That said, Baoyu see Qingwen will be bird fur patch, has made the power exhausted God's danger, busy order small girl to come to his pounding, and each other pounding a moment to rest. Not a meal's work, the day has dawned, and do not go out, only to call the quick summon doctor. A moment Wang doctor came, diagnosed the pulse, doubt said: "Yesterday has been better, today how anti-vulnerability micro-float shrinkage up, dare to eat too much food and drink? Otherwise, it is the labor of the mind. External sensation but clear, this sweat after the loss of nourishment, is not trivial." Said on the other hand, one side went out to open the prescription in. Baoyu read, has been the evacuation of the evil drugs reduced, but added Poria, Di Huang, Angelica and other agents to nourish the spirit and blood. Baoyu busy ordering people to decoct, and sighed and said: "How can this be! If anything happens, it's all my fault." Qingwen, sleeping on the pillow, said, "Good Master! You can go and do your job, you'll get consumptive disease there." Bao Yu had no choice but to go. He came back half a day later, saying that he was not well. Though she was seriously ill, it was fortunate that she was accustomed to a strong mind and a light diet, and that hunger and food did not hurt her. It is a secret custom in the Jia residence that no matter how high or low you are, if you have a cough or a cold, you should always starve yourself and take medication to recuperate. Therefore, when I was sick the day before yesterday, I starved myself for two or three days and took medication cautiously, but now that I have labored a bit more and doubled my training for a few days, I am gradually getting better. Recently, the sisters in the garden are all in the room to eat, cooking and eating is also easy, Baoyu can change the way to soup to spoon mediation, do not have to go into detail.
The attacker sent mother's funeral, has been back, musk month will be the Ping'er said that the Song mother fell child, and clearing out of the words, one by one had also returned to the treasure jade. Attacker also did not say, only that too hasty some. Because Li Dan also due to the cold, Mrs. Xing is suffering from fire eyes, Yingchun Xiuyin are over to the night and day service medicine, Aunt Li's brother took Aunt Li and Li Rong Li Qi home to live a few days, Bao Yu and see the attacker often think of mother sad, Qingwen is not yet recovered: so the poetry club day, there is no one to make the fun of the community, and then empty a few clubs.
Now it is the waxing moon, close to the New Year's Day, Mrs. Wang and Sister Feng to handle the annual affairs. The first time I saw this, I was in the middle of the night, and I was in the middle of the night, and I was in the middle of the night, and I was in the middle of the night, and I was in the middle of the night, and I was in the middle of the night, and I was in the middle of the night.
Let's say that Jia Zhen side, opened the ancestral shrine, cleaned, packed up offerings, please God, and cleaned up the upper room, in order to prepare for the hanging of the true image of the legacy. At this time, inside and outside the Rongning two houses, all are busy. This day Ning House in the You're up with Jia Rong's wife to send Jia mother's side of the needle and thread gifts, just when the girl held a tea tray to bet the year ingot came in, back to say: "Xing'er back to Grandma, before the packet of broken gold *** is one hundred and fifty-three taels of six money and seven cents, inside the color varies, *** total dumping of two hundred and twenty ingot." Said handed up. You look at it, only to see that there are plum blossom type, there are also begonia type, there are also pen ingot Ruyi, there are also eight treasures Lianchun. You order: "put away this to, tell him to the silver ingot quickly handed in." The maid promised to go.
A moment Jia Zhen came in to eat, Jia Rong's wife avoided. Jia Zhen asked You: "Our spring festival reward can be collected not? "You said: "Today I sent Rong'er off to go." Jia Zhen said: "Although our family does not wait for these few silver, more or less is the emperor's grace. Early off to the old lady there, set the ancestors of the offerings, on the emperor's grace, the next is to the ancestors of the blessing. Even if we use 10,000 silver for the ancestors, it is not as decent as this one, and it is a blessing. In addition to one or two families like us, those hereditary poor official's family, if they do not rely on this silver, how to make offerings for the New Year? The real Emperor's grace is great, thoughtful." You said, "That's exactly what I mean."
As they were talking, they saw someone say: "Brother is here". Jia Zhen ordered him to come in. Jia Zhen ordered him to come in. He saw Jia Rong holding a small yellow cloth pocket. Jia Zhen said: "Why did you go this day." Jia Rong smiled and said: "This day, I was not in the Ministry of Rites, but in the Guanglu Temple, so I went to the Guanglu Temple to receive it. The officials of the Guanglu Temple said to ask my father good, not seen for many days, are really miss. "Jia Zhen laughed and said:" where they are thinking of me. This is the end of the year, either want my things, or want my theater wine.
Jia Zhen laughed and said: "This is again under the year, not think of my things, or think of my theater wine." On the one hand, one side look at the yellow cloth pockets, there is a seal is the four big words of the "imperial grace forever tin", and on the side of the Ministry of Rites of the Shrine Priest's seal, and wrote a line of small letters, said "Ningguo Duke Jia Yu Rongguo Duke Jia Yuan Enjian forever Spring Festival Reward *** two minutes, the net folded a number of silver, a certain year and month of the day of the dragon forbidden Lieutenant alternate guards Jialong received in the hall, the duty of the year the Temple Prime Minister of the people," the following a vermilion brush and a flower seal.
Jia Zhen had dinner, washroom, changed boots and hats, ordered Jia Rong to follow with the silver, back to the mother of Mrs. Wang, and to this side back to Mrs. Xing, Jia Pian, Fang went home, took out the silver, ordered to the pocket to the ancestral ancestral temple furnace burned. And ordered Jia Rong said: "You go to ask your Aunt Lian two, the first month of the New Year's invitation to eat wine date proposed yet. If she has, tell her to make a list, so that when we invite her again, we can't repeat the mistake. If we don't pay attention to a few families in the past year, it's not that we're not paying attention, but it's as if the two houses have agreed to send a false favor for fear of being troublesome." Jia Rong quickly agreed to go. A moment, took the date of the invitation to eat wine came. Jia Zhen read it and ordered Lai Sheng to read it and ask people not to emphasize the above date. Because in the hall watched the boys lift the screen, wipe several cases of gold and silver offerings. I saw the boy holding a report and an account, and said: "The black mountain village of Wu Zhuangtou came."
Jia Zhen said: "This old beheader only came today." Said, Jia Rong took the report and accounts, busy unfolding hold, Jia Zhen backward two hands, to Jia Rong hand only to see the red report written on the post: "Door under the head of the Zhuang Wu Jinxiao kowtow to the master, grandma Hail Golden Ann, and the Prince and Miss Golden Ann. New Year's great joy and great happiness, honor and peace, and official advancement, all the best." Jia Zhen smiled and said: "The Zhuang family has some meaning." Jia Rong also busy laughing said: "Do not look at the grammar, just take a good luck." On the other hand, he was busy unfolding the list to see, only to see written on it: "30 big deer, roe deer 50, roe deer 50, Siamese pig 20, soup pig 20, dragon pig 20, wild boar 20, home waxed pig 20, wild sheep 20, green sheep 20, home soup goat 20, home wind goat 20, sturgeon two, all kinds of miscellaneous fish 200 catties, live chickens, ducks and geese, 200, wind chickens, ducks and geese 200, pheasant, rabbits 200 pairs. Two hundred pairs of rabbits, twenty pairs of bear paws, twenty pairs of deer tendons, fifty pounds of sea cucumbers, fifty pieces of deer tongue, fifty pieces of ox tongue, twenty pounds of dried razor clams, two pockets of hazelnuts, pines, peaches, and apricots, fifty pairs of prawns, 200 pairs of dried prawns, 1,000 pounds of top grade charcoal, 2,000 pounds of middle grade charcoal, 30,000 pounds of firewood charcoal, two stones of royal field rouge rice, fifty dugongs of green glutinous rice, fifty dugongs of white glutinous rice, fifty dugongs of pink glutinous rice, fifty dugongs of round rice, fifty dugongs of various colorful sorghums, one thousand stones of regular rice, and one thousand stones of various colorful rice, one thousand stones of various kinds of rice, one thousand stones of various kinds of rice. 1,000 stones of regular rice, one cart of dried vegetables, 2,500 taels of silver*** discounted for selling sorghum and grain, and livestock. Outside the door under the filial piety brother sister child stubborn intention: two pairs of live deer, live white rabbit four pairs, four pairs of black rabbit, two pairs of live chickens, two pairs of ducks in the West."
Jia Zhen then ordered to bring him in. In a moment, I saw Wu Jinxiao come in, only kowtowed in the courtyard to ask for peace. Jia Zhen ordered people to pull him up, said with a smile: "You are still strong." Wu Jin Xiao smiled back: "Thanks to the blessing of the master, can still walk." Jia Zhen said: "Your son is also big, should ask him to walk." Wu Jin Xiao laughed: "I'm not lying, the little ones are used to walking, do not come also boring panic. They are not all willing to come to see the world at the foot of the Emperor? In the end, they are young, afraid of mistakes on the road, a few more years will be able to rest assured." Jia Zhen said: "How many days have you left?" Wu Jin Xiao said: "back to the master's words, this year's snow, outside are four or five feet deep snow, the day before yesterday, suddenly a warm a melting, the road is very difficult to go, delayed for a few days. Although gone a month and two days, because the days are limited, afraid of master anxiety, not rush to come." Jia Zhen said: "I said, how come today. I just saw the list, this year you old bastard again to fight in the ring." Wu Jin Xiao busy two steps forward, back to say: "back to the master said, this year is really not good. It started raining in March and continued to rain until August, but it never cleared up for more than five days in a row. In September, a hailstorm the size of a bowl injured thousands of people, houses, livestock and grain over a distance of nearly 1,300 miles. I do not dare to lie." Jia Zhen frowned: "I calculated that you have at least five thousand taels of silver, which is enough for what! Now you a **** only eight or nine manor left, this year there are two reported droughts and floods, you and fight, really is to teach not to celebrate the New Year." Wu Jin Xiao said: "Master of this place is not bad! My brother is only a hundred miles away from me, but he's not as good as he used to be. He is now in charge of the government of the eight manor, than the master of this side of a few times more, this year only these things, but more than two or three thousand taels of silver, but also a famine to fight it." Jia Zhen said: "Exactly it, my side can be, there is nothing outside the big things, but is a year's expenses. I suffer some grievances to save some. In addition, the annual gift to invite people, I put more thick skin. I can save some money and that's it. Unlike the government, which has spent a lot of money in the past few years, it is inevitable that we must spend money, but we don't have any more money for the estate. This 2012 has lost a lot of money, not and you want, who to find!" Wu Jin Xiao laughed: "That the house now although added things, have to go and come, the Queen and the Lord will not reward!" Jia Zhen heard, laughed to Jia Rong and so on said: "You listen, he said this is ridiculous or not?" Jia Rong and other busy laughing: "You on the coast of the mountain pass, where know this truth. Your Majesty did not give us the emperor's library! Even if he has this heart, he can not make the decision. There's no reason not to reward them, but they're nothing more than colorful satin and antiques, even if they're silver. Even if we reward the silver, it's only 100 taels of gold, which is only worth 1,000 taels of silver, what's enough for one year? In the past two years, we have lost thousands of dollars each year! The first year of the visit, even the garden, you count how much that bet **** spent, you know. Another two years and then back to the family, I'm afraid that the fine poor." Jia Zhen laughed: "So they are honest people in the Zhuang family, outside the bright do not know the dark things. Cedar wood for chime hammer,---- outside the decent inside the bitter." Jia Rong also laughed to Jia Zhen said: "really that house poor. A few days ago I heard the phoenix girl and yuanyang quietly discuss, to steal out of the old lady's things to when the silver it." Jia Zhen laughed and said: "That's your Miss Feng's ghost, where it's so poor. He must have seen too many ways to go, really lose a lot of money, I do not know to save that money, first set up this method to make people know, said poor to so. I have a calculation in my heart, but not to such a state." I have a plan in my mind, and I'm not going to be in such a situation." He said, "I ordered Wu Jin Xiao to take him out and treat him well, and I'm not going to talk about it.
Here, Jia Zhen ordered the various things to be left out for the ancestors, and took some of each, ordering Jia Rong to send them to the Rongfu. Then he kept his own home to use, the rest sent and so on example, a point by point in the pile under the platform, ordered to call the children and nephews in the family with them. Then the Rongguo House also sent a lot of things for ancestors and Jia Zhen's things. Jia Zhen looked at the cleanup of the supply, I with shoes, wearing a lynx fur, ordered the hall columns under the stone islet in the sun in a large wolf skin mattress, negative pleasantries idle look at the children to receive the annual things. When he saw that Jia Qin also came to collect the goods, Jia Zhen called him over and said: "Why are you here? Who told you to come? "Jia Qin hung down his hand and said: "When I heard that the master called us to collect things, I came without waiting for anyone to go." Jia Zhen said: "I am this thing, originally for your unproductive uncles and brothers who have nothing to do. In those two years you were idle, I also gave you. Now you are in charge of the government and the monks and priests in the temple, and you get your share of the money every month, and the monks' share of the money passes through your hands, and you still come to take this, you are too greedy! Look at yourself, do you dress like a man with money in his hand? I said you were not making any progress earlier, but what's the matter now? It doesn't look like that anymore." Jia Qin said: "I have a large family, big expenses." Jia Zhen laughed coldly, "You're still trying to trick me. I'm sorry I don't know what you did at the temple. You are naturally a master there, no one dares to disobey you. With money in your hand and far away from us, you've become a king, gathering bandits to gamble and raising wives and children. Now that you've spent so much money, how dare you collect anything? If you can't get anything, you'll have to get a pack of water sticks. After New Year's, I'll tell Uncle Lian Er Er that I'll get you back." Jia Qian blushed and didn't dare agree. The man replied, "The Water King of the Northern Province has sent us a scroll and a purse." When Jia Zhen heard about it, he ordered Jia Rong to go out and entertain him, "Just tell him I'm not at home." Jia Rong went, and here Jia Zhen watched to collect the things, went back to his room to have dinner with You, and had nothing to say for the rest of the night. To the next day, more than usual busy, do not have to detail.
It was the twenty-ninth day of the Lunar New Year, and all the colors were ready, and the two houses had changed their door gods, couplets, hanging cards, and newly oiled peach charms, which made them look brand-new. Ningguo Mansion from the main door, the door, hall, the warmth of the pavilion, the inner hall, the inner three doors, the inner door and the inner door, until the main hall, all the way to the main door is wide open, both sides of the steps under the color of red Zhu red big high light, point of the two golden dragons in general. The next day, by the mother of the ennobled, all according to the rank of the court dress, the first eight sedan chair, led by all the people into the palace to congratulate, salute to receive the banquet after the return, they went to the Ningguo House warming the sedan chair. The sons and daughters of those who did not come with the court, all lined up in front of the Ning House to wait for their turn, and then introduced into the ancestral shrine. It was Baoqin's first time, and she paid close attention to this ancestral hall, and found that there was another courtyard on the west side of the Ning Mansion, with a five-room gate within a black oil fence, on which hung a plaque with the words "Jia Clan Ancestral Hall", and next to it was the inscription "Diffractive Sage Gong Kong Jizong's Book". There is a long couplet on both sides, which reads:
Liver and brain, the family name relies on the grace of conservation,
Fortune, fortune and prosperity, a hundred generations look up to the prosperity of the steamed taste. It was also written by the Duke of Yansheng. Entering the courtyard, the white stone path is lined with pines and cypresses. On the platform, there are green and bronze tripods and vessels. In front of the building, there is a nine-dragon gold plaque, which reads: "Starry Night, Aid and Abuse". It was written by the late emperor. On both sides of a couplet, it reads:
The honor and achievement have the light to show the sun and the moon, and the fame has no interruption and the children and grandchildren. It is also written by the emperor. In front of the five main halls, there is a tablet with a dragon filled with green, which reads: "Catching up with the past with caution". Next to a couplet that reads:
After the children and grandchildren to inherit the blessings of the present populace to remember Rongning. It was written by the emperor.
Inside the incense and candles, hanging scrolls and embroidered curtains, although the list of gods, but not really see. The people of the Jia family were lined up: Jia Jing officiated, Jia Pi accompanied him, Jia Zhen offered his title, Jia Lian and Jia Qiong offered their silk, Baoyu held incense, and Jia Calamus and Jia Ling displayed their blankets of worship and guarded the burning pool. After the music was played by the green-clothed musicians, three knighthoods were offered, and after the ceremony, the music stopped and the wine was poured. All the people surrounded the mother of Jia to the main hall, before the shadow of the brocade curtains hanging high, colorful screen Zhang Guan, incense and candles brilliant. Above is hanging in the center of the Ning Rong two ancestors statues, both are Phi Python waist jade; on both sides there are several axes of the ancestors shadow. Jia Nympho and Jia Zhi stood from the inner door to the corridor of the main hall. Outside the threshold is Jia Jing Jia Pardon, inside the threshold are the women. All the servants were outside the door. When each dish arrived, it was passed to the door of the ceremony, and Jia Nymph and Jia Zhi took it and passed it to Jia Jing on the steps. Jia Rong was the eldest grandson of the eldest family, and he was the only one in the threshold with the women. Whenever Jia Jing brought the food, he passed it to Jia Rong, who then passed it to his wife, and then to Phoenix and You, and then to Madame Wang, who passed it to her in front of the offering table. Mrs. Wang passed it on to Mrs. Jia, who put it on the table. Mrs. Xing stood on the west side of the table, facing east, and made offerings to the same mother. Until the dishes, rice, soup, wine and tea have been passed on, Jia Rong exits the lower steps and returns to the head of Jia Qin's hierarchy. Where the name from the side of the text, Jia Jing as the first, the next is from the jade, Jia Zhen as the first, and then from the grass head, Jia Rong as the first, left Zhao right Mu, male east female west, once the mother of Jia incense worship, all the people kneel down, will be the five halls, three holding the building, inside and outside the eaves of the corridors, steps on the steps below the two courtyards, the flowers, stuffed without a gap in the open space. Crows, only to hear the clanging and clanging, the sound of gold bells and jade slightly swaying, and kneeling boots soughing sound. A moment after the ceremony, Jia Jing Jia Pardon and so on will be busy to exit, to the Rongfu special waiting and Jia mother salute.
You's upper room has already attacked the ground full of red felt, the local put the elephant trunk three-legged loach gilt enamel fire pit, front kang paved new scarlet red felt, set up a big red color embroidered cloud dragon holding birthday back cushion, outside the other black fox skin burden on the top of the big white fox skin mattress, invited Jia mother to go up and sit down. On both sides, there were leather mattresses for two or three sisters-in-law of Jia mother's generation to sit on. On this side, the small kang after the rows of horizontal heads was also covered with leather mattresses, so that Mrs. Xing and others could sit down. On the ground floor, there were twelve lacquer chairs opposite each other, all in the same color of grey rat chairs with small mattresses, and under each chair there was a big copper footstove for Baoqin and other sisters to sit on. You used a tea tray to hold tea with the mother of Jia, Rong's wife held with the grandmother, and then You held with Mrs. Xing and so on, Rong's wife held with the sisters. Feng sister Li dan and so on only in the underground waiter. When the tea was over, Mrs. Xing and others got up first to serve Jia mother. After eating tea and chatting with her sisters-in-law, she ordered her to watch the sedan chair. Sister Feng was busy going up to hold up. You smiled back and said: "I have prepared the old lady's dinner. Every year are not willing to reward some decent dinner over, really we are not as good as Feng Ya head?" Sister Feng assisted JiaMu laughed: "Old ancestor quickly go, we go to dinner, do not care about him." Jia mother laughed: "You here for the ancestors, busy like what, where can not stand me to make trouble. Moreover, every year I do not eat, you also have to send. Why don't you send it to me, and if I can't eat it, I'll save it for tomorrow, so I won't have any more." Everyone laughed. He also told him: "Send someone to watch the incense at night, not to be careless." You promised. "You promised. One side walked out to the warm pavilion in front of the sedan chair. You and so on flashed through the screen, the boys led the sedan chair driver, invited the sedan chair out of the gate. You also followed Mrs. Xing to the Rong Mansion.
Here the sedan chair out of the gate, this street, the east side of the joint face of the Ning State Duke's honor guards and musical instruments, the west side of the joint face of the Duke of Rong State Duke's honor guards and musical instruments, the pedestrians are all retreated from this pass. When you come to the Rong Mansion, it is also the main door of the main hall straight to the end. But now, instead of getting off the sedan chair at the Warm Pavilion, after passing through the hall, they turned west and got off the sedan chair at the main hall of Jia Mother's side. All of them followed the sedan chair to the main room of JiaMu, which was also decorated with brocade and embroidered screens. The room was also decorated with brocade and embroidered screens. There were pine and cypress incense and lily grass burning in the fire pit. When Jia mother returned to her seat, the old maids came back: "The old ladies are coming to salute." When she got up to greet them, she saw two or three old sisters-in-law coming in. We all held hands, laughed once, and gave way once. After having tea, Jia mother only sent to the inner door and came back to the main seat. Jia Jing and Jia Pardon led their children in. Jia mother laughed and said: "It's hard for you all, don't salute." While saying this, she said that the men and women had all saluted together. The left and right sides set up chairs, and then according to the eldest and youngest in turn to sit down to be saluted. The men and women of the two houses and the maids of the two houses also performed the rituals according to their ranks, and then they gave out year-end money, wallets, gold and silver ingots, and set up a banquet for the joyous occasion. After the men and women were seated and offered tusu wine, harmony soup, lucky fruit, and yuyi cake, Jia mother got up and went into the inner room to change her clothes, and all the people were dispersed. That night before the Buddha burning incense offerings, Mrs. Wang's main room in the courtyard set up a heaven and earth paper horse incense offerings, the main gate of the Grand View gardens are also picking a large bright corner lamp, two slips of high light, everywhere there are street lamps. Upper and lower people, all dressed up flowers, a night of noisy people, talking and laughing, firecrackers, endless. To the next day five drums, Jia mother and other big make-up according to the product, set all the deacons into the palace to congratulate, and to wish Yuanchun thousand years. When they came back from the banquet, they went to Ningfu to offer sacrifices to their ancestors, and then they came back to receive the gifts, and then they changed their clothes and rested. All the friends and relatives who came to celebrate the festival did not, only and Xue aunt Li aunt two people talk to take convenience, or with Bao Yu, Baoqin, hairpin, Yu and other sisters to play chess and wipe the cards for the game. Mrs. Wang and Sister Feng are busy every day to invite people to eat New Year's Eve wine, that hall is full of theater wine, friends and relatives, a busy seven or eight days before the end. As the Lantern Festival was approaching, the Ning and Rong mansions were decorated with lanterns and colors. On the 11th day, Jia Pi invited Jia Mu and so on, and on the next day Jia Zhen invited Jia Mu again, and Jia Mu went to receive them casually for half a day. Mrs. Wang and Sister Feng were invited to have New Year's wine for several days, which was too much to remember. On the night of the 15th, Jia mother ordered to set up a few tables of wine in the large flower hall, set up a class of small plays, hung a variety of colorful lanterns, and led a banquet for the sons and daughters-in-law of the two houses of Rongning and their nephews and grandchildren. Jia Jing so no wine, not to invite him, after 17 days of ancestral worship has been completed, he will still go out of town to recuperate. Even in the past few days, he was still at home, but also in a clean room, not listening to anything, not to mention. Jia Pi slightly received the gift of Jia mother, also said goodbye. Jia mother knew that it was inconvenient for him to stay here, so she let him go. Jia Pi went to his home to enjoy the lights and wine with all the guests, naturally, the music and songs were raucous, and the embroidery was full of eyes, which made him happy and different from this side of the world.
This side of the flower hall of the mother of Jia **** set up ten seats. Each seat next to set a few, a few set on the stove bottle three things, burning the Imperial Lily Gong incense. And there are eight inches long, four or five inches wide, two or three inches high point of the rock covered with moss small bonsai, all fresh flowers. There is also a small lacquer tea tray, placed inside the old kiln tea cups and ten brocade small tea hangers, inside the brewing of top quality tea. All the colors were carved with rosewood, embedded with a large red yarn embroidered with flowers and poems. The necklace was made by a woman from Suzhou, named Huiniang. Because she was from a family of educated officials, she was good at calligraphy and painting, but occasionally embroidered one or two pieces of needlework for fun, not for sale. All the flowers embroidered on the screen are modeled after the flowers of the famous Tang, Song, Yuan and Ming artists, so the format and color scheme are all from elegant, not just colorful craftsmen can compare to each flower side of the flower with the old lines of the ancient people who wrote about the flower, or poems and songs, and they are all embroidered in black velvet with cursive characters, and the handwriting hooks and kicks, twists and turns, light and heavy, and breaks are all similar to the strokes of the brush and cursive, and are not worse than the market embroidery handwriting boards strong and hateful. He did not profit from this skill, so the world knows, but few have it, all the world's rich and powerful families, many do not have this thing, today it is called "wisdom embroidery". Recently, there are some people who are interested in making money by copying their stitches, so that the fools can make a profit. But Huiniang died at the age of eighteen, so she can't get another one now. All the families have one or two of these, but they don't use them. A group of Hanlin Wenmao said that the word "绣" could not do justice to the beauty of "慧绣", and that the word "绣" in such a handwriting seemed to be too abrupt, so they agreed to hide the word "绣" and replace it with the word "纹", so that it is now known as the "慧纹". If there is a real "Huigong" item, the price will be unlimited. Jia's glory, there are only two or three, the last year will be the two pieces have been into the last, now only a pair of celluloid, a **** sixteen fan, Jia mother loved as a treasure, not in the invitation to the colorful furnishings, but only to stay in their own side, happy to have a drink when enjoying. And there are various colors of old kiln vase are decorated with "three friends" "Yu Tang Fu Gui" and other flowers and grass.
The upper two seats are Auntie Li and Auntie Xue. Jia mother set up in the east side of a carving kui dragons to protect the screen short feet short couch, backrests, pillows and leather mattresses are complete. On top of the couch, there was a small, lightweight, lacquered and gilded table on which there were tea cusps, tea bowls, washbasins, towels and so on, as well as an eyeglass case. JiaMu leaned on the couch, joked and laughed with the people, took the glasses and looked at the stage, and laughed to Aunt Xue and Aunt Li, saying, "I'm sorry I'm old, my bones hurt, I'm not allowed to be rude, let me lean on the couch with you." She ordered Amber to sit on the couch and beat her legs with her beauty fist. There was no seat under the couch, only a high table, but set with necklace, vase, incense burner and other things. There was another small table with wine cups, spoons and chopsticks, so she set up her own table next to the couch and ordered Baoqin, Xiangyun, Daiyu and Baoyu to sit on it. When each dish and fruit came, they first brought it to the mother to look at, but if they liked it, they stayed on the small table and tasted it, and then they removed it and put it on the seat of the four of them, so that the four of them were only following the mother to sit down. Therefore, the following party is Mrs. Xing, Mrs. Wang's seat, and then the next is the You's, Li Dandy, Phoenix, Jia Rong's wife. On the west side are Baochai, Li Rong, Li Qi, Cui Yan, and Yingchun's sisters. On the beams on both sides, a pair of three-glass hibiscus lanterns are hung. In front of each table was a lacquered lotus leaf with a candle sticking out of it. This lotus leaf is platinum enamel, live letter can be twisted, now all the lotus leaf will be twisted outward, will be forced to light the shadow of the lamp all outward, watching the theater is very real. The window panes and portals were all taken down, and all kinds of palace lanterns were hung with colorful tassels. Inside and outside the eaves of the corridor and both sides of the corridor canopy, will be various colors of crockery, glass, poke yarn, material silk, or embroidery, or painting, or pile, or key, or silk, or paper lamps hung all over. In the corridor, there were Jia Zhen, Jia Lian, Jia Huan, Jia Cong, Jia Rong, Jia Qin, Jia Yun, Jia Ling, Jia Iris and so on.
Jia mother had also sent people to invite men and women of the clan, but they were too old to come, too busy to come, too sick to come, too jealous of the rich and ashamed of the poor to come, too angry to come in fear of Sister Feng's behavior, or too ashamed to come, or too embarrassed to come to see others: therefore, although there were a lot of people in the clan, the only female guest was Lou, the mother of Jia Miao. She brought Jia Mou with her, and the only men who came were Jia Qin, Jia Yun, Jia Calam, and Jia Ling, four of whom are now working under Feng's command. Though not all of them were present, they were considered to be quite lively in a small family banquet. When Lin Zhixiao's wife brought six daughters-in-law, they brought up three bed tables, each with a red felt on which were placed a selection of large, freshly minted coins, strung on large red colored strings, one for each two people. ***Three. Lin Zhixiao's family instructed the two to be placed under Aunt Xue and Aunt Li's table, and one to be sent to Jia mother's couch. Jia Mother said, "Leave them there." The daughters-in-law all know the rules, put down the table, and the money are open, the colorful rope removed, scattered on the table. They are singing <<West Building. Floor will>> this will be the end of the play, Yu Shu night because of gambling anger to go, that Wen Bao will send a gag said: "you gambling anger to go, coincidentally today the first month of the fifteenth, Rongguo House in the old ancestors of the family dinner, to wait for me to ride this horse, rushed in to ask for some fruit to eat is the important thing." After saying this, Jia mother and other people laughed. Aunt Xue and others said: "Good ghost head child, poor thing." Sister Feng said: "This child is only nine years old." Jia mother laughed and said: "This child is only nine years old. "JiaMu laughed and said: "It's hard for him to say so skillfully." She said the word "reward". There were three daughters-in-law who had already prepared a bucket, and when they heard the word "reward", they went up to the pile of loose money on the table, each of them picked up a bucket, and came out to the stage and said: "Old Father, Auntie, the in-laws' wife rewarded Wen Bao for buying fruit to eat!" As he said, he threw the money on the stage and heard the money ringing all over the stage. Jia Zhen and Jia Lian had already ordered their boys to bring a big bucket of money and secretly prepared it there. When he heard the mother of Jia rewarded, he wanted to know the end of the ----