The Hairpin of the Red Chamber

The time was short, even though the two of them were thinking about each other in a thousand ways, they could only make a long story short, Baochai asked Daiyu to say, "You go first."

Daiyu said quickly: "I think it's too risky for us to count on Baoyu alone. We have to choose a few more—don't lose face, I don't want to pick a few more men for myself—besides, we have Plan for the worst, in case the Jia mansion falls, at least one house must be kept, as long as there is one house, the power of the Jia mansion is still there, and Baoyu will not fall to the point where the wall is overthrown by everyone, all sisters There is also a backing."

Baochai immediately interjected, "It's better that the room left here is still the room of my uncle—so our first priority right now is to separate them."

Daiyu nodded and said, "Baoyu can't tell the difference, but the first and second uncles can."

Baochai said with a smile: "Baoyu is a junior, and he is separated by a layer, so it's not easy to show up. If the old man said this, it would be different."

Seeing that Baochai had the same idea as her own, Daiyu smiled and said, "Then tell me, what is your idea?"

Baochai's childlike innocence suddenly arose, and she said, "Let's talk at the same time, do we see the same thing?"

Daiyu smiled with her, and they both spoke at the same time, Daiyu said: "A plan to divorce!" Baochai said: "To sow discord." "What are you trying to sow dissension, what are you talking about?" Her face was full of smiles, and when Baochai saw her smile, she didn't realize that she grinned, and stretched out her hand to hold Daiyu's hand, their palms pressed together, and their fingers intertwined. , Baochai said: "For me, the second thing is to try to prevent them from committing the crime of ransacking their homes."

Daiyu nodded and said: "If you want me to tell you that if you count these big families carefully, none of them are innocent. Why did you just copy the Jia's house? If you talk about loan sharks, even my father tacitly allowed me to borrow money. Speaking of deficiencies, in the Jiangnan area, which official is not deficient? In which matter did he lose his sacred heart, or did he offend someone who should not be offended? ——Sister Bao, you have time to write to me the events of your previous life ...I can't remember clearly, let's think about it, what is the biggest crime committed by the Jia family."

Baochai said: "As long as the old lady is here, we still have time. Don't be in a hurry, come one by one."

Knowing that she was worried about her health, Daiyu smiled and said, "Don't worry." Just this one sentence made Baochai smile and say, "Since we think the same, it's easy to handle. Leave the outside to me, and the inside." What's the matter... I'll write my name for you, you'll know when you see it, if you really don't understand, just give me an empty handkerchief."

Daiyu then raped her: "But you miss my things."

Baochai just laughed, then touched her forehead with her forehead, and kissed her lightly on the cheek. At that time, Aunt Xue saw that Baochai had been in the toilet for a long time, and she was afraid that she would be ill, so she asked Tongxi to come and see, and Daiyu hurriedly came from there. Going out on one side, Baochai pretended to be respectful, and said to Tongxi: "I just had some abdominal pain, but now it's better, and I haven't come out."

Tong Xi only reciprocated with Aunt Xue as if it was a big event, and asked Aunt Xue to hug Baochai, meat, and feel distressed for a while.

After the two had communicated with each other and knew that they had agreed on the same plan, they went back to each other immediately. Baochai wrote a letter, which was full of trivial matters. , Mrs. Xing, Mrs. Wang, Sister Feng, Li Wan, and then everyone.Daiyu knew her intentions, and besides urging Baoyu, she gradually walked around the mansion. That day, she went to visit Sister Feng's house, and when she arrived at the door, she saw someone crying inside. Normally, Daiyu would have avoided it, but at this moment she Fearing that it might not be a big deal, he went in and said with a smile: "What is Sister Feng doing these days? I haven't come to play with the old lady for a long time. We all said we wanted to joke with you, but we couldn't wait."

Sister Feng's face was gloomy. Seeing Daiyu coming, she forced a smile and said, "Sister Lin is here. Please sit down quickly. How come you come all the way in such a cold day?" But she didn't ask anyone to bring tea.

Daiyu had the audacity to sit in the room, and secretly glanced at the beauty sitting on the footstool—this person was also a lady, and looked weaker than Daiyu, when she lowered her head, the tears were like crystals. The drops flowed down the cheeks, carrying pear blossoms with rain.

Sister Feng said to her, "This is Miss Lin."

The man got up lightly, bowed to Daiyu and said: "My lady Ying, I have seen Miss Lin."

Daiyu saw that she was well-spoken, so she got angry with the maid-like flowers and plants with different names, but she took care, and said politely: "Quickly, don't be too polite."

Sister Feng also laughed and said, "Sister Lin, haven't you seen her yet? This is Sister Ma, brought back from Yangzhou by your second brother, and now lives in the West Wing. Oh, it's my fault that I'm too busy these days to take care of these things at home. , a good little sister, she took it back happily, and let that servant with a bad screwdriver bully her like this!" Then she scolded the kneeling girl: "It's useless! I asked you to come up with such an idea!" If you can’t handle things well, don’t stay at home, just go to Zhuangzi!”

The girl knelt on the ground, clapped her mouth without a word, and scolded herself, but that Ma Yingniang said: "They are all slaves, and they have tired her. I beg my sister to be extra merciful, and just teach her a few things. If you rush If she goes out, it will cut off her life."

Sister Feng said angrily, "How can that happen? Such a slave should be kicked out!" She was not allowed to say any more, and ordered to have the man kicked out, and said to Daiyu, "I'm sorry for telling Sister Lin to read the joke."

Daiyu also said: "Sister Feng has to deal with such things every day, and it's hard work." After a few gossips, she turned around and remembered Ma Yingniang in her heart, thinking of the charming tone of Ma Yingniang when she called herself a "slave". , her mind suddenly turned to another place - Yingniang, who claimed to call her irrelevant people, felt sorry for her. If she called herself so in front of Baochai, I don't know if Baochai's bones would be broken. ?As soon as I thought of this, I gave myself a bah, and threw the thought away.

Because she doesn't like to move around very much, if she is too diligent this time, she might be suspicious, so she went back first, thinking about how to provoke Jia Amnesty, and then thinking about Baochai, and gradually she was full of thoughts only about Baochai. Unexpectedly, she was slapped on the back, and she stood up in shock, and said angrily, "What are you doing to slap someone else!" Startled by her cry, it took a long time before she said in a low voice: "I saw that you didn't recover after the maids reported four or five times, so you came here directly—Sister Lin, the old lady said that she was going to pick up Sister Shi to stay for a few days , I think our book club hasn’t started for a long time, why don’t I start it up, we sisters take advantage of this time to get together.”

Daiyu said: "That's great—I even told the old lady to bring Sister Bao to stay for a few days, so we can have a good time."

Tanchun smiled and said, "I'm here to discuss this with you. In addition to Sister Bao and Sister Shi, I also want to invite Sister You, Sister Ping'er, and Sister Xiangling from Aunt Xue. What do you think?" ?”

Daiyu said: "Why don't you invite Sister Feng? Even if she is busy, she will come and sit."

Tanchun said, "She doesn't want to see us now."

Daiyu saw that she seemed to have unfinished thoughts, and she kept them in her heart.

Since Daiyu persuaded Baoyu, he told Jia Zheng what he wanted. Jia Zheng was really happy in his heart, and said with a sullen face, "Don't mention reading! Don't embarrass me to death!"

Usually he said this, and Baoyu listened to him like this, but this time he said this, he saw Baoyu suddenly kneel down with a plop, walked up to him, hugged him and said, "Father, is your son true?" I want to study, I beg my father to let me do it!" Jia Zheng was startled, but he couldn't say any more words of reproach, so he sent Baoyu away, and quietly called a servant to ask, "What has Baoyu been doing recently?"

The boys had long been in collusion to please Baoyu. Seeing the master's question, they all said, "Second master has worked hard recently. I heard that the people serving in front of me are afraid that he will be ill. They have been trying to persuade him."

While Jia Zheng was relieved, he inevitably felt more solemn, and feared that Mrs. Jia would favor him and drive him away again.

However, the Jia family has its own ethnology, and it seems inappropriate for the children of the same family to go to another family to study. There may be discussions among the family. After a long time of deliberation, the son's future is finally important. Because of a handwritten letter, he ordered someone to send it to Li Wan's father. , I didn't talk about the attached school, but said that my son wanted to learn articles and asked him for advice, and Jia Lan also asked him for advice, hoping to agree.

When Li Shouzhong saw the letter mentioning Jia Lan, thinking of Jia Zhu who died young, he inevitably shed a few tears, and immediately agreed to get up early, and must teach Baoyu and Jia Lan to become talents.

Baoyu got the letter, cheered up, and asked someone to clean up. He thought of Qin Zhonglai again, so he went to the ethnology to say goodbye to him.

Unexpectedly, he stayed in the inner house for a long time, and he didn't know anything about the outside world. It was only after the ethnology that he found out that Qin Zhong was dead. Baoyu was stunned, and suddenly thought that Baochai had warned him about Qin Zhong's death, and he was shocked. Frightened, I sent Mingyan to inquire again. Even the matter of Zhizhier and Qinye was exactly the same. Baoyu was so shocked that he was sweating and short of breath. Returning to the appearance of Fangsheng in the past, he persuaded Jia Zheng several times.

When Baoyu talked about the decline of his family business for the first time, because what he said was general, although Jia Zheng felt deeply in his heart, he didn't take it as a big deal. Drilling around in his own yard, he only said scare words, and they were well-founded, which were definitely beyond the imagination of a yellow-mouthed child. Jia Zheng suspected that it was Li Shouzhong who wanted to persuade him, because they were all taboo words, which were not good. To put it bluntly, it was Baoyu who passed on the word that Li Shouzhong was from a Qingliu family, and he warned, presumably, that the civil servants had some criticisms of the Jia family, so he gradually took it seriously, became more cautious in his daily affairs, and repeatedly advised Jia Amnesty.

How could Jia Amnesty listen to these words?Once he hated Jia Zheng, he said that he was "pretending to be a prince, and he has not been appointed yet, and he has already put on the airs of the head of the country." Then he ordered the servant to hear Jia Zheng's arrival, and said that he was not there, so he was not allowed to pass it on.Jia Zheng could only smile wryly, and turned to persuade Jia Zhen that Jia Zhen and Jia She were the same kind, because Jia Zheng was an elder, and he couldn't be as blatant as Jia She, so he said he couldn't afford it, which really avoided a gust of wind head.