Jialan: Crossing the Red Chamber

There was no time to send them off, so Caiwen and Tingling had to go to the room to get some small toys and give them to Ban'er as a token of comfort.After Grandma Liu accepted it, she was very grateful and didn't express much.

The second day of September was Wang Xifeng's birthday. Mother Jia asked all the families to join forces, invited a theater troupe, and held a family banquet to celebrate. But in the end, a scandal happened.

Halfway through the banquet, Wang Xifeng consciously indulged in alcohol (note: drinking too much), so she wanted to go home and have a rest.When he got home, he found that Jia Lian was having an affair with Bao's family, the queen of the mansion. He was furious and started crying and fighting. Jia Lian couldn't make a fuss, so he drew his sword from the wall and wanted to kill Wang Xifeng while he was drunk.Wang Xifeng was not willing to forgive, so she ran to Jiamu and cried.Seeing that Jia Mu was involved, Jia Lian staggered to the study outside, knowing that he could not get it right.

It's all right for the two to quarrel, and Ping'er is caught in the middle, and Ping'er suffers at both ends and cries.In the evening, Wang Xifeng went to live in Jiamuyuan, and Ping'er lived in Daoxiang Village.

When Jia Lan saw Ping'er after school at night, he couldn't help feeling suspicious, but who would tell him such things, and he only found out when he went to Li Wan's room and overheard Ping'er crying.I can't help but sigh.

Mr. Lu Xun once commented on "Dream of Red Mansions", saying that "destiny alone, there are all kinds due to the readers' eyes: Confucians see "Yi", Taoists see obscenity, wits see lingering, revolutionaries see fullness, gossipers see secrets in the palace '.

If it weren't for some people not doing serious things for a long time, how could there be lewdness, lingering and secret affairs of the palace.

The next day, after school, I heard that Jia Lian had reconciled with Wang Xifeng, and that Bao's family, the queen of the mansion, had hanged himself to death.

After the autumnal equinox, the weather became more and more cloudy and uncertain, and it often started to rain when there was uncertainty. Jia Lan insisted on being healthy and didn't care.Unexpectedly, it rained suddenly that night, and Jia Lan got sick without paying attention.

Li Wan saw that his face was pale and his forehead was hot, so he had to scold Cai Wen, who was watching the night, and then ordered Su Yun to quickly tell the old lady to call for the imperial physician.Jia Lan was already weak in constitution, and this cold was a toss-up, and he didn't know anything about his life while lying on the bed.Li Wan was so frightened that he sat on the edge of the bed and burst into tears.

When the imperial physician came, Li Wan evaded, sat in the back room and listened to the imperial physician saying that it was the season change, the night was cool, and he didn't keep warm, so the poisonous disease was caused, but there was no danger, a few days of traditional Chinese medicine would be enough.Only then did Li Wan feel relieved, and asked the nanny to send the imperial doctor away, and sat by Jia Lan's bed to take care of him.

After taking two doses of medicine, it got better in the afternoon. Jia Lan felt like two children were beating drums in his head, which was noisy and painful, but when he saw Li Wan's crying eyes were swollen like walnuts, he reluctantly tried to comfort him. .

Knowing that he woke up, Mrs. Jia Muwang and others all came to visit him. Seeing that he was much better, they were relieved.The next few girls came to Daoxiang Village one after another, and they didn't leave until dinner time.

At the second watch, Jia Huan and Baoyu went to Daoxiang Village together, and Jia Lan struggled to sit up.

Jia Huan hurriedly pressed him and said, "Just lie down, and Brother Bao and I will take a look and leave."

Jia Lan waved his hand, "I've been lying down for a whole day, I'm so bored." Jia Huan then helped him to lean against the head of the bed.

Baoyu sat on the stool by the bed and said, "Why did you suddenly get sick?"

Jia Lan said, "I think I caught some cold yesterday."

Baoyu nodded, "Your illness is nothing to worry about, but it has caused many people to worry about you."

Jia Lan said with a smile: "There is nothing to worry about, but a few doses of medicine will be enough."

Jia Huan laughed beside him and said, "Speaking of medicine, my lord specially selected a few medicines for me to bring to you."

Jia Lan was taken aback, "Did you go to Beijing Palace today?"

Baoyu wondered, "You don't know that today is the birthday of King Beijing?"

Jia Lan thought to himself, he has no relatives or reason with me, how would I know his birthday.

Baoyu seemed to see what he was thinking, and said again: "How important is the birthday of the king of Beijing Jing, not to mention the current emperor, I am afraid that even the shop owners on the side of the road know that they have to find a way to pay tribute to him. What are you alone now?" I don't know, it's a good thing that when the prince came, he repeatedly asked me to take good care of you, and don't cause trouble again."

Jia Lan said: "That's what I said, but none of you told me, how would I know. Well, since he treats me so sincerely, after I recover from illness, I must celebrate with him, okay?"

Baoyu laughed and said, "That's the truth."

27. See you, apprentice

Jia Lan's illness was more dangerous than ever, and it took more than half a month of tossing around, both good and bad, before he finally settled down.During the period, apart from Jia Dairu who was worried about Jia Lan's studies and asked Jia Huan to talk, the King of Beijing also sent a servant to bring all kinds of precious medicinal materials.

After Jia Lan recovered from his illness, he went to the family school first. Jia Dairu was very pleased to see that he did not waste his studies due to a few days' delay.But seeing that he was just recovering from a serious illness, he was so exhausting, and he couldn't bear it, so he learned from the sea without any haste, and persuaded Jia Lan to go home again.

When she got home, she drank some medicine and slept for a long time. Jia Lan felt full of energy and energy, so she thought about going to Beijing Palace.

In the past few days, it is really thanks to the few sets of high-quality medicinal materials sent by Shui Rong that they are so good. No matter how good the medicinal materials in Jia's mansion are, they are just bought from outside, so there is no such thing as medicinal materials from the Tai Hospital.

There are two reasons for going to Beijing Prince's Mansion, one is to thank for the gift of medicine, and the other is to celebrate a birthday.Both of these require generous gifts, so Jia Lan didn't know how to pay attention to gift giving, so she asked Li Wan what to do.

Li Wan sincerely thanked the king of Beijing for the medicinal materials. One must know that in Jia's mansion, even though she was a decent grandma and Jia Lan was the eldest son and grandson, she could not just use it for daily expenses.

In the first two years when Jia Lan was at her weakest, she fed medicine every day, consulted doctors every month, and the old ladies asked occasionally, but they didn't care. .If it wasn't for Jia Zheng's frequent consultations at that time, I'm afraid that Jia's mansion would have ceased to exist as orphans and widows.

Now that the prince of Beijing Jing is so fond of Jia Lan, Li Wan is not happy.She thought for a moment, then turned and walked into her bedroom.

Jia Lan didn't know much about gift giving and didn't care.After a while, Li Wan shouted in the back room: "Lan'er, come here."

Upon hearing this, Jia Lan hurried in, only to see Li Wan and Su Yun pulling out a big box and packing it.Jia Lan took a closer look, and found that the box was neatly arranged, and there were inkstones and paper paintings everywhere.

Jia Lanqi said: "Where did this come from, but I have never seen it before."

Li Wan said with a smile: "Where have you seen these things before? If I hadn't thought of them this time, I'm afraid I'd have forgotten them too."

Suyun covered her mouth and said with a smile: "Brother Lan is trying to save face, and asked Grandma to take out the dowry."

Looking at Li Wan suspiciously, Jia Lan asked, "Dowry?"

Li Wan pointed at the various inkstones in the box and said: "Isn't it? These were prepared for me by your grandfather back then. Let's see if you know them."

Jia Lan looked around carefully, and said honestly: "In addition to the inkstone and ink, there are paper paintings. There is nothing that you can recognize or not."

Li Wan smiled and said, "You don't understand. If Huan'er is here, I'm afraid you will be surprised." She turned to Suyun and said, "Find some of the most expensive ones and wrap them up."

Although Jia Lan didn't know much about pens, inks, papers and inkstones, he had heard of them before, so he guessed that they must be precious items similar to Huimo inkstones and rice paper.

Li Wan's natal family was a well-known family of literati in Jinling. All the sons and daughters of the family recited poems and read books.In such a family, the status of the Four Treasures of the Study is naturally not low.And the value of items worthy of their collection is also very high.

Knowing this well, Jia Lan took the gift wrapped by Suyun and went to the Beijing Palace with Mingqing.

When they arrived at Prince Jing's Mansion, Ming Qing stepped forward and handed over a name card.Not long after, a eunuch came out to greet him. Jia Lan saw that it was Eunuch Mo. He didn't pay much attention to it, and only said a bit of annoyance, but the guard at the gate looked at Jia Lan more.

Eunuch Mo smiled a thousand times and said, "Master Lan is in good health?"

Jia Lan said with a smile, "Thank you, my lord, it's all over."

Eunuch Mo beckoned, and a young eunuch stepped forward to take the gift from Ming Qing.Eunuch Mo took Jia Lan into the mansion.

After passing through two floors of gates, turn around the first floor of the hall, and the inside is the inner palace gate.In front of the door, Jia Lan stopped, and Eunuch Mo went in to return to the prince, and all the little eunuchs at the door greeted him and said hello.

Suddenly, Eunuch Mo came out and said "please", and Jia Lan followed.I saw Shui Rong wearing a moon white gown, and had already arrived at the porch of the hall.

Jia Lan went forward to salute, but was stopped by Shui Rong, who supported his arm, looked at Jia Lan's face and said with a smile: "I haven't seen you for a long time, and you are so sick and thin."

Jia Lan smiled and said, "Why is it so serious?"

Shui Rong said: "Is the medicine sent useful?"

Jia Lan replied: "Thanks to the blessing of the prince, the medicine is very effective."

Shui Rong nodded and said, "That's very good."

Several young eunuchs opened the curtain, Shui Rong went in and said: "You came here suddenly today, I didn't prepare any good food for you, why don't you talk to each other."

Jia Lan followed with a smile and said, "I was reckless."

Shui Rong smiled: "I like you to be a little more bold."

Jalan asked, "Why?"

Shui Rong sighed: "When I go home every day, I have nothing else to do except to deal with official duties. Sometimes I feel quite lonely when I think about it."

Jia Lan thought for a while and said, "No wonder you like holding poetry clubs and hunting competitions so much."

Shui Rong originally wanted to lie to him by saying "come and accompany me more", but he never thought that he would think so far, so he couldn't help laughing.

The decoration of the study in Shuirong Wangfu is almost the same as that of the other garden on Liuhe Mountain, both of which are very simple and practical.It's just that there are a lot of booklets on the table.

Jia Lan looked at the memorial in the hands of the minister, who looked very much like it was shown on TV, and thought that he was indeed dealing with official business.

The servants presented the gifts to the room, and Shui Rong sat at the table