Sister Xue of the Red Chamber

The beauties of the princess mansion gather for the first time to send palace flowers

Although Grandma Liu promised to come back in a few days, it's just that the end of the new year is approaching, and the purchases for the new year are a little late, so she can't get away.As soon as the first month came out, he hurriedly carried a large basket of wild vegetables and rushed to Rongguo Mansion.

I didn't want to go to the door, but I saw six or seven large black oil flat-topped and soap-veiled carriages lined up on Rongning Street, and a group of maidservants and several old women were busy carrying things on top.After waiting for a while, Wang Xifeng helped Ping'er, followed by many girls who supported the maids, and went out the main entrance.

Grandma Liu hurriedly stepped forward to say hello.

Wang Xifeng smiled and pulled over a girl in her teens. It was Daiyu, pointing to Grandma Liu and said, "Look at my sister, your brother asked Pinger to talk to me a few days ago to ask for money for you." This Laoshizi mountain wild vegetable was brought to you today. Ouch, what a coincidence that his father met his mother, what a coincidence!"

There was another girl with slender shoulders and a slim waist, with a tall figure, who walked over with the help of the girl. It was Tanchun, "Second sister-in-law really has a clever mouth. Only the last 'Qiao' is probably Unfortunately."

It was a coincidence that Grandma Liu was also confused, and only heard "unfortunate", and asked repeatedly: "What a coincidence, what a coincidence."

Sister Feng pointed to the chariots and horses, "See, we are going to be guests! In a few days, it will be Miss Lin's birthday. Miss Lin was keeping a filial piety, so it is inconvenient for us to make a fuss. Just after the filial piety years ago, the eldest princess After posting this post, I want to celebrate Miss Lin’s birthday in advance! We are a big family, thanks to Miss Lin’s blessing, we have the opportunity to go back to the Princess Mansion to see it!"

At this time, a person who looked like a housekeeper came over, and asked Sister Feng why, and said, "Grandma, go too. The eldest princess is also very fond of these wild animals in the mountain village, and she usually talks to the emperor about it every year. The mountain products on the table are all meat, and there are no wild vegetables. I must be happy to see you now."

At this time, Baochai came out of the mansion with Yinger and Baoyu with Xiren.

"Where are you going in such a hurry? Why don't you take Baoyu with you?" Baochai got the news, saying that all the people in the mansion were going to visit the noble family.Zheng secretly hated himself for being left behind, and didn't want Baoyu to go.He hurriedly brought Baoyu to come.

Baoyu on the side also said directly, "Good sister, good sister, take me with you!"

Knowing what she was thinking, Wang Xifeng greeted everyone to get into the carriage, and replied with a smile, "It was Princess Chunmin who posted a message to celebrate Miss Lin's birthday in advance, and invited the girls from the house to accompany her. Baoyu is also ten years old. No, it’s inconvenient to come. Bao girl, you also know that in your capacity, the eldest princess has not been invited, but it is inconvenient to go.”

A group of people got into the car, Sister Feng and Li Wan took the same car, Daiyu took the same car because she was a birthday star, Sanchun took the same car, and their maids also crowded into the car.There is another cart with a few women who are rough envoys, and the last cart is the gifts prepared by everyone.

Sister Feng originally asked Grandma Liu to sit with her, but Grandma Liu refused, even saying "no way", and squeezed a car behind with the women.

In the original Lantern Festival banquet, Baoxuan told Qianlong about meeting Daiyu for the first time, Qianlong shook his head after hearing this.After all, he grew up in the palace, bluntly speaking, Baoxuan offended Jia Mu and Mrs. Wang and others completely!He also made an idea with her, since he has used power to suppress others, it is better to suppress them completely!

So Baoxuan replied and drafted a post, using the pretext that the princess mansion was newly renovated and it coincided with Daiyu's birthday, and wanted to celebrate Daiyu's birthday at the princess mansion, and invited Rongguo mansion and Daiyu's elder grandmother, second grandmother, Yingchun, Exploring and Xichun went together to enjoy the garden.

Turning around, he looked for Prince He again, and invited the Wu Zaku clan of Fujin to come and join him.He and the prince have always been people who like to be lively, and they felt pain when they treated Bao Xuan as their own sister, so they patted their chests and agreed, only wishing that they could not go to the banquet in person.

The carriage from the Rongguo Mansion directly entered the Princess Mansion through the side door, and when it stopped at the sedan chair hall, a nun came to invite everyone to get off the carriage and change into sedan chairs.

All the way into the backyard before getting out of the sedan chair, bypassing a glazed screen wall with phoenixes wearing peonies, is the apse.Bao Xuan greeted him with a young daughter-in-law dressed in a red magpie Dengmei flag.

"Fifth sister-in-law, look, these are the girls from the Rongguo Mansion, all of them stand out!"

Seeing his clothes and hearing Bao Xuan's address, everyone knew that this is the Prince's concubine, Fujin, and quickly saluted, "I have seen the eldest princess, I have seen Fujin."

Baoxuan ordered someone to stand up, helped Daiyu himself, and said to Wu Zhaku, "This is the Daiyu that Baoxuan and the fifth sister-in-law mentioned. She is the most beautiful person. It is rare to return her talent. She is the closest to me." It's fate!"

Wu Zaku looked at her for a while, and saw that she had two eyebrows that seemed to be frowning but not frowning, and a pair of eyes that seemed to be happy but not happy.When you are quiet, you are like a beautiful flower shining in the water, and when you are in action, you are like a weak willow supporting the wind.The heart has one more opening than the stem, and the disease is like Xizi, which is three points better.Can't help thinking of He Wan who was raised in the palace by herself, pulled Daiyu and sighed, "It's really a lovely person!"

Wang Xifeng hurriedly interjected, "That's not true. Daiyu is the most outstanding person in the whole house."

Thinking of Mrs. Wang's order, Tanchun hurriedly said, "Sister Bao can stand shoulder to shoulder with Sister Lin. It's just that Sister Bao didn't come today."

"Sister Bao?" Wu Zaku was surprised.

Baoxuan didn't expect that Mrs. Wang would still want to have a relationship with him, and after hearing the words, she just said, "It's just a person with no surname who was expelled from the house, don't pay attention to it."

Eat without speaking, sleep without speaking.

After the meal, everyone washed their hands and went to the garden to enjoy the flowers.

When we arrived in Meilin, it was the first day of February, and the flowers were in full bloom.Wu Zaku pointed to a red plum and said: "Today, I will also test you, and I will take the red plum as the topic, or write a poem or a poem."

Wang Xifeng hurriedly begged for mercy, but pushed Li Wan out again, "Sister-in-law is the daughter of the Guozijian Jijiu family, and she was quite talented in the boudoir."

They decided that Li Wan would be the first, followed by Baoxuan, Yingchun, and Daiyu according to age. Tanchun was last because she was one month younger than Daiyu.Xichun is still young and can't write poetry yet.

Li Wan chanted first:

Bai Mei is lazy and gives red plum, and Cheng Yan first welcomes drunken eyes.

Frozen face with marks are all blood, intoxicated without hatred also turned to ashes.

Accidentally swallowed the elixir to move the real bone, and stole the old fetus from Yaochi.

Jiangbei Jiangnan spring is brilliant, and the bees and butterflies are full of doubts.

Everyone praised, followed by Bao Hyun.Baoxuan has never been very proud of his poems. After much deliberation, there is only one poem by Bu Suanzi:

Wind and rain send spring back,

Flying snow welcomes spring.

Already a cliff of hundreds of feet of ice,

There are still flowers and branches.

Beauty does not compete for spring,

Only report the coming of spring.

When the mountain flowers are in full bloom,

She laughed in the bushes.

Everyone said it was a novelty, and the most admired was the attitude of plum blossoms being arrogant and bullying frost.In the future, it will be endowed by Yingchun, Daiyu and Tanchun, so I won't repeat it.Only Daiyu bestowed:

Zhongfang shakes down Du Fuyan, and takes all the style to Xiaoyuan.

Shuying horizontally and shallow water, subtle fragrance floating moon dusk.

Frost Bird steals his eyes first when he wants to go down, and Mi Fen Die knows how to get together and break his soul.

Fortunately, there is nothing to say about it, no need for a total of gold bottles.

Before leaving, Baoxuan ordered people to present gifts, all of them were a piece of palace satin, two boxes of precious ink, one precious inkstone, and ten ingots of plum-blossom-style gold lockets.Li Wan's palace satin is naturally plain.Because of Jia Lian's official position, Wang Xifeng has a pair of bracelets made of red treasures inlaid with gold than others.

Only Daiyu didn't get a gift, Baoxuan just said, "You go back to Jia's house first, I have my own opinion. If you like it, you can send someone to tell me, and I will be happy."

Unexpectedly, in the evening, an eunuch named Jia Dakong came to announce the decree.Daiyu heard the decree, and hurriedly sent an old mother and snow geese to the princess mansion to express her thanks.

After Wang Xifeng returned to the mansion that day, he picked and talked with Jia Mu about various things in the Princess Mansion.Jia's mother also understood that she ordered people to pass on the words quietly, and the two people in Dongxiaoyuan were not allowed to be called "Xue" in the whole house.From now on there will only be Aunt Wang and Wang Baochai.

Since Baochai was humiliated at the gate of the Rongguo Mansion that day, she was really angry. Later, when she saw that the people in the mansion no longer respected her, and heard Xichun and others call Wang's "Concubine Wang", she felt hurt. face.Always want to get it back!

The Flower Festival on the twelfth day of the second lunar month was originally Daiyu's birthday, because the Eldest Princess had celebrated her birthday in person, and Daiyu didn't have the heart to take care of it on this day, so everyone just sent some birthday gifts in private.

In the afternoon of this day, Mrs. Wang ordered Zhou Rui's family to be summoned.

Zhou Rui's family lifted the curtain and went in, only to see Mrs. Wang and Aunt Wang talking happily, while Wang Baochai was making fun from time to time.

Seeing Zhou Rui's family, Baochai smiled and said, "Sister Zhou, I have something, you can take it for me." Then she called Yinger, "Bring the flowers in the box." Yinger agreed Voice, holding a small brocade box.

Baochai said: "This is a new method that came out of the palace. The people in my shop learned it and took twelve flowers from the gauze pile. I remembered yesterday that it was a pity that it was left in vain. Some of them coincided with today." It's Sister Lin's birthday, so I gave it to my sisters to wear. The elder sister-in-law was afraid that she wouldn't be able to wear it, so she gave four to the second sister-in-law. The three girls in your family each have a pair. The last two, with brocade The casket, you send it to Miss Lin, so you can congratulate her on her birthday and ask for a reward."

Zhou Rui's family took the box and went to Wang Xifeng's yard first.Sister Feng asked the reason, took two at random, and picked out two more, called Caiming and said, "Send it to the house over there for Grandma Xiaorong to wear." Then she said to Zhou Rui's family, "You and Wait, I happen to be going to give Miss Lin a birthday present, so I will go with you."

Recently, Jia's mother said that her granddaughters should be treated equally. Since Daiyu didn't live with her, Ying, Tan and Xi moved to Mrs. Wang's house and lived in the three small buildings behind her room, and asked Li Wan to accompany and take care of them.Wang Xifeng and Zhou Rui's family came to Li Wan's place, sent flowers to Sanchun, and then came to Lixiangyuan.

Pear Fragrance Court is full of joy.

"Second Sister-in-law." Daiyu greeted them with a smile, "Second Sister-in-law came by coincidence, and she has something good." Saying that, she welcomed the two of them into the house.

Zhou Rui's family wanted to ask for a reward, so they hurriedly sent a brocade box, and couldn't help congratulating them on their birthday.Daiyu took it and looked at it, but ordered someone to put it away, and ordered someone to take two silver ingots and give it to Zhou Rui's family.

Wang Xifeng glanced at the brand-new jade-carved hibiscus hairpin on Daiyu's head, and smiled secretly in her heart, it seems that Wang Baochai is going to steal the chicken instead of losing the rice!

"This flower must have been a novelty when I sent it a few days ago. I'm afraid I'll wear it, but now..." As he spoke, he opened a box of hibiscus carved from nanmu wood on the table.

There were six hairpins in the box. Daiyu pointed to the hairpins and said, "Second sister-in-law, please take a look first. I have never seen such an exquisite one. Today, the eldest princess ordered someone to give it to you. It happened that my grandmother called at night, saying It's a family gathering together for a meal, and it's a birthday. Daiyu is thinking about giving it to the sisters at dinner." Picking up the phoenix flower, she put it on Wang Xifeng's hairpin. Sister-in-law's. The sisters each have their own tweeds."

Wang Xifeng took Daiyu's arm, just entered the dining room, all the people in the room looked at the hairpins on their heads.

Baochai forced a smile and said, "It seems that the palace flower I gave didn't suit Sister Lin's wishes! It's just that the second sister-in-law got a good thing and gave it to Sister Lin alone. What about ours? Theoretically, it should be the first to welcome and visit the elder sister. .Today I want to cry out for sister Ying and sister Tan!"

"Miss Du Daobao is the most intelligent girl, but she guessed wrong this time." Wang Xifeng smiled and pointed her hand, "This time, I entrusted sister Lin's blessing. This is rewarded by the eldest princess!"

Daiyu sat down, opened the box, and Xueyan helped to deliver the flowers to everyone, "The plum blossoms belong to sister-in-law, the Linghua belongs to sister Yingchun, the roses belong to sister Tanchun, and the flowers belong to sister-in-law Xichun." lotus."

All of a sudden, everyone was wearing hairpins. When Jia Mu saw her liking, she sighed, "That's exactly what it should be. It's very neat."

When Mrs. Wang saw the nanmu box, her eyes were straightened.Seeing that everyone had them, but Du Baochai didn't, he didn't care about Baochai's face for a moment, and hurriedly said, "Why doesn't Shan Baochai have one? I'm afraid the eldest princess has forgotten it. Then I'll make the decision and give this box to Baochai. It's compensation."

Daiyu smiled lightly, "I'm afraid I can't. Daiyu planned to put some poems in this box as a gift to the eldest princess. This nanmu box can't be used by everyone, second aunt, don't think about it!"