The eldest grandson of the Red Chamber

"It happened so suddenly, I have to explain something to Sister Lin, so that she can feel at ease. I'm afraid I won't return for a long time, and it's really hard for her to keep the misunderstanding in her heart." Mingxu took the opportunity to propose to meet Shang Daiyu one sight.

"There is some truth in what you said. To be honest, my granddaughter is sensitive and has a temper that refuses to lag behind others. I'm afraid she will feel sad this time." Jia Mu said and shook her head. Baoyu is here with me, everything is the first thing, no matter what, this time she is the only one who doesn't have it, so I don't know how unhappy that girl is.

"The old lady underestimates people. There is a reason for the incident, and you are always thinking of her. How can you not be happy?" Mingxu comforted.

"Although it was for her benefit, I was wronged after all. There are some things I can't say, but you should talk to her carefully when you see her, and don't make her feel uncomfortable." Seeing that Ming Xu didn't feel disgusted, Jia Mu said, But thinking about persuading Lin girl, he knew that he really didn't take it to heart, and thinking silently in his heart, he was really underage and nothing had happened.Thinking this way in my heart, I let him go as soon as I let go.

"Junior understands, thank you, old lady." Ming Xu clasped his hands together and saluted.

Mother Jia waved her hand, motioning Yuanyang to make arrangements.

"Old lady, I don't dare to comment, because fathers and sons are generally like this in the world. It's just that I have some reasons for this matter. When I return home, I will ask my mother to send some medicinal materials. Please don't dislike the old lady." From now on, if there is a chance, I will drink with Brother Jia." Ming Xu volunteered.

"You are right. Speaking of which, the two of you have never met. With the relationship between our two families, we should have known each other a long time ago. It's just that he is not easy to see guests now. You have a schedule ahead of you, so see you later. The time will never be short." Mother Jia sighed, now is really not a good time.

So Mingxu bowed to leave, and followed Zijuan out the door, chatting a few words along the way.Knowing that Daiyu moved out of the Grand View Garden, she lived in a yard next to Jia Mu.Wang Xifeng had always understood Jia Mu's mind, and arranged for Daiyu a courtyard close to the main hall, not much smaller than the Xiaoxiang Pavilion, exquisite and elegant, and most importantly, it had excellent lighting.

Mingxu nodded secretly as he walked, although he had never seen the specific appearance of Xiaoxiang Pavilion, but he always felt that it was too quiet and gloomy. Although the scenery is beautiful, it is not conducive to long-term living.Now that Daiyu has moved to a new house, the pros and cons are unclear, but it is a new scene after all.

When Mingxu arrived at Daiyu's residence, the yard was busy, Zijuan stood on the porch talking about this place, nodding there, directing the servant girls to tidy up the yard.

"I haven't seen you for a few days. Zicuckoo is so majestic. Where's your girl? But she's in the house." Yuanyang approached and called her.

Zijuan saw it when the mandarin duck came in, and then glanced to the side, hey, isn't this the Ming family man, why did he come in so grandly. "You used to make fun of me. Where is the prestige coming from? Things are moving in a hurry. I don't have to watch. I didn't drink a sip of water when I was so busy. The yard was noisy, and the girl was behind the house." The last sentence explained to Ming Xu said.

As Zijuan said, she was going to lead the two of them to go in, Mingxu said: "Miss Zijuan is working hard, why don't you take a break, and I will go in with Miss Yuanyang."

After hearing this, Zijuan raised her head to look at him, but saw that his expression was natural, so she covered her lips and smiled, "Alright, I'll go drink some water and have a rest. The left and right sisters are always capable, and one acts as a messenger for the other." After giving directions, he left.

Compared with the front yard, the land behind the house is much smaller, with a few trees and flowers randomly planted.Mingxu saw Daiyu sitting on a stone bench from a few steps away, motionless, as if in a trance.

"What are you looking at?" Mingxu quietly walked to Daiyu's side and squatted down.

Daiyu was in a trance, and was startled by this sound without defense.Turning her head, she saw the man she hadn't seen for a long time smiling at her, right in front of her eyes: "Scared you?" he said.

"Brother Ming? Why did you come here without saying hello?" Daiyu was indeed taken aback, she turned her head to look at Yuanyang, who smiled at her, nodded slightly and retreated to the side.So Daiyu understood that her grandmother had agreed.

"Come to visit the old matriarch, and I made a request to the old matriarch temporarily." Mingxu didn't elaborate, and picked up the previous question: "You haven't answered yet, what were you looking at?"

Daiyu saw that he didn't intend to get up, so she sat on the stone bench casually, and pointed to a few fruit trees in the back garden, "It's only March, and the flowers are already in full bloom."

Daiyu's words don't have any beginning or end, which makes people puzzled.After hearing this, Mingxu smiled, "Sister, I want to say that when the flowers bloom most brilliantly, they also wilt the thickest?" After speaking, she followed Daiyu's finger and pointed to the bottom of the tree covered with fallen petals.

Daiyu was startled in her heart, she rippled slightly uneasy around her, but she smiled coquettishly on her face, "I see how pitiful this falling flower is, it has been trampled on by others since it fell to the ground, and it has fallen into mud, no longer the fragrance of the branches. I thought in my heart that if I buried it, I would build a flower grave, so that this ray of fragrance would have a home. Could it be that brother Ming also thought so?"

"Sister is smart, but you need to know that Luohong is not a heartless thing. It turns into spring mud to protect flowers. This is their destination." Mingxu felt helpless. It turned out that the little girl at this time already had signs of burying flowers. The flower burial song was sung by later generations, but at this time Mingxu still chooses to deliberately misinterpret Daiyu's meaning.

I don't want Daiyu to be a little crazy when she heard it, "Luohong is not a heartless thing, it turns into spring mud to protect flowers. Luohong is not a heartless thing..." She repeated this line of poetry, as if she wanted to realize something from it, Also ignore Mingxu, it seems like he is going to fall into his own world.

Ming Xu didn't bother, and let her figure out the reason for it.Sure enough, Daiyu recovered after a short while, at that moment she felt her heart suddenly relaxed, and her mind became much clearer, "It's because I'm narrow-minded. Brother Ming is right, flowers may be more willing to fall to the ground and say Not sure, I am not a fish, but I know the joy of fish." After she finished speaking, she laughed narrowly, "Who can tell you that my brother's poetry is a little less spiritual, in my opinion, these two sentences are very subtle, and you can see the big from the small, Brother Ming The pattern is huge."

Seeing her smiling happily, Ming Xu also smiled: "Although I really want to receive this compliment, but I really can't write it, it's just picking up people's teeth."

"Then tell me, who wrote these two sentences, and what is the whole poem?" Daiyu asked.

"I just heard these two sentences by accident, and I can't remember the rest." Mingxu went to pick up a few pear blossoms under the tree, turned around and asked Daiyu, "My sister thinks those two sentences are good, but does my sister still know these two sentences?" What are the other uses of Luohong?"

Daiyu's first thought was to make rouge. Baoyu usually played with these things, and even a few of them knew something about it.But she shook her head: "I can't think of it for a while, what else does Brother Ming have to say?"

"Does my younger sister know about flower cakes? It's great to use these." Mingxu held a handful of pear blossoms in front of Daiyu.

Daiyu couldn't get such an answer, and she couldn't laugh or cry for a while, "Brother Ming has always been different from others." What he did was also accurate, but what he said was unexpected.

"Little sister sees few people, so she knows that I am different from others. Food is the most important thing for the people, and people like me are the norm. Here, this is for you." Mingxu took out a bag of things from his sleeve pocket and handed it to him. Daiyu.

"What is this? Could it be that you conjured up a bag of flower cakes for me, but flower cakes shouldn't be like this." Daiyu squeezed the paper bag, but couldn't figure out what it was.

"When I came today, I thought that I might be able to meet you, so I brought this with me. If you want to eat flower cakes, let someone make them for you. That couldn't be easier. This is the scented tea I made myself. A few days ago It’s just about to dry. When you go back, someone will cook you a bowl, which is very different from what you usually drink.”

A few days ago, Mingxu studied behind closed doors, and occasionally got tired. When he saw the flowers in the courtyard, he came up with the idea of ​​making scented tea. He did it as soon as he said it, and regarded it as a rest.Fortunately, with the experience of his previous life, Mingxu adjusted it a few times and it was almost the same. It just happened to be given to Daiyu. In fact, besides scented tea, there are also several kinds of fruit tea.

"As Brother Ming said, it is also an elegant thing. I did not expect Brother Ming to be so elegant."

"In my sister's eyes, I'm actually a dead man who can't study well? Today's hard study is just for living, so we can't ignore the fun of the moment."

"The one who is not dead is going to return to Jiangnan to study in the near future?" Daiyu guessed that Mingxu should come to say goodbye to her.

"Yes, I will go south to Yangzhou in a few days, and the date of return is uncertain." Mingxu didn't have any other emotions when he talked about this, it was originally planned.But he didn't know Daiyu's thoughts, the little girl stayed alone in Jia's house, sometimes it was really distressing.He had been in the capital for several months, and he could narcissistically think that he could give the little girl a sense of security.But now she has to be farther away from her, I don't know if the little girl will be unhappy.

"That means staying in the academy to study after Qiu Wei, and then coming back to participate in Chun Wei?" Daiyu was born in a scholarly family, and she is very clear about these imperial examination matters, so she immediately understood what Ming Xu meant.

"If there are no accidents, it should be so." The corners of Ming Xu's mouth rose, and Dai Yu could say that because she believed that he would pass the provincial examination.Such trust in his strength is so unsatisfactory.

"Then I wish Brother Ming a smooth journey." Dai Yu took the flowers Ming Xu picked up in her hands.

"You have to be well, wait for me to come back." Ming Xu smiled sassyly, and it's time to marry you when he comes back again.

Until Mingxu left, neither of them brought up the rumor that Baoyu's poem manuscript was rumored the day before yesterday and that Daiyu changed yards.The moment the two people's eyes met, they both understood, needless to say, needless to say, none of us should underestimate each other.

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After bidding farewell to Daiyu and leaving an agreement to communicate frequently, Mingxu returned home.Then, within a few days, it was the middle of the month and the day to go south to Yangzhou.It was still a beautiful weather, and it was still three people, old and young, who boarded the boat to Yangzhou after saying goodbye to their families.

The fireworks went down to Yangzhou in March. This time, the sails sailed all the way, and Mingxu returned to Yangzhou after half a year in the beautiful scenery.