Concubine daughter of the Lin family in the Red Chamber

Liu Xuan said: "If you want me to say, it's better to hit the sun than to choose the day, let's choose the day after tomorrow. Otherwise, I don't know when it will be."

Shi Aizhu also agreed, and said: "Chaohuang also said that she came, and I don't know if she can leave the palace." Several people discussed again, and they discussed going the next day. Tomorrow Shi Aizhu and Liu Xuan will enter the palace, trying to find a way to call Princess Chaohuang Allowed to leave the palace.

After Lin Wanru went back, she told Aunt Shen, and Aunt Shen was naturally happy, saying: "It's all about having fun while you're not married, and when you get married, you won't have time to play." He took another 200 taels of silver To Lin Wanru: "Do it well, don't be stingy."

When Chen Ruiwen found out that he was looking for Lin Wanru later, he volunteered: "You young girls go out, and you are going to such a far place, how can you be unaccompanied, I will take you there."

Lin Wanru smiled and said, "You have to be busy with your own affairs, how can you have time?"

Chen Ruiwen didn't take it seriously: "Chun Wei is coming soon, and the Ministry of Rites and the Imperial Academy are busy, so I'm very free."

Talking about traveling in chariots and horses, he also said that the Chen family has another courtyard in Xishan, and they asked people to prepare it in advance, so that there would be a place to rest.

Lin Wanru originally wanted to make a good deal of it, but Chen Ruiwen took care of everything. The mountain road was difficult, and Chen Ruiwen didn't plan to ride a horse. In the early morning of the next day, he and Lin Wanru took a carriage to meet Shi Aizhu at the city gate. and.

Lin Wanru looked at the bustling crowd around Shi Aizhu a little stunned, but Chen Ruiwen had already been pulled off the carriage by Shi Guangzhu and Liu Fang to say hello, Shi Aizhu apologized a little: "Mother, don't worry, let's go alone, ask brother to accompany me."

Liu Xuan also said: "Mother also asked my brother to accompany me."

Lin Wanru was a little depressed: "Since we're here, it will be more lively if there are more people. What about Princess Chaohuang and Rou'er?"

Shi Aizhu excitedly said: "We took a lot of effort to get uncle to agree. Chaohuang led people from the palace and went there first. Shuirou hasn't come yet."

Lin Wanru held his forehead.I'm afraid Princess Chaohuang will have a lot of maids and guards around her when she goes out.

The crowd waited for a while before they got to Shuirou. Shuirou came alone in a carriage, but she brought seven or eight food boxes. She smiled and said, "Snacks made at home are eaten on the road." Lin Wanru Speechless.

A group of people, four carriages, seven or eight horses, and more than a dozen guards.Going to the west mountain in a mighty way, this is the season for outings and fun, to see the people on the road.They were all in groups of three or five, talking and laughing on foot, but the further they went to the west mountain, the more Lin Wanru noticed something was wrong.Why are there fewer and fewer people, I saw a few just now, but I didn't see a single person this time, it couldn't be Princess Chaohuang who came to play, the emperor ordered people to seal the mountain.

Lin Wanru suddenly felt bored, and Chen Ruiwen said beside him: "They are golden branches and jade leaves. Going out is a big event, and the three floors inside and outside are surrounded by people, so don't worry about it. Just pretend that you can't see them."

Lin Wanru said: "With so many people, it's a problem to eat on the mountain, so there's no point in writing poems."

Chen Ruiwen smiled and said, "You still want to make poetry seriously? Just come out and play."

While talking gossip, Shui Rou told someone to stop the carriage.He walked over with two little girls carrying food boxes: "I steamed crystal shrimp dumplings and crab roe soup dumplings at home, and I'll share them soon. It will be cold when I reach the mountain."

Everyone got out of the carriage and found a clean place to sit down. The food box was divided into upper and lower layers. The upper layer was filled with shrimp dumplings and soup dumplings, while the lower layer was filled with hot water. No wonder it was still hot after walking for so long.

Because it was outside, the girls didn't pay much attention. They sat on the floor, chatting and eating while Chen Ruiwen and Shi Guangzhu sat under another tree and talked. How did you get engaged to Raven, it's really a flower stuck in cow dung."

Chen Ruiwen gave him a cold look, and Shi Guangzhu touched his eye sockets. He just said a few more words to Lin Wanru that day, and the two eye sockets were blackened from the beating, and Chen Ruiwen was too defensive.

Liu Fang giggled and said: "Nowadays in Beijing, who doesn't know that Lord Yan is going to marry a wife, I just hope that after marrying a wife, it won't be so scary." They only looked at Lin Wanru.

Lin Wanru was pressed by Shi Aizhu and Liu Xuan one by one, insisting that she eat an extra shrimp dumpling, but Shui Rou noticed it first, and she walked over with another food box with a smile: "I can't ask you to dare to look at it!" , there are also some snacks here, if you don’t dislike it, just fill your belly.”

Liu Fang took it, and complained: "Why did you give it to us?" Shui Rou and Liu Fang also grew up together, and they didn't shy away from joking, and said with a smile: "You guys have big appetites, if we eat together, wouldn't we be at a disadvantage? "

Even so, when he opened the food box, he found that it was filled with the three people's favorite snacks.

Four girls and three teenagers were walking and joking, but they arrived at the other courtyard of the Chen family in Xishan before noon. Princess Chaohuang was already waiting there. When they saw everyone complaining: "Why are you here so late? I was so hopeless that I almost went looking for you."

He was also full of enthusiasm: "I brought the imperial cook from the palace, and I also asked someone to hunt pheasants and hares, so that we can have a raw meal at noon." Princess Chaohuang followed Xue Baochai, also looking forward to it.

With Princess Chaohuang present, food, drink and entertainment were arranged. It was not until evening that Liu Xuan said: "Oh, speaking of it, today is Wanru's host. Wanru, what have you prepared?" Lin Wanru smiled and said, "No Are you talking about writing poetry? Who would have thought that you came to eat and drink."

Princess Chaohuang also said: "When I left the palace, my father said, tell me to take the poem I made back to him for a look, let's write two poems quickly, so that I can have a job."

Lin Wanru said: "At first I wanted to write a poem with the theme of peach blossoms, but my sister didn't come here today. The society is not complete after all, so I decided not to write poems at all and have fun with it, so I came up with a few pairs. Come on, everyone." How about a couple?"

Shi Aizhu was the first to heave a sigh of relief, and agreed, and Lin Wanru took the papers that had been written in advance and hung them in the pavilion. There were seven or eight of them. Shi Aizhu looked from his left hand, and saw the first one that read: Four-sided lights, single-layer paper, brilliant and brilliant, shining all over the east, west, north, south.

Liu Xuan looked at the second one: the lotus is painted on the fan, and the wind blows every day, and the flowers will not fall.

Princess Chaohuang looked at the third one: Shan Tong picks chestnuts and puts them in a basket, splits chestnuts and splashes them.

The three of them first frowned in thought.Shi Aizhu and Princess Chaohuang looked at each other, but Liu Xuan clapped her hands and said, "I thought of one."

Then he walked to the front of the table and wrote: "Chrysanthemum embroidered on the toe of the shoe, it's hard to open when stepping on the face."

Both Shi Aizhu and Princess Chaohuang came to watch, envious, Lin Wanru smiled and said, "That's right, it's very neat."

Liu Xuan went to see the first one with great interest, but was also stumped, and unwilling to reconcile, she went to the third one, a little frustrated: "Only one will come out."

Shi Aizhu has quickly copied it down and asked someone to send it to Shi Guangzhu: "Brother, please help me."

Princess Chaohuang went to see the fourth one: Xiushan Qingshanxiu.

Xue Baochai asked Lin Wanru in a low voice: "Where did you get these? It's not very difficult, but it does take a lot of effort."

Lin Wanru smiled and said, "Some of them are from my own thoughts. Some of them are from books."

Xue Baochai nodded, and went to the table to face the third one: Yelao sells water chestnuts and dumps them, and Qingling water chestnuts are empty.

Shi Aizhu leaned over to take a look.Very happy: "It's so good to be right, and another one is right."

Princess Chaohuang and Liu Xuan were chattering and chattering, but they got it right together.It turns out that the paper shell is only windproof.

Within half an hour, a girl came over with a piece of paper on which Shi Guangzhu, Chen Ruiwen, and Liu Fang were neatly written:

Four-sided lights, single-layer paper, brilliant and brilliant.Illuminate all over the east, west, north, south,

One year of study, eight hanging money.Hard work, through spring, summer, autumn and winter.

Xiushan light rain Qingshanxiu,

The cedar blows the wind of the ancient cypress.

Before the Dragon Boat Festival, Mrs. Yu claimed to say,

After the Double Ninth Festival.Unexpectedly, a gentleman can't speak.

The water chestnut has double tips, and a ball of white jade is wrapped in iron.

The pomegranate has a single peduncle, and the brocade contains ten thousand pearls.

Xue Baochai made the last couplet again:

Magpies and crows sing and stand on branches to talk about fortune and misfortune,

Swallows come and go, talk about spring and autumn on the road when they meet.

The girls watched and sighed together, Shi Aizhu muttered: "It's too difficult to get out."

Liu Xuan said: "Who told you not to read on weekdays? Although these couplets are ingenious, they are not without trace, it's just that your foundation is not solid."

Calculated in this way, Liu Xuan was half right, Princess Chaohuang was half right, Xue Baochai was right one, Princess Chaohuang yelled for Shi Aizhu to treat her, Shi Aizhu touched her nose and agreed, Lin Wanru quietly asked Xue Baochai: "You How many pairs come out? Don’t say it’s just one, I don’t believe it.”

Xue Baochai pursed her lips and smiled: "All of them."

Lin Wanru nodded, that's right, and it's not difficult. With Xue Baochai's level, she must be clumsy.

In the blink of an eye, it was mid-March. The Jia family came to make an appointment and picked two dates, one on April 28 and the other on the tenth day of June. Aunt Shen wanted to wait until after the Dragon Boat Festival to ask Daiyu to get married, so the time would be more leisurely. .

But Mother Jia was in a hurry, and asked Aunt Xue to help her talk, and set the wedding date on April 28. Mother Jia also wanted to marry a new daughter-in-law to celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival. The granddaughter-in-law is quite satisfied with her eagerness.

The wedding date was fixed, so Aunt Shen was busy writing invitations. The Lin family didn't have many people in the capital, but they had many friends in Jiangnan. Aunt Shen made a list and looked at them one by one, and asked Shen Shi and Shen Ze to help screen them again.

Seeing that there was no Shen family above, Shen Ze asked Aunt Shen: "Do you want to make a post for the Shen family? Others have them, but the Shen family who has the best relationship with the Lin family doesn't have one. What would others think?"

Aunt Shen's face froze, and Shen Shi also said: "Since you want to make face for Daiyu, you can't just pay attention to it and ignore it. The right is for Daiyu, Shen family, you have to make a post."

Aunt Shen sighed, she simply did not hide the truth from Shen Shi, and said: "When I took the two girls Fuling back to Suzhou, my father sent someone to ask me to go back to the Shen family. I didn't agree, and my father didn't say anything. However, Mrs. Guan called someone to make a fuss, saying that I was not filial, and my elder brother knew about it, and I also knew that I was the daughter of the Shen family, but they did that, why did they ever treat me as a daughter of the Shen family?"

I couldn't help crying while speaking.