Holding the Piano in the Red Chamber

As soon as the words fell, I heard the voice of the gatekeeper from the door: "Your Majesty is here."

Daiyu trembled, her eyes were slightly frightened, she glanced at Baoqin and lowered her head again.

Ruicheng came in, sat at the top after saluting, hugged the piano and sat down beside him with a smile, and Daiyu returned to the side where she was originally sitting, but she didn't dare to sit down again.Ruicheng asked: "Is this a relative in your family? I have never seen you announce anyone to come in."

Baoqin said: "Where can it be? There are only two brothers in my family. Hasn't Your Majesty seen them all? This is the young lady of the Lin family." Seeing that Ruicheng didn't understand who it was, he added, "Yan Mr. Zhenglin’s family is currently living in Jia’s mansion.”

Ruicheng's face suddenly became a little unsightly. He coughed and said, "When you entered the palace, she was still in the south of the Yangtze River, right?" Said that it is strange to have a child's temper.

Baoqin nodded and said: "I met you when I was visiting relatives. Why don't you say that the water in the south of the Yangtze River nourishes people. It is white and tender. I like it very much when I see it, but it is a little thin. Didn't your grandparents give you a good meal?" ?”

Daiyu shook her head, and said softly: "Returning to your mother, I ate with my grandmother at home, and the food was well served."

Baoqin smiled and said: "That's no wonder, the old lady is getting old, she likes to eat heavy meaty things under oil and salt, and the boiled ones are rotten, are you not used to it?"

Daiyu nodded this time.

Baoqin smiled, the difference in diet between the north and the south can be seen from the tofu nao and zongzi, not to mention that one is sixty and the other is not even sixteen, it would be hell if you can eat a piece.Daiyu is also a person who doesn't want to meddle in other people's business, so it is more difficult to get her to speak up, besides, being able to eat with the old lady is a kindness, if you pick and choose, you will not be liked.

"Ms. Lin's poems are good, her temperament is good, and she is very educated." Baoqin thought for a while, and picked a few safer topics to start.First of all, the name of a girl's family cannot be casually told to anyone, even the emperor. To say that a person is good-looking conflicts with the superficial emphasis on morality. As for the upbringing, this is the credit of Mr. Lin. And this sentence of education is specially for Lin Daiyu.

"On the day of visiting relatives, I made a special poem," Baoqin said with a smile, "I don't understand it, but Jia Bin said yes, and I think it's not too far off. Today I specially invited someone to take a look. , Indulge the child in my stomach, so as not to be like me."

Ruicheng could hear the joke in her words, and said without a serious face: "If you want to meet someone, you can invite it, but..." Ruicheng looked at her stomach, "You still have to be careful in the first three months Just a little."

Baoqin smiled, "Your Majesty, don't worry, she's only a little older, and she's two years younger than Xiaobao, and she looks thin, don't worry."

Ruicheng sat down for a while and then wanted to leave. Firstly, Baoqin can't serve the bed now, and secondly, it's hard to say anything when there are outsiders around. Lin Daiyu is already over seven years old, and the emperor also wants to avoid suspicion.

Seeing that the emperor was walking to the door, Baoqin thought that this matter would probably be over.Originally, Lin Daiyu didn't have the opportunity to drag her out of the quagmire, and now she doesn't have to seize it, right? Fairy Jiangzhu has gone through many calamities to repay her debts, and what she said is not very credible, she is still a little impatient .

Anyway, the Jia family's defeat has already begun, so we just have to wait.Baoqin sighed inaudibly, and said: "Your Majesty, please go."

Unexpectedly, just as the curtain was lifted, Lin Daiyu knelt down on the ground with a plop, "Your Majesty, I have something to say."

Ruicheng turned his head around, lowered his head halfway while holding the piano, and the corners of his mouth were slightly upturned, sure enough.

Ruicheng sat back in his seat again. He was interested in matters related to the Jia family and Lin Ruhai. Both of them had close contacts with Prince Yizhong. The sudden death of Lin Ruhai made the person he replaced later very hectic for a while.

Lin Daiyu knelt a little closer and said in a low voice, "Your Majesty, my father died last year. At that time, I was already fostered at my grandmother's house."

"Last year, the second elder brother Lian took me back home. My family's ancestral home is in Suzhou. My father's family has only a few relatives. My father is the only one. Ling, after the death of my father, [-]% of the family property must be turned over to the national treasury, and I should be educated by the government's mother, or I can live in my grandmother's house until... I grow up." Maybe it was the word married So embarrassing, she changed to a more neutral word.

Lin Daiyu's soft voice attracted both of them's attention.

Ruicheng nodded, but he couldn't help being a little bit angry. Even a girl in her boudoir knew about these things, how could Lin Ruhai not know!Still doing such a thing, where is the law of the country!

Baoqin heard some clues, so she laid the groundwork... She glanced at Lin Daiyu and listened quietly.

"It's just that when I came home last year, my father's health was not very good. I wanted to ask the servants in the family to take a famous post to ask for leave to recuperate for a while, but my father didn't agree. He even kept the news of his illness. Later , my father began to sell the family property quietly again, except for the old house and the sacrificial land, it seemed that there was nothing left."

Lin Daiyu half lowered her head, half raised her head, with doubts and sadness on her face, and continued: "I think this is very strange, I went to ask my father, but he refused to reveal anything, only said that I will live a good life with my grandmother in the future. Daiyu wiped her tears with a handkerchief, and said: "I was very sad at the time, so I didn't think much about it. Now that I have calmed down, I found that there are too many irrational things in it."

Hearing this, holding the piano held his breath, and the emperor next to him also leaned forward slightly, his attention was completely attracted.

"Father is seriously ill, the most important thing should be the adopted son, and there will be no one crying on the day of the funeral." Thinking of the scene that day, Lin Daiyu quietly shed two tears, " But my father spent all his time selling the property, and I couldn't figure out the reason for this."

"Except for the old house and the sacrificial land, all the ancestral properties of my family's ancestral home were sold off, and my father asked me to leave my hometown and go to the capital alone to live in my grandfather's house. My Lin family will soon be extinct." Lin Daiyu's voice had already There was a faint cry, "I really don't understand why I can't live in the place where I grew up, and why I have to come to the capital."

"Although my grandmother loves me, she is not a serious master. She even refuses to drink the bird's nest porridge that is used to nourish her body in autumn. She has no one to rely on. She has nothing, food and clothing, and every scrap of paper , all of them are from their house..." At this point, Lin Daiyu covered her mouth with a handkerchief, sobbing uncontrollably.

Baoqin hurriedly stepped forward and pulled him up, saying: "Don't cry anymore, your body is already weak, what should you do if you faint."

The atmosphere eased up a bit, Ruicheng tapped the lid of the teacup with his index finger, and said, "I see, you stay in the palace first." After he finished speaking, he winked at Baoqin: after making arrangements for the people, he left .

Seeing that Lin Daiyu was out of breath from crying, Baoqin went to announce the imperial doctor's pulse again.The room was quiet, holding the piano and looking at Lin Daiyu's profile, thinking that the people who walked in this time were not limited to Jia's family. The adoptive son of the clan, or why even Jiangnan refused to let his daughter stay, and if he thought about it one step further, someone threatened him over there.

The emperor would definitely think about this. At that time, Prince Yizhong was about to recover, and various forces were fighting fiercely. The emperor might have something to do.

With this at the front, the family property case that was finally brought out with bird's nest porridge became less noticeable.

After the imperial doctor diagnosed the pulse and prescribed a prescription, Baoqin said to Daiyu: "It is reasonable for you to live in the harem, but the queen mother has not been feeling well for the past two days, and there are children in the palace. Concubine Yu's There is also an old prince who will go to pay his respects every day, and it is not very good there. His Majesty has also spoken, so you can stay with me first."

Daiyu nodded, holding the qin and said again: "It will be Eunuch Xia who will go to Jia's mansion later, and he said that Jia concubine took you to see the Queen Mother, and the Queen Mother liked it, so she left him behind."

After the excitement passed, the blush on Daiyu's face faded, she gasped a little, hugged the piano and said, "Don't worry, I will do what I promised you, and it won't damage the reputation of your Lin family. Your Majesty is a good man." , you can stay in the palace with peace of mind."

"Okay." Baoqin changed a veil for her, "The imperial physicians in the palace are very skilled in medicine, so you should take your medicine well. I will make bird's nest porridge for you tomorrow morning, drink one bowl after another."