Chapter 92 The 92nd commentary on female biography Qiaojie Mu Xianliang plays mother beads Jia Zheng participates in gatherings

It is said that Baoyu came out of Xiaoxiang Pavilion and asked Qiuwen quickly, "what does the master ask me to do?"Qiuwen said with a smile: "No call."Sister Xiren asked me to invite the second master. I coaxed you because I was afraid that you would not come.After Baoyu heard this, he let go of his heart, because he said: "It's all right for you to invite me, why bother to frighten me!"With that said, go back to Yihong Courtyard.The attacker asked, "Where have you been for a long time?"Baoyu said: "At Miss Lin's side, when I talked about Aunt Xue and Sister Bao, I stopped.The attacker asked again, "What are you talking about?"Baoyu recounted the Zen language.Attacker said: "You don't have to worry about it anymore. It's good to talk about family gossip seriously, or to pay attention to some poems. Why are you talking about Zen again?"Not a monk.Baoyu said: "You don't know, we have our Zen machine, and others can't get in the mouth."The attacker laughed and said, "You guys have overturned your meditation practice, and told us to beat the bored gourd."Baoyu said: "I am also young, and she is also childish, so she gets annoyed when I say something careless."Now I also pay attention, and she is not annoyed anymore.It's just that she doesn't come here very often recently, and I was studying again, and when I came to a place by chance, it seemed strange.Attacker said: It should be like this.I'm already a few years older, so I'm ashamed to still look like a child.

Baoyu nodded and said, "I know that too."Let alone that now.Let me ask you, did the old lady send someone to say something?Attacker said: I didn't say anything.Baoyu said: "The old lady must have forgotten."Isn't tomorrow the first day of November? There must be an old custom in the old lady's place. When there is a cold-elimination party, everyone sits down, drinks and laughs.I have taken leave of absence from school today.There is no letter at this moment, but will you go tomorrow?If I went, I would have taken leave for nothing; if I didn't, the master would know and say I was lazy.Xi Rendao: According to me, you actually went there. You just finished reading a little bit, and you want to rest again.According to me, it should be tighter.Yesterday I heard my wife say that Lange is really good at studying. He came back from school and read and composed independently. He didn't go to sleep until four or more nights.You are older than him, and you are an uncle. If you fail to keep up with him, you will make the old lady angry.It's better to get up early tomorrow.Musk moon said: "It's such a cold day, I've already taken a leave of absence, and I'm going again, but I'll ask the school to talk about it."If that's the case, you shouldn't ask for leave.It is obvious that the lie is false and slippery.According to me, it's a day off.It's just that the old lady forgot, so we don't need to get rid of the cold here?Let's have a fight too, shall we?Attacker said: "It's you who started it, and the second master is even more unwilling to go."Musk moon said: "I'm also happy every day. I can't compare to you. I have a good reputation. If you use it for a month, you can get two taels of silver more!"Xiren spat: "Little hooves, you're talking serious things, you're messing around again."Musk Moon said: I'm not messing around, I'm for you.Xirendao: Why me?Musk Moon said: "Second Master has gone to school, you should mutter and think about it again, wishing that Second Master would come back sooner, so that there would be some talking and laughing."Now it's false and clear, why bother!I have seen it all.

Xiren was about to scold her, when the old lady sent someone and said, "The old lady told me that the second master doesn't have to go to school tomorrow."Tomorrow, he invited his concubine to relieve his boredom. I'm afraid all the girls will come to the house.Miss Smith, Miss Xing and Miss Li are all invited, what kind of party are you going to to get rid of the cold tomorrow?Baoyu liked to say before he finished listening, "Isn't it?"What the old lady is most happy about is that she will pass the bright road without going to school tomorrow.The attacker stopped talking.That girl goes back.Baoyu studied hard for a few days, wishing to play this day.Hearing Aunt Xue coming again, thinking that Sister Bao would naturally come too.I liked it in my heart, so I said: Go to sleep, and get up early tomorrow.So there was nothing to say all night.

On the next day, I really went to the old lady to ask for Ann early in the morning, and then went to Jia Zheng and Mrs. Wang to ask for Ann. I found out that the old lady was not called to go to school today, and Jia Zheng didn't say anything, so he slowly withdrew and left. After a few steps, he ran to Jiamu's room.Seeing that no one came, only Sister Feng's nanny brought Sister Qiao and came over with a few little girls, and greeted the old lady, saying: "My mother asked me to come and say hello first, and talk to the old lady." .Mom will come when she comes back.Jia Mu smiled and said, "Good boy, I got up early in the morning."When they never come, only your second uncle will come.The nanny said, "Girl, please greet your second uncle."Baoyu also asked how is Niuniu?Sister Qiao said: "I heard my mother say last night that she wants to ask my second uncle to talk."Baoyu said, "What are you talking about?"Sister Qiao said: "My mother said, I have been reading with Li's mother for a few years, but I don't know if I can read it or not."I said I recognized them all, and I recognized them for my mother.My mother said that I recognized it blindly, but I didn't believe it, and said that I played all day, how could I recognize it.It doesn't matter if I look at those words, even the "Book of Filial Piety for Women" is easy to read.My mother said that I coaxed her and asked my second uncle to take care of me when he was free.When Jia Mu heard this, she smiled and said, "Good boy, your mother can't read, so you should coax her."Tomorrow, ask your second uncle to show it to her, and she will believe it.Baoyu said, "How many characters have you recognized?"Sister Qiao said: I read more than 3,000 characters, read a "Book of Filial Piety for Women", and read "Biography of Women" in half a month.Baoyu said, "Do you understand after reading it?"If you don’t understand, let me tell you about this and listen to it.Jia Mu said: "An uncle should also pay attention to telling his niece and daughter."

Baoyu said: "There is no need to talk about Queen Wen. I think she knows it."The ginger queen took off her hairpin and treated the crime. Although Wuyan in Qi State was ugly, she was able to stabilize the country, and she was a virtuous concubine.If we talk about talents, they are Aunt Cao, Ban Jieyu, Cai Wenji, Xie Daoyun and others, Meng Guang's Jingchai cloth skirt, Bao Xuan's wife's carrying urn out of the pan, Tao Kan's mother's cut-off guest, and Huadi's godson. Yes, it is not poverty-stricken.In the bitterness, Princess Lechang was reunited after a broken mirror, and Su Hui's palindrome was grateful.There are more people who are filial, Mulan joined the army in place of her father, and Cao E threw herself into the water to find her father's corpse, etc. I can't say too many.That Cao family cut his nose with a knife is the story of Wei Guo.There are more people who keep the festival, so I have to speak slowly.Those who are gorgeous, Wang Qiang, Xizi, Fan Su, Xiaoman, Jiangxian and so on.Those who are jealous are bald concubines, complaining about Luoshen, etc., and few of them.Wenjun and Hongfu, the mother of Jia in the girls' middle school, heard this and said: Enough is enough, needless to say.You talk too much, but she still remembers it.Sister Qiao said: "The second uncle just said it, some of which have been read, and some of which have not been read."The second uncle who had read it told me that I knew better.Baoyu said: "That word is naturally recognized, so don't worry about it."I'm still going to school tomorrow.Sister Qiao said: "I also heard my mother say yesterday that our family's Xiaohong belongs to my second uncle. My mother wants to come, but she hasn't made up yet."My mother was thinking about making up for Wu'er from the Liu family, but I wondered if the second uncle wanted it.Baoyu liked it better, and said with a smile: "Listen to your mother, you can love whoever you want, and ask if you want it."Yin smiled to Jiamu again and said, "I see that Niuniu is so small and smart. I'm afraid she will be better than Sister Feng in the future, and she can read better than her."Jia Mu said: "It's good that the girl can read at home, but it's important for the female workers to stitch."Sister Qiao said: "I also learned how to do it from Mother Liu."I can't do things like tying flowers and pulling locks, but I can learn how to do a few stitches.Jia Mu said: "Of course people like us don't rely on ourselves to do it, but we only know something about it, so we won't be manipulated by others in the future."Sister Qiao promised that she would ask Baoyu to explain "Biography of Lie Nu", but seeing Baoyu dumbfounded, she dared not say any more.

What do you think Baoyu is staying in?Just because Liu Wu'er wanted to enter Yihong Courtyard, the first time he was ill, he couldn't come in; the second time Mrs. Wang kicked out Qingwen, she dared not pick anyone who was pretty.Later, she went to see Qingwen at Wu Gui's house, and Wu'er followed her mother to deliver things to Qingwen. After seeing her, she felt that Jiaona was even more charming.Thanks to Sister Feng thinking about it today, she was overjoyed to ask her to fill in Xiaohong's nest.So blankly miss her. Jia Mu waited for those people, and when she saw that they hadn't come yet, she asked the girl to invite them.When they came back, Li Wan came with her sisters, Tanchun, Xichun, Shi Xiangyun and Daiyu, and everyone invited Jiamu to greet her.See you all.Only when Aunt Xue didn't arrive, Mother Jia asked to go again.Sure enough, my aunt came with Baoqin.Baoyu invited Ann and said hello.Only Baochai and Xing Xiuyan were missing.Daiyu then asked, "Why doesn't Sister Bao come?"Aunt Xue hypothesized that she was not well.Xing Xiuyan knew that Aunt Xue was sitting, so she didn't come.Although Baoyu was puzzled when he saw that Baochai was not coming, because Daiyu came, he put aside his thoughts about Baochai for the time being.Not long after, Mrs. Xing and Mrs. Wang also came.When Sister Feng heard that her mother-in-laws had arrived first, she didn't want to be left behind, so she had to send Ping'er to come first to ask for leave, saying that she was about to come over, but she would come back soon because of her fever.Jia Mu said, "since you're not feeling well, it doesn't matter if you don't come."It's time for us to eat.The girls moved the brazier back a bit, and then set up two tables in front of Jia Mu's bed, and everyone sat down in order.After dinner, we still chatted around the stove, so there is no need to repeat it.

And why doesn't Sister Feng come?I was sorry that I was late than Mrs. Xing and Wang. Later, Wang'er's family said back and forth: Miss Ying sent someone to greet grandma, and said that she didn't come to the top, only grandma.Sister Feng was puzzled when she heard this, and she didn't know what was going on, so she called the man in and asked, "How are you at home, Miss?"The man said: What's so good!The slave was not sent by the girl, but actually the mother who played chess begged me to beg grandma.Sister Feng said: "Siqi has gone out, why come to beg me?"The man said: since Siqi went out, he has been crying all day long.Suddenly her cousin came that day, and her mother saw him, hating him for something, saying that he had harmed Siqi, so she grabbed him and wanted to beat him.The kid didn't dare to speak.Unexpectedly, Siqi heard it, and hurried out, and said to her mother with a serious face: I came here for him, and I also hate him for being heartless.Now that he is here, if Mom wants to beat him, she might as well strangle me to death.Her mother scolded her: shameless things!What do you want?Siqi said: A woman deserves a man.I stumbled and fell into his trap. I am his man, and I will never lose my body to others again.I hate why he is so timid, he does everything in his life, why did he run away?Even if he never comes, I will never marry.Mom wanted to marry me, but I was desperate to die.He came today, and Mom asked how he was.If he didn't change his mind, I would kowtow in front of my mother, just as if I was dead, and I would follow him wherever he went, even if he begged for food, I would be willing.Her mother was so angry that she cried and cursed, saying: You are my daughter, and I won't give it to him, so how dare you do anything.But he knew that the chess player was confused, so he slammed his head against the wall, smashed his head, blood flowed, and died.Her mother cried and couldn't save her, so she wanted the boy to pay for his life.Her cousin was also surprised and said: Don't worry.I originally made a fortune outside, but I came back because of thinking about her, and my heart is really true.If you don't believe me, just watch.Saying that, he took out a box of gold bead jewelry from his pocket.Her mother softened her heart when she saw it, and said: Since you have a heart, why do you keep silent?Her nephew said: "Generally all women are free-spirited. If I say rich, she is greedy for money."Now she is only human, which is rare.I will give you the gold beads, and I will buy a coffin to bury her.The chess-playing mother took the things, ignored the girl, and let her nephew go.Where did she know that her nephew asked someone to carry two coffins.Siqi's mother was surprised when she saw it, and said: Why do you need two coffins?His nephew said with a smile: "One mouthful can't fit, two mouthfuls are enough."Siqi's mother didn't cry when she saw her nephew, she just thought it was because he was so distressed that he was stupid.Unexpectedly, he was busy cleaning up the chess game, and he didn't cry. He didn't see anything wrong, and wiped the small knife on his neck, and it was wiped dead.Siqi's mother felt remorseful and cried terribly.Now the workshop knows about it and wants to report it to the officials.She was in a hurry, and asked me to come and beg grandma for a favor, and then she would come and kowtow to grandma.

When Sister Feng heard this, she was surprised and said: "There is such a silly girl, and she just met this silly boy!"No wonder she dug out those things that day, she acted like nothing happened, she dared to be such a violent child.Speaking of it, I didn't spend so much time meddling in her these nosy affairs, but it's only you who said it, which makes people listen to it and it's pitiful.Forget it, you go back and tell her, I told your second master, just send Wang'er to her to tear her into captivity.Sister Feng sent the man away, and then came past Jia Mu.do not mention.

Let's say that Jia Zheng is playing chess with Zhan Guang today, and the overall outcome of the game is almost the same. They rob there just for the sake of one corner.The boy at the door came in and said, "Uncle Feng wants to see the master outside."Jia Zheng said, "Please come in."The servant went out to invite, and Feng Ziying walked in.Jia Zheng greeted him immediately.Feng Ziying came in and sat down in the study. Seeing that she was playing chess, she said, "just play chess, I'll watch the game."Zhan Guang said with a smile: late-born chess is ugly.Feng Ziying said: "It's easy to say, please go down."Jia Zheng said, "What's the matter?"Feng Ziying said: There is nothing to say.The old man just plays chess, and I also learn a few moves.Jia Zheng said to Zhan Guang: "Uncle Feng is our best friend, since it's all right, let's just finish this round and talk again."Uncle Feng watched from the side.Feng Ziying said: "Is the picking down or not?"Zhan Guang said: "I picked it down."Feng Ziying said: "It's not easy to talk too much about the down-picking."Jia Zheng said: "It's okay to talk too much. Anyway, he lost more than ten taels of silver, and he won't take it out after all."In the future, I have to punish him for doing things.Zhan Guang laughed and said, "That's right."Feng Ziying said: "Is the old man confronting Mr. Zhan?"Jia Zheng laughed and said, "In the past, he lost against me; now he loses again when he is given two sons."He often has to regret a few times, but if he is not told to regret, he will be in a hurry.Zhan Guang also smiled and said: Nothing.Jia Zheng said, "Try it."Everyone was talking and laughing, and the download was over.When playing chess, Zhan Guang returned the chess head and lost seven pieces.Feng Ziying said: "This game ultimately suffers from robbery."If the old man robs less, it will be cheaper.

Jia Zheng said to Feng Ziying: guilty, guilty!Let's talk.Feng Ziying said: My nephew and old man haven't seen each other for a long time.Firstly, I came for a meeting, and secondly, I was introduced by a colleague from Guangxi, and brought four kinds of foreign goods, which can be made as tribute.One is a screen with twenty-four leaves, all carved from red sandalwood.Although it is not jade in the middle, it is an excellent nitrate stone. Landscapes, figures, towers, flowers and birds are carved out of the stone.There are fifty or sixty people on one, all women in palace makeup, called "Han Palace Spring Dawn".The eyebrows, eyes, mouth, nose, hands, and folds of a person's clothes are clearly and delicately carved.The embellishments are all good.I think it can be used in the main hall in the Grand View Garden of Zunfu.There is also a clock, which is more than three feet high, and it is also a little boy holding an hour card, and when it is, he will tell the time.There are also some people who fight there.These are two heavy and clumsy things, but they haven't been brought yet.Now I bring here two but it's interesting.He took out a brocade box beside him, and saw that it was wrapped in several layers of white cotton. When the cotton was opened, the first layer was a glass box with a gold holder inside, a big red crepe backing, and a pearl the size of a longan on it. , brilliance.Feng Ziying said: It is said that these are called mother beads.Because he asked to bring a plate.Zhan Guang quickly took over a black lacquer tea tray and said, "Is it right?"Feng Ziying said: Make it so.Then he took out a white silk bag from his bosom, poured all the beads in the bag into a plate and scattered them, put the mother-of-pearl in the middle, and put the plate on the table.Seeing those small beads rolling towards the big bead, they lifted up the big bead at once, and there were not a single small bead left, they all stuck to the big bead.Zhan Guang said: This is also strange.Jia Zhengdao: "There are, so they are called mother pearls. They were originally the mother of pearls."

Then Feng Ziying looked back at the boy following him and said, "Where is that box?"The boy hurriedly brought over a rosewood box.When everyone opened it, it turned out that the inside of the box was lined with tiger-pattern brocade, and a bunch of blue yarn was folded on the brocade.Zhan Guang said: What is this?Feng Ziying said: "This is called a shark tent."When they were taken out of the box, they were stacked less than five inches long and less than half an inch thick. Feng Ziying opened them layer by layer, and when they stacked up to a dozen or so layers, they could no longer fit on the table.Feng Ziying said: "Look, there are still two folds in it, and you have to go to the high room to get it."This is woven with shark silk. It is light and bright when it is stretched in the main room in hot weather. No flies and mosquitoes can get in.Jia Zheng said: "You don't need to open them all, I'm afraid it will be troublesome to fold them up."Zhan Guang and Feng Ziying folded and tidied up layer by layer.Feng Ziying said: The price of these four items is not very expensive, he will sell them for 20,000 silver.10,000 mother beads, 5,000 shark silk tents, 5,000 "Han Palace Spring Dawn" and chiming bells.Jia Zheng said, "It's affordable there."Feng Ziying said: You are relatives of the state, don't you need it in the palace?Jia Zhengdao: "There are a lot of them, but where is the money?"Wait until I ask someone to take it in and show it to the old lady.Feng Ziying said: Very true. Jia Zheng asked Jia Lian to send these two things to the old lady. He also asked Mrs. Xing, Mrs. Wang and Sister Feng to come and see them, and tried the two things one by one.Jia Lian said: "He has two more: one is the screen."One is a bell.A total of 20,000 denarii will be sold.Sister Feng went on to say, "Things are naturally good, but there is such spare money there."We don't have to pay tribute compared to foreign governors.I have been thinking about it for several years. For a family like ours, it is necessary to build some unshakable foundations, or a sacrificial land, or a righteous village, and then some burial houses.In the future, when the descendants encounter unhappy things, they will still have a little foundation, and they will not be completely defeated.I mean, what about old ladies, lords, ladies?If the old men outside want to buy it, just buy it.Jia Mu and everyone said, "That's true."Jia Lian said, "Give him back."It turned out that the master asked me to show it to the old lady, so that it would be easier to enter the palace. Who said that I bought it and put it at home?Before the old lady opened her mouth, you said a lot of frustrating words! As he said that, he took out the two things and told Jia Zheng that the old lady didn't want them.Then he said to Feng Ziying: "These two things are good, but there is no money."I will keep an eye out for you, if there is someone who wants to buy it, I will send you a letter.Feng Ziying had no choice but to tidy up, sit down and chat some gossip, and got up when she was not interested.Jia Zheng said, "you can go and have dinner with me."Feng Ziying said: "Forget it, do you bother the old man when you come?"Jia Zheng said, "Say what's there."Just as he was talking, the person replied: "The old man is here."Jia Amnesty has already come in.Meet each other, talk about some cold and warm.After a while, wine and delicacies were served, and everyone was drinking.After four or five tours, when talking about foreign goods, Feng Ziying said: This kind of goods is hard to get rid of, unless someone like Zun Fu can get rid of them, the rest will be hard.Jia Zheng said, "That's not necessarily true."Jia She said: "Our family is not as good as before, and this time it's just an empty facade."Feng Ziying asked again: How is Master Dongfu Zhen?When my son met him the other day, he began to talk about commonplace things, and mentioned that the daughter-in-law his son-in-law would marry was far inferior to the grandma of the Qin family in front of me.I didn't ask which family I married from now on.Jia Zhengdao: Our nephew and granddaughter-in-law are also everyone here. They used to be the daughter of Mr. Hu in Gyeonggi-do.Ziying said: I know Daoist Hu.But his family education is not very good.Forget it, as long as the girl is good. Jia Lian said: "I heard from people in the cabinet that Jia Yucun is about to be promoted again."Jia Zheng said, "That's good. I don't know if it's accurate or not."Jia Lian said, "It's probably interesting."Feng Ziying said: "I came from the Ministry of Officials today, and I heard the same thing.Mr. Yucun is from your family, isn't he?Jia Zheng said: Yes.Feng Ziying said: Is it with clothes or without clothes?Jia Zheng said, "It's a long story."He was originally from Huzhou Prefecture, Zhejiang Province, and he was very unhappy when he lived in Suzhou.There is a Zhen Shiyin who is close to him and often helps him.Later, he became a Jinshi and a magistrate under the list, so he married a girl from the Zhen family.Today's wife is not a good match.Unexpectedly, Zhen Shiyin's mess was so scattered that he couldn't find a place to find it.After Yucun was dismissed, he didn’t know my family well at that time, because Lin Ruhai, my sister-in-law, was invited to be a teacher at home when he was patrolling salt in Yangzhou, and his niece was his student.Because he had a letter of reply and wanted to come to Beijing, just as his niece was coming to visit relatives, Aunt Lin asked him to take care of her; there was also a letter of recommendation, which I asked me to brag about.It was good to see him at that time, and everyone often met.Unexpectedly, Yu Village is also strange: my family is hereditary, from generation to generation, the Ning and Rong houses, the population houses, and daily affairs, all know everything, so I feel intimate.Yin laughed again and said: In a few years, the door will be drilled.Promoted by the magistrate, he was transferred to the censor, but within a few years, he was promoted to be the minister of the Ministry of officials and the minister of the Ministry of war.I was downgraded three levels for one thing, and now I'm going to be promoted again.Feng Ziying said: the prosperity and decline of the world, the success and failure of official career, are ultimately uncertain.Jia Zhengdao: "It's cheap like Yucun."There is also a family similar to ours, that is, the Zhen family. We used to have the same meritorious deeds, the same hereditary, and the same daily life. We also often communicate with each other.Not many years later, when they came to Beijing, they sent people to my place to pay their respects, and it was very lively.Once I copied the family property of his original place, but there is no news about him so far. I don't know how he is doing, and I am really worried about it.Seeing this, you think, are officials afraid! Jia She said: Our family is the safest.Feng Ziying said: Sure enough, the Zunfu is not afraid.One is that there is a noble concubine to take care of it; the other is that there are many relatives with good old friends; the third is that your family starts from an old lady, and as for the young masters, there is no one who is mean.Jia Zhengdao: "Although he is not tricky and mean, he has no virtue or talent."Free food, clothing, rent and food tax, where can afford it!Jia Amnesty said, "Let's not say these things. Let's have a drink."Everyone drank a few more glasses and served dinner.After eating, drink tea.A young servant from Feng's family came and said something softly to Ziying.Feng Ziying was about to say goodbye.Jia Amnesty and Jia Zheng said, "What did you say?"The boy said: "It's snowing outside, the clapper has already fallen."When Jia Zheng asked people to look at it, the snow was already more than an inch deep.Jia Zheng said, "Have you packed those two things?"Feng Ziying said: "It's ready."If Zun Mansion wants to use it, the price will naturally be lowered.Jia Zheng said, "I just need to be careful."Ziying said: "I'll listen again."It's cold, please don't send it away.Jia Amnesty and Jia Zheng ordered Jia Lian to send it out.I don't know what will happen next, I will break it down next time.