Jiayu Village of Red Mansions

It is a row of stone benches and stone platforms. Perhaps the monks in the temple have just fetched water and washed them. They are still wet and not stained with slender dust. With the sound of the ancient temple bells, Yucun suddenly felt ethereal, and then slowly chanted:

"The clear spring washes the Mingtai, and the bells of the ancient temple soak in melancholy..."

Reciting the poem, Yucun paced slowly, and when he turned around, he saw Zhen Shiyin coming from the entrance of the alley. After thinking for a while, he smiled at Zhen Shiyin and said:

"It's the sun that melts and rises and the moon shines brightly, and the moon should follow Shiyin to come!" [Original]

"Haha, what a great poem!" Zhen Shiyin laughed loudly, "Brother Jia is so talented!"

"Oh, just read a few words casually, how dare you be praised by the old gentleman." Yucun didn't expect that Zhen Shiyin would come to see him at this time, so he said: "I promised the old gentleman to go to the Mid-Autumn Festival the day before yesterday. I should have arrived early, but Mr. Come, Yucun is extremely ashamed!"

Hearing this, Shi Yin explained: "Brother Jia is wrong to say that. The old man arrived early. How can he blame Yucun? The old man wants to respect his brother and send him to the monk's house. I feel lonely, and there is no family banquet in my family. Outsiders, only your old sister-in-law and youngest daughter Yinglian, brother is not as weak as the crown, but he is not shy about it, so I don't know if it is acceptable to invite brother to our house to celebrate the festive season together?"

After Yucun heard this, he stopped rejecting and said, "Since you have received false love, how dare you show such kindness. Brother, let me go with brother. Please wait a little longer, brother, and dress up a little bit. Don't be rude in front of sister-in-law."

Shi Yin nodded when he heard this.

Asking Shi Yin to sit on the dry stone bench for a while, Yu Cun hurried back to the room, and took out a new green cloth solid-color Confucian robe that was probably not worn often, and changed it. Since the crown was not weak, he only combed his hair high, Qingbu tied a ponytail.Everything was tidied up, the ink of the landscape painting on the case was dry, Yucun rolled up the bag with the gold-sprinkled red rice paper, and hurried out the door.

Going out to meet Shi Yin, the two of them went to Zhen Shiyin's house together. When they arrived, the cups and plates had already been prepared in the garden, and there was a list of delicious food and wine.In the middle of the table on the right side sat a wife of about ten or fifty, holding a girl of one to two or three years old in her arms. It was the only daughter of Shiyin Zhen Yinglian whom she had seen before. Yucun thought that the lady must be Mrs. Zhen.

Zhen Shiyin invited Yucun to take a seat and introduced his wife to him. Yucun stood up and saluted.When her daughter Zhen Yinglian was introduced, Zhen Shiyin looked quite proud.Yucun hadn't looked closely at Yinglian before, but now that Zhen Shiyin reintroduced her, she couldn't help but take a second look at Yinglian, who was obediently staying in the arms of Zhen Shiyin's wife, Feng Shi. There is a red rouge mole in the middle, which is a sign of great wealth, and he likes it very much in his heart, and then he said: "Hey? This young lady has a rouge mole between her eyebrows, oh, good fortune, good fortune!"

Zhen Shiyin was very happy when he heard that, with a look of melancholy on his brows, he said: "No need to be rich, I just want her to live a safe and happy life."

Seeing this, Jia Yucun didn't know what Zhen Shiyin was worried about, so he asked, "I see that Mr. Zhen seems to have a sad brow, but is there anything bothering you?"

Zhen Shiyin frowned when he heard the words, and said: "Brother Jia doesn't know something. Two days ago, I took my little girl to the street and met a monk. Pointing to the little girl, he said to me, "Almsgiver, why are you holding this lifeless thing that affects your parents in your arms? Give me up!" You want to make me Yinglian a monk, pity me for half my life. Daughter, how can you be willing?"

Yucun frowned, and then remembered that Zhen Yinglian was the Mei Xiangling who was later abducted by the kidnapper. Thinking of what happened to the cute little girl Yuxue in front of her in front of her, she couldn't bear it, thinking that she would definitely be taken from the hands of the dumb bully in the future. Rescuing her, thinking this way, he felt that Yinglian was destined to be with him, and comforted him: "This monk must be pretending to be an unscrupulous person who wants to cheat money and things, Mr. Zhen don't need to take it to heart."

Zhen Shiyin stroked his beard briefly, and said: "At first I thought so too, but when the monk left, he recited a poem, saying

'Accustomed to pampering and laughing at you as an idiot, Linghua Kong is facing Xue;

It is best to prevent the festive Lantern Festival, when the smoke and fire are extinguished. '【original】

It doesn't sound like what the liar said to me. "

Hearing this, Yucun thought maybe he could change Yinglian's fate now, and said: "I often hear from the elders that this child is too blessed to easily make bad stars jealous. If the bad star can't find clues, if he can't find it, he can live a safe life, if Mr. Zhen doesn't dislike it, how about transferring this Yinglian to my younger brother's name?"

"This..." Zhen Shiyin hesitated when he heard the words.

"Brother, don't worry. My daughter only transfers her household registration, not the ancestral hall. She only needs to be notified and sent under Wansheng's name. She will become a married father. She will still be raised by the old man and his wife on weekdays. You don't have to worry about the pain of separation." Yucun saw Shi Yin was in a dilemma and explained.

After listening to Yucun's explanation, Zhen Shiyin thought that Jia Yucun's words and deeds were upright and elegant, and his ambition was not small. On a certain day, the village elders were invited to testify and sent Yinglian to Yucun without mentioning it.

When the work was over, Yucun took the calligraphy and painting and handed them to Zhen Shiyin, saying: "Brother Zhen sincerely invites my younger brother to spend the Mid-Autumn Festival. It was supposed to be a generous gift, but because of the lack of cash, I only doodled a landscape painting. To despise."

"Oh~" Zhen Shiyin's eyes were filled with interest when he heard that it was a landscape painting, and he said, "If Brother Jia's landscape painting must be extraordinary, how can you say you don't like it!"

After finishing speaking, I was about to unfold the painting and looked at it carefully. I saw a group of peaks standing in the painting. There are water splashes, which are as vigorous as waterfalls and lively like streams, making people feel that the water should only come from the sky. When the full moon is in the sky, a few wisps of green smoke cover the face, adding a bit of etherealness to the whole picture. The painting is majestic and sophisticated, and at first sight it is just the work of a famous artist. The inscription on the left side of the blank reads: "Mingxi flows out of the mountain stream, and the good moon shines on people. Yuan Shiyin gave it to brother Shiyin in the mid-autumn year of XX." The iron pen and silver hook are really true. Calligraphy and painting double.

Zhen Shiyin looked at the painting, his eyes became brighter and brighter, and at the end he stood up and applauded repeatedly, "Good! Good, brother Yucun is really a masterpiece. Such a skill, no one in the world can match it!"

When Yucun heard the words, he got up quickly and didn't dare to say anything. At this moment, Mrs. Zhen said: "Okay, you two brothers don't want to humble each other, Yucun, according to my old sister-in-law, your talents are incomparable. , this painting is also very good, at least my sister-in-law, I have never seen any painting better than yours, so you don't have to be too humble, master, do you think we should have dinner, Yinglian is not waiting for your brother Let's eat together!"

Hearing this, Shiyin and Yucun lowered their heads and looked into Madam Zhen's arms, only to realize that Yinglian grabbed the nearest plate of oily prawns while everyone was not paying attention, and her mouth was full of red. Shrimp oil, a pile of shrimp shells have already been peeled in front of her, it is rare that she can peel them so completely at such a young age.At this time, Yinglian saw that everyone was looking at her, as if she knew she had made a mistake, her big black eyes rolled around them, her hand was still tightly holding the unfinished shrimp.

Seeing that her daughter was so unruly, Zhen Shiyin was about to reprimand her daughter with a tigerish face, but Yinglian immediately threw away the half-bitten prawns in her hand, grabbed the remaining two from the plate, grabbed one with each hand, and moved towards her. Shi Yin and Yu Cun smiled innocently: "Daddy, eat~"

Seeing this, everyone burst into laughter, and Shi Yin couldn't hold back his face, and reached out to catch one and said, "I don't know which daddy you are calling."

I don't know if Yinglian really understood what Shi Yin meant or if she just got close to Yucun, took another shrimp, and said to Yucun, "Elder brother eats too."

Everyone heard the words and didn't know what they should think. Master Zhen's face was more like a palette, red and blue at times. I don't know whether to be happy that his daughter is close to Yucun or angry at her for being inferior to Jia Yucun for nothing.

Yucun smiled and took the shrimp from Yinglian's hand, and touched her head. Yucun liked children very much, and he didn't follow the rules of holding grandchildren and not having children, otherwise he would not have proposed to form a bond with Yinglian just now. Zhen Shiyin looked a little funny, and said: "Brother Shiyin, don't blame Yinglian, he is still a child, so he can't understand all these relationships."

After listening to Yucun's persuasion, Zhen Shiyin calmed down, and beckoned Jia Yucun to sit down. The two brothers poured out a drink and chatted about family affairs. The old lady Zhen next to him asked about his family background, whether he had a wife, and what kind of family he liked. Girl, plus a couple of childish words that Yinglian half-understands, the four of them live in harmony.

Yinglian was young, and soon became tired and sleepy, Mrs. Zhen took Yinglian to rest first, and left Yucun and Shiyin to talk about poetry and poetry. At that time, every family in the neighborhood had flute pipes, and every household played and sang. In front of the first round of bright moon, it was shining brightly, and the two of them became more and more excited, and the wine was dry.

Note: The ancients were twenty weak crowns, and they took the word adult. There are words in the original book of Dream of Red Mansions, which means that Jia Yucun was already weak crown when he appeared on the stage, but because of the needs of the plot of this article, the age of Jia Yucun was reduced to 17 years old.

Third time

Last time, it was said that Zhen and Jia had a Mid-Autumn Festival banquet. They were very happy and drank a lot.At that time, the bright moon gradually moved from the west to the sky, and the moon was shining like a twilight. It was really a beautiful moon, and the scene was touching. Shi Yin couldn't help smiling at Yucun: "Brother Yucun must have a good work on this good day!"

Yucun heard the words and said, "Brother is a confidant, and that's exactly what I mean!"

Putting down the cups and chopsticks in his hand, Yucun stood up with his hands behind his back, walked slowly two steps, looked up at the silver moon, the brilliance was infinite, coupled with the drunkenness, he couldn't help his madness, and blurted out a quatrain: