The next day, Lin Daiyu went to Hong's place first, and the two of them saved Mrs. Zhang together and had breakfast together. This Daiyu is in Rongguo Mansion when she sits up and behaves with Jia's mother, Jia's mother is a person who likes to be lively with her children and grandchildren, Daiyu and Baoyu needless to say, Yingchun, Tanchun, and Xichun, the three granddaughters are always close to you, and Shi Xiangyun, Xue Baochai, etc. are often invited to eat and play together; However, this Shangshu Mansion Mrs. Zhangtai was quiet, so the Cui family and the Chai family made two rounds to ask for a greeting, but they only stood up and invited each other, and there was no more to accompany each other, and it was inevitable that Daiyu would be a little strange. As a result, I heard Hong's ask: "I haven't seen my sister-in-law yet, did I go out to Zhongxian Bo's Mansion this morning?"

Mrs. Zhang smiled: "It's been like this for a while. Although her brother and sister-in-law have come to Nanjing's house, it has only been a day and two nights, and two of the three things over there are handled by her, so she will hand over the shift, and she will have to pay it for four or five days. What's more, her brother is a little bit loud, no matter how big or small, it is not easy to be vague and confused. Picking you up yesterday, she has been hiding for a day, and she can't do it today. But then again, in the end, it is the person in charge, she has done enough for half a day in a day, plus there are signature words like you and Lin Yatou, you just look at it, and rush home before dinner. You don't have to be busy looking for her at the wrong time, I have already told her, she still doesn't have to worry about the affairs of the family, I just concentrate on accompanying you these days, okay?"

Hong said: "Aunt arranged, what else is not bad? And Nanjing is not the first to come back, and she may have to accompany her to walk around." My aunt felt sorry for her daughter-in-law, so she said that she didn't have to get involved with me. As he spoke, he deliberately twisted his head to the side.

Mrs. Zhang laughed when she saw this, and said, "You are smart, you can guess my heart at once." But if you are smart, you should not respond immediately? I must say two or three more sentences. I think it's my mother who is used to it. Lin girl, don't learn from your aunt in the future. ”

This Daiyu was listening to them intently, and suddenly threw this sentence, and her face suddenly turned red. Next to him, Hong Shi only laughed and said, "It's good to be like me." Who doesn't like the old lady coming down from the house? ”

Mrs. Zhang couldn't help laughing, pointed at her and shook her twice, and then fell down and slapped her thigh. Hong smiled and stepped forward to stroke her back. Daiyu also asked for tea from the maid and handed it over. Mrs. Zhang nodded again and again, only said "good boy", and slowly ate two bites with her hand, and asked Daiyu: "Miss Lin has been gossiping all morning, but she feels bored? Because I am lazy, I am especially afraid of annoyance in the morning, so I have always omitted the greeting ceremony. And the family is used to do morning classes and morning reading, and your sisters don't usually eat breakfast at my place, so I didn't think about this for a while, but asked you to sit for such a long time. You're too careful, and you don't say anything if you're bored, this is talking to your aunt and grandmother. ”

Daiyu hurriedly said that she was not bored. Mrs. Zhang said to Hong: "This girl is a top courtesy, I asked in vain, and she is really old." He pulled Daiyu to sit beside him and said with a smile: "Yu'er will hold on for a while." The weather in Nanjing is the hottest, and in two or three quarters of an hour, the sun will come up outside, and there will be no one in this room. Let's go to the open hall at the edge of the garden at the back. It's almost time for your sisters to get out of school, and they'll all go over there and call them stubborn with you. ”

Mrs. Zhang asked Daiyu what she had read. Daiyu replied and asked the sisters what they were reading. Mrs. Zhang smiled: "It's just playing with my father and brother." She is now talking about the "Selected Works" in her school, and there are the first four histories, and a few of her who she likes and is interested in listening to them herself, and she has to go and listen to them one by one. It's a pity that although this dynasty is more open than the previous dynasty, there are still restrictions in the end, otherwise, ten or twenty years later, what can a female jinshi not do?"

Hong Shi listened to the busy said: "Female Jinshi and the like, I heard Hui'er say that someone made up a new play, about a woman who learned because of her talent, dressed up as a man and went all the way to Beijing, and was admitted to the Jinshi, and was appointed to join the army. Hui'er also said that this play came about for a reason, although it is a drama, there are really three points of truth. ”

Mrs. Zhang smiled: "You reminded me - there is really such a drama, that is, "The Story of Spring Peach" written by the former dynasty, and it is really based on such a woman, that is, Huang Chongyi of the former Shu, whose person and affairs were originally included in the "Taiping Guangji". It's just that there is no section on the entrance examination: first, there was no imperial examination in Shuzhong at that time, and secondly, the original record also said that it was an official who was sponsored by the local governor. I don't think that the people of later generations will add oil and sauce, and there will be perfunctory dramas with pens, and what kind of women disguise themselves as men to take the Jinshi examination, this is really a joke for fools and foolish women -- think that although the systems of the various dynasties and generations are different, how can there be any ambiguity in the matter of picking talents? Not to mention the Jinshi, the Xiucai who only stepped on the door also signed up and kept the knot before entering, and all the roots and ends of the festival were checked, where is a woman who can mix up with the clothes casually? That is, in those situations where the chaos is king, can barely be said roundly. Therefore, those who write dramas also like to use the remnants of the Tang Dynasty the most. It's just that in the end, there was a Huang Chongyi, which made people get the root of the story. "The Story of Spring Peach" is not bad, but unfortunately it has not been passed on well, and now it is scattered and not written. Now that it's a new compilation, could it be that someone has combed it up from scratch?"

Hong smiled: "I only listen to the novelty of the story, and I don't care about it." My aunt should know that she should call him over and ask. ”

Mrs. Zhang said: "Just ask a question, but I have to work to run two miles of land." On a strange hot day, I feel sorry for his mother. And I have already decided, I will invite a group of small opera artists to come the day after tomorrow, and everyone will be lively while they are reunited. After noon, someone in his class should come to set the repertoire, and then he will ask by the way. What kind of drama does Lin girl see? Whatever she wants, she will sue me. If they are not good at it, they can call another house. ”

While the three of them were talking, they heard footsteps outside, but it was Chai who brought someone over. After seeing the salute a few times, he said to Mrs. Zhang: "The garden is all cleaned up." Fearing that I would not be able to resist using ice, I told them to wash the ground two or three times with water from a deep well. Then I have all kinds of picks over there, and my mother should feel the cold and heat, and she can change them at any time. In addition, I met people with Brother Xiang and Brother Hui in the garden, saying that his two brothers were tinkering with a 'cool car' on the side of the low mountain, saying that it would take a short time to get it ready. The old lady, Mrs. Uncle, and Miss Lin went over for a while, and then they were ready to go. I couldn't help but ask, "Mother, what kind of car is that?"

When Mrs. Zhang heard her words, she smiled at Hong's family: "Needless to say, it must be like a boy again." On the other hand, he told Sù Chai: "It should not be a 'cool car', most of it is a rollover, it is to bring water to the roof, and walk through a pipe of copper, pottery, or glass buried in the shape of a woven net, and take the coolness of the water." The Tang Dynasty people recorded this method in their books. ”

Chai said: "Sure enough, I haven't seen it again, I haven't seen it." ”

Mrs. Zhang smiled: "This has nothing to do with knowledge. The pipes on the main roof are rare and easy to break, so there are not many people who really use them. There is another one, the amount of water used must be sufficient, and the water flows back and forth to keep it cool. Although you were at home for the first two years, the rain was scarce in the summer, and a little more water went to the canal outside, so you couldn't stay at home; Now it's good, it rained for half a month in a row, and the pond and waterways at home are full. We will leave him alone, but just enjoy our go. ”

So they went to the garden. To the garden, you can see when the door is a stone screen more than one zhang high, it is a picture of the natural generation of ice plum, the vigorous branches spiral up from the cliff ice hanging, overbearing like a dragon, the flowers on the top are scorching, the clouds are pressed with snow, a group of midspring posture, the craggy mountain rock below is embedded with two words: "Yue algae". Daiyu saw that these two words were thin gold, and they were sharp, but they revealed the meaning of green and vigorous, but there was no knowledge of the style, and I didn't know who wrote it. When Mrs. Zhang saw her staying, she smiled and said, "This is according to the plaque of the Algae Garden in Beijing." The garden over there is bigger, and the scenery is rich, but there is no stone screen, so it is not as good as this. On the one hand, he led Daiyu to see the stones, flowers and trees in the garden, the pavilions and pavilions, and told the name.

At one point, I will arrive at the open hall near the water. Before sitting down, all the maids and maids served tea, and a group of people approached on the way there, but it was a group of girls from Shangshu Mansion, talking and laughing all the way to this side - it was Huang Rong and Huang Li from Mrs. Cui, the wife of Huang Ping in the second room, Huang Qian from Mrs. Zang in the third room, Huang Bei from Huang Xing's concubine room but raised by Mrs. Wang since childhood, and Huang Wei, the firstborn daughter of Huang Nian's stepwife Chai. A group of five people entered the hall, first greeted Mrs. Zhang, and then saluted the Hong family and the Chai family, and then surrounded Lin Daiyu to talk. Daiyu replied on the one hand, and remembered it with her heart: because of the hurry of meeting yesterday, Lin Daiyu asked Hong to take her in front of Mrs. Zhang all the time, and before she had time to say more words with her cousins, she only remembered the general description of her appearance. Fortunately, although there are three rooms in this Huang Mansion, except for Huang Rui, the eldest daughter of the second room, who has been out of the cabinet, the rest of the girls are from the seventeen-year-old Huang Rong, and the following Huang Li, Huang Qian, Huang Bei, and Huang Wei are all two years old, but they are also quite easy to identify. At this time, Daiyu paid special attention to the place, and felt that the old people were quiet, the books were Qinghua, and the young people were lively and happy. There is also a four-line Huang Qian, who is only one month away from Dai Yucha's birthday, because he is very close. Mrs. Zhang looked at it above, and smiled with the Hong family and the Chai family: "It's good to be like this among sisters." ”

This Huang Qian pulled Daiyu to ask long and short questions, talking about several experiences in Shenjing and Yangzhou, and people and customs; and said that when he was young, he also lived in Beijing with his grandmother Mrs. Zhang for six or seven years, and then followed his uncle to return to Ningning. I only heard her laugh and said: "I was still young at the time, and I took the elders to play, and I don't remember anything, and I don't know how many times I dislike the third brother uselessly." Sister Lin is better than me. Regardless of the experience and viewing, the single impression is much deeper than mine. I should say it in detail, let my sister open her eyes, turn her head and say a few words at will to the third brother, which not only relieves him of a piece of longing, but also shows that I still have a bit of memory and ability, but not the best of all three?"

When everyone heard her say this, they all recalled the words of the yellow elephant yesterday, and they all laughed for a while. Huang Qian took Mrs. Zhang's hand holding the fan again, and said coquettishly: "The old lady also laughed at me, didn't I have some memories of the original, but now that Sister Lin came, she talked about it, and hooked them all out? As long as the old lady, aunt, mother, and sisters don't say anything, I think the third brother will not be able to guess the real reason for this, so he will look up to me, and maybe he will apologize for what happened before. ”

Mrs. Zhang said: "You still don't know your brother's temper? You are born with a cow's heart and left-mindedness, and you are a intestine to the end, and you still like to compete with him for the length of these things, how long will the lawsuit of Chen Sesame Rotten Grain go? He smiled at Lin Daiyu and said: "When the Yongfu Temple of Lingsui Mountain was unfortunately blessed with Zhurong, Master Songbai made a vow to choose another wonderful place and rebuild the temple. I also joined the old sisters in Kyoto to donate a piece of merit money. I don't know how it has been in the past few years

Daiyu replied, "It's already a wish." The new Yongfuji Temple is located in the western suburbs of Baelongpo at the foot of Heshan Mountain. I went to incense with my grandmother, I went there twice, and I saw that it was very magnificent and clean, and the incense was also prosperous. ”

Mrs. Zhang nodded, and said: "The small bamboo forest of Yongfu Temple back then was the most Zen. It's a pity that the wildfire has passed, and there is no longer that scenery. ”

Daiyu said with a smile: "My aunt and grandmother don't know that now Yongfu Temple also has a purple bamboo forest, and there are even reed ponds and reed seas. When you look at the season, the green tent is connected to the sky, and the flying flowers are better than the snow, which is another scenery. ”

Mrs. Zhang hurriedly said: "Oh, this is good. The leaves are green, on the water side. When I go back to Beijing in the future, I will have to go and see it. ”

As he was talking, he suddenly felt a gust of wind, which was refreshing. Then the cool breeze came one after another, and the wind carried the water vapor of flowers and trees, which was full of fragrant fragrance. Everyone couldn't help shouting "good wind", and felt that the wind was coming strangely, and since Mrs. Zhang, they all got up together and looked at the place where the wind came from.

Sure enough, I saw a few people coming out of the side of the low mountain from a distance, and everyone recognized the clothes and descriptions, and the first ones were Zhang Hui and Huang Xiang; the two people clapped their hands and laughed, although they were far away, they could also see that they were very proud. Mrs. Zhang hurriedly shouted: "Call him two quickly." The people below also flew away.

In a short time, the two arrived in the open hall. Just a glance, everyone in the open hall was surprised: it turned out that the two of them looked excited, and the smile between their eyebrows couldn't stop coming out, but their eyes were full of bloodshots, and two blister-like black greens appeared under their eyes-so frightened that Mrs. Zhang Huo Di fell away from the people on both sides and walked straight up, and the two hurriedly stepped forward to help, and were immediately pulled by one hand, and looked at them carefully, and only asked: "How did you make it look like this?" and asked Chai Shi on the side: "What's the matter?"

Zhang Hui hurriedly said: "Don't do the third aunt's business." It's me two fooling around, and I didn't get a good rest last night. ”

Mrs. Zhang said angrily: "Why haven't you rested? Look at your eyes, you usually don't sleep all night and don't cut like this! How do the people serve?"

I didn't want to say anything, so the yellow elephant shouted first: "Stop! Don't be busy running." He turned to Mrs. Zhang and said, "What are the old ladies doing to tie them up? Can they still care about what we do? And don't pay attention to these things for now, the old lady only said that the limelight is good now? Compared to the seven-wheel fan I made before, how is it?"

Mrs. Zhang was stunned by the question, and replied casually: "The seven-wheel fan you made in front of you...... Is it the 'impeller wind' that I made according to the "Xijing Miscellaneous Records"? It's really much better. This limelight is fresh and refreshing, and the important thing is that the strength is stronger than the first, and the blowing is open to people. I think I've improved those bulky shapes. As he spoke, he looked out the window in the direction of the low mountain, looking for the skeleton of the wheel fan that was installed nearby. Unexpectedly, this hope froze again, and hurriedly asked: "What's the matter? Why is the fan missing? Or is it that this wind is blowing through the pool? How many people should be running such a strong wind? Even if it is to cool off the heat, we should also have mercy on manpower." ”

Huang Xiang laughed out loud and said, "Don't worry, old lady—tell me that the old lady knows, I'm not even a person! I took a winch to connect the wheel fan with the water wheel under the waterfall, and drove the wheel fan by the water power, and got such a good wind!" Unfortunately, the time was too short, and the two of us worked overnight, and only got four in total. But it's enough to take care of this side in the end. I thought that in a few more days, I would be able to get such a set of places with the height difference of the waterways in the garden, and then adjust and calculate the proportional angle of the deflection of the fan lattice on each plane, and with the water veins circulating, the old lady would be able to come at any time according to her wishes when there was wind in the garden, and in which direction she wanted! What did the old lady think? Should my cousin and I be rewarded?

Mrs. Zhang saw him dancing with her hands, and she couldn't wait to immediately go to install it herself, and she was really funny in her heart: "You should be rewarded! Naturally, you should be rewarded, or you should be rewarded—reward you with a thick board!" As she spoke, her face bluffed, and she called Chai's family: "The third daughter-in-law, you remember! The companion in the third young master's house, from Zhao Jin down, was beaten forty last night, and twenty was beaten if he was not in his position; Then instruct the internal and external account rooms, in these three months, the third young master is not allowed to pay even a copper din of silver, and he is not allowed to hang accounts outside, who dares to disobey my words, teach me, I will not send him down, just don't enter the gate of the Huang family again!"

Everyone was startled when they heard this, and the yellow elephant was like a thunderous child, a rain-drenched shrimp toad, staying in place for a long time, and suddenly fell to the ground on both knees, and hugged Mrs. Zhang's leg with her hands open, and shouted in her mouth: "Don't do their business! Ah Jin and Fanlu can't control me anymore! The old lady wants to be punished, only beat me alone, don't implicate others!" Next to him, Zhang Hui also knelt down and begged: "It's me who failed to dissuade my cousin, and I still mess around, my aunt and grandmother punish me!"

This Mrs. Zhang was lying to scare, but Zhang Hui knelt down, and immediately brought a group of granddaughters in the open hall to intercede for the two of them, and the Chai family also persuaded him to be hateful and filial piety; when he looked at it, only the Hong family avoided it, his face was annoyed, and he wanted to laugh, and his face was twisted very hard-so that Mrs. Zhang could only hate it: "It's true that I did evil in my last life, and I have cultivated such a heavenly demon star!" shouted to Huang Xiang and Zhang Hui: "Don't get up yet? What do you look like? I'm not afraid of your sister Lin's jokes!" asked someone to immediately escort him back to the room, and ordered: "Sleep for four hours first, and then settle down to punish him when you wake up!"

Mrs. Zhang spoke to Zhao Jin, who was kneeling on the steps outside the open hall, and asked, "Brother Xiang'er's things, there are people watching them everywhere?"

Zhao Jin hurriedly replied: "Yes." The young master ordered that someone should be left in each place to watch and record the flow of water, the number of revolutions, and the direction of the wind. ”

Mrs. Zhang called him up, and ordered him to lead him to the nearest place to see. While saying to Hong's family: "I want to see what kind of good thing it is, so that his brother and son don't even want to sleep! He shouted that the girls might as well go with him, and said, "See with your own eyes how they are messing around, hold the handle, and you can be coerced in the future - don't be busy, Qianya, help your sister Lin." Saying that, the group went to the near of the low mountain and under the small waterfall of the mountain stream, and sure enough, they saw that the machinery was interlocking, running in tandem, and the cool breeze was endless. Everyone couldn't help but praise: "What a clever design!

Huang Qian was even more impressed and said: "The skilled craftsmen in the world will bow their heads in front of the third brother." ”

Huang Li said: "Xijing Miscellaneous Records" said that the seven-wheel fan was transported by manpower, and now the Xiang'er brothers use water power, which can be seen to be a step higher. ”

Huang Rong pointed to the connected winch and said, "That's what Xiang'er said, the place calculated by the cousin of the Zhang family? It's embarrassing that it was all calculated clearly overnight, and it was made as it was, just to make the old lady cool today. This kind of filial piety is really inferior to women like us. ”

Mrs. Zhang said: "I have already let them go, why are you not enough, do you have to turn around and praise them to be happy?" On the one hand, I am filial to the elders, and on the other hand, the elders are worried, and the two sides are still reluctant, and there is no such reason in the world to praise such filial piety. It can be seen that you can't read, and all the good scriptures have been read crookedly. The women bowed their heads together. Mrs. Zhang recruited the Hong family again and asked, "Brother Wang's daughter-in-law, what do you say I said?"

Hong said: "I don't read, I don't know what the truth is. I only know that people's hearts are born to be biased, and it is normal to be crooked at every turn. The crowd burst into laughter. Mrs. Zhang also laughed, and took everyone to enjoy it again, and then went to the open hall again, sat and talked and laughed, and did not disperse until they had lunch and rested.

But it was said that Lin Daiyu followed the Hong family back to the house, freshened up and changed clothes, and Zijuan and Qinghe served to sleep in the tent in the inner room. Outside, the Hong family did not stop, and called the big girl Bai Wei to speak in a low voice, but he was discussing the matter of Zhang Hui and Huang Xiang's cousins last night. This Daiyu listened unconsciously, and only listened to Bai Wei and Hong's words: "Listen to what Fanlu said, it is our brother who cherishes his brother, seeing that the young master is worried about the mechanical matter of the fan, and there is the first honest and obedient gift to give his favorite things to Miss Lin to apologize, so he can help." Besides, like the young master, he didn't get this set of things just to enjoy the coolness, but really wanted to get the top of the house, spinning wheel, sails, and the like. Brother said that if the young master can really get it, it is a great merit, so he must also do his best. ”

Hong Shi smiled: "What am I saying? It turns out that these are a few words. is still the same as his Lao Tzu, whenever he is free, he loves to grind these things on the bank. I don't see what's interesting in it. Always let them go. It's just that I don't delay the business of studying. ”

Bai Wei said: "Grandma is not in a hurry. Our brother has the right idea in his heart. Otherwise, the aunt and wife would not let it go gently. Fanlu also whispered to me that my brother and the young master had agreed to complete three homework before nightfall tomorrow, so that they could apologize to Mrs. Auntie and Uncle Xing. ”

Hong couldn't help laughing: "Three lessons? Didn't the two of them plan to stay up all night? You have to go and help me take a look, don't let anyone catch knives for them." Bai Wei also smiled.

As he said two more words, his voice grew softer, as if he had gone to the other room. Daiyu also felt that her eyelids were gradually sinking, and she was lazy, and she slowly fell asleep without mentioning it.

*Concentrate*

Lak – dialect transliteration. It is not easy to describe a person who is verbose, grinding, and picky, or it is not easy to be satisfied, or the procedure of a thing is cumbersome, lengthy, easy to grow extraneous branches, and many uncertain factors lead to poor progress. This word is mainly a description of nature, not a derogatory term, but it will be a headache to meet such people or things. By the way, Xue Baochai's cold incense pills, its concoction is a "very lakh thing".

Impeller wind, seven-wheel fan - "Xijing Miscellaneous Notes": "Chang'an craftsman Ding slowly made seven round fans, most of them are in diameter, continuous, one person transports it, and the hall is full of shivers. ”。