Dream of the Red Chamber: Rong Dai

Last night, the stars slanted westward again, the bright sun rose up, and the radiance fell on the earth.

Daiyu rubbed her eyes which could not be opened sleepily, then fell down on the bed again, hugging the thin quilt, but she didn't want to get up.

Zijuan walked into the house softly, the bead curtain moved slightly, and the curtain was lowered, knowing that the person on the bed hadn't got up yet, so she softly rolled up the bead curtain and curtain, seeing Daiyu's sleepy eyes opened, she smiled softly and said : "It's already this hour, girl, why don't you get up soon?"

Daiyu grunted and said, "Last night I fell asleep a little late, but I don't want to wake up today." As she spoke, she helped Zijuan's hands get off the bed while covering up the dazzling light.

After washing and grooming, Daiyu swept away her sleepy and sluggish face, refreshed and ordered Zijuan to burn incense, while she washed her hands and sat beside the piano case, taking a deep breath, slipping her bare hands, fluctuating Like the strings of a water harp, the elegant sound that touches the heart is like the sound of nature, surrounding the beams of the house, and the sound is endless.

"The ancients said: It will last three days around the beam, and it is about this situation, my sister is good at playing the piano." As soon as the sound of the piano fell, Tanchun's admiration came from outside the door.

Zijuan raised the curtain, and only Tanchun stood outside the door with his servant, master and servant, and hurriedly said: "Third Miss, please come in."

Tanchun smiled and nodded, then entered the room, saw Daiyu still sitting beside the piano table, and said with a smile: "Early in the morning, listening to my sister's song "You Lan" clears my heart and penetrates all my internal organs. Among them, it is really a rare sound of nature."

Daiyu smiled faintly when she heard this, got up and walked to the side of the cool couch, holding the newly brewed Biluochun, said with a smile: "I can't bear the praise of the third sister, please."

Tanchun sat down beside Daiyu and said, "I came today to thank my sister."

Daiyu was stunned for a moment when she heard this, but she understood immediately, and said with a smile, "How can I? I need the third sister to thank you so solemnly? Third sister don't mention it, so as not to embarrass others."

After hearing this, Tan Chun also smiled and said: "Sister's words are justified, anyway, since sister doesn't want to take over, why should I force it on you? Just keep it in your heart."

While talking, I heard a mandarin duck outside the window saying: "Miss Lin, is she up?"

Zijuan rolled up the curtain and said with a smile: "Young lady has already got up, sister Yuanyang, please come in."

Yuanyang walked in with a smile and saw that Tanchun was here, so she said with a smile: "Miss Lin and Miss San are here, so I won't have to go. The old lady invited a few girls to the front hall. Bei Jing The concubine invited the old lady and the girls to come over to the residence." After hearing this, Tanchun hurriedly said goodbye to Daiyu, and left the Xiaoxiang Pavilion with his servants.

Thinking of her recklessness that day, Dai Yu immediately pursed her red lips, a little reluctantly.Seeing Daiyu's displeasure, Yuanyang smiled and said, "Miss, change your clothes quickly, the old lady is waiting in the hall."

Daiyu had no choice but to get up, so she got into the inner room and changed into the clothes she went out to meet the guests. She left the Xiaoxiang Pavilion with Zijuan's hand, and meandered to Jiamu's main room.

Seeing that the Spring Festival has arrived, Baochai is also waiting in Jiamu's main room in a new suit, and she can't hide her joy.

Mrs. Wang looked at Jia Mu with a smile on her face and said, "Old lady, since it was the Beijing Palace that invited the girls from our mansion, it doesn't make sense for the eldest girl to go, but Bao girl will be left behind instead. Isn't it impossible to answer?"

Thinking that now that Concubine Beijing's family is prosperous and prosperous, if Baochai can win the eyes of Concubine Beijing, it will be easier to have official careers and contacts with Baoyu Baochai in the future, so she made up her mind to let Baochai go with her.

Jia Mu glanced at Mrs. Wang and Baochai, and said indifferently, "Since you want to go, let's go together." As she spoke, she ignored Mrs. Wang's and Baochai's secret expressions of joy, and took Daiyu and Xichun's hands. Go outside the door and let Daiyu sit with her, sisters Sanchun and Baochai alone.

That Baochai was sitting alone in a car, seeing that the closer he was to the Beijing Palace, the streets became wider and more majestic and quiet, full of the majesty of the royal family, making the whole street even more solemn, and Baochai couldn't hold back his joyful heart.

Caressing her plump and gorgeous face, she suddenly remembered the ancient poem "Only the peony is really beautiful, and the capital moves when it blooms." The standard for choosing a daughter-in-law in a wealthy family is that only a dignified and plump person can manage the housework.

Thinking about the color in her faint eyes, although Lin Daiyu is charming, quick-witted, and talented, she is a bit weak after all, and she is too eloquent. Most men would like it, but she doesn't like her mother-in-law. , isn't Liu Lanzhi a warning example?

Thinking of this, her face became more and more shy. If she happened to meet the Prince of Beijing Jing, if it was him, she would think more and more proudly. She immediately covered her hot cheeks, her face was full of embarrassment, and she hurriedly lowered her head to tidy up her well-dressed enchanting beauty. Sitting in the car with a calm smile.

When I arrived at the main gate of the Prince's Mansion in Beijing, I saw Jiamu Daiyu and Sanchun's sister's car go in, but her car was going to the corner gate on the side, and Baochai was still unaware that she was waiting for someone to ask her to get out of the car.

Seeing that the car stopped for a long time, but no one came forward to call her, she hurriedly ordered Ying'er to open the curtain of the sedan chair. Ying'er opened the curtain of the sedan chair and was dumbfounded. At the corner door, only my girl's sedan chair was left here alone, no one paid attention to it, and immediately her face turned purple with embarrassment.

Seeing the women standing beside the car timidly, Baochai immediately scolded the idiot in his heart, and hurriedly got out of the car, stopped one of the women, and said, "May I ask you, what is my name?" The guests invited by Concubine Bei Jing, how did they get into the mansion here?"

The old woman looked her up and down very strangely, and said with a strange smile: "Are you a guest invited by our concubine?" Seeing that Baochai nodded, the old woman immediately laughed out loud, very arrogantly.

The laughing people around surrounded him, and Baochai stood there even more embarrassed, and said with a smile: "I was originally a guest invited by your concubine, but because of a moment of distraction, the woman who drove the carriage didn't care about it." Knowing the way, I lost my way, Baochai would be very grateful if Mammy told me." As he spoke, he ordered Yinger who was beside him to bring some silver taels to the old lady.

The old woman weighed the money she got, looked at Baochai again, and then nodded in satisfaction and said: "As usual, I should tell you, but since it is a guest invited by the concubine, it should come from the main entrance." Jincai. Well, since you're here now, I was kind enough to take you there."

While talking, he brought the treasure hairpin into the Beijing Prince's Mansion, but he didn't go through the proper corridors. Instead, he took all the winding paths and paths, and came and went with servants.

Seeing Baochai's splendid attire, the servants passing by couldn't help joking, "Mother Li, where did this chick come from? Such a beautiful girl, but how many of us should be allocated?"

After hearing that, Nanny Li pretended to reprimand and said: "Don't talk nonsense, if the prince finds out, I will expose you." Don't forget to wink at Baochai.

Baochai's face was filled with embarrassment, but she still followed the old lady without changing her expression. When she reached a main courtyard, the old lady stopped and said, "Following here is the imperial concubine's courtyard." .”

When Baochai heard this, she was secretly happy, thanked the old woman hurriedly, handed over the silver in her hand to the nanny, and walked forward.

The woman looked at Baochai's disappearing figure with a sneer, turned around and saw Lai Nanny behind her, and hurriedly handed her the silver in her hand, and said with a smile: "Lai Nanny, look, this is Xue Baochai given."

Nanny Lai looked at the very generous amount of silver, and said with a smile: "You take it yourself, and the young servants just now also rewarded it, so it is said that it was given to them by the concubine." Then Li Mammy nodded and bowed, and left with a happy smile holding the money.

Nanny Lai watched Baochai go in, with a stern smile on her lips, she followed Baochai's footsteps and walked in, seeing Baochai standing under the scorching sun, unable to enter, she was anxious and didn't know what to do.

Seeing Mammy Lai coming, the girls by the door hurriedly said, "I've seen Mammy." Nanny Lai waved her hand, glanced at Xue Baochai inadvertently, but said without stopping, " Where did this person come from, dare to make a noise in front of the concubine's courtyard, and why not call him out?"

After hearing this, Baochai hurried forward and said, "Mother, I'm from Jia's mansion, and I'm a guest invited by the concubine." Nanny Lai stopped in her tracks and said with doubts on her face, "You are a girl from Jia's mansion. What's your name? Why do I only remember that there are only four girls in Jia's house, and they all followed the old lady into the house?"

Baochai's face turned red immediately, and she was anxious and regretful in her heart. After thinking for a long time, she begged in a low voice: "Mother, I am now a girl from Xue's mansion who lives in Jia's mansion. Today I followed the old lady of Jia's mansion here. , I got separated from my sisters, please let me know, the old lady must know about me."

Nanny Li glanced at Xue Baochai with a half-smile, she was such a thick-skinned imperial merchant's daughter, anyway, if she kindly invited her in, Princess Bei Jing would definitely not let her go.

Then he nodded, looked at the maid by the door and said: "I seem to have heard that there is such a person, please let her in, I will explain to the concubine myself."

The servant girl looked at Baochai's sweaty back and flushed cheeks, and said, "She is really a beauty, no matter what, that is what the mother said, and the servants obey." Then she stepped aside, not blocking Baochai's way.

Seeing this, Baochai was delighted to the core, not caring about the sweat all over her body, not caring about the previous embarrassment, not caring about lifting the curtain by herself, and walked to the main courtyard.