Baoyu Fights the Red Chamber

Returning from Yongding County is the Mid-Autumn Festival, the silver moon has just hung in the sky, and the virtuous concubine sent a routine reward.

After the routine thank you from the top and bottom of the Rong Mansion, the main event kicked off—Second Master Bao came on stage to sing!

What is singing?Fake stones are not afraid at all. They have karaoke skills in the 21st century and have learned "music" from Yinquan for several years. This is not for nothing. They can sing two or three ancient classics.

You said you have to sing big plays?What kind of thing is that, you don't hear "Happiness distinguishes high and low", and Confucian scholars sing Yangchun Baixue.

There are few people in Yangchun Baixue, and the political lords are not very able to accept it.A certain one looked at it and improvised: "The moon is round and round on the fifteenth day, the ancestors have good fortune and longevity, and the children and grandchildren are full of joy and reunion..."

Although it was an uninspired statement, it was well suited to the occasion, and at least it won applause from the crowd, and was rewarded with a coin and a dustpan.

Next is Lian Er, a storyteller. He has no such skills, but he can tell jokes.

It's just that all the jokes in Lian's second meeting were dirty jokes, so he spent money and asked Shan Juren to write some jokes that the female relatives could listen to, and he worked hard to memorize them, which was much more convenient than his troubled brother.

The most flattering one is Liu Xianglian.Immediately after Baoyu's appointment, word spread that he and Tanchun were engaged, and the only son was to spend the Mid-Autumn Festival in Rongfu.In front of the beauties, he must and must be a martial arts student. The little actors are a bit shorter than him, making a few gags, adding some tricks to play risks, and the audience gasps and applauds constantly.

Jia's mother was lying on the reclining chair, laughing from ear to ear, and said "reward" one after another, but heard the copper plate falling on the stage.

Maybe she was so happy that when she knocked on the second watch (nine o'clock in the evening), she couldn't hold it anymore, so she called Yuanyang Hubo to help her back to the house, and ordered everyone to just have fun.

How dare the juniors disturb her to rest, and immediately moved to Xiaoguanzhuang.Mr. Xi also wanted to rest, so he didn't get involved, so the soft sedan went through Xiaoguanzhuang and returned to his east courtyard through the east side door.

The lanterns in Xiaoguanzhuang are in full bloom, and the servants have been waiting for a long time. The stage here is set up in the idle green bamboo pavilion.

The bamboo shadows in the Green Bamboo Pavilion supported the sparse, the drum music was replaced by the Shengxiao, and a group of small opera singers were ordered to sing carefully.

Liu Wusheng washed off the paint and changed into regular clothes. Tanchun avoided leaving early, and only gave him a sachet of shoes and socks by Mrs. Wang.More private ~ no secret, even the Wu Xun family can't be too careless.

Mr. Zheng looked at his children, grandsons and son-in-law more and more happily, and when he was happy, he would recite poems to reciprocate, and ordered each of the children to come up with a poem with the theme of the moon, "Don't use those sea toads, ice, jade, crystals, silver, plains, etc. to pile up the moon." The wording must be different.”

With the sound of laughter, pens, inks, papers and inkstones were laid out, all the children showed their talents, and the girls were not left behind.

After a while, the poem was completed, and the political lord twisted his beard and chanted. The one that met his requirements was precious jade. All the classics were published in the Four Books and Five Classics.Jia Lan is half-baked, but Liu Xianglian's poems have some aura, but they can't be compared with Daiyu Xiangyun's.Mr. Zheng felt a little regretful, so he had to comfort himself that reciting poems was an elegant taste, and he was only halfway on the right path, so he ordered his servants to bring painted fans and bookmarks, etc., and rewarded them indiscriminately, regardless of high or low.

Bang knock three o'clock ([-] o'clock in the evening), Mr. Zheng will go to the Ministry of Rites tomorrow morning to occupy the seat, and the students will study, and everyone will fall in love.

Liu Xianglian and Baoyu Jialan went home to the school, and when they came to the door, they were surprised to see Hoe Yao chatting with the doorman.

Baoyu blurted out: "When did you become a disciple? Your mother and sister are serving in the mansion. Isn't your grandmother lonely?"

Hoe Yao paid a thousand: "Second master Liu Yelan, Mr. Confucian is ill again. Brother Li explained that he will report again. I always feel that there is something wrong. At his age, do you want to go over and find out?"

Baoyu nodded: "Lan'er, rest now, Xianglian and I will go and have a look."

Jia Lan, who was already sleepy, responded and left. It wasn't that he didn't respect his teacher. The Confucian school hadn't taught him for a few days. Since he entered the family school, Jia Dairu had been sick frequently, or simply "spiritually depressed".At that time, Jia Rui hadn't even passed the county examination. He was sitting in the classroom for his grandfather and herding sheep all day long. He didn't look like a schoolboy.If he is not sick, he is not a doctor, so what is he going to do?In his heart, he thought that his second uncle and third uncle didn't need to go, but it was hard to say that.

Baoyu didn't take it too seriously, Jia Dairu reported danger several times, even if it came true this time, it would be the end of life.

Xianglian Baoyu walked ahead, and the four servants and hoe medicine followed behind.Uh, the first four servants of Shenying's waiter were all born at home, and Mo Yu went home for the Mid-Autumn Festival, so Liu Xianglian didn't have a follower.It's not that Shitou doesn't want to help his brother-in-law as a servant, it's not that Mo Yu is jealous and hates others to rob him of his master.

The back streets are still brightly lit in the middle of the night.On the Mid-Autumn Festival, no matter how poor people are, they will make a lantern and hang it on the door to reflect the moon.Occasionally, laughter came from three or five families, presumably there would be nothing to do tomorrow.

A group of people walked quickly, left behind two or three miles, and arrived at the Confucian scholar's house, and Hoe Yao rushed forward and knocked on the door.

It was Zhang Ruojin who came to answer the door, dressed in plain clothes.

Baoyu looked in the door, but he didn't see Jia Dai's Confucian servant, so he asked, "Where is the school? Have you reported funerals everywhere?"

Zhang Ruojin avoided answering, saying: "Second Master, Liu Master, and change clothes here."

Liu Xianglian stared at Hoe Yao.The latter lowered his head with a guilty conscience, if it wasn't for Grandpa Confucianism, I would invite the two masters here in the middle of the night when I was full?Li Gui's refusal to report the funeral is for the good of their family, and those who come to report the funeral during the Mid-Autumn Festival reunion, whoever doesn't scold him is bad luck, and it's not the patriarch's wife who has gone, and the elder Jing died at night and only reported the funeral the next day.

By changing clothes, Zhang Ruojin separated the two masters indiscriminately, served Baoyu herself, and whispered: "Miss Caiyun is three months pregnant."

Baoyu's head buzzed: Three months later, Jia Rui conceived Tongfang in May, MD's filial piety and double filial piety!Even if the concubine's funeral is not considered a national funeral, Jia Rui is only a scholar and not an official. If he violates his family's filial piety, he can't escape, and his fame will be dropped!I can't even stand it for four months. Is it courting death or courting death?Jia Dairu was pissed off or frightened to death!

Annoyed, Caiyun is everyone's maidservant, don't you understand?He gritted his teeth and asked, "Where is Caiyun?"

Zhang Ruojin lowered his eyes and said, "It's locked up in Aunt Xia's room. Grandma Confucian fainted, and Physician Hu is guarding her."

Baoyu secretly scolded me for being a bastard!At Rutai Nai's age, eight to nine times out of ten she can't stand it, and it's more sinful to be angry with her grandparents. How could she save such a thing back then?

Suddenly his heart skipped a beat: something is wrong, Xiao Xia said she was a good concubine, but in fact she was replacing the mistress Xia Jingui who was about to be imprisoned until death. Three months will be unaware?More than half of it was intentional, in such a big month, the safflower soup was poured to abort the fetus, even if luckily both of them survived, Caiyun would not be able to regenerate.In the original book, Caiyun fell in love with Jia Huan and was raped to the fullest. Here she escaped from Jia Huan and fell on Jia Rui! MD can't live without finding a man to love her, no matter what kind of trash that man is. MD is called damn life, not worthy of pity.

After changing into plain clothes, I went to the main room, where streamers have been hung and decorated as a mourning hall.Then he saw Xiao Xia's dowry servants all dressed in filial piety and quietly, not a single one was crying loudly.

Li Guiying came out, his words were annoyed: "Master Rui is crazy..."

Baoyu didn't think that Jia Rui was crazy, he knelt down before the coffin while PP sat on the ground, knowing that being lazy would be crazy?

Annoyed in his heart, a certain one passed Li Gui and stepped forward quickly, and then saw clearly that Confucianism Shushou's clothes had been wrapped up.

Rui Xiucai raised her head when she heard footsteps, her eyes lit up suddenly: "Second Brother Bao! Please save me..."

Baoyu wanted to kowtow before speaking, but he had to interrupt in a cold voice: "Where's your grandmother?!"

Jia Rui was stunned, and a woman next to her knelt down and said, "My grandfather passed away suddenly at half past eight o'clock in the morning, and my grandma fainted from grief, so she helped her into Aunt Xia's room nearby, and immediately went to ask for the doctor Hu. Now Aunt Xia is guarding In front of Grandma's couch, Imperial Physician Hu is waiting in the outer room."

The woman's voice was extremely steady, her kneeling posture was also stable, her words were complete and concise, and her words were not something ordinary women could have.

Baoyu asked slowly, "What's your mother's last name?"

The mother-in-law said: "The surname is Xia. The head of the Xia family sent slaves to serve Aunt Xia."

Baoyu condensed for a moment: Patriarch of the Xia family?That's right, marrying Xia Jingui to Jia Rui is a scam, and if there is a big disturbance, the Xiao Xia family will send a safe woman to watch over it, so that no more trouble will happen.The Rong Mansion is not authentic either, Xia Jingui was locked up at Xia's family's expense, and they sent another prostitute daughter to be a good concubine, why bother to give Caiyun to Jia Rui as a housemate?Jia Rui's family relies entirely on subsidies from the Xia family, how could the Xiao Xia family allow Caiyun to give birth to a child?This will in turn show Rongfu's color, and even the big and small will be wiped out!

He really wanted to throw his hands and leave, but Jia Rui made a fool of himself. The old Jia family only had three scholars, one died, and the other was dismissed for being unfilial.So he said more gently: "With Nanny Xia here, everything is safe. I am young and have not experienced many things. When do you always think it is appropriate to report funerals everywhere?"

Grandma Xia paused for a moment, then said: "The rooster crows at the fifth watch, is the end of the fifth watch suitable? Please show me the second master Bao."

Baoyu looked at the night sky, the moon was approaching the mid-heaven, and it was not yet twelve o'clock at night, which was five o'clock at the end of the fifth watch.For five hours, the thick safflower soup was enough to immobilize the fetus, which meant that Caiyun hadn't been drugged yet.

Grass mud horse!You forced me to make a decision!A certain one said quietly: "At the end of the fifth watch, at the end of the fifth watch! Then, mother Xia, go..."

"I can't!" Jia Rui howled miserably, dragged Nanny Xia to her death, and called out to Baoyu, "That's me..."

Baoyu sipped again: "Brother Rui!" Then the voice was very gentle: "Brother Rui, look up, the funeral of the school is over, and your grandmother's life is still uncertain. Think about it carefully, but you don't understand. Before Si Shuling! My Rong Mansion will be proud to have a filial grandson, but Si Shu can have a great-grandson, don’t you think?”

Jia Rui was stunned and fell down for a moment.

Baoyu said indifferently: "Brother Rui is too mournful, help me down and ask Imperial Physician Hu to take a look."

Nanny Xia got up immediately, and wanted to take care of Caiyun.

Baoyu called her: "Nurse Xia, how is Aunt Xia?"

It's strange to ask this question, the clan brother greets the body of the clan brother's concubine?Grandma Xia couldn't help being slightly startled.

Baoyu sighed: "My eldest brother Rui has been in poor health since he was a child, and I don't know if he can survive it."

Whether a wicked son who pissed off his grandparents to death and brought shame to the whole family can "survive" depends entirely on the Rongfu!Grandma Xia couldn't help looking at Baoyu suddenly.

At first, Nanny Xia kept her head down, Baoyu could see her face clearly: she was about forty years old, her face was an inverted triangle, her forehead was wide, her jaw was narrow, her chin was pointed, but women without this kind of face were often mean. Because her cheekbones are not high, her eyebrows are pale, her nose is flat and her lips are slightly thick, the overall feeling is a flat face, which looks dull, with her chin raised slightly, a little aloof.

His interrogating gaze was too direct, and Nanny Xia lowered her head again.

Baoyu hooked his lower lip and asked again, "How has Aunt Xia been doing?"

You can't tell that you are a fool, Madam Xia said dumbly: "Aunt Xia is strong when she is small."

Baoyu nodded: "That's good, that's good! On July [-]th, I will respect my uncle for a hundred days, and it will be half a month today. Poor Aunt Xia has kept the country's filial piety for four months, and she will have to keep it for three years soon. Is Master Xia in the capital?"

Madam Xia didn't expect such a shameless man to exist in the world. What does this mean to let that lowly servant girl be born and pretend that Aunt Xia conceived it within half a month?Great idea!There is a difference of three months, could it be that the birthday of the maidservant's son has been changed?

If she wanted to protect even an unformed maidservant, she would let Uncle Rui die?So he was determined, confidently said: "Even if the head of the family is not in Beijing, the mistress will always be there."

Mistress?Which mistress of Rongfu are you going to talk to?Mrs. Xing, Mrs. Wang, or Mrs. You from Ningfu, they will not hesitate to let Caiyun die!

In fact, the fake stone doesn't care about the life and death of Caiyun, the problem is that Liu Xianglian is here! MD Jia Rui's pitiful howl made him rush forward, even without his plain clothes.It was obvious that the servants were dragging it, but they didn't care if their clothes were neat or not.

For some reason, a certain one felt that Liu Xianglian was like his conscience, even if his conscience had been eaten away by a dog and the rest was hypocrisy, he would instinctively pretend to be in front of Liu Xianglian.

So his voice was slightly cold: "Family reunion during the Mid-Autumn Festival, it would be a pity if Master Xia was not in the capital because of business matters! Uncle Xia and Second Master Xia are very filial to their mothers, and there is always someone at home. Now our Rongfu Grand Master The master has been ill for a long time, and my second elder brother Lian has been in charge of all the affairs. You were sent by Master Xia to serve Aunt Xia, but the school passed away, so you can take a few people to Xia's house to report the funeral."

Sister Xia pursed her lips into horizontal lines, and asked, "Is this servant going?"

Baoyu closed his eyes and said, "There is no curfew on Mid-Autumn Festival, so I will go immediately. Brother Zhang, get someone to set up a mule cart, and please drive Madam Xia to Xia's house by yourself. Take Miss Caiyun, who serves Aunt Xia, with you." , Mr. Xia asked about the situation, can you explain it clearly, right? Tell Mr. Xia, that I, Jia Baoyu, admire the reputation of the Xia family, and I heard that the ancestors of the Xia family said "confucianism inside and foreign businessmen". Mr. Zigong, the ancestor of Confucian merchants, has something to say "For the sake of wealth, benevolence, benevolence is the foundation, and peace is the most precious." My second brother, Lian, is waiting here for the Patriarch of the Xia family at the beginning of Wugengchu. It is at the beginning of Chenshichu when we go out to report the funeral."

Madam Xia felt a burst of resentment in her heart. Anyone who wanted to be cheeky would deal with that cheap~ maidservant immediately, and asked her to bring that cheap~ maidservant to Xia's house!But this is not something she can refuse by herself, the grandfather in front of her is the younger brother of the empress, she dare not and cannot offend the ancestor grandfather on behalf of the Xia family, and she dare not even point out that the young master should not take care of this matter.

Zhang Ruojin, Li Gui and others felt that there was nothing wrong with Bao Erye's punishment: Caiyun, who committed death, was punished quietly by Jia's family, and handed over to Xia's family for punishment.The latter is to save the Xia family's face, although it would be disrespectful to the Rong Mansion to do so, but who made Uncle Rui careless and dared to protect Tongfang from being given drugs.You are willing to be deprived of fame, the Jia family can't afford to lose face, and the Xia family will not be willing to have an unfilial son as a son-in-law!

Nanny Xia and Zhang Ruojin took orders and left.Baoyu secretly breathed a sigh of relief, now Caiyun's life or death has nothing to do with him!Jia Rui doesn't need to worry about him, the Xia family won't be willing to lose a talented son-in-law.

When Liu Xianglian arrived, she only saw Jia Rui fainted on the ground, and Baoyu ordered someone to help him down.He couldn't understand what was said behind the clouds and mountains and mist, and he thought that Jia Dairu's death might be caused by Xiao Xia's poor service.But disturbing the heads of the Xia family and the Rong mansion because of a concubine?Alarming the mistresses on both sides is too much, the Xia family will definitely say that they will be killed and sold and let Jia Rui handle it.

So he dragged Baoyu aside and whispered, "Call them back quickly! I'll wake Jia Rui up, it's up to him to deal with it!"

Baoyu smiled wryly: "He? Brother Rui is a man who does not succeed in accomplishing anything but destroys in others. He can make a big hole in a small matter. It doesn't count if he kills him, but he can also lose our face! I don't care about him. Please ask Brother Lian to deal with it. The owner is worried about this messy person. I will wait for Brother Lian, you go back to sleep first, and at the beginning of tomorrow, bring the students from the school to cry. Plain clothes, filial piety clothes, Yinquan know where to put them, who should wear what .”

Liu Xianglian originally wanted to accompany her brother-in-law, but on second thought she gave up.As long as Baoyu doesn't take matters into his own hands, he has nothing to worry about.Rui Xiucai's ability is to be a target of rumors, and it is estimated that this time it will be embarrassing again. If you want to know the details, you will find out in another day, saving the face-loving Baoyu from embarrassing.

After dismissing brother-in-law Liu, a certain one breathed a sigh of relief.Lian's second brother naturally couldn't wait, he needed to invite him in person, Rong Mansion's access control is now strict is one of them, and the second Lian's children's shoes must be in Wenrou Township, the family's new house name is Qiutong...

The author has something to say: Look at Rui Xiucai, this f*cking skill is amazing!