[Red House] The Twins of Purple Pearls

Jinling and Yangzhou are the prosperous places in the world.

At the end of the new year, Lin Ruhai, the inspector of salt inspection, was preparing for the New Year's ceremony and sacrifices. Because Jia Min, the clan wife, was pregnant with Liujia, the housekeeper and daughter-in-law were busy after Laba.The Lin family has few descendants for generations, and there are no sisters-in-law, nephews, or nephews to help; Jia Min is a noble lady who was born in the Rongguo Duke's mansion in Jinling. with.

In the early morning, it was snowing heavily, and several maids in the yard were playing with the snow, chasing and playing with each other.

Daiyu, who had just recovered from a serious illness, sat on the kang and opened the gauze drawer to look out. The nurse Wang Nai hurriedly closed the curtain: "Girl, it's cold outside, don't catch a cold."

Daiyu has been weak since she was a child, and the doctor said it was a weak disease in her mother's womb, so she could only take care of it carefully; and although Yanyu and Daiyu are twin sisters of Lin's parents, she is not as sick and weak as her younger sister. Lin Ruhai and his wife were more relieved.The sisters had a good relationship and grew up together; it was only in early winter that Daiyu fell ill suddenly, so Jia Min asked Yanyu to move to the back room of the main courtyard first.

Yanyu came to visit her sister with a green gauze lantern, and warmed herself by warming herself by the fire on the porch before entering the house, so as not to bring the cold air into the house.

"Yu'er." Yanyu sat next to Daiyu, asking about her younger sister's condition in a dignified manner.

The maids and mothers-in-law in the house all said that the eldest girl was young and intelligent, and the reason for this was that Yin Yanyu hated the Crimson Pearl Fairy in the sky.

The crimson bead fairy grass by the Ling River was bred by the essence of heaven and earth to give birth to her and her younger sister's two celestial souls, which were bestowed by the Flower God of Lihentian Baihua; In the name of Huanlei, she followed the waiter of Chiying Palace Shenying into the mortal world, but the Jinghuan Fairy actually wanted to make her sister cry to death, so as to enter the illusory realm of misfortune.Knowing about Fairy Jinghuan's plan, she followed her sister into the reincarnation disk to stop Jinghuan's plot.

The sisters devoted themselves to the womb of Jia Shi, the wife of Lin Ruhai, the inspector of salt inspection, and were born in the flower dynasty.

The fairy Jiangzhu who became Lin Yanyu found that she had not been erased by the samsara disk from the memory of Lihentian, and her fairy art was only suppressed by the turbid air of the world but not completely sealed.

Daiyu played with the green gauze lantern in her arms, and softly said to Yanyu, "Yu'er dreamed of a fairy. The fairy said that she would take Yu'er to the fairyland, but Yu'er woke up without agreeing."

Yanyu secretly felt uneasy; she had long suspected that Daiyu's sudden serious illness might be related to the illusion, but she never imagined that she had entered Daiyu's dream and wanted to take Daiyu away to the Bomingsi in the Fragrance Cave.

"Yu'er still wants to go to the Lantern Festival with her sister, so I don't want to go to Wonderland with her." Daiyu murmured while pulling Yanyu.

Just at this moment, the servant girl brought the decoction, and Mammy Wang took the medicine and put it on the kang table; Daiyu smelled the bitter smell of the medicine, and her face was wrinkled, and Nanny Wang brought some candied fruit for her to drive away. bitter.

Daiyu held the pot of medicine bitterly: "The soup is so bitter!"

Yanyu covered her lips and smiled lightly: "Drink your medicine well, and when you recover from illness, we'll go to the Lantern Festival."

After a while, Qian Yi's daughter-in-law, who was accompanying the wife, came over with her maid, and Nanny Wang was talking with her on the porch.

At the end of the year, the wife’s natal family, Jia’s family in Rongguo’s mansion in Jinling, and the master’s uncle’s family, Xu’s family, both sent gifts for the new year, including rare jades and gifts for the two girls; Qian Yi's wife brought gifts to the girls.

The Xu family is a big family in Gusu, and Lin Ruhai's uncle is also a high official in the court, who was forced to resign after being implicated in the rebellion case of Dong'an County Wang Mu Shi; the marriage of Lin Ruhai's cousin Xu Jian is scheduled for the beginning of next spring, and the wedding invitation and annual ceremony will be held together. Send it to the Lin family.

Yanyu actually knew the bride's cousin, Yu Jing, the youngest daughter of the Yu family in the north of the city.Because Jia Min and Mrs. Yu knew each other, the two families had frequent contacts, and their sisters also knew Yu Jing; last year, Yu Jing suddenly contracted a serious illness, and the medicine was useless, so she had to be instructed by a monk with a scarlet head. Panxiang Temple became a monk and led his practice.Yanyu noticed that Yu Jing was also because of the scarlet monk.The two monks and Taoists belonged to Fairy Jing Huan, and they were probably instigated by Fairy Jing Huan; Fairy Jing Huan's goal was to target Sister Jiangzhu, so what does this have to do with Yu Jing?Yanyu suspects that Yu Jing may also have something to do with Li Hentian.

At noon, when Daiyu fell asleep, Yanyu went back to her room along the corridor.

The snow outside is getting bigger and bigger, the candlelight in the green gauze lantern is fluttering and flickering, and the wind blows the corner of the green gauze.

On New Year's Eve, after worshiping the ancestors and worshiping the gods, the pastries were distributed to the maids and women.Daiyu wore a bright red cloak and followed Yanyu to the main courtyard to kowtow to the old lady to pay New Year's greetings. The heavy golden nude was packed in a small and exquisite purse; the Lin family's heirs were not happy, so only Lin Ruhai and Yanyu Daiyu used it together At the New Year's Eve dinner, because Jia Min was pregnant and her two daughters were still young, she ordered the mother-in-law to light the bright lamp when the child was born, and went back to rest.

Yanyu and Daiyu were lying on the couch and talking; after all, Daiyu was not like Yanyu who saw everything in the world when she was still a crimson pearl fairy grass, but now she is a timid daughter who is loved by her parents and sister. Muttering funny things.

"Sister, do you think there really are gods?" Daiyu asked in a low voice next to her sister.

"Maybe." Yanyu was silent for a while before saying.

The cyan curtain fluttered slightly, and the faint shadow of the moon was reflected under the faint shadow of the lamp, without any trace.

Daiyu was still talking in a low voice, and fell asleep in a daze.

Yanyu stared at the roof of the tent in a daze, and then turned sideways to see her younger sister sleeping peacefully, she took a long time to throw off the quilt and was turned over.

The faint shadow behind the curtain is blown by the wind, and the quiet fragrance permeates, filling the room with fragrance.

The night guard maid waited in the outer room, and heard the sound of snow falling still rustling.

"Fairy Zelan?" Yanyu stared at her for a long time before saying seriously.

"Crimson Pearl." Fairy Zelan's voice came from the curtain lightly, like an ethereal voice from outside the world, "Fairy Jing Huan asked me to take you back to the Heaven of Lihen."

Yanyu edited a corner of the quilt and looked at Fairy Zelan coldly: "I will not leave Zhu'er behind."

Fairy Zelan smiled lightly, as if she was singing a fairy song in a low voice, then turned and left; Yanyu couldn't help but followed her and walked out slowly, the bitter cold wind blew gently, and she didn't know how to follow Ze when her memory was blurred. Where did Fairy Lan go.

It wasn't until she was awakened by the strong shock that Yanyu suddenly woke up; she was standing in the barren forest, Fairy Zelan had long since disappeared, and only saw a jade bead left behind.

This is Tianxuan Xingjun's Qianyuan Pearl!

The Qianyuan Pearl floated up slowly, Yanyu looked over and saw a shining silver god standing under the cold moon, and the Qianyuan Pearl fell into his palm.

"Little girl, it's so late, why are you here alone?" The god came to her and asked gently.

Yanyu raised her head to look at him, the brilliance of the Qianyuan Pearl seemed to reflect the dark world as bright as day.

Suddenly, as if being dragged away by a strong force, Yanyu suddenly opened her eyes and realized that she had woken up from the bed; Daiyu was still sleeping beside her, motionless outside the tent, everything she saw just now seemed to be a scene in a dream.

But Fairy Zelan did come, and the faint orchid fragrance lingered in the room, refreshing.

The sky outside the window was gray and lit up, and firecrackers were lit outside early in the morning, so it was very lively.

Lin Ruhai rested at home, while Yanyu and Daiyu listened to their father teaching them how to read and write in the main courtyard; Jia Min, with her belly upright, was helped in by the big maid Jiang Bi, rolled up a book and sat on the Kang with a smile, listening Lin Ruhai taught the Book of Songs to her two daughters.

"Plucking the weeds and picking the weeds, the weeds are also soft and stopped. When the day returns, the heart also stops worrying. Anxiety is fierce, hunger and thirst. I am undecided, and the envoy returns to hire."

Daiyu read "Caiwei" while holding the Book of Songs, and listened carefully to her father explaining the origin of the poem.

Yanyu was not interested in poetry, and listened to her father's story, but she half understood it, and she admired her younger sister's ability even more.

Lin Ruhai read the copybook copied by their sisters, and then remembered to discuss with Jia Min: "Yan'er and Yu'er are not young anymore, I saw it recently, and plan to invite a gentleman to come to the house to be their sister's teacher."

"Then is there anyone in the master's mind?" Jia Min asked with a gentle smile.

"I have a friend from the same age, named Zhao Yue; he is the son of Mr. Zhao Ge, who became an official in the Imperial Academy. Later, he was implicated and dismissed because of the case of the king of Dong'an County. He brought his wife and children to Yangzhou to sell calligraphy and paintings for a living." Lin Ruhai sighed. .He has known Zhao Yue for many years, and now that Zhao Yue has fallen to this point, he also wants to help him; Yanyu and Daiyu are girls, and they don't need to enter the court in the future, and the husband only teaches them to read and write, so Lin Ruhai has this. thought.

Jia Min thought about it, then said with a smile: "Since the master thinks it's good, I don't know about it."

Like Daiyu, Yanyu copied the copybook seriously. When her parents talked about it, she was distracted by curiosity, and a drop of ink fell on the thin paper.

"Sister, you're distracted again." Daiyu approached Yanyu with a smile on her face and whispered.

Yanyu blinked, and while her father wasn't paying attention, hid the ink-stained piece of thin paper under the poster.

In the afternoon when Lin Ruhai went to the study, Jia Min flipped through the book and read a few pages, and then looked at the handwriting copied by their sisters. At this time, Qian Yi's wife said outside the embroidery curtain: "Ma'am, the Zhou Rui family sent by his wife is here." Yi's Xiaoyuan was Jia Min's companion, and she also knew Zhou Rui's family.

Jia Min frowned indistinctly, turned her head and stroked Daiyu to make the sisters read carefully; Qian Yi's daughter-in-law raised the embroidered curtain, and Jia Min got up and went out.

The maid put the creamy pine rolls and yam cakes stuffed with jujube paste that had just been delivered from the small kitchen on the table. Their sisters like to eat these soft, glutinous and sweet snacks the most.

Yanyu was very moved by the delicacy of the delicacies in the world, which was more delicious than the fairy dew wine in the sky.

Through the embroidered curtain, she vaguely heard the voices of Jia Min and Zhou Rui's family outside. Yanyu jumped off the kang and ran behind the embroidered curtain carefully to listen; they only heard what they seemed to say about the old lady, but she couldn't hear the specifics clearly.

"Sister." Daiyu also ran over curiously to have a look.

"Mother is talking to a visitor." Yanyu said in a low voice.

Lifting a corner of the embroidered curtain, Zhou Rui's family turned around when they heard the movement, and said with a smile: "These are the two sisters! The old lady is always talking about her granddaughter."

Jia Min just lowered her eyes and smiled softly, looked at her two daughters gently, and then said: "Last year, the old man returned to Beijing to report on his work. I was supposed to go back to Beijing with the old man, and also to visit my mother. Now that I have a body, the journey It is inconvenient to travel far away, and it makes my mother worry about it, it is really unfilial for a daughter."

Zhou Rui's family hurriedly apologized with a smile: "The old lady heard that my aunt was pregnant, and she couldn't help laughing from ear to ear. The old lady will be even happier when my aunt gives birth to her brother and returns to Beijing with my uncle and two sisters."