Then Baoyu recuperated from her injuries, and day by day it was like a day, and Na Jia's mother knew about it and was overjoyed. Then Jia's mother sent someone to Jia Zheng and said: "This time the fight is heavy, Baoyu has to raise him for a few months before leaving, and he is not allowed to be called to see guests during this period." The astronographer also said that his stars are unfavorable, and he will not be able to go out until August. "That Jia Zheng couldn't help himself when he heard it.

Baoyu got this holy decree, more and more proud, so all relatives and friends were eliminated, only day and day in the garden to lie down, every morning to go to Mrs. Jia Muwang to ask for peace and come back, other times, but often help the maids to work and serve, Baochai and others sometimes see him, persuade him, but he is not happy. That's it, very leisurely years.

Not to mention Baoyu, now it is said that since Wang Xifeng saw Jin Chuan's death, suddenly a few servants always sent things to him, and came over from time to time to ask for a set-up, and he understood in his heart, it turned out that there were four big maids under Mrs. Wang, all of whom had a salary of one or two silver a month, and the rest were a few hundred dollars a month. Now that Jin Chuan is dead, they want to get this high monthly salary. Sister Feng thought to herself: These people are too dissatisfied, and they have made enough money, so it is enough to introduce their own daughter to be a girl and have a place to eat, and they want to make it bigger. It's okay, they can send whatever they want, anyway, I will accept it first, I have my own ideas.

When those people had delivered enough things, Sister Feng took the time to find Mrs. Wang at noon. said: "Since then, Yu Chuan's sister has died, and there is one less person in front of his wife." If the wife sees which girl is good, she will order to make up for it. Next month, I will pay my salary. Mrs. Wang was very hard and simple, and said, "According to me, do you have to make four?" That's enough. If you can avoid it, you can avoid it. (Like Premier Zhou, Mrs. Wang patched more than a thousand holes in a pair of pajamas.) Sister Feng smiled and said: "Mrs. Reasoning is also what she said, but this is an old routine, and there are even two in other people's houses, and Mrs. doesn't follow the old routine." Besides, saving a silver tael is of limited use. When Mrs. Wang heard this, she thought about it again and said, "Okay, then that's it, no need to make up for it, give this two pieces of silver to her sister Yuchuan." His sister waited for me for a while, but it didn't end well, and it was not too much to leave her sister to follow me and eat a double (Yu Chuan was already one of the four big maids). ”

Sister Feng agreed, and when she went out, she called Yu Chuan, told her that she was happy, and asked her to come in and kowtow. (In this way, the servants who send things are given away for nothing.) Hehe. Sister Feng took the money and didn't do anything, and it will inevitably be the bane of her betrayal in the future. ）

Mrs. Wang said again: "I just want to ask you, what is the monthly salary of Aunt Zhao and Aunt Zhou?" (Aunt Zhou is also Jia Zheng's concubine, but she is more peaceful than Aunt Zhao's concubine.) Sister Feng said, "Two taels per person." Aunt Zhao also has two taels of the ring brothers (Jia Huan), a total of four taels. (Aunt Zhao's one is not much better than the big girl.) Mrs. Wang said, "Have you given them all the money?" ”

Sister Feng saw the strange question, so she said, "How can it be better to count?" ”

Mrs. Wang said: "I seem to have heard that some people complained that they were missing a penny. What's going on? ”

Sister Feng hurriedly smiled and said: "Oh, it's the aunts' girls, each of them has two girls, and each girl should be given a hanging (a thousand dollars, strung together, called a hanging)." But they discussed outside, saying that each of the aunt's girls would be halved and only 500 yuan would be given, so the two girls in each would have a penny less. I can't blame me, I'm happy to give it, they are outside the button, and I can't help it. I've only done this in the middle, and it's up to me to decide how to come and how to go. I said it three or four times, and said that I would give the 500 dollars for restoration, and they said that it was so much that it was difficult for me to say it again. ”

When Mrs. Wang heard about it, she gave up. After a while, he asked again, "How many are there in the old lady's house?" Sister Feng said, "Eight." Now it's seven, and that one is an attacker. Mrs. Wang said: "That's it, the attacker is still the person in the old lady's room, just for Baoyu." Sister Feng said: "Yes, now Qingwen Musk Yue and other seven big girls, the monthly money is one penny, Jia Hui and other eight little girls, each is five hundred yuan a month, but the attack is one or two silver, but it is received from the old lady." "The difference between a tael of silver and a penny is that the two can be exchanged for each other, and generally a tael of silver is worth a tael of silver to three pennies, depending on the ratio of different eras. This can also be fried, fried silver.

Mrs. Wang thought for a while and said, "Ming'er picked a good girl for the old lady, made up for the attacker, and cut the part of the attacker." Out of my monthly money of twenty taels of silver, I took out two taels and one hanging of money to the attacker. In the future, if there is Aunt Zhao and Aunt Zhou, there will be attackers (referring to the fact that in addition to the monthly money, some supplements and benefits will be issued, and the attackers will be on par with the two aunts), but these benefits for the attackers, don't come out of the public house, but also from me. ”

Sister Feng agreed one by one, and Mrs. Wang said again: "How do you know that the benefits of attacking that child are ten times stronger than my Baoyu." If Baoyu has creation, it will be good if she has to serve him for the rest of his life. As he spoke, tears welled up in his eyes.

Sister Feng smiled and said, "Since this is the case, it is better to put him in his room." "Putting it in his house means becoming a person in his house, that is, an aunt and a concubine.

Mrs. Wang said: "That's not good, the age is still young, it's not suitable, and the master won't allow it." Moreover, when Baoyu saw that she was a girl, she could still listen to her persuasion, but now that she is the head of the house, she doesn't dare to persuade people who should be persuaded very much. Now it's mixed, and I'll talk about it in two or three years. (After becoming an aunt, if you persuade again, it is like being jealous of your own family, so you don't dare to persuade it.) ）

After speaking, Sister Feng saw that Mrs. Wang didn't say anything more, so she said goodbye and turned around. When I went out to the eaves of the porch, I saw that several daughters-in-law in charge were waiting to report to her, and they all smiled and said, "Grandma, why is it so long today, it will be hot later." Sister Feng rolled up her sleeves a few times (indicating that she was going to fight, and she had to roll up the clothes that were in the way before the fight, and now the police office is like this, first take off her suit, and then go to torture the suspect who was caught), stepped on the threshold of the corner door, and said with a smile: "The wind is cool in the door hole here, blow it and then leave." Then he told the people, "Do you not answer when you say that I have been doing so much today and that my wife has remembered all the things of the past two hundred years and asked me?" Then he sneered and said, "I'm going to do a few poisonous things from now on." If you complain to your wife, I'm not afraid. Confused and blinded, rotten tongue, can't die well, don't do fucking spring dreams! There will be days when you will even be deducted from you. Now that the girl's money has been cut, she complains about us. I don't want to think that I am a slave (slave number), and I am also worthy of two girls! "While scolding, he walked. I went to report to Jia's mother again.

It was clear that the money of the girl under Zhao and Aunt Zhou was deducted by her, but she deduced the people outside. The so-called people outside are nothing more than the housekeepers of Jia Lian, Lai Da, and Laixing.

In fact, the deduction seems to be right, the big girl under Baoyu Qingwen Musk Moon or something, is a monthly penny, Aunt Zhao and Aunt Zhou are also a hanging, it seems to be a little higher than the value of the post, but the deduction to five hundred dollars is less, about eight hundred. This should be done to evaluate the value of the post - job evaluation (specifically to select a few elements for scoring, education, experience, communication skills, work complexity, and the consequences of mistakes.) The consequences of Qingwen's mistake - touching Baoyu is definitely better than touching Aunt Zhao, and she will have to die or live. ）

After Sister Feng left, Aunt Xue took Baochai and Lin Daiyu to Mrs. Wang's place to greet and sit down. The three or four of them ate watermelon together, gossiped for a while, and then dispersed. Baochai and Daiyu went back to the garden together, Baochai suggested going to the lotus root Champs to see the spring together, Daiyu said that she had to go home and take a bath immediately, so they dispersed.

Baochai went to the Lotus Champs alone, and went to Yihong Courtyard by the way, so he wanted to chat with Baoyu and relieve his afternoon fatigue. I didn't want to be admitted to the hospital, quietly, even the two cranes were sleeping on their stomachs under the plantains. When I entered the room, there were girls sleeping on the outer beds. Turning into Baoyu's room, Baoyu was also asleep on the bed, and the attacker sat beside him, holding a needle and thread in his hand, and beside him was a whisk of dust that chased flies.

Baochai walked in and whispered with a smile: "You are too careful, there are still flies and mosquitoes in this house?" The attacker was startled, got up and laughed quietly, "The girl doesn't know, although there are no flies and mosquitoes, but there is a small insect that gets into it from this gauze eye (where Baoyu sleeps and the windows on all sides, which are covered with gauze tents), and when you bite it, it hurts." ”

Baochai said: "I can't complain, there is water near the back of this house, and there are flowers, so it is inevitable that there will be insects." ”

As he spoke, he looked at the needle and thread in the hands of the attacker, which turned out to be a belly pocket, with a paper pattern of mandarin ducks playing lotus, red lotus and green leaves, and five-colored mandarin ducks. Baochai said: "It's a good and bright job, whose work is this, and it's worth so much effort." The attacker pouted Nunu on the bed, and Baochai smiled and said, "It's so big, still bring this?" The attacker laughed and said, "It's hot now, I'm afraid that he won't sleep well and cover the quilt and catch a cold, so let him take this with him." Baochai smiled and said, "You are also impatient." The attacker said, "I'm tired of doing this now, my neck is low and sore, the girl will sit down for a while, and I'll go out for a walk and come back." With that, he left.

Baochai just looked at this embroidered belly pocket, so she didn't pay attention, squatted, and just sat in the place where the attacker was sitting, because she saw that the embroidered belly pocket was really cute, and she was a woman who loved dry knitting (female fashion designer), so she couldn't help but pick up the needle and stab for the attacker.

This Baoyu is wearing a silver-red gauze shirt and belly pocket, sleeping casually in the bed tent, Baochai is sitting next to him doing needlework, and there are flies and dusting next to him, which is the appearance of a very warm family couple. Of course, if you bump into outsiders, you must laugh at Baochai, the big girl, and the kid. Therefore, she was really careless and sat down just now.

That Baochai had just finished embroidering two or three petals, and suddenly saw Baoyu shouting and scolding in a dream: "How can the words of the monk and Taoist priest be trusted?" What is the marriage of gold and jade, I prefer to say that it is the marriage of wood and stone! Baochai listened to this work and was stunned.

The meaning of this is very difficult to understand accurately, the marriage of gold and jade, of course, is to say Baoyu and Baochai, but the marriage of wood and stone, saying that it is Baoyu and Daiyu, may not be accurate, Baoyu and Daiyu belong to the marriage of two jade, and if it is said that Baoyu and Daiyu, it will not "shout and scold". This sentence, according to the word order, should say that the relationship between Baochai and Baoyu was said to be a gold and jade marriage by monks and Taoists, but in fact it was just a wood and stone marriage. Baochai doesn't feel stunned, that is, there is no regret or frustration, that is, what Baoyu said is not to deny his marriage with her, but it may be that his marriage with her ended in the way of perishable wood and incorruptible stone, and wood and stone have no feelings, especially stone (no feelings for wood, wood dies first), so this sentence was heard by Baochai, and he was "stunned", and he was stunned because he was reminded and prompted by his feelings. In short, strange. Baochai likes cold incense pills and herbs, which can be described as wood, and Baoyu is the reincarnation of stubborn stones.

At this time, the attacker walked back and said with a smile, "Haven't you woken up yet?" Baochai shook her head. Just whispered a few more words, and at this time, Sister Feng called someone to call someone to attack him. The attacker hurriedly walked out of Yihong Courtyard with Baochai and came to Sister Feng's side. came, it was really a good thing, Sister Feng told her about her salary increase, and asked her to go to Mrs. Wang to thank her and kowtow. The attacker went to see Mrs. Wang, and hurried back. At this time, Baoyu had already woken up and asked what he was doing, but the attacker only vaguely agreed, and it was quiet at night that he told Baoyu about his salary.

Baoyu couldn't help but be overjoyed, and smiled at her again: "It's okay this time, I see that you can't go home in a hurry!" The last time I went back, I came back and said that your brother wanted to ransom you, and that there was no place here, and that he would leave after all, and said so many ruthless and unrighteous words. From now on, I don't see who dares to tell you to go. ”

When the attacker heard this, he sneered and said, "Don't say that. From now on, I am my wife's person, and I don't even have to tell you if I want to go, just go back to my wife. ”

Baoyu smiled and said: "Even if I am not good, you went back to my wife and left, so that others heard that I was not good, and you were not interesting when you left." (It means that if you leave, I will have a bad reputation when you leave, and I will be disturbed when you leave.) ）

The attacker laughed and said, "What's so boring, did you become a robber and follow me?" Moreover, even if it is good, there will be a death in the end, and if a person lives to be a hundred years old, he will still have to die horizontally and vertically, won't he be divided again? ”

Baoyu put on a sad face and sighed: "If I had been enlightened, while you were there (in the garden, not scattered), I would die, and then I would be able to make you cry my tears into a great river, and float up my corpse, and send it to a secluded place where no crows can be found, and it will melt with the wind, and from then on I will never live as a human being, and that will be the best time for me to die." ”

The attackers saw him talk these crazy things again, and they hurriedly said that they were sleepy and ignored him. That Baoyu closed his eyes and fell asleep.

The next day, Baoyu found that he was not dead - insert a sentence here, Baoyu said "wood and stone marriage", corresponding to "gold and jade marriage", that gold and jade are always incorruptible and immortal, and grass and stone, in contrast, stone is relatively immortal, this is a dead thing, it doesn't matter if it is alive, Baoyu is a stone into jade, so the stone refers to itself, and the wood can be plural, whether this wood is Daiyu, is Baochai, or attacking, together with this stone, after all, the wood is a thin life, and it is inevitable to die, And the stone is still a muddy stone. Compared with what Baoyu then said to the attackers, it can be guessed that the "wood-stone marriage" is just a kind of see-through, I will die after all, and the woods will eventually fall, this wood does not necessarily have to refer to Daiyu or Baochai or attackers, so when Baochai heard this, he was "stunned", not shocked and disappointed. "A stunned" carries a feeling of impermanence in life, life and death. This is my conjecture of stupidity, not a lesson. In other words, even if you admit that you and Baochai must have a marriage, it is not the solidity of gold and jade, but like grass and stones, plants and trees cannot be permanent, and stones are muddy, which indicates the early death of Baochai after marriage.

This Baoyu got up this day, had nothing to do, and went to Lixiang Courtyard, where there lived twelve petty officials, all of whom were female operas who sang operas, which were originally procured from Suzhou, and were procured by Jia Qiang, and Baoyu wanted to listen to the opera. I heard that Ling Guan sang the best, so I came to find it. When all the officials saw Baoyu coming, they all gave up their seats with a smile. Baoyu then asked, "Where is the Ling Guan?" And they said, "In her dormitory." "—This old man is not social.

When Baoyu arrived at Ling Guan's dormitory, he saw Ling Guan lying on the pillow alone, and when he saw Baoyu coming in, he didn't move at all. Baoyu has always been used to playing with girls, so she sat down next to Ling Guan, accompanied her and begged her to get up, and sang the dream in the "Peony Pavilion". Unexpectedly, when Ling Guan saw him sitting down, he hurriedly raised himself to dodge, and Zhengse said: "My voice is hoarse, I can't sing." I didn't even sing when I performed before. Baoyu saw her sit up, and looked at it, hey, isn't this the one who used a hairpin to draw "Qiang" under the rose frame that day? Baoyu had never been so disgusted, and when she saw that she was hiding from herself and refusing to sing, she blushed in disgust. So I had to lift my ass and come out.

When the officials saw Baoyu's expression, they asked why, and Baoyu said. The treasure official said, "Oh, she won't sing." When Second Master Qiang comes, ask her to sing, she will sing. When Baoyu heard this, she wondered in her heart and asked, "Where is Brother Qiang?" Baoguan said: "I just went out, it must be something that Ling Guan wanted, he went out to get it." After a while, Jia Qiang came back, carrying a bird cage in her hand, and there was a small stage in the cage, and she looked for Ling Guan in a hurry.

Baoyu asked, "What is that?" ”

Jia Qiang said: "Oh, it's a jade-topped golden bean (bird name, white-headed), and it will hold a flag on the stage." It's fun. ”

Baoyu said, "How much did you buy it?" ”

Jia Qiang said: "One tael or eight dollars of silver." "-That's enough for two months' wages for a big girl. At that time, she gave Grandma Liu twenty taels of silver, and Liu said that it was enough for them to use the countryside for two years. This Jia Qiang is rich, and he spent 20,000 yuan on the purchase of these female dramas, all of which he handled, can he not get a rebate of hundreds of thousands of taels?

Jia Qiang came from the dormitory of the former Ling Guan, and Baoyu was curious, so she followed in. When Jia Qiang came in, she smiled and said, "Get up, look at this thing." Ling Guan got up from the pillow and asked what it was. Jia Qiang said, "I bought a bird for you to play with, so that you don't have to be bored and unhappy every day." I'll show you first. So saying, he coaxed the finch to skewer on the stage, holding the flag with a grimace in his mouth. The girls who followed up laughed and shouted, "Interesting! Interesting! ”

Ling Guan Du sneered twice, and still lay back on the pillow.

Jia Qiang just laughed with her and asked her if it was fun. Ling Guan said: "Your family brought good people, and they were locked in this prison to learn what to sing, and it doesn't count, you got a finch again, and it's like this, you obviously got it to joke about us, and asked me if I was okay." (Comparing the finch in the cage to herself, this Jia Qiang is also in serious need to improve the course of "excellent customer service".) ）

When Jia Qiang heard this, she panicked, and hurriedly swore to the sky that she didn't, and said: "What kind of foolish am I now" (eating too much oil will affect intelligence, and the ancients confused the digestive system and nervous system)! It cost one or two taels of silver to buy it, and I said it would relieve boredom, but I didn't expect this head. Stop, let it go, and save you from evil. So saying, he let the finch go and dismantled the cage.

The so-called release will accumulate virtue for oneself and avoid diseases. However, playing with birds is a very annoying thing, and the old Beijing Eight Banners children like to do this.

At this time, Ling Guan said: "Although the finch is not as good as a human, it also has an old finch nest, and you can bear it if you take it." I coughed up two mouthfuls of blood today, and the doctor came to see me yesterday, and you didn't say that you would ask the doctor for me, and you brought this to make fun of me. I have no one to care about it, and I am sick and sick. As he spoke, he began to cry. Jia Qiang hurriedly said: "I asked the doctor yesterday, and he said it doesn't matter, take two medicines, and then see today's situation." Then you cough up blood again today, and I'll invite him to go. As he spoke, he stood up and was about to leave. Ling Guan stopped him again and said, "Stop, under the poisonous sun this time, I won't look at you if you are angry and invite me." ”

Jia Qiang heard her say this, so she had to stand down again.

When Baoyu saw such a scene, she couldn't help but be stupid, and then she understood the intention of the official at that age to draw "Qiang". I was embarrassed to stand here as a light bulb, so I excused myself and walked out. Jia Qiang was all about Ling Guan, and she didn't care about sending Baoyu, but other girls sent Baoyu out.

In the past, when Baoyu looked at this age official under the rose frame, she saw her frowning spring mountain, autumn water, thin face and waist, curling Tingting, and Lin Daiyu. When I was acting in the past, everyone also said that there was a play that looked like Lin Daiyu, but it was actually this old official. The love between this Lingguan and Jia Qiang, and whether he got out of this cage or not, the original storyteller died before the age of forty because he drank too much porridge and was malnourished, so he didn't finish it, and he didn't explain the following. Alas.

Na Baoyu was thinking about the "little sweet love" of Ling Guan and the two of them, and returned to Yihong Courtyard in a daze, where he met Lin Daiyu and the attacker sitting and talking. As soon as Baoyu came in, he sighed with the attacker and said, "What I said yesterday was actually wrong, no wonder my father said that I was a 'voyeur'." Yesterday it was wrong to say that your tears buried me alone. I can't get it all. How can you girls give me tears alone? From then on, it was only every man who had his own tears. "——That means, I was hit a lot, I thought that all the girls in the world liked themselves, and when I died, the girls in the whole garden cried for me, and it was worth my death, who would have thought that the old official would ignore herself at all, and only threw her tears to Jia Qiang, and also marked "Qiang" on the ground, Jia Baoyu couldn't cover the love of the world. When the assailant heard this, he laughed and said, "You're really crazy." ”

Baoyu thought to herself, wondering who would bury me with tears in the future. When Daiyu saw him like this, she knew where she was enchanted again, and it was inconvenient to ask more, so she casually talked about other things. As she was talking, she suddenly saw Shi Xiangyun dressed neatly and coming to say goodbye, saying that the family had sent someone to pick her up. Baoyu and Daiyu listened and had to send her out. That Shi Xiangyun was just in tears, and when she saw that the family who picked her up was in front of her, she didn't dare to be very aggrieved. At one time, Baochai also came, and it was very difficult to part with it when I heard about it. Everyone had to send Xiangyun to the second gate, and Baoyu had to send it, but Xiangyun stopped him. After a while, he turned around and called Baoyu to him, and quietly instructed: "When I leave, if the old lady can't remember to call me, you will always carry it to the old lady and send someone to pick me up." Hehe, Baoyu agreed again and again. Seeing Xiangyun get into the car and go back to the home of her foster "hateful" relative, Hou Shiding, everyone came in. Let's listen to the next breakdown.