Against the Dream of Red Mansions: The Phoenix Comes to the World Lin Daiyu

Let's say that Mrs. Wang sent Jia Rong to take Xu Jin into the Grand View Garden that day, and went straight to Yihong Courtyard to see Jia Baoyu.

Although the flowers and plants along the road between Xu Jin are flourishing, there is a faint air of decline, which is really uncomfortable. ——Although the garden is large, everything seems to be well-organized, but there are no servants coming and going, even birds and fish and other living things rarely appear, and the whole yard is not very lively.Walking to Yihong Courtyard, I saw a little girl sitting listlessly on the steps. Seeing someone, she hurriedly stood up and opened the curtain. The room was silent. Jia Baoyu was lying in the red gauze tent. Jia Rong ordered the little girl to move He got a low couch and asked Xu Jin to sit by the bed, and invited Jia Baoyu's slender and pale wrist out for Xu Jin to take a pulse.If Xu Jin hadn't known early in the morning that Jia Baoyu was in the tent, he would have thought it was a girl just by looking so thin and pale.

During the consultation, Jia Baoyu suddenly heard coughing in the tent, the big maid who was hiding behind the screen finally didn't care much, she hurried out from behind the screen, raised the curtain and patted it gently for Jia Baoyu.Xu Jinfang could see clearly that the big girl had a long face and apricot eyes. Although she was not very beautiful, she looked quite pleasing to the eye.She wears a sea-blue gown on top and a scallion-yellow skirt on the bottom. A few small palace-made gauze flowers are sporadically decorated on the temples, which is not a new pattern, and a white jade hairpin is tied into the bun. ——Looking at this attire, she must be Jia Baoyu's confiscating maid, Sheyue.

Xu Jin had heard a long time ago that there were several pretty maids in Jia Baoyu's room. After Mrs. Shi passed away, they were all kicked out by Mrs. Wang, tortured to death, and now only Sheyue is left. Such a peaceful stay in the room to serve.

Xu Jin was thinking about it when he suddenly saw Jia Baoyu holding Sheyue's arm firmly, and said hoarsely: "Madam...Madam, please let me go back. I must not stay here anymore. Sister Lin is gone. Sister Bao is gone too, all the sisters are gone, what's the point of leaving me alone?..." Just as I was shouting, I suddenly raised the curtain again, looked straight out of the door, struggled to get up and stretched out my hand and shouted "Sister Jin Chuan, I jumped into the well with you! It's all my fault, you should take me with you!... Qingwen! Qingwen! Get out of this nunnery soon, ma'am She can't stand your..."

Jia Rong saw that what he said was getting worse, she quickly winked at She Yue, and asked her to push Jia Baoyu into the gauze tent, and wanted to take Xu Jin out.Before Xu Jin got up, Jia Baoyu shouted again from the tent: "Fire! Fire! Fire!...Zicuckoo, run away..." He kowtowed and cried again: "Sister Bao, don't you want to do something like this! Give the idea to my wife... If Sister Lin knows that the Jia family and the Xue family burned the old servants of the Lin family to death and seized the property of the Lin family, she will not marry me until she dies!..."

When Xu Jin heard this, he became more certain about the speculation at this time, and what is missing now is only the witness and material evidence.The physical evidence is not difficult to obtain. The Lin family had many gifts from the emperor before. Presumably Lin Ruhai would not be willing to sell them no matter what. It must be among the properties seized by the Jia family and the Xue family. Now we only need witnesses... He and the Xue family are all snobs, watching people order dishes, and now there is Tianwei, so it should not be difficult to find a few slaves who participated in the arson at random, and confess who was instigated by them. What's more, there is still Qingxue in Mrs. Wang's room, maybe what kind of evidence can be presented. Thinking of this, more than half of the burden on my heart was relieved, and I still pretended to be calm, sighed and said to Jia Rong: "Second Master Bao, what is the matter?" I am afraid that the illness has been delayed for too long, the disease has already entered the heart, and I am afraid that it will be difficult to cure it for a while, forgive me for being incompetent. At this time, I can go back to the mountain and ask the master of the poor way for a cure."

When Jia Rong heard this, she sighed, "Then Daoist Lao will come again. If Uncle Bao's illness is cured well, half of Jia's mansion will be given to the Taoist. The master and wife may be willing to part with it."

Speaking of which, Jia Rong ordered someone to take ten taels of silver to Xu Jin, and sent him out.

In the evening, after returning to the small house temporarily rented in the alley, she met Qingxue, who said to Xu Jin: She originally hoped to enter Mrs. Wang's inner house, and it would be best if she could sing to Mrs. Wang, and slowly talk to Mrs. Wang. After getting acquainted, come up with something.I didn't want Mrs. Wang to be unwell all day, so Qingxue could only stay in the maid's room and hang out with the maids and daughters-in-law all day.

Qingxue was eloquent at first, but after a few words, the maids and women became familiar with her. After several conversations, Qingxue knew that this Jia's mansion was no longer as barely supportive as it appeared from the outside.Now Lian's second grandmother is no longer in charge, nor has she moved back to Jia Amnesty's yard, but has moved to Zhuangzi with Jia Lian. What Grandma Liu's Zhuangzi.The servants commented that it was rare for Sister Feng to see things so clearly, and Jia Lian didn't have any official positions, and the money they had saved over the years was enough for their family to live comfortably in the village.It's just that Sister Feng has been wild for half her life, and she has offended many people and done many crimes in the past few years as the housekeeper. I just hope that no one will seek revenge.

With Sister Feng leaving like this, there is no one else who can do the housekeeping work, only Mrs. Wang can do it herself. Apart from Jia Baoyu's high school, the Jia family has not had a happy event in the past few years, so Mrs. Wang's body unexpectedly The days are getting worse, and the housework is just supporting. Most of the maids and women are openly flattering, but secretly they are not convinced. They each have their own little calculations.

At dusk, all the daughters-in-law went to wait for the meal, and there were a few elderly women left in the servant's room. Qingxue saw that it was empty, so she took out good wine and invited the women to drink. Drink a few glasses of wine The women were a little bit drunk, so Qingxue deliberately directed the conversation to Lin Daiyu.

The women themselves are not of high status in the Jia Mansion, and they are even less valued when they are older. They complained all the time, and seeing the Jia Mansion declining day by day, they have nothing to fear. "Naturally, Miss Lin is a wonderful person that is hard to find in heaven and earth. It's just that her parents died early, and no one can back her up..."

A woman smiled and spit out: "So what if we don't have parents? With the wealth Miss Lin has, how can anyone dare to underestimate her? It's only when we meet a black-hearted family like us that we suffer so much grievances. But it’s all right now, and being a queen can be regarded as making up for the sins I have suffered.”

"If you ask me, it's impossible for Ms. Lin to let go of what she has suffered. How could she tolerate the family property left by her parents falling into the hands of the Jia family and the Xue family? Sooner or later, she will get it back. If Mrs. and Mrs. Xue are sensible Yes, just send them back to the palace as soon as possible and return them to Miss Lin."

Another woman said with her inarticulate tongue: "You are so confused, you think it's all right to send back the property? Madam and Aunt Xue, and what Miss Xue did back then, can the return of the property be wiped off?" ?” He sighed and said, “When I passed that courtyard tonight, I still remembered the tragic images of a dozen old servants of the Lin family who were burnt to death. The oil was poured, but no one dared to light the fire. After all, Miss Xue was hard-hearted. She lit the fire and left without looking back... The people inside were crying and howling, and the fire burned all night..."

The women were silent for a while, and then someone said: "It's not like they were all burned to death. It is said that Li Wan escaped alive and cut firewood for a living on the mountain in the south of the city. The others who were burned by the fire were neither human nor ghost." , so no one dared to buy the firewood he chopped, and he entrusted the old woodcutter in the mountains to sell it."

Several people recited: "Amitabha, God has the eyes to keep one alive."

After listening to Qingxue's narration, Xu Jin felt that everything was clear, as long as he found Li Wan who was hiding in the forest, everything would be revealed, so naturally there was no need to investigate further.So they went back home with Qingxue overnight.

On the second day, he personally went to look for Li Wan on the mountain in the south of the city, and within three days, he found Li Wan who lived in seclusion in the mountains and brought him into the palace.