Jia Lian of the Red Chamber

Her girl with a green waist has sharp eyesight. She looked at Daiyu and the little girls with half-smiles, as if she knew what her master was thinking, and suddenly felt that it was not good to offend the master like this when she was a guest, so she secretly persuaded her : "Girl, although these young ladies are illiterate, they are very gentle and seem very smart."

Yang Shuhui's face turned cold immediately, and said: "Since you like such a family, such a lady, why don't I give you to them!"

The little girl didn't dare to say anything anymore.

The girl Luyao spoke in a very low voice, but she didn't care much about what she said. Although the wind was a bit strong, Daiyu and the others still heard a single word.

Daiyu and Tanchun Xichun looked at each other and smiled, they were disgusted by others, they immediately shut their mouths tightly and said nothing more.Deliberately going in the wrong direction, the three sisters put a distance between Yang's master and servant.

As the master, Yingchun was one step behind and assigned the maids to prepare tea and snacks, light up the incense, smoke the house, and prepare the sisters to warm up when they came back from playing.

Daiyu Xichun and the others have high requirements for the boudoir. If the smell and decoration of the room are not good at all, they would rather go back in the cold than let it go.

The allocation for the Spring Festival has been decided, and I rushed to accompany the guests, but I saw that Daiyu and the others didn't solicit guests at all, and asked with words, but they didn't like the grandma, so she had to reluctantly catch up and introduce several kinds of plum blossoms in the garden for Yang Shuhui .

Reluctantly, Yingchun said ten sentences, but she was lazy to agree. Yingchun is not a talkative person, and she is not as good at adjusting the atmosphere as Sister Feng. I don't know what to say, the atmosphere was as cold as a snowstorm.It made Yingchun very embarrassed.

When Daiyu saw that Yingchun was so enthusiastic about her, but she was treated coldly, they felt annoyed at once, and secretly blamed Sister Feng for throwing such a strange person to them.

However, although Yingchun didn't know about Jia Lian and Wei Ruolan's marriage, they all knew that Jia Lian and the second son of the Wei family were colleagues, they took care of each other in the palace, and they had a good relationship. Walking around on festivals, put it in previous years, if there are no weddings and funerals, everyone will not walk around, and you can't offend your brother's friends because of the sisters' temper.

Yingchun told Tanchun Xichun that it was not easy for Jia Lian to be in the palace, but now everything is going well, it all depends on the care of friends, and the two families should not be estranged because of Yang's various colors.

Daiyu Tanchun and Xichun are all smart people, and they can see through everything.For the sake of Jia Lian's face, the Yingchun sisters had to catch up with Yang's master and servant again, chatting with her without saying a word.

Yang Shuhui is still the dusty model of not being greedy or seeking, admiring the plum blossoms by herself, silently brewing poems in her heart.

Daiyu and the others ate cold ashes again, raised their eyebrows at Yingchun and spread their hands. Yingchun had no choice but to disperse with the sisters and go to admire the plum blossoms.

The four sisters immediately relaxed their minds and played and chased in Merlin, very unhappy.Xichun was having fun, and suddenly thought of Jiangnan. He only heard about the spring days in Jiangnan, but he didn't know how the snow scene in Jiangnan was?

She twisted Daiyu and asked, "Sister Lin, is it snowing in Jiangnan too?"

Daiyu giggled: "Of course, 'Jade flowers in snow in the south of the Yangtze River' have been recorded by ancients. How can there be no snow? The fourth girl is not serious about studying!"

Xichun pouted unhappy: "When I knew my sister was in the Yandao Yamen in Yangzhou, Uncle Lin hired a talented man to teach my sister to read. We are reading the Four Books for Women every day. The old ancestors said that every girl's family doesn't take the imperial examination, and she can do it after reading a few books. It’s done, reading more will change your temperament.”

Tanchun also interjected: "Most of the bookshelves in the inner study are the Four Books and Five Classics. The rest, not to mention Tang Poetry and Song Ci, even a travelogue is hard to find. I heard that there are many books in the study outside Meng Pozhai, so we dare not Going out to search, begging my brothers to find a few books, it is also a thousand and one selection, and it will fall into our hands after screening many times, and the interesting ones will be picked out, hey, when will we be able to walk out of the house by ourselves, free Feel free to do whatever you want!"

Yingchun was good at poking Tanchun: "Look at your wild temper, be careful when the second uncle hears that he wants to beat you!"

But Daiyu chuckled: "You probably begged your second brother Bao to fetch the books for you. When Baoyu saw his uncle, he was so frightened that he ran away from cats and mice. How could he dare to take whatever he liked? Isn't it what the second uncle said? If you expect him to rebel against Second Uncle, it will be impossible in a hundred years!"

Seeing what Daiyu said was interesting, Yingchun and the others all laughed along with her.

Tanchun is also funny, no matter how bad things happen to Baoyu, who else can she ask, now she sees Jia Lian as much as she sees her father, her face is very scary.

She never thought that while talking here, Mrs. Yang was listening. When she heard the words "Xunyan Yushi Yamen", she started thinking. She knew the legend of Tanhua Lang Lin Ruhai. According to his father, when Lin Ruhai Tanhua is a talented person, a good-looking talent, crosses the imperial street, and is bestowed with marriage by the emperor. I don't know how many people are envious of her.

The champion Tanhua has always been the most sought after by girls.

Yang Shuhui couldn't help being fascinated, so she lowered her body and asked Yingchun: "Is that Miss Lin the daughter of a former criminal?"

After receiving a positive reply from Yingchun, Lin Daiyu's father, Lin Ruhai, is the Tanhualang she has admired for a long time.

Yang Shuhui immediately put away her aloof and widowed posture, and talked to Daiyu with a smile: "Sister Lin is the daughter of Lin Tanhua. I am really disrespectful. I don't know what books my sister reads at home, which talented professor she hired, and which school she learned from." Famous posts? How do you spend your days, do you write poems or Fu?"

If Yang Shuhui had asked this way from the beginning, Daiyu might have told the truth.

Now, Daiyu has grown disgusted with her, she is too lazy to talk to her when she is illiterate, and rushes to flatter her when she hears that she is a girl of Tanhua. Can you take the No. [-] examination?

Daiyu didn't mean to say too much: "My father always said that a woman's lack of talent is virtue. I only know a few words and can write my own name. Why do I need to write a post, but since I was a child, I have only drawn red from the photocopy my father made. "

However, Tanchun knew that Uncle Lin was good at calligraphy, and his calligraphy combined the best of all famous calligraphy masters. He was self-contained and comparable to everyone.

Yang Shuhui frowned secretly when she heard this, her eyes were full of disappointment, the dignified girl who was looking for flowers didn't know Mrs. Wei.It's a pity to lose the name of Tanhualang's daughter.

But seeing that Lin Daiyu is the daughter of Tanhua, she quickly loosened her brows and smiled at Daiyu: "Sister, don't underestimate yourself, after all, my sister comes from a scholarly background, her family has a long history, and she is young, so it is not too late to learn now! "

Daiyu looked at Yang Shuhui's earnest and sincere words, and didn't know what to do. Don't you know that there is a word of humility in this world?

Daiyu didn't say much, so she had to avoid it.

Xichun is a lonely character, she was born in a public house, and she is a direct descendant. In recent years, she has gotten better with Daiyu Qin Keqing, and she has dabbled in poetry, calligraphy and painting. I don't want to be looked down upon by others, and I am immediately annoyed. She has never been the only one who looks down on others. I never thought that I would be despised by a country girl today, how could I give up.

Looking at the charming and unyielding plum blossoms in the snow all over the sky, Xichun rolled her eyes and said with a smile: "Why don't we sing a song about the plum blossoms in the snow scene."

Daiyu smiled: "I'm a little lazy today, come on, fourth sister!"

Tanchun rolled his eyes, and pulled Yang Shuhui affectionately: "Miss Wei is full of poems and books, can you make a poem for our sisters to watch?"

Of course Yang Shuhui was not afraid of reciting poems and composing Fu, and also liked Tanchun's flattery, she said with a smile: "Sisters, come first, I'll take a look first!"

Knowing that her poems are mediocre, Yingchun hurriedly said, "Come on, I'll take care of the transcribing!"

Daiyu looked at Xichun, saw that she was eager to try, and said: "I am afraid that our few clumsy works will not be able to catch the eyes of Grandma Wei. Fourth sister, your poems are always the best. Why don't you make one? Please ask Grandma Wei for advice." ?”

Xichun had already made up her mind, and smiled when she heard the words: "In this case, I will make a fool of myself in front of all my sisters."

When Xichun was finished and handed it to Daiyu, Daiyu looked at the seven words written by Xichun, and smiled: "There are only four sentences, and the meaning is still not enough!" She picked up the pen and added two more sentences, and handed it to Tanchun: "Third sister, I might as well just make fun of it." Son!"

Tanchun took the pen with a smile, read through the first six sentences, added two more sentences, and finally finished the draft.

Yingchun glanced at it, moistened the pen and copied it, and shook it on the smoking cage again. After it was completely dry, she passed it to Daiyu. Daiyu smiled and handed it to Tanchun. Only then did he smile, and handed it to Yang Shuhui: "Grandma Wei please appreciate it, our sisters' playful works, and please Grandma Wei not to make jokes!"

Yang Shuhui laughed more and more reservedly at Tanchun's compliment: "Sister, don't be too polite, anyone who learns poetry has a process."

Yang Shuhui took it here casually, and looked at it carefully.

"Ode to the Red Plum"

The branches are sparse, the flowers are bright, and the children of spring make-up are extravagant.

There is no snow left in the winding threshold of the leisure hall, and there are sunset clouds in the flowing water and empty mountains.

You dream is cold with the red sleeve flute, and the fragrance of wandering immortals floods the river.

The predecessor is determined to be a Yaotai species, and there is no doubt about the complex phase.

At first glance, Yang Shuhui was shocked. In the poem, "red sleeve flute" and "Jianghecha" are used to describe plum blossoms, which is really ingenious and beautiful.It is not a little bit better than the 'jade bar', 'glass branch', and 'green wax' she had imagined before.

Yang Shuhui's heart was churning like boiling water. Only then did she realize that she had been fooled by some young girls, or that she had been fooled by Sister Feng. Sister Feng introduced to her that some girls in her family could read a few words. After reading the Three-Character Classic Nvjie, I am studying Qianjia Poetry.

At the beginning when Sister Feng said something about cooking wine and talking about poetry, she almost laughed. The reason why she came was not because of Sister Feng's strength, but because of the green calyx and red plums in this glazed world. Kind of illiterate.

She was careless.

She wanted to restore her image, destroy the prestige of the girls, and maintain her arrogance.

However, she racked her brains and couldn't think of any more beautiful and atmospheric words than these two sentences.No words she could think of could hold back these two sentences.

Although Yang Shuhui is aloof, she is very self-aware. She knows that her talents and knowledge are not comparable to these four little girls.

She only felt that her face was hot, and she was short of breath for a while, dizzy, and her eyes were poked, and she was about to faint.Fortunately, her girl with a green waist quickly supported her.

This girl is very clever, she knows that her master is half angry and half contrived, just to cover her face.

This is not the countryside of Yuan County, where there are many talented people. The girl has always compared herself to Wen Ji Xue Tao, and today she has been kicked to the iron plate. She has to help her grandma, otherwise there will be no fruit to eat when she goes back.

Lu Yao supported Yang Shuhui, and suddenly exclaimed: "Grandma, grandma, what's wrong with you, don't you have dizziness again?"

Yang Shuhui lied in the girl's arms when she heard the words.

Luyao apologized and explained to Daiyu and the others: "Our grandma just recovered from her illness a few days ago, but she heard that the Rongguo Mansion is a century-old family with a large garden left over from the previous dynasty, so she came to see it. Unexpectedly, I got sick again, I am really sorry for the girls, and disturbed the girls' elegance, please forgive me."

Daiyu and the others looked at each other in dismay, this was unbearable, what did she say when she rolled her eyes and looked at people with her nostrils upturned?

Among the four girls, Yingchun was the biggest, looking at the earnest eyes of the green waist, Yingchun hurriedly expressed that she didn't care about it, but instead annoyed her master and servant: "It's all because we don't understand the situation, we shouldn't have brought Grandma Wei to admire the plum blossoms, I will send someone to spread the word that today I just invited Mrs. Wang and his son over to the house for a drink, and I happened to be taking Grandma Wei's pulse!"

Hearing this, Yang Shuhui's whole body tensed up immediately, and her green waist sensed Yang Shuhui's intentions, and hurriedly waved her hands: "No need, no need, there are ready-made soups at home, as long as the girl calls the carriage of the Wei family and the traveling lady over for us. !"

Yingchun was sincerely worried for Yang Shuhui, and insisted on asking Imperial Physician Wang: "This can't be done, your eldest grandma is sick in my family, our two families are family friends, my brother is a colleague of your second young master, and your master, eldest young master If you are not in the capital, how can I let you travel around sick?"

The green waist was so cold that sweat dripped from anxiety, and his eyes were thinking of Daiyu Tanchun asking for help.

Daiyu Tanchun knew that she was pretending to be sick, so if the news spread, wouldn't it be true that her sisters were bullying others because of their arrogance?

How could they bear this false accusation? They just helped Yingchun to persuade Wang Taiyi to be invited.

When Yang Shuhui saw this situation, she knew that she couldn't escape from illness, so she opened her eyes slowly, pretending to be misty, and glanced left and right: "Oh, what's wrong with me, I'm so dizzy, green waist?"

The green waist hurriedly said: "Grandma just admired the plum blossoms, probably because of the cold wind, I guess the old illness has broken out."

Yang Shuhui looked at Daiyu and Tanchun weakly: "I'm really sorry, my sisters, I'm really useless, I feel ashamed for disturbing my sisters' elegance, I'm very dizzy, so I won't play with you little girls Let’s make a fuss, let me take a break, sisters, let’s go!”

Just now he was excited to write a poem in a competition, but at this time he said that he was just kidding around, it really made people wonder how to react.

Yingchun looked at Daiyu Tanchun's eyebrows and eyes, her expression was wrong, her brain jumped suddenly, and she suddenly understood the reason, but Yingchun has always been kind to others, and today she is the host, so she doesn't want to offend guests, so she smiled: "In that case, Wei Grandma is going back to Nuan Pavilion to rest, and I will take my sisters to pick some plum blossoms and come back to put vases for the old lady!"

Daiyu Tanchun could barely hold back, but Xichun smiled with crooked eyebrows, and Daiyu pinched her cheeks to help her hold back.

After Yingchun had folded the plum blossom branches and came back, Yang Shuhui left rationally.

Xiuju replied: "Grandma Wei just left when the girls left. Her running speed is faster than mothers pulling carts. She doesn't look weak at all."

Sister Daiyu smiled knowingly, and it was fine not to mention her.

After Yingchun laughed, she was silent for a moment: "After all, we are the masters, so we should send someone over to take a look, and explain the situation to the grandmother and the second sister-in-law, lest she add insult to injury in front of the old lady, and we are caught off guard."

Xiuju smiled and said: "Miss, don't worry, Si Qi has gone with her. She is familiar with the stewards of Dayao Cao Tang, so she will definitely be able to pass the word to the second mistress and the old lady."

Daiyu smiled when she heard the words, and pointed to the embroidered orange with her jade finger: "Good girl, well done, I will reward you when I go back!"

Xiuju was overjoyed when he heard the words, and kicked himself up with a smile: "If the girl rewards the servant girl, please give the servant girl a few flowers. Last time, the girl rewarded me with a picture of a magpie climbing a plum. I embroidered a set of pillow covers on the back of the mosquito net and turned it into a hijab silk handkerchief." I gave it to my cousin to marry, and made the girls and daughters-in-law in their village very greedy. They all said that it was no different from the Su embroidery bought in the shop in Kyoto." Daiyu pursed her lips and said, "Silly girl, it's you Embroidery is good, not my painting is good!"

Xiuju shook her head: "No, it's the girl who draws well, and everyone says she has aura!"

Daiyu stretched out a slender finger: "A pair of embroidered shoes!"

Xiuju was overjoyed, grabbed Daiyu's sleeves and shook them: "Don't talk about one pair, even ten pairs are enough!"

Daiyu clapped her hands: "Okay, it's up to you, ten pairs of shoes a year!"

Xichun was stunned: "Ten pairs of shoes for one picture, embroidered orange, shall I help you draw?"

Daiyu sighed when she heard the words: "Oh, no wonder people say that the disciples of the church starve to death the master!"

Xichun blushed immediately when she heard the words, and pulled Daiyu's hips like a twisted candy, and said, "Sister Lin, don't say that about her!"

She is not greedy for things, she is really a good embroiderer of embroidered oranges, better than her girl, even better than the embroiderer of Ning Mansion.

Xiuju's embroidery is of course good, and she was selected as the waitress because of her good embroidery work, otherwise she would not have been named Xiuju.

Looking back, she said that Si Qi came to Xuancao Tang and told Sister Feng what happened in the East Courtyard, and Sister Feng sent someone to tell Jia Lian immediately.

Jia Lian secretly told Wei Ruolan because she was afraid that Grandma Wei would go back and provoke her, saying that the girls in the family were young and didn't know how to let her go, and she had a slight misunderstanding with Grandma Wei because of the poetry.

Wei Ruolan blushed upon hearing this.

Feng Ziying and the others even laughed out loud. It turned out that Grandma Wei was very proud of her talents when she was in her natal family, and she was well-known in Beijing for being arrogant. It's just that everyone knew that she was betrothed to the eldest son of Wei since she was a child. Therefore, everyone Seeing that General Wei ignored him, it was all right.

Unexpectedly, when she left today to recite words, she met Xichun, a hot-eyed little hottie.

Therefore, the poems copied by Yingchun also passed to Jia Lian. Feng Ziying glanced at the side, and her eyes lit up: "Is this written by your sister?"

Jia Lian pursed her lips and said happily, "Probably so!"

Yingchun's handwriting is not outstanding among the sisters, but the lower script with hairpin flowers is also very beautiful, and it is considered excellent among boudoir girls.

Jia Lian didn't want to tell others her sister's name, but Feng Ziying was a scout. Seeing that Jia Lian was silent, she glanced at Si Qi, and while Jia Lian was leaving, Feng Ziying asked Baoyu, "That girl is in your second brother's room. people?"

Baoyu smiled and hit Feng Ziying: "Don't talk nonsense, she is my second sister's capable girl."

Feng Ziying was secretly delighted. It turned out that this word was written by the second girl of Jia's house. It was a good poem, but it was a pity that Jia Lian took it into her arms.

Well, farmers usually only talk about each other, Wei Ruolan is 15 years old but she also knows some things in the world, seeing Feng Ziying inquiring about, she can't help but feel moved, she secretly tugs at Feng Ziying, her eyes are full of jokes: "Second brother, what do you want to do? "

Feng Ziying smiled: "Nothing!"

Wei Ruolan grabbed him even more, and whispered closer, "I can play well with Baoyu. He said his sister is four years older than him, and Baoyu is only eight years old. His sister was born in the twelfth lunar month. The old moon is not counted as age, but false years." You are only thirteen, how old are you, second brother, you are already an old cow!"

Feng Ziying blushed: "Don't talk nonsense!"

He just saw that the poem was well written and the characters were good, so he couldn't sleep and imagined that the girl must be beautiful.

Of course, Feng Ziying affirmed Yingchun's beauty in her heart. Just looking at Jia Lian's appearance, his sister must be unmistakable.

This is really worthy of all the personal talents of the family, the only thing is not beautiful, the girl is a little younger, Feng Ziying is already old, marriage is imminent, and her mother is looking around, wishing to get married right away.

It's still early for the girls in Jia's mansion to get married.

Speaking of which, Yingchun's age matches Wei Ruolan's very well.

But today I met the eldest grandma of the Wei family, General Wei's wife is also from the Yang family, I believe that none of the three Yingchun sisters are willing to marry into the Wei family.

Jia Lian also sighed in his heart, poor sister Xiangyun, how miserable it would be to be tortured by such a mother-in-law and sister-in-law for the first half of her life, and sink into a quagmire for the rest of her life.

Thinking of Xiangyun, Jia Lian couldn't help but think of Shi Zheng from the historian family. He was blood relative to the Jia family, but he was not close to Jia Lian and Jia Rong, but he was unabashedly close to Shi Keming from the Shi family.

Thinking of this, Jia Lian felt a little pain in his teeth.

Thinking about it carefully, it's not the historian and Shi Zheng's fault. Today's rich and powerful families are all about being in harmony. The historian and the Jia family have been separated by three generations. Shi Feng, the eldest son of the Marquis of Baoling, is the second sister who married Shi Keming. The two are close in-laws.

Moreover, Shi Feng is the heir to the Bowling Hou Mansion, Grandma Shi is the future mistress of the Hou Mansion, and the Shi family should be closer to the Shi family.

Shouldn't it be true that the second wife of the Shi family is the princess of Fuqing, and her brother, the prince of Zhongyi, is a rebel prince.

Although Shi Keming's father, Shi Guangliu, and Shi Guangzhu were incompatible, it was difficult to cut off the bloodline.Their family is unhappy, but once there is a major event, they have to advance and retreat together.

Fuqing's family rebelled, and the entire Shi family can't get rid of the accusations of complicity in crimes. As long as the King of Zhongyi and Fuqing brothers and sisters raise the flag at the beginning, even if the Shi family doesn't hear anything about it, they are rebels, just like rebels.

The historians of previous lives did not end well.

The Shi family was implicated and convicted by the King of Zhongyi County and Princess Fuqing. The Shi family is an in-law of the Shi family, so it is inevitable to be implicated. The most ridiculous thing is that Shi Feng and Shi Zheng became the guests of the rebellion and conspiracy meeting of the King of Zhongyi County, and even destroyed the family to raise money to support Zhongyi. The county king raised an incident, and it is said that the bloody handprint has a copy of the historian.

It was only later that Jia Lian learned about the historian's situation. At that time, Jia Lian was very strange. The historian did not have a noble concubine to visit relatives, nor did he organize a funeral like the Ning family.No wonder Shi Xiangyun was doing needlework every day until late at night, but his family members used all their money to support the rebellion.

This time during the Spring Festival, I visited relatives to have a drink. Logically, historians should come to Jia's house first when they go out on the fourth day of the lunar new year. The historians missed the old aunt Jia Mu, and went to Shi's house to have a drink first.

On the sixth day of the lunar new year, Baolinghou and his son were ordered to go out of Beijing, and Mrs. Baolinghou brought his daughter-in-law and daughter to the door.Fortunately, Jia's mother never counted on historians. Instead, she always cared about Shi Xiangyun who followed Shi Nai.

Said that Qili Baolinghou is really not good, he inherited his elder brother's title, but it is not easy to raise his brother's posthumous child, this is why Jia's mother dislikes Baolinghou the most.

Jia Lian couldn't help sighing that the four major in-laws of Jia's family were all unclean.