Edge of the Red Chamber

Because I was going out of the city, I was afraid of missing the auspicious time, so I got up in the morning and rushed out of the city.Therefore, as soon as she came back, Daiyu went to the small garden behind.

The garden behind the Hemerocallis Hall is not big, but there are many kinds of flowers and plants, and the most planted ones are naturally the Hemerocallis, which can be seen everywhere, even on the huge strange rock, surrounded by a cobblestone-paved corridor , Next to the corridor is a square pavilion, which is built next to the back wall of the house, and is connected with the house.

Yao Huang and Lu Fei were already waiting in the pavilion. Seeing Daiyu coming, one asked if she wanted tea, and the other waited on Daiyu to change a pair of thin-soled embroidered shoes.

Xiang Cheng said: "Girl just came back from outside, why don't you want tea?"

Yao Huang was dissatisfied in his heart, but he didn't dare to be stubborn, so he quickly agreed to go.

Daiyu drank half of it in a hurry, then left the pavilion and walked slowly along the corridor, Xiangcheng also changed her shoes and walked with Daiyu, Yao Huang and Lufei were counting circles in the pavilion.

After only walking twenty laps, a thin layer of sweat broke out on her head. Daiyu stepped down the corridor, and Lufei took her shoes up. Daiyu waved her hand and said, "There's no need to change it. I'll rest for a while." After speaking, he sat down on the carved round drum stool in the pavilion.

Hongxiao persuaded: "The girl is just sweating, don't stand in this windy place, take care of the wind, go back to the house and rest in the same way, if the girl wants to come out and sit, take a bath later Come out again."

"The sun is so big, the leaves of the trees are not moving, where does the wind come from?" Having said that, Daiyu still got up.

As they walked, Hongxiao said to Yao Huang: "Go and see if the water is ready. If it is ready, tell them to watch the time and send it over in a quarter of an hour. If it is not good, also rush Some." Yao Huang agreed, and didn't mention it since he went to the kitchen.

After taking a bath, Daiyu sat on the beauty bed under the window, and Hongxiao took a big handkerchief and waited for her to twist her hair.A square high table was placed next to the beauty, and a pedal was set up a few times. Xiangcheng sat on the pedal to peel the plums, and said to Daiyu, "we will serve lunch later, should the girl use it in the house, or go with her?" Can I use it together with the grandpa and grandpa, or use it in the grandmother's room?" After speaking, he handed the freshly peeled plums to Daiyu's mouth.

Daiyu took a bite with her hand, then frowned, "It's tasteless," while speaking, she pushed Xiangcheng's hand, Xiangcheng dropped the plums, and went to get a spittoon, Daiyu Yu waved his hand, swallowed the plums in his mouth, and said, "Forget it, what are you doing with this hard work?" Then he said: "Let me go to the Bijing Pavilion first, and ask a little maid quietly, if you are old? My sister-in-law hasn't used it yet, so I went in and reported that I used to eat with my sister-in-law; if I used it, then don't disturb my sister-in-law, come back quietly, and go directly to the kitchen to pass my meal."

"It's so red, why isn't it sweet?" Xiangcheng still complained to herself, as if she still didn't believe it, she picked up the one that Daiyu had eaten and ate it herself, and said, "It really doesn't taste good."

Hung Hom then said: "Send Jade Bird to the kitchen to inquire later, I dare to bring such things to the girl's room."

After hearing Daiyu's words, Hongxiao hurriedly said: "I thought that Jade Bird was clever, so I sent her to the kitchen. Since the girl has an errand, I should let her go to the Bijing Pavilion. Lan Qiao can also go to the kitchen."

Daiyu nodded and said: "This way, Qingniao and the little girls in the Bijing Pavilion are familiar, so it's easy to talk."

After a while, Qingniao came back and said: "Sister Mujin is drying handkerchiefs in the yard. I saw it when I entered the door, and only said a few words, but the grandma came back from outside. When she saw me, she asked if there was something wrong with the girl. , I thought it was not a shameful thing, and I also thought that the grandma hadn't eaten, so I said it. Sure enough, the grandma was very happy, saying that she was bored to eat alone, and was about to go back and change her clothes. Immediately If I wanted to come, I thought that the eldest grandma was the girl's sister-in-law after all, and she just passed the door. How could I teach the eldest grandma to come here, so she made the decision for the girl, saying that the girl was already on the way. The eldest grandma believed it and was busy passing the dishes. Guoniang went over, and if Grandma asked about it, she would ask the girl to make it up for me."

Hongxiao scolded with a smile: "You are more and more able to do things, and you actually acted as the master for the girl."

Daiyu laughed first, then stopped laughing for a while, and said: "You will be punished with one month's silver, can you accept it?"

At first, although Hongxiao was scolding, but it was smiling, Qingniao didn't think about it. Now when she saw Daiyu chastising, she didn't take it seriously for a while, but when she saw that Daiyu didn't have a smile on her face, she became afraid and became anxious. Suddenly remembered what he had done wrong, hurriedly knelt down to plead guilty, and said, "Don't dare again."

She is a slave, how can she make decisions for her master?

Daiyu raised her hand, her expression softened, and she said: "Get up, remember not to do it again," and then said, "You are right to stop sister-in-law." Then she looked up at Hongxiang, Hongxiao hurriedly went to the Duobao Pavilion, opened the big mahogany box, took out a purse from it, and handed it to Daiyu. Seeing her nodding, she handed it to the blue bird.The blue bird refused to take it, saying that she did not dare to accept it if she did something wrong, so Daiyu said: "Mother often said that if you do something wrong, you must be punished, but if you do something right, you should also be rewarded. If you are fair, you should be rewarded and punished." It is clear. You made a mistake first, and I have already punished you. If you did the right thing, you should naturally be rewarded. It is what you deserve, so you can just take it at ease." Then the blue bird kowtowed to express gratitude and took the purse.

Daiyu explained a few more words such as feeding the birds, and helped Hongxiao's hand to go to the Bijing Pavilion.

Lu came out to welcome her, and said with a smile: "I knew it was the girl Qingniao coaxing me, since you have already come, why would you send her here?"

As they were talking, the two had come to the same place. Mrs. Lu took Daiyu's arm, and they walked into the house hand in hand, and Daiyu said, "I should come here, how can I help my sister-in-law to go there?"

Lu blushed, stretched out a light-white slender finger, tapped Daiyu's forehead fiercely, and said angrily, "What's the reason? A sister-in-law can't enter sister-in-law's room?"

Daiyu laughed and said, "Sure enough, a sister-in-law speaks differently than in the past."

Lu Shi's face became more and more red with blood, and he cursed bitterly: "You have sharp teeth and sharp mouth, see if I don't tear your mouth." After saying that, she really wanted to tear Daiyu's mouth.

It happened that Nanny Ji was worried about Lu Shi and came to see her. Daiyu hurriedly ran behind Nanny Ji and said in a loud voice: "Mommy, save me." She poked her head out again, bowed and said: Good sister-in-law, please forgive me, don’t dare to do it again.”

Mother Ji knew that their sister-in-law was joking, so she followed Daiyu to plead with Lu Shi, saying: "Grandma is a sister-in-law, so she should have given way to the eldest girl. The eldest girl has one or two mistakes. Grandma sees that she is still young. For the sake of smallness, let her be spared."

Since Jia Min passed away, Daiyu has lost her smiling face.Lu knew a little bit about it, seeing Daiyu's interest now, she laughed with her.After Mother Ji's persuasion, Lu Shi put it down and said, "Forget it, I will forgive you this time." After that, he still came forward to bring Daiyu, and the two sat on the arhat bed.

At that moment, the mother-in-law came in with a holding box, and Xiang Luo came over to ask where to put the food, so Lu asked Daiyu, "My sister said where to eat."

Daiyu took a look around the room, then pointed to the big window and said, "Bring up that small nanmu table, so we can eat under the window and enjoy the view, wouldn't it be convenient?"

Lu clapped her palms and smiled, saying yes, and said to Nanny Ji: "Mom, let's use it together."

Mother Ji hurriedly said: "I'll use it when I go back later, grandma and girl don't need to pay attention to me."

Xiang Luo assigned a few maidservants to carry the table, and some moved the brocade under the window to one side.As soon as the table was lifted, Xiangluo and the little maid moved a scorpion, put it next to the edge of the table, and set up another footrest.

Daiyu and Lu Shi sat opposite each other, and Nanny Ji sat on the footrest.Lu Shi then asked what dishes were there, Dan Ruo was watching the old woman serve the dishes, so she said aside, Lu Shi then pointed to two bowls of dishes and asked the maid to put them on the scorpion for Nanny Ji to eat.

There was another dish of steamed lion's head. Lu Shi made one with Daiyu himself, and then put two in a bowl for Nanny Ji, saying, "This is delicious while it's hot."

Not long after the meal was over, Daiyu saw that Nanny Ji didn't leave and was just gossiping in the room, thinking that she had something to say to Mrs. Lu, but she was worried that she was here and couldn't speak, so she resigned. Lu Shi.

After leaving the Bijing Pavilion, Hongxiao sees that Daiyu is not going in the direction of going back to Daylily Hall, so she asks where Daiyu is going.

Jia Min likes big windows the most. Therefore, almost half of the houses in the family have been replaced with large windows like the ones they have now, facing north and south. If they are opened at the same time, the room will be particularly bright.Jia Min also likes to eat under the window the most. She often says that she can use more food with the scenery outside, and she is happy in her heart. She said that if she is unhappy while eating, the food she eats will become poison.

Thinking of Lin Hai again, when I saw him in the morning, I saw that my father had more white hair on his head, so he said, "I'll go to the Lancao Hall to see if Dad is there." After saying that, he lifted his foot and walked towards the Lancao Hall and go.

Hearing the words "Lancaotang", Hongxiao's face immediately changed, and she couldn't persuade her, she hesitated for a while, Daiyu walked away again, looked around, but no one came, stomped her feet, and hurriedly chased after her. Going up, seeing that Daiyu's face is still good, Fang said cautiously: "Why don't you send a little girl over to have a look, the master is probably in the study outside."

Daiyu didn't know if she heard it, and she didn't speak, she just walked.Hongxiao didn't dare to speak any more, and just followed closely, hoping to meet someone on the road so that she could pass on a message.For some reason, I haven't met any of them today.

When she reached the courtyard of the Lancaotang, Daiyu stood still, without turning her head, and said, "You just wait here, and I will come as soon as I go."

Hongxiao just called the word "girl", and Daiyu had already entered the door, and she heard her ordering the gatekeeper's wife "don't follow" and other words.

The old woman who guarded the door didn't dare to say much, and after Daiyu had gone a little further, she went out to talk to Hongxiao, "It's Miss Hongxiao, don't worry, the master came here early in the morning, and lunch is here too."

Hearing that Lin Hai was inside, Hongxiao put her heart into her stomach and thanked her mother-in-law.Knowing that she was going to wait for Daiyu, the woman took out a mattress and spread it on the stone steps, saying: "This is clean, don't dislike it, sit and rest for a while, the girl won't come out for a while .”

Hong Kao thanked her, but didn't sit down, and asked, "Who else is on duty today?"

The woman said: "There are still a few more. When the master came in, they were all sent out, and I was the only one guarding the door."

Hongxiao thought for a while, then said: "I'll watch the door for you, you go to our house to see who is there, ask someone to go to the second door to see which one of Xilai and them is there, and tell the uncle to hand it over." A letter, saying that the girl went to the Lancao Hall by herself."

The woman didn't understand, she felt that Hongxiao was looking for trouble for nothing, but she didn't dare to refute her, so she quickly agreed and wanted to go in to pour tea again.Hongxiao was in such a hurry that she was still in the mood to drink tea, but she was the wife of Lancaotang, who hated her for being stupid, but she also coaxed her with good words, saying: "Good mother, I'm not thirsty, hurry up and drink some tea." Go, don't delay." Without waiting for the woman to respond, she pushed her away.

When Daiyu entered the Orchid Cottage, she couldn't help but think of Jia Min's kindness in the past, and she shed tears unconsciously.

She didn't enter the main room either, so Daiyu walked directly to the east corridor, to the small main room with three rooms in a row, and saw Lin Hai standing in front of the table, caressing a sapphire lion paperweight on the table, but she didn't notice it. Daiyu's arrival.

Daiyu stood in front of the door, called "Father", and couldn't help crying.

Lin Hai was woken up by Daiyu, he didn't have time to tell, he just thought it was the servant who came in and was about to have a seizure, but he heard the crying sound familiar, turned his head and saw that the little girl was crying so badly, he hurried forward to hug Daiyu, Suppressing the soreness in his eyes, he coaxed: "When did Dai'er come, father doesn't know."

As soon as Dai Yu entered Lin Hai's arms, she lay down on Lin Hai's back and burst into tears, saying in one voice, "I want mother, father, I want mother."

This mother-in-law cried out Lin Hai's tears, and even hugged Daiyu and started crying too.Then, Lin Hai recalled what his deceased wife had told her before she died. Thinking of Daiyu's young age and poor health, she couldn't bear to cry like this, so she quickly put away her tears and forced herself to smile and said, "If Dai'er wants a mother, she shouldn't." Is dad dead?"

Daiyu cried for a while, but felt a little more at ease. After hearing Ruhai's words, even though she knew she was teasing her, she was still a little scared, afraid that Lin Hai would disappear like Jia Min, so she shook her head and said, "Of course I want Daddy, Daddy." You are not allowed to go anywhere." After speaking, a pair of arms wrapped tightly around his neck.

Seeing the panic and fear on her face, Lin Hai knew that she was afraid that she would die too. This daughter has always been smart and thoughtful, and his heart ached. He hurriedly hugged Daiyu tightly, stroked her back, and coaxed: "Daiyu Don't cry, dad won't go anywhere, dad will stay at home with our Dai'er, okay?"

"Yeah." After crying for a while, Daiyu became a little tired, and fell asleep on Lin Hai's shoulder before she knew it.