Cold fragrance and warm jade [Red Mansion Chai Dai]

When Jia Zhen returned home with You Shi, Jia Rong, Qin Keqing and others, Jia Rong asked him about his future livelihood.

Jia Zhen glared at Jia Rong, and scolded her casually. Seeing Jia Rong bowed her head and retreated, he sat in the room sullenly, not knowing whether to be angry with Jia Rong, himself, or to play tricks on others.

Jia Zhen heard how Jia Mu arranged for Jia Amnesty, Jia Zheng and others to make a living in the future, and he could still hide some ridicule in his heart. At this moment, when he returned to his home, he was reminded by Jia Rong that he also had to think about his future. How to survive, I feel that Jia's mother said that it is really the most suitable solution now.

Thinking about it now, he also felt that if he and Jia Rong couldn't find a job before next year's spring plowing, they would really have to plow the fields by themselves.Although the farmland can be rented out early, it is already difficult to maintain life only on rental income.Jia Zhen knew that she didn't have many relatives who could help her family.

Lin Ruhai is Jia's mother's son-in-law, and his relationship with him has become further estranged.Lin Ruhai had saved Jiao Da before, so he probably also knew some dirty things in his family, and he didn't dare to approach Lin Ruhai casually.In this way, he has no rich relatives to borrow money from.

Jia Zhen let out a long sigh, and finally asked her family to be called again, and gave them another order.

In a blink of an eye, the end of the year is approaching.

The new life of everyone in the Jia family gradually stabilized.

Before Jia Lan went to the hospital to study, Jia Zheng was at home urging him, Baoyu, and Jia Huan to do their homework, and then took on some tasks of writing for others or correcting articles.Although Jia Zheng's official position was obtained by his ancestors, he did not have a background in scientific examinations, but he still remembers most of the homework he has read and done, and he was a poor student. It was actually more comfortable than dealing with people in the officialdom that day.

Only Baoyu suffers, and Jia Zheng forces him to work hard every day. Even Jia's mother is watching the family environment.

When I saw him at first, I got a headache, but I don't know when he became more and more obedient, but no one knew that the charm in his eyes had gradually lost, and only his empty body was still reading here.

Tanchun and Yingchun followed Mrs. Wang and Mrs. Xing to do needlework, and even Wang Xifeng couldn't escape.Xichun returned to Jia Zhen's side, and also wanted to do needlework with Youshi and Qin Keqing.In the end, without the companionship of her sisters, Xichun's temperament became increasingly calm.

Jia Lian worked as a manager in an antique shop.After all, Jia Lian grew up in the Duke's mansion, and he has seen countless rare things. Now it is really easy for him to distinguish the authenticity of antiques.This job was easy to do, but seeing that most of the people in and out of the antique shop were rich and powerful in Jinling City, it aroused his thoughts from time to time.

Jia She has always only loved women, and she is of a certain age, but now she doesn't know what to do, and is worrying whether she will really be forced by Jia's mother to plow the fields in the next year.

It wasn't until the eve of New Year's Eve that everyone in Jia's family stopped their work and concentrated on preparing for the New Year.

At this time, the Lin Mansion in the capital city was bustling with activity.

Xue Pan came back with his wife Xu Qingyan, and his aunt Xue, Xue Biao, and Baoqin's brothers and sisters all gathered in Lin's mansion.

After dinner tonight, Baochai will go home with Aunt Xue to prepare for next year's New Year's Eve.Lin Ruhai is a widower, and Aunt Xue is a widow, and their relationship with each other is somewhat estranged, so they have to avoid suspicion.And now that Xue Pan and his wife are back, Aunt Xue and Baochai should have a lot to say to them, after all it is not so convenient to stay in the Lin family.

For this reason, they took advantage of the eve of New Year's Eve to have a feast at the Lin family.

Mo Zongliang, Xiangling, Yang Zongquan, Guo Sixi and others were all there, chatting and laughing, although men and women were seated separately, but the distance was not far away, and they just chatted and had fun with each other.

Ever since Jiamu and the others returned to their ancestral home, Daiyu has been thinking about her grandmother's family all the time, so much so that Baochai is with her, and Xiangling is joking, and she goes to class with the female teacher Chen Xiaosheng, and she has to take care of family affairs. How sad.

Later, Mother Jia and others also received a letter, so that she could also know that her grandmother's family was safe, and she felt more at ease.

However, now that it's bustling, she can't help thinking about Sister Yingchun and Xiangyun. Some sisters are somewhat lonely in her heart, but she doesn't dare to show it, for fear of causing others to worry about her.

Others can be kept from her by her, so Baochai can also know what she is thinking, secretly looking at her from time to time, his eyes are full of concern.

Seeing that she was about to go home with Aunt Xue, Baochai held Daiyu's hand reluctantly, and urged her again and again.

"While I'm away, if you want to inscribe poems and write, you must keep your poems and essays, so that I can read them when I come." Then, she ordered Zijuan to say, "Zijuan, since you often follow me By your girl's side, you have to watch her well, if she really writes something, don't let her just write it, and then set it on fire after finishing it, and no one will even be allowed to read it."

Daiyu blushed first, pushed Baochai resolutely and said, "Go quickly, go quickly! If you don't go away, you're talking nonsense here."

But she knew that she had written some sad works, because she knew that Baochai didn't want her to do this often, and seeing that her works were too sad, she decided to persuade her, so she wrote poems several times, and the paper was still there. It was too late to put them away, and when Baochai came, she hurriedly asked Zijuan to hide them all, or simply burned them.

Now that Baochai brought this matter up to her, she couldn't refute it in the slightest.

"Are you really telling me to go quickly?" Baochai looked at her, pursed her lips, and was about to let go of him to catch up with Aunt Xue who was in front of her, but Daiyu hurriedly grabbed her again and muttered, "I just said that." , you really wish you could go back sooner and stay with me for a while?"

Her voice was low, but it was clearly heard by Baochai in the thick night, and lingered in Baochai's heart.

Baochai sighed softly, raised her hand and pinched her cheek lightly.

"You! Why don't you let me go quickly if you don't want me? Then I hope you will go back to the house quickly, just hold me, and don't even hold a hand stove, and don't even care about the cold weather? You You are not afraid of the cold, nor are you afraid that others will worry about you?"

Xu Qingyan who was walking in front with Aunt Xue suddenly turned around, stood by the courtyard gate and waved to Baochai with a smile.

"Miss Bao, although I know that you and Miss Lin are very close, but it's not too late, right? How about some rest?"

As early as Xu Qingyan opened her mouth, Daiyu blushed and let go of Baochai.

Baochai looked at Daiyu with a smile, and quickly walked towards Xu Qingyan, saying, "Here we come."

Daiyu stood dumbfounded, watching Baochai and Xu Qingyan go further and further away.

Zicuckoo, who was two steps behind her, hurried forward, handed her the hand stove she had been holding, and advised her to go back to the house to warm up.

Daiyu refused to listen, and waited until she could no longer see Baochai, and then slowly went back with Zijuan.

It was really warm in the room.

Chongyu was already waiting there, and when she saw her come back, she smiled and asked, "I sent the two older brothers of the Xue family out, but they came back earlier than you. Do you and Sister Bao really have so much to talk about?"

Daiyu glanced at him, motioned to Zijuan to bring the sewing basket at the side, picked up a purse that had been prepared inside, and said to herself: "I planned to ask sister Ling tomorrow what spices she put in it." That's good, now it seems that I don't need to bother, that person even dared to make fun of my sister."

Chongyu hurriedly shouted: "This is absolutely impossible! You have been focusing on making things for Sister Bao, or Second Sister and the others these days, but you haven't given me these things for a long time. It's not easy to have me, why? You have to send me!"

Daiyu scratched his face lightly with her nails, and said with a smile, "That's all, then I'll give it to you. I'll give it to you after Sister Ling prepares the spices in the sachet."

Chongyu nodded contentedly.

Daiyu slowly drank the hot tea from Zijuan and asked: "It's so late, you came to see me, do you have something important to do?"

"It's not an important matter. I just think that sister Bao has gone back. My sister is alone and deserted. I'm here to talk to you."

How could Daiyu not know that he was hiding something in his heart, and just didn't know how to say it, so she deliberately teased her?

She rolled her eyes at Chongyu, and stopped urging her, just drinking tea and waiting slowly.

The siblings talked about other people's affairs in Beijing, and Chongyu suddenly said: "Father said today that when he arrives in South Vietnam in the next year, the second uncle will go there with his family."

The land of Nanyue and the land of Gui are very close, and it happened that the secluded place Lin Ruhai chose that day was close to the junction of the two places.Although the place where she lives will be different from what she prepared earlier, the atmosphere in South Vietnam is also much more open than in the capital. When she arrives there, Daiyu will also be able to live a much more free life than staying in the capital now.

Daiyu was startled, and hurriedly asked, "Why didn't I hear daddy say that before?"

Chongyu turned the cup with only half a cup of tea left, stared at the vortex in the cup, and said quietly: "Father also didn't tell me, and I only found out today. But in the letter from Jinling some time ago, it seems that I mentioned this before. I didn’t pay much attention to it at the time, but now that I think about it, I feel that maybe Dad and Second Uncle had discussed it a long time ago, but they didn’t tell us all the time.”

Most of the letters from Jinling were sent directly to Lin Ruhai.For example, Jialan wrote to Chongyu, and Yingchun sisters also wrote to Daiyu, but these letters mostly mentioned how they are living now, and rarely mentioned what will happen next year.

When Chongyu said this, Daiyu also recalled that the first time Jinling received a letter, Tanchun said in the letter to her that maybe we will have a chance to meet again in the next year.At that time, she was only thinking about how her grandmother's family was settling down. Although she also saw Tanchun's words, she didn't think much about it.It wasn't until this moment that she realized that her father and second uncle must have made an agreement in private.

Chongyu said sullenly: "Daddy won't tell us everything, I can understand. But I really can't figure it out, it's not something that can't be said outside. Thinking about the letters before, my grandmother's family should know Now, why didn't daddy tell us earlier? Could it be that he was worried that we would not like it? But why did we do this? Didn't our siblings also live in the second uncle's house for a period of time? Dad didn't think it was important, so he didn't talk to us. we say?"

Daiyu couldn't figure it out either, so she could only use Lin Ruhai's recent busyness as an excuse to persuade Chongyu.

Chongyu thought about it, then nodded and said, "Maybe that's the case. Dad has been thinking about how to manage the sea trade recently, so it's normal to ignore these things."

After sending Chongyu away, Daiyu quietly left the room and went straight to Lin Ruhai's room.

The light in the room was still on, and Lin Ruhai was worrying about Baoyu.

Seeing Baoyu's demeanor before, Lin Ruhai secretly read some of Baoyu's poems and essays, and felt that Baoyu had the intention of leaving the world, but now that Baoyu is still reading with Jia Zheng, Lin Ruhai can't help doubting his own judgment with Chongyu Is there an error.

Even if Baoyu has a relationship with the Buddha, his fate may not change.Just as someone said at the beginning, if Daiyu is not allowed to become a monk, it is better to let Daiyu not see relatives and friends of the opposite sex, and not be allowed to cry for the rest of her life.But isn't Daiyu's illness getting better now?

He just thought about it, and when he suddenly heard that Daiyu was coming, he was afraid that it would be cold at night, so he hurriedly let Daiyu in.