Dream of the Red Chamber: Rong Dai

On the night of the Lantern Festival, watch dragon and lion dances, see the supernatural powers of stilts, the lights are brilliant and festive, and the market is filled with all kinds of lanterns, silk gauze, burning beads, bright corners, wheat straw, and grass.It depicts birds flying and flowers blooming, dragons soaring and fishes leaping, fairies flying gracefully, everywhere in a majestic environment, showing the flourishing age.

Shui Rong lightly held Daiyu's little hand, walked on the market, guessed the lantern riddles and couplets on the street over and over again, the lottery in his hand made Chun Xianxueyan and the others complain endlessly.

Daiyu looked back and smiled slightly, her clear and bright eyes were full of joy and curiosity, holding a chrysanthemum lantern in her hand, she looked at Shui Rong with a smile and said: "The fifteenth day of the first lunar month is the day when the heavenly officials of the Shangyuan bless you. Prostrate to the front of the mountain."

Shui Rong gathered the lapels of her slightly spread cloak to prevent the slightest cold wind from invading her thin body, and said with a smile: "The Shangyuan Festival is held every year in the capital, from the eighth day to the seventeenth day of the first lunar month, and lasts ten days. There are magnificent and splendid images everywhere, although each party has its own customs and habits, but here almost all the customs and habits are covered, and Daier can tell the difference after a closer look."

Daiyu nodded with a smile, with a charming smile, taking advantage of the lights of Wanjia to become more and more beautiful and refined, her beauty is unparalleled, she is wearing a brocade cotton robe and a red sable cape, like a nine-day fairy who has fallen into the mortal world, just to see this wonder in the world, all eternity will rejoice image.

Passing over the river bridge, Daiyu just stepped up, and then she heard Chunxian behind her say: "Walking all diseases, crossing the river bridge, all diseases disappear. Girls walk on this river bridge. The old man often said that Shangyuan walked all kinds of diseases. It will definitely eliminate all diseases and prolong life."

Daiyu looked at Chunxian with a smile, nodded, and said: "I've heard this before, but I haven't come out to play for a long time, but I was a little negligent and forgot."

Shui Rong gently held Daiyu's little hand, and smiled very gently, "As long as you like it, let's come out every year to see it, okay?" , Beautiful and unparalleled.

"Girl, look over there." Daiyu heard Chunxian's words of surprise and laughter behind her, and when she looked back, she saw that huge lamp building, shining golden light, which was extremely spectacular. She couldn't help walking forward with her water-soluble hands. Said: "It's the first time I've seen a lamp tower like this, brother Rong, let's go and have a look."

Shui Rong raised his head and looked carefully at the three characters in running script in that book, 'Jiangnan Jade' unconsciously muttered to himself, and said: "Jiangnan Jade, but Jiang Lianyu, the richest man in Jiangnan, set up the Denglou Poetry Club?"

The front of the building was full of literati and poets, all of them were shaking their heads and trying to solve the crossword puzzles written by Jiangnan Yu, but in the end, very few of them got some small prizes.

The snow jade ginseng doll lying in a long box carved with red sandalwood with hundreds of flowers and colorful butterflies, the jasper long hairpin with flying colorful butterflies, and the rice beads with tassels hanging down meanderingly. The carved ones are just now precious.

The rest of the small lottery heads are also exquisite and rare items, such as sachets and purses, jade pendants and jewelry, and the embroidery on the pouches and sachets is Jiangnan Su embroidery, showing the quiet and elegant feelings of Jiangnan daughters.The charming, gentle and lingering Jiangnan water town, Wu Nong's soft words and charming witty words, show the unique soft beauty of Jiangnan everywhere.

Daiyu raised her eyes to look at Shui Rong in doubt, and said, "Brother Rong, people here must be from Jiangnan, otherwise how can such people know so much about Jiangnan things?"

Touching the eyes, these distant and intimate things in the south of the Yangtze River made Daiyu's eyes blurred with tears, and she unconsciously looked at the corner lamp more and more infatuatedly and sadly.

Seeing Daiyu like this, Shui Rong couldn't help feeling distressed, lowered her head and teased Daiyu with a smile: "The snow jade ginseng doll, and the jasper long hairpin, is Yu'er confident that she can win it back?" It is a thousand-year spiritual thing, and it depends on someone who is destined to know that it appeared on this market today. If it can be retrieved, the plum blossom snow water will be alive every day, which is enough for Daiyu's body to recover as soon as possible.

Seeing Shui Rong's playful smile, Daiyu unconsciously put away the sadness in her heart, and the curious baby's mind was suspended again, walked to the front, curiously flipped the lantern riddle couplets on the four-cornered flat lamp, unconsciously pursed her lips and chuckled, Looking at the water-soluble, bright and bright eyes, the flowing light, looking forward to the flowing waves, and the faint light shining down, rippling with boundless magnificence.

"This kind of lantern riddle is so simple that Dai'er can guess it just by looking at it."

"Women's views are extremely stupid. This is a place where literati and poets gather, and we still can't guess that you, a little girl, dare to say such brazen words, don't you feel ashamed?"

Daiyu raised her eyebrows, turned around and glanced at the man indifferently, only to see that the man had a thin face and lips, and triangular eyes.Although his features are somewhat talented, they are too pedantic after all, and they have the tendency to bully others. Daiyu looked very displeased, so she sneered and said: "You Confucius taught you the way of saints, did you also teach you to despise others? Presumptuous?"

The man was swept by Daiyu's cold eyes, and he felt a clear spring passing through his heart. After listening to Daiyu's words in a daze, he couldn't help but become angry in his heart, and said: "You little girl, how can you allow you to slander Kong like this?" The old master? It’s just an ignorant woman’s ear.”

Shui Rong looked at the scholar coldly with three points in his eyebrows, and said coldly: "This lantern festival is for everyone, everyone has the right to speak, so what if it's old Confucius, like you Such a person will, on the contrary, tarnish the sageness of Confucius."

The man's arrogance was dispelled by Shui Rong's few words, and he looked at Shui Rong and Daiyu more and more, and through the dim light, he could see that they had extraordinary auras, and he didn't feel even more imposing.

After all, I was unconvinced, so I casually pointed to the lantern riddles on the four-cornered flat lantern, looked at the petite Daiyu who was covered with a veil, and said: "If the girl can guess the answer to the lantern riddle, I will apologize to the girl, and I won't ask you anymore." Arguing endlessly with the girl. If the girl can't figure it out, she just walks out. Ignorant women are not welcome here."

Daiyu glanced at him indifferently, then suppressed the words that Shui Rong wanted to speak, glanced at the surrounding people who seemed to be watching the excitement, and said with a soft smile: "Since that's the case, how about trying?"

Following the man's fingers, Daiyu looked at the lantern riddles on the lamp, frowning and smiling slightly, and saw the writing on the lamp: There is water to plant lotus, there is soil to plant mulberry, some people are not you or me, Let Mark walk the world.

"This is originally a word 'also', but?" The man gritted his teeth, not wanting Daiyu to guess it without thinking, and then a little bit of shame turned into anger, and then he said: "This is too simple after all, I don't know Miss. Do you dare to do it again?"

"Why don't you dare? You just have to ask questions." Qiao Xiaoqian looked forward to her beautiful eyes, and a faint smile filled her heart.

Looking at Daiyu's playful and eye-catching bright eyes with water melting doting, the shining eyes are like the moon on a silver plate in the sky, the water-cut pupils are unparalleled, her heart becomes softer and softer like spring water, she whispered: "Dai'er just go , Brother Rong will accompany you behind you."

Daiyu nodded with a smile, followed the man forward, the man carefully looked at the palace lanterns around, saw one of them painted a heavy pagoda, very majestic, said: "six pagodas are heavy, four sides are seven Rigid and octagonal." After the last sentence, the man squinted at Shui Rong and Daiyu.

Daiyu lowered her head and pondered for a while, looking at the slender hands in the squirrel cover, she already had the answer in her mind, so she smiled and said, "One palm is flat, five fingers are three long and two are short."

The surrounding onlookers saw Daiyu being so smart, so they couldn't help admiring her, and some even looked at the pedantic scholar and said, "Chen Shirong, you should have learned a little bit, this girl is quick thinking, no less As for you, don’t end up humiliating yourself.”

The man named Chen Shirong unconsciously looked at the yelling people with triangular eyes, and said: "This is only a three-year-old child who can only come out, it's nothing, it's just started, why are you so anxious?"

Chen Shirong had failed the exams three times, and had been in the capital all these years. He was full of pride in his poetic talent, his grand strategy, how could he be defeated by such a weak woman like Daiyu?If he can't beat even a little girl, then he will really be ashamed to meet Jiang Dong's elders.

Then he pondered for a long time, looked at the bright lights all around, looked at the bright moon in the sky, suddenly his eyes lit up, then he pondered for a long time, looked at Daiyu and said: "Miss, listen carefully."

"The sky makes the chessboard, the stars make the sons, the sun and the moon strive for glory." After the man said this, he felt complacent.

Daiyu looked at the complacency on Chen Shirong's face with a smile, but shook her head, seeing that Chen Shirong was getting more and more complacent, and then said: "If the girl doesn't match up, then you can go back yourself. In the future, this place of lights , it's better not to come, girl."

After Daiyu heard this, she only appreciated his poems a little bit, but at this moment, it suddenly turned into nothingness. For such a high and proud person, it is a benefit to the people of the world if he fails to rank. Must be unkind, self-willed, reading the books of sages, is nothing more than a reckless generation.

"Thunder is the drum for the battle and the lightning is the flag for the meeting of the wind and clouds." The soft and elegant words came out, making Chen Shirong's face pale when he heard it, and he didn't feel ashamed. Undoubtedly a great shame.

The people around only felt that Daiyu was quick in poetry, but they looked at Chen Shirong with disdain, and said, "What are you talking about in poetry, but you can't even compare to a girl."

Seeing this, Chen Shirong became more and more annoyed and ashamed. He was about to speak when he was about to speak, but was interrupted by a sound of praise. When everyone turned around to look, they saw a handsome young man walking over with a book boy.

With long eyebrows and slender phoenix eyes, his face is like a beautiful jade, resembling Sai Ruo Pan'an's character. He didn't look at Shui Rong, nor did he look at the rest of the people, he just looked straight at Daiyu, cupped his hands and said: "Miss Good poetic talent, I don't know if the girl will honor me and live in Jiangnanyu for a while, it can be regarded as my kindness as a landlord."

Jiangnan jade, the friendship of the landlord?Isn't that the Jiang Lianyu's master Jiang Lianyu?Daiyu looked at him, feeling very displeased in her heart, the man's gaze made him feel dangerous, made her feel very unhappy, so she went straight to hide behind Shui Rong, but did not answer.

Shui Rong watched Jiang Lianyu come out, and his eyes became colder. This person is probably not as simple as he appears on the surface. He is tall and upright, with an unyielding air of arrogance between his brows. , although smiling, but with indifference and sternness, people naturally don't want to get close.

Jiang Nanyu, Jiang Lianyu, held hands in control of Jiangnan's commercial trends at a young age, everything was under his control, and every move was enough to make those merchants' hearts tremble.Shui Rong squinted his eyes and looked at Jiang Lianyu, feeling familiar, as if they were old enemies in the previous life.

For no reason, an unprecedented anger rose in Shui Rong's heart, just because of this person who had just met, and said coldly: "Now that the night is dark, we should go home and not bother Mr. Jiangnan Yujiang." Yaxing poetry."

Then she turned and took Daiyu's little hand, and said, "Let's go." Daiyu nodded, and then she wanted to leave with Shui Rong's footsteps.

Chen Shirong saw that Shui Rong was holding Daiyu's little hand all the time, and just now he lost face in front of everyone, he said, "As a daughter who has never left the court, but she is so unrestrained and let men shake hands in the street, it is really a loss of womanhood Aren't these women the scum of women in the world?"

After hearing this, Shui Rong suddenly turned around, his eyes as deep as the sea exuded a murderous intent, making Chen Shirong take two steps back unconsciously, Shui Rong stepped forward, looked down at Chen Shirong coldly and said: " There are so many tragedies in this world only because of pedantic people like you. After so many years of reading sage books in vain, I think you will try it when you go down, and you are still in a state of failure."

Jiang Lianyu, who had been standing aside and watching, clapped her hands applauded when she heard Shui Rong's words, and said with a smile: "This young lady is really a rare person, if I can't get to know the two of you today, I will really be in vain." This couplet of poems and lantern riddles."

Daiyu's veiled face made him unable to see clearly, but he still looked at Daiyu, cupped his hands and said with a smile: "I don't know if the girl can solve one of my doubts and match the couplets over there. Tonight's two first prizes Just give it to the girl."

After hearing this, everyone turned pale in an uproar. Those two prizes are rare in the world and hard to find, but they were promised to this girl by the Jiangnan Jade, so they gathered around everyone to look at Jiang Lian What kind of question did Yu finally come up with.

Daiyu frowned, in the end it was the little girl's heart that prevailed, so she lowered Shui Rong's arm and said with a light smile, "In this case, it's better to be respectful than to obey, Mr. Jiang please."

When Jiang Lianyu heard this, he took the lead in the front, Shui Rong followed Daiyu with him, looked down at Daiyu with a smile and said, "If Dai'er doesn't want to, we'll just leave, so why are we here for nothing? Annoyed?"