[Red Chamber] I am Lin Daiyu and her uncle

After Jin He left, the blush on Shen Jiao's face did not dissipate. The fifth princess has always been sharp-eyed, and she immediately noticed that Shen Jiao was unusual.

I saw her "huh" in a slightly surprised tone, "Sister, why is your face so red?"

"Ah? Is there?" Shen Jiao touched his face suspiciously.

"Yes, I have!"

The fifth princess stepped forward and put the back of her hand on Shenjiao's cheek.

"It's so hot. Does my sister have a fever?"

As soon as these words came out, even Daiyu shifted her eyes from Chunjiang Terrace to Shenjiao. After frowning, she nodded thoughtfully, "It's really red. My sister just ate a little." Zijiu, is it up?"

Shenjiao already had something in her heart, and she became more and more embarrassed when she heard the words. She wanted to explain, but she didn't know where to start. Get off, and quickly grab it, "Yes! Wu'er is right, I'm only like this after drinking wine, just take a rest for a while, don't worry."

I didn't want to get too entangled with Daiyu and the fifth princess, so I changed the subject, "What are you looking at?"

Daiyu pointed to the Chunjiang Terrace in front of her, and said: "The layout of the Chunjiang Terrace is extremely exquisite. At night, the stage looks like daytime. I was attracted by the sound of silk and bamboo orchestral music from the stage, so I wanted to see what happened."

Shenjiao nodded, "It's so."

After finishing speaking, she smiled and turned her head to look at Daiyu, "Listen to my father, your uncle is only eighteen years old, and he has already been selected as a candidate. He is really young and promising. It has been spread all over the outside world, saying that you are a member of the Lin family." Shuang Tanhua', the origin of family education. Even if my brother won the thirteenth place in the martial arts election, my father still reminded him for a long time, let him learn more from your uncle."

When Daiyu heard this, besides being shy, she was filled with arrogance.

Lin Qingzhong is the first, she is honored with you.In Jia's house before, my father often praised this uncle when he wrote letters, he was a dragon and a phoenix, and he would become a great weapon in the future.Now it seems that the words are true.In the future, with his support, the Lin family will not fail.

Thinking of this, Daiyu was greatly relieved.

Spring River Terrace.

Shen Fang is now one of the top figures in the army, so he is needed to come forward on such occasions.It's just that Shen Gui didn't make it into the top ten, and he wasn't qualified to have dinner at the same table with these big men in the army, so while his father was busy drinking wine, he sneaked to the civil servant's side, ready to play with Lin Qing.

Lin Qing's side is similar, several adults in the cabinet are eating at the same table with the five Jinshi who were named on the day of the palace examination.

Of course, Gongsun Liang is not there. Although he is the second assistant, he is really just a name when he says it is a name. He is an existence similar to a living signboard, and he will never show up unless necessary.

The so-called expert, expert, is that the dragon sees the head but does not see the tail...

The number one scholar, Jiang Hongzai, was over forty years old, Li Yifang was thirty-one, Liu Daoan was twenty-five, Li Zhe was thirty-five, and Lin Qing was the youngest, just turned eighteen.

Several adults in the cabinet are all in their forties or fifties. After encouraging the five "young people" at the dinner table, they began to chat with each other.

Jiang Hongzai was about the same age as them, and he was able to talk together, while Li Zhe had a somewhat flattering personality, and he was very keen to pour wine for these grown-ups, but he didn't care much about Lin Qing and the others.

Li Yifang, as the name suggests, is beautiful and elegant. He is a bearded man with a beard that grows to his belly. He is a good-natured person. Although he is more than ten years behind Lin Qing, he is old at heart, and his thinking is sometimes better than that of Lin Qing, a young man. Also escaped.

In contrast, Liu Daoan was a bit ugly, he hardly spoke a word after the whole banquet, but he was only in his twenties, but he was serious all day long like a little old man.

After drinking for three rounds, everyone was no longer restrained, and many people even took wine pots and wine glasses to the circular pool under the Chunjiang Terrace to play the game of "Qushui Liushang". There are even more people who sit together.

Li Yifang sat Lin Qing and Liu Daoan on the left and right, looked at the bright full moon in the sky, then looked at the wine in her glass, and suddenly smiled.

"Ruqing, do you know what two things are essential for us literati to compose poetry?"

Lin Qing thought for a while, "But artistic conception and imagery?"

Li Yifang shook her head slightly, "No."

"It's not artistic conception and imagery..." Lin Qing pondered for a while, "That's the 'meter and rhythm'. There is a saying in "Wen Jing Mi Fu Lun" that "the style of poetry is the style, and the sound is the law. The higher the meaning, the better the style." High, the sound is distinguished and the rhythm is clear. The rhythm is complete, and then there is a tune.' Most of the poems are inseparable from this rule."

After listening to Lin Qing's explanation, Li Yifang nodded and said with a smile after pondering for a while: "It's not unreasonable. But my brother, I asked about 'things', and you answered 'meaning', although there are grounds, But it wasn't the answer I was looking for."

Then, he patted Liu Daoan on the shoulder again, "Leye, what do you think?"

Liu Daoan coughed a few times and said, "It's 'wine' and 'month'."

Lin Qing heard the words, thought about it carefully, and felt that it was not unreasonable.

These two things do often appear when Chinese literati and poets write poems and lyrics, such as the representative characters "Li Taibai" and "Su Shi".Even because of his experience as a knight-errant, Li Taibai added a "chivalrous spirit" and "sword spirit" to his poems.

What is particularly interesting is that although the truth of Li Bai's death is confusing and confusing, the most widely circulated statement is that he "died because he was drunk and caught the moon in the water".However, when it comes to the great poet Li Bai, people "believe" it for the first time. Perhaps compared with his death in poverty and illness, later generations hope that this legendary poet will uphold his romantic poetic style even after his death.

Li Yifang obviously thought the same as Lin Qing, so she said with emotion: "My dear brother Leye, seeing your serious appearance, I thought you were honest and 'incomprehensible', but I never thought that you also have the heart of a refined scholar."

Liu Daoan: "Brother Zishang's praise is ridiculous. I just observed that brother Zishang looked up at the moon from time to time, and then looked down at the wine glass in his hand in a daze. That's why I said this. I don't dare to be an 'elite scholar'. It's just luck that I guessed it right. "

Just when Li Yifang was about to speak again, she was interrupted by a loud male voice from behind.

"Ruqing!"

Several people hurriedly turned their heads when they heard the words.

"Evergreen, why are you here?"

Lin Qing got up and greeted Shen Gui to sit down.

While sitting down, Shen Gui babbled: "Hey! Don't mention it. The people at my table tried their best to get me drunk, but in the end they didn't get me drunk. I am the only one who is awake in the whole table now, I was bored there, so I came here to find you."

"Who is this little brother? He's a good drinker! One person actually knocked down the entire table." Li Yifang was very familiar.

Lin Qing introduced: "This is Shen Changrong, the [-]th in this martial arts election, my classmate and friend."

Li Yifang also stood up when she heard the words, and bowed to Shen Gui, "I'm Li Zishang, the second in the anthology."

Seeing this, Shen Gui quickly stood up and bowed back, "Your Excellency, I've been waiting for you for a long time."

Li Yifang waved her hand, "Hey! I don't dare to be an 'adult'. I think Changrong's age is about the same as that of Ruqing Xiandi. Just call me Zishang."

Immediately, he patted Liu Daoan who was sitting next to him, "This is Liu Daoan, with the word Leye, the fourth in anthology."

Liu Daoan and Shen Gui looked at each other and then smiled at each other, it was considered as greeting.

Yingzhou Tower, the third floor.

"Sister Shen, what are you looking at?"

Daiyu and the fifth princess were a little hungry after chasing each other for a while, so they went inside to have some snacks, Shen Jiao was afraid of being spotted again, so she didn't go with them, and stayed alone in the corridor.Now that the two of them came back after using up, they saw that Shen Jiao was still pointing the binoculars in the direction of Chunjiang Terrace.

Shen Jiao put down the binoculars in his hand, turned around, and said with a smile: "I was looking for my elder brother, but I didn't find him after looking for a long time."

Fifth Princess: "Perhaps I went to play with Wu'er's uncle. It's not necessarily true that at the end of the Spring River Banquet, guests are allowed to join in. Since the elder brother of the Shen family has a good relationship with Wu'er's uncle, maybe he went to see him. "

"Eh, is it? Let me see."

Shen Jiao hurriedly aimed the binoculars at the east side of Chunjiang Terrace, but there were too many people, and she didn't recognize Lin Qing, so she couldn't find it after searching for a long time.

So he beckoned to Daiyu, "Wu'er, come here."

Daiyu walked to her side, "What's the matter? Sister Shen."

Shen Jiao saw that Daiyu's face was red and cute at the moment, so she raised her hand and pinched her pink cheeks, then smiled and handed the binoculars into her hand.

"Use it to find your uncle. If Yi'er's guess is right, then if you find your uncle, you will also find my eldest brother."

Dai Yu happily helped her with this favor, and she hadn't seen Lin Qing for a while, to be honest, it was a weird idea, so helping her was also helping herself.

Daiyu searched for a long time with the binoculars, and finally found Lin Qing in the east and north of Chunjiangtai.

At this moment, Shen Gui and the wild and unrestrained Li Yifang have started a wine fight mode, and the two of them drank to the Qushui Pool in the north of Chunjiang Stage, leaving Lin Qing and Liu Daoan still on the table. Chatting.

Seeing that Lin Qing was summoned by Li Yifang and Shen Gui to go down to Qushui, Daiyu hastily tugged Shenjiao's sleeve beside her.

The tone was a little eager, "Sister Shen, come quickly, my uncle is going to be called down by your elder brother to have a drink together."

"where?"

Shen Jiao hurriedly took the telescope that Daiyu handed over.

"It's right there!" Daiyu pointed to Lin Qing's direction, "My uncle is going down the stone steps next to Chunjiangtai."

Yingzhou Pagoda and Chunjiang Tower faced each other from north to south, so Shenjiao and his party happened to be face to face with Lin Qing who was coming down the stone steps.

What Shenjiao saw from the mirror was that a young man in fresh clothes calmly landed on the white marble steps, and behind him was a high platform shining white and moist under the moonlight. Come to the world in the fairyland.

The camera zooms in, the young man's face is like jade, the jade tree is facing the wind, and his gestures are romantic. Although he is smiling, the inadvertent coolness between his brows makes Shenjiao hold his breath, for fear of disturbing him.

Perhaps Shen Jiao was watching too intently, and his eyes were so hot that Lin Qing stopped in his tracks as if feeling something, and then suddenly raised his head to look in Shen Jiao's direction.

Shen Jiao was frightened by Lin Qing's look, slipped his hand, and dropped the binoculars in his hand to the bottom of the tower.

But it scared Daiyu and the fifth princess beside her.

"Sister Shen, what's wrong with you? You look so ugly?" Daiyu's tone was very concerned.

Shen Jiao lightly covered her lips with one hand, and unconsciously caressed her heart with the other hand, and felt that it was about to jump out of her throat.

After reacting, he swallowed nervously, then waved his hand, "No, I'm fine."

Daiyu and the fifth princess saw that Shen Jiao was flustered at the moment, his eyes were floating, and his face was even hotter. After looking at each other, they said seriously: "Sister Shen, are you really okay? Could it be that you saw something dirty?" Is something frightened?"

Seeing these two ignorant children say this, Shen Jiao quickly covered their mouths with his hands, and shouted in a low voice: "What nonsense! This is at the feet of the Son of Heaven, so there is nothing unclean about it! "

Daiyu and the fifth princess also reacted immediately, and their faces turned pale.

Seeing this, Shen Jiao calmed down quite a bit, so she resumed her old big sister appearance, comforting Daiyu and the fifth princess, and at the same time ordered people to go down to find the binoculars that had just fallen.

Although Lin Qing has good eyesight, firstly, the distance between Chunjiang Terrace and Yingzhou Pagoda is indeed quite far, and secondly, Yingzhou Pagoda is too big, so he only noticed a rough orientation just now, and it was night, so he didn't notice Shen at all. pepper.

Li Yifang and Shen Gui in the audience saw him standing still on the stone steps and shouted impatiently: "Ruqing! Why are you looking around? Why don't you come down quickly! You are slow, be careful we will punish you for writing poems." drink!"

Lin Qing couldn't laugh or cry when he heard the words, but when he saw Shen Gui, who had always avoided "literature and ink", now "speaking wild words", he knew that he was drunk.

"Here we come!" Lin Qing responded loudly.

Shaking his head helplessly, he continued to walk down the stone steps.

After the Spring River Conference was almost over, the official announced the closing speech again, and everyone knelt down in the direction of Yingzhou Pagoda several times, and then went back to their homes.

Xia Xu naturally went back to Xianfu Palace. Except for the first and fifteenth day of the lunar new year, Xia Xu usually didn't go to the queen's bedroom. Even if the queen felt unwilling, she could only endure it. .

Xianfu Palace.

Concubine Xian was sitting on the head of the bed, and Xia Xu was also half lying in Concubine Xian's arms, with her eyes slightly closed, letting her massage the acupuncture points on her head.

After a long silence in the room, Jin He quietly came to Concubine Xian's side and whispered in her ear.

Concubine Xian nodded to her.

Jin He understood, and hurriedly tiptoed out of the room.

"what's up?"

Xia Xu still had his eyes closed, but his reaction was very sensitive.

"I thought you were asleep." Concubine Xian said this, but her hands still kept moving, "It's nothing. Jinhe told me that the carriage to take Ying'er back to the general's mansion was ready, and asked if I Now take her to the carriage."

"Huh? Ying'er hasn't gone back yet?"

Xia Xu opened his eyes and looked up at Concubine Xian.

Concubine Xian straightened his head again, and then continued to knead, "No. That girl had to send the Lin family girl back to Zhongcui Palace before she would get into the carriage. That girl from the Lin family looks like a real sister."

After finishing speaking, he seemed to remember something, so he stopped what he was doing, leaned down and whispered in his ear: "Your Majesty, you should go back to the Hall of Mental Cultivation to sleep tonight."

Xia Xu couldn't help but look sideways when he heard this, "Why?"

After concubine Xian thought it over, she said: "Tonight is Sister Hua's sad day..."

Xia Xu got up, grabbed her hand, put it to her lips and kissed it lightly, then looked at her and said word by word: "Jiaojiao, this matter has nothing to do with you at all, it's not your turn to be sad and blame yourself."

"Also, are you willing to push me away?"

Concubine Xian was so ashamed by him, she plunged into Xia Xu's arms, and it took her a long time to say "no".

Xia Xu got the answer she wanted and smiled with satisfaction.

Since the fifth princess was picked up by someone sent by Zhang Jieyu, Shen Jiao only sent Daiyu back.

When approaching the gate of Zhongcui Palace, Shenjiao was about to bid farewell to Daiyu, but suddenly remembered an important matter, so he pushed the maids and eunuchs who were serving beside him away, and dragged Daiyu to a place with enough vision , Whispered in her ear.

"When you go back tonight, don't be careful, especially don't disturb Concubine Kang. No matter what you see or hear, you have to pretend that you didn't see or hear. An Anxin just sleeps with you. Get over it This night, everything will be fine when you wake up tomorrow morning, you know?"

Daiyu heard her serious tone, after all she was young, and the imperial palace was not a place to be idle, so she couldn't help feeling scared.

Seeing Daiyu's expression of fear and doubt, Shen Jiao thought for a while, decided to say more, lest she offend Concubine Kang.Although Concubine Kang is indeed a magnanimous person, what happened tonight is unusual, and Daiyu doesn't know how long she will stay in the palace, there is always nothing wrong with being cautious.

"I heard from some old palace people that Concubine Kang was pregnant before. She was fine and her pulse was normal. Unexpectedly, ten months later, she gave birth to a stillbirth. However, the empress who was pregnant at the same time gave birth to a big baby. Fat boy, that is, the eldest prince who died young."

Daiyu's little face turned pale with fright when she first heard these secret affairs of the palace.

Is this what she should hear?

Seeing that Daiyu was so frightened, Shenjiao quickly hugged her into his arms to comfort her, "I tell you this just to remind you that every time when there is no one around on the Shangsi Festival, Concubine Kang will go to Zhongcui Palace to cheer for you. The Holy Majesty also acquiesces in praying for blessings and summoning the soul of her child who died young. Although Concubine Kang is a magnanimous and kind-hearted person, she is the most taboo about someone disturbing her at such a time. There was once a palace maid accidentally..."

The more Daiyu listened, the more frightened she became, and in the end she cried out in fright, holding Shenjiao in her arms, but she dared not let go.

Coincidentally, Jin He also came at this time, seeing her appearance, she was about to ask why, but Shen Jiao prevaricated by using the excuse that Daiyu hated her and was homesick.

But although Jin He was dismissed, Dai Yu was so frightened by her words that she dared not go back to Zhongcui Palace. Seeing her frightened like this, Shen Jiao couldn't help regretting that she had said too much. Give up and go home tonight, and plan to take Daiyu to spend the night with the fifth princess.

Jin He then went back and reported to Concubine Xian. When Concubine Xian heard that her niece said she was reluctant to part with Xia Yi and wanted to live with Zhang Jieyu, she was very angry. She couldn't drive Xia Xu out, so she could only let Xia Xu go Jin He went to intercede with Zhang Jieyu in person.

Zhang Jieyu reluctantly agreed after a long time of soft and hard soaking.

Concubine Kang is easy to deal with, and Concubine Kang is quite loose with Daiyu, as long as she always informs her whereabouts to the nuns who serve her in the palace.In addition, she does have very important things to do tonight, and the little girl has never seen much of the world, so if she is frightened and the loss outweighs the gain, it is better to go to sleep elsewhere.

And the fifth princess, who was about to fall asleep, heard that her two best friends were coming to accompany her soon, she was so excited that her drowsiness disappeared immediately.