The Hairpin of the Red Chamber

When Baochai heard about Lin Hai's illness, she tossed and turned. Sometimes she complained about her lack of thoughtfulness, and sometimes she was discouraged. In just one day, several white hairs grew out, and she left Daiyu's house like a nail. Nailed in front of Jiamu, I'm afraid I'll miss any news about Daiyu.

It was also fortunate that she was guarding Jia Mu. As soon as Aunt Fang's letter entered Beijing, she knew that Jia Amnesty did not want anyone to report the letter. When sending someone to send her off, a flash of inspiration suddenly dawned on her, and she thought to herself: Qin Keqing's illness has changed, and Lin Hai's illness sounds to be possible now, but past and present lives are different after all, so Daiyu doesn't seem to need to stay here.With one thought in her mind, she paced back and forth to calculate, and felt that if Lin Hai didn't die, Daiyu would have a bright future. At that moment, her depression was completely swept away, and she was not called an ordinary family member, but Ying'er, and ordered her to return home from illness. He was recuperating at home, secretly with Baochai's nurse and a nurse brother of Xue Pan, the three confidantes went all the way down the river, chased Daiyu, and had a heart-to-heart talk.

When Yinger came back, she brought Baochai the wooden hairpin. Baochai listened to Daiyu say, "This is my most precious thing", and asked whether she wanted it or not. If you want it, it belongs to Daiyu's mother, which is very meaningful. If you don't want it, it's fine for Daiyu to go back to Beijing. If she doesn't go back to Beijing, wouldn't she have to send it back herself?It would be too fickle to ask someone else to hand over such things, but if they met face to face, could Xue Baochai still have the heart to abandon Daiyu?

I thought about it, but I also held the wooden hairpin to read during the day, and fell asleep with the wooden hairpin at night. Even in my dreams, I dreamed that the wooden hairpin turned into Daiyu's face.In the past few months, it was clear how many affairs, big and small, were there, but because Daiyu was not around, it seemed as if nothing had happened. It was extremely difficult. The days were too long, the nights were too deserted, the summer was too hot to be lazy, and the autumn was too desolate to go out. Afraid of touching the scene, he just thought about it day and night, looking forward to it from March to August, and seeing the Mid-Autumn Festival approaching, Jia Lian finally sent a letter saying that Lin Hai was fine, and he was on the road with Daiyu, and he would arrive at the mansion in early September. .

The first happy person in the house was Sister Feng, who carefully arranged the house for Jia Lian to come back.The next one is Jia Mu, who counts the days when Daiyu comes back by counting her fingers every day.Needless to say about the rest of Baoyu and the others, Baochai was the last one - just because she was happy to see Daiyu, but wondered why Daiyu refused to stay in Yangzhou, and guessed for herself whether it was because of Daiyu The calculating heart prevailed, so the disappointment was greater than the joy, but it was a foregone conclusion, so she cheered up happily and packed up the clothes, shoes and socks made for Daiyu these days, and there was a whole big bag.

Lin Hai was unharmed. Mother Jia swept away her concern and had a good time for two days. Sister Feng Baochai and others also joined in the fun. Who knows that day they talked about the arrangement for Daiyu's return, discussed who to send to pick him up, and said that they should Adding and subtracting things, and Daiyu's clothes have to be made first, and it was the time for the endless chatter, when suddenly the Ning Manor hurriedly sent someone to say: "Grandma Xiao Rong has passed away!"

There was a mess in front of Jia's mother. Baochai saw that Jia's mansion was in turmoil, and fearing that he would not care about Daiyu's affairs, he hurried home and sent his old servants to Daiyu's place first, and told them not to wear too bright clothes. The people who came to pick her up from Jia's mansion are ignorant, so don't take it to heart, the mansion is in chaos, it's not intentional to neglect her.

After Baochai finished decorating this place, he went to see Daiyu's residence again, and felt relieved when he saw that it was neatly tidied up.

Over there, Jia Lian and Daiyu went back to Beijing all the way, just in time for Ning Rong's second residence to be beating and preparing for the funeral. Jia's mother thought that Daiyu was exhausted, and she was not a relative who should be related to the funeral, so she asked her to cultivate herself at home. Baochai disliked the chaos in Jia's mansion again, so she quietly said to Daiyu, "You might as well stay here with me, so that we can talk."

Daiyu agreed shyly and timidly, and went back to Jiamu, and asked Zijuan to pack up and move into Lixiangyuan that day.

As soon as I entered, I saw that Baochai had changed a bed, which was wider than before, with thick quilts on it. The furnishings in the room did not look like the snow cave of the past, but Daiyu's room.

Baochaiyou said with a smile: "I think my place is too clean, and I'm afraid you won't be used to living here, so I asked someone to clean it up a little bit. See if there are any deficiencies, and I'll ask someone to fix it."

Daiyu said: "It's only a few days, why do you have to work so hard to make changes?"

Baochai said: "Mom thought this place was too plain at first, and she always told me to change it. After looking around, I only had a good look at yours, so I copied your furnishings with a shy face, and didn't intend to change it on purpose. "

Daiyu glanced at her, lowered her head and pursed her lips and smiled. Seeing her cute smile, Baochai quietly moved closer to her, and they sat side by side.

Baochai was busy arranging for the maids to bring fruit snacks, and asked someone to bring tea: "You may not be able to eat those heavy oily and greasy ones when you come back from such a long distance. , there is also Lu'an tea to relieve the tiredness."

Daiyu said: "I ate on the boat when I came here, and just now my ancestors gave me another plate of snacks, how much do you think I can eat!"

Baochai was watching the servant girl serving snacks like running water. Hearing what she said, he paused for a moment and said with a smile, "Yes, I forgot. If you don't want to, just put the fruit there and prepare it."

Daiyu said casually, and seeing Baochai's face full of disappointment, she hurriedly changed her words: "Speaking of which, the Mid-Autumn Festival is on the way, and I haven't eaten sweet-scented osmanthus cake. It's strange. Is there any here, sister Bao?"

Baochai laughed and said, "Yes, yes, tell the kitchen to do it right away." Then he ordered out in a series of voices, and in an instant, some sweet-scented osmanthus cakes were brought up, and Daiyu picked up one and ate it. It was extraordinarily sweet, so she ate another one, but Baochai was afraid that she would accumulate food, so she hurriedly said, "Okay, two is enough."

Daiyu smiled and washed her hands. Aunt Xue heard that Daiyu had come back and came to see her. She smiled when she saw Daiyu, stroked her hair and said, "It's like bamboo knots. I haven't seen you for a few months. You have grown so high all of a sudden, the clothes your sister made for you are probably too small, so you have to change them again."

Daiyu smiled at Baochai, and Baochai turned her face away and said, "I have nothing to do, I'm doing some needlework to practice my hands. Anyway, you and I are so good, it doesn't matter if it's good or bad."

Daiyu swipe her index finger across the face to laugh at her, then tiptoe to compare, and said: "You haven't changed a lot."

Baochai said, "I've grown up too, you just didn't see it."

Daiyu laughed more and more, and said with all her mouth: "Yes, yes, you have grown up, and you are still taller than me."

Baochai's face became hot, and she pushed her, and Daiyu fell into Aunt Xue's arms and said, "Auntie, look, she just came back, and she bullied me!"

Aunt Xue watched the two fight with a smile, she took Daiyu with one hand and Baochai with the other, she just smiled and said nothing.

Reunited after a long absence, it was a time when they were a little strange, but this way all the strange atmosphere was swept away.The two of them nestled in Aunt Xue's arms, one on each side. Daiyu chattered like a lark about what she had seen and heard about the south of the Yangtze River. Baochai heard that she never mentioned family affairs, so she only chatted for fun.

When Aunt Xue saw that the maids had delivered all the things, she got up and led everyone out, so that the two sisters could talk privately.

Seeing that there was no one around, Daiyu suddenly leaned on Baochai, kissed her on the cheek, and said with a smile, "Do you think I don't?"

Baochai said to her, "What do you say?"

Daiyu smiled and said, "I didn't listen to it with my own ears, so it doesn't count."

Baochai sighed, "Think, will it work?"

Daiyu said: "What do you think about? Zijuan? Snow geese? Your brother? It's just one word, but I don't understand it."

Baochai said helplessly, "I miss you, is it done?"

Daiyu smiled happily, took Baochai to sit on the bed and said, "I miss you too."

Although she said this with a blushing face, Baochai didn't feel her face heat up when she heard it. She tilted her head and said, "I told you to stay there, why didn't you listen?"

When it came to business, Daiyu turned serious, took Baochai's hand and said, "I'm about to tell you about this. I thought about it, we can't just rely on the two of us to go around like this. San, whether my father is here or not, we will all be implicated if the Jia mansion collapses. Besides, my father is over [-] years old, has no children under his knees, and has no heir. What if I go back? And I talked to my dad about it, and he felt, I should come back."

Baochai was shocked and said, "What did you say to your father?"

Daiyu quickly patted her hand to calm her down and said, "I only talked about what happened after his death, and also said that the Jia family might fall in the future. My father also thought the same."

Baochai waited for her to continue, but Daiyu took a sip of tea, pulled Baochai and said, "Sister Bao, I'm tired, let's lie down on the bed and talk."

Baochai had no choice but to follow her, and the two of them got under the quilt. At first there were only two pillows leaning side by side. She felt as if she was unconscious, and gradually became hot. Turning her head to one side, she saw Daiyu staring at herself with bright eyes, and her face was blushing all over, whether it was heat or something.