[Red Mansion] A little chef came to the Grand View Garden

I heard that Mrs. Wang went to Yihong Courtyard in person and looked at the maids and maids. Baoyu was the first to panic.

When Baoyu came back from the outside, he heard a message from his mother-in-law at the second gate, saying that she called Miss Qingwen's sister-in-law from Yihong courtyard to lead Qingwen out.

When he arrived at Yihong Courtyard, Baoyu saw Mrs. Wang sitting in the room and ignored Baoyu.

Qingwen had been ill for several days, and she was weak at the moment. Mrs. Wang ordered someone to drag her out of her room, and she was escorted out by two women.

Seeing that Mrs. Wang was furious with thunder, Baoyu didn't dare to say a word or move a step.Watching Qingwen being dragged out, she couldn't say a word. ①In addition to Qingwen, Mrs. Wang immediately asked who had instigated Baoyu and asked Liu Wuer to serve in the garden.

"I heard that that girl looks a lot like Qingwen. Fortunately, that girl is already dying of illness. If she stays in this yard, it will be a complete disaster."

When the attackers saw Mrs. Wang's question, they all lowered their heads and dared not answer.

An old lady serving in the garden pointed out Fang Guan, "If you go back to Madam, this is Fang Guan and Yeluxiongnu."

Seeing this, Mrs. Wang sneered and said: "The girls who sing opera are all vixens. Last time I let you go, you were too lazy to go out, but you should keep your own place. But you have become a master and played tricks, instigating Baoyu to do everything." ② Fangguan smiled and argued, "I didn't instigate anything."

Mrs. Wang was furious, she slapped the case hard with her right hand, not knowing that the case was made of red sandalwood, she hurt herself uncontrollably with the slap.Fortunately, Mrs. Wang was able to bear it and stiffened her face. Others only felt that she was angry and hurt.

When the pain was over, Mrs. Wang ordered all the godmothers of Fangguan and others to be called, and only said that girls among the twelve officials were not allowed to stay in the garden, so that each of them should be taken by their godmothers. Go out and marry yourself.

When Mrs. Wang was furious, Baoyu didn't dare to say a word, but moved one more step. It was not until Mrs. Wang left that she shed a few painful tears.

In the evening, Baoyu steadied the crowd and came to the rear corner door alone, begging an old woman to take her to Qingwen's house to have a look.The woman refused in every possible way at first, so Baoyu had to stuff some money, and then the woman took him away.

When he arrived at Qingwen's aunt's brother's house, Baoyu ordered the woman to put a whistle at the gate of the courtyard. He lifted the curtain slightly to go in, but he heard a clear female voice inside, which was Liu Mei's voice.

"Sister Qingwen, the doctor has already said it, but you were the one who contracted the wind and cold before, and you had almost diverged, but in the end you encountered such a thing, so you were depressed. Your illness looks like It won't get better for a while..."

Baoyu couldn't help but want to cough, and reminded Liu Mei-how can someone treat a serious patient like this?

He lifted the curtain a little and looked into the room.

I saw that the room was tidy, and Qingwen could vaguely be seen covered with a half-new mattress, but it could be seen that the starch was very clean.There was a set of white porcelain teapots and bowls on the table, and beside it was a small stove with water beeping on it.And Liu Mei sat on a small bamboo chair, with her back to Baoyu.

"...But sister Qingwen, to be honest, you are not sick at all, you are just embarrassing yourself. You have been tossing like this today, but you still refuse to use rice soup for medicine. Do you really want to Get mad at yourself!"

On the other side, Qingwen finally cried out loudly, and said for a long time: "Mei'er, I, I... just can't swallow this breath..."

Then there was a loud cough.

Baoyu listened outside, feeling her heart was coughed out by Qingwen.

Who knows that Qingwen coughed for a long time, and choked out a sentence: "This is really... I am not reconciled to death. Although I have a slightly better life than others, I have never seduced Baoyu. How can I be a vixen? I am a vixen. Infatuated and foolish, I only said that everyone is in the same place anyway. But now, but now..." ③ Baoyu listened outside, tears pouring out of his eyes, and he almost sighed.

But Liu Mei's voice came out again: "Since you are not reconciled, you shouldn't always think about death. Since you believe that you are innocent, you should show your innocence to the world. Sister Qingwen, I have always thought you are a proud person. Damn, I didn't expect you to be just a fake arrogance."

"Besides, Bao Erye has such a temperament. When did you see that he has really taken responsibility? When things come to an end, it's just a word for 'hidden'. You hear him criticize economic articles all day long, but he always says that he is 'Lu' "Beetle", in fact, "monarch, minister, father and son" is the most important thing for him. Just because of the word "filial piety", he dared not say anything in front of his wife today. You put all your infatuation and stupidity on him early in the morning? Hehe... ..."

Liu Mei didn't know that Baoyu was eavesdropping outside, so she concluded forcefully: "It's really blind."

One sentence shocked the world, and shocked Qingwen, who was lying inside, and Baoyu, who was eavesdropping outside.

After a long time, Baoyu began to sob and cry in a low voice outside.

When Liu Mei heard this, she lifted the curtain, and came out to look with a cold face. Seeing Baoyu crying like that, she knew that she had spoken too seriously, but she was speechless at last. With a sigh, she closed the curtain and turned around.

Baoyu knew that she didn't want him to see Qingwen again, but he knew that Liu Mei was reliable, and with her here to take care of Qingwen, he could finally rest assured.

Liu Mei was at Qingwen's place, and when there was silence outside, knowing that Baoyu had gone, she came to comfort Qingwen again, fed her soup and medicine, and gave her a small jar of rice soup, letting her eat some liquid food to get some nutrition.Afterwards, Liu Mei asked Qingwen to take care of Gu Qingwen, and came out by herself, and gave Qingwen's sister-in-law two slings of money, and told her to take care of Gu Qingwen, and come back tomorrow by herself.

After leaving Qingwen, Liu Mei went to see Fangguan.

Fangguan is now living with his godmother, Mrs. He. Liu Mei has already visited her earlier, and agreed with her that Liu Mei will be under the wall, imitating two cat meows, and hearing two sounds from inside, she will know that she is right. Numbered.

After a while, I saw Fangguan's head protruding from the courtyard wall.

"Have you discussed with Ou Guan and the others?" Liu Mei asked in a low voice.

"It's been discussed, and everyone has agreed—I've been tired of this place for a long time, this time we must make our own decisions and fight for ourselves." Fang Guan frowned, looking at Liu Mei from the top of the wall.

"It's just that this time, I'm afraid I won't be able to see Aunt Liu in person, so I'll say goodbye to her old man." Fang Guan thought about Mother Liu, and felt very reluctance and regret.

"Mei'er, I'm so stupid, thank you for still being willing to teach me the craft—"

She lowered her head again, looked at Liu Mei and smiled.

At this point, Liu Mei also felt very heavy in her heart, she couldn't help but stretched out her hand, and Fang Guan also stretched out her hand from above.The two little girls touched with their fingertips.

There seemed to be some movement in the courtyard, Fang Guan only glanced at Liu Mei, and quickly climbed down.Then the courtyard became silent.

Liu Mei knew that after tonight, she might not have the chance to see Fang Guan again.But she also knew that this might be the only chance for Fangguan and others, so she could only pray secretly, hoping that they had a safe journey.

At this time, the gate of the Grand View Garden was already closed.Liu Mei had greeted Chen's aunt in advance, saying that she had something to do tonight and would go to her place to spend the night.When they arrived at Chen's house, Liu Wu'er got up from her sick body, and tremblingly asked about how the wife in the garden had sent everyone in Yihong Courtyard today.

Liu Mei relayed what happened in the garden to Wu'er.

When Liu Wu'er heard that Qingwen was expelled, Fangguan and others were expelled, she was not moved at all, but she heard that Mrs. Wang had mentioned herself, saying that it was fortunate that Wu'er was dying of illness, otherwise she would be a complete loser. the scourge.

When Wu'er heard this, his expression finally changed, he was dazed for a while, turned his back, and slowly turned back.

Liu Mei only watched the elder sister slowly enter the room as if she lost her soul, bent over and fell on the couch, after a while, the mattress under her face was wet.

This Wu'er should finally be able to see clearly what kind of place is in the garden, and finally give up the idea of ​​clinging to wealth and honor!

The next day, another news broke out in the mansion. Among the little opera singers expelled from the Grand View Garden by Mrs. Wang yesterday, there were three Fangguan, Ouguan, Ruiguan, and they were looking for life and death, as long as they cut off their hair and became aunts.Mrs. Wang agreed to Yuantong, the abbot of Shuiyue Temple, and took the three of them to become monks.

Yuantong was overjoyed, thinking he had seduced three young girls back to work, he immediately thanked Mrs. Wang, and took the three of them back.But he didn't expect that the three of them fled together on the way. Yuantong searched for half a day, but he couldn't find him, so he felt bad luck.

What's worse is that before the three escaped, they also stole the release document that Mrs. Wang had given to Yuantong.After Yuantong returned to the nunnery, he led people to search secretly, but there was no trace of him.He knew that these three people had already made preparations before they came out, and outsiders had made plans for them to stay after they came out, etc. Otherwise, it would be impossible to escape so cleanly.

This is later.

That day, Liu Mei got up early in the morning, and sneaked back to the small kitchen when no one was guarding the gate of the garden, and made a fuss about it.Seeing that there was nothing to do in the garden, she asked her mother to prepare the breakfast in the garden, then sneaked out by herself and went straight to Qingwen's brother and sister-in-law.

It was still early when she arrived.Liu Mei went straight in, only to find that the room where she personally took care of Qingwen last night was empty.

Liu Mei was taken aback, turned around and was about to ask someone, when she bumped into Qingwen's useless uncle and cousin, nicknamed "Duohun Chong".Duohunchong got some money from Liu Mei last night, got drunk and was not fully awake yet.

When he heard Liu Mei ask Qingwen, he waved his hand and said, "It's dead!"

Liu Mei naturally refused to believe it, so she grabbed Duohun Chong by the collar, lifted it up, and asked sharply, "It was fine last night, why didn't it disappear?"

She had a lot of strength in her arms, but Duohunchong, a drunkard, couldn't break free at all. She was pushed against the wall by Liu Mei, and sat down limply on the ground.

"It's gone, it's gone," he sat on the ground, belched full of alcohol, and raised his eyes blankly, "Why did I lie to you?"

"Where is she?" Liu Mei couldn't see a person when she was born, and she couldn't see a corpse when she died, so how can I believe that there are so many gossips in her mouth.

Duohunchong got drunk, waved his hands and said, "I went to Lahua Renchang in the morning. The old people said that my daughter died of tuberculosis, so I must not stay longer."

Liu Mei murmured, she knew how stupid she was, she couldn't ask any more questions here, so she immediately turned around and was about to go out, thinking of finding a neighbor to ask for clarification.

"Hey, Miss Liu," only heard an incomparably charming voice at the door, "I really didn't expect that such a useless drunk as our leader could also be favored by such a delicate and big girl like you."

Liu Mei turned her head, and saw a young daughter-in-law in red standing at the door, she was pretty, her eyebrows turned, and there was a mocking smile in her eyes, looking at Liu Mei.

Liu Mei knew that she was such a nasty daughter-in-law, that beautiful and affectionate girl Deng.

The author has something to say: The three places marked in the text are the original text, with deletions, about 200 words.I remember all the places where I quoted the original text, and I will make up a small theater for you in the future.