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Chapter 48 Chapter 48: Abuse of Love

Dream of Red Mansions 曹雪芹 6791Words 2023-02-05
Let's say that when Xue Pan heard that Liu Xianglian had escaped, his anger gradually calmed down.Three to five days later, although the pain has healed, the scars are not healed, so I just pretend to be sick and stay at home, ashamed to see relatives and friends. Looking forward, it's already October, and because there are some shop assistants who have to go home to calculate the annual accounts, it is unavoidable to have a farewell party with wine at home.There is Zhang Dehui, who is over 60 years old. He has been the head of Xue's pawn shop since he was a child. The family also has two or three thousand gold to live on.Because of the shortage of spices and paper notes this year, they must be expensive next year.Next year, I will send children, big and small, to take care of them in the pawn shop. Before I go to Duanyang, I will drop by to sell some incense fans made of paper notes.After removing the tax expenses, you can also get several times the interest.After hearing this, Xue Pan thought to himself: Now that I've been beaten, I can't see anyone. I want to hide for a year or so, but I have nowhere to hide.It's not a problem to pretend to be sick every day.What's more, I've grown up so much, I don't have literary skills, and I don't have martial arts skills. Although I'm doing business, I've never had an abacus, and I don't know the local customs, and the distance and road. Why don't I save some capital and go shopping with Zhang Dehui? years.Whether you make money or not, just hide and be ashamed.Second, strolling around the landscape is also good.Having made up his mind, after the banquet was over, he informed Zhang Dehui and ordered him to wait a day or two before going together.

In the evening Xue Pan told his mother.When Aunt Xue heard this, she was happy, but she was afraid that he would cause trouble outside, and spending money would be the end of the matter, so she didn't order him to go.Just say that you are guarding me anyway, so I can rest assured.Besides, there is no need to do this business, nor to wait for the hundreds of silver to be used.It is better for you to keep your own place at home than these hundreds of silver.Xue Pan has made up his mind, and he will agree there.Just say: Every day I say that I don't know the world, I don't know this, and I don't learn that.Now I'm ruthlessly cutting off all the unimportant ones, and now I want to be an adult and learn to do business, and I'm not allowed again, what do you want me to do?I'm not a girl, shut me up at home, when is the day?Besides, that Zhang Dehui is a tall and virtuous man, we are family friends with him, if I go with him, why should there be any mistakes?I just have a bad place to go for a while, and he naturally said that I persuaded me.That is, he knows the price of things, and he knows the market, so he naturally asks him how smooth it is, but he doesn't ask me to go.After two days, I didn't tell my family, and I went away privately. I made a fortune and went home next year. Only then did I know about me.After finishing speaking, I went to sleep in anger.

Aunt Xue heard what he said, because she discussed with Baochai.Baochai laughed and said, "My brother is really going to experience something serious, and it's good."It's just that when he was at home, he spoke nicely, but when he went outside, his old illness relapsed, and it became more difficult to restrain him.But there is not much to worry about.If he really changes, it will be a blessing in his life.If you don't change it, Mom can't do anything else.Half do your best, half listen to fate.Such an adult, if he is afraid that he will not know the way of the world, can't go out, can't do things, he will be locked up at home this year, and he will be like this next year.Since what he said was justified, my mother looked at it and lost 800 or 1,000 silver coins, and asked him to wipe it.Anyway, with the help of the guys, it may not be ashamed to coax him.Second, when he went out, there was no one to cheer for, and no one to rely on. When he was outside, who was afraid of whom? If he got food, he was hungry and had nothing to rely on. Seeing this, he was afraid that I don't know if I save trouble at home.After hearing this, Aunt Xue thought for a while and said: You are right.It's worth it to spend two bucks to teach him to behave better.The discussion has been decided, and there is nothing to say all night.

The next day, Aunt Xue ordered Zhang Dehui to come, and ordered Xue Pan to entertain him in the study, while she herself was on the back porch, through the window, and entrusted Zhang Dehui to take care of Xue Pan in a thousand words.Zhang Dehui fully agreed, took his leave after dinner, and said: The 14th is the best date for a trip, Brother Dashi packs his luggage immediately, hires a mule, and we will go on a long trip in the early morning of the 14th.Xue Pan was overjoyed and told Aunt Xue the words.Aunt Xue, Baochai, Xiangling, and two elderly mothers packed their bags for several days, and sent Xue Panzhi's wet-nurse father, Lao Cangtou, and two old servants who were familiar with things in those days. There were six masters and servants in total, three carts were hired to pull the luggage alone, and four mules were hired.Xue Pan rides a big iron blue walking mule raised at home, and he prepares a sitting horse outside.After everything is over, it is unnecessary for Aunt Xue, Baochai and others to remonstrate overnight.

On the thirteenth, Xue Pan first went to resign his uncle, and then came to resign from everyone in Jia's house.It is inevitable that Jia Zhen and others have a farewell party, so there is no need to elaborate.In the early morning of the 14th, Aunt Xue, Baochai and others went out of Yimen with Xue Pan. The mother and daughter watched him go with tears in their eyes before returning. The family brought by Aunt Xue to Beijing was only four or five houses, and two or three old mothers and little maids. Today, with Xue Pan, there are only one or two men left outside.So Aunt Xue went to the study today, moved all the furnishings, toys, curtains and other things in for storage, and ordered the wives of the two men who came with them to come in to sleep.He also ordered Xiangling to tidy up his room tightly, lock the door, and go to sleep with me at night.Baochai said: "Since Mom has these people as companions, why don't you ask Sister Ling to accompany me."Our garden is empty again, and the night is long. I work every night. Wouldn't it be better if there was one more person?After hearing this, Aunt Xue smiled and said: Exactly, I forgot, I should have asked her to go with you.I told your elder brother the day before yesterday that Wen Xing is young and doesn't know what to say, and Ying'er is alone, and if she is not enough to serve, she will buy a girl to serve you.Baochai said: "I don't know what I bought. If I miss it, it's a small matter to spend money. It's not naughty."Instead, I slowly inquired about it. If anyone knows the origin, just buy one.On the one hand, he ordered Xiangling to pack up the quilt, mattress, make-up and dowry, and ordered an old nun and Zhen'er to send them to Hengwu garden, and then Baochai and Xiangling returned to the garden together.

Xiangling smiled and said to Baochai, "I was going to tell grandma. The uncle has gone, and I will go with the girl."And I'm afraid grandma is supercilious, saying that I'm greedy for the garden, but you actually said it.Baochai smiled and said, "I know you have been envious of this garden for a long time, but you just don't have time."Just come once a day, flustered, and no fun.So take advantage of the opportunity, simply stay for a year, and I will have more companions, so you are satisfied.Xiangling smiled and said, "My good girl, you can teach me how to compose poetry during this time."Baochai laughed and said, "I said you have to look forward to Shu."I advise you to come in on the first day today, go out of the east corner gate of the garden first, from the old lady onwards, look at everyone everywhere, say hello, and don't tell them to move into the garden.If anyone mentions the reason, you just say that I brought you in as a companion and that's it.Come back and enter the garden, and then walk around the girls' rooms.

Xiangling responded, and when she was about to leave, she saw Ping'er walking hurriedly.Xiangling hurriedly said hello, and Ping'er could only ask with a smile.Baochai smiled and said to Ping'er, "I brought him here as a companion today, and I'm going to go back to your grandma."Ping'er laughed and said, "Where did the girl speak?"I was speechless.Baochai said, "This is the truth."There is also an owner in the store, and an abbot in the temple. Although it is not a big deal, let me tell you that it is the people who sit in the garden for more nights.Go back and tell me, I won't send someone to tell you.Ping'er agreed, and smiled at Xiangling again: "Since you are here, why don't you go to pay homage to your neighbors?"Baochai laughed and said, "I'm telling him to go."Ping'er said, "You don't have to go to our house. The second master is sick and at home."Xiangling agreed to go, and came from Jia Mu first, no problem.

And when Ping'er saw Xiangling gone, he pulled Baochai and said quietly, "Miss, have you heard our news?"Baochai said, "I haven't heard the news."Because I sent my brother out for several days, I don't know anything about you here, and I haven't even seen my sisters for the past two days.Ping'er said with a smile: "The master beat the second master so hard, didn't the girl hear it?"Baochai said: "I heard something in a trance when I got up early, but I didn't believe it."I'm going to see your grandma too, and I don't want you to come.Why did you beat him again?Ping'er gritted his teeth and cursed: "It's all that Jiayu Village, some kind of Fengcun, some wild bastard who won't die halfway there!"How many things have happened in less than ten years!This spring, the master saw a few old fans somewhere, and when he came home, he saw that all the good fans in the house were useless, and immediately asked people to search everywhere.Unexpectedly, there was an enemy who didn't know how to die. The world called him a stone nerd. The poor didn't even have food, but his family had twenty old fans, and he refused to take out the door even if he died.The second master finally got annoyed so much. When he saw this person, he talked over and over again. He invited the second master to sit in his house, took out the fan, and took a look at it.According to the second master, there were no more of them. They were all Xiangfei, palm bamboo, elk, and polygonatum. They were all authentic paintings by ancient people, and I told the master when I came back.The master asked the buyer to give him as much silver as he wanted.Piana the stone nerd said: I will starve to death and freeze to death. I will not sell a piece of one thousand taels of silver!The master has no choice but to scold the second master every day for not being able to do anything.He has been promised five hundred taels, and the silver will be exchanged first, and the fan will be taken later.He just didn't sell it, he just said: If you want a fan, you will kill me first!Think about it, girl, what can I do?Who knows that the unreasonable person in Yucun heard it, so he set up a method to blackmail him into arrears with the official bank, took him to the yamen, and said: "The owed official bank, sell the property to make up for it, copy this fan, and make it up." I paid the official price and delivered it.That stone nerd doesn't know whether he is dead or alive now.The master took the fan and asked the second master, "How did you get it?"The second master only said one thing: For such a trivial matter, it is nothing to do to make people ruin their families!When the master heard this, he became angry and said that the second master was blocking the master with words, so this is the first big one.In the past few days, I still have a few small ones, and I can't remember them clearly, so I got them all together and started fighting.He didn't pull down the board and stick, just stood there, didn't know what to take, and was beaten up, and his face was broken in two places.We heard that my aunt has a kind of pill here, which treats sores. The girl quickly finds a pill for me, and goes home to give it to him.After Baochai heard this, she hurriedly ordered Ying'er to ask for a pill for Ping'er.Baochai said, "In this case, please greet me, and I won't go."Ping'er agreed to go, no problem.

Let's say that after Xiangling had seen all the people, after dinner, Baochai and others all went to Jiamu's place, and then she went to Xiaoxiang hall by herself.At this time, Daiyu was half recovered, and she was very happy to see that Xiangling also came to live in the garden.Xiangling said with a smile: "Now that I've come in, I've had time. Anyway, teach me how to compose poems. It's my luck!"Daiyu laughed and said, "If you want to compose poetry, you can worship me as your teacher."Although I don't understand, I can probably afford to teach you.Xiangling smiled and said: "As expected, I will worship you as my teacher."You can't get bored.Daiyu said: "No matter what is difficult, it is worth learning!"It's just starting, inheriting, turning, and combining. In the middle, inheriting and turning are two pairs, flat tones, false to false, and real to real. If there are strange sentences, even flat tones can be wrong. .Xiangling laughed and said, "It's a strange way that I often get an old poem and read one or two in the spare time.Looking at the poems of the ancients, there are some that are smooth, and some that are wrong in two, four, six, so I am puzzled every day.Listening to you now, it turns out that these style rules are the last thing, as long as the words are novel.Daiyu said: "That's the reason. After all, words and sentences are the last thing. The first intention is the most important thing."If the meaning is true, it is good that the conjunction does not need to be modified. This is called not using words to harm the meaning.

Xiangling smiled and said: I only love Lu Fangweng's poems. The heavy curtain does not roll and the fragrance lasts for a long time. The ancient inkstone is slightly concave and has a lot of ink. It is really interesting!Daiyu said: "You must not read such poems."Because you don't know poetry, you love it when you see it, but once you get into this pattern, you can't learn it anymore.You just listen to me, if you really want to learn, I have "The Complete Works of Wang Mojie" here, you can read one hundred of his five-character rhythms carefully, and then read one or two hundred poems by Lao Du The seven-character rhythm, and then read one or two hundred of Li Qinglian's seven-character quatrains.With these three people in my stomach as the foundation, I will take a look at Tao Yuanming, Ying Yu, Xie, Ruan, Geng, Bao and others.You are also a very clever and clever person. You will not be a poet in a year's time!After hearing this, Xiangling smiled and said: "Since that's the case, good girl, you can take out this book for me, and I'll take it home. It's also good to read a few at night."When Daiyu heard about it, she ordered Zijuan to bring Wang Youcheng's five-character rhythm, handed it to Xiangling, and said: "You only see that I chose the ones with red circles. If there is one, read one."If you don’t understand, ask your girl; or if you meet me, I’ll just tell you.Xiangling took the poems and went back to Hengwu Garden, ignoring everything else, just reading one by one under the lamp.Baochai urged her to sleep several times, but she refused to sleep.Seeing her painstaking efforts, Baochai had no choice but to let him go.

One day, after Daiyufang had finished washing and washing, Xiangling brought the book with a smile, and wanted to change it to Dulu again.Daiyu laughed and said, "How many songs do you remember?"Xiangling smiled and said, "I've read all the ones circled in red."Daiyu said: "Have you tasted something?"Xiangling smiled and said: "I have tasted some tastes, but I don't know if it is true, let me tell you."Daiyu said with a smile: "Only by paying attention to discussion can we make progress."Let me listen to you.Xiangling smiled and said: According to my opinion, the benefits of poetry are that there are meanings that can't be expressed, but they are realistic when you think about it.Some things seem unreasonable, but they are reasonable and sentimental when you think about it.Daiyu laughed and said, "There is some meaning in these words, but I don't know where you saw them?"Xiangling said with a smile: I read his song "On the Fortress", the couplet says: the desert is solitary, the long river sets in the sun.How straight do you want to smoke?The sun is naturally round: this straight character seems unreasonable, and the round character seems too vulgar.When I close the book and think about it, I seem to have seen this scene.If you want to find two more words to replace these two, you can't find any more words.There is also: the rivers and lakes are white at sunset, and the sky and the earth are blue when the tide comes: the words "white and green" seem unreasonable.Thinking about it, you must have these two words to describe it completely. When you say it in your mouth, it looks like an olive weighing several thousand catties.There is also the setting sun at the crossing, and the lonely smoke in the market: It's hard for him to think about the characters "Yu" and "Shang"!When we came to Beijing that year, we stayed on a boat in the bay that night, and there was no one on the shore, only a few trees, and a few families in the distance had dinner, and the smoke was green, rising straight up to the clouds.Who would have thought that after reading these two sentences last night, it seemed that I had gone to that place again. Just as he was talking, Baoyu and Tanchun also came, and they all sat down to listen to his poems.Baoyu laughed and said, "If that's the case, you don't need to read poems."There are not many places to know. After hearing you say these two sentences, you can know that you have obtained the samadhi.Daiyu laughed and said, "You said it was good for him to go to Guyan, but you don't know that his words are still tricked by the predecessors."Let me give you this sentence, look, it is more simple and ready-made than this one.As he spoke, he dug out the smoke from Tao Yuanming's Nuannuan Yuanren Village, Yiyixu, and handed it to Xiangling.Xiangling looked at it, nodded her head in admiration, and said with a smile: So the upper character is derived from the word Yiyi.Baoyu laughed and said, "You have already got it. You don't need to talk about it. It's more complicated to learn."If you do it, it will be good.Tanchun smiled and said, "I'll make up a card tomorrow to invite you to join the club."Xiangling laughed and said: "Miss, why bother to tease me, I just learned to play because I was envious in my heart."Tanchun and Daiyu laughed and said, "Who is not playing?"Are we serious about writing poetry?If we say that we have become poetry seriously, and when we get out of this garden, we will laugh people's teeth out.Baoyu said: "This is considered self-defeating."The day before yesterday I was out discussing painting with my husbands. They heard that we started a poetry club and begged me to show them the manuscript.I just wrote a few poems for them to read, who wouldn't really admire them!They all copied it.Tanchun and Daiyu hurriedly asked, "Is this the truth?"Baoyu laughed and said, "It's the parrot on the frame who is lying."When Daiyu and Tanchun heard about it, they all said, "You are really messing around!"Not to mention that it is not a poem, but it is a poem. Our pen and ink should not be passed on to the outside world.Baoyu said, "What are you afraid of?"Don't spread the pen and ink in the boudoir in ancient times, and no one knows it now. As he said that, he saw that Xichun sent him to invite Baoyu, and Baoyu went.Xiangling forced Daiyu to replace Du Lv again, and asked Daiyu and Tanchun: Come up with a question, let me make it up, make it up, and correct it for me.Daiyu said: "The moon was the best last night. I was about to make a song, but I didn't make it. You made one."The rhyme of Shishihan depends on which words you like to use.After hearing this, Xiangling was so happy that she took back the poems, thought hard again, wrote two lines of poems, and was reluctant to part with Du's poems, so she read two more poems.So careless about eating and drinking, restless.Baochai said, "why bother to trouble yourself!"It's all because of you, I'll settle the score with her.You were stupid before, but adding this makes you even more stupid.Xiangling smiled and said: Good girl, don't mess with me.On the one hand, he wrote a poem on the other hand, and first read it with Baochai.Baochai looked at it and said with a smile, "This is not good, this is not the way to do it."Don't be shy, just show it to her and see what she says.After hearing this, Xiangling took the poem to Daiyu.When Daiyu read it, she saw that it was written: The moon hangs in the middle of the sky and the night is cold, with clear light and bright shadows.The poet often thinks of playing to add to the fun, and the wild guest can't bear to watch.Jade mirrors are hung beside the emerald building, and ice trays are hung outside the pearl curtain.What's the use of burning silver candles on a good night, and the bright colors of the screen. Daiyu said with a smile: "There is meaning, but the wording is indecent."It's all because you read few poems and are bound by it.Throw this one away and make another one, just do it with courage. After hearing this, Xiangling came back silently, and didn't even enter the room at all. She just sat under the tree by the pool, or sat on the rock and lost her mind, or squatted on the ground to dig the soil. People who came and went were surprised.When Li Wan, Baochai, Tanchun and Baoyu heard this letter, they all stood on the hillside and looked at her from a distance.She frowned once, and then smiled to herself.Baochai laughed and said, "This man must be crazy!"Last night, I muttered and made noise until five o'clock before I fell asleep. There was no time for a meal, and it was dawn.I heard him getting up, combing his hair in a hurry, and then went to find Shao'er.Once I came back, I stayed for a day, and it was not good to write a song, so I will naturally write another one at this time.Baoyu said with a smile: "This is the outstanding man of the earth, the man born by God, no matter how empathetic he is."We sigh all the time and say it's a pity that he is such a vulgar person, who knows what he is today!It can be seen that the heaven and the earth are fair.After hearing this, Baochai said with a smile: "It's good if you can work hard like her. Why can't you learn something?"Baoyu didn't answer. I saw that Xiangling was very happy, and went to Daiyu's side again.Tanchun laughed and said, "Let's follow and see if he's interested."Saying that, they all came to Xiaoxiang Pavilion.I saw Daiyu holding a poem and paying attention to him.Everyone asked Daiyu, "how are you doing?" .Daiyu said: "Of course it's hard for him, but it's not good."This one is too persuasive, so I have to write another one.When everyone wanted to read the poem, they only saw it saying: It's not silver or water reflecting the coldness of the window, just watch the clear sky protect the jade plate.The faint fragrance of plum blossoms is about to be dyed, and the willows are just dry with dew.It's only suspected that the residual powder is painted with gold, and it looks like a jade railing with light frost.Dreaming of waking up, the west building is completely deserted, Yu Rong can still see through the curtain. Baochai laughed and said, "It's not like Yinyue. It's okay to add a word of color under the word for moon. You see, every sentence is moonlight."That's all, it turns out that poetry comes from nonsense, and it would be better if it was a few days later.Xiangling thinks this song is wonderful, after hearing this, she was disappointed and refused to let go, so she wanted to think about it.Seeing his sisters talking and laughing, he walked to the front of the steps and walked under the bamboo, digging his heart and soul, without listening or looking.For a moment, Tanchun laughed through the window and said, "Miss Ling, please take a moment."Xiangling replied in a daze: "Xianzi was deleted by fifteen, and the rhyme is wrong."When everyone heard this, they burst into laughter.Baochai said: "It's really a poetic monster."She was all attracted by the frown!Daiyu said: "The sage said that he never tires of teaching, and she came to ask me again. Is there any reason for me not to say it?" Li Wan said with a smile: "Let's take him to Miss Four's room, lead him to look at the painting, and wake him up."Saying so, the real one came out and dragged him across the Ouxiangxie to Nuanxiangwu.Xichun was tired, taking a nap on the side of the bed, the painting was standing on the wall, covered with gauze.Everyone woke up Xichun, and when they took a look at it, there were three stops out of ten stops.Seeing that there are several beauties in the painting, Xiangling pointed and smiled and said, "This one is our girl, and that one is Miss Lin."Tanchun said with a smile: "Anyone who can compose poetry is painted on it. You can learn it quickly!"Said, joked for a while. After they parted ways, Xiangling still thought about poetry in her heart.In the evening, I lost my mind about the lamp, and went to bed after the third watch, with wizened eyes, and didn't fall asleep until the fifth watch.At dawn, Baochai woke up. After listening to it, she fell asleep peacefully. She thought to herself: He has been tossing and turning all night. I don't know how he can do it?I'm tired now, so don't call him.Just thinking about it, I only heard Xiangling laughing from the dream: But I have!Is this one not good?When Baochai heard this, she was both lamentable and ridiculous, so she quickly woke her up and asked her, "What have you got?"You are so sincere.If you can't learn poetry, you can even get sick!While talking, while washing and washing, he will go to Jia Mu with his sisters.It turned out that Xiangling worked hard to learn poetry, gathered all his blood and energy, and couldn't compose it during the day, but suddenly got eight sentences in a dream.After washing and grooming, I hurriedly recorded it. I didn't know what was good or bad, so I took it and looked for Daiyu again.As soon as I arrived at Qinfang Pavilion, I saw Li Wan and all his sisters returning from Mrs. Wang's place. Baochai was telling them that he was writing poems and talking in his sleep.Everyone was laughing, and when they looked up to see her coming, they all scrambled for poems to read, and they wanted to know the truth, and listen to the next chapter.
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