After hearing this, Baoyu smiled and apologized, and asked: "My sister doesn't smoke incense, so what kind of fragrance does she have on her body?"
Baochai saw that he really smelled the fragrance. He was not joking. After thinking about it, he suddenly explained: "By the way, I took a pill when I got up early. I think it was the medicinal fragrance of the pill.
I just said that I didn't incense, but the fragrance you smelled turned out to be the fragrance of medicine. I never noticed it in the past, but today you discovered it first."
After hearing this, Baoyu said with a smile: "Why does the pill smell so good? My dear sister, why don't you give me a pill to try?"
Hearing this, Xue Baochai glared at him angrily and said, "What nonsense are you talking about? You can take just one medicine?
If you suffer from bad health here, the old lady and aunt should blame me, so stop messing around."
As soon as he finished speaking, the voice of a servant welcoming Daiyu came from outside: "Miss Lin is here."
"Long time no see, Miss Lin. How are you these days?"
Daiyu and Xueyan walked in and replied: "Well, I heard that Sister Bao was ill, so I came to see her. Is she fine now?"
"If I don't come here to play, you can't go to my place. Just go and play when you have time."
When he entered the house, he saw Jia Baoyu here, so he put on a fake smile on his face: "Hey, I'm not lucky enough to be here."
Although Baoyu had been warned by Jiusi, he still refused to give up on Daiyu. When he saw her coming, he stood up and smiled and offered to sit down: "My sister is here. It's cold outside. Please sit here and rest."
Daiyu didn't sit down when she saw him. Instead, she sat down next to Xue Baochai.
Seeing this, Jia Baoyu couldn't hide his disappointment and sat down again unhappily.
When Xue Baochai saw this, he pretended not to see it and asked Daiyu with a smile: "What did you say?"
Daiyu glanced at Jia Baoyu and said with a smile: "If I had known he was coming, I wouldn't have come."
Although Baochai didn't know about Jia Baoyu and Xiren, he could see that something was wrong, so he asked, "I don't understand what you mean even more. Please explain."
Daiyu couldn't say that she disliked Jia Baoyu very much now, so she said: "Either a group of people come, or none of them come. Today he is here, and I will come tomorrow. It's so staggered, isn't it?"
People come here every day, so it’s not too lonely or too lively.”
After hearing this, Xue Baochai said with a smile: "I am very happy for you to come together. It will be fun if we all talk together."
This way she doesn't have to stay with Jia Baoyu.
Baoyu saw the two people talking lively and saw snow on the clothes she was wearing, so he interrupted and asked: "I see snow on you, but is it snowing outside?"
Daiyu was too lazy to pay attention to her. She pretended not to hear her and continued talking to Baochai.
Seeing that his master didn't answer, Xueyan had no choice but to reply: "In reply to Mr. Bao, it's raining. When we left the yard, it was just small snowflakes. When we got here, it was already falling much heavier."
Seeing this, Baoyu angrily asked the maid who was following him: "Did you come to take my cloak?"
When Daiyu heard what he said, she glanced sideways at him and said, "Sister Bao, do you think it's time for him to go when I'm here?"
Xue Baochai smiled and said nothing, and quietly watched the two people quarreling.
When Jia Baoyu saw her taking care of him, the anger on his face disappeared and he said with a smile: "I have said that I am going to come sooner or later, but I just thought that if I didn't bring it, I would bring it to prepare."
After hearing this, Baoyu's nanny Li said: "It's snowing so heavily outside, and it's hard to go back. Why don't Baoyu stay here and play with her sister?
I just saw my aunt setting up tea and fruits. You guys are playing here. I asked the girl to get your cloaks. When the snow subsides, you can go your separate ways."
Jia Baoyu didn't want to leave at all, so he readily agreed.
Daiyu was unprepared when she came, and it was hard to go back in the snow, so she had to stay here temporarily and wait for someone to get her cloak.
Xue Baochai was the host, so he didn't know how to chase away guests, so he invited the two of them to talk and play around.
When Nanny Li saw this, she went out, told the maids and women to go back and get their cloaks, and then went to find Aunt Xue.
After a while, Aunt Xue brought people to lay out the tea and fruits.
After setting out several kinds of fine tea fruits, Baoyu praised the delicious goosefoot duck made by sister-in-law Zhen in the mansion the day before yesterday, so she quickly took some of her own and tasted it with him.
Daiyu saw them on the side and rolled her eyes speechlessly. They are here to see someone as a guest. The host is entertaining you. You don't tell people to stay busy, but they still pick and choose.
Jia Baoyu didn't have that consciousness, so he took a sip and said, "You need to drink this to eat it, otherwise it will look a bit monotonous."
Aunt Xue heard this and asked someone to pour him the best wine.
When Grandma Li saw it, she hurriedly stepped forward to stop her: "Auntie, it's just that the wine has been poured down. He is not a small person who can drink."
Baoyu was not willing to give up, and hurriedly begged the wet nurse: "Mom, I only drink one cup of wine, can one cup of wine be okay?"
Grandma Li said with a straight face: "It's no use, in front of the old lady, madam, even if you eat a jar.
I made the mistake of not looking at you for a while that day. I don't know which one of you was not trained. I just wanted to please you and didn't care about the life or death of others. I gave you a mouthful of wine, but in the end I was scolded for two days. My concubine didn't know that he was not a very good-tempered person, and he became more sexually active after drinking alcohol.
One day when the old lady was happy, she agreed to let him eat as much as he could, and then she stopped allowing him to eat. Why did I have to pay for it in vain?"
Hearing this, Aunt Xue said with a smile: "You old man, just feel free to eat your food. I won't let him eat too much. Even if the old lady asks, I am the same."
After saying that, he ordered the little maid who was following him: "Come on, let your grandmothers go and have a cup to keep out the snow."
After hearing what she said, Aunt Li couldn't control herself too much as a slave, so she had to go have some drinks with everyone.
Seeing that Grandma Li was gone, Baoyu immediately acted like a wild horse that had escaped the reins and no longer had any scruples: "There is no need to warm the wine. I only like to eat cold food, so just bring it cold."
After hearing this, Aunt Xue hurriedly said: "This can't be done. My writing hand is shaking after eating cold wine."
Xue Baochai was also afraid that he would get into trouble if he ate too much, so he also advised him: "Brother Bao, thank you for collecting the miscellaneous things at home every day. Don't you know that wine is the hottest in nature? If you eat it hot, it will dissipate quickly. If you eat it hot, it will dissipate quickly."
If you eat something cold and it condenses inside, and use your five internal organs to warm it, won't you not be guilty?
You’d better not eat cold food from now on, just drink wine that’s been warmed.”
Baoyu heard what she said was reasonable, and saw Daiyu looking at him coldly, so he gave up the idea of drinking cold wine and took the warm wine to drink.
Several people were eating, drinking and talking when a little maid came over and handed her a small hand stove to warm her hands.
Daiyu thought Jia Baoyu had someone send it to her, and she felt resentful in her heart, so she said, "Who asked you to send it? It's hard to worry about him, because I'm so cold to death."
The maid heard this and explained with a smile: "The eldest lady heard that you were going to play here, and saw that it was snowing heavily outside. She was afraid that the girl would feel cold without warm hands, so she ordered the slave to bring this hand stove."<
