The Rebirth of Daiyu in the Red Chamber

On the [-]th, Kangxi took a small boat and went to the south of the Yellow River to read and watch out for precautions. Yinzhen accompanied several elder brothers, and the eighth, thirteenth, and fourteenth baylors stayed behind.

At this time, the empress dowager was as philanthropic to Lin Daiyu as before, and everyone was still the same. The effort to whitewash the peace was first-class, which opened Lin Daiyu's eyes.As for Lin Daiyu's Lihua, because she was an ordinary domestic cat, she was ridiculed by Ling Shuang, neither Lin Daiyu nor Lihua took a look at her.

Kangxi didn't come back until the beginning of March, but Yinzhen didn't come back, so I don't know where he was sent.

The dragon boat continued to go south, all the way to the Taihu Lake Basin, and when it reached Yangzhou, the dragon boat stopped.In her spare time, the Empress Dowager asked Lin Daiyu if she wanted to visit Yangzhou City. Although Lin Daiyu had lived in Yangzhou for several years, this was not her ancestral home. She only thought of the old monk at Qiling Temple and said she would visit.

I don't want the Empress Dowager to hear it and say: "I heard that Qiling Temple is a big temple with strong incense, so why not go together."

Empress Dowager Feng Luan came to Qiling Temple. The temple should have cleared away the idlers and others, but because the Holy Majesty does not disturb the people, the Empress Dowager naturally wanted to be more easy-going, so there was not even a tent on the road, which made the people of Yangzhou open up. Fan horizon.

Qiling Temple received the news early, and the monks in the temple rushed out to greet him.After the Empress Dowager worshiped the Bodhisattva, she went to the Buddhist temple to listen to the presiding lecture on Buddhism.

Lin Daiyu didn't see Master Huiyuan all the way, so she wanted to ask a question, thinking that Master Huiyuan is a monk who doesn't love the world, so she took Dongjing and Xiaoxizi to find him along the road in memory, and was stopped by the little novice when she reached a place : "Where the benefactor wants to go, the poor monk can lead the way, but don't go any further."

Lin Daiyu pointed to the front and said: "A few years ago, I had the honor to listen to an old master give advice, and now I am going to visit him again."

The little novice thought for a while, and wrote a novel: "Amitabha, the poor monk knows, but the old teacher passed away two years ago, I am afraid that the wish of the benefactor will come to nothing."

Lin Daiyu was stunned, remembering that when they first met, Yinzhen had said, "Master realizes that his life span is near the end of his life." Although Huiyuan had said that life and death were about to end, he couldn't let go of it for a while, and forced a smile: "Excuse me, little master, Where is Zen Master Huiyuan's tomb?"

The little novice said that it was at his residence, so Lin Daiyu said that he would pay homage and borrow incense candles from the temple. The little novice got the incense money, so naturally she was not unwilling.

Lin Daiyu walked to the hillside, but saw that the old scene was still there, but there was an extra tomb, half of the thatched hut collapsed, overgrown with weeds, but the tomb was in good condition, and there were still offerings in front of the tomb, obviously someone often took care of it.

Lin Daiyu burned incense and paper money to Zen Master Huiyuan, and when she was about to leave, she suddenly heard rustling sounds in the broken thatched cottage.

Xiao Xizi was terrified and jumped up in fright, Dong Jing said: "The sky is bright and bright, what are you afraid of, I'll go and see."

Lin Daiyu said: "Dongjing, what can you do? Xiaoxizi go."

Xiao Xizi's face was downcast, so she had to look over tremblingly, but saw that it turned out to be an old man with all white hair and unkempt face, so she became bolder and grabbed the old man to scare him: "Old man, what are you doing here? Could it be that you are here?" Cheating to eat and drink?" No wonder he said, the fruits enshrined in front of Huiyuan's tomb were missing a few before they were broken, and he thought it was stolen by the little novice in the temple, so it turned out that the culprit was here.

The old man was skinny, easily dragged out by Xiao Xizi, and was so frightened that he kowtowed and begged for mercy.

Lin Daiyu said: "Xiao Xizi, you have no reason or reason to scare him into doing something, but you are a poor old man, give him a few taels of silver."

Xiao Xizi gave the old man some of the silver coins she carried with her, and the old man thanked him in a daze.

Dong Jing said: "Girl, let's delay for a while, fearing that the Empress Dowager will find her, we should go back sooner." Ba Fujin is the most hateful, and can pick out Lin Daiyu's faults at any time.

Lin Daiyu nodded, the old man suddenly broke free from Xiao Xizi, he didn't even care about money, he even crawled to Lin Daiyu's side, and asked loudly, "Is the Empress Dowager here?"

Dong Jing was startled, and standing in front of Lin Daiyu alone, he said vigilantly, "What are you going to do?"

The old man had tears in his eyes: "I beg the Bodhisattva to take the old slave to see the Empress Dowager, and ask the Bodhisattva to avenge the old slave master."

Seeing the white-haired and deeply wrinkled old man tearing up, Lin Daiyu asked, "If you have a grievance, report it to the officials. What's the use of seeking the Empress Dowager? I can't care about that."

The old man despaired and said: "The old slave reported to the officials everywhere, but no one dared to pay attention to the old slave's grievances. I beg the Bodhisattva to help the old slave." He was sold from Jinling to Yangzhou. However, due to his old age, he did not have the ability to go to Beijing to file an imperial appeal, so he could only wait for death here in despair, and he has been suffering for two years.

Lin Daiyu saw how pitiful he said, and said, "Since you have been wronged, do you have a pleadings?"

The old man repeatedly said yes, and took out a dirty oilcloth bag from his arms with trembling hands, opened it, and found it was an old paper.Lin Daiyu opened it, and it turned out that this was an old slave of the Feng family, a wealthy gentry in Jinling, who sued Xue Pan for beating Feng Yuan to death and taking away the maid Yinglian.

Lin Daiyu knew about this matter from Jia's family early in her previous life. She understood that every sentence written in the pleading paper was true, she felt pity for him in her heart, and said: "If you believe me, please give me this paper first, I know someone , he may be able to avenge your grievances. Don't worry, he doesn't look down on the Xue family's money power."

The old man hesitated again and again, thinking that if he missed this time, there would be no hope of revenge, so he agreed.Lin Daiyu asked him to wait here, and someone would come to pick him up within a month or a few days.

On the way back, Dong Jing asked: "Girl, this is..." She also took a few glances at the paper. The old slave of the Feng family was clearly going to sue the Xue family who lived in the Jia family. They were not related to the Lin family, but brought some stories. .

Lin Daiyu said calmly: "If I haven't seen such a thing, I can pretend it's nothing, but if it happens, I'm afraid I have to do justice."

Perhaps even God was helping the Feng family, and Yinzhen arrived in Yangzhou the next day, Lin Daiyu handed him the Feng family's pleading paper, pretending to be careless and asking: "Does the fourth master want to take care of it?"

Yinzhen leisurely teased Lihua nestled on Lin Daiyu's lap, and said, "Don't worry, since the girl has entrusted it to me, it will be done properly." After speaking, he smiled.

Lihua was annoyed and bit Yinzhen's finger abruptly. Unfortunately, the cat was too small and had a fierce look, but it didn't have the corresponding fangs.

Lin Daiyu put the cat on the ground and said with a smile, "What are you bullying it for?"

Yinzhen glanced at Lin Daiyu with a smile on his lips, the indescribable meaning made Lin Daiyu almost explode.

Lin Daiyu saw a sallow-faced and emaciated young girl at the empress dowager's place. It was said that she was the girl who stopped Kangxi from appealing.The little girl's name is Chu Yue, the daughter of Chu Shuxian, the former magistrate of Yingtian Prefecture in Jinling, who has been dismissed long ago.

From Yinzhen's words, Lin Daiyu knew that the affairs of the girl's family seemed to be related to the prince, but she didn't know how far Jinling was controlled by the Zhen family, so that those who sued the imperial court could only go to Yangzhou.

The empress dowager was in trouble for Chu Yue, when Lin Daiyu came, Ling Shuang immediately said: "Sister Lin is only nine years old, she is exactly the same age as Miss Chu, why don't you put the two little girls together, empress dowager Okay?" The empress dowager obviously didn't want to raise Chu Yue, and she wanted to push it to someone in the hall, Ling Shuang spoke out, and the rest agreed.

Chu Yue was alone, so it was useless to raise her up like this, but her father died unjustly, Kangxi would not let the orphan girl wander, and would only give it to someone to raise her.

Lin Daiyu said in her heart that she was looking for trouble again, and Bafujin really stared at her all the time.

Lin Daiyu said: "I'm young, I can't even take care of myself, how can I distract myself from other things? It's not as good as Bafujin."

The Empress Dowager thought for a moment, and said: "That's fine, I'm old, I don't have enough time to take care of him, Ling Shuang is considerate, so let's take care of Chu Yue."

Ling Shuang opened her mouth to refute, but it was too late.

Lin Daiyu said with a smile: "Congratulations to the eight blessings, you have a good sister."

Chu Yue stood aside with his head down, his withered hair and oversized clothes were incompatible with the people in the room.

Lin Daiyu said: "Miss Chu's clothes don't fit right? We are about the same age, why don't we wear mine first?"

The empress dowager nodded with a smile, Chu Yue thanked Lin Daiyu for her blessing, and Lin Daiyu saw her face clearly.I thought she would be afraid, but I didn't see the slightest bit from that delicate little round face, she deserves to be someone who dares to stop Yu Jia.

After returning, Lin Daiyu asked Dong Jing to find some of her clothes and send them to Chu Yue, from the small coat to the cloak, and she had a lot of heart in it.

Yinzhen was busy for a month, and the things he handled were very satisfactory to Kangxi, so he gave him a day off. Without thinking about it, Yinzhen went to Lin Daiyu and said that he would take her out to play.

Lin Daiyu was already very familiar with Yinzhen at this time, so she agreed without thinking too much.

Lin Daiyu was not as familiar with Yangzhou city as she was with the capital, so she let Yinzhen lead the way.

When they reached the Jinyi Pavilion, Yinzhen said: "I didn't expect there to be a Jinyi Pavilion here. Would you like to add some new clothes? His clothes are really good."

Her brother's shop is of course not bad, Lin Daiyu was proud, and said: "No need, I have a lot of clothes, a few for Miss Chu are enough to wear."

Yinzhen said: "Come on, just know what you have in mind."

The crowds in Yangzhou City are bustling, and the carriages and horses are like the princes crossing the river. It is a prosperous and rich city. Because of the salt merchants, it is only a little worse than the capital city.Beijing and Yangzhou, one has the word for power, the other has the word for money, plus there is a saying that "since ancient times, there are many talented people in the south of the Yangtze River", and there is also a saying that "there are beautiful women in the south of the Yangtze River", so Weiyang has taken advantage of the right time and place.

Lin Daiyu and Yinzhen were walking on the streets of Weiyang, and when they heard that a lady who was playing tanci was invited to play Yangzhou chords in a restaurant, they smiled at each other and went in to find a seat to listen.

There is a table in the middle of the restaurant, with a man and a woman sitting behind it, playing, playing and singing, and they sing the song Linjiang Xian from 21 Shi Tanci.This poem is impassioned and impassioned, but also contains countless sadness and sadness. It was later engraved on the first volume of "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms". Three Kingdoms.

When you come across a good word on the streets of the market, you naturally want to listen to it.

The two listened carefully, and when they looked at each other occasionally, they both saw a little emotion in each other's eyes.It's just that what Yinzhen thinks is "right and wrong, success or failure, turn your head to nothing", while Lin Daiyu never forgets "how many things in ancient and modern times are all jokes".

After listening, the daughter-in-law turned the pipa and played a ditty with bright rhythm. She sang softly with Wu Nong's soft voice, but it didn't dispel the haze brought by Linjiang fairy just now.

When the two of them left the restaurant, Lin Daiyu smiled and said, "If you come to Yangzhou at this time of year, what are you doing here if you don't want to visit the Slender West Lake?"

Fireworks go down in Yangzhou in March, the beauty of Yangzhou is unspeakable.When the two of them strolled to the Slender West Lake among the colorful peach blossoms and graceful catkins, many people and officers and soldiers surrounded the lake.

It turned out that Kangxi was swimming in the lake.

The two took a small boat to join Kangxi in the painting boat. Kangxi said: "The fourth one ran away in a hurry, and couldn't even call back. It turned out that he went to find a little girl." After saying that, he laughed.

Yinzhen remained silent, it was obviously a holiday from the emperor's father, and at this time he laughed at him again.

Instead, Lin Daiyu laughed like everyone else, except for the emperor, who could tease Fourth Master Leng like this?How embarrassing not to laugh enough at this time.

Slender West Lake is the "finishing point" of Weiyang, so rich and powerful salt merchants in Yangzhou competed for land along both sides of the river to build gardens, resulting in the prosperity of gardens here, and there is even a beautiful sentence of "24 bridges and moonlit nights" in the previous dynasty.

The salt merchants in Weiyang heard that the Holy Majesty was here, and they rushed to see the Emperor and invite him to play in the garden, presenting countless rare treasures, but Kangxi didn't see them, and the rare treasures came one after another.

Lin Daiyu had stayed in Yangzhou for several years, and knew about the rich and powerful salt merchants in Yangzhou. Someone once wanted to give her father a garden by the Slender West Lake, but her father confiscated it.But today box after box of treasures were delivered without money, which was an eye-opener.

It's not that I haven't seen so many things, but I haven't seen anyone who dared to bribe the current emperor Ming Luli.

Kangxi smiled and held a glass of wine, pointed to the pile of boxes with his chin, and said, "Yu'er has been in Yangzhou for a few years, have you seen these before?"

Lin Daiyu didn't change her expression: "Have you seen this, the emperor doesn't know?" If her father dared to accept such things, he might not be able to stay in Yangzhou for many years.

Kangxi said: "Whoever likes what, tell me, this kind of good thing will be gone after today."

Lin Daiyu said: "Thank you, Your Majesty, for the reward, but Yu'er is disrespectful." She chose a pair of jade bracelets to wear on her hands.

Kangxi, who thought Lin Daiyu would refuse, laughed again, and said loudly: "Who else likes it? I will give it to him." Everyone in the painting boat looked at each other, not knowing what to do.

Looking at Kangxi's face, it doesn't look like he's joking, but...why is he so generous all of a sudden?The generosity is unbelievable.

Still with a stern face, Yinzhen took the lead in choosing a roll of yellowed paper, and the remaining elder brothers also took more or less one.

Kangxi asked again: "Liang Jiugong, don't you want it? Barla, Nala's boy don't want it?"

It turned out that Kangxi allowed everyone on board to get one thing.

Some people took it before, but they didn't hesitate any longer, and they all picked the same thing, even the boaters had a share.Then, Kangxi smiled and recommended the person who sent the goods to the salt merchant: "I am here to inspect the river embankment, how can I collect things from the common people? It is enough for each of these ignorant boys to get one. I know what you want , take the rest of the original route back.”

The merchant dared not answer, even though he was bleeding from the pain in his heart, he didn't dare to reveal it, and went back with the rest of the things.It's fine to give it to the kings of Baylor County, but those rough men rowing...