Cold fragrance and warm jade [Red Mansion Chai Dai]

After receiving the news, Chongyu hurried back to the Lin Mansion, only to learn about it from Yang Liutong.

The Zhuangzi that Ning Mansion drove Jiao Da to was a remote small Zhuangzi in the mountains, and once he got in, he might never be able to get out of the mountains again.But now it is winter again, the sky is freezing, and the mountain road is covered with ice and snow, making it more and more difficult to walk.

In addition, there are some robbers who are even more rampant as the end of the year approaches.

Not long after Jiao Da and his party set foot on the mountain road, masked bandits jumped out, trying to murder for money.

Jiao Daben is old, and he is also a drinker on a daily basis. How can he be a robber's opponent?On the contrary, those young men who sent him to Zhuangzi ran away in embarrassment when they saw the robbers, and they actually escaped.

Luckily Yang Liutong followed him secretly. Although he was afraid of being discovered, he had already followed a long way after he reached this section of the road that few people traveled, but he was strong in martial arts. He heard some movement, so he hurried over and finally saved Jiao Day's life.

Chongyu listened to Yang Liutong's narration, discussed with Yang Liutong and his son, and felt that the bandits who robbed Jiaoda might be different.

It is true that there are bandits outside Beijing.

I don't know how many people are envious of Wang Ziteng's good luck. When he served as the governor of the Beijing camp, the suburbs of Beijing were safe and peaceful, without much trouble.

Now that he has been promoted to an official position, on the contrary, there are some people who are forced by life everywhere, turning grass into bandits, and even places outside Beijing, there are some bold robbers.There are canals outside of Pianjing, but there are also many mountains. After the robbers have finished their robbery, if they hide in the mountains, they will not be able to catch them easily.

But today's robbers don't chase after the young people who are more well-dressed and only want to chop up the coke, which is strange.

If it weren't for Jiao Da who was born and died on the battlefield back then, no matter how many years have been wasted, he still has some foundations. If he really couldn't survive Yang Liutong's rescue, he would have died under the knife of the robbers.

Seeing that Yang Liutong was powerful, the robbers no longer cared about killing Jiao Da, and ran for their lives in all directions.Yang Liutong still had to rush to bring Jiao Da back for treatment, but he couldn't catch them, so I had to ask.

After Chongyu investigated carefully, he was afraid that those robbers were actually sent or hired by Ningguo Mansion.

With this thought in mind, he also thought about Rong Ningjun's Jia family. He knew that nothing would happen to Daiyu, but he was still worried about Daiyu's safety.

But Daiyu said that today she ate too much tea at Aunt Xue's place. Although she played around for half a day, she was still sleepy tonight, so she picked up her needle and thread again and made a purse for Baoyu. She rubbed her eyes when she was tired, but she dared not Take a rest.She usually seldom uses needles and threads, her speed is not as fast as others, and she wants to do it more delicately, so it is naturally laborious.

It was Zijuan's persuasion that she put down her things and closed her eyes to sleep.

When she woke up the next day, Daiyu was going to pay her respects to Jiamu, but she heard that Jia Rong from the Ningfu in the east had brought Qin Zhong to see Jiamu, and Baoyu was busy picking her up. He stayed in his own room, still focusing on making purses.

After doing it for a while, Baochai came in and said with a smile, "It's really rare today, that the little girl is also sewing? I was going to make you play with my sister-in-law, but this is absolutely impossible. Let Let me see, what is it embroidered on?"

Daiyu couldn't help blushing. She had put down her work, but she never hid it. Now she was looking for a place to hide it, but Baochai picked it up and looked at it carefully.

Baochai glanced at it briefly, then said in amazement, "It's really well done, it's hard for you to put in so much effort, isn't it for Chongyu?"

She took the purse and looked at it carefully. Although it was not finished yet, she could already see that the embroidery must be the toad palace.

Daiyu blushed even more, and wanted to snatch Baochai's purse.

Because the needle and thread were still attached, Baochai was also afraid of stabbing Daiyu in the scramble, so those who wanted to take a closer look had to return it to Daiyu first.

Daiyu put away the things and said, "I embroidered them for Baoyu."

"Oh? So it's him!" Baochai nodded and smiled, "This is for him, and this is just the right time."

Daiyu also laughed: "I'm afraid he will complain when he sees it."

She had heard Baoyu say what kind of person Qin Zhong was, and she knew what the Jia family school was like, so she guessed that Baoyu didn't concentrate on studying at all, but just wanted to find some playmates.

The purse embroidered with the laurels from the Toad Palace is given to Baoyu, so Baoyu can't be embarrassing?

If Baoyu refuses to take it, Daiyu has her own reasons and will not make these things for Baoyu in the future. .

Baochai figured this out, and couldn't help laughing: "Good girl! You were planning to finish this embroidery and never need to embroider it again?"

"No! It's just to embroider this for Baoyu. My younger brother saw it and asked me to do it for him. Sister Bao, you know me, so you don't like to do this. No matter what you say, I don't like it, but I don't like it." Hi. There is no shortage of needleworkers in the family, so why should I do it! Especially Baoyu's body is made by several people in his house, why should I do it for him? I can't help but annoy him. "

Baochai was speechless for a moment.

Daiyu thought of something, and asked again: "I just heard you say that you want to make me go to sister-in-law? Could it be that you are all in sister-in-law's place?"

"That's right! I almost forgot the business. I got up this morning, thinking that you and Brother Bao went to my place yesterday, and I should also be stubborn with you today. Coincidentally, I met Yingchun and the other three sisters on the road. Going to sister-in-law's place, I thought I would make trouble with you too, and everyone would have a good time."

Daiyu got up immediately: "Let's go!"

"The purse?"

"It's not in a hurry at this moment."

They left Daiyu's room and went straight to Li Wan's.

The Sanchun sisters are also there, discussing Baoyu's going to school.

Everyone has known about it for a long time, and only today did they get together to talk about it.

There is no lack of envy in Tanchun's words: "I only hate that I am a daughter. Even if you want to study, how much can you read?"

Yingchun didn't care too much: "If we sisters want to read some books, why can't we buy them? But I only love a few Taoist collections, especially "Taishang Induction Chapter", which is what I never get tired of reading."

Tan Chun stomped his feet and said, "So what if I can buy books to read? We only have so little money every month, and we have to save money to buy some gadgets. With this kind of saving, how long will it take to afford books! "

She paused, and then said: "It's fortunate that Sister Lin has a lot of books, and Brother Chongyu also has books that we can lend to us. It's just that if you don't understand, who can ask?"

When Daiyu came in and heard it, she sighed secretly.

She is also thankful that she still has her younger brother by her side, and they can discuss knowledge with each other.She had just entered Jia's mansion that day, and she heard Jia's mother say that it was just for the girls in the family to recognize a few words, and she wondered if it was her grandmother's humble words.After staying there, she also took some lessons with Sister Sanchun. There really wasn't any intellectual lessons, but she taught a lot of other things.

Although she didn't know what it would be useful for a girl to read so many books, but she had read them since she was a child, and she really loved them. Compared with Chongyu's progressive expression, she was unwilling to let herself fall too far.

Just what about Tanchun and their sisters?

However, she is also dependent on others, how much can she help Miss Jia's family?

Although Chongyu also had contacts with the three sisters of Tanchun, they didn't have much contact with each other, so he wouldn't exchange homework every day like he did with her.

Moreover, Chongyu is getting busier now, and sometimes even communicating with her depends on the annotations left in the book, or a few articles, so how can he be distracted to take care of other sisters?

Even if Tanchun wanted to, he could only borrow a few books annotated by Chongyu and Daiyu.

At this time, Li Wan did not persuade Tanchun to say that her daughter's family should only focus on family affairs such as needlework, after all, she herself felt a little uncomfortable in her heart.If her father hadn't been so determined, she would have had the opportunity to read more books like the older women in the family. Now that she is studying with Lan'er, she can also guide Lan'er more!However, her father is still focused on being an example for the clan, and the books she has read are the fewest among daughters of the same generation in the clan.

Xichun smiled and said, "I just mentioned Sister Lin, so Sister Lin will come? I just mentioned Brother Lin, will Brother Lin come again?"

Li Wan laughed: "How is this possible? He is in school now."

Everyone greeted each other with a smile.There is no need to be more polite than the gathering of sisters and sister-in-law.

Tanchun suddenly asked: "I don't know what the school is like, how does it compare with the place where we have classes?"

Xichun became curious when she first heard it, so she said to Li Wanyang, "Good sister-in-law, you must know it, why don't you pity us who live in deep boudoirs with little knowledge and tell us about it?"

Li Wan was troubled.Just like Jia's family learned, can you tell these young girls in the boudoir?

She is also in a difficult position to ask her to lie.

Daiyu had heard Chongyu mention how messy her family's education was, but now she also understands how difficult it is for Li Wan.She laughed and said: "Although I have never been to Jia's house to study, I have gone to many academies in Yangzhou with my father. Do the two younger sisters want to hear about it?"

Tanchun and Xichun immediately abandoned Li Wan and turned to Daiyu.

Li Wan felt relieved, and gave Daiyu a grateful look, but Daiyu didn't seem to notice, and just talked about some places she had visited in Yangzhou with her father from memory.

Li Wan was listening, nodding secretly, but he was puzzled again, wondering if it was because Chongyu was young and inexperienced, and talked nonsense with Daiyu about everything encountered in the family school.

Not long after, Baoyu also came.

The girl and woman guarding outside hurriedly reported, and the voices in the room suddenly disappeared. The sisters never thought that Baoyu would come over suddenly, and they were all a little surprised at this moment.

Baoyu was outside, and couldn't really hear what they were saying, but he could hear the loudness of the voice, so he raised his voice and laughed, "When I didn't come, you were very lively. Why didn't you talk when you heard me coming?"

He said, has entered the house.

Daiyu glanced at him and asked, "How can you be free today?"

Baoyu knew that Daiyu meant that he had Qin Zhong, so his thoughts were all on Qin Zhong.

He leaned forward and said with a smile: "Jingqing wants to go home and report to his father, and I can't follow, so I came to play with my sisters. What fun things were you talking about just now, why don't you tell me about it too?" ?”

"It's a coincidence that you should listen." Baochai said seriously, "Xiao'er just said that she had been to many academies in Yangzhou in the past, and she had seen how the students in the academies studied hard. Baoyu, you should go to school this time, you should be happy Changed it, and concentrated on reading."

Baoyu got bored and said: "Since I want to go to school, of course I can read. Sister Bao doesn't need to say much."

The rest of the people knew what kind of habit he was, and they didn't plan to persuade him any more, but they all lost interest in talking.

Daiyu looked at the sisters and felt a little bored, so she got up, said goodbye, and left first.

Baoyu panicked, and hurriedly chased him out, saying anxiously, "Sister Lin, wait for me."

Without turning her head, Daiyu said, "I'm a little tired today, it's time to go back and rest."

Baoyu didn't really believe it, so he chased Daiyu all the way back to Daiyu's room, only to see that Daiyu was lying on the bed.

He stood by for a while, and thought about it for a while, he really did something wrong, he really couldn't figure it out, and said good things for a while, but Daiyu's attitude still didn't improve. He left first, and came back after Daiyu's anger subsided, but he couldn't bear it.

He couldn't figure out that Daiyu wasn't angry with him, it was just that it was inconvenient to say goodbye when she saw the sisters, but Baoyu's sudden arrival spared everyone's interest, so she might as well be the villain and go first, so that the other sisters would also like reason to leave.

Or, when she left, Baoyu might follow her, and the sisters might still be in the mood to chat and laugh for a while.

Now that Baoyu is making trouble with her, she only hopes that Baoyu will leave quickly, so that she will have time to catch up with work and purse.

Suddenly, Baoyu had an idea, and said with a smile: "My good sister, let me tell you a strange thing, it's really interesting."

Daiyu stood up slightly and asked, "What's the matter?"

Finally, Baoyu was overjoyed to hear Daiyu's other response.