Dream of the Red Chamber: Rong Dai

The autumn is cool, and the sun sways gently with the shadows of the trees. The swaying branches divide the sun into fine fragments.

Daiyu raised her head and closed her eyes, letting the cool wind blow over her beautiful face, she lowered her eyes and looked at Jiamu who was kneeling on the ground after a long while.

There were too many traces of time engraved on the old wrinkled cheeks, Jia Mu lowered her eyes and did not dare to look up, as if deliberately avoiding Daiyu's gaze.

The chaotic sound of horseshoes came from a distance, and not long after, several fast horses galloped towards her. The sound of horseshoes was still a few feet away, and Daiyu felt a gust of wind blowing by, and she fell into the familiar warm embrace.

Daiyu, who was shy in front of people, didn't have the slightest resistance at this time, she fell in Shui Rong's arms, resisting the panic and anger for a long time, at this time, tears turned into drops and fell into Shui Rong's arms.

Seeing that Daiyu hadn't suffered the slightest injury, Shui Rong's anxious eyes just fell silent, and he quietly patted Daiyu in his arms and comforted her softly.

His sharp eyes swept towards Sang Qingyan, then looked at Jia's mother who was kneeling on the ground, and said indifferently: "Long time no see, old lady Jia."

Hearing Shui Rong's voice, Jia's mother seemed to flinch, but she regained her composure in an instant. In the silence, only the pale hair in the topknot moved with the wind.

Shui Rong raised his eyes and looked at the Empress Dowager and Shui Han who couldn't hide their anger, and said indifferently: "Please return to the big tent for the time being, the Empress Dowager and the Emperor, and leave it to the humble ministers to deal with."

Shui Han took a deep look at Shui Rong, which contained the storm in his eyes, then looked at the Empress Dowager and Concubine Bei Jing again, and said with a gentle smile, "Grandmother and Concubine Dowager, let's go back to the big tent to rest together." The Empress Dowager sighed and nodded With the support of Concubine Bei Jing and Shui Han, he walked to the big tent.

There was a faint smile on the corner of Sang Qingyan's lips, and she watched the noble concubine standing beside her with her embroidered handkerchief tightly twisted, then she turned to look at the maidservant and said, "Let's go back too, I'll leave this place to the prince and his wife of Beijing Jing." Deal with it."

Shui Rong raised his eyes and glanced at Sang Qingyan's pale face, the coldness on the corners of his lips became more and more serious, he glanced at Concubine Xian at the side and said indifferently: "Please trouble the Empress and Concubine Xian to avoid it first."

Sang Qingyan didn't say a word, just nodded with a smile, then looked at Concubine Xian at the side and said indifferently: "I have seen enough of Concubine Xian's play, let's go back." After saying that, she supported the hand of the maid beside her Walking in the direction of the big tent, Concubine Xian bit her lips and followed Sang Qingyan's footsteps and walked away.

Daiyu straightened up from Shui Rong's arms, watched Sang Qingyan and Concubine Xian's leaving footsteps, paused for a moment with her gaze passing over them, and looked at Jia Mu who was kneeling on the ground in disbelief.

The guards on all sides had already receded, the tiger's body was dragged down, and the smell of blood had already dispersed.

Mother Jia knelt on the ground, her body trembling with the autumn wind became thinner and thinner. Daiyu leaned over to help Mother Jia get up, and said, "Grandmother, get up."

Jiamu raised her head suddenly, looked at Daiyu in disbelief, tears rolled down her cloudy eyes, and murmured: "I will hear you call grandma again in my lifetime, this one is enough for me."

Daiyu felt a little sour in her heart, even if there was anything wrong with Mother Jia, seeing her old age, she still couldn't restrain the feeling of desolation in her heart, so she asked: "The Jia family has fallen to such a point, why is it so difficult?" Why does my grandmother still do such a thing? Isn't this to put Jia's family in a state of doom? This is not my grandmother's usual practice."

Daiyu's sharp words made Jia's mother almost unable to stand upright, she looked at the ground with lowered eyes, and said: "People will always change, not to mention that the decline of Jia's family is partly because of yours. The reason is not?"

"This is not my grandmother's reason. The members of the Jia family have already been defeated here, not to mention the crimes that are enough to warrant capital punishment."

Mother Jia lowered her head in frustration, tears welled up in her eyes.How could she not know that the Jia family's century-old foundation was destroyed in her hands, and even though she was released now, the Jia family had no motivation to recover. She also understands the principle of "a centipede is dead but not stiff". If the Jia family hadn't fallen, they wouldn't have fallen to this point.

Looking up at Daiyu's watery eyes, she pursed her lips as if she wanted to tell everything, but suddenly remembered the figures when they left just now, her body shuddered, and she said coldly: "It's all caused by you, my Jia family is ruined, I The hatred with you is naturally irreconcilable, so releasing a fierce tiger like this is nothing more than a trivial matter."

Daiyu looked deeply at Jia Mu and said, "Then how did you know that there would be a tiger? And how did you know that the tiger must be left in the deep forest? And how could you be sure that we would definitely come to this place?" ?”

After listening to Daiyu's question, Jia's mother was at a loss for words. She hesitated for a long time, and finally said, "This is naturally arranged by God, so that I can avenge the hatred in my heart."

Shui Rong held Daiyu by his side, smiled lightly and said, "Where's Jia Baoyu, the old lady's precious grandson?"

Suddenly, Jiamu's body trembled, she raised her eyes to stare at Shui Rong, took a deep breath, and said, "My precious grandson is naturally by my side, so who else would it be?"

After all, what he said was not enough in the middle stage. His sharp eyes scanned Jia Mu's pale face, and he said with a faint smile, "I remember seeing the so-called psychic jade on someone just now."

Jiamu's pale face was trembling, and she forced herself to say, "So what?"

Shui Rong clapped his hands and said, "You want to say that it's not uncommon for the psychic gem to be lost during the bumpy house raid." He walked to Jiamu's side with his hands behind his back, and said with a faint smile, "But I forgot to tell the old lady about it. This king also knows that the psychic jade is Baoyu's lifeblood, so he was imprisoned until he was released, and the psychic jade was always under my orders, and no one ever deliberately took it away."

Daiyu looked at Jia Mu's panic-stricken face without blinking her eyes, and said softly, "Cousin Baoyu, has someone arrested him to use her as a bargaining chip for my grandmother?"

"No." Mother Jia hurriedly interrupted what Daiyu hadn't said, and her eagerness to try to clear it up made Daiyu's heart clear like a mirror.

As if she felt that her answer was too eager, Mother Jia calmed down and said again: "Baoyu is already a descendant of a ruined family, how could someone come to attack a useless person? Princess Beijing thought There are too many."

Shui Rong waved her hand and asked the nanny who was standing far away to drag Jiamu down. Jiamu took a look at Daiyu, tears rolled down her eyes, and murmured softly, "Yu'er, grandma is sorry for you." So he turned around resolutely without even looking at Daiyu.

Daiyu stared blankly at Jia Mu's staggering footsteps, and tears welled up in her eyes.Once upon a time, Mother Jia also cared and cared for her grandmother, and they became strangers after all.

Shui Rong held Daiyu tightly in his arms, stroking her slender shoulders, and comforted her in a low voice: "Dai'er won't cry."

Daiyu sighed deeply, nodded silently, Shui Rong took Daiyu's little hand and walked to the side bushes, only to see that the tiger cage was still abandoned in the grass there.

When Shui Rong leaned down to take a closer look, he saw that the cage didn't have a key, and it seemed that someone deliberately opened it. No wonder the tiger got out of the cage without any hindrance.

The panic in Daiyu's heart had long subsided, but she saw a sprig of emerald pearl hairpin shining in the grass in front of her. Daiyu leaned over and put it on the embroidered handkerchief. hairpin.

Shui Rong's deep eyes looked at the open cage and Daiyu who was standing far away with her hairpin in her hands. She already had some concerns in her heart, so she sneered, stepped forward to gently hold Daiyu in her arms, and whispered Said: "Dai'er, don't think too much, let's go to the Empress Dowager to deal with it."

Daiyu glanced back at Shui Rong with tears in her eyes, suddenly remembered something, and said, "Can the four little eunuchs who carried the cage just now be found?"

A hint of sarcasm flashed across the corner of Shui Rong's lips, kissed Daiyu's cold cheek, and said, "I'm afraid it has already been dealt with."

Daiyu nodded silently, grabbed Shui Rong's big hand, and said, "Let's go find grandma."

In the big tent, the Empress Dowager and Shui Han had already sat firmly in the upper seats, and Sang Qingyan was also sitting beside Shui Han, but the noble concubine Xian seemed a little anxious, as if she couldn't sit still.

Seeing Shui Rong and Daiyu walking in, the noble concubine Xian became more and more frightened, and the brocade handkerchief in her hand fell to the ground quietly.

Before Shui Rong Daiyu could see the ceremony, the Empress Dowager ordered Shui Rong and Daiyu to sit down, and said: "Then old lady Jia confessed?"

Shui Rong held Daiyu's little hand, and said: "What can she confess? The things that can't escape her are the ones."

Sang Qingyan sighed, and said: "It's all the daughter-in-law's fault, this is the resting place in the harem, and even such a person has not been found out."

Shui Han looked at the noble concubine Xian and then at Sang Qingyan who was talking, and said, "You can't be distracted by the harem affairs when you are pregnant."

After hearing this, Concubine Xian quickly got up from her seat and knelt on the ground and said: "I beg the emperor to investigate clearly, whether it is the concubine's fault or not."

Shui Han raised her hand to make her stand up, and said: "Get up, the empress is pregnant, thanks to you for managing the harem." Daiyu looked at them coldly, sitting on the seat, twisting the embroidered handkerchief in her hand, indifferently .

The queen mother looked at it with a sigh, then turned to look at Daiyu and said, "Did you find anything?"

Wen Wen, with a watery smile, looked at the queen mother and said, "The cage is not locked, so it doesn't matter if there is that old lady Jia. How can an old woman use an unlocked cage?"

Then he stood up holding Daiyu's little hand and said: "The empress dowager forgives the sin, let Weichen go to see Dingping and Mr. Jiang together with the concubine and concubine."

The indifference on Shui Rong's face made the queen mother startled, so she ordered Mother De to say: "Mother De, you go with the three princes of Beijing to see Princess Dingping and Young Master Jiang. Dingping is the princess of our royal family. Mr. Jiang is also Han'er's cousin, so there must be no mistake between the two of them."

cousin?Sang Qingyan's downcast eyes fluctuated secretly, but in the blink of an eye, her heart widened, so she hurriedly got up and urged Daiyu, "Sister, let's go quickly."

Daiyu got up and thanked the Queen Mother and Shui Han, and went to the big tent where Shui Wanyu lived temporarily together with Princess Shui Rong Beijing.

Seeing the figures of Daiyu and the others disappearing outside the swaying curtain, the Queen Mother looked at Sang Qingyan and Concubine Xian coldly and said, "Don't say that the Ai family doesn't know what you have done. I can't get rid of the relationship, and I took your thoughts that shouldn't have been accepted as soon as possible."

Sang Qingyan and Concubine Xian hurriedly got up and bowed to listen, the downcast eyes made Shui Han even more unable to see their thoughts clearly, so she just glanced at them indifferently, and said: "It's been a busy day, too Go down. After returning to the palace today, you are not allowed to leave the palace gate without my order."

Sang Qingyan was not as panic-stricken as the virtuous concubine, she only responded lightly, and then walked towards the back of the big tent, holding the hand of the maid beside her.

Daiyu walked quickly into Shui Wanyu's big tent, and seeing Shui Wanyu's pale face, Daiyu's tears gurgled down her eyes, she stepped forward to caress her sleeping beauty, and said in a low voice, "Wanyu , I'm tired of you."

Concubine Bei Jing sat on the edge of the bed and looked at Shui Wanyu, unable to hide her distress. Seeing Daiyu's self-blaming face, she hurriedly took her hand and said, "Good boy, fortunately you are not hurt, otherwise the concubine mother I don't know how to deal with it in my heart. I can't blame you, if they didn't do it deliberately, how could such a bastard happen?" Daiyu shook her head, but saw Shui Rong came in from the outside, hurriedly to go forward.

Shui Rong raised his hand to wipe away the tears from the corners of her eyes, and said in a low voice, "Don't cry, Dai'er, Young Master Jiang is fine. How is Wan Yu?"

Daiyu was so choked with sobs that she didn't know how to answer, she just shook her head, and she heard Grand Concubine Bei Jing say, "Wan Yu is fine, just now the imperial doctor said that she just needs to rest for a while."

Shui Rong nodded, supported Daiyu to sit on a chair beside her, looked at Shui Mao brought in by the nanny, then hugged him in Daiyu's arms, and said: "Dai'er, look, Maoer misses you .”

Daiyu hugged Shui Mao and leaned against her bosom, the tears falling could not be restrained more and more, dripping down on his swaddling clothes, staining the bright red silk and satin with tear stains.

Seemingly infected with Daiyu's sadness, Shui Mao woke up from his sleep, frowning but never cried, but the waving little fist seemed to wipe Daiyu's tears, and he could not hold on after all. The weight of the little hand fell softly on the outside of the swaddle.

Shui Rong hugged their mother and son distressedly, took the handkerchief to wipe away the tears from Dai Yu's cheeks, and said softly: "Mao Er is going to comfort Dai Er, Dai Er don't cry."

Daiyu lay in Shui Rong's arms and rubbed her hands indiscriminately, muttering: "You always tell people not to cry, but you are sad, how can you still laugh?"

Shui Rong put Shui Mao in the hands of Concubine Beijing, hugged Daiyu and murmured in a low voice: "Watching you cry, don't you let the autumn wind blow your dry skin up, on the contrary? Don't care about it?" Daiyu just felt it was funny, and the corners of her curved lips finally let go of some sadness and sentimentality, and she raised her head to wipe away the tears.

Seeing that Daiyu was no longer crying, Shui Rong let out a breath immediately, gently closed Daiyu's slightly opened lapel, and said in a low voice: "You should also be careful not to let the wind blow." Daiyu just Leaning in Shui Rong's arms, absorbing the warmth and peace of mind in his arms, her heart gradually faded away as the curtain was raised, and she fell into a faint dreamland.

Daiyu wakes up from a deep sleep, but sees Shui Rong waiting by the bed anxiously, Daiyu shakes her head uncomfortably, and only then realizes that this is the Yilan Courtyard of the Beijing Prince's Mansion when she sees the familiar bed curtain.

Seeing Daiyu wake up, Shui Rong took Daiyu to his arms and said softly, "Is Dai'er feeling better?"

Daiyu felt that her throat was hoarse and difficult to answer, she pointed to her throat, Chunxian had already handed warm water over, with tears of joy hanging on her face, she choked up and said, "Princess has finally woken up."

Daiyu took a sip of water, calmed down, looked at Chunxian in surprise, and then at Shui Rong.Shui Rong said in a low voice: "You have been in a coma for three days and three nights. The imperial doctor said that you were overly frightened and had a high fever. Now that you wake up, you will be fine."

Daiyu looked at Shui Rong in surprise, three days and three nights?So she slept for three days unconsciously?Seeming to see Daiyu's doubts, Shui Rong nodded, tucked the corner of the quilt and hugged Daiyu tightly in his arms.

Daiyu was born weak, and he was very worried that her body would not be able to bear it after being frightened repeatedly.Now that Daiyu woke up safe and sound, how could he not make him feel grateful, even the resentment towards those people has been reduced a bit.

Daiyu watched Concubine Beijing walk in with Shuimao in her arms. Little Shuimao seemed to be saying something, and unconsciously waved her small hand towards Daiyu, as if she wanted to be hugged by Daiyu.

Daiyu took Xiao Shuimao, looked at Shui Wanyu who was following Princess Beijing, cleared her throat, and said, "Is Wanyu feeling better?"

Shui Wanyu's wrapped hands still had some blood oozing faintly, but her complexion had mostly recovered. Seeing Daiyu reclined on the bed, she said, "Don't worry, sister-in-law, I'm fine. The imperial doctor said that after a while, the hand The injury on the body will be healed." Daiyu nodded, and snuggled into Shui Rong's arms, feeling exhausted all over, leaned against Shui Rong's arms and fell into a deep sleep again.

As the cool wind picked up, Shui Rong searched for Daiyu with the cloak, put the cloak on her shoulders, and said in a low voice, "Why are you standing in the air here?"

Daiyu looked back at Shui Rong, and said, "Is something wrong with the Empress?"

The coldness on the corners of the water-melting lips became more and more intense, and he said lightly: "Because of carelessness, the empress slipped and fell in front of the big tent, and the baby was born early and has lost her breath."

Daiyu turned around quietly, there was a touch of pain hidden in her eyes, but she was silent for a long time.

When Sang Qingyan went back to the big tent, she was accompanied only by Concubine Xian. Who would have imagined that the pool of clear water in front of the big tent would make Sang Qingyan slip and fall to the ground, and her bulging belly touched the white jade striped basin placed aside, Immediately, the lower body was bleeding continuously.

Although the child was born, the time since birth was less than a stick of incense has already passed. Sang Qingyan caused a collapse of blood when she was heartbroken. If she hadn't used that jade snow ginseng to save her life in time, she might have left with the passing child at this time. went.

A puddle of clear water is enough to cause Shui Han to lose a prince. Concubine Xian Gui is the most suspect. Some people say that Concubine Xian Gui pushed the Empress Empress before she stumbled and fell.

Shui Han was furious and went on a thorough investigation, and she really had inextricable sympathy for that noble concubine, and even the tiger that hurt Princess Beijing and Princess Dingping was deliberately done by her, so she ordered the servants to strip off the noble concubine Xian. All titles were thrown into limbo.

The empress lost her son, and the noble concubine was thrown into the cold palace. At this time, the dignitaries in the palace became more and more frightened, and there was no one left.However, the family of the nobles in the capital has moved their minds and made full preparations for the spring draft, so that their daughter can become a noble in the palace in one fell swoop.