The Hairpin of the Red Chamber

Mrs. Wang came out with Aunt Xue, and the maids and women were all behind, so Mrs. Wang looked at the secluded place under the flower bed.Aunt Xue understood and came over, the two old sisters were leaning side by side.

Mrs. Wang said: "Did you see her talking like that just now? What is it!"

Aunt Xue said with a smile: "It's not like you don't know what kind of person she is, Xu Xian who came from a small family and has no son, what do you want to do with her!"

Mrs. Wang said angrily: "Small households should also have small households. The nephew and daughter-in-law in the mansion are much better than her. I just can't see her like that, what are you talking about?" Bao girl is getting better and better, it’s no wonder that she came out of the draft, everyone knows that the draft is always uncertain, so what’s the point of using this as an example! Her family is good, and the girls in the family want to participate in the election. Weighing how many catties and taels I have! Things that can’t be weighed when they come out of the latrine, I don’t have any eyesight at all, holding a weight as a jade seal, thinking that I am really an elder! Is she worthy of saying the word “Bao Yatou”? !"

Aunt Xue smiled and said: "Okay, okay, you are such a bad tempered person, I haven't seen you better after eating vegetarian food and reciting Buddha all these years, people say that Brother Feng is not like you, I think she is really your niece and daughter , carved out of the same mold as when you were young."

Mrs. Wang said angrily: "You have such a good temper, you don't know how to say anything even if people bully you!"

Aunt Xue said: "Didn't I see you tell me that you don't need me. Besides, Bao girl was indeed not selected, so I can't blame others for talking about it."

Mrs. Wang was silent for a moment, and said with a forced smile: "Although Pan'er is a little irritable, he is generally a good boy. He is usually filial to you, and he is also good to Bao girl. Besides, he is still young, and when he grows up, he will gradually become sensible. Enough."

Aunt Xue sighed: "I don't know my son yet! It's also my fault. I've managed to be a babysitter, and I've developed such a personality. Thanks to the help of Lin Yatou and her father, she brought him by my side to teach~ It’s much better than before. The letter is written well and sounds sensible. It’s not like before. According to me, when you are a son, you still need to have an elder who studies with you, and strict discipline is the right way. Not only my Pan'er, but you Baoyu should also take care of it."

Speaking of her son, Mrs. Wang also sighed: "Why don't I want to take care of him! It's just that I'm such an enemy now, and I'm born weak, so I'll take care of him ruthlessly. I'm afraid there will be some bad things about him, just like Pearl. , then who should I count on! And the old lady is also protecting him."

Aunt Xue said: "That's right, you can call him in front of you and ask him to read and copy the scriptures for you. On the one hand, he can restrain his mind, and on the other hand, he can also practice some words and memorize some allusions in his stomach. I often Seeing that you are called Huan'er to copy the scriptures, you are so monkey-like, now you have practiced calligraphy, and you have a face in front of your brother-in-law, but you are called a mean bastard, I don't know what you are trying to do!"

Mrs. Wang was annoyed again, and said: "What dirty seed is sticking its tongue behind your back again! Say I am mean to him, you can see for yourself, how have I ever treated him poorly? The old lady in front of Baoyu likes it, take her own It is the intention of being an old lady to make up for myself, so which one of the rest should I not give him?"

Aunt Xue saw her like this, so she had to smile and take the words over, because when it came to recent events, it was nothing more than New Year's Eve management and Daiyu's illness invited an imperial physician. Pediatrics, why don't you talk to your brother-in-law and take a look at Baoyu. Although his children are not suffering from three disasters and two diseases, they are indeed a little delicate. Please ask the imperial doctor to take a look and make up for the symptoms. Maybe it's good Woolen cloth."

It's okay if you don't say anything, but as soon as Mrs. Wang said it, she sneered again, and said: "She is the daughter of Tanhua, the granddaughter of Mrs. Guogong, who is our Baoyu who is worth hiring an imperial doctor? My sister thinks too highly of him .”

Aunt Xue smiled wryly and said, "It's not Chinese New Year yet, why are you just eating firecrackers! All the old sesame seeds and rotten grains are used to explode, so it can be seen that you have been chanting Buddha for so many years. It is true that you can't forget those things. .”

Mrs. Wang said more and more angrily: "You say it's old sesame seeds and rotten millet, so what else can't be forgotten?"

Aunt Xue said: "I don't care if you forget it or not! That person has passed away, and you also have a grandson, so why bother to remember it like this. Our sisters were also very good back then. I don't know where she offended her." You are worth remembering for so many years."

Mrs. Wang snorted and said, "She offended me? You think too highly of me, didn't you listen to what the old lady said? She was really the daughter of everyone at that time. After all, we are all roadside weeds, unsightly of."

Seeing that she was stubborn, Aunt Xue was helpless, and the two broke up after talking for a while.

It was still early, and Aunt Xue walked around to Daiyu again, and saw Qingque, Xueyan and a few little girls playing shuttlecock outside from a distance, and they all stopped to say hello when they saw Aunt Xue.

Aunt Xue asked Qingque: "Where is the girl?"

Qingque said: "I'm accompanying Miss Lin on the porch."

Aunt Xue turned her head, and sure enough she saw a big chair placed inside the curtain, and Daiyu was sitting inside wrapped in layers, helping Zijuan to get up, Aunt Xue hurriedly said: "Zijuan let your girl sit! "

Baochai had already walked over quickly to call "Mom", but Aunt Xue pulled her over there again and said, "Quickly tell your sister Lin not to get up." While holding Baochai's hand, she looked back and saw clearly Only when she was wearing thick clothes did she feel relieved, and immediately blamed: "Girl Lin is ill, why did you let her come out?"

Baochai pouted at Daiyu and said, "If I don't let her come out, I don't know how she's going to make trouble with me. Mom, it's just in time for you to come. Hurry up and scold her, she needs to be scolded, just scold her. "

Aunt Xue glared at her and said, "I don't know who learned to speak so nonchalantly from me. I think Miss Lin is very good, but you always say that she is bad, that's bad, really bad, and she's not bad." See you less."

Baochai lost her temper at what she said, so she said: "Mom, are you my real mother or her real mother? Could it be that a god changed us when we were born, so you are so close to her."

Daiyu stood up with great difficulty, and when Aunt Xue said that, she pursed her lips and smiled, and when she heard Baochai's words, she smiled more gently. When she greeted Aunt Xue, Aunt Xue smiled and took her hand and said: " Good boy, it's cold outside, go into the back room quickly."

Sure enough, Daiyu supported Aunt Xue with one hand and Zijuan with the other and slowly entered the inner room.

Baochai accompanied her into the room, Daiyu looked at her and laughed again, Baochai sneered, went out and called ginger soup, when she came back, she saw Aunt Xue had forced Daiyu to lie back on the bed again, and saw Baochai bringing ginger soup up , Then he laughed and scolded: "Forget it, you still have something to think about." He took the bowl, adjusted it with a spoon, and signaled Daiyu to drink the soup.

Daiyu looked at Baochai with her red and white face. Baochai smiled and said, "Drink ginger soup while it's hot, don't let it be cold."

Daiyu had no choice but to take it and drink it slowly, watching Baochai while drinking, and stopped after a while, holding the bowl and staring at Baochai. Mom, she has a kitten-like stomach, if she drinks too much for a while and doesn't eat, just let her go."

Aunt Xue said: "Look at what you said, how can it be called letting go!" She didn't force her, she got up and looked around, and seeing that everything was well organized, Fang said: "I'm going back, there are still things at home—by the way, Wang Er and the others are already back, remember to watch their accounts tomorrow."

Baochai said in surprise, "Didn't you just deliver the goods, why did you come back so soon?"

Aunt Xue said: "I happened to be rushing to Beijing to deliver New Year's goods from Mr. Lin. He said that your brother thought that some New Year's goods would be popular, so he first bought a batch and asked someone to bring them over. When we met on the way, he simply came back."

Hearing that her brother was so sensible, Baochai couldn't help laughing, and reassessed the year's business in her heart, laughing more and more happily. Suddenly, Daiyu leaned up and came over, poked her face with her hand and said: "Smiling like a philistine, don't Are you doing the accounting now?"

Baochai grabbed her finger and looked around. The purple cuckoo and the green sparrow and warbler were all outside, so she moved closer and said with a smile: "I thought about it, we don't have much this year, and we can earn a lot of money." I paid six or seven thousand silver, and you divided it into more than 2000, do you want the cash to be deposited with me, or should I give it to you in cash?"

Daiyu pulled her finger out, waving it in front of Baochai's eyes, and said, "Why do you keep my money with you? Doesn't my Lin family have a house in Beijing?"

Baochai pressed her hand down and said, "You only say which one to choose, and you are only allowed to choose one!"

Daiyu said: "It's Chinese New Year, you can exchange some change for me, and you can keep the rest for me."

Baochai said, "Okay, I'll take some one or two pears and call Qingque sleeves for you."

Daiyu nodded, and said again: "I sent Baoyu to the street to ask about it. During the New Year, the price of southern goods has increased by at least [-]%. I'll give you at least [-] taps, so don't make a false report and blame me."

Baochai laughed and said, "Who said I was a philistine? Huh? I've already inquired about the market price of the sale!"

Daiyu said: "I don't go to school now, and Baoyu has nothing to do at home all day long. Let him go out and look at the market price for me, so that he can know some people's sufferings."

Baochai said, "You have an opinion on everything you do." He agreed with a smile, and because he was busy during the New Year, he asked someone to give her a pack of twenty small silver coins before going back, and took a red one specially. A silk bag, with a pair of two taels of small golden locks sealed inside, asked Qingque to put it in the food box and carry it.

Daiyu saw Zicuckoo go out to pick up the food box, but brought in a red bag with a smile all over her face, not understanding what she meant, she took it out and saw that there were Baochai's handwriting on the two gold handles, one was engraved with "" Eliminate disasters and get rid of evils", one is engraved with "Peace every year", and under Baochai's handwriting are engraved with small characters "Jinling Xue's gift to sister Lin, I wish a hundred years of well-being". As if with her well-mannered smile—it was Baochai who sealed the New Year's money for herself in advance, couldn't help but blushed, poohed, and said angrily: "Shameless."