Daiyu's wife in the Red Chamber

When Xiangyun said these words, the room was silent at first, and then everyone laughed. Du Daiyu frowned and pursed her lips tightly, remembering that at Baochai's birthday banquet at the beginning of the year, when Xiangyun answered the words, everyone laughed. So is the attitude.

Clever as Xiangyun, Xu knew what Jia Mu was thinking, and she no longer admired Baochai as much as before.

In the past, Xiangyun regarded Baochai as her own older sister, and according to what she occasionally expressed, as long as she had such a biological older sister, it would be okay even without her parents, which shows how much she respects Baochai.Every time she came back to Rongguo Mansion, even if she lived in Jiamu's house and her own room, she still remembered Baochai in her heart, and always said that Baochai treated her kindly. When I came to Rongguo Mansion for a long-term stay, I moved directly to Hengwuyuan.

Now, especially at the beginning of the twelfth lunar month, when Daiyu is busy, she can still feel Xiangyun's hidden hostility towards Baochai, just like before her father's death, she was targeting Baochai because of Baoyu.It's just that she was a child at that time, and Xiangyun is a bit older now, so she is not so straightforward, and everyone knows that she is outspoken and innocent.

From closeness to sudden indifference, there are always traces to follow, but the mansion is busy with her marriage with Yingchun, and no one takes it to heart. Only Nanny Liu is in control of everyone's movements in the mansion, and Daiyu has noticed something. point.

However, Xiangyun's move is really unwise.

Daiyu secretly thought, Baochai is not her and Yingchun's ilk, she knows it well, and she reacts very quickly, and the mistress is her aunt, and Wang Ziteng is her uncle, it is better not to fight back, but if she fights back, No one can get well, and Baochai will not laugh at Xiangyun's words.

As expected, Baochai spoke at this time.

She was calm and relaxed, and under the light, her skin was more beautiful than snow, and her face was like a flower. She said: "Could it be that Sister Lin is overjoyed, so Sister Yun is also in a hurry? Don't worry, don't worry, wait for Lord Bowling to pass the second day." After three years of tenure and returning to Beijing, Mrs. Baolinghou will definitely not forget her sister, and she will definitely find a family for her that is not inferior to the Jinxiang Houfu." She said, holding a handkerchief embroidered with peonies. With a smile on his mouth, his eyes are full of smiles.

Because Wei Ruolan and Daiyu were engaged, Baochai didn't mention Wei's family.

Being exposed, Xiangyun was immediately annoyed, her face turned red, almost comparable to red silk, but she was quick in thinking when composing poems and lyrics, at this time she didn't know how to refute Baochai's words, so she couldn't help but Aunt Xue's sleeves, her eyes were red and she said: "Auntie, look, Sister Bao is bullying me, a child without a mother!"

Aunt Xue has a round face with almond eyes, a friendly face, hugging her and comforting her: "Don't be afraid, don't be afraid, I'll scold your sister in a while, what are good girls doing saying these things? It's not a joke or a rule. "

Baochai laughed and said, "It's my fault, I'll make it up to Sister Yun."

After she finished speaking, she put her hands in front of her body and blessed her body in the direction of Shi Xiangyun. Although it was an apology, she was dignified.

Seeing Mrs. Wang's complexion as usual, with no smile in her eyes, Daiyu just felt the icy air, as if she was outside the house. She couldn't help but sigh in her heart. She had never targeted Baochai in front of Mrs. Wang before. Xiangyun's move was really a failure Maybe she didn't expect Baochai, who treated her so kindly, to fight back like this?

Before Xiangyun could speak, Jia's mother said: "Sisters are joking, how can this be the case? Bao girl, get up quickly, Yun girl can't afford it." As she spoke, she ordered Yuanyang to go and help Baochai in person. Let her sit next to him and praise him very much.

Tanchun smiled and said, "Sister Bao, the autumn crab banquet is well organized, what kind of banquet should the Poetry Club hold in the ice and snow?"

Baochai heard the words, thought for a while, and smiled: "Appreciate osmanthus in autumn and plum blossoms in winter. A group of people gather around to eat hot pot. It's warm and lively. It's a pity that the days of starting this month have passed. Does my sister want to make up for it?" No? If it is a replacement, I will ask my servants to send some extremely tender pheasants to make soup, and prepare a few jars of Huiquan wine, and it happens that my servants can also find calves, lambs and wild rabbits waiting to be slaughtered. Green Ants New Roasting wine, a small red clay stove. It’s snowing in the evening, can you have a drink? That’s what I’m talking about.”

Tanchun said: "It's a good idea, but it's a pity that the year is very busy, the sisters may not be free, and the sister-in-law's aunt and two sisters were picked up by the uncle's house. When the first month comes out, the weather will be warm again. Eating hot pot is a bit inappropriate."

Mrs. Wang suddenly said: "The management of the family's annual affairs has nothing to do with your sisters. You live in the garden and it is clean. You can do whatever you want. If you want to have a hot pot banquet, ask your servants to prepare charcoal earlier. You don’t need to worry about the brass pot, vegetable and meat slices, etc., all the expenses will be paid from my account, nothing else, there is still money to treat the old lady to a hot pot meal.”

It should be when Tanchun got up.

Mrs. Wang smiled and said to Jia Mu: "I have long thought of being the host to invite the old lady to appreciate the red plums, just because I have prepared things for the next year and a congratulatory ceremony for the empress, so this time, taking advantage of the sisters' liking, I will contribute my money and efforts, and I ask the old lady to show her face."

Mother Jia stroked the string of aloes on her wrist, nodded, and said, "You have a heart."

After hearing this, Tanchun was overjoyed, and turned around to discuss with Baoyu. Before the end of the month, Baoyu danced and danced, and said with a smile on his face: "Wonderful! Last time I ate hot pot roasted venison, and sister Weiyun ate it all. Sister Lin didn't eat it, and I felt a pity for a long time, since the third sister is the host, I will only get some light and easy-to-digest food for Sister Lin."

Jia Mu smiled and said, "You're so stupid, your sister still needs a hot pot meal?"

Baoyu said: "Although there is no shortage, it is more lively when there are many people."

The matter was settled in this way. The next day Mrs. Wang ordered Li Wan to cook the hot pot banquet carefully, and because all the sisters liked to be clean, they set up a small stove for each person with a small hot pot. People's spleen and stomach like to make soup, whether it is spicy, fresh, thick, or light, and even the ingredients for making soup vary from person to person.

According to her own preferences, Daiyu ordered people to boil mutton bone soup and pour it into the hot pot. In the soup, a little red dates, wolfberry, ginger and Codonopsis pilosula were added.

After the soup boiled, Zicuckoo washed her hands and threw in some torn mushrooms and sliced ​​bamboo shoots.

Daiyu said: "You go and eat it yourself, I feel delicious and sweet after rinsing it by myself."

Tanchun had already prepared two other tables. They used a big hot pot to roll soup and served it to everyone's confidant maid. Zijuan said: "Miss, be careful not to burn it. If you don't want to cook it yourself, just call me."

Daiyu waved her hands, took out the cooked mushrooms, put them in a bowl to cool before eating.

Yingchun is engaged, and will move out of the garden to the east courtyard in the next year to be married. Now she is serving in front of Mrs. Xing. Tanchun has always been close to Baoyu and Baochai. She sits at the head of Mrs. Wang, and Xichun sits next to Daiyu. Beside him, he tasted the hot pot with pheasant in front of him to scald the meat. It was so hot that his head was sweating. He opened his small mouth and kept fanning it, shouting: "It's so spicy, so spicy!"

Daiyu opened her purse, took out a piece of rose pine nut candy and stuffed it into her mouth, teasingly said: "You are too impatient, why did you ask someone to put so much chili in the soup?"

Xichun held the candy in his mouth, and said: "If you accidentally shake your hand, you put too much chili pepper."

So he asked people to withdraw and eat with the maid, and ate Daiyu himself.

Seeing that she likes meatballs, Daiyu boiled some boiled fish balls for her, put them on a plate in front of her, and put some vegetables, and told Ruhua, "Don't give wine to your girl, you can eat it."

Ruhua responded with a grin, and took away the hot Huiquan wine.

During the banquet, only Baoyu was the busiest. For a while, he cooked very thin slices of mutton for Jia Mu, took them out and put them on a plate for Jia Mu to dip in the sauce, and at the same time ran to Mrs. Wang to cook very tender lamb for her. Beef strips, wait for Mrs. Wang to urge him twice, then run to help Aunt Xue cook the pot, wait for everyone to praise him for his filial piety, and then go to the sisters to taste their hot pot.

Xiangyun absently stirred the hot pot in front of him with chopsticks, and the slices of meat in it rolled with the soup. Baochai smiled and said to Baoyu who had just tasted the slices of ham in his pot: "Go and help Sister Yun to fish out the slices of meat from the pot." , if you don’t fish it, it will get old and it won’t taste good.”

Baoyu giggled, turned around and went to Xiangyun's side, and stretched out his chopsticks to scoop up meat and vegetables in the soup.

Everyone saw this scene in their eyes. After this incident, all the people in the Jia family praised Baochai for being open-minded and magnanimous, but they didn't always say that Xiangyun's behavior was open-minded and outspoken.

I don't know who talked about the past, and said: "Is it Miss Shi who is broad-minded, or Miss Lin who is open-minded? Thinking about it carefully, why do you feel that those things were wrong before? Miss Shi targeted Miss Lin several times, and Miss Lin never talked to Miss Lin afterwards. She turned against her and treated her as before. I still remember that Miss Shi bit her tongue and said something about Miss Lin. Originally, Miss Lin didn't mean Miss Bao, but it was Miss Shi who said that Miss Lin was not as good as Miss Bao; As soon as the actor returned, Miss Lin just walked away, but it was Miss Shi who robbed Bai Baoyu, calling Miss Lin mean and petty; and in October, the old lady gave Miss Qin a wild duck fur coat. Cloak, Miss Shi actually said that Miss Lin felt uncomfortable because the old lady loved Miss Qin. Doesn’t this mean that Miss Lin is jealous of Miss Qin? Fortunately, Miss Qin and Miss Lin have a better relationship than others; after eating a meal of roasted venison, Miss Lin Speaking of crying because of Lu Xueguang, Miss Shi also ridiculed Miss Lin as the most disgusting person who is fake and noble; Miss Lin was recently engaged, and everyone else was happy for Miss Lin, so Miss Shi and Baoyu had two or three quarrels. I heard that in front of Baoyu, Miss Shi and Miss Xiren often said something wrong about Miss Lin. She is a mean and petty person who likes to control people horizontally and vertically."

I don't know who answered the call, and said: "Ms. Zhenzhen Shi is also scheming, we all misjudged her, be more careful tomorrow, don't offend such a master. Thinking about the past, we were so stupid, Sending rings to the girls, Miss Shi never forgets to give them to the girls, how can she be a scheming and unsophisticated person? Look who got the ring, the mandarin duck girl in front of the old lady, Jin Chuaner in front of the wife Girl, Miss Xiren in front of Baoyu, and Miss Xiaohong in front of Second Mistress Lian. Miss Xiaohong was originally intended to be given to Miss Ping, but it is a pity that Miss Ping gave it to Miss Xiaohong after she got married. What kind of masters are these four girls following? Is the most honorable master in the house, there are no big maids in front of the eldest wife and grandma, let alone the maids in front of Miss Lin, the second girl, the third girl and the fourth girl, I think Miss Shi lived in Miss Lin's room back then Zijuan Chunxian served her all the time."

Another person clapped his hands and said: "Before you all said that Miss Shi had no intentions, I didn't think it was true, and it was exactly as I expected. Miss Bao treated her so well before, she took great pains to clean up the crab feast, and the attackers helped her do needlework." Miss Bao said a lot and took over the job, but because the second girl was engaged, she shamed Miss Bao in front of everyone. Miss Bao was not engaged because the old lady said It is Baoyu's fate that he shouldn't marry early, it is a golden and jade marriage that monks and Taoists say."

Someone whispered: "I heard that Ms. Shi said in front of Ms. Qin that there are no good people except the old lady's house. Tell her to be careful. Could it be that we have all become villains?"

The person who spoke in front of her snorted, and said, "Why bother with all this? Looking at it coldly, which girl in our family has had a heart-to-heart relationship with Miss Shi Da? The second girl and the fourth girl don't talk about it. The third girl has always kissed Miss Bao. Thick. Before, there was a Miss Lin who treated Ms. Shi leniently. How did Miss Shi do it? She repeatedly said that Miss Lin was wrong. No matter how warm-hearted people encounter such things, their hearts will turn cold. Now I understand Why is there no one in the family who is friendly with Miss Shi except Xiren?"

When everyone heard the words and asked why, they replied: "Miss Lin treats her well, and Miss Bao treats her well. The eldest wife has never targeted her, so I won't talk about it. After all, she is an outsider, but Mrs. Baolinghou raised her." At such an old age, the child can read and write, and the needlework girl is good at everything, and I often take her out to socialize, and I kiss her early, although it didn't work out in the end, but I put my heart into it, our girl How can there be such treatment. How did she complain behind her back? She said that she couldn’t be a master in that mansion, because people who didn’t have needles and threads had to do it by themselves, and worked until midnight every night, so tired. Speaking of I just laughed here. Although she is the eldest daughter of the historian family, she is the niece of the next room after all, and she is not a serious daughter. How can she make the decision? Every time I go back, I have tears in my eyes, and I told the second master Bao to remind the old lady again Picking her up, Mrs. Bowling's heart is cold, and she blames her for not taking her there. Thinking about the crab feast, I know that the historian has no money, even the money to host, and there are some gossips. Mrs. Bowlinghou treated Miss Shi badly. Let me tell you quietly, there is no sewing room in Bowlinghou's mansion. The grandmothers and girls all do their own sewing. She is not the only one. She even made some delicate needlework for Baoyu herself. alive."

You say something to me, I don't know who started it, these gossips are endless, although they are all quietly spread in the bottom, but after a while, they reach Daiyu's ears, I can't help feeling that Jia's servants see the wind and turn the rudder, The ability to hold high and step low.Fortunately, she backed away early and ignored Jia Mu's previous decision, otherwise, she would have been the one who suffered like this.

It turned out that some past events that she didn't care about were turned up and discussed, pointing at Xiangyun every word and saying that she was wrong. Although she was open-minded and generous, Daiyu felt that Very uncomfortable.

She has been suspicious since she was a child, and she has always been innocent. When did she become a kind and amiable saint regardless of past suspicions?

Daiyu asked Xichun, "Am I that kind of person?"

Xichun chuckled, took Daiyu's hand, looked at Daiyu up and down, nodded and praised her beauty, and then said: "Take this opportunity to comfort Sister Yun, then confide in her and denounce the servants together, you That's a saint."

Daiyu laughed with a sneer, and she didn't want to get involved in the battle between the two of them.

Thinking of Xiangyun's unrestrained and unrestrained up to now, everything is not on her mind. In the past, no one said anything bad about her, but now she is said by Jia's servants, it seems heinous, no matter what trivial things are found out Having said that, Daiyu couldn't help but tremble with fear. This is a house-to-door fight that kills people without blood.

Xichun casually said: "There are causes and effects in the world, who is to blame? Anyway, in my heart, whoever treats me well, I will treat them well." She is the most cold-hearted person, although Yingchun and Tanchun are both with her. They grew up together, but they couldn't take care of themselves, and no one took care of the other, so she didn't have much to part with.However, in the past two years, Daiyu's situation has gradually improved, and she treats herself sincerely every time, and Fang Leng's heart gradually warms up. As for Shi Xiangyun and others, they are not as good as Yingchun and Tanchun in her heart.

Afterwards, he smiled and said: "None of them are good, no one is more innocent than the other, let them fight, let's just paint freely, my sister's oil paintings are getting better and better, tomorrow I will use this technique to paint my second brother and Qin My sister drew it."

Daiyu said: "The plum blossoms in Changcui'an are blooming well. Tomorrow, let's go to Miaoyu and have her good tea."

Without saying a word, the little eunuch came in holding the Ru Kiln Beauty Vase, in which was a two-foot-tall red plum, Xichun asked where it came from, the little eunuch smiled and said: "Mr. Friends got together and saw that the plum blossoms bloomed very well there, which was quite natural, so before returning to the city, I asked the owner of the garden for a branch, and personally gave it to the girl to enjoy."

Xichun looked narrowly at Daiyu, clapped her hands and said, "Oh, brother-in-law Lin came here to send flowers, could it be that she has a good understanding? Just now sister Lin said that she wanted to admire the plum blossoms, but before she could finish her sentence, the flowers came."

Daiyu slapped her on the back of her hand with her backhand, and said, "I told you to speak quickly, and I won't show you for a while."

Xichun rubbed the back of her hand, said with a smile: "Don't show it to me, I will watch it myself, it made me anxious, I asked my sisters to come over, and I won't let you enjoy the flowers quietly, so you will know how powerful I am."

Daiyu ignored her, and ordered Zihao to pick up the plum blossoms, and ordered Xueyan to give the little eunuch some wine with money.

Xueyan handed over one hundred coins to the eunuch, thought for a while, and asked: "Cao Cheng, Mr. Wei personally sent flowers, where is he?"

The eunuch took the money to thank him, and replied after hearing the words: "In the study outside the second master Bao, second master Bao is with him."

Daiyu waved her hand, and the eunuch retreated.