[Red Chamber] Daiyu Reborn

The morning sun shines through the window lattice and falls on the clean and solemn white jade Guanyin statue, fainting a little circle of light.One point just fell on Guanyin's tightly pursed lips, outlining a faint arc, which made people dazzled for a moment, and it was hard to see whether it was ridicule or pity.

Avalokitesvara is facing a simple and elegant tea table, and there are two rows of sapphire tea bowls on the tea table, which is almost transparent sapphire, with tea-colored water patterns, adding a deep ink color.

The one holding the teacup was a fifteen or sixteen-year-old girl, with beautiful features but indifferent and quiet, wearing a blue robe, resembling a nun and a Tao, after all, she was already out of this world.

The girl put down the teacup, took a bowl of tea and gave it to the person opposite: "Princess, please use it."

Even though she knew she was facing a princess, the girl was still so indifferent.For half a month, she served tea like this, but fortunately the princess never cared about it.

The rising heat of the tea is dense, but the water-colored ink of the sapphire tea bowl penetrates into the eyes more and more, and a trace of coldness is always lingering in the heart, which cannot be dispelled.The princess who just turned 15 years old lowered her eyes, took the teacup silently, brought it to her lips, and sipped it.

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"...very bitter." After a pause, the princess frowned belatedly and asked, "How can it be so bitter?"

The indifferent girl replied: "The bitter tea that is always used in the Zen tea ceremony is different from the noble tea ceremony that the princess usually enjoys."

The princess fell silent, picked up the tea bowl and sipped it lightly, her pale brows furrowed again: "It's still not right, this bitter one doesn't taste like tea at all, it's really too astringent...Moreover, it's a bit salty."

Finally noticed it.

The girl didn't change her face: "Because I added salt."

Princess:"……"

"Princess has been here for half a month, and she has also drank tea mixed with salt for half a month, but she has been ignorant. It was not until today that I intentionally increased the amount of salt, that you finally noticed it." The girl shook her head, and said No fear, no joy to succeed in a prank, just staring at the princess' eyes indifferently, "The heart of the princess is not above the tea ceremony, nor in this quiet nunnery. The suffering of the princess is in the mundane world, and she hides here , except for more suffering, it can't change anyone or anything at all."

This is quite blunt, it is an order to evict guests.

There was a soft ding-dong sound, the sound of the sapphire tea bowl being put back on the saucer, accompanied by the princess's slightly thin and slender fingers tapping lightly: "I know that this place is more bitter, just like your tea." , as astringent as if mixed with salt water... I tasted it six years ago."

As early as six years ago, she had entered here.It's just that if she is hiding in Qingjing now, she was imprisoned here by her father at that time... and she almost died here.

If it wasn't for her elder brother, the crown prince, and her sister-in-law, who was not a crown princess at that time, just happened to come to her to "ask questions", she would not have survived to return to the palace to see her father again.

She is Yun Nongqin, the second princess of the dynasty, she has just turned 15 years old, and she is about to marry.

She hid in the Qingjing Nunnery again, and learned from her elder brother, the temple is a good place to hide from the world when you can't advance or retreat.It's just that the prince's elder brother used Xuanzhen's view to break through and stand up, but she... was just timid and cowardly, and didn't want to face it, so she avoided going to the nunnery to hide.

Hidden father's imperial decree, refers to marriage.

The imperial father wanted to marry her to Lian Yuanzheng, the Tanhua Lang who was taking the scientific examination this year.She didn't want to marry, so she hid here.

——It should be that no one will come to look for her, right?

This is not the first time she has escaped from the palace, from the age of nine to 15, at least seven or eight times.Every time he "runs away from home" after having an awkward fight with his father.

The previous few times, she hid in Li's house, which was the family home of her concubine and aunt—but a year ago, Li's house was also raided.

Concubine Mu passed away when she was five years old, and she has been raised by her aunt who was also named Concubine Shu.My aunt did not treat her well, she knew that the concubine mother treated her worse, she resented her more than she loved her, she yelled at her several times, even beat and scolded her - why are you not a prince!

The father didn't want children at all, but children are the foundation for women in the palace to live and work.Why was the mother and concubine so frightened, escaped from everyone's eyes, exhausted all means, and even risked her life to injure her body, broke her life, and gave birth to a girl?

Nongqin couldn't figure it out either, maybe it could only be explained that her life was too tough and she was born to control her mother.No, the aunt who was the "adoptive mother" also told her to kill her.

My aunt died on the second day after the Li family ransacked the house. Both of them suffered because of her——the 14-year-old princess living in her natal family. In the middle of the night, he climbed onto the princess's bed, was caught on the spot by the nurse on duty, and sued before the imperial court, and then... damn it, they all died in one pot.

Even the "natal home" is gone, and there is nowhere to go to play the piano. If I want to hide again, I can only hide in the nunnery-this is the third time.

Laughing at himself, Nongqin picked up the bowl of tea mixed with salt water again and drank it in one gulp.Extremely bitter and astringent, rolling in the throat as if being pricked by a fine needle, extremely uncomfortable.His slender body trembled, and a blush appeared on his pale cheeks, as if drinking alcohol, it was still strong liquor that burned his throat.

His face was a little hot, as if he was drunk, and Nongqin's eyes were a little loose: "I have nowhere to go... I can only come here and drink your tea."

The indifferent girl shook her head, took away the teacup, and was handed over by Qingshui to moisten her throat.

Nongqin took the tea and slowly swallowed it down her throat, but tears dripped into the tea bowl—and mixed it into a cup of salty bitter tea.

The girl shook her head again, and suddenly heard a commotion outside, she quickly looked outside, and after seeing clearly, she turned back: "Princess, the person who takes you back to the palace is here."

Nongqin quickly wiped away his tears, but instead of looking outside, he rolled his eyes and laughed at himself again: "Who will come? The time I was almost..., the father got angry and told the prince and princess 'You are not allowed to deal with her anymore'! I have always been a troublemaker, who else would--"

A childish voice came: "little aunt, why are you crying?"

Nongqin was taken aback, looking for the sound, and saw a little girl standing on the threshold, tilting her head, staring at her with big eyes.

The little girl is only five years old this year, with fair skin, like a snow dumpling, so cute.Because she is short and has short hands and feet, she has to lie halfway on the threshold, but she will not fall into it, because she is holding a bulging rabbit doll half her height in her hand, which just serves as a cushion.The big rabbit squinted his eyes, chewed a yellow carrot, and smiled with his three-petal mouth all the time.

This is the eldest daughter of the Crown Prince and the Crown Princess, her little niece, Princess Yun Shaoxiang, is called Xiao Xiang'er in the palace.

Nongqin doesn't like the so-called brother-in-law, but she can't hold back her indifference and resistance to this obedient little niece—it's like another her... much luckier.

In the beginning, they were all very well-behaved and clingy, a soft little snow dumpling.When Xiao Xiang'er was three years old, the crown princess gave birth to the eldest grandson of the emperor. The future heir is naturally much more expensive than the princess. Even the always indifferent empress dowager came to hold the child in person. In the past two years, the entire palace has been besieged Walking around with the eldest grandson of the emperor.

...Fortunately, Xiao Xiang'er has a mother who loves her dearly, and a father who loves her more than his son.

...Although they are "unfamiliar" so far, Nongqin can tell that the prince obviously likes his daughter more.

Nongqin is still hidden in the deepest shadow of the palace, watching the little girl play house with the rabbit doll sewn by her mother, and being held in her arms by her father, reciting poems in a childlike voice... envious, want to cry, But I want to see it even more.To what extent can you be happy, just like having a beautiful dream.

Xiao Xiang'er tried her best to support the threshold to prevent her short hands and feet from rolling in with the rabbit. She tilted her head again and asked, "Little aunt?"

Nongqin hurried over to bring the little girl in, brushed off her knees, and then the rabbit, to remove a layer of floating dust.Little Xiang'er was so soft and tender that the aunt couldn't bear to touch her everywhere, so she patted the rabbit's head half-truthfully, and said with a straight face: "Don't lie on the threshold, it's so dirty!"

The rabbit's ears drooped after being slapped, feeling aggrieved, Xiao Xiang'er also puffed up her cheeks: "Who asked my little aunt to live here, mother asked me to pick you up."

Nongqin shook his head, pursed his lips tightly, showing a trace of stubbornness: "Tell your mother, I won't go back."

Xiao Xiang'er still didn't quite understand the adults' awkwardness, so she just nodded obediently, and continued to do errands for her mother: "Mother told you that Lian Tanhua is going to take the martial arts exam."

Nongqin was surprised: "What!"

Take a good look at Hualang, who is the champion of martial arts?

Xiao Xiang'er nodded her chin, and slowly explained what her mother had told her: "Mother said, Lian Tanhua said that you must dislike him for not getting the first prize... What does 'dislike' mean?" Frowning Xiao Frowning, Xiao Xiang'er continued to struggle with what she didn't understand, "Lian Tanhua also said that she would work hard to get a job test again, and try to make you not dislike him."

Nongqin bit her lips tightly, her thin body trembling uncontrollably: "He, he, he...he's just messing around!"

Although martial arts is not a folk competition, it is a test of martial arts, and more importantly, you have to test camps, gunpowder, chariots, etc. It is not a child's play to be a matter of life!

...how could you be so stupid as to take a risk just for the sake of taking a gamble?

...How could she be "disgusted"?

There is nothing wrong with Lian Yuanzheng.With a handsome appearance, a high school prospect, a youth success... and a very gentle man.

It was because she was so good—she, a bad-hearted and bad-tempered princess, didn't want to marry at all.

((Note 1: Indifferent girl = sister Xichun~~

Note 2: Xiao Xianger's 5 years old is a false age~~)