Love of Friends in the Red Chamber

As soon as I entered the hall, I heard Jia Mu laughing and saying: "It's strange that the lights exploded and exploded last night, and they were knotted and knotted again. It should be today." I saw that the three upper rooms inside and outside were full of people, all of them in the hall. Joyfully narrating the family life, some joking and some wiping away tears, Jia Cong went straight in and walked into Jia Mu's main hall, and the look that came to his face knocked him out of his wits - he was sitting in the seat of host and guest with Jia Mu Isn't it Professor Dong who he has been looking for all over the world to entertain and greet?

Professor Dong was born out of nowhere, making Jia Cong feel like being struck by lightning. It took him a long time to come back to his senses. One year old." Then he said to Jia Cong, "Why don't you greet Aunt Lin?" Jia Cong hurriedly saluted and called "Aunt Lin", and Aunt Lin kindly called Jia Cong to get up, and gave him a pen, ink, silk and other gifts. .

Then Jia Cong stood beside her and listened to Aunt Lin and Jia Mu's daily life with her ears open. Daiyu sat beside Jia Mu like a human being, happy and sad at the same time. Jia Mu hugged her and said to Aunt Lin: "What I love the most in my life is Yu'er's mother. I feel sorry for her husband and wife who left early, leaving Yu'er alone and lonely." Aunt Lin said with empathy: "What the old lady said is true. The passed away Ru Haigong was a cousin who was separated by a generation, after all, he was within the five clothes, and now he is also the girl's closest person." Then he talked at length about the relationship between Lin Ruhai and his wife when they were alive.

It turned out that Aunt Lin's husband was a distant branch of the Lin family. Because his ancestors had been officials in Sichuan, the whole family moved to Sichuan. Therefore, although there were correspondences, Daiyu had never met this relative, and now the master of the Lin family has long since He died, but there are still two sons in the family. They are Daiyu's cousin, and the eldest cousin Lin Jiarui was born in the imperial examination. He passed the imperial examination six years ago and was sent to Nanjing to be a general judge. , was promoted to the Ministry of Officials, and became a fourth-rank doctor, which can be regarded as a youthful success.The second cousin, Lin Jiaquan, didn't like reading since he was a child, but he is very good at current affairs and economics, and he likes to travel around to do business, so the Lin family is now considered a wealthy family in Sichuan.

This time, because the eldest son Jiarui became an official in the capital, the whole family moved to the capital. Some time ago, the family was sent to Beijing to clean up the house and arrange the layout properly. At the ferry, I met Wang Ren's family, Xue's brothers and sisters, Aunt Li's mother and daughter, and Mrs. Xing's brother and sister-in-law's family. They were all relatives when they talked, so they walked together all the way.

Daiyu then asked, "Why don't you see your two sisters-in-law?" Mrs. Lin laughed and said, "They came from a small family, and they couldn't see a big battle. In addition, they were tired from the journey, so I sent their family to clean up the house. In two days Let them come to see the girl." Dai Yu didn't even dare to say that she should go to visit her aunt and cousins, so Lin hit the snake with the stick and immediately decided to send the chariot woman to pick up Dai in the morning. Yu went to "home" to sit down.

Baoyu was next to her, happy and sad, one was happy for Daiyu, everyone else had relatives, if Aunt Lin didn't show up this time, she was afraid that Daiyu would hurt herself again, and the other was worried because she heard Lin's mouthful. In the "home", Daiyu was regarded as his own girl, as if living in Jia's house, but just a sojourn, so he was very unhappy, but he couldn't express it, and only Jia Cong could feel a thing or two about him. However, Jia Cong suddenly realized that he found the organization, not to mention how comfortable and happy he was.

People in Jia's mansion are the most discerning of people's style, now seeing Aunt Lin's dress and manners are good, and Lin's eldest son is now an official of the court, and the gifts brought today are all more expensive than other people's, so they can't help but look at them differently.Now that we had a carousel banquet, Mother Jia stayed with several relatives to live in. Wang Ren and Aunt Lin had their own houses, so they all resigned. Only Mrs. Xing's brother-in-law and Li's mother and daughter had a difficult family and came here to visit relatives. Set it down without mentioning it.

Jia Cong watched helplessly as Professor Dong got into the sedan chair, but couldn't find a time to talk privately. He was so anxious that a cat would scratch him, but after thinking about it, the future will be long, and he has been waiting for nearly a year. There is nothing to wait for these two days, so I calm down.Sure enough, two days later, when he returned home from school, he saw Professor Dong slightly opened the curtain of a restaurant above him and waved to him. Seeing that he saw it, he put the curtain back.

Jia Cong hurriedly found an excuse, sent his followers to wait in the teahouse on the street, and ran up to the restaurant with a few steps "dengdengdengdengdengdengdengdengdengdengdengdengdengdengdengdeng". , dressed like a rich wife, leisurely drinking tea with a hand stove in her arms.Jia Cong closed the door and said: "Professor Dong, I've been here for almost a year, and I finally found you." Ashes from the stove in his hand, said, "You have only been here for a year, and I have been here for ten years."

So Professor Dong roughly told Jia Cong about his time travel experience.After parting that day, Professor Dong met Jia Min, Daiyu's dead mother. Jia Min re-entrusted her daughter, and Professor Dong was sent back to the underworld. When he woke up, he found that he was a widow of the Lin family in Sichuan.It turned out that the Lin family was single and weak in Sichuan. When Mr. Lin died, there were only widows and orphans in the family, and they were inevitably coveted by outsiders. Mrs. Lin was anxious and sad, so she cried and passed away in the master's mourning hall. When she woke up, she had changed her underwear. flesh.So Professor Dong became Mrs. Lin. With the brains and skills of a doctoral tutor in economics, Mrs. Lin quickly revitalized the family business.According to the endowments of the two sons, one hired a famous teacher to specialize in the imperial examination, and the other she personally guided the business. Four years later, the eldest son became a Jinshi, and the second son also became a good player in the business world. The Lin family was the most wealthy in Sichuan.

After Mrs. Lin gained a firm foothold, she inquired carefully about Daiyu, knowing that she was still young, and it was impossible for Lin Ruhai to trust a family member far away, so she would definitely entrust her daughter to her grandmother, so Mrs. Lin waited quietly , It wasn't until this year that he found a vacancy for the eldest son in the Ministry of Officials, and the whole family came to Beijing to overturn the Red Chamber.

Jia Cong heard this inspirational story, which was better than a storyteller, so he asked: "Aunt Lin, what can I do?" Aunt Lin glanced at him and said: "Study hard, you will be of use in the future— - I think the old lady meant to point Daiyu to Baoyu, but it's a pity that people are not as good as heaven, and I don't know what will happen in the future, but Baoyu's wife, Mrs. Wang, is full of disapproval - I just sat for a while Come out, don’t the old lady know? Let’s see again. In short, I can’t let Daiyu suffer. I promised her mother, and the gods said, let Daiyu be rich and prosperous in this life, so that we can have good fruit, otherwise Just wait for the eighteenth floor of hell."

Jia Cong shivered, and promised again and again that he would study harder after returning home, which is not to be mentioned later.A day later, the Lin family sent a car to pick up Daiyu to play for a day. Baoyu was full of displeasure, but he couldn't stop him. Don't worry.

Daiyu's car went in through the side door, and didn't stop until the second door. The servants all left, and their mother-in-law came to open the curtain. Aunt Lin and her two daughters-in-law were already at the door to welcome her.After the ladies greeted each other, they entered the main room affectionately on their arms. Daiyu saw that the appearance of the Lin family's mansion was simple and elegant, and that all the furniture and furnishings inside were more than elegant but not gorgeous. The style, the favorability of this relative in the heart has increased a little bit.

When she sat down to offer tea, Daiyu naturally followed Aunt Lin to sit in the main seat, and then greeted the two sisters-in-law again.The eldest sister-in-law Dong Yao is the daughter of Lin Jiarui's first teacher. Although she comes from a poor family, she is the most knowledgeable, honest, steady, gentle and simple.The second sister-in-law Lu Lexuan was married the year before last, and she is not a few years older than Daiyu. It seems that she has a very lively temperament. Her natal family is a wealthy businessman in the middle of Sichuan, but she has no fame. Marrying into such an official family is considered high, but naturally it is also low. Eyebrows are pleasing to the eye, looking at her mother-in-law's face when she speaks and acts - before marrying these two daughter-in-laws, Mrs. Lin has already inquired about their personalities, and she has calculated them properly.And there was a word in the family first, only that Daiyu's father was very kind to her family back then, and entrusted half of the family property as a dowry for Daiyu in the future. They all believed it was true, and they were grateful to Daiyu with pity, and their attitude was naturally different from that of ordinary relatives--Daiyu was getting older, and her nature was extremely intelligent, so she could naturally distinguish the subtle differences in other people's attitudes. Aunt Lin really treats herself like a daughter, and she is also moved in her heart. Since her father passed away last year, she has often felt that her life experience is drifting. Finding support here is something she couldn't ask for, so she is also very enthusiastic.

Aunt Lin is well versed in current affairs and knows that it is not appropriate to talk lightly and deeply, so she doesn't say much about Daiyu's future and the situation of the Jia family.From what I hear, I know that although Jia's mansion treats Daiyu well, but more out of the mansion and less in, money is tight, it can't be compared with that in the past.Seeing that there are only two big maids around Daiyu, Zijuan and Xueyan, who can still see it, and the rest of the maids are either too young or dull, so she gave Daiyu the two big maids who came out of her carefully. One was named Bi Ye, who was skilled at sewing and had the best sewing skills, and the other was named Qing Zhi, who was the best at cooking, good at cooking tea and porridge, and making snacks and drinks. Two maidservants came to kowtow to Daiyu.

Aunt Lin told Daiyu that the monthly money of these two maids does not have to come from Jia's accountant, the Lin family will send it on time every month, and even all the servants in Daiyu's room can also be paid by the Lin family. Here is another monthly payment, as long as they serve Daiyu well.Everyone who followed Daiyu was overjoyed.The rule of Jia's house is that each lady's monthly money is two taels of silver, and Jia's mother will also subsidize Daiyu with some money. As a son, she used up all her inner pockets, and Daiyu was also frugal and refused to be praised or criticized by others.Therefore, Aunt Lin ordered to send Daiyu 20 taels of silver and [-] taels of money every month, and asked Daiyu to reward the servants of Jia's mansion with a generous hand. The girl's life in Jia's mansion is very prosperous, it is nothing more than because of loose hands and generous rewards.Daiyu didn't know these things before, and she was helpless when she heard her servants comment behind her that Miss Bao was a good person.

After dinner, Aunt Lin sent Daiyu back to Jia's mansion in person, and made some courtesies with Jia's mother, Mrs. Wang and others before she resigned.From then on, although taking care of Jia's mother's face, it is not easy to openly transfer Daiyu's daily expenses from the accountant of Jia's house to Lin's house for expenses, but the clothing and food are all kept improving, and fresh and dried food are also continuously sent to Jia's house. Come, the gifts given to Jia's mansion on New Year's Day are also very generous.Daiyu's respectability in Jia's mansion is naturally improved.It was Mrs. Wang, although she didn't like Daiyu in her heart, she usually didn't dare to show Jia Mu's face, after all, she was indifferent, but now seeing that the Lin family is rich and the eldest son of Lin's family is well-rounded in official careers, she also pays much attention to Daiyu's face. .As for the rest of the maids and women, because they went to the Xiaoxiang Pavilion to deliver things or pass on messages, the rewards they received were several times higher than those elsewhere, so they naturally competed to flatter them, which is also human nature.

In short, Daiyu's life is much more comfortable than before.In addition, the newcomer Biye is flexible and eloquent, she can guess Daiyu's tactful persuasion, she seems to be more caring than Zijuan, and although Qingzhi is silent, she is really good at cooking, making porridge and water , and with herbal diet, Daiyu's physique has also improved compared to before.