Mrs. Wang just took the medicine and fell asleep, but for some reason, she didn't fall asleep.
As soon as Lin Daiyu and others entered the yard, Mrs. Wang heard the voice and got up.As soon as Xue Baochai opened the door, Mrs. Wang saw Lin Daiyu.Compared with before, Lin Daiyu has become a little more outstanding, and her whole body is full of water and spirit. Because she just gave birth to her eldest son, she is a little rounder than before, not as weak as before.But the more so, the more glaring Madam Wang felt.
Xue Baochai said softly, "Mother, Daiyu has come to the mansion to see you."
Mrs. Wang chuckled twice, her eyes were sharp and hard like nails, as if she no longer knew Lin Daiyu.
Seeing Mrs. Wang's appearance, Lin Daiyu took another step back, feeling a little apprehensive.But in the end, she mustered up her courage, took two steps forward, and called softly, "Auntie."
Mrs. Wang's gaze became more and more stern, and at the end, she suddenly burst out laughing.
"Daiyu, Princess Beijing." Mrs. Wang's voice was so sharp that it made people feel scared, "So the princess still remembers the Rongguo Mansion. I thought that the princess and the nobles are so forgetful that they have forgotten all of us. What's the matter? Now you come to the mansion to see our jokes?"
Lin Daiyu felt a little sad, and called Mrs. Wang out of nowhere.
Xue Baochai froze for a moment, and said, "Mother, you..." Are you sick again?
But at this time, Xue Baochai did not dare to provoke Mrs. Wang, so she gently pulled Lin Daiyu's sleeve.
Lin Daiyu didn't understand, so she followed Xue Baochai back two steps, and heard Mrs. Wang shouting sharply: "Why didn't you help us back then, why didn't you help us! You are the princess, go and tell them not to investigate any more. They will definitely listen. Why don't you help us, why!" At the end, the voice became hoarse.
Xue Baochai called her mother, and persuaded: "How can Daiyu do what even the eldest sister can't do?" Not to mention that Lin Daiyu was pregnant at the time, and she was no longer in the capital.Xue Baochai looked at Lin Daiyu and then Mrs. Wang in the middle of speaking, feeling absurd for the first time in his heart.It was also the first time in his life that Xue Baochai really felt that Mrs. Wang was unconscious.
Madam Wang screamed, "Nonsense!"
The two maids stood in front of Lin Daiyu and looked at Mrs. Wang defensively.
Madam Wang pointed to the two maids again and said, "You, you..."
Seeing this, Xue Baochai knew that Mrs. Wang was already immersed in her own world and could not listen to their words. She pulled Lin Daiyu again and said softly, "Let's go out." If something happens to Lin Daiyu here, they will I can't afford to offend the King of Beijing.
The two maids also persuaded Lin Daiyu: "The princess should go out."
Lin Daiyu hesitated for a moment, nodded, and said softly: "In that case, please ask Auntie to have a good rest." Immediately, she followed Xue Baochai, Li Wan, and two maids out of the yard.Xue Baochai was the last to leave.She closed the door for Mrs. Wang, then turned around and looked at Lin Daiyu.
"Frowning." Xue Baochai called Lin Daiyu's small characters, "What do you think?"
Lin Daiyu shook her head, recalling the scene she just saw.Mrs. Wang's eyes were miserable and harsh, and her voice was also miserable and harsh, as if she was about to eat her.Even though she had lived in Rongguo Mansion for a while, she was no stranger to Mrs. Wang, the way Mrs. Wang looked just now made Lin Daiyu suddenly think that she no longer knew her.
"I heard from you the day before yesterday that my second aunt was very ill." Lin Daiyu sighed, "At that time, I was still thinking that no matter how serious the illness was, let the doctor come to see it, and then take some medicine, and it should be fine. Yes. But now, the second aunt's heart disease is really serious. Just now she said..." She also said, "You are the princess, you go and tell them not to investigate anymore, they will definitely listen .”
Although she didn't know who the "they" were in Mrs. Wang's mouth, Lin Daiyu guessed that the downfall of the Rongguo Mansion was inseparable.
But Lin Daiyu thought, she is an ordinary princess, except for reciting poems and painting, she rarely even goes out to her boudoir, so if Mrs. Wang asks herself to find "them", who can she go to?There are so many people in Rongguo Mansion, the eldest uncle, the second uncle, two cousins, several cousins, Xue Baochai who has always been praised by everyone, and even Mrs. Wang herself, are useless. What can a princess do? ?
Unless it is to beg the King of Beijing, please ask the King of Beijing to come forward.
But this is impossible.
Lin Daiyu was sad for a while, and then heard Xue Baochai whisper: "Okay, don't make things difficult anymore. This day will not pass in a day or two. Take it slowly, and one day you will pass it. Now I just hope that that day will not come for too long. Frown." Xue Baochai suddenly looked at Lin Daiyu and suggested, "There is nothing interesting in this mansion anyway, how about we go to the Grand View Garden?"
There is nothing interesting in this mansion, these few words seem like a world away.
Lin Daiyu subconsciously said: "Okay."
Seeing Lin Daiyu's consent, Xue Baochai sent someone to tell Jia Zheng and Jia Baoyu, and then went with Li Wan and Lin Daiyu to the Grand View Garden next door.Baoqin, Sheyue, and the maids brought by Lin Daiyu from the Beijing Palace all followed from a distance, not daring to disturb them.
When Lin Daiyu came to visit them two days ago, she had already visited the Grand View Garden once.This time again, there are some regrets.
Xue Baochai stayed in the garden for a while, then sighed, "I haven't been here for a long time."
During this period of time, troubles occurred in the Rongguo Mansion almost every day. Mrs. Wang was making trouble in the mansion every day. Jia Zheng, Jia Baoyu and Jia Lan were usually ignorant of things except for their studies.Although Li Wan occasionally took care of things, the burden of the family was basically on Xue Baochai alone.Even if Xue Baochai has some ability, after a long time, she still can't do what she wants.
Lin Daiyu lowered her head, looked at the small stones in front of her, and some ruined little flowers, and remembered what Mrs. Wang said just now.
Xue Baochai and the others walked in the garden together, looking at the dilapidated scene around them, unknowingly, they felt as if they had passed away.She remembered that in the Grand View Garden in the past, the girls were laughing and making noise, reciting poems, composing lyrics, warming wine, painting, and making poems... But now the girls are married, the deceased is deceased, and the two in front of her are also the same. It is completely different from before.
Not things, not people.
Xue Baochai stood still for a while, and for some reason, a thought in her heart became more and more intense: she wanted to recite poems and paint paintings in the Grand View Garden with Lin Daiyu, Tanchun, Xichun and others like she did when she was a girl in the past. There was laughter in the Grand View Garden.Even for a day.
She looked at the desolate and empty Grand View Garden, then at Lin Daiyu and Li Wan, and suddenly suggested tentatively, "Why don't we make a fuss in the Grand View Garden like before, okay? I haven't been back to Beijing for nearly a year." Well, we don't have any big banquets to hold at home, so if we make a fuss in the Grand View Garden, it will be regarded as a cleansing."
When Li Wan heard this idea, he nodded in agreement, and looked at Lin Daiyu together with Xue Baochai.
Lin Daiyu was immersed in Mrs. Wang's words just now, and she didn't come back to her senses for a long time.Hearing Xue Baochai's proposal, she was stunned for a moment, and then asked: "Here?" She looked at the surrounding scenery, and hesitated, "I'm afraid it won't work here?"
Xue Baochai sighed, "I just want to keep it in mind."
Thinking of the word touched the softest part of Lin Daiyu's heart.She also remembered the time when the girls laughed together in the Grand View Garden.At that time, none of them were married, and they were heartless. Apart from reciting poems and painting every day, they had no worries.But now... Lin Daiyu couldn't help sighing again when she thought of the poetry club in the Grand View Garden, her flower hoe and her poems.
After a while, I heard Xue Baochai say again: "The number of girls who are still in the capital is only five or five. It just happened to come back to Beijing, and today I have a free time. You might as well take this opportunity to call all your former playmates." Go to the Grand View Garden and have a good get-together. Frown." Xue Baochai looked at Lin Daiyu with dazed eyes, and said softly, "Frown, how about it?"
Lin Daiyu was taken aback.
Li Wan laughed at the side and said, "This idea is actually very good. I haven't seen the girls in Qianer's Mansion for a long time. It's also great to take this opportunity to meet each other. It just so happens that Daiyu is here, why not?" So in Daiyu's name, I wrote this post, inviting them to come to the garden. Let's clean up another yard, Daiyu." She also looked at Lin Daiyu with expectant eyes.
Under the gaze of the two, Lin Daiyu could no longer say any words of rejection.
After a long time, Lin Daiyu nodded lightly and said hello.
Immediately, the three of them found an intact yard, called the maids and maids from behind, cleaned up the dust in the yard, and straightened the tables and chairs. A clean place.Taking advantage of this spare time, Lin Daiyu, Xue Baochai, and Li Wan grabbed pens and wrote a few posts according to the address and habits of the year.
Now Jia Yingchun is married, and Shi Xiangyun is also married. Jia Xichun went back to his hometown in Jinling the day before yesterday. Lin Daiyu thought about it for a while, and only wrote one about Tanchun and one about Wang Xifeng, and someone gave it away.When writing to the end, Lin Daiyu asked: "Where are Qingwen and Xiren?"
Qingwen and Xiren, would you like to come over and have a look?
There are also Zijuan and Xueyan, the maids who were serving in front of me that day, do you want to invite them over?
Xue Baochai and Li Wan looked at each other, and Xue Baochai said: "Xi Ren just told me on leave half a month ago, saying that he was going back to his hometown, but he hasn't come back yet. Qingwen was ill for half a month, and now she is still recuperating next door. I asked Someone call her here." Then, Xue Baochai sent someone to the Rongguo Mansion next door, and called Qingwen and Sheyue into the garden.
Qingwen's illness has been intermittent for two or three years now.
Xueyan found a doctor for her a few times, and took some medicine for her, but it was not all right.
Lin Daiyu pondered for a while, wrote a few names on the post, and tore off two more.Li Wan just said that these people on the post are either not in the capital, or they are gone.Lin Daiyu thought for a while, put down her pen, sent people back home, and called Zijuan and Xueyan over.In the past two years, Zijuan and Xueyan have grown older, one is married, the other is waiting to be married, and they are not serving Lin Daiyu.
In the afternoon, Qingwen, Sheyue, Zijuan, Xueyan and others came to the Grand View Garden together.
When Lin Daiyu saw Qingwen's appearance, she was sick and a little sad.She asked Qingwen, knowing that Xueyan was probably helping them these years, and she realized something in her heart.Although Xueyan is a servant girl of Prince Jing's Mansion, the monthly money is not enough.It should be Jiang Ling from the palace, who also helped a lot.At the beginning, Lin Daiyu also helped some, but after she became pregnant, she handed over the matter to Xueyan.
Musk Moon is still the same as before, but nothing has changed.
Zijuan is ready to get married and is preparing her wedding dress at home. Xueyan is getting older, but she has never found a good family.A few days after Lin Daiyu came back, they went to visit Lin Daiyu.But now, it was the first time in more than two years that they met Xue Baochai and Li Wan, as well as some past playmates.When several people meet, it is inevitable that they will have a lot to say.
The maids tidied up the yard just now, and moved a lot of things temporarily to set up a clean place.Although it still looks very simple, it already has a bit of the old days.After Lin Daiyu finished writing the post, she, together with Xue Baochai and Li Wan, chatted some gossip with the maids of the past.Halfway through the talk, Jia Baoyu next door couldn't sit still anymore, and asked Jia Zheng for leave, and also ran to the Grand View Garden, and happily helped them make tea and hot wine, which looked a bit like before.
Lin Daiyu watched all this quietly, for some reason, she felt a little bit back to the past.
But no matter what, this person, after all, is not enough.After a while, Wang Xifeng and Jia Tanchun came to the Grand View Garden together, and Xue Baochai went to the front to greet them in person.At the gate of the Grand View Garden, when Wang Xifeng and Jia Tanchun met, both of them coughed lightly.At the beginning, Wang Xifeng, Jia Tanchun, and Xue Baochai also had trouble for a while.It would be a little embarrassing to meet now.
But Xue Baochai looked normal, and welcomed Wang Xifeng and Jia Tanchun in.
Wang Xifeng and Jia Tanchun hadn't been in the garden for more than half a year, and Luo Chenhuan hadn't been in the garden.When they left half a year ago, the garden was in ruins.Compared with half a year ago, the current garden looks much dilapidated.They followed Xue Baochai all the way without saying a word, and when they entered the courtyard that had just been tidied up, they felt a little bright in front of their eyes.
Just now at Jia She's side, Lin Daiyu met Wang Xifeng.Seeing you again now, I can't help but feel a little sad.
While Lin Daiyu was exchanging greetings with Wang Xifeng, Jia Tanchun quietly moved to Li Wan's side, lowered his voice and asked, "Sister-in-law, why did you remember calling us all into the garden today? Was it Daiyu's idea? "
Lin Daiyu's signature was written on the post just now, so Jia Tanchun thought so.
Li Wan hesitated for a moment, and wanted to mention Xue Baochai's name, but for some reason, he nodded silently.
Two small stoves have been set up in the yard, slowly boiling tea and a pot of wine.There is no good wine or tea in Rongguo Mansion now, but the most common ten-year-old daughter red and the most common Pu'er.Xue Baochai volunteered to go to the front to make tea, and Li Wan took Jia Lan to write poems with Jia Tanchun and others before the case.Wang Xifeng and Sheyue were playing chess in the yard, while Qingwen was watching them under the tree, her expression seemed to be lost in memory, and she seemed to be a little sad.
Xueyan and Zicuckoo, who were not so sad, walked around the Grand View Garden together.
Lin Daiyu spread out the letter paper and dipped the ink with a wolf brush, but she couldn't write a poem no matter what.Many things from the early years flooded into my heart at the same time, and then faded away like a tide, washing away those memories of the past, leaving nothing behind.
The tip of the pen trembled slightly, and a drop of ink fell on the white paper, which gradually melted away.
It seems that there are thousands of words to say, but there is nothing to say.
Jia Baoyu waited for a long time, but before Lin Daiyu could write a poem, he rolled up his sleeves and said, "Let me come first."
For the first time in her life, instead of arguing with Jia Baoyu, Lin Daiyu gave up the place, and leaned against a big tree by herself, together with Qingwen, lost in thought.Jia Baoyu didn't notice Lin Daiyu's sentimentality. After folding up his sleeves, he picked up a pen, pondered for a while, and wrote a poem on the white paper.
At the beginning, Jia Zheng once accused him that the poems and words were too fat and powdery, so he asked him to correct them.
Now that the pen is being written, Jia Baoyu wants to regain his original xinxing, but finds that he can't get it back no matter what.In the past two years or so, he has experienced too many things, or maybe it is Mrs. Wang's illness, which also made him feel heavy in his heart.When I wrote again, the previous powdery smell faded away, and instead added a bit of heavy meaning.Jia Baoyu wrote and wrote, revised and revised, but still couldn't change what he wanted, so he threw away the pen in annoyance, and prepared to go to the side to brew poetry.
It happened that Xue Baochai came over to make a pot of tea, saw that Jia Baoyu had written half of the poem, and completed it for him.
Jia Baoyu stared at Xue Baochai. Xue Baochai poured him a cup of tea slowly, and then slowly echoed a new poem. Finally, holding a cup of tea, Xue Baochai went to the side to watch Wang Xifeng play chess.
Wang Xifeng's chess skills are actually not very good.The Musk Moon is not good either.
The two of them are playing chess here, just to save some embarrassment.
Xue Baochai watched their game for a while, but she kept her style of watching the chess without saying a word, not even saying a word.When Wang Xifeng got down to the end, he let out a light breath and said, "I'll go find some wine." Then she got up and gave up her seat.Xue Baochai was taken aback for a moment, and then softly called Lian's second sister-in-law again.
Wang Xifeng stopped in her tracks, looked at Xue Baochai, and called back siblings.
Last time Wang Xifeng returned to the mansion, Xue Baochai and Li Wan were alone, which was not so embarrassing; now that Jia Tanchun, Jia Baoyu and others are there, she unconsciously feels a little embarrassed.Just as he was hesitating, he suddenly heard Li Wan over there laughing and saying, "Baoyu, Baochai, come here and have a look at the new poems of the third girl."
Suddenly, it seemed that something hard and cold shattered with a bang.
Jia Baoyu and Xue Baochai responded, and went to Jia Tanchun and Li Wan to read Jia Tanchun's poems.Jia Tanchun took two steps back a little later, and let them look at him graciously. The embarrassment on his expression just now disappeared without a trace.Lin Daiyu pondered for a while under the tree, and felt that it was almost done, and went back to the case just now, and wrote a little poem with a brush, which was as clever as before.Wang Xifeng simply pushed Lin Daiyu and asked her and Jia Tanchun to compose another song with the same theme, causing another laugh.
Li Wan looked at them with a smile for a long time, and suddenly sighed a little: "It's been a long time since it was so lively."
The people around seemed to agree with her words, and it was the same as before. The wine was hotly boiled, the tea was boiled, the flower swabs were taken and the drums were played to give orders. To rhyme one by one.The few of them gave way for a long time, but in the end, Jia Baoyu used the most wine, was poured glass after glass, and finally got a little drunk.
Because Lin Daiyu was going back home, she just touched her lips lightly, which was of no use.
Wang Xifeng and Jia Tanchun did not dare to be too presumptuous due to similar reasons.So is Li Wan.But Xue Baochai seemed to have become a lot more presumptuous, cup after cup, as if to vent all the sadness of the past two years on this day.And those maidservants were also a lot more presumptuous than before, not only pushing and shoving one after another, but also joking with each other.
The Grand View Garden, which was dilapidated and defeated, finally had a little life.
They quarreled in the garden for a whole afternoon, until finally the sun went down and gradually faded away the last twilight, and then they went back to the mansion respectively.Wang Xifeng and Jia Tanchun were sent back by Lin Daiyu respectively.Xue Baochai, Li Wan, Jia Baoyu and others also returned to their homes.Lin Daiyu also went back with them, bid farewell to Jia Zheng and Mrs. Wang outside the house, and then left.
When leaving, Xue Baochai seemed to hesitate to speak, but said nothing.
Baoqin also looked at Lin Daiyu from a distance, and wanted to go forward, but after taking two steps, she stopped again.
Lin Daiyu took Zicuckoo and Snow Goose into the carriage of Prince Jing's Palace.Before leaving, Lin Daiyu also left some medicinal materials for them to use.Xue Baochai and Li Wan both thanked you.
The carriage drove towards the Beijing Palace.
The sun was setting slowly, and the dim red afterglow shone on the ground, giving off a sense of endless desolation.
Lin Daiyu raised the curtain of the car and took a last look at Jia's mansion. It was still as quiet as before. Xue Baochai, Jia Baoyu and Li Wan all stood there looking at her, feeling a little desolate.The Grand View Garden, which had been bustling just now, suddenly became quiet, and the dilapidated scene of the past was restored.Gradually, even the last trace of their figures could not be seen.
Lin Daiyu looked at it, then suddenly lowered her head, a little sad.
Zijuan and Xueyan persuaded: "If the girl wants to come in the future, she can come often."
After being persuaded by them for a while, Lin Daiyu gradually calmed down.She opened the curtain again and looked outside.Both the Jia Mansion and the Grand View Garden were no longer visible, and the last ray of the setting sun had faded away, slowly sinking.
As soon as Lin Daiyu and others entered the yard, Mrs. Wang heard the voice and got up.As soon as Xue Baochai opened the door, Mrs. Wang saw Lin Daiyu.Compared with before, Lin Daiyu has become a little more outstanding, and her whole body is full of water and spirit. Because she just gave birth to her eldest son, she is a little rounder than before, not as weak as before.But the more so, the more glaring Madam Wang felt.
Xue Baochai said softly, "Mother, Daiyu has come to the mansion to see you."
Mrs. Wang chuckled twice, her eyes were sharp and hard like nails, as if she no longer knew Lin Daiyu.
Seeing Mrs. Wang's appearance, Lin Daiyu took another step back, feeling a little apprehensive.But in the end, she mustered up her courage, took two steps forward, and called softly, "Auntie."
Mrs. Wang's gaze became more and more stern, and at the end, she suddenly burst out laughing.
"Daiyu, Princess Beijing." Mrs. Wang's voice was so sharp that it made people feel scared, "So the princess still remembers the Rongguo Mansion. I thought that the princess and the nobles are so forgetful that they have forgotten all of us. What's the matter? Now you come to the mansion to see our jokes?"
Lin Daiyu felt a little sad, and called Mrs. Wang out of nowhere.
Xue Baochai froze for a moment, and said, "Mother, you..." Are you sick again?
But at this time, Xue Baochai did not dare to provoke Mrs. Wang, so she gently pulled Lin Daiyu's sleeve.
Lin Daiyu didn't understand, so she followed Xue Baochai back two steps, and heard Mrs. Wang shouting sharply: "Why didn't you help us back then, why didn't you help us! You are the princess, go and tell them not to investigate any more. They will definitely listen. Why don't you help us, why!" At the end, the voice became hoarse.
Xue Baochai called her mother, and persuaded: "How can Daiyu do what even the eldest sister can't do?" Not to mention that Lin Daiyu was pregnant at the time, and she was no longer in the capital.Xue Baochai looked at Lin Daiyu and then Mrs. Wang in the middle of speaking, feeling absurd for the first time in his heart.It was also the first time in his life that Xue Baochai really felt that Mrs. Wang was unconscious.
Madam Wang screamed, "Nonsense!"
The two maids stood in front of Lin Daiyu and looked at Mrs. Wang defensively.
Madam Wang pointed to the two maids again and said, "You, you..."
Seeing this, Xue Baochai knew that Mrs. Wang was already immersed in her own world and could not listen to their words. She pulled Lin Daiyu again and said softly, "Let's go out." If something happens to Lin Daiyu here, they will I can't afford to offend the King of Beijing.
The two maids also persuaded Lin Daiyu: "The princess should go out."
Lin Daiyu hesitated for a moment, nodded, and said softly: "In that case, please ask Auntie to have a good rest." Immediately, she followed Xue Baochai, Li Wan, and two maids out of the yard.Xue Baochai was the last to leave.She closed the door for Mrs. Wang, then turned around and looked at Lin Daiyu.
"Frowning." Xue Baochai called Lin Daiyu's small characters, "What do you think?"
Lin Daiyu shook her head, recalling the scene she just saw.Mrs. Wang's eyes were miserable and harsh, and her voice was also miserable and harsh, as if she was about to eat her.Even though she had lived in Rongguo Mansion for a while, she was no stranger to Mrs. Wang, the way Mrs. Wang looked just now made Lin Daiyu suddenly think that she no longer knew her.
"I heard from you the day before yesterday that my second aunt was very ill." Lin Daiyu sighed, "At that time, I was still thinking that no matter how serious the illness was, let the doctor come to see it, and then take some medicine, and it should be fine. Yes. But now, the second aunt's heart disease is really serious. Just now she said..." She also said, "You are the princess, you go and tell them not to investigate anymore, they will definitely listen .”
Although she didn't know who the "they" were in Mrs. Wang's mouth, Lin Daiyu guessed that the downfall of the Rongguo Mansion was inseparable.
But Lin Daiyu thought, she is an ordinary princess, except for reciting poems and painting, she rarely even goes out to her boudoir, so if Mrs. Wang asks herself to find "them", who can she go to?There are so many people in Rongguo Mansion, the eldest uncle, the second uncle, two cousins, several cousins, Xue Baochai who has always been praised by everyone, and even Mrs. Wang herself, are useless. What can a princess do? ?
Unless it is to beg the King of Beijing, please ask the King of Beijing to come forward.
But this is impossible.
Lin Daiyu was sad for a while, and then heard Xue Baochai whisper: "Okay, don't make things difficult anymore. This day will not pass in a day or two. Take it slowly, and one day you will pass it. Now I just hope that that day will not come for too long. Frown." Xue Baochai suddenly looked at Lin Daiyu and suggested, "There is nothing interesting in this mansion anyway, how about we go to the Grand View Garden?"
There is nothing interesting in this mansion, these few words seem like a world away.
Lin Daiyu subconsciously said: "Okay."
Seeing Lin Daiyu's consent, Xue Baochai sent someone to tell Jia Zheng and Jia Baoyu, and then went with Li Wan and Lin Daiyu to the Grand View Garden next door.Baoqin, Sheyue, and the maids brought by Lin Daiyu from the Beijing Palace all followed from a distance, not daring to disturb them.
When Lin Daiyu came to visit them two days ago, she had already visited the Grand View Garden once.This time again, there are some regrets.
Xue Baochai stayed in the garden for a while, then sighed, "I haven't been here for a long time."
During this period of time, troubles occurred in the Rongguo Mansion almost every day. Mrs. Wang was making trouble in the mansion every day. Jia Zheng, Jia Baoyu and Jia Lan were usually ignorant of things except for their studies.Although Li Wan occasionally took care of things, the burden of the family was basically on Xue Baochai alone.Even if Xue Baochai has some ability, after a long time, she still can't do what she wants.
Lin Daiyu lowered her head, looked at the small stones in front of her, and some ruined little flowers, and remembered what Mrs. Wang said just now.
Xue Baochai and the others walked in the garden together, looking at the dilapidated scene around them, unknowingly, they felt as if they had passed away.She remembered that in the Grand View Garden in the past, the girls were laughing and making noise, reciting poems, composing lyrics, warming wine, painting, and making poems... But now the girls are married, the deceased is deceased, and the two in front of her are also the same. It is completely different from before.
Not things, not people.
Xue Baochai stood still for a while, and for some reason, a thought in her heart became more and more intense: she wanted to recite poems and paint paintings in the Grand View Garden with Lin Daiyu, Tanchun, Xichun and others like she did when she was a girl in the past. There was laughter in the Grand View Garden.Even for a day.
She looked at the desolate and empty Grand View Garden, then at Lin Daiyu and Li Wan, and suddenly suggested tentatively, "Why don't we make a fuss in the Grand View Garden like before, okay? I haven't been back to Beijing for nearly a year." Well, we don't have any big banquets to hold at home, so if we make a fuss in the Grand View Garden, it will be regarded as a cleansing."
When Li Wan heard this idea, he nodded in agreement, and looked at Lin Daiyu together with Xue Baochai.
Lin Daiyu was immersed in Mrs. Wang's words just now, and she didn't come back to her senses for a long time.Hearing Xue Baochai's proposal, she was stunned for a moment, and then asked: "Here?" She looked at the surrounding scenery, and hesitated, "I'm afraid it won't work here?"
Xue Baochai sighed, "I just want to keep it in mind."
Thinking of the word touched the softest part of Lin Daiyu's heart.She also remembered the time when the girls laughed together in the Grand View Garden.At that time, none of them were married, and they were heartless. Apart from reciting poems and painting every day, they had no worries.But now... Lin Daiyu couldn't help sighing again when she thought of the poetry club in the Grand View Garden, her flower hoe and her poems.
After a while, I heard Xue Baochai say again: "The number of girls who are still in the capital is only five or five. It just happened to come back to Beijing, and today I have a free time. You might as well take this opportunity to call all your former playmates." Go to the Grand View Garden and have a good get-together. Frown." Xue Baochai looked at Lin Daiyu with dazed eyes, and said softly, "Frown, how about it?"
Lin Daiyu was taken aback.
Li Wan laughed at the side and said, "This idea is actually very good. I haven't seen the girls in Qianer's Mansion for a long time. It's also great to take this opportunity to meet each other. It just so happens that Daiyu is here, why not?" So in Daiyu's name, I wrote this post, inviting them to come to the garden. Let's clean up another yard, Daiyu." She also looked at Lin Daiyu with expectant eyes.
Under the gaze of the two, Lin Daiyu could no longer say any words of rejection.
After a long time, Lin Daiyu nodded lightly and said hello.
Immediately, the three of them found an intact yard, called the maids and maids from behind, cleaned up the dust in the yard, and straightened the tables and chairs. A clean place.Taking advantage of this spare time, Lin Daiyu, Xue Baochai, and Li Wan grabbed pens and wrote a few posts according to the address and habits of the year.
Now Jia Yingchun is married, and Shi Xiangyun is also married. Jia Xichun went back to his hometown in Jinling the day before yesterday. Lin Daiyu thought about it for a while, and only wrote one about Tanchun and one about Wang Xifeng, and someone gave it away.When writing to the end, Lin Daiyu asked: "Where are Qingwen and Xiren?"
Qingwen and Xiren, would you like to come over and have a look?
There are also Zijuan and Xueyan, the maids who were serving in front of me that day, do you want to invite them over?
Xue Baochai and Li Wan looked at each other, and Xue Baochai said: "Xi Ren just told me on leave half a month ago, saying that he was going back to his hometown, but he hasn't come back yet. Qingwen was ill for half a month, and now she is still recuperating next door. I asked Someone call her here." Then, Xue Baochai sent someone to the Rongguo Mansion next door, and called Qingwen and Sheyue into the garden.
Qingwen's illness has been intermittent for two or three years now.
Xueyan found a doctor for her a few times, and took some medicine for her, but it was not all right.
Lin Daiyu pondered for a while, wrote a few names on the post, and tore off two more.Li Wan just said that these people on the post are either not in the capital, or they are gone.Lin Daiyu thought for a while, put down her pen, sent people back home, and called Zijuan and Xueyan over.In the past two years, Zijuan and Xueyan have grown older, one is married, the other is waiting to be married, and they are not serving Lin Daiyu.
In the afternoon, Qingwen, Sheyue, Zijuan, Xueyan and others came to the Grand View Garden together.
When Lin Daiyu saw Qingwen's appearance, she was sick and a little sad.She asked Qingwen, knowing that Xueyan was probably helping them these years, and she realized something in her heart.Although Xueyan is a servant girl of Prince Jing's Mansion, the monthly money is not enough.It should be Jiang Ling from the palace, who also helped a lot.At the beginning, Lin Daiyu also helped some, but after she became pregnant, she handed over the matter to Xueyan.
Musk Moon is still the same as before, but nothing has changed.
Zijuan is ready to get married and is preparing her wedding dress at home. Xueyan is getting older, but she has never found a good family.A few days after Lin Daiyu came back, they went to visit Lin Daiyu.But now, it was the first time in more than two years that they met Xue Baochai and Li Wan, as well as some past playmates.When several people meet, it is inevitable that they will have a lot to say.
The maids tidied up the yard just now, and moved a lot of things temporarily to set up a clean place.Although it still looks very simple, it already has a bit of the old days.After Lin Daiyu finished writing the post, she, together with Xue Baochai and Li Wan, chatted some gossip with the maids of the past.Halfway through the talk, Jia Baoyu next door couldn't sit still anymore, and asked Jia Zheng for leave, and also ran to the Grand View Garden, and happily helped them make tea and hot wine, which looked a bit like before.
Lin Daiyu watched all this quietly, for some reason, she felt a little bit back to the past.
But no matter what, this person, after all, is not enough.After a while, Wang Xifeng and Jia Tanchun came to the Grand View Garden together, and Xue Baochai went to the front to greet them in person.At the gate of the Grand View Garden, when Wang Xifeng and Jia Tanchun met, both of them coughed lightly.At the beginning, Wang Xifeng, Jia Tanchun, and Xue Baochai also had trouble for a while.It would be a little embarrassing to meet now.
But Xue Baochai looked normal, and welcomed Wang Xifeng and Jia Tanchun in.
Wang Xifeng and Jia Tanchun hadn't been in the garden for more than half a year, and Luo Chenhuan hadn't been in the garden.When they left half a year ago, the garden was in ruins.Compared with half a year ago, the current garden looks much dilapidated.They followed Xue Baochai all the way without saying a word, and when they entered the courtyard that had just been tidied up, they felt a little bright in front of their eyes.
Just now at Jia She's side, Lin Daiyu met Wang Xifeng.Seeing you again now, I can't help but feel a little sad.
While Lin Daiyu was exchanging greetings with Wang Xifeng, Jia Tanchun quietly moved to Li Wan's side, lowered his voice and asked, "Sister-in-law, why did you remember calling us all into the garden today? Was it Daiyu's idea? "
Lin Daiyu's signature was written on the post just now, so Jia Tanchun thought so.
Li Wan hesitated for a moment, and wanted to mention Xue Baochai's name, but for some reason, he nodded silently.
Two small stoves have been set up in the yard, slowly boiling tea and a pot of wine.There is no good wine or tea in Rongguo Mansion now, but the most common ten-year-old daughter red and the most common Pu'er.Xue Baochai volunteered to go to the front to make tea, and Li Wan took Jia Lan to write poems with Jia Tanchun and others before the case.Wang Xifeng and Sheyue were playing chess in the yard, while Qingwen was watching them under the tree, her expression seemed to be lost in memory, and she seemed to be a little sad.
Xueyan and Zicuckoo, who were not so sad, walked around the Grand View Garden together.
Lin Daiyu spread out the letter paper and dipped the ink with a wolf brush, but she couldn't write a poem no matter what.Many things from the early years flooded into my heart at the same time, and then faded away like a tide, washing away those memories of the past, leaving nothing behind.
The tip of the pen trembled slightly, and a drop of ink fell on the white paper, which gradually melted away.
It seems that there are thousands of words to say, but there is nothing to say.
Jia Baoyu waited for a long time, but before Lin Daiyu could write a poem, he rolled up his sleeves and said, "Let me come first."
For the first time in her life, instead of arguing with Jia Baoyu, Lin Daiyu gave up the place, and leaned against a big tree by herself, together with Qingwen, lost in thought.Jia Baoyu didn't notice Lin Daiyu's sentimentality. After folding up his sleeves, he picked up a pen, pondered for a while, and wrote a poem on the white paper.
At the beginning, Jia Zheng once accused him that the poems and words were too fat and powdery, so he asked him to correct them.
Now that the pen is being written, Jia Baoyu wants to regain his original xinxing, but finds that he can't get it back no matter what.In the past two years or so, he has experienced too many things, or maybe it is Mrs. Wang's illness, which also made him feel heavy in his heart.When I wrote again, the previous powdery smell faded away, and instead added a bit of heavy meaning.Jia Baoyu wrote and wrote, revised and revised, but still couldn't change what he wanted, so he threw away the pen in annoyance, and prepared to go to the side to brew poetry.
It happened that Xue Baochai came over to make a pot of tea, saw that Jia Baoyu had written half of the poem, and completed it for him.
Jia Baoyu stared at Xue Baochai. Xue Baochai poured him a cup of tea slowly, and then slowly echoed a new poem. Finally, holding a cup of tea, Xue Baochai went to the side to watch Wang Xifeng play chess.
Wang Xifeng's chess skills are actually not very good.The Musk Moon is not good either.
The two of them are playing chess here, just to save some embarrassment.
Xue Baochai watched their game for a while, but she kept her style of watching the chess without saying a word, not even saying a word.When Wang Xifeng got down to the end, he let out a light breath and said, "I'll go find some wine." Then she got up and gave up her seat.Xue Baochai was taken aback for a moment, and then softly called Lian's second sister-in-law again.
Wang Xifeng stopped in her tracks, looked at Xue Baochai, and called back siblings.
Last time Wang Xifeng returned to the mansion, Xue Baochai and Li Wan were alone, which was not so embarrassing; now that Jia Tanchun, Jia Baoyu and others are there, she unconsciously feels a little embarrassed.Just as he was hesitating, he suddenly heard Li Wan over there laughing and saying, "Baoyu, Baochai, come here and have a look at the new poems of the third girl."
Suddenly, it seemed that something hard and cold shattered with a bang.
Jia Baoyu and Xue Baochai responded, and went to Jia Tanchun and Li Wan to read Jia Tanchun's poems.Jia Tanchun took two steps back a little later, and let them look at him graciously. The embarrassment on his expression just now disappeared without a trace.Lin Daiyu pondered for a while under the tree, and felt that it was almost done, and went back to the case just now, and wrote a little poem with a brush, which was as clever as before.Wang Xifeng simply pushed Lin Daiyu and asked her and Jia Tanchun to compose another song with the same theme, causing another laugh.
Li Wan looked at them with a smile for a long time, and suddenly sighed a little: "It's been a long time since it was so lively."
The people around seemed to agree with her words, and it was the same as before. The wine was hotly boiled, the tea was boiled, the flower swabs were taken and the drums were played to give orders. To rhyme one by one.The few of them gave way for a long time, but in the end, Jia Baoyu used the most wine, was poured glass after glass, and finally got a little drunk.
Because Lin Daiyu was going back home, she just touched her lips lightly, which was of no use.
Wang Xifeng and Jia Tanchun did not dare to be too presumptuous due to similar reasons.So is Li Wan.But Xue Baochai seemed to have become a lot more presumptuous, cup after cup, as if to vent all the sadness of the past two years on this day.And those maidservants were also a lot more presumptuous than before, not only pushing and shoving one after another, but also joking with each other.
The Grand View Garden, which was dilapidated and defeated, finally had a little life.
They quarreled in the garden for a whole afternoon, until finally the sun went down and gradually faded away the last twilight, and then they went back to the mansion respectively.Wang Xifeng and Jia Tanchun were sent back by Lin Daiyu respectively.Xue Baochai, Li Wan, Jia Baoyu and others also returned to their homes.Lin Daiyu also went back with them, bid farewell to Jia Zheng and Mrs. Wang outside the house, and then left.
When leaving, Xue Baochai seemed to hesitate to speak, but said nothing.
Baoqin also looked at Lin Daiyu from a distance, and wanted to go forward, but after taking two steps, she stopped again.
Lin Daiyu took Zicuckoo and Snow Goose into the carriage of Prince Jing's Palace.Before leaving, Lin Daiyu also left some medicinal materials for them to use.Xue Baochai and Li Wan both thanked you.
The carriage drove towards the Beijing Palace.
The sun was setting slowly, and the dim red afterglow shone on the ground, giving off a sense of endless desolation.
Lin Daiyu raised the curtain of the car and took a last look at Jia's mansion. It was still as quiet as before. Xue Baochai, Jia Baoyu and Li Wan all stood there looking at her, feeling a little desolate.The Grand View Garden, which had been bustling just now, suddenly became quiet, and the dilapidated scene of the past was restored.Gradually, even the last trace of their figures could not be seen.
Lin Daiyu looked at it, then suddenly lowered her head, a little sad.
Zijuan and Xueyan persuaded: "If the girl wants to come in the future, she can come often."
After being persuaded by them for a while, Lin Daiyu gradually calmed down.She opened the curtain again and looked outside.Both the Jia Mansion and the Grand View Garden were no longer visible, and the last ray of the setting sun had faded away, slowly sinking.
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