The Hairpin of the Red Chamber

Daiyu got her way, and hurriedly went to Jiamu's place to act coquettishly and foolishly, trying every means, and immediately forced Jiamu to send someone to pick up Baochai and settle down with Daiyu—the better the distance at this time. There are still five or seven days left before the club starts, and the extra time is Bai Rao's time, which makes both of them happy for a long time.

When we meet again after a little farewell, there is always such a thing as leaning on each other, leaning on each other's shoulders, Baochai did not say clearly that she went back to study carefully, and used her own experience to study and understand things, but Daiyu had already noticed that Baochai's skills were gradually becoming mature, and she put on an appearance of being sensitive and eager to learn. Between the beds, there was a bit of shame in asking, Baochai was so tired that she kissed and hugged Daiyu again and again, but Daiyu was weak and didn't dare to do her best, so she clicked on it. stop it.

Who would have thought that the first time Daiyu was a little afraid of pain, but this time she was in a good state, seeing that Baochai couldn't let go of her hands and feet, she hugged her again, wrapped her tongue around her, and caught Baochai on fire, touching her. Fumbled and moved again, until Zijuan outside said with a pun: "Girls, please restrain yourself." Fang stopped, stroked Daiyu's stomach with his hand, and put his arm around her from behind, Extremely full of love, but refused to sleep, but also to describe the situation of the past few days in detail.

Daiyu visited neighbors and friends during the day, and left many places she hadn't seen in the past, and heard rumors that she didn't hear. Now she happened to tell Baochai some gossip that she couldn't tell, and first said, "Daddy." My aunt doesn't like Sister Feng very much. The day before yesterday, when she was serving the old lady for dinner, she gave her face, but the old lady told her to go back." I went back, and said that I used the money from the public office to repair their family’s relatives’ villa, and was scolded by the uncle in front of his servants.” Then he said, “I watched coldly, the uncle and the second uncle have a lot of grievances. It's even deeper. When the second uncle comes in at dawn and dusk, the first uncle must leave. Sometimes when the first uncle wants to enter the garden, he will first send someone to ask if the second uncle is there. The first aunt and Sister Feng will be angry. For this reason".

Baochai said: "The Eldest Master is the head of the family, but the old lady prefers the younger son, so naturally she is not convinced. Even my uncle said that he has no resentment towards the Elder Master, and I don't believe it."

Daiyu said: "If there is resentment, we can do things better. I didn't get close to the two aunts in the past. These days, I go to them slowly. When I get familiar with them, I can talk from them."

Baochai laughed and said, "I thought you knew astronomy above and geography below. It would take no effort to implement such a small plan of separation. Who knows, it is also useless. You went to the wrong place at the beginning."

Daiyu was annoyed: "Don't start from the inner house, why go to talk to the uncles? You are so unreasonable."

Baochai smiled and said, "I didn't let you go outside, but you found the wrong person in the inner house! Where do you think the rift between the two gentlemen came from?"

Daiyu said: "It's nothing more than the eldest uncle blaming the old lady for being partial, and the second uncle blaming the eldest uncle for being ridiculous—you want me to start with the old lady?"

Baochai nodded and said: "Your two aunts are cold-tempered and not close to you. What's the use of you brazenly showing their cold faces? It's better to attack the old lady in the house. The old lady loves you all the time. Whatever you say counts."

Daiyu was slightly dissatisfied and said, "I thought of this, but I just thought of doing both."

Baochai shook her head and said: "The two wives are approaching middle age, and the master doesn't come into the house very often. If only the two of them are arguing, no matter how fierce the quarrel is, the master will only get bored with them and will not make trouble with his own brother. Besides, the two wives are official wives who are married by Ming Media. If there is a quarrel, at most it will be whispered in the room for a while. There must be a kind face, especially the second wife is the most famous. If you continue to provoke, don't you? Did they ruin their dignity for one or two trivial things?"

Daiyu understood a bit: "What do you mean, start from Aunt Zhao?"

Baochai nodded with a smile and said: "The reason for the dissatisfaction is that it starts with small things and gradually deepens. Small things are also the most likely to cause disputes. Small things are the most likely to happen between aunts and concubines—not to mention that there are many concubines in the old man's house, and there are many concubines in the uncle's house." The love is deep, the two houses are evenly matched, and there is no difference. If the entanglement continues, this dispute will only become more and more troublesome. If the trouble becomes big, the two wives can't ignore it. When the time comes, they will use other things to force them, and even the wives will start to quarrel. ... tut tut."

Daiyu really couldn't see her sinister appearance, so she stretched out her hand to pat her, and pulled her to tell about the secret fight between Sister Feng and Li Wan, and then told the story of Ma Yingniang, Baochai couldn't help laughing at Sister Feng and said: : "In that life, she met a foolish person like Second Sister You, so she succeeded. In this life, she has changed to Ma Yingniang. I'm afraid it will not be so easy to deal with."

Daiyu deliberately said: "I don't think much of her. Why do you value her so much?"

Baochai couldn't see the smile on her face, so he just put his arms around her and said: "Since ancient times, a hundred steel smelting is no match for soft fingers. Sister Feng is a strong woman who doesn't give in to her husband. Ma Yingniang is a gentle daughter made of water. You are a man. You Which one to choose?"

Daiyu said: "I just don't like her like that. I like Sister Feng."

Baochai pinched her face and said, "So you are a girl, not a man. Men always like to be gentle."

Daiyu rolled her eyes and said, "What about you? Who do you like?"

Baochai said: "I don't like anyone, but you." The coaxed Daiyu was overjoyed, reached out and hugged her, and said: "Actually, I like a gentle daughter like the second sister, or you. Well, I just can't stand her like that, she cries every little thing, as if someone bullied her for no reason, people outside say Hu Meizi Hu Meizi, I think it's her."

Baochai listened to her talking "out there", knew that she had read some miscellaneous books, or had gone out to listen to the little girls' gossip, so she couldn't help but squeeze her hard and said, "It was Sister Feng who bullied her." , she just wants to push the boat along the way to make the matter bigger, and tell Sister Feng to restrain herself, and she has no choice but to live—you call it a life in Suzhou dialect, why do you care about such a thing?"

Daiyu pursed her lips and smiled straight away, regardless of what the fox-meizi said, she lay on her chest and grabbed her hair and said, "I haven't seen you for a few days, and you even learned Suzhou dialect?"

Baochai smiled and pinched her again, saying: "That's right, now I can be regarded as half a Suzhou son-in-law, so of course I have to learn Suzhou dialect."

Daiyu saw that she was having a good time pinching her, so she couldn't help pinching her back, but her hands felt sticky and wet. Knowing that Baochai's sweat had not faded, she got up and went to the side to get a towel, and put it in the copper basin. After wringing it in the bed for a while, she leaned on the stove to warm her up again, and wiped her sweat with it.

Baochai couldn't stop her, so she sat up and piled the quilt on Daiyu so that she wouldn't catch a cold. Daiyu turned her head and smiled, she was holding a small lamp in her hand. Dyeing her fair little face in the dim yellow night, it looks more beautiful than the day.

Unconsciously, Baochai stroked Daiyu's side face with her hand, stared at her and sighed, "If everything is done now, it would be great if the two of us could live like this every day."

Daiyu also touched Baochai's face. Seen from her side, Baochai's face was also blurred by the light, and that gentle and calm face seemed to have added a bit of holy color, and she couldn't help being startled for a while. , put down the lamp, got back under the quilt, hugged Baochai, and whispered in her ear: "Sister Bao, you are so beautiful."

Baochai laughed and said, "How many times a day do you say this?"

Daiyu said, "It's as many times as you pinched my face."

Baochai just smiled, stretched out her hand and pinched it a few times, and then said what she had seen and heard in the past few days-it turned out that she took advantage of Aunt Xue's time to take care of things and run her own business, and asked her family members who had lived in the capital for a long time to inquire about the situation. The big servant of the news called to the house, pretending to learn business with them, and to inquire about the atmosphere in Beijing, but actually got them to talk about the news of the rich and powerful in Beijing—the Jia family’s reputation in Beijing is not bad. It's just that it doesn't work.However, the reputation of the Wang family is not as good as before. It is said that Wang Ziteng is an important member of a party and holds real power. Ordinary people should not dare to discuss it. However, there are rumors about the Wang family in Beijing. On the head, he said that he was "proud of his merits and no one in his eyes", and even Wang Ren, Wang Xin and other nephews in his family were arrogant and domineering, perverting the law.

Daiyu frowned and said: "This is still the family of the court officials who are being favored, how dare outsiders say that?"

Baochai said: "Although they dare not say it blatantly, there are indeed such discussions in the streets and alleys."

Daiyu sighed: "The military officer's family, the most taboo is these kinds of discussions. Once it spreads to the palace, I'm afraid it will be a catastrophe."

Baochai suddenly remembered and said: "I vaguely remember that one of the crimes that I later convicted my uncle was 'domineering'. Could it be here?"

Daiyu said: "If the word 'domineering' is written clearly, I'm afraid it will be fine."

Baochai sighed: "It's useless to pretend to be smart, so there are already so many signs of defeat at this time, but I didn't see it at all."

Daiyu said: "You are just trapped in the inner curtain, so you can't see enough - I hate those men who don't have a little vision, and they don't allow us to go out and set up a door. In the end, we end up with a broken family and separated wives and children. It's bitter." Mostly these sisters."

Baochai held her hand and said, "Those people are blind and can't see, so God asked me to take a look for them."

Daiyu said angrily: "What God means is to ask you to watch for me, not for those stinky men! Speaking of which, I was also blind in my previous life. I didn't know that Baoyu had such a silver-like pewter tip. How is your eyesight in this life?"

Baochai laughed and said, "I have excellent eyesight in this life! Excellent! Looking around the world, there is no other person with such eyesight as you." Daiyu thumped her on the shoulder and said, "You Why are people so shameless!"

The two babbled, sometimes about business, sometimes about private matters. In the middle of the night, Daiyu was sleepy, and fell asleep first, but Baochai pondered for a while before gradually falling asleep. In her dreams, there were always Daiyu's figures, ambiguous and lingering, extremely lingering. Charming, but no matter how Baochai walks forward, reaches out to reach, bends down to lean on... In short, in the dream, there seems to be thousands of mountains and rivers blocking it, even if you go further, you can't.

Thinking of this dream when I got up early, I couldn't help smiling bitterly, I felt that even the dream was against her, and I remembered the short time we had together, I didn't care about emotion, I just looked for Daiyu, who knew that Daiyu got up before her, and said with a smile : "Usually you serve me, let me serve you now."

Baochai saw the wives coming in carrying big buckets, and said strangely, "It's so early in the morning, why did you think of this?"

Daiyu glanced at her, and said: "Sister Shi is here today, you were sweating all over last night, and you didn't wash off, why don't you go to see guests like the people outside?"

Baochai laughed and said, "If you say you're sweating, you sweat a lot. Why don't you wash it?"

Daiyu said: "I have washed it long ago, come quickly, take off your clothes, and I will wash it for you."

Seeing that she was speaking seriously, Baochai was startled, and said coyly, "Don't worry about it, just ask Yinger to come." As soon as the words came out, the person stopped immediately—as it was last night, it was inevitable that there would be traces. Wouldn't it be a shame to ask Ying'er to serve?Even Zijuan can't stand seeing her body, and there are many things she can't wash by herself, so she really must have Daiyu to serve her once.

Seeing that she was stunned for a moment, her face flushed, she knew that she had figured out the key point, so she didn't ask her any more, so she sent the servant girl away with a smile, untied her clothes, pushed her into the bathtub, and wiped her face carefully. —— Daiyu took a bath for Baochai. Although it is true to serve Baochai, she has a lot of narrow minds. Back and forth, when he finally got dressed and went out, Shi Xiangyun had already been sitting at Jiamu's place chatting with his sisters for quite a while.