Act 2 The flowers are ignorant, the moon is boring, the wine is spiritless, the peach is broken, the parrot is cooked, and the begging style is innumerable. ——Kyushu Yuan Bai Songyuan "Hate is not crazy"

Du Gongzi's name is Baoyu, he was born with saliva jade, his family is the mansion of the rich country, his father is the prime minister of the dynasty, and he has been raised as a "strange treasure" since he was a child.

He has been playing in the women's family since he was a child, only a dozen personal maids, and he had his first intercourse at the age of thirteen, and since then he has been out of control, and he has forced several chaste women to resist to death, his father really can't control him, and he doesn't want to care anymore.

In other words, Du Baoyu's heart is not bad, but he doesn't know the depth of right and wrong, he is good at fighting but often does wrong things, and provokes a lot of commotion, dignified son, the Son of Heaven may not obey the order, but he listens to the sneer of a few little women around him, and also likes gadgets, what rouge gouache is ordinary, excellent crickets and parrots, raised three crickets named "Taoyuan Three Generals", raised a parrot called "Parrot Brother", it seems that he is more pampered with the parrot brother, a cricket was accidentally eaten by the parrot brother, Du Baoyu simply fed the remaining two, I don't learn all day, I don't seem to have anything to worry about, it's really comfortable.

Outsiders wrote a story about his life, the title of the book is called "Stone Forest", and the author is called Bai Songyuan.

But the first half of this book is okay, and the second half begins to dismantle the pieces of dreams. The rhythm of the family road is chapter after chapter, and every time you encounter something, something big sesame, you have to die a character. The status is falling one level at a time, the former colleagues have become adults, the former subordinates have become colleagues, and later their colleagues have become adults, and they have fallen again and again, the big people in the family have died, the little people have died, scattered, thousands of houses and courtyards of the Guogong Mansion, divided out to pay off debts, the remaining one old, two young and two servants, shrunk in a tiled house, the hope of the whole family was pinned on Du Gongzi, Du Gongzi was forced to study and read every day, in order to hope to be able to rebuild the family business.

If the story is written here, it can become a generation of literary masterpieces, but the author is not finished, and he writes that Baoyu's daughter-in-law jumped into a well, two servants, one ran away, and the other was kidnapped, leaving Du Baoyu and the old woman, who were very sad these days.

The old woman warned Baoyu that he should concentrate on studying and gain fame, in order not to drag him down, he took medicine and died in front of Baoyu, Baoyu was wearing a torn cotton jacket, his hands were in his cuffs, squatting on the small bench, the whole person was stunned, and from time to time he babbled out the little songs he sang when he was listening to the play in the Grand View Garden, and no one applauded him at this time.

Baoyu was hungry and wanted to go to the restaurant to eat the overlord meal, but he didn't even enter the door, he was broken in his legs, and limped to shoot the hot steamed buns of the peddler, and he felt pitiful and escaped a yard, he carried a birdcage in his hand, and the cage contained a talking parrot.

went to steal the leftovers of the restaurant, was caught and beaten, the restaurant guy found the piece of jade hanging around Baoyu's neck, grabbed it, and said that it was worth the food money, Baoyu was taken away from his life, he went crazy to rob it, was beaten again, and threw it out three or four miles away, and when he went to look for it again, he was gone, lost the jade, Du Gongzi had no soul, he didn't read anymore, he didn't care about his face and family business, he felt that his time was short, so he simply indulged freely.

On this day, Du Gongzi went to the street, if you look at it from the front, you will find that he is Du Xiaoyue's men's appearance, but now Du Xiaoyue has this memory of Du Gongzi, and she also believes that she is Du Gongzi and a man.

Du Gongzi (Du Xiaoyue) looks at the flower monster and does not understand his heart, does not know how to bloom, looks at the moon, feels that the world's poetry is weak and bitter, nothing more than life and death parting, missing and loving, good is boring, go to the place where the peach blossoms are in full bloom, I want to take an axe to cut off the branches, the belly is hungry, so I burned firewood, cooked the parrot, spread my hands, fell my knees, begged from South Street to North Street, rolled in the middle of the street, and plastered on the freshly baked steamed buns.

But he still felt dry, felt that life was in vain, it was better to break into a brothel, before being beaten to death, before trying the taste of nephrite in the world, not going through the main entrance, going over the wall to enter, Du Gongzi (Du Xiaoyue) met a laundry maid, the maid said a word, and his eyes secretly sent Qiu Bo, it turned out to be a girl who sold her body with laughter.

"Neither is it" Du Gongzi (Du Xiaoyue) looked down on him, and went to break through one door after another, trying to find a character who looked like an oiran, Xu was fateful, and broke into the room of Han Zhangyi, a famous prostitute in the capital, separated from the beauty by a screen, and the woman was humming a tune, so she was almost filled in with an excellent word. Du Gongzi (Du Xiaoyue) heard the lyrics and songs, and was heartbroken because of his past experience, and casually made up a word, which surprised Han Zhangyi, and immediately walked out of the screen to meet him, and since then Du Gongzi (Du Xiaoyue) has become a frequent visitor to Han Zhangyi.

Du Gongzi (Du Xiaoyue)'s clothes are neat, his skin is white and tender, and his hair is clean, but he still can't change his crazy energy, he often talks about wind and gossip, and often writes crazy words and crazy things, but he became famous because of the poem that was tempered by the ups and downs of life. He was ruthless to the world, thoughtless and unintentional to the world, he told Han Zhangyi that his jade was lost, and his soul was gone. Han Zhangyi told him that he would become his new jade, but Du Gongzi (Du Xiaoyue) waved his hand and laughed, laughing at her and laughing at himself, he was ruthless and unrighteous, but he did a ridiculous "big thing", he broke into the prince's wedding procession and wiped the ankles of the bride in the sedan chair.

He was hung for five days and five nights, and finally was to be executed by Ling Chi, and I don't know who saved him, and after escaping, the next day he went crazy again on the street without restraint, and his life experience was so rich that it was not over. A scholar kidnapped him, locked him in the cellar, let him talk crazy, and occasionally popped up a few good words, all of which were snatched by the scholar, and relying on that sentence of poetry, the scholar became a rookie in the poetry world.

Du Gongzi (Du Xiaoyue) fled again, not hiding from anyone or anything, without jade, there is no soul, he wanders in the world "happily".

"Stone Forest" ends here, the author Bai Songyuan sighed at length at the back of the volume, and the people of later generations changed the name of this story, the first half is called A Dream of Red Mansions, and the second half is called a madness in the world. For thousands of years, it has been read and sought after by countless scholars.