The Second Master of the Red Chamber

Chapter 592

In the afternoon at Quicui Nunnery, the fragrance of flowers permeated in the autumn wind, swaying in the hearts of beauties, causing waves of ripples.

Miaoyu raised her head and glanced at Jia Lian who was on the opposite side of the stone table, and handed over a newly made tea in her hand. Suddenly, two clouds floated on her cheeks, and she couldn't help asking softly, "What are you looking at..."

Jia Lian took the teacup and lifted the beauty's plain hand casually. Seeing the beauty dodging shyly, he chuckled, took a sip of the good tea, and then read aloud: "There is a beauty whose hands are like catkins, whose skin is like creamy fat, and whose collar is like The grub has teeth like a gourd rhinoceros, its head is like a moth, its eyebrows are moth-like, it smiles sweetly, and its eyes look hopeful."

Looking at the beauty in front of him, Jia Lian thought of the good night last night, and he was very satisfied and happy.

And Miaoyu naturally understood that Jia Lian was praising her, she couldn't help showing a smile, and reproached, "Spoof."

When Jiao Chen's words came out, even she felt surprised, and felt that her behavior was very different from her past, so she couldn't help recalling the entrustment to her life last night, and felt her cheeks burn, as if thousands of deer were bumping into her heart .

This frivolous prodigal son clearly deceived himself, but he couldn't feel any resentment towards him in his heart.On the contrary, because of his sudden visit before, I was very happy in my heart, and after thinking about it, I felt that I was really not very promising.Therefore, he quickly restrained his girlish demeanor and put on a calm expression.

But she didn't know that the more unkind and cold she was, the more Jia Lian was ready to move. If she hadn't known Miaoyu would not, Jia Lian really wanted to hold her in his arms and enjoy the beauty and good tea.

"You should go back."

Although Miaoyu didn't know Jia Lian's inner calculations, she could understand Jia Lian's increasingly wanton gaze.Because I still have all kinds of worries in my heart, I have to speak up.

"No rush." ​​Jia Lian continued drinking tea.

Seeing this, Miaoyu frowned slightly, but she didn't say much anymore, she poured herself half a cup of tea, and tasted it, enjoying this beautiful afternoon tea time with her sweetheart.

"Hee hee hee, do you see what I said is right, they are indeed making tea and discussing Taoism, what an elegant scene!"

The voice of the girl jumping for joy disturbed the tranquility under the rose trellis.Jia Lian and Miaoyu turned their heads to look, and looked through the window of the courtyard partition wall, and saw Tanchun happily walking towards this side with Shi Xiangyun, who was half a head shorter than her.

Jia Lian only smiles, but Miaoyu is suddenly glad that she and Jia Lian have not behaved out of the ordinary.The two of them sat facing each other, and there was only a set of tea sets in their own collection on the table. He expected that in the eyes of outsiders, he and Jia Lian were really just drinking tea and chatting.

Thinking of this, Miaoyu raised her posture more and more calmly.

"Second Brother Lian, Sister Lin has been looking for you everywhere, but who knew you would hide here, have you forgotten what you promised her last night?"

As soon as Tanchun met, he started to spread rumors.

Jia Lian saw through the loopholes in Tanchun's words at a glance.Due to Daiyu's girly personality, even if she wanted to find him, she would only touch him quietly, without showing any traces to others.

But Jia Lian didn't have the heart to argue with Tanchun, because after Tanchun's voice fell, Miaoyu, who was originally as elegant as the autumn wind, suddenly had a three-point cold expression.

She glanced at Jia Lian, "Since someone is looking for you, Lord Hou, go down the mountain. I'm sorry."

After finishing speaking, he and Tanchun and Xiangyun nodded their heads as a signal, and went straight to the Zen room.

This surprised the two daughters of Tanchun, but because Miaoyu had always been withdrawn, she didn't care about it. Then she arrested Jia Lian and went down the mountain, and told Jia Lian what they wanted to row a boat.

Jia Lian had no reason to refuse, and immediately asked Xiangyun to go back to report the letter, while he personally led Tanchun to the dock, and released the Tang wooden boat and the awning boat.

At one time, Yingchun, Baochai and others came, and everyone boarded the boat.

"The elder sister-in-law said she had something to do, so she didn't come."

Jia Lian didn't say anything, and asked to send some chessboards and fishing tackle for the fun of the cruise.

So Jia Lian, Xue Baochai, Lin Daiyu, Sanchun sisters, Shi Xiangyun and other masters took the larger black-covered boat, while their respective maids and two boat maids who were familiar with water took the several black-covered boats behind them. accompanying.

The autumn water is gurgling, and there is a bit of chill in the clearness.

Daiyu, who was staring at Qiuqing, just tightened the clothes on her shoulders when she felt a warm weight covering her body.Looking back, it was indeed Jia Lian who put his cloak on her body, which made her blush immediately, and said quickly: "I don't need it, you can put it on yourself."

While speaking, he wanted to take off his clothes.One of them was that she was embarrassed to accept Jia Lian's love and care in front of her sisters, and the other was that she saw Jia Lian took off her cloak, and she only had a slim linen underneath, so she was afraid that Jia Lian would be cold.

"do not move."

How could Jia Lian give Daiyu a chance to refuse.Pull the double front of the cloak towards Daiyu's chest, tighten it around her waist and abdomen, then squat down in front of her, and fasten the belt tightly for her.

Naturally, other people saw their actions. The little sisters had different expressions, and most of them snickered.This made Daiyu feel even more embarrassed, and she gave Jia Lian a few hard glances, but did not move again.

His clothes are really warm...

After Jia Lian wrapped Daiyu in his cloak, he took a step back and looked at her, very satisfied.It feels like making a cute little rice dumpling with my own hands.

After getting up, Jia Lian said frankly, facing everyone's mocking eyes: "She is weak, and Zijuan is not here, so naturally I have to take good care of her."

According to the etiquette, Daiyu has already promised Jia Lian, so it is not appropriate for the two to meet.But Daiyu is in a special situation and needs to be fostered in Jia's house, so it is impossible not to meet each other.

And the reason why Jia Lian showed his closeness and love for Daiyu in public without any scruples was to let everyone get used to it and avoid Daiyu's shyness.Otherwise, whenever there are outsiders around, this girl will be shy in front of him, and she will not dare to speak, which is quite different from the sharp mouth she used to be.

Everyone obviously didn't care about Jia Lian's explanation.Tanchun, who was fishing with a fishing rod in his hand, made a gesture to touch Yingchun, who was playing chess with Baochai next to him, and said with a smile, "Second sister, are you cold?"

Yingchun reacted a bit slower, and asked suspiciously, "It's not cold, what's wrong?"

"Oh, that's nothing. I also said that Si Qi and Xiuju are not on the boat. If you are also cold, what should you do?

I don't think Lian's second brother has any second clothes to wear.It turned out that what was said in the play was true. Most of the elder brother loved his younger sister, but once he married his sister-in-law, he immediately left his younger sister aside. "

This bold and humorous remark made everyone laugh.

Even Yingchun shook her head, but couldn't help but glance at Jia Lian.It's a pity that I really don't seem to be cold, it's all because I wore too much clothes when I came out.

Facing everyone's teasing, Daiyu looked very embarrassed.But the clothes had already covered him well, and taking them off at this time would make him look ugly, so he simply took the usual measures, pretending not to see, turned around and continued to look at the scenery on the lake.

As for Jia Lian, he was quite composed, and even went to watch the chess with Yingchun and the two of them.

The two protagonists are like this, and the others will gradually skip this.

Sitting next to Baochai watching chess for a while, interjecting, and imitating Daiyu for a while, Xiangyun, who looked out at the scenery, was unusually restless.

Because the Tang wooden boat sailed into the Lianhua Lane in Qinfang River, I saw broken lotus leaves and scattered yellow lotus stalks on the surface of the stream, showing a desolate and decadent atmosphere.

Shi Xiangyun sighed and said: "When I came here in spring, I saw them planting lotus in the pond, and they planted such a large area. I also said that in summer, I must come and see the lotus in full bloom. Who knows that I didn't come... ..."

In words, there are indescribable regrets and losses.

Jia Lian's mind was moved after hearing this, he still vaguely remembered that this girl's life in the Shi's house was not satisfactory, thinking that her aunt and others were not charitable people, that's why she always wanted to come to Jia's house to play.

It's a pity that I ignored it. After careful calculation, this girl really hasn't been to Rongguo Mansion for a long time except for the day of Jiamu's birthday.I don't know how many worries and grievances are hidden in this girl's heart, it's hard for her to be so lively and cheerful.

The others didn't know about Xiangyun's family, and they all thought she was simply regretting not seeing the lotus.

Tanchun laughed and said, "It doesn't matter if you haven't seen it, the lotus flowers are all the same in the world, and there is nothing to see. If you really like it, I have people pick a lot of lotus pods in summer, and dry them to prepare porridge. I'll give you a pack, as if you saw the lotus too."

Xiang Yun was very annoyed when he heard that, "Why don't you say to pull out a stump for me, that would be even better."

"If you like it, it's okay."

At this time, Yingchun also saw the withered lotus leaves in the pond, and said: "It's really desolate, why don't people pull up these dead branches and dead leaves, it's not good to stay here, it's easy to get rid of them after they rot. Polluted the stream."

Baochai dropped a child and said with a smile, "There are people visiting this garden every day. How can there be time for people to clean it up?"

Everyone looked at him at this time, but Jia Lian glanced at Daiyu, who was lonely from the back, and said, "It's that simple. I'll send someone tomorrow to pull up all the remnants of the lotus and take them away in a boat."

When Jia Lian said this, he deliberately loudly made sure that Daiyu could hear him.

Seeing Daiyu move, a faint voice came after a long time: "I don't like Li Yishan's poems the most, but I like one line."

Hearing Daiyu mentioning Li Shangyin and talking about poems, Xiangyun suddenly became interested, ran over to sit next to her and asked, "Why don't you like Li Yishan's poems, I think many of his poems are beautiful. So what do you like about him?"

Daiyu was obviously not in the mood to argue with Xiangyun at this time, she just replied slowly: "Leave the residual lotus to listen to the sound of rain~"

After finishing speaking, I will not say another word.

The rest of them all looked at each other in blank dismay.Among them, Yingchun is the most embarrassing. In this case, should brother listen to her and pull out the dead lotus, or should he listen to sister Lin and leave the residual lotus to listen to the sound of rain?
After Xiangyun was stunned for a moment, he sighed: "Sure enough, it's a good sentence, why haven't I heard it before. Looking at it now, these remnants have become much more respectable."

But Jia Lian deliberately wanted to draw out Daiyu's words.

He was curious, why did Daiyu not like Li Shangyin's poems?In theory, Li Shangyin's poems are exactly the same as Daiyu's in terms of the beauty of rhythm and the feeling of hazy and lingering sorrow.

Li You said, "When we meet, it is also difficult to say goodbye, and the east wind is weak, and the flowers are gone."

Li You said "The red building looks cold across the rain, and the beaded foil floating lantern returns alone", and Daiyu has "the green light illuminates the wall, and the person is sleeping for the first time, and the cold rain knocks on the window and the quilt is not warm".

Li You said that "this feeling can be remembered, but it was already lost at that time", and Daiyu said that "once the spring is gone, the beauty will grow old, and the flower will fall and the person will die, and the two will not know."

Li You "was already high and hard to eat, and I hated Fei Sheng in vain. At the fifth watch, I want to be broken, and a tree is ruthless", while Dai Yu said, "I don't care about marrying and Dongfengchun. Let me go, bear the flood and stay."

There are too many, and Jia Lian even feels in a trance that Daiyu is a character written according to Li Shangyin's poems.

Therefore, Jia Lian felt that Daiyu didn't like Li Bai's wildness, Du Fu's concern for the country and the people, and Su Dongpo's boldness.She said that she didn't like Li Shangyin's poems, and Jia Lian felt that this girl was probably lying.

So Jia Lian said with a smile: "This is very difficult. Your second sister wants to pull out the remnant lotus, but you want to keep the remnant lotus to listen to the sound of rain..."

Before Jia Lian finished speaking, Yingchun hurriedly said, "Don't pull it out, I think what Sister Lin said makes sense."

Yingchun's position was too soft, Jia Lian chose to ignore it, and continued to say to Daiyu: "Unless you can tell us all why you don't like Li Yishan's poems, I will listen to you and keep these remnants. "

Daiyu glanced at Jia Lian, then shrugged indifferently, "If you want to pull it out, you can pull it out. It's none of my business."

"Uh……"

Jia Lian didn't expect Daiyu to be so shameless, and it's not easy to use personal attacks on her in front of other people, so she was stunned for a while.

When the others saw this, although they found it amusing, they also sighed: Daiyu was the only one present, so how dare Jia Lian go down in front of her face.

Facing everyone's eyes, Jia Lian wished he could grab Daiyu and hit her little butt a few times to relieve his anger.

Seeing that Jia Lian couldn't press the question, they sat down unhappily. The others laughed and asked one after another: "It's exactly Sister Lin (Girl Lin), why don't you like Li Yishan's poems?"

"Oh, are you bothered? If you ask one by one, everyone will ask. I said I don't like Li Yishan's poems, but you are so curious? I also said that I don't like other people asking questions, so you have to find out too. after all?"

Faced with Lin Daiyu's outcry, everyone expressed helplessness, but it was not unacceptable.

Xichun said, "That's right, sister Lin, why don't you like us asking you questions?"

Daiyu looked at her, "Have you thought about the tasks that the old lady entrusted to you? Landscape figures, palaces and pavilions, every plant, every tree, every brick and every tile, have you thought about how to draw them? And the old lady But as I said, if you want to be in the painting, you must draw the scene of our visit to the garden today, do you know how to do it?"

Xichun was speechless when asked, and finally understood why Daiyu didn't like being asked questions, it was really annoying.

Seeing Xichun's dumb look, Daiyu was suddenly happy, wrapped in Jia Lian's cloak, leaned on the railing of the boat, and continued to laugh: "You don't need to draw anything else today, but don't forget about the grass and insects. Already!"

Everyone was amazed, Xichun asked, "What kind of grass and insects?"

"Other things are easy to talk about. If the female locust is not painted today, wouldn't it be a lack of code?"

When Baochai and others heard this, they couldn't help laughing.We all know what Daiyu was talking about, what happened when Mother Jia took Grandma Liu and her granddaughters to visit the garden in the morning, especially at noon at Qiushuangzhai, where Grandma Liu, who was full and full of food, went to the garden again in front of everyone. Singing and dancing, the momentum is like locusts crossing the border.

Therefore, this female locust certainly refers to Grandma Liu.

Daiyu doesn't laugh at death for life. Seeing everyone eating this trick, she sat up even more and said to Xichun with a smile: "Hurry up and finish the painting. I've even thought up the inscription and postscript for you. I'll name it and call it How about making "Chewing with Locusts"?"

When everyone heard the words, they all fell on their backs.Among them, Shi Xiangyun, who was closest to Daiyu, watched Daiyu say these words, and she couldn't straighten up from laughing. One of them lost her support and almost fell out of the cabin. Everyone was shocked to help her.

Jia Lian quietly looked at the laughing girls, especially Daiyu who hadn't laughed like this for a long time, and felt very relieved.

Looking around, I was even more relieved to find that Jia Baoyu was not there.My girl didn't hurt in vain, she really didn't want to see that kid so much, the needle was good.

　Don't say that Daiyu doesn't respect the old and respect the virtuous.To Daiyu and others, Grandma Liu is just a funny countryman. If you don’t agree with it, you can read the series of jokes that Grandma Liu made after entering the Grand View Garden in the original text... Maybe it’s not too funny to modern people. But for the sons and daughters of Duke Houmen's mansion, Grandma Liu shouldn't be too funny!

　　
　
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