The Hairpin of the Red Chamber

Chapter 228

Outside the garden, Zicuckoo was watching to collect the luggage. When she saw Baochai, she smiled face-to-face and said, "Why did Miss Bao come out? But our girl had another whim, wanted to eat something rare, or did she come up with some idea to play tricks on you?"

Baochai laughed and said, "You have wronged her this time. I have come to fetch her poems."

When Zijuan heard about it, she hurriedly took a box out of the car and said, "This is the poem for this year."

Baochai opened the box, selected a few of them, put the book between them, and walked back slowly. Just at the door, she saw that Xiangling and Daiyu were chatting more enthusiastically than before. Laughing, they talked so much that they all got together. If they hadn't learned the boudoir etiquette since they were young, they would have spit on each other's faces by now.

Baochai stepped up and walked all the way to the two people, but they didn't notice it at all. They coughed heavily, but they didn't pay attention to them, so they just threw the book on the table, Daiyu and Xiangling were startled , Daiyu almost jumped up, poked a finger on Baochai's waist, and said angrily, "You are so frightening!"

Baochai said, "I just stamped my feet and coughed. You couldn't hear me, so who is to blame?" Seeing Daiyu get up, she took the opportunity to sit between her two, and Daiyu was not on guard against Baochai. Chai snatched the seat, and said with hatred: "Xue Baochai! You will never call me Ansheng." Angrily sitting aside, turning his face to the side, the Xiangling had already picked up the book as if he had found a treasure. , opened it carefully, revealed the poem manuscripts one by one, and read them softly. When you met someone you liked, you would read them again. After a while, after reading several poems, Xiangling flipped through her manuscripts and read them again. , smiled at Daiyu: "I only lost half a chip to you."

Daiyu had already seen that Baochai had chosen some poems that were not her favorite, so she glanced at Baochai and said, "I see that the imagery in your poems has a big pattern, and you are so diligent. I am not as good as you."

Xiangling smiled embarrassedly, and said: "Miss Lin's talent, I'm afraid I will never be able to catch up with it in my life." After speaking, she suddenly asked: "Is it true that Miss Bao has stopped writing poems in recent years?"

Daiyu said: "Now she only thinks about abacus all day long, and she smells of copper all over her body. How can she make poetry!"

Xiangling just sighed, and discussed some poetry matters with Daiyu.Daiyu was not quite at ease because Baochai was lying beside Xiangling, so she said a few random words to Xiangling, saying that she was tired, and Xiangling said, "Look at me, you must be tired after coming all the way. It's hard, but I just dragged you to talk." Busy Haosheng sent her and Baochai into the house, but borrowed Daiyu's poems to go back to the room to study.

As soon as Daiyu waited for her to leave, she turned her eyes to Baochai and said, "What did you do to sit next to her?"

Baochai said: "I just sit down casually. How can there be so much attention to detail? You are making a fuss again."

Daiyu gave her a white look, and said, "You push me away and sit down in a hurry, is this called 'sit casually'?"

Baochai said calmly: "You got up by yourself, but I blamed me for squeezing you?" Seeing that Daiyu was going to be annoyed, she quickly changed the subject and said, "Why did you say that I don't write poems anymore? If I don't write poems, the twelve Did the Shouyong Bamboo fall from the sky?"

Daiyu tilted her head and said: "Your poems are not well done, taking them out will only increase the jokes of others, so let's keep them at home."

Baochai glared at her and said, "Who was drunk that day, took my hand and said, 'Good man, all your other poems are fine, those twelve chanting bamboos are really worth a word'?"

Seeing her revealing the truth, Daiyu's fair and tender face blushed slightly, and said softly, "Drunkness can't be counted."

Baochai also snorted, and said, "Don't think that I don't know what you're up to. Ever since I spent a night in Sister Ling's room at the Poetry Society the year before last, your nose is not your nose, and your eyes are not your eyes. Last year Don't let me come here, and this year is like this again, I haven't said anything about you yet, but you are eating that unwarranted vinegar."

Daiyu stomped her feet and said, "I have reasons and evidence. Unlike you, I speculate out of thin air and make up random things. Sister Ling and I are just speculating on words. If you say one more word, your face will almost resemble that of the donkey pulling the cart." It’s the same length, but you still have the nerve to say me! You also said that I didn’t let you come last year, and it was clear that I wanted to come last year, but you didn’t let me come.”

Baochai got up angrily and said, "She writes to you every day, and sings and communicates with you every month. Every year and festival, she gives us ordinary gifts, but what she gives to you must be made by herself. If you want to settle down somewhere, you have to come to your hometown. I don’t like you, what is it? I’m not that small-minded person. I don’t see people treating you better. I just think that we should get to know each other once. Can't help but do something, wouldn't it be a pity to have been in love for so many years? Besides, you and her are destined to have no fate, if you hang out with her too much, it will make her think more, and it will hurt her instead. "

Daiyu stomped her feet and said, "Suzhou is a place of outstanding people. Sister Ling likes this place and wants to settle down here. What's so strange? Besides, I'm the only daughter in Suzhou? Sister Ling is such a gentle daughter, what if she is originally from Jiangnan? So maybe I have a vague liking for this place.”

Baochai replied: "Could it be that there is only Suzhou in the south of the Yangtze River, and Jinling is not outstanding? Why did she come here? She must have a heart for you."

Daiyu also replied: "Sister Ling is dedicated to learning, maybe she doesn't like the hustle and bustle of your Jinling." Feeling resentful, she didn't say a few words, then her eyes turned red and she said: "It's fine to marry me to that idiot. It turned out that we made a mistake. The two daughters' families are going to be together, so we must pretend to be in the name of that idiot." It's easy to get along with, and I can't blame others; but I'm an official's wife, and you're in charge of me here and there. I have to conform to the rules of being an official, and I have to take care of Baoyu's face. I can't even make new friends; that's all. , I managed to connect these boudoir sisters, and re-established a poetry club, and I was not allowed to call everyone together to play together; I will see Sister Ling in a year Once, you always wanted to get in the way, and now even discussing a poem has become a sin, and I am living in this mansion really less and less like a human being." The more I spoke, the more anxious I couldn't help covering my face, Weeping.

Baochai was disturbed by her crying, put her shoulders on her shoulders and said: "I didn't mean that, it's just that everyone has married after all, and each has children and daughters. My in-laws said it; besides, you have always been weak. Although you have improved a lot in recent years, you can't stand running around like this, so I have to ask you to come and see Sister Ling from time to time. Sister Ling is just right. You mean to... oh!" She sighed, and pulled Daiyu into her arms, Daiyu was crooked in her arms, and she took out an embroidered handkerchief from her sleeve.Daiyu wiped her tears with a handkerchief, and said, sobbing, "Baochai, have you ever thought that I always think that Sister Ling likes you, and you always think that Sister Ling likes me, but in fact, she doesn't like anyone?" like?"

Baochai shook her head resolutely and said, "She must like you, you don't have to be lenient with me."

Daiyu said: "Don't be so sure. For example, Sister Ping'er likes Sister Feng, and Baoyu likes Liu Xianglian. At that time, we thought it was obvious and unquestionable. But Sister Ling, we two guessed." It's been three or two years, but I still can't understand it, maybe this time we both really got it wrong."

Baochai thought about it, frowned and said, "But why did she insist on coming to live in Suzhou?"