Dream of the Red Chamber: Rong Dai

"Sister Lin, Sister Lin." A pale voice came from the bed, and Baoyu was babbling like crazy. He saw Daiyu walking alone, and the wind and snow almost covered her frail and helpless figure. Baoyu's call was ignored, making Baoyu even more anxious, wanting to step forward but unable to grasp the trace.

"Baoyu, wake up, Baoyu." There was a burst of crying, and he listened carefully. It seemed to be the voice of an old lady. There was a bright light in front of him, and he felt a tight pain in his chest. He opened his eyes slowly, but saw the eyes of Jia Mu and Mrs. Wang swollen from crying.

Seeing Baoyu waking up, Mother Jia hurriedly wiped away the tears from the corners of her eyes, and called out anxiously, "Baoyu, Baoyu, you scared me to death, Baoyu." Crying with Baoyu's hand, everyone in the room had tears in their eyes, but Aunt Zhao stood aside with eyes full of disdain and lowered her eyes.

Looking around, "Sister Lin, where is Sister Lin?" Mother Jia and Mrs. Wang gasped for breath, and hurriedly said, "Your sister Lin is weak and has gone back to the Xiaoxiang Pavilion to rest. After you get well, your sister will come too." I count on you."

After Baoyu heard this, he just didn't believe it. He waved off Mrs. Wang's hand, ran out with his shoes on, and said, "I don't believe you. I'm going to see sister Lin now. I'm going to see sister Lin."

Mrs. Jia Muwang was stunned for a moment and didn't catch Baoyu. When she came back to her senses, Baoyu had already ran out of the door in her unlined clothes. After going out, why don't you hurry up and take your clothes and follow?"

The Xiren and Zicuckoo hurriedly took their clothes and followed Baoyu's footsteps, and the mother-in-law in the yard followed closely, and Jia's mother held Mrs. Wang's hand tremblingly and walked forward quickly. , anxious and uneasy.

That Baoyu ran all the way to the Xiaoxiang Pavilion, saw the dense bamboo forest in the pavilion, the autumn wind was blowing, and the autumn chrysanthemums under the bamboo forest were still blooming quietly. girl?"

The old woman just shook her head, not knowing, seeing that Baoyu seemed to have a crazy expression, she immediately backed away a few steps in fright, this is the phoenix egg in the mansion, if one is not good, it is not her fault.

That Baoyu vigorously pushed the woman away, and slammed open the door of the Xiaoxiang Pavilion. The tables, desks and bookcases were all empty, and the quilts Daiyu used in daily life were neatly stacked on the bed, and the cigarette smoke rose up, as if seeing Daiyu With a pretty face that seemed to be angry and smiling, Yu stepped forward and said in a daze: "Sister Lin."

The tentacle bubble completely shattered Baoyu's last little hope. With a loud cry, he rushed out of the door and bumped into Xiren and Zijuan who were chasing him head-on. Sorrowful, "Sister Lin, Sister Lin"

When Mrs. Jia Muwang rushed over, she saw Zijuan Xiren standing there in a daze, and said anxiously, "Where is Baoyu?" I ran out." Mother Jia burst into tears when she heard this, "You've done it, you've done it." She hurriedly chased her out with a cane.

That Baoyu ran all over the place where he and Daiyu wrote poems and looked at the scenery on weekdays. When the wind blew in late autumn, the maple leaves were all over the field, and Baoyu sat under the maple tree and blue stone panting, "Things are different, people are different, Things are different, sister Lin, why are you leaving, why?"

When Jia Mu and the others arrived, Baoyu fell asleep on the bluestone slab, completely white, and Ruo Chunhua's face was now bluish-white, which made Jia Mu faint immediately.

"Old lady, the imperial concubine of Beijing has arrived at the Yimen. The master asked the old lady to lead the grandmothers and girls to greet her quickly." Mother Jia woke up at this time, and she was startled when she heard this. , and immediately remembered how kind that Concubine Bei Jing had been to Daiyu, thinking of this made her panic even more.

Busily ordering Yuanyang to help her change clothes and freshen up, and ordering Amber to go to the garden to call out the Sanchun sisters and Baochai, just now she tremblingly supported Yuanyang's hand and took the lead towards the Yimen Gate.

Concubine Bei Jing got off the phoenix chariot at the Rongxi Hall, looked at the majestic Rongguo Mansion, smiled faintly, and waved her hand, the nurse beside her hurriedly stepped forward to help Princess Bei Jing enter the Rongxi Hall to sit. Down.

Jia's mother led the female family members in the mansion to bow down to Concubine Beijing, and said in her mouth: "Blessed Concubine Beijing, I don't know that Concubine is coming, I am far away from welcoming her, and I hope that Concubine Beijing will forgive her sins."

Concubine Bei Jing glanced at Jia Mu, then scanned all the people in the mansion, but she didn't see Dai Yu, she could not help but clenched her palms, and said: "Why do you need to be so polite, old lady, get up quickly." Looking at Jiamu's trembling stand up, she said, "Are all the girls in your house here? Why don't you see Miss Lin?"

Mother Jia's hands trembled, she really came here for Daiyu, thinking this way, her heart became more and more terrified, cold sweat dripped on Jiamu's forehead, she thought that Daiyu had just left in the morning, and now Princess Beijing had already found her Come to the door, I'm afraid it's not that simple between the two, maybe Princess Bei Jing heard something, thought so, but it's hard to answer.

Concubine Bei Jing looked at Jia Mu coldly, and said, "What? Could it be that Miss Lin doesn't even have the freedom of movement when she lives in your mansion?" The sound of the porcelain tea bowl touching the red sandalwood table shook everyone's body. A little trembling.

Although this Concubine Beijing looks like a kind master, she is not an ordinary person. Just looking at the Beijing Palace, there is only one concubine, and two maids who are not up to the table, you can know what kind of Concubine Beijing is. There are means.

"Reporting to the concubine, Miss Lin is feeling a little sick, and she is resting in the house now, if she fails to meet the concubine, please forgive her sin." The gentle voice came, and when the concubine Bei Jing looked down, she was The well-dressed Baochai couldn't help but the corners of her mouth became even colder, and said, "Who are you?"

Baochai clenched her lips in embarrassment, but still bowed her head and bowed her body and said: "Reporting to the concubine, the little girl is Xue Baochai, and she went to the Beijing Palace in the old year."

Concubine Beijing nodded, and said, "Tell me, Miss Lin is resting in the house, is there anything wrong?" Baochai hurriedly lowered her head and replied, "Miss Lin has always been weak, and it is inevitable that she will commit a crime in autumn and spring." The old illness in previous years is being recuperated now, and I can't stand the cold wind."

After hearing this, Grand Concubine Bei Jing wanted to get up and said, "In that case, then the Grand Concubine will go and have a look at her." Stopping in his tracks, he said, "What? Can't this concubine go to see it?"

Mrs. Wang turned her mind, thinking that the relationship between Daiyu and Jia Mu was originally a kindness and resentment between them, and it had nothing to do with the affairs of the Beijing Palace, so she felt a little relieved in her heart, bowed her head and laughed: "Toffee Don't misunderstand the meaning, what I mean is that the eldest girl is recuperating now, the imperial doctor said that she will not be disturbed, so she has to keep her alive, at least she can stabilize her old illness."

Concubine Beijing's anxiety became more and more serious. She entered the palace early this morning to pay her respects to the Empress Dowager, and when she saw the Empress Dowager reprimanding Concubine Zhen and Concubine Yuan, she finally understood the whole story. Promise Daiyu to Zhenjia Baoyu.

Although she knew that Daiyu had a sacred decree in her hands, she still couldn't let go of her heart, so she hastily resigned from the empress dowager, and came straight to Jia's mansion without returning to the mansion in a phoenix chariot.

Seeing everyone in Jia's mansion evading their words and looking at each other, they became more and more angry. They glanced coldly at Mrs. Wang and Xue Baochai and said, "What is your intention of repeatedly intercepting this Concubine? Miss Lin? What happened to you guys?" Make it clear to me."

When the words fell to the ground, the cold and angry tone made Mrs. Wang and Baochai shudder immediately. No matter how much hope there was in their hearts at first, it disappeared now, and they knelt on the ground trembling.

Concubine Beijing supported Nanny Lai's hand out of Rongxi Hall, pointed to a woman, and said, "You, take me to the Xiaoxiang Pavilion. If there is anything wrong with Miss Lin, I will pick it up off your skin."

The woman turned pale with fright, stood up tremblingly, staggered, and hurriedly led the Beijing Concubine to Xiaoxiang Hall.

Seeing this, all the mothers of Jia became more and more panicked, and hurriedly followed the Concubine Beijing to the Grand View Garden. Now they can only take one step at a time, but they are more and more angry at Mrs. Wang and Baochai's bad deeds. .

When we arrived at the Xiaoxiang Pavilion, we could only see the silence around us, only the sound of the wind whistling, so we ordered people to push open the door of Xiaoxiang Pavilion, and the quiet and elegant scenery that came into our eyes was very charming, but Princess Bei Jing didn't care to look at it, seeing no one around, I just said : "Is this really Miss Lin's residence?"

The woman shook her head and nodded, she was so frightened by Princess Bei Jing's sharp eyes that she pissed off and sat on the ground. Seeing Daiyu's trace, he turned around and said sharply, "Where is Miss Lin? Didn't you say she was resting in the house?"

Mrs. Wang and Baochai knelt on the ground and did not dare to speak. Concubine Beijing said angrily: "Come on, give me a slap. You really think that this concubine is so easy to deceive. Tell me quickly, Miss Lin was tricked by you!" where it goes?"

At this time, Xichun hurriedly stepped forward and said: "Please calm down, Princess Lin, Sister Lin just left the mansion early this morning, and now we don't know where she has gone, only Chunxian Xueyan and Wang Momo are around her."

Concubine Beijing heard what Xichun said, and she immediately became more worried, and said: "What? Your sister Lin left this mansion, where can she go with a girl's family?" Full of anxiety and bewilderment, Daiyu can Where are you going?

Turning to look at Mrs. Wang and Baochai furiously, he said, "You wolf-hearted people actually forced Yu'er and a daughter's family out. I don't know what kind of rotten-hearted people you are, give me a slap in the face." .”

The mother who followed Princess Beijing saw that Princess Beijing was so angry, she hurriedly stepped forward and beat Mrs. Wang and Baochai with red and swollen faces, bloodshot splashes, and the burning pain that hit Mrs. Wang's heart even more. Unquenchable anger.

"Stop it, you guys. I am the mother of Concubine Yuan Gui in the current palace, a fourth-rank respected person in the court. You have no right to beat me. Even if you drive that foxy son out, it's okay. I'm the master of this family, and that's mine. Something." Mrs. Wang stood up, with red marks on her face, handprints and messy hair on her face, her whole face was hideous.

Concubine Beijing looked at Mrs. Wang coldly and said with a sneer, "You mean I'm meddling in my own business?" Seeing that the situation was becoming more and more uncontrollable, Mother Jia hurriedly stepped forward and said, "Please, Concubine Wang." Forgive me, this Wang Gong is a little confused now, if he offends the concubine, please forgive me."

Concubine Beijing turned to look at Mother Jia, her eyes couldn't hide the pain, "Old Feng Jun, when Sister Min handed Yu'er into your hands, is this how you treated her? You forced her into a house like a girl. Going out, this is what you should do as a grandmother? Ask yourself, are you worthy of sister Min? If she knows it in secret, how sad will it be?"

As he spoke, he looked at Mrs. Wang's still angry expression, and said with a sneer smile, "Concubine Yuan Gui? Fortunately, you have the nerve to say it out loud. Concubine Yuan and concubine Zhen were demoted two ranks in a row because of the private delivery of the decree. Both are concubines. You are not afraid of slipping your tongue when you say such disrespectful words."

The Mrs. Wang heard it like five thunders, her daughter, her daughter was reduced to a concubine, and she wanted to say frantically: "I don't believe it. My daughter is a noble concubine and the future queen. You are lying, how can you say that she was concubine?" Resigned as a concubine? You must be jealous, right? It’s all that foxy girl, if she agreed, there wouldn’t be such a thing.”

"Should Yu'er be manipulated by you people? She is the daughter of the Lin family, not a puppet of your Jia family. What face do you have to let her listen to you? Don't say that she has an imperial decree for independent marriage. If not, the decree issued by the empresses of the two palaces is nothing more than a piece of waste paper."

Taking a deep breath, seeing Mother Jia's horrified expression, Concubine Beijing sneered and said, "Before coming, the empress dowager ordered me to take full responsibility for this matter. If there is anything wrong with Mr. Feng Convinced, just go and tell the Empress Dowager, see what her old man said, just don't degrade the concubine who was so hard-won to a commoner."

Mother Jia trembled as she listened to the cold and stern words of Concubine Beijing, she didn't want such a catastrophe to come down like this, she thought that there would be no queen in the palace, even if it was against the ancestral system to take advantage of the noble concubines of the two palaces It was not a big mistake, so he agreed to the Zhen family's marriage according to Mrs. Wang's wishes. Who would have thought that concubine Yuan and Concubine Zhen would be reduced to concubines because of this, how could she not be angry?

Then he bowed his head and kowtowed: "Princess Beijing calm down, it's because she is too old to teach well, please forgive me. Yu'er is my granddaughter, how can I not cherish it, only the matter of Zhen's family Thinking that they are the right family, Baoyu of the Zhen family has such talent and looks, so he agreed, and Yu'er didn't, and we would never dare to force Yu'er to leave."

"The old matriarch is saying that Yu'er left the mansion by herself?" Concubine Beijing's gentle tone implied a bit of cold anger. Now Jia's mother only asked the mansion to get rid of the crime, so she nodded hurriedly. Said: "Yu'er left by herself, and I am also worried about her now."

"Worried?" The storm gathered in the eyes of Princess Bei Jing poured out instantly. She stood up, squinted at Jia's mother and said, "The right family? Have you never seen this princess? How? Originally, this concubine thought that you still had a little ancestral relationship with Yu'er, but now it's nothing more than that, you take Yu'er as a pawn for marriage in your house, what do you want? What you want is the empty, self-righteous right to act."

She turned around and pointed at Mrs. Wang who was kneeling on the ground, and said, "But you want the Zhen family's money. What do you think of Yu'er? Is it a chess piece that you play and discard at will? One picture right, one picture right. Cai, you really deserve to be mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, the rare grandmother and aunt in the world." There were a few clapping sounds, which made Jiamu's face turn blue and white, and suddenly turn purple with embarrassment.

Concubine Beijing took a deep breath, supported Nanny Lai's hand and walked out: "Let's go, such a family will really stain our eyes, and they are still some kind of scholarly family, far inferior to that market. Nouveau riche."

For the sake of money, she was willing to bully the helpless orphan girl to such an extent, and remembering where Daiyu had gone, her heart became more and more anxious.

Concubine Beijing was respectfully sent away from Jia's mansion. At this moment, Mother Jia only felt gloomy. Concubine Yuan had been in the palace for many years before she finally became a concubine. The imperial concubine issued an edict and was reduced to concubine, the disappointment and anger in her heart rose more and more.

"It's in vain for you to say that you are your mother, for your mother, you are so troublesome to such a degree, how can you be at ease as a mother? Your mother just came back the year before last to visit her relatives. How many people are watching and thinking behind you, Now that the Empress Dowager has seized the excuse, what will the empress do in the palace in the future?"

Speaking of which, Jiamu's face was full of tears, Mrs. Wang supported the burning pain on her face, and said in a hateful voice: "It's all about that foxy girl. If it wasn't for her, how could it have led to today's bitter fruit? Fortunately, that foxy girl If you leave the mansion, my Baoyu will be safe in the future."

Mrs. Wang's crazy words made everyone in Jia Zheng who came after him frown, and when they saw her and Baochai's swollen, red and swollen cheeks, they understood most of them.

Jia Zheng scolded Mrs. Wang and said, "Now that you are in pain and you can't restrain yourself, how far do you have to involve your empress and Baoyu before you can rest assured? You go back to your room and confine yourself for three months, copying Buddhist scriptures to pray for your empress. "

After hearing this, Mrs. Wang hurriedly went forward to beg Jia Mu, but seeing Jia Mu also looked at her coldly, she wept and said: "Old lady, my daughter-in-law still wants to go to the palace to see your mother, so I will make another bed for your mother." Some journeys, don't let those people in the palace bully her."

Jia Zheng was furious when he heard this, and said in a cold voice: "Come here, send the wife back to the room. Without the order of the old lady, she is not allowed to take half a step out of the door." It turned out that the son was not filial, and it dragged the mother to suffer so much."

Jia Mu waved her hands wearily, and said, "Forget it, just go down and have a rest. I'll go and see Baoyu first. Baoyu should find another doctor to take a look at her now."