Daiyu's wife in the Red Chamber

With the end of the autumn encirclement, Emperor Changtai got up and drove back to the palace, and the bustling Iron Net Mountain became quiet in an instant, leaving only the mottled blood in the grass in the forest and some birds and animals that were not hit due to cleverness after being thrown.

Counting on his fingers, Wei Ruolan has been kneeling to pray for almost a month. Originally, he had no serious name to kneel to pray. After receiving a big reward this time, he turned around and presented it to Wei Bo. In front of the emperor and everyone, how could Wei Bo Can you accept it?He could only kowtow to thank Wei Ruolan, ask him to keep it for himself, and order him to go back to Beijing with him, and to report back to the old lady before entering the palace as a servant.

The 49-day ceremony between Lin Ruhai and Jia Min was less than one month old, and Daiyu still stayed in the mountain temple to continue.

Daiyu came to see her off before the queen got up to drive, and the queen said reluctantly: "Our mother and daughter really hit it off, you are a good child, you can accompany me in painting and poetry, the most rare thing What’s more, I don’t have the vulgarity of those people. If you didn’t do things for your parents, I would take you back to Beijing together. Forget it, I have ordered someone to reward the old monk Baiku with some winter clothes, rice and grain, and a few acres of land , you take good care of yourself in the temple, hurry back to Beijing tomorrow, and I will call you into the palace to accompany me."

Before leaving, the queen did not forget to leave Daiyu a set of paints and utensils for painting oil paintings, including some paintings and poems that they scribbled and scribbled these days, and also gave some plain satin and white silk to make clothes. The leather of Qiuwei was tanned by the people in the palace, and when it was dry, someone would send her some good leather to make winter clothes.

Daiyu is also reluctant to part with her.

Although they have been together for less than ten days, during these days by the queen's side, her vision has been broadened. It turns out that there are such free and unrestrained characters in the world, and it turns out that women can live so carefree.

As the mother of a country, she is not bound by the world's heavy etiquette. She is very chic, truly free and easy, from the inside out to the outside.According to Nanny Liu, she only saw this side of her because she fell into the queen's heart. Ordinary people would only see her painting scenes at most.She talks and laughs when she is happy, eats and drinks when she is unhappy, likes to read story books, often sheds tears for the ancients, scolds Song Jiang when she reads Water Margin, scolds Tang Monk when she reads Journey to the West, and laments Zhou Yu when she reads Romance of the Three Kingdoms, When painting, he is unkempt, and will get drunk after drinking, and then drag the people around him to admire the flowers and the moon, and force everyone to recite poems and compose fu.

Daiyu was lucky enough to see the queen's drunken state. At noon on the sixth day of Qiuwei, she was fine, she could write poems at her fingertips, and reacted quickly to couplets and poems. A few pieces of paper came, and I read the Tang poems and Song Ci on them to fool the queen.The queen was so drunk that it was hard to tell, and when she woke up, she forgot these things in the back of her mind.

Daiyu felt that the queen should remember the actions of the eunuch Zhu Gong'e, but she didn't pursue it, and everyone knew it well.No wonder the palace eunuchs around the queen were all loyal to the queen, and they were accustomed to the queen's behavior of exposing the shortcomings of Emperor Changtai.

There was a faint smile on her lips, Daiyu's eyes were bright, and her confusion was gone. She decided to follow the example of the queen and obey her father's teachings.

Before his father died, the thing he couldn't let go of was himself.

The queen's ignorance of the battle in the harem, isn't it coincident with what her father told her not to fight with others in the small house?

Staring at the easel and brushes and paints that had just been set up in front of her for a while, Daiyu turned her head and said to Madam Liu: "When you get back to the mansion, Mama remembers to remind me to ask someone to find out our family's books on Western oil painting. Including those Western paintings, Western books and Western playthings collected at home, when I learn to paint oil painting, I will also paint a portrait of my mother."

After pondering for a moment, she laughed again: "Just draw the scene of Queen Feng getting drunk, it must be beautiful."

Mother Liu nodded to show that she remembered what she said, but when she heard the next sentence, she couldn't help laughing and said: "This old slave should see what he's doing, let the empress take a look at his drunken state, and look at the embarrassment of the people around him."

Daiyu said: "I am imitating my mother's behavior and painting as a souvenir."

Speaking of this, she didn't know what to think of, and suddenly smiled, laughing so much that her stomach hurts, and she leaned over the desk, ouch.

Grandma Liu stepped forward to rub her belly, and said helplessly, "My dear girl, stop laughing, your stomach hurts. But what did the girl think of, laughing so hard?"

Daiyu waved her hands, just smiled, but didn't speak, she remembered the portrait that the empress had painted for the current saint.

The Empress only started to learn oil painting, and she wasn't very good at painting, but her fine brushwork was excellent, especially the paintings of flowers and birds, which were very famous, almost as good as the original works of Song Huizong collected by Daiyu.When learning oil painting with the queen, Daiyu saw that the queen took out her previous paintings to show off. Among them was a picture of the Holy One holding flowers and feeding birds. Whether it was flowers, birds, or birdcages, they were all lifelike and undeniable. Picky, only the saint wears Western clothes, wears a Western hat, and holds a Western cane. The style of clothes and hats is not strange in Western paintings, but they are neither fish nor fowl when they are worn by the Holy One. Just wanted to laugh.

Before he finished thinking, he suddenly saw Zijuan come in and said, "Girl, the old lady and Lian's second grandmother sent some third-class women to bring things to the girl, and they are waiting outside."

The laughter stopped immediately, Daiyu paused for a while before saying, "Please come in."

Four brightly dressed women came in, and Daiyu took a closer look, and one of them was very familiar, as if she was one of the third-class servants who came to pick her up after she lost her mother, and the others were also beside Jiamu and Sister Feng I've seen it before, after they said hello, they ordered someone to sit and pour tea, and said: "The old lady sent some mothers here, what can you say?"

The most familiar servant woman smiled all over her face and said: "The old lady and Baoyu are both thinking about the girl, and it was so hard to send us here after the end of the autumn circle. Ask when the girl will go home? She also said that it is cold in the ruined temple in the deep mountain, and the girl is weak. , to go home earlier.”

Daiyu stood up and listened, then sat down and said, "The seventy-nine-day ritual has only been done for less than a month, how can it be interrupted? Go back and tell the old lady that I will return to Beijing in late October, please take care of yourself." , don’t worry about me too much. Although it’s colder in the mountains, it’s okay to have the big cloak that the old lady gave you earlier.” He asked if there were other things.

The mother-in-law sent by Sister Feng said: "Grandma is afraid of the cold in the mountains and temples, so she specially sent me to give the girl two baskets of high-quality silver frost charcoal." Words are gone.

Daiyu thanked her with a smile, and ordered to keep tea and rice, and gave a reward before ordering someone to send it out.

Zijuan whispered a few words to the woman she was familiar with, stuffed her with two silver locks, and came back to tell Daiyu that the mansion was too busy to touch the ground. She didn't expect this to happen, but it happened that Shengjia came back. In Beijing, there were several good friends who exchanged news. Everyone in the house knew that the empress had summoned Daiyu, so they hurriedly sent people over to deliver things and inquire about news.

Daiyu nodded, only said that she understood, and then bowed her head to paint again.

No matter how much the capital is turning against Yingtian, Nanny Liu has already inquired about the rumors and rumors about Wei Ruolan's succession from the former sisters around the queen. Quietly knelt down to her parents, and after 49 days, Mother Liu ordered someone to send a message to Rongguo Mansion, and Jia Mu sent a sedan chair to pick Jia Lian the next day.

As soon as I entered the Chuihua Gate of Jiamu's compound, I saw Sister Feng who came to greet me.

Daiyu knew very well that Sister Feng, like Jia Lian, had an unprofitable temperament. When Jia Lian came to pick her up, she was even more respectful. Not surprised at all, he smiled at her, and let her take her hand into Jia Mu's yard together.

At this time, Baoyu, Baochai and Sanchun were all in the room talking and laughing with Jiamu, Aunt Xue was also by her side, and Li Wan was holding tea and fruits beside her, but Mrs. Xing and Mrs. Wang were nowhere to be seen. They thought they were planning to visit the family's villa. Busy.

As soon as Jia's mother saw her, she hurriedly held her in her arms and yelled heartily, then asked if she had eaten well, and asked if she had slept well, and said: "The monk in the temple has neglected Yu'er. Why are you so thin? It must be caused by only eating Vegetarian food. Yuanyang, bring some good bird’s nest supplements to the kitchen, ask the kitchen to stew them and bring them to Miss Lin, and make a good supplement.”

Yuanyang agreed and made the arrangements.

Daiyu thanked me, and said: "The old lady loves me, she is afraid that I will be wronged, but in fact, I have not lost weight, but have grown taller."

Sitting next to Baoyu, Baoyu's heart continued to taste, and she really got a little higher, and the corners of her brows and eyes were full of admiration. I didn't expect that after two months of seeing each other, Daiyu's speech and behavior became even more ethereal, like a fairy.

After tea, Mother Jia asked about the queen's summoning. Daiyu thought for a while, and said with a smile: "My mother pity me for being young. She heard that I was doing things for my parents on the mountain. She summoned me several times during the day, nothing else. I got a few good things from the empress, if the old lady likes it, I can keep it." After speaking, he ordered people to present the painting tools, paints, silk and satin clothes that the queen rewarded.

Mother Jia saw it and let her keep it.

After coming out of Jia Mu's room, the east wing room has already been tidied up by the maids who stayed behind to watch the house.

In a few days, Mother Liu led someone to find out the books and paintings that Daiyu had mentioned. Daiyu studied by herself. On the next day, on the 15th day of the first lunar month, I saved my relatives during the Lantern Festival, and the mansion became more and more busy, day and night. Not to mention that I have never had a good life for many years, even if I worshiped the ancestors, I never paid attention to it.

Unlike Jia's family, there is no harem concubine visiting relatives. The busy Wei family worships ancestors as always, very solemn.

The rumors and rumors about Wei Ruolan these days not only did not stop at all, but became more serious than before, and the city was full of uproar.But in the autumn of September, Wei Ruolan shined brilliantly. No matter what others said, Wei Bo refused to agree to adopt him to Second Uncle Wei, lest others think that he would not see his eldest son get ahead and act in a hurry.

Mrs. Wei secretly hated Wei Ruolan's ability on Qiuwei, but she also knew that if he was adopted at this time, everyone would point to the backbone of their husband and wife and scold them for not being kind to their parents.

Therefore, she secretly promoted rumors, and when asked by others, she said on the face that she was reluctant to adopt Wei Ruolan.

Wei Ruolan knew that after she became a errand, she was deeply favored by the sage and suppressed Wei Yuan, making Wei Yuan himself like a star on the side of the bright moon, bleak and dull. They all wanted to adopt her, but they were unwilling to bear Being infamous, not mentioning gossip, treating herself more pleasantly, the whole Weibo Mansion is full of joy and harmony, and others feel that they will not adopt themselves.

This was not what Wei Ruolan wanted, so when he worshiped his ancestors, he once again cried to his mother through sound transmission: "Mom, today my father got a lot of melons, fruits, gold and silver, and my son still has no descendants to worship. desolate."

Immediately afterwards, he said to Wei Bo: "Brother, please take pity on me, I must offer incense to my younger brother as a adoptive heir. My younger brother's wish is hard to come by, and I have been lingering. If my elder brother is reluctant to give Ruolan to my younger brother, I will Yuan'er was adopted by the younger brother, and the younger brother is also grateful, but as for the other generations whose blood is farther away, the eldest brother doesn't need to waste his energy."

The same words were passed on to several elders in the clan, all begging.

Everyone originally thought that someone wanted to adopt Wei Ruolan, or that Wei's mother and Miaozhen thought about it day and night, and they wanted Uncle Wei to have an offspring, so there were such rumors. The flickering and desolate words, they all change color.

Xiang Gu was astonished, and asked the other party in a hurry. Hearing that the other party had heard Uncle Wei's words, there was chaos in the ancestral hall.