The Legend of the Long Room in the Red Mansion

When I went outside, I found that the maids had tidied up a place and came out, with pens, inks, papers and inkstones all available, and a large round table with tea, snacks, cups, wine and food on it for people to take by themselves.

Daiyu raised her eyes slightly, and found that Ning Shan was sitting on an embroidered pier with Yingchun, leaning on the railing, fishing with a fishing rod.Yingchun leaned aside, holding a branch of sweet-scented osmanthus in her hand, leaning over the window sill, pinched the delicate stamens of the sweet-scented osmanthus and threw them into the water, attracting fish to float up and chatter.The siblings were talking and laughing, as if what happened a quarter of an hour ago hadn't happened.

While Daiyu breathed a sigh of relief, she inexplicably felt a sense of loss, but she didn't know why, but instinctively frightened her to run to the wall to read the questions, and hooked the eighth song "Ask the Chrysanthemum" and No. 11 "Chrysanthemum Dream", after ticking off, I remembered the farce that Ning Shan gave Yingchun and Xichun the title of the poem.

Baochai stood in the shade of the weeping willows, looking at the gulls and herons, watching the six roads with her eyes, seeing everyone's actions, watching Daiyu hesitate before the poem title, guessing in her heart, I don't know whether she is hesitating which one to write, or whether she is hesitant to write. What number to write.It has to be said that Baochai's speculation about people's hearts is really astute among girls of this age.

Tanchun sat far away, piercing the jasmine with a flower needle in the shade alone, Xichun stood not far from her, looked up at the two sweet-scented osmanthus trees, traced with his fingers in the air, as if Make a picture in your head.

At this time, Daiyu finally made up her mind, and still wrote the word "tow", and ticked off another "Ode to Chrysanthemum".Afterwards, he went to the table, picked up a small crabapple, frozen stone and banana leaf cup, picked up the black silver plum flower self-pourer pot, poured out some wine, put it between his lips and sipped it slowly, calming down, Stop thinking about other side matters, concentrate on displaying your talents, and plan to overwhelm everyone with art.

Baochai also walked forward slowly, poured a glass of wine and drank it, and then began to pick up the pen to outline the title of the poem.Unexpectedly, Baoyu shouted: "My dear sister, I already have four sentences for the second one. You let me give up."

Baochai laughed and said, "It's so easy for me to have a song, so you're so busy." After saying that, he really gave Baoyu the "Visiting Chrysanthemum" and hooked the first "Recalling Chrysanthemum" by himself.This was the only topic that Ning Shan thought about. For some reason, Baochai just wanted to do it for Ning Shan to see her talent.

Baoyu waited for Baochai to finish writing, took the pen in a hurry, ticked off the topic he liked, and asked everyone, "What number should I choose?"

This person who has no eyesight, everyone is uncomfortable because of the title of the poem, but he mentioned it again, and Daiyu said angrily: "I see you are called 'nothing busy' and forget it."

Tanchun smiled and said, "You should still use your old title 'Jiangdong Flower Master'."

Baoyu shook her head again and again, peeked at Daiyu, and said, "What do you do with what you did when you were young?"

At this time Yingchun finished talking with Ning Shan, and came over to choose the topic of the poem. Hearing their conversation, she said to Baoyu, "I think there is the most vulgar title, but it suits you the most. I think it is the most rare in the world." The most important thing is wealth, and the rare thing is idleness, these two things can no longer be combined, I don’t want you to have both, so I just call you a “rich, noble and idle person”.”

After finishing speaking, he raised his pen and ticked "Daiju", and put a word "Ke" below it.Then I ticked the following "Gongju", but added the word "Dugu".Everyone was surprised, and asked what happened, Yingchun said: "Big brother said, he is called 'Mr. Dugu'." Everyone thought that since the founding of the country, the Ning family, which has been famous for nearly a hundred years, is now the only one, and they can understand The meaning of this number, but no one can guess the truth.

Xichun also came over to choose a topic. Although she wanted to paint chrysanthemums wholeheartedly, she did not choose "Painting Chrysanthemums".After finishing writing, I took a look around and saw that there was no danger of ink staining the paper. I smiled slightly, ran to Yingchun, pulled her and said, "Sister, let's write together, okay? After finishing writing, I will give it to Ning University first." Brother, take a look, change it once, and try to win the next time."

Yingchun smiled and pinched her cheek, and said: "Big brother's revised poem, is it yours? His? If you really want to win, you should write it yourself."

Xichun turned her head and said arrogantly: "I don't, anyway, my surname is Ning now, even if it's a poem name, I don't believe that big brother Ning won't help me."

Yingchun laughed and said, "Since he claims to be surnamed Ning, why did he add the word 'Ning' in front of Big Brother?"

When Baochai heard this, he also laughed and said, "Now in the club, shouldn't you be honored as 'Mr. Dugu'? The name is only taken here, and you call it wrong, but you should be punished?" As he said, he fell down with Tanchun. Two glasses of wine, half as a joke, half as a forced drink for the two of them before giving up.

Everyone chatted and laughed again, and no one mentioned Baoyu's poem name again, but he himself wanted to get closer to Ning Shan, so he came up with the poem title "Mr. Yihong", which is not bad. , everyone has no theory, and each thinks about his own poems.

In less than one meal, the twelve questions were completed. Each of them was transcribed and handed over to Ning Shan. Another piece of Xuelang paper was brought over. Tanchun wrote and transcribed them together. Give someone's number.

Ning Shan took the poem and said with a smile: "It's not the poetry society I started, why should I judge? Besides, there are also my poems in it. If you want me to say, whoever started it, you should go to whoever judges it." .”

Everyone was in a dilemma. If we want to get to the root, the idea of ​​the Poetry Club was originally Tanchun's idea; but today there will be this scene, but Baoyu pestered Shi Taijun and forcibly worked it out; but Shi Taijun himself is not good at poetry, she He is not from a scholarly family, but he is the director of the family all the year round, and he is familiar with Buddhist classics and knows some common words. It is absolutely impossible to determine the quality of poetry.Therefore, everyone was in trouble and didn't know what to do for a while.

Ning Shan thought for a while, and those in her family didn't seem to be good at it. If Jia She was asked to comment on a gold and stone antique, Jia Zhen was asked to talk about an oiran actor, and Jia Lian was asked to comment on restaurant dishes, there might be something else to say. They came to appreciate the piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, not to mention playing the piano against a cow, and it is almost the same, and it is not in vain to waste good poems.

So he laughed and said, "Can't you find a fair and decisive person in your family?"

Baoyu immediately clapped his hands and said, "Even though my sister-in-law is not good at acting, she is good at reading and is the most fair. Let's ask her to judge the pros and cons."

Daiyu said: "It's very good, and she is not present, so I don't know which poem was written by whom. She judges, and we are all convinced."

Yingchun quietly explained to Ning Shan: "Sister-in-law Zhu was born in the Imperial College Jijiu Li's family. She was also a talented woman who was familiar with poetry and books at home. When Xi'er and I were still raised by the old lady, we hadn't invited a female husband yet. , I just learn something from her every day."

Ning Shan nodded slightly, regardless of the daughter of Guozijian Jijiu, she must be talented, but she is still doing Jijiu at an old age, either she is extremely knowledgeable, or she is pedantic and does not know how to survive in the officialdom The way of the people.I don't know what kind of heart will be in the daughter raised by such a father.

After all, no matter how talented you are, if you have a bad temper, you won't be able to judge any good poems.However, everyone recommended her, which shows that she is unique.It's inconvenient for me to say too much, this poetry meeting is just for fun, to relax, it doesn't matter if you win or lose.It's somewhat embarrassing that such a thing happened, it's better to leave the meeting early and go home.

After a while, I saw a young woman standing up from Shi Taijun. During the banquet just now, Shi Taijun had already introduced her as the widow of the second room Jiazhu. A slightly sad expression all the year round is also enough to show his identity.

She came over, met with everyone, and made a special salute to Ning Shan.Ning Shan turned her body to avoid half of it.This Mrs. Li is a young widowed chaste woman, a standard ancient lady from a scholarly family. Although she has a high position and authority, she is of the same generation and her age is almost the same, so she should not be fully respected.

Li Wan took the poem and said to everyone with a smile: "I don't know which person wrote it, so I don't know who to recommend as the leader. It seems that everyone has their own epigrams. Today's public comment: " "Ode to Chrysanthemum" is the first, "Ask the Chrysanthemum" is the second, and "Dream of Chrysanthemum" is the third, with a new title, new poems, and a new conception, I wonder whose masterpiece it is?"

Baoyu clapped his hands and said with a smile, "It's Sister Lin after all, and the three songs actually occupy the top of the three tripods."

Li Wan was surprised and said: "It turns out that the word 'tow' is actually Miss Lin? You really are the best of the three tripods. You are the number one scholar, the second place, and the third flower."

Daiyu shook her head and said modestly: "My song is not good either, after all it hurts more delicate."

But Li Wan said: "It's a very good coincidence. It doesn't show that the pile is blunt." While speaking, he hesitated. There is no Ning Shan in the capital of the three leaders. I don't know if the general will feel ashamed and annoyed her if the review will continue later.This is not a good thing, she is a widow, she is afraid that it will affect the future of her son Jialan.

But Baoyu kept urging: "Sister-in-law, what's going on next, please come and listen to us."

Li Wan had no choice but to say: "The hairpin chrysanthemum, pairing chrysanthemums, and worshiping chrysanthemums are next, followed by "Painting chrysanthemums", "Recalling chrysanthemums" and "Chrysanthemum shadows." Li Wan seemed low-key and calm. , not showing the mountains and not showing the water, and because she was young and widowed, she became more and more "heart-like and dead", but after thinking about it, I know that the young daughter-in-law who can survive under the two mother-in-laws of Shi Taijun and Mrs. Wang is also from a family background. , must have her own means.

According to Shi Taijun's preference for the second room and Mrs. Wang's eldest son's expectations, if this Li family is not gentle, elegant, extraordinary in means and good in appearance, she will not become the eldest grandson's wife of Rongguo Mansion.

Just by reading her reviews of poems, I know that the first three poems are really good, but "Zanju", "Duiju" and "Gongju" are obviously three styles, but she generalizes them in general, and she knows it after thinking about it. Whichever song was written by Ning Shan, the most likely "Master Dugu" was included in it.

After all, the title "Young Master Yihong" is immediately known to be Baoyu, so the remaining masculine poem title must belong to Ning Shan.In order to prevent guessing mistakes, all the names with the word Ning in their titles were simply selected, so Yingchun - "Ning Ke"'s "Double Chrysanthemum", and Xichun - "Ning Yu"'s "Chrysanthemum Shadow" were also listed. list.

In the end, Baoyu was not mentioned, but it was for Ning Shan's face. If he failed to win the championship, letting Baoyu fall to the ground would also show that although he is a general, he is better than Baoyu, who is also a man and a scholar.Furthermore, the poems this time were judged by a woman, and it is understandable to prefer her daughter's poems. It is really thoughtful in every aspect, even Wang Xifeng, who claims to be all-round and exquisite, can't compare to her.

Ning Shan stood under the shade of a tree, looking in the direction of Shi Taijun from a distance. Today, she came to this Grand View Garden. Apart from the beautiful scenery and delicious food, there are also excellent works by beautiful women, so this trip is worthwhile.Seeing the style of women and all kinds of things in the world, it is not in vain to be young and frivolous once.There will probably not be more opportunities like this in the future, it is better to have more fun today.

After thinking about it, he smiled, walked to the crowd again, sat down with Yingchun, and under Li Wan's attention, they ordered hot crabs again, and ate them on the big round table.

Baoyu, Daiyu, and Baochai sang crab songs one after another. Everyone joked about it for a while, completely exposing the previous embarrassment, and Ning Shan was able to enjoy herself.

In the evening, I just bid farewell to Shi Taijun, who was so kind and peaceful today, and took Yingchun and Xichun back to Ronghou's mansion next door.Lin Daiyu was alone, but Shi Taijun stayed behind, only asking her to go back tomorrow.Daiyu happened to be a little bit feverish because of what happened in the afternoon, so she didn't refuse, she just asked Yingchun to go back and have her dowry brought back.Everyone parted at this point, and went back to their rooms to rest without mentioning it.