The Red Mansion Becomes Lin Daiyu

Soon after the Lantern Festival, the weather gradually warmed up.The flexible withered yellow wicker is gradually covered by green buds, drifting with the wind, drawing graceful arcs in the air, and the branches of the peach and apricot trees are also covered with pink flower buds.The earth came back to life unknowingly. If you look closely, there are many green shoots faintly drilled on the withered yellow grass, sharp like green thorns, and people can't help admiring the tenacity of life.Everything in nature is not like the depression of winter, giving people a sense of vitality.

Lin Daiyu took a leisurely walk in the garden of the Lin Mansion, breathing in the fresh spring air with the smell of fresh soil, and her mood improved unknowingly.In two days, it will be the Huachao Festival, which is also her birthday. Since she came to ancient times, Lin Daiyu really hasn't had a good birthday. A few years ago, she was still in the filial piety period. Naturally, it is inconvenient to celebrate lively. Every year on her birthday Just eat a bowl of longevity noodles.Lin Daiyu herself thought it was nothing, but she couldn't help Lin Ruhai always felt that she had wronged her daughter. Isn't it just a few days away, so she was just trying to celebrate her daughter's birthday?A lot of presents have been picked out and sent to Yuyuan. Lin Daiyu was terrified when she saw it. Daddy, are you going to make up for all the presents I had from the previous years?

On February [-]th, Lin Daiyu woke up early in the morning and heard a few little maids outside whispering something, she didn't care, she put on some clothes casually and sat up.Honglian heard the commotion and hurried in with a few maidservants carrying toiletries.

"Young lady got up quite early today, and the servants are discussing about wishing her a birthday?" Hong Lian said while helping Lin Daiyu get dressed.

"You guys were yelling outside early in the morning, I heard it a long time ago." Lin Daiyu laughed.

"Ah, are the servants disturbing the girl?"

"That's not true. I only heard about it when I woke up. As for the birthday greetings, I don't need it. It's good if you have this kind of heart. I'm young, so I don't have to lose my luck." Lin Daiyu picked out a light purple coat and wore it again. He washed his hands in the washbasin carried by the little maid.

"That's okay, the girl is the master, and the slaves should be like this." Hong Lian said, and the rest of the little maids also quickly responded.

Lin Daiyu took the wet towel handed by Hong Lian, wiped her face and cursed with a smile: "You little hooves, I don't think you really want to pay birthday wishes, but you are thinking about my bounty from you girls!"

Most of Lin Daiyu's maids are also psychic (Green lotus root is an exception!), knowing that Lin Daiyu is joking with everyone, they are all eager to make fun of it, so let's talk about it.

"Miss, you have wronged the slaves, we are sincere!"

"Yes, yes, the servants don't care about the girl's reward, but the girl is so rich that she doesn't mind rewarding the servants!"

"You little miser, and you said you didn't miss the girl's reward!" A maid next to her patted the little maid who had just spoken, and the little maid laughed twice and scratched her head and stopped talking.

"Okay, okay, there's no need to pay birthday wishes. Girl, I'm not a stingy person. Everyone has rewards." Lin Daiyu said, and there was a burst of cheers before she finished speaking. Several people rushed to thank Lin Daiyu, and said all kinds of things blessing words.

Seeing a group of maids playing tricks, Lin Daiyu thought it was quite interesting, so she couldn't help smiling.When she looked up again, she saw all the maids staring at her with big round eyes. Uh, could it be that her maids were instantly immobilized? They all had this expression.

Shaking her head to dispel the random thoughts in her mind, Lin Daiyu asked: "Is there something on my face? Why are you looking at me like that?"

Hong Lian was the first to react, and restrained her dazed expression and said, "Young lady, I'm sorry, it's just that she is so beautiful that the servants are dumbfounded."

"Yeah, yeah, the girl just laughed so charmingly, she couldn't describe it like a fish falling into a wild goose, or a moon like a flower in shame. So how should I say it? By the way, she is born beautiful and hard to give up. Also, look back and smile Bai Meisheng, it must be that Concubine Yang Guifei will be compared to the girl when she is reborn." Lulian also said, it's really thanks to her that she can piece together these words intermittently from her always scarce brain.

All the maids laughed together and responded one after another.

"Okay, you guys are really serious. Is there anyone who praises her daughter so much? I'm not afraid of being laughed at when I say it. Isn't my skin a little better than ordinary people? Is it as exaggerated as you say?" Lin Daiyu asked. Helping the little girl is also a big fuss, she got rid of the impurities in her body after cultivation, her skin is really good, but that's all!

All the maids looked at the sky in a daze, Miss, your skin is better than ordinary people, is it much better, and not only the skin is good, your face is probably not comparable to that of Xishi Diaochan!Alas, it's a pity that my girl doesn't have the self-consciousness of beauty!

"What's so happy about it? I heard your laughter from a long distance away. Telling it makes me happy too!" Just as Lin Ruhai walked in, everyone saluted one after another.

"Daddy, why are you here at this hour?" Lin Daiyu asked Lin Ruhai, pulling her towards him.

"I can't come and see my daughter, why, does Yu'er like the gift I gave to my father?"

"Of course the daughter my father gave me likes it. Doesn't my father need to be on duty?" Lin Daiyu asked. Usually, my father is rarely at home at this time!

"I'll go later for my father. Today is my daughter's birthday. I have to eat birthday noodles with my daughter before leaving!" Lin Ruhai said, the eldest daughter is the biggest. As for official business, there is nothing important recently. It doesn't matter.

"Okay, my daughter just feels that it's deserted to eat alone. It's so good, my daughter will let them prepare the meal immediately!" Lin Daiyu said happily.

After happily eating rice, birthday peaches and birthday noodles, Lin Ruhai went to the provincial office.Lin Daiyu sat obliquely on the small couch and watched the maids cut some colored paper and pasted it on the branches. This is an inherent custom of the Huachao Festival.Every year during the Flower Festival on the twelfth day of the second lunar month, people go to the suburbs together to enjoy the flowers, which is called "outing green". Girls cut five-color paper and stick them on the flower branches, which is called "appreciating red".There are also planting trees and flowers, offering sacrifices to flower gods, etc. The flowers and trees in the Lin Mansion are all planned, and it would be awkward to plant additional ones. Therefore, the maids cut colored paper and glued it to the trees. The flowers and trees are very colorful. nice!

"Girl, the Third Prince sent someone to give you a gift!" Hong Lian came in to report while Lin Daiyu was flipping through the book boredly.

"Please come in!" Lin Daiyu said.

Hong Lian went away at the sound, and after a while brought a handsome young man in, and avoided the young man's salute, Lin Daiyu asked: "Did the third prince ask you to come?"

"Yes, the third prince said that today is the girl's birthday, so he specially asked the little one to give the girl a gift?" As he said that, he asked someone to carry a two-foot-square thing that looked like a board. The packaging was very delicate, but this shape... ...Uh, it makes people afraid to think deeply.

What is this, Lin Daiyu was puzzled, what is it like a plank?Thinking of the foodie nature of the third prince, I was horrified. This could not be a chopping board. Is it really an anecdote to give gifts and chopping boards?If the third prince really dared to send a chopping board over, he would never even think about coming to the Lin Mansion for food in the future!Thinking of this, Lin Daiyu smiled lightly, shook her head to dispel the wild thoughts in her heart, the third prince should not be so absurd, but what is this thing?

Thinking of this, Lin Daiyu asked: "Did the third prince say what this is?"

"Returning to the girl, the prince didn't tell the little one, he only said that the girl will know it after reading it, and said that the girl will definitely like it after reading it!"

Knowing that there was nothing to be asked from this little servant, Lin Daiyu ordered Honglian to give him a reward and let him retire.The third prince is still playing tricks, she is even more curious about what it is, the one who can make the third prince say these words must not be Fanpin.Carefully tore open the wrapped colored paper, revealing the jade-white material, ho, it really is not an ordinary thing, but judging by the quality of this jade, it is just extraordinary.

As the layers of colored paper peeled off, a perfect chessboard was displayed in front of everyone, exuding a faint white light, and it was worth a lot of money at first glance. I don't know where the third prince got it from.The maids all stared blankly at the chessboard, just as they looked at Lin Daiyu just now.

Lin Daiyu took a closer look and couldn't help being shocked. This piece of white jade is definitely more than a thousand years old, and she can even see the crystal chalcedony flowing inside the jade bi.Lin Daiyu read about chalcedony in senior Qingfeng's notes, and learned that chalcedony is the essence of heaven and earth, and contains the original spirit of heaven and earth, which can help monks improve their realm, strengthen their minds, and even improve their talents .But this kind of thing can be met but not sought after, so I didn't take it seriously at the time, but I didn't expect to be met by her today.You must know that chalcedony is a rare treasure even in the world of cultivation. Taoists say that you can become a fairy if you obey it. Although it is not so exaggerated, the role cannot be ignored. How lucky to get such a treasure?Hehe, I really want to thank the Third Prince this time. Let's make more dishes and send them to him later!

While looking at the chessboard, another little maid came to report that Xiao Muzi, the eighth prince's valet, had come. Lin Daiyu must have brought a gift from the eighth prince, so she asked someone to bring Xiao Muzi in.Xiao Muzi ordered people to put down the things, and greeted Lin Daiyu.

"Girl, the Eighth Prince has sent someone here to give you a birthday present." Xiao Muzi smiled flatteringly.

"Is it just these two boxes?" Lin Daiyu frowned slightly and said, there are two boxes again, how many times have I said it, the Eighth Prince never changed it, I don't know if he gave others things in boxes.

"Yes." Xiao Muzi replied.

"Do you know what's in it? I won't accept anything irrelevant!" Lin Daiyu raised her eyebrows and smiled.

"The master didn't tell the little one, girl, you must accept it, the master has been preparing for a long time, if you don't take the little one back, you won't be able to explain it!" Xiao Muzi said with a bitter face.

Xiao Muzi still couldn't help being funny, Lin Daiyu laughed and said, "Look at your worthless appearance, and I didn't say no, what else can your master do to you!"

"Miss, you don't know. The master is angry. Although he doesn't beat and scold us, the air-conditioning is so loud that it can freeze a person to death!" As if thinking of that situation, Xiao Muzi shook his head and beat us. With a shiver, he exaggeratedly rubbed his arms and said.

"Hehe." Lin Daiyu was amused by Xiao Muzi's expression and movements, and said with a smile: "Is it as exaggerated as you said, why have I never seen it before? If you speak ill of master outside, you are not afraid that your master will punish you if he finds out! "

"I know that the girl is a good person, so I won't tell the master." Xiao Muzi stepped forward and said with a smile.I thought to myself, of course you have never seen it before, the master is not always pleasant in front of you, I am afraid that it will make you unhappy, of course you will not understand the difficulties of the little ones!

"Okay, glib, go back and tell your masters that I have accepted the things." Lin Daiyu said.

Xiao Muzi went away in response.Lin Daiyu also opened the box and looked at it. The first box was full of ancient books, as well as books on the art of war. Oh, this kid is still sensible and knows that he loves to read!Opened another box, er, what is this, rattle drum, jigsaw puzzle, nine chains, and a small wooden sword... a big box full of toys for children, she is nine years old, she has long since stopped playing Is this okay, and most of these are things for boys to play with, the Eighth Prince is treating her as a childlike innocence!Alas, forget it, after all, it is a birthday present from others, and the eighth prince in ancient times is also one of her few friends, and he usually takes care of himself so much, so tell Honglian to keep it well for a while!

"Girl, let's go for an outing in a while, shall we?" Suddenly, Lv Lotus came running happily and asked.

"You, you are really restless, you think the girl is just like you!" Hong Lian spat and said, nodding her forehead.

Lv Ou stuck out her tongue and muttered: "I'm just asking..." The voice became smaller and smaller, and gradually it disappeared into the throat.

"Not today!" Lin Daiyu said.

"Why, girl, isn't today the Huachao Festival? Everyone has gone out for an outing."

"It's because everyone has gone for an outing, so I said no. If you want to go, let's go out and have a look together someday when you are free. Today, so many people go, I don't know whether it is outing or outing." Lin Daiyu joked.

The servant girl burst into laughter when she heard this, and hurriedly said that the girl was right, but we were shallow.After talking and laughing, the concierge came to report that a girl named Luoying was asking to see her, Lin Daiyu was shocked when she heard this, the fifth princess's personal maid was named Luoying, could it be her?

At the moment when Lin Daiyu was thinking, the person who came to report handed over a little rabbit carved from jade. Lin Daiyu saw that this was what she gave to the third princess?She was the one who met the eighth prince's Qilin back then, and pestered herself to carve a little rabbit for her.Now it is certain, it really is Luo Ying who is next to the third princess, but why did she leave the palace, could it be that the third princess...

"Please!" Lin Daiyu ordered.

"Luoying met Miss Lin!" the visitor saluted.

"Excuse me, why are you leaving the palace?" Lin Daiyu asked.

"The servant came out with the third princess. The third princess is in the teahouse near the Lin mansion. She specially asked the servant to invite Miss Lin." Luoying said.

This third princess is also true, why did she run out alone, and I don't know if there are enough guards with me, so let's go and have a look!

"Luoying, please lead the way, let's go and have a look!" Lin Daiyu said

Following Luoying into the teahouse, Lin Daiyu came to a private room on the second floor. Lin Daiyu thought that the third princess was a little bit more modest, so she didn't sit directly in the hall.Pushing the door open, a little girl in pink rushed forward and said, "Sister Yu, you are finally here, I can't wait. You haven't entered the palace for a long time, I miss you so much!"

"You want my delicious food!" Lin Daiyu laughed. The three princesses are foodies in essence. Ever since he showed his hand to the queen mother for the first time, he has completely captured the three princesses. She wanted to bring her some snacks, and sometimes Lin Daiyu wondered if the royal family was fighting with the three criminals, not counting the third prince who was a foodie, but the third princess who was a foodie.

The third princess blinked mischievously, stuck out her tongue and stopped talking.These three princesses are really, how should I put it, pure and lovely.

"Why don't you go directly to the mansion to find me?" Lin Daiyu asked.

"It's the eighth brother who said that it's inconvenient to report something when going to the mansion. It's better to call sister Yu directly."

It was only then that Lin Daiyu noticed that there was an Eighth Prince standing beside him, and he looked at him, and he smiled back.At this moment, Lin Daiyu really wants to complain, what kind of logic is this, don't you need to send a maid to report, and you have to let yourself out, isn't it more troublesome, third princess, you were cheated by your eighth brother, do you know?

"Uh, so, does the third princess have anything to do with me?" Lin Daiyu asked

"Ah, sister Yu didn't tell me that I forgot. Isn't today my sister's birthday? I brought a gift to my sister. Look, I embroidered this handkerchief myself. Isn't the lotus leaf on it very beautiful? People say Do you have sincerity if you make a gift with your own hands? I embroidered this for my sister myself!" The Eighth Prince next to him trembled when he heard this, and he was sincere if he made it himself, didn't he mean to give his most precious thing to him? Lover?

"Uh, yes, very beautiful, thank you Fifth Princess." Is this a lotus leaf? Lin Daiyu took a closer look at it. It is really a test of people's IQ. No matter how she looks at it, it is grass, but looking at the expectant little face in front of her, I really dare not tell the truth, but the sincerity of the third princess is good, so I hurriedly put it away.

"Also, Father and Grandmother also have presents for you. They were supposed to send someone to bring them to my sister. Didn't I beg Father to come and see my sister, so I brought them along with you?" he said. Then someone took out a jade pendant and a golden phoenix hairpin.

Lin Daiyu hurriedly asked Honglian to put it away and asked the fifth princess to thank her on her behalf.

"Sister Yu, I'm going to watch a sideshow, do you want to go?" The third princess pointed out the window and said.

"You go, I'll wait for you here!" Lin Daiyu said.

"Okay!" said the third lord, and went down with a few people.

"Sister Daiyu, do you still like the gift I gave you?" Shui Rui asked after the third princess left.

"Ah? I like it!" Lin Daiyu was stunned for a moment and said, "But Brother Rui, why did you give me so many toys?"

Shui Rui raised his eyes and looked out of the window, his eyes were distant and full of nostalgia: "Those are all things I played with when I was a child, and they were prepared by my mother for me. I heard people say that if you want to be sincere, you should give yourself the most precious things. So..." He lowered his head unknowingly, and his ears were blushing unknowingly.

Uh, what's the situation? It's too precocious to say that the eighth prince is interested in me, but thinking about how the eighth prince has treated me in recent years, it really seems like that, and I can't help but feel embarrassed.

"Brother Rui, since those things are so important to you, why don't I return them to you." Lin Daiyu said after deliberation.

"I gave it to you, so there's no reason to take it back, and it's the same if I let you go." Shui Rui said.

Lin Daiyu shouted in her heart, how could this be the same?But it seemed useless to say anything, so he simply shut up.

"Sister Yu, let me see what I bought for you?" Lin Daiyu breathed a sigh of relief when she heard the voice of the third princess while she was hesitating, and she really didn't know what to say when she was alone with the eighth prince.

"What?" Lin Daiyu asked.

"It's a sugar figure. I specially asked the grandfather of the sugar seller to pinch one according to my appearance. Doesn't it look a lot like me? Here it is for you!" He said and lifted the sugar figure in front of Lin Daiyu.

Lin Daiyu took it with a smile.The third princess asked Lin Daiyu again why she didn't go for an outing today, and Lin Daiyu said the same thing she said to her maids in Yuyuan.Unexpectedly, the third princess wanted to go as soon as she heard the noise. Lin Daiyu had no choice but to tell her when she decided to go for an outing someday.During this period, Lin Daiyu felt that the Eighth Prince would look at her from time to time, hesitant to speak, Lin Daiyu ignored him, just pretended not to see her.After chatting for a while, the third princess said that she was going back to the palace, and Lin Daiyu asked Honglian to go back to the house to bring her a lot of snacks.