Practical Life in the Red Mansion

Years ago after Lin Yun's full moon, Mu Zheng rushed back to the capital, and only sent a message of safety. Before the Huachao Festival, he sent someone to deliver a birthday present for Daiyu.

The birthday gift is a one-foot-sized silk figurine dedicated to Magu’s birthday. The small silk figurine uses various skills such as sculpture, painting, sewing, dyeing and weaving, filigree, and paper. The head, face and hands are made of silk. , the rest of the costumes, accessories and props are made of fine silk and spun yarn.

Seeing this, Daiyu muttered in a low voice: "I'm only six years old, so I gave it to Magu for her birthday. When I'm 60, what should I give?"

With pointed ears, Lin Yang smiled and said, "If you don't like it, how about giving it to me?" He reached out to take it.

Daiyu hurriedly hugged her, and said anxiously: "Brother Mu specially gave it to me, and it was his wish." Then she asked Yao Huang to take out a mother-of-pearl box and put the silk figurine in it.He said again: "Other people's family goes out to enjoy the red flowers and butterflies on spring outings during the flower festival. My brother is so good that he even took me to dig wild vegetables in the village."

Lin Yang rubbed his nose and said, "You can also go outing on Zhuangzi, and isn't the Huachao Festival also known as the Vegetable Picking Festival? Going to Zhuangzi to dig wild vegetables is also very suitable."

"I don't know where my brother invented it." Daiyu retorted.

Lin Yang persuaded: "Then Zhuangzi, you haven't been there yet. There are pear and peach blossoms in full bloom all over the mountains and plains. From a distance, they look like a sea of ​​flowers, much more splendid than the well-cultivated famous flowers." Lin Yang doesn't like to compare shoulder to shoulder. Afraid of being bumped into the place next to each other, I thought it would be better to go to my own village, which is casual and clean. "When the time comes, I'll take you to the mountains and fields, dig some wild vegetables with my own hands, and give them to my parents, okay?"

After listening to Lin Yang's description, Daiyu also yearned for it.The family went to Zhuangzi in the suburbs on the day of Huachao Festival.

Jia Min held Lin Yun and Daiyu in a carriage, while Lin Hai and Lin Yang rode horses in front.

Lin Yun was awake for a rare time, looking around with his big round eyes open. Today Daiyu brought a purple jade lilac walker, under which a string of fingernail-sized lilac flowers carved from purple jade was adorned. With the shaking of the carriage, there was a crisp sound. Lin Yun heard the sound and reached out to reach for it.

Daiyu turned her head to tease him, but Lin Yun just stretched out her hand, but when she found that she couldn't reach it, she quietly retracted into Jia Min's arms, holding the ivory buttons on Jia Min's clothes with her small hands, Daiyu was discouraged: "Lazy!" Lazy, really lazy." Jia Min said angrily, "Who told you to keep calling him lazy, look at him as a lazy boy."

Daiyu didn't give up, and teased Lin Yun's chin with her finger. Lin Yun felt itchy and uncomfortable. She grabbed Daiyu's finger with her little hand and sent it to her mouth. Daiyu didn't notice, and her finger was bitten by Lin Yun, whoops One sound.Jia Min quickly rescued her daughter's fingers from his son's mouth, looked carefully, and saw that the tips of her white fingers turned red, and asked, "Does it hurt? He's about to open his teeth, and he'll put everything into his mouth." .”

Daiyu shook her head, Lin Yun seemed to know that she had bitten her sister, and laughed as she moved her little hands and calves, Daiyu nodded his forehead in an angry and funny way.

When they arrived at the farm, Jia Min felt that his back was sore and he wanted to take Lin Yun to rest, but Lin Yang and Daiyu were in high spirits.

Jia Min had no choice but to go with them, and sent people to clean up the irrelevant people in the field, and asked Xu Hua's family to lead Lin Yang, Daiyu, and the mother in charge of the village to dig wild vegetables. Most of the girls around Daiyu didn't dig wild vegetables. Those who had eaten wild vegetables were all clamoring to go, but Xu Hua's family stared at them before calming down, but Jia Min didn't pursue it, and asked all the girls who wanted to go to go together.

Lin Yang and the others went out the back door, holding a basket in one hand and Daiyu in the other, and led them to the world by Mama Tian, ​​who was in charge of the farm. When they reached the field, Lin Yang ordered the girls to disperse, but they were not allowed to spoil the crops. .

Lin Yang took Daiyu to plant a field of wild vegetables. Under the guidance of Tian's mother, Lin Yang planed the wild vegetables slowly.Daiyu thought it was dirty, so she just squatted on one side and looked at Lin Yang. After digging a few times, Lin Yang suddenly stretched out his hand and put it in front of Daiyu, and said with a smile, "Show me something?"

Daiyu leaned forward curiously: "What?" Lin Yang opened his hands suddenly, and there was a pea-green caterpillar wriggling in his palm. Daiyu screamed and hurriedly backed away. The soil in the field was soft, and she squatted again. Then, she sat in the field in fright, and the newly worn white skirt embroidered with magnolia changed color in an instant.

Yao Huang hurried to help Daiyu, but Lin Yang couldn't help laughing, Daiyu refused to let Yao Huang help, glared at Lin Yang, stood up and was about to leave, Lin Yang hurriedly held Daiyu: "OK Yanyan, I shouldn't scare you, but you can see that your skirt is also dirty, it's a good thing you didn't dig wild vegetables yourself."

Daiyu stood aside, her cheeks bulging with anger, but she couldn't beat Lin Yang, and received too many knives from Lin Yang. Yao Huang was afraid that the knives would hurt Daiyu, so he hurriedly said, "Master." Lin Yang waved his hand. "I'm watching, I can't get a girl." As she said, she squatted down and held Daiyu's little hand holding the knife, but Daiyu took advantage of Lin Yang's unpreparedness and pushed him down. The siblings looked at each other's dirty clothes, laughing.

At lunch time, Lin Yang took Daiyu's hand back to the village. When Jia Min saw their appearance, he smiled and said, "Are you going to dig wild vegetables, or dig mud? Go wash it, Get ready to eat."

Hearing this, Lin Yang pretended to be disappointed and said, "The meal is ready, and I was thinking of adding the wild vegetables I dug with my own hands to my parents."

Jia Min didn't answer, but Xu Hua's family laughed: "Master and Madam can eat wild vegetables, but not weeds." It turned out that the two brothers and sisters were only interested in having fun and dug a basket of things. There were not many wild vegetables, but a lot of weeds.

Seeing that Lin Yang was a little embarrassed, Xu Hua's family said: "My uncle is a person who does big things, so naturally he doesn't care about these small things. Not to mention my uncle, there are many girls who don't know each other."

Xu Hua's family asked the maids to hand over the baskets, and together with Tian's mother pointed out the wild vegetables and weeds one by one. Jia Minyuan didn't know about these, but he checked carefully. I have never seen these things before, only a few third-class girls around Daiyu bought them from outside, and the baskets were full of wild vegetables such as dandelions, shepherd's purse, and amaranth.Jia Min was also happy to see it, and each of them rewarded a silver nude.

Daiyu lived in Zhuangzi very much, and she would go out to play with Lin Yang every day. Both Jia Min and Lin Yang felt that Daiyu was getting older every year, and there would be no such happy and reckless days in the future, so they didn't stop her. Looking at her, Lin Hai was busy with the affairs of the yamen, and went back alone. Jia Min took three children and stayed for ten days before going back.

Daiyu, who returned to her Yangzhou house, felt a little bored, so Jia Min asked her to invite Baochai when she saw this.

After Lin Yun's three rites of baptism, Baochai wrote a letter to Daiyu, and Daiyu also returned. During the communication, she found that Baochai was also talented, so she wanted to make friends. Therefore, Daiyu heard that her mother Agreed, I specially posted a post to ask Baochai to come to Lin's mansion.

Yao Huang welcomed Baochai into the inner courtyard. From a distance, he saw Daiyu at the gate of the courtyard. When he saw Baochai, he went up to meet him. After exchanging greetings, he took Baochai's hand into the courtyard.

There are a lot of Baochai, a small courtyard, connected by verandas on all sides, in the courtyard is a corridor paved with cross-shaped cobblestones, and in front of the east window of the main house is a magnolia tree, which has already budded There are stone tables and chairs. To the west is a large tank with lotus flowers and koi in it.

After entering the house, there is a picture of mountains and streams coming out of heaven hanging in the middle hall, a chime clock and a jade coral vase are placed on the long case, and the green sandalwood armchair is covered with brocade cushions of lilac color clusters. Separated by eight green sandalwood partitions, there is a Baibao Pavilion between the east and middle halls, where blue and white porcelain vases, jade lotus plates, bonsai with strange stones, etc. are placed.An Arhat bed is placed under the window, a jade chessboard is placed on a small green sandalwood table, and a pot of camellias in full bloom is placed in the corner.The floor-to-ceiling covers of the red sandalwood Heqing Haiyan placed in the Dongjin and Dongci rooms are hung with lotus-colored curtains, and only a Moonlight Water Jade Guqin can be seen inside.

When Daiyu and Baochai settled down on the Luohan couch, Yao Huang held down the chessboard. When Baochai saw it, "Your sister also likes to play chess?" Daiyu shook her head and said with a smile, "It's just killing time."

Tea was served in late autumn again, and Baochai took the broken porcelain teacup from Ge Kiln, took a sip, immediately felt the fragrance in his mouth, and praised him again and again.

Hearing Baochai's praise, Daiyu laughed and said, "I just drink tea, no matter how I cook it, Yao Huang, how did you cook this tea?"

Yao Huang said with a smile: "I don't know, all these elegant things are done by Bai Guo, if the girl wants to know, you might as well ask her." Then he asked someone to call Bai Guo in.

At the age of seven or eight, Bai Guo was not afraid to hear Daiyu's question, and replied respectfully: "Tea is just an ordinary bird's tongue. The water for making tea is spring water from Daming Temple, and the stove is red. The small clay stove, the copper Choshi that holds the water is the old Choshi that has been boiled thousands of times. The fire for cooking tea must be strong and continuous. The pine hair that was collected in winter."

Baochai laughed when she heard the words: "It's so complicated, what a clever girl." But she felt a little sour in her heart, as this kind of elegant tea cooking can only be done by a family of four generations of princes.

Bai Guo replied: "It's just that I did my duty. I can't be praised by Miss Xue. I just learned from my sisters. Most of the older sisters in the girl's room are more dexterous than me." But I feel a little embarrassed.

Yao Huang hurriedly stepped forward and said: "Binguo followed Wanqiu to serve in the study, and learned to be an old pedant, go down quickly, so as not to be contaminated with worldliness." He signaled Baiguo to go down.

Daiyu said with a smile, "what are you in a hurry for? She cooks tea well. Although it is her duty, she is more dedicated than others. Sister Xue is not wrong to praise you. I will ask you, sister Yaohuang, to receive the reward." Said: "My sister laughed at me, but she is dexterous in speaking, not as good as Ying'er next to my sister. The netting she made for my sister is really beautiful."

Baochai hurriedly untied it and handed it to Daiyu. Daiyu looked at it carefully, and said to Yao Huang with a smile, "Take Yinger down to drink tea, and take this opportunity to learn from others."

Yao Huang took Ying'er by the arm and said: "Young lady dislikes me for being clumsy. Sister Ying'er, you have to teach me well, or my girl won't want me."

Daiyu said with a smile: "Yinger can't teach her for nothing, she has to be a teacher." Baochai laughed and said, "Since Sister Lin said so, you are welcome to Yinger, but you have to teach her well. You can't keep your secrets."

The master and the servants were playing around, skipping over the matter of Bai Guo.