The book is picked up again.
The scholar brought water, and after Ximenqing washed his hands, he returned to Li Bei'er's room. Li Bei'er asked, "Have you drunk?" Ask the girl to sift wine for you to drink. ”
Ximenqing saw a jar of Jinhua wine under the table, so he asked, "This is ** here?" ”
Li Bei'er couldn't say that the scholar bought it, but said: "I suddenly wanted to drink some wine, so I asked the servant to go to the street and buy this jar of wine." I opened it and drank only two glasses, and I didn't want to drink it anymore. ”
Ximenqing said: "Alas, there was wine before, and you used money to buy it!" A few days ago, I gave forty jars of river sake on credit to Ding Manzi and put it in the west wing. If you want to drink, let the servant take the key and take it. ”
Li Bei'er also had a plate of roast duck, a plate of chicken, and a plate of fresh fish left over from before, so Yingchun arranged four plates of side dishes, cut a plate of ham meat, put it on the table, and accompanied Ximenqing to drink. Ximenqing didn't ask if these things came from **, so it can be seen that the family eats these things every day. While drinking, Ximenqing remembered and asked Li Bei'er: "Did you give him the post that the scholar brought before?" ”
Li Bei'er said: "It was Uncle Hua from outside who asked you to let go of that group." ”
Ximenqing said: "A few days ago, Uncle Wu came to say, but I didn't agree. If it weren't for his affection, I would go to the yamen tomorrow and let him go. ”
Li Bei'er said: "What are you still beating him for?" He was beaten so that he had no teeth in his mouth. What it looks like! ”
Ximen Qing said: "Yamen is like this, I don't care if he has teeth or not." There is a more delicate person than him. ”
Li Bei'er said: "My brother, you are a famous criminal officer, give others some convenience on weekdays, as long as you leave a good reputation, it doesn't matter if you do anything else, just accumulate some good fortune." ”
Ximenqing said: "You are right. ”
While the two were drinking, Chunmei opened the curtain and came in. Seeing Ximenqing and Li Bei'er sitting together drinking, he said, "You two are so happy!" Don't you want a servant to pick up your mother now? Only Lai An'er is alone with the sedan chair, so far away, I'm afraid it will come late, you can rest assured! ”
Ximen Qing saw that her hair was messy, and said with a smile: "Little goblin, I guess you just woke up." ”
Li Bei'er said: "Your headscarf is hanging on your head, hurry up and pull it off!" ”
Then let her drink: "This Jinhua wine is so sweet, you drink a glass." ”
Ximenqing said: "You drink, I will ask the servant to pick up your mother." ”
Chunmei pressed the table with one hand, put on her shoes, and said, "I just woke up, I'm in a bad mood, and I don't want to drink." ”
Ximenqing said: "You can't see it, the little goblin drinks very little!" ”
Li Bei'er said: "Since your mother is not at home today, it doesn't matter if you have a drink." ”
Chunmei said: "Liuniang, your old man drinks it by himself, I don't want to drink it in my heart, what if my mother is at home or not?" Even if my mother is at home, I don't like to drink it. ”
Ximenqing said: "If you don't drink it, drink some tea." I'll ask Yingchun to call a servant to pick up your mother. ”
Then he handed her a cup of tea made from sesame seeds and bamboo shoots in her hand. Chunmei took it, took only one sip, and then put it down. She said, "Don't let Yingchun call." I've got Ping'an here, he's a little older. ”
Ximenqing shouted peace through the window. The little servant replied, "I'll wait here." ”
Ximen Qing said: "You go, who will guard the door?" ”
Ping'an said, "The little chess boy is at the door." ”
Ximenqing said: "In this case, quickly take a lantern and pick it up." ”
So Ping An took the lantern to pick up Pan Jinlian. Halfway through, I saw Lai An'er following the sedan chair from the south. It turned out that both of them were skilled sedan chair drivers, one was named Zhang Chuan'er and the other was Wei Cong'er. They walked over and grabbed the handle of the sedan chair and said, "We're here to pick up my mother." ”
Jin Lian called Ping'an and asked, "Your father sent you to pick me up?" Who sent you? ”
Ping An said, "Really, my father didn't send me!" It was my sister who sent me to pick me up. ”
Jin Lian said: "Presumably your father didn't come home, he is still in the yamen." ”
Ping An said, "He didn't come home? He met people outside the door and returned from the afternoon. He was in Liuniang's room and drank good wine. If it weren't for my sister urging me to go in and pick up my mother with a lantern, it would have been too early! I saw Lai'an follow the sedan chair alone, he was young, I was afraid that he would come late, and it was not convenient on the road, we should find an older one to pick up, so I came. ”
Jin Lian asked, "When you came, your father was there?"
Ping'an said: "When I came, my father was still drinking in Liuniang's room. My sister asked my father for instructions, so I was allowed to come. ”
Jin Lian listened, didn't speak in the sedan chair for a long time, and sneered: "Abominable people, treat me as if I was dead." and slept well in the house of the harlot. By tomorrow, I will only rely on that urine cell for a long time, but don't delay the serious business. Zhang Chuan'er is listening here, and there is no one else. You run around the door, there will be children, take the extra silk satin to make clothes for him to wear? Your family just has money, can it come in handy? ”
Zhang Chuan'er took it and said: "If you don't say it, I don't dare to say it, this is really useless." Don't say it's a pity, I'm just afraid that he will be broken, and the pox rash has not grown yet, can he finally raise it? Last year, in a big village outside the east gate, my grandfather was sixty years old, and when he saw his grandfather's future, he had a pile of silver in his hand, and he said that there were herds of cattle and horses, countless grains and rice, and there were groups of servants and palace maids, and there were about seventeen or eighteen people wearing splendid clothes. He wants a child to be like a baby, just like you, the master, to be held in his arms all day long, and to be held in the nest of the four seasons. I renovated three houses like snow caves and bought four or five nurses to take care of them. I saw the wind and moved gently all day long, and it was less than three years old, because the acne rash was gone. Don't blame me for saying that raising a child like this is like spilling water, whether you raise it or run it. ”
Jin Lian said: "Spilled water? I can't wait to wrap him in ** every day! ”
Ping An said: "The little one has one more thing to tell his mother." If you don't say the small one, when the mother inquires about it tomorrow, she will have to say that the small one is not safe. It's the people that Han guy said, my father has already beaten them in the yamen, locked them in prison, and is ready to be sent for trial. This morning, the second father came to talk to the scholar, and I am afraid he also gave them some silver, and they took the big bun to the shop, opened it with a hammer, and spent two or three taels of silver. I bought a lot of things and took them to the house in Laixing, so that his daughter-in-law cleaned them up and took them to the house of Liuniang. I bought two bottles of Jinhua wine and drank it with Liuniang first. Then I went to the shop in front of me, and Uncle Fu and Ben.
Fourth, my brother-in-law, Ju'an, Laixing and others drank together, and they didn't disperse until my father came home. ”
Jin Lian said, "He won't let you drink some?" ”
Ping An said, "Did he let us drink?" He's a daring minion! I don't take to heart at all. It's not that it's small, it's still that Dad spoils him, and Dad doesn't do that nasty thing with him in the study first. And he was a protégé in the county, so he knows everything? If Dad hadn't sent that slave away sooner, our family would have been messed up by him tomorrow. ”
Jin Lian asked, "How long have they been drinking in your Liuniang's room?" ”
Ping An Er said: "I drank all day. I saw that their faces were red before they came out. ”
Jin Lian said: "When your father comes home, won't he say a word to you?" ”
Ping An said: "Dad's mouth is sticky, what are you talking about!" ”
Jin Lian scolded: "Abominable faint robber! Selling sons and recruiting sons-in-law, you colluded with each other. ”
Tell Ping'an: "When he and the slave are there again to do these dirty things, you will come and tell me." ”
Ping'an said, "Mother's command, I know." Mother only keeps it in her heart, don't let me expose a little news. ”
So Ping An followed the sedan chair until he reached the door of the house.
Pan Jinlian got off the sedan chair and went into the backyard to meet Yueniang. Yueniang said: "You stayed overnight, why are you in such a hurry to come back?" ”
Jin Lian said, "My mother wants to keep me." He also hired a twelve-year-old girl from my girl's side to work at home, and we were all crammed into the same bed, how could this live! And I was worried about the wall, so I came back. Please pass it on to my sister and thank her for the gift. ”
So after worshipping Yueniang, I went to worship Li Jiaoer, Meng Yulou and others. returned to the front yard and inquired about Ximenqing's room in Li Bei'er's room, so he went to see Li Bei'er. When Li Bei'er saw her come in, she hurriedly got up, greeted her into the room with a smile, and said, "Sister is back early, please sit down and have a glass of wine." ”
Let Yingchun bring her a seat for her to sit.
Jin Lian said: "I missed a glass today, and I have already drunk two glasses, so I won't sit down." ”
With that, he hurried away. Ximenqing said: "Good slave, so bold, don't you worship me when you go home?" ”
Jin Lian took it and said, "I worship you? I haven't saved enough blessings yet. Don't dare, you're so bold! ”
Listeners and friends heard that Pan Jinlian's words were obviously mocking Li Bei'er, saying that she drank with the scholar first, and then accompanied Ximenqing, just like two wedding feasts, Ximenqing couldn't hear it.
Exactly: the words of affection are needles and wires, which cause right and wrong on the spot.