In the evening, the sky is clear and a bright moon rises from the mountain.

Sister Feng arranged three or four tables of banquets in the Concave Crystal Pavilion.

Mrs. Wang, Aunt Xue, Baochai and the maid and others all moved to a pavilion outside the Concave Crystal Pavilion to admire the moon by the water.

Jia Baoyu was thinking about Lin Xiaoxiao and Miaoyu in the Lucui Nunnery, and he was absent-minded, so he wanted to sneak out quietly while everyone was not paying attention.

Mrs. Wang had already seen it, so she stopped and said, "On this good night, you are not here to talk and laugh with your sister Bao, but where are you going to go shopping?"

Baoyu had to smile and say: "This year's moon cakes are very delicious, just now I was greedy, I actually ate two more eight treasures, now I only feel that my stomach is swollen, I want to go for a walk and come back." ”

Mrs. Wang said: "What a good thing, it is also worth your gluttonous cat." ”

Aunt Xue smiled and said, "This is something I asked someone to do over there, and your sister Bao also loves to eat, but she only eats half a poop every time." If you like to eat, I'll have someone keep some for you. ”

Baochai was beside him, and he had already seen Baoyu's thoughts, so he sneered: "He has eaten too many moon cakes and his stomach is swollen, but I'm afraid that someone with a master will cast a spell, and the 'Gu worm' will bite him in his stomach." ”

Baoyu smiled and said: "This sister Bao's moon cakes are delicious, just give me some more, I took them back and kept them to eat slowly." ”

Sister Feng had already seen Jia Baoyu's thoughts, and she couldn't stop it if she knew it, so she smiled and asked someone to fill a box of various moon cakes, and asked someone to carry it, Fang said: "If you go, you will come back quickly, Mrs. and Miss Bao are also waiting for you, this good moonlight, and near the Concave Crystal Pavilion, you don't go against Miss Bao's poetry, and talk about the knowledge of you and me, wouldn't it be a pity." ”

Before Sister Feng finished speaking, Jia Baoyu and the attackers went early.

Baochai blushed early, so he changed the topic and said: "I heard that I invited a storyteller to come tonight, why haven't I seen it." ”

Sister Feng said, "I'm here early, wait outside the pavilion." Since Miss Bao couldn't wait, I sent her in. ”

When Xiaohong heard this, she went outside the pavilion to talk to a female shilling in her thirties.

I saw this female shilling enter the pavilion, stood opposite Mrs. Wang and Aunt Xue, saluted first, and then said: "It is said that the real person who descended the dragon entered the Peony Pavilion, and as soon as he recited a spell in his mouth, the peony fairy turned into a beauty and came out to meet him......"

Here Jia Baoyu and the raiders walked out of the pavilion, turned around and went out of the Concave Crystal Pavilion, not to Yihong Courtyard, but to the hill of the Cui Nunnery.

The attacker hurriedly grabbed Baoyu and said, "Where are you going?" Mrs. can say, let you go out for a walk and go back, Miss Bao is still waiting there." ”

Baoyu took the food box in the attacker's hand and said, "You go back by yourself first, see what Meiren and Wu'er are doing, and give them some mooncakes for them to taste." ”

Jia Baoyu said, opening the food box and wanting to take out the moon cakes.

The attacker hurriedly said: "They have what they deserve, these things are not for them." You want to leave me and go to the Kusuian again, but you can't do it. ”

Jia Baoyu said with a smile: "I'll just go and come back after a look, and I won't delay anything." But if you go with me, lest they refuse to see me. ”

When the attacker heard this, he was angry, and then he said angrily: "What are you talking about, don't say that you secretly came out to fool around, but said that I went, why don't they want to see you, am I unsightly?" ”

Baoyu realized that he had lost his speech, and hurriedly laughed: "I said it wrong, but you are a proper busy person, and I am afraid that the house and my wife will not be able to leave you for a while." You go back first, I'll go to the Kutsui Nunnery to have a look, and I'll go with you to my wife's to laugh. ”

Jia Baoyu said, carrying the food box and leaving.

The attacker hurriedly said in the back, "You also take the lantern." ”

Baoyu didn't reply: "No, stepping on this day-like moonlight shows my sincerity." Go back quickly, and see that the wind is blowing and you are cold. ”

Before he could say anything, Musk Yue had already followed, and said with a smile: "This person is really stupid, he is also wearing thin clothes, but he only knows to tell others to be careful of catching a cold." It can be seen that he really has you in his heart. I think that when Miss Bao's affairs are settled, it will be your turn, and when the time comes, I will have to call you a second aunt and grandmother, and I hope that the second grandmother will also save me some face before and after you, don't scold at dusk, I will saddle you every day before and after the horse, three kowtows in the morning and dusk, and a stick of incense in the morning and evening!"

Musk Moon blushed when she said this.

The attacker had to say, "What are you talking about, let's be the same!"

Musk Yue sneered: "I don't dare to compare with you, you originally got your wife's approval and received the money for five or two months a month." I just hope that the second grandmother will leave me a place the size of an awl to stand in the future, and I will be Amitabha!"

The attacker didn't pay attention to Musk Yue, so he had to carry the lantern back to Yihong Courtyard.

Baoyu stepped on the moonlight, all the way to the outside of the Lucui Nunnery, only to see a full moon hanging on the head early, and the surroundings and the nunnery quietly. As soon as I pushed the door of the hermitage, the door of the hermitage creaked open.

Jia Baoyu felt a little strange, usually the door of this Lucui Nunnery was closed, and it was never easy for people to come in.

Jia Baoyu stood outside the gate of the nunnery and said loudly: "'Outsiders' turbidity, please meet!"

But after a while, no one answered in the nunnery.

Baoyu was suspicious in her heart, so she secretly said: "Could it be that the two of them dislike me, a layman, and know that I am coming tonight, so they should have hid somewhere in a quiet place to gather and discuss the Tao." ”

Baoyu was about to come to the nunnery, but unexpectedly, a Taoist wearing a grimace mask suddenly came out of the nunnery.

Baoyu was shocked, but this person covered Baoyu's mouth and said, "Brother Yu, don't make a sound, something big may happen tonight." ”

When Jia Baoyu heard this voice, it turned out to be Leng Erlang Liu Qing.

The two of them turned around and came to the forest path outside the Lucui Nunnery for a while, and Jia Baoyufang said in astonishment: "Why are you? Why are you here at this time, are you still looking for Lin Xiaoxiao?"

Leng Erlang pointed to the full moon in the sky and whispered: "I'm afraid it's coming soon, what should come will come after all." ”

"What the hell are you talking about? What is it supposed to come that will come after all, and what does it have to do with the moon in the sky?"

"Seven Stars Arch Moon, tonight is his best chance!"

"He, who is he, what opportunity?"

"Don't ask, just follow me to the burial mound. Nine times out of ten, Xiaoxiao and Miaoyu went up the hill over there. ”

Jia Baoyu was full of suspicions, but he had to follow Liu Qing and come to the burial mound on the hill.

The two of them stepped on the hill in the moonlight, and sure enough, they saw two people sitting cross-legged on a big stone slab under the tree over there, it was Lin Xiaoxiao and Miaoyu.

Baoyu was about to scream, Liu Qing hurriedly covered Baoyu's mouth and said, "Don't make a sound, tonight is the time of life and death." At the critical moment, it's up to the two of us. If I'm right, you're the key to everything. ”

Jia Baoyu was very puzzled, but he had to hide in the woods with Liu Qing and look over there quietly.

The time of a stick of incense passed, and Lin Xiaoxiao and Miaoyu were still meditating cross-legged, as if they had settled down. The full moon in the sky was already hanging high overhead, illuminating the hill white.

Jia Baoyu was waiting impatiently, only to hear a cough on the forest path beside him, but it was an old man wearing a pitch-black robe and a cloak and cloak, and his steps were staggering.

The old man had a small cross hanging on his chest, which shone strangely in the moonlight, and coughed and said, "Seven Stars and Arch Moon, both of you are here, very good!"

As soon as the old man's voice fell, in a flash, the person stood behind Lin Xiaoxiao and Miaoyu like a ghost.