Ten Miles of Spring Breeze in Red Mansions

The little white cat is about bigger than the palm of your hand, lying in Lin Daiyu's arms and meowing.

The whole body is white, one eye is green and the other is blue. They are wide open at the moment, looking at Lin Daiyu pitifully.

"Call you Baibai." Lin Daiyu scratched Baibai's chin, rubbed her hand in vain, narrowed her eyes very lazily.

"The face has changed quickly." Xueque kept laughing, "I heard that it was sent by Fan Bang, and the natural color of the pupils is different."

"It's beautiful. Did the person who sent it say what it eats?" Lin Daiyu asked.

Xueque put a thick letter on the kang table, "It's all written here."

Lin Daiyu opened the letter with her hands free, and she knew it was written by Yan Ji when she saw the words. She listed all the things that the little white cat should pay attention to in daily life. it."

Baibai, as Xueque said, is very good at changing faces. At this moment, he is meowing very pitifully. The next moment, he can jump on the desk to step on the inkstone to play, and step on many black plum blossom marks on Lin Daiyu's paintings.

When Yan Ji received Lin Daiyu's painting, he couldn't help laughing. Ling Shuang and Aoxue's red plums are so strong, but they stepped on so many round-headed and round-headed footprints.

"Meow!" Bai Bai was lying on the swing, shaking all over.

Lin Daiyu poked it, "I'll tell you to be brave again, will you dare to do it in the future?"

"...Meow" I don't know if it understood or not, so I just continued to shout miserably.

"Sit down, girl, let me push you. It's a bit windy now, so it's comfortable to swing." Xueque said.

Lin Daiyu also became interested, took Bai Bai into her arms, and went to play on the swing by herself.

The little guy was so frightened by flying around so high that he didn't even dare to meow, he nestled in Lin Daiyu's arms obediently, not daring to move, Lin Daiyu said after playing for a while, "Put me down quickly. "

"What's wrong with the girl? But I pushed too high."

"No, I'm holding Baibai in one hand, for fear of dropping it."

"Shall I hold it for the girl?"

"No need, I'm a little tired, I want to go back and lie down." Lin Daiyu said, but her face blushed silently.

She had just swung to the highest point, and from the shadow of the flowers, she saw two people walking side by side, the taller one was her uncle Lin Yuan, and the shorter one had delicate eyebrows, somewhat similar to Princess Boping.

It seems that it is a little different from when we met in Yangzhou before, and it grows taller.

Ah, you don't care if he's tall or not.Lin Daiyu became a little annoyed, turned over and covered her face with a pillow, but in vain did not know what she was doing, thought she was going to play hide-and-seek with her, and her little claws grabbed Lin Daiyu's hair and were about to crawl on her.

"Baibai! Don't grab your hair!" Lin Daiyu sat up awkwardly, and freed her black hair from its claws, "I'm going to hang you up and beat you, and hang you under the window as a wind chime, believe it or not?"

Lin Daiyu held Bai Bai by the back of the neck, one person and one cat looked at each other, and Bai Bai used his trump card, meowing pitifully.

"It's no use pretending to be pitiful."

Bai Bai was carried stiffly by her, "Meow."

After a stalemate for a while, Lin Daiyu said angrily, "Okay, I will spare you once, if you pull my hair again, I will really hang up and beat you."

She lay back again, rubbing the hair balls with her hands, "I don't know if my uncle will do well in the imperial examination. If he wins the first prize, he will win the third prize. I don't know when he will end the exam."

Then he suddenly reacted and said with a puffed face, "What does it matter to me whether he takes the exam or not?"

Xueque, who was by the bed, covered her mouth and dared not laugh out loud, for fear of embarrassing the girl who was talking to herself.

For some reason, this year's late spring banquet was much earlier than in previous years. Before the palace examination, the post from Guangwang's Palace came.

On that day, Lin Daiyu was still elegant, her sky blue clothes were embroidered with clusters of black bamboo, she had a jasper bamboo hairpin in her hair, and on her wrist she still only wore the string of Buddhist beads given by Master Jingkong.

The concubine's confidant nanny greeted her at the door and led Lin Daiyu to the backyard. Ming Yilan had arrived early, and Lin Daiyu was suspicious that neither of them would entertain guests outside as usual.

Ming Yilan said directly, "Come here and sit, just stay with me today and don't move around. This time, it's the late spring banquet hosted by Princess Ji. Both cats and dogs are invited. You don't have to be entangled by any shabby household. I lost yours." identity."

Lin Daiyu nodded in agreement, and obediently sat beside her.

The concubine Shizi laughed, "Sure enough, she is going to be a mother-in-law, and she knew so early on to protect her daughter-in-law."

"I don't understand my sister-in-law's words. Could it be that I treated her badly in the past?" Ming Yilan replied with a smile, "Do you still like that cat?"

Lin Daiyu's face flew red, and she whispered, "I like it."

"It's good if you like it. This kid has a solid eye. Let's see how many more cats he can give you. You have enough white rabbits and white cats. There is probably another white bird, white fish, and white dog waiting for you." Ming Yilan squeezed With Lin Daiyu's small face, "Your uncle is now a well-known young talent in Beijing, if anyone gets close to you, just don't know."

"I'm with the princess, so no one would dare to get close." Lin Daiyu also understood that before Lin Yuan's real high school, there might be someone who wanted to trap this talent and make an engagement before the palace examination.

Ming Yilan squeezed again, "Are you making up my Aunt Tiger?"

Lin Daiyu pushed her slightly anxiously, "How could I mean that, the princess is teasing me?"

Both Ming Yilan and Shi Zifei laughed, Shi Zifei said, "Sit next to me and watch your mother-in-law bully you again."

Lin Daiyu stood up and turned her back to them, "...the imperial concubine also bullies others."

"Okay, I won't bully you anymore." Ming Yilan pulled her over and hugged her, "It's too late for us to hurt you."

After arriving at the banquet, Lin Daiyu realized what cats and dogs were all here. In the past two years, all she saw at the late spring festival were clansmen or aristocratic daughters. Shi Xiangyun.

She saw the two of them whispering together, she just pretended not to see them.

Now that Shi Xiangyun is out of the control of her aunt, and she has money around her, she is living a happy life. I saw her wearing a big red silk jacket, and a unicorn with red gold dots on her chest.

Yan Qingzheng talked to her about the rumors, and it was a good comfort, "Now that Sister Yun is free from the sea of ​​suffering, the old lady really has nothing to say to you. Why bother what other people say, the world is so harsh Yes, what kind of etiquette, like a monster who eats people, who is easily blamed, how can he look like a person?"

Shi Xiangyun echoed her and said, "None of my sisters have the broad-mindedness and insight of Sister Yan. Youdao is a real celebrity. You are a romantic person. How happy and indulgent you are. We only need to relax occasionally, so we have to say these things. It's ridiculous. .”

Ming Yilan saw that Lin Daiyu's gaze stopped at a certain place, and followed her. Seeing the two, she snorted coldly and said, "Sure enough, both cats and dogs are here. Do you know that the post of Muchun Banquet sells for 1000 taels now? This girl from the Yan family is a good person, and she even brought Miss Shi here."

If she gave birth to such a deviant daughter, she must have thought that she might as well strangle her to death.

It doesn’t mean that the girl’s house must always be locked in the rules and regulations, and she can’t make any mistakes. For example, when Lin Daiyu raised a cat and played on a swing, she even took her to escape the summer heat or play with her sisters in the princess mansion. Don't stop it.

As long as the rules are good at home, you can play whatever you want, and you can be so presumptuous when you go out.It's just that the world is like this, you think you have a true temperament, others will only say that you are uneducated.

The peasant women in this field are really temperamental.

Lin Daiyu laughed, "Speaking of which, I saved 1000 taels."

Ming Yilan took the opportunity to teach her, "Those third-rate families will not begrudge the 1000 taels, if they can find one or two high-ranking friends, or let their daughter show their face to find a good marriage, the money is worth it. But what do these high-ranking families think? Just wait and see, Princess Stephanie will post next year for this petty profit, and no one will come. Have you seen Mrs. Shi's face?"

The old lady of Shige, the former emperor teacher, was surrounded by a circle of people, her face had already darkened, and those people still didn't know how to leave and refused to leave.

Lin Daiyu thought it was a bit funny again, she straightened her mind, and said seriously, "I remember. For us people, money is second, what we want is a reputation."

"That's right, that's what I said. If your family's fifth prince, a scholarly family, held a poetry meeting one day, and invited old friends to come, but ended up spending money to bring some cats and dogs. Your father went to court about You have to put on two layers of skin. This is not selling posts, but these old friends and relatives. The second princess has offended everyone this time."

Lin Daiyu pursed her lips, "Princess, I don't know if I should say something."

Ming Yilan thought she had some objection to this analogy, so she said, "Let me hear what you say."

"They took advantage of them, cats and dogs are so innocent. Bai Bai is obedient."

This was the worst time in Lin Daiyu's young life that kittens and puppies were hacked.

But when she said that Bai Bai was obedient, she completely forgot when Bai Bai stepped on the sky and the ground with a black plum blossom kick, and she only remembered the little dumpling in her arms who was swinging together but did not dare to move.

This time the banquet was arranged in the flower hall, not according to their status, but everyone sat in the seat they liked, Ming Yilan and Lin Daiyu sat alone at the table, leaning against the far right.

On the way, Ming Yilan went to a clean room, and Shi Xiangyun walked over immediately when he saw this, with the same smile, "I saw Sister Lin a long time ago, and I dare not come to say hello when the princess is here."

"Sister Yun is here too." Lin Daiyu smiled detachedly and decently.

Everyone looked over curiously, and Shi Xiangyun said again, "It's been a long time since I saw Sister Lin again, why did my sister not come to pay her respects on the old lady's birthday, the old lady is very sad."

Lin Daiyu looked at her strangely, "The old lady of Shi Hou's family passed away a long time ago. How come the birthday is Mingshou? Then why is it so sad? Sister Yun, don't scare me, I am very timid."

The lady at the table next to her smiled and said, "Miss Lin is really not well informed. Now this person lives in your grandparent's house, probably talking about your grandmother."

"So that's the case, thank you for your advice." Lin Daiyu stood up and blessed her, saw the other party smiled and turned back, and then continued to talk to Shi Xiangyun, "So you said that grandma, father is busy with official duties, and uncle is going to have a palace exam. The family really couldn't get away, so I specially prepared a generous gift, hoping that my grandmother would forgive me, didn't Second Sister Lian say that she was very happy to see the birthday gift I presented? Sister Yun didn't hear it sad."