisherman for a while, I have to wash my clothes." After that, he rolled up Baoyu's dirty clothes and went to the stern to find Mingming. Yan, the two discussed quietly: "Ping'an Prefecture is in front of us. If you know that Miss Lin's whereabouts are not good, how can Baoyu be crazy? One of them has already jumped over the river. This one has to be optimistic." Wearing a bamboo hat, took a pot of wine, came out of the cabin, sat cross-legged on the bow, overlooking the river, looking around in a daze, in fact, he knew in his heart that Daiyu and Zijuan hadn't heard from him for a long time, so it must be something bad or bad, but he never heard of it. I would like to face it, I just want to leave a thought for myself, I am feeling depressed, drinking to soothe my sorrow, and I saw a few families coming up the ferry, dragging their families and waiting for the boat, and the children just now were among them, they thought When Baoyu came out, he waved to him, turned around and started playing together again, chasing and playing, singing nursery rhymes, only listening to singing:

The river is green, the reeds are swaying, the boat is shaking, and the tears are waving.

The sun is dark, the autumn wind is swaying, and the geese are passing by, go and think about it.

(End of the book)