The Hulk of the Red Chamber

Another year of Flower Festival, when it was Lin Daiyu's birthday, Lin Daiyu didn't celebrate her birthday very well in the past few years. After all, there were too many things, but this year, counting, this is the last time Lin Daiyu spent at home. It's a birthday, so it's natural to have a good one.

Because it's not a whole birthday, it's impossible to really hold it. However, Lin Daiyu posted a post to all the little sisters she knew ten days in advance, and held a small birthday banquet in the garden of Lin's family.February in Chang’an is said to be the Flower Festival, but really there are not many flowers blooming. Normally, there are only some plum blossoms, and there are still late-blooming narcissus. Most of the other flowers are now just flower buds. .

Therefore, when he learned that Lin Daiyu had invited a group of sisters to celebrate his birthday together, Shi Hong thought about it, and selected several pots of narcissus in advance, and sent them over. It's the kind of flowers that are still flowery and can bloom in a few days.

Lin Daiyu was also very happy to receive the daffodils sent by Shi Hong. She originally wanted to invite her sisters to enjoy the plum blossoms in the garden, but the weather is cold and the wind is strong. After all, it is not very appropriate to go outside. If you have to invite others to be a guest, but you catch the wind and cold when you turn back, it will be bad.Now that there are more pots of daffodils, there are naturally a few more choices. Choose a bright place to enjoy the flowers, talk, and have some snacks. If the weather is good, you can go for a walk in the garden; if the weather is bad , just ask someone to cut the plum branches and put them in the bottle.

Lin Daiyu is not living under the same roof as before, so she is very relieved. Lin Ruhai's physical condition is also hidden from her. She has nothing else to do except embroidering the wedding dress. The auspicious day that the two families discussed is September [-]th. , therefore, is not in a hurry.She was able to slowly consider the menu, consider the decorations, and even think about whether to invite a group of small operas back, even if they don't sing, it would be good to ask them to sing a few tunes quietly.

The Jia family has already received a post. The main invites are Sanchun and Shi Xiangyun. There is no way. When they were in the Jia family before, Lin Daiyu and Shi Xiangyun looked down and saw each other. Entering the historian's family, although Shi Xiangyun is a cousin, she can be regarded as a sister-in-law, so naturally she has to invite her.

The post does not belong to Xue Baochai. Lin Daiyu has a very clear love and hate in a certain sense. Xue Baochai always puts on a gentle and generous big sister in Jia's house. Madam's face acted on her face, Xichun was young, and she would be regarded as ignorant no matter what she said, Shi Xiangyun had never been attracted by Xue Baochai's little favors in his life, there was no way, this time the two were competitors, ordinary women, When facing rivals in love, she is always very shrewd. As for Lin Daiyu, she doesn't take this kind of trick. Although she is not the kind of non-human being, she doesn't like Xue Baochai's tact and sophistication. of.Especially, at the time of the Jia family, because of some people's instructions, the words passed by the Jia family's servants in private were very unpleasant. It seemed that Xue Baochai was the only one who was so generous, gentle and kind. She, Lin Daiyu, And how mean and narrow-minded, who don't appreciate being sent to others, Shi Xiangyun is also one of the programmed ones, therefore, Lin Daiyu has a feeling of sympathy for Shi Xiangyun, and Shi Xiangyun's outspoken, stupid big sister's disguise is actually quite successful, even if she says something wrong If it sounds nice, Lin Daiyu can understand a thing or two, at least she still has her own father, but Shi Xiangyun's parents are both dead, so he can only live with others, and it is inevitable that he is somewhat unsatisfactory.

Besides, Shi Xiangyun is a relative, and Xue Baochai is a merchant woman who has something to do with the Wang family, but has nothing to do with the Lin family. It's my birthday, why invite me here, and make things difficult for me later!

The nurse next to Lin Daiyu also said that when Jia Min was in Yangzhou, Jia Min held a banquet in the mansion, and the guests were all the wives and girls of local officials and eunuchs. No matter how rich the salt merchants were, they couldn't get in. .Although the Xue family is an imperial merchant, in terms of wealth, it is really not as good as those big salt merchants in Yangzhou!

However, when these few posts were sent over, it caused trouble.When sending the post, Sanchun Shi Xiangyun, Xue Baochai and the others were all doing needlework at Li Wan's place. Jia Baoyu didn't go to school, but just joined in the fun. Xue Baochai didn't receive the post. But his hands had twisted the veil so much that it was about to become a ball.

Shi Xiangyun consciously won Xue Baochai's head, and smiled immediately: "Speaking of which, I haven't seen Sister Lin for a long time, and I almost forgot that Sister Lin's birthday is the Huachai Festival! Hey, Sister Bao was as old as Ji before, and you didn't either." Sister Lin, please?"

When it comes to Jiji's matter, Xue Baochai's heart is blocked. She is a bit older than Jia Baoyu, and Shi Taijun used her and Jiji's affairs to make a fuss, and said there that Jia Baoyu should not marry early in his life. To force her to give up as soon as possible, but there is no such cheap thing in the world. For this Grand View Garden, the Jia family just issued an IOU back and forth, which is more than 30 taels of silver. The Xue family is not as good as before. Well, it can be said that nearly half of the Xue family's property has been thrown on the Grand View Garden. Isn't it for the two families to get married so that they can get the protection of the Jia family?Xue Baochai also understands that no matter how beautiful she is, being a businessman is a flaw. In addition, Xue Pan is not up to date. Although Jia Baoyu has various unsatisfactory points, firstly, he is gentle and considerate. Concubine Xiande in the palace is also Jia Baoyu's biological sister. When visiting relatives before, I also heard that Jia Baoyu was first enlightened, and it was also taught by Concubine Xiande herself, which shows how the relationship between the two siblings is.Xue Baochai gambled on the Xue family's property, and even her boudoir's reputation, not as a wedding dress for others.

Xue Baochai's heart was churning, but she said on her mouth: "Your girl is young, you are playing against me!"

"What kind of girl!" Shi Xiangyun sneered, "Sister Bao, you always insist on making jokes about Brother Ai's past, and you don't know what it means. Look at the post, Sister Lin is called Yue'an now!"

Yingchun said on the side: "This word is good, but that word is not a good meaning. Uncle Lin really cares for sister Lin very much!" Yingchun was also very sad, she was only one year younger than Xue Baochai, but there seemed to be no one in the family. People think that she has also reached the age of getting married. Shi Taijun is too old to go out at all. Mrs. Xing is the aunt, but she never takes her seriously. Mrs. Wang is still young, and Wang Xifeng often walks around, but when Wang Xifeng goes out, she would rather take Jia Baoyu with her than remember her sister-in-law.She was full of envy for Lin Daiyu. Although Aunt Min died young, Uncle Lin thought of everything about her. He felt that she had been wronged at her grandfather's house, so he took her back and invited the nuns from the palace to teach her. , and set up a son-in-law for her early on.Yingchun also met Shi Hong's cousin, and he could be said to be the most promising of the juniors in the family. Sister Lin was indeed a lucky person.

But Jia Baoyu was lost. Even though he doesn't think much about Lin Daiyu now, he always likes to hang out in the makeup pile, but this time he didn't invite him, and he suddenly became sullen: "Sister Lin thinks that I have never Go see her, mad at me?"

It's really self-indulgent, Li Wan thought to himself.She hated Jia Baoyu, who stole her son's limelight, and was no match for the late Jia Zhu, who was still pampered and protected like a phoenix egg. It made Li Wan, a standard girl who had been educated by female precepts since she was a child, was extremely uncomfortable. Jia Baoyu already had a concubine, so it was fine to hang out with her sisters. It had nothing to do with Shi Xiangyun and Xue Baochai who wanted to back up However, as a widow who is not very old, Li Wan, as a brother-in-law, doesn't he know how to avoid it?The sisters came over to do needlework, and he followed, chattering and annoying, Laner was his nephew, and he went to school every day, so he felt at ease.Thinking this way, Li Wan didn't show it at all. She put on her usual gentle expression and said, "What's the matter? After all, Cousin girl is already engaged, so how can she meet her casually?" As for the outsider, it's inevitable that people will talk about it!" The Lin family is a scholarly family, but like the Jia family, they don't take girls' reputations seriously.

Jia Baoyu has always been dismissive of these rules, and immediately said angrily: "It's all the Laoshizi rules set by those rotten scholars, so unreasonable, what kind of person is Sister Lin, she is like a layman!"

The girls wanted to say directly that we are all ordinary people, and Shi Xiangyun felt a little sour in his heart, but Lin Daiyu was obviously not her competitor, and she wished that Jia Baoyu would miss someone less, so she smiled and said: "Love brother is I like to talk nonsense, I will tell Sister Lin when I turn back!"

Xue Baochai seemed to have no embarrassment at all, she smiled and said: "What is Miss Yun called Sister Lin, Miss Lin, will she be your sister-in-law in the future?"

Shi Xiangyun seems to have come to his senses just now. She rarely interacts with Shi Ding and his family, especially these years, she spent most of the time at Jia's house. If it is necessary, she will never come to the door. Even if they meet each other during the holidays, they will just say a few words of etiquette and nothing else. Therefore, she almost forgot that Shi Hong is also her cousin. Here, she suddenly trembled in her heart. Did she become too estranged from the historians all these years? After all, her surname is Shi!Thinking of this, Shi Xiangyun also became silent.

Not to mention how Jia Baoyu was soft and stubborn, and wanted to go to the Lin family with Sanchun and the others, and how Xue Baochai gritted his teeth after returning to Hengwuyuan, secretly hating why Lin Daiyu looked down on people so much, Sanchun and Shi Xiangyun had already begun to prepare Lin Daiyu's birthday gift, Even if it's just a few small pieces of needlework, at least you need to put your heart into it!