Dai Yuxin says

She couldn't help laughing in her heart, and felt a lot lighter all over her body.The belly said: Lin Daiyu is an orphan after all, she lacks formal training, and she is not afraid. I really overestimated her before.Thinking of this, the original heart was relieved.

This queen dowager is a person who has experience in seducing people, and her methods are very pungent. She is a woman who will use any means to achieve her goals.

At this time, she suddenly thought very proudly: Tianxin is old, if she can get a hold of Shui Rong early, she can give birth to a man and a half woman early, who might be the assistant princess!How dare she, a helpless orphan, compete with Tian Xin?

The Empress Dowager couldn't bear the pride in her heart, she laughed unscrupulously and said: "I have some good snacks here, and my homemade rose tea, how about the taste?"

Tian Xin said softly and coquettishly: "Queen Mother, who doesn't know that the things here are the best, but you just don't show them to others easily."

The Empress Dowager waved her hands to signal the maid to bring the snacks, and said with a smile: "Don't talk about eating when others come, they won't see you. Rong'er is here, so that's a different story."

The palace lady held a red lacquered tray, on which was placed a large silk-wrapped red agate bowl, filled with small snacks.

Tian Xin volunteered to take the red lacquer tray, walked up to Shui Rong, and offered it with a smile on her face.

Shui Rong, who didn't understand the style at all, waved his big hand and muttered: "I don't like these the most."

Tian Xin never imagined that Shui Rong would be so unkind, and for a moment she froze in front of Shui Rong, her smile froze on her face, her behavior was at a loss and she was very embarrassed.

"Tian'er, your elder brother Rong is a big man, how can he eat snacks like your little daughter?" The queen mother smiled and helped her out.

Seeing Tianxin's pretty face was ruddy, as bright as a peach blossom, I was very satisfied.

Looking at Daiyu in a blink of an eye, she saw her expression was calm, and she didn't care about Tianxin's little attention at all.

Turning to look at Shui Rong again, he saw that he was looking at Daiyu nervously, his eyes were full of appreciation, praise and tenderness.

Tian Xin handed the tray to the maid in an unhappy manner, turned around and returned to her seat, and sat down silently.

To be honest, she has never been treated so coldly since she was a teenager, especially from the opposite sex. Her self-esteem has suffered the biggest blow in her life.

She looked at Daiyu with resentment, wishing that she would be dissatisfied if she was cut into pieces.

A court lady came to serve tea with a tea tray, walked up to Daiyu, and another court lady handed over a white magnolia teacup with both hands.

Daiyu took the teacup and suddenly saw the cat's eye ring on her thumb, the light yellow cat's eyes turned into light red.

She was taken aback, thinking of Ah Shan's instruction: If the cat's eye on the ring changes color, it means that the things around or the air are poisonous.The darker and thicker the cat's eye color, the stronger the poison.

Seeing that Shui Rong had picked up the tea bowl, Daiyu was afraid that his tea might be poisoned, so she pretended not to be careful, and with a "bang", the tea bowl fell to the ground, the tea spilled all over the floor, and the tea bowl broke.

Daiyu pretended to be terrified, stood up quickly, smiled at the queen mother, and said apologetically: "The queen mother rewarded me, I, I was too excited, and I didn't hold it steady. It was broken. Please calm down the queen mother."

Shui Rong immediately put down the tea bowl and ran over, looked at Daiyu with concern in her bright starry eyes, grabbed her little hand and held it in front of his eyes, squinted her eyes carefully, and asked distressedly: "Yu'er, is it hot? Are you not scared?" with you?"

Xiugu immediately took out the handkerchief, squatted down, avoided the eyes of the Queen Mother and others, wiped the tea at Daiyu's feet, then wrapped a piece of debris with the wet handkerchief, and put it into the sleeve when no one was prepared.

Seeing that Shui Rong was so nervous, Daiyu held her hand tightly.Embarrassed, he withdrew his hand and ignored Shui Rong's question, but looked at the Queen Mother and said in fear, "I didn't hold the tea that the Queen Mother gave you, and the tea bowl was broken, what should I do? "

"Hi! Isn't it just a tea bowl? As long as Yu'er is fine." Shui Rong glanced at the queen mother, and said indifferently: "The queen mother is kind, Yu'er and I took it, and we have to go to the father's place, so we will leave now. " After finishing speaking, regardless of the Queen Mother, she took Daiyu and was about to leave.

"Yo, if you break it, it's broken. What's a teacup? Didn't Miss Lin iron it? Are your clothes and shoes wet?" The Queen Mother asked pleasantly, asking the maid to lead Daiyu in to change clothes.

Daiyu smiled calmly: "The clothes and shoes are not wet, it's just a pity for such a beautiful teacup from the Queen Mother."

Shui Rong urged: "Yu'er, Emperor Father may still be waiting for us there, let's go."

"Hey, why am I here, and the assistant king is leaving? Our mother and son rarely see each other, and we are even less close. Since we are here today, we might as well stay and let us girls talk." Shui Rong raised his head and saw the queen with A beautiful girl came in.

The queen wobbled and supported the maid, and brought the girl behind her to the queen mother to salute, pulled the girl over and smiled, "This is my niece Fang Fei, who has met the queen mother."

Fang Fei hurriedly knelt down to salute, the queen mother smiled and said: "Good boy, get up quickly, we are all from our own family, so where do we need such vain gifts?"

After finishing speaking, he beckoned Fang Fei to come closer, took her hand, and stroked: "What a beautiful girl, she is indeed born as a prince and noble daughter, look at her overall demeanor, she is not a petty official who has never seen the world. Girls from eunuchs can compare."

As he said that, he pulled Tian Xin who was beside him again, and smiled meaningfully: "Tian'er, look, isn't this Miss Fang Fei very much like a sister to you?"

The queen glanced at Daiyu, smiled and said: "The queen mother said so, I think they really look like sisters."

Everyone knows the intentions of this blatant performance by the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law. How can Daiyu not understand ""

Daiyu was very disgusted in her heart, and tried her best to restrain her disgust, but just watched calmly and watched how Shui Rong would speak.

Simple and honest, Daiyu is the holy goddess in his heart, and he is willing to defend everything about Daiyu with blood and life.

When he saw the empress dowager's speech and behavior, it seemed that she was targeting Daiyu everywhere.Even thinking about Daiyu breaking a teacup just now, he was even more convinced that the Queen Mother was insinuating to belittle Daiyu.

He couldn't help being angry from his heart, frowned, and said to Daiyu in a vicious voice: "It's so filthy!"

Then he turned his head and glared at them, pulling Daiyu to leave.

The queen had long been on guard against him leaving, she giggled coquettishly and blocked Shui Rong's way, and said with a smile: "Brother Rong, it's not that the queen mother is talking about you, even after you get married, you can't be so disrespectful, holding hands in front of your elders." , what will it look like, do you still want the face of the royal family?"

Shui Rong rolled his handsome eyes, and said angrily coldly, "Your gentleman is magnanimous, we walk upright, stand up straight, and walk upright. Except for villains who don't like it, who would say such nonsense?"

With a clear distinction between likes and hates, and a straightforward personality, Shui Rong doesn't care about court etiquette at all. He only has one thought in his mind: whoever provokes Daiyu is my enemy.

When dealing with enemies, one cannot have the slightest courtesy and humility.

So, Shui Rong stretched out his hand to push the queen away, and shouted angrily, "Go away!"

The queen never expected that Shui Rong would ignore her so much, she stared at Shui Rong, her face was pale, her body trembled with anger, her lips were chattering, and she couldn't speak.

The queen mother realized that what she said just now was too explicit, and angered Shui Rong, she hurriedly walked off the throne with a smile, brought Tian Xin over to persuade her: "Rong'er, the queen is your mother after all, listen to my advice, and sit down and drink a bowl." Tea, put out the fire. Aijia heard that the flowers in the imperial garden are blooming very well, and the sun will go down after a while, why don't we go enjoy the flowers together."

As she said that, she took Daiyu's other hand and pulled her hard into the room.

Xiugu secretly winked at Shui Rong, Shui Rong looked at Daiyu, saw that Daiyu was not angry, with a mischievous smile on her face, so she let go, followed Daiyu into the room again, with a sullen face , sitting next to Daiyu.

Young Daiyu's life in Jia's mansion was not in vain.

Although Daiyu's personality is very noble and she disdains to associate with those people, it doesn't mean she doesn't understand their tricks at all.

She knew that sooner or later she would have to face these women, and avoiding them was not a good way.

In addition, she thought about the poisonous tea shown on her ring, and Xiugu's tragic experience. In her subconscious mind, she felt that the two women in front of her were absolutely unclean.

If you don't enter the tiger's den, you can't be a tiger.

Daiyu decided to stay and see how the woman in front of her continued to perform.

Today, in front of her are the two most honorable women in the world.

Seeing these people's shameless performances, Daiyu felt very sad for Emperor Shuijing.

She couldn't understand the queen mother for a while, why is the queen so unbearable?Why did the former emperor and the current emperor want such a woman to be a queen?

This may be the thread of the marriage in the previous life. The fate of many husbands and wives cannot be explained clearly.

Some men and women have very different identities, statuses and appearances, which may seem unbelievable or even unsuitable in the eyes of others, but he and her have actually become husband and wife.

In this era, most of the women who can enter the palace have unusual backgrounds and experiences. Almost without exception, they all shoulder the important task of family prosperity and decline.Even a small court lady is no exception.

It is said that if a person lives on a deserted island for a long time without contact with the world, he will eventually become dumb, and even his personality will become no different from that of a wild beast.

It is said that as long as the purest woman enters the palace, her character will become vulgar, hypocritical and cunning except for her beautiful appearance.The heart will also become selfish, fierce, and cruel.

Daiyu looked at the woman in front of her, thinking of the cat's-eye gem that changed color on her thumb, she understood: she doesn't harm others, but others will harm herself.

Daiyu, who has gone through a catastrophe of life and death, can think clearly about everything that happened before her eyes.

It's just that the heart is still not hard enough, and the means are not severe enough.

Yes, if the beautiful Daiyu had the same heart and means as these poisonous-hearted women, then she would not be the kind and pure Lin Daiyu.

Everything in the world has a cycle of karma, and there is always retribution.

Although Daiyu has no intention of harming others, and her original intention is to be kind to others, but these people are still so unscrupulous, it is really unreasonable.

The queen sat on the head of the empress dowager, fixed her eyes on Daiyu's peerless face, thinking about this peerless face, let alone a young man, even a woman of her own age couldn't help but want to take a second look.

She thought: a beauty is a disaster, this Lin Daiyu is a disaster, as long as she exists, her niece will never be able to capture the heart of Shui Rong, the power of herself and her family will be greatly reduced, and it will be difficult for her direct son's status to be promoted and consolidated.

The queen was lucky enough to give birth to Shui Jing's first son by a court lady, and then climbed up step by step by relying on her own scheming and means. She is well versed in power tactics.

Today, she deliberately planned to bring Daiyu into the palace, originally she wanted to give this little orphan girl a bad start, let her first experience how powerful she is, and then leave her in the palace to slowly torture and tame her.

Thousands of calculations have been made, but the emperor who seldom stepped into the Kunning Palace would arrive in such a timely manner to witness the cold reception Lin Daiyu received.

The impression left on the emperor this time may be difficult to unravel in a lifetime.

She planned: Shui Rong just came back from the deep mountains and old forests, so he is not familiar with the world, let alone the game of palace cold war.

Judging from Shui Rong's behavior just now, although his rude words and deeds make people irritated, it also reflects his innocence and childishness.

The queen thought that as long as she resorted to means, she might not be able to conquer this brat.

The palace maid served tea, and Shui Rong imitated Daiyu, took it and put it on the tea table, smiling with her eyes around Daiyu.

The queen didn't care about drinking tea, and regained her self-confidence. With a smile on her face, she changed her tone and said, "Rong'er, Miss Lin is beautiful and lovely. I like her from the bottom of my heart when I see her. You are the auxiliary prince, and you have a high status. In the future, Miss Lin will be in charge of the auxiliary administration of the royal palace. I will be her mother-in-law in the future. I want to keep her and teach her the skills of managing the royal palace, so as not to be unable to take on important tasks when the time comes, and lose the face of the royal family and you. The face of the co-prince. I'm doing this for the good of Miss Lin, Miss Lin, don't you think so?"

Shui Rong felt that the Queen's words were harsh, thinking of her accepting Daiyu into the palace, and then ignoring Daiyu, he said: You are a weasel giving a chicken New Year's greetings - you have no good intentions.

Without waiting for Daiyu to speak, he refused coldly: "This king thinks that Yu'er is very good at housekeeping, and I don't need anyone to teach Yu'er."

The queen didn't expect Shui Rong to refuse so bluntly, not even turning a corner, choking her to stare at Shui Rong.

Although the queen mother was very happy when she saw it, she and the queen are allies in the united front because of the needs of interests.

Busyly came out to play haha ​​and smoothed things over and said: "Miss Lin is very smart and reasonable. I know that as long as a man has a few acres of Susukida in his family, he will marry a concubine and put it in the house. The number of concubines is a symbol of a man's status, and it is also The face of a man going out. We are the royal family, and royal rules and dignity are indispensable. The emperor now has more than a dozen sons, and the second prince is the prince. There are three wives living in his prince's mansion, and several attendants. Needless to say, there are too many concubines and housekeepers, Gege. In addition, there are six princes who grew up and set up a family outside, and they are all wives and concubines. Rong'er is the first prince, and the iron hat assistant prince. For big things, your mother and Ai's family must never treat you badly."

Shui Rong listened to the empress dowager's long-winded, incomprehensible, grumbled a lot, and stared at the empress dowager with disdain.

Daiyu sat there as if she was out of the way, looking at the two biggest ladies today with a smile and a probing look.

Xiu Gu lowered her head slightly, trying to observe the words and deeds of these women.

She was convinced that the empress dowager and the empress were colluding with each other, colluding with each other, and trying to harm Daiyu.I thought to myself: Maybe, the death of the Empress Dowager and his own murder were inextricably related to these two people.It's just that what happened back then has become a cloud. Before the late emperor passed away, he not only asked the emperor to respect her and not let her be wronged, but also specially left a will to the ministers in order to protect her. There must be some tricks in it.

Water dissolves in the Summer Palace, like sitting on pins and needles.

He got up again, smiled at Daiyu, and whispered: "Yu'er, let's go for a walk, the air here is so dirty."

Daiyu sat for a while, feeling really bored, looked at him and nodded slightly to express her agreement.

Shui Rong stood up with a happy smile and said, "Let's go, take your leave."

The Empress Dowager was very annoyed, seeing that all her original plans had come to nothing, she smiled resolutely and said, "You young people don't like sitting in the house, why don't you all enjoy the flowers together."

Of course, the queen raised her hands in approval. The queen mother walked quickly like the wind, walked up to the water-soluble Daiyu, deliberately blocked the water-soluble Daiyu, turned her face and said: "Mother Xia, let's go to the imperial garden to enjoy the flowers. You bring people and prepare more tea." Cakes, wine and dishes will be served."

As soon as she walked out of the Summer Palace, Bao Zhu came over with a smile, and said: "The Emperor has an order that the Assistant Prince and Miss Lin should go there now. Assistant Prince, Miss Lin, please."

Walking out of the gate of the Summer Palace, Baozhu stopped and asked, "Where do you want to go?"

Shui Rong asked back: "Didn't the father want us to go there?"

Baozhu laughed and said: "The emperor is worried, afraid that you will feel uncomfortable, he wants me to come and have a look, I see that the assistant prince can't sit still, Miss Lin is also absent-minded, impatient to hear, so I tell the emperor's meaning Come out. The emperor is reviewing the memorial, and he will discuss matters with the ministers later, why don't I take you to a place to play for a while, and then go back when you have dinner, how about it?"

Apart from the tall red walls and yellow glazed tiles, where is there any fun in the palace?

Baozhu brought Shui Rong Daiyu and others to the lakeside of the Imperial Garden, pointed at the lotus flowers all over the lake and said with a smile: "Now that the lotus pods are ripe, how about we row a boat to pick them?"

Snow Goose looked at the lotus in the clear waves and the green lotus pods, and said happily: "This idea is good, but where did you get the boat from?"

Baozhu ran to the small bridge with a smile, waved her hands and said, "There is a boat."

It turned out that there was a very clean boat under the small bridge, and there were coffee tables and embroidered piers on the boat.

Looking at the rickety boat, Daiyu was a little timid, hesitating, Shui Rong picked up her slender waist, hugged her and jumped to the bow.Daiyu's heart sank, Shui Rong had placed her beside the embroidered pier in the cabin, grinning and comforting: "Don't be afraid, I'm here."

"How can you be like this?" Daiyu blushed, lowered her head, and complained tenderly.

With Baozhu's support, Aunt Xueyan Xiu also boarded the boat.

The sky is high and far away, in the tile-blue sky, white clouds are flying, scattered into strands, if there is nothing, they gather and disperse.

The lotus leaves in the lake are swaying, the breeze is blowing, and the fragrance is permeating, which makes people feel refreshed.

The boat is passing through the lotus bushes, and the eyes are full of green.

The pink and white lotus flowers are dotted among them, so beautiful that Daiyu is reluctant to pick them.

Shui Rong twisted off a few plump showerheads and threw them to Xueyan, and said with a smile: "This is the freshest, quickly peel it off for the young lady to try."

Daiyu saw Xiugu sitting on the bow with tears in her eyes, stroking the lotus leaves silently, feeling thoughtful, knowing that she was reminiscing about the past, and couldn't bear not to disturb her.

Xueyan sat behind Xiugu, lowered her head and was busy peeling the lotus seeds for Daiyu, then touched Xiugu with her body, and asked with a smile: "Aunt Xiu, have you come here to play before?"

After not seeing Xiugu speak for a while, Xueyan touched her again and asked, "The lotus here is so beautiful!"

Daiyu glanced at the snow geese, took the lotus seed in her hand, ate one, and said with a smile: "It's sweet and tender, crisp and raw, really delicious."

Xiugu raised her bewildered eyes, looked at Daiyu and said, "More than ten years ago, every summer morning, the Empress Dowager would always bring her servants here to collect the dewdrops on the lotus leaves and bring them back to make tea." As she spoke, she shed tears.

Daiyu knew that if the Empress Dowager hadn't passed away early, Xiugu's fate would have been different, at least she would have been a concubine of Shuijing.

The death of the Empress Dowager directly rewrote Xiugu's fate, and the past has become a memory, which is unbearable to look back on.

"Miss, let's pick some more, and go back to the imperial dining room, let them make lotus lotus pod soup, the emperor will definitely like it." Xiu Gu's voice was very soft, as if it was floating down from the clouds.

Xueyan clapped her hands happily and said with a smile: "When we were in Gusu, we also liked to make lotus lotus pod soup this season." After that, he thought for a while and said: "What we do is definitely not as good as the chef in the imperial kitchen. tasty."

Dinner is still in the Hall of Mental Cultivation, and it is still the three of Water-Soluble Daiyu and Shuijing who eat.

When a lotus leaf soup plate inlaid with gold and red agate was served, surrounded by pink lotus flowers, and a pure white jade lotus soup was placed in the middle, Shui Jing's eyes were straightened.

He quietly looked at the lotus lotus pod soup for a while, and murmured: "It's been a long time since anyone thought of making this, and I haven't eaten this for a long time. Yu'er, Rong'er, come and try it, it's very refreshing."

The little eunuch who was in charge of eating picked up a long-handled silver spoon, scooped up a spoonful and placed it in front of the water mirror.

Shui Jing took a sip, tasted it slowly, and said meaningfully: "It's been too long, and it can no longer be compared with the taste of the past."

As he spoke, he took another sip, turned to Daiyu and said, "Yu'er, what do you think of this taste?"

Daiyu replied with a smile: "Very good, I like it very much."

Shui Jing said to Xiugu who was standing behind Daiyu: "Yu'er likes it, so you can make more jade to eat in the future. There was a very famous person named Li Shizhen in the Ming Dynasty. He wrote a book called "Compendium of Materia Medica" , I admire this lotus lotus pod very much. It is a good health-care medicinal diet. Yu'er eats more, it will be beneficial."

Xiu Gu hurriedly concealed her anxiety, and lowered her head, she replied, "Yes, I have made a note of it."

Shui Jing seemed to be in a good mood, and said with a smile: "My mother was right at the beginning, Xiu Gu, you have gone through many hardships and finally came to Yu'er's side. From this point of view, you are still blessed after all."