The days of winter are short, and before I know it, it is time for dinner, so we go to Jiafu to eat together. After eating at Mrs. Wang's place, someone went back and forth to Mrs. Wang: "The attacking brother Hua Zifang came, saying that his mother was seriously ill and missed her daughter. He came and asked the raider to go back and see. Of course, Mrs. Wang agreed, and asked Sister Feng to handle it as appropriate.

When Sister Feng returned to her room, she ordered Zhou Rui's family: "This time go out and send two cars, one big one, you will take a daughter-in-law and the attacker to sit, and a small one, take two little girls to sit." Later, four more mothers-in-law were sent to follow the car. The attacker was a frugal person who tried to save trouble, and told her to dress better, bring more clothes, wrap the burden of clothes, and take the hand stove. Come over and let me see. ”

Zhou Rui's family went to the order, and not long after, he came with the raider, the hand stove, and the burden of clothes. Sister Feng saw that the attacker was wearing a few golden hairpins and beads on his head, which was still gorgeous, but he was wearing a pink and red carved silk silver mouse jacket, a green and gold embroidered cotton skirt, and a green satin gray mouse coat on the outside. Sister Feng said: "These three clothes are all Mrs. (dark table), it's not bad to reward you, but this gown is too plain (gray squirrel gown), and now it's cold, you should wear a big fur (big fur is about a large fur animal, such as a bear's, which is bigger than a gray squirrel like a gray squirrel). The attacker laughed and said, "Mrs. only gave this gray squirrel (gray squirrel), and said that she would give it to Da Mao at the end of the year." Sister Feng ordered Ping'er to bring the stone blue carved silk eight-regiment Tianma skin (a kind of desert white-bellied red fox) gown she wore yesterday and gave it to the attacker. He also ordered Ping'er to replace the sandwich furoshiki in the attacking ink-and-ink silk with the furoshiki of Doroe (imported fabric from the Orient) in the jade-colored silk, and ordered Ping'er to add a half-worn gorilla felt cloak to the bag.

The attacker pushed again, looked at the big red feather gauze cloak that Ping'er took out with the big red gorilla felt cloak, and said, "I can't afford this one, so I don't need it." Ping'er said: "This is what I took out and asked someone to send it to Miss Xing (Xiuyan)." Yesterday, those people admired the snow, all of them had cloaks, either orangutan felt, or feather satin feathers, and a dozen or so red clothes reflected the heavy snow, so untidy. It's just that Miss Xing is wearing an old felt cloak, so it's pitiful and simple. Give this to her now. Sister Feng smiled and said, "My things, she wants to give them to me privately!" Everyone laughed and said, "This is all grandma's daily filial piety to her wife and love the villain." If grandma is stingy on weekdays, she only values things and doesn't care about people, where would Miss Ping dare to do this. Sister Feng smiled and said: "So the one who knows my heart means that she still knows three points." So he told the attacker to take a good ride.

Sending these things to attack people is nothing more than to curry favor with Mrs. Wang.

Sister Feng summoned two more people from Yihong Courtyard and said: "Attacking people and leaving, which two of those big girls usually think know how to do it, and send them out to spend the night in the Baoyu House (that is, to accompany the servants to sleep, in ancient times, rich people were very dishonest when they slew, they had to drink water for a while, pee for a while, watch TV for a while, and they had to have someone to be on duty in the house). "It means to temporarily substitute for someone.

The two of them answered, and after a while, they came back and said, "Pai Ding Qingwen and Musk Yue are in the house." The two of them originally took turns to take the tube to go to the night (which means that they usually 'go to the night', the attacker is the permanent night member, and Qingwen Musk Yue is the mobile night assistant). Sister Feng nodded and said, "Don't be idle, urge him to go to bed early at night, and urge him to get up early in the morning." "Why don't you go back to the Grand View Garden? After a while, Zhou Rui's family sent someone to bring a letter, saying that the attacker had arrived home, but his mother was no longer good, so the attacker would not be able to come back tonight, so he lived there. Sister Feng was busy and ordered someone to go to the Grand View Garden to get the attacker's bedding and various equipment for washing and shaving, and send it to the attacker (you can't use the mother's home, the quality and hygiene are not up to par).

Baoyu watched Qingwen Musk Yue pack up the bedding and toiletries that attacked the people, and gave them to the person sent by Sister Feng to pick them up. Afterwards, Qingwen Musk Yue took off the residual makeup (at night, the makeup was also left), and took off the skirt that she was at home at night. Qingwen then sat only around something warm on the smoke cage (a large box-shaped cage over a charcoal basin). Musk Yue smiled and said, "Don't pretend to be a young lady today, I advise you to move too." (Qingwen used to lie on Baoyu's couch and didn't like to work.) Qingwen said: "When you all leave (out of the garden) in the future, I will not be too late to move (to work again)." Now with you for one day, I will use you for one day. "Hehe, they have to serve her, or at least work for her. Musk Yue smiled and said, "Good sister, I make the bed, you put down the dressing mirror cover, and the stroke on the top is scratched, you are taller than me." (Advised to share part of the work.) With that, he went to make Baoyu's bed (this is the job of the nightgoon.) Qingwen snorted and said with a smile: "People are just sitting warm, so you will make trouble." At this time, Baoyu was wondering, thinking that the attacking mother didn't know what to do, and when she heard Qingwen say this, she got up and went out, put down the mirror cover, put the bolt on, and then came in and said with a smile (it can be seen that Qingwen and Musk Yue are in Baoyu's bedroom at this time): "You guys are warm, it's all over." Qingwen said: "After all, it can't be warm, and I remember that the soup lady (hot water bag) hasn't been brought yet." Musk Yue said, "It's hard for you to think about it!" He usually doesn't use the soup woman, but the warmth on our smoker cage is not as cold as the kang in the house, so he can not use it today. (This is very complicated, it means: Musk Yue and Qingwen are preparing to sleep on this smoked cage, which is warm, and there is no need for the soup woman, and usually when they are not responsible for going to the night, they sleep on the kang in the outer room, and the kang is cold, and they need the soup woman's.) When Baoyu heard Musk Yue's words, she thought that they were going to sleep on this smoked cage, so she laughed and said, "You both slept on that, and there was no one outside me, and I was so scared that I couldn't sleep all night." "Baoyu sleeps in a warm pavilion, and you can sleep outside the warm pavilion, so that even if this person sleeps with Baoyu, Baoyu doesn't have to be afraid. Obviously, the smoke cage was two steps away from the warm pavilion. Qingwen said, "I'm here (I'll sleep in this smoked cage)." The Musk Moon goes to sleep outside you. Between the words, it was already two watches (half past nine), Musk Yue put down the curtain (it should be a warm pavilion), lit incense, waited for Baoyu to lie down, and Qingwen Musk Yue and the two of them slept.

Qingwen slept on the smoke cage, and Musk Moon slept outside the Warm Pavilion (Baoyu slept in this Warm Pavilion, and Musk Moon slept outside, and I don't know what the "outside" looks like, it is about a part of the bed that extends out of the Warm Pavilion). All three of them slept in Baoyu's bedroom. After the third watch, Baoyu was in his sleep, and he called an attacker. (I think I usually sleep on the "outside" of the warm pavilion, which belongs to Baoyu's "inside the room".) He called twice, but no one answered, and he woke up. Qingwen also woke up at this time, so she smiled and called Musk Yue and said, "Even I woke up, she didn't know it when she stayed by the side, she was really a corpse." (It can be seen that the smoke cage and the warm pavilion are separated, there are two steps away, and the musk moon is "outside" the warm pavilion.) Musk Moon turned over and yawned and woke up, and said with a smile: "He is called an attacker, what does it have to do with me!" So he asked Baoyu what was the matter! Baoyu said, "I want to drink tea." (Look, here it is!) I'll have to watch TV and football league games later. Musk Yue got busy, wearing a small red silk jacket. Baoyu said, "Put on my jacket and be careful of the cold." When Musk Yue heard this, she put on one of Baoyu's mink jackets, went down to wash her hands in the basin, poured warm water for a minute, took a bowl, and handed it to Baoyu, who rinsed her mouth and spit it into the basin. Then Musk Yue went up to the shelf, soaked it with warm water (sterilized), poured half a bowl of tea from the thermos, and handed it to Baoyu to drink. I also rinsed my mouth and drank half a bowl. This Qingwen has been sitting down on the smoke cage since now, in the name of going to night, and she hasn't done any work! Qingwen smiled and said, "Good girl, reward me too." (Hehe, you have to be ambushed.) This Qingwen doesn't regard herself as a slave at all, it's the so-called "pretending to be a young lady" just now. Musk Yue listened to it and said with a smile: "It's getting more and more face-up!" Qingwen smiled and said, "Good sister, don't move tomorrow night, I'll wait for you all night, how about it?" When Musk Yue heard this, she had no choice but to wait for her to rinse her mouth and pour half a bowl of tea for her to drink.

Musk Yue smiled again and said, "Don't sleep for the two of you, while talking, I'll come back when I go out for a walk." (It's about going to the bathroom.) Qingwen smiled and said, "There are ghosts waiting for you outside." Baoyu said: "There is naturally a big moon outside, let's talk, you just have to go." He realized that Musk Yue was afraid of going to the toilet by herself, so he told them not to sleep, so he would give himself courage, so Baoyu comforted her.

Then Musk Moon opened the back door and went out. Qingwen waited for her to go out, and wanted to scare her to play. Qingwen is usually stronger than others and is not afraid of the cold, so she doesn't put on clothes, just wears a small jacket, tiptoes into the smoke cage, and then walks on the ground. Baoyu smiled and persuaded: "Look at the freezing, it's not for fun." Qingwen only waved her hand, and then walked out of the room. I saw that the moonlight was like water, and suddenly there was a breeze, and I felt that it was penetrating the muscles and bones, and I couldn't help but feel creepy. I thought to myself: "No wonder people say that you can't be blown by the wind when you warm up, this cold is really good." While he was about to scare Musk Yue, he heard Baoyu shouting inside: "Qingwen is out!" Qingwen hurriedly turned around and came in, and said with a smile: "Why did you scare her to death?" You're making a fuss about scorpion stinging! Baoyu smiled and said, "It's not good for you to be frozen." Moreover, if she is frightened, she will inevitably shout, if she wakes up others, not to say that we are joking, but to say that the attacker has been gone all night, you will see God. Fold up my quilt. When Qingwen heard this, she went up and tucked it, and when she reached in to make a sink, Baoyu smiled and said, "It's so cold!" I said look at the freezing. When he saw Qingwen's cheeks like rouge, he reached out and touched it, and he felt cold. Baoyu said, "Come on." (Didn't she have a quilt herself?) ）

Before he could say a word, he heard the door crack, and Musk Yue came in with a panicked smile and said, "I'm startled." In the dark shadow, behind the rockery, I saw only a person squatting. I was about to scream, it turned out to be the big golden chicken, it saw a person and flew to the bright place, I saw the truth. I almost screamed. While talking, he washed his hands (he really went to the toilet), and said with a smile: "Qingwen went out?" How I didn't see it. It must have scared me. Baoyu smiled and said, "This is not her, here is it." If I hadn't screamed fast, I'd have scared you. Qingwen smiled and said, "Don't be scared by me, this little hoof is already frightened." (This musk moon is timid, and it is the only one who wants to scare her.) As he spoke, he went back to his own quilt. This Qingwen shrank in Baoyu's quilt for a while, but according to later analysis, nothing beyond the four basic principles has happened between her and Baoyu. Musk Yue said again: "You just went out neatly in short clothes, can't you?" Baoyu said, "No, it's not." Musk Yue said, "You don't choose a good day when you die!" You go out and stand for a while, and the skin does not freeze and break yours. So saying, he opened the lid of the brazier again, picked the coals a little hotter, and put the lid on again, before he turned off the lights and went to sleep.

Qingwen sneezed twice because she was cold just now, and now she is warm again. Baoyu sighed: "How is it? It's a cold, I guess. Musk Yue smiled and said: "She wakes up in the morning and yells that she is uncomfortable, and she hasn't eaten for a day (no wonder she sits on the smoker cage and doesn't work), and she doesn't pay attention to maintenance at this time, and she has to play tricks on people." Ming'er was sick and told her to do it to herself. Baoyu asked, "Is your head hot?" Qingwen coughed twice and said, "It's irrelevant, where is it so delicate." As he spoke, he only heard the self-striking bell in the outer room ring twice, and the old man who was on duty in the outer room (about the two that Sister Feng ordered) coughed twice and said, "Girls, let's sleep, let's talk about it tomorrow." Bao Yufang whispered: "Let's stop talking, so as not to provoke them again." "Everyone just went to sleep.

When she got up the next day, Qingwen had a heavy nasal congestion and was too lazy to move. Baoyu said, "Don't make a noise, my wife knows, and tells you to move back home (so as not to infect me)." Although it is good to go home, it is colder in the end, so it is better here. You are lying in the inner room (Baoyu's bedroom just now, it stands to reason that they will go back to their cold kang room after the night), and I will secretly call you a doctor. "——Here, it is still said that Qingwen has a family in writing, and her parents are old servants of the fourth or fifth generation of Jiafu, and later I don't know what to think, so I changed it to have no father and no mother and I don't know my origin.

Qingwen said: "Even so, let's talk to the eldest grandmother (Li Kun, the child director of Daguanyuan), otherwise the doctor will come, and people will ask, what to say." (The male doctor came to the Grand View Garden and interrogated at the door, there must be a reason.) ）

Baoyu felt justified when she heard this, so she found an old woman to tell Li Kun, and at the same time asked her to go and ask the doctor. After a while, the old grandmother came back and passed on Li Kun's words: "Grandma said, if you take two doses of medicine, it's fine, if it's not good, it's better to go out." Now the times are not good, and they are involved in other people's small affairs, and the girls' bodies are important. Li Kun means that if you go out and go home, you don't have to go to work, you have to rest, and it is better for your body. It's "out for sure...... The girls' bodies are important". The mothers-in-law relayed that they called the big girls "girls", but Li Kun certainly would not call them "girls".

Qingwen slept in the warm pavilion (look at this place, Bao Erye's nest), just coughed, and when she heard this, she shouted angrily: "Where am I suffering from the plague, I'm afraid that I will infect people!" I'm out of here, see if you don't have a headache in your life. (See if I'm not here, you won't have a headache for the rest of your life.) And when he spoke, he really wanted to get up. (Qingwen is the least servile and wants to fight for equal human rights.) Baoyu hurriedly held her down and said with a smile: "Don't be angry, this is her responsibility, lest my wife know that she is not, so she deliberately said such a sentence." You used to be angry, but now (sick) your liver is naturally full of fire. ”

As he spoke, the doctor came. The maids avoided because they were afraid to look at the man, and three or four old grandmothers (not afraid to look at the man, the man would not rape them) put down the big red embroidered curtain in the warm pavilion, and Qingwen stretched out her hand from the curtain. When the doctor saw that there were two nails on this hand, three inches long, and that there were still traces of the red stained by the golden phoenix, he hurriedly turned around. (Because he knew that it was a woman, he hurried to turn his head, afraid that he would see the woman—would it be tantamount to adultery?) ）

The doctor was tilted on his head, checked the pulse of his hand, and then went to the outside room and said to the grandmothers: "Miss's symptom is external and internal stagnation (and it is a Martian language that I can't understand, at that time, those who had the ability to take the imperial examination, and those who couldn't pass the exam became doctors or fortune tellers or teachers, cheating money to make ends meet, they are all third-rate IQ figures), and the recent bad mood is actually a little typhoid fever." Fortunately, Miss usually doesn't eat much, and the wind and cold are not big, but the blood and qi are weak (her physique is not good), and she occasionally gets some (the sickness of the time), and it is good to evacuate after taking two doses. With that, he was sent out.

When I went out to the door, I sat down in the communication room of the little guy and opened the square. The old lady took the recipe and said, "Don't leave yet, our little master is verbose, after reading your recipe, I'm afraid there is something to ask." The doctor hurriedly said, "Wasn't it a young lady just now, how can you be a young master?" (That's bad, even the gender is wrong!) How do I become a doctor? Then the house is the same as the embroidery room, how can it be a master? The old lady smiled and said, "That house belongs to our master, and the sick girl is the girl in his house, but she is an eldest sister, where is the young lady?" If Miss's embroidery room is sick, you can go in so easily? (The eldest sister is the name of an unmarried maid, and Zhang Ailing often says that the little eldest sister is the little nanny.) When the doctor heard this, he realized that he had not misread the gender. As he spoke, he went in with the prescription.

Baoyu took the prescription in the house and looked at it, there were citrus aurantium, ephedra, Baoyu said: "Damn, damn, he takes the girl and treats us the same, how to make it!" How can this citrus aurantium and ephedra be afforded. Whoever has been invited, send him quickly. Invite another cooked good one. This doctor was called by Baoyu at the request of this old lady, and this old lady also watched people put dishes on the dishes, and knew that it was Qingwen's illness, so she didn't call it a good one, and just now she said, "The girl in his house is a big sister, where is the young lady?" It also carries the meaning of contempt and jealousy.

The old lady said, "That's okay, but the doctor didn't tell the steward's room to invite him, and the money for the carriage and horses was to be given to him." Baoyu said, "How much to give him?" He said, "If it is not good-looking, it will cost a tael of silver, which is the gift of our door." Baoyu asked, "How much did the imperial doctor give when he came?" He smiled and said, "When the imperial doctor came, he didn't give money, but he gave gifts on four festivals every year, which is a certain annual example (annual salary system)." This man is a newcomer, and he must be given a tael of silver. (I have to emphasize one or two, I'm afraid she has kickbacks.) Baoyu is a son, how can he fiddle with these old guys, so he ordered Musk Yue to fetch the silver. Musk Yue said: "I don't know where Grandma Hua (who is called so attacker, and has not publicly accepted her as a concubine, she has already called it so flatteringly) put her silver." Baoyu said, "I often see her withdraw money from the small cabinet in Luodian, and I will look for it with you." ”

So saying, the two of them went to another room, opened the Luodian cabinet, and in the lattice were small bits and pieces of precious jade such as pen and ink fans, as well as a string of money, and opened a drawer inside, and saw that there were a few taels of silver in it, and a rod scale. Musk Yue took a piece of silver, lifted the scale, and asked Baoyu, "Which is one or two stars?" (Hehehe.) Baoyu smiled and said, "You ask me? Interesting, you're here anyway. (Meaning, you're an old servant, and you should know that I don't know scales at all.) Musk Moon also smiled, and asked someone else to go. Baoyu said, "Just pick the big one and give her a piece." When Musk Yue heard this, she put down the scale, picked a piece and shook it, and said, "I'm afraid there are one or two of this piece." It's better to have more, not less, to make that poor boy laugh, not to say that we don't know scales, but to say that we are stingy. The grandmother stood outside and said with a smile, "That's five taels of spindles cut in half, and this piece is at least two taels!" The girl took this piece and picked a smaller one. ”

Musk Yue closed the cabinet early and said with a smile: "Who is looking for it again!" Take some more. The lady took the money and went to cook for herself.

(By the way, this musk moon was written by the original storyteller according to his own concubine, so it has a different flavor.) ）

Baoyu ordered Mingyan to go out and invite Imperial Doctor Wang to come, diagnosed the pulse, and prescribed a prescription, and sure enough, there was no citrus aurantium and ephedra, but there were some other medicinal materials, and the amount of medicine was reduced compared with the first. Baoyu was happy and said, "This is the medicine for the girls." In the past, when I was sick, the imperial physician said that I couldn't afford to ban tiger and wolf medicines such as citrus aurantium, ephedra, and gypsum. I compare with you, I am the old poplar tree that grows in the wild grave for decades, you are the white begonia in autumn, the medicine that even I can't resist, how can you afford it. "Musk Moon and the others just thought he was crazy again, and they didn't say much.

Then the mother-in-law decocted the medicine. Qingwen said: "They should be allowed to fry in the tea room, and the room is full of medicinal smells, how to make it." Baoyu said: "The taste of medicine is more elegant than the taste of flowers." The gods pick and burn medicine, the most wonderful thing. I was thinking that everything in this house was complete, but there was a shortage of medicinal incense, and now I have it. As he spoke, he ordered someone to fry on the brazier in the bedroom.

Then Baoyu looked at his watch and went to Jiafu to have breakfast as usual. While eating and chatting, Sister Feng said to Mrs. Jia Muwang: "It's cold now, it's better to let the girls eat in the garden." Come back when the weather eases up. Mrs. Wang smiled and said, "Also, if you come on an empty stomach, it is not good to eat when your stomach is cold." After eating something, I went back in the cold wind. It is better to turn the five large houses in the back door of the garden into kitchens, and pick two female cooks to cook for them alone. Fresh vegetables go to the steward's house. ”

Jia Mu said: "I'm also thinking about it, I'm afraid that adding another kitchen will make it more troublesome for you." ”

Sister Feng said, "It's not troublesome. It's not a hassle to do. Even if it's troublesome, the little girls are cold, and others are okay, how can Sister Lin be able to hold back? Even Brother Bao couldn't help it, not to mention the girls. ”

Jia Mu said: "That's exactly what I said. I was going to say this last time, but I saw that you have a lot of big things, and now you have added these things (and you have to get another kitchen), although you don't dare to complain, but you can't help but think that I only care about these grandchildren, and I am not considerate of you family members. Now, now that you've said it, it's even better. ”

Because Aunt Xue and Aunt Li were all present at this time, and Mrs. Xing and You Shi also came to say goodbye, Mother Jia said to these people: "I have always wanted to praise Sister Feng for two sentences, but I have never said it, first, I am afraid of losing her face, and second, I am afraid that everyone will not accept it." You are all here today, you have all been sisters-in-law (Sister Feng is the sister-in-law of the girl and Baoyu), did she think so? ”

Aunt Xue, Aunt Li, You Shi and others laughed and said, "It's really rare." Others are not courteous, but she really loves her brother-in-law and sister-in-law. is really filial to the old lady. For the first time, Mother Jia publicly praised Sister Feng.

Jia Mu nodded and sighed: "Although I love her, I'm afraid that it's not a good thing for her to be too smart." Sister Feng hurriedly smiled and said, "This is what the ancestor said. People in the world say that they are too clever and smart to live long. Everyone in the world believes this, but the ancestors should not believe it. My ancestor is ten times smarter and smarter than me, why is he so blessed and blessed now? I'm afraid that I will be twice as good as my ancestor tomorrow! After I live to be a thousand years old, I will not die until my ancestors return to the West. Jia Mu smiled and said: "Everyone is dead, only our two old goblins are left, what's the point." And all the people laughed.

After this Jia Mu promoted Sister Feng, she immediately used Sister Feng to joke with herself, so as not to make everyone feel bad when they were suppressed, and she was also a person who would handle things. Cao Cao did this sometimes. And finding this opportunity to praise Sister Feng is also a clever and accurate finding.

That Aunt Xue is an outsider, and she doesn't care about this, Mrs. Wang is Sister Feng's aunt, and she is happy that Sister Feng is praised, and the relationship between You and Sister Feng is good, but Mrs. Xing also said it was good just now, but in fact, she may not be happy that Sister Feng was praised. The so-called old lady is afraid that someone will not accept it, so it probably means her. As for the mandarin duck matter, Sister Feng got it around, but she still didn't get it for Mrs. Xing, and it was also a recent pimple. - At the very beginning, Sister Feng opposed Mrs. Xing's idea of playing with mandarin ducks. That Sister Feng was originally her daughter-in-law, but she jumped up and down with Mrs. Wang, and she was most favored by the old lady, how could Mrs. Xing be calm with Mrs. Wang and Sister Feng.

Baoyu remembered Qingwen, didn't listen to much and said, hurriedly ate the meal, and returned to the garden first. What the hell is that Qingwen, and listen to the next breakdown.