Because it was Meng Chun January at this time, Lin Daiyu committed the cough disease that Spring and Autumn must commit again. Baoyu went to see her on this day. It happened that Daiyu was taking a nap, Baoyu didn't dare to be alarmed, and when she turned around, she saw Zijuan doing needlework in the corridor, so she came over and asked her, "Did she cough badly last night?" Zijuan said, "It's better." Baoyu said, "Oh, that's fine." The two laughed a few words, and Baoyu saw Zijuan wearing a thin cotton jacket with ink silk and a blue satin vest outside, so he reached out and touched her, and said, "Wearing such a thin and still sitting in the tuyere, be careful that you get sick again, it will be even more difficult." Zijuan said, "In the future, we can only talk, don't move our hands and feet." Year by year, it makes people look disrespectful. Those bastards say behind your back, you don't take it seriously, you just do the same as when you were a child. The girl always told me not to joke with you. You've been looking at her as far away as she can from you. ”

When Baoyu heard these words, it was like pouring a basin of cold water, only looking at the bamboo, slowly in a daze, and walked straight out. Sitting on a rock, he began to cry and shed tears.

After two meals, the snow goose came back from errands, and when she saw that it was Baoyu, she came over and squatted down and said with a smile, "What are you doing here?" Baoyu said, "I'm sad." Since she is suspicious and doesn't let you ignore me, what are you doing here? Go home. The ancients had no confidence in themselves, thinking that girls and boys were too old to give birth to children if they were not separated from each other, and they would not be able to marry in the future. Under this kind of education, sensible girls are alienated from boys by themselves, because something happens in the future, and the responsibility is that this woman is a fox spirit who seduces serious men, and only beats the woman.

Snow Goose listened and had no choice but to go. This snow goose was a little girl with a snot who came with Daiyu at the beginning, and now she is older. When I entered the outer room, I greeted Zijuan, sat down and said, "I just had a funny thing." I went to my wife to get ginseng just now, and Aunt Zhao beckoned to me. When I went over, she told me that she was giving her brother a funeral tomorrow, and her little girl Xiao Jixianger had no clothes to wear, so she wanted to borrow my moon-white satin jacket. I think they usually have two pieces, and they are afraid that they will get bad luck when they go to a dirty place (to the crematorium), so they borrow my clothes. If you don't wear your own, borrow mine. It's okay to borrow me to go to dirty places, but I think she usually has some benefits for us. So I made up a story and said I didn't give it to her. Hehe. ”

Zijuan smiled and said, "Ignore her." ”

Xue Yan said again: "Just when I came in, Baoyu was crying under the peach blossoms behind the Qinfang Pavilion, who made him angry?" ”

When Zijuan heard this, she hurriedly put down her needle and thread, went out of the Xiaoxiang Pavilion, and went to find Baoyu. walked up to Baoyu and said with a smile: "I just said those two words, but also for the good of everyone, you ran to this wind and cried in anger, and made a disease to scare me." ”

Baoyu hurriedly smiled and said, "Who is angry!" I think what you said makes sense. I was thinking, since you think like this, others also think like this, then slowly, no one will pay attention to me in the future, so I am sad. ”

The purple cuckoo sat down with him. Baoyu smiled and said, "Why are you sitting next to me again?" Zijuan said: "I have something, these days, the old lady always sends bird's nest, I don't know what's going on, I want to ask you." Baoyu smiled and said: "That's nothing, that is, I think Sister Bao also lives here, since she eats bird's nest, she can't stop, if she always asks Sister Bao, it's not appropriate." So I told the old lady. I think Sister Feng asked someone to send it. Zijuan smiled and said, "It turned out that you said it, no wonder the old lady asked someone to send one or two bird's nests every day." Thank you very much for that. Baoyu smiled and said, "This has to be eaten every day, and it will take two or three years to eat." (That's not to eat the swallows.) Zijuan said, "I'm used to eating here, I'll go home next year, where will I have the spare money to eat this." ”

When Baoyu heard this, he was taken aback, and hurriedly asked, "Who is going home?" Which home to go back to? ”

Zijuan said, "Miss Lin went back to Suzhou. ”

Baoyu smiled and said, "You are talking nonsense again." Her parents are gone, and there is no one to take care of her, so she came here. Who will I go back to next year? You can see that you are lying. ”

Zijuan sneered and said, "You are too underestimating people. She also has an uncle, and when she is older and should leave the cabinet, she will naturally return to the Lin family. In the end, the daughter of the Lin family will stay in your Jia family for the rest of her life? So even if you don't send her back next year, someone from the Lin family will come to pick her up. The night before yesterday, the girl told me to tell you that she had given you all the things she had given you when she was a child, and that you had paid her back some of the things she had given you to play with. She also put all the dots you gave her and put them there. ”

When Baoyu heard this, it was like a thunderbolt sounding above his head. Zijuan wanted to see how he answered, so she just stopped talking. Suddenly, I saw Qingwen come and said that the old lady was calling, and when I looked at it, I saw Baoyu was dumbfounded, sweating hotly, and her face was purple, so she hurriedly took his hand and pulled it back to Yihong Courtyard. The purple cuckoo also went away.

When the attacker saw Baoyu like this, he panicked, and Baoyu's eyes were straight, and the corners of his mouth were spitting, and he didn't know it. Give him a pillow and lie down, help him up and sit down, pour tea and drink it, but he is completely unconscious. There was a panic up and down, the nurse Li Mo was an experienced woman who had raised children, so she was quickly invited to pinch Baoyu in the middle of the person, how to pinch it, Baoyu didn't feel pain, Li Mo only said: "It's amazing." After saying that, he hugged Baoyu and cried: "This is useless (going to die)!" It's a pity that I've been fed for nothing all my life! The attackers and others thought she was old and wise, and when they saw her say this, they all believed it and cried.

Qingwen said the situation, and the attacker was busy looking for the root of the problem and ran to the Xiaoxiang Pavilion, and saw that Zijuan was giving Daiyu medicine, and she didn't care so much, so she asked Zijuan: "What did you tell our Baoyu?" So he told Baoyu about the situation that he was dying now, saying that his hands and feet were cold, he didn't speak, he didn't hurt when he pinched him, his eyes were all straight, and he was mostly dead. When Daiyu heard this, she vomited all the medicine in her stomach with a wow, and coughed a few times with a lot of gut shock, and couldn't raise her head for a while. Zijuan hurriedly came up and beat her back, Daiyu pushed her, and said, "You don't have to beat it, you just take the rope and strangle me seriously!" Zijuan hurriedly cried and said, "I didn't say anything, but a few jokes, and he took it seriously." Daiyu said: "What did you say, hurry up and explain, maybe he will come over." Zijuan listened, hurriedly got out of bed, and followed the attacker to Yihong Courtyard.

At this time, Mrs. Jia Mu and Mrs. Wang rushed to hear the news, and when Jia Mu saw Zijuan, her eyes were on fire, and she scolded: "You little hoof, what did you say to him!" That Zijuan said this with an ulterior purpose, because she was not a maid who came with Daiyu, but was sent to Daiyu by Jia's mother from her side, so she was afraid that Daiyu would leave and go back to her hometown in Suzhou, because if she went, she would also go with her, but her hometown was all in Beijing, and it was not good to leave her hometown, but if she didn't go, she felt sorry for Daiyu's friendship over the years, so she made up this to ask Baoyu, wanting to see if Baoyu knew that Daiyu would go back to her hometown because she was too old in the future. However, he couldn't explain such long-winded words to Jia Mu, so he just said: "I didn't say anything, just a few jokes." As soon as he said this, when Baoyu saw Zijuan, he let out an "oops" and cried. As soon as everyone saw that he was alive, they all relaxed their hearts. Mother Jia hurriedly grabbed Zijuan, only thinking that she had offended Baoyu, so she pulled Zijuan and ordered Baoyu to fight.

Who knew that Baoyu grabbed Zijuan and didn't let it go, saying, "If you want to go, even I will take it." Everyone was puzzled, and they hurriedly asked, and Zijuan said that he said a joke like "Daiyu wants to go back to Suzhou", which led him to do this. Jia Mu said with tears in her eyes: "It turns out that this, what should I do?" You are also smart and clever, and you know that he is a fool, so you have nothing to coax him to do? As he was talking, the maid came in and said that Lin Zhixiao's family also came to see Baoyu. Jia's mother ordered to come in. When Baoyu heard the word "Lin", she made a fuss all over the bed and said, "It's amazing, the people of the Lin family picked her up, let's call it out!" When Jia Mu heard this, she also hurriedly said, "Let's go out!" He hurriedly comforted him and said, "That's not from the Lin family." The people of the Lin family are all dead, and no one comes to pick her up, so you can rest assured. Baoyu cried: "Depending on who he is, except for Sister Lin, he is not allowed to have the surname Lin!" Jia Mu said: "If you don't have the surname Lin, I will beat everyone with the surname Lin." While instructing everyone and the maids: "Don't ask Lin Zhixiao's family to come to the garden in the future, and don't say the word 'Lin'." Listen to me, good boys! Everyone hurriedly agreed, but they didn't dare to laugh.

At one moment, Baoyu saw a model of a Western ship on the lattice, so he pointed at it and shouted: "That's not the ship that picked them up, stop there." Jia Mu hurriedly took it down. The attacker hurriedly took it down, and Baoyu reached out to it, stuffed it in the quilt, and said with a smile: "I can't go!" As he spoke, he pulled the purple cuckoo and held on to it.

One moment the doctor came, looked at it, and said that it was phlegm—phlegm was blocking the main thinking organs—it was all nonsense. Then the drug was prescribed. Jia Mu said: "If you are cured after eating, I will prepare another thank you gift and ask him to kowtow to you personally; If it is delayed, I will send someone to demolish the lobby of the hospital. The imperial physician bowed down and smiled and said, "Don't dare, don't dare." He was busy saying "don't dare" when he heard "prepare a thank you gift to thank you", but he didn't hear what Jia's mother said later about demolishing the hospital lobby, and he was still saying "don't dare", but Jia's mother and everyone laughed.

After taking medicine for a while, it seems to be better. But Baoyu still pulled Zijuan and shouted that he was not allowed to leave. Jia's mother was helpless, so she ordered Zijuan to guard him, and asked Amber to serve Daiyu.

Daiyu sent Snow Goose from time to time to find out the news - she was sick herself, and when she saw that she said that it was okay here, there was nothing to do, so she was relieved, and sighed in her heart.

In the evening, at night, Mrs. Jia Muwang continued to send people to inquire. Sometimes Baoyu falls asleep and wakes up from a dream and cries that Daiyu is leaving, or has already left. Every time, Zijuan comforted her, and it was just that.

The next day, I took the medicine again, and it gradually improved. Baoyu understood in her heart that because she was afraid of the purple juan leaving, she sometimes acted like a madman. Zijuan had to work hard day and night. After a few days, I finally stopped pretending, and my illness was cured. During this period, Shi Xiangyun also came to see him every day, and when he saw that he was better, he described his madness in illness to him, and showed him that Baoyu himself was smiling. Then Baoyu asked Zijuan why she lied to herself, and Zijuan hurriedly told him about leaving with Daiyu because she was afraid of leaving. Baoyu Fang understood that this was the reason, and asked himself if he wanted to see if Daiyu would leave. So after thinking about it, he said, "I see." Alas, in fact, you are also a fool, so why bother about this. Actually, you think, even if someone comes to pick her up, it is also very distant in the clan, and the old lady must not worry about letting her go back. Even if the old lady let her go, I wouldn't follow. ”

Zijuan smiled again and said, "If you really don't follow? I'm afraid it's still the words in my mouth. Now that you are older, you have even decided on your relatives, and you will marry again in two or three years, who else do you have in your eyes? ”

Baoyu was almost going crazy again, and hurriedly asked, "Who said I was married?" Who's decided? ”

Zijuan smiled and said, "During the New Year's Festival, I heard the old lady say that she wanted to set a piano girl." ”

Baoyu smiled and said, "You are really a fool. It was just a joke, and she had already promised to be married to the Mei Hanlin family. If I had decided to give her to me, would I still be like this? It's been a long time coming. ”

Zijuan only understood. She also probably thought that Baoyu had made a marriage, and Daiyu would have to go back, so it would be very troublesome and tangled to go with her or not. Then my heart was completely opened.

Then Zijuan said goodbye to Baoyu and still returned to work in Xiaoxiang Pavilion. After the night was settled, Zijuan lay on the bed, and quietly smiled at Daiyu and said, "Baoyu's heart is down, and she got up like that when she heard that we were going." "—It's a night chat in the girls' dormitory.

Daiyu didn't answer.

Zijuan paused for a while, and then had to say to himself: "It's better to be still than to be still (meaning, if you go out to find your in-laws' house, it's better to look for them on the spot with us). Even if we are good people here, everything else is easy, but the most difficult thing is that we grew up together since childhood, and we know each other's temperament and temperament. ”

Daiyu chirped: "You haven't been tired these days, don't hurry up and rest, and chew maggots." (Chewing maggots, so full of nonsense.) ）

Zijuan smiled and said, "It's not that I chew maggots, but I really want to be a girl." I've been worried about you for years. While the old lady was still understanding toughness, she decided that it was important to do something. If the old lady has a good thing for a while, even if it is over, I am afraid that she will not be satisfied. Sons, kings and grandchildren, who have three rooms and five concubines from time to time, today faces east, and tomorrow faces west. Marrying a heavenly immortal, it is only three nights and five nights, and the back of the neck will be lost. If the mother's family is powerful, it is better, if there is a person like the girl, there is an old lady for a day, it will be good for a day (meaning, after getting married, he will not dare to stop his wife and marry another), if there is no old lady, it will only be bullied by others. Therefore, it is important to make up your mind, and you can't procrastinate. This may imply that the old lady can keep Daiyu's marriage and happiness after marriage, so if Daiyu's marriage goes wrong, it must be after the old lady dies, so the continuation of the surname Gao later said that the old lady participated in the "contract adjustment plan", which is not in line with the spirit of the previous story. It must be after the old lady dies that she is "only bullied by others".

When Daiyu heard this, she said, "Isn't this girl crazy today?" I went for a few days, and I was also infected. I will go back to the old lady tomorrow, and I will return you, and I dare not ask you. ”

Zijuan smiled and said: "I said good things, but I told you to pay attention, why bother to go back to the old lady, let me suffer, what is the benefit." So saying, he fell asleep.

Alas, this Lin Daiyu, who is about fourteen years old, has the panic of an older leftover girl.

Even the girl was anxious and worried about her.

When Daiyu heard these words, although she said this in her mouth, she was not sad in her heart, and when she fell asleep, she secretly cried all night. The next day, I took a nap, barely freshened up, and ate bird's nest porridge, and the old lady came to see her in person for a while, and told a lot of words. (In short, it is still emphasized that the old lady loves her.) ）

A few days later, this Aunt Xue wanted to say that Xue Pan was a wife because she saw that Mrs. Xing's sister-in-law's child, Xing Xiuyan, was from a poor family, but she was elegant and steady. But I was afraid that Xue Pan's behavior would be prodigal and hurt other girls, so I remembered Xue Pan (Xue Pan's cousin) again, so I told Jia's mother what it meant. Jia Mu smiled and said, "This is an excellent thing. So he called Mrs. Xing to discuss. Mrs. Xing felt that the Xue family had a good foundation, and now they were rich, and Xue Zhen was also good-looking, so she took the opportunity to agree. Mother Jia was very happy, so she asked Aunt Xue to send a dowry and make Xing Xiuyan Xue Zhen's daughter-in-law. The whole family knew about it, but they all thought it was a suitable family affair.

On this day, Baochai went to see Daiyu again, and happened to meet Xing Xiuyan who also came to see Daiyu on the way. Baochai stopped her with a smile, looked at it, and said with a smile: "It's still very cold now, why have you changed your jacket?" Xiuyan asked, bowed her head and did not answer. Baochai smiled and said: "It must be that this month's monthly money has not been paid, and Feng Yatou is so heartless now." (It means that it's not smart to do that.) Xiuyan said: "She gave it on time, but my aunt (Mrs. Xing) sent someone to tell me that I can't use two taels of silver a month, and asked me to save one or two to send to my parents. (The one or two pieces of silver in this province were embezzled by Mrs. Xing, it is estimated that it is about the same.) The second sister is an honest person, but she doesn't care. But which of her mothers is trouble-free, and which one is not sharp-mouthed? I lived there, but I didn't dare to call them very much, and after three days and five days, I gave them money to get wine and buy snacks to eat. So two taels of silver a month was not enough, but now I have gone to another tael. So a few days ago, I quietly called someone for a few hangings of money. ”

When Baochai heard this, she sighed sadly: "Baoqin's marriage is over, and we can do her younger brother Xue Zhen's, and Mei Hanlin's family is in the foreign office, and he will come back the year after tomorrow." But if you wait for another two years, I'm afraid you'll get sick. Wait for me to discuss it with my mother again, someone is bullying you, you have to be patient, and you will definitely be sick by yourself. It's better to give them the remaining taels of silver, and let them rest. You don't have to buy them food for nothing in the future, she will be scathing and scathing, and it will be over if she walks away and doesn't listen. If you need anything short, just come to me. Xiuyan bowed her head and agreed.

Baochai asked Xiuyan to go back to her residence to take out the pawn ticket and redeem her cotton clothes herself. Xiuyan said the name of the pawnshop, which happened to be opened by the Xue family. Baochai smiled and said, "Hehe, if the guys know, they have to say, 'People didn't come, the clothes came first'." When Xiuyan heard this, she didn't blush and smiled. The two walked away, and Xiuyan went back to her residence to get the pawn ticket.

Baochai continued to come to Xiaoxiang Pavilion, and when she came in, her mother was also coming to see Daiyu, gossiping and chatting. Daiyu hurriedly asked Baochai to sit down, so she said to Baochai: "I really can't think of anything in the world, how did I think that my aunt's family and aunt have become in-laws again." Aunt Xue said: "My son, how do you girls know that the marriage is the old man under the age of a month, as long as he ties the two of them with a red thread, across the country and the sea, and there is a feud, they will all be husband and wife after all." For example, the marriage of the two sisters, I don't know if it's in front of me at the moment, or if it's in the north and south. ”

Baochai said: "Mom, just pull us up when you speak." So saying, she fell into her mother's arms and smiled, "Let's go." Daiyu smiled and said, "Look, it's so big, she will be coquettish when she sees her aunt." Aunt Xue rubbed this treasure hairpin with her hand and said to Daiyu: "Your sister has something serious, so she will discuss it with me, and if it is nothing, she will open my heart." When I saw her like this, how many sorrows could not be dissolved. When Daiyu heard this, she sighed with tears and said, "She's like this, obviously angry with me, a motherless person." Baochai was silent.

Aunt Xue was busy rubbing Daiyu again, and said with a smile: "Good boy, don't cry." Seeing that I love your sister, you are sad, you don't know that I love you more in my heart. I often tell your sister that I love you more in my heart, but it's not easy to bring it out outside. I'm afraid that others will say that the old lady loves you, and we will also go up. ”

Daiyu smiled and said: "Since my aunt said so, I will recognize my aunt as my mother tomorrow, if my aunt dislikes it, she will pretend to love me." Aunt Xue said, "If you don't get tired of me, just admit it." Baochai hurriedly said: "I can't recognize it." Daiyu said, "Why? Baochai said: "Let me ask you, why did my brother give Xiuyan to my younger brother before he was married, what is the reason?" (The elder brother did not marry, but married his cousin first, which was not in accordance with the rules and order.) Daiyu said, "I don't know, why did you give it to your brother?" Baochai smiled and said: "Because my brother has already seen the person, just wait for him to come home and give the dowry, and I don't have to say who that person is, I just said that you don't recognize my mother as a mother, you want to go yourself." As she spoke, she winked eyes and laughed with her mother.

When Daiyu heard this, she also knelt down on Aunt Xue and said, "If Aunt doesn't beat her, I won't follow her." Aunt Xue also hugged her and smiled and said, "Don't believe her nonsense, she is teasing you." Baochai said: "It's really a good one, my mother asked her to be her daughter-in-law, wouldn't it be better than looking for her from outside?" Daiyu reached out to grab her, and Aunt Xue was busy laughing and persuading, so she separated her hand from the square.

Aunt Xue said to Baochai again: "The old lady wants to tell Baoyu about your sister Baoqin, but she will give it to someone else, otherwise it will be a good family." I thought that the old lady of your brother Bao loved him so much, and he was born like that, if you want to look for it outside, the old lady will never like it. Why don't you give him your sister Lin, wouldn't the two be complete? ”

Daiyu listened in a daze, and when she saw that she was talking about herself in the second sentence, she spat at Baochai, blushed, pulled Baochai and said with a smile: "I only beat you!" Why did you bring out these old and unserious words from your aunt? (You said you couldn't find it outside, so you called her something like that.) Baochai smiled and said, "This is strange, Mom said you, why did you beat me?" Zijuan hurriedly ran over and laughed and said, "Since Mrs. Aunt has this idea, why don't you talk to the old lady?" (Huh!) Aunt Xue laughed and said, "You kid, what are you anxious about, you must be urging Miss Lin out of the pavilion, you should also find your little son-in-law as soon as possible." When Zijuan heard this, she also blushed, and said with a smile: "Mrs. Aunt is really relying on the old and selling the old." So saying, he turned and went. Daiyu scolded first: "What does it have to do with your hooves?" Later, when he saw this, he also laughed and said, "Amitabha! That's, that's, that's! I also have a gray nose! Aunt Xue, Baochai, and the maid in the house all laughed.

At that time, it was a useless thing to talk about his marriage in a hurry, and it made people feel that they couldn't stand up thinking about men, which was a sign of weak-willedness. So Daiyu both thought and scolded Zijuan who came to help.

The mothers-in-law also knew how to please Daiyu, so they also said at this time: "Although Mrs. Aunt is joking, it is almost the same." When I was free, I discussed with the old lady, and it was good that my aunt was a matchmaker and became a family business. ”

Aunt Xue said, "As soon as I mention this idea, the old lady must like it." ”

It's a pity, before I could say a word, I suddenly saw Xiangyun coming, holding a pawn ticket in his hand, and said with a smile: "Sister Xiuyan's girl Zhu'er met me at the door, and asked me to give this paper to Sister Bao, let's see what it is?" Daiyu was busy looking at it, but she didn't know what it was. Baochai hurriedly took it and looked at it, and it turned out to be a pawn ticket sent by the Xiuyan faction. Hurriedly folded.

Aunt Xue said, "Isn't this a ticket? Shi Xiangyun said: "What is a ticket? The wives laughed and said, "What a fool, I don't even know how to be a ticket." Aunt Xue also said: "It's really Miss Houmen, no wonder I don't know." (Shi Xiangyun is from the family of the Marquis of Zhongjing.) The mothers-in-law laughed and said, "Miss Lin doesn't recognize it either." Even Baoyu may not know it. ”

Aunt Xue hurriedly explained the process of using this ticket and the purpose of the operation. Shi Xiangyun listened to it and said with a smile: "So that's the case." People are too good at thinking about money, and Aunt Xue's pawnshop also has this? Everyone laughed again, and then said, "This is stupid again, the world is as black as an owl, what can you use without this?" Aunt Xue was busy asking Xiuyan why she sent this ticket, but Baochai had to tell the reason, and she took the cotton clothes as if she had no money. Everyone sighed. Shi Xiangyun was moved and said, "Wait until I go to Tanchun!" I scolded those old women and girls and gave her anger! With that, he was leaving. Baochai Daiyu hurriedly stopped her from coming back and persuaded her politely. Xiangyun said again: "Then Ming'er also took her to live in the Wuyuan, okay?" Baochai said, "We'll discuss this later." It's not good to live here before you get past the door. When the people heard this, they felt helpless. So everyone laughed for a while. Let's listen to the next breakdown.