Daiyu of the Red Chamber raised a cat

Zhen Baoyu suffered a big loss. Although he was terrified at the time, when he went back to his residence and thought about it carefully, he felt aggrieved. He thought that he was the son of a dignified and meritorious family. , has ever been so oppressed.The princes of the aristocratic family all talk about face and decency, if this matter gets out, won't he be laughed at by people pointing his nose?

Not to mention his ancestral home in Jinling, but on the boundary of Yangzhou, which one doesn't flatter him?

Even Gao Pengfei, the magistrate of Yangzhou, wanted to give him three points of thin noodles, but today he was taught a lesson by a brat who didn't know where he came from. The more he thought about it, the more he felt useless.

Can't let it go!

The blood debt is paid with blood, and the lost face must be recovered, he secretly told himself.

After tossing and turning in bed all night, Zhen Baoyu dressed neatly the next day, and went to the magistrate's yamen to find the magistrate, asking the magistrate to help him seek justice.No matter how much the servants persuaded him, it was useless, but he beat and scolded the servants who followed him, making him very embarrassed.The incident of being bullied by Zhou Hang yesterday made him feel like a stick in his throat, remembering that he had so many entourages, none of them were useful at the critical moment, and he would just lie on the ground and pretend to be dead, and then he didn't get angry.Secretly said, when I get home, I must tell my grandmother that these followers are not loyal and do not protect the Lord, and let him be bullied.

Hmph, grab them and put dozens of boards on them, and see if they are just shrinking back when it comes to the critical moment!

Also, Zhen Baoyu secretly planned to find some young people who are proficient in martial arts, give them a lot of money, invite them to be his servants, and see who dares to bully her.Grandma loves him, and she will definitely agree, and there is nothing father can do when the time comes.

The servants couldn't persuade him, so they had to let him go.

Lin Ruhai's every move in Yangzhou City attracted attention, not to mention taking his daughter and concubine's house to play with great fanfare.Officials at all levels, great salt merchants, and country gentry had heard about it a long time ago, and Gao Pengfei was no exception.

Hearing what Zhen Baoyu said, Gao Pengfei already guessed that he had provoked Lin Ruhai.Although he is attached to the He Zhen family, and has some indirect relatives with them.But there is no reason to offend a high-ranking official for the sake of a junior from the Zhen family. What's more, Lin Ruhai's entry to Beijing this time will probably increase his promotion rate. ?

Lin Ruhai is not an unreasonable person, let alone be as knowledgeable as a child.Since he took action to teach him a lesson, it must be that Zhen Baoyu has done something out of the ordinary.

If he didn't ask Lin Ruhai indiscriminately, he would be asking for trouble.

Zhen Baoyu heard that the person who beat her was someone from Lin Ruhai's mansion who was the former inspector of salt and censor Lin Ruhai, and she was already scared.Ever since he was a child, he had never lost such a big face. Although he felt a little unjust in his heart, he didn't dare to provoke Lin Ruhai again, so he could only admit that he was unlucky.

It's bad luck to say the least.

There are tens of thousands of people in Yangzhou City, who made him fall into Lin Ruhai's hands by coincidence.

It would be fine if it was someone else, he would definitely not let it go, but it happened to be him.

I heard that Lin Ruhai seldom went out for entertainment other than being in charge of the yamen, and this family outing was the only one, because he was about to leave Yangzhou soon, and he wanted to take a tour of the scenery in the south of the Yangtze River before leaving.

There seems to be no other explanation for such a rare thing to happen to him, except bad luck.

When everyone has their own destiny, it's okay, and Zhen Baoyu, who has figured it out, doesn't feel so blocked in his heart.It's just a pity that I didn't get to see the face of the tender and soft catkin girl, with such a pair of hands that can't be seen more, I think she must be a beautiful woman in heaven and earth.

After seeing Gao Pengfei, Zhen Baoyu went into the inner house to meet his aunt Sun and several cousins.

Gao Yurou wore a brand new bright red dress today, with a veil covering her face.Before she was disfigured, she was the most outstanding among the sisters, and she had met Zhen Baoyu several times when she was a child.At that time, my father was the magistrate of a county in Jinling Prefecture, not too far from Jinling City, and it was convenient to travel there.At that time, she often went to Zhen's residence. Among the sisters, Zhen Baoyu liked to get close to her the most, saying that she was the most beautiful, even more beautiful than the fairies in the sky.

A child has not yet been enlightened, so he can't say how beautiful words, this is the most beautiful compliment he can think of.Zhen Baoyu's older sisters and elder sisters followed each other all day long, and the elders couldn't even shout back, which was passed on as a joke by everyone.

At that time, I was young and didn't understand the disparity in family status. I just thought that this little cousin was good-looking, the maids around him were also beautiful, the food was good, and the clothes he wore were more luxurious and dazzling than her own. She was very willing to take him with him. Play with this little cousin.

Sometimes the aunt or the old lady of the Zhen family watched them have fun, and the rewards they gave were extraordinary.

With these benefits, Gao Yurou naturally went to Zhen's residence more frequently.It wasn't until I grew up that I realized that they belonged to the same family, but there could be a world of difference.For example, my own family is at best an ordinary aristocratic family, not comparable to the noble family of Zhen's family for generations.It was only then that she understood what the playful and playful eyes of the elders of the Zhen family meant when they looked at her when they were young, but they regarded her as a toy, and the things that could make their phoenix eggs happy were different from other maids. What a difference.

What she felt when she was a child was not an illusion, even the maids in Zhen's mansion looked down on her, the daughter of the county magistrate, and looked at her with disdain, especially when she happily accepted the gold and silver curly gifts from the old lady of the Zhen family. .

Later, when her mother revealed intentionally or unintentionally that she was going to be a matchmaker for her cousin Zhen's family, she felt very proud.

She secretly thought, this time, Gao Yurou was going to feel proud.Marrying Cousin Zhen, she is the well-known young mistress of the Zhen family. Those who looked down on her in the past, and those who wronged her in the past, she will get back one by one.

He thought that cousin Zhen's family was also willing. When he was a child, he liked to cling to himself the most, didn't he.

It doesn't get any better than this!

She can't choose her birth, but who to marry, with her looks, she can climb high.

The old lady of the Zhen family looked down on her and wanted to tell cousin Zhen about her natal niece.To this end, the mother did not know how much effort it took.

But who would have thought that things were about to come to fruition, but a catastrophe struck.All right, a group of wild cats and beasts ran out from nowhere, ruining her flowery face.Isn't this killing her?Her lifelong ambitions were ruined.

Since then, Gao Yurou has completely become enemies with cats, but all cats in the family, no matter whether they are raised by girls or servants, are all captured and slowly tortured to death in an extremely cruel way.

She knows that the most painful thing is not death, but life is worse than death. Therefore, she never kills a cat in one day, but has developed a precise procedure. To what extent... until the seventh day.

That's right, it is to let the cat live for eight days in the extremely painful torture and abuse before letting it die.

I heard that they are still challenging for the eighth day...

Of course, all of this was done in secret. If word spread that the prefect's daughter is such a femme fatale, let alone Gao Yurou who will not be able to marry in this life, it will be a few concubine daughters in the mansion, and Gao Jiayan and several concubine sons. Marriage is also greatly affected.

It is the father's fault whether to raise her or not. With such a femme fatale woman, one can imagine what the Gao family's upbringing is like. Which good family is willing to marry such a family?It's even scarier than that kind of kemokufu.

Therefore, Gao Pengfei kept Gao Yuruan locked in the room. Apart from not wanting her to show off everywhere, the most important thing was that he didn't want her disgusting and nasty things to spread.At that time, not to mention that the marriage of the younger generation will be ruined, even he will not be able to hold his head up outside.

Gao Yurou was naturally not reconciled, especially when she learned that Gao Pengfei wanted to marry him to a waste.

Hearing that Zhen Baoyu came to see her, she put on her best clothes, carefully covered the scars on her face with powder to make it less obvious, put on the most beautiful veil, and posed in front of Zhen Baoyu , trying to arouse Zhen Baoyu's favor.

If Cousin Zhen proposed to marry her, even her father would not be able to say anything. As for the disabled censor, go to hell!

Although Zhen Baoyu herself is not a dragon and phoenix, she has quite high requirements for girls.If Gao Yurou hadn't been disfigured, he would still be in the mood to take a look or two. As for now, it can be said that seeing it makes her sick.

Zhen Baoyu deliberately teased the two concubine cousins, and asked them about Lin Ruhai's daughter.Although the two concubine girls from Gao's mansion didn't have many opportunities to go out to socialize, they had seen Daiyu a few times from a distance.

It made Zhen Baoyu annoyed and longing for a while?Secretly thought, how could such a wonderful person like her have such an unreasonable father, if he was a reasonable one, maybe they could still get close.Alas... alas... alas...

Zhen Baoyu sighed three times and expressed his deep regret.

Helpless, God fails to fulfill people's wishes!

Thinking of such a beautiful girl not being able to be born in her own family is also ruining this rare appearance.

Even if he was born in a family of relatives or friends, he might be amiable and sweet, but his Zhen family and Lin family don't have much friendship.Although because of Jia's family, there are some relatives who beat around the bush, but the girl's mother is no longer there, and seeing Lin Ruhai's attitude, she will not recognize her relative who is not easy to deal with.

Alas, wouldn't it make people sigh?

Seeing Zhen Baoyu like this, Gao Yurou hated Daiyu even more.She thought to herself, what a lingering broom star, ever since you, Lin Daiyu, came to Yangzhou, I, Gao Yurou, have had bad luck one after another. Catch the disfigurement, and now come to grab my cousin Zhen again!Do you want anything, Lin Daiyu, why did you come to snatch it from me?Just wait, one day I will take back what you owe me!

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Lin Daiyu didn't know about these things, so she packed up her luggage and things to carry, and then she was busy meeting people to buy local objects from various places in Yangzhou, and prepared to give them to relatives and friends after she went to Beijing.It is also a good knowledge to know what kind of people give what. If the gift is heavy, it is inappropriate, and there is suspicion of flattery, and it is not appropriate if it is light.

The ones from other families may be bought and handed over to the stewards to buy, but the ones given to the adoptive father should be carefully prepared.The righteous father is a prince, so he neither lacks nor cares about those precious and valuable things.Therefore, the gift does not need to be precious or rare, and no matter how much it is worth, what is important is that it is novel and unique.

Seeing that in August, the festive atmosphere is getting stronger day by day, and moon cakes are being sold in the streets and alleys.Sometimes when Daiyu sat in the garden, she wanted to hear the cries of vendors outside.

"Moon cakes!"

"Freshly baked mooncakes..."

The hawking and yelling were sonorous and full of rhythm, which was quite interesting.Sometimes Daiyu can laugh happily just listening to this kind of yelling.Sometimes people will be sent to stop the hawkers outside to buy a few mooncakes.Although it is not as delicate as the ones made at home, it also tastes special.

Especially when it was sold by a young man. Daiyu didn't know how old it was, but the voice sounded very young.The moon cakes he sold were really good. Later, people said that they were sold by a young man.The young man was only fifteen or sixteen years old, and his family has been making moon cakes for hundreds of years.

They have a secret recipe handed down from their ancestors, and the mooncakes they make are mellow, crispy and soft, which cannot be imitated elsewhere.

Daiyu ate it twice, and it was indeed as it is said in the legend. Compared with the one made by her own chef, although the appearance was slightly worse, the taste was better.

"Girl, the young man from that century-old brand is here to sell mooncakes again!" Xueyan ran over with a smile on her face, staring at Daiyu full of expectation.

"You're a glutton!" Daiyu laughed angrily, "Your ears are sharp now, we didn't hear it, but you heard it." She said to everyone, "Zicuckoo, Huier, you don't want to hear it." Look, isn't this a glutton? On weekdays, she calls people to run errands to deliver things, but she still can't hear her. When it comes to what to send for fun, or what delicacies are sold outside, her ears are better than anyone else! "

Everyone laughed and said, "That's true."

Xueyan stomped her feet and said, "Who is like that? Didn't I just happen to go to the garden, and the mooncake seller happened to come again?"

"Oh..." Zijuan laughed, "Why do you catch up so well every time, why can't we catch up."

Xueyan pouted, and said angrily: "I'm just waiting to hear the call for moon cakes, that's all right." She looked at Daiyu with eager eyes, "Girl, can I buy it?" Buy it? If you give me a word, the servant will act according to the word. If you delay any longer, you will go away."

"Buy it!" Daiyu laughed, "Why don't you buy it? Not to mention you, I also miss his mooncakes. I bought less last time, and the rich and handsome didn't get much. There are still many people who didn't eat it." Arrived. Buy more this time, hurry up and send a message to the boy outside to stop him. Hurry up!"

"Yes, girl!" Xueyan bowed her knees respectfully, and trotted to call for someone.

After about a quarter of an hour, Xueyan came back with two little girls, carrying a small frame.The frame is about one foot wide and round, and Daiyu couldn't help laughing and said, "You guys, did you make it round?" She didn't expect that these girls would buy so much, and it would take two days to eat.

Xueyan chuckled, "How can it be?"

Another maid said, "Yes, I only bought a half."

Daiyu kept her own, Zhou Hang's, and Lin Ruhai's, and there was more than half of the box left, so she ordered someone to send some to Wang's mother, and Li Feng's wife also gave a few yuan, and the rest was distributed to the maids in the room.This is the advantage of serving the girls at home. If you have any good things, you can share them with them, which is much better than other places.If it is to gain face in front of the master, it is even more expensive than some squires' ladies in food and clothing.

That day and night, two guards sent by Beijing Zhongsheng Shangqin suddenly came to Lin's mansion and brought a secret decree.The purpose was to bring Zhou Hang to Beijing. Lin Ruhai wanted to have a family reunion before leaving after the Mid-Autumn Festival. The Holy Majesty also wanted to reunite with his son, so he sent a fast horse to bring Zhou Hang to the capital on the night of the full fifteenth month.

And the imperial decree said, the sooner the better, the emperor missed his son.

The reunion of father and son is the principle of family relationship, not to mention the sacred decree, Lin Ruhai naturally has no reason to hinder it.

From Yangzhou to the capital, it is natural that you can't go too fast with your family and your family. At least it will take more than a month, but if you take a fast horse and work hard, you can get there in four or five days.The horse brought by the guards is naturally a very rare horse of thousands of miles, very handsome, it may not take four or five days, three days is almost enough.

After counting, it will take at least two months to part with Daiyu, Zhou Hang is not used to it.

He didn't set off until the tenth day of the Lunar New Year, not to mention how the two guards urged him, his ears were getting callused just from Daiyu's nagging.Grasp the last few days of practicing day and night, and work hard in the space when I have time, and finally reached the peak of Qi refining before departure.

It's about the equivalent of ten years of internal energy training, plus the martial arts moves learned from the hidden guards, it can basically protect itself.

Of course, it was without encountering a peerless master.

Zhou Hang focused on learning the skills of escaping. When life and death are at stake, sometimes you don't care about face and face. The most important thing is to save your life.

Before leaving, Zhou Hang did one more thing. It's not that he doesn't know Gao Yurou's little tricks, but he just doesn't want to be fussy with her.Unexpectedly, until now she still has Daiyu's idea, this is intolerable.

And there is also Gao Pengfei, who has plotted and murdered Daiyu and Lin Daddy many times, so he cannot be taken lightly.

Although for the sake of the overall situation, this family cannot really be killed, but a small punishment is still okay

What is the most important thing in a daughter's home?Isn't it just fame?

What officials care most about is the official voice.

Then, he would stink up the things father and daughter cared about the most.

The next day, everyone in the streets and alleys knew that the magistrate's daughter was not only disfigured and turned into an ugly monster, but also a vicious woman with a heart like a snake and a scorpion. She not only brought many small animals, but also often beat up servants.As for the many nasty things that the magistrate has done, it has also been spread in the streets and alleys.

Now even the songs sung by children playing in the street are all about scandals in the magistrate's mansion.

Of course, these words couldn't reach the capital for a while, and couldn't affect Gao Yurou's already arranged marriage.But what Zhou Hang wanted was this kind of effect. Sooner or later, Gao Yurou's in-laws would hear these gossips, and by then, Gao Yurou would not have a good life.

She killed so many innocent cats, and this is her retribution.

Zhou Hang regretted that he did not discover Gao Yurou's evil deeds earlier, otherwise, those poor cats would not have died in vain.

There is no better way to deal with people who are already psychopaths, only more perverted than her.

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Daiyu received a letter from Zheng Lihua, which was brought by a merchant.The date of writing the letter was two months ago, and the little girl praised the capital in the letter, saying that the streets and markets in the capital are very prosperous, there are many people and shops, and there are many foreign things from overseas, many of which she has never seen before.It's just that the weather was too dry, and I didn't get used to it when I first went there. My throat hurt for many days, and I became ill for a long time.It's not a serious illness, it's already recovered, so Daiyu doesn't have to worry.

He also told Daiyu in a very excited and joyful tone that Zheng Yundi found his mentor and left him. If there were no accidents, he would stay in the capital this time.They have already bought a three-entry yard in the capital, and the brothers have also entered a famous school.

Finally, I did not forget to say that I miss Daiyu very much, and remind Daiyu to write to him if she has time.

Daiyu couldn't help laughing, this girl, she didn't know she was going to Beijing soon.

No, maybe you already know it by now.

It is impossible that the officials in the capital did not hear about the great fanfare of the Holy Majesty ordering his father to go to Beijing.As for writing letters or something, it can be avoided.It will take a month or two to deliver a letter, and it is very likely that the letter will arrive in the capital before it is delivered to her.

On the evening of the fifteenth day, after the main meal, the father and daughter set up an incense table in the main courtyard, and put moon cakes, watermelons, apples, red dates, plums, grapes and other sacrifices to worship the moon god.After that, drink osmanthus wine, watch the moon and so on.The sweet-scented osmanthus wine is self-brewed, the alcohol content is not high, it has the unique fragrance of sweet-scented osmanthus, sweet and palatable, with a long aftertaste.Take a sip in the bursts of sweet-scented osmanthus fragrance, and you will have endless aftertaste.

Because it was the only Mid-Autumn Festival reunion day for father and daughter in the past few years, Lin Ruhai invited a fire dragon dance team and made various lanterns to hang on the eaves for the sake of excitement and for the joy of her daughter who was getting more and more depressed after Zhou Hang left. , Treetops, at a glance, all kinds of shapes, such as rabbits, beauties, cats, fish, etc., are also available in various colors, very dazzling and beautiful.

Daiyu's depressed mood was also quite happy, and she was cheerful all night long.In the end, I went to play with the girls to release river lanterns by the stream flowing through the garden.The lamp is folded into a lotus shape, and a small candle is welded inside.The river lanterns flow down the river, shadowy and shadowy, reflecting the yellow and orange glow of the stream, which is very beautiful.

"Nung, moon and new moon……"

Unconsciously, Daiyu read out this ancient phrase.

"What did the girl say?" Zijuan didn't hear clearly, squatting by the stream, turned around and asked?

"It's nothing..." Daiyu shook her head, she unconsciously thought of Zhou Hang again, "Let's put the lights on."

Stepping forward, she tried to act as if nothing had happened.Snow Goose came up with a lotus lantern, Daiyu took it, squatted down cautiously, and slowly put it into the flowing stream.Seeing the river lantern drifting farther and farther, Daiyu thought, how long can this lantern last?I don't know how far I can run, maybe one mile, maybe two miles.The stream at home is a tributary drawn from the outside, and it has not been sealed off, and it is still connected to the outside.Maybe it can float to a rural village dozens of miles away, and be picked up by barefoot children playing in the stream.

However, what does it matter, it is impossible to float to the capital.

She doesn't have the slightest nostalgia for the capital.Most of the memories of the capital are bad, and I never looked forward to going back before, so why can I think of the capital every now and then.Thinking that Zhou Hang is somewhere there, I actually feel that there are many lovely things in the capital.

It's strange why this happened, she didn't treat Jia Baoyu like this before.

After the night of the full moon in the Mid-Autumn Festival, everyone in the Lin family set off early the next morning.

A total of three large boats were hired, a three-storey boat was shared by Lin Ruhai, Daiyu and two aunts, each with their own people.The other two ships carried baggage and soil instruments and took off people.

Early in the morning, many people stood at the wharf of Yangzhou, all of them were Yangzhou officials and salt merchants who came to see them off.It doesn't matter who organizes it, Lin Ruhai is not in the mood to ask, it's just hypocrisy, it's meaningless.This has always been the case in all dynasties. It seems that when the upper official resigns, the officials below have to send him off respectfully according to the rules.Lin Ruhai was not interested in these routines. If he hadn't considered his daughter, he would have walked away quietly with a few entourages alone.

There are also people who spontaneously sent them off.The Lin family often did good deeds in Yangzhou City, and those who had received the grace of the Lin family knew that Lin Ruhai was going to leave, they were very reluctant, their eyes were watery, and they were about to cry.

Lin Ruhai took the hand of an old man with a gray beard among the people, and gave instructions for a long time before boarding the boat.

More than a month later, at the pier of the capital, the Lin family's boat had just landed, and several second-class servants from Jia's mansion came to pick it up. Watching the girl stay there for a few days, she slowly packed up her own house and moved there.

Lin Ruhai didn't beat around the bush, and directly said that two months ago, he had sent someone to Beijing to clean up the house, and now that everything was ready, he naturally wanted to go home first, and then visit him on that day.

What did the servant girl of Jia's mansion want to say, seeing Lin Ruhai's calm and pretentious face, she swallowed what she was going to say in fright.They were very annoyed when Lin Ruhai left with his people in a mighty way, and they shouldn't just let the aunt go away like this.It's broken now, and the old lady is afraid that she will be punished when she goes back.

I don't know if the maids who came to pick up the boat were punished this time, but early in the morning of the second day, a few more maids were called to pick them up.

This time it was a first-class maid who came here, and she was very well dressed. Those who didn't know it thought it was a wife from some other family.Unfortunately, Lin Ruhai wanted to go to the palace to meet the emperor, a noble family, no matter how powerful and powerful, there was no reason for him to surpass the emperor.Seeing that it was not possible to invite Lin Ruhai, the servants decided to take Daiyu to live there for a few days.

Lin Ruhai said: "The little girl is already weak, and she has been traveling for more than a month, and she is not doing well now. Go back first and tell your mother-in-law that when Yu'er is well, Ruhai will take her daughter to see her in person."

The servants had no choice but to go back and report.

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