Daiyu of the Red Chamber owes no one

In addition to the large and small salt merchants who either sent people or came to the Lin family to celebrate the festival in person, the Lin family also occasionally walked with the officials stationed in Jiangnan.Sun Yu, governor of the south of the Yangtze River, Sun Yu's birthday coincides with the twelfth lunar month, and the Lin family has not yet left Suzhou, so they sent a post to the Lin family today.Jia Min took the greeting card, unfolded it, and thought that the card had already arrived at the mansion, it would be bad not to go, so he sent people back to Lin Ruhai, and at the same time replied to the carder and the sender: I just wish you all good luck and longevity, Our master will come to visit you again on your master's birthday.

Sure enough, when the day came, Lin Ruhai and Jia Min brought Daiyu and Lin Rongqi to Sun's residence as guests.This Sun Yu's family also lives in the official residence behind the governor's office in the south of the Yangtze River.Although it is an official residence, but because the governor of Jiangnan is a second-rank official, the official residence is also spacious.Although the Lianghuai salt transport envoy is a third-rank official, but because Lin Ruhai has the false title of doctor of Lantai Temple, Jia Min is also a second-rank official, and is of the same rank as the governor's wife, and only performs equal-rank rituals.

After meeting each other, Mrs. Sun Yu introduced to Jia Min the wives who came today, and praised Daiyu and Lin Zhen to the fullest. All the wives gave a lot of gifts.

Simply speaking, when Mrs. Sun Yu met Daiyu, she seemed to love her so much, she took Daiyu's hand and smiled and said to Jia Min: "There is such a beautiful person in the world. I live such an old age, and today I have seen it. Look at this appearance, you are even more handsome than the one who came down from the painting." Then he lowered his head and said to Daiyu, "Our family's Qing'er is about the same age as you, and it's just right for you two to be stubborn together." Talking to her side The maid had already brought a lifelike emerald orchid hairpin, and Mrs. Sun Yu took it and put it on for Daiyu herself.

Jia Min saw that the hairpin was full of bright green, transparent and flawless, and the carving was excellent, so she knew it was not ordinary, so she hurriedly put off saying that the gift was too expensive.Mrs. Sun Yu said with a smile: "With Miss Lin's appearance, no matter how good things are, I'm afraid that if they are bad, she will be humiliated. I reckon this is the only thing that can be sold. You don't think you are good enough for Miss Lin, Mrs. Lin, don't delay." Jia Min couldn't delay, so he had to accept it, and Daiyu thanked Mrs. Sun Yu politely without Jia Min's order.Mrs. Sun Yu asked her youngest daughter-in-law and eldest granddaughter to come and take Daiyu and other delicate guests together.

The youngest son of the Sun family, surnamed Sun Mingcheng, is not as good as the weak crown now. The youngest daughter-in-law is only 16 years old. Although she married into the Sun family last year, she is still a girl at heart.The eldest granddaughter of the Sun family is only one year older than Daiyu, and she is the son of Qing, Sun Qing, in Mrs. Sun Yu's mouth.

There is a coincidence about the Sun family.Other families are afraid that there will be no son to inherit the lintel, but this Sun family is worried that there will be no daughter Chenghuan.In Sun Yu's life, he had only brothers and no sisters; Sun Yu had two legitimate sons and three concubine sons, but no daughter.After Sun Yu's eldest son got married, he got a granddaughter in less than two years. Because the three generations of Sun's family were Ding Xingwang, they only had one daughter, the eldest granddaughter. It still hurts.Sun Yu is also a great official in the border region, the highest-ranking official in Jiangnan, and Sun Qing has the most noble status in Jiangnan, so he is inevitably a bit spoiled.

Sun Qing has always been used to being favored by the stars, not only the elders in the family dote on her, and the servants flatter her, but the guests who come to the Sun's house outside, who doesn't put her first?Today's grandfather's birthday, a girl Lin who has never moved around came, how could she go past her in the mouth of her grandmother?

After all, Sun Qing was young, and Mrs. Sun Yu praised Daiyu more than she thought that her grandmother was more important than herself.In addition, Daiyu's romantic attitude was different. Although Sun Qing didn't quite understand it, he could vaguely feel that Daiyu was extraordinary, as if she was really above him, so he started to enjoy it in his heart.Just now Mrs. Sun Yu was pulling Daiyu to talk, and seeing Mrs. Sun Yu giving the jadeite hairpin to Daiyu, Sun Qing felt even more displeased.After seeing the ceremony, Mrs. Sun Yu asked her to come up to meet Daiyu and the other guests who were guests at the house, and told Sun Cheng's wife to entertain everyone well and not to be negligent.

Sun Cheng's daughter-in-law took the order and left, but when she turned around, she saw that Sun Qing had disappeared.Sun Cheng's daughter-in-law had no choice but to take Daiyu and others to the flower hall. When they arrived at the entrance of the flower hall, Sun Cheng's wife was standing by the door, and the girl opened the curtain to let the guests in.Daiyu will step into the flower hall, but she hears voices.

I just heard a voice like a girl saying: "Our girl has never seen anything, it's just a jade hairpin. It's worth the girl's anger, who is to blame if she gets angry? Does our girl want any good things? Everyone says our girl It's the princesses of the whole south of the Yangtze River, so whoever's girl should be ranked behind the girl, the old lady is just new to Miss Lin, and it's our generosity to give her a good thing, which makes the girl even more dignified."

Another voice seemed to be Sun Qing's voice and said: "What do you know? That hairpin is my grandmother's dowry. I fell in love with it before, but my grandmother hasn't given it yet. It's not that I don't want a hairpin, but I don't want it. Things, even if they are thrown away, should not be given to others. Otherwise, what I can't get, but give to Miss Lin, wouldn't it appear that she is more noble than me. "

Since Daiyu, daughters of other families have also come in, and Sun Cheng's daughter-in-law is the last.Therefore, Daiyu naturally heard these words clearly, and when the other daughters of the family heard it, they also felt embarrassed: what does this girl of the Sun family say, what kind of princesses in the entire Jiangnan, is she also ranked behind Sun Qing?This is not only about Miss Lin, but also about herself?Sun Cheng's daughter-in-law came in and only heard the second half of the sentence, but her face turned red, and she was stunned for a while before she stepped forward and said, "Qing'er, why are you here? What nonsense are you talking about?"

It turned out that Sun Qing was hiding behind a pillar in the flower hall, and he heard footsteps coming this way, but deliberately sang and talked with the girl to Daiyu.It's just that she was young, but she didn't know that she had already offended most of the respectable girls in the south of the Yangtze River just to step down Daiyu.

Sun Qing was so pampered that he didn't know the seriousness, but Sun Cheng's daughter-in-law knew it very well.Although my husband is the eldest son, he is the youngest son. In the future, the family business will belong to the eldest brother, so the mother-in-law treats Daiyu kindly, naturally for the sake of forming a good relationship.It is also because Lin Ruhai is the Lianghuai Salt Transport Envoy who won the Sacred Heart, and Daiyu is Mr. Liu's disciple.But who doesn't respect Mr. Liu among scholars?If Sun Cheng gets a few words of guidance from Mr. Liu, it will be beneficial in the future.The mother-in-law's move was also thinking about Sun Cheng's future, and she didn't want to offend this ignorant niece before she made friends with Miss Lin.

Sun Cheng's daughter-in-law couldn't control that much, and said to Daiyu apologetically, "My Qing'er is ignorant, Miss Lin, don't blame me." Then she said to the two girls beside Sun Qing, "What is it? It’s time to persuade the girl. A slave dares to talk to the master. You can instigate a good girl to the bottom. If you don’t expose your skin today, you’ll be fine, and you don’t know how many things will happen in the future!”

The two big maids around Sun Qing blindly coaxed their own girls, relying on their wives who always doted on their girls, and their own grandma was the head grandma of the Sun family, they never took Sun Cheng's daughter-in-law seriously.Although I have never seen Sun Cheng's daughter-in-law so stern, she still doesn't care at this moment.

Xueyan was also a little angry when she heard this, but she followed Daiyu as a companion reader. Although she was young, she was steady and did not come forward to argue.Zisu is the big girl in Daiyu's room. Seeing that her girl is silent, she also stands by her side with a cold face.

When Daiyu heard Sun Qing's conversation with the girl, she quietly took off the hairpin and held it in her hand calmly.If it was the previous life, Daiyu must have thrown the hairpin to Sun Qing on the spot to maintain her self-esteem.Because she was a helpless orphan girl in her previous life, if she was a little submissive, how many people would climb on her head.As for Xiangyun and others and a group of servants who said that they are petite and annoying, it's just that they don't feel back pain when they stand and talk.Xiangyun felt uneasy, so she packed her bags and went back to Baolinghou's mansion. Besides, her family has a family of two princes, who would dare to let her suffer?If he had regressed like her, he would be even bolder than her.

After a flash of enlightenment, Daiyu came back to her senses and thought: In her previous life, her father died in office, and she didn't know the truth. At this moment, she couldn't let the Bai and Sun's houses get into a stalemate just because of a moment of loyalty.At present, it seems that Sun Yu wants to make friends with his father. Why should he make enemies for his father just because of the quarrel between his youngest daughters?Although my family is not afraid of the governor of Jiangnan, it is better to make friends than to make enemies.As long as she protects her parents and family in this life, Daiyu doesn't mind what others think of her.

The daughters of other families are all looking at Daiyu at this moment, who of the delicate guests who came to the banquet today is not famous in the south of the Yangtze River? Girl, I want to shame this self-righteous young lady.Seeing that Daiyu didn't respond while holding the hairpin, half of the people began to despise Daiyu in their hearts: I really haven't seen the world. Could it be that people are still greedy for a hairpin for the sake of talking?

Daiyu had just seen a girl next to Sun Cheng's daughter-in-law retreat, and she knew that the Sun family would come soon.So he looked up to the door, and sure enough Mrs. Sun Yu, Jia Min, the grandma of the Sun family and all the wives came.

When everyone was about to step into the flower hall, Sun Qing had already thrown himself into the arms of the grandma of the Sun family and cried, "Mother, why did auntie punish the girl next to me for being so good?" Then he said that it was actually big tears falling down. Come on, she was originally born very well, but now her face is full of grievances, which makes people feel distressed.If she didn't know the truth, she would have thought that she had really suffered a lot.Daiyu sighed slightly in her heart, no wonder this girl is so pampered that no one has raised her, it's no wonder she acted differently in front of adults at such a young age.

After everyone was about to enter the flower hall, there was already a wife who didn't want to cause trouble and wanted to take her daughter away. Daiyu walked up to Mrs. Sun Yu generously, and said with a slight blessing: "Mrs. Sun, I just heard Miss Sun say Well, Mrs. Sun also likes this hairpin very much. I often heard my father say at home that a gentleman does not steal people's love, so I dare not accept this hairpin." She said, handing over the hairpin with both hands.

Because the girls from other families also felt angry just now, they were also curious about how Daiyu would deal with it, and wished that Sun Qing would lose face, so they all stood where they were and did not leave.It was just this hesitation that Daiyu had already rushed to Mrs. Sun to return the hairpin. After hearing Daiyu's crisp words, she handed the hairpin in front of Mrs. Sun.

Mrs. Sun was taken aback, she had heard the story from the maids just now.If there were no girls from other families, it would be fine to accompany the Lin family by myself, but the daughters of each family have heard their granddaughters say such things, and if they force Daiyu to accept the hairpin, wouldn't it embarrass the Lin family?Daiyu didn't give the hairpin to a girl randomly on the spot, which was already very embarrassing to the Sun family, so she couldn't help but stretch out her hand to take the hairpin with a forced smile, and comfort Daiyu a few words.With a cold face, he ordered people to drag the two girls who provoked the master down and lock them up until the master's birthday passed.Then he turned around and said to Jia Min, Qing'er is still young, so she is not bad in nature, but she is just taught to instigate it to be broken, and please ask Mrs. Lin not to blame her.

Jia Min naturally said nothing, but everyone else thought: Is your granddaughter still called Xiao?Miss Lin looked a little younger, after all, it was because of the difference in family education.

Mrs. Sun took the hairpin, full of displeasure.Miss Lin really behaved properly at such a young age.Her sentence "A gentleman does not take away what others love" has already saved enough face for the Sun family, but it does not hurt the face of the Lin family.Besides, she didn't have an affair with Sun Qing, which is enough reason for generosity and kindness.

Sun Qing usually got into trouble, but when he cried, his grandmother's mother softened. Seeing her grandmother's face cold and her mother not daring to intercede, she was at a loss.