It turned out that the person who called Yucun was actually the colleague who was dismissed with him at the beginning, and his family was here, so he met (in ancient times, there were few human beings, so he could always meet), and told him: "It's a good thing, now the court is going to use us old officials." Of course, Jia Yucun was overjoyed, so he hurriedly said a few words and hurriedly said goodbye. Before leaving, Leng Zixing also instructed him to ask him to ask the owner Lin Ruhai to beg him to introduce and inform Jia Zheng in the capital. You know, although it is used, but without a trust relationship, it is still not the turn. Jia Yucun hurriedly woke up and felt that this idea was good. So I went back to my residence and found a newspaper (Di Bao) to read it, confirming that the news was good.

The next day, Jia Yucun told Lin Ruhai what he meant. Lin Ruhai said: "It's a coincidence, my cheap wife died, and my old mother-in-law in her hometown felt that my little daughter had no one to take care of her education, so she sent a boat to pick her up." It just so happens that you are going to Kyoto, so I will write a letter to my brother-in-law and ask him to take care of it. You teach with me, and I haven't reported the kindness of enlightening my children, and I will pay you all the expenses on the road, so you don't have to worry about it. ”

Jia Yucun thanked him, and then prepared to go. The female student Daiyu was just sick, so she didn't want to go, but her father felt that he wouldn't take the child, so he should go to his grandmother's house, I still have to stay and do revolutionary work, anyway, I won't remarry. When Daiyu heard this, she said goodbye with tears, followed the waiter, and got on the boat together. There is a difference between men and women, and Jia Yucun takes another small boat and follows forward.

After a few days, when he arrived in Kyoto, Jia Yucun first went to the gate of Rongguofu and took his business card to worship. Jia Zheng had already read Lin Ruhai's letter of recommendation at this time - Jia Zheng is the second child of Jia's mother, who likes to read the most, and also likes to read, at that time (Ming Dynasty) already had a postal system, but it was dedicated to sending letters to each other, and Lin Ruhai did not need to be an official in vain, so this letter arrived earlier than Jia Yucun. Jia Zheng hurriedly invited Jia Yucun into the meeting, and when he saw that he was a strange Northeast genius and spoke well, he was more willing to help. So he tried his best to secretly assist, and soon Jia Yucun found a position as the prefect of Yingtianfu, and the latter happily went.

However, it was said that when Daiyu abandoned the boat and landed on the shore, there was already a car (sedan chair) of Rongguofu waiting on the ferry. Daiyu got into the sedan chair and looked at the few third-class maids accompanying each other, the degree of food and clothing was already extraordinary. So Daiyu didn't dare to talk nonsense, and always pay attention, so as not to be laughed at. Entering the city, this capital is really extraordinary, the market is prosperous, and the people are prosperous (it is generally not easy to meet easily), specifically our old Beijing. After walking in the city for a long time, I finally saw two large stone lions squatting on the north side of the street, three gates with animal heads and rings, and a dozen or so gorgeously dressed people sitting in front of the door. However, the main entrance was not opened (it was only opened during the National Day), and only the east and west corner doors were entered. There is a large book above the main entrance: "Rongguo Mansion" (approved by the emperor). Enter through the West Corner Gate. The sedan chair man walked more than a hundred meters, stopped before the turn, and retreated. The mothers-in-law (these pick-ups) also got down from the sedan chair they were riding in (the servants all sat in the sedan chair) and caught up. At this time, another small maid with clothes and hats lifted Daiyu's sedan chair, and the mother-in-law followed and continued to walk inside. Walk, go, go east and west, walk to a hanging flower door, the little maids withdrew, the mother-in-law helped Daiyu (have to be supported, because of the wrapped feet, sorry), into the hanging flower door, on both sides are verandahs, in the middle is the empty hall that walks through, there is a marble stone screen with a rosewood shelf (it says "seek truth from facts"), bypass this stone screen, see three halls, behind the hall is the main courtyard. The five upper rooms in the front of the compound are all carved beams and painted columns, and the verandahs and wings on both sides are hung with various birds (this is the bad custom of old Beijing again, playing with birds). The main house was built on the platform, and a few maids dressed in red and green on the stage hurriedly smiled and greeted them with a smile, and scrambled to lift the curtain (called the curtain is too earthy, and people call it the curtain cage), and shouted: "Miss Lin has arrived." ”

As soon as Daiyu entered the room, she saw two people holding an old lady with silver sideburns (but the main hair was black) to greet her, and Daiyu knew that it was Jia's mother (Jia Yu, Jia Zheng and her own mother Jia Min's mother). Without waiting for Daiyu to bow down, the grandmother took her into her arms and cried heartily. That's ah, of course I have to cry, the old girl Daiyu's mother Jia Min is dead. Daiyu also hurriedly cried enough. In the end, the crowd slowly persuaded them to disperse as if they were fighting, and only then did they stop crying. Daiyu picked up her clothes and bowed down to her grandmother.

The grandmother then picked up Daiyu and pointed to her one by one and said: "This is your eldest aunt (Jia Yu's wife, Xing's family), this is your second aunt (Jia Zheng's wife, Mrs. Wang), and this (the worst) is your deceased eldest brother Jia Zhu (Jia Zheng's eldest son, Jia Baoyu - Xingsan's eldest brother) daughter-in-law Zhu sister-in-law (scientific name Li Kun)." ”

Daiyu has seen these noble figures one by one. Jia Mu said again: "Please come over the girls too, there are guests from afar (from Huaiyang to Beijing) today, you can not go to school." ”

The people agreed, and went to two.

After a while, three wet nurses and five or six maids came with three sisters. The first skin is slightly plump (slightly plump), the body is in place, the cheeks are as white as lychees, the nose is delicate as soap, gentle and silent. The second, with shaved shoulders and a thin waist (a bony beauty), a long figure, a duck egg face, looking forward to Shenfei, is very rich. The third is still young in stature and young in age. All three were dressed in the same makeup, with hairpins on their heads, rings on their bodies, and small jackets (it was autumn at the time). Needless to say, they are Yingchun, Tanchun, and Xichun, respectively, the children of Jia Yu and Jia Zheng, and the sister of Jia Zhen of the same clan Ningguo Mansion. Daiyu hurriedly got up, saluted each other, and then sat together.

The maids poured tea, and Jia's mother asked her daughter (Lin Daiyu's mother) how she got sick, how she couldn't do it, and whether she was high-level or not. When he said that, he cried again, hugged Daiyu, and cried for a long time. The crowd was persuaded.

Everyone saw that although Daiyu was young, her manners and speech were very good, and although her body and face seemed to be timid, she seemed to be overwhelmed by clothes, but she had a natural romantic attitude, so they knew that she had some lack of qi and blood. So he asked Daiyu what medicine she usually takes. Daiyu Luoli said a lot, said that after a while, he started to eat, and began to take medicine, and there was a leper monk in the past, who wanted to take her away, and finally said, eating ginseng to raise Rong pills, it is useful. Jia Mu said: "It's just right, we will give you (medicine) in the future." ”

Before he finished speaking, he heard someone laughing in the courtyard outside, saying, "I am too late to greet guests." Daiyu was very strange, thinking to herself, these people were holding their voices, respectful, how could anyone dare to laugh so rudely. Just as he was thinking about it, he saw a group of servants and maids coming in through the door with a person in their arms. This person is dressed differently from the girls, and the colorful embroidery on his body is brilliant like that of a fairy concubine: he wears a bun with gold silk and eight treasures and beads on his head, a hairpin with beads hanging from the five phoenixes of the rising sun, a red gold dragon collar around his neck, a bean-green palace silk tied around the skirt (so that he can walk like a fly), two symmetrical flounder roses and jade pendants are pressed on the skirt, and he wears a narrow seam jacket with a hundred golden butterflies wearing flowers and red satin (imported fabric) (narrow front and back seams and waist seams, indicating a slender figure), The exterior is covered with a coat made of multicolored carved silk stone blue and silver rat skin, and a jade flower-sprinkled crepe (again imported) skirt is worn underneath. Ho, in short, it can make the girls who often love to go to the mall drool. A pair of Danfeng triangular eyes, two curved willow leaves hanging eyebrows, slender figure, coquettish physique, powder face with spring power (with a smile on the face does not show the majesty), Dan lips are not smiling first.

Daiyu hurriedly got up. Jia Mu smiled and said: "You don't recognize her, she is a famous and broken household here, the so-called spicy girl (hot girl) in the south, you just have to call her Feng Lazi." Daiyu didn't know what to do for a while. In the spring, they hurriedly told her that it was good to call her "sister-in-law Lian". It turned out to be the daughter-in-law of Jia Lian, the son of (the boss) Jia Yu, Wang Xifeng. She is also the niece of Jia Zheng's daughter-in-law, Mrs. Wang, and Mrs. Wang both grew up in Jinling, the south, so she is the so-called spicy son of the southerners, and she came to Kyoto after getting married. Daiyu hurriedly saluted and called her sister-in-law.

This Jia Yu's son Jia Lian, and Jia Zheng's son Jia Zhu (deceased), Jia Baoyu, Tanchun, and Jia Min's daughter Lin Daiyu are all of the same generation, so it is not wrong for Daiyu to call her sister-in-law and sister-in-law Lian. Jia Yu, Jia Zheng, and Jia Min are all children of Jia's mother.

This Xifeng took Daiyu's hand and said, "There is such a symbol in the world, and I can only see it today." With such a style, it doesn't look like the granddaughter of the old lady, but it is the granddaughter of the descendant, and the old lady can't forget it for a while. She laughed as she spoke. Everyone laughed when they heard this. Wang Xifeng took Daiyu's hand again and said, "How old is my sister?" Did you go to school? What medicine to take now? (Here it is again, why do you always ask to take medicine.) At that time, when the old Beijingers met, they might say, have you taken medicine? ）”

Lin Daiyu said: "I'm six years old, seven years old!" "-Absolutely down, after tossing for so long, he is only six years old. However, the population at that time was small, the quality of people was good, and people were precocious, and they understood everything at the age of six or seven. "I usually stay at home, I haven't been to school, and I always eat ginseng to raise Rong pills (advertised twice)."

Wang Xifeng asked for warmth again, because she was stronger than Jia Lian, Jia Lian was originally the eldest grandson of this generation, so she helped with housework, because she was capable, so now she is helping to manage. Therefore, as soon as Daiyu came, she asked all the people who should be in her life, and instructed her mother-in-law to carry luggage or something. The luggage was delivered with the car behind the sedan chair at that time.

After speaking, the tea fruit has already been put on the table. Wang Xifeng took the opportunity to report the family situation and salary to Jia Zheng (the second child, although he is the second child, but he is better than the confused boss, so he is the main pillar in the family). Mrs. Wang asked her first, "Have you paid all your wages?" She replied that her wages had been paid. Mrs. Wang instructed her to find silk and satin clothes for your sister Lin, and Wang Xifeng replied that she had already prepared for it.

Everyone ate and drank all the tea and fruits. Mother Jia said: "The task is not completed yet, you can take your niece to meet the two uncles." Jia Yu's wife Xing Shi was busy, so she took Daiyu to her home to meet her husband, Lin Daiyu's uncle Jia Yu. He was accompanied by Jia Zheng's wife, Wang.

A group of people went out to ride the car again—in the Cui Huqing (Siyou) car, pulled by mules, out of the West Corner Gate, to (the boss) Jia Yu's house. Jia Yu lives next door to Rongguo Mansion, which is actually part of the courtyard that is rooted out of Rongguo Mansion, and it goes without saying how magnificent it is. Unexpectedly, Jia Yu said: "I've been in poor health lately (I've come to that), and I'm sad in vain when I see the girl, so I'm still gone." What does the girl need, just say, don't go outside. Lin Daiyu listened to the rumor, and hurriedly agreed, and said in her heart, then wait for him to finish, and have a chance to see you again in the future.

This Jia Yu is blindly not caring about anything, and now he has attacked his father Jia Daishan's official, and he is a first-class general, but it is estimated that he has never led soldiers with such a body.

Subsequently, Daiyu returned to Rongguo Mansion, and went around the courtyard where (the second) Jia Zheng lived, which was actually more magnificent than the place where Jia's mother lived just now. Mrs. Wang (Jia Zheng's daughter-in-law), let her go to the kang alive or dead. Daiyu is a southerner, and she is not used to the kang, but fortunately, the child is flexible, so she climbed up the kang for the maid to support, and sat bent, next to Mrs. Wang.

Mrs. Wang said, "Your uncle (Jia Zheng, the second child) is unfortunate today and went out to fast. I'll see you another day. I have one thing to tell you, that is, your three sisters are all good. But I have a bad cause, I am the demon king of the family, and today I also went with his father to the temple to make a vow. You'll see him when he comes back in the evening. In the future, just ignore him, these sisters of yours dare not mess with him. ”

Lin Daiyu laughed with her, and she had already heard the name of this person, so she said: "What you are talking about, is it the brother born of jade?" I used to hear my mother say at home that this brother was a year older than me (eight years old!). According to Leng Zixing, he is seven or eight years old! This is a complete kindergarten-level love), the name is Baoyu, although it is very naughty, but it is the most affectionate to sisters. I live with my sisters and my brothers and brothers, and I won't provoke them. ”

Mrs. Wang smiled and said, "My child, if the sisters say one more word to him on this day, he will be happy in his heart, and countless things will be born." So I beg you to ignore him. He speaks sweetly for a while, and then goes crazy and stupid, in short, don't believe him. ”

It's really serious enough to treat the child, and ask for it calmly.

Daiyu agreed one by one. At this time, the maid also reported: "Report, the old lady has passed dinner there." ”

So he walked around from the courtyard, passed by Wang Xifeng's house, and arrived at the lobby of Jia's mother's house where they were eating. Jia's mother ate first, and Jia Zhu's daughter-in-law (Li Kun) served her rice (a bowl of rice!). Wang Xifeng arranged chopsticks, and Mrs. Wang held the meat soup (Mrs. Xing and Jia Yu were there, because they were next door to Jiafu, so they had a separate meal, but they didn't come to eat, and it was too late to take napkins to honor their mother-in-law) - it is good to have more daughters-in-law, and the children and granddaughters-in-law are waiting for a meal.

Daiyu, Yingchun, Tanchun, and Xichun are all close to Jia's mother to sit (these three children, they don't go to school and have holidays, but they don't have to play), and the maid next to them is holding dust, wet towels, and small spoons, waiting. The daughters-in-law of Li Kun and Wang Xifeng, the two grandsons, stood to give cloth vegetables. The rule of the family is that the girl has a higher status than the daughter-in-law. Everyone ate very quietly, and then the maid held tea. There was still a large group of servants and maids outside, but none of them were playing with each other and texting each other, and they were busy coughing.

The tea I brought this time was for gargling. After rinsing it, I vomited in the small bowl. Then it's the main tea. Subsequently, Jia's mother ordered her daughters-in-law to retire, chatting with Daiyu alone, and watching TV next to her. Jia's mother asked Daiyu what book she was reading, and Daiyu said "Four Books" (this is also a high-level book, "Analects" and "Mencius" or something, which was probably taught to her by Jia Yucun).

As he was talking, he heard a sound of footsteps outside (a person got off the motorcycle), and the maid came in and smiled: "Baoyu is here!" ”

Then I saw a young man (eight years old!) come in. ), wearing a purple and gold crown with gold inlaid with hair on his head (this is also strange, it is not yet the time to be crowned as an adult, but it is said that the purple gold crown is a crown worn by children's games), and the eyebrows are tied with the two dragons grabbing pearls and gold wiping forehead (like the hair band of the belt of singing rock), wearing two-color gold butterflies wearing flower red arrow sleeves, tied with colorful silk and flower knots long spike palace silk, covered with stone blue flowers and eight groups of satin tassels; Wearing the green forging foundation Xiaochao boots, the face is like the moon of the Mid-Autumn Festival, the color is like the flower of spring dawn, the neck is covered with a gold mantle, and there is a five-colored silk silk, tied with a piece of beautiful jade, hanging on the chest.

Jia Mu smiled: "Don't go to see your sister yet!" Baoyu saw this sister, and she must have been Aunt Lin's daughter, so she hurriedly came to make a move. The two saluted each other and sat down again, Jia Baoyu looked at this sister carefully, and the two bends seemed to be frowning, and a pair of eyes seemed to be happy but not happy. The sorrow of the cheeks and the sickness of the whole body. Tears are dotted, and the pant is slight. When it is quiet, it is like a beautiful flower shining on the water, and the action is like a weak willow supporting the wind. The heart is more than the dry, and the disease is like Xizi winning three points. Seeing that Baoyu was stupid, he smiled slowly and said, "I have seen this sister before." ”

Don't you think that's crazy? Jia Mu immediately corrected him: "Nonsense, how come you have seen her again?" ”

Baoyu smiled and said: "Although I have never seen it, but when I look at it, I feel that it is an old acquaintance." Today can be regarded as a reunion of old farewells. (This is indeed a language artist, and he can speak that at the age of eight.) ）

Jia Mu said: "That's good, that's good, if that's the case, then it's harmonious." Mother Jia treated this child like a small animal, for fear that if she saw it, she would pinch it.

Baoyu approached Daiyu and sat down again, looked at it carefully, and then asked, "What kind of books does my sister usually study?" ”

Daiyu said: "No, I followed Teacher Jia and studied for a year, and I must recognize a few words." ”

Baoyu said again, "What's that sister's name?" ”

Daiyu said. Baoyu said again, what is the word? The ancients were superstitious and thought that names could not be called indiscriminately - because primitive people thought that names had magic powers, and they were known, and they were written on small wood, and they were unlucky to take needles while reading, so they couldn't be called, and they couldn't let people know, so what should I do, so I gave another word, covered it on the name, and called it to people, because it was covered outside, so it was called a table word. For example, Liu Bei, the word Xuande. If you love Za, you can Za Xuande.

Daiyu said, "I don't have words. ”

Baoyu said: "I give my sister a word, and the word '颦颦' is the best." ”

Tanchun next to him is his sister (born to his aunt's wife), who is particularly literary and fairy, loves to read, and hurriedly asked: "What is the origin of this word?" ”

Baoyu said: "The "General Examination of Ancient and Modern Characters" says that there is a stone name dai in the West, which can replace the ink of the thrush. And this Sister Lin's eyebrows seem to be urging, using these two words to make words, wouldn't they be the right thing. "Dai, you can thrush, the characteristic of the eyebrows is that you can blush (promote, like Xi Shi, learn this is called imitation of the brow), and the sister herself loves to promote the eyebrows, so the two cheeks, the cheeks. This is the experience of eight-year-old Jia Baoyu in reading books, even a book that Ji Xianlin may not have read such as "General Examination of Ancient and Modern Characters", he has read it at the age of eight.

Tanchun said: "I'm afraid this is your invention again. ”

Baoyu said: "In addition to the Four Books, there are too many apocryphal books, why can't I make them up? In fact, the "Mencius" in the four books has apocryphal sentences, such as about King Wen of Zhou. Most of the four books are from the pre-Qin, and the pre-Qin people are still honest, and there are not many fabrications. In the era of imperial power in later generations, the emperor was bad and autocratic, and the people and intellectuals below could no longer have backbone, so they made up for various purposes, and they did not pay attention to principles. So except for Sima Qian, he couldn't write a good history later.

Tanchun no longer paid attention to him, for fear of leading to countless words. Baoyu asked Daiyu again: "But is there also jade?" ”

The people did not understand what he said. Daiyu thought to herself, this big brother is probably because he has jade, so he asked me if he had it? So he said, "I don't have that." Thinking about it, that jade is a rare thing, how can everyone have it. "What a mean sentence, but only those who can say such things can subdue this "demon king of the mixed world".

Baoyu was dumbfounded all of a sudden, and when he heard that Deng Shi launched a madness (intermittently), he took off the jade and fell down hard - probably because he couldn't say Lin Daiyu, so he threw the jade and used body language to deal with the other party, while scolding: "What a rare thing, even if you can't choose who is taller or who can reach, you can keep up, and say that the psychic is not psychic (not at all), I don't want this Laoshizi!" ”

Frightened, everyone hurriedly rushed up to grab the jade, Baoyu was already crying on her face, crying and panting and said: "Each sister in the family has no jade, I have it, I said it's boring, and now there is such a fairy-like Sister Lin who doesn't have it, but I know that this is not a good thing." (It means that the jade is with the wrong person, so it doesn't work, and if it doesn't work, it shouldn't be kept.) ）

Mother Jia hurriedly coaxed him to persuade him, saying that Sister Lin also had it, but it was just given to her mother as a funeral gift, so she deliberately said no, because she didn't want to exaggerate. (Playing a round for Daiyu.) Jia Baoyu just asked Jia's mother to put the jade on him, and there was no other discussion for the time being.

Here Jia Baoyu is still full of benevolence, do not do to others what you don't want, what you have, you also hope that others will have it, otherwise you would rather not have it yourself, this is benevolence. (Ren means that he has desires, and he thinks that others have similar desires, so he also wants others to fulfill his desires.) This is the essence of a child. It's just that this kind of benevolence (righteousness) and the evil qi given by society behind it, as well as some evil qi inherited from the wild ancient animal period, are endowed together to form a human being. This is what the original storyteller meant that man is the product of both good and evil. So there is no need to blame anyone, or to sing praise. He is understanding and tolerant of both good and bad guys. In addition, because of this, between infatuated and resentful women, there is also love and hate.

So it was not early, and the ancients slept more actively than the current people, so they arranged a house for Daiyu. Baoyu had to make trouble to teach Daiyu to sleep in his house. So a bed was assigned to Daiyu, and Wang Xifeng sent someone to bring a quilt tent early. Daiyu came here, and there was a little maid with her, ten years old (older than Daiyu), named Snow Goose. That's a good name. Mother Jia saw that the child was too young, and she couldn't even take care of herself with her snot dragging her nose, let alone taking care of a sick little sister Daiyu. So he sent another maid of his own, Brother Parrot, to Daiyu.

At night, everyone sleeps. Jia Baoyu's maid, the biggest one called the attacker, was originally also by Jia's mother's side, and was given to Baoyu, and slept with her on the big bed outside Daiyu's room (to take care of the guests). When Baoyu and the others were asleep, the attacker saw that Lin Daiyu's sister hadn't slept yet. So he came in quietly and asked with a smile, "Why hasn't the girl slept yet?" ”

Daiyu hurriedly gave up her seat, asked the attacker to sit, and the attacker sat on the edge of the kang (or kang!). Maybe Sister Lin doesn't like kang and likes tatami mats, so she doesn't want to sleep. Brother Dai Daiyu replied, "Miss Lin is sad, she wiped her tears and said, 'I only came today, and I made their sons angry, if I broke the jade, wouldn't it be my sin?' (It's easy to get sick in this way, and it's really hard to cure it no matter how much ginseng you eat.) So I was sad, so I persuaded him. ”

The attacker then smiled and said, "Don't think so, girl. I'm afraid he'll take a weirder joke in the future! If you order this for him, you will be so sad, then I am afraid that you will not be able to be sad in the future. You see, he doesn't sleep well! Spit bubbles! ”

Daiyu said: "What my sister said is that I remember it. It's just that what is the origin of that jade, and why is there a word on it? ”

The attacker said, "No one in the family knows." There are eyes on it (that's even more funny for Mrs. Wang). As soon as the grass falls, there is it. Why don't I show it to you? ”

Daiyu hurriedly stopped her and said, "No need, it's midnight at the moment, it's not too late to see tomorrow." (Fortunately, I didn't say that I couldn't afford to pay for it.) About the next person, she doesn't say nasty words. Hehe. ）

This Daiyu is also endowed with good and evil.

Everyone talked nonsense for a while, and then rested.

The next day, I received a letter from Jinling - this Jinling is Nanjing, the former capital of the Ming Dynasty emperor, and the Hongwu Emperor was the capital there. Rong Guogong, the founding heroes who followed Zhu Yuanzhang, so the earliest mansion was in Jinling. So Jinling is the old house of the Jia family's hometown - that is, Jia Yucun said that he saw it when he traveled to Jinling, and now Jia Zheng is a member of the Ministry of Labor, and Jia Yu also has officials, all of whom are with the imperial court, and they are close to Beijing to settle down. So I received a letter from Jinling, saying that it was Xue Pan, the overlord son of Aunt Xue's family in Jinling, who had killed people there, and the local Ying Tianfu was about to be tried, and Xue Pan wanted to run away to the Jia Mansion in Beijing, so he wrote a letter to inform him. For more information, let's break it down next.