Practical Life in the Red Mansion

Jia Min let go of Daiyu and Lin Yun's hands, and went straight to Jiamu.

"Mother..." Jia Min cried out, but couldn't speak anymore. Jia's mother hugged Jia Min into her arms, but she was also crying and speechless. The mother and daughter hugged him. Crying into tears, none of the attendants present covered their faces and wept or took out a handkerchief to wipe the corners of their eyes.

Wang Xifeng saw that Jia's mother was choking with tears, fearing that she would not be able to bear it due to her age, she persuaded: "It's a good thing for my aunt to come back, why is my ancestor so sad?" Then he said: "My aunt and cousins ​​came here in a hurry, You have to take a break first."

Only then did Jia's mother and daughter stop crying, and Jia Min helped Jia's mother to walk inside. Wang Xifeng glanced at the back, saw Daiyu and her brother, her eyes flashed with admiration, and she said with a smile: "cousin, cousin Just follow me." Seeing her dressed like a woman, Daiyu thought she must be her sister-in-law, so she quickly called her sister-in-law.Wang Xifeng smiled and entered the room with Daiyu's hand.

After entering the room, Jia Min was pulled by Jia Mu to sit on the head. Jia Min did not refuse, and sat beside Jia Mu. No, you still look like you just got married, you haven't changed at all."

Jia Min heard the sadness in Jia Mu's tone, and felt sore in her heart: "Brother Yang is so old, why have I not changed?" She was afraid that Jia Mu would say sadly: "Mom hasn't seen Yuer and Brother Yun yet. Let's go." Then Mother Jia saw Daiyu and Lin Yun surrounded by girls in the living room, and hurriedly waved: "My good boy, come here quickly, and let grandma have a look."

Yuanyang immediately took a mat and spread it in front of Daiyu and Lin Yun. Jia Mu hurriedly said, "Stop kowtowing, let me see." Then she stood up to pull Daiyu and Lin Yun.

Jia Min hurriedly supported Jia's mother and said, "Anyway, let them kowtow to you a few times, which can be regarded as a filial piety."

Daiyu and Lin Yun knelt on the mat. Daiyu was fine, but Lin Yun was wearing layer after layer of clothes and was round like a ball. When he bowed down, his body suddenly lost his balance. Rolled to one side and fell on Daiyu, Daiyu hurriedly reached out to support him, and there were several laughters in the room.

Lin Yun laughed embarrassedly, blushed, and knelt down seriously, trying to finish the kowtow smoothly, but this time he was young, the cushion was soft, and he swayed like a tumbler like last time, left and right. Swinging to the right, it knocked down Daiyu on the side.

Mother Jia couldn't help laughing: "Get up quickly, don't beg, let me see if I fell." Yuanyang held back a smile and hugged Lin Yun to Mother Jia. Mother Jia first looked at Daiyu and said to Jia Min. : "This child is like you, she is a beauty." He touched Lin Yun's little face and said: "This child is also a lucky one."

Mother Jia pointed to the people who were attacking and said to Jia Min: "This is your sister-in-law." Jia Min hurriedly saluted Mrs. Xing. Without showing it on the face, he saluted.When they arrived at Mrs. Wang, the two had long had a quarrel, and Jia Min saluted accordingly.

Jia Min pulled Daiyu and Lin Yun over and said, "This is your first aunt and second aunt." Daiyu and Lin Yun paid their respects one by one.The gifts given by the two of them can be regarded as quite satisfactory.

Jia's mother asked Li Wan and Wang Xifeng to come forward again and said, "This is Zhu's daughter-in-law, and this is Lian's daughter-in-law." Jia Min also gave a gift, and Wang Xifeng said with a smile: "Sure enough, only a fairy like aunt can raise her." With such a good child, my cousin looks like the granddaughter of my ancestors."

Mother Jia asked the girls to visit Jia Min again. All three of them were dressed the same, but Yingchun's figure was slightly plump and her skin was as delicate as porcelain, which made people feel gentle and amiable. Tanchun's stature was about the same height as Yingchun's, which was very Junxiu, Xichun is still childish, her brows and eyes have not yet opened.

After a group of people greeted each other, Jia's mother asked, "Why didn't brother Yang come in?" Jia Min explained with a smile: "He is too old to enter the inner courtyard, so I went to see the eldest brother and the second brother first. I will kowtow to you later." Then he stood up and said, "I have to take the two children to meet their uncle."

Mrs. Xing hurriedly said: "It's cheaper for me to take my aunt, nephew, and niece." Jia Mu replied with a smile: "That's good, you don't have to come here later."

Mrs. Xing should be, and led Jia Min and others to the Chuihua Gate, boarded a green silk cart, went out to the east, passed the main gate of Rongfu, entered a black oil gate, and stopped in front of Yimen. , several people got out of the car.

Jia Min walked side by side with Mrs. Xing calmly. His elder brother's yard is cut off from the garden of Rongguo Mansion. Although it is small and unique, it is too small. Jia Min decides when to talk to Jia Mu. Heir, it's not appropriate to be crowded in the garden all the time.

Although Mrs. Xing is a wooden person, the concubines in Jia She's room still didn't dare to make mistakes. They served Jia Min and others, and then asked the maid to invite Jia She to come over.Daiyu and Lin Yun looked behind Jia She, and were disappointed to see that Lin Yang didn't follow.Seeing Lin Yun's disappointed look, Jia Amnesty picked him up and said, "This is my little nephew, right? Your brother went to visit his second uncle, but he didn't come over."

Both Jia Min and Jia She grew up under their grandmother's lap. The relationship between the two brothers and sisters is good. Jia Min bowed forward and said, "Brother." Seeing Jia She's drunken look, he hated iron and steel: "Brother , You should take good care of your body on weekdays."

Jia Amnesty didn't take it seriously, Jia Min was more favored than him since he was a child, Jia Min said that his few words were nothing, but he felt that his sister was the same as before.He said, "I'm getting older, and these are the only hobbies I have."

Jia Min sighed secretly, stopped talking, chatted with Jia She, Jia She asked about Jia Min's itinerary along the way, and asked someone to take a few new leathers to make clothes.After a few words, Jia Amnesty exclaimed: "Brother Yang from my younger sister's family is really a good boy, and the fans he gave me are all top-notch. I asked him a few words, and Jinshi knew that he was also proficient. It's a suave young master. You don't know, the little girls in the house..."

These words didn't sound like it, Jia Min coughed a few words, interrupted Jia She, and said, "I still have to visit my second brother." Jia She regretted not being able to have dinner with Jia Min, and sent Jia Min off personally The mother and son got into the carriage.

Jia Min saw the words Rongxi Hall on the gate of the courtyard, his eyes darkened, and he secretly sighed that Jia Zheng was confused.Jia Min took Daiyu Lin Yun into the main room, picked up a chair and sat down, the little girl who led the way said: "Hui aunt, my wife is waiting for you in the east ear room." Jia Min snorted coldly, but did not answer. , The room suddenly fell silent.

Jia Min looked at the ring on his hand and said slowly: "I have met your wife, so there is no need to see you again, just invite your master to come over." A joke, there are people who meet guests in the ear room.

Not long after, someone knocked on the curtain and said, "Master is here, Master Lin is here." Jia Min hurriedly got up, "Second brother." Jia Min hurriedly saluted, and then asked Lin Yun and Daiyu to meet Jia Zheng.Jia Zheng sat on the top of his hands and said a few dry words, nothing more than to let Jia Min live in peace of mind and tell Mrs. Wang if he had anything to say.

Only then did Jia Zheng realize that Mrs. Wang was not there, and asked suspiciously, "Is your sister-in-law not here?" Jia Min gave a half-smile and didn't reply.Jia Zheng understood, and couldn't help but blushed and said, "Your sister-in-law is not feeling well recently, you should take it easy."

Jia Min chuckled: "Of course I am considerate of my sister-in-law. It's getting late, and I have to go to my mother. My mother hasn't seen Brother Yang yet."

Jia Zheng hurriedly sent Jia Min out, sighing: "Brother Yang is a good man." Jia Min said a few words modestly, and then returned to Jia's mother's yard.

Jia Min stopped at the door and said to Yuanyang who came to greet her: "Who is in the house?" Somehow, at least there are elders present, just one meeting is enough, but I still feel a little angry in my heart, and secretly decide to send Lin Yang out to live with Mu Zheng.

Jia Min led the three children into the house. Wang Xifeng was talking to Jia Mu, which made Jia Mu smile. The three girls sat around. , If you don’t come back, the ancestors will go to the master to ask for someone.” But when Li Wan saw Lin Yang coming in, he got up and wanted to avoid it.

Jia Min motioned Lin Yang to kowtow to Jia's mother, and Jia's mother looked at Jia Min carefully and said, "Brother Yang is more like his father." Then Lin Yang picked up a chair and sat down, lowering his eyes and refusing to take a second look. .

Not long after, a girl came to tell the second master to let Lin Yang go to have dinner, accompanied by Baoyu.Jia's mother said to Jia Min, "Baoyu went out on business, so he just came back. Let him have dinner with his father first, and see him later." She also asked Lin Yang to come with Baoyu after dinner.

When Jia Min heard the arrangement, he breathed a sigh of relief, and sent Lin Yang to the outer courtyard, and Mrs. Wang came to serve Jia's mother for dinner.

Li Wan held the rice, Xifeng placed the chopsticks, Mrs. Wang entered the soup, Jia Mu and Jia Min sat alone on the couch in front of them, Daiyu sat on the first chair on the left, Lin Yun followed, Yingchun and Tanchun sat on the right , Xichun sat opposite, Li Wan and Wang Xifeng were serving dishes at the table.

On the contrary, Mrs. Wang said with a light smile, "Don't bother to serve your younger brother with vegetables. How can you do these things if you have your sister-in-laws?" It was Daiyu who was talking about it.

Daiyu was a little surprised, put down her chopsticks and said, "Although it's against the rules, as a sister, I do these things out of friendship, and it's also out of my love for my younger brother." gone back.

Jia Mu glanced at Mrs. Wang before she smiled and said, "This girl looks like you. She is kind-hearted. I remember you used to serve me meals when I was young." Said: "Today, my mother is asking me to be filial." Jia Mu agreed with a smile.

After the meal, after a sigh of relief, a little girl came over with a cup of tea. Jia Min knew the rules of her mother's family, and stopped the tea for Daiyu: "During the time I was on the boat, Yu'er's spleen and stomach felt unwell, and she couldn't eat tea. Yes." She also touched her lips.

As soon as the tea was finished, Lin Yun sneezed loudly. Mother Jia hurriedly said, "He's headed back to Beijing. Don't be cold. He's going to the warm pavilion." When I got into the pit with Jia Min, a little girl took off Daiyu and Lin Yun's shoes. When Mrs. Wang saw the pearls on Lin Yun's tiger-toed shoes, she felt even more uncomfortable. Mrs. Wang cursed secretly, such a small child Even if you use good leather and pearl brocade to make shoes, you are not afraid of losing your life.

Lin Yun naturally didn't know the dissatisfaction of the second aunt who had just met, he slapped his little feet on the stove and swayed from side to side, holding pine nuts in his fat hands and eating happily. Jia's food tasted stronger, how much he ate I don’t want to eat anymore, I’m still hungry now,

Mrs. Wang held her breath in her heart, and couldn't help stabbing: "Brother Yun is over a year old, why is he still walking unsteadily?" Jia Min pretended not to hear the conversation with Jia Mu, but Daiyu was a little strange. Yun wears a lot of clothes, so it is difficult for him to move around, and he kowtowed to his grandmother just now, and because of this, he staggered around, why didn't his aunt know.

Seeing that no one paid any attention to her, Mrs. Wang set the fire on Daiyu: "My niece is too, why is her face so pale? Is there some deficiency?" , she replied coldly: "Yu'er just stayed on the boat for a long time, and her spleen and stomach are out of tune."

The atmosphere cooled down for a while, Wang Xifeng hurriedly said: "But I need to ask the imperial physician to take my cousin's pulse. Seeing my cousin's small face, let alone my wife, even we feel pity for her, and I am afraid that there may be some places that are not well taken care of."

Jia Min shook her head: "That's not necessary, I have a doctor beside me who has already prescribed a prescription."

Mrs. Wang interjected: "The doctor doesn't know whether it will work or not. If you want me to say, it's justified to invite the imperial doctor with the post from Jia's house."

Jia Min said with a half-smile: "Doctor Bai is the niece and daughter of the Bai Yuanshi of the Taiyuan Hospital. Although she is a woman, in terms of medical skills, few people can match her, but what the second sister-in-law said is right. I have to find an imperial doctor to see it? I don’t know who the second sister-in-law is going to invite? The Baiyuan envoy is old, and I see that Feng Yuan’s judgment is very good, and he is best at pediatrics.”

Mrs. Wang squeezed her veil tightly, who was judged by Feng Yuan, who was only willing to see a doctor for the prince and princess's family, Jia Min deliberately made it difficult for her to ridicule her.

Daiyu snuggled into Jia Min's arms and said aggrievedly: "Mother, I made such a big commotion when I came here, and I have to bother my second aunt." Mrs. Wang couldn't help but secretly scolded the little slippery head for digging a hole for her to jump like her mother.Sure enough, Mother Jia heard it and said: "What's the big news, what's the trouble, your second aunt loves you, and the second family will take the post to invite Feng Yuan to come over tomorrow."

Mrs. Wang was in a bit of a dilemma. Seeing Mrs. Wang's embarrassment, Jia Min said, "Mother, let Daiyu take Doctor Bai's prescription first. If it's not good, it won't be too late to ask Court Feng for a judgment." It was just to save face for her daughter. Seeing her daughter built a ladder, she pushed the boat along.

A girl's crisp voice came from outside: "Second Master Bao and Uncle Lin are here."

Jia's mother immediately smiled and said to Jia Min, "Baoyu has been looking forward to seeing your aunt." Can there be any important thing that can't meet the aunt of the first-line relative.

As soon as Jia Baoyu entered the house, he went straight to Jia's mother's arms. Jia's mother rubbed her grandson with a smile, and said with a smile: "Puhou, I'm still going to see your aunt." The moon of the Mid-Autumn Festival looks like the flowers of spring dawn, but it is as weak as a girl. Their family is the family of generals, and the boy has no masculinity at all.

Baoyu saluted Jia Min with a smile, saw Daiyu next to Jia Min again, and blurted out: "I have seen this younger sister before." But she was hindering Mother Jia from getting into trouble with the younger generation, so she glanced at Lin Yang, who chuckled and said, "My younger sister is like my mother, and my mother is like my grandmother, and my cousin loves her every day, looking at my younger sister is not familiar. "Although there was a smile in the voice, there was nothing in the eyes.

When Baoyu heard what his cousin said, he shuddered insignificantly. Just now, this cousin smiled and said a few words in front of his father, and his father scolded him, but he had to stay far away.He wanted to squeeze to Daiyu's side, but just as he sat down, he saw his cousin reaching out to his cousin. Lin Yang stood up with a smile, put on Daiyu's shoes, and hugged her to sit beside him. Seeing this, Lin Yun I also want to sit next to my sister, so that there will be no seat next to Daiyu.

Baoyu could only sit on the side resentfully, and asked, "Did my sister ever go to school?" Daiyu peeled the pine nuts for Lin Yun, while perfunctory said: "Only read four books." Four books, but he didn't give up, and asked again: "What is the name of my sister, is there a sign?" Daiyu frowned and said: "Daiyu, there is no word."

Baoyu said with a little excitement: "I'll give my sister a wonderful word." Before he could finish speaking, Daiyu interrupted: "Hasn't my cousin read the Four Books and Five Classics? Haven't you studied the Book of Rites? Don’t you know what the word “居中” means?” Daiyu was taught by Nanny Ding to learn the rules and manners before she came to Beijing, so she naturally hated this kind of rude behavior.Baoyu was embarrassed when he heard this.

Mother Jia asked curiously, "What are you talking about?"

Lin Yun replied in a childlike voice: "I'm talking about my second cousin who hasn't read the Four Books and Five Classics." Lin Yang laughed secretly in his heart when he heard the words, so he could help, and he smiled and said: "You heard wrong, my cousin is eight years old. Why haven't you read the Four Books and Five Classics? I heard that my cousin is very talented."

Jia's mother smiled and said to Jia Min: "It's not that I praise my children. None of the children in the family are as smart as Baoyu. They learned to read with his sister when they were three years old. They made poems at a young age."

Jia Min gave a few perfunctory words of praise, which made Jia's mother even happier. Watching Baoyu keep talking to Daiyu, an idea slowly came to her mind.

Baoyu was asking Daiyu if she had any jade, and Daiyu was a little annoyed that this shallow-sighted cousin would show off if anyone had no jade, and lazily replied: "Yes, there are white jade, purple jade, and jasper. Baoyu saw that Daiyu would make a mistake, and said anxiously, holding the jade on his chest, he said, "No, it's this kind of jade." Daiyu turned her head and said, "You are a rare thing, how can everyone have it?" Hearing Daiyu's answer, Lin Yang secretly thought that it was not good, that Baoyu would not be as written in the original book.

Just as I was thinking about it, I heard Baoyu crying loudly: "What a rare thing, it doesn't matter whether a person is high or low, and what about psychic, I don't want to bother." When he had a mad attack, he took off the jade and threw it on the ground.Everyone hurried to pick up the jade, and Jia's mother put her arms around Baoyu and said, "Why did you drop that lifeblood? You are not happy, and you can beat and curse people." Baoyu sobbed in Jia's mother's arms, and Jia's mother put the jade on Baoyu. , was about to comfort him a few words, when he heard Lin Yun burst into tears.

It was the first time Lin Yun saw such a scene, and cried while saying, "My cousin is so scary. I'm afraid." Daiyu hugged her younger brother distressedly, fearing that Baoyu would go mad and frighten Lin Yun.

Jia Min couldn't sit still immediately, wondering: "Mother, Brother Yun is still young, I will take them back to rest first. I will coax him well."

Jia Min had heard Baoyu's words earlier, and was restless. Seeing Baoyu's appearance, she was even more unhappy. Jia's mother could only swallow the words in her heart and let Wang Xifeng take Jia Min and others to rest.

Wang Xifeng settled Jia Min and others before returning to Jia's mother's room. Baoyu had already coaxed her to rest. Jia's mother looked tired and said, "How is your aunt? How is Brother Yun?" My cousin was raised by his aunt and was timid, and he couldn't stand any big disturbances, so he'll be fine with a little coaxing from his aunt, and he's already gone to sleep." Then Mother Jia reassured and said, "Your aunt only got this son in her middle age. , naturally very meticulous, not like you."

Wang Xifeng pretended to be wronged: "Did the old ancestor dislike me for being like a monkey?" Jiamu smiled, and then said: "What do you think of your cousin Lin?" It's good to be taught by my aunt." Mother Jia smiled brightly: "I also think she is good."

Wang Xifeng returned to her yard after taking care of Jiamu's rest, and asked Ping'er to pinch her feet. Ping'er looked at her and said, "Why is grandma so tired today?" Wang Xifeng told about what happened in Jiamu's room. Er Er said with a smile: "Second Master Yun is too timid." Wang Xifeng sneered: "What timidity?" Others didn't see it, but she saw Lin Yang poking Lin Yun, and Lin Yun started to cry.

Wang Xifeng closed her eyes and said: "I don't know what will happen in the future." She sighed and said: "My aunt and wife don't get along. If I think about my wife, the old lady will be unhappy. If I think about my aunt, the wife will be unhappy. I'm in a dilemma." Ping'er chuckled lightly: "Grandma is all-round, and there are things that grandma can't solve?"

"Just your sweet mouth."

"It's already December, it's impossible for my aunt to celebrate the New Year at our house." Ping'er comforted Wang Xifeng, "It won't be long after all."

"It depends on what the old lady wants. Speaking of which, the old lady still wants to let the cousin of the aunt's family promise to Baoyu." Wang Xifeng smiled and said Jiamu's meaning, "You must not leave the aunt's family to get close to Baoyu. close."

"How old are Master Bao and Miss Lin. My aunt may not agree."

"I don't know whether my aunt agrees or not. My wife definitely disagrees, and I want to take my little aunt into the house." Wang Xifeng talked about what happened during the meal, and said with emotion: "It's a person who can't afford it, and she dismissed it neither soft nor hard." gone."

Ping'er lowered his eyes and beat Wang Xifeng's shoulders, and said softly: "Second Master Bao's marriage is still several years away, and I have put away the gift from my aunt, grandma wants to see her."

"What?" "A piece of scarlet woven gold-made damask, which looks fashionable to me, and a set of gold-studded gemstones and phoenix beaded heads. Those beads are Nan beads, and it's hard to find such big ones. "

Wang Xifeng sat up in surprise, and smiled after a while: "As the second master said, Uncle Lin's position is really one of the best vacancies. Have you found out about other people's rites?"

"The two wives also have two heads and two pieces of material. The eldest wife has more suet jade plaques than the wife. The eldest grandma has silver inlaid pearls on the head and plain satin. The second girl and the fourth girl belong to Nanzhu. The earrings are the same for the third girl, but the beads are smaller and the color is not good. As for the men, Third Master Huan and Brother Lang both have gifts." Ping'er said one by one.

Wang Xifeng nodded and fell asleep.