The Warm Jade of the Red Chamber

Zhuang Yu heard about the visit of Wang Xifeng and Shi Xiangyun from Daiyu that day, and he was very interested in the water wheel and incense burner mentioned by Daiyu. This style and production method are really similar to what his father said. the one who played.However, my father also said that if that person wants to hide, no one will be able to catch him. Now that such an conspicuous thing has appeared in the world, it must be the clue that the person took the initiative to reveal. From this point of view, the person is probably hiding Can't stop.

On the day that Emperor Chunyou brought his people back to Beijing, Zhuang Yu took Daiyu to pick him up outside the city in a carriage.

Daiyu hasn't been out of the city since she married into the palace, and Zhuang Yu's original promise to take her on an outing always failed due to various reasons.

This day, I went out with Zhuang Yu, the sky was clear and the sky was clear. Although we were only on the main road, we could still see the unique flowers and green leaves in spring.

Although Daiyu's eyes were full of yearning and curiosity, she couldn't raise the curtain of the carriage because there were still family members, civil servants and military generals who stayed behind to pick her up.

Seeing this, Zhuang Yu grinned, lifted the curtain openly, and poked his head outside.Then he motioned Daiyu to sit behind him, just in time to see the scenery outside through the gap opened by the curtain, but he would not let people outside see her.

Daiyu happily sat beside Zhuang Yu, and leaned on Zhuang Yu's shoulder to look out. Because of the angle, people outside could only see Zhuang Yu's face exposed from the carriage window, and they just smiled and didn't care. But he didn't know that Zhuang Yu was just covering for Daiyu.

Although the road was leveled, there were a lot of people picking up and driving. During this period of time, there were six or seven days of sunny days, and a lot of dust could not help but fly up on the dirt road.The wild scenery by the roadside is actually very boring, definitely not comparable to the flowery scenery in the palace, but it is a novelty, Daiyu still enjoys watching it.

Gently shaking her hand, Zhuang Yu thought to himself, it seems that this trip to the lake in spring should be paid back to Daiyu as soon as possible.It's not just about commitment, it's about trying to please her.

Emperor Chunyou's team finally arrived, and after shouting "Long Live", they marched into the city in mighty force.

The men wanted to enter the palace to discuss rewards, and the remaining courtiers had to report the situation to Emperor Chunyou, so naturally they all left with Emperor Chunyou, while the female relatives went back to the mansion separately, and when Emperor Chunyou and others left, they dispersed in all directions.

Zhuang Yu and Daiyu's carriage were led to follow behind Qiu Qingyu's carriage, and both Zhuang Yu and Daiyu got into Qiu Qingyu's carriage.

As soon as Qiu Qingyu saw Daiyu, she immediately hugged her and rubbed her. Daiyu hadn't seen Qiu Qingyu for a while, so she fell into her arms and acted coquettishly.The happy atmosphere of the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law left Zhuang Yu in the cold.

Qiu Qingyu was also quite tired after riding the carriage all the way. After returning home to freshen up, she wanted to go back to her room to take a nap, so she took Daiyu away and asked her to sleep with her for a while.

Daiyu lay obediently in Qiu Qingyu's arms, and seeing Qiu Qingyu soon fell asleep, a lot of drowsiness brewed for some reason, and she fell into a daze.

After Zhuang Ye returned home, he walked into the door while talking with Zhuang Yu and his son, and interrupted involuntarily. He saw two beauties, one big and one small, sleeping soundly under the quilt. They looked at each other and smiled, turned around and left the door, heading for the study.

After hearing what Zhuang Yu said, Zhuang Ye was silent for a while, and then said: "If the gift that the girl from the Xue family gave to the Jia family is really as delicate and ingenious as the girl from the Shi family said, then it can only come from Feng Muzhi's hand. It seems that he is afraid that he does not want to continue living in seclusion anymore, and he wants to use the hands of the Xue family to tell us his whereabouts."

Zhuang Yu nodded and said, "I've thought about it, and I'll take Dai'er to Jia's mansion in the future. If I ask to see those two items, the Jia family will definitely agree. As long as Mrs. Feng said nothing Wrong, there must be Uncle Feng's mark on that thing, and everything will be known by then."

While the father and son were talking, Tian Jin, the chief executive, sent a post saying it was from the Xue family in Jinling.

Zhuang Ye and Zhuang Yu looked at each other, Zhuang Ye smiled and said: "It seems that we don't need to come to the door by ourselves, they are even more impatient than us."

Zhuang Ye took the post from Tian Jin, with a piece of paper sandwiched between them, and a picture was drawn on the paper. The picture showed a three-person-high waterwheel standing by the river.

When Zhuang Ye saw it, he stood up with a bang, and said inexplicably surprised: "It's true, it's true! Haha, God bless me!"

Zhuang Ye didn't care about other things at the moment, and hurriedly said to Zhuang Yu: "I'm going to the palace now, you tell your concubine mother, if I don't come back tonight, don't wait for me."

After speaking, Zhuang Ye hurried out.

Zhuang Yu looked at Zhuang Ye's back helplessly, his father, the king, was already in his thirties, and still had such a frizzy temper, no wonder the emperor's grandfather would call him a crazy boy.

Sure enough, Zhuang Ye did not return home that night. After listening to Zhuang Yu's words, Qiu Qingyu naturally understood what he was doing, and didn't care about it, and even felt joy along with him.

But Daiyu didn't understand why Qiu Qingyu felt so happy when she mentioned the small waterwheel and incense burner that the girl from the Xue family gave to the Jia family.

Qiu Qingyu looked at Daiyu's ignorant eyes, hugged her into her arms, gently supported her head and said, "Does Dai'er think it's strange?"

Daiyu nodded obediently.

Qiu Qingyu smiled and said, "There is an allusion in it."

As she said that, Qiu Qingyu glanced at Zhuang Yu and said, "I'll give you a chance to tell Dai'er a story."

Zhuang Yu coughed, stood up with a serious face and posed in a pose like a storyteller, which made Daiyu giggle.

Zhuang Yu broke his skills immediately, showing his white teeth with a smile, and trying to put on a serious look, suddenly looked very nondescript: "By the way, there was a mechanism maker in the previous dynasty..."

Daiyu was amused by his mischievous appearance, but after listening for a while, she became serious.

The machine builder of the former dynasty mentioned by Zhuang Yu was not an ordinary person, but Mr. Mu who presided over the construction of the imperial tomb of Emperor Hui, the last emperor of the previous dynasty. His name is no longer known.

This Mr. Mu is a very legendary figure. When Emperor Hui was building the imperial mausoleum, the capital city had already been captured by the rebel army, and he was forced to move north to Jiaocheng.

No matter how much Emperor Hui deceived himself, he knew that he was exhausted. In despair, he used all the money in the treasury to build his own mausoleum, which was extravagant.

And Mr. Mu is the one who presided over the construction of the mausoleum, and almost all the organs in the imperial tomb are from his hands.

In the end, two days before Jiaocheng was also captured by the rebel army, Emperor Hui took all his concubines and children into the imperial tomb, and blew up the entrance, so that the imperial tomb was isolated from the world.The migrant workers who participated in the construction of the imperial tomb were all murdered, but Mr. Mu was taken into the imperial tomb by Emperor Hui to die alive.

Legend has it that the destruction of the entrance of the imperial mausoleum began.Some people said that Mr. Mu did not die, he controlled the mechanism for entering and exiting the imperial tomb, and escaped safely from the imperial tomb.Some people also said that it was not only Mr. Mu who came out of the imperial tomb, but also the youngest son of Emperor Hui.

Because of these various legends, the tomb of Jiaocheng has aroused the interest of tomb robbers.

In the early days of the founding of the Dajing Dynasty, people were also sent to Jiaocheng to investigate, not for the extravagant mausoleum, but just like every newly established dynasty, worried about the old dynasty that the prince of the previous dynasty would cause. Restoration.

However, no matter what method the tomb robbers tried to use to enter the imperial tomb, they would only end up buried in one of them.And the secret agents of Dajing failed to find any news about Mr. Mu or Emperor Hui's youngest son. Everything seemed to indicate that Mr. Mu was buried in the imperial tomb, and that the youngest son of Emperor Hui was even more out of thin air.

Gradually, the rulers of the Dajing Dynasty let go of this matter.In the blink of an eye for a hundred years, no former prince appeared, so the rumors about Emperor Hui's youngest son were naturally self-defeating.

It was Zhuang Ye who saved a couple during the years when he went to the Northwest, and unexpectedly found out the truth about Mr. Mu.

In fact, that Mr. Mu did have a way to get out of the imperial tomb, and he did come out with Emperor Hui's child, but it was not the prince that everyone thought, but Fang, who was known as the number one beauty at the time. Princess Hua.Princess Fanghua was a rare intelligent woman in the previous dynasty. She had already seen Emperor Hui's intentions, so she found a way out for herself early on. When Emperor Hui killed all the migrant workers, he saved Mr. Mu and brought him into the imperial mausoleum.

Mr. Mu is too old to be confused, he is thin and dark, how can he resist the temptation of the beautiful princess?Naturally, willing to go through fire and water for the beauty, using the hidden mechanism left during the construction, before Emperor Hui went crazy and killed all his concubines and children, he quietly escaped with Princess Fanghua from the imperial tomb.

Princess Fanghua didn't like Mr. Mu, but she was pregnant and spoiled since she was young and didn't know the way of life, so she could only make do with Mr. Mu. Not long after giving birth to a daughter, she found an opportunity, He ran away with a merchant from Qianxiang country, and there was no news after going to Qianxiang country.

Mr. Mu had to work hard to raise his daughter, named Lu Hui, and Lu was Mr. Mu's real surname.Lu Hui looks a lot like Mr. Mu, dark and thin.However, God is fair, depriving her of her beauty, but gave her full of intelligence, she not only has a lot of wit, but also learned all the skills of Mr. Mu in just 20 years, and has the potential to excel.Mr. Mu had this daughter when he was in his 40s. In order to raise her, he was extremely afraid of revealing his identity. Passed away.

Because of Lu Hui's ugly appearance, she didn't dare to show off her ingenious skills easily, so her life was very poor.It was not until he was 30 years old that he married a carpenter named Feng and gave birth to a daughter named Feng Hua. Fearing that her daughter would be like himself in the future, he adopted a little beggar and named him Feng Muzhi, who was regarded as a son-in-law.Unfortunately, within a few years of the good times, Carpenter Feng fell ill and passed away.With great difficulty, Lu Hui brought up the two children and taught them her own skills. Finally, after they got married, she left with peace of mind.

When Zhuang Ye rescued Feng Muzhi and his wife in the northwest, they were already in their 30s. Both Feng Hua and Feng Muzhi had superb mechanism skills, but they didn't dare to use them easily on weekdays. They only relied on selling coolies and washing clothes for others. born.

Zhuang Ye felt that the two of them were sitting on the treasure mountain and swallowing chaff, so he simply proposed to recruit them to serve the Dajing court.

And the first person to agree was actually Feng Hua.