Daiyu's wife in the Red Chamber

Everyone in the mansion knew the news, and either came to congratulate Xiaohong, or envied her.

Seeing that Lin Zhixiao and his wife had won 200 taels of silver for nothing, Feng'er's mother's eyes were so envious that she wished that she was the one who would marry her daughter first. , You can also get 200 taels of silver, and only a few dozen taels of silver are enough for the marriage, and the rest will be left to the son.

Feng'er has served Sister Feng since she was a child, and has seen many intrigues and deceptions. How can she not see what her parents think?How can you be willing to agree to a marriage for yourself within two days after seeing your parents?First I asked Sister Feng to ask someone to inquire, and when I learned that the man was extremely unbearable, I immediately refused, and stayed in front of Sister Feng as a maid, teaching the younger girls who took over.

After breakfast in Jiamu's room that day, Baoyu suddenly remembered Xiaohong's great joy, and said with a smile to Sister Feng: "The happy event is a happy event, but my son married my sister's granddaughter. What should I do if I have a different generation? "

Sister Feng was watching someone clean up the table, planning to pack it up early and go back to have dinner with her husband and children. When she heard the sound, she turned her head and said in surprise, "When did Yun'er become your son? I have never heard of it. Brother Bao, what do you say?" You don’t feel ashamed when you say this, you are only so old this year, and you haven’t even made up your mind about your daughter-in-law, so you just want your son to take care of you.”

Sitting on it, Jia's mother listened to their sisters talking, and hurriedly said, "Baoyu, what's going on? When did you recognize your son? You are young and ignorant, so don't be coaxed."

Sister Feng said with a smile: "Why did the old ancestor believe what he said? That child is also a descendant of our family. The son of the fifth sister-in-law in Xilangxia, named Yun'er, has lived with his widowed mother since he was a child. He is very capable and capable of doing things." Yes, now I have taken over the errands in the mansion, and I have done well every time, I am four or five years older than Baoyu, I don't know how I have become Baoyu's son."

Baoyu hurriedly said: "It was a joke that year. I said he was like my son, so he recognized me as my father. He gave me the white crabapple flowers when we started the Begonia Club. The view of family status."

Jia's mother asked a few more questions about Jia Yun's behavior, and she felt relieved, and said, "The child is fine."

Baoyuhou was on Jiamu's body, and said with a smile: "He is my son and the great-grandson of our ancestors. He is about to get married. What should I reward him?"

Mother Jia stroked Baoyu's back, following Baoyu in everything, and said, "What do you have to reward him? The things you use are useless to him. In my opinion, reward him with a few taels of silver to take care of it." The banquet is fine, keep the few money in your hand and spend it yourself, I will ask Yuanyang to bring out 100 taels of silver and send someone to send it to him for you."

Baoyu glanced at the people in the room and said with a smile: "Where can I ask for the silver from my ancestors? I haven't touched my monthly money over the years. Xiren kept it in the cabinet, and I can barely scrape together 100 taels of silver."

Speaking of attacking people, Jia Mu frowned slightly and said, "That's all." According to Baoyu's intention.

Hearing that Baoyu passed the bright road in front of Jia's mother, he pointed it out to Jia Yun. The attacker had to take out the key to open the cabinet, took out 100 taels of broken silver, and sent his mother-in-law to Jia Yun.

Jia Yun didn't expect such an unexpected joy, so she hurriedly kowtowed to Baoyu in person to thank her.

Baoyu was reading a book, saw him, and said with a smile: "You are my son, who will I give you if I don't give you my silver? You can hold a wedding banquet with the silver, don't let others underestimate you, come and laugh at my inaction as a father .Xiaohong is an excellent girl, clean and smart, well-informed and knowledgeable. What is rare is that she has never done anything to bully others, and she has never bullied little girls. It is your blessing."

Jia Yun said gratefully: "It's the second grandma and my father's grace that my son is here today. When the day comes to worship and get married, my son will come to invite my father to sit in the hall and receive my son's obeisance."

Baoyu chuckled, waved his hands and said, "Come on, let's laugh at ordinary times, it's really like that, we can't be laughed to death."

Jia Yun laughed too.

Baoyu ordered Xiren to take two bolts of satin to make clothes for Jia Yun, and then told Jia Yun to go back when she was tired.

Rongguo Mansion is still full of prosperity, but the people who travel far away are in a hurry.

However, Wei Ruolan and Daiyu traveled on dry roads because they had a lot of luggage, especially books, calligraphy and paintings, etc. because they were afraid of getting wet. The speed is not too slow.I don't want to, I have eaten breakfast this morning, the sky is cloudy, the clouds are overwhelming, and it seems that there is a heavy rain. Even if the couple is anxious, they can't rush on the road at this time.

Just as I was about to order my servants to tell my entourage to stop today, first put the luggage, books and other things into the room, and then cover and wrap them with oilcloth. Then, the steward of the post house, that is, the postman, came over and greeted him respectfully. Wei Ruolan said: "General, the weather is not good, I'm afraid there will be heavy rain, which will not be good for the journey, and general, please don't hurry."

Wei Ruolan nodded and said: "Understood, I trouble you to pay attention, I will prepare some exquisite side dishes for lunch."

The little postman never dared to offend the dignitaries passing by, not to mention the second- and third-rank officials who took office by order. He often went to and from this post station to deliver various things quickly. Empress Enchance, she wholeheartedly agreed to Wei Ruolan's order, fearing that the people in the post station would not prepare clean meals, so she ordered his wife and daughter-in-law to prepare the meals carefully, and did not dare to slack off, and also ordered the subordinates in the post station to wait for the wind and defense. Rain, so as not to have an accident.

Less than an hour after Yi Cheng withdrew and notified his servants, there was thunder and rumbling outside, intermittently, but it did not rain, but the dark clouds did not disperse.Until noon, with lightning and thunder, there was a sudden downpour of rain, and there was another violent storm. After a while, the yard was full of water, up to the ankle. Zicuckoo and others hurriedly ordered people to dredge the drainage.

Daiyu's nature is weak, and she couldn't help such arrogance. Wei Ruolan first hugged her in the room, then let go, stretched out her hands to cover her ears, and comforted her softly: "Don't be afraid, don't be afraid, wait a while The child fell silent."

Daiyu said sullenly: "The thunder rang for so long before noon, and it stopped as soon as it was said to stop."

Then he said: "After such a heavy rain, the road is muddy and difficult to walk, and it will be delayed for several days. How long will it take us to reach Ping'an Prefecture? Will it miss your important event? The people of Ping'an Prefecture have been robbed many times. We arrived early One day, you will be able to solve the banditry sooner and return the common people to peace."

Wei Ruolan smiled wryly and said, "I also want to arrive at Ping'an Prefecture as soon as possible, but anyone who travels far has to consider whether the weather will be fine or not. Who can say when they will arrive? Even by water, I dare not do it in such a heavy wind and rain Boat. Taking the dry road from the capital to Ping'an Prefecture, I said it would take seven or eight days at most, but being blocked by this rain, it would be an eye-opener to reach Ping'an Prefecture in half a month. The matter has come to an end, it is useless to worry, but I hope we will not During the period of time in Ping'an Prefecture, the people are still safe and sound."

Daiyu sighed a long time, but also felt that there was nothing she could do.

The sound of wind, thunder, and rain outside the window intensified one after another, and the lightning even pierced the sky. The paper windows were blown torn and rotted a lot. It was frightening, and the room was then dark, like night, Wei Ruolan was busy making lights .

After the light was on, Wei Ruolan helped Daiyu to sit down, but because of the loud thunderstorm, she couldn't hear clearly, so she took out the chessboard to play chess with her.

Daiyu was not in the mood to play chess, and looked out the window anxiously. Suddenly, the rain intensified. Tarps came out to cover the windows to keep out the wind and rain.Fortunately, Daiyu felt that the book case in the post house was very uneven, and felt that the storm was coming, so she didn't take out the cherished books and put them on the case, otherwise she would have been drenched in such a sudden wind and rain.

Seeing that the maids couldn't find the hammer, one person was standing on a chair on each side, the other was standing on the ground, the four people on the left and right were pressing the four corners of the oilcloth with their hands, and their clothes were also half-wet before, so embarrassed, Wei Ruolan turned her head Picking up a few hairpins from the make-up dowry on the bedside table, I threw them up to replace the iron nails, and nailed the four corners of the oilcloth to the wall to cover the hole in the broken window.

Daiyu couldn't help saying loudly: "What a great effort, I saved the nail hammer."

Wei Ruolan has sharp ears and eyes, so she heard it naturally, but she was afraid that Daiyu would not be able to hear what she was saying, so she suddenly remembered the skill of transmitting sound into secret, so she said to Daiyu, "Listen to me quietly, it's not What is it? When I talk to you, outsiders can’t hear you.” Then he told Daiyu in detail about the past when he pretended to be the third uncle and transmitted voice, so as to relieve his worries.

Daiyu blinked her eyes, feeling very strange, hurriedly approached Wei Ruolan, who also wanted to learn how to pass sound into secrets, Wei Ruolan said with a smile: "Without a strong foundation of internal strength, how can I do this? I It’s also obtained through hard work and hard work.”

Daiyu was eager to try, and then wanted to learn inner strength, Wei Ruolan was taken aback, and hurriedly said: "The method of inner strength cultivation I am learning now is not suitable for you, I will find out if there is any suitable breathing technique for you tomorrow. Needless to say, there must be some benefits to strengthening the body." Before he finished speaking, he saw the eunuch wearing a coir raincoat and bamboo hat, saying that Chen Yejun had rushed over and was at the door.

Wei Ruolan was taken aback, and said: "Chen Yejun originally said that he would go to Ping'an Prefecture to marry his cousin, and he would go on the same road with me, but before leaving, Miss Chen was ill, so they had to delay, why is it so windy and rainy today? Come here?"

Daiyu said: "Go out and have a look, please come in, don't let anything happen, if it's nothing serious, I won't come to you."

Wei Ruolan nodded, and hastily put on the coir raincoat that Daiyu handed over, it was extraordinarily delicate and compact, not like a eunuch wearing a hedgehog, then she put on a bamboo hat, put on wooden clogs, picked up an umbrella, and went out against the wind and rain , Sure enough, I saw Chen Yejun standing outside the courtyard, also wearing a bamboo hat and coir raincoat and holding an umbrella, but he was in a mess, and he must be soaked through.

Wei Ruolan hastily invited him to enter the house, at that time the doors and windows outside were damaged, the ground was covered with water, there was still wind and rain drifting in through the doors and windows.

Before Wei Ruolan could open his mouth, Chen Yejun grabbed his hand and hurriedly said: "My cousin and I left Beijing two days behind you, and we wanted to catch up with you and go to Ping'an Prefecture, so we must be in a hurry. I got up early and set off from the post station. I didn’t see the weather was bad. Who knew that the weather changed drastically on the way, and it started to rain heavily. I managed to get here and lived in the courtyard. But amidst the wind, rain and lightning, my cousin was frightened and lost her mind. No, I heard from Yi Cheng that you are here, so I came here to ask if you have any medicine for calming the nerves, and I will take it for her."

In the midst of wind and rain, lightning and thunder, thanks to Wei Ruolan's superb internal skills, she could hear clearly, so she waited without saying a word, went into the inner room by herself, and told Daiyu through sound transmission.

Daiyu was ordering Zijuan and others to go back to the room and change clothes, and not to come back again, so as not to get caught in the rain on the way. After hearing these words, she hurriedly asked people to open the box to get medicinal materials such as Anshen Decoction, wrapped in prescriptions, and packed in In the box, when handing it to Wei Ruolan, he asked, "Why didn't they bring some commonly used medicinal herbs with them when they traveled far away?" They brought a lot of them, and if they couldn't find them, they would probably bring a doctor with them.

Wei Ruolan took the medicine box and replied: "Chen Yejun may not have imagined it, after all Miss Chen's family is a small side branch, it is extremely rare to be able to ask Chen Yejun to marry, if you have never been out of the house, I am afraid that you would not have imagined it. "

Daiyu nodded and said, "Give the medicine to Mr. Chen quickly, and say that I will visit Miss Chen after the rain stops."

After thinking about it carefully, he said to Wei Ruolan: "We have a lot of people. Since they are going to get married, they also have a lot of luggage. Among them must be Miss Chen's dowry and other things. If they don't have enough manpower, call our people Go and help."

Wei Ruolan smiled and said, "Understood."

When I got to the outside room, I handed the medicine to Chen Yejun first, and said: "There are several kinds of medicines for calming the nerves, including pills, soups and medicines. There is no doctor here. You ask the women to find out the symptoms of Miss Chen before giving her medicine. If you are not sure , so I ordered Yicheng to send someone to find the doctor, but the wind and rain were a bit heavy, so I don’t know if I can invite you. I don’t know what the luggage is like, so if you need help, just say, we will come before you, and put the things in place earlier That's right, the servants are idle in the house watching the wind and rain."

The anxiety on Chen Yejun's face eased a bit, and he said with a smile: "Don't worry, my sister's dowry was not much in the first place, and it was either packed in a box or placed in the car, and it was tightly wrapped in oilcloth. It's already parked in the stable, the house is like this, the wind and rain are strong, and it's not moving in the car. I won't tell you more, I'll go and see her first, I'm afraid the nanny and two girls who are following me will be very anxious gone."

After finishing speaking, don't pass Wei Ruolan and go out in a hurry.

The wind and rain outside hadn't lessened by half, Wei Ruolan took off his coir raincoat, bamboo hat and wooden clogs, opened the curtain and entered the inner room, Daiyu ordered Zijuan and others to go back to the room, and pulled Wei Ruolan to look up and down, seeing the hem of his robe, trousers and shoes They were all drenched, presumably it was caused by the accumulation of water in the yard, so they hurriedly found out clothes and shoes and socks to change with him, complaining: "When will the heavy wind and rain stop?"

After changing her clothes, Wei Ruolan said with a smile: "It's up to God, he has the final say on when to stop. We are stuck in the station, we can only have fun while suffering."

Daiyu was right when she thought about it, she simply asked Wei Ruolan to open the piano box, took out a Yaoqin, burned incense with her hands, and made a sound to harmonize with the wind and rain.

The wind and rain hit the window lattice, and the thunder and lightning could not be concealed, and there was a faint sound of gold and stone. Because Daiyu felt that the wind and rain blocked the way, she was also full of displeasure.

It's a pity that the house is narrow and Wei Ruolan can't use a set of sword skills, otherwise she would have danced with the sword long ago.

After the song stopped, Daiyu relieved her depression a little.

The rain lasted for half a day, and it didn't gradually decrease until the evening. The lightning and thunder gradually disappeared, and the rain began to fall like a silk curtain.

Zijuan Zihao and the others cleaned up the outside room carefully, swept out the accumulated water, and soaked the window paper that fell on the ground. After finishing, they sent the mother-in-law to get dinner and sent it to the door of the upper room to let them know. He came out with his own hands to pick up the food box and went in, invited Wei Ruolan and Daiyu out for dinner, and explained the wind and rain outside.

The rain did not stop all night, and the strong wind subsided in the middle of the night, and no more rain came into the house. After dinner, Daiyu sent someone to visit Ms. Chen once before going to bed. When she woke up the next morning, there was rain in the sky, but there was no wind, and there was a lot of rain on the ground. The water also subsided, so I took an umbrella to visit after dinner.

Wei Ruolan sent her to the corridor of the upper room of the courtyard where Chen Yejun lived, and then went to talk with Chen Yejun in his room.

Miss Chen's name is Rui. She took the medicine yesterday and she got better in the night. She was still in good spirits this morning. She heard that Daiyu had come to visit her, so she rushed to the outside to greet her.

Daiyu grabbed her and said, "You don't need to be so polite when you are traveling. I feel relieved when I see the girl is doing well."

She looked at it carefully and thought about it, no wonder Liu Xianglian, who has always been high-spirited and arrogant, wholeheartedly begged to marry Ms. Chen, and served in the army. Daiyu feels very friendly, but there is a natural scholarly atmosphere in her gestures, which makes Daiyu feel very kind, and it is not comparable to the dusty atmosphere of people like the second sister You.

Chen Rui smiled shyly, and said: "The magistrate laughed at me. It was the first time I went out to encounter such wind and rain. There was no village in front of me and no shop in the back. There was lightning and thunder above me. Not only were the mules and horses too frightened to move forward, Even I was scared."

Daiyu hurriedly said: "Don't talk about you, if I drive in such wind and rain, I will be scared out of my wits."

As he said that, he said with concern: "I heard that the reason why you didn't go on the road with us was because the girl was ill once, but now she's all recovered? It's time to get well before going out."

Chen Rui smiled and said: "I'm not really sick, but I had a fever for two days, and it has subsided after taking the medicine. I often hear that there are many bandits in Ping'an Prefecture. My cousin is worried that he will not be safe on the way to bring people. The banditry is extremely ferocious, and my parents also felt that it was reasonable, so they sent us on our way in a hurry, hoping to take advantage of General Wei's situation, so that we don't have to worry about Xiaoxiao."

Daiyu said: "It should be, there are so many people and powerful forces, those bandits naturally dare not act rashly. It was so windy and windy yesterday, the road must be difficult to walk, you can take care of yourself in the post house, wait until the road is dry, it is convenient When we go out on the road, we ask their men to ride horses outside, and we talk and keep company in the car, it might not be a pleasure."

Chen Rui was very grateful and thanked repeatedly.

Just as he was talking, Zijuan came over and said, "Girl, sister Zihao just sent the little girl over to say that someone is coming to see the girl."

Daiyu was stunned, and asked who it was, Zijuan shook her head and said that the little girl couldn't tell, so she said goodbye to Chen Rui, called Shang Wei Ruolan, and walked to the residence while guessing in her heart who came to see her.