Baoyu Fights the Red Chamber

The year after the winter solstice is approaching.On the 27th day of the twelfth lunar month, another rare snowy day, Baoyu sent hoe medicine to bring some carts of fruits and vegetables to Tiekan Temple "to be enshrined in front of the Buddha".

You said that this errand should be done by Mr. Lai?What a joke, Tiekan Temple is about thirty miles away from the capital!Steward Lai's eldest son will be thirty years old, how old is he?This weather can only send young servants, led by the temporarily appointed "School Steward" Mr. Hoyao.

You said that Tiekan Temple is a family temple, so one of the descendants of the Jia family should be selected to take his servants there, such as Jia Qin who is in charge of Shuiyue Nunnery in the original book... Find out!Qin Tongxie is studying hard for the county test!

Fake Stone has always been curious about one thing: the original book is the age of the waiter Shenying, how old would Jia Qin be in charge of the nun?

According to everything, one or two years in advance... count as three years!Three years later, Jia Qin was still a teenager. In the original book, not only was he not married, but he didn't even have any trace of engagement. How big could it be?This is ancient times, and it lasted fifteen or sixteen.It should be known that he is not the only son of Jia Qiang whose parents died and his uncle was desolate~ He must be engaged and married at a normal age.

A young man who doesn't even have an appointment with a prostitute, Jia's mother, etc. don't care, and Qin's mother has no objection?How dare you still try your best to follow Sister Feng's way to get this job?Don't say that Jia Zhou doesn't know what's going on inside, except for waiters like Shenying who have long-eyed eyes and think that all unmarried beauties are extremely beautiful, or those like Xichun who are too young and have a bit of common sense to take a look. Everyone knows what Aunt Shuiyuean does.

Gossip aside.Before hoeing the medicine, Lian and Bao both warned him not to enter Shuiyue Nunnery, and neither servant could go.

Fearing that the bad habits of the servants in the Rong Mansion would be hard to change, they specially used Jian Ding, an outside "servant" this time, to deceive Mrs. Wang that she was borrowing Xue's servant.But the boys are young, and no one is allowed to go to the famous Shuiyue Temple for sightseeing.That's not an ordinary Qing~lou, there are so many people "worshiping incense" during the New Year's Eve, and there are high-ranking officials who have nothing to do on weekdays, and they are courteous.

Hoe Yao replied, Master Xin Dao hadn't married Bihen yet, so he didn't dare to touch the edge of the water and the moon, anyway, the second wife didn't have any big gifts, so a bag of silver can be sent by the little novice in the temple .

What Mrs. Wang gave was silver instead of banknotes. Naturally, it was a taboo, and the banknotes would leave traces of Rongfu.It is mentioned in the original book that the Rong Mansion sent monthly money to Shuiyue Temple, that was because the imperial concubine Yuan bought some sister-in-laws and sent them to Shuiyue Temple for "storage".There is none here. The silver given to Shuiyue Temple is called monthly offering or alms. There are too many offerings to Shuiyue Temple. In the early years, Mrs. Wang only offered money and no offerings.

The hoeers set off at the end of the day (nine o'clock in the morning), and they were a little late because of the rare snowfall. There were as many people on the street as crucian carp crossing the river. During this time, there were high-ranking officials who went out to clear the road. It was enough just to go out of the city. Nearly two hours.The snow shovels on the official road outside the city were not very clean. At this time, the vehicles going south and north had turned the road into ice slurry, and the hoofs and legs of the mules were wrapped in cotton, and their hooves turned into lumps of ice.

The group struggled until they turned to the side road of Tieshan Temple. The side road was quiet and the snow was shoveled clean, probably thanks to the blessings of the "pilgrims" of Shuiyue Temple.The hoeing simply stopped, and the ice lumps on the mules' hooves were replaced.

It was a lot easier to go on the road again, and it was half past Shenshi (after four o'clock in the afternoon) when we arrived at Tiekan Temple.

I couldn't go back home that day, so I went to see Rui Xiucai, who was keeping filial piety for his grandparents, with the soup and rice, hoe medicine and Nianguo.

That's why the "School Steward" was sent here. On weekdays, there are guards from Xia's family, and during the holidays, Bao Sishu always has to show something, you have to do it for others to see, right?However, he accidentally forgot about Brother Rui before, and Lian Er reminded him to remember it. Fortunately, it was snowing again a year ago, so he sent his confidants to trek, cough, and give the fruits and vegetables of Tiekan Temple by the way. .

But Jia Rui saw tears in his eyes when he saw that the hoe medicine was in charge.In the past Baoyu took care of him, but he had a sense of taking it for granted. When he was imprisoned in Tiekan Temple, he finally acquired some Buddha-nature and realized that there are not so many things that are taken for granted in the world.

Hoe Yao has no eyes for Rui Xiucai, but on the face of entertainment, he coaxed him with sweet words and left with the excuse that he had something to do.

At this time, the two young novice monks who had sent money to Shuiyue Temple had returned, and they brought their receipts to report to the hoe medicine manager.

Hoe Yao noticed that there was something wrong with the two eyebrows and eyes, so he didn't ask any questions, and turned around and ordered the servant to quietly capture the younger one.They don't give money to bribes, and they are bold enough to torture them.You need to know that the Tiekan Temple is full of offerings, there is no shortage of food, drink and clothing, and the management is strict, so bribery is not easy.

This incident can be traced back to when the Tiekan Temple was first built. Some soldiers under the banner of the Duke of the State became monks here, making the temple look like a military camp.The atmosphere has not changed with the passage of time, and the dignitaries of foreign surnames who have a good breeze support the Tiekan Temple. This temple is no longer the temple of the old Jia family, so Jia Zhen and his like dare not be presumptuous here.Furthermore, no matter how shabby the ancients are, they are somewhat in awe of their ancestors, and I haven't seen Zhen Rongqiang really come to the scene to respect the spirit of the old master.

The torture of hoeing medicine was very "gentle". He took off the little novice's boots and socks, and lightly scratched his feet with the broom core.

The poor little novice is only eleven or twelve years old. How could he experience this? After a while, tears and snot flowed down his nose, obediently covering his pockets: They didn't enter the nunnery, and they handed over money to the gatekeeper monk at the gate (there must be thugs in the green building, Shuiyue nunnery The same is true, the doorkeeper monk is a thug, and there is also a Qingjun little novice who offers prostitution ~ Le is also a man), so I really didn’t see anything.

Did not see, but heard.The hands-on monks were all dirty, and they said that some female Taoist priests came to the nunnery, and they could enjoy it after they finished their fun with the officials.Hearing screams and frolicking in the nunnery again, someone sang a verse: "The nunnery's Taoist scenery~ good, women who enter Buddhism are all~ fucked! The daughter of a poor family becomes a prostitute, and the young lady's order is changed~ coquettish..."

Hoe Yao hurriedly drank the little novice monk, regretting that he was so troublesome that he couldn't even listen to some words.I ordered my wife's official family's daughter to go to the nunnery to burn incense, and then stayed overnight, or even stayed for a while to pray for blessings. This is all dirty together.

He ordered the little novice monk with ear to ear, and he trained the two fists and feet who heard the words.All three of them know the severity, and they swear to the sky that they will never dare to speak too much.

There was nothing to say at night, and the monks got up to do morning classes before dawn the next morning, and the fighters of the "servants" also got up for morning exercises after hearing the sound.It is said that for these three-nine-nine cold days, one should be vigilant and not lose one's kung fu for a day, and it is not too late to go back after practicing.

The sky is getting brighter, but there is nowhere to go, the goose feathers are snowing heavily, but the hoeers have to go, it is already the 28th of the twelfth lunar month, who knows what the weather will be like tomorrow, could it be possible to celebrate the New Year in the temple?I still have to answer Lian Erye Bao Erye.

This car was about to go out of the mountain gate when the temple bell rang loudly, and the monks cried out in surprise!Hoe Yao looked up, and saw thick smoke rising into the air from the direction of Shuiyue Temple. It was so clear in such a dark snowy day, one could imagine how big the fire was.

Tiekan Temple is less than three miles away from Shuiyue Nunnery, and the trees are connected. No matter how heavy the snow is, the monks dare not ignore it. They rushed there with buckets, knives and axes (cutting trees).

Young Master Hoe Yao thought about running away like this, and he was afraid that it would be difficult to explain when he returned home, so he divided the fighters into two, half of them drove mule carts to escape, and the other half let him help.You don't care about Rui Xiucai and Xiao Xia's family?Crap, I have Xia's housekeeper!

The snow on the mountain path was not clear last night, don't look at more than a thousand meters, the snow is deep, it took less than half an hour to get close.

Strong men also rushed to the two small villages near Shuiyue Temple one after another, but they could only watch the fire burn: they poured snow into the fire, and the fire became even fiercer!

The country people lack knowledge, and the strange fire that can't be extinguished by snow makes them frightened.Some people knelt and kowtowed in the snow, muttering "Namo Amitabha Buddha", some exclaimed "Heavenly fire", but no one fled, because the fire was only concentrated in the nunnery.

The highest seven-storey pavilion of Shuiyue Nunnery is located on the side of the nunnery, and it was not affected by the fire. On the fourth floor, women in red clothes sang verses in turn: "The Taoist view of the nunnery is good, all the women who enter the Buddhist temple are fucked! Poor daughters become prostitutes." ~Sister, the lady’s order has changed~Sao! The fire is burning to the sky to burn the thieves~the den, and burn the officialdom to kill the licentious~chaotic beasts..."

The snow, the fire, and the smoke were thick, and only the tranced figures of the women in red in the pavilion could be seen.

Hoe Yao listened to the voices, and recognized Zhishan Zhitong who followed Master Jingxu to the Rongfu many times, and a figure with flying hair that looked familiar, vaguely teased him and scolded the Rongfu men , and Grandma You Sangu who was slapped by her mother-in-law.

Some well-informed monks in Tiekan Temple said that this is earth oil fire (petroleum), and the fire must be exhausted before it can be extinguished.

So a bold man shouted: "Lizheng is here! What do you want to say?"——The yamen has been sealed for the New Year, even if you can find an official, I am afraid that you will not be able to come today. Lizheng in the small village is the highest official. .

Then a woman in red shouted: "I'm waiting for my grievances to be in Meilin's bloody clothes!" Another shouted: "Officials have died dozens of times, and officials have been from the second rank. You dare not lie to the world!" and so on.

Immediately someone went to Meilin, hoeing medicine and others charged forward: If you dare not go, then Third Sister You will definitely hate Rongfu, and most of her grievances will involve the Second Ningrong Mansion.

"Blood clothes" are actually skirts, hanging on the branches of plum trees, not just one, but about one for everyone who has the will to die.The texture is a white silk dress that can be written, so the writing is not too big.The skirt is divided into front and back pieces. The front piece is the blood calligraphy name, the name and surname of the layman, and how they entered the nunnery;

He couldn't take a closer look at the medicine, so he quietly ordered all the servants to look for Third Sister You.They were lucky and wrong. A certain monk in Tiekan Temple found the blood skirt of Third Sister You and hurriedly passed it on to Guanshi Zou (whose surname is Zou).

Although the snow was heavy, the servants were all strong men, surrounded by bamboo hats and coir raincoats, and beat the fire torches, hoeing medicines and looking carefully.

It must be said that Third Sister You is very responsible, she did not mention Ning Mansion, nor did she mention the Second Master Bao of Rong Mansion who "beat her violently and made her become a monk". Prostrating to the Buddha, he fell into the fire pit.The blood on the hem is a little bigger: "I heard that the second sister was raped by the third-rank general Sun Shaozu and died. Hate! Hate! Hate! If you don't kill this beast, you will not be a human being!"

Hoe Yao heaved a sigh of relief, turned it over and looked again, arranged according to rank, divided into civil and military, and found the third-rank general Jia Zhen and the fifth-rank dragon ban Wei Jia Rong without any trouble!The handwriting is different from the previous one, it should not be written by You Sanjie, it looks like a blood skirt made uniformly: the latter one is much smaller than the previous one, and it is in the pavilion style, it is estimated that the name of the official is written first, The postscript of grievances.Not all the nuns and aunties who are going to die can read and write, and Third Sister You speaks whether she can read or not, perhaps dictating and writing on behalf of others.

I don't dare to take off this dress and it's useless. On the wide waist of the skirt are written the dharma names of the nuns and nuns who went to die this time, all of which are there.

There was an order from the other end to collect the bloody clothes, hoe the medicine and drag it to the end, trying to remember some.

After handing over the bloody clothes, he made a deal with the monks of Iron Kan Temple, and sneaked away with his hands: they ran into this case because they had troubles, if they drove away with the mule cart at the beginning, then I can also explain the past.

Because of the first wave of punches and kicks wading across the road, the snow on the side road was not too deep, and the hoeers walked fast.

So luckily in the misfortune, after walking the Shangguan Road for a while, they saw the admirals of the Nine Gates rushing towards them with their flags on horseback.Later, I heard that the women in red waited until the officers and soldiers arrived, and after screaming for grievances, they threw down the torches and lit the oil downstairs, burning the pavilion and dying.The monks and laymen who were stranded on the spot were all detained in the nearby Tiekan Temple.

But he said that the fighters who went back to Beijing first knew that there was a fire in the direction of Shuiyue Temple.

Because there are villages nearby, Lian and Bao thought that the villagers accidentally started the fire.As for the servants seeing the astonishing power of the smoke, the green-headed boy is always prone to exaggerate, or the eyes of people who practice martial arts are sharper than ordinary people.In addition, the sky is different for ten miles, the capital is snowy with goose feathers, but it may not be at the Tiekan Temple, if there are only small snowdrops, you can see clearly.

In this way, the two masters did not go to tell Jia Mu and Mrs. Xing Wang, and they watched the Chinese New Year, not to disturb each other with bad luck.So he sent all the servants back to the "servant's house" and ordered them not to speak too much.The servants of the servants have been strictly trained, and the gate control is strict, so none of the rumors that have spread to the government and the public since then have come from the servants.

Hoe Yao and his party did not have mules or horses to travel. Although they traveled lightly, they arrived in the city after the late hour (after one o'clock in the afternoon).Once he enters the city, he can hire a mule cart. He imprisoned a group of fighters in the "servant's house", and picked the sharp-tongued Pu Ming to go to Rongfu with him.

Lian and Bao are in the east room of Baoxia, listening to the servants' reports of miscellaneous matters. Jia Lan and Qin Zhong, who have been released, are sitting next to him as a trainee: It doesn't matter if the engagement documents are not filed with the government.

Because Pu Ming's complexion was obviously not right, Lian and Bao hurriedly ordered Jia Lan and Qin Zhong to learn how to be a director, and took them into the master bedroom to talk: the master bedroom has two servants who go to the night room, and the four servants guard the outer one, so there will be no partition wall ear.

Pu Mingyitong said that Lian and Bao Jing changed their colors, and the names and surnames recorded by Hoe Yao were the ones he had heard about, and they were mainly those who had contacts with the Jia family, such as Yun Guang who "had a close relationship" with the Rong Mansion. , this person is the former Jiedu envoy of Chang'an, and he will return to Beijing to report on his duties after this autumn.

What Baoyu remembers most about Yunguang is that he judged Brother Jin as an "unlucky girl" and sent him to Shuiyue nunnery.So he asked Hoe Yao: "Is there any wisdom (brother Jin) among the girls in red?"

Hoe medicine tells you that you don't know Zhiyuan.Baoyu recalled that Brother Jin only came to the Rong Mansion once during the family visit in Yuanchun, and Sister Feng's meddling in Brother Jin's case was disrupted by him and Lian Er, and no one else knew about it.So he concealed it and said: "The Zhizi generation is all Jingxu's apprentices, you can say the Zhizi generation you recognized again."

Only the nuns who have been to Rongfu many times can be identified through the smoke and snow. The third sister You is the only one who left a deep impression on him because of the face-to-face, and she is particularly conspicuous among the girls in red. .

Lian Er asked more carefully, and double-checked that the hoes were really not showing their secrets in front of the villagers. It should be known that their clothes were different from those of the monks.

Pu Ming, the hoeer, was very confident. He said that under such heavy snow, everyone was white, and they could recognize the villagers. It was the villagers who kept shouting. It's whispers.

Baoyu felt that it was meaningless, so he couldn't help it after he endured it, and said bluntly: "The admirals of the Nine Gates have gone. Under interrogation, can the monks of Tiekan Temple keep it secret? But if the yamen didn't come to mention people, they don't have to turn themselves in. They just came to hoe medicine." Visiting the scene, there are so many people there, there is no need for the Yamen to take everyone to interrogation. If the admiral of the Nine Gates wants to silence them, I don’t believe that such a big case will be made, and the bloody clothes of those nuns and nuns will only be hung in the Meilin in front of the nunnery In addition, they have arrived in the capital to hoe medicine, and the news has already spread."

Lian Er thinks about it for this reason, and puts the hoe medicine Pu Ming to rest.Of course, you can't run away, just rest in the vacant room in the east room, who knows if you think of something important and have to ask?

The troubled brothers sat down to discuss the countermeasures. Baoyu's first sentence was: "Smart children can't stay!"

Lian Er shook his head: "There is no silver three hundred taels here. Shuiyue nunnery sells a lot of little nuns and novice monks. Just do the math, and there are hundreds of people in the capital who bought Shuiyue nunnery's little nuns and novice monks, not all of them. If you bought it back, there are people who are as lucky as Chih-chih. Chih-chih is nothing, if Chih-hhh is sold, there will be another Chih-chih in Shuiyue nunnery, and Zhishan eight to nine years ago also had other people. There are a lot of young nuns, and there are very few people who are like Zhi Yuan Zhitong who are above [-]. They are capable enough to be a bustard. If we kill our wisdom, we will appear to be guilty."

Feng~yue, this fake stone, knows that it is not difficult to understand, so I humbly ask for advice on what to do.

After some plotting, the two agreed to report to the superior to "avoid the serious and ignore the minor." Anyway, the Rong Mansion is not deeply involved.

Afterwards, the brothers and sisters separately searched for the two wives of King Xing. As for Jia's mother, they were not sure, and the wives decided to report.

Lian Er secretly rejoiced that the reason why he didn't have sex with Ni Dao was because he didn't like it, he likes red dust.After being frightened by this, he felt that Qingguan opera actors and the like had to be weighed in. It's not that there is no one at home, and Qiuwen Xing'er and others are also quite interesting.

Today is destined to be unsafe, the admiral of the Nine Gates is the first in line, and after receiving the report, he has to rush to the Iron Kan Temple overnight.

Originally, Shuiyue Nunnery belonged to the territory of Jing County, and the county magistrate should be in charge of the case, but a lot of Beijing officials were annoyed to death!The admiral is about to vomit blood, the highest rank of death is from the second rank, and the highest rank in the blood skirt is the elder of the first rank!

The author has something to say: Third Sister You: Harm my aunt? !Fighting for one is enough money, fighting for two makes money!