Violation of the Red Chamber and Daiyu

Back at Jia's mansion, Daiyu started to pay her respects every day and play with her sisters to hide Baoyu.Until October: all the supervisors have paid their accounts; all the antiques and toys are ready; the birds, from cranes, deer, rabbits, chickens and geese, etc., have also been bought and handed over to be raised by various places; Qiang also rehearsed twenty or thirty miscellaneous operas; a group of young nuns and Taoist nuns also learned to chant Buddhist scriptures.Jia Zheng felt a little at ease.Then he invited Jia's mother to come to the garden. After careful consideration and proper decoration, Jia Zheng dared to write the book if there was no slight discrepancy.On the date in the book, it was ordered: "On the fifteenth day of the first month of the next year, the noble concubine will visit her relatives." Jia's mansion followed this order, and they never idled day and night, and they haven't had a good time for years.

On the 28th day of the twelfth lunar month, Daiyu was chatting and drinking Laba porridge with Jia Mu and everyone.Seeing Amber coming in from the outside, she saluted Mother Jia and said, "Old Ancestor, Dongping County Prince's Mansion sent a nanny here." Mother Jia and Mrs. Wang were very puzzled. Could it be that seeing Yuan Chun being promoted to a concubine and wanting to make friends?Thinking this way, I didn't dare to neglect and asked someone to come in.Daiyu, Baochai and all the sisters came behind the screen.

The door curtain was lifted, and Nanny Li came in.Mother Jia had also seen Nanny Li at the banquet held by the old concubine of Beijing Palace.Knowing that she is the concubine's confidant, before she finished the ceremony, she gave Sister Feng a wink.Sister Feng hastened to help Nanny Li up.Grandmother Jia asked someone to show her seat, Nanny Li sat down properly, and then said: "How is the old lady? Our princess asks the old lady to ask her well." It's pretty tough." The two of them chatted again, and Li Momo said, "This time, the concubine missed Miss Lin and sent me to deliver some things."

When Jia Mu heard this, she hurriedly asked Daiyu to come out.Daiyu walked around the screen, and Nanny Li stood up and saluted, "It's been more than five months since I left on the mountain. Not to mention the concubine talking about it, even the princess is thinking about Miss Lin every day. The girl didn't say that she would go and sit down." Sit down." Daiyu said, "You can tell the concubine for me, because I have no time to spare because of the busy affairs in the mansion, so I planned to visit after the next year." The concubine smiled and said, "That's what the concubine said. You don't have to worry too much about it, girl." As she spoke, she asked someone to present a gift, besides a set of jewelry for Daiyu, there were also two solitary books and the top four treasures of the study.One century-old ginseng was given to Jiamu, and two bolts of high-quality tribute satin were given to Mrs. Xing and Mrs. Wang.The rest of the people are gone.

Mother Li said again: "Because the little princess knew that the old slave came to see the girl, he ordered the old slave to bring a letter and a white tiger skin to the girl." The skin of the tiger that he smashed to death, right?Daiyu then said: "Mommy thanked Yao'er for me, I will send her a letter tomorrow." Nanny Li talked with everyone again and left.Daiyu asked Nanny Zhang to take her out.

As soon as Nanny Li left, the sisters came out from behind the screen and surrounded Daiyu to look at those things.Mrs. Xing asked: "How did my niece know the concubine? Why didn't she tell me earlier." Mother Jia coughed and glared at Mrs. Xing.Mrs. Xing really couldn't hold her breath. You can see Mrs. Wang's eyes are going to burst out of anger staring at the set of gold and jade jewelry, and she didn't ask anything.Daiyu told the story of meeting the princess in the nunnery.Jia Mu took her hand and said, "Yu'er didn't say anything when she came back, so we can prepare some gifts to thank the princess." Daiyu said, "I see that the whole house is busy with the mother's family. How about it?" I'm adding to the chaos. I was thinking of waiting for the empress to return to the palace before talking about it." Jia Mu then said, "Tomorrow I will prepare something and you send it to the palace together." Madam Wang was about to open her mouth when Jia Mu glanced at her. Stop talking.

Back in the room, Mrs. Wang threw two cups angrily, and said to Zhou Rui's family: "My Yuan Jie'er has been in the palace for so many years, but she may not have a complete set of imperial jewelry. How can she be so sick? Worthy of it?! Besides, why does Jia’s mansion ask her to give something as a gift?” Zhou Rui’s family said: “Madam, can we find an excuse to bring the things over?” “Fart!” Mrs. Wang swears, “That’s a gift from the emperor.” Yes, you don't want to die? You don't have to implicate me!" Zhou Rui's family hurriedly apologized.Mrs. Wang also knew that it was good to have a good relationship with the Dongping County Prince's Mansion, so she could only go to the library to pick things out.

Daiyu went back and read the letter from the little princess, only then did she know that Zhenbeihou is the little princess's cousin, and their mothers are direct sisters, but the old Zhenbeihou left early, and the emperor also took the opportunity to take back a lot of military power, and confronted Zhenbeihou. Beihou is also relieved.Zhenbei Hou saw that the little princess liked hunting very much, and thought that the white tiger was also killed in front of her, so he cooked the tiger skin and put some fox skins and rabbit skins on it and gave it to the little princess.The little princess felt that the white tiger was killed by Daiyu, so she gave it to Daiyu again.Daiyu thought, I have smashed it to death, and I am laying its skin, will its soul come back to find me?Let's put it away.

The next day, Daiyu handed over the letter to the princess, a coat she had made for the princess, and some tricks she had made for the princess to Mother Zhao and asked her to send it to the palace.Mother Jia and Mrs. Wang prepared valuables and let Mammy Lai go with Zhou Rui's family.Daiyu looked at it and said nothing.

New Years passed in a blink of an eye, and on the tenth day of the Lunar New Year, Grandma Li of the royal palace came again, saying that the little princess invited Daiyu to play for a day on the fifteenth day, and she must not delay the mother's visit to her relatives.Daiyu was trying to avoid standing outside for a whole day, what a blessing in disguise.Seeing that the palace likes Daiyu, Jia's mother is also happy for her to go.Although Mrs. Wang has criticisms, she dare not disobey the palace.Baochai said, "Why don't I go with Sister Lin that day, so that I can have a companion." Li Nanny already knew Baochai's identity and said, "Miss Xue, please forgive me, the little Princess is only dating officials. I'm afraid You don't feel comfortable going there." Baochai blushed with embarrassment.

However, it is said that Daiyu was picked up by the people of the palace early in the morning on the [-]th, and when she entered the palace, she saw the little princess.The little princess said: "Sister Dai, you are here. I miss you so much." Daiyu went to see the princess again, and the prince happened to be there too. After seeing Daiyu and inquiring about it, she gave her a piece of jade pendant to her. Daiyu said: "Your father and I are old friends, from now on we will be relatives." The little princess came over and said that the other girls invited had also arrived, so she took Daiyu to the flower hall.Daiyu sees that other girls also have their own characteristics, some are petite and cute, some are dignified and virtuous, and some are straightforward.It's fun to talk about poetry and interesting things.At noon, the concubine sent someone to tell the girls to eat by themselves, so as not to detain everyone with her.

Daiyu played until the end of You hour before getting up and returning to Jia's mansion. When she arrived at Ningrong Street, she saw that the whole street was blocked by a red curtain, and everyone was waiting outside the door. Daiyu got off the sedan chair and stood beside Xichun.Mother Jia and Mrs. Wang waited anxiously, and they didn't bother to ask about Daiyu's palace.Xichun was very curious, and Daiyu agreed to tell her afterward, so she stopped talking.

After waiting for a while, Yuan Chun only came when he heard the eunuch clapping his hands.Everyone saluted and saw Yuan Chun, and Yuan Chun asked everyone to avoid the ceremony.In Yuanchun, Yu boarded a boat to visit the Grand View Garden.Jia Mu and the others were waiting in Rongqing Hall.