Chapter 55: Gossip
Baoyu was relieved when she heard this, and went up to the table to pick up the poems that Daiyu had recently written. www.biquge.info Daiyu snatched it from her hand and said with a smile: "What's so beautiful!" If you want to read some words, go to your sister Bao, she can do better than me, and she has good things and new ideas to talk to you. ”
Baoyu laughed angrily and paused, and said, "She just talked to me once, and you remember it again." With what she loves to write and what she can do, how can I say more? As he spoke, while Daiyu didn't pay attention, he snatched it from him, and praised Daiyu while avoiding Daiyu from reading it.
Daiyu straightened her sideburns in the mirror, Baoyu had finished reading those poems, silently memorized them a few times in her heart, came over to see that there was not much rouge in the makeup box under Daiyu's dresser, and said with a smile: "The rouge paste is going to run out, I'll help you make another box at noon." Fold a few pear blossoms from your backyard and make a flower dew and add it to it, and it will definitely be better than the one you made before. ”
Daiyu turned around and smiled, "Let's go!" I have inherited your affection. But it's just okay to point out and let the little girls make it, and don't do it yourself. lest the clothes on his face be stained with rouge again, and even everyone will be uncomfortable. ”
Baoyu smiled happily, and she was full of promises. At the same time, he called the little girl over, told her to go to find Mingyan, buy some of the best rouge on the market, and asked Daiyu: "Have you thought about what you want to bring from Suzhou?" According to me, there is no need to come all the way from Suzhou, now the rivers and rivers are convenient, and there is everything in the shops in Beijing. It is to ask for Western goods, and there are also gadgets from the north and south. I'll go and beg the old lady another day, and let you go out for a break." ”
Daiyu was stunned. thought that in the past, except for the two trips back and forth to Suzhou, he had never been able to leave Jiafu. The bustle and bustle of the capital can only be experienced for a moment or two when the boat is abandoned on the pier and landed.
She retracted her thoughts, frowned slightly, and said, "It's not for things." I have stayed at your house since I arrived, and I have not been back for several years. It has always been a regret in my heart that I can't clean and worship in front of my parents' graves, and I often feel a sting in my heart every time I spend time in the Qingming Zhongyuan Festival. At present, my uncle has received the emperor's order to go to Suzhou, and I would like to ask my grandmother to allow me to return to Suzhou with my uncle. First, I came to all my wishes, and second, I came to see the scenery of my hometown, but I don't know if my grandmother is willing to let go. ”
When Baoyu heard this, the whole person was stunned. After a while, he said abruptly: "What's good in Suzhou, aren't all the people in your family gone, what are you going to do when you go back?" Look at Sister Bao's house, don't you also take Aunt Xue and Brother Xue to live in our house? ”
It's okay not to mention it, but when she mentioned the Xue family, Daiyu's heart soured up, and she said: "Her family still has her mother and brother, isn't it a thousand times stronger than me?" As he spoke, he couldn't help but reddened his eyes.
Baoyu regretted her words, Daiyu cheered up, and reluctantly smiled: "It's rare that my uncle is going to Suzhou, so I just followed to see it and do my filial piety in front of my parents' graves." What are you worried about? He went out with him left and right, and came back in two or three months. If you miss this opportunity, I'm afraid that you won't be able to go back until you die. ”
Baoyu said angrily: "I just don't want you to go back, suffering from the wind and sleeping in the open, how can you say that you are dead or alive." Is it better to be outside than at home? You have always been weak and sick, and you have the problem of loving cleanliness, how can you endure the hardships of running around, even I can't! ”
Daiyu's mood had slowly adjusted, and when she heard the words, she said, "You forgot that I have been back and forth twice, what is the road like, don't I know?" Besides, there is an uncle with someone to protect him, and there is nothing wrong with it, just follow along to enjoy the scenery along the way. ”
Baoyu stopped talking, and her face was wilting. As he was talking, it was almost noon, and Qiu Wen came over to ask Baoyu and Daiyu to go to Mrs. Wang's for lunch, and the two went over together. Baoyu ate something indiscriminately, only to feel that the boredom in her heart had nowhere to be dissipated, and even when she took the little girl to make rouge paste in the afternoon, she felt irritable and unsatisfactory everywhere.
In the evening, Baochai came to Daiyu's room to play, looked around, and said, "Why don't you see Brother Bao?" Daiyu glanced at her with a smile and said, "Why can't you find someone, it must be me?" ”
Xue Baochai was suddenly a little embarrassed, and wanted to twist Daiyu's cheeks: "You narrow ghost, what about making fun of me around the corner?" I just met the attacker, and she asked me where Baoyu was. I asked for her, and I also invited you to be poor-mouthed. ”
Daiyu smiled and slapped Xue Baochai's hand away, pointed to the door and said, "You go look elsewhere!" When I found it, I remembered to send someone to tell the attacker, and I also stopped by to tell me, and I also wanted to know what was the good place that stumbled him again. ”
Xue Baochai responded smoothly and suddenly came back to her senses, didn't this mean that she was asked to run errands for the attackers? That attacker is just a maid, where is she qualified to support her to do things, even if it is the master of all sizes in this mansion, only in front of Mrs. Wang and Mother Jia she is willing to flatter.
At the moment, I was not angry, nor was I annoyed, I just wanted to drop the curtain and leave, but in Lin Daiyu's eyes, it seemed that I took advantage of her again.
So Xue Baochai walked around Daiyu to the inner room instead, entered the flower tent, looked around, and suddenly saw Daiyu's dressing table full of boxes of newly made rouge, and said with a smile: "It's still quibbling, now I can get evidence." If Baoyu wasn't here with you in the afternoon, where would this rouge come from? ”
Daiyu was leaning against the window to tease the parrot, and when she looked back, she saw Baochai picking up the box of newly made rouge, and said with a smile: "I didn't say that he didn't come to me in the afternoon." ran here with Qingwen, Snow Goose and a few little girls in the outer yard to pick flowers and make flower dew rouge, and the old mother who was in charge of a few pear trees in the backyard sighed in distress. But if you only ask where Baoyu has gone now, I don't know. ”
Xue Baochai dipped the rouge with his hand, twisted it carefully to look at the color, asked about the fragrance again, and asked, "This is Baoyu's new production?" Did you add anything to it? ”
Daiyu said with a smile: "I don't know what to add, when I go to my grandmother's place for dinner in the evening, won't it be over if you ask him to make you a box?" ”
Xue Baochai didn't answer when he heard this, put down the rouge box, and took out a handkerchief to wipe off the red stains on his hands. At this moment, suddenly the pendant in Baoyu's yard ran over and said, "The second master just came back, bought these fresh gadgets from outside, and asked me to give them to the girl." ”
Zijuan hurriedly stepped forward to take it, and Snow Goose took out ten copper coins from the box and gave them to Shen'er. Shen'er took it happily and said, "The second master met a person on the porch, it's really interesting. Daiyu saw that she had the intention to please, so she asked, "Who is it?" ”