Struggle of Baochai

"Sister, sister..."

An irritable voice came in through the window, and Baochai, who was sitting up and dressing in the morning, felt stiff when he heard this voice.

The sound of the curtain being beaten, the sound of hurried footsteps, when Baochai turned her head, she saw a young boy in his teens standing in front of him. Like a bun, it’s cute to look at.

"elder brother?"

Baochai sized up the young man in a pine flower gown and a jade-encrusted Liuhe hat, and let out a cry of anxiety.

"Sister is better?" The boy's Baozi's face showed a ray of joy: "Looks more energetic than yesterday."

"Brother, sit down." Baochai asked the young man to sit down, and while looking greedily at the young man, he replied, "I've recovered, and I'm indeed more energetic than before. Brother Lao will miss you."

"It's fine." The young man breathed a sigh of relief, and then said with a smile: "It is said that sincerity leads to success, I only believe this today. You and your father have been bedridden these days, and your mother seems to be worried about something. , I asked the housekeeper, and I went around to seek medical treatment and worship Buddha, and I worshiped all the temples in Jinling. I thought, maybe the Bodhisattva saw that I was really sincere, so he showed kindness to our family, but you and your father are all well. .”

The young man's words babbled without a moment's pause, evoking certain memories deep in Baochai's memory.

My elder brother was really lively when his father was alive, he was talkative and loved to play, he was often missed by his parents, and he hated him for not being able to calm down, not being able to study in a proper manner, and he would be beaten and scolded from time to time. My elder brother was also passionate about his father, and his filial piety never diminished. Only when his father left and the eighth family of Xue’s family was fighting for property, my elder brother blocked the door with a big knife for several days in order to protect his own property. The family sent someone to come, and my brother fainted.

Therefore, the other couples felt unwilling because they didn’t get much property. Seeing that the elder brother was young and ignorant, people provoked him to drink and gamble, fly eagles and lackeys, and it didn’t take long for the elder brother to be taught to be a complete scumbag. Dude, the mother was worried, but because of her good temper, she doted on her brother a little bit, and because she had no big ideas, in desperation, after three years of filial piety, she took her siblings to the capital to become aunts.

She had hoped that her aunt and mother were sisters after all, and she would take care of them with all her heart, but she never thought that her good aunt was a femme fatale. Hollowed out, her brother also ended up decapitated in a different place, and she also died of poverty and illness in the end.

Thinking of this, Baochai couldn't hide her sadness in her heart. The pain and hatred of the past ten or twenty years in her previous life surged into her heart for a while, and she couldn't help but cried bitterly while hugging Xue Pan.

"Brother..." Baochai didn't care about etiquette at all, crying with tears and snot in her nose, her voice hoarse and full of emotion, just in response to the sentence that the hearer is sad and the listener is in tears.

These days, Xue Pan's father and sister are seriously ill at the same time, and many things have been handed over to him. He also knows a lot of hardships in the world. Hearing Baochai cry like this, he immediately became sad, and shed a few tears with him. He frantically coaxed again: "Sister, what's the matter? The crying brother feels bad too. Don't cry, Baochai. Brother bought you a lot of gadgets. See if you like them. If you don't like them, I'll go get them for you again." Look around."

Ying'er also wiped her tears with a handkerchief, and persuaded: "Don't cry, girl, tell the uncle what's wrong with you, don't cry yourself to death."

Baochai cried for a while, and finally she felt a little clearer in her heart. She wiped away her tears and felt embarrassed, blushing very pitifully and cutely.

Ying'er hurriedly called a little girl to fetch water from a silver basin to clean her face, and waited on Baochai to wash her face, and handed over a dry handkerchief to wipe it off.

After tidying up, Baochai was sitting: "Although I've been so sick these days that I can't get out of bed, but I heard that my father's illness is getting worse, and I can't stop worrying. I want to go to my father's bedside to fulfill my filial piety, but I can't live up to it. My heart is anxious and painful, today I heard from my brother that my father's illness is in remission, I am happy and sad at the same time, but I don't know what's wrong."

Xue Pan laughed and said, "How can my brother not know what my sister is thinking about? My sister should relax. When you recover and your father can wake up, my brother will take you to the theater to listen to a play. Recently, an opera troupe from Beijing came to our Jinling to perform. , I heard that the rehearsal drama is very good, if my sister doesn't like to listen to it, my brother will take you to the teahouse to listen to the opera, Tie Chi Zhang has made up a new cross talk, my brother heard people say it's really funny, it makes people's intestines go I can laugh and tie the knot."

Hearing these words, Baochai was confused and confused: "Opera troupe? What opera troupe?"

Ying'er pursed her lips and smiled: "Miss is really confused. You forgot that before the master was not sick, you were arguing to ask him to take you to the opera. After watching it, you hate that Jinling is not as good as the capital. I'm going to my uncle's house."

These words made Baochai even more confused, and rubbed his forehead: "Yinger, speak slowly, my mind is still a little dazed, and I don't understand."

Xue Pan saw that Baochai's face was pale and sickly, and he loved her more and more, and said softly: "Speaking of which, this opera was brought by the missions from various countries to Beijing during Lord Kangxi's time. It was only after a few foreign countries entered into business with us in the Qing Dynasty that a large opera house was built in the capital, and there were several famous opera troupes. They sang and danced, but it was different from our operas, and other places followed suit. , up to now, there are people from the foreign school who are even more pushy."

As soon as Xue Pan's words came out, Baochai's heart turned into a turmoil. She knew about this during the Kangxi period, but in her previous life, she did not have any missions from various countries to Beijing. There is also God Youdi, really...

She saw that the Xue family was still the Xue family, she was still the same as in her previous life, and her brother hadn't changed at all, but the outside world had changed a lot.

Baochai was already extremely intelligent, and the more she thought about it, the more frightened she became. How could she live in this changed world?

She was thinking yesterday that she has the memory of her previous life, and she knew that according to the events in her memory, she would seek good fortune and avoid evil, and she would never end up in the same fate as her previous life. Trembling.

She didn't know if she had a dream and dreamed of many very similar things, or if she was in a dream now, Zhuang Zhouxiao dreamed of butterflies, and she was in the same situation now.

"younger sister?"

Xue Pan saw Baochai sitting dumbfounded, so he pushed her worriedly: "Is there something wrong with my sister, my brother will ask the doctor to come and see for you."

After finishing speaking, Xue Pan hurried out, and Baochai hurried to stop him: "Brother, I'm fine, I'm just fascinated by thinking about things."