Edge of the Red Chamber

The two returned to Lu Huixian's room, Lin Ming was already asleep, and the two discussed and argued about who they looked like.Hearing that the front is scattered, and looking at the time, it is already the beginning.I was afraid it would disturb Lu Huixian's rest, so they went back separately.

When I got home, I felt tired, so Hongxiao made the bed, and Daiyu went to bed to rest.It seemed to have fallen asleep for a long time, and it seemed that it had just fallen asleep. When I heard someone talking vaguely, I woke up.

I was dizzy, and the sun hurt faintly, but I couldn't sleep, so I raised the curtain by myself.When Hongxiao heard the sound, she stepped forward quickly, hooked the silver hook to the curtain, and said, "It's only been a quarter of an hour, why did the girl wake up? Are you thirsty?"

I didn't sleep well, and I felt irritable in my heart. I listened carefully, but there was indeed no voice, and I suspected that I was dreaming.Then he waved his hand and said, "I just had a dream. Several people were talking, and I didn't know what they were talking about. There was a lot of noise, and I woke up."

Hearing this, Hongxiao was taken aback for a moment, then laughed, and said: "The girl is not dreaming, isn't it just Yao Huang and the others talking. Xiangcheng went out to talk about them, but it's too late, the girl still woke up." Then she said : "It's still early, girl, why don't you lie down for a while?"

Daiyu shook her hand and said, "That's all."

Seeing that she was tired, Honghao stepped forward to rub the sun for her and said, "I'll rub it for you." Daiyu closed her eyes and said nothing, Honghao knew she had agreed.

After kneading for a while, but it still didn't work, Daiyu became more and more irritable, she waved her hands back and said, "That's all."

Hong Kao didn't dare to persuade her, she put away her hands and got up to get the clothes.

Seeing that Hongxiao didn't even dare to say anything, Daiyu knew that she had been frightened, so in order to brighten the atmosphere, she had nothing to say and asked her, "What are they talking about?"

Seeing that Daiyu was willing to speak, Hongxiao breathed a sigh of relief, and her expression softened.Going forward to uncover the mirror burden, untied her hair, said: "I also said that after a while, Xiangcheng will come back and ask her." Before he finished speaking, Zhu Lian could only hear Zhulian's wild thoughts, and Xiangcheng shook her head. Walking in with a handkerchief, he laughed, "Say Cao Cao, Cao Cao is here."

Xiang Cheng knew that she was talking about herself, and immediately stared at Hong Kam and asked: "What are you arranging for me in front of the girl again?" Then said: "How long has it been, why doesn't the girl sleep more?"

Hongxiang spat at her and said: "You take me as you, it's cold today, the girl's clothes are two short, who has the time to talk?" Then said: "I told you to stop, or It's late, the girl woke up after you left for a stick of incense."

Xiangcheng nodded and said, "I'm talking."

Hung Hom asked, "What did they say?"

Xiangcheng paused, turned around and looked around, said: "I'm going to pour tea," and then replied, "It's nothing, a few people lost their shape while talking." After finishing speaking, she went out.

Xiangcheng is a person who can't hide things, everything is on her face.Daiyu and Hongxiao knew she wasn't telling the truth just by listening to her voice.After she went out, Daiyu said: "You ask privately, and you don't know what it is. Why is this little hoof trying to hide it from me?"

Tonight, oranges were supposed to be on duty at night, but she said that she was a little tired, so she changed to red silk to stay on duty at night.Daiyu knew that Hongxiao had already told her, and there was nothing wrong with it.

"Isn't the Madam of Zhen Guohou's Mansion sending someone to help Brother Ming? Zi Yuan's mother is Xu's mother." Daiyu nodded and said, "I heard that she is working in the old lady's room." Hongxiao nodded and said, "Yes, the old lady came in two years ago when she was adding people to the yard. Sister An'er and the others were talking in the side hall in front. Because they wanted boiling water to make tea, Mother Xu sent it over and listened outside. A few words. When the girl went to see the guests, Zi Yuan also followed, and her old mother learned to teach her. When she came back, she told Lan Qiao a few words. They had never seen anything in the world, and their eyelids were shallow. Have fun."

According to the rules, only close relatives are invited for the third wash.The Lin family has not been in the capital for a long time, and there are no relatives in the capital, only the Cui family, the Rongguo family, the Lu family and the Xu family.

Zhen Guohou has no relatives in Beijing. After entering Beijing, because of his filial piety, he did not associate with other people's families.They don't come to the door, and they don't let others come to the door.But the people from the Hou Mansion went to the Lin family twice, especially this time, people had to trace the ancestors of the two families and when they got married.

Not only Wang Xifeng and Feng Er and the others in front of him speculated like this, but Zi Yuan and the others were also arguing in private.The voices that Daiyu heard were the voices of several people who insisted on their own opinions and refused to give in to each other.

It is already one crime for them to talk about the master, but it is the second crime for them to quarrel so that Daiyu can't rest.

Xiangcheng was sandwiched between Daiyu, Ziyuan and the others, worried that Ziyuan and the others would be punished, and refused to lie in front of Daiyu, so she was unwilling to say more.

Hongxiao also interceded for a few people, saying: "They are still young, so there are some mischievous ones. Just don't look at these, for the sake of Xiangcheng's embarrassment, the girl just pretends not to know?"

Daiyu glanced at her and said, "You are all good people, and I am the only one who has no affection."

"It's not that the girl is good-natured, so I don't dare to say that," she had expected Daiyu to say this, but Hongxiao didn't care.After making the bed, he came up to undress Daiyu and said, "They have been with the girl for several years. How can they not know the girl's temperament? It is precisely because of this that I am afraid in my heart. I said you are so afraid, how dare you know your mistakes and make mistakes? It’s just that they begged me to always tell the girl, so that they can feel at ease, so that they don’t have to think about it all day and don’t have the heart to be on errands.”

Daiyu laughed, and said: "They gave you honey to eat, why is your mouth so sweet?" Then she said: "Speaking of which, even I don't know." She thought to find a time to ask Lu Huixian.

That night, it began to rain patter, and it didn't stop until dawn. Both the old lady and Mrs. Zhao sent people to tell me that there was no need to go there.

After school at noon, the rain did not decrease, but became heavier.Lin Lang still had classes in the afternoon, and Mrs. Zhao sent someone to send his copy to the school, so he didn't have to go back.

There were two other women holding coir raincoats and bamboo hats. Lin Jun thought it was interesting and put them on immediately.Seeing that Daiyu was standing still, he ordered Hongxuan, "Put it on for you girls. It's raining heavily today, and umbrellas are useless." Yu listened.

After hearing this, the woman holding the coir raincoat said, "That's what you say, girls shouldn't be careless. It's better to let the little girls open umbrellas and cover them up." After speaking, she continued what she said just now: "When you come, it's big. Grandma told me that it was raining too much, so I invited the girls to have dinner."

The laurel garden where Zhengfang and Lin Qing's family live is the closest to the school, but the road to Zhengfang is easier to walk, as there are verandahs along the way.

Daiyu looked Lin Jun up and down, and said, "It's so ugly."

It's just that she couldn't help but say "what's good-looking, it's better than rain, try it, it's light and warm", and Hong Kao said "I think it's okay".Daiyu had no words to refute, and put it on after half pushing and half pushing.

Lin Jun was naughty, and didn't take her mother's words to heart, and hurriedly sent them away.Seeing that the little maids really came with umbrellas, they waved their hands again and again, saying: "Just take care of yourselves, don't get caught in the rain, I should open a medicine shop tomorrow." She asked Daiyu to go into the rainy field, but she couldn't stop her. She said, "Don't listen to that woman. When we were at home, when it rained so hard, Lang'er and I also wore coir raincoats like this. Bamboo hat, I have been fishing in the rain for half an hour, but not a drop of rain has soaked in." She pointed at her body as she said, "Look for yourself," Daiyu looked at her, and saw the raindrops hitting her. When it reaches the coir raincoat, it forms water droplets one by one, and slides down along the clothes. After several times, it gathers into water droplets on the hem of the clothes, and then falls. "It's just that it doesn't work when it rains heavily. It will soak in a little bit."

Daiyu looked interesting, but she couldn't care less about disgust.

Walking all the way to the main room, the two of them took off their wooden clogs on the porch, took off their coir raincoats and bamboo hats, and ate half a bowl of hot tea in the outside room. After the cold was gone, they went to the back room to see Lu Huixian.

Lin Ming had just finished feeding and fell asleep in the nurse's arms with his eyes closed.

They leaned over to look into the nurse's arms, and the child couldn't help but grow up, changing every day, and seemed to be a little different from yesterday.

Xiangluo came in and asked where the food was served, and Lu Huixian sent the nanny to carry Lin Ming down to sleep.

After dinner, the three of them gossiped about the grand occasion of washing three yesterday.

Daiyu smiled and recounted what the maids were talking about, and then asked: "I never heard that we are related to their family, why did their family come here yesterday?"

After hearing this, Lu Huixian smiled and said, "Don't tell me you don't know, I didn't know either before."

It turned out that the late old lady of the Hou Mansion also came from the Xu family in Pingan Prefecture. The grandfathers of the two were brothers. Later, the old lady's branch was separated.But the two are far apart in age. The old lady became a widow within a few years after marrying into the Lin family, and then lost her son, and her parents also passed away one after another.The old lady was hit hard, her temper changed drastically, all relatives in the family were cut off, even the brothers and sisters of the same clan were no exception, and the sisters of the same clan had no contact.When the old lady of the Hou Mansion left the cabinet that day, the Xu family also delivered a letter, but the old lady sent someone to give a gift of makeup.It's just one south and one north, and there is no communication in the future.After so many years, I have long forgotten such a thing.

That day when I went to Dajue Temple to fulfill my vows, the two families met on the road, and the old lady suddenly remembered that it was the clan sister who was sitting in the car.At first I wanted to say hello, but then I thought, I have never had any contact with her, and I don't know what she is thinking, if the other party does not have such a heart, I am afraid that she will not have a new relative, but an enemy. , It's just annoyance, so I suppress it and ignore it.

No, the Marquis of Zhen Guo also paid attention.It was only on that day that she found out that her clan sister was also suffering.Like her, she was widowed at a young age. What is better than her is that her son grows up and becomes a relative; what is not as strong as her is that her grandson dies before he is born, which is a blessing.

The old lady was sad for several days.

Northern Xinjiang is bitterly cold, although the Zhen Guohou Mansion is high and powerful, there are no good people in Beijing who are willing to marry their daughters to Luo Jiaerlang.Moreover, the emperor also tabooed foreign ministers from making friends with Beijing officials, especially military officials who were close to civilian officials. Therefore, most of the daughters-in-law of the Luo family came from families of military generals.The Luo family's children followed their father and brother, and they were influenced by their ears and eyes. They went to the battlefield when they were ten years old, and not many of them lived to marry a wife and have children.As far as Luo Changping is concerned, he is the only one left in Dizhi.

In the entire Chang'an city, there is not a family of serious relatives.

What's more, the Marquis of Zhen Guo is in the northern border, holding military power and controlling one party's political affairs, which is regarded as a high position, but when he returns to Beijing, he is nothing more than an empty title.

Even those who took the initiative to come to recognize their relatives were not serious people, and the Luo family felt disgusted and refused to have any contact with them.Therefore, knowing that there was such an aunt and grandmother in Beijing, and asking about the people of the Lin family, she took the initiative to visit her.

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