The Hairpin of the Red Chamber

Baochai walked along the pond all the way, and stopped when she reached the door of Daiyu's room. At this moment, she felt her heart beating thumpingly. She gathered herself together, and when she saw Xun'er, Daiyu's little girl, coming out of it, she called out to stop. She said, "What are you doing, girl?"

Xun'er stopped and said, "Young lady just came back from the garden. She said she wanted to compose a poem. What kind of plum blossom paper do you want? Tell us to go and get it from the warehouse."

After Baochai heard this, she went outside and looked outside, but there was no sign of Daiyu in front of the book case. When she walked in again, she saw Daiyu sitting under the window with her chin resting, holding a pen in one hand, which was dragging on the paper. There was an ink mark in the halo, but she didn't notice it, she just stared out the window in a daze.

Baochai walked in gently, leaned close to her, grabbed her hand with one hand and said, "What are you thinking about?"

Daiyu woke up suddenly, turned her head and said: "I saw that the flowers outside the window are all withered, and I thought about a few sentences, but there is no next sentence."

Baochai smiled and said, "Oh, why don't you write out the sentence first and I'll see if I can connect it."

Then Daiyu got up to make room for Xun'er. Xun'er had already brought the paper, and Baochai cut it up herself, laid it out for Daiyu, and re-grinded the ink for her. Thank you flowers flying all over the sky.

With just one sentence, Baochai turned pale with fright and called out, "Daiyu!"

Daiyu looked back at her in confusion, Baochai forced a smile and said, "You write first, and I'll take a look."

Daiyu wrote again: "Who will pity when the redness disappears and the fragrance is broken?"After reading it, I frowned and said, "I wanted to write about the place where autumn chrysanthemums are in full bloom, but somehow I wrote these two sentences."

Baochai didn't know why she made such sad words suddenly, her face was cloudy and cloudy for a while, Daiyu saw her expression, she knew it, and asked, "Could it be that I wrote such a poem before?"

Without saying a word, Baochai took the purple hair from Daiyu's hand, and wrote "The Song of Burying Flowers" silently in an instant.

Daiyu waited for the ink to dry a little, picked it up and read it, and she became infatuated. She murmured: "So it should be a poem in late spring, but now it is autumn. No wonder no matter how I write it, it feels wrong." Then she said to Baochai, "" Does this look like my pen and ink?"

Baochai said shyly: "This is exactly what you used to do. You used to like to collect these petals and bury them, so as not to drift with the running water and be polluted by dust."

Daiyu laughed and said, "I used to be very elegant, but after following you, I've become vulgar!"

But Baochai couldn't laugh, took the poem and said: "When this poem first came out, I felt that the artistic conception in it was too sad, but at that time there was Baoyu between you and me, so it was not easy to persuade. How do you remember that time?"

Daiyu said: "I don't know either. I clearly wanted to admire chrysanthemums just now. If you don't like it, I will stop writing poems from now on."

Baochai shook her head and said, "If it's my fault that delays you, it's my fault. It's not that I don't like your poetry, I just... I just don't want you to think about these sad things."

Daiyu said with a smile: "At that time, my parents died and I lived under the fence, so I loved my life experience. When I saw these flowers and grasses, I couldn't help expressing some sorrows just because I was similar. Now my father is still alive, and I have you again." Stay with me, the mood is not the same as before, don't worry."

Baochai stared at her and said, "Then why don't you ask someone to take away the remnants of lotus in the garden?"

Daiyu laughed at her and said, "It's a shame that you boasted that you have read the book, and you didn't hear Tang Renyun's saying 'leave the residual lotus to listen to the sound of rain'?"

Baochai smiled bitterly and said, "Of course I've heard it, but I've never been like you. I've been thinking about it, and that's all I have to say."

Daiyu said unconvinced: "I just thought of it by accident, so I told you, you are too caring."

Baochai didn't bother anymore, instead she asked another question: "Why did Uncle Lin think of handing over all the account books to you recently, does Aunt Fang not care?"

Daiyu said: "She doesn't know how to read, and she doesn't know how to read accounts. The family has a simple population, and it's okay to take care of it. It's too difficult for her to come and look at the farm shop."

Baochai said again, "Then show me these."

Daiyu laughed and said, "Hey, I haven't gotten married yet, so I'm going to start thinking about my father-in-law's wealth."

In the past Baochai was teased so much by her that she had to tease her back, or at least give her a sideways glance, but this time she was uncharacteristically, and only urged: "Quickly take it and show it to me."

Daiyu had no choice but to go and pick up a bunch of notebooks in person, spread them out one by one, and pointed them out to Baochai: "This is a certain field, this is the family's sacrificial field, this is the shop where my mother married as a dowry, here are some high-quality paddy fields, and there There are some sandy lands." The amount of accounts given by Lin Hai was astonishing. Daiyu only picked up a few important places, and Baochai only roughly scanned them to make an approximate estimate. She frowned tightly and said, "This It’s all the family’s wealth.”

Daiyu said, "Probably so." He flipped through an account book and said with a smile, "Father is confused, why did you give me the genealogy too?"

Baochai followed her gaze, and saw a neat genealogy, on which the relationship and character of the people were marked in red pen, and there were several types of comments such as "usable", "reliable", and "credible". Asked: "Did Uncle Lin say who these people are?"

Daiyu said: "The left ones are just some people from the distant branches. My father is an official, and he must use a few close people. The marked ones are probably usable."

Baochai shook her head and said, "I don't think so." Daiyu saw that she was only preoccupied with the account book, so she stretched out her hand and pushed her, saying, "Aren't you short of money for business? If you want money, just ask, I have more." No, even tens of thousands is enough.”

Baochai said: "Where do I need your money!" Seeing that she seemed depressed, Daiyu poked her head over and said, "You are not short of money, so why are you frowning? Jia's mansion is also saved, and there is nothing wrong now." I'm going to make you worry... Could it be that Big Brother Xue said something to you? He is a dull-tempered person, and although he can't read well, his character has improved a lot in the past two years, and besides, there is my father, so don't worry."

Baochai sighed: "It's because he has changed a lot that I'm so anxious. Do you think he came to tell me in a hurry just now?"

Daiyu asked, "What?"

Baochai said, "He said he wanted to marry me off."

Daiyu stood up straight in shock and said, "He dares!" A spring-like finger poked towards Baochai and said, "Tell him that you don't want to marry!"

Baochai said, "I've already said it, but it's just an expedient measure."

Daiyu stomped her feet and said, "Xue Baochai, you were the one who swore at the beginning that you had a way not to marry. Do you want to go back on your word now? You, you want to go back on...I, I..." Before she finished speaking, the circles of her eyes were already red. In an instant, the teardrops rolled down, soaking the front of his front.

Baochai was startled by her, and hurriedly said: "Don't you know how much I treat you? How could I go back on my word? I just saw my brother suddenly understand the truth, and I was afraid that he would suddenly open his eyes. Take out the elder brother's airs to force me to marry, so I have to think of a way to deal with it with you, just in case, don't worry."

Daiyu said with tears in her eyes, "You are so smart, how can you have no idea? It must be because you don't want to think hard!"

Baochai didn't know whether to laugh or cry, so she had to hold her half in her arms and half in her arms, comforting her with warm words. Daiyu knew that she was in a hurry and wrongly blamed Baochai. When she admits her mistake, Baochai has the upper hand. If she doesn't get it right, she will make some nonsensical requests at night as in the past few days. Crying, coaxing Baochai to hug her and walk around the room for a few times, saying a lot of good things, Fang pretended to be angry and happy, and finally said: "Forgive you for the time being!"

As long as Aunt Lin doesn't give away golden beans, Baochai wishes she could lie on the ice begging for carp, and cut meat to serve the forest. How can she care about others!In the end, it was called Daiyu and perfunctory again.