Sister Xue of the Red Chamber

Because of wealth, a banquet was arranged to celebrate the birthday, and the jealous student opened his mouth and uttered wild words

Seeing that the eldest sister was finally recovering, Mrs. Wang hurriedly washed the grapefruit leaves for a few days to get rid of bad luck.

He hurriedly called Baoyu to come to Jiamu.

"How is Baoyu recently? Do you miss your sister Lin?" Because Mrs. Wang doesn't often come to Jiamu's yard, but now she is here, and Jiamu also knows that she has a temperament of not being a three-treasure, so she doesn't bother to talk to her.Instead, he took Baoyu's hand and asked questions.

"Think!" Baoyu said hastily.

He shook Jiamu's hand again and begged, "Old ancestor! You agreed to Baoyu earlier and sent someone to pick up Sister Lin to live here! It's been less than half a month, why hasn't Sister Lin come here! Old ancestor! Send someone to pick it up quickly!"

Jia Mu smiled and said, "You also know that my eldest sister got pox a few days ago. Although it is not dangerous, the disease is transmitted from person to person. Your sister Lin is weak, so she was afraid that she would get sick, so she dragged it down. One, their house is now closed to observe filial piety, and everything is inconvenient. Her elder brother is also rigid and pedantic, and won't let her go out easily. If we want to take Daiyu here, we have to think of a reason!"

"It's not the right time for eldest sister to be sick too! Cousin Lin is too ruthless to stop sister Lin from coming to our house..." Jia Baoyu muttered.

Mrs. Wang interjected, "Isn't there a ready-made happy event?"

Baoyu hurriedly asked, "What kind of happy event can you invite sister Lin to come?"

"The 21st of the first lunar month was originally Baochai's birthday. I missed it last month because of my eldest sister's affairs. Now it's time to hold a birthday party!" Mrs. Wang said.

"This...Since Daiyu came to our house, big and small things happened one after another, and we couldn't give her a proper birthday. Now, just for Baochai, I want to make up for her birthday .Even when it comes to closeness and distance, it doesn’t make sense!”

Mrs. Wang hurriedly explained, "This Lin girl is young, and she is keeping her filial piety. In the past, it was not easy to arrange her birthday, because she was afraid that she would not be able to suppress it. Now that Baochai is fifteen, and she is about to reach Ji's age again, she is serious. It’s also right to be a birthday.”

Jia Mu frowned, "Even when it comes to family background, it's not good to ask Baochai to pass over Daiyu! I'm not that partial, but I'm just in the eyes of outsiders. I'm afraid I'm going to talk about our Rongguo Mansion's lack of etiquette!"

Mrs. Wang only wanted to celebrate Baochai's birthday and give her a long face.It would be the best if we can use this to settle a marriage with Baoyu.

It's just that when the words came to his lips, he didn't know how to speak for a while.

After all, when Jia's mother and Baoyu mentioned Daiyu, she found an opportunity to speak up, but she didn't want to refute it.Baochai is not as good as Lin Daiyu, who is sick and crooked!

Mrs. Wang was very angry for a while, and she stopped being a low-key girl, and just said dryly: "That day when the mother returned to the province, Baochai paid a total of 4 taels. If Baochai gets this face, our Rongguo Mansion will do it for her." If you organize your birthday, you can ask people outside to praise your mother!"

Baoyu clapped his hands and said, "Very good! I brought Sister Lin here, and Sister Yun happened to be there too. Let's celebrate Sister Bao's birthday!"

Mother Jia was depressed for a long time alone.

After dinner, Jia's mother left Mrs. Wang and Wang Xifeng, and asked Yuanyang to take 20 taels of silver and hand them to Sister Feng.

Said: "Since Baochai came to our house to borrow, she has always been stable and peaceful. I like her temperament very much. Now Baochai is fifteen years old, and she has reached the age to talk about marriage. In the future, she will marry someone and do it. Daughter-in-law, I'm afraid it will be difficult to come to our house. In a few days, Bao girl's birthday, I will pay 20 taels, so you can buy a table of banquets! Please invite a troupe, let's be lively!"

Sister Feng cursed secretly, what can 20 taels of silver do!

But he smiled and said, "It's true that the old ancestors hid all the silver in the past, and it was completely moldy. These gold, silver, round, and flat ones collapsed the bottom of the box, and they were just strangled. Us! Now it’s for Bao girl’s birthday, but I’m willing to take it out! After all, it’s different from us!”

Jia's mother also laughed, "Bao girl is a guest, so she should be more considerate with her. I'm different from you."

Mrs. Wang listened to their running on one after another, and forced a smile: "Since the old lady likes Baochai, how about asking her to be her granddaughter-in-law? I look at Baochai, she is good in character, knowledge, and appearance. No one can match it. It is better to tell Baochai to Baoyu, and I don’t feel relieved if it is someone else!"

"What are you talking about!" Jia Mu scolded, "You like Bao girl, and you have to hold her in a certain way! There are daughters who are better than her. Although Baochai is good, she has nothing to do with our family. First of all, Baochai is older than Baoyu..."

Mrs. Wang quickly answered, "Three years older! Female junior, hold a gold brick!"

Jia's mother frowned, "It's not a concubine, which decent family would like to have a wife older than the husband? Besides, Baoyu is the mother's younger brother and the future head of the Rongguo Mansion. Baochai's background is not good enough... ...Even though we Baoyu are good in every way, if I ask Baochai to be Baoyu's concubine, I will feel very sorry..."

Wang Xifeng just watched coldly from the side.The future head of the Rongguo Mansion will definitely not be that Jia Baoyu!

Baochai got the letter of approval, and Mother Jia was very happy to celebrate her birthday.In a repeated voice, Yinger was instructed to post posts everywhere.

But half an hour later, Yinger came back.

"Why did you come back? All the postings have been delivered? But you sent them in person and saw them received? Why did you come back in half an hour? Could it be that you were lazy?" Baochai asked repeatedly.

"Ying'er didn't dare. Ying'er went to send the post to the third girl first, and it happened that the second and fourth girls were there, so she sent it together. The third girl left me for a while, and it happened that the second master Bao and Miss Yun were together. I found it. In this way, all the posts have been delivered. Miss Lin, do you want to post posts to Miss Lin?"

"No need!" Baochai was annoyed.

Baochai thought about it carefully, except for Lin Daiyu and everyone in Jia's house, he had no one to invite!We can't really invite Lin Daiyu here!

Baochai just thought about it for a while, and then a little girl came to invite Baochai to go to Jiamu.

Jia Mu just put on a show and said that she was discussing the banquet.Because I asked Baochai what dramas he liked to listen to, what food he liked to eat, etc.

Baochai wanted to please Jiamu, but she also knew that Jiamu was an old man who liked lively dramas and sweet and rotten food.So he always said it according to Jia Mu's old favorites.

Jia Mu only expressed joy on her face, and sent clothes and toys as gifts the next day.

On the 21st, a homely small stage was set up in Jiamu's inner courtyard, and a new troupe of small plays was scheduled, with both Kun and Yi accents.Just arranged a few family banquets in Jiamu's upper room.

For Baochai's birthday banquet, Daiyu still came.

Daiyu had to come.

The Lin family was keeping a filial piety, and when Mother Jia sent someone to pick up Daiyu for a birthday banquet, Lin Heyu naturally refused.

I don't want Jia's mother to send someone to invite her every now and then.What's more, for two or three days in a row, several groups of people were sent every day, only to say that they would pick up Daiyu.He also asked Lai Da to see He Yu, saying that he was not filial!Not only is he unfilial, but he also prevents Daiyu from being filial!

He Yu didn't know whether to laugh or cry, this Jia's mother was not a serious elder at all, she couldn't stop being filial for her father just to do her filial piety.

Daiyu is in a hurry, now that her elder brother has just entered the official career, how can he bear the reputation of being unfilial?For a while, I couldn't eat well and couldn't sleep, and I lost a lot of weight.

Heyu's heart aches when she sees it, and it's only because Daiyu misses Jiamu.Then he said to her, "If you want to go to Jia's mansion, my brother will not stop you. It's just that the two nuns in the family are exquisite nuns in the palace, and they were specially invited for you. The rules of Jia's mansion are not very good. Just bring someone with you so that it can protect you."

"Brother! Daiyu wants to go to Jia's mansion and ask her grandmother why she doesn't care about my brother's reputation! It's just that our family is still in the filial piety period, if we go to a banquet, it will hurt my brother's reputation."

"I've told the emperor about this. Since my grandmother is trying to force you, you should go through it. Don't worry, we took the word 'Qu', and my reputation will not be hindered."

Baoyu was very happy to see Daiyu.

Baochai and Xiangyun are also secretly jealous.

For a while, everyone ate.When ordering plays, Jia Mu must first ask Baochai to order.Baochai pushed back again, but she couldn't, so she had to order "Journey to the West" for a discount.

Mother Jia is getting old, and she finds this scene a headache.But he couldn't, so he had to pretend to like it and exaggerated a few words.

And ordered Sister Feng to order.Sister Feng pretended not to understand, and clicked out the hilarious and humorous "Liu Er Dang Yi".

Then he ordered Daiyu to play, and Daiyu let Mrs. Wang and Aunt Wang go first.

Mother Jia laughed, "Good boy, grandma knows that you are the most polite. I took you to make fun of me today. Let's just take care of us and ignore them."

When they were about to leave, Mother Jia ordered a little girl to be called, "I like that child. She is old and her eyes are blurred. Tell her to come closer, and I will take a closer look."

Baochai took a hard look and said with a smile, "This child looks like a human being, you can't tell anymore!"

Xiang Yun hurriedly answered, "It looks like Sister Lin!"

Lin Daiyu was taken aback for a moment, and when she came back to her senses, she threw out the things at hand.

"I don't know why, but I was made fun of by you! I used to keep my filial piety at home, and they wanted to call me three times a day. What do I say, they made fun of me like an actor!" , Then he lay down on the table and cried.

When Jia Mu saw this, she was reluctant to give up, and said quickly, "Xiangyun, what nonsense are you talking about, why don't you hurry up and apologize to your sister Lin!" Talking about Xiangyun, she knew in her heart that it was Baochai who started it.For a while, I regretted that I called Xiaodan to take a closer look.

Baoyu also pulled Xiangyun to ask Daiyu to make amends.

"I didn't deserve to say that about him. He is the master of the lady, and I am a slave girl. If I offend him, I can't do it!" Xiang Yun said angrily, shook his hands and left. "What am I still doing here, looking at people's faces? Leave early tomorrow morning!"

Baoyu hurriedly stopped.

The nanny who followed behind Daiyu stood up: "Don't say that the old slave relies on the old to sell the old. The old slave has served my lady, so he must talk about it today. Miss Shihou's family is so grand! The old slave has been in the palace for dozens of years. In [-], there was no one who could bully others better than Miss Shi! Our house is also a first-class Keqin government, and Miss Shi insulted her with words! The old slave has little knowledge, and wants to inquire with the Queen Mother when he has time. , What kind of tutor is this historian girl!"

This sentence was scolded together with Jia's mother.