Daiyu of the Red Chamber owes no one

Let's say that on the day of returning to Beijing from Jiangnan, a group of people escorted Zhen Yingjia and others to Jingkou Wharf.This end was being driven to be loaded into a ship, and Sun Yu, the governor of the south of the Yangtze River, came to see him off with officials of all sizes from the governor's yamen.The officials saluted, Sun Yu said something about the sage Shengming, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, who captured the traitor Zhen Yingjia and wiped out the harm for the people. The people in the south of the Yangtze River were very grateful. It was presented on behalf of the people in the south of the Yangtze River.

The crown prince ordered people to take it away, and said that Mr. Sun, who sits in the south of the Yangtze River, governs one side, has made great contributions to the country, and after returning to Beijing alone, he will report to his father and emperor, so that all officials can learn.Sun Yu laughed all over his face when he heard this, as if the crown prince really praised him, and he deserved it.

After a few words of politeness here, Sun Yu on the other end saw Sun Qing in the prison car.Although Sun Qing was brought up by Mrs. Sun Yu's expressionless mood when she was young, she was born into an official family. She was a spoiled young lady who lived like a mouse at the bottom of the mountain temple before. Upper body, how can I bear it?When I saw my own grandfather, I tried my best to endure it, but my eyes were red and tears were rolling, but I didn't dare to cry.

Sun Yu glanced at Sun Qing, but Sun Qing couldn't tell what his grandfather looked like, nor could he tell whether he was sad or happy to see his relatives.With just such a glance, the grandfather and grandson did not speak. Sun Yu led all the officials to watch the prince and his party board the ship, and then he led everyone back to the yamen.

Because the crown prince went south in person, not only the royal cook was on board, but also fresh melons, fruits and vegetables were bought at the shore every day.Such a boat is very slow, stopping and going.On this day, the crown prince and Lin Zhen were playing chess in the cabin, while Li Han and Liu Xianglian were standing side by side at the bow of the boat to watch the scenery.As long as it is said that the two of them are looking at the scenery, it is not seen that the two of them are looking far away, but they are actually looking down at the ship's side and the water bank.

Li Han glanced at the river parted by the bow of the boat, and said with a smile, "Interesting, although the day is hot, the wind from the river is very cool."

Liu Xianglian looked at Jiang Shui and smiled: "It's quite interesting."

The chess game between the prince and Lin Rong was inextricably fought. General Lin Rong fought a battle in the upper left corner, and a black dragon in the middle was entangled by the prince's white chess pieces.After half a day, both of them were tired, so they closed the chess game and exercised their muscles and bones.At this time, the two people looked up and saw Li Han and Liu Xianglian standing side by side on the bow of the boat.

The prince smiled and said, "During the dog days, you two are not afraid of the sun? What are you doing standing at the bow of the boat? Why don't you hurry up and eat two iced grapes, and then tell Gu who can win this game of chess?"

After hearing this, Li Han and Liu Xianglian looked at each other and said, "Then you have to distinguish carefully, otherwise the lower officials will not dare to make a judgment." So they went into the cabin, got a pen and paper, and the pen walked around the dragon to write. .

Li Han said with a smile: "Brother Yu, the good dragon didn't care about this game, how could he lose his upper hand with nothing?" He didn't stop in his hand, but wrote on the paper: Someone is following us under the water.

Lin Feng listened, and snorted dissatisfiedly: "You know what, my father said, the grass belly with golden horns and silver borders, although I am trapped by the dragon, the upper left corner is empty. The prince takes power, I have to be solid, This game of chess has to be decided again." While Lin Feng was speaking, the prince wrote on the paper: Seriously?

Liu Xianglian said again: "Brother Yu really has a long history of family learning. Mr. Lin taught him, maybe he is good. I also think that the outcome of this game of chess is unpredictable." Wrote: It is true that there are people at the bottom of the water, and they have been following us for several days, but we don't know who they are coming for.

After hearing this, Li Han said again: "Chess players, if you make a careless move, you will lose the whole game. Now the situation is complicated, and it depends on who makes no mistakes. This chess game is entangled at the moment, and it is really difficult to tell the winner." He said again. : "The iced grapes are really sweet." But he took a pen and wrote: According to the judge, the opponent will not act within the boundary of Jiangnan.

The four people present are all smart people, after seeing this sentence, they all understand it very well.They looked at each other and nodded.Lin Feng added: "It's only half a day in the sun, how much heat has accumulated, and now I'm eating iced grapes again, carefully, the heat will not disperse, and I will have a stomachache tomorrow. You don't take care of your body when you are young, and you will feel better when you are old." , and took a pen and wrote: Xuzhou Weishan Lake Water Village.

Hearing this, Li Han smiled heartily and said, "Master is the most important way to maintain one's health, and Brother Cheng has also learned a lot. I only practice martial arts and swords since I was young, so as to strengthen my body and bones. I can't help but have a few iced grapes. Besides, you are so young, yet you are so old-fashioned in front of me." These few words were originally to tell the prince and others that the few people at the bottom of the water are nothing to worry about.

And when Lin Rong wrote the words "Xuzhou Weishan Lake Water Village", the prince and the others couldn't help but cast admiring glances at him: Although Lin Rong was the youngest among the four, he reacted quickly and made her think of the key first where.The prince also knew what he meant, and said with a smile: "Although our boat is good, after all, it's boring for us to wear it all day long. It's better to abandon the boat and go ashore in another day. Let's go back to Beijing immediately. There are many officers and soldiers escorting this criminal. Thinking is nothing to worry about."

Hearing this, Li Han pretended to be panicked and persuaded: "Returning to His Royal Highness, the criminals arrested this time are all those who have committed numerous crimes, and the crimes escorted this time are all valuable, so it is not appropriate to be careless. The following officials' strategy is to wrong His Highness the Crown Prince to personally take custody with the boat. In this summer, I can only wrong His Highness the Crown Prince to endure for a few more days." As he spoke, he took a pen and paper and wrote: This plan is very clever !

The prince at the other end smashed an inkstone and said, pretending to be angry: "If you want to play in the south of the Yangtze River for a few more days, you don't allow it, and if you want to walk on the dry road, you don't allow it. You just remember that the father told you to be careful all the way, don't worry about it." You have to be the master of the matter alone, and you are not afraid that after returning to Beijing, you will be alone and you will be governed!"

Li Han said in panic again: "Even if the crown prince wants to punish the subordinate officials after returning to the capital, the subordinate officials have to escort the crown prince back to Beijing safely. With so many people in custody committing crimes, the subordinate officials would never dare to divide their forces into floods and droughts." No matter whether the crown prince is frightened or the crimes are robbed, the lower officials cannot bear it. Therefore, we have to concentrate our troops and return to Beijing together to take care of each other." The prince snorted coldly again, saying that he will beat you after returning to Beijing.

While the prince was yelling, Li Han and Liu Xianglian all put their ears on the bottom of the cabin near the ship's side.Lin Feng went to persuade the prince again to say that it is a great summer, His Royal Highness, calm down, don't be so angry that you will break your body and so on.Half a day later, Li Han and Liu Xianglian straightened up and whispered the words "Leave".

It turned out that when the prince and his party boarded the ship and left the shore, they were followed by spies sent by someone.The prince and the other four chatted and wrote down their real intentions with pen and paper at the same time, originally to confuse the underwater spies.As for the prince being furious at the end, he deliberately made it known to the spies, making the spies think that the fleet must be taking water to enter Beijing.

Now it is still in the border of Jiangnan, Jiangnan water town, rivers and lakes are everywhere.One side of water and soil supports one side of people. On the border of the south of the Yangtze River, there are countless white stripes in the waves with excellent water quality. These people can stay in the bottom of the water all day long with a breathable straw.Among these spies, there is a kind of spies with excellent hearing ability, who can hear the voices of the people on board by putting their ears on the bottom of the boat. Just now, the prince and his party used tricks to let these spies get false information.And several people's real intentions and strategies have been silently written on paper.

It is also said that such trained underwater spies are extremely difficult to deal with. If they hold a sharp weapon, they can cut through the bottom of a ship in deep water without saying a single enemy, and often one person can destroy a whole ship of soldiers.Being entangled by such a difficult spy, how could Li Han and Liu Xianglian not be alarmed.

At the beginning, the two were not sure that anyone would dare to follow their group underwater, so His Royal Highness was on the boat, and the slightest disrespect by these underwater people was a crime of treason.Unexpectedly, there really were some desperate people, Li and Liu stood at the bow of the boat for several days, their skins were quite tanned, only then did they confirm that they were indeed being followed.

And the reason why Li Han boldly judged that there will be no accidents with the group on the Jiangnan boundary is because these spies have been following the fleet for several days, and if they wanted to do something, they would have done it long ago.Doing something outside of Jiangnan is probably to remove the suspicion of local officials in Jiangnan province.

When Lin Feng saw Li Han wrote "There will be no accidents in the territory of the south of the Yangtze River", he immediately thought of "Xuzhou Weishan Lake Water Village".

In this dynasty, Xuzhou was the junction of Jiangnan and Shandong provinces, and a water village was set up in Weishan Lake in Xuzhou.Li Han and Liu Xianglian on the fleet are naturally skilled in martial arts, but they are not proficient in water skills. If they go to the Xuzhou Water Village to borrow a navy escort, they will have no hidden worries.

On this day, when the fleet arrived in Xuzhou, the prince and his party were not in a hurry, and even visited the water village in Xuzhou for a day.

The next day, when the prince and his party set off again, they felt that the boat was going too slowly, and when they came by boat, the scenery on both sides of the strait was almost the same.The prince then ordered the soldiers to go north along the waterway, while he only led a team of troops to ride northward and quickly entered Beijing.

But he said that the underwater spies who followed the prince and his party were originally sent by Sun Yu.After Zhen Guifei's misfortune, Sun Yu's life is not much better than that of Zhen Yingjia.Although the Sun family's affairs were kept secret, but just because Liu Fu, who was hunted down by Sun Yu's men back then, is now being used in Beijing, the Sun family must be convicted.But if the Sun family had only one crime of cooperating with Zhen Yingjia in selling smuggled salt, that is, chasing and killing the imperial court official, and Liu Fu was not killed, the Sun family's crime would be lighter than other felonies if they were exposed together.Sun Yu thought that if he committed the crime alone, his descendants would not be allowed to take the imperial examination for at most three generations, and he would still be alive, which is better than punishing the nine clans.

But it is different when Zhen Yingjia enters Beijing smoothly: if Zhen Yingjia is eager to pay off his crimes and accuse Sun Yu of all his crimes, the Sun family may not be enough to punish the nine clans.So Sun Yu sent underwater killers to scuttle the boat that Zhen Yingjia and his party were on in the waters of Weishan Lake at the junction of the two provinces.Zhen Yingjia and the others were wearing shackles. If they fell into the water, they would surely die.As for escorting the officers and soldiers on the boat, if you know how to swim, if the boat sinks, you will have to escape for your own life, so who will care about criminals?

Therefore, on the day the prince and his party set off, Sun Yu went to the pier to see him off. Sun Qing only felt that his grandfather looked at him with various complex emotions in his eyes, which were incomprehensible.It turned out that Sun Yu knew that Sun Qing had been divorced, and she had never done any evil directly. She went to Beijing for interrogation, so she might still have a chance.But if the boat the prisoner was on was scuttled, and Sun Qing happened to be on the same boat as Zhen Yingjia, she must have sunk dead at the bottom of the river. It turned out that her real grandfather sacrificed his soldiers to protect the other members of the Sun family.After all, she was the granddaughter of her own biological relatives, so the way Sun Yu looked at Sun Qing on the dock that day contained a lot of words.

The spies sent by Sun Yu were found out by Li Han and Liu Xianglian. The two, the crown prince, and Lin Zhen used the discussion of the chess game to pass on the false news that the fleet was going northward step by step.The spy heard the conversation between the four princes, and went back to tell Sun Yu exactly what happened.Sun Yu thought that the prince and his party must stop once a day and enter Beijing along the waterway.So Fei Ge sent a letter to the killer who followed the prince and his party, ordering him to scuttle and imprison the boat carrying Zhen Yingjia and his party in the Weishan Lake waterway in Xuzhou.

In addition to being located at the junction of Jiangnan and Shandong provinces, Xuzhou is also a good place for shipbuilding because the water area of ​​the Grand Canal near Weishan Lake is extremely wide and the water area is extremely deep.After passing Weishan Lake, most of the canals are artificially dug to the north, which is good enough for boats, and it is hard to find such a good water area.

Unexpectedly, the fleet of the prince and his party would anchor at the hour of Chen and drop anchor at the hour of you. They must have purchased fresh fruits and vegetables, so the prince was willing to eat.According to this rule, there are still two days to go to the original Weishan Lake waters.At You hour of the same day, the fleet dropped anchor, but only had a quick dinner, then took advantage of the killer's surprise and anchored overnight, and went straight to Xuzhou Weishan Lake Water Village.

Speaking of Xuzhou water village, it was originally a drought a few years ago, and the south of Shandong and the south of the Yangtze River were all affected.Since then, thieves have become popular everywhere, and a group of water bandits followed the example of Liangshan in the past, and carried out activities around Weishan Lake, burning, killing and looting, causing public dissatisfaction.Later, the imperial court sent officers and soldiers to suppress the bandits, and then set up a water village in Weishan Lake.

Taking advantage of the killer's surprise, the prince and his party entered the water stronghold and dispatched a navy to escort Zhen Yingjia and others to the capital. The killer sent by Sun Yu had no chance to attack and watched the fleet go north.The prince and his party abandoned the boat in Xuzhou and walked on dry road.Entering Beijing on a light horse, the original intention was second-level: firstly, the group didn't know that Sun Yu was only aiming to kill people, and was only planning to attack Zhen Yingjia's boat. The prince is the prince of a country, and the relationship is very important. Isn't it too dangerous?Several people discussed that being careful is the best, and unexpectedly chose the dry road to go. With Li Han and Liu Xianglian two masters present, no one could touch them on the dry road.Second, the group of people does have important things to do.

On the day the crown prince entered Beijing, he had an interview with Sheng, and Emperor Ding'an hurriedly recruited Lin Ruhai into the palace. After discussing the countermeasures, he appointed a new official to go to Jiangnan to take over the post of governor on the same day.It turned out that the prince and his party rushed to Beijing, and they also wanted to ask for an order to deal with Sun Yu earlier, so as to give him less time to turn around.

But after Lin Feng returned home, Lin Ruhai was called into the palace, and only Jia Min and Daiyu were the ones to welcome him.Lin Feng talked about all the things he went south this time. Although he was young, he was eloquent, and he spoke vividly: Jia Min's mother and daughter heard how embarrassed Zhen Yingjia and his wife were, and felt happy in their hearts. This person has finally suffered retribution.When Jia Min heard that the group of people boarded the ship from Jingkou to Xuzhou, and were followed by killers all the way, she was so scared that she covered her heart.When it was heard that Lin Feng was the first to think of Xuzhou Water Village, his face was full of relief and pride.

After Lin Feng finished speaking, Jia Min's mother and daughter talked about the matter in Beijing again, and Daiyu said: "Brother Ling said that you tricked Zhen Yingjia into exposing himself, and personally took you to copy the mountain temple. Why did you come forward?" Son, I also heard that some servants of the Zhen family sent several large boxes to the grandmother's house, and the second aunt quietly took them away? And she boasted so much, how did you predict the enemy's opportunity, how did you trick Zhen Yingjia into the trap? They secretly transported property to Beijing, but you were concealed?" He stretched out an index finger and scratched his face.

Seeing Daiyu's expression, Lin Feng blushed a little, and said with disdain again: "Sister, I don't even think about it. A few servants have traveled so far with so much gold and silver. How can a bandit not come here?" Encountered, actually entered the capital?"

Daiyu was also taken aback when she heard this, and said with some emotion: "It is also a common trick to catch big fish with a long line. The second aunt is greedy, and she deserves what she deserves when she is fooled. Only the eldest aunt's family will not be implicated in the future." Jia's back house If the management is not good, Mrs. Wang's receipt of the Zhen family's belongings will all reach the ears of Youshi in the East Mansion the next day. It can be seen that the news in the mansion spreads very quickly, and it thinks it is tight, but it is full of loopholes.In her previous life, Daiyu knew that Mrs. Wang hid a fortune from the Zhen family after the Zhen family was raided, so she should be more careful in this life.Three days before Lin Feng and others returned to Beijing, several servants of the Zhen family sent several boxes to Rongguo Mansion.

Because Sun Qing was pregnant in this life, Zhen Yingjia and his wife turned most of their belongings into Zhen Baoyu and left them to Zhen Baoyu. The things that were transported to the capital were just in case, not as much as in previous lives.However, the Jia family in this life has never received the Lin family's wealth, and they have already run out of money. Mrs. Wang is also very jealous of this sum of money. Obviously, the Jia family in this life has no support from Jia Yuanchun. fiscal.

Lin Feng listened and said: "Second brother Lian made great contributions to the incident in the suburbs of Beijing. The saint rewards and punishments are clear, even if the burden is limited. Jia Wang deserves what he deserves, but it's just an additional crime. We can't control that much." Because Mrs. Wang colluded with Zhen Yingjia at the beginning, it was Lin Feng who poisoned him. In private, Lin Feng sometimes called Mrs. Wang Jia Wang's family, and the second aunt didn't even bother to call her.

Daiyu heard the troublesome words, thinking about how many daring things the original Wang Xifeng did at this time in the previous life under the instigation of Mrs. Wang.If Wang Xifeng in this life is the same as in the previous life, even Lian's second elder brother won't be troubled if he has made great contributions, so he fell into a deep thought.

Speaking of this second sister-in-law, she is also very clever and clumsy. Everyone says she is very smart, but she did all the things that offended others.Behind the scenes, all the masters and servants in the house said that Ping'er was good, and there were many who cursed her to help Ping'er after she died. As a master, she was considered incompetent if she was overwhelmed by others.But thinking that Wang Xifeng could be regarded as being harmed by Mrs. Wang, she has a half-hearted hatred with herself.In her previous life, Wang Xifeng also compared Daiyu to an actor, so Daiyu didn't like her, but for the sake of Lian's second brother and sister Qiao, Daiyu felt somewhat sympathetic to her.If she changes her life in this life, it's not that she can't mention a thing or two.

While the family was talking, the woman outside came back and said that the second master Lian had just handed over the post, saying that he was here to greet Uncle Lian.