That day was in the middle of March. After breakfast, Baoyu took a set of "Huizhen Ji" with him, went to the Qinfang Gate Bridge and sat on a stone under the peach blossoms, and unfolded "Huizhen Ji" , play it carefully from the beginning. Just when I saw the "array of fallen reds", I saw a gust of wind blowing down most of the peach blossoms from the trees, causing them to fall all over the books and all over the ground. The precious jade was about to shake down, and I was afraid that it would be trampled by my footsteps, so I had to carry the petals, come to the edge of the pool, and shake them in the pool. The petals floated on the water, fluttering, and flowed out of the Qinfang Gate.
When Baoyu came back, he saw that there were still many things underground. Baoyu was hesitating when he heard someone behind him say: "What are you doing here?" When Baoyu turned around, it was Lin Daiyu who came with a flower hoe on her shoulder. , hanging a flower bag on the hoe, holding a flower broom in his hand. Baoyu said with a smile: "Okay, okay, come and sweep up these flowers and drop them in the water. I just left a lot of them there." Lin Daiyu said: "It's not good to leave them in the water. Look, the water here is clean. , just flowed out, and the place where someone lived was dirty and smelly, and the flower bed was still collapsed. I had a flower grave on the corner, and now I swept it away, put it in this silk bag, and buried it with soil. , After a long time, it has just faded into the soil, isn't it clean?" Baoyu couldn't help but smile and said: "When I put down the book, I will help you clean it up." Daiyu said: " What book?" When Baoyu asked, he hid it in panic and said, "It's just "The Doctrine of the Mean" and "The Great Learning." Daiyu said with a smile, "You're making a fool of yourself in front of me again. There are so many of them." Baoyu said, "My dear sister, I'm not afraid of you. If you read it, don't tell anyone else. It's such a good book! You won't even want to eat." Passed it over. Lin Daiyu put down all the flower utensils and picked up the book to read. The more she read, the more she fell in love with it. In less than one meal, she had read all sixteen books. She felt that her words were warning and her mouth was full of fragrance. Although I finished reading the book, I just lost my mind and memorized it silently in my heart.
Baoyu smiled and said: "Sister, do you think it's okay?" Lin Daiyu smiled and said: "It's really interesting." Baoyu said with a smile: "I am just a 'worried and sickly person', and you are the one who is 'Qingguo'" After hearing this, Lin Daiyu's cheeks and ears turned red. She immediately raised two eyebrows that looked like they were frowning, and stared at her eyes that didn't seem to be open. Her cheeks were angry and her face was filled with anger. Referring to Baoyu, he said: "You damn nonsense! You have come up with these obscene words and songs, and you have also learned these nonsense words to bully me. I will tell my uncle and aunt to go." When it comes to the word "bully", The circles around his eyes were red again, so he turned around and left. Baoyu was anxious, and stopped him and said: "Good sister, please spare me this time. I made a mistake. If you want to bully you, tomorrow I will fall into the pool and be eaten by a leopard turtle." , Become such a forgetful person, when you become a 'First-class Madam' and return to the West tomorrow, I will go to your grave to carry a monument for you for the rest of your life." Lin Daiyu laughed and rubbed her eyes. He smiled and said: "Generally, people can fool around with this tune and just talk nonsense. 'Bah, it turns out it's Miao Buxiu, it's a silver-like (the right side of 钅 plus sloppy) gun head.'" Baoyu listened and said with a smile: " What about you? I'll tell you too." Lin Daiyu said with a smile: "You said you can read ten lines at a time, can't I read ten lines at a time?" Baoyu said with a smile while collecting the book. Just bury the flowers, don't mention that." The two of them gathered up the fallen flowers and were just burying them when they saw the attacker coming and said, "I didn't find it there, so touch it here. The old man is not good, girl. Everyone went over to say hello. The old lady asked you to go back and change your clothes." After hearing this, Baoyu hurriedly took the book, said goodbye to Daiyu, and went back to the room to change clothes.
Here Lin Daiyu saw Baoyu and heard that the sisters were not in the room either. She felt depressed. Just as he was about to return to his room, he walked to the corner of Lixiangyuan and heard the melodious flute and melodious singing inside the wall. Lin Daiyu knew that it was the twelve girls practicing opera. But Lin Daiyu was not accustomed to watching dramas, so she didn't pay attention and just walked forward. Occasionally, two lines were blown into my ears, and they sang clearly and without missing a word: "It turns out that (the women's house) is blooming with purples and reds everywhere, and it seems that they are all ruined." After hearing this, Lin Daiyu felt very emotional and lingering. , then he stopped and listened carefully, and then heard the song: "The beautiful scenery in the good time is in the sky, and who has the pleasure to enjoy it?" After hearing these two sentences, he nodded and sighed to himself, thinking to himself: "It turns out that the play is on There are also good articles. It's a pity that people in the world only know the theater and may not be able to appreciate the fun." After thinking about it, I regretted that I should have delayed listening to the music. When I listened again, I only heard the singing: "I will give you a beautiful family like a flower, and the years will pass by...". Lin Daiyu was moved after hearing these two sentences. Hearing the words "You pity yourself in the secluded boudoir" and other sentences, I was also so drunk that I couldn't stand still, so I squatted down and sat on a mountain stone, chewing the eight words "Like flowers and beautiful couples, like the passing of time". taste. Suddenly, I remembered that the ancient poem I saw the day before yesterday contained the sentence "The water flows and the flowers fade without mercy", and another poem contained the sentence "The flowers fall when the water flows, and the spring is gone, and the heaven and the earth are gone", and also the sentence "Flowers fall" in "The Romance of the West Chamber" that I just saw. The sentence "The water is red and there are all kinds of worries" suddenly came to mind and they gathered together in one place. When I thought about it carefully, I felt heartache, madness, and tears in my eyes.