Xiangyun threatened to lose the poetry competition and “return twelve seats in a row”. Everyone felt it. It is said that the poor are counted here, and Xiangyun is the poorest!She is not really poor, but the dowry is in charge of Mrs. Bolinghou, and she will not be allowed to treat guests.

In the end, Jiamu and Xini, Li Wan, the “censor of the supervisory agency”, made a copy, and the bottom one was finalized.Seeing that Ban’er breathed a sigh of relief quietly, Baoyu felt a little sad. Although Ban’er’s family is considered well-to-do now, how can it compare with the extravagant Rongfu?He has always had a dislike for Jia Mu. Apart from his inability to control Jia Mu, it is also because Jia Mu is keen on precepts and deeds to play and enjoy. offspring.

After talking and laughing at the luncheon, Mother Jia paid more attention to her health. She took a few steps after dinner and took everyone to Jingxin Nunnery for tea and incense.

Miaoyu got the letter early and took it out of the nunnery.This is Baoyu’s first time seeing her after wearing it again, and it doesn’t feel much to see her again after a lifetime. He is a layman, and he can’t stand Miaoyu’s monks who are not monks and vulgarities. If he says he is a dirty man, he will offend the female Bodhisattva.

All the women slammed it in disorder, wrapped it up and brought it in.It is said that women can go to the temple to offer incense, so there is no saying that men cannot enter the nunnery, but men in Rongfu do not like to play with aunts (except Jia Huan), and the small nunneries and Buddhist halls in each courtyard are really places of prayer. However, the man’s prayer always goes out, taking the opportunity to visit famous temples, so this family’s nunnery comes to no man.

The Taoist woman in the Jingxin Nunnery has already cooked the water, Miaoyu took the small bell with five colors from Cheng Kiln and poured tea, Yuanyang, Daishu, Qiuwen and other big girls hurried forward to receive the tea, and each served the masters.

After a while of incense, the young Qiaojie’s eyelids were twitching. Jia’s mother ordered Amber to hug Qiaojie and take a lunch break with her. Mrs. Xing took Grandma Liu to visit Sister Feng.Mrs. Wang went to rest in Yicuidang where Li Wan lived, and she didn’t want Li Wan to serve her. She ordered her to take the girls to make poems and play.

In the afternoon, the poetry competition field is in Jingxin Nunnery, where all kinds of chrysanthemums are in full bloom, which were placed directly from Jiamuyuan.

“Recalling Chrysanthemums”, “Visiting Chrysanthemums”, “Planting Chrysanthemums”, “Conversing Chrysanthemums”, “Giving Chrysanthemums”, “Singing Chrysanthemums”, “Painting Chrysanthemums”, “Ask Chrysanthemums”, “Hairpin Chrysanthemums”, etc. The twelve titles of “Chrysanthemum Shadow”, “Chrysanthemum Dream”, and “Residual Chrysanthemum” have been made with flower paper and hung on the wall. Talented men and women can choose to write, and those who write less and poorly will lose.

Because there is no limit to how many poems each person can write, the time is as wide as an hour.The crowd dispersed in twos and threes, Wang Xixue and Yinglian whispered to each other, Ban’er was dragged to a corner by Xichun and muttered, Tanchun stuffed Baoyu with some flowers: “Mochou, I’m the last one.”

Baoyu was grateful in her heart, and said in a low voice, “I’ll pay for the treats. I just don’t want to be richer than them. It’s as good as it is today.”

Tanchun responded with a smile.Jia Yun opened some shops, except for one owned by Jia Yun herself, all other capitals were paid by Baoyu, which were recorded in her and Xichun’s names, and said to be their dowry in the future, and now there are pocket money every month.Baoyu always told them to spend less and save more. Sometimes she felt that the second brother was a bit petty, but she had nothing to say to her sisters.

Baoyu said again: “Xiangyun is always so innocent and innocent. I’m afraid he will suffer a lot when he leaves the cabinet in the future.”

Tanchun laughed: “She will marry a general in the future, if she doesn’t have this willfulness, she will be sad all day long.”

Baoyu thought this was the reason, scratched his head and said: “That being said, if she spends the dowry in twos and threes, it will be useless if she doesn’t think about it even if we help her.” I think that Xiangyun’s misery in the judgment of the Red Mansion is not the reason for her husband’s death, but that Xiangyun can’t live, there are many widows in the world, and I don’t see any of them can’t survive.

Tanchun feels aggrieved, Xiangyun is a very good friend, but that temperament is not capable of handling family affairs, she is willing to work with Daiyu on how to save money and have a good-looking banquet.However, Xiangyun is the serious “childhood sweetheart” of the second brother, and because he cannot marry the second brother, he has won the sympathy of both the second brother and his wife, so he has no choice but to bite the bullet and agree to lobby for one or two.

While the two siblings were talking, Xiangyun rushed over with the poems he had written.

This girl is absolutely quick at writing poems, and she has written three poems in a while.Baoyu was too lazy to use his brain and used what Tanchun gave him to make up for it.

Tanchun’s poetry can’t compare with poetry idiots, Xiangyun thinks that Baoyu will lose, and drags him around, saying that he may be able to turn out a good one.

Baoyu has nothing to do, and follows Xiangyun around in the nunnery, pointing at her with Li’s words.

Xiangyun was annoyed: “You have nothing to worry about! Be a good scholar, don’t always think about those mundane things, I advise you to just study quietly, be rich and honorable. It’s better than we don’t have this kind of happiness, and we have to use spinning and knitting duty.”

Baoyu was speechless, secretly saying that character really determines fate, and Xiangyun is not Tanchun, so he didn’t have anything to worry about.

Just as they were turning, they suddenly heard Daiyu’s voice coming from an ear room: “Is this the rain from the old year?”

Miaoyu sneered: “What a layman, the rain in the next year is so frivolous? How can I eat it?”

Xiangyun immediately dragged Baoyu in and rushed in: “Okay, eat Tiji tea in hiding, but catch us!”

There are only Miaoyu, Daiyu and Baochai in the ear room. Water is boiling on the stove, and various utensils are placed on pineapple wooden shelves. It seems to be a house for tea sets.

Baoyu was uncomfortable: “I am a layman, and I didn’t have my share. You can enjoy it. I have to think about writing two more poems.”

Miaoyu glanced at him: “It’s not for Jia Xiucai. If you were the only one here, I wouldn’t cook tea myself. Even if I catch up with you, it’s fate. Please sit down.”

After hearing this, Baoyu felt that it was not easy to leave, so she sat down with a smile.

That end of Miaoyu took a green jade cup and put it in front of Xiangyun, Xiangyun was not happy: “The two of them use antiques and rare treasures, and I am a vulgar one?”

Miaoyu said: “Vulgar utensils? I’m not talking crazy, I’m afraid you may not find such vulgar utensils in your home.”

Baoyu felt even more uncomfortable hearing words that were very similar to the original, so a Taoist woman came in with a basket of washed teacups.

Miaoyu frowned and said, “I don’t want the cup with the purple red lid, put it outside.”

Baoyu knew that it was the cup used by Grandma Liu, and Miaoyu thought it was dirty.In the original book, Miaoyu said that if she smashed the cup she used, she would not give it to the country woman, and even the road that Grandma Liu walked had to be washed with water. I really don’t know what kind of profession she is. .Because he looked down on Miaoyu, he would not ask Miaoyu for a cup for the “poor woman” like Shenying’s waiter did. Grandma Liu would not be short of teacups, so the self-proclaimed noble master just smashed it away.

However, Xiangyun sipped his tea and praised it as “incomparably frivolous”, asking what kind of water it is.

Miaoyu said slightly, “It’s the snow on the plum blossoms that I collected when I lived in the Panxiang Temple in Xuantou five years ago. I only got that grimaceous green vase. I was reluctant to eat it. I buried it in the ground. It was only picked up this summer.” Yes. I only ate it once, and this is the second time. How can you not taste it?”

Baoyu shook his head and said, “No wonder it’s ‘frivolous’. How much labor is needed to harvest the snow on the plum blossoms. I heard that a noble lady in front of me wanted to rinse her mouth with the second-course tea of ​​Dahongpao, and the water had to be the dew on the chrysanthemums of the old year. A cup of mouthwash is a hundred taels of silver, but it is not as good as the snow you harvested. Even more rare, you harvested it yourself? Zen Master Baizhang Huaihai of the Tang Dynasty said, “One day does not work and one day does not eat.” Drink good tea, shame on you.”

Miaoyu didn’t know how to respond to some praises and derogations. She did collect some of the snow on the plum blossoms by herself, but most of them were collected by maids. Counting nine cold days, she, a delicate girl, could not stand the cold.

She simply didn’t answer, she found a big panqiu cup carved from bamboo roots, and asked with a smile: “Is this cup okay? Can I eat a sea?”

Baoyu raised his eyebrows and said: “I often hear that ‘one cup is a product, two cups are a thirst-quenching fool, and three cups are drinking cattle and mules’. Cattle and mules are naturally looking forward to drinking the sea.”

The four daughters laughed, and Daiyu took a look at Baoyu: “As the saying goes, ‘the world is equal’, are you really clear? You are not a cow or a mule, but you can wear your clothes like us, stretch your hands to eat, and open your mouth, and you should only drink a cup like us. cup.”

Baoyu was slightly surprised, but Daiyu was the only one who vaguely understood!He smiled at the moment and said, “Even a cup is not worthy of drinking. Only Grandma Liu, grandson and grandson of the meal today are real farmers. I often think that if we are thrown into the folk, I am afraid that we will not survive a day.”

Xiangyun said angrily: “Thinking nonsense! After a dignified state, is he ashamed to compare himself to a farmer and a weaver?”

Daiyu scratched her face with her hand: “How could he know how to be ashamed? The Buddha said that ‘all living beings are equal’. Although people are divided into three or six grades, there is no superiority or inferiority, and each should do his own thing well. How many poems has Cousin Bao written? And do what’s in front of you.”

Baoyu was shocked. How did Daiyu have such insight?How not to laugh at the “female locust”?

Daiyu didn’t have to laugh if she wanted to, Grandma Liu already had dim sum at Li Wan’s place today, she didn’t eat much at the banquet, and she didn’t make a fool of herself by smiling for Mrs. Bo and the girls.Furthermore, Daiyu and her elder brother often exchanged letters. Lin Xing came from the middle and lower classes, and what she said could not be separated from fireworks. Sister Feng and Tanchun often asked her to help with housework. She is no longer the “fairy” who only flirts with flowers, snow and moon.

Baochai is well aware of Miaoyu’s eccentric nature, and has never talked much when getting along with her. Now that Baoyu is always targeting Miaoyu, fortunately, Daiyu blocks her.To avoid embarrassment, she got up and said with a smile that she didn’t write a single poem, so she pulled everyone out together.

Outer room Ban’er has produced three songs, which have been praised by Xiangyun.Baoyu can’t even compare with Baner, so he wrote two more scribbles.Guessing that it would not be too difficult for Tanchun to be the last one, he pretended to go to the toilet and ran to Mrs. Wang.

Mrs. Wang had already rested for a while, Baoyu leaned forward, and said something to Wang Xixue: “If this one is decided, he really doesn’t want to think twice, just think about how to take it down, don’t worry about it in the future.” The undead have added many sins to themselves.

Mrs. Wang pretended not to understand, until Baoyu resigned in frustration, Fang waved her hand to order the maidservant to back down, and said in a low voice: “She should have a higher spirit, and she will probably go to the draft next year.”

Baoyu was taken aback: “Didn’t it be said that only officials from the third rank and above can be drafted?”

Mrs. Wang smiled lightly: “If your second uncle takes her as a daughter, she will be the daughter of a first-rank official.”

Baoyu said “Oh”, and thought to himself that this is how “Wang Ziteng’s daughter” came from!He said in his mouth: “My son is thinking too much, but she is a noble girl who can’t be ranked high. In fact, the draft is a lot of suffering. Fortunately, the fourth sister is an only daughter, so there is no need to go.”

Mrs. Wang sneered: “Your Uncle Jing has already become a monk, and the title of Uncle Zhen has taken over. Xichun is just Bai Ding’s daughter, how can she be eligible for the draft? The old lady has too many thoughts, let’s see how she will marry Xichun into the noble family.”

Baoyu wished that Xichun was a white girl, as long as she lived well, she could enter a noble family.Then I changed the topic: “Ma’am, I think it is necessary to have a banquet like today. It is not convenient for Xianglian to come, and it is not easy for Brother Yun to come. Laner and the others want to study. Why don’t you stay here for a while and wait for the New Year?” Send him back home.”

Mrs. Wang said with a smile: “The child looks clever, and it is good to have a good relationship. There is no such a big battle today, but the old lady likes to be lively. Once the autumn is over, your teacher will definitely pay attention to your homework. It’s only a month or so, and I’ll be talking and laughing with the old lady.”

Baoyu nodded, yes, the Imperial College is divided into Juziyuan and Xiucaiyuan, the teacher of the master is the Juziyuan, and the son is busy trying to test him. On the contrary, he will be busy after the autumn.The teachers and senior brothers in this meeting are busy, and they will take the exam twice in three days!

But he didn’t want to say a word of this, because he wanted to avoid laziness every year and year after year, and Rong Mansion would be much more noisy than it is now.

The mother and son were gossiping without realizing the time had passed, when Li Wan brought the girls to catch the sneaker.After questioning, it turned out that Tanchun was at the bottom of the table, and the rematch will be tomorrow.

When my younger sister set up a banquet, Baoyu would join in, but he also let go that he had to teach the elementary school children and only had lunch.

But he said that Ban’er wanted to live permanently, and Baoyu didn’t want him to affect Jialan’s study, so he caught Ban’er to live with him.

Ban’er is a sensible child, he took the initiative to act as Uncle Bao and Uncle Liu’s servant, pouring water and serving tea, and Mo Yu rolled his eyes. He is now Liu Xianglian’s apprentice, and he refuses to lend his servant’s life to others.On the contrary, Mingyan is magnanimous and teaches Baner the precautions.

Baoyu took a look and asked Mingyan to teach him for a few days.He did this because he wanted to be alone, grab tea and take care of the children.By the way, Baner is not a servant, so why learn the skills of a servant?

After finishing homework at night and resting, the first thing a certain one did was to enter the colorful stone space to read the original work.

Wucaishi wondered: “Can you memorize it backwards?”

False Stone sighed: “Many important things are only written in passing, such as the draft, which has never been written directly…”

Wucaishi interrupted: “Three times related to Rongfu, the time in Yuanchun, Baochai went to Beijing once, but none of them participated in the serious draft, only the time when Zhen’s family went to Beijing, next year.”

Baoyu slapped the book with a “slap”: “That’s right! Four women from the Zhen family came to Rongfu to meet Jia’s mother. Afterwards, Mrs. Wang took Shenying’s waiter to see Mrs. Zhen and Miss Zhen San. This should be the last daughter of the Zhen family to enter.” Royal, who did you marry?”

Wucaishi said: “It refers to marrying the son of Prince Zhongshun. Two years later, Zhen’s family was copied. You didn’t catch the Grand View Garden when you wore it last time. No wonder you didn’t remember it.”

Baoyu sighed a long time: “I only catch up with the old concubine, uh, Concubine Zhen is not well, and many things are ahead of schedule, she will not pass away next year, right? Jialan failed the hospital exam, I hope it will not affect the Qinzhong county exam .”

Wucaishi smiled: “It’s just a concubine, the scientific examination is related to the fate of the country, how can you suspend the selection of scholars for a concubine?”

The author has something to say: Hurry up and read the original work, all the important things are done in one stroke, who will remember it.