The Eighteenth Century of Xuyang in the Red Chamber

When Xu Yangben returned home, it was already the first quarter of the hour. He took off his cotton-padded clothes and rode a horse galloping for a long time, feeling depressed again, and felt a little uncomfortable when he came back. He didn't want Mrs. Xu to worry, so he let the servant girl cook it thickly for a while. After pouring down a big bowl of ginger soup, he went to bed and fell asleep, sweating profusely. Relying on his years of training, he was fine the next day.

To Xu Yang's surprise, neither Mrs. Xu nor Lin Daiyu mentioned anything about the Lan family in the next few days.Daiyu obviously cried secretly again, her eyes were often red, but she changed her old habit of complaining to her brother when she was wronged, and she gritted her teeth and never bothered him with this matter.Xu Yang understood that no one at home would follow him when he rushed out so abruptly. Mrs. Xu probably knew what was on her mind, but she just didn't want him to suffer any more. not out?Mrs. Xu sent someone to buy a coffin and a cemetery, secretly asked someone to take Mrs. Lan's body out of the incarnation bureau, and buried it happily. She cried a few times sadly, but she didn't say anything else to Xu Yangduo , just let him burn some paper on Mrs. Lan's grave for himself.

After the new year, Daiyu will be twelve years old. Chunwei's courses have actually ended at the end of the year, and she has also passed her graduation exams, but after the results are confirmed, she will officially graduate in February. She may not be able to stay in Yangzhou for long... It stands to reason that Xu Yang and Daiyu should be very reluctant to part with each other at this time, and they should get closer to each other.But what happened to Lan Mengru was like a wake-up call in the ears of the two of them, and both of them were terrified.

As far as Yu Daiyu was concerned, she lost her best friend, and she was already deeply saddened, but Xu Yang's reaction made her have to face up to a reality: her brother Yang is not her real brother after all, and one day he will marry He would love others when his wife gave birth to a child, and as he got older, he really was no longer that little girl who didn't have to shy away from anything.As far as Xu Yang was concerned, Daiyu saw through his thoughts. While he was sad and embarrassed, he suddenly realized that his younger sister was about to grow up, and if he went to the capital, he would pass the next exam. It will be three years before she enters Beijing. At that time, Daiyu will really become a big girl. She can't touch her hair, can't talk and laugh casually, and it's even difficult to meet her face to face. One day she will As a married woman, she was locked in a deep house and became one of the noble ladies whose men cared about their children and housework.Thinking of this, Xu Yang felt extremely depressed, and even lost the courage to face Daiyu.

After a few years, he got the news of the Lan family from his uncle's letter. Lan Jihe died in the prison. The official document reported by the Ministry of Criminal Justice said that he committed suicide in fear of crime. Lan Jihe's three sons were stripped of their merits and exiled In northern Xinjiang, the servants of the female relatives either served as Jiaofang Secretary, or sold as official slaves, and there is no more detailed information.For the first time, Xu Yang realized that the rules of this world are so outrageous.He was so sad that he was depressed to death. When he opened and closed his eyes, he could only see Lan Ji and that vicissitudes and firm face, as well as Lan Mengru's face that sometimes smiled like a flower and sometimes burst into tears, but he didn't dare to show his true self in front of others. Grief, because Lin Ruhai only wrote about this matter in his letter, only talking about Lan Ji and being wronged, and he was powerless to recover. There was a despondent and despondent air in his words, and he specifically asked him not to talk to his mother. Sister mentions, saving troubles in vain.

On February 1st, Chunwei hadn't started school yet, but early in the morning, the top three of this year's graduates who were about to graduate were posted, and No. [-], as expected, was the eldest daughter of Master Zuodu Censor Lin , that is to say, Lin Daiyu is commonly known as the No. [-] Scholar of Chunwei this year.But Daiyu who got the news was not happy. She mentioned Lan Mengru for the first time after the day when Lan's family had an accident: "If Sister Lan is here, I won't be the champion." For a while, everyone in the family was silent .Xu Yang looked up at his little cousin, only to find that the little girl had lost a lot of weight compared to years ago, and there was something strange and familiar on her face. That kind of expression is familiar: Isn't this kind of feeling exactly the melancholy that I have seen in TV dramas, Chen Xiaoxu's version of Lin Daiyu's face that can't be washed away!

Xu Yang was extremely annoyed, he only cared about being sad, and only cared about being sad for his unrequited love in his own world.But he didn't think about it seriously. In terms of love, how close is Daiyu and Lan Mengru?What is my unrequited love that I have only seen three or four times, and the inseparable relationship between Daiyu and her close friends for two or three years?I only cared about being sad for my own feelings, only melancholy for Daiyu's future, but put the current people and current affairs aside!

The next day, Xu Yang came to Daiyu early in the morning and said, "Go, go and see the new gadgets I bought for you with brother!" Daiyu was overjoyed at first, but suddenly burst into tears and said, "It's hard for brother to remember me. "When Xu Yang saw her like this, his heart was broken. Although his sister is very cheerful now, but her mind is more delicate than anyone else. She is going to be sad for a while, but everyone in the family only cares about their own sadness. , who came to persuade her again?When it comes to sadness, she is the best!Xu Yang sat beside her silently, stretched out his hand and waved the girl away, and said softly: "If you want to cry, you can cry as much as you want! I have cried too, but after crying, you are not allowed to cry anymore! You still have uncle , and my aunt, and my elder brother, you have made yourself miserable, and it will only make everyone more sad." Xu Yang has never persuaded others, and he is even more unwilling to mention Lan Mengru, who obviously has a thousand words to say. Language, but such a scene that can be said is neither salty nor bland.

But such a sentence is enough, Daiyu burst into tears immediately.Xu Yang didn't try to persuade her any more, but handed her handkerchiefs one by one to let her cry.He wanted to cry too, but he knew that he couldn't cry, he couldn't do anything, so what right did he have to cry like a girl?

This day actually happened to be Daiyu's birthday. On this day last year, she took a group of classmates to a poetry meeting at home after school. People reported to each house, and they played wildly by themselves until midnight, and finally they all slumped around in Daiyu's yard and squeezed into sleep.The next day, they dressed up and went to school in a frenzied way. Everyone was listless. The teacher fined each of them to copy ten pages of books.Daiyu was still happy after being punished by her husband, but she dared not tell Mrs. Xu, she secretly told Xu Yang, and the two laughed together.

It's only been a year, but I feel that the happiness at that time is like something in my previous life.Even though it was her birthday, Daiyu was not in a good mood, but today happened to be a graduation ceremony, and her classmates who had been with her for several years were about to leave today, so her mood became worse and worse.Xu Yang knew that there was no way to make Daiyu happy for a while, and seeing that it was getting late, he urged her to go to school first, then he greeted Mrs. Xu and rushed out of the house.

Lin Daiyu never thought that her last birthday in Yangzhou would be like this.Brilliant fireworks were set off all over the sky, and a few foreign words even popped out of the fireworks, one after another. Daiyu tried her best in her mind, but it turned out to be happy birthday in English.The high-firing fireworks can at least be seen clearly by people with a radius of several miles. Xu Yang doesn't want too many people to guess who's birthday is, and he doesn't want Daiyu to become a topic among the people in the market. The craftsman designed it according to the English characters he wrote... Daiyu looked at it, and she was moved to tears.Xu Yang felt guilty to death. He ordered the fireworks in advance in October of the first year, and only said that he would pick them up in a few months. He almost forgot about it in these few months... If it wasn't like this, the 12-year-old sister is so important Isn't your birthday going to pass dryly?

The fireworks were specially invited to the garden with special equipment, and it took more than half an hour to finish the fireworks. Because it was not yet the curfew time, quite a few people went to the street to watch the excitement. Even in the compound of the deep house, Xu Yang could vaguely hear the sound of laughter coming from afar.Turning her face to see that although there were tears on Daiyu's face, the gloom of the past few months seemed to be swept away by the magnificent fireworks. She smiled and rushed to Mrs. Xu's side: "Auntie, I don't want to leave, I really want to stay in Yangzhou for the rest of my life... like a few years ago, Dad, you, and brother, our family is always together, how wonderful it would be!" Laughing, tears flowed down again.

Mrs. Xu was also reluctant to part with Daiyu, but there was no reason not to let her daughter be filial to her father, so she could only gently pat her on the back and said, "Don't cry, Yuer, auntie, keep an eye on your brother and let him go down." Hurry up to be admitted to Juren next time, and we will go to Beijing if we pass the exam, and we will never be separated again!" Even though she said so, Mrs. Xu also knew that her words were very unreliable, even if she didn't want Xu Yang to be admitted to Qiuwei next time. The problem is that after passing the exam, Daiyu was [-] or [-] years old when she came to Beijing, and she immediately talked about marriage, and her family also has a house in the capital, so how could it be possible to be happy together like a family like now?

In the following days, Xu Yang seemed to want to make up for the debt he had neglected to Daiyu in the past few months, and kept buying her this and that, and even asked her to change into boy's clothes on the day of Lichun and ride a horse together I went out of the city with him to see the Spring Festival Party in the countryside.Daiyu also knew that her father might send someone to pick her up at any time. Although she missed her father, living in Jia's mansion for more than a year let her know that the life in the capital must be completely different from that in Yangzhou, so she also squandered the little free time to her heart's content. .From time to time, I invited my classmates to my home for gatherings, not to mention taking a carriage to the shops on the street several times to search for Yangzhou's specialties to bring to Beijing.

Seeing that Daiyu had spent a lot of money these days, Xu Yang couldn't resist giving her 200 taels of silver even though he knew that Lin Ruhai had left her a lot of money: "Last month I brought a big plaque to Guo Wanwan's house, and I wrote two pairs of hanging scrolls and made a small fortune. The money is easy to come by, my sister can use it to buy some gadgets!" Although Daiyu was used to him and didn't evade money, she also made him laugh: " The silver that can buy ten or twenty mu of good land is worth a small amount of money in your mouth!" Xu Yang was shocked: "My sister is getting more and more excited, and she even knows how much money is a mu of land!" Daiyu was originally teasing Unexpectedly, he was ridiculed and came back, so he was a little bit ashamed, and said angrily: "You are laughing at me again, this is common sense! Anyone, everyone should know!" After speaking, he stuttered a little.

Seeing that she was really going to be annoyed, Xu Yang stopped teasing her, and patted her obediently: "Okay, okay, you know I just like to tease you! I'm not my sister, so I don't bother to tease you! You Knowing that it is not difficult for me to earn money now, just take it obediently and buy something you like! We will be far away in the future, and it will be inconvenient for me to buy you anything again." Daiyu wanted to cry again when she mentioned this So Xu Yang was in a hurry to coax him again, cursing and swearing that he would pass the Juren examination next time, and if he passed the examination, he would go to Beijing to see his sister quickly, and if he failed the examination, he would be fined with the money he earned in a year. Bring them all to Daiyu.

Daiyu was crying, but when she heard his words, she laughed again: "Yinzi, you know Yinzi, what happened to brother today, you have sex with Yinzi!"

Xu Yang said seriously: "A penny can't beat a hero! Brother Ai in my school begged his wife for three days for two taels of silver. Do you think money is important?"

Talking about Ada made Daiyu laugh again: "You'll lose it! Ai Juren is not fussy, but I really think he is a real man!" Xu Yang also nodded: "That's natural. , he is not a man, how could I be so speculative with me!"

Daiyu didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "Do you have to force me to say that you guys share the same tastes so you can be more honest? But Chunwei has passed, and I don't know how Ai Juren is doing in the exam. There should be news after a while."

Xu Yang also misses Ada Ling a little, and now he and Hong Xiuquan go out to play less. On the one hand, he himself is in a bad mood, and Hong Xiuquan's family is busy around the end of the year. I feel that drinking is tasteless.I hope that this time Ada Ling can be named on the gold list!