The Qinghe County Lord of the Red Chamber

People in Beijing have always loved drinking tea, this time Shang Chanchan was tossing about tea from foreign countries.

It was rewarded in the palace, and it has a very strange fragrance, just like the fragrance of green aloes, the magnolia covered with dew, the yao grass near the waves, and it is as beautiful as Lulu.

Shang Chanchan was not as particular about tea as the ancients, so she took the tea and made lotus flowers according to the book and ordered tea.

"To order tea from the lotus flower, half of the white lotus flower before sunrise is opened, put a pinch of fine tea, fill it in the pistil, prick it with hemp skin to make it sleep. Pick the flower in the morning, pour out the tea, and use it Wrap the tea in Jianzhi and dry it. As in the previous method, make it with other pistils at will, and dry it for use.”

Similarly, you can also order tea with roses, jasmine and osmanthus.

It's just that summer is the season of lotus.

Because the Marquis of Baoning and his wife were planning to go to the south of the Yangtze River in winter, Jiang often took Daiyu to visit the old places of each family, paving the way for his daughter-in-law to socialize in Beijing and China in the future.

So Shang Chanchan was left alone at home, ordering tea was a way to pass the time.

She was picking stamens when she suddenly saw Fu Ling approaching, with a different expression on her face: "Miss, a monk came outside..."

Shang Chanchan shook her hand: Why is she a monk again, she has a fear of monks and priests now, okay?

And today, everyone is not at home, only she herself, can these monks be able to pinch it?

She threw down the flowers in her hand and asked, "Or the monk with the scarlet head?"

Fu Ling shook her head: "The boys outside said that this monk is very clean and handsome, and his conversation is good. Although he is young, he has the air of an accomplished monk."

The seventh-rank officials in front of the prime minister's gate, the gatekeepers of Baoning Duke's mansion have very poisonous eyes.

Seeing that this monk is decent, he naturally dare not neglect outside.It's just that after the accident last time, they didn't dare to let it in, so they could only go back and forth.

Before Shang Chanchan could be puzzled, another maid came in and took a letter in her hand: "The monk said that it was an old friend of the old master and the grandma. He heard that the two masters were not at the house, so he left a letter. and left at the porter."

Shang Chi and Daiyu's old friends?

What other mutual friends did the two of them not know?

Shang Chanchan suddenly had a flash of inspiration: Could it be Jia Baoyu?He has become a monk now? !

She quickly took it, but saw that there was nothing on the envelope.Naturally, she couldn't open it without authorization.

So Shang Chanchan spent the rest of the day wandering around at home until she heard that Jiang and Daiyu had returned home, so she brought this letter to the East Courtyard.

It was hot in summer, and she wore big clothes outside, so Daiyu changed into homely clothes when she returned home.

Pomegranate hurriedly came up to serve her: "Grandma, this servant has already poured the fruit in the well water, let's eat it after you rest."

But Putao came up to beat the fan attentively, and said cautiously: "Grandma, there is another monk visiting today."

They were all serving Shang Chi as a junior, since the uncle respected the grandma, they naturally served him with all their heart, and they always asked for any news and came to tell Daiyu.

Especially after the monk incident last time, Shang Chanchan cried a lot because she didn't know the east, west, north and south, and missed the fortune-telling opportunity of the gods. Some allergies.

As soon as Daiyu heard it, the tea in her hand stopped. She still remembered Shang Chanchan's tragic cry last time.And in the end did not say why.

So he just asked: "Can you let the monk get started this time?"

Before Putao could say anything, Shang Chanchan came in through the curtain by herself, with an anxious expression on her face, she quickly swallowed her words and said hello: "Young lady is here."

Shang Chanchan told them all to go out, and then handed the letter to Daiyu.

Daiyu didn't know why at first, but when she took it and took it apart, her complexion changed.

Even after many years, she can still recognize Baoyu's handwriting.

At first it was an ordinary greeting, but Daiyu glanced past it and saw directly behind it.

"...This life is busy and busy, and nothing can be achieved. I only think of all the women back then, whose behavior and knowledge are all above mine, especially my younger sister.

It is more than enough to be ashamed, and it is useless to regret.For more than ten years, it was just a big dream, and I thought that other country was my hometown.

Now that I have fully realized and taken refuge, I bid farewell. "

Daiyu was so shocked that she didn't have time to feel sad, she saw her tears rolling down at some point, and immediately wet the letter paper.

It seems that the tears should have flowed a long time ago, but only now.

After crying bitterly, Daiyu didn't feel sad, but felt extraordinarily peaceful.

All the things in the past are finally the past, no longer haunting.

Shang Chanchan hadn't seen Daiyu weeping like this for a long time, so she couldn't help but startled, and when she finished, Daiyu finished crying too.

It's like the sky in June, it can change as it says.

She tentatively asked, "Sister Lin?"

Daiyu put the letter on the table, with tears still on her face, like a hibiscus weeping dew.However, his expression was peaceful, he smiled at Shang Chanchan and said, "Second cousin has become a monk."

really.

Shang Chanchan began to pass the handkerchief: "Sister Lin, don't be sad."

Daiyu thought for a while and said seriously, "Are you sad? Chanchan, it's strange to say that I'm not sad. My second cousin said a lot of things that are different from the world. Come to think of it, he should be happier now."

Shang Chanchan carefully studied Daiyu's expression, and sure enough, she saw that she was not hiding her sadness, so she asked someone to come in to fetch water for her to freshen up.

But he was thinking in his heart, just now that wept bitterly, I don't know if sister Lin had shed all her tears.

In the evening, when Shang Chi returned home, he was stopped by Shang Chanchan before he entered the east courtyard.

The night was deep, and from a corner in the darkness, a woman with long hair in red clothes suddenly emerged. Even Shang Chi was startled, and couldn't help but take two steps back.

In addition to the ugly snowman back then, Shang Chi felt that his sister probably gave him all the scares he had eaten in his life.

Because it is summer, it is very hot even at night.So Shang Chanchan only wore a pomegranate red dress, and stood under a ginkgo tree on the porch to enjoy the shade.

It was also because he wanted to have a private conversation with his brother, so he didn't even take any servants with him, and walked out when Shang Chi came back.

Shang Chi: ...you must tell the servants that you don't have to worry about the cost of lamps and candles, and you must light up all the corners.

He calmed down and asked, "It's so late, why are you here?"

Shang Chanchan didn't know the effect of her red clothes and black hair suddenly slipping out from the corridor, so she said with a smile, "Come and tell brother something."

After finishing speaking, he told about Jia Baoyu's becoming a monk, and then said: "Brother and sister for how many years, after receiving the letter, Sister Lin cried for a while."

She weighed her words for a while before she dared to say it, and she was afraid that Shang Chi would be jealous if she said it first, but if she didn't say it, with Shang Chi's carefulness, she would always see the clues when she went back, and it would be bad to think too much.

Shang Chi stopped, nodded and said, "It turns out that Yu'er already knew about it, that's fine. I heard about it outside today, and I'm still thinking about how to tell her so that she won't worry."

Seeing his sister staring at him with wide eyes, Shang Chi couldn't help but smile and said, "I know what you're thinking, and thank you for coming to tell me."

Only then did Shang Chanchan explain today's events in detail, and then she sighed: "Brother, Jia Baoyu has just become a monk, and he understands. In front of the gatehouse, he didn't say who he was, only that he was brother and sister-in-law. old friend."

Otherwise, even if they are relatives, after all, they are cousins ​​who married each other. They are all monks, and they come to deliver letters to their cousins.

Shang Chi nodded: "It also saves the Jia family from coming to make noise."

No one knew that this monk was Jia Baoyu, so the Jia family naturally didn't dare to come to ask.

Shang Chanchan hurriedly asked: "By the way, elder brother said just now that he knew it from the outside, and the Jia family also knows it now?"

Shang Chi smiled: "I just heard people talking about it in the ministry. Specifically, you can wait for someone from the Xie family to tell you."

It stands to reason that it has been several months since the house was raided, and the Xie family's people from various families who were in charge of following up should have withdrawn long ago.

However, only Xie Ling knew that Shang Chanchan was obsessed with Rongguo Mansion.

It was so easy to travel to the world of the Red Mansion, how could I not take a look at the final ending.Even if this is the ending, because the wings of this butterfly are already different, I still have to know the end of the curtain.

So Xie Ling left a message before leaving Beijing, keeping an eye on the Jia family's affairs and then reporting to the merchant.

Seeing that Shang Chi didn't know the details, Shang Chanchan nodded regretfully, and said, "Well, Jia Baoyu has only been married for half a year. It's said to be a happy marriage, but in the end, it's not a good marriage."