CHAPTER 41 1
Pao-yu Sips Tea in Green Lattice Nunnery 1
Granny Liu Succumbs to Wine in Happy Red Court 1
CHAPTER 42 15
The Lady of the Alpinia Warns Against Dubious Tastes in Literature 15
The Queen of Bamboos’ Quips Add to the General Enjoyment 15
CHAPTER 43 31
To Kill Time Money Is Raised to Celebrate a Birthday 31
Incense Is Burned on the Ground to Undying Love 31
CHAPTER 44 45
Hsi-feng， Taken by Surprise， Gives Way to Jealousy 45
Ping-erh， Unexpectedly Gratified， Makes Her Toilet 45
CHAPTER 45 60
Two Girls Pledge Friendship After a Heart-to-Heart Talk 60
A Plaintive Poem Is Written One Windy， Rainy Evening 60
CHAPTER 46 76
An Old Reprobate Makes an Unseemly Proposal 76
Yuan-yang Vows Never to Marry 76
CHAPTER 47 93
A Stupid Bully Is Beaten Up for His Amorous Advances 93
A Cool Young Gentleman Leaves Home for Fear of Reprisals 93
CHAPTER 48 109
A Rebuffed Reprobate Decides on a Journey 109
An Aspiring Maid Racks Her Brains to Write Poetry 109
CHAPTER 49 124
White Snow and Red Plum-Blossom Make the Garden Entrancing 124
Girls Enjoy Rustic Fare at a Venison Barbecue 124
CHAPTER 50 140
In Reed Snow Cottage Girls Vie in Composing a Collective Poem 140
In Warm Scented Arbour Fine Lantern Riddles Are Made 140
CHAPTER 51 159
Pao-chin Composes Poems Recalling the Past 159
An Incompetent Physician Prescribes Strong Medicine 159
CHAPTER 52 176
Tactful Ping-erh Conceals the Theft of Her Gold Bracelet 176
Plucky Ching-wen Mends a Peacock-Feather Cape in Bed 176
CHAPTER 53 193
Ancestral Sacrifice Is Carried Out on New Year’s Eve in the Ning Mansion 193
An Evening Banquet Is Held on the Feast of Lanterns in the Jung Mansion 193
CHAPTER 54 212
The Lady Dowager Debunks Trite Stories 212
Hsi-feng Clowns to Amuse Her Elders 212
CHAPTER 55 231
A Stupid Concubine Insults Her Own Daughter in a Futile Squabble 231
A Spiteful Servant Imposes upon Her Young Mistress 231
CHAPTER 56 248
Clever Tan-chun Devises a Scheme to Make a Profit and End Abuses 248
Understanding Pao-chai Rounds It Out with a Small Act of Kindness 248
CHAPTER 57 266
Artful Tzu-chuan Tests Pao-yu’s Feelings 266
Kindly Aunt Hsueh Comforts Tai-yu 266
CHAPTER 58 289
Under the Shade of an Apricot Tree an Actress Mourns Her Stage Lover 289
The Master of Happy Red Court Sympathizes with the Girl’s Infatuation 289
CHAPTER 59 305
Ying-erh and Chun-yen Are Scolded by Willow Bank 305
And Red Rue Studio Sends for Reinforcements 305
CHAPTER 60 316
Jasmine Powder Is Substituted for Rose-Nitric Powder 316
Rose Flavoured Juice Is Repaid with Pachyma Cocos 316
CHAPTER 61 333
Pao-yu Covers Up a Girl’s Theft to Protect His Sister 333
Ping-erh Wields Authority to Right a Wrong 333
CHAPTER 62 348
Sweet Hsiang-yun Sleeps Tipsily Among Peonies 348
Silly Hsiang-ling Coyly Takes Off Her Pomegranate Skirt 348
CHAPTER 63 374
Girls Feast at Night to Celebrate Pao-yu’s Birthday 374
Chia Ching Dies of an Elixir and Madam Yu Manages the Funeral Single-Handed 374
CHAPTER 64 399
A Chaste Girl in Sad Seclusion Writes Poems on Five Beauties 399
An Amorous Libertine Drops His Nine-Dragon Pendant 399
CHAPTER 65 421
A Hen-Pecked Young Profligate Takes a Concubine in Secret 421
A Wanton Girl Mends Her Ways and Picks Herself a Husband 421
CHAPTER 66 436
A Girl in Love Is Rejected and Kills Herself 436
A Cold-Hearted Man Repents and Turns to Religion 436
CHAPTER 67 448
A Gift of Local Products Makes Tai-yu Homesick 448
Hsi-feng Questions a Page Boy and Hatches a Plot 448
CHAPTER 68 472
Unhappy Second Sister Yu Is Decoyed into Grand View Garden 472
Jealous Hsi-feng Makes a Scene in the Ning Mansion 472
CHAPTER 69 489
Crafty Hsi-feng Kills Her Rival by Proxy 489
And Second Sister Swallows Gold and Dies 489
CHAPTER 70 506
Tai-yu Starts Another Poetry Club —Peach -Blossom Society 506
Hsiang-yun Dashes Off a Poem on Willow Catkins 506
CHAPTER 71 520
Lady Hsing Feeling Wronged Puts Hsi-feng in the Wrong 520
Yuan-yang Happens upon Two Lovers 520
CHAPTER 72 540
Hsi-feng Puts up a Bold Front， Ashamed to Admit Her Illness 540
Lai Wang’s Wife Relies on Her Mistress’ Power to Force Through a Match for Her Son 540
CHAPTER 73 556
A Foolish Maid by Chance Picks up a Pornographic Pouch 556
A Timid Young Lady Ignores the Loss of Her Gold Phoenix Tiara 556
CHAPTER 74 572
Malicious Talk Makes Lady Wang Have a Search Made of the Garden 572
To Guard Her Integrity Hsi-chun Breaks with the Ning Mansion 572
CHAPTER 75 594
At a Feast One Night Portentous Sighing Is Heard 594
New Poems on the Moon Festival Are Taken as Good Omens 594
CHAPTER 76 614
By Convex Emerald Hall Fluting Fills an Old Lady with Grief 614
In Concave Crystal Lodge Girls Composing a Poem Lament Their Loneliness 614
CHAPTER 77 631
A Pretty Maid Wrongly Accused Dies an Untimely Death 631
Lovely Actresses Sever Worldly Ties and Join a Nunnery 631
CHAPTER 78 652
An Old Scholar at Leisure Has Eulogies Composed 652
His Unorthodox， Witless Son Laments the Hibiscus 652
CHAPTER 79 676
Hsueh Pan Marries a Fierce Lioness and Repents Too Late 676
Ying-chun Is Wrongly Wedded to an Ungrateful Wolf 676
CHAPTER 80 687
Lovely Hsiang-ling Is Unjustly Thrashed by Her Lecherous Husband 687
The Taoist Priest Wang Prescribes a Cure for a Shrew 687