The Hairpin of the Red Chamber

Seeing that the flowers are approaching, those wives and grandmas don't care much, but the maids below are anxious, and they all encourage their girls to go out to play.

Yingchun doesn't care about things. Recently, Tanchun had another quarrel with her aunt, and she refused to come forward. Xichun was still young, so she put her son on Zijuan's head at that time. Zijuan thought about it, but didn't ask Daiyu. First came to find Ying'er and said, "The Flower Festival is here. Miss Bao, do you want to come and play in the garden?"

Ying'er laughed and said: "Will our girl not go to the garden that day? I want you to ask! Let me tell you, you can just talk to Miss Lin, but ask her to have a banquet for a day and post the post carefully. Please Our girl, our girl just went there, otherwise, Hua Chao, we will just close the door and rest at home."

Zijuan said: "I just asked a question, but you talked a whole basket, thanks to your girl's good temper, if it were with us, I would tear your mouth to pieces."

Ying'er laughed and said, "Okay, you're going to bury your girl behind your back. See if I don't tell Miss Lin, and tell her to punish you!"

Zijuan said: "You talk to the girl yourself, who is afraid that you will fail!"

Ying'er said: "Yes, you are sure your girl loves you, let me tell my girl, tell her to talk about you!"

Zijuan laughed and scolded: "Foxes pretend to be tigers!" But they had an idea, went back and said to Daiyu, "I see that the girl is fine these days, why don't you take advantage of the flower court to set up some banquets, and invite the sisters to be relaxed and relaxed?"

Daiyu also wanted to invite Baochai back, but when she heard that it was what she wanted, she wrote a serious post, and invited her together with Mother Jia, Mrs. Xing, Mrs. Wang, Aunt Xue, and Sister Feng. When he came back there, he said, "Second Grandma Lian said, 'Since it's such a big battle, why don't you just do it more carefully and invite two plays, which will be lively'."

Daiyu said with a smile, "She's just afraid that the world will not be chaotic, and she doesn't want to watch those two plays, so she's going to make fun of me!"

Unexpectedly, Ping'er came out from behind Xueyan and said with a smile: "Our grandma just said that you must blame her after hearing this, as expected! As soon as I came, I caught a current one, so let's talk about the punishment! "

Daiyu laughed quickly and said, "Sister Ping'er is here, come and sit inside."

Ping'er said: "I came by the way, so I won't go in." He added: "Our grandma told me that Huachao is a big day, and the girls should have a good time. You can't just let Miss Lin stand out. , so I paid 20 taels of silver to run two operas, buy some wine, and invite the grandma and grandma Xiaorong from the mansion to come together, and call two more daughters, and buy some kites with the rest of the money. Get up early to fly a kite to get rid of bad luck, drink and eat at noon, listen to operas in the afternoon, and eat some fashionable vegetables in the evening, spend the day, always let all the ladies in the whole family have a good time, just think of her as the right one Ladies and gentlemen, my filial piety and compassion to all the girls."

Daiyu chuckled and said, "I paid 20 taels of silver, but received 2000 taels of fame! Your grandma's business is worth it."

Ping'er laughed and said: "Miss Lin can see the benefits here at a glance, why don't you join in for a share? You pay ten taels for 20 taels, which will give you a reputation of 500 taels. Do you think it's okay?"

Daiyu scolded with a smile: "It is true that there is such a kind of master as there is such a maid! I don't know what kind of medicine Sister Feng gave you to tell you to do this for her, even taking advantage of the ten taels of silver. "

Ping'er laughed and said, "Anyway, I'll just accept it as Miss Lin, and I'll only raise ten liang of silver later, and ask Zijuan for the rest!"

Daiyu asked Zicuckoo to weigh a piece of silver and came out to Ping'er, saying, "Come on, you're thinking about it, it's not easy to come all the way from there, why don't I invite sister Feng together for a treat. "

Ping'er knew that she was not short of money, so she didn't push it, she just said: "I took it for our grandma."

But Daiyu told her, "Hold on, your grandma is rich, so don't save money for her, but take all these together and make a big deal to make everyone happy. Pay more first, and pay her back the rest later.”

Ping'er pursed his lips and said with a smile: "Miss Lin is ashamed to say that our grandma is good. I think the girl is the one who has something in mind." He said again: "I still have some things to do, so I will go first and come to see the girl some other day."

Daiyu didn't keep her either, but said, "Since Sister Feng and Sister Ping'er are making arrangements, I don't care."

Ping'er said, "Don't worry." The party went out.

Daiyu sent the little girl around to deliver letters, and after a while everyone knew the reason and replied one after another, and Baoyu came in again, and said with a smile: "Kite flying is the best. Choose two beautiful kites and fly them high and far. Just get rid of your sickness." He said again: "You can release it after I come back."

Daiyu said: "The disease is not sick. It is in the body. It can be carried away with a kite. If you have this skill, recite more books, so that the master will like it when he comes back, and beat you less."

Seeing what she said, Baoyu was slightly annoyed and said, "It's okay for them to talk about me on weekdays. Why are you using these words to persuade me?"

Daiyu was unintentional, but when she saw that he was annoyed, she said angrily, "They are all right, why can't I persuade you with these words? Is it because I am not from your family, so when I speak, I must Is it different than the others?"

Seeing her blame, Baoyu hurriedly said, "I didn't mean that, I just... I thought you were different." At this point, he was a little aggrieved, but he looked up at Daiyu again.

When Daiyu heard his words, her eyes were already red, and she said, "Of course I'm different. I'm not your sister, but I'm an orphan who lost my mother, so I just live here."

Baoyu hurriedly said, "Shut up!" Looking left and right, he saw a Zicuckoo at the door, and Fang stomped his feet and said, "Don't say this again. Let the old lady hear it, or you won't be happy."

But Daiyu was aroused by his words, thinking of her mother who died young, the tears could not be stopped, and fell down in a rustle. Come here, miss again, but don't know how to comfort, can only stand by the bed, eyes are red, and she is about to cry when she sees this end, suddenly she heard Baochai say at the door: "Well, why do you seem to be fighting again? "It turned out that she received Daiyu's post, and thinking that she hadn't seen many sisters today, she came to respond in person. Seeing that Zijuan was not staying at the door from a distance, she felt something was wrong. At the side of the bed, with her face inwardly wiping tears, Baoyu sighed and stood on the ground, feeling immediately unhappy, but she was used to being dignified and unable to say serious words, so she just asked a question pretendingly, and walked in a few steps without waiting for an answer. , walked to Daiyu, bent down to look at her and said, "Your face is disfigured from crying, I should show you a mirror, so that you can see how ugly you are now, and keep it for the rest of your life so that you don't want to cry again."

Daiyu amused her with a word, then immediately stopped laughing and looked at Baoyu.Baochai came out with a handkerchief, saw at a glance that it was from Daiyu, hesitated for a moment, then handed it over, saw Daiyu wiped her tears with the handkerchief, turned to Baoyu and said, "Brother Bao, I didn't mean you, Other people's families are also older sisters, and they don't look like this. They spend a lot of time on books, don't study, don't study, and bully others at home. Sister Lin is already weak. If you keep messing with her like this, it will be even worse. .”

Seeing that she didn't ask questions about indiscriminateness, Baoyu first favored Daiyu, and felt aggrieved, saying, "I didn't mess with her too much, but she started crying by herself somehow."

Baochai sneered and said, "You didn't mess with her much? Then what was she doing before you came? Did she cry before you came or after you came? I just received a post from her saying that she invited you to a banquet. Once here she I just cried, you are the only one in the middle, if you didn't provoke her, what is it?"

Baoyu said angrily: "If you want me to say, it's Sister Bao, you are not, you have been talking about studying and improving, and you have taught these sisters. Now when I come in, everyone asks about their studies and imperial examinations, okay?" My daughter's family has been made into a filthy look by you!"

Baochai said angrily: "If you don't study and don't make progress, where do you get your wealth and splendor? What you wear on your body and what you eat in your mouth, every bit of it, didn't your ancestors earn it through life and death, fighting for fame and fortune? You are a human being. Children and grandchildren, it’s fine if you don’t want to maintain the legacy of your ancestors. I’m afraid that if you don’t study the imperial examinations, you won’t even be able to plan your own food, clothing, wife and children. At that time, it will be too late for you to talk to me about making progress!” At this point, thinking of what happened in the previous life, and thinking of Xue Pan's still ambiguity, the prosperity in this garden is just flowers in the mirror and the moon in the water. Suddenly sadness came from it, and a few tears shed, but he turned his head and refused to let Baoyu see.

Seeing her crying inside, Daiyu was also startled, moved away a little, pulled her to sit down and comforted her: "Sister Bao, don't be angry, Baoyu is an idiot, sister don't care about like him."

Baochai sat down next to her, and Daiyu gave Baoyu a wink.When Baoyu saw that Baochai was angry, he was also stunned. When Daiyu gave him a wink, he slipped out, not daring to provoke Baochai again.

Daiyu held back her tears and comforted her in every possible way, but Baochai had been suppressed by depression since she was reborn. When she was aroused by Baoyu at this moment, she couldn't help but turned her head for a while and said, "Sister Lin, I'm miserable, you don't know."

Daiyu said in a soft voice: "Sister Bao is doing it for our own good, I know all about it. This mansion looks prosperous, but in fact, I secretly calculated for them, and it has long been beyond their means, but these men don't know much about world affairs. Drunk and dreamy, I told Baoyu, what do you think he said? 'No matter how short the money is, it will be yours and mine', listen to what this is?"

Baochai didn't expect that she had noticed it at this moment, so she stopped crying and said, "Sister Lin, you know all about it?"

Daiyu sighed: "At the end of the day, I'm just an outsider, and it's not easy to manage these things. Besides, in my opinion, their family has survived for one or two generations, and Baoyu can at least live in peace. "

Baochai thought, it's because your father is still there, and the Grand View Garden has not yet been built, but now that he said these words, it was almost raving again, so he could only shake his head and smile bitterly, hugged Daiyu and said, "Sister Lin, no matter what , you live your own life well, if Master Lin gives you any kindness, you take it well and don't hand it over to others easily."

Daiyu frowned slightly and said, "What does Sister Bao mean?"

Baochai said, "Just listen."

Daiyu saw that her face was slumped, not as usual, so she didn't want to ask more questions, she just reached out to hold her hand, and the two of them held each other tightly, and both felt that the future was not so bleak.