Red Mansion(35)

Lin Yutong and Lin Daiyu spent a day as guests at Zhang's house. They went well and came back happily. There was not much trouble.

On the carriage, Lin Daiyu was silent for a long time before saying: "It seems that this family is quite harmonious. But there are also some conflicts between the sisters-in-law."

Lin Yutong smiled: "Where there are people, there are conflicts, and when there are interests, there will naturally be disputes. This is a common thing. My teeth will bite my tongue from time to time, let alone people."

Lin Daiyu glanced at Lin Yutong and said: "Now it seems that the bad things about my sister's marriage may not be really bad. Wouldn't it be good if there are no relatives and a lot of unnecessary disputes?"

Lin Yutong came back to her senses, and these words seemed to be roundabout words of comfort. She nodded with a smile, accepted the kindness, and said: "What you said is also reasonable."

Lin Daiyu slowly breathed a sigh of relief. She was afraid that her sister would feel uncomfortable after hearing what Zi Xiaoren said. If she didn't want to get married, her life would be difficult.

When the sisters came back, they took a break and stopped talking.

But on this day, Lin Yuyang came back, and the three of them gathered together to talk again. Lin Yuyang always brought back the new things outside and told them to the two sisters. But this day, he talked about Jia Baoyu.

"This Second Master Bao is now considered a first-class famous person. The few poems he has written are extremely popular." Lin Yuyang said lightly, making it difficult to understand whether it was a compliment or a criticism.

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Lin Daiyu said: "Is there any brother who copied it back? Let me see. He has made great progress."

Lin Yuyang paused and took out a folding fan with a poem on it. Lin Yutong was not interested. She had also seen those poems when reading the original work. To be honest, besides seeing that Jia Baoyu's life was empty and boring, the only other thing she

It feels so luxurious. Others are really indifferent.

But seeing Lin Daiyu's thoughtful look on her face, Lin Yutong felt that perhaps she was a close friend, and it was not necessarily certain that she could taste different meanings.

Lin Yutong couldn't understand the tacit understanding between the two, so he just changed the topic and said: "Look at this poem, they have all moved to the garden to live."

Lin Daiyu closed her fan and had no intention of returning it to Lin Yuyang. She nodded and said: "The fourth sister sent someone to send a message. She only said that Baoyu had moved to Yihongyuan and Xiaoxiang Hall was reserved for Yun Yatou. Miss Bao moved in

In Hengwuyuan, the second sister lived in Zhujin Building, the third sister chose Qiu Shuangzhai, and the fourth sister lived in Liao Fengxuan. Daoxiang Village was said to be reserved for us. The eldest sister-in-law did not live in it. Only a place with Luxue was left.

The courtyard of the courtyard is used as a resting place on weekdays, so that everything can be taken care of."

Lin Yutong was stunned. Didn't Li Wan move in? It's right when you think about it. She has made things so obvious. It's inappropriate for a widow to live in the same garden with her adult brother-in-law. She cherishes her own life.

Feathers, of course, will not leave any excuse for others to speak.

After two days of this, Wang Xifeng came to invite me in person: "I thought of moving, it would be a lively event, and it would be considered a move to a new home."

Lin Yutong invited her to sit down and said: "Why did you come here in person? Just send someone to say it. I am not willing to go to eat, drink and have fun." Anyway, we can't break this relative. If we can break it,

, I'm afraid it should have been discontinued long ago.

Wang Xifeng smiled and said, "I'm looking for you because I have something to discuss."

Lin Yutong thought: I'm afraid it's a matter of her farms.

Hear Wang Xifeng say: "I was thinking, this Zhuangzi has it, but many things require a man to take care of it. I have found a suitable person. I want to ask him to take care of it. Please take a look at the details."

"Who is my sister-in-law talking about?" Lin Yutong asked. She was thinking in her mind, Wang Xifeng didn't leave Jia's house and knew only a limited number of people, so who could fall into her eyes.

I heard Wang Xifeng say: "It's Brother Yun from the fifth sister-in-law's house in the corridor. You didn't know him at first."

Lin Yutong said in his heart, I really know him. This person is relatively reliable.

I heard Wang Xifeng say: "He asked for a job to go to Lian Er. I was too lazy to take care of it, so I was assigned a job of planting flowers and trees. I saw that he did it safely and he was smart. I said that I would recommend him to him.

It’s a long-term job for him. He just didn’t say that Zhuangzi is mine. I guess if he was a smart person, he might be able to guess a thing or two.”

Lin Yutong said: "You are always right about people. Anyway, that Zhuangzi is around Grandma Liu's house. He can take care of both sides, and he is not afraid of anyone playing tricks."

"That's it." Wang Xifeng said: "It's not just for this, it's also a matter of buying and selling. Grandma Liu and the others are not as good as Brother Yun."

The two of them had an animated conversation and left Wang Xifeng to eat before sending her away.

The next day, Lin Yuyang sent his elder sister and younger sister to Jia's house, then turned around and went to school.

After entering Jia's house, a wooden carriage carried the person to the garden and directly into Daoxiang Village.

The house in Daoxiang Village is made of mud on the outside, but is made of blue bricks and black tiles on the inside. The walls are painted white and are kept clean. It is suitable as a temporary resting place.

After a while, the wife who took care of the yard came to say hello. Lin Yutong knew that Lin Daiyu was impatient to listen to these people's nagging, so he sent her out, "Go and play with the sisters. I will take care of these."

Daiyu agreed with a smile. This time she came over and brought Fanghua and Zicuckoo. Fanghua stayed in the room to arrange bedding for her nap, while Daiyu took Zicuckoo around. Thinking that Zicuckoo also had no food for some days.

He met her Jia sisters and sent her to play by herself.

Now is March when the peach blossoms are flying, the weather is pleasant, and walking in the garden is indescribably pleasant.

But he said that Jia Baoyu was not happy when he knew that Daiyu was coming. It happened that Mingyan found a good book from outside. Then he got it in his hand. Originally, he only said to take a look and put it away first. He went to pick up Sister Lin first.

Unexpectedly, he was confused by this sight. It wasn't until a gust of wind blew by and the petals covered the pages of the book that he suddenly woke up. He was in a hurry to find Daiyu, but then he looked at the flowers falling on his clothes, and he suddenly woke up.

I couldn't bear it, so I lifted up my clothes and went to the waterside pavilion.

Lin Daiyu watched Jia Baoyu drop the showerhead into the water, and couldn't help asking: "What are you doing?"

Jia Baoyu turned his head and looked at Daiyu Pingpingtingting approaching. He smiled first and said, "I just said I wanted to find my sister. I didn't expect my sister to come." He pointed to the flowers falling with the water and said, "Let them fall."

clean."

Lin Daiyu smiled and said: "Who knows if it drifted to that dirty and smelly place, why not bury it cleanly."

Jia Baoyu slapped his head: "That's very true."

Lin Daiyu was attracted by the book in his hand, "You are getting better and better now. I saw your poems before. What books are you reading now?"

Jia Baoyu looked embarrassed and hid the book behind him: "Those poems are just for dealing with people outside, so don't make fun of me." He said, hiding behind him, "This book of mine is like my sister's.

The ones I’ve seen are not good books either, so I’d better not read them, sister.”

Lin Daiyu pouted at him and said: "I don't have any books at home, but I just said I haven't seen them."

Jia Baoyu's face turned red. The Lin family was a scholarly family and they had a lot of books. But the Lin family might not necessarily have these books. He smiled and said, "How about I make a bet with my sister? If I win, you will have more books in the garden."

Stay for a few days."

"If you agree, what's your defense?" Lin Daiyu snorted and just extended her hand to Baoyu to read the book.

Jia Baoyu felt happy and hurriedly handed the book over.

Lin Daiyu took it in her hand and took a look. It was a book "Huizhen Ji". She had actually read this book. A few days ago, she and her sister were cleaning up the study room at home, and they dug it out from the bookshelf that had not been tidied up for an unknown period of time.

. smiled and said: "So it's this." After saying that, he returned the book to Jia Baoyu and said: "It's not rare anymore."

Jia Baoyu didn't believe it. She thought Lin Daiyu didn't want to live in the garden, so she only told lies to fool people. She said, "My sister now even makes up lies to stay away from me."

"When did I lie?" Lin Daiyu said with a smile: "I have multiple versions of "Huizhen Ji" at home." As she said that, she took the book in Jia Baoyu's hand and sat on the stone bench to read it.

Looking at the back, Jia Baoyu couldn't help but sit next to her, wondering what Sister Lin was looking for in the book.

Lin Daiyu pointed to the ending and said: "Your book is of course the happy ending. But I don't know that the original version was about Zhang Sheng's chaos and abandonment of Cui Yingying."

After saying that, he returned the book to Jia Baoyu, felt something in his heart, got up and left.

She remembered that her sister had asked someone to find the original version specially for her, and she was filled with emotion after reading it. The more she thought about it, the more frightened she felt.

If I were that Cui Yingying, the original Zijuan would probably be a matchmaker.

No wonder my sister didn't like Zijuan from the beginning to the end. Now that I think about it, Zijuan is just like the matchmaker, and there are many inappropriate things in her actions.

When Jia Baoyu saw Lin Daiyu turn around and leave, he couldn't help asking: "Why is my sister reading such a book at home?"

"Buddha comes from the heart. There is a Buddha in the heart. Everything you see is a Buddha. I only appreciate the beautiful words and twists and turns of the story, which can alert people's hearts. What can't be seen?" Lin Daiyu paused and looked back in confusion.

He looked at Jia Baoyu and said, "What do you have in your heart?"

Jia Baoyu suddenly turned red and became at a loss.

I lowered my head and read the book again, and thought of Cui Yingying who was abandoned by Zhang Sheng, and I felt a sense of infatuation in my heart. If he were Zhang Sheng and his sister was Cui Yingying, he would not do such a thing even if he died.

Here Jia Baoyu was in a daze. Xiren saw it from a distance and couldn't help but feel nervous. Then he saw that the person walking away was Lin Daiyu, and he felt even more uneasy.

So he hurried over and said, "I can't find you anywhere. I wonder how you ended up here. The old lady is looking for you."

"When did you come looking for me? I have no reason." Jia Baoyu turned around and walked back.

Xiren lowered his head and said, "What's so uncomfortable about this? Did you quarrel with Miss Lin?"

Jia Baoyu snorted coldly and said: "You are getting more and more embarrassed now. You dare to arrange for anyone. Anyway, if I can't let you in this room, just go out. No one will keep you."

As soon as Xiren heard this, his face turned pale and he dared not speak anymore.

The two of them returned to the yard in silence all the way, and saw the mandarin duck leaning on the bed, looking at the astonishing needlework.

Xiren was unhappy when he saw Yuanyang lying on the bed so big. When Baoyu came in, he didn't say anything. He thought to himself: Normally, he looks down on his aunt, but now he is acting like this.

What? I felt shameless in my heart. But thinking that she was someone the old lady needed, I didn't dare to be presumptuous. I forced myself to smile and went to the inner room to get Jia Baoyu a change of clothes and shoes.

Jia Baoyu was sitting on the edge of the Kang, and when he saw the mandarin duck, the monkey came up to eat the rouge on the mandarin duck's mouth. The mandarin duck just shouted: "Xiren, come out and see, what does he look like now if he doesn't change his behavior?"

Xi Xin said: Flies don't bite seamless eggs. You should respect yourself, he won't dare to do this again. I don't see him being frivolous towards the girls of the Lin family. He doesn't even touch Zicuckoo now.

But he said to Baoyu: "No matter what, you won't change. If you continue like this, we may not be able to live in the garden anymore. Second Master, please think about it, why doesn't Miss Lin live in our house?"

Only then did Jia Baoyu stop talking. He felt that it was very boring.

But he said that Lin Yutong had settled the yard and took the girl to look for Wang Xifeng. Suddenly he heard Xue Baochai's voice saying: "Zi'er, where are you hiding?"

Lin Yutong said in his heart, this is really a coincidence.
To be continued...