[Red Mansion] The third master of jade-like stone treasures

Qingwen's brother owed a gambling debt of 100 taels, but she couldn't pay it back, so her brother and sister-in-law came to ask her for money.

100 taels of silver!She is a girl, so how can there be so many!

Qingwen said no, his brother and sister-in-law said: "You don't have it, there must be some at Mr. Bao's place! You can get some secretly..." As she spoke, she felt something was wrong, and said again: "Take some The silver is still too conspicuous, I heard that in the house of the two masters, even the teacups for drinking tea are antiques, why don't you get a set quietly, I'll pawn it, won't you have the silver?"

As soon as she finished speaking, she saw Qingwen "bah" and spat on their faces: "You guys are going to do those shameless things, what are you doing to teach me to be innocent!"

Qingwen's sister-in-law's expression turned ugly immediately, she covered her face and rolled her eyes and said: "We are black hearts! You are innocent! I know that the third master treats you well and spoils you like a sweetheart! You picked this tall branch, but you despise your brother Come, and don’t help the family either.”

"Who picked the tall branches? You, what are you talking about!" Qingwen is getting older, and she also understands some things about men and women. She knows that Jia's family has maids who serve as housemates for the master.

But she is proud and arrogant, and considers herself noble, even if she is a girl, she doesn't want to be a roommate for others.

And at the beginning, when she was a child, she did sleep with Bao Cong for a few days, but after Bao Cong got into a fight, she never slept with the girls again.

The girls who served Baocong knew about this matter, but now she was slandered by her sister-in-law. How could Qingwen bear it? Dirty water splashed on me!"

"What nonsense? No one in the house knows, you are in the house of Third Master Bao..." Before her sister-in-law could finish her sentence, her mouth was covered.

It turned out that it was Qingwen's brother who saw her trembling with anger, looking like he was about to go crazy and beat someone up. He knew that his words hurt his feet, so he quickly covered his wife's mouth, dragged her back in a panic, and said : "I'm still busy today, I'll talk to you another day."

After talking, the two trotted and slipped out of the second door.

Qingwen couldn't catch up, so her eyes were red and she jumped her feet angrily: "Don't go! Tell me clearly!"

Mingyan and the others, seeing Qingwen so angry, felt bad, why did she encounter such a scandal in this aunt's house!This aunt really wants to save face, don't mess up Qingshuang, he messed with herself!

So I wanted to wait until Qingwen had left before throwing Qingshuang into the second gate.

Unexpectedly, Qingwen's sharp eyes immediately recognized Mingyan and the others hiding in the corner, and called out to him: "What are you sneaky doing? Why aren't you serving at Second Master Bao's place?"

Mingyan had no choice but to lead the crowd forward to answer in a friendly manner: "Grandma Rong in the East Mansion asked Second Grandma to play cards, and Second Master Bao went there to play with him. He said that we don't need to wait on us."

Qingwen's anger is not going well, seeing Mingyan and the others who seem to be holding onto a handsome young man who seems to be unfamiliar, seem to want to do something.

Reminiscent of what her brother and sister-in-law had slandered her just now, Qingwen scolded her head and face: "Second Master Bao is generous to you, and you all put up your master's money! He said no, so you all just play around and play around." , what dirty things are the public going to do now?"

"If you don't want to serve Second Master Bao, you should all go back to your own homes and be masters!"

Qingwen is Baocong's eldest girl. When the girls and servants see her, most of them want to call her sister. Even Yuanyang Xiren, Caiyun Ping'er and others are also close to her, and they are very respectable in the inner court.

Due to her servile nature, Mingyan didn't dare to argue loudly, so she only whispered a few nice words and coaxed her into saying that she was playing around.

Qingshuang had heard of Qingwen's name, but because she only served in the front yard, she had never seen her.

But even if she didn't recognize her, Qingshuang only saw Mingyan's shrunken turtle-like appearance, and knew that she was a decent girl, so she struggled and said loudly: "This sister, I am Qing who is serving the third master Bao to study. Shuang! Mingyan and the others are going to punish me. If I make a mistake and be punished, Third Master Bao will lose face! Sister, save me!"

Mingyan wants to punish Baozheng's book boy!Is this worth it?

Qingwen immediately slapped him with a cigarette, and said angrily: "Okay! You little servants, you don't expect the master to be good, but you still want to do this kind of thing to provoke their brotherhood!"

"If the old lady and the wife find out, they will have to skin your cramps!"

Mingyan was beaten suddenly, and he was a little dazed at first, but after Qingwen scolded him, saying that he wanted to provoke the brotherhood of his masters, he was so frightened that he knelt on the ground and said in a panic: "Sister, I definitely didn't mean that, we It's really a joke!"

When Baocong and Baoyu were fighting, the old lady recited scriptures for several days and made a wish to Bodhisattva Buddha, saying that they hope that their brothers will live in harmony, and their benefits will cut gold.He also said something like "Brothers who are not in harmony are the source of chaos in the family".Everyone in Jia's mansion spread the word.

If he was accused of provoking discord with his master, it would not be a trivial matter of just being beaten a few times!

The other people also turned pale, and hurriedly let go of Qingshuang, knelt down and said they were wronged, and then kowtowed to admit their mistakes.

Qingshuang let go of the restraint, and stepped to Qingwen's side in three or two steps, and said gratefully, "Thank you sister for saving me!"

Even though Qingwen was angry, she still had a good look at Baocong's servant, so she casually nodded to Qingshuang, and then sternly warned Mingyan: "This is the first time I miss you, I won't tell others, If there is another time, I will report to a few masters to deal with it, and see if they can peel off your skin!"

Mingyan and the others reassured them again and again, and ran away in despair.

Qingshuang was naturally grateful to Qingwen again, and was about to leave when Qingwen let out a cry of surprise.

It turned out that Qingwen immediately recognized that Qingshuang's pants were worn by Baocong in the morning!

The trousers that Baocong is wearing today are a complete set with the jacket and outer robe. The auspicious cloud pattern on it is embroidered stitch by stitch by Qingwen herself, so she can recognize it at a glance.

Originally, she saw that Qingshuang had some temperament, and he was the servant who waited on Bao Cong to study, and she thought he was good.Now that she suddenly discovered this secret matter, she immediately felt that Qingshuang was so enchanting as to be charming, it was not pleasing to the eye at all.

Qingshuang thought that Qingwen showed such disdainful expression when she saw his pants were wet, and immediately blushed in embarrassment, stammering and explaining: "This, no, I, I didn't..."

It's a pity that he stuttered for a long time, and he couldn't think of any good explanation. He couldn't say it was Bao Cong!

Qingwen snorted, but couldn't say anything, turned around and went back to Jiamu's yard.

Lin Daiyu was feeling a little bored.

After early autumn, Bao Cong's husband Ruan Zhongwen fell ill, so Bao Cong and the others attended classes for two or three days and rested for four or five days.

Although Lin Daiyu didn't go to class in the front yard, after Baocong came back, he always discussed the content of the class with her, and said what homework was assigned by her husband.She is also like a serious student, studying every day without neglecting.

Now that my husband is sick, Baoyu and Baocong don't have much class, and Lin Daiyu has nothing new to study.

It happened that Baochai came to talk to her when she was free. During the conversation, the two of them talked about the people in Jia's house.

Lin Daiyu smiled and said: "I heard that Sister Bao is also very talented. Yingchun Tanchunxichun and Baoyu have done some research on poetry. When we are free, we can get together to discuss poetry and painting. Wouldn't it be interesting?"

Baochai nodded with a smile, and suddenly thought of something, and asked, "Brother Baocong, did you ever go to school? We sisters and brothers compose poems and have fun together, so it would be nice not to miss him?"

When she heard that Bao Cong was being asked to compose a poem, Lin Daiyu laughed happily and said, "Sister Bao, please forgive him! He went to school, but he read the Four Books and Five Classics with his husband, and he has always been dull in poetry. He has been in school for several years. It’s been a year, and the poems I’ve written can be counted on ten fingers!”

What Lin Daiyu said was naturally true.

Xue Baochai was secretly amazed when he heard this, everyone said that Baoyu was smart, and Baocong was ignorant, why did sister Lin say that he was already reading the Four Books and Five Classics?Is it because Baoyu can compose poems better?

Just as she was thinking about it, Baochai saw Lin Daiyu take off a piece of exquisite jade pendant around her waist with a smile and showed it to her, and said with a smile: "Sister Bao, look, this jade pendant was polished and carved by Bao Cong for half a month, you call him To write poetry, he would rather bury his head in the study and spend time carving jade!"

"Oh, Bao Cong actually has such a skill." Baochai praised with a smile, took the jade pendant and inspected it carefully, after seeing it, she was amazed.

On the front of this exquisite jade pendant is a small picture of stepping on the snow and looking for plums.

Among the patchwork plum treetops, I saw a small figure wearing a cloak standing among them.The girl covered her face with a cloak, tiptoed to gently sniff the fragrance of plum blossoms on the branch, revealing only her tall nose and small mouth.Another delicate hand rests lightly on the plum petals, although it is still, it seems to be caressing.

Turning over the back, there are a few lines of poems engraved, which are the famous lines of "Plum Blossoms" written by Wang Anshi.

"Look at him, none of the jade stones that he has painstakingly carved are engraved with his own poems. Either he copied famous lines from his predecessors, or copied poems written by our sisters on weekdays." Lin Daiyu said with a smile .

Baochai didn't seem to be interested in this line, but asked Lin Daiyu: "Has Baocong carved a lot of jade?"

Lin Daiyu nodded and said, "There are a lot of them. He has a room where he has piled up several big boxes! When I came earlier, Baoyu said that only he had a jade belt, and none of us had one, so Baocong gave us a few sisters." Everyone carved a similar piece."

"Later, he carved more and more fine jades, not only for our sisters, but also for the old lady, wife, sister-in-law Zhu, and sister Feng!"

As she said that, Lin Daiyu thought of Baochai, and said to her, "Sister Bao, don't you have it? Why don't we go to Baocong and I'll pick a good one for you."

Baochai was surprised and said: "Shall we pick it ourselves? Baocong didn't say to send it to me, so it's not good for me to go and get it..."

Lin Daiyu shook her head with a smile, then pulled her out and said, "What's the matter? I often go to his place to search for jade stones. You pick a good one to wear, and I'll just tell him when you turn around. Isn't Sister Bao worthy of wearing him?" the jade!"

The two held hands closely, walked around to the front door of the back room, and were about to go in, but met Qingwen who came out with a strange expression on her face.

Seeing Lin Daiyu and Xue Baochai about to go in, she quickly blocked their way, blocked the door, and said with a smile: "Miss Lin, Miss Bao, why are you free today? What can I do?"

Lin Daiyu smiled and said, "Sister Bao just came, and she hasn't got Baocong's jade yet! I'll pick one for her to wear." Then she wanted to pull Baochai in together.

If it was a normal day, Qingwen quickly gave way and warmly welcomed her in, but just now she heard the movement inside, Baoyu and Xiren were clearly inside... But the two girls must not be allowed in!

So, Qingwen gritted her teeth, stood in front of Lin Daiyu, smiled and said in a low voice: "Miss Lin, the third master hasn't come back today, why don't you wait for him to come back and pick a good piece for the girl? "