[Red Mansion] Queen's Road

Linlin started a happy life.

The operas in the south of the Yangtze River are different from those in the north. Due to geographical or climatic reasons, the local operas in the north have very regional characteristics.That is, the voice is loud and clear, and the opera words are sonorous.And it is very close to life. What Linlin likes most is watching two people quarreling in it. You come and I quarrel with the music until your face is red and your neck is thick, and you can even roll up your sleeves and have a fight on the spot.Even those operas watched by elegant people can quote classics every time they quarrel, because the scope of singing is relatively wide, and those who have not read books can know some historical allusions.

It's different in the south, where the operas and operas are all soft.If we say that the north is full of historical dramas or family ethics dramas.In the south, there are mostly romantic dramas about gifted scholars and beautiful ladies.

Among them, the most representative ones should belong to the type of love at first sight between an official lady and some down-and-out scholars.

The real world is so strange, some things with unrighteous views are the plots that everyone pursues on the stage, but when they happen around them, they become stories that everyone scolds.

And the group of ladies around me shook their heads and immersed themselves in the opera, smiling or wiping tears as the characters unfolded, and they were so moved that they forgot Jinxihexi.

But if their own girls or girls from relatives really do something that makes them fall in love at first sight, they will have another face at that time.

As a movie fan, Linlin was quite dissatisfied with the few scenes she watched.After asking again, I realized that all these dramas are about these talented scholars and good people recently.So the little girl Pianzi told her mother very unhappy. "Yue Xia cheated over the wall and was admitted to the hospital. What kind of things are they? I will not watch this kind of drama in the future. Even if it is another thousand years, this kind of three views will not be correct."

What is the three views in her mouth? As a mother, I don't understand at all.But that didn't stop her from being angry.

The mother and daughter were sitting in the sedan chair, and Jia Min poked her daughter's forehead with her finger. "Young girl, how can you say these things. You are a gangster, not like a girl from our family."

"Am I wrong? These days, it's a wrong thing to climb over the wall to someone's house, let alone jump over the wall to someone's house in the middle of the night."

"I can't tell you, it's just some dramas. Those are watched by the old men outside, and most of the girls are different from these. You remember it for me, and you are not allowed to show such a face in front of people in the future. "

Linlin thought, what's wrong with my face?Don't let me complain a few words.

Jia Min poked her on the forehead again, "Hey, look at the way you speak, you are so domineering! The girl raised by our family is gentle and chaste, look at you... those eyes are so savage Self-willed, those who don't know think you are a princess from the palace... I can't say anything about you, you must change it for me when you go back."

According to the meaning of the mother, the princess in the palace is unruly and willful.

When the mother and daughter returned home, the housekeepers came up to answer the conversation.

"Our old lady has not been eating to her liking for the past two days. Today she invited the doctor to take a look. The doctor said that people are getting old and should be raised quietly."

The mother and daughter rushed to greet the old lady of the Lin family. The old lady of the Lin family was still in relatively good condition. They talked with them for a while, expressing that they were a little sleepy and wanted to sleep for a while.

After two or three days, the old lady fell asleep longer and longer, and she was too lazy to move. Linlin always felt a little bad, so she stopped going out to play and stayed at home with the old lady every day.

The doctors in Yangzhou City were invited a lot, and they all said that the old lady had to take good care of her when she was old, but as time went by, the family members had some bad premonitions.Especially Lin Ruhai, as long as he doesn't appear in front of the old lady recently, his whole face will be terribly dark.

Even the husband and wife discussed it in private, and asked someone to make a shroud for a rush.

On this day, the weather was a little cold. After the old lady woke up, she found her little granddaughter sitting on the bedside with a book, turning over the bamboo charcoal in the brazier while reading.

"Why didn't you go out to play today?"

"You're awake. There's nothing interesting outside. I ran out a few days ago when I felt fresh, but later I felt that I might as well be in the capital."

The old lady was helped to sit up, wearing a big woolen dress, "How can this place compare with the capital, what is there in the capital?"

"You can't say that, you can get anything you want here, but this is a place for men, you don't know that even if there is a woman passing by on the street here, she is very graceful, compared with us in the north, it is really There is heaven and earth, we are underground, and here is heaven.”

The old lady of the Lin family put on a straight face, "How many times have I told you, you should be more careful when you speak in the future."

"It's just the two of us here. I can't tell you anything."

"You have such a temper, what will happen if you get married in the future." After saying these words, her face was very sad, as if her granddaughter really couldn't get married.

"Look at what your old man said, just for my temper. No one outside dares to provoke me. If he dares to provoke me, I will chop up all my man's concubines. I will follow the example of Empress Lu to Madam Qi. Put it in front of them like that."

"You're still too angry." The old lady lowered her head and thought for a while, "In my opinion, we can only dissipate your anger by going to the temple and worshiping the Bodhisattva properly. Tell your mother that we will go out tomorrow. Son, find a temple with good incense, go in and burn incense for a while. Besides, I have come to Yangzhou, and I haven’t been out yet.”

It's a good thing for the old lady of the Lin family to want to go out, it's better than lying in bed every day, even a good person, lying in bed every day will ruin his body, it's always good to be active.

Linlin happily agreed, and sent someone to pass a letter to her mother. The next day, the three generations of grandparents and grandchildren went out together.

One of the temples they went to this time was dedicated to the Empress Songzi.The three generations of women in the family, old, middle-aged and young, knelt in front of the mother-in-law, all asking for one thing, that is to add another person to the family.

Worshiped Buddha, burned incense, prayed for lottery and ate vegetarian food. It was almost afternoon. Because of the cold weather, it got dark earlier. When I was preparing to go home with my family, I found that there was still a A stall for seeking marriage.

This is not a charlatan, but another business carried out by this temple, which is analyzing marriages.

The old lady came to her senses, took her daughter-in-law's hand and said, "Why don't we go back and ask about our girl's marriage, what does my daughter-in-law think?"

Of course Jamin agrees.So the three generations of old, middle-aged and young went back again. This time, Linlin didn't participate, and watched the grandmother and mother kneeling in front of the delivery lady. Each of them shook the lottery for a while, and took the sign to the door for analysis and interpretation.

The old lady of the Lin family has a relatively long seniority, and the lottery she drew was first sent to the stall for analysis.

The nun asked the old lady, "What is the old man asking for?"

"Ask about my granddaughter's marriage? Is she in love with her husband?"

The nun held the lottery and looked at it for a while, "Although there are ups and downs, getting along in old age is a beautiful thing."

The talking old lady was not satisfied and frowned.

The nun felt that if she didn't say a few more words, today's big customer might leave. In order to make more good friends and get more incense money, she put down the bamboo stick and smiled slightly to relieve the old lady. "Old people think too much. As a husband and wife, who doesn't quarrel at the head of the bed and quarrels at the end of the bed? Young couples come to accompany their children when they are old. Even if they are young and middle-aged, they have their own shortcomings, but it is a good thing to be together in old age."

The old lady could only nod her head, and being helped up by the maid, Jia Min put the bamboo sticks on the stall.

"What is the lady asking for?"

"Pray for my girl's heir."

This time, the nun was all smiles, "Madam drew a lottery, it said that the girls in your mansion are destined to have no daughters and have many children."

If you don't have a daughter, you don't have a daughter. If you have a son, you are fine.Jia Min stood up happily, and asked someone to seal two ingots for the nun.

Linlin watched the whole process on the side, and felt that the money was too easy to earn, so she didn't allow her to say anything more. The whole family happily carried her into the carriage and went home together.

It may also be that burning incense and praying to Buddha brought some psychological comfort to the old lady, so she was very kind when eating. She picked up a few chopsticks dishes for her daughter-in-law and granddaughter respectively, and shared the custard made by the kitchen with her grandson. He also asked his son to walk around the yard twice to digest food, and then went back to the room to sleep, and never woke up again.

The family was in full swing to prepare for the funeral, Lin Ruhai's memorial was rejected, and he was allowed to continue to be an official in Yangzhou, but he was given a two-month holiday to bury his mother.

Jia Min was about to cry Ling and Yingying to see her off, but she was so tired that she seemed to have lost weight several times, almost lost her appearance, and couldn't hold on to the end.Linlin was the one who persevered from the beginning to the end of the Eighth Classic.

After experiencing life and death, although she took this kind of thing lightly, she felt that she couldn't accept it when it happened, so Linlin herself lost weight several times, her eyes sunken deeply, and her whole body People were very numb, kowtowing and crying or burning paper as the master of ceremonies shouted.

After the old lady of the Lin family was buried in the ancestral grave, she seemed to have taken half of Linlin's soul away. Linlin couldn't be interested in doing anything, and she was lazy and unwilling to move, even if someone usually took delicious food for fun. To tease her, she just glanced at it lacking interest.

The old lady who was very kind to her left after all.No one else could feel this feeling, Linlin only felt that a piece of her heart had been ripped out, her whole body was empty, as if a strong wind could blow through her body.

During her sad time, her mother was not idle. Jia Min said to her confidants, "Since the old lady left, this girl in our family is like a lost soul. After all, she was raised by the old man." The girl who is more close to her, it seems that we people are not close to the old lady."

The left and right confidantes were worried about her, and the mother and daughter separated and wanted to persuade her, when Jia Min said, "Fortunately, the girl is here with me now, and I will raise her well in the future." She conceived in October and gave birth to this pair of grievances, and she is the only one alive, no matter how badly she is raised, our girl will be more skinny than a small print in the future."

"What does that lady mean to bring our girl back from the yard first?"

"Don't worry about it, let her live in the old lady's yard for a few more years. Go find a batch of good cloth, unpack it, boil it in water, and beat it soft to make foot wraps for our girl."