In a few days, it will be the twenty-first, which is Baochai's birthday. Baochai is fifteen years old this year (two years older than Baoyu) and is on her first birthday after coming to Jiafu. Mother Jia likes Baochai to be stable and peaceful, and when she heard about it, she wanted to celebrate her birthday. This is indispensable and Sister Feng has to do it. Sister Feng thought that fifteen years old is the age at which she can enter adulthood with a hairpin, so she naturally has to live a more important life, a little older than Daiyu's birthdays that are less than thirteen in previous years. That's what Najamu means.

Sister Feng went to report to Jia's mother, saying what to do on this birthday, nothing more than planning and making Jia's mother laugh. Everyone gathered at Jia's mother to talk and laugh. Baochai is also there. By the way, Mother Jia asked Baochai what kind of drama she likes to listen to, so she rehearsed in advance, performed on her birthday, and what she likes to eat, and the birthday party is easy to do. Baochai knew that Jia's mother was an elderly person, and the elderly liked lively dramas and sweet and soft things (such as sundae ice cream), so she said a few things according to what Jia's mother usually likes to listen to and eat. Jia Mu was even more happy, so she called for preparation.

On the 21st day, a small stage was set up in Jiafu, and a few tables of family banquets were set up, but they did not invite relatives and friends outside, they were all ordinary people, and after eating, they watched the play (they couldn't watch it hungry). Jia's mother asked Baochai to order first, and Baochai pushed it in, so she clicked on "Journey to the West" - Jia's mother likes monkeys or something, and her interests are the same as children's. Then Jia's mother asked Sister Feng to order, and Sister Feng knew that Jia's mother liked to be lively, and Jia's mother also liked to laugh, so she ordered a small Shenyang's "not bad money" - but because there was no "not bad money" at that time, she ordered a "Liu Erdangyi", playing a miserly Liu Er's rich man how to live, including being clothes, is a joke played by a clown. Jia Mu really liked it even more. Then Jia Mu asked Daiyu to order again. Jia's mother also likes Daiyu very much, in the past, Jia's mother lived with Yingchun and other Sanchun, since Daiyu came, she asked this Sanchun to move out of her house, and asked Daiyu and Baoyu to live in their own house together, which shows that Daiyu is the favorite girl in the house. However, since Baochai came, Jia's mother's first favorite is still Daiyu or Baochai, and the original storyteller did not say it. Daiyu then pushed and finally ordered one. Subsequently, Baoyu, Shi Xiangyun, Sanchun, Li Kun and others also clicked in turn.

Because there were too many scenes, I sang until the evening, ready to disperse. Mother Jia liked that Xiao Dan and the clown very much, so she called the two of them over, and saw that Xiao Dan was only eleven years old (he could memorize so many dramas), and the clown was only nine years old. Everyone sighed, it's not easy for the actors. Mother Jia rewarded the two children, and Sister Feng smiled next to her and said: "When this child is dressed up, he lives like a person, can you see who he looks like?" When Xue Baochai heard this, he knew it in his heart, but he smiled and refused to say. Baoyu also guessed who it looked like, but she didn't dare to say. Shi Xiangyun said: "It's like Sister Lin." When Baoyu heard this, he was startled, and hurriedly glanced at Xiangyun and made a look. When everyone heard this, they all paid attention to this Xiao Dan, and they all laughed, saying that it was indeed like it. So the group dispersed.

dispersed, Shi Xiangyun packed up and prepared to sleep, and at the same time ordered the maid not to sleep first, folded the clothes and packed them up. The maid asked, "What do you mean, are you going back?" Xiangyun said, "Yes, I'll leave early tomorrow morning." What are you doing here? What is the meaning of looking at people's eyes! ”

Baoyu heard this outside, hurriedly picked up the curtain and came in, took Xiangyun's hand and said, "Good sister, you blame me." Sister Lin is a hearty person, and everyone doesn't dare to say it, for fear that she will be annoyed (yes, at that time, the drama was not as proud as the current acting stars, but a person who was compared to male prostitutes and prostitutes, saying that Daiyu was like a certain drama, and it didn't make Sister Lin angry). Who knew that if you said it coldly, wouldn't she be angry? I'm afraid that you will offend her, so I don't tell you to talk more. You blame me now and shout to go, doesn't this wronged my kindness? ”

Xiangyun said: "Yes, I don't deserve to talk about her, it's okay for others to make fun of her, but it's okay for me to say no." I'm a slave girl, and if I offend her, that's amazing! ”

Baoyu said: "I'm for you, but I'm not here." I really don't have bad intentions, otherwise, I will immediately turn to ashes and be trampled by thousands of people. ”

Xiangyun said: "In the New Year's month, there is less nonsense. These evil vows, for those who are petty and love to be annoyed at every turn, keep them for them! Don't tell me to smack you. With that, he went to the inner room of Jia's mother's room, and lay down angrily.

Baoyu was bored, so she turned her head to look for Daiyu again. As soon as he arrived at the threshold of Daiyu's room, he was pushed out by Daiyu and closed the door. Baoyu was not clear, and called "Sister Lin" outside. Daiyu always ignores it. Later, there was no sound, and Daiyu thought he was going back, so she came to open the door (Daiyu likes to leave the door open so that it can be airy). As a result, when I opened the door, I saw that Baoyu was still standing there with his head down. Daiyu had no choice, and it was not good to turn it off again, so she reflexively went back to the bed and lay down.

Baoyu then came in and asked, "What's wrong with you, you're so angry with me?" ”

Daiyu said: "I was originally making fun of you, comparing me with the drama to amuse. ”

Baoyu said: "I don't compare, I don't laugh, why are you annoyed with me?" ”

Daiyu said, "Do you still want to compare?" Do you still want to laugh? You don't laugh better than you, you laugh better than those who laugh! ”

Baoyu couldn't tell the difference, couldn't say anything.

Daiyu said again: "I can forgive you for this." And why did you give Yun'er a look, what kind of heart is this? Didn't she joke with me, and she deprecated herself? She is the princess's young lady, I am a poor girl, she jokes with me, I want to talk back to her a few words, and she will lose face as a young lady? So you make a look, don't you think so! This is also your kindness to her, but unfortunately the person didn't appreciate it and was just as angry. So you talk to me, but you say that I am petty and annoying. Are you afraid I'll annoy her? I'm angry with her, what does it have to do with you? She has sinned against me, so what does it have to do with you? ”

Baoyu then understood, and she heard what she had just said to persuade Xiangyun. So Baoyu couldn't say a word, but felt that both sides were not pleased, and both sides complained. So I want to say a few words, but I think that people are young only once, so why bother explaining for self-seeing. So he simply stopped talking, shut his mouth, turned around and went out. Use your own anger to express and choose solutions to problems. I turned around and went back to my room.

Daiyu saw that he was gone, and he left angrily, without saying a word, so he became even more angry, and said angrily: "If you go, it's best not to come back for the rest of your life, and don't talk again." Then he continued to lie down angrily.

Baoyu also came back and lay down, staring, looking at the roof, and for the first time felt that a woman's work was not easy and interesting. When the attacker saw it, he hurriedly came over to mediate his emotions, and said: "Watching the play today, Miss Bao said that it will cost you money in two days, so please watch the play?" ”

Baoyu said: "Whether she is invited or not, who does it have to do with her." ”

When the attacker saw his tone, he smiled and said, "What's wrong with you, the sisters are very happy today, why are you unhappy again?" ”

Baoyu said: "Their sisters love to be happy or unhappy, it has nothing to do with me. ”

The attacker said, "Isn't it best that they are happy, and you are happy?" ”

Baoyu said: "What do I have to do with them, I am 'red stripes come and go without worry'. This is a new joke heard today, Baoyu felt bored and wanted to break away from the women's organization, or rather, he felt that he did not get along with the girls, and his hard work was in vain. Alone. Speaking of this, Baoyu involuntarily shed tears of grievance and loneliness. I feel very desolate that I am not doing well in my work as a woman. When the attacker saw him crying, he didn't dare to say more. Baoyu saw that the attacker ignored him, so he cried harder, and when he finished crying, he wanted to make an oath and a summary, so he got up, took a pen and wrote four Zen sentences, saying:

You testify to me, and your heart testifies to your will.

It's undocumented, Skoyun is proven.

There is no cloud proof, it is a foothold.

Meaning, there is always you and me and him, and there is always no conclusion. You have to have nothing left to see through and do things well.

After writing, I was afraid that my sisters would not understand it once they read it, so I wrote another poem, as an explanation, and wrote:

There is no self for you, and I don't understand it from him. There is no obstacle to come and go, and the east is full of sorrow and joy, and it is angry that it is very close and close. What used to be boring, but now it's really boring to look back.

Meaning, with you, me and her, I can't figure it out. It's good to leave nothing at all. I will no longer mix with you, ignore you anymore, and only then will I solve the problem and be comfortable. It's boring to think about the toss in the past.

After writing it, I read it again, and I felt relieved, and decided not to mix it in the future, so I went to sleep on the kang with satisfaction.

That Daiyu was afraid that Baoyu would get angry and leave, and she was not at ease after all, so she walked to Baoyu's room again to watch the movement. The attacker said, "He's already asleep." Daiyu listened, so she went back again. The attacker said: "He also wrote this thing, I don't understand, girl, what do you mean?" ”

Daiyu saw it and understood that it was Baoyu's momentary angry words, and felt ridiculous and lamentable, so she said to the attacker: "It's okay, it's nothing." So, taking the poem, I saw it and went back to the room, and called Xiangyun to read it together. Tomorrow, I will call Baochai to see.

Daiyu said it doesn't matter, it's nothing, that means that Baoyu won't really stop caring about us anymore, because if it's really like this, he won't write it. Writing it out, saying that he no longer mixes with women's work, it means that he still can't let go. I really can't put it down, I don't even have to write.

Baochai read the poem and said with a smile: "This person has understood." It's all my fault, I watched the play yesterday, and I told him that there is a sentence in the play, 'The red stripes come and go without worry', which caused this trouble. These Zen sayings, enlightenment and so on, are the worst, and they distort a person's character. I wrote this crazy thing, and it was all done by my drama. I'm to blame. After saying that, he tore up the poem, and the maid was about to burn.

Daiyu said: "It's not practical, you come with me, wait for me to talk to him, and ensure that he won't have this kind of mind in the future." ”

So the three of them came to Baoyu's house together. As soon as she came in, Daiyu smiled and said, "Baoyu, let me ask you: the most precious is 'Bao', and the hardest is 'Jade', then your name is Baoyu, what are you precious and what are hard?" Baoyu couldn't say it all of a sudden. Daiyu's words roughly mean that you don't think it's enough to ask questions. If Baoyu answers, I don't want anything, I don't care about anything, I don't do women's work, I don't mix it anymore, then I will be the most precious and hardest (I don't have to plead with you anymore), then I will be the most comfortable, and no one can help me. However, Baoyu was not able to say so. The three girls all clapped their hands and laughed and said, "Hehe, so reckless, I can't answer this, and I still want to go to Zen and write Zen poems?" ”

Daiyu said: "At the end of your poem, it says, 'There is no cloud proof, it is a foothold', which is good, but it is not good enough, I will add another sentence to you: 'There is no foothold, it is ten thousand clean'." ”

Baochai said: "This is the complete enlightenment. Once upon a time, the master Shenxiu said: The body is a Bodhi tree, the heart is like a mirror platform, always wipe diligently, and do not make dust. Huineng was grinding rice in the kitchen at the time, and heard it: It's not bad, but it's not good enough. He also said: Bodhi is not a tree, the mirror is not a platform, there is nothing in the first place, where is the dust? (The linden tree is not a tree, and the mirror is not a mirror, treating nothing as nothing, nothing as nothing, and nothing as nothing, so that there is nothing in the dust.) So the fifth ancestor passed the mantle to Huineng and became the sixth ancestor. This is the meaning and realm of the sentence that Sister Lin made up just now, you don't understand it, you have to throw it away, don't mix it, enlightened, right? ”

"There is no cloud to prove, it is a foothold", just saying that everything is treated as nothing, so that it is easy to solve the problem, and Daiyu added "no foothold, it is ten thousand clean", which adds fuel to the fire, saying that "there is a foothold" - everything is nothing, so it is easy to solve the problem - is still not good enough. It's best if you don't even have a foothold, that's the best – 'no foothold, it's clean'. You think about how you can solve the problem easily by treating you, me, and her everything as nothing, so that it is easy to be self-sufficient, and you still have pursuits and desires. In fact, it is the cleanest to not even have a foothold, and not even to solve the problem at all. It's like Shenxiu wiping to ensure that he takes the initiative, it's better to not even take the initiative or not, everything is nothing, it's the best.

Daiyu said: "If you can't answer just now, you will lose it." In the future, you are not allowed to participate in Zen meditation. (Don't leave us women working anymore.) You can't even compare to us, and you still participate in Zen. ”

Baoyu blushed and thought, "It turns out that they have studied more deeply than me, and they don't plan to give up and have an epiphany." Then I'm not as good as them, so why chase Zen and ask for trouble? So Baoyu said, "I didn't participate in any Zen, but I just wrote two joking poems at a time." After saying that, the four of them reconciled as before.

This time, Baoyu didn't do a good job in women's work, which annoyed Xiangyun and Daiyu, and made troubles (and indeed troubles) through Baoyu himself, and wrote poems to make a declaration that he was hurt, and then I was disheartened and avoided, I don't care about you anymore, I went as a spiritual monk, and I had an epiphany to express the consequences of being hurt, and finally won the tender care of the little sisters, and quickly persuaded him not to be a monk, and finally hee-hee-haha got better again. Alas, it's just that men and women have a lot of troubles in life, they are all self-inflicted, and they want to escape several times, but they can't think deeply, and they can't do it.

Then, Jia Baoyu wants to continue to accompany everyone (mainly women) to spend a beautiful time, do a good job as a woman, and listen to the next breakdown.