[Red Mansions] The big maid struggles daily

Sister Feng was originally waiting outside the bedroom to see what Jia Lian would do, but she heard Jia Rui's tiresome greeting, and it didn't take long for the eldest sister to cry.

Sister Feng looked at Ping'er suspiciously at each other, both of them couldn't sit still, Ping'er hurriedly opened the curtain to help Sister Feng out.

Jia Lian was coaxing the eldest sister, and retched from time to time, but suffered.Seeing Xi and Feng coming out, she hurriedly stuffed her into their arms, and said angrily: "Go back quickly! Go back quickly! Let's see how I treat that pickled thing!"

"What's the matter, why did my sister cry?"

Ping'er hugged the eldest sister, and Sister Feng hurriedly wiped her tears.Seeing my sister's big eyes like opened springs, bubbling water droplets out, crying so much that they hiccupped, the two of them felt very distressed.

Sister Feng's willow eyebrows stood on end, and her face was full of evil spirits: "You bastard with no ethics, see if I don't take out his intestines, and he will die a terrible death!"

Ping'er also said: "This bastard dared to behave wildly in front of the second master, and even frightened my sister to tears, and even fought with him, it is serious to beat him out with a stick!"

Jia Lian was still disgusted at this time, seeing that Sister Feng was going to look for Jia Rui's bad luck in the hall over there, she hurriedly stopped her, and said angrily: "Go back quickly, it's important to take care of our sister first... He defecated in the hall , What did you guys do in the past! Vomit..."

Sister Feng was taken aback, and the elder sister choked, "Mom... stinks!"

Sister Feng didn't know what expression to make on her face, so she could only take her sister and coax her: "Don't be afraid, be good. Let's go back and wash Xiangxiang. After washing Xiangxiang, eat fruit."

Jia Lian just waved her hands to tell her to go quickly, and Sister Feng Ping'er hurriedly took her eldest sister back to her room without the nanny doing anything. The two of them washed her face and changed her coat with their own hands.He also took out a sapphire carved lotus-shaped sachet, put some dried petals in it in front of the eldest sister, and then put in a few grains of styrax, and then hung the jade flower pouch on the elder sister's waist.The eldest sister was happy.

The elder sister held up the flower pouch with one hand, while bending over to press her face up, but she couldn't reach it, and sweat broke out on her forehead just after applying the balm.The nanny wanted to come forward to help, but the little man refused to let her go. In the end, Sister Feng took it off for her with her own hands, and asked her to hold it in both hands and smell it several times. put it on.

Jia Lian on the other end hesitated again and again, but still didn't dare to go to the small hall, and ordered Wang'er: "Call a few women who are strong in the door, and send him back to the grandfather, and ask the grandfather what he sent him for? "

When Wanger heard this, he immediately broke into a cold sweat for Uncle Rui. Who doesn't know that the Confucian old man in the family school is just a false story to the children in the school, but it is the most important thing to teach the grandson who has lost his parents. Strictly, he was not even allowed to take an extra step on the road.If it weren't for this Uncle Rui's restless mind, he would never have dared to do some surreptitious things such as using public reports for personal gain, blackmailing for cheap, etc. He would have been full of five poisons long ago, and he was even more of a jerk than that idiot Xue.

Wang'er thought to himself, as the second master was talking, it was expected that Uncle Dingrui would not be able to explain the whole story in front of the old man, so he could only suffer from being dumb.What's more, the Confucian old man who claimed to be a scholar who was a scholar, seeing Uncle Rui's appearance, might give him a good beating.

He hurriedly went out to call four or five women who were doing rough work. When those women entered the hall, they waved their hands in a hurry, disgusted with filth, and refused to give orders.Wang'er hid far away outside, so he could only raise the reward loudly, and gave a whole lot of money, and the women were willing.

Jia Lian had already gone back to her room, washed her hands and changed her clothes, and told Wang'er through the window: "Give them another penny, and ask them to go out with the help of two roads that are immediately cleaning up the dirt! There is an old lady in the inner courtyard." , I have younger sisters, I have become like this, they will not be sick when they meet."

Wang'er knew about it, and hurriedly recruited a woman in the lead, pinched her nose and gave such and such instructions, the woman understood, and directly helped Jia Rui go back in a fair and honest manner.

Jia Rui's toes hurt at first, and then his stomach hurt badly, and it didn't get better until the diarrhea came out.His face was flushed with embarrassment, and he wanted to beg Jia Lian and Sister Feng to let him change and wash his clothes first, but before he could open his mouth, a few women rushed in, looked at something dirty and then went out, not for a while Come in again.

When they came in again, they used handkerchiefs, sweat towels to wrap their mouths and noses, and the two women with big arms and round waists gave them a disgusted look, and strung up Jia Rui's arms viciously, and walked out.Jia Rui was ashamed and panicked, and lost his strength due to diarrhea. He was caught between the two wives and went straight out of the yard.

Wang'er yelled loudly from behind: "The carpet in the hall, the pair of chairs, the small table, the tureen, and the fruit plate are all gone. Take them out and throw them away. Don't dirty the eyes of the second master and grandma! Wash the floor with water! Clean inside and out! Lift out the three-legged copper censer with the lion stepping on the hydrangea from the back, and light the decontamination incense inside to drive away the smell..."

Regardless of the corridor or the second door, Jia Rui walked all the way, and the people along the way hid like the plague gods and watched the excitement from a distance, followed by the woman who cleaned up and asked people, and answered loudly from time to time: "Master Rui doesn't know why. , just went in to say hello to Second Master Lian, and pulled up his pants. Second Master Lian quickly asked us to send him back."

Jia Rui was so ashamed and angry that he was so weak that he couldn't break free, so he had to cover his face with his sleeve, and in his heart he only hoped to get home soon.

Unexpectedly, he was so unlucky that he bumped into an outsider again at the door of his house.Jia Zheng ordered someone to deliver the message, begging Dairu to discipline Baoyu seriously, and Jia Dairu specially asked Baoyu to come to his house to encourage him.Qin Zhong and Jia Baoyu have been inseparable from Mengmeng for the past few days. Since Jia Baoyu came, Qin Zhong had to follow and also came here, but it was not convenient for him to go in, so he just waited at the base of the wall outside.

Qin Zhong was bored and paced back and forth along the courtyard wall of Jia Dai's Confucianism. Before he could turn a corner, a bad smell came over him.If Jia Baoyu was left behind, he would have covered his face and hid away, but Qin Zhong's youthful nature, he wanted to see clearly, and when he turned the corner, he ran into Jia Rui head-on.Qin Zhong glanced at it, then hurriedly turned around and ran to the far wall to vomit.

Veins popped out on Jia Rui's forehead, his face was swollen purple, he didn't know where he came from, and he knocked on the door and called to open it.

Jia Baoyu talked about those scholars who were in their prime and still called them "lu beetles", and he was even more impatient with such a pedantic old Confucian like Jia Dairu.Jia Baoyu stood in the hall for half a day listening to him talk, bored and fearful of Qin Zhong and others' restlessness outside, finally called back, heaved a sigh of relief, and ran out in three steps and two steps as if he had died.

The gatekeeper on behalf of the Confucianism was an old servant, his movements were slow, he only opened the door halfway when he heard Jia Rui calling the door, it might as well be that Jia Baoyu had already rushed out first—he was bumping into Jia Tianxiang!

Jia Baoyu has a habit of cleanliness, he was born in a wealthy Gaoliang family, and he is more delicate than a woman raised.There is also a sense of infatuation, seeing swallows talking to swallows, seeing fish, talking to fish, and liking to live in a poetic and picturesque mood.

Such a delicate person stared straight at the filth on the corner of his robe, rolled his eyes and fell backwards, Li Gui, who was also waiting outside the door, rushed forward and didn't catch him, the back of his head was solid It really hit the door with a loud bang.

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"Didn't you make lotus flower cakes yesterday? They are more beautiful than flowers. Why don't you keep them in the box?" Yuanyang asked, serving the plum blossom dumplings on an agate plate.

Zhu Xiu snorted angrily, "I don't know where someone came to pay his respects to Second Lord Lian, but I bumped into him, so shameless, he opened the box and picked up snacks with his hands. He touched The lotus flower quilt, I thought it was dirty, so I threw it away. I hid the rest quickly and brought it up."

When Yuanyang heard about it, she said angrily: "Where did the daredevil come from? He dares to touch the old lady's dim sum!"

"I remembered that there was a riot at the second grandma's place last night, and the old lady sent someone to ask about it. She knew that it was Lian's second master and second grandma who were uncomfortable about stealing things, so they had no theory. This person It's the Uncle Rui who disturbed the second grandma and knocked over the vinegar bottle." Yuanyang arranged the plate and said coldly: "Sure enough, he is an unruly person! Yesterday the old lady said that she would rather add a few more taels of silver, I also told him to send him away. Now it seems that it is not sure whose fault it is, maybe it is the person who set up a trick to lure you to make a mistake so that you can get a handle... After a while, I will let the old lady know. He is running around inside, what if he bumps into the girls?"

In the flower hall, Mother Jia, Aunt Xue, Mrs. Wang, sisters Bingxiang, Bao and Sanchun, were joking and having fun together.Mandarin ducks and amber brought people good tea and various noodles and fruits.

Aunt Xue squeezed a piece of sweet-scented osmanthus cake and said with a smile: "Everything is sweet-scented osmanthus cake, but the old lady's here is more delicate and delicate, even the taste is sweeter and more refreshing than ours."

Jia's mother laughed: "If my aunt loves it, just eat more. If you are full, I'm afraid there will be some left in the box. I'll ask someone to bring it to my aunt."

Aunt Xue said with a smile: "It's really rare for an old lady to be so funny at her age. Since I spared the old lady's good snacks, I will treat the banquet and invite the ladies to have a good time."

Jia Mu waved her hands and said with a smile: "Last time, my aunt invited us to eat the new Qiubailu. The aroma and flavor are indeed more satisfying than spring tea. My aunt is very polite, and I still come here. I ate very well, but I can't tell you to come again." It's a waste of money." As he spoke, he ordered to brew some Tieguanyin autumn tea that Aunt Xue had given him.

Aunt Xue's face was full of smiles, and Baochai smiled when she saw this: "It turns out that my brother has some friendship with those merchants from the north, and they sent two very good sturgeons. Because these fish have a very long life span, the whole body They are all treasures, tender and delicious, and privately call this sturgeon the sturgeon arowana. This fish is rare, and we dare not enjoy it, so my mother said that I would invite the old ladies, wives and brothers and sisters to have a good time. "

Jiamu said with a smile: "Such a good thing should be kept for your family to eat, and then think about what we do."

Both Aunt Xue and Baochai said, "May the old lady do me a favor."

Just as she was talking happily, she suddenly heard the commotion outside, and Mother Jia hurriedly sent someone to investigate, but someone rushed back and said, "Second Master Bao has fainted."

Jia Mu immediately stood up and said in a hurry: "Why did you faint? Go and invite the imperial doctor!" Seeing that the servant was ordered to go out, she asked again: "I heard in a daze that your master greeted the master in the school again. Although Baoyu was ruthless, but what is there in the school, your master is attacking him again?"

While talking, Li Gui had someone carry Baoyu into his own room. Seeing that he was wearing a cloak but his outer robe was missing, Xiren was shocked and asked Mingyan what happened.

Mingyan gasped: "It wasn't caused by the grandson of the old man in the school, Uncle Rui. He got all his feces and piss somewhere, which is so dirty. The old man called the second master to admonish him, and when the second master went out, he asked Uncle Rui to bump into him." , stained with some dirty things, the second master can't stand this, he held his breath for a while. Who knows that this uncle Rui is like a wooden stake, I don't know how to pull the second master away, and block us from saving the second master , let the second master hit his head on the door of his house, and he will faint."

Seeing the attacker's tears streaming down his face, Mingyan hurriedly said again: "Brother Li Gui has already seen it at the medical shop behind Second Master's back. Don't worry, it's still disgusting. You'll wake up in a while."

All the mothers of Jia came to the east side of the courtyard, and the reporter followed him to tell the reason. While listening to them, Jia's mother remembered Baoyu. Even weaker when fighting.Angry and distressed at the same time, she called to bring Jia Rui over with tears in her eyes.

The people in the hall hurriedly persuaded: "Second Master was hit by the filth, and I don't know why I hate it in my heart. If I see that Uncle Rui for a while, it will make my illness even worse."

A maid and daughter-in-law had already run to tell Sister Feng that she knew about it, and Sister Feng hurried up when she heard about it.

And Daiyu, since she came back from Yangzhou, from the warm and humid Jiangnan water town to this dry and cold northern capital, she didn't show it when she first came back, but she has coughed a little these days.At this time, he had to be alarmed, and came to visit Baoyu holding Zijuan's hand.

When Mrs. Wang heard about the cause of the disease, she felt relieved, and looked around: Baochai, Shi Xiangyun, and Bing Sanchun were all around, the old lady sat down on the edge of the bed, and the maids wiped their sweat, watered them, poured water Also attentive and careful.It's just that Baoyu hasn't done anything yet, and Xiren has been crying with tears all over his face. Mrs. Wang frowned. In the past, Xiren and Musk Moon in this room were clumsy and clumsy, and they could be entrusted to them. When I got older, I became timid and hummed anyway.

But Xiren knew that Baoyu was ill, so in order to win him over, he had to change his behavior.She used to be gentle, docile, stable and generous on the surface, because she could control Baoyu with tenderness and joy in private; Baoyu couldn't do without her because of her temperament and sick Xishi's appearance.What's more, because Bihen became more and more domineering, Xiren tried to compete with him. He often felt sorry for her today and felt cold tomorrow when she saw the wind and cold, so Baoyu would pity her and comfort her.

After a long time, the action room was brought out, and Mrs. Wang didn't like it very much.

Jia's mother knew that Jia Rui had made a fuss at Jia Lian's place first, scared the elder sister to tears, went out and bumped into Baoyu, very angry, and said angrily, "Tell the doorman that he is not allowed to come in again! Today, the doorman will immediately pull Go out and play [-] boards. If he dares to come into the house in the future, he will be beaten out by me."

Just when Jia Dairu beat Jia Rui hard and ordered someone to come to see Baoyu, Jia's mother said directly: "Our Baoyu told him to hurt him and he hasn't woken up yet. It's serious to ask him to stay away from us!"

He scolded Jia Lian again: "Whether it's good or bad, we all consider them friends. Who are these people who make friends! You're tired of your brother and scare your daughter. You're really a bastard who doesn't make progress!"

The trouble made Sister Feng feel embarrassed, so she came out after sitting for a while.

Daiyu saw that the inside was crowded with people, she couldn't even get her feet in, and she went out because of her sexuality. On the way back to Luo Cuiwu, she was surprised and said: "It's also strange. They say I love to cry, and I really love to cry. I often cry." It is not often clear that I have no intention of crying in my heart, and the tears dripped by myself, and I couldn't help it. If in the past, the second cousin was pale and short of breath, and the old lady and his girl cried like that, my tears I fell with you a long time ago. Somehow today, I don’t want to cry in my heart, but there are no tears in my eyes?”

When Xingyue heard about it, she suddenly remembered a rumor she had heard in Yangzhou's Lin Mansion: It was said that when the girl was three years old, there was a monk with a scarlet head who wanted to turn her into a monk. He said, "Since I can't bear him, I'm afraid that his illness won't get better for the rest of his life! If he wants to get better, unless he is never allowed to cry from now on, except for his parents, he will never see any relatives, so that he can live in peace for this life." . At that time, Madam Qin, the wife's companion, asserted in private that the girl's health would not recover and she would not live long, and she often secretly used the girl's love of crying as an issue.Unexpectedly, although the girl was weaker in the womb, she has gradually become healthy over the years, and the girl's temperament of crying at every turn has changed. It can be seen that it is better to believe less in the words of these monks and Taoists.

Xingyue turned around in her mind, and thought: just like that Nanny Qin, who used to be his wife and half of the family, was so rampant. Didn't she let his wife find out that she had two hearts, and now she doesn't know where she has gone? The end is naturally what a black-hearted person deserves.For another example, Miss Xue, who was standing in the room of Second Master Bao, made a golden lock, and her horoscope matched that of Second Master Bao, so what now?If you can't go up, you can't back out, the back road is blocked, and it's not interesting.

She was only thinking wildly, and suddenly realized that the eight characters on Miss Xue's golden lock were also given by a monk with a scarlet head, and that the girl from Master Zhen's family who was finally reunited with her parents also had a monk with a scarlet head named Zhen when she was a child. The master gave up his daughter to him... He couldn't help being speechless, and muttered: "Could it be that there are no clean monks in the world, but all monks have to be skinny? If it is the same monk, it will be too busy. Suzhou, Yangzhou, and so on. When I went to Jinling, I was staring at his daughter... Besides, I was so partial, those two would have to go out of their homes, and if they didn't give them, they would curse them; Would you like to send an auspicious message?"

"What are you muttering about? The girl has gone far away, and she still hasn't followed." Nanny Chen scolded with a smile.

Xingyue shook her head and said with a smile: "I think those monks and priests are also very intelligent! At the beginning, they said some strange words to threaten and curse others. Not only did they refuse to give alms, but they also beat him out; Changed the way, not only to treat people, but also to say auspicious words to flatter them, as expected, put gold and silver into the Buddha's bowl, and get some believers."

Chen Momo thought she was talking about what Zhu Momo told Sister Feng, and said with a smile: "What are you thinking nonsense, threatening and cursing people with words are all fake monks and evil ways, whoever is a decent person is not merciful? It can be confused."

Xingyue smiled and said: "What the mother said is true, and for some reason, Hu Laba came up with these thoughts." Saying that, she rushed up to serve Daiyu.

Trapped behind, Nanny Zhu was still talking to Sister Feng: "...my sister is young and there has been a scene, I'm afraid she won't be able to sleep well at night, so Second Mistress will ask a good-natured old Fushou old man to call her That's right, Ann her soul."

Sister Feng was very grateful when she heard this, and said with a quick smile: "After all, Mammy has experienced a lot. I haven't thought of this level yet. My eldest sister is always willing to get sick. It's because I am young and ignorant. If Mammy If you think of something, please ask Mammy to remind me later. She is well, and our mother and I kowtow to thank you."

Grandma Zhu hurriedly waved her hand and said with a smile, "Second Grandma is too polite. My sister is good-looking and well-behaved. My sister often praises her a lot, but I don't like it."

The two talked for a while, and they didn't separate until the road forked.

When she went back to the room, Sister Feng still sighed with Ping'er: "This family is kind and caring, and we have to get along well with them. Maybe one day we can get help from them." She also thinks it's funny, but it's hard to come to this day, but this good life is what she thinks in her heart.

Ping'er just laughed: "Madam Zhu said that just now, let's invite an old man to come quickly, if the sister really sleeps soundly, I really have to thank him for reminding me. Isn't this already helped by others?"

When they went to the room, they saw Jia Lian's face darkened and very unhappy.

Sister Feng looked back at Ping'er, wondering why, so Sister Feng smiled and pushed him away, "What's the matter? Who's making you feel uncomfortable? Tell me, I'll go find him!"

Jia Lian sneered and said, "Your master girl is a vine, coaxing me so much, I don't know how to look at you."

But Jia Lian thought about Jia Rui seeing her terrified appearance, and remembered that he was also a perverted hungry ghost. She became suspicious, so she sent her little servant Xing'er to the back street to inquire. .After thinking about it before and after, I already understood.

It must be Jia Rui's audacity. I don't know if he is interested in Sister Feng or Ping'er. No, it must be Sister Feng. If it is Ping'er, Sister Feng will never ask herself to intervene.Thinking about this, Jia Lian felt sore and angry, and became very angry.

"Hey, you're a man and I'm a man? You're an inhuman bastard, you don't stand up for us girls, you expect me to go?" Sister Wang Feng glanced at Dan Feng, sitting on the edge of the kang and sneered: "Come here, Ping'er! Listen to what your second master said. From now on, you will only treat me as your master, and counting on me is better than relying on others! If you meet those forgetful people who don't have long eyes, tell me I know, let's see if I don't smash their stinky heads!"

Ping'er snorted at Jia Lian coldly, and personally held the small teacup to Sister Feng, and said with a sneer, "I don't point at grandma, who else can I point at? If there is such a time, grandma doesn't have to ruin her reputation because of me." Son, I'll just hang myself with a hemp rope, everyone clean!"

Jia Lian couldn't lie down when the two of you talked to each other. He stood up and said angrily, "You should tell me directly about such a thing. How difficult is it?" Then he gritted his teeth and said, "I don't need you." Said, I also have to smash his dog's head to relieve the hatred!"

Sister Feng squinted her eyes, leaned close to Jia Lian's ear and said, "Oh, do you hate me so much? I just don't know if those 'chicken' and 'dog' men in your daily life miss you so much?" Pretending to be terrified, he took a deep breath, "Master, you should be careful when you go out in the future, don't be taken advantage of by someone and beat you up! If you break the master, which one should we rely on?"

Seeing Sister Feng making fun of her, Ping'er quietly lifted the curtain and went out early, and sat down in the outer room.He also ordered the little girl Feng'er to stand guard on the threshold outside.

I only heard Jia Lian saying bitterly: "My lord, I'll let you see if it's broken!"...

Suddenly I heard Jia Lian's low smile: "You are Ping'er's master, alas, how can you be?"

Ping'er blushed and spat silently.

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Jia Rui made such a fuss, but he lost all face, the neighbors laughed at him, Jia Dairu was annoyed and beat him twenty or thirty times, every good spot on his buttocks was beaten, and he had to stay in bed to recuperate.

Jia Ruiqi was in a lot of pain, but fortunately he didn't hurt his foundation, but he recovered within five or six days, it was just that he couldn't bear it, and he couldn't go to school because of his illness.

He was afraid of his grandfather's intimidation, so he went to school and was made fun of by others, pretending to be the real thing, feeling exhausted and short of breath every day, his eyes were black and blue, and Dai Ru regretted beating him up.It is unavoidable to ask a doctor to prolong the medicine. Those doctors prescribe some tonic prescriptions for him because he has no other diseases except for some deficiency due to intemperance.

Jia Rui was eating day by day, but inside he was much stronger than before, but outside he still showed the symptoms of dying.Some of these old doctors didn't want to tell lies, they just made excuses, while some were more naughty, saying that Jia Rui's emotions were damaged, and the best thing to do was to rest and recuperate.One or two of them said that Dairu couldn't persecute his grandson anymore, so he had to let him live in peace. Jia Rui agreed, and often slept during the day and peeked at some romantic books at night, which was very satisfying.

It's just that he thought it was Jia Lian and his wife who made him embarrassing, which was the most hateful shame in his life, so he didn't miss Sister Feng.When I think of Sister Feng recently, Fang intentionally moves, and then reappears the sneering words of others that day in a trance. In broad daylight, I am in a state of embarrassment, and all kinds of lingering thoughts are like falling into an ice cave.

Jia Rui spent days and days in desolation, but he didn't know that there was a lame Taoist coming for him from thousands of miles away.The strangeness of this life is to help him get rid of his serious illness, and to use a precious mirror to help Jia Rui "quit" his lust.