Last time, when it came to the sisters in the flower hall betta fish, Mrs. Zhang was interested, and she wrote poems to remember, and agreed on rewards and punishments. Therefore, after dinner, everyone returned home, and they all did nothing. Lin Daiyu also ordered Zijuan and Qinghe to take paper, pen, ink and inkstone to prepare for the text. Just as Hong walked in, he smiled when he saw this: "On a whim, Mrs. Gu told you juniors to work hard. It's just that you're still weak, and you are not allowed to do such laborious work for me. Otherwise, if you are tired and hurt your spirits and lose your qi and blood, Uncle Guan's bitter medicine will be poured into buckets and buckets, but the gains outweigh the losses. ”

Daiyu hurriedly said, "Auntie said yes." It's just a joy today, and I can't share it with my father right away. ”

Hong smiled: "This is a serious truth, it's not good to stop you." It's just that writing at night hurts your eyes, so don't do it for too long. Left and right are not in a hurry at this moment. Besides, in less than three or five days, your father should also come over, Yu'er and relax. Then he instructed the maids, "Bring some more lamps from the house." Qinghe, fan the girl. Zijuan, you pay close attention to the Western clock over there, you are only allowed to walk for two moments at most, and the girl is not allowed to use her eyes more tonight. "Left and right hurriedly adjusted according to the instructions.

Hong sat next to him and watched Daiyu write a few words, and for a while he heard someone report: "Young Master Hui is here." Hong hurriedly walked out of the inner room, and when he saw Zhang coming back, he bowed, hurriedly pulled up, and asked with a smile: "Where did you come from?"

Zhang replied: "I just came back from outside, and I have also seen my aunt and grandmother." My father and uncle had dinner with Mr. Huang and Mr. Cheng, and they stayed at the academy tonight, and sent me to the house to talk about it, so as not to worry. ”

Hong hurriedly asked: "Tell me about your family, you will not go out for a while? Who are the people who are left to serve over there?"

Zhang Hui smiled: "The gentlemen don't want me to go over again." Fortunately, with Cui Bai and Brother Xiaoyi, they can watch their father and not eat too much wine. And I left the treasure behind. Although that kid is skinny, it is rare that he never makes a mistake in front of the teacher, and he is a little clever, if he really sees that something is wrong, he can do it by snatching the wine bowl and hiding the wine jar on the spot. Mother reassured. ”

Hong Shi suddenly laughed, and only said: "This formation is like how much he is restrained on weekdays, and he doesn't even have such freedom." And he said, "Why am I worried about this meal?" Tomorrow, your aunt and grandmother will invite him to eat and drink, and he will be drunk, and he will not be able to come to him, won't it spoil the interest of the elders? Fortunately, seeing that he eats wine on weekdays, the amount is not shallow. You just remember to bring the decanting soup early tomorrow morning. ”

Zhang Hui smiled: "Actually, this is always available over there." However, the mother's own handiwork is naturally different from the children in the academy. ”

When Hong heard this, he couldn't help but laugh again. I asked Zhang Hui how well he had dinner, who he met with Zhang Wang and Huang Xing today, and what the gentlemen in the academy said. Zhang replied concisely in two or three sentences, and then asked: "There is a letter from Yangzhou today." The person and the letter went to the uncle's side first, and the housekeeper's daughter-in-law brought things with the boat, and then went directly to this side of the house. Everyone has arrived home and seen Cousin Lin?"

Hong said: "The two grandmothers will arrive in the afternoon. It's just that I brought some homely things, and nothing else. Do you have a message from Uncle Lin over there, what are you doing sitting still, just talk to your sister. So the two went together to the back room.

Here, Daiyu got up early to greet her, and asked Zijuan to pour good tea. Zhang Hui smiled and said that he didn't need to be busy, so he took out a piece of paper from his sleeve, which was a copy of Lin Ruhai's letter written by Zhang Wang and Huang Xing, and handed it to Lin Daiyu. said: "Uncle Lin wrote to Shi for the third time, and it was sent out the day before yesterday. If there are no major accidents, you will be able to return in five days with a clear purpose. Uncle Lin intended to divide Yangzhou into two groups, one group was taken to Suzhou by the old steward, and the other group followed him directly to Nanjing. I will go to Yangzhou early the next morning, and if my sister has a letter, I will bring someone with me. Besides, my sister has a special love at home, and she didn't bring it in a hurry before, so you might as well make a list, and this time it's good to let people get it back. ”

Daiyu said: "It's only bothering my cousin." I will have someone come to you tomorrow. ”

Zhang Hui smiled: "My cousin and sister, why bother." ”

Next to him, Hong also smiled: "Lin girl has too much courtesy." He bent his fingers and counted the time, and said, "This time, it is just in time for the happy day of the Zhongxian Uncle's Mansion." The old uncle is only happy. ”

Zhang Hui said: "Uncle Lin let him start preparing a few days ago, and he also wanted not to miss this happy event. Mr. Huang, Mr. Cheng, and Mr. Li also said that Nanjing had the most classmates, classmates, and old friends. I can come a few days earlier, and I can arrange it with ease, and I don't have to rush all in one place, but I am tired. ”

Zhang Hui said here that Lin Daiyu had already memorized it with her heart, and calculated the time when her father arrived in Nanjing all the way, and then arranged for his actions. Suddenly, I heard someone outside say, "The eldest lady is here to invite the uncle's wife." ”

Hong asked, "Who is it?" ”

So I saw Danqing next to Mrs. Wang walk in, saluted the three of them, and said, "Mrs. suddenly remembered something important, please ask Mrs. Uncle to come over and say." ”

Hong smiled and said, "What's the matter, this morning and evening Baba will come to please." He stood up and said to Zhang Hui and Daiyu: "You brothers and sisters speak by themselves, and I will come to your aunt to take a look." ”

Here, Zhang Hui and Daiyu sent the Hong family out in the end, and then returned to the house and took their seats. Zhang Hui saw that the pen and inkstone on the table over there were neat, the new ink was still fragrant, and the inkstone corner was pressed with a small half of the paper, so he asked: "Sister is working hard, but I disturbed you?"

Daiyu smiled: "It's just nonsense." My cousin laughed. "Because it was interesting to tell about the betta fish in the afternoon, Mrs. Zhang ordered to write poems to remember. only said: "I have never written poetry seriously, I really don't know how to write, so I have to give it to my aunt and grandmother." I wrote a letter to my father to know that my father wanted to see the situation, or he had a wonderful text, and he had finished his aunt's errand. ”

Zhang replied: "Sister's words are too humble. People say that if you are familiar with 300 Tang poems, you will be able to make up if you don't know how to compose poems. My sister has read through the four books and five classics, and the poems are small, the sound and the words are smooth, and it is natural to come true. After thinking about it, he smiled again: "It's not like that, poetry and writing are the first talents, a flash of inspiration, and a natural skill." If you are really bound by ancient poetry and classics, you are looking for sentences and chapters, but you can't make up your own mind. My sister can just let her write now, and it's good to have my aunt and grandmother guide me to get started—but having said that, I don't believe that my sister hasn't been led by someone yet. ”

Hearing this sentence he added in vain at the end, Lin Daiyu couldn't help but smile slightly, and said, "I have always heard my father say that my aunt and grandmother are the real poets and writers. ”

Zhang Hui nodded and said, "So our junior words are just games in her eyes." Since the game,The original intention is to be fun and happy.,How many really good and bad things?It's my aunt's set of "Poetry Collection Money.,Plain and rare.,When my sister won the lottery this time.,But I'm going to borrow a copy with a shy face.。 ”

Daiyu saw that he was serious and his tone was firm, and she couldn't help but say: "The cousins here, who read the classics at an early age, read poetry early, and have always been in front of their aunt and grandmother. Why did my cousin say he wanted to come and ask me to borrow it?"

Zhang Hui smiled: "I just took a hexagram by acquiescence, and it is probably accurate." Lin Daiyu's face turned red. But he listened to Zhang Hui and continued: "That day, I saw my sister at Uncle Lin's place on the road to Yangzhou, 'several times to urge travelers, a lonely goose passed away from the cold clouds', 'How can you sleep for thousands of miles, and the rain knocks on the window one after another', the words are already interesting. There is also a flower viewing party in Baoyang Lake, "fish play white sand shallow, birds chirp green mountains horizontally", and Zeng Zigu won the "fish play is full of sina, and the birds cry thousands of steps into green shade". It's just that although the word 'cui' is young and cute, it is inevitable to be light and floating, and it is not as good as the word 'dai' to play calm and deep, and it can be in line with the strong scenery of midsummer. What does my sister think?"

He asked excitedly, not wanting Daiyu to just blush and bow her head without saying a word. Zhang Hui suddenly woke up, secretly regretted that he was relieved for a while, and blurted out, but he was a real person, muttered a few words, and didn't know what he said, so he looked for the head of the conversation and said goodbye.

Daiyu sent it a little, but even if the door turned around, she sat down in the room, and vaguely listened to Zhang Hui whispering on the steps outside to tell the maid to replace the ice basin in the hall with deep well water, and asked Qinghe and Zijuan how well they slept for a few days, and the daily Jiulan incense was enough for use, and it took a while to go. Daiyu couldn't help but think of when she was at her grandmother's house, Baoyu was also so warm and considerate, and now she was scattered in the north and south, although there were many cousins and sisters on her father's side, in the end, after the difference in love over the years, her thoughts couldn't help but float for a while. In front of the desk with a pen out of the mind for a long time, Fang put down the pen, only to write two or three words, there was a sound outside, it was Zijuan who took the two boxes of incense sent by Bai Wei, came in and said: "It's all nine orchids, one with snow lotus, one with bitter bamboo leaves, at night, sprinkle some mint dew around, you don't need ice, it's also cool." While speaking, he and Qinghe burned two incense incense incense, sprinkling water.

Daiyu looked at the box for a while, and then looked at the candlelight for a while, and suddenly felt the fragrance faint, cool and refreshing, and then settled down, and slowly wrote out the whole poem "Homecoming" and "Car Dealer Baoyang Lake" that she had made. Seeing that she finished writing, Zijuan was in a daze, and couldn't help asking, "Girl, it's getting late." If it's done, that's all for now. There's still a play and wine tomorrow. ”

Daiyu came back to her senses at this time, but before she could answer, the Hong family had returned from Mrs. Wang. Seeing that Daiyu's side was brightly lit, and the bookcase, pen, ink, paper, and inkstone were spread out and had not been put away, his face showed displeasure, and he asked: "How did you get this?" I said that writing at night hurts my eyes, and it is not a man's family who is studying and taking the Jinshi exam, how can I get the villain's family to burn my body and bones? Why don't you wait for the girl to rest?"

Daiyu hurriedly confessed, only saying that she was distracted by writing and forgot the time. Hong rubbed her back and said, "I know that you have a good temper, and I will take care of everything for them." It's not early, hurry up and rest, save enough energy, and Ming'er will follow your aunt and grandmother. He must have seen Daiyu sleep peacefully, and when he returned to his room, he summoned Bai Wei to ask about the previous scene. Bai Wei said how Zhang Hui and Daiyu spoke and how they looked, and said with a smile at the end: "Grandma didn't see it, the wolf bèi was annoyed when Brother Ying went out, and it was just two people as usual." ”

Hong couldn't help but laugh and said, "Although there are many sisters, they were all young when they left home to study. Here is one of his closest cousins in the past two or three years, and he can say it in poetry, why don't you be extra concerned? I just hope that the two of them will be well, and there will be no more unpleasantness. ”

Bai Wei said: "Grandma's wish is predetermined. So he served Hong's changing clothes and washing, and asked: "This morning and evening, the eldest lady in the house invited grandma to go, and she couldn't wait even a night, what is the urgency?"

Hong smiled: "It's not urgent. It's just her temper, but whenever she remembers something, she's busy telling me. It's just that you reminded me, tomorrow Brother Ying will pick up the uncle's house, if you have already sobered up, please come to me to talk first. ”

Bai Wei responded. And the people went to rest and did not mention it. Nothing was said all night.