The pannier sedan in the Qing Dynasty has "five feet in the front three and four in the front", the front sedan bar is three feet, the rear sedan bar is four feet, the car carried up by two mules is five feet long, there are two rows of seats opposite the front and back, wide and loose can accommodate four people, Dun Min this sedan chair is last year by the Fengtai old bar room newly made, the outside of the paulownia carriage is wrapped with felt, covered with oilcloth, densely tied together with oil thread, and cold and rain and snow, there is also a portable copper stove inside. Fang Qing got up early in the morning, staggered more than 30 miles with a basket, and sat on this sedan chair when he came back, which was really suitable, because he saw that there was a felt cushion on it, and coaxed his son to sleep, and from time to time he looked at the scenery outside through the curtains, and slowly lazy up, and even leaned on the van board to cover his eyes. The sedan chair guided by the packer only went to the locust tree. In the snow, Dun Min and the others sometimes beat their horses and whips, and sometimes stood and chanted, so happy that they wanted to sing. It wasn't until outside Huai Shutun that the two of them rushed to the front of the sedan chair. Duncheng lifted the cotton curtain and called softly: "Mrs. Sister-in-law, Mrs. Sister-in-law!" ”

"Huh?" Fang Qing woke up as soon as she opened her eyes, and she understood at a glance. She rubbed her eyes, smiled a little sheepishly, and said, "I've been lost for a while...... It's already there, right in front of the crooked-necked old tree in front of me. Saying that, he was about to get off the sedan chair, Dun Min said: "There is still a long way to go, not busy!" The two led the horse, took the pannier to a dilapidated wood door, and carried Fang Qing out of the sedan chair. Fang Qing opened the door and went in, and for a while she heard the hearty laughter of a man inside, and said, "Yuan An is dreaming of breaking the house, and the chaimen is knocking on the carriage and horses - this weather, it is difficult for the two brothers to visit!" At the end of the day, Cao Xueqin had already greeted her. waved to the two of them, and said with a smile: "Please sit in the room, it's very cold, don't be restrained." ”

"Sir's name, I've admired it for a long time." Dun Min held the fan in his hand and returned the salute with a puff on his chest, and smiled quietly: "My brother read the eleventh chapter of Mr.'s "Stone Record" from someone else's manuscript, and also read a lot of your poems. Duncheng was not as reserved as his brother, he looked around with a probe, and said with a smile: "Sir, this place is really not bad, the smoke tree is a cold village, a small bridge with flowing water, and the poplar ancient road leads directly to the West Mountain." This snowy day can't be done, until the spring is warm, you must go to the peach forest over there. Facing the sunset of the West Mountain, the scenery is drunk without wine! Cao Xueqin said: "What the third master said is that if there is no official urging the department, the hotel will ask for debts, it will be even more wonderful." ”

The three of them looked at each other and laughed, and the restraint of the first meeting was swept away. Dun Min is a careful person, came in to look at this room, the main house and the west room are connected, a large kang on the west side is spread with new seats, and half a person's high pillow bedding is stacked against the wall. The north head of the kang is a felt, wrapped in a swaddling child is sleeping soundly, the low table in the middle of the kang is full of cut rice paper, some paint the three friends of the year, some paint the landscape thatched house, and some paint Guanyin, Zhong Kui, and even the three officials Bodhisattva Stove King God, etc., by the window a line of cloth rope, drying a diaper, but washed cleanly, some of the breath is not smelled. There are two rooms, it seems to have just been pasted, clean and bright is very pleasant, but there is a gust of wind outside, and the ceiling is agitated up and down, and the house is very dilapidated.

"Please sit on the kang," Xue Qin saw his brother stunned, packed up the paintings and paper and pen on the kang, gave up her seat with her hand, and said with a smile: "I made you laugh, some of these paintings are asked by others, some are sold, and the neighbors will inevitably want the statue of Guanyin. Duncheng took the tea handed by Fang Qing, took a sip of the cup, and then looked at Xueqin carefully, only to see that he was burly, with a square face with silkworm eyebrows, a dark complexion, and black hair in a thick and long braid drooping behind the gray shilin cotton robe. Thinking about it, Duncheng couldn't help but smile and said, "Mr. Xueqin, you and I don't think the same thing in our hearts. Dun Min asked, "What do you think of Cao Gong in your heart?" ”

Duncheng laughed and said: "I'm a red fan, my favorite is Jia Baoyu and Lin Daiyu, I think of Mr. Cao according to the image of Eryu, he must be more refreshing than Lin Daiyu, as delicate as Baoyu and not feminine, he must be a beautiful man full of books, I didn't expect to be like a general, as burly as a black tower!" When he said this, Dun Min and Cao Xueqin couldn't help laughing. Fang Qing, who was busy washing rice in the stove room, couldn't help but smile. Xueqin said: "This kind of misunderstanding also existed among the ancients, Sima Qian once thought that Zhang Liang was such a heroic husband, he must be sassy and heroic, and only after seeing Zhang Liang's image did he know that he looked like a beautiful woman and was as gentle as a virgin." The niece and daughter of Zhang Jiangling Xiangguo in the former Ming Dynasty were fascinated by watching the play, thinking that the champions were like that, not only as good as Zijian but also as good as Pan An, and bent on marrying one. As a result, I really got married, and when I looked at the cave room at night, the champion had a thick waist of ten girths, a pig-like face with hair standing upside down, took off his clothes, and his front chest and back were unkempt with black hair...... "Before he finished speaking, Dun Min and Dun Cheng had already laughed, and there was a joyful and joyful atmosphere in the thatched hut in the firewood courtyard. Seeing Fang Qing waving in the east room, Xue Qin walked in and asked, "Don't you have any money?" ”

"Be quiet, no one will take you for a dumb person!" Fang Qing smiled and said, "The Fu family gave five taels of gifts!" It's just that you're going to buy wine or am I going? I'm a little unable to walk......"

"I'll go, I remember that there is still some bacon at home!"

"It was pickled last year, and the oil was gone, and it also brought a hala smell, you can still do it yourself, how can you treat guests?" Fang Qing hesitated in a low voice: "Otherwise, I'll go, you won't be able to do these things." As she was talking, the child lying on the kang cried loudly "wow", as if she had some sense, and the eldest child in her arms also woke up, pulling Fang Qing's collar and making a fuss: "Mom, eat, eat......" Cao Xueqin couldn't speak anymore, and ran to the kang. Calling "Xiaoqing obediently", he carefully lifted the felt piece, untied the swaddling clothes, and when he lowered his head to check, Xiaoqing was unceremonious, and a bubble of urine from Biqing pierced out, pouring Xueqin on his head and face, and the three of them couldn't help laughing. Fang Qing hurriedly came over to pick up, handed Daqing to Xueqin, and carried Xiaoqing to the kitchen to feed.

Cao Xueqin hugged Daqing and teased her a few times, put it on the ground and said, "Daqing is sensible, he is running and playing on the ground at home, ah?" Daddy buys you fruit, don't mess with uncle, hear? Da Qing nodded as if he didn't understand, and when he saw Cao Xueqin walking out, he cried again with a "woo".

"Sir, don't show up." Dun Min knew that Xueqin was going out to buy wine and food, and said with a smile: "My brothers and I have admired the name for a long time, but I don't know that my husband is poor. We're going to be the host today, and we've already ordered the mule driver to do it. Let's sit down and talk. Xueqin smiled: "I've been back to Beijing for more than two months, and I rushed back before the birth of the inner child." It's not so poor that I can't even afford to entertain guests, when I rushed back from Nanjing, Yin Zhengtai sent fifty taels of Cheng Yi, and only a dozen taels were used on the road, and there are still them! When you first reached the threshold, how could you be embarrassed to bear it? Duncheng said: "We are here to worship Mr. happily today, since I read "The Stone Record", my brother has been thinking about it for a long time to meet this strange man of ancient and modern times, and he is willing to worship the door wall and perform the rite of disciples. When Confucius accepted his protégés, didn't he also accept celery and dried meat? Why can't we be successful, why can't we be worthy of being Mr.'s 'lackeys'? ”

Cao Xueqin was stunned for a moment, and laughed: "Cheng Sanye is quick to talk, but Zhan (Xueqin's real name) is speechless." However, I really dare not be a disciple and a 'lackey', and I am willing to be a good friend and confidant! Dun Min and Dun Cheng became more and more happy, and Dun Cheng said: "In this way, Brother Cao doesn't have to be polite!" - I am only surprised that Corporal Lixian, who is famous for his kindness, is light on money and charity, and he is also a talented man himself. Nanjing to Beijing, such a long way, only fifty taels of silver were given! Dun Min smiled: "Jishan is still a good one, isn't Uncle Fu richer?" Only five taels of silver were sent! Xueqin said: "How much is the heart, don't say that, Jishan daily diet side dish tofu, he is a scholar, and he doesn't have much money, there are dozens of Qingke, and he also has a lot of help from the local poor scholars, he is not easy." It's Fu Liuye, and he doesn't treat me well - these words are not good to spread. As he was talking, he heard someone laughing outside the courtyard, and a person shouted: "Xue Qingong—are you up?" ”

Cao Xueqin lifted the curtain and came out, and saw that the two people were dismounting, it was Le Min and A Gui coming, and she couldn't help laughing: "What's wrong?" The lights didn't go off last night, and the magpies didn't make trouble this morning. Le Min only smiled, and stepped in the snow steadily, Ah Gui unloaded a sack from behind the horse, laughed as he walked, and said: "I am now leading soldiers outside, like a knife man who kills people and sets fires, the chopping wood that your family comes to cook at night is about to explode, and this morning the black eagle is allowed to go around the house three times, otherwise I will not come." Cao Xueqin was about to introduce, and the four of them laughed in an uproar, and Dun Min said: "Just now Xueqin said that a champion with five big and three thick will marry a daughter-in-law, and this is an extraordinary champion!" Ah Gui called the Dunmin brothers to ask for peace, and joked with a smile, "The two masters don't care about it, and let the old man drive him out again?" Duncheng said: "Our old man doesn't care about these things now - he always tells us to learn from Lemin, and we all go to the champion, who will carry the sedan chair?" Now that he has the difference between mountains and sea tariffs, he can't care about it. Besides, his old man also loves to read "The Story of Stones" now, and he also ordered us to 'copy it and send it over' in the last letter, knowing that we got acquainted with Xueqin, and I don't know how to be happy! Duncheng said, tore open the sack and looked at it, but as soon as he untied the rope, a carp flew out with a "pop", hit it in the face, jumped on the kang and fell to the ground a few times, puffing out his red cheeks. Ah Gui hurriedly asked for a towel to wipe his face, and said with a smile: "This time I was beaten by a 'fish', and there was one less shot on the battlefield!" ”

Everyone couldn't help laughing, and Le Min saw that Fang Qing was struggling to pull the sack, so he hurriedly went over to help, and said: "Don't care, there are still a few fish, more than a dozen catties of lard, bacon, lean meat, pork ribs, two pairs of pork liver, a bag of beef shutters, a bag of beef, and ten frozen chickens...... Hundreds of pounds weigh it! Fang Qing was very familiar with them, and said with a smile: "Master Le Gui, we don't open a butcher shop, how can we afford to get so many things?" "It's okay, it's cold now, and it's even colder in the future, and it can't be broken." Le Min heard the word "butcher shop", and suddenly thought of the father and daughter of the Zhang family, and his heart ached suddenly, and he hurriedly smiled: "Ah Gui and I will go out of Beijing on an errand when Xue is a little younger." In another month and a half, Xiaoqing's 100-day catch Zhou'er, and he will definitely not be able to catch up, so he will take a step forward to congratulate him. Things are thin and thick, just don't be surprised. Dun Min suddenly thought that at this moment, the Fu family didn't know how lively it was, Fang Qing herself had just been full moon, and she went to give someone a gift to catch Zhou Er on a snowy day! Compare people with people, what do you say? My heart moved, but I was silent. Le Min looked at the room and said, "Xueqin has been rich recently, and this house is so well cleaned up that I don't dare to admit it!" ”

For a while, the mule driver had already bought it, and a shop guy came in with a food box, and Ah Gui was busy helping Fang Qing distribute vegetables on the kang table. Xue Qin saw that it was eight dishes of side dishes, a roasted beef with mushrooms, a fried chicken with green garlic and spicy, a fried mutton with green onions, and a red stewed pork, all of which were still slightly covered with white mist, so she removed the mutton and said: "This is too hot, and you can't eat it if it's a little cooler-Fang Qing, according to what I taught you last time, fix the two fish!" Today, they are giving Xiaoqing a '100-day pass' in advance, you roll out some noodles carefully, and then use them after eating and drinking. Le Min smiled: "There are already a lot of dishes, and my sister-in-law still has two children, don't let her be busy!" Duncheng smiled and said, "Do you know why you brought raw meat?" Le Min smiled: "Ah Gui volunteered, he made a good dish!" Fang Qing came over to take away the mutton, rewarded the picky eater with a string of small money, quickly took out a jar of wine from the corner of the back door of the house, sifted it and stewed it on the fire, and said with a smile in her mouth: "When it comes to cooking, no one needs to say anything, it's still us women!" Xueqin said: "You make fish, cook rice for the master (referring to the muleman) to eat, and sieve the wine and let the master come!" Fang Qing moved a pestle and asked the mule driver to sit on the ground and sift the wine, put the two children into the "two-seater" cart and pushed them to the east room to go to work.

"Good wine!" When the wine was hot, Ah Gui Monkey was anxious, took a sip hotly, and praised: "Is it a mouth wine, Sanhe old mash?" Otherwise, it's Huai'an old song! The cotton is mellow, fragrant but not strong, strong but not violent, and the aftertaste is mellow and fragrant...... I haven't eaten such good wine in two years. The wine in the army, fucking is only better than horse urine! Everyone tasted it and said, "It's really good!" Cao Xueqin persuaded the wine again and again: "Come on, come on, full of it!" It's cold, warm your stomach first, and then talk about it - master, you should eat and drink, please take care of yourself - this is last year, Fu Peng sent three buckets of Huai'an millet seeds, I brewed it myself, and there are several jars buried in the backyard! Just drink it with confidence! ”

"Xueqin," Le Min toasted two large glasses, his face glowed red, and he said with a sigh: "I didn't expect you to be so poor!" Fu Peng is a general of Dingbian, your cousin's aunt, and he is not in Beijing, but his home is there, why don't you want to take care of your cousin? Fu Nai's red and purple now, he is Ling Zun's uncle, right? Now he is the Minister in Charge of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and he also holds the command of Manchuria and the Blue Banner. They are all powerful and rich, and you will be inexhaustible when you pluck your hairs, so why don't you take care of them? I suspect that you have a haughty temperament, disdain to climb, and good relatives are also estranged. Cao Xueqin smiled indifferently and said, "I'm already very content." If you want to drill camp, when I was a child, I was at home in Jiangnan, and I saw Lord Qianlong, and Fu Peng couldn't be more familiar. The year before last, Fu Peng was the commander of Manchuria under the White Flag, and that was the top boss of my Cao family, the Emperor Ming, who exempted our Cao family from the debt of 30222 yuan, is it not 'taking care'? His housekeeper came to see me, and he was running into Changjia to collect the land tax, and a word was exempted, how much noise was missing? If today's Zi Shengming is lenient, my family of sinful children can live and work in peace and contentment. Compared with the years ago in the hands of Yongzhengye, now it is really in the sky. Let's not talk about this, let's talk about these bad wines! Here, pour! He poured a full cup and handed it to Lemin. Ah Gui said with a smile: "Mr. Yan Zhai didn't come today, he wants to listen to Brother Cao's words, and he will cover his ears and run away!" As soon as the words fell, an old man with gray hair in his fifties came in and said, "Where do I flee from this snowy land outside?" Run away and smell the wine, and come back! ”

Everyone laughed, when Cao Xueqin saw it, He Shizhi and Liu Xiaolin came in one after the other, He Shizhi was holding a large piece of beef, and Liu Xiaolin was carrying a pig's head, and he was very familiar with sending it into the stove room, smiling and rubbing his hands and coming out to salute. Cao Xueqin hurriedly introduced Dun Min and Dun Cheng brothers, and said: "You look at Xiaolin Luotuo, he has also been in the flower exploration!" Fat Yan Zhai is Mr. Yes - you see, I either don't have any guests here, or a large group of people come! You're going to have a little bit of it! He Shizhi smiled and said: "Qinpu, don't call us 'sir'." We're your lackeys! When the brothers of the Dun family heard this, they couldn't help but look at each other and laugh, and Dun Cheng said: "In this way, we are considered 'lackeys under the private lady'!" ”

So he returned to his seat to eat and talk, and Ah Gui sighed: "Xueqin's talent is not said, it's just 'sexual pride', I don't dare to compliment this." If you bend down like you, which door can't get in? It is easy to break, bright and easy to stain, which is taboo for creation. Even if the officialdom is dark, the turbid ones are turbid, and the clear ones are self-purifying, 'the water of the waves is clear, you can wet my head, and the water of the waves is turbid, you can wet my feet'! "If it's just the word 'turbidity', the sea is not afraid." Xue Qin put Fang Qing's plate of fried pork liver with red pepper in the middle, and said softly: "You guys think about officialdom, first of all, you have to deprive you of your 'normality', and all your joys, sorrows, and sorrows depend on the boss's face, and then go to 'Chengse'." Boss, you are just holding back at the moment, and you have to suppress it and pretend to be happy; The boss is angry at the moment, you are the candle in the cave room tonight, and you have to pretend to be a dead old man to serve him! On the other hand, if you look at your boss, it's also this ruler: you're happy, and he's shaking his head and frowning and standing on the sidelines, and you can't help but think, 'Why are you so rude?' In fact, either the person he is sad about is just sick in the high hall, or frustrated in love, and it has nothing to do with you! If you are sad, he may laugh out loud, which is also 'disrespectful'. In fact, he just didn't pay attention to your grief, or he was distracted and remembered something funny, and he didn't have any disrespect for you. Think about it, a good person, once he enters the officialdom, even the seven emotions of joy, anger, sorrow, love and evil desires, these natures given by God and parents must be exploited cleanly, what is the interest of the word 'human'? There is a champion in our house, and there are Tanhua, I don't dare to say anything, but the former champion Zhuang Yougong, we are all friends, what a gentle and dignified individual, a look at the list, won the champion, people are crazy! Why? He is the 'first man', and this vanity of arrogance has clogged his mind and lost his nature. This is a disease that officialdom has no cure; I groveled to my boss, handed over the notebook, smiled, and even looked at Mrs. Xian's face. This suffered a loss, returned to the Yali, all this was made up from his subordinates, watching others greet him in front of him, handing over the notebook, and compensating for the smile......" Xueqin said, and smiled. Le Min smiled self-deprecatingly and said: "The so-called breaking eyebrows and bending waists of the powerful makes me unhappy!" Ah Gui said: "I thought it couldn't be generalized. Xue Qin still looked a little off. Since ancient times, loyal ministers and filial sons, martyrs and women, loyal to the king of the community, and concerned about the people's livelihood and suffering, there are still loyal people who are far away from the rivers and lakes in the temple. Ten years of cold window, once in the middle, Kuang Jun helped the people and honored the ancestors, and it seems that it cannot be erased. The eldest husband will enter the prime minister and serve the monarchy, which is also a lifelong career! He was subdued and frustrated, and he spoke eloquently.

"What Ah Gui said is the prosperity of the three generations, since the Qin and Han dynasties, this kind of monarch and ministers will meet the situation, Kuang Guo helps the people, and is good at the beginning and is loyal, there are fewer and fewer, and the atmosphere is getting worse and lower." Liu Xiaolin groaned, as if he was overwhelmed with emotion. "King Qi Wei deigns to be a gentleman, and a scholar can be proud of the king, but there is no one now. Jin Wengong was humiliated by the first spittle, and rewarded his loyalty and courage regardless of his small mistakes, but now he has not. Zhou Bo, the Marquis of Jiang, entered the Han Dynasty as a mighty marquis, and was the prime minister, and he was in the country for 34 years, and he was slandered as a prisoner, and he couldn't even hand over the chapter, so he had to go through the door of the jailer. Guo Fenyang pacified the Anshi Rebellion, how much merit was that? But every time I received the edict, I was terrified. - These are too far away, as far as this dynasty is concerned, names such as Suo Etu, Mingzhu, Xiong Cixu, Gao Shiqi, famous generals such as Aobai, Tuhai, Zhou Peigong, Nian Qianyao, etc., have all made meritorious contributions under the command of Ming Jun, but they have all fallen. Some died, some died, some were exiled, and the family was ruined, scattered, and the stars withered. It's not that the emperor is not wise, it's not that they can't do it, and they are not loyal, I think this is a number of qi. People live in this 'gas number', no matter how shrewd, smart, and loyal, but they can't escape the mercy of this 'gas number', and the small gas number is returned to the atmospheric number tube. In Mr. Xueqin's "Stone Records", Yongjia Tanchun's words say, 'Only from the Qingming Dynasty and the self-exalted, born in the last days of the world', is really a way to penetrate the human feelings and penetrate the world! He paused for a moment, and then said: "This is a truth that mortals can never figure out, just when it comes to Xueqin's high poverty and poverty, when it comes to taking care of it, it is actually the word 'hot and cold', people may not be cold, but everyone is doing somersaults, a little bit of a day by day; can enjoy themselves, and enjoy themselves, and there are also people who can't care about 'having fun with others'; how rich and prominent the Cao family was back then, a person who was robbed of his house in a deficit, dead, escaped, imprisoned, imprisoned, exiled, escaped into the empty door, and enslaved by others, isn't it all fate! Besides, the two brothers of the Dun family, Prince Ling Zuying, what a hero! If you lose, you will be defeated - don't be sad, the number of qi is like this, those who are in the court, those here, we look back, this kind of puppet show will still be played. This is not the word 'snobbery' can be said clearly, if everyone is snobbish, you are the champion, I have been a tanhua, he is a general, Yan Zhai is a frustrated scholar, and there are two golden branches and jade leaves, how can they all gather in this snowstorm and broken house? As soon as his voice fell, Cao Xueqin struck the bowl and sang:

The burrow was empty, and the wat was full of beds; The withered grass and withered poplar used to be a singing and dancing field. The spider silk is full of carved beams, and the green yarn is now pasted on the canopy window. What do you say that the fat is thick, the powder is fragrant, and how do the temples become frost again? Yesterday, the loess Longtou sent white bones, and tonight the mandarin ducks lie at the bottom of the red silk tent-

His voice suddenly rose and became excited:

Chests full of gold, chests full of silver, and in the blink of an eye, beggars are slandered; is sighing that his life is not long, how do you know that he will return and mourn? There is a good training, and it is uncertain that he will be a strong beam in the future. Choose the anointing who hopes to live in Fireworks Alley! Because the yarn cap is small, the lock shackle is caused; Yesterday I was pitiful and cold, and today I think the purple python is long......

Tears burst out of his eyes, closed his eyes, and sobbed in a gloomy voice:

Coax you to sing and stop me from appearing, and recognise that another country is my hometown...... It's ridiculous, in the end, it's all about making wedding clothes for others!

When the song stopped here, the four were already embarrassed.

I don't know how long it took for He Zhizhi to come to his senses and ask, "Is this your "Okay Song Note"? If you write it, you can't sing it. Everyone should be a big white for this song! So the six of them raised their glasses together and looked at Xueqin and drank it. What is the way: "A few days ago, Qinpu also said that this "Okay Song Note" is not easy to write, it is not elegant, vulgar, light, heavy, soft, and rigid, and I don't want to write it today. 'Well-trained, I can't guarantee that I will be a strong beam in the future', but Liu Xianglian? "Because the yarn hat is small, the shackles are shackled" must be done by Yumura Gongyi. So who is the one who is lamenting that his life is not long, how can he know that he will return and mourn'? I can't break it! Xue Qin came back to her senses from the song at this time and said with a smile: "Where can this be fixed?" Whoever is destined at that time will be whom. You can also see that I am divine, isn't it that a few virtuous brothers are here today to discuss the way of the princes and princes to abolish each other, and this song is not available for a while, but the tone is decadent, and it swept away the excitement of several officialdom friends, and it is okay to talk about it as a warning to the world? ”

"Because the yarn hat is small, the shackles are shackled—hmm!" Ah Gui glanced at Le Min with a smile and said, "Change it, change it!" Changed to 'Because the yarn hat is small, the pimp is busy, you go, I'll play, if you don't get down, I'll shoot Yang Liulang to death, and I'll shandsome the seal!" He stared and continued, but he already laughed at everyone, Le Min nodded at Ah Gui and smiled: "He is a thief and bold, Yang Liulang is actually Zhang Guangsi, and he has the heart to replace him." Xueqin persuaded him to let go, wouldn't he seek skin with the tiger? The crowd laughed and laughed. Dun Min took advantage of the wine, and when he saw that everyone was happy, he asked Xueqin for a draft.

In the middle of the bustle, Fangqing raged her hands and brought out a huge tile hot pot, in which the charcoal was crackling, and the flowers were boiling in the soup nest around the corner, and there were two black grass carp boiling at the head and tail of the inside, and they were also soaked in belly slices, white meat slices, kelp silk, and four joys and nine sons...... As soon as it is served, the aroma is immediately overflowing and salivating. Liu Xiaolin said with a smile: "This is Xueqin's specialty dish, assorted fish pot!" Why don't you see shiitake mushrooms? Fang Qing put the pot away and said with a smile: "Why did you forget?" That's stuffed in the belly of the fish...... "Ah Gui Monkey hurriedly sandwiched a piece of fat mutton with tendons, quickly filled his mouth, and inhaled so hotly: "Hot-hee-hot-hee-hot...... Hot! He stretched his neck and swallowed, tears were already flowing out, and he rinsed his mouth with cold water, and said with a smile: "Mutton makes this taste, I don't want to be a general, I can sell mutton!" Cao Xueqin just smiled, waiting for Fang Qing's tray to come, orange peel water, five spices, minced ginger, shredded garlic...... There was also a pinch of sugar, hooked the vinegar into the pot, and poured the small half bottle of wine into the pot little by little. Suddenly, the aroma of meat, wine, and vegetables contained an indescribable fragrance that rose and lasted for a long time. Dun Min was speechless: "Usually a pot of vegetables, can you actually cook this taste?" ”

"It's called 'no-material soup.'" Xueqin said lightly, "Take fish and sheep as the king, pigs, chickens, geese, and ducks as ministers, supplemented by wine vinegar." It's a pity that there are no geese and ducks, and the beef is replaced with belly slices, just take the word 'fresh'. Duncheng then asked, "Why is it so named?" Liu Xiaolin said: "This is my name, I have explored the flowers, I have eaten the Qionglin banquet, and the royal imperial meal has not been as good as this soup." Such a good dish, and it can't be on the royal table, I think of a poem in Xueqin's "Stone Record", which was improvised and named. Then he recited lightly:

There is no material to make up for the sky, and it will be in vain for many years;

This is a matter of the past and the future, who will remember it as a strange biography?

He also said: "The last two sentences are not very appropriate to the dish, just take it and enter the cabinet without Fuden Palace." ”

Everyone said "reasonable" when they heard it, and they scooped the soup with a spoon, and it was really delicious. Xueqin then said: "It's only been a few months since I returned to Beijing, and Fang Qing has produced again, so I haven't written much text. It was originally written, and Prince Yi's mansion has copied it, and it has been sent back to Yes. The second and third masters want to see it, borrow it from it, just don't lose it. Write a book picture for people to see! Dun Min waved his hands in the banquet and thanked each other, and said: "Mr. said that if you don't write the text, there must be good poems, why not let us feast our eyes?" "You Fangqing's sister-in-law will collect the manuscript of the poem, and you will copy it when the banquet is dispersed." Most of those poems are desolate, and they have not defeated your wine, but there is a compilation of "Five Beautiful Yin" that can be recited. Red makeup and wine are on paper again, are you happy? Then he chanted:

A generation of alluring cities and waves, Wu Gongkong remembers his family;

Xiao Feng Mo smiled at the girl of the East Village, and the head was still full of yarn by the white stream.

"This is Shih Tzu." Xue Qin said. And he groaned:

The intestines are broken, the night is howling, and Yu Xi hates the heavy pupils;

Huang Peng is willing to accept his year, how can he drink the sword as in the Chu tent!

- Yu Ji.

Stunning and amazing out of the Han Palace, the red face is the same as the ancient and modern;

Even if the king is light on color, what is the painter who seizes power?

- Concubine Ming.

The rubble pearl is thrown in one case, how can he be delicate and delicate?

are all due to stubborn blessings in the previous life, and there are more comforts and loneliness together.

- Green beads.

Liu Xiaolin said: "There is another one of the five beauties, presumably Concubine Yang?" Cao Xueqin said with a smile: "Yang Yuhuan read "Song of Long Hatred" with Emperor Ming in the fairy mountain on the sea, and he had no time to come to visit the flowers. It's the Red Whisk Girl. Then he whispered again:

The long sword male talks about his own self-esteem, and the beauty has a huge eye to know the end;

The corpse dwelling is remnant of Yang Gongmu, how can he restrain a female husband?

His words trembled, like the sound of gold and stone, and everyone listened with fascination. Liu Xiaolin raised his glass and said, "Good poetry - good wine and good beauty." With this wine, a thousand cups are not drunk. Come on, do it! Everyone laughed and drank it all.

Duncheng listened to Cao Xueqin's recitation of "Five Beautiful Yin", sandwiching the dishes in the soup pot, one cup on the left and one on the right, just eating wine, he was already drunk, and said: "I listen, everyone is better than my brother!" In his early years, Mr. Xueqin appreciated the gold dust of the Six Dynasties, Zhong Ming Ding Food, and read all the prosperity, and now he is writing a book in Huangye Village, and he has established the words of eternity; Brother Le Liu is the champion again, Tanhua, and also in the limelight, Ah Gui is now looking for a marquis, yes Mr. Zhi cultivates the mountains, and he is also a free mountain man without fame. My brother said that he was an idle clan, but he was a broken family that had been defeated for several generations, one was not promoted, two did not get rich, and three did not take the peach blossom luck, not only 'no wealth to make up for the sky', but also to be governed by the family education and the internal affairs government, and he was just fooling around two days a day, which was exactly 'looking for a crack in the ground with a sense of shame'! Dun Min asked, "What are you doing in the ground sewing?" Duncheng said: "It's good to find a crack in the ground!" The crowd shuddered with laughter as they listened.

"Xueqin," Le Min, who had something in his heart, looked at the snow outside and said, "I know that you are high and disdainful of making eight strands of fame." But, in any case, since you have somersaulted in this 'last day,' you must be with the light. And it's a joke, it's true that officialdom is still dark and dirty, and it doesn't necessarily mean that everyone is a crow, right? Xueqin said with a smile: "If people refuse to 'be with the light and dust', who can live?" I was so cold that I was terrified, and I didn't dare to set foot in that splendid future! In the sixth year of Yongzheng, he led people to raid my home, one hundred and fourteen men and women, and those who were closed and those who were in flail were divided into slaves, and those who were imprisoned for investigation. In the eleventh year of Yongzheng, he was raided again with Hurd, and painted the gourd again, and now his second son is still in Heilongjiang with the armored people! Shoutai, who copied Hurd, was involved with Honghui's case the year before last, and was copied again, all the family members were sold, and all the family property was put into the government, I heard that a person surnamed Yuan bought my garden, and named it 'Suiyuan'. My uncle and aunt are now prosperous again, and they even said that Fu Liuye, that is even closer to roast people. I am close to the sixth master, and I am a distant relative, and Fang Qing is a person in the sixth master's mansion, I want to squeeze the door, I am afraid that I will not be able to squeeze a half-official position? It's boring, Zhugong, it's like the marquee turning around and around, you just wait a little longer, and it's still Guan, Zhang, Zhao, Ma, and Huang. Le Min smiled: "Let's go, let's go! I can't say you, but you are not a cicada, you can live by sucking dew and drinking wind, the monks in the temple, practicing quietly, and there are still a few acres of temple property - hungry and dizzy, you can also 'pick chrysanthemums under the east fence and see Nanshan leisurely', I don't believe Tao Yuanming! Duncheng remembered his own life experience, brought wine again, and said loudly: "Xueqin's words are the most to my thoughts!" There are poems to prove it! Then he also struck the bowl and sang:

Shaoling used to give General Cao, the grandson of Wei Wu in the past.

After Jun and Wu are generals, they are now blocking Basil Tun.

The old dream of Yangzhou has been awakened for a long time, and the nose of the calf is in Linqiong!

……

Persuade the gentleman not to play the diner, and persuade the gentleman not to knock on the door of the rich.

The remnant cup is cold and virtuous, it is not as good as the book Huangye Village!

He had obviously forgotten about his body by the wine, and laughed loudly at the end of the song: "If you are a gentleman, why should you become an official and compete with the laity!" He was not guarded, and Ah Gui and Le Min were both blushing. Dun Min was busy with the round and said, "Don't mind, my brother is like this, old man, the officials of the Internal Affairs Department can't do anything about him." Actually, I think Le Min has a point, Xueqin lives by selling paintings, writing and kites, which is not a long-term solution. ”

Ah Gui smiled and said, "I don't care, I'm not a bald donkey, and I'm not afraid of being scolded as a monk." After a pause, he said: "Don't think I'm proud, I came to see Xueqin when the prefect, and once said, 'When you see the state and county, you exhale, when you see the Taotai, you will lower your eyebrows, and when you see the governor Fu Adult's tea talk, I only explain a few "yes yes yes yes"! 'Do you think it's delicious?' Cao Xueqin teased: "What you said is a couplet, have you forgotten my right couplet?" "Don't dare," Ah Gui smiled: "But I'm really not a corrupt official, do I scold myself when I say it?" And he read the couplet:

There are messengers as minions, there are scribes as wings, and there are local gentry Dong who stammers and laughs "hahaha"!

"Mr. Xueqin, I see that you are still writing books. It is better to write this "Dream of Red Mansions" than to be an official. Dun Min laughed for a while, and said with a straight face, "But livelihood must not be worried. I went to the sect to check, and you just took a long vacation. It doesn't take much to do it, and you can get a bad time off the holiday. It's too far away from the city, and it's a bit out of reach for friends to take care of it. ”

Cao Xueqin looked at the two brothers who met for the first time gratefully, his mission in the sect was resigned, and these two people must have changed their ways. It's not a big deal, which shows that they are affectionate and think really well for themselves...... Just said, "I used to live in Baijiatuan, and it is close to the city, Le Min knows." Honghui Wang Ye is a bad thing, the people of the Internal Affairs Office disturb three times a day, ask me what I know about Prince Yi, the white flag Niu Lu has also changed, kicked through my threshold, said to 'make friends', but put on an official stand, this friend is really difficult, so he avoided the hustle and bustle to come to this Huai Shutun ......" He didn't finish speaking, Dun Cheng said: "That ** Niu Lu is called Yanxin, right?" It's my family's coated minions! I'll throw you this fan here, you show it to him, if he doesn't kowtow, I'll whip him to death! Seeing that his eyes were astringent, Dun Min said with a smile: "You still move to Baijiatuan, I have a small courtyard there, you live there, you don't dare to disturb." - Even Mr. Yanzhai's house is also available, our brother asks for advice in the morning and evening, and he has to get a bargain, first, there is a regular entry in the sect, and second, our brother can give you a dervishes, we have no identity, and we still have face, so we don't let you suffer so much. Don't expect Ah Gui and Le Min to go on an errand. Qian Du and Zhuang Yougong can't be counted on, we are idle, we are idle, we are a lackey for you, grinding ink and washing inkstones, you only love to write "Dream of Red Mansions", how about it? Xue Qin thought for a while and said, "The two virtuous brothers are so loving, and out of sincerity, I might as well be respectful." Let's wait for the spring to open - when the spring begins, my family will move to Baijiatuan! ”

At that moment, everyone sat down to eat and drink, and told riddles about the poems, Dun Min insisted on copying Cao Xueqin's poems, and several people also gathered a hundred and ten taels of silver for a while, and there was no shortage of wine and food for a winter, until the sky was getting dark, and they all braved the twilight snow to disperse, and it was not a problem.