Xue Pan Regrets Marrying the Lioness of Hedong; Jia Yingchun Mistakenly Weds the Wolf of Zhongsha

After Baoyu had finished his offerings to Qingwen, he suddenly heard someone speaking behind the flowers and was startled. Looking closer, he saw it was Lin Daiyu. Her face was full of smiles as she said, “That dirge is written with real novelty. It could almost be handed down alongside the Stele of Cao E.” Baoyu blushed and answered with a smile, “I thought all the memorial texts in the world were old and vulgar, so I tried a new way of writing. I was only playing about with it, and never expected you to hear. It is not well written. Let us revise it together.” Daiyu said, “Where is the original manuscript? I want to read it carefully. It is so long that just now I only heard two lines clearly: ‘In the red silk bed-curtain, the young gentleman is full of feeling; in the yellow earth mound, the maiden is ill-fated.’ That couplet has excellent meaning, only ‘in the red silk bed-curtain’ is too old-fashioned. There is a real scene right before our eyes. Why not use it?” Baoyu quickly asked, “What real scene do you mean?” Daiyu smiled. “Our rooms have window lattices......