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

Seeing that it was Baoyu, Lin Daiyu said sadly, "I'm looking at this peach tree."

Baoyu was curious, so he also went to see the peach tree.

The branch swayed slightly, and the small green peaches on it were blown by the wind, and fell to the mud floor with a whimper, some were gray, some were black, and they were inedible at first sight.

Baoyu said: "Sister Lin wants to eat peaches? You can't eat the peaches on this tree. I will tell Sister Feng to go out and buy some big and sweet ones for you to eat."

Lin Daiyu shook her head, looked at the little peach that fell in the mud, and said slowly: "In the past, it didn't bloom well and didn't bear fruit, so everyone despised it. This year it produced fruit, and everyone hated this fruit again." It is small and astringent and not tasty. The fruit had to fall to the ground, be buried in the soil, and rot in the roots..."

When Baoyu heard this, he was in a fog, so he just said: "Then what can I do if I can't eat it? You can't leave the good fruit alone, but you have to eat the rotten one?"

"You!" Lin Daiyu was already very angry at what the two wives said, but now hearing Baoyu say this, her heart became more and more breathless, and she simply stood up and said, "This fruit is not delicious. If you like good ones, Eat it yourself!"

After speaking, she choked with sobs and hurried back to the house.

"Why, why are you angry again!" Baoyu hurriedly followed with a dazed expression on his face.Lin Daiyu bangs and shuts him outside.

"Sister Lin! Sister Lin!" Baoyu knocked on the door sullenly, not understanding what was wrong with her, "Open the door, what's the matter with you, Sister Lin? Why are you angry when you're fine? I didn't say anything, why? Isn't it right?"

"It's for no reason, why bother making people feel upset?"

Lin Daiyu said in the room: "Why am I angry again? I'm not angry! You'd better find someone else to play with, so you don't get sulking here!"

"..." Hearing this, Baoyu had to stand outside the door sullenly, not knowing what to do, but muttering in her heart: It would be great if Sister Bao was here, she is so smart, she will know that Sister Lin is What's wrong......

Zijuan came over with a tray with a letter and a brocade box on it. Baoyu saw it and asked, "Sister Zijuan, what is this?"

Zijuan smiled and said: "This is from Master Baocong. Your sister Xiren has already taken it back. This is Miss Lin's."

"Oh——" Baoyu stared at the brocade box and the letter for a while, and stretched out his hand to read the letter. Zijuan hurriedly avoided it, and said angrily, "Second Master Bao, this is a letter from Third Master Bao to the girl!"

Baoyu didn't succeed, so he had to say dully: "I see." Then he asked Zijuan: "What did Baocong give to sister Lin? Is it the same as mine?"

Zijuan shook his head and said, "I don't know, you'll know when you go back and have a look."

"Eh? Then what did he give Sister Lin?" Baoyu then reached out to open the brocade box.

This time, Zicuckoo did not avoid it, and let Baoyu look at the things in the brocade box.

There are a bunch of little rabbits in the brocade box, emerald green, pink, yellow, blue, black, some are shiny, some are warm and moist, but the little rabbits are in different shapes, It's interesting.

Baoyu took one up, looked at it carefully, and asked Zijuan, "Are these from Baocong? Where did he go to play and find them?"

After hearing this, Zicuckoo held her handkerchief and smiled and said, "Second Master's question is interesting. We are here with the old lady like you every day. How do we know where Third Master is outside?"

Baoyu laughed too, and said embarrassedly, "I'm the one who asked."

In the room, Lin Daiyu heard the movement outside. She heard Zijuan say that Baocong had sent something back and was waiting for her to bring it in. As a result, Zijuan stood at the door and talked non-stop with Baoyu.

She slumped in the room for a while, looked around a few times, and heard that the two chatted more and more happily, so she stood up and opened the door, and said to Zijuan, "I asked you to deliver something, but you are here?" Now I started chatting with others. If I wait to drink tea, will I die of thirst?"

As she said that, she took the things in Zicuckoo's hand with an angry face, and closed the door with a bang.

Seeing Lin Daiyu like this, Zicuckoo asked Baoyu in surprise, "Did you make her angry? I said yes, why did you close the door!"

Baoyu shook his head innocently, "I don't know either, just now we had a conversation under the peach tree, and sister Lin suddenly behaved like this!"

Zijuan looked at the room through the window screen, then pulled Baoyu out, and said, "The old lady is going to pass the meal, so go quickly! Why should she be angry? Now that she reads the letter, maybe she will go to the house." alright."

Baoyu was still reluctant to let go, and turned back as he walked, but was pushed out by Zijuan.

Lin Daiyu opened the envelope and heard Baoyu walking away outside, so she began to read the letter carefully.

"...Shaanxi and Beijing are different from Jiangnan. Sometimes they are rough, sometimes they are beautiful. I think of you when I am on the top of a steep mountain. If you can see all the small mountains at a glance, you will be relaxed and happy. Write your own Come out with a book of good poems... When you grow up in the future, I will take you out to play together. At that time, you can also take a look at the Great Zhou Dynasty, and you don't have to worry about things in the house every day. …”

"Are you relaxed and happy?" Lin Daiyu lost her mind and opened the brocade box. Seeing a bunch of bunnies of various colors, she knew it must be carved by Bao Cong herself.

After playing with the bunch of little rabbits for a while, Lin Daiyu remembered the travel notes in Bao Cong's letter again, so she called Zijuan and asked, "Bao Cong said he sent some travel notes back. Where are those books?"

Zijuan then said: "It's still outside, and two women are carrying it in, and they will be here later." Then he said: "The old lady is passing the meal, girl, can you go now?"

Lin Daiyu rubbed her forehead lightly, shook her head and said, "I won't go, I got a bit of a headache from the wind in the afternoon, so I'd better eat and rest in my room."

She thought for a while and said, "Call me when those books come."

Zijuan shook her head helplessly and said, "Young lady, you don't take the exam for the first prize, so why study so hard? She also said that she has a headache, and she doesn't care about eating well, but misses studying instead."

After finishing speaking, she went out and asked Xueyan to tell the old lady that Lin Daiyu was going to have dinner in the house.She herself urged the mother-in-law to bring in the book case.

There are more than [-] travel notes, prose and story books in the box.Lin Daiyu was really happy when she saw it, and started to flip through the book after eating.

At night, when it was time to go to bed, Zijuan thought Lin Daiyu was still reading, and went into the room to urge her, only to find that she had fallen asleep on the bedside with a book in her hand.

Bao Cong took Wu Hui and Chen Ping, and followed Liu Xianglian all the way to Xinjiang.

On the way, they passed Shaanxi, Sichuan, Gansu and other places, knowing that there are counties rich in various kinds of jade, they also took a detour to have a look, bought a lot of rough stones, and entrusted escorts to send them to Yushixuan in the capital to give to Father Wu.

With Liu Xianglian, a familiar guide, no matter what aspect, Bao Cong saved a lot of time and energy.When he got to the border of Xinjiang, he still seemed to be dreaming. In ancient times when the transportation was so inconvenient, he could ride a horse to Xinjiang!

When he saw the frozen Jade Dragon Kashgar River again, Bao Cong couldn't believe his eyes, the river bed that had been dug up in his memory was covered with white jade!

The Yulong Kashi River is one of the two major tributaries of the Hotan River. It originates from the glacier on the northern slope of the Kunlun Mountains and is rich in white jade.

But in his memory, because the riverbed has been over-exploited and excavated, there is no real good white jade left.But now, those white jade and Tian jade, which are loved by the world, have their original stones covering the entire riverbed...

It was cold, and everyone wore thick hats and thick fur coats.They were all shivering before, but now, all of them were very excited and sweated profusely.

"I, I'm a little dizzy, Wu Hui, please help me..." Bao Cong's eyes and mind are still full of white jade, and they are full of gold and silver!

Wu Hui was also shocked, but he still knew his duty as a servant, so he hurried to support Bao Cong, and stammered, "Third Master, what are those?"

Liu Xianglian laughed loudly and said, "Those are all white jade!"

Chen Ping was also in a daze, and asked Liu Xianglian like a wandering soul: "Uncle Liu, there are so many white jades, all laid by the river, and no one snatched them?"

Liu Xianglian snorted and said, "There are white jades all over the place, why do we need to grab them?"

Chen Ping exclaimed: "The people who live here, don't they all get rich?"

"Get rich?" Liu Xianglian kicked a piece of raw white jade casually, and sighed: "How many people get rich?"

"This is a place of exile and the border of the Great Zhou Dynasty. It is a place of bitter cold, and the road is long and rough. The people who live here, except for a very small number of locals, are prisoners and slaves, and there are also bandits and bandits. The poor people, even if they dug up a pile of white jade at home, they can’t be transported, sold, or exchanged for a few grains or clothes, and still get rich!”

Listening to Liu Xianglian talking about the life of the local people, all kinds of bandits are rampant, and some criminals who are not afraid of death are making trouble, both Wu Hui and Chen Ping were terrified, and hurriedly said to Bao Cong: "Third Master, how about we Why don't you go back? It's so dangerous here, if you can't buy the jade and put your life on it, that would be a shame!"

But Bao Cong disagreed, and comforted them, "We came here for this, how could we leave without doing anything? Let's be more careful, earn as much as we want and leave."

Wu Hui's persuasion failed, she was worried and hopeful.He also grew up with Bao Cong, but he couldn't figure out why he was born in a wealthy family and traveled so far away to earn money.

He wrapped his big fur cloak tightly and shook, he could only pray secretly, Bao Cong quickly took a casual look at this place, and walked back safely.Whether it is the north or the south, where can't you go, do you have to stay in this dangerous place?

Seeing this, Liu Xianglian smiled and said: "Brother Bao, don't worry. With me here, nothing will happen to you. The eldest brother I know is Bogda Yushan, a very capable warrior. In his territory, We can't have an accident."

After Liu Xianglian said that, Bao Cong was naturally more at ease, and he had already carved several jade rings with a luck bonus of [-], strung them into a jade belt and tied them around his body, so his luck should not be bad, right?

It started to snow lightly in the sky, and the air became colder and colder. Liu Xianglian rode on the big horse first, and said loudly: "It's getting dark, let's go quickly, if we don't see Brother Bogda, we won't be so safe."

"Oh, third master, let's go!" Wu Hui urged Bao Cong, and they all got on their horses and went to find that Bogda together with Liu Xianglian.

Bogda lives near the Yulong Kashi River, in a tribe at the foot of the mountain.

Bao Cong originally thought that the tribe should be a village where several families gathered together, but when he went to have a look, he found that the tribe was surrounded by a tall wooden city wall, and there was only a very bulky wooden hanging door to enter and exit.

This is not a village, it is obviously like a fortress nest of bandits!