Chapter 41 The Red Chamber (41)(2/2)
Wang Xifeng gave it up. He had seen through it long ago. He had no expectations and no big disappointment. Only Jia Lian was the serious eldest son and grandson, and his wife was pregnant. When he was feeling happy in his heart, he poured a basin of cold water on his head.
When he came down, he was completely heartbroken. He just said: "That's it, that's it. Let's just close the door and live our own lives. That's the right thing to do."
Otherwise, what else can you expect? Wang Xifeng snorted in her heart and sent Jia Lian, "I can't serve you now. You just go to Ping'er's place to rest. Tell the outside world that this baby is not stable and must be raised."
"Nonsense!" Jia Lian scolded: "You don't curse yourself like that. If you don't care about yourself, you have to care about your son." Jia Lian looked at Wang Xifeng's belly as if he was seeing a living baby.
"My Lord, don't do this. This family will start torturing me again. If you don't believe me, try it." Wang Xifeng closed her eyes and said.
Just as he finished speaking, he heard the voice of a girl talking outside. After a while, Xiaohong came in and said: "My wife sent someone to see when the second grandma will be free and go to Lin's house. The only fragrant dew at home is that of Osmanthus osmanthus, and
The rose one. Nowadays, the lotus one is more palatable. Mr. Bao’s appetite must have been bad these days, so it will taste sweeter with this thing. The Lin family should have these things, so just ask for some."
Jia Lian immediately said angrily: "What second master Bao? I am Baotian Wang, my son is not as important now." After saying that, he got up and went to Wang to refuse.
"Why are you causing trouble at this time?" Wang Xifeng stopped Jia Lian and told Xiaohong, "You just go to Ping'er. I remember asking her to keep the fragrant dew given by the Lin family. I don't have these useless things, they are useless.
Now I have found it, sent it to my wife, and sent it away. What a big deal."
Xiaohong responded and went. Jia Liancai said, "It's because I'm incompetent, so you've been wronged in this house."
Wang Xifeng's heart softened for a moment and said: "Why are you talking about this? Didn't the master live over there in the stable and say nothing? As juniors, we can still turn the world upside down. As long as the wife asks the second master to do things in the future, what will happen to the master?
There are so many evil intentions. To put it bluntly, if the empress is really going to be successful, how can we get it? Just look at the Dragon Boat Festival ceremony. The Xue family is more proud than our eldest family. You say, we are so stupid,
What are you planning on? If you don’t do it for me, you have to think about your eldest sister and the child in my belly. You have to leave something to pass on to your son, right?"
Jia Lian walked out of the house in a daze. The fierce woman in this family suddenly turned into a good wife. After such a long period of adaptation, he still didn't adapt well.
The attacker over there sent Mrs. Jia Muwang away, only to see Baoyu's injuries. He couldn't help but shed tears and said, "Why are you doing this this time?"
"It's not the sweat towel that's causing the trouble." Jia Baoyu was so hurt that she wanted to faint, and whispered: "Look, the injury is serious."
Xiren said angrily: "Can't it be awesome? His skin is torn. It's hard to take care of him in this hot weather." After feeling distressed and worried for a long time, he said: "I know that he is not a good person, so I advise the second master not to do it."
Make friends, but the second master won’t listen.”
Seeing that Baoyu was in pain and could not speak, he went to ask Xiaosi who was following Baoyu. Mingyan said: "Who knows how the news leaked. Only the Xue family uncle knows about this."
Xiren couldn't help but feel angry at the Xue family. When Xue Baochai came with the pills, she didn't say anything, but she couldn't help cursing in her heart: What can it do if you bring a pill? It doesn't matter whether it is prepared and brought, or the prescription is given.
It's easy for people to take medicine. It's a pill that doesn't matter. How do you use it? After using it, you can't change it to other medicines today. What are you trying to do?
Since Xue Baochai had thoughts in her heart about marrying Baoyu, she was naturally more willing to let go than at other times. Looking at Baoyu, her eyes turned red at first, "You are acting like this now because you don't listen to others' advice. Not to mention the old lady,
My wife is distressed, but we are watching..." She stopped for a moment, looked embarrassed, and couldn't say any more. But the lingering words were the most touching.
Jia Baoyu instantly felt that the pain on his body was relieved.
Shi Xiangyun opened the curtain and looked at one with a red face and red eye circles. The other looked at it dreamily and said with a smile: "It seems that I came at the wrong time."
The two of them were disturbed. Xue Baochai felt uncomfortable for a moment, then smiled and said to Shi Xiangyun: "Why can't people understand these words?"
"It doesn't matter if you don't understand. I understand in my heart." Shi Xiangyun laughed and said, "Second brother has fulfilled his wish now. The whole family, sisters and brothers, are all surrounding you."
Jia Baoyu pursed her lips and smiled and said: "Why are you here, Sister Yun? Sit down quickly."
Shi Xiangyun did not sit down, but looked at Jia Baoyu who was covered with something, knowing that he was afraid that he would not be able to stay any longer if he was wearing nothing underneath. He pursed his lips and smiled, chatted a few more words, and then pulled Xue Baochai to stand up and leave.
Jia Baoyu only felt that if he could win a few tears from his sisters, it would be worth it even if he died. He fell asleep in a daze. In his dream, he heard someone crying quietly in his ear. He opened his eyes and was in a trance.
He saw that it was Sister Lin who was crying, but he was in a daze. When he was about to speak, he saw that Sister Lin's shadow slowly faded away. He felt panicked, and suddenly as if he had lost something important, he shouted: "Sister!"
Lin Daiyu was in her dream when she was suddenly awakened by the sound of "sister". She suddenly sat up and covered her chest, only feeling a dull pain.
Xueyan and Fanghua hurried over and couldn't help asking: "Girl, what's going on?"
Before she could finish her question, Lin Daiyu vomited out all the food she had eaten in a day.
"It must be because of the heat." Fanghua asked Xueyan to clean up, and said: "You have to call the doctor quickly. I will report it to the eldest lady this time."
"Stop." Lin Daiyu knew that this was not heat stroke, but because her dream was too weird. She didn't want to trouble anyone, so she said, "Take out the pill and I'll take one. If it still doesn't work, we'll talk about it. Maybe I'm asleep."
It was because I pressed my chest with my hands when I vomited. I felt more comfortable after vomiting."
Fanghua didn't dare to disobey, so she nodded in agreement.
After cleaning up, Daiyu sent the girl out of the room and leaned on the soft pillow. She couldn't help but think of the dream just now. How could she be so sad in the dream? Baoyu was obviously seriously injured. She didn't know that this dream was a good omen.
It was still a bad omen. After thinking about it for a while, I couldn't sleep anymore. I just took the medical book beside my pillow and looked through it. After reading it, I started to understand it.
Jia Baoyu called her "sister" but did not keep Lin Daiyu. She suddenly woke up from her dream. Not caring about the pain on her body, she remembered that the only one she hadn't seen today was Sister Lin. Thinking of Sister Lin's shadow in her dream
The room became more and more blurry, and I felt a dull pain in my heart. Seeing that the attacker hadn't woken up, Qingwen opened the curtain and came to check, and whispered: "You may leave the house tomorrow."
Seeing that Baoyu was sweating, Qingwen didn't know what was wrong with him. She asked, "I can get out of course. Do you have any instructions or things to do?"
"Go to Lin's house for me tomorrow to see Sister Lin." Jia Baoyu said, covering her chest.
"It's so good. There's no reason for me to go to someone's house. Besides, the Lin family has strict rules. If I go there, I may not be able to see them. Even Zicuckoo has not been heard from for several days.
"There is no one to look for." Qingwen couldn't help but said in a daze. How could this man have thought of this in the middle of the night?
"You just sent something over." Jia Baoyu shook his head, pointed to the handkerchief beside him and said, "That's it."
I specially sent an old handkerchief as a gift. What kind of pretext was this? Qingwen saw that this man looked bad, so she obviously wasn't joking, so she hurriedly followed. The worst thing is that she can go out tomorrow.
"Don't let Xi Ren know." Jia Baoyu glanced at the sleeping Xi Ren and ordered.
Qingwen nodded inexplicably. "I'll go there early tomorrow morning."
Apart from paying attention to Wang Xifeng's pregnancy, Lin Yutong paid no attention to anything else. The next morning, he was bitten by an insect on his arm, and then he remembered to change the window screen.
I selected fine gauze from the warehouse, took the sky blue one and asked the girls to hold it, and then changed the window screens in Lin Ruhai and Lin Yuyang's study room.
As soon as she arrived at the outer courtyard, she found out that Wen Tianfang had come to visit Lin Ruhai. It was not convenient for her to go there first. She had to go to Lin Yuyang's courtyard and instruct the girls to change.
In Lin Ruhai's study, Weng and his son-in-law were sitting opposite each other.
"Father-in-law." Wen Tianfang said with some embarrassment: "My son-in-law has no elders in his family, so he came rashly to discuss the marriage in person. Please forgive me, father-in-law."
Lin Ruhai couldn't be dissatisfied when he looked at such a son-in-law. But if he really wanted to marry his daughter right away, how could he be willing to do so? He smiled and said, "Tong'er hasn't gotten married yet. It's too early to talk about marriage now."
Wen Tianfang smiled and said: "Although this is a gifted marriage, the three matchmaking and six etiquettes that should be followed are indispensable. My son-in-law will definitely not dare to wrong the eldest girl."
This is true. Lin Ruhai really can't refute it. The more neatly the husband's gifts are, the more valuable the daughter will be. He pondered for a long time before saying: "Then send the matchmaker to the door."
Wen Tianfang felt happy that the marriage had finally entered a formal process. So the two talked about the affairs of the court again.
"The emperor's intention is that he still needs to reuse his father-in-law." Wen Tianfang revealed.
"Nowadays, it's hard for someone to get away from being reused." There was nothing Lin Ruhai couldn't say directly in front of Wen Tianfang. His son-in-law had something to hide.
"I feel relieved that my father-in-law thinks so." Wen Tianfang whispered: "Last night, the emperor also talked about the arrangements for my father-in-law. He was planning to add the title of Taibao to the Crown Prince. But I refused. The matter of the crown prince is too sensitive.
One of them was bad and got implicated."
Lin Ruhai breathed a sigh of relief and became even more satisfied when looking at Wen Tianfang.
After Lin Yutong finished cleaning up for Lin Yuyang, she didn't know how long Lin Ruhai and Wen Tianfang were going to talk, so she thought, if it didn't work, she would go back first and ask someone to pack the food. She didn't want to just leave the yard and see the two people coming out of Lin Ruhai's yard.
After seeing all this, it was too petty to hide away. Lin Yutong generously came over to salute, and asked: "Are you not going to leave until you have eaten?"
The corners of Wen Tianfang's lips curled up, and his mood suddenly brightened, "No. The Emperor has some errands to do. Let's wait for another day."
Lin Ruhai saw the servants holding bundles of yarn and asked, "What are they doing?"
"I want to change the window screens for my father and Brother Yang. Ordinary window screens can't catch these little bugs," Lin Yutong said with a smile.
The windows are covered with fine gauze! Lin Ruhai said cheerfully: "Okay! You can change it if you like." Then she glanced at Wen Tianfang and thought to herself, my daughter is such a prodigal, can you afford to support her?
Wen Tianfang looked at the girl's cheerful face and said with a smile: "I said yesterday that there are always bugs in the house, which is really annoying. I didn't even think about changing the window screens."
Lin Yutong was stunned. What does this mean? Does he want to change it? Then he said: "Then take a few volumes back and use them. It will be troublesome to open the warehouse again to find this."
Wen Tianfang immediately agreed with a smile. There was a bit of pride on his face. It doesn't matter whether I can afford it or not, as long as I get a wife who knows how to go to my own house.
Lin Ruhai's mouth twitched. She is really an outgoing girl.
Lin Yutong didn't understand what kind of riddle the father-in-law and son-in-law were playing, so he happily sent Wen Tianfang away and went to Lin Ruhai's study to mess around. Lin Ruhai watched the child take good care of the family, and he didn't even have a day to spare.
I really couldn't bear to let her get married. I always thought that it would be easier at home than being a wife for someone else.
After busy talking all morning, I had lunch and then took a break. I heard Chun'er come to report that there was a girl named Qingwen outside the corner gate, who came to say hello to the second girl. Qingwen, Chun'er naturally knew her, but the person at the corner gate
The servant didn’t know me. Then I reported him.
"What is she here for?" Lin Yutong frowned and said, "That's all. If you stop me this time, you won't be able to stop me the next time. She has to figure it out herself anyway."
Chun'er just went out, picked up Qingwen, and went directly to Lin Daiyu's yard. Lin Daiyu had been having a dream that kept her awake since last night. She was in a bad mood right now. When she saw Qingwen, she was stunned and said:
"Why are you here?"
Qingwen was intimidated by the Lin family's rules and did not dare to speak casually. When she saw Chun'er, she just said: "I'm out to do some business, and I want to pay my respects to the girl."
Chun'er smiled and didn't expose it. She just said she had something to do and left.
"But Baoyu asked you to come..." Lin Daiyu couldn't help but asked: "He is injured."
"Has this matter been spread out? Even Miss Lin knows about it." Qingwen was stunned, "They have these little hooves. They should have boils on their mouths, and their tongues should be rotten."
"It's actually true." Lin Daiyu was shocked. No one believed this. She suppressed the panic in her heart and said, "What did he have to say when he asked you to come?"
"Not really." Qingwen handed over the handkerchief with some embarrassment, "Baoyu asked me to bring it to the girl."
Chapter completed!