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Daiyu returned to the eaves, seeing that Xichun hadn't come yet, she hurriedly said to Yuanyang: "Sister Yuanyang, come with me, I have something to say to you."

After Daiyu finished speaking, she pulled the mandarin ducks into the house.Yuanyang was puzzled, and hurriedly asked: "Miss Lin, what's the matter?"

Seeing that there was no one else in the room, Daiyu hurriedly pulled Yuanyang closer and said, "Sister Yuanyang, let me ask you something, tell me the truth, what do you think of my cousin Xun?"

After hearing this, Yuanyang looked at Li Xun who was moving things in the yard, and hurriedly lowered his head and said, "Your cousin is fine, what's the matter?"

Daiyu listened, so she said what Li Xun said just now, and said to Yuanyang: "I know that my sister is good to my grandmother. Maybe it's not right now, and I also know that my grandmother can't do without you. But sister Yuanyang, my cousin Xun Said that he can wait for you, he is now 24 years old, is the deputy general of the Jingxi Army Camp, and he is alone. Even if you don’t want to, you can tell him if you have any difficulties in the future, and he is willing to help you!” Daiyu then sent Li Xun also told Yuanyang where he lived.

Yuanyang heard this and sighed: "Miss Lin, I am a servant, a girl, and you know about me. My parents have passed away in Nanjing, and my elder brother and sister-in-law have also been sent to Nanjing to guard the house. Right now, I am the only one here." People, even if the old lady is willing to let me go, I'm afraid everything will not go well. So I don't think about anything now, I just serve the old lady at ease, and if I have to, I will be my sister-in-law."

Daiyu hurriedly asked, "Are you afraid of my uncle?"

Yuanyang said: "Miss Lin, you should have heard about your eldest uncle. If I hurt your cousin because of me, wouldn't it be my sin?"

Daiyu hurriedly said: "Sister Yuanyang, it's up to people. If I bring it, I will tell my cousin about you. I think he will think of a proper way. I just hope that you will wait for my cousin with peace of mind. You If you are in trouble, you can go to him. My cousin has been with my father since he was more than ten years old, so you can rest assured in doing things."

Yuanyang sighed: "Miss Lin, you should tell your cousin that he is now a lieutenant general because of his young age, he has a job and a house, he can find a better girl, and don't bother with a hopeless person like me." !"

Daiyu said: "But Sister Yuanyang, you don't know, my cousin is a bit brainy, and usually doesn't like to talk, but it's hard to change what he thinks. Think about it, my cousin will think of other things. He It's not convenient to come to you, if you have any ideas, you can find him at his residence!"

Daiyu and Yuanyang were talking, when Xichun came in from the outside, Daiyu and Yuanyang had to go out together.

Seeing that all the things have been moved out, and seeing that Sister Feng Heping'er has also come to see Daiyu off, Daiyu hurriedly said to Sister Feng: "Sister Feng, except for the things I brought from Gusu, I will keep everything else in this house." It's down, can you see if there is any shortage? Thank you, Sister Feng, for taking care of me all these years!"

After Daiyu finished speaking, she bowed to Sister Feng, and Sister Feng hurriedly supported her and said, "Sister, don't be like this. When my sister came here, she was only a six-year-old girl. Now she is a big girl like a flower, and I really don't want my sister to leave. Woolen cloth."

Daiyu said: "I don't want to leave you guys either. But there is no permanent banquet in the world. Gusu is my home. I will write to you when I get back. Sister Feng, take care!"

After Daiyu finished speaking, she took Xichun's hand again and said, "Fourth sister, where in life do we never meet again, I believe we will definitely meet again."

Suddenly Mei Qing and Xue Yan came over and said: "Girl, all the things have been moved, Uncle Lin let me go."

After hearing this, Xichun hurriedly said, "Let's go, Sister Lin, I'll see you off!"

It turned out that when Daiyu left the mansion this time, she did not go out from the Rongguo Mansion, but through the gate of the Grand View Garden, because it was closer and more convenient.

Xichun Caiping Fengjie Pinger Yuanyang sent Daiyu out. Daiyu looked back at the crowd and couldn't stop the tears from filling her eyes. Once she goes to this place where she has lived for seven or eight years, she is afraid she will never come back here again. up.There is laughter, sorrow, longing, and helplessness here.Everything here will become a distant memory.

Among these seeing off people, there are only two people who are most melancholy, one is Xichun, looking at Daiyu's car going away, Xichun knows that Daiyu will never come back here again.Thinking of his own situation, he figured that no matter what he did, he would be the next one to leave here.Yingchun is gone, Tanchun is gone, Xiangyun and Baoqin will never come in again, and Miaoyu, her best friend, will never come again, and so will Daiyu.

Yuanyang looked at Li Xun, who was riding away on horseback, and was just in a daze.At this time, she was already 19 years old, and she was the oldest among the girls in Jia's mansion.Xiaohong heard that she was married to Jia Yun from the back porch, and Caixia was also married.Logically, she was already a girl who wanted to marry, but because of her resistance to the marriage and Jia Amnesty, and Jia Mu couldn't leave her, no one talked about her life after that incident.

When Daiyu told Li Xun that she wanted to redeem herself, Yuanyang was surprised and pleasantly surprised.It's not that she hasn't thought about her own life, but when she thinks of what Jia She left behind, Yuanyang feels chills in her heart.

"If I don't want her to come, who will dare to accept her in the future? This is one. The second is that thinking about the old lady's love for her, she will definitely hire a real husband and wife outside in the future. Tell her to think carefully: based on who he married It's hard to get out of my hands! Unless she dies, or never marries a man for life, I will submit to her!"

I heard from Daiyu that Li Xun had no parents. Like Li Lei, he was in office with Lin Ruhai when he was more than ten years old. He knew both literary and military skills.Being able to marry such a lieutenant-general of the military camp was something I never imagined in my dreams, but I couldn't control my own fate, and even got into trouble with Jia Amnesty, how could a person with so many things in his body not do what he wanted!

Ever since the forced marriage by Jia She, Yuanyang was almost in despair. For a long time, she never dared to think about her life.Seeing that the tall, burly and shy Li Xun actually said that he wanted to redeem himself, and wanted to marry him as his wife, Yuanyang's heart suddenly rippled.

Daiyu is gone, Li Xun is gone, will there be more?Yuanyang didn't know, so he tried to calm his mind and returned to Jia Mu full of melancholy.

But Daiyu got into the carriage and left the Grand View Garden, first walked east for a while, then turned to West Street, and headed towards the west city.

After walking for about an hour, Zijuan asked, "Girl, why is it so far to the East Gate Ferry?"

Daiyu smiled and said, "I'll tell you later, I have a surprise for you!"

Mei Qing smiled and said nothing.Xueyan said: "Anyway, the girl is with us, we will be there wherever the girl is."

A few people were chatting and joking, when Li Lei rode over and said, "Sister Yu'er, you guys, be careful, the road is not easy, but we'll be there soon."

Daiyu opened the curtain of the car, and saw some fields on both sides, and mountains in the distance.Take a closer look, it is in the direction of the Muni Temple.

Zijuan stretched out her head and said, "Girl, why did we go to the other side of the mountain? Didn't we go to the East Gate Ferry?"

Daiyu smiled and said, "Zicuckoo, let me tell you now, we are going to Gusu in a few days, and we will rest here for a few days first."

Zijuan hurriedly asked: "Girl, is this the residence arranged by Prince Beijing?"

Daiyu said: "No, it's a place my father and Uncle Lin found for me, a very quiet place."

After a while, the carriage came to the foot of the mountain, turned to the left, saw a bamboo forest in front, and could vaguely see a small mansion.

Li Lei and Li Xun rode over and said, "Sister Yu'er, look, we're here."

Daiyu saw the carriage slowly stop and couldn't wait to get off.Looking at the mansion surrounded by high walls, there is a stream in front of the house, with farmland beside the stream, bamboo on both sides of the road entering the house, and peach forests on the low hill behind, with branches on the trees It is just about to bloom.

Daiyu was very happy, Wang Momo smiled and said to the dazed girls, "Snow Goose, Zijuan, Mei Qingchunxian, this is our new home."

Suddenly Uncle Lin came over, pointed at the gate of the mansion, and said to Daiyu, "Look, Yu'er."

Daiyu approached, looked up at the gate, there was the word "Daiyuan" written in black paint, it was Lin Ruhai's handwriting, she looked at Lin Zhong with tears and said: "Uncle Lin, is this written by my father? "

Lin Zhong nodded and said: "Yes, Yu'er still remembers that year in Yangzhou, when I said I was going to travel far away, it was your father who asked me to come here to renovate this house. Let's go in quickly, Aunt Wu's family inside , you all know it."

After Lin Zhong finished speaking, he pushed open the door and shouted to the inside: "Chunsheng, Aunt Wu, the girl is back!"

After a while, a couple in their 30s came out in a hurry. The woman was still wearing an apron, and there was an eight or nine-year-old girl behind her.

When Daiyu meets Chunsheng and his wife, she has mixed feelings.It turns out that Chunsheng and his wife are also servants of the Lin family in Gusu, and they are loyal.Although Daiyu only met them when she took her father's coffin back to Gusu after she went to Yangzhou, but seeing them here now, after so many years, they are not unfamiliar at all.

Chunsheng's wife, Aunt Wu, is talkative and capable, but Chunsheng is simple and honest and doesn't like to talk.The husband and wife greeted Daiyu and Wang Momo, and quickly helped to move things, and then said to Daiyu: "Go in quickly, girl. I know that I have prepared some refreshments when I know that girl is coming back today. Uncle Lin, you accompany the girl and Wang Momo." Mammy, go in, here we come!"

Lin Zhong listened, and smiled at Hu Shan: "Young Master Hu, let's go in first and let them move, it should be very fast."

Daiyu said to Wang Momo, "Wang Momo, let's go in."

Li Lei and Li Xun are strong, each carrying a box, and Chunsheng carries a box by himself.After a while, seven or eight boxes had all been moved in, and Xueyan and the others came to the living room with their burdens.

Aunt Wu poured tea for everyone, and the eight or nine-year-old girl also helped bring the refreshments to the big table one by one.Aunt Wu smiled and said to Daiyu: "Girl, this is my daughter Juan'er, she is already nine years old, she was only four years old when she came here, her younger brother is three years old, and he is sleeping."

Daiyu hurriedly said, "Aunt Wu and Uncle Chunsheng have worked hard these past few years."

Chunsheng just laughed, and Aunt Wu hurriedly said, "Miss, don't say that. We don't work hard, but Uncle Lin does hard work. He is busy with the shop and the farmland. He never rests all year round."

Lin Zhongdao: "Yu'er, the field in front of our mansion just now is also ours, a total of more than 20 mu, all of which are cultivated by Chunsheng, and the bamboo and peach trees around this mansion are all planted by Chunsheng. .”

Daiyu said, "Uncle Lin, how many rooms are there in this house? I don't think it's too small."

Lin Zhongdao: "This wall encloses more than three acres. There are five houses in the east wing and five rooms in the west wing. There are two independent courtyards behind. Each yard has two large rooms and two small rooms. Next to the west wing is the kitchen. There is also a yard next to it, with four small houses, where Chunsheng’s family lives now. The kitchen is near the pond behind and there are three utility rooms. If Yu’er wants to see it, you can look around. Yes, it was built after the backyard of our old house in Gusu. The others were left by the original owner, and I just asked someone to repair them."

Aunt Wu smiled and said, "Girl, sit and drink tea here, while Chunsheng and I go to the kitchen to prepare food and drinks."

Daiyu said, "Uncle Lin, I want to go and see the house I live in first."

Lin Zhongdao: "Yu'er, you can live in the backyard, it is the same as our old house, you must like it. If you live in the front, you can also live in the east wing."

Daiyu hurriedly said, "I'll go and see the backyard first."

Lin Zhong then took Daiyu to the backyard, and saw that there was also a low wall between the two yards, with a gate connected to each other for a month in the middle, and the two yards were almost the same. The side is connected to the front wing.The two rooms at the back can be opened to see the pond, and the window of the room connected to the side room has two osmanthus trees outside the window, and you can also see the wall not far away.

Lin Zhongdao: "Yu'er, the water in this pond is drawn from the mountainside above. It is clear spring water, and the stream below flows out of this pond. When the weather is hot, the lotus in this pond blooms, just like ours in the south of the Yangtze River." .In a few days, the peach blossoms will bloom in Shangshang, which is very beautiful. In the past two years, you can still pick a lot of peaches on the mountain. Although Chunsheng doesn't talk much, he does things really well, and he can't stay idle every day."

Daiyu said: "Uncle Lin, Zijuan Xueyan and I live in the yard here, let Wang Mama Chunxian and the others live in the yard opposite to me, we can be companions together. My books are placed by the Lianzhu pond. The next room is the best place to read books."

Lin Zhongdao: "It's fine if the girl likes it. I'll ask Li Lei and the others to help you move the box down. I usually live in the East Wing. Li Lei and Li Xun only lived here once. They have horses, so they always say Go back and live."

Daiyu then asked Mei Qing and Xueyan Zijuan Chunxian to tidy up the back yard, and accompanied Lin Zhong to the front, and said with a smile: "Uncle Lin, speaking of Cousin Lei and Cousin Xun, I have something to discuss with you. .”

Lin Zhongdao: "Is it about you and the young prince?"

When Daiyu heard this, her face turned red.

Lin Zhong smiled and said: "Yu'er, don't be shy. The prince of Beijing Jing told me about you and the young prince. Although I have never met the young prince, I believe that Yu'er will not misunderstand the person. But Yu'er Son, you have to make up your mind, when things are settled, it’s not right to go back on your word, I’ll show you something later.”

Daiyu listened, nodded and said: "Uncle Lin, I know, but I'm not talking about this matter. What I'm talking about is, do you think my cousin Lei likes snow geese? If so, wait for me to settle down. Let’s settle the matter between Xueyan and Cousin Lei, I wonder if my cousin Lei is willing or not?”

Lin Zhong listened, and said with a smile: "Yu'er, you are still a girl, so you want to be a matchmaker for your cousin?"

Daiyu hurriedly said: "Uncle Lin, I'm still young, but Cousin Lei and Cousin Xun are not young anymore. It turns out that my father said that it's a pity that they didn't help them form a family. You can ask Cousin Lei if you have time." ,OK?"

Lin Zhongdao: "I think they are a good match. It's just that Li Xun doesn't like to talk too much, and he doesn't know what kind of girl he likes. If he wants to find it by himself, I'm afraid he won't be able to find it in his life!"

Daiyu smiled and said, "Uncle Lin, you don't know that my cousin has a good eye, he has already taken a fancy to a good girl."

Lin Zhong listened and asked in surprise: "Yu'er said that Li Xun has a girl he likes? Who? Mei Qing? Zijuan? Chunxian?"

Daiyu shook her head and said, "Uncle Lin, you can't guess, do you remember the girl next to my grandmother? Do you remember the girl named Yuanyang?"

Lin Zhongdao: "Yu'er is saying that Li Xun has taken a fancy to her? This Li Xun has a lot of vision, and that Yuanyang girl is indeed a good one, and she speaks generously and smartly. However, I don't think Li Xun and Yuanyang have spoken. Why? He just met him in a hurry, and he was really tempted? I thought Li Xun was so rigid that it was hard to get the hang of it."

Daiyu and Lin Zhong were talking, and when they reached the front hall, Lin Zhong asked Li Lei, Li Xun, and Hu Shan to move the box to the backyard, and sat down with Daiyu to continue talking.Daiyu said: "Uncle Lin, Yuanyang can be said to be the most outstanding girl in my grandmother's family. Not only is she good-looking, but she is also a very neat and ambitious girl, and she is also outstanding in sewing and housekeeping."

Seeing that Li Xun had brought a box back, Daiyu hurriedly called out, "Cousin Xun, come here, I have something to say to you."

To know how Daiyu talked to Li Xun about mandarin ducks, read below.