Dream of Red Mansions 141 Chapter 35 Lotus Leaf Soup

Dream of Red Mansions 141 Chapter 35 Lotus Leaf Soup

Here Aunt Xue and Baochai came into the garden to see Baoyu, and when they arrived in Yihong Courtyard, they saw many maids and wives standing in the corridor inside and outside the building, and they knew that Mother Jia and others were here. The mother and daughter came in, and everyone saw it, only to see Baoyu lying on the couch. Aunt Xue asked him if he was better. Baoyu was so busy that she promised "better", and said, "Just alarm my aunt and sister, I can't help it." Aunt Xue hurriedly helped him to sleep, and asked him again: "What do you think, just tell me." Baoyu smiled: "I think of it, naturally I and my aunt are going." Mrs. Wang asked again, "What do you want to eat?" I'll be back for you. Baoyu smiled: "I don't want to eat anything, but the soup of the little lotus leaf and the little lotus penger made that time is better." Sister Feng smiled and said, "Listen, the taste is not noble, it's just too grinding." Baba wanted to eat this. Jia Mu asked someone to do it one after another. Sister Feng said with a smile: "Don't worry, ancestor, wait until I think about who will take this mold." "For he turned back and told a mother-in-law to go and ask the man in charge of the kitchen. The woman went for a long time and said back and forth: "The person in charge of the kitchen said that the four pairs of soup molds have been handed over." When Sister Feng heard this, she thought about it for a while and said, "I remember who it was handed over, most of it was in the tea room." "At the same time, he sent people to ask the keeper of the tea room, but he did not accept it. After that, he brought the gold and silver vessels.

Be kind to Aunt Xue.

The mother asked, but said what she wanted to eat. Judging from the later text, there is nothing special about this soup in terms of taste, and Baoyu prefers to eat this "preparative" soup because no matter how much money the Xue family has, no matter how big the transaction is, it can't be made. This is the face of the Chang Jia family, extinguishing the arrogance of the Xue family, and conforming to Jia's mother's thoughts. Asking for this soup seems to be Baoyu's mouth and coquettishness, but it is actually a place for Baoyu to please Jia's mother.

When Aunt Xue took it first, it turned out to be a small box, which contained four pairs of silver molds, all of which were more than a foot long and an inch square, and were chiseled with the size of beans, chrysanthemums, plum blossoms, lotus pods, and water chestnuts, a total of thirty or forty kinds, and they were very exquisite. Because of the smile, he said to Mrs. Jia Muwang: "You all want to eat a bowl of soup and look like this." If I don't say it, I won't know what it's for. Sister Feng didn't wait for anyone to speak, so she smiled and said, "Auntie knows that this is the way they thought of preparing meals in the old year." I don't know what to print out, borrow some fragrance of new lotus leaves, all rely on good soup, it's not interesting, who often eats him. He remembered that time. So saying, he took it, handed it to a woman, and ordered that a few chickens be taken from the kitchen at once, and that something else should be added, and that a dozen or so bowls should be made. Mrs. Wang said, "What do you want these for?" Sister Feng said with a smile: "There is a reason: this thing is not a big deal, and now Brother Bao mentioned it, and made it for him alone, and the old lady, aunt, and wife didn't eat it, it didn't seem to be very good." It's better to take advantage of the situation to get some for everyone to eat, and Torei is even a handsome person for me. When Jia Mu heard this, she smiled and said, "Monkey, take care of you!" Take the money in the official, you are a man. Everyone laughed. Sister Feng also smiled busily: "It's irrelevant. I still respect this little host. Then he turned back and said to the woman, "Tell me to make up for it in the kitchen, and get the money in my account." The woman agreed.

Here it is revealed that Baoyu uses "official money" for dinner, and Daiyu should be like this, and in the sixty-second chapter of Fu Houwen, "Baoyu smiled: 'Why doesn't he take it back, it can't be short for the two of us'." The money in the official is actually controlled by Jia's mother, Jia's mother dotes on Baoyu and is willing to pay, and the former Lin family is managed by Jia's mother, and Daiyu's expenses are naturally spent from the official.

Baochai said with a smile: "I've been here for so many years, pay attention to it, Feng Yatou is so clever with him, no matter how coincidental the old lady is." When Jia Mu heard this, she replied, "I am old now, what else is there to coincide with?" Back then, I was as old as Brother Feng'er, and I was better than him. Although he is not as good as us now, he is even better, far better than your aunt. Your aunt is pitiful, she doesn't talk much, she is like a wood, and she doesn't show much in front of her in-laws. Feng'er has a good mouth, how can he complain that people love him. Baoyu smiled: "If you say that, it won't hurt if you don't talk much?" Jia Mu said: "Those who don't talk big have the pain of not talking much, and those who are obedient also have a disgusting case, so it's better not to speak." Baoyu smiled: "That's it." I said that the eldest sister-in-law didn't talk much, and the old lady also treated it the same way as Sister Feng. If it is only those who can speak, it hurts, and only Sister Feng and Sister Lin are in these sisters. Mother Jia said: "When it comes to sisters, it's not that I flatter them in front of my aunt's wife, it's true, starting from the four girls in our family, they are all inferior to Bao Yatou." When Aunt Xue heard this, she hurriedly smiled and said, "This is what the old lady said." Mrs. Wang hurriedly smiled and said: "The old lady often tells me behind my back that Bao girl is good, this is not a lie. Baoyu hooked Jia's mother, who was originally a praise for Lin Daiyu, and didn't want to praise Baochai back, but she was also out of sight, so she looked at Baochai and smiled. Baochai had already turned his head and talked to the attacker. ⑤

Saying that Mrs. Wang "doesn't talk much" and "doesn't show much good in front of her in-laws" is an allusion to the fact that Mrs. Wang is not as good as the younger sisters Feng and Baochai, and she refuses to bend and say soft words and pat on the back.

At the same time, Baochai is a talker. Daiyu offends people by speaking, and she should actually be considered unable to speak.

3.As analyzed above, since the heart and mind of Daiyu, Bao Dai and the two began to struggle for their marriage. Here, "Baoyu hooked Jia's mother to praise Lin Daiyu", but it was self-defeating and led to the wrong topic.

4.Baoyu thought about Jia's mother's natural insight at this point, praising Baochai is not sarcastic, it has the meaning of killing, Baochai is indeed excellent, but his family background is incomparable with the Jia family. Kua Baochai's main purpose was to suppress Daiyu, not to support Jinyu Liangyuan, but it caused a misunderstanding between Mrs. Wang and Aunt Xue, thinking that after Shi Xiangyun withdrew, Jia's mother fell in love with Xue Baochai.

"The four girls in our family" are Ying, Tan, Xi Sanchun and Daiyu, no matter how humble Jia's mother is, she can't say that Concubine Yuan is not as good as Baochai. Counting Daiyu as a girl in our family here means denying Bao Dai's marriage. The subtext is: Baoyu and Daiyu are both from the Jia family, how can they get married?

5.Baoyu's smile was the natural reaction of the amorous seed, and Baochai was reluctant to get involved in the marriage of wood and stone at this time, so he avoided it.

Suddenly, someone came to invite them to dinner, Jia's mother Fang stood up, ordered Baoyu to be born and raised, and instructed the girls again, Fang helped Sister Feng'er, let Aunt Xue, and everyone went out of the room. Because he asked if the soup was ready, he asked Aunt Xue and the others: "What do you want to eat, just tell me, I have the ability to ask Feng Yatou to get it and let's eat." Aunt Xue smiled: "The old lady will also scare him." From time to time, he made something to pay homage, but he couldn't eat much. Sister Feng smiled: "Auntie, don't say that. Our ancestors just disliked human flesh sourness, if it weren't for human flesh sour, they would have eaten me a long time ago. ”②

Sister Feng knew the taste, and hurriedly answered to flatter Mother Jia.

didn't say a word, and everyone in Jia Mu laughed. Baoyu couldn't hold back her smile in the room. The attacker smiled: "This mouth of the second grandmother is really afraid of death!" Baoyu stretched out his hand and pulled the attacker and said with a smile: "You have been standing for half a day, are you tired?" As he spoke, he pulled him to sit beside him. The attacker laughed: "But I forgot again." While Miss Bao was in the yard, you told him to bother him to tie a few strings. Baoyu smiled: "It's up to you to bring it up." As he spoke, he raised his head and said out of the window: "Sister Bao, call Ying'er after dinner, bother him to play a few strings, can you be free?" When Baochai heard this, he turned around and said, "Why don't you be idle, just call him later." Jia Mu and the others hadn't heard the truth yet, so they all stopped asking Baochai. Baochai explained, everyone understands. Jia Mu said again: "Good boy, ask him to make a few for your brother." If you want no one to call, I have a lot of idle girls there, who do you like, just call and call. Aunt Xue, Baochai and the others all smiled: "Just ask him to do it, what is the place to go." He is also idle and naughty every day. ”②

Jia's mother knew that it was impossible for the Xue family to let the Jia family install maids, and this polite sentence was still the same as before, firstly, she did not want the Jia family and Baoyu to owe the Xue family any favors, and secondly, she would also suppress the Xue family in terms of the number of maids.