The so-called "ketou" originally referred to men, men should wear a crown or hat, wear nothing, just wrap a kudzu scarf in a bun, that is a practice of flouting etiquette, if it is a poor peasant friend to do this, but the man of the crown with hairpin (tassel refers to the crown tied under the jaw) family does this, it is different. So the poem is about men. And the flower arrangement on the head of the "kudzu scarf fragrance dyed with nine autumn frosts" is not afraid of others clapping and laughing on the side of the road, and it is also a man. Men are not good at wearing flowers, few men wear flowers, the so-called "one flower Cai Qing", the executioner Cai Qing wears a flower, they are already another kind of eye-catching, and they can be called. However, women can arrange flowers. Women were not allowed to wear crowns at that time, as women, children, and criminals were not allowed to wear crowns, indicating that they were deprived of political power for life. The next day, the weather was fine, and there were various arrangements in the Grand View Garden, and after a while, Jia Mu came with a group of people. Walking downstairs to Daguan, Li Kun and others were busy preparing there. Li Su hurriedly greeted him and said with a smile: "The old lady is happy and has poured in." I didn't have a comb for my hair, so I picked chrysanthemums to send. While speaking, the maid Biyue had already brought over a large jade plate, in which were placed chrysanthemums of various colors. Jia Mu picked a big red chrysanthemum and put it on her sideburns. He turned around and beckoned Grandma Liu and said, "Come and wear flowers." As soon as the words fell, Sister Feng pulled Grandma Liu over and said with a smile: "I'll dress you up." So, he inserted a plate of flowers horizontally and vertically into Grandma Liu's head. Jia Mu and everyone laughed. Grandma Liu said: "I don't know what blessings I have cultivated in this head, and I am so decent today." And they laughed and said, "Why don't you pull it off and throw it on her face, and make you an old goblin." Grandma Liu was able to make the transition and said: "Although I am old, I was also romantic when I was young, and I love a flower fan, and now I am old and romantic." - Grandma Liu is the most famous person, let him clap his hands and laugh on the side of the road, she is a famous woman among women.

While everyone laughed and talked, they scattered forward, and Mother Jia asked Grandma Liu as she went: "Is this garden good?" Grandma Liu said: "We countrymen also buy a New Year's painting at the end of the year, and everyone says that it would be nice if we could also go to the painting." I think that the painting is just fake, how can there be such a place? When I entered the garden today, I saw that it was ten times stronger than the painting. If anyone draws a picture of this garden, I will bring it back and show them all, and I will know that it is enough to die. Jia Mu smiled, pointed to Xichun and said, "My little granddaughter, she can paint." Wait for Ming'er to ask her to draw one. Grandma Liu naturally couldn't help but be overjoyed.

When Mother Jia heard this, she naturally wanted to lead Grandma Liu to see and understand. So he went to Lin Daiyu's Xiaoxiang Pavilion first. As soon as I entered the door, but I saw that the green bamboo was all over the ground, and the road was sensen, so Grandma Liu left the middle road for Jia's mother and the girls to walk, and walked on the mossy land on the side. Mother Jia hurriedly ordered someone to help her up, and ordered the maid to beat her twice, Liu Mingshi said: "It doesn't matter, where is it so delicate." One day if I don't fall twice, I have to beat it up, and I can pay it back? ”

This is the most open-minded.

Zijuan raised the Hunan curtain, Lin Daiyu welcomed everyone in, and personally brought a small bowl of tea to Jia's mother. Mrs. Wang said, "We don't drink, so we don't have to pour it for us." "This Mrs. Wang can also speak, if Daiyu pours them up one by one, she won't be tired to death. Daiyu was probably very grateful, so she moved a chair that she usually sat on under her desk to the next head and invited Mrs. Wang to sit down. This is a very great courtesy, because it is a bit of a cleanliness fetish, and letting someone sit in their own chair is equivalent to sharing a bathtub with someone else.

Grandma Liu saw that there was a pen and inkstone on the table, and the bookshelves were full of books, so she said, "This is that Baoyu's study, right?" Mother Jia smiled and said, "This is my granddaughter's house." Grandma Liu looked at it for a moment and said, "This is like Miss's embroidery room, but it is better than the first-class study." "Grandma Liu may have seen the first-class study, because she used to go in and out of Mrs. Wang's house when she was not out of the cabinet.

After laughing for a while, Jia's mother saw that the color of the screen on the window was old, and there was no glass at that time, or if there was one, it was not fashionable to use it, so she covered the window with a veil, and a gauze tent was set up on the bed, and the rich people even covered it with a gauze tent around the desk - working in it and pondering bad things is the so-called strategizing - so as to block flies and voyeurs, so she said to Mrs. Wang: "This yarn is not green after a long time, and the bamboo outside is already green, and it is not worthy to paste this green yarn again." (Jia Mu understands aesthetics.) I remember we still have a few colors of yarn, so let's change them for her tomorrow. ”

Sister Feng hurriedly said: "Yesterday, I went to the warehouse and saw that there were several silver and red cicada wing yarns in the big crate, and there were several styles of flowers, insects and butterflies on it, the colors were fresh, and the yarn was light and soft, I had never seen it." It should be the best. ”

Jia Mu heard it and said, "Phew! Everyone says you've seen everything, but you don't even recognize it. Ming'er was still talking outside. ”

Aunt Xue and the others all laughed and said, "No matter how she has seen it, how dare she compare to the old lady." Why don't you talk about it, and we'll listen to it. ”

Jia Mu smiled and said, "That yarn is older than your age." No wonder she thinks it's a cicada-wing veil, but it's a bit like it. In fact, the serious name is 'Soft Smoke Luo'. ”

Sister Feng said: "This name is good, but I have seen hundreds of kinds of lero, and I have never heard of this name." ”

Jia Mu said: "How old you have lived, how can you know." There are only four kinds of soft smoke, one is the rain and the sky is clear, one is the autumn fragrance color, one is pine green, and the other is silver red. The silvery-red one is also called the shadow veil. Now the palace yarn used by the emperor is not so good. ”

Grandma Liu Mingshi said: "Such a good baby, we can't use it as clothes if we want to, wouldn't it be a pity to use it to cover the window?" ”

Jia Mu said: "Actually, it is not good to make clothes, but it is better to paste windows and make accounts." "Yes, it's soft like smoke, and when you wear it on your body, it's out of sync with the rhythm of your body's movements. After Jia's mother called for the soft smoke, she also sent two horses to Grandma Liu, made a tent for herself, and added a lining (to change its movement frequency) to make a vest for the girls to wear, don't put away the mold in vain.

Sister Feng hurriedly agreed, and asked people to do it. Everyone laughed for a while, so they left Xiaoxiang Pavilion and took a boat to Qiushuangzhai to explore spring. This is about what I said in the past, "coming from the snow", from Yihongyuan to Qiushuangzhai, you can take the main road or take a boat. This banquet was also held in Qiushuangzhai, and Mandarin Duck and others were directing the operation inside.

Last time we discovered Mandarin Duck's talent for making novels, and now we have discovered her talent for directing, but the main purpose is to please the old lady. I saw that the mandarin duck smiled at Sister Feng, Li Kun and others who copied the trunk road and came first: "Every day, I always hear that the old men outside have a piece of picture (that is, Zhao Benshan) when they eat, and they make fun of him." We've got a women's film today. "Li Kun is a kind person and doesn't understand what he means. Sister Feng immediately understood, and said with a smile: "Yes, let's make fun of her." The two immediately discussed, and Li Kun next to them listened to their strategy, and only scolded them for not doing any good deeds. Hehe, although this mandarin duck urges us working people, but he never bullies others, and relies on Jia's mother's favor to bully others, so everyone loves her.

As he was talking, Jia Mu and the others came, and Jia Mu said, "Bring the little nanmu table over and let Liu's family sit near me." The crowd hurried to carry it. Sister Feng and the mandarin duck exchanged glances, and the mandarin duck took Grandma Liu's hand and went out, and after going out, she quietly told her to speak, and said: "This is the rule of our family, if we say it wrong, we will laugh at it." Grandma Liu rolled her eyes and wrote it down. Then return to the table.

Jia's mother and Baoyu, Xiangyun, Daiyu, and Baochai are at a table, Mrs. Wang and the Yingchun sisters are at a table, and Grandma Liu is at a table with Jia's mother on the small nanmu table. Aunt Xue was losing weight, and said that she was finished eating, and she would stop eating, so she would eat tea on the side. The mandarin duck took a whisk, stood beside Jia's mother, and quietly instructed Grandma Liu: "Don't forget." Grandma Liu said, "Don't worry, girl." ”

Grandma Liu sat on the small table and picked up the chopsticks, only to feel heavy and uncomfortable. It turned out that this was part of the agreement between Sister Feng and Mandarin Duck, and she deliberately took a pair of four-flute gold-inlaid ivory chopsticks. Grandma Liu took it and said, "This fork rake is heavier than my shovel, where can I beat it." And all the people laughed.

At this time, when the food began to be served, Li Kun put a bowl of vegetables on Jia's mother's table, but Sister Feng picked a bowl of pigeon eggs and put it on Grandma Liu's table. Mother Jia said "please" here, and Grandma Liu stood up and said loudly: "Lao Liu, Lao Liu, eat as much as a cow, eat an old sow and don't look up." "It's not that you don't look up after eating an old sow, but you don't look up while eating like an old sow, and you don't even look up when others pour swill. After finishing speaking, he puffed out his cheeks and closed his mouth and said no more.

Everyone was stunned at first, and then after listening, they laughed up and down, Shi Xiangyun couldn't hold it, a mouthful of rice squirted out, Lin Daiyu laughed, leaned on the table and belched, Baoyu rolled in Jia's mother's arms, Jia's mother smiled and hugged Baoyu and said "heart and liver", Mrs. Wang laughed so much that she couldn't speak, knowing that Sister Feng did it, she just pointed at Sister Feng, Aunt Xue also laughed so much that she sprayed tea on Tanchun's skirt, Tanchun's bowl of rice was buckled on Yingchun's body, and Xichun left her seat, pulling her nurse and calling her to rub her intestines - she was going to laugh. The maids next to them also bent over with laughter, only Sister Feng and Mandarin Ducks were serious, and they just asked the dishes to persuade Grandma Liu.

Grandma Liu picked up the chopsticks, looked at the dishes on the table in front of her and said, "The chickens here are also handsome, and the eggs laid are also small and handsome." I'll eat one first. The crowd had just stopped laughing, and when they heard this, they began to laugh again. Jia Mu laughed so much that tears had come out, and Amber was beating her in the back. Jia Mu smiled and said: "This must be the Feng girl's urging, don't believe her words." Sister Feng was still making the dishes: "One or two pieces of silver, you can taste it, it's not delicious when it's cold." Grandma Liu stretched out the chopsticks clip, where to clip up, the bowl was full of trouble, it was easy to pick up one, just stretched her neck to eat, the chopsticks were oblique, and then slid down and rolled on the ground, and hurriedly put down the chopsticks to pick it up in person. Grandma Liu sighed: "One or two silvers, I didn't hear a sound and it was gone." ”

Everyone was looking at her and laughing, and they didn't have the heart to eat. In fact, how can the pigeon eggs cost one or two silver, and it is all Sister Feng's nonsense. Jia Mu said: "Take out the chopsticks again, and it's not a big feast." It's all supported by Feng Yatou, and it's not going to be changed. The maid hurriedly changed it to an ebony one with silver. Grandma Liu had a good meal at this time. When Jia's mother saw that she was eating deliciously, she brought her own and gave her to eat. He also ordered a mother-in-law to put all kinds of vegetables in a bowl. Looking at the situation, it seems that they have a separate meal system.

After eating, Jia Mu and the others retreated to rest, and Li Kun and Sister Feng put another table, and the two of them ate opposite each other. Grandma Liu looked at it and said: "This is everyone's situation, no wonder I say 'courtesy everyone', I love you for doing this." Sister Feng was busy smiling: "Don't be careful, everyone just made fun of it just now." The mandarin duck also came over and said with a smile: "Grandma, don't be angry, I'll accompany you to the old man." Grandma Liu smiled and said: "What is the girl talking about, let's coax the old lady to open up, what is my annoyance!" As soon as you tell me first, I'll understand, but everyone makes a joke. If I'm angry, I won't say anything. "It seems that Grandma Liu is still an understanding person and an excellent actor. The mandarin duck hurriedly scolded the maid and said, "Why don't you pour tea for grandma." Grandma Liu said, "I drank it just now, so let's hurry up and eat it." "It took a while to settle down.

Sister Feng waited for the meal, so she took Grandma Liu into the Tanchun room where Jia's mother was resting, but saw that there was a big case of pear marble in the room - Tanchun likes to be open, so the three houses have no partition, and they have become a hall room, so there is a big case, which is full of celebrity calligraphy and paintings, and there are dozens of inkstones. The walls are also pasted with large calligraphy and painting couplets of celebrities. On the left red sandalwood shelf there is a large plate of Daguan kiln, dozens of Buddha's hands are placed on the plate, and on the right lacquer shelf hangs a white jade chime, as well as a hammer. There is a bed on the east side, and the tent on the bed is embroidered with green embroidered flowers and grass insects. Then he ran to him, pointed at it, and said, "This is a grasshopper, this is a grasshopper." Grandma Liu hurriedly slapped him, because she went to someone's bed and made someone's bed dirty, and scolded: "I was a child, and I didn't run around cleanly." "When he hit the board, he began to cry. Everyone persuaded the party.

Everyone rested about the same, and Jia Mu and the others moved together and took a boat to Baochai as usual. Baoyu on the boat pointed to the lotus leaves and said, "These autumn broken lotus leaves are hateful, why don't you ask someone to pull them out." Baochai said: "I go around every day these days, how can I ask someone to clean up." Lin Daiyu said: "I don't like Li Shangyin's poems the most, I only like his sentence 'Leave the residual lotus to listen to the sound of rain'." But you don't have any residual loads. "Li Shangyin writes that the rain is always good, and what is the night rain in Bashan and the autumn pool. This is a guy who loves water. Baoyu said: "It's really a good sentence, so don't ask someone to pull it out in the future." As he spoke, he arrived at the small port of Huali, but he saw that the decayed grass and remnants of the grass where Baochai lived, and he was even more interested in autumn colors.

When I entered the Wuwu Courtyard together, I felt that the fragrance was fragrant, all of them were strange grass and fragrant vines, and some of them also bore small red bead fruits in autumn, tired and lovely. When I entered the room, the snow cave was general, there was nothing to play with, there was only a bottle of chrysanthemums on the case, and there were two books (one was "Dinosaur War in the Bronze Age", and the other was "Self-study Textbook for Civil Servants"). The tent and quilt on the bed are also very plain.

This is complementary to the white begonia poem written by Baochai, "Covering the door during the day" and "The light pole knows that the flowers are more beautiful", and "the rouge washes out the autumn step shadow", which shows the indifference and reserve of everyone's daughters, Tingting is silent, and it is respectable. Mother Jia was unhappy and sighed: "This child is too honest." You don't have any furnishings, so why don't you ask your mother and your aunt (Mrs. Wang) for some. (Aunt Xue has a lot of pawnshops open, and although they are not doing well, they are still bigger than horses and are not short of money.) I didn't expect you to bring your stuff with me at home. So he ordered the mandarin duck to get some antiques, and blamed Sister Feng for not thinking it through. Mrs. Wang and Sister Feng both laughed and said, "She didn't want it herself, we sent it, and she returned it." Aunt Xue said, "She doesn't want these things in her old home." Jia Mu said, "I can't do it." If relatives come, it is not good to look good, and the young girls are so plain in the house, and it is taboo (only in the widow's house is so pure). You listened to the storyteller's embroidery room of the young ladies, and it was exquisite. When I was younger, I was the best at tidying up the house, but now that I'm old, I don't have these leisure moments. As he spoke, he ordered the mandarin duck to bring back the three things he had stored and unused, such as stone bonsai, and put them on Baochai's case, and then changed the account.

Baochai always likes to be unassuming, just like her extravagant and wasteful brother, and she is sensible. In short, if she is rich but does not put pressure on others, she can be regarded as a good person, and she is deeply reserved and the so-called women's virtues, she thinks that women should guard their females, and look up to the ancient virtuous and frugal princesses such as the daughter-in-law of Emperor Wen of Sui. However, Baochai's practice of suppressing his youthful enthusiasm (eating cold incense pills is one of his portrayals and methods) can be said to have been criticized by Jia's mother. Jia Mu was not angry at Daiyu just now, but here at Baochai, she was actually a little angry and criticized Baochai.

Subsequently, Jia Mu and others went to the Jin Pavilion to watch the play, watching the new rehearsal of the twelve Suzhou female officials, Shi Xiangyun, Baochai, Daiyu, Yingchun Tanchun, Baoyu and other girls and boys all followed. Before watching the play, everyone sat down, and Jia Mu said, "Let's have two more drinks and make a wine order." So the mandarin duck was responsible for the wine order, took a deck of dominoes, each with a different number of red and green dots, draw out three, each point color is different, each has a meaning, such as five green dots, on behalf of plum blossoms, a red dot six green dots, on behalf of a round of red sun, people make three poems on the corresponding theme, and finally three cards are combined into a deck, and there is an established name, so make a poem that should be named. There are four sentences in total.

If it's done well, it's clear, just have a drink.

Everyone has their own merits, Jia Mu, Aunt Xue, Xiangyun, Baochai, Daiyu, and Yingchun have all done their own things. It's just that Xiangyun did it very strangely, the first card, is two red dots up and down, the mandarin duck raised it, and reported the name of the card "Changqi", Xiangyun did: "Double hanging sun and moon shine on the sky." The second one, two red dots, Xiangyun said: "Idle flowers fall to the ground and listen silently." "The use of idle flowers refers to two red dots. The third one, five red dots, Xiangyun said: "The red apricot on the sunside is planted by cloud." "The four red dots represent the red apricots, and one red dot says the sun. In the end, these three cards were combined into a card called "Cherry Nine Ripe", because this total of three cards is nine red dots, so it is called nine ripe red cherries, so Xiangyun said the fourth sentence: "The Imperial Garden was pulled out by the bird." ”

This plain four-sentence poem has become an obstacle that some red scholars can't understand, saying that the double hanging sun and moon are the sons of the Qianlong Emperor of the current dynasty and the abolished prince of Kangxi of the previous dynasty competing for the throne with each other, and the red apricot on the ribian is the son of the Jia family relying on the abolished prince Hongxi, but the imperial garden was taken out by the bird, which is even more strange, it is said that if the family of the abolished prince succeeds in plotting to assassinate Qianlong, the royal welfare can also be enjoyed by the meritorious people of the Cao family. Later, the assassination plot finally failed, and the Cao family was also copied. This explanation, in addition to being outrageous, is still speechless.

Daiyu is also interesting. The first card, with six red dots on the top and six green dots on the bottom, represents heaven and earth, so Lin Daiyu said casually: "The beautiful scenery of the good day is the sky." When Baochai heard this, he turned his head to look at her. Daiyu was afraid that Baochai would say that she was wrong, so she didn't pay attention to it, and she was afraid that Baochai would say that she was wrong and would be punished. The mandarin duck held up the second card, which was four red dots on the top and six green dots on the bottom, representing the screen, so Daiyu said: "There is no matchmaker newspaper in the screen window." "The matchmaker represents the four red dots, and the screen window represents the six green dots. The mandarin duck held up the third card, which was two green dots on the top and six green dots on the bottom. "The double is two court maids, guided by two court maids (green dots) to go up to the court to meet the emperor, and the arrangement of the court class symbolizes the six green dots. The last deck of cards has four red dots, symbolizing flowers, so Daiyu said, "Immortal peach peony flower." After speaking, everyone felt that it was clear, and they were all together, so Daiyu also took a sip.

Finally, it was time for Grandma Liu, and Grandma Liu said: "We countrymen, we can do this when we are free, but it is not as good as yours, I will try it too." Everyone laughed and asked her to come. The first card, with four red dots on the top and four red dots on the bottom, is called "Four-Four". Also known as the "human card", the mandarin duck also said: "This four or four is a person." Grandma Liu listened, thought for a long time, and said, "It's a farmer." The crowd laughed. The mandarin duck raised the second card, three green dots above, four red dots below, and the mandarin duck also reported the name of the card according to the rules: "This is three or four green with red." Grandma Liu said: "The fire burned the caterpillars. The crowd laughed again. In fact, this is quite right, the four red dots on the bottom represent the fire, and the three green dots on the top three oblique rows represent the caterpillar. However, this sentence was caught by the red scientist again, and there was a saying in the past that "a hundred-legged worm, dead but not stiff" to describe Jiafu, which has not much money at the moment, then it is a caterpillar, and now it is predicted to fail in the political usurpation, and finally it will be burned by fire. The mandarin duck held up the third card, which was a red dot on the last four, and said, "This four is really good-looking." Grandma Liu said: "One radish and one garlic." Everyone laughed again, this time it was not very good, the radish was naturally red, but the garlic was white. However, there is also purple garlic, which is almost red. The mandarin duck finally said: "This deck of cards is a flower." (Three green dots in an oblique row, the others are red dots, as if red flowers bloom on green branches.) Grandma Liu stroked with both hands and said, "The flowers have fallen and there is a big gourd." The crowd burst into laughter.

What Grandma Liu did was the true color of the croppers, and it was also interesting, basically in line with the cards, and it was worth drinking, so she also drank a glass of wine. Let's listen to the next breakdown.