Prequel to the Red Chamber: I Am the Second Wife

After bidding farewell to Yuanchun, Zili came back with Daiyu and others. Mother Jia was expecting Zili and the others to come back. Seeing the smile on Daiyu's face, Mother Jia was also happy. "Thank you for your hard work. It's also a blessing for you to meet the empress today." Jia Mu first said to Zili that it was hard work, and then she took Daiyu to sit in her arms and asked how she was doing in the palace.

Daiyu said one by one, in fact, Daiyu is a good-mouthed child, she is smart and can read people's words, although she doesn't want to flatter her as seriously as Sister Feng, but every word she speaks makes people listen comfortably.Jiamu listened to her granddaughter's words with a smile, and the smile on her face couldn't be concealed more and more. Baoyu and her sisters also came over when they heard Zili and the others came back. Seeing Baochai sitting there in a daze, Baoyu went to Baochai and bowed down. He said in a low voice: "Sister Bao is absent-minded after entering the palace once, but if there is something unhappy in the palace, don't let those palace people treat Sister Bao slowly."

Baochai came back to her senses, and she smiled and said, "Where is this? The Empress and the Crown Princess are the most kind, I'm just tired. What will Brother Bao do here?" Baoyu smiled embarrassedly: "Well, sister, don't tell your wife. I'm really bored in the study. I rushed here when I heard you came back. By the way, sister Bao saw something new in the palace, so tell me. It’s good for me to learn more, right?”

"Brother Bao's words are so boring. Why do I go to the palace and look around? Besides, the princess is your sister now. You know more about the new things in the palace than I do." Baochai said to Baoyu helplessly. "You'd better be more careful. Today I mentioned your homework in front of the princess, and the wife is still sighing." Baochai saw that it was still early, and Baoyu came to Jiamu's side to hang out, knowing that today Zili was not in the mood. At home, Baoyu must not have studied hard.

What Baoyu hates the most is reading. After listening to Baochai's words, he immediately loses energy and said dejectedly: "Forget it, I am born to be the most useless person. You should stay away from me from now on. I am really unlucky today. It is so easy to relax. Song Fan has been talked about by you several times."

Baochai asked casually, "Who are you angry with?"

Baoyu said helplessly that today, taking advantage of Zili's absence, he wandered out from his study and wandered around the mansion.Unexpectedly, Zili's dowry girl whom she met in the past later married the person who worked next to Zili. Now everyone calls her Sister-in-Law Fang.Sister-in-law Fang, who came up from Jinling to reconcile Zili's accounts, said a few words when she saw Baoyu come out for a walk at this time.

Baochai heard from her mother that one of the two dowry girls of her aunt married Zhou Rui and the other married to the Fang family.This Fang family is not a son of the Wang family at all, but was cast under the sect when he was in Qingzhou.Sister-in-law Fang's husband had studied for a few years before, and he had a talent for doing business.Quilt Zili arranged to take care of the business fields and houses in Jinling. This sister-in-law Fang is also a very respectable family member.

After everyone had a conversation, Jia's mother was even happier knowing that everything was fine in Yuanchun.Sister Feng talked a lot at the side, trying to make Mother Jia happy.After a while, seeing Mother Jia was tired and everyone retreated.When Zili went back, she saw Fang's sister-in-law standing at the door to welcome her. She stretched out her hand and pulled Fang's family up.

Sister-in-law Fang is the former girl Mingqian, and she has become a capable woman now. Sister-in-law Fang said with a smile: "Thanks to my wife, everything is fine at home. Our whole family is thinking about kowtowing to my wife and master." Greetings. We cannot serve our wife every day in the south, and it makes me sad to think about it." Sister-in-law Fang's eyes moistened as she spoke.

"Since we met, don't cry. You used to have the most cheerful temper. Why do you get up now? Since you are here, you can stay with me for a few days at ease. As you get older, you will remember all the things in the past. Tonight you Talk to Zhou Rui's Shangye with me." Zili saw that the old close girl also showed traces of time, and couldn't help feeling that time flies, and there is a feeling that things are right and wrong.

During dinner, Jia Zheng sent someone to tell him that he knew the Fang family was coming, so he would not come over for dinner so that Zili could feel at ease and catch up with the old girl.Sister-in-law Fang was waiting by Zili's side. Hearing Jia Zheng's message, she couldn't help but look at Zili worriedly, and waited for the maids to go out to set up a table to pass on the meal. Well, let me advise my wife, now I’m going to be a grandparent, so let’s leave the past behind. Why bother?”

Zili sighed and said helplessly: "Why bother, if the past can be left alone, the world will not be what it is now." Sister-in-law Fang also said that the girl outside came in to invite Zili to eat and interrupted Sister-in-law Fang if.

"You and Zhou Rui's family accompanied me for dinner. I remember that when we were at my mother's house, everyone walked and chatted in the garden after dinner. Those days are gone now." Zili couldn't help but feel sad when he thought about the situation when he was a girl.

Both Zhou Rui's family and Sister-in-law Fang were busy persuading: "Madam still thinks about the slaves, and it is also the blessings that the slaves have cultivated in several lifetimes. We will not go back today, and only serve by my wife. Although we are old, we are good at serving people." The effort is not lost. Simply tell the maids to rest, and the wife doesn’t dislike us, so just ask us to serve you.” Zhou Rui’s family and Sister-in-law Fang coaxed Zili to be happy again, and the girls at Qiufen said with a smile: “If the two My sister-in-law is still rough, and we have become fire girls. We have two sister-in-laws who wake up from their dreams with a ten-thousandth ability. Today, let's be presumptuous for a while, and go lazy." Zili smiled and said to The girls said: "If you want to be lazy, just say so. Just leave a few girls who listen to the call and let the rest rest."

After dinner, Zili said to Zhou Rui's family and Mrs. Fang: "Why don't you go for a walk, you haven't seen the new garden yet, I'll take you for a walk." Saying that, the three master and servant got up and went outside for a walk to digest their food.Zhou Ruijia's family wanted to carry a lantern, but Zili waved his hand and said, "It's fifteen today, how can there be such a thing in the big moon?" He left without lighting the lantern, Zhou Ruijia's and Sister-in-Law Fang were busy. The one on the right supported Zili, and the three master and servant talked while walking, looking at the scenery in the garden for a while, and talking about the past, feeling and sighing along the way.

Unknowingly, when they arrived at the lake, Zhou Rui's family looked at Zili and said, "Today my wife went to the palace to see the princess, and I'm tired after a day of tossing around. I'd better take a rest here. There is a pavilion by the water over there, so I can just take a rest." Take a rest, I'll bring you some tea." Not far away is a hall near the water, with a white jade foundation, black tiles and white walls, and log windows all made of borneol and plum blossom lattice.Zili nodded: "It's good to see the moonlight in the water from there."

Zhou Rui's family asked Nashangye's mother-in-law to pass the tea, she took a handkerchief to sweep away the dust that did not exist on the railing near the water, Sister-in-law Fang took the handkerchief to put Zili on the mat, and helped Zili to sit down.

"I remember that there was such a hall in the palace in Hangzhou. At that time, my wife lived very close to where, and I often went there to sit and talk after dinner. At first, I only thought that my wife could enter the palace to be the grandson Liangdi. Who I know—I never imagined that my aunt would fulfill my wife's wish." Sister-in-law Fang suddenly became emotional, and everyone in the Wang family thought that Zili would fly to a branch and marry the grandson of the time, who is now the emperor.As a result, good fortune tricked people, but Zili's daughter became the princess, completing what Zili hadn't done back then.

"If that's the case, I'm definitely not in the mood to gossip with you now. I saw the empress today, and she is half a year younger than me. She looks much older than me, and the white hair on her head can't be covered up. .That's why I still think about arranging for the emperor to enrich the harem. You say that if I was real at the beginning, I may be so upset and sad now. God treats me well. I should be content." Facing the two As a close girl, Zili has nothing to hide.

"That's right, why do you want that false name!" Zhou Rui's family nodded in agreement with Zili's statement. Of course, marrying Jia Zheng is not without grievances, but at least it doesn't have to be so alarming.

"Not necessarily. The current emperor is of course indifferent to the empress. If the emperor Shizu insisted on choosing the current empress to be the concubine Liang, based on the grandson's affection for his wife at that time, this empress must be as good as the empress now. It's not the same. I still remember that His Highness Taisun looked at his wife wearing a white silk dress with begonias and falling brocade, his eyes were only on his wife, and he staggered and almost fell into the water." Sister-in-law Fang Thinking of the situation back then, he couldn't help but cover his mouth and smiled and gave Zili an ambiguous look: "The couples who have a relationship with each other get along differently than the couples who don't have a relationship."

"That's true, even now the emperor looks at his wife differently—" Zhou Ruijia suddenly changed his face and stood up abruptly before saying a word: "Who is over there!"

Zili's face changed suddenly, she forgot that the wall has ears.A little girl came slowly with a tea tray: "It's me, I accidentally tripped on the road by the lake just now." The little girl pointed to a willow tree in the distance.