Red Mansions Are Floating Clouds

by Dong Xiangguang

Arriving at this incense shop, the shopkeeper had been waiting outside the door for a long time. After everyone went in, the servants blocked the door as usual. The spice shop was quite elegantly arranged. The shopkeeper directly invited everyone into the private room to serve tea, and learned that it was four The lady picked spices, so she picked up novel and interesting spices and put them on Daiyu's table. Some spices were made into flowers and leaves in the shape of Hanwa Kuibi, which was quite interesting. Spices were originally mixed with spices to form various flowers or fruits. Daiyu has always disliked fragrance, she just bought some to give away, but the three of Li Jinyao like spices, the shape is cute, and they bought a lot

Next door is an antique shop, the boss has already prepared a lot of treasures. Yangzhou is indeed a bustling place, a shopping paradise. Daiyu picked out a Ru kiln celadon narcissus basin with no pattern and a purple ground pastel flower box. There is a jade lotus leaf from the former dynasty. The cup is very unique, the withered lotus leaf is the cup, the stem is the handle, and there is a carved lotus-shaped red sandalwood seat underneath. Look, it is a landscape painting. The ink is still very new. It is probably a recent work. There is a lot of blank space in the middle of the painting. The Six Bridges of Su Causeway can be seen vaguely. It turns out to be a bird's-eye view of the West Lake. Childhood is a good product

The boss saw that Daiyu was looking at the painting, and hurriedly introduced: "This is a consignment painting. I just received it today. The lady has a good eye."

Daiyu said: "Put away this painting as well, and I will choose two screens to give away, take them out and let me have a look."

The boss hurriedly responded to the four candidates for Daiyu to insert the screen, but he didn't know that there were also people looking out through the cracks in the board wall.

It turned out that the author who consigned the pictures of the West Lake hadn't left yet, but just hid in the room. A young man nestled in a rose chair held his head in his hands and said plaintively, "Can we stop betting? Can I admit defeat? How about I take the bet?" The Zhuangzi in the southern suburbs is sending you off, that Zhuangzi is twice as big as the Zhuangzi at the foot of Nanshan Mountain."

The boy who was peeping seriously was about fourteen or fifteen years old. Hearing this, he turned around and sneered, and said, "Who said you bet that no one will buy my paintings? Besides, I only need a hot spring village, and I don't need anything else."

Hearing this, the man couldn't help but wailed, stood up, and said bitterly, "I have to see who made me lose money."

Looking out along the gap, there are maidservants standing around the store, several young girls are surrounded by masks, whispering and laughing to several screens, one of them wears a Lingxu bun, and only wears a white jade carved lotus flower Heart-picking hairpin, with a quiet appearance and a leisurely body, quite forest-like, although wearing a plain white gauze veil, you can still see a pair of wonderful eyes, and you can see it for a while.

The guards guarding the corner couldn't help seeing the two nobles stretching their necks to look out regardless of their appearance.

After choosing the screen, Daiyu felt as if someone was staring at her. She looked around and found nothing unusual, so she happily decided to march to the next store.

Ninth Poisoning

It is said that when the two voyeurs were watching intently, they suddenly saw Daiyu look around, thinking they had been discovered, one hurried away, and the other smiled habitually, and after laughing and found that she was gone, he felt affectionate. smack

After the two of them thought about it, one turned on the other: "You said that you have seen the beauty for so long, but you don't even know how to call me, it's too embarrassing." zxSm

Replied: "Are there still not many beauties around you? Since you left the palace and opened the mansion, others have given you two hundred beauties instead of three hundred, so don't be too greedy." Seeing the boss coming in, he hurriedly asked: "Just now Who bought the painting?"

Not to mention how these two people inquired about it, but Daiyu bought some of the Four Treasures of the Study, and there is a five-color ink called "Tianshu Magic Color", which is very similar to the watercolor colors of later generations. It is painted, and the difference from ordinary colored ink is that it is also made into different shapes and placed in brocade boxes. Daiyu bought many for giving away and for her own use.

At this time, it was already lunch time, Madam Tao saw the enthusiasm of these people shopping, she completely forgot that they were hungry, so she had to ask them to eat before shopping

Although there are many restaurants in Xiaodongmen, most of them are like a snack street, which is not suitable for this group of people to eat, so the carriage still drove to Zuibai Garden in Hongqiao

Zuibaiyuan is an old-fashioned restaurant in Yangzhou. It is very lively at the time of meal time. Mrs. Tao only needs two private rooms, and the other is for the assistant ladies who follow the lady.

It was a rare time to come out, under Shen Zirou's strong request, not only ordered the signature dishes of the restaurant, but also let them deliver the famous snacks from the nearby teahouses, such as the biscuits from Shuanghonglou, the soup dumplings from Ermeilou, Yu Lian’s spring pancakes, Wen Xing Yuan’s siu mai, Pin Lu Xuan’s Huai Dumplings, etc. are all signature dim sums that foodie Shen Zirou has long admired.

After dinner, Daiyu went to change clothes, took Zijuan, and called Xueyan to follow. After passing through a private room, Xueyan quietly said to Daiyu: "Girl, I just saw the second master Lian next door to us. s room"

Daiyu said: "It's just a meal with friends."

Xueyan argued: "Only he and a woman dressed up..."

Zijuan hurriedly shouted in a low voice: "Hurry up and shut up! Can these words be said to the young lady?"

Xueyan hurriedly shut her mouth and stepped aside. In fact, Zijuan also saw Jia Lian hugging a young woman dressed as a woman when she passed the private room. She was probably not a serious person.

Hearing this, Daiyu also understood in her heart, probably that second master of Merry Lian hooked up with someone again, no wonder he was never seen in the mansion, and he was never seen urging him to return to Beijing

In the afternoon, the team went to Xinsheng Street again. This is a street of jewels and jewellery. Daiyu has a lot of jewellery, and she usually doesn't pay much attention to them. She just accompany the three of them to look at them and buy some by the way.

It didn't come to an end until before dinner, Madam Tao sent Daiyu back first without mentioning

This day was a very fruitful day, and Daiyu was exhausted. When she returned to her room, the table in the main room was full of today's spoils. The girls were also very happy, and all the things they bought were also in it, so they went to sort them up

Daiyu changed her clothes and sat on the sidelines, ordering to pick out all the ones bought for Lin Ruhai, and deliver them to Lin Ruhai herself after he left the office.

Lin Ruhai has already arranged a boat back to Beijing, and plans to send Daiyu back to Beijing in two days. Although he is reluctant to give up, but now the situation is gradually clear, I am afraid that those people will jump the wall in a hurry. Jia's mansion is still safer than Yangzhou

In the next two days, Daiyu was very busy in the courtyard. Although there were many things brought back, the things to be brought back to Beijing doubled, especially the aquarium of goldfish that Zhu's family gave for her birthday. This Zhu family is also rich. The owner of the family is good at raising fish, and every year he chooses the best fish to pay tribute to the palace. The fish he gave to Daiyu is the best. There are salmon, egg fish, sleeping fish, butterfly fish, crystal fish, etc. "Ci" says: "A small team of salmon is round like an egg, and a tank of new water is emerald like a snail." If you want to bring it to Beijing, you need to have a special person to serve these fish

This day Lin Ruruanmu, Daiyu had lunch with him, took the medicine and watched him drink it, then went back to the courtyard, and when he got to the door of the room, he heard Liu Lan running up and crying, "Miss, master He's dying, hurry up"

After hearing this, Daiyu picked up the corner of her skirt and ran towards the main courtyard, her heart beating violently. When she arrived in the room, Lin Ruhai fell to the ground with a dark complexion, her limbs twitched, and she was still vomiting. Daiyu called him loudly, but Lin Ruhai was only slightly conscious That's all

Liu Lan cried: "The master complained of pain after drinking the medicine for a while, there must be something wrong with the medicine."

Daiyu wiped away her tears, and shouted, "Don't cry! Go to the kitchen to get milk, bring more!" Liu Lan quickly got up and ran to the kitchen

Aunt Qin just mourned and cried at the side, Daiyu ordered the little girl to help her to the side, and called two strong women to help Lin Ruheng gently to lie down on the Arhat couch under the window, and asked the outer courtyard to call for a doctor quickly, two please

When the milk was brought, Nanny Song also rushed over. She didn't have time to say anything, so she could only follow Daiyu's instructions to support Lin Ruhai's head, and put the milk to his mouth for him to drink, but Lin Ruhai almost lost consciousness. I could only pour it down, and finally poured a big pot down, and then pressed his throat with a spoon to force him to spit it out, repeated this three or four times, and stopped when I spit out all I could spit out

Lin Ruhai's originally darkened face became like gold paper, Daiyu saw that he was still awake, so she also burst into tears

In the midst of chaos, Daiyu didn't evade when she called for a doctor to come outside, she just stood by and stood by. Among the three doctors, one was Doctor Yang who had recently prescribed Lin Ruhai's prescription. Doctor Yang couldn't help being surprised when he saw Lin Ruhai's expression , just because the medicine Lin Ruhai drank was prescribed by him, if there is something wrong with it, it must be related, and now the master has invited two more, and it is clear that he does not believe in himself, so he hesitates to move forward with the other two. The doctor is not as experienced as he is, and he was standing behind him, but no one stepped forward for a while

Daiyu said angrily: "What are you doing in a daze, why don't you hurry up and feel the pulse!"

Doctor Yang had no choice but to go forward and feel the pulse carefully. He felt even more suspicious in his heart. It was obvious that he had been poisoned by arsenic. The strange thing was that the poisoning was not deep, so he told Daiyu the truth.

Daiyu only asked, "Does it matter?"

Doctor Yang said: "Originally, ingesting arsenic can kill you, but the poisoning is not deep, just drink some medicine and rest."

The other two doctors said the same thing about Guomai, so Daiyu ordered to prescribe a prescription to boil the medicine, because the situation was unclear, she had to ask the three doctors to go to the outer courtyard to rest, and they couldn't go out for the time being.

Originally, Daiyu thought that it was too easy for Lin Ruheng to pass through a catastrophe. Changing the doctor and changing the prescription would have cured him easily. According to the medical record, Lin Ruhai died on the third day of September. He insisted on changing the doctor, Lin Ruhai should have been dragged to death by the medicine that didn’t work, and it wouldn’t cause people to suspect that now that Lin Ruhai has cured Bo and started to investigate illegal salt again, some people can’t wait, and actually blatantly poisoned

Thinking of this, Daiyu asked Nanny Song who was standing aside: "Who usually cooks the medicine?"

Ever since Nanny Song knew that Lin Ruhai had been poisoned, she felt