The Legend of the Long Room in the Red Mansion

Within two days, the Grand View Garden really sent someone to Duke Huguo's mansion, but they kept saying that they would take Mrs. Xing to see her brother and sister-in-law, and only after that did they tell the girls to come and recognize their relatives.

Since Yingchun still has Mrs. Xing's relatives here, it's hard to say anything, but Daiyu pulled Xichun and said: "The eldest wife's niece, Miss Bao's younger sister, and the eldest grandma's younger sister are not very close to us. Darling, it's not our turn." Xichun nodded, she is now with Princess Yinghua, drawing the garden pictures every day, she is having a lot of fun, even if her own brothers and sisters-in-law come and ask her, she won't leave. What's more, it's someone else's brother and sister-in-law, what does it have to do with her?

Mrs. Xing herself doesn't like to see Xing Zhong and his wife. She also knows that they just ask for money when they come here, and they might even want to leave her niece Xing Xiuyan's lifelong affairs to her. Why should she worry about those leisurely things?So she refused to go without saying anything, only saying that Jia Amnesty hadn't said anything, and she didn't dare to solicit anything.

Unexpectedly, while Shi Taijun sent someone to inform her, he also asked someone to go to the yamen to find Jia Amnesty, and said something else.It turned out that it was almost the twelfth lunar month, and the Jia family had to prepare for ancestor worship and festivals, so Jia Amnesty, the head of the family, had to come forward.

There was no other way, Jia Amnesty and Mrs. Xing had no choice but to return to Ronghou's mansion temporarily, and wait for the New Year's Eve and the Lantern Festival to find a chance to go back.

As a result, Yingchun, Daiyu and Xichun had no choice but to go back together.Fortunately, Princess Yinghua came forward and said that she was bored at home alone, so she must be accompanied by the three of them in Yingchun, and they were only allowed to go back to kowtow to salute on the day of New Year's Eve when they worshiped their ancestors.The three of Yingchun secretly took advantage of it, and Shi Taijun and others did not dare to complain, but Baoyu was very unhappy, and sighed, only saying that the princess was domineering, and begged Shi Taijun to find a way to bring all the sisters back home, so as not to suffer others there. compare notes.So scared that Shi Taijun hurriedly covered his mouth, telling him not to talk nonsense, so as not to be beaten by his father.

Since he was beaten up by Jia Zheng last year, Baoyu has grown a little memory, at least he knows what is good when others tell him to shut up, so although he is dissatisfied, he dare not say anything, just sullen Going back to the room and being bored for a long time, attracted all the maids and maids to coax him, and then it worked, and he was happy again.

But Chinese New Year is indeed a good excuse. Once Jia Amnesty returned to the Ronghou Mansion, he was too busy to touch the ground. Seeing that Tian'er was invited to drink, he himself had to invite others to drink, and Mrs. Xing followed everywhere. run around.In particular, Xing Zhong and his wife really dumped their daughter Xing Xiuyan as soon as they saw her. Mrs. Xing herself didn't like to court her, so she used the excuse that Yingchun hadn't come back yet, that there was no girl in the family, that Sister Feng was in poor health, and that Xiaoyue Xiahong was always on the list. Can't stop, no one can take care of her.Shi Taijun sent someone to take Xing Xiuyan to the Grand View Garden and put him in Baochai's house.

Baochai's cousin Xue Baoqin was very fond of Shi Taijun, and she was taken to the Grand View Garden's own Hengwu Garden, where she stayed with her day and night.Baochai, on the pretext of helping her mother celebrate the New Year, leaves the Grand View Garden and goes back to live in Lixiangyuan from time to time.Shi Xiangyun lived in the vacated Zhuijin Building, and Xing Xiuyan lived in it not long after.

Shi Xiangyun was very happy. She liked Xue Baochai the most among all the people in the Grand View Garden, and she wanted to live with her, but Baochai went home from time to time, and only half of the time in a year lived in the Grand View Garden. She was bored by herself. Xing Xiuyan passed by.Although she doesn't like to talk very much, she is still a companion. Being pulled by Xiangyun to play wildly all day long, she has become familiar with everyone.

Everyone saw that she had a peaceful disposition, that although she came from a poor background, she was not bitter or mean, nor did she feel sorry for herself, she was not like Mrs. Xing and her parents, but was kind and caring, so they couldn't help but take care of her a bit.Mrs. Xing heard about it, but she didn't reason about it. She is very beautiful now. With Ning Shan's light, everyone goes out to pursue her. Even among the royal concubines, Princess Yinghua has the face of Princess Yinghua, and everyone is proud of her. Take a look at her, she is enjoying herself happily, and she can't take care of her niece, so she just leaves it to Sister Feng to take care of her.

At that time, Sister Pianfeng had a cold and was unwell because of the weather, and she had to hold on to preside over the New Year and other things. She accidentally lost her recuperation, and became more and more ill. After a few days, she even had difficulty getting out of bed.Helpless, Mrs. Xing had to come out to preside over it temporarily, but she had never done this before, so she couldn't help being caught blind, so she thought of her daughter's benefit, and took the initiative to send someone to the Duke Huguo's mansion, saying that she would bring someone back to help her.

Yingchun is the first one who can't leave. Princess Yinghua is raising a baby now, so she doesn't dare to bother her. What's more, in this first year, no new daughter-in-law will host the ancestor worship and visit relatives and friends during the New Year. Only family members can take it with them.Yingchun herself is doing it gropingly, so where can she get away?No choice but to let Daiyu go back to help.

Daiyu felt a little unwilling and didn't dare to complain, so she had to pack up her suitcase and go back home.Sure enough, as soon as the front foot entered the door, someone told Baoyu on the back foot, which made him want to come to Ronghou's mansion with a lot of noise.Fortunately, Jia Zhengfu is at home now, and he faces everyone all day long. Baoyu is so upset that he is sued by his younger brother Jia Huan.In a rage, Jia Zheng took Baoyu to his study and asked him about his homework. Seeing that he couldn't answer a sentence, he almost tried to use the board.In the end, in the end of the year, beating someone was temporarily exempted because it was unlucky.It's just that Baoyu is still assigned a lot of homework, so that he has no time to worry about finding someone to play with.

Here, Jia Huan was very happy when he heard that Baoyu was punished by the window base. He ran to the garden and saw the man standing with his back to the dead tree. By the way, I told the master about Baoyu's arguing for Miss Lin, what you promised me, can you give it to me?"

The man was wearing a crane cloak with lotus green bucket pattern on brocade and foreign thread carved silk. He had a dignified figure.

Baochai beckoned, called Jia Huan to come forward, took out a few silver locks of "Ruyi pen ingots" from her purse, handed them to him, and said with a chuckle, "Take it and play with it. I only ask you one thing. In the future, you If you hear that Baoyu is making a fuss about looking for Miss Lin, welcoming Miss Lin, and cherishing Miss Lin to play with him, just tell your master to go."

What Jia Huan is most happy to do is to sue Baoyu, and what he dislikes the most is seeing girls holding Baoyu and joking with him. She assured her: "Good sister, don't worry, I'm watching him, and my aunt is also watching, I won't let him disturb your peace."

Baochai said: "Just don't tell people that I told you." Jia Huan smiled secretly: "I know." After finishing speaking, he looked left and right for no one, stepped over the dead branch and ran away.Baochai watched him go from a distance, tidied up his cloak, and went back to Lixiangyuan, saying to Aunt Xue: "Mom, are our New Year's gifts ready? They should also be sent to Madam Hou and Sister Feng." gone."

Aunt Xue counted the things that were half piled up on the kang, and said worriedly: "Although we have a lot of things, they are all valuable, but I don't know if they can get into people's eyes. I don't know how to send them to Duke Hu. Go, do you think they will come to Ronghou Mansion to celebrate the New Year?"

Baochai hurriedly said: "Mother is talking nonsense. The Duke of the Protector is an heir. There is no reason to come to other people's house to worship the ancestors during the Chinese New Year. But I see that the Marquis of Pardon is going to be in Ronghou's mansion this year." It's Chinese New Year, maybe in the first month, the Guardian Guild will come to say hello. We can't get on the line over there, so let's take care of one end first. Sister Feng and the eldest wife both like yellow and white things. Marquis She likes gold and stone antiques, as well as ancient calligraphy and painting fans, as for the second brother Lian, fortunately he has always been afraid of Sister Feng, so we only need to take care of these three people."

Aunt Xue nodded repeatedly when she heard this, then shook her head and sighed for a while, and said: "It's a pity that your brother went out with the caravan this year, if not, we can let him go to please, and make him familiar."

Baochai said: "If my brother has grown up, it's okay to go there to ask for face. But now, I'm going, I'm afraid people will look down on me." Aunt Xue sighed again, why didn't she know What kind of virtue is his own son, but he was born by himself after all, and he feels very uncomfortable when he hears that others don't like it.

Baochai didn't argue, just looked at the list of gifts, added and subtracted some appropriately, and when she saw it was in order, she urged Aunt Xue to say, "The aunt who just came back from the next door to preside over the scene, let's go and see it first, don't wait until later." Now, I’m busy, so I can’t talk anymore.” She kept throwing money away and asked someone to keep an eye on the next door, and once Yingchun waited for the girl to come back, she would know right away, so she would go there and get close.It just so happened that she also helped to send Baoyu away today, so she shouldn't take credit for it.

For a while, both mother and daughter were dressed up, and Xiangling was asked to bring the gift list, Baochai's maid Ying'er took a few female reds that Baochai had cut and handmade, and Aunt Xue's maid Tongxi and Tonggui held the gift list. For Sister Feng's ginseng, bird's nest and other nourishing products, come to Ronghou's mansion together.

After entering the door, Mrs. Xing was not there, and went to another house to have a banquet. Sister Feng took a nap and didn't like to get up, so the two went directly to Daiyu's courtyard.Coincidentally, Daiyu had just finished tidying up and was sitting and drinking tea, so she received her.

As soon as Baochai met, they warmly joined hands and told how much they missed each other after parting for such a long time. Then they brought over their female celebrities, picked out the presents for the sisters first, and added a word about the rest, just saying it was filial piety. For the princess, I asked Daiyu to come up a little when she went back, and she didn't show much merit.

But Daiyu likes to hear people say when she can go back there, so she is happy, and she also chats with Baochai for a few words, and still remembers to greet Aunt Xue.Aunt Xue was always kind to Daiyu, but at this time she wanted to make her remember their favors, so she put her arms around Daiyu and asked her about her diet and daily life, interspersed with giving her some tips for socializing during the New Year, and finally said casually: Qi Baoyu was punished by Jia Zheng for her homework, so she might not have time to harass her for a while.

Daiyu Bingxue is smart, as soon as she heard this, she knew that [-]% of it was written by Aunt Xue, mother and daughter, otherwise she would not have mentioned it to her.It's just that she has to bear this favor, and she couldn't be more grateful for someone to help her get rid of Baoyu's entanglement. Immediately, her smile became warmer, and she pulled Baochai and said to Aunt Xue: "Good aunt, you know me. How do you know about these family matters? It’s just that I learned a little from the sister-in-law’s mother in the old year, and it’s not shameful enough. Since my aunt loves me, let’s leave Sister Bao to help me.”

The Xue family has been brazenly living in Lixiangyuan, refusing to move, in order to cling to Ronghou's family, seeing Ronghou's family rise and fall, they are almost out of touch, and it would be good to catch Wang Xifeng.When Wang Xifeng fell ill earlier, Aunt Xue ran around three or five times a day to take care of her and help with the family's accounts.Even if Wang Xifeng is as good as a human being, it can be seen that Aunt Xue is trying to please her, so she has no choice but to appreciate it.Her mother left early, and grew up with her aunt since she was a child. She has long envied her cousin Wang Xiluan for having a mother who loves her.Now Aunt Xue treats her as if she were her own daughter, she is thoughtful and appropriate in everything, even with a cold heart like Sister Feng's, she can't help her eyes getting hot.

Originally, Wang Xifeng intended to let Baochai come over to help the housekeeper, but it was difficult to say so. Now that Daiyu asked Baochai to stay as a company, not only Xue's mother and daughter could not be more happy, but even Wang Xifeng was very happy. .Immediately, she stopped Aunt Xue's refusal and allowed them to be a little modest. Aunt Xue let Baochai stay, only said to accompany and take care of her sister, and went back to ask the servant girl to pack up Baochai's things and send them over.He also inquired about Daiyu's daily life from the little maid bought by Baochai, and added a large pack of high-grade bird's nest for Daiyu, and even the snowflake foreign candy to drink with the porridge.

Daiyu was used to eating bird's nest at Ning's house, she got a bowl of bird's nest every morning, warming and recuperating.In addition, living in Ning's family has nothing to worry about, and she doesn't need to worry about the family's expenses, and she has busy work to welcome the spring.She is just helping to look at it every day, and the rest is just playing.In this way, he is in a cheerful mood and lives as he pleases. Without any panacea, his weakness has been cured by three or four points.

Originally, this time in Ronghou's mansion, Zijuan was still worried that there would be no bird's nest for recuperation, and he would be busy with family affairs every day. Maybe there would be Baoyu coming, and it would inevitably cause new illnesses.As a result, the Xue family came to visit, and several things were settled.With the bird's nest, there are helpers, and Baoyu is stopped by others, and he can't do whatever he wants. Zijuan is only more grateful to Xue's mother and daughter than her daughter.

Baochai stayed in the side courtyard of Qixia Garden, and accompanied Daiyu every day.Daiyu went to Sister Feng's house every day to help manage the housework. Although Baochai followed her, she kept quiet and was very measured.After all the housekeepers and daughters-in-law left, she helped Daiyu to calculate the accounts, sort out the list, and prepare the New Year's ceremony. She also judged the people under her orders, inferred personal temperament, and weighed rewards and punishments, which saved Daiyu a lot. But Baochai didn't take credit for it. When he went to report to Sister Feng, he only said good things about Daiyu.

Daiyu naturally kept this friendship in mind, and when she wrote to Yingchun Xichun every day, she did not forget to mention Baochai, and later she simply asked Baochai to write a letter to gossip with Yingchun Xichun.It's fine with Yingchun, but Xichun has been talking with Princess Yinghua recently because of painting, and children have a temper of offering treasures, and they have to take everything they get.Baochai's letter was delivered to the princess.