In the garden, after Jia Mu and other elders went to take a nap, the sisters also let go and went to play together.
They are all teenage girls, and they don’t like taking naps in the first place.
When they had free time, everyone came to the Lotus Root Pavilion.
Lotus Root Pavilion is a water pavilion in Liao Fengxuan where Xichun lives. It is built along the Qinfang River. This is Xichun's favorite leisure place, and the little girl has organized a simple studio here.
Xichun likes painting, which is known to most people in Jia's family, even Jia's mother. It happened that today when Jia's mother took Grandma Liu to visit the garden, Grandma Liu said that the Grand View Garden was as beautiful as the New Year pictures they bought and pasted up during the Chinese New Year. She also laughed and said that if she could draw what she saw, she could take it back to show off to the folks in the countryside. Even better.
It was originally a joke, but in order to show that her granddaughters were knowledgeable in all arts, Jia Mu asked Xichun to draw a landscape painting of the Grand View Garden, and also set some requirements.
This is embarrassing for Xichun. I was embarrassed to refuse in front of the "guests", so I had no choice but to agree.
No, a group of sisters and sisters-in-law knew that she was in trouble and came to help her.
Some taught her how to draw figures, some taught her how to paint landscapes, some taught her how to lay out a reasonable layout...
In the end, everyone praised Baochai as the best at this, and they were willing to let Baochai teach Xichun how to organize this important event. Because Baochai said that when the Grand View Garden was first built, the craftsmen must have had a sketch in their hands. If Xichun could get it, it would definitely be beneficial to the rational layout of the entire scroll.
Just when everyone wanted Jia Baoyu to ask for help, they discovered that Jia Baoyu had not been here for some time.
"Second Master Bao didn't even follow the girls in. He looked like something happened and went outside."
After everyone heard this, they were thoughtful. Thinking that Jia Baoyu used to like to join in such fun, but he didn't come today, it was probably because of Daiyu. Daiyu still didn't pay much attention to Jia Baoyu, although after Jia Baoyu's provocation last time, Daiyu no longer avoided him.
No one dared to say what they were thinking, because they knew Daiyu would probably leave too.
So Tan Chun said with a smile: "It's really strange. We didn't notice that Brother Bao didn't come in. By the way, Brother Lian didn't say he would come to accompany us last night. Didn't he accompany Sister Lin to the garden? It's not yet time. That’s right, why hasn’t he come yet?”
As soon as Tanchun said this, everyone smiled whether they heard Daiyu invited Jia Lian to visit the garden today or not last night.
Daiyu glanced at these people, said nothing, and walked to the side to enjoy the flowers.
Seeing that Daiyu was rare and not embarrassed by Tanchun's teasing, everyone was secretly surprised, but they did not dare to pursue her and turned to talk to Jia Lian.
"Well, originally I thought the autumn scenery was the best today, and I wanted to go boating. But I was too embarrassed to trouble my second sister-in-law Lian. It would be great if my second brother Lian was here. With him taking us, it would be convenient and fun."
Tanchun's words resonated with the sisters, and they all understood what Tanchun meant. They all said that the eldest brother was their father and could fully shoulder the responsibility based on Jia Lian's virtues. However, Jia Lian gave them a very cordial feeling. Most importantly, he was unusually tolerant and inclusive towards the sisters.
It can be said that when Jia Lian is around, everyone can talk and laugh freely without restraint. This point is far from possible even in front of Jia Mu.
However, Li Wan listened to Tan Chun's words and scolded her for being heartless. He asked her if she really wanted to row a boat. Why couldn't she arrange it for them? Or was it because Sister Feng had to control those awning boats? As a sister-in-law, she Are you not qualified to command?
This made Tanchun, who knew he had said the wrong thing, quickly come forward and act coquettishly to please him. During the laughter, the woman beside Li Wan laughed outside the pavilion and said: "The girls want to find Second Master Lian, but Second Master Lian has already entered the garden. When we came over just now, we happened to meet Second Master Lian, and he asked He told the old lady, and after learning that the old lady had not gotten up from her nap, she left. The servants looked at the direction in which he was going, and they saw that he was heading towards Mount Cui.
If the girls want to find him, they only need to send someone to Caocui'an to ask. "
"Okay, I knew it. Brother Lian will never break his promise again, let alone Sister Lin. He will definitely go up the mountain to make tea and discuss Taoism with Miaoyu."
"Why don't we go too."
Everyone in the Jia family knew that Jia Lian once regarded Miaoyu from the Cuicui Temple as a Taoist teacher. In addition, everyone knew that Miaoyu was an elegant man. His proficiency and exquisiteness in tea ceremony were beyond the reach of anyone in the Jia family, so there was no way to explore. Spring's theory of "making tea and discussing the Tao".
It just so happened that everyone felt that it was useless to be trapped here and wanted to find Jia Lian. Still Yingchun said: "Miaoyu doesn't like making noise the most. We just went to make trouble with her before, and now we are leaving in droves. It's inevitable that she won't be happy. According to me, just send someone to take a look."
"I'll go."
"I go!"
As soon as Yingchun finished speaking, Tanchun and Shi Xiangyun, who were the most excited, recommended themselves at the same time.
Baochai then smiled and said: "Seeing that you two are anxious, then you can go together."
Tanchun and Xiangyun looked at each other and smiled, and as expected they said goodbye to everyone and came out.
Let's talk about Jia Baoyu, he was still young, and being able to say those words that day to make Daiyu stop avoiding him was the limit of his courage and emotional intelligence. Under the current circumstances, he didn't know how to return to the happy days when brothers and sisters were together, chatting and laughing without any worries.
At noon, there was a huge gap between the joy of accompanying Jia Mu, Grandma Liu and others to the garden, and the loss in his heart. Only then did he sadly break away from the sight of his sisters and walk outside the Grand View Garden.
He went to the second door and asked his servant Mingyan if he could come back. He gave Mingyan a task, asking him to go to the countryside where Grandma Liu lived to find the fairy who was drawing firewood under the snow...
Knowing that Ming Yan hadn't come back yet, she walked back to the garden out of boredom.
He hesitated for a while at the fork in the road, but still did not go to Liao Fengxuan, but chose to go in the direction of Yihongyuan. At least, the maids in his courtyard would not look down upon him and were ready to go back to relieve their unhappy mood.
Unexpectedly, when he returned to Yihong Courtyard, he saw that the whole courtyard was quiet and quiet. Jia Baoyu shook his head and sighed, knowing that the maids had probably followed the masters and went to play everywhere.
Jia Baoyu slowly entered the room and was soon stunned. Through the window, he could hear snoring coming one after another from his bedroom. As he got closer, it became more and more like thunder.
He opened the glass folding door in a daze and went in. He only smelled the stench of wine. When he looked around the room, he saw an old woman lying on her back dancing with her arms and legs. From the shape of her clothes, he looked around the room. Come and see, it's probably that country girl, Grandma Liu.
Jia Baoyu was stunned and stood there blankly, not knowing what to do.
After an unknown amount of time, his chubby, fair face suddenly turned green and red. Glancing at Grandma Liu who was covered in "dirty smell" with disgust, he quickly ran out the door, shouting as he ran: "Here, there are people! Where are all the dead? Come quickly!! "
Jia Baoyu's thunderous voice startled all the lazy people in Yihong Courtyard, including Tanchun and Xiangyun who were passing by Yihong Courtyard.
The two of them walked in suspiciously and saw Yihongyuan getting completely irritable. Brother Bao Er, who has always been gentle and elegant, was standing on the eaves of the main room, looking jumping around, and constantly urging and scolding the maids and wives in the courtyard.
An old woman was detained by two servants. She kowtowed to Jia Baoyu and begged for mercy. Jia Baoyu ignored her, just scolded the women, and said something like asking people to move everything out of the house and burn it.
"Second brother, what's going on?"
Seeing Tan Chun and Xiang Yun coming over, Jia Baoyu seemed to be forced to restrain his anger, but he still couldn't get rid of his anger, so he glanced at Grandma Liu and said nothing.
Tanchun had rarely seen Jia Baoyu so angry, so he quickly asked his mother-in-law.
The mother-in-law said bitterly: "This crazy woman didn't know how to find a coffin to lie down on when she was drunk, but she actually ran into our second master's house..."
As she said that, the mother-in-law glared at Grandma Liu. But Grandma Liu, who knew she had gotten into a big trouble, could only explain in a hurry that she was "drunk" and "I didn't know it was the master's house".
Tanchun and Xiangyun finally understood and glanced at Grandma Liu who was smelling of alcohol. After the two looked at each other, Tanchun stepped forward and picked up Grandma Liu from the ground.
Shi Xiangyun said: "Brother Bao, why should I be angry about this? The old lady and Sister Feng caused mischief at noon and made her drink a lot of wine. You know this too. She must have been drunk and fell asleep somewhere. Didn’t know this was your house.”
Tanchun also advised: "Exactly, the so-called ignorant person is not guilty. She is such an old person, and the second brother cannot be angry with her."
While Tanchun was talking, he saw that Grandma Liu was very frightened, so he reassured her: "Grandma, don't worry, it's okay. It's just that you had eaten wine, why didn't you ask someone to follow you and came here by yourself?"
Grandma Liu said with regret: "Girl, you don't have to say good things to me. It's all my fault for being stupid. I ate too much yellow soup and wandered around. I accidentally bumped into my brother. I deserve to die..."
Seeing that Grandma Liu was about to kneel down for Jia Baoyu again, Tanchun could only support her and smooth things over: "This is all the fault of the maids and women. The old lady clearly explained before that she had eaten wine when she was old. They were told to serve well. They must have been lazy and didn't look at their grandma.
The second brother should forgive her not only for the sake of her old age and confusion, but also for the sake of his wife and Sister Feng. "
Although he is a relative who can only be called eight poles, he is here because of the word "king". He is also a guest, so he should be tolerant to the guests. How can he get angry and make it difficult for the guests to deal with themselves.
Although Jia Baoyu also understood that Grandma Liu probably made an unintentional mistake, whenever he thought of the bed where he slept every day, being slept by such a dirty woman, he felt uncomfortable all over and felt like dying.
He loved his innocent daughter most in his life, saying that before his daughter got married, she was flesh and blood made of water, and she was a priceless jewel. Once you follow a man, you don't know why but you will develop many problems. Although you are still a pearl, it has lost its luster and is a dead pearl.
He's older, forget it, he has dead eyes!
This shows that Jia Baoyu has great malice towards the old woman.
And this Grandma Liu is not only an old woman, but also a country girl with a dirty smell! Although Grandma Liu took a shower and changed into clean clothes before entering the city yesterday, in Jia Baoyu's eyes, she was dirty and smelly.
When he thought of the thunderous snoring he heard just after entering the house, and the stench that filled the house, Jia Baoyu couldn't get rid of his evil thoughts.
After all, he didn’t insult an old woman from outside. He just scolded the maids and women who were still dawdling: “Why are you still standing there? Why don’t you take out all the things and throw them away! No, burn them all, burn them to ashes! "
When Grandma Liu heard this, she was so embarrassed that she wanted to find a crack in the ground and crawl into it.
Shi Xiangyun was outspoken and felt that Jia Baoyu had gone too far, so he said: "Second brother, why are you like this! When you talk about Miaoyu, you all say that she is unreasonable. In my opinion, you are no better than her.
If you don't like it being soiled by others, just ask the maids to take it out and clean it up later, or just give it to a servant as a reward if you don't need it.
If you are like this, we will not dare to get close to you in the future, otherwise we will be scolded to death by you if we get dirty too.
Look at Third Sister, when we went to Third Sister’s room before, Ban’er was naughty and even rolled around on Third Sister’s bed. Third Sister didn’t say anything and even gave Ban’er a gift! "
The more Shi Xiangyun talked about it, the more he felt that Jia Baoyu had gone too far. Compared with Tanchun's open-mindedness and tolerance, it was completely different.
Grandma Liu then realized that the elegant and tidy room she had visited in the morning belonged to the golden lady in front of her, and she quickly bowed down to Tanchun to apologize.
Tanchun said with a smile: "It's okay, grandma, Ban'er is a child, it's not in the way."
Although Jia Baoyu was kind to his sisters and did not blush easily, he still had the character of a child. Being disparaged by Shi Xiangyun in such a face-to-face manner, he couldn't keep it off his face and snorted coldly: "Just don't get close to me. Girl, please go play somewhere else. I won't accompany you anymore."
With that said, he stepped into the house, personally pulled off the bed curtains and other items and threw them on the ground. He also ordered the restless maids in the house to move out and throw away all the furnishings...
In the corridor, Tanchun and others who heard the commotion inside smiled helplessly, knowing that Jia Baoyu's stubborn temper was rising.
The attacker came back just at this time and hurriedly explained the matter to her.
Xiren also frowned, glanced at Grandma Liu, and then said to Tanchun and the others: "Don't worry, girls, I'll go and persuade him. Girls, take Grandma Liu with you. It's not easy for him to look down on you here." Come."
Xiren had a reputation as a virtuous person in Jia's family, so he felt relieved after hearing that her words were promising.
Everyone knows that Jia Baoyu is Jia Mu's favorite. If she knew that Jia Baoyu had been wronged in this way, Jia Mu would be angry and it would be difficult for Grandma Liu to do things by herself. Those maids and women who were serving her would probably be in trouble. .
So Tanchun told the maids and women on the porch, "You are not allowed to tell anyone else about this matter. It will be in your interest to let the old lady know."
The mothers-in-law also knew the stakes and hurriedly responded, feeling very grateful to Tanchun and others. If they had not been here today, Jia Mu would definitely know about this. At that time, they, the people who guard the house, will definitely shed a layer of skin.
