Daiyu's wife in the Red Chamber

When the plum blossoms were delivered to Daiyu's room, Baoyu was entertaining Wei Ruolan, who had already met Jia Mu, in Qiluzhai. She didn't order the servants to be by her side, and complained, "You are so at ease, enjoying the plum blossoms, seeing the snow, and eating Wine, I don’t know how much wildness there is, if I knew it, I would have gone.” As he said, he ordered baked tea to make tea, and it happened that the tea was given to him by Daiyu, and he handed it to Wei Ruolan.

Wei Ruolan smiled and said: "Brother Bao is interested, and the old lady of the Zunfu and Lingtang are also worried, and they are reluctant to let Brother Bao go out." He wrote a post to Baoyu. It should be two or three times.

Baoyu couldn't help sighing, with a hint of helplessness on his face.

Wei Ruolan knew that Baoyu couldn't make decisions by herself, so she lowered her head and took a sip of the tea, she couldn't help praising: "Good tea, the tea leaves are nothing special, nothing unusual, but the water is soft and sweet, and the strange thing is that it has a natural fragrance."

Baoyu laughed and said, "Water is the water from Yuquan Mountain. There is nothing unusual about it. You don't know. Sister Lin is the weirdest. She doesn't like to use rainwater, snowwater, or dewwater to make tea, even if the water is very frivolous. She always says Those are old water, so I only like the water from the mountain spring brought in that day, I don’t know how to come up with it, the water has a lotus fragrance.”

After hearing this, Wei Ruolan hurriedly took another mouthful, closed her eyes and took a sip, said: "The fragrance is very faint, it's hard to taste easily, before you want to drink water, first soak the lotus in cold water, and then use it to make tea. "

Baoyu clapped his hands and said, "Sure enough, you are a bosom friend. The first time I ate it, I thought I put dried lotus flowers in the water when cooking tea."

Wei Ruolan's expression was calm, but when he looked carefully, he could find a smile on his brow.

Baoyu said: "With your ability alone, let's have a few drinks. Stay at my house for a while, just you and me, no one else. You only eat wine and meat at noon, and eat lightly at night." Keep your drinks light. Just now, the old lady has kept you and told me to do a good job. Anyway, you will be alone when you go back, and you will not be on duty tomorrow, so you might as well stay at our house."

Wei Ruolan thought for a while, and smiled, he also wanted to be closer to Daiyu.Every time I think that Daiyu now lives in Jiamu's courtyard behind Qiluzhai, she is so close, I am really happy.Besides, as Baoyu said, he rarely went to Weibo's mansion except in the morning and evening.

After agreeing to have dinner at Jia's house, Wei Ruolan sent the servants back to tell the disciples that they should use it for themselves and not wait for her.

When Jia Mu heard it, she was overjoyed, and hurriedly ordered the big kitchen to clean up a table and send it to Qiluzhai. Baoyu and Wei Ruolan had a good time drinking and talking, leaving only three or five clever and well-behaved servants to serve, or Hot wine, or pour wine.

Suddenly, someone reported that Cao Cheng was coming, and Baoyu rushed in.

Wei Ruolan also knew that Cao Cheng was one of Daiyu's eunuchs, and today he carried the plum blossoms that she brought back to Daiyu's room. She looked towards the door with piercing eyes, and she saw Cao Cheng holding a small The wisteria woven flower food box came in, put the food box on the table first, and saluted the two respectfully, then opened the food box, brought out the dishes with his own hands, and said: "I heard that the second master and the young master ate There was a lot of wine, and the girl specially ordered someone to boil some sweet soup for the second master and young master to enjoy."

He said it was soup, but what he brought out was not just a bowl of soup, but three dishes and one soup.

The soup is Ganoderma lucidum and honey soup, which has the effect of relieving hangovers, but the dishes are different. Although they are made of common materials, they are all related to flowers. The layout of the bowls and plates is exquisite, and the patterns are exquisite. I can't bear to eat chopsticks, so as not to destroy its beauty.

Baoyu said to Wei Ruolan with a smile: "You are lucky today. Sister Lin made these by herself. I heard that she learned a few tricks from several royal chefs in the palace, and she also holds many medicinal recipes in her hand. How many are there?" I study these things every day. I only dipped a bit of Sister Lin’s handicraft in the old lady’s house and tasted it twice, and I haven’t seen Sister Lin do it since then.”

Rongguo Mansion has never taught girls to cook special dishes and be filial to their parents-in-law after entering the house, let alone how to take care of their bodies, how to match dishes, how to avoid mutual generation and restraint, etc. Sanchun can't, Daiyu naturally can't, and Ben didn't either Take it to heart, but later I got the queen's teaching in the palace and learned some from the royal chef, but they were all simple crafts. I was not proficient in frying, frying, etc. I only knew how to steam and slow stew, especially the soup, which was clean and not perfect. Soot.

When Wei Ruolan heard Baoyu's words, she was both surprised and happy. At that time, Cao Cheng had already quit, and Baoyu also waved his hand to tell the servant to go down. He hurriedly asked, "This girl did it? It really is my luck."

Baoyu nodded with a smile.

In the eyes of others, this kind of behavior is unavoidable, but Daiyu's nature is like this, Baoyu knows it, and Wei Ruolan knows it too.

Baoyu is also a first-class unconventional person. He loves to read those legendary scripts, and is most envious of them. Seeing Wei Ruolan presenting red plums and Daiyu returning delicacies, he thinks Daiyu and Wei Ruolan are the most affectionate Sexual characters are ten times stronger than those who pay attention to the orders of their parents and the words of matchmakers, who have never met each other and become resentful spouses. I am very happy to see them.Moreover, the two are engaged, and the exchange of gifts has been cleared before the elders.

Wei Ruolan didn't drink the ganoderma lucidum honey soup, and her heart was very sweet, so she hurriedly picked up the chopsticks and said, "So, I should try it." He thought that even if the taste was not good, he must say it was very delicious.

I don't want to, although it can't be called abnormally luscious after eating, it is no worse than ordinary dishes.

Baoyu watched Wei Ruolan put down her chopsticks like the wind, more than half of a plate of dishes called "a little cinnabar between the eyebrows" went away in an instant, not even letting go of a medlar that implied cinnabar, and hurriedly said: " Save some for me! You ate so much wine and meat at noon, you should eat less at night, let me eat the rest!"

Wei Ruolan said: "Brother Bao, you have a weak spleen and stomach and eat little, but I am not afraid of food accumulation."

The two scrambled for other dishes. Although the delicacies in the bowls and plates were good, the quantity was small, and they disappeared after a while. They drank two more bowls of soup, and put the hot wine to the back of their minds. Holding their stomachs, they slumped on the chair and smiled at each other.

Baoyu rubbed his belly and said, "It's better to go to the garden to digest food."

Wei Ruolan said: "The garden is where the grandma and daughter of the family live, so I won't go there, and it's time to go back, so I can digest food by the way."

After hearing this, Baoyu felt reluctant to give up and couldn't keep him, so he had to send him out personally. When he came back, he didn't go back to Yihong Courtyard first, but went to the room to report to Jia Mu. Seeing that Daiyu was also in the room, he and Xichun were laughing at each other. He hurriedly went up and said: "My good sister, what are you talking about? Let me know and have fun."

Xichun turned to look at him, stood up, and said with a smile, "Second brother, brother-in-law Lin is gone?"

Baoyu helped her to sit down, and said with a smile: "Fourth sister, you have lived with Sister Lin for a few days, and you have become more and more like Sister Lin. If you ask me, how should I answer?"

When Daiyu heard this, she said dissatisfiedly: "Okay, after all, you are sisters, and you are being mean to me."

Baoyu didn't even dare to say that Jia Mu had already laughed softly when she sat on it. After a while, she beckoned Baoyu to come to her and ask carefully. The character is elegant, you often hang out with him, you don't study economics, you can always know something about the world, lest your old lady often come to talk to you."

Baoyu heard these words most pleasingly, and replied with a smile: "What the old ancestor said is that I have been in contact with Wei Ruolan, and now he has become Lin's brother-in-law, and it is getting better." , you know that he is the same person as yourself.

Daiyu was holding her face at the side, only Xichun kept laughing, and she couldn't stop going back to her room at night.

The bluegrass is placed in the bedroom, while the red plums are outside, so the smell may be mixed up. The fragrance of plum blossoms faintly enters the bedroom through the soft embroidered curtain. See what you have never seen, hear what you have never heard, this is the best, otherwise who knows whether it is a person with a heart or an unintentional person? I don’t know what the future of the second sister is. I heard that she is very suitable for the second sister. I just hope that they can live in peace and safety. Seeing Hongmei's expression after knowing her origin, she really has all kinds of things, the most annoying one is Sister Bao, who talks about this matter with rules at length."

Daiyu touched her wrist, and found that Jin Chuan forgot to take it off when removing makeup, so she quickly took it off and stuffed it under the pillow, and replied: "You said it yourself, it has nothing to do with us, just let a gust of wind blow by your ears." .”

She is not someone who just waits for others to pay her back but doesn't respond. Under the marriage contract, what's wrong with this move?Wei Ruolan gave red plums, and she returned them with delicacies, so as to increase affection.She and Wei Ruolan were not serious parents' order and matchmaker's words, but out of their original intentions, and they should be sincere from now on, and there is no need to be coquettish, otherwise it will easily make people feel cold, so she doesn't care about those gossips.If Wei Ruolan cares about the eyes of the world and feels that she is out of place, then she has misjudged him.

Xichun didn't know that Daiyu's mind was full of twists and turns, she had already thought of many things, and continued to say: "The strange thing is, Sister Bao and Sister Yun are chatting and laughing, watching them, who would have thought of the confrontation that day?"

Daiyu came out of the garden hand in hand with Sibaochai and Xiangyun, she smiled and said: "I was angry with Miss Yun in the past, so we made up afterward? There is no deep hatred between sisters, the past is over, they are generous , who is open-minded, who still remembers it? Let people know, it's not easy for them to be human in the mansion. "

The two sisters gossiped once and fell asleep soundly.

The next day when I got up early and finished washing, I saw Yu Chuan'er coming in with a little girl holding things, and said to Dai Yu: "Miss Lin, it's almost Chinese New Year, my wife sent me to give you something."

Xichun asked, "What did you send?"

Yu Chuan'er smiled and said: "The left and right are just two sets of new clothes and new jewelry. The fourth girl also has them. Caiyun sent them to the Ouxiangxie. I forgot that the fourth girl lives with Miss Lin recently, otherwise I would have sent them here together." , so as not to bother the two groups of people. The jewelry is made by a goldsmith, but the clothes are made of materials from the wife’s room. We maids made them by ourselves, and there are no needleworkers.”

Daiyu was stunned, thanking her, and then asked: "Didn't my son in the house just make clothes and jewelry? My sister-in-law said it was for Chinese New Year, and each of us had two sets of clothes and one jewelry. Why did my aunt make it for us again?"

Yu Chuan'er said: "This is extra, it's not in the rules."

Zijuan came to take it, Xichun looked at her hand and said, "Your sisters have it?"

Yu Chuan'er pursed her lips and smiled, and said: "It's not considered filial to the old lady. Miss Lin is a noble person, with four sets of clothes and two sets of gold and jade jewelry. Miss Bao is a guest, with two sets of clothes and two sets of gold and jade jewelry. Young lady and second girl , The third girl is the master, each has two sets of clothes and one set of gold and jade jewelry, Baoyu only has two sets of clothes, shoes and socks, and everyone else has nothing."

Xichun wondered, "Why is there no Miss Shi?"

Yu Chuan'er laughed and said, "Ms. Shi is not the only one? Ms. Qin doesn't have any, neither does Ms. Xing. They only have clothes and jewelry made according to the regulations in the house. These are all the wife's own. The wife will give them to whomever she likes." to whom."

After hearing these words, Xichun looked at Daiyu, who spread her hands.

Yu Chuan'er knew that they were smart people at a glance, so she took the reward and walked away smiling.

When Daiyu and Xichun looked at the new clothes and jewelry, they found that the clothes were big and small, they were all made of silk and high-quality leather, and the embroidery was excellent. This one, no less than five or six hundred taels of silver, since Daiyu Xichun lived in the Rongguo Mansion, Mrs. Wang has never seen such a pen.

Half a day later, Daiyu burst into a smile and said, "It's hard for my aunt to work so hard to give jewelry with the word "Jinyu" on it." But she sighed in her heart, relying on the trend of Yuanchun, Mrs. Wang is not afraid of Jiamu even more.

The two sisters went to Jiamu's room to say hello, just as Jiamu ordered Yuanyang to find something.

Seeing them coming in, Mother Jia thought about it and said with a smile: "You came early and by coincidence, so you asked Yuanyang to pack up some good things from the bottom of the box, and each of you picked a few."

Hearing these words, Pearl Amber and the others hurriedly brought out the box and presented it to Daiyu Xichun, when it was opened, it revealed a jewel-like aura.

Daiyu and Xichun looked at each other, resisting the amusedness in their hearts, each picked something.

Xichun looked at it carefully for a while, and picked out a pair of peacock gold face masks with pearls and silk. She didn't have any money to buy extra jewelry. After a long time, I got tired of it.As for Daiyu, after careful consideration, she chose a pair of water-colored and transparent jade bracelets and two ornaments carved from the core of the bracelets.

Jia Mu laughed and said, "Yu'er has a good eye after all. Although the jade in the jade is not as good as the white jade and jasper, the fine jade is also valuable, especially this kind, which is rare in a hundred years."

Xichun looked at it curiously, but didn't notice any benefit, so she handed the selected head to Ruhua.

Mother Jia seemed to think that there were too few, so she looked at it herself again, picked out two sets of hair masks for Xichun, and a few pieces of jewelry for Daiyu, and ordered Yuanyang: "Send these to the Xiao and Xiang halls, and ask Yun girl to pick the ones she likes and keep them." .”

The mandarin duck said yes, and only half of it was left when they came back.

Jia Mu and Mrs. Wang acted like this, which made it easier for a group of sisters. They got a lot of jewelry for nothing, and they looked more beautiful when they wore them. Sanchun was especially happy, after all, their monthly money for a year was not enough for a piece of these jewelry.

Mrs. Xing said to Yingchun: "See, this is the dispute between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law. On the surface, they are talking and laughing in a friendly manner. It's very lively. They are tit-for-tat in private, and they don't give in to each other. One values ​​Yun girl, and the other cares about Yibao girl. It’s time to fight! Your mother-in-law is not an old lady, and you are not the second wife. After you go out, you will keep your disposition at home. You don’t have to fight for fame and wealth, just follow your man. If he can earn you an order, naturally It's your luck, if you can't, don't blame others."

Yingchun understood in her heart, said yes one by one, and said with tears: "I know the hearts of mother and sister-in-law. It is for my own good that I choose such a family. Without my mother and sister-in-law, where would I be today? If I hate my mother and sister-in-law because I don’t have glory and wealth, who am I?”

Mrs. Xing said with satisfaction: "It's good if you understand it in your heart. Don't imitate Yun girl. It's true that Mrs. Baolinghou raised her for nothing." Okay, I have long been dissatisfied with Shi Xiangyun.

Yingchun lowered her head, only to agree.

Mrs. Xing said: "After the new year, you will move out of the garden. You are not young, and you will be out of the pavilion next year. I have no control over the dowry. It will be up to your sister-in-law when the time comes. It's a pity that you will live After less than a year, you moved out, and Xiuyan couldn't live there any longer, because our east courtyard is too narrow to fit in."

Yingchun thought for a while, and said: "It's not as good as my resident wife's place. Don't mention the word of moving, sister Xing can still live in it. Anyway, I just have some clothes and clothes, nothing important." In the past two months, she and Xing Xiu have had a lot of trouble Well, we both take care of each other.

Mrs. Xing clapped her hands to say hello, and it was agreed.

The mother and daughter were talking about how to pack things when Xiao Hong walked in beamingly and said, "Congratulations, Mrs. He Xi."

Sister Feng was born with a clever mouth, she changed her life and lived seriously with Jia Lian, so she naturally flattered Jia She and Mrs. Xing in every way. She is not as clever as Ping'er and those who look down on Mrs. Jia Shexing, so she is very popular in the East Courtyard.

Seeing her, Mrs. Xing smiled and said, "Where does the joy come from?"

Xiao Hong smiled and said, "Wouldn't it be a happy event to have a baby in September and October next year?"

Mrs. Xing blurted out: "You girl, are you saying that your grandma is happy? Are you really happy?"

Xiaohong nodded and said: "It's absolutely true. Grandma was lazy before, but she was not sure, and she didn't dare to let others know. Today, Tete invited two or three imperial physicians to diagnose the pulse, and they all said it was a happy pulse. And grandma In the past two years, I have been recuperating well, my body is strong, and my fetus is stable, and several imperial doctors didn't even prescribe an anti-abortion medicine, saying that I don't need it."

Mrs. Xing and Yingchun were overjoyed.

Jia Lian and Sister Feng expressed their filial piety to Mrs. Xing. Mrs. Xing has no children, so she is naturally willing to respond with kindness. What are they most worried about in this house?Doesn't it mean that the second room has the eldest grandson Jia Lan, while the first room has only one sister Qiao.

Sister Qiao is the eldest sister, and Qiu asked Grandma Liu to give her a name, hoping to take advantage of her poverty to suppress her.

Mrs. Xing was not the only one who was happy. When Jia Amnesty heard about it, she also jumped up for joy. The tea bowl fell to the ground and shattered.