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但他那等荣耀，我们不便去认他，故越发生疏了。
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休这样说。
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如今的这荣、宁两府，也都萧索了。
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不比先时的光景！
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当日宁荣两宅人口也极多。
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如何便萧索了呢？
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说来也话长。
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去岁我到金陵时，因欲游览六朝遗迹，那日进了石头城，从他宅门前经过。
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街东是宁国府，街西是荣国府，二宅相连，竟将大半条街占了。
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大门外虽冷落无人，隔着围墙一望，里面厅殿楼阁也还都峥嵘轩峻，就是后边一带花园里，树木山石，也都还有葱蔚洇润之气。
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那里象个衰败之家？
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亏你是进士出身，原来不通。
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古人有言：百足之虫，死而不僵。
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如今虽说不似先年那样兴盛，较之平常仕宦之家，到底气象不同。
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如今人口日多，事务日盛，主仆上下都是安富尊荣，运筹谋画的竟无一个。
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那日用排场，又不能将就省俭。
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如今外面的架子虽没很倒，内囊却也尽上来了。
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这也是小事。
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谁知这样钟鸣鼎食的人家儿，如今养的儿孙，竟一代不如一代了！
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这样诗礼之家，岂有不善教育之理？

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He was good enough to ask me to stay.
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I've no urgent business I'm breaking my journey for a couple of days.
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I shall go on about the middle of the month.
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My friend's busy today, so I came out for a stroll and stopped here to rest.
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I'd no idea I'd run into you like this.”
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He made Yucun sit down at his table and ordered more food and wine.
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Drinking slowly, they spoke of all they had done since parting.
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Is there any news from the capital?
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Nothing much.
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But something rather curious has happened in the house of one of your noble kinsmen.
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I've no kinsmen in the capital.
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Who do you mean?
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You have the same surname even if you don't belong to the same clan.
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Yucun asked to whom he alluded.
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The Jia family of the Rong Mansion. You needn't be ashamed of the connection.
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Oh, that family.
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To tell the truth, our clan is a very large one.
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Since the time of Jia Fu of the Eastern Han Dynasty its branches have multiplied until now you find Jias in every province.
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Impossible to keep track of them all.
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The Rong branch and mine are, however, on the same clan register.

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承他的情，留我多住两日。
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我也无甚紧事，且盘桓两日。
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待月半时也就起身了。
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今日敝友有事，我因闲走到此。
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不期这样巧遇！
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一面说一面让雨村同席坐了，另整上酒肴来。
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二人闲谈慢饮，叙些别后之事。
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近日都中可有新闻没有？
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倒没有什么新闻。
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倒是老先生的贵同宗家出了一件小小的异事。
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弟族中无人在都。
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何谈及此？
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你们同姓，岂非一族？
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雨村问：是谁家？
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荣国贾府中，可也不玷辱老先生的门楣了！
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原来是他家。
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若论起来，寒族人丁却自不少。
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东汉贾复以来，支派繁盛，各省皆有。
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谁能逐细考查？
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若论荣国一支，却是同谱。

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A placard above the gate bore the inscription: Temple of Perspicacity.
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And flanking the gate were two mouldering boards with the couplet:
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Though plenty was left after death, he forgot to hold his hand back;
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Only at the end of the road does one think of turning on to the right track.
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Trite as the language is, this couplet has deep significance.
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I've never come across anything like it in all the famous temples I've visited.
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There may be a story behind it of someone who has tasted the bitterness of life, some repentant sinner.
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I'll go in and ask.
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But inside he found only a doddering old monk cooking gruel.
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Not very impressed, Yucun casually asked him a few questions.
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The man proved to be deaf as well as dim-witted, for his mumbled answers were quite irrelevant.
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Yucun went out again in disgust and decided to improve the occasion by drinking a few cups in a village tavern.
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He had scarcely set foot inside the door when one of the men who was drinking there rose to his feet and accosted him with a laugh.
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Fancy meeting you here!
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It was Leng Zixing, a curio-dealer whom he had met in the capital.
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Yucun admired his enterprise and ability while Zixing was eager to cultivate one of the literati, they had hit it off well together and become good friends.
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When did you arrive, brother?
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I'd no idea you were in these parts.
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What a coincidence, meeting you here.
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I went home at the end of last year and stopped here on my way back to the capital to look up an old friend.

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有额题曰：智通寺。
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门旁又有一副旧破的对联云：
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身后有馀忘缩手；
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眼前无路想回头。
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这两句文虽甚浅，其意则深。
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也曾游过些名山大刹，倒不曾见过这话头。
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其中想必有个翻过筋斗来的也未可知。
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何不进去一访。
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走入看时，只有一个龙钟老僧在那里煮粥。
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雨村见了，却不在意，及至问他两句话。
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那老僧既聋且昏，又齿落舌钝，所答非所问。
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雨村不耐烦，仍退出来，意欲到那村肆中沽饮三杯，以助野趣。
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刚入肆门，只见座上吃酒之客有一人起身大笑。
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奇遇，奇遇！
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此人是都中古董行中贸易姓冷号子兴的，旧日在都相识。
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雨村最赞这冷子兴是个有作为大本领的人，这子兴又借雨村斯文之名，故二人最相投契。
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老兄何日到此？
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弟竟不知。
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今日偶遇，真奇缘也。
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去年岁底到家，今因还要入都，从此顺路找个敝友说一句话。

谢谢

加油 坚持不错～

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He himself however, had made his career through the examinations, for his family was cultured as well as noble.
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Unfortunately it was not prolific, although several branches existed, and Lin Ruhai had cousins but no brothers or sisters.
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Now he was in his forties and his only son had died at the age of three the previous year.
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He had several concubines but fate had not granted him another son, and he could not remedy this.
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By his wife, he had a daughter Daiyu just five years old.
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Both parents loved her dearly.
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And because she was as intelligent as she was pretty, they decided to give her a good education to make up for their lack of a son and help them forget their loss.
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Yucun had caught a chill which laid him up in his inn for a month and more.
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Exhausted by his illness, and short of funds, he was searching for somewhere to recuperate.
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Fortunately he had two old friends here who knew that the Sale Commissioner was looking for a tutor.
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Upon their recommendation Yucun was given the post, which provided the security he needed.
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He was lucky, too, to have as pupil only one small girl accompanied by two maids.
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Since the child was so delicate, her lessons were irregular and this meant that his duties were light.
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In a twinkling another year went by and then his pupil's mother unexpectedly fell ill and died.
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The little girl attended her during her illness and then went into strict mourning.
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Recently, grief had brought about a relapse in the delicate child's health, and for days at a time she had to abandon her studies.
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Then Yucun, finding time hang heavy on his hands, used to take a walk after his meals when the weather was fine.
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One day he strolled to the outskirts of the city to enjoy the countryside.
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He came to luxuriant woods and bamboo groves set among hills and interlaced by streams, with a temple half hidden among the foliage.
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The entrance was in ruins, the walls were crumbling.

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到了如海便从科第出身。虽系世禄之家，却是书香之族。
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只可惜这林家支庶不盛，人丁有限，虽有几门，却与如海俱是堂族，没甚亲支嫡派的。
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今如海年已五十，只有一个三岁之子，又于去岁亡了。
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虽有几房姬妾，奈命中无子，亦无可如何之事。
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只嫡妻生得一女，乳名黛玉，年方五岁。
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夫妻爱之如掌上明珠。
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见他生得聪明俊秀，也欲使他识几个字，不过假充养子，聊解膝下荒凉之叹。
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贾雨村在旅店偶感风寒。
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愈后又因盘费不继，正欲得一个居停之所以为息肩之地。
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偶遇两个旧友认得新盐政，知他正要请一西席教训女儿。
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遂将雨村荐进衙门去。
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这女学生年纪幼小，其馀不过两个伴读丫鬟。
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身体又弱，工课不限多寡，故雨村十分省力。
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看看又是一载有馀，不料女学生之母贾氏夫人一病而亡。
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女学生奉侍汤药，守丧尽礼，过于哀痛。
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素本怯弱，因此旧病复发，有好些时不曾上学。
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雨村闲居无聊，每当风日晴和，饭后便出来闲步。
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这一日偶至郊外，意欲赏鉴那村野风光。
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信步至一山环水漩、茂林修竹之处，隐隐有座庙宇。
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门巷倾颓，墙垣剥落。

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又封百金赠与封肃，又送甄家娘子许多礼物，令其且自过活，以待访寻女儿下落。
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却说娇杏那丫头便是当年回顾雨村的，因偶然一看便弄出这段奇缘，也是意想不到之事。
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只一年便生一子，又半载雨村嫡配忽染疾下世，雨村便将他扶作正室夫人。
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原来雨村因那年士隐赠银之后，他于十六日便起身赴京。
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大比之期，十分得意，中了进士，选入外班
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今已升了本县太爷。
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虽才干优长，未免贪酷，且恃才侮上，那同寅皆侧目而视。
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不上一年，便被上司参了一本。
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貌似有才，性实狡猾，又题了一两件徇庇蠹役、交结乡绅之事。
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龙颜大怒，即命革职。
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部文一到，本府各官无不喜悦。
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那雨村虽十分惭恨，面上却全无一点怨色，仍是嘻笑自若。
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交代过了公事，将历年所积的宦囊，并家属人等，送至原籍安顿妥当了。
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却自己担风袖月，游览天下胜迹。
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那日偶又游至维扬地方，闻得今年盐政点的是林如海。
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表字如海，乃是前科的探花，今已升兰台寺大夫。
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本贯姑苏人氏，今钦点为巡盐御史。
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到任未久。
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原来这林如海之祖也曾袭过列侯的，今到如海，业经五世。
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——起初只袭三世，因当今隆恩盛德，额外加恩，至如海之父又袭了一代。

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只有当日小婿姓甄，今已出家一二年了。
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不知可是问他？
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我们也不知什么真假。
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既是你的女婿，就带了你去面禀太爷便了。
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大家把封肃推拥而去，封家各各惊慌，不知何事。
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至二更时分，封肃方回来。
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众人忙问端的。
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原来新任太爷姓贾名化，本湖州人氏，曾与女婿旧交。
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因在我家门首看见娇杏丫头买线，只说女婿移住此间。
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我将缘故回明，那太爷感伤叹息了一回。
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又问外孙女儿，我说看灯丢了。
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不妨，待我差人去，务必找寻回来。
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说了一回话，临走又送我二两银子。
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甄家娘子听了，不觉感伤。
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一夜无话。
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次日，早有雨村遣人送了两封银子、四匹锦缎，答谢甄家娘子。
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又一封密书与封肃，托他向甄家娘子要那娇杏作二房。
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封肃喜得眉开眼笑。
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巴不得去奉承太爷，便在女儿前一力撺掇。当夜用一乘小轿，便把娇杏送进衙内去了。
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雨村欢喜自不必言。

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幸而身边还有两个旧日的丫鬟伏侍，主仆三人，日夜作些针线，帮着父亲用度。
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那封肃虽然每日抱怨，也无可奈何了。
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这日那甄家的大丫鬟在门前买线，忽听得街上喝道之声。
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众人都说：新太爷到任了！
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丫鬟隐在门内看时。
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只见军牢快手一对一对过去。
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俄而大轿内抬着一个乌帽猩袍的官府来了。
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那丫鬟倒发了个怔，自思。
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这官儿好面善？
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倒象在那里见过的。
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于是进入房中，也就丢过不在心上。
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至晚间正待歇息之时，忽听一片声打的门响。
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本县太爷的差人来传人问话！
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封肃听了，唬得目瞪口呆。
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不知有何祸事
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且听下回分解。
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第二回，贾夫人仙逝扬州城，冷子兴演说荣国府。
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却说封肃听见公差传唤，忙出来陪笑启问。
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快请出甄爷来。
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小人姓封，并不姓甄。

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衰草枯杨，曾为歌舞场。
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蛛丝儿结满雕梁，绿纱今又在蓬窗上。
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说甚么脂正浓、粉正香，如何两鬓又成霜？
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昨日黄土陇头埋白骨，今宵红绡帐底卧鸳鸯。
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金满箱，银满箱，转眼乞丐人皆谤。
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正叹他人命不长，那知自己归来丧？
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训有方，保不定日后作强梁。
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择膏粱，谁承望流落在烟花巷！
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因嫌纱帽小，致使锁枷扛。
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昨怜破袄寒，今嫌紫蟒长。
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乱烘烘，你方唱罢我登场，反认他乡是故乡。
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甚荒唐，到头来，都是为他人作嫁衣裳。
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那疯跛道人听了。
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解得切！
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走罢。
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将道人肩上的搭裢抢过来背上，竟不回家，同着疯道人飘飘而去。
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当下哄动街坊。
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封氏闻知此信，哭个死去活来。
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只得与父亲商议，遣人各处访寻，那讨音信？
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只得依靠着他父母度日。

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可巧这日拄了拐扎挣到街前散散心时。
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忽见那边来了一个跛足道人，疯狂落拓，麻鞋鹑衣。
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世人都晓神仙好，惟有功名忘不了。
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古今将相在何方？荒冢一堆草没了。
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世人都晓神仙好，只有金银忘不了。
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终朝只恨聚无多，及到多时眼闭了。
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世人都晓神仙好，只有娇妻忘不了。
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君生日日说恩情，君死又随人去了。
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世人都晓神仙好，只有儿孙忘不了。
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痴心父母古来多，孝顺子孙谁见了？
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士隐听了。
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你满口说些什么？
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只听见些好了好了。
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你若果听见好了二字，还算你明白。
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可知世上万般，好便是了，了便是好。若不了，便不好；若要好，须是了。
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我这歌儿便叫《好了歌》。
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士隐本是有夙慧的，一闻此言，心中早已悟彻。
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因笑道：且住，待我将你这《好了歌》注解出来如何？
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你就请解。
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陋室空堂，当年笏满床。