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Chapter 35 9. People who are separated by flowers are far away and the end of the world is near - Lingguan

Lingguan is just a small actor in Lixiangyuan, but his skills are extraordinary, and he was appreciated by Concubine Yuan Gui as soon as he appeared on the stage. Just after the performance, an eunuch came in with a golden plate of pastries and asked, "Who is the senior official?"The eunuch said again: "The imperial concubine has an order, saying: 'The senior officer is very good, and I will make two more plays, no matter what two plays.'" Jia Qiang hurriedly agreed, because the senior officer was ordered to do "Garden Tour" and "A Dream" "Two out.For this reason, Lingguan insisted not to make two plays that were not originally in the role, and decided to make two plays of "Meeting" and "Calling each other".Jia Qiang couldn't twist him, so she had to obey him.Concubine Jia was very happy, and ordered "don't make it difficult for this girl, so that she can learn from her life", and she rewarded two additional bolts of palace satin, two purses, gold and silver pouches, food and so on.

In a small paragraph of words, the image of a young actor with outstanding color skills and distinctive personality has already appeared on the paper, leaving a deep impression on people. Before that, we didn't know that the names of the twelve opera singers used the word "official" in common.And "Lingguan" is the first famous person among the twelve officials. "A tree that is beautiful in the forest will be destroyed by the wind." Such a stunner probably has no happy ending, right? Gengchen's commentary after the two episodes of "Meeting" and "Calling Each other": "In "The Story of Hairpin and Chuanchuan", there are always endless stories about Fengyue and other articles."

Later, in the thirtieth chapter of "Baochai Borrowing a Fan Machine to Bring Double Knocking Officials to Draw Qiang Chi and Outsiders", we finally saw the clues of that "wind and moon", and knew that what she was thinking about was a "Qiang" Character. In this episode, through Baoyu's eyes, the book describes Lingguan's appearance for the first time. Baoyu couldn't bear to abandon him for a long time, and just looked at him foolishly.I saw that although he used the golden hairpin to mark the ground, he didn't dig the soil to bury flowers, but he wrote on the soil.Baoyu followed the rise and fall of the hairpin with his eyes, and kept looking at the strokes one by one, counting eighteen strokes.I wrote again with my finger in the palm of my hand according to the rules he just wrote, and guessed what the word was.When I thought about it, it turned out to be the word "Qiang" for a rose flower.Baoyu thought: "It must be that he also wants to write poems and lyrics. When I saw this flower, I felt something, or I wrote two sentences by chance. I was afraid of forgetting it on the spur of the moment, and I was painting and deliberating on the ground. I don't know. Let's see What is he going to write next?" While thinking, while looking again, I saw that the girl was still drawing, drawing and drawing, but still the word "Qiang".Look again, it's still the word "Qiang".The original inside is already crazy, after painting one after another, thousands of "Qiang" have been drawn.The outsiders are also bewildered, the pearls of the two eyes just follow the hairpin, but they think in their hearts: "This girl must have something big on her mind that she can't express, which is why she looks like this. Since the outside is like this, I don’t know how to suffer in my heart. Seeing how thin he looks, there is still room for torture in my heart. It’s a pity that I can’t share some for you.”

It is cloudy and sunny in Fuzhong, and a cloud can cause rain. Suddenly a cool wind passes by, and a shower of rain falls.Baoyu watched the water dripping from the woman's head, and the gauze clothes were immediately wet.Baoyu thought, "It's raining now. How can his body withstand the sudden rain!" So he couldn't help but said, "There's no need to write. Look at the heavy rain, and you're all wet." The girl was shocked when she heard that I jumped, looked up, and saw someone outside Hua telling him not to write, it was raining heavily.One, Baoyu, has a handsome face; the other is full of flowers and leaves, both of which are hidden by branches and leaves. Just showing half of her face, the girl is just a girl, and she doesn't want to be Baoyu anymore. She smiled and said, "Thank you, sister, for reminding me. Could it be What kind of shelter does my sister have outside to protect me from the rain?" The sentence reminded Baoyu, and with an "Ai yo", she felt cold all over her body.Looking down, he was also wet.Saying "no", I had no choice but to run back to Yihong Courtyard in a hurry, but I still remembered that the girl had no place to shelter from the rain.

In this way, Ling Guan has already registered with Brother Yu.However, Lingguan not only looks like Daiyu in Baoyu's eyes, but also Sister Feng said later: "This child looks like a person, you can't see it anymore." Everyone knew it well, but they didn't say it. Shi Xiangyun broke the secret: "It looks like sister Lin." Such layers of exaggeration are nothing more than telling readers: Lingguan is another substitute for Daiyu. Miss Lin, Miss Ling, even the pronunciation is very similar. It's no wonder that Lin's appearance is similar to that of similar age, but his temperament and sickness are also similar, which is amazing.

In the thirty-sixth chapter "Embroidered Mandarin Duck Dream Zhaojiang Yunxuan Knows the Points and Determines the Love to Comprehend the Lixiangyuan", it is another big drama of Lingguan, and it is also the last appearance. The whole description is still what Baoyu has seen and heard: One day, Baoyu thought of the song because he was tired of traveling everywhere. He watched it twice and was still not satisfied, because he heard that among the twelve girls in Lixiangyuan, Xiaodanlingguan was the best singer Because when I came out of the corner door to look for it, I saw that Baoguan and Yuguan were all in the courtyard, and when they saw Baoyu coming, they all gave up their seats with a smile.Baoyu asked, "Where is Lingguan alone?" Everyone told him, "It's in his room." Baoyu hurried to his room, only to see Lingguan lying on the pillow alone.

Baoyu was used to being stubborn with other girls, and she was just like others when she was an official of age. Because she came in and sat down beside her, she accompanied Xiaoyan to ask him to get up and sing "Yu Qingsi".Not wanting to see him sitting down, the Lingguan hurriedly raised his body to avoid it, and said seriously: "The voice is hoarse. The former lady passed it in to us, and I haven't sung yet." Seeing that he was sitting upright, Baoyu took a closer look, and it turned out that It was the one with the word "Qiang" under the rose flower that day.Seeing such a situation again, I have never been rejected by others before, so I blushed embarrassingly and had no choice but to come out.Baoguan and others didn't understand why, so they asked why.Baoyu said that and came out.Baoguan then said, "Just wait a moment. The second master Qiang came and asked him to sing, which is a must." After hearing this, Baoyu wondered, because he asked, "Where is Brother Qiang?" Baoguan said : "I just went out, it must be what the senior officer wants, he went to change it."

When Baoyu heard this, he thought it was strange. After standing for a while, he saw Jia Qiang coming from outside, holding a bird cage in his hand, with a small stage tied to it, and a bird, happily walking in. Looking for senior officials.When I saw Baoyu, I had to stop.Baoyu asked him, "What kind of sparrow is it that can carry a flag on a stage?" Jia Qiang laughed and said, "It's a golden bean with a jade top." Baoyu said, "How much did you buy it for?" " Said while letting Baoyu sit, and came to the official room by himself.Baoyu has lost all interest in listening to the music at this moment, and it depends on how he and Lingguan are.

I saw Jia Qiang go in and smiled and said, "Get up, look at this stubbornness." Lingguan got up and asked what it was, Jia Qiang said: "If you buy a bird, you can be stubborn, so that you won't be bored every day and have no fun. I'll be stubborn first. Take a look." As he said that, he took some millet to coax the sparrow to stray around on the stage, holding a grimace flag.All the girls laughed and said "interesting", Du Lingguan sneered twice, and fell asleep in anger.Jia Qiang just kept laughing and asked him if he was okay.Lingguan said: "Your family has brought in good people. It's not worth it to be locked in this prison and learn this shit. Now you get another bird, and you are born to do this. You obviously messed with him. He came to describe us jokingly, and asked me if I was okay." Jia Qiang became flustered when she heard this, and quickly swore an oath.He said again: "Today, the balsam oil in my place has deceived my heart! I spent one or two taels of silver to buy him. I said to relieve my boredom, but I didn't think of it. Come on, come on, let me live, and save your disaster." As he said, he let Que'er go, and dismantled the cage in one fell swoop.The senior officer also said: "Although that sparrow is not as good as a human being, he also has an old sparrow in the nest. You can bear it if you take him to make this trouble! Today I coughed up two mouthfuls of blood. My wife asked the doctor to come and see, Don't talk about asking for me carefully, you can make fun of this. I am born to be ignored by no one, and I am also sick." As he spoke, he began to cry again.Jia Qiang hurriedly said: "I asked the doctor last night, and he said it was irrelevant. He said to take two doses of medicine, and I'll see later. Who knows that he vomited again today. Let him go now." Said, So please go.The senior officer said again, "Stop, the sun is so poisonous now, you go and invite me here in a fit of anger, and I won't look at it." Jia Qiang had to stop again when she heard this.Seeing such a scene, Baoyu felt insane, and only then did he understand the deep meaning of "Qiang".Unable to stand up, he pulled away and left.Jia Qiang put all her heart on Lingguan and didn't care to send it off, but other girls sent it out.

That Baoyu was determined and calculating, and returned to the Yihong courtyard foolishly, just as Lin Daiyu and Xiren were sitting and talking.As soon as Baoyu came in, he sighed with the attacker and said, "I said something wrong last night. It's strange that the master said that I was 'understanding'. It was wrong to say that your tears buried me alone last night. I actually said something wrong." It can't be all. From now on, everyone will have their own tears." Xiren said some stubborn words last night, and he has forgotten them. He didn't want Baoyu to mention them again, so he laughed and said, "You are really crazy." Baoyu Silence is wrong, since then I have deeply understood the fate of life, each has its own destiny, but every time I secretly hurt "I don't know who will bury me in the future and shed tears?"

Before that, Lin Daiyu had been angry with Baoyu because everyone said that the senior officer was exactly like her, saying that he "made fun of me comparing me to an actor", and said: "Do you still compare? Do you still laugh? You don't compare or not, but you laugh when you compare others. It's even better!" And this section of the senior officer was angry because Jia Qiang bought the sparrow, and he also blamed him for "making fun of it", "You obviously made him joke about us, and asked me if I was okay." The sound was very similar Daiyu. Xiangyun once said that Daiyu was "little-natured, and loves to control people in action", but in terms of this, it can be said that the age official is more than that.See how she is sometimes pear blossoms with rain, and sometimes tender, how fascinated Jia Qiang is.No wonder Baoyu was ashamed of herself, and finally realized the truth that "everyone has his own tears". The person who can make Baoyu "enlighten his feelings" has higher merit than Keqing, so how can he not be in the twelve beauties? After the troupe was disbanded, Lingguan was not assigned to the Grand View Garden, so he probably left with his wife.Or was Jia Qiang taken into the outer room?Or he coughed up blood and died? There is no explanation in the book.Since then, the age officer has never appeared again. At the same time, Bao Guan and Yu Guan disappeared. In particular, although Baoguan and Yuguan appear infrequently, they always appear at the same time, and they are always related to Lingguan. The first time was when Baoyu returned to Yihong Courtyard after the scene of "Lingguan Painting Rose". The ditch was blocked, and the water accumulated in the courtyard. Some mallard ducks, flower ducks, and colorful mandarin ducks were caught, chased away, sewed their wings, and played in the courtyard, and closed the courtyard door. Xiren and others All giggling on the veranda." Again, it was Baoyu who came to Lixiangyuan to find age officials to sing, "I saw that Baoyu and Yuguan were all in the courtyard, and when they saw Baoyu coming, they all gave up their seats with a smile", explaining to him, "Just wait for the second master Qiang to come and ask him to sing. It must be sung", also Baoguan. But after this time, these three people disappeared at the same time. After the troupe was disbanded, "Mother Jia left the civil servants to do her own thing, pointing Zhengdanfang official to Baoyu, sending Xiaodanrui official to Baochai, and sending Xiaosheng lotus root to Baoyu. The official pointed to Daiyu, sent the big flower-faced sunflower official to Xiangyun, the small flower-faced bean official to Baoqin, and the foreigner Ai official to Tanchun, and Youshi begged the old Dan eggplant official to go." ——Counting it all down, apart from the death of the medicine official (菂官), only the Lingguan, Baoguan, and Yuguan entered the garden.Bao and Yu actually left with Miss Ling. What does this mean?
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