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红楼梦|Dream of red mansions

第七回送宫花贾琏戏熙凤宴宁府宝玉会秦钟

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CHAPTER VII. Presentation of artificial flowers made in the Palace. Chia Lien disports himself with Hsi-feng. Pao-yü meets Ch’in Chung at a family party.

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第七回 送宫花贾琏戏熙凤 宴宁府宝玉会秦钟

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Chou Jui’s wife likewise promptly returned the smile.

How is my young lady? she inquired, as she sat down on the edge of the couch. "I haven’t seen you come over on the other side for two or three days! Has Mr. Pao-yü perhaps given you offence?"

What an idea! exclaimed Pao Ch’ai, with a smile. "It’s simply that I’ve had for the last couple of days my old complaint again, and that I’ve in consequence kept quiet all this time, and looked after myself."

Is that it? asked Chou Jui’s wife; "but after all, what rooted kind of complaint are you subject to, miss? you should lose really no time in sending for a doctor to diagnose it, and give you something to make you all right. With your tender years, to have an organic ailment is indeed no trifle!"

Pao Ch’ai laughed when she heard these remarks.

Good gracious! exclaimed Mrs. Chou promptly, as she laughed. "From all you say, why you want three years’ time! and what if no rain falls on ’rain water’ day! What would one then do?"

O-mi-to-fu! cried Mrs. Chou, when she heard all this, bursting out laughing. "It’s really enough to kill one! you might wait ten years and find no such lucky moments!"

Has this medicine any name or other of its own? further inquired Mrs. Chou.

It has a name, replied Pao Ch’ai; "the mangy-headed bonze also told it me; he called it ’cold fragrance’ pill."

Chou Jui’s wife nodded her head, as she heard these words. "What do you feel like after all when this complaint manifests itself?" she went on to ask.

Nothing much, replied Pao Ch’ai; "I simply pant and cough a bit; but after I’ve taken a pill, I get over it, and it’s all gone."

Mrs. Chou was bent upon making some further remark, when madame Wang was suddenly heard to enquire, "Who is in here?"

And as she spoke, she called for Hsiang Ling. The sound of the screen-board against the sides of the door was heard, and in walked the waiting-maid, who had been playing with Chin Ch’uan-erh. "Did my lady call?" she asked.

Bring that box of flowers, said Mrs. Hsueh.

Hsiang Ling assented, and brought from the other side a small embroidered silk box.

Better keep them and give them to your daughter Pao Ch’ai to wear, observed madame Wang, "and have done with it; why think of all the others?"

You don’t know, sister, replied "aunt" Hsüeh, "what a crotchety thing Pao Ch’ai is! she has no liking for flower or powder."

So I too maintain! said Chin Ch’uan-erh.

Chou Jui’s wife then asked Hsiang Ling, "At what age did you enter this family? and where are your father and mother at present?" and also inquired, "In what year of your teens are you? and of what place are you a native?"

But Hsiang Ling, after listening to all these questions, simply nodded her head and replied, "I can’t remember."

When Mrs. Chou and Chin Ch’uan-erh heard these words, their spirits changed to grief, and for a while they felt affected and wounded at heart; but in a short time, Mrs. Chou brought the flowers into the room at the back of madame Wang’s principal apartment.

Chou Jui’s wife, therefore, on this occasion came first to these rooms as they were on her way, but she only found a few waiting-maids assembled in the antechamber, waiting silently to obey a call.

The girls forthwith interrupted their game, and both with a curtsey, expressed their thanks, and directed the waiting-maids to put the flowers away.

Mrs. Chou complied with their wishes (and handing over the flowers); "Miss Hsi Ch’un," she remarked, "is not at home; and possibly she’s over there with our old lady."

She’s in that room, isn’t she? inquired the waiting-maids.

I was just telling Chih Neng, remarked Hsi Ch’un laughing, "that I also purpose shortly shaving my head and becoming a nun; and strange enough, here you again bring me flowers; but supposing I shave my head, where can I wear them?"

They were all very much amused for a time with this remark, and Hsi Ch’un told her waiting-maid, Ju Hua, to come and take over the flowers.

What time did you come over? then inquired Mrs. Chou of Chih Neng. "Where is that bald-pated and crotchety superior of yours gone?"

We came, explained Chih Neng, "as soon as it was day; after calling upon madame Wang, my superior went over to pay a visit in the mansion of Mr. Yü, and told me to wait for her here."

Have you received, further asked Mrs. Chou, "the monthly allowance for incense offering due on the fifteenth or not?"

I can’t say, replied Chih Neng.

Who’s now in charge of the issue of the monthly allowances to the various temples? interposed Hsi Ch’un, addressing Mrs. Chou, as soon as she heard what was said.

It’s Yü Hsin, replied Chou Jui’s wife, "who’s intrusted with the charge."

That’s how it is, observed Hsi Ch’un with a chuckle; "soon after the arrival of the Superior, Yü Hsin’s wife came over and kept on whispering with her for some time; so I presume it must have been about this allowance."

When she caught sight of Mrs. Chou approaching, she at once waved her hand, bidding her go to the eastern room. Chou Jui’s wife understood her meaning, and hastily came on tiptoe to the chamber on the east, where she saw a nurse patting lady Feng’s daughter to sleep.

Mrs. Chou promptly asked the nurse in a low tone of voice: "Is the young lady asleep at this early hour? But if even she is I must wake her up."

P’ing Erh forthwith entered the room on this side, and upon perceiving Chou Jui’s wife: "What have you come here again for, my old lady?" she readily inquired.

Chou Jui’s wife rose without any delay, and handed her the box. "I’ve come," said she, "to bring you a present of flowers."

Chou Jui’s wife thereupon came over to dowager lady Chia’s room on this side of the compound, and as she was going through the Entrance Hall, she casually came, face to face, with her daughter, got up in gala dress, just coming from the house of her mother-in-law.

What are you running over here for at this time? promptly inquired Mrs. Chou.

Her daughter, upon hearing this, forthwith turned round to go back, when she added as she walked away, "Mind, mother, and make haste."

All right, replied Chou Jui’s wife, "of course I will; you are young yet, and without experience, and that’s why you are in this flurry."

What flowers? exclaimed Pao-yü. "Bring them here and let me see them."

As he uttered these words, he readily stretched out his hands and took them over, and upon opening the box and looking in, he discovered, in fact, two twigs of a novel and artistic kind of artificial flowers, of piled gauze, made in the palace.

Tai-yü merely cast a glance at them, as Pao-yü held them. "Have these flowers," she inquired eagerly, "been sent to me alone, or have all the other girls got some too?"

Each one of the young ladies has the same, replied Mrs. Chou; "and these two twigs are intended for you, miss."

Tai-yü forced a smile. "Oh! I see," she observed. "If all the others hadn’t chosen, even these which remain over wouldn’t have been given to me."

Chou Jui’s wife did not utter a word in reply.

Sister Chou, what took you over on the other side? asked Pao-yü.

I was told that our madame Wang was over there, explained Mrs. Chou, "and as I went to give her a message, ’aunt’ Hsüeh seized the opportunity to ask me to bring over these flowers."

What was cousin Pao Ch’ai doing at home? asked Pao-yü. "How is it she’s not even been over for these few days?"

She’s not quite well, remarked Mrs. Chou.

While Pao-yü was yet speaking, Hsi Hsüeh volunteered to take the message, and went off at once; and Mrs. Chou herself took her leave without another word.

Madame Wang nodded her head in token of approval.

The birthday presents, continued lady Feng, "for lady Ling Ngan, the mother of the Earl of Ling Ngan, have already been got together, and whom will you depute to take them over?"

See, suggested madame Wang, "who has nothing to do; let four maids go and all will be right! why come again and ask me?"

Our eldest sister-in-law Chen, proceeded lady Feng, "came over to invite me to go to-morrow to their place for a little change. I don’t think there will be anything for me to do to-morrow."

Lady Feng assented, and presently Li Wan, Ying Ch’un and the other cousins, likewise paid each her evening salutation and retired to their respective rooms, where nothing of any notice transpired.

What have you people invited me to come here for? promptly asked lady Feng; "if you have anything to present me with, hand it to me at once, for I’ve other things to attend to."

Mrs. Yu and Mrs. Ch’in had barely any time to exchange any further remarks, when several matrons interposed, smilingly: "Had our lady not come to-day, there would have been no help for it, but having come, you can’t have it all your own way."

While they were conversing about one thing and another, they caught sight of Chia Jung come in to pay his respects, which prompted Pao-yü to inquire, "Isn’t my elder brother at home to-day?"

He’s gone out of town to-day, replied Mrs. Yu, "to inquire after his grandfather. You’ll find sitting here," she continued, "very dull, and why not go out and have a stroll?"

A strange coincidence has taken place to-day, urged Mrs. Ch’in, with a smile; "some time back you, uncle Pao, expressed a wish to see my brother, and to-day he too happens to be here at home. I think he’s in the library; but why not go and see for yourself, uncle Pao?"

Pao-yü descended at once from the stove-couch, and was about to go, when Mrs. Yu bade the servants to mind and go with him. "Don’t you let him get into trouble," she enjoined. "It’s a far different thing when he comes over under the charge of his grandmother, when he’s all right."

If that be so, remarked lady Feng, "why not ask the young gentleman to come in, and then I too can see him. There isn’t, I hope, any objection to my seeing him?"

I won’t laugh at him then, that’s all, smiled lady Feng; "tell them to bring him in at once."

He’s shy, proceeded Mrs. Ch’in, "and has seen nothing much of the world, so that you are sure to be put out when you see him, sister."

What an idea! exclaimed lady Feng. "Were he even No Cha himself, I’d like to see him; so don’t talk trash; if, after all, you don’t bring him round at once, I’ll give you a good slap on the mouth."

I daren’t be obstinate, answered Mrs. Ch’in smiling; "I’ll bring him round!"

In a shy and demure way, he made a bow to lady Feng and asked after her health.

The matrons and maids in attendance on lady Feng, perceiving that this was the first time their mistress met Ch’in Chung, (and knowing) that she had not at hand the usual presents, forthwith ran over to the other side and told P’ing Erh about it.

Since he had first glanced at Ch’in Chung, and seen what kind of person he was, he felt at heart as if he had lost something, and after being plunged in a dazed state for a time, he began again to give way to foolish thoughts in his mind.

In wild and inane ideas of the same strain, indulged these two youths!

Pao-yü by and by further asked of him what books he was reading, and Ch’in Chung, in answer to these inquiries, told him the truth. A few more questions and answers followed; and after about ten remarks, a greater intimacy sprang up between them.

Tea and fruits were shortly served, and while they were having their tea, Pao-yü suggested, "We two don’t take any wine, and why shouldn’t we have our fruit served on the small couch inside, and go and sit there, and thus save you all the trouble?"

Darkness having set in, Mrs. Yu gave orders that two youths should accompany Mr. Ch’in home. The matrons went out to deliver the directions, and after a somewhat long interval, Ch’in Chung said goodbye and was about to start on his way.

Whom have you told off to escort him? asked Mrs. Yu.

Chiao Ta, replied the matrons, "has been told to go, but it happens that he’s under the effects of drink and making free use again of abusive language."

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