Through the Ring of Red Mansions

It is said that Xiangyun was the host of the invitation club the next day, and was invited by Baochai to rest in Hengwu Courtyard that night, as in the original book. At night, the two discussed together under the lamp how to set up a theme, and Baochai persuaded Xiangyun. If she was not self-reliant at home, she said, "Tan girl Yuan Huan'er is behind the scenes, and all the delicious fruit, wine and food are bought by him from Jinxiu Restaurant, and they are very beautiful and decent, but it is a pity that you are not here. It's too late to find him today, but my brother is close, "There is a guy in our pawnshop who sent a few catties of very good fat crabs from his field. Now people here start from the old lady In addition, more than half of the people in the garden love to eat crabs. My aunt said the day before yesterday that she wanted to invite the old lady to enjoy the sweet-scented osmanthus in the garden and eat crabs, because she has something to do. Don’t mention the poetry club now. Just ask for an ordinary one. When they leave, how many poems we can’t write. My brother and I said, I want a few baskets of extremely fat and huge crabs, and then I will fetch a few jars of good wine from the shop, and prepare four or five. Wouldn't it save trouble and make everyone lively.'"

Xiangyun was very pleased with what he heard, so he happily praised Baochai for his thoughtfulness, and Baochai explained a few more words, "I am sincerely speaking for you. Don't worry too much, thinking that I have underestimated you , the two of us will be in vain. If you are not careful, I will just ask them to do it."

Another woman was called to order, and she was asked to go out to deliver a letter to Xue Pan asking for crabs, wine and food. The two continued to discuss the chrysanthemum poems with twelve titles.

There was nothing to say all night, so Xiangyun went to Jiamu's room early the next morning to say hello, and invited Jiamu to enjoy the sweet-scented osmanthus.However, when the incident in Jia's mansion broke out a while ago, Shihou's mansion never let Xiangyun come over to avoid suspicion. If it hadn't been for hearing that Baoyu was waiting for the poetry club this time, Xiangyun was in a hurry, and Baoyu forced Jia's mother to go Then, she really doesn't know when she will be able to come to the Rong Mansion.

The reason is that Xiangyun didn't know the bottom line. He occasionally heard a few words about the whole matter, and most of them alluded to Jialian Xifeng and his wife. They had nothing to do with Mrs. Wang. I am familiar with it, so I don't take those words to heart.Last night, I discussed with Baochai and agreed to invite everyone to a lively talk. Then I invited Aunt Xue, wives Xing and Wang, and Sister Feng's son Li Wan and others.

When Jia Mu heard that Mrs. Wang was going to be invited, she felt a little unhappy, but Baoyu, Daiyu, Baochai and Sanchun were all sitting in front of her. The sisters didn't know what was going on at that time, so it was hard to stop them, and they were afraid of Baoyu. Suspicious, I had to force a smile and said, "It's because you are interested, and it is necessary to disturb your elegant interest. Only your second wife and sister Feng are not feeling well these days. You can send someone to inform you. You don't have to be invited."

Xiang Yun smiled and said, "At any rate, Aunt Xue is willing to come, and the second wife will definitely reward me for this face."

Jia Mu wondered, "Oh, you have invited Mrs. Xue so early?"

Xiangyun hurriedly told about last night that Baochai sent someone out to help him ask for crabs, and then said, "So I sent someone to invite Aunt Xue together, and Aunt Xue also said that she hadn't come to see the old lady for a long time, so she said she must." here."

After hearing this, Jia's mother glanced at Baochai, smiled at her, and said, "I know that you are meticulous, and there is nothing unexpected or bad about you."

Baochai hurriedly stood up and resigned modestly, and said with a smile, "I saw that Sister Feng's son had been ill for a long time. Although Sister-in-law Zhu and Tanyatou also joked with the old lady, after all, she couldn't make trouble without her, so I thought of taking the opportunity to ask her to come out for a walk. Maybe I will recover sooner, and I will come back earlier to relieve the old lady." There was no mention of Mrs. Wang in the words.

Baoyu also agreed with a smile and said, "Sister Bao is right. It's because Sister Feng is here that the old lady's place is very lively."

Just as he was talking, Jia Huan also arrived and met Xiangyun again. Therefore, Jia's mother put down her original words, talked and laughed nonsense, and let everyone disperse.

At noon, as expected, Aunt Xue came with Mrs. Wang who hadn't left the room for several months. Jia Muyin asked, "Why doesn't Sister Feng come?"

Ping'er hurriedly came out from behind the crowd and said, "The old lady and Miss Shi are Yaxing, our grandma gritted her teeth and wanted to come over, but it's too late to lie on the bed these days, and she walked around for a while, grandma said she was coming It’s causing trouble for the girls, so I ask the old lady and Miss Shi to forgive me, and when she recovers in a few days, I will personally return a table to the old lady and the girls to make amends.” After speaking, he laughed again, “Our grandma She also said that even though she couldn't come, she sent me here to help Miss Shi, and it's the same for her helper, I was better at working than our grandma."

Everyone who said it laughed and said, "Zhenzhen Feng girl can talk even if she doesn't come, she only makes people laugh."

Jia Huan didn't know where he came out of Jia's mother's room before he came, but later he came out of the garden to see Aunt Zhao, and gave Jia Lian a 1000 tael silver note to use first, and never went to see Sister Feng. So it wasn't until I met Mrs. Wang that I vaguely figured out what was going on.

Looking at today's sweet-scented osmanthus appreciation, Xue's family has spent a lot of money, so big and fat crabs have brought in more than a dozen baskets, not only for the old lady Wang, Mrs. Wang, Aunt Xue, Baoyu, Daiyu, Sanchun and others. In addition, the maids and mothers in each person's room, and even the rough envoys, all have a share. They are placed in the pavilion and on the hillside around a few excellent sweet-scented osmanthus trees. It was full, and some felt mats were spread on the grass, and a small table was placed in front of them, where they sat on the floor and ate, as well as the various snacks and dishes. Several large drawers were brought, and a dozen or so foot-high wine jars were piled up. altar.

Xiangyun didn't expect it to be such a big battle, so he couldn't handle it very much. He got down from his seat to let people go, and then chatted with Yuanyang and other big girls at the table, and then went outside, making people hold two The plate was sent to Aunt Zhao and Aunt Zhou.Seeing her flustered, Ping'er came up and pushed her back to her seat and said, "Just sit and eat, the old lady has Grandma Zhu at the table, and I will take care of the other girls and women for you, and take care of them. Yes. If you come back and leave, ask someone to bring some crabs, I will take them back and eat with our grandma, and then it will be over."

Only then did Xiangyun enter the table, and saw Mrs. Wang standing beside Jia Mu, and wanted to let her go, but was dragged to their table by Yuanyang, and said with a smile, "Miss, let's rest anyway, let us Girls sit here to be more stable." She then brought a glass of wine to toast her, and Hu Po also peeled a crab full of yellow, and gave her the prepared ginger vinegar to eat, and everyone chatted and laughed for a while.

Mother Jia only ate one crab and gave up. After a while, the little girl brought water to wash her hands, and smiled at Xiangyun, "I know you will write poems later, so I won't delay you here. Besides, the wind here Big, I'm not very useful, so I'll go back first, you sisters, be stubborn."

Looking back, he told Baoyu, "Don't let your sister Lin eat more. She is weak, so this food is cold." Then she said to Baoyu Jiahuan, "Don't eat too much, you brothers. It's not good, my stomach hurts if I eat too much."

Baoyu and Jia Huan hurriedly agreed to send Xiangyun and Li Wan out of the garden. Mrs. Xing went back with her, and Aunt Xue and Mrs. Wang went to talk separately. Let Ping'er take the huge crab back to eat with Sister Feng.After playing for half a day, the rest of the people began to write poems.

Jia Huan was watching all the beauties writing poems, and he didn't think the known plot was boring. After all, everyone unanimously commented on Concubine Xiaoxiang's "Ode to Chrysanthemum", "Ask Chrysanthemum" and "Dream of Chrysanthemum" as the top three lists, so Concubine Xiaoxiang was recommended For Kui.He also listened to Baoyu's three poems on crabs, "After reading it, everyone said that Baochai's poem is a swan song for eating crabs. These small titles are supposed to be full of meaning to be regarded as great talents, but they are too poisonous to satirize the world."

Baochai smiled and said, "This was a joke, let's forget it after reading it. I'd like to make a reservation for the next poetry club today."

After hearing this, Jia Huan changed her mind, thinking that once she helped Shi Xiangyun, she prepared to bring Mrs. Wang back to the sight of everyone in Jia's mansion. Next time she wants to be a host, and she doesn't know what demon moths will be pulled out, so He hurriedly said, "Why is Mr. Hengwu robbing me? Didn't we say when we first came back to the club that we wanted to go to my villa for a while, and it's not hot or cold today, and I have mountains and waters there. There are flowers and trees, what kind of poems do you want to make? This was mentioned before, and the old lady also mentioned it."

Baoyu was the first to clap his hands and laughed, "I thought I would be Dong'er next time, but now that the owner of Langhuan said so, I didn't mention it directly, and just waited for your post."

Jia Huan said, "It's just that I thought the two clubs were too close at the beginning, and then the second year of junior high school, too close together, I'm afraid it would be troublesome to write poems, so I used what we agreed last time. On the [-]th day of the club opening next month, please go to the villa, I don't know what you think."

Needless to say Baoyu, counting Daiyu, Xiangyun, Sanchun and Baochai, more than half of them were very curious about Jiahuan's villa, so they all agreed, and Baochai had no choice but to give up.

For a while, Jia Huan bid farewell to the crowd, and went out of the garden full of thoughts, but saw that Mo Yan had returned, and was turning his back to look at the end of the road. up.

Jia Huan laughed and said, "What are you looking at?"

Mo Yan thought he was in a daze, so he was taken aback, and hurriedly turned around and said, "My lord didn't make any noise when he walked, you scared me to death!"

Jia Huan smiled and said, "You have something to do, what is hiding in your sleeve? Don't hold it, I've seen it all!"

Mo Yan was very embarrassed, and secretly took out a water blue purse, and said with a smile, "But they gave a purse, it's nothing special."

Jia Huan saw that the top of the purse was not made of good material, and the two butterflies sewn on it were not very good, and it was not tied with a net like ordinary purses to hang on it, but there were two broken tassels on the ends, so Qi said, "This is far worse than Xiuyun Jinyue's. Who gave it to you, how dare you give it away?"

Jia Huan originally meant it as a joke, but Mo Yan stammered and argued, "This is the first...first time...sewed, so I gave it to me. Anyway...it is also a kindness."

Jia Huan just thought he was embarrassed, so he smiled and didn't ask any further questions.