Dream of the Red Chamber: Rong Dai

After the rain, the fragrance of the new lotus is first exhaled, and the faint fragrance enters the nose, taking away the summer heat and bringing a little bit of coolness and refreshing.

Looking at the rain that had stopped falling outside the window, Concubine Beijing smiled lightly, looked at Daiyu who was sitting there admiring the fresh lotus outside the window, waved and smiled: "Yu'er, come, come to Mother Concubine .”

Hearing this, Daiyu hurriedly got up, walked gracefully to Concubine Beijing's side, snuggled up on the couch in front of her, and said with a smile: "Mother concubine called Yu'er, do you have any orders?"

Concubine Bei Jing seemed to be covered with a layer of gloom, faint but not real, she only caressed Daiyu's green silk, and sighed softly: "They are here today just to visit first, I'm afraid In the future, there will be countless indirect things like this."

When Daiyu heard this, she only pursed her lips and smiled lightly, her faint smile was elegant and beautiful, with an indifferent indifference, like the clear lotus outside the window, as clear as ice, and the long melancholy drifted away with the wind, and the erratic voice had the ethereal air of summer raindrops , smiled and said: "If they want to come, let's just strengthen and increase our threshold, don't let people step on it and lose the threshold."

Daiyu's words made Concubine Beijing smile, she held Daiyu's little hand, and said: "My Yu'er can understand it, anyway, if they want to come, they can come. Let me see, they It's just this little move, there's nothing else to say about what the Queen Mother will do."

Daiyu listened and nodded, pointed to the colorful rainbow outside the window, and said with a pleasant smile: "Mother Concubine, look, that's a rainbow in the sky."

Concubine Beijing followed Daiyu's finger to look over, hurriedly got up with Lucui's hand, walked to the window, and said with a smile: "It really is, the rainbow after the rain is the most fresh and beautiful."

Daiyu supported Chunxian to the East Lake. Along the way, she watched the pond full of lotus leaves and lotus flowers reflect the sky one after another. She unconsciously gathered her smile from before, and a thin layer of melancholy was gathered between her brows, and she sighed softly. , unknowingly shook the embroidered handkerchief on his hand, and muttered: "Brother Rong is really a blue-faced disaster, it really makes people very troubled, when these things are gone, it will be serious."

"That can't be done, you want to be with me for the rest of your life, why do you have to retreat like this?" A warm embrace came, and a joking voice with a bit of cold anger came from my ears.

Daiyu stared at Shui Rong angrily, snorted, and said, "Who doesn't know that you, Prince of Beijing, have such a great charm that so many young women flock to her? Without me, don't you fear that no one will join hands with you forever?" of?"

Shui Rong looked at the ball of jealousy on her face amusedly, she was so cute, so she didn't say anything more, just hugged Daiyu and leaned against her arms, comforting her unhappy and angry emotions, but the eyes that flowed were filled with unbearable emotions. With the fading coldness, he looked at Qinghe in the lake lightly, and already had an idea in his heart.

The sound of Buddha beads and wooden fish seems to calm the whole heart, and the noisy and chaotic world is far away. It seems calm and clear like clear water, without any impurities, so pure that people can't help but want to absorb it.

Miaoyu stood behind Xichun, and sighed softly, now that Jia's mansion is crowded outside, she unexpectedly hid in the Cuicui Nunnery, that lonely figure seemed to blend into the silent Buddhist hall middle.

Today is an auspicious day for welcoming the spring out of the pavilion. The warm sun shines on the red silk flowers in the garden. Whether it is true or false, the bright smile on everyone's face is like a summer flower.

Jia's mother looked at Baoyu sitting aside with joy, took him by the hand and smiled and said, "Baoyu is a good day for your second sister today. We can be regarded as another wealthy family in our family. We will have you in the future." The eldest sister, the second elder sister, and the third elder sister are taking care of me, and my treasure jade is really as lucky as a treasure."

That Baoyu stared at the room full of red silk and big flowers with a dull expression, he was silent without saying a word, his mind had already been cleared up a long time ago, but he just watched the sisters in the family leave one by one, after all he didn't want to think about it.

The unmoving Meifeng was hiding a bit of sadness, his sister Lin was gone after all, and now she is the tall and heavy Princess Beijing, he didn't even have the chance to meet again, and everything else was closed to him what's up?

Holding Zijuan with her heavy waist in her hands, she could see Baoyu's sighing and lonely expression. The deep pain was so overwhelming that she couldn't bear it. She knew that Baoyu had never forgotten Daiyu in his heart. As the days went by, it got heavier and heavier.

For a while, Yingchun came to worship Jia Mu and said goodbye to everyone. Jia Lian walked onto the red carpet with Yingchun on his back. The sound of firecrackers and the laughter of everyone covered Baoyu's tears.

Sister Feng stared blankly at Yingchun going away, her usually competitive eyes were covered with bloodshot eyes, and her jade-white face was also tinged with a sickly yellow, the yellow face had long since disappeared. Vigorous, but just strong enough to hold on.

"Where is fourth girl?" Mother Jia suddenly asked.

Sister Feng hurried back to the province, bowed to accompany her with a smile, and said, "I'm afraid the fourth sister is still in the garden at this time." Jia Mu nodded and sighed, "That's right. I thought her second sister would get married, but at any rate I don't know." Give it away, who would have thought that she hadn't seen her all morning."

"Old Ancestor, you are partial. You don't feel sorry for the person who came here. Look, I have worked so hard for so long, but you don't care about me at all. You only care about my fourth sister."

Sitting on the side, You Shi pulled Sister Feng towards her with a smile on her face, and said with a smile, "I'll take care of you. I'm tired from working hard, so I'll take your place."

Sister Feng withdrew her hand without a trace, looked at Jia Mu with a smile on her face, and said, "Listen, old ancestor, this sister-in-law Zhen is becoming more and more greedy and greedy, and Ning's mansion is busy enough." Yes, I just want to come here again because I want to die from exhaustion?"

Jia Mu looked at Sister Feng with a smile, patted her cheek with pity, and said with a smile, "You monkey, I can't bear it. If I don't have you by my side for a day, who will relieve my boredom?" Looking at You Shi, he said with a smile: "Your sister-in-law Zhen has so many things in the house, how can she be busy? It's just talking to tease you, but you actually believe it."

Sister Feng sighed pretentiously, beat Jia Mu's leg, and sighed: "I, if someone gives me a mallet, I will use it as a needle. Fortunately, the old lady can still cherish it, otherwise I would not be bullied." gone?"

You Shi's face changed when he heard this, but immediately smiled and said: "This monkey speaks so pitifully, old ancestor, please love her more." Second Sister You, who was behind Sister Feng, also had a gentle face with a bit of kindness, and she just wanted to live a life of worry-free life.

"Now you go into the palace to see the mother's body, please be careful. She is pregnant with dragon descendants." Jia Mu has not seen Yuan Concubine for a long time because of her uneasy body, and now she naturally wants to ask You Shi and Sister Feng.

After hearing this, Sister Feng hurriedly bowed and said with a smile: "Our majesty is very expensive now, the emperor often orders that Eunuch Liu to deliver supplements, and the chief imperial physician of the imperial hospital always takes the pulse himself, isn't it extremely important?"

Youshi smiled and said: "That's not it, the emperor even ordered someone to give us some things when he entered the palace a few days ago. I don't see how expensive and valuable these things are. That's the blessing of our family and even the empress. Concubine Li also took good care of her, and she put all the maids around her at her mercy."

Jia Mu's face suddenly beamed with joy, and she smiled straight: "This is excellent. The empress is born to be a noble person and is the pillar of our family. You should serve me well, and don't be slack in the slightest. Those court ladies The eunuch is kind enough to give a reward in order to keep the empress safe and sound."

Both Youshi and Sister Feng agreed, and Jia Amnesty and Jia Zheng came in to greet Jiamu at this time. Jiamu said again: "I know you are a lot of age, and you should have some ideas. Now I see Baoyu Now that you are safe, the old man will work harder, let the aunts in the mansion take good care of Zijuan beside Baoyu, and I will add a big fat boy to you when the time comes."

Jia Amnesty listened and nodded. Since Baoyu is his son, he will naturally think about him, so he said with a smile: "Don't worry about the old lady, son, Baoyu is the son's own son, and the baby in Zijuan's belly He is my son's grandson, so I will naturally send someone to take care of him."

He looked at Jia's mother and said, "Now the expenses in my son's room are getting bigger and bigger. I have chains and precious jade, and now I'm going to add a fat grandson. After all, this room is a little tight. I don't know the old lady."

When Jia's mother heard Jia She's words, her anger rose in her heart. He took his daughter to exchange for a concubine, but now he said that he has no money, and it was her idea of ​​those things. Well, the past few years have been going well. Besides, your salaries have been increased by 200 taels of silver, which is enough for you to spend." He paused and said: "You are getting old now, don't always be a Little Wife If you marry a little wife, it will make the younger generation laugh at you for being old and disrespectful."

Jia Amnesty was begging for money but he didn't want to be robbed by Jia Mu, his face turned pale immediately, his face could hardly hide the anger, his greedy eyes looked at the decorations in Jia Mu's room, he just gritted his teeth and backed away. down.

Mother Jia asked everyone in the house to retreat, leaving only Sister Feng beside her, and said, "Did you see your sister Lin when you entered the palace these days?"

Sister Feng was suspicious in her heart, but then she laughed and said: "I only went to the palace to see Concubine Yuan. As for Princess Beijing, maybe I haven't heard from her for a long time."

Mother Jia nodded, said a few words to Sister Feng in a low voice, and said, "Your sister Lin has been married for nearly half a year now, but there is not even a good news. It seems that someone came to the door yesterday to say goodbye to Prince Beijing. , you think about it, if your fourth younger sister is allowed to go into the mansion, at least you will be taken care of by your younger sister Lin, and besides, she knows all about it, wouldn't it be better than other families?"

Sister Feng looked at Jia's mother in amazement, thinking that Jia's mother hadn't cut off Daiyu's thoughts, she felt a little troubled at once, thinking of Daiyu's resolute love for Jia's family that day, she even greeted the spring and explored the spring. Xichun and the three sisters never cared about her again.

Although Xichun is good, but after all her temperament is cold, and she is afraid that Mother Jia will lose her plan, so she said with a smile: "Old lady, if this is the case, the granddaughter-in-law also thought about it, but the fourth sister is young. Secondly, Princess Beijing has only entered the mansion half a year ago, I'm afraid she has to make peace before Princess Beijing."

Mother Jia frowned, with a very unhappy face, and said: "I don't know if this is the case. I just thought that your sister Lin has some prejudices against our family, so when I let you enter the palace, I at least reminded her a little bit. Those who know the basics are no better than her." Are those people who harbor evil intentions much better? Your sister Lin has always been smart, and she should know what to choose and what to give up."

Sister Feng was secretly surprised when she heard this, and hurriedly agreed. Now she and Sister Qiao still need to rely on Jia Mu to live; Second Sister You was pregnant when she entered the mansion. Wouldn't it be her status to have a son? Sooner or later it will not be guaranteed, it is better to agree first.

Then he said with a smile: "The old lady is extremely filtery. If you want to follow Sister Lin's intelligent temperament, you must know what is good and what is bad. Besides, the fourth younger sister has always been close to Sister Lin, so it can't be said that the old lady This granddaughter and granddaughter will get auspicious."

Mother Jia was more and more satisfied, she nodded, looked at Sister Feng and said with a smile: "You have worked hard in our mansion for many years, no matter what you have in the future, you will not be able to surpass you after all, you can rest assured to take care of our mansion. Big and small matters."

When Sister Feng heard Jiamu's words, she was even more horrified, and she hurriedly responded and retreated.

Ping'er, who was welcoming Sister Feng, came forward to support Sister Feng, but seeing Sister Feng's pale face, she was shocked and said, "Grandma, what's wrong with you?"

Sister Feng waved her hands, and she was silent for a long while, she just supported Ping'er's hand and walked into the house, and drove away all the people in the house, then looked down at Ping'er and said: "The old lady is thinking about sending the fourth sister to the Beijing Palace. , Let me say that with Sister Lin, at least I can get the position of side concubine."

Ping'er, who was holding the tea bowl, paused in his hand, and the hot tea was spilled out, he hurriedly put the tea bowl on the high table, with a serious face, he said: "Grandma, what do you think?"

Sister Feng rubbed the center of her brows wearily, and said: "Sister Lin is such a transparent person, and Prince Beijing loves him so much. Those people who entered the mansion yesterday didn't seem to get any benefits. What's more, in our mansion, only I'm afraid I will touch the ashes of my nose, and I'm afraid it will make Sister Lin cold-hearted, our Jia family is getting worse every day, and we can't keep that day."

Sister Feng stopped talking in a hurry, looked around, Ping'er nodded knowingly, walked to the porch, and called out loudly: "Feng'er." Feng'er responded and ran in from the courtyard , looked at Ping'er and said with a smile: "Miss Ping, what orders do you have?"

Seeing no one around, Ping'er immediately smiled and said: "It's not a big deal, but I just called you to bring the roster that was dedicated to the empress the day before yesterday. Grandma wants to come again to have a look, at least to make sure again. If there is something wrong, I can clean it up." Feng'er listened and agreed, then turned and went outside to the long room.

Ping'er put down the soft curtain, walked into the house, poured a cup of hot tea for Sister Feng again, and carefully beat Sister Feng's sore legs with the beauty beater, sighing: "Grandma should think about it too. How did Miss Li Lin get away in this mansion? Later, when the old lady came to the door, she made things happen again. The second wife and the eldest wife actually poisoned Miss Lin. Does the old lady really not know? Where is the crystal person like Miss Lin? Can you not understand?"

"That's exactly what I think. Sister Lin looks weak, but she has a strong will inside. The fourth sister in the mansion can be compared with it. Think about it, since the relationship between the two is so good, the fourth sister is also How can there be any good results for studying Buddhism wholeheartedly? If I said, if I really told the fourth sister about this matter now, wouldn’t it make the fourth sister shameless? It would make the younger sister Lin even more disgusted? When the time comes If something really happens, we are really Qiaoer, then there is really no one to protect us."

Ping'er sighed softly, looked at Sister Feng's increasingly tired face, and said: "Grandma, your health is getting worse and worse. Since the fourth girl is the daughter of the Ning family, Mo Ruohui, the old lady, will pass this on to Zhen Da. How is grandma?"

When Sister Feng heard this, she immediately put down the tea bowl in her hand, held Ping'er's hand and said, "Why didn't I think of this? Fortunately, Ping'er, you mentioned it. I will go back to the old lady tomorrow and say that I am not well." , those who live well will be raised."

Ping'er nodded, his eyes were a little red, and said: "Grandma has suffered enough these years. She had to worry about Grandma Rong's funeral that year, and even just gave birth to Qiao'er, she didn't even take care of her bones. It's time to rest."

Sister Feng smiled bitterly, looked at Ping'er, then looked at the soft curtain embroidered with gold thread hanging from the floor in the wing room outside the window, the phoenix's eyes had an idea in an instant, those cold eyes seemed to be trapped on a volcano The spreading wings of the phoenix is ​​bound to break through gold and stone, break through layers of fire, and reach the top.

"Ping'er, you went to call your second master, and said that the elder said yesterday that he would give Qiutong to him. I know that he and Qiutong have some good things on weekdays, and he has done a good job. I want to come If the Elder Master rewards him, he will also reward him with Qiutong, right?" Feng Yan had a cold and stern plan in his eyes, as if the wise and calculating Feng Sister in the past had returned.

Ping'er didn't know whether to be happy or sad, so he only held Sister Feng's hand, and sighed softly: "When Miss Lin was leaving that day, she once told the servants a few words."

Sister Feng turned around to look at Ping'er's drooping face in surprise, and said, "Did Sister Lin ever say anything?"

"Miss Lin said that grandma is too strong, and some things are too much, so it may not be good. If you take a step back in everything, you will leave a place for grandma and sister Qiao to retreat when the time comes."

When Sister Feng heard these words, she felt as if she was enlightened. Huo stood up, and then slowly sat down on the recliner behind her. She looked at the shadow of the branches outside the window for a long time, looked at Ping'er, and said: "Ping'er, you don't need to go to the old man's place anymore, even if the old man rewards the second master in the future, let's talk about it at that time."

Ping'er listened and agreed, and it happened that the nurse outside led Qiao'er in, and Feng'er stopped Heping'er's words, and only pulled Qiao'er into her arms, caressing her pink and tender face, with a hint of sadness on the countenance.