[Red Chamber] Daiyu's Rebirth Without Regrets

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In the brightly lit sleeping hall, the Supreme Emperor was half lying on the bright yellow dragon bed, his white hair was tied loosely on the top of his head, his fat chin drooped, and his bloodshot eyes looked at the candlelight.

The surrounding palace people did not dare to step forward, they all stood quietly aside.The emperor waved his hand to let everyone go out. What he needed most at this time was silence.

The emperor has loved Concubine Zhen for many years, so naturally he has feelings. These two people have comforted and supported each other more like a commoner husband and wife. A blow is related to a man's dignity, but he can't tell others about it, not even his own son.

Listening to the voices outside, the emperor only said that he was not feeling well and didn't want to see anyone, and the emperor and others only said a few words outside the house before retreating.

Let's talk about the fact that the emperor fainted at Concubine Zhen's birthday banquet, everyone who should know will know in a while.

Prince Fan was naturally the first to think of being filial before going to bed, but he couldn't do anything because the emperor didn't see anyone, so he wanted to go to Concubine Zhen to find out.Before handing over the sign, she heard that Concubine Zhen was under house arrest.

When the news came, King Fan couldn't sit still.Although the Supreme Emperor is partial to him, it is naturally due to Concubine Zhen that he has been able to gain the trust of the Supreme Emperor step by step over the years.

Now that Concubine Zhen is under house arrest, and the Supreme Emperor is nowhere to be seen, a bad idea slowly surfaced in Fan Junwang's mind. He thought about it for a while in the study alone. He wanted to ask Mr. I have nothing else to say.

King Fan Jun can't sleep here.Concubine Zhen also can't be ignorant. Concubine Zhen has been pampered and pampered all these years. Even though she is getting older, the emperor still loves her as always, but the slap at the birthday banquet took away her pride and self-esteem.It has been many years since I have suffered such humiliation, but now my palace is guarded and cannot enter or leave.Concubine Zhen sat alone on the bed with her hair covered, thinking about her words and deeds, she couldn't think of any taboos.

After sitting like this for a whole night, the next morning, the Supreme Emperor with red eyes came in.

It was the first time for Concubine Zhen to see such an emperor, and she was shocked and frightened for a while.In the end, he only knelt on the ground and said, "My concubine pays my respects to the emperor."

The Emperor looked at Concubine Zhen, and saw that the fine lines around her eyes became more and more obvious after a night, and the yellowish complexion could be seen on her unpainted face, she was really old.

There had long been a respectful eunuch serving the emperor and sitting at the head, the emperor only felt ridiculous when he saw Concubine Zhen's appearance like this.

He waved his hand to let everyone go down, and the leading eunuch finally walked out and closed the door to guard the door.

Seeing that there was no one else in the room, the emperor pointed to Concubine Zhen and said, "Since you entered the palace, I have treated you well."

Concubine Zhen raised her head and said, "The emperor loves his concubines very much."

With a bang, the emperor dropped the red uranium vase on the table, Concubine Zhen shook her body and looked at the emperor.

The Supreme Emperor laughed twice, and said: "Over the years, for you, I have chosen a person with an obscure family background to be the Queen Mother. For you, I do not kiss Concubine Hui and Concubine Gui. I have spoiled you for many years, and you are like this." To me." After the emperor spoke, his voice was hoarse, his eyes protruded, which was really scary.

Concubine Zhen looked at the emperor like this, and scenes flashed in her mind. Thinking of that rainy night, her mind exploded with coaxing.Did the emperor know.

Numerous possibilities flashed through Concubine Zhen's mind, thinking that she suffered this crime after the emperor checked her pulse yesterday, could she be happy.Impossible, Concubine Zhen thought that she was already in her 50s, and besides, it was just that one time, it was not such a coincidence.

Turning around in her mind for a few times, Concubine Zhen cried and said, "The emperor treats his concubine well, and the concubine always remembers it in her mind. The concubine also treats the emperor wholeheartedly, and has no other thoughts."

"How dare you say that!" The emperor scolded with a cold face, "Whose is the evil in the stomach?"

Concubine Zhen looked at the emperor, and said with tears in the corner of her eyes: "My lord, I have never done anything wrong to you, I just ask the emperor to ask an imperial physician to take a pulse before making a decision."

"Do you want more people to know about this?" The Emperor glared at Concubine Zhen and said.

"Your Majesty, my concubine has been with you for many years, so don't you allow my concubine to make excuses. Besides, my concubine is getting older now, it is really difficult for these concubines to conceive." Concubine Zhen knelt on the ground and argued.

The emperor looked at Concubine Zhen, who was pear blossoms and raining, and thought that she had done her best to serve him all these years, not to mention that the emperor didn't want him to feed the dog sincerely all these years, so he immediately called the eunuchs waiting outside to invite the imperial doctor.

Seeing that the emperor was relieved, Concubine Zhen paused, brushed her hair and said: "There is still freshly made sweet-scented osmanthus cake in the concubine's room, why not bring it to the emperor."

The Supreme Emperor only slept for two hours and did not eat much, besides, Concubine Zhen's osmanthus cake was one of her specialties.Immediately, she nodded and allowed Concubine Zhen to get up.

Concubine Zhen went to the inner room, first washed her face with water from the basin, then took a red jade hairpin from the dressing box, put it on, and changed into light-colored clothes.After serving the sweet-scented osmanthus cake from the table, he walked out.

The sweet-scented osmanthus cake made by Concubine Zhen is different from the others. It is sweet but not greasy, and the fragrance is not strong. It tastes delicate and fragrant.Taishanghuang twisted a piece and put it in his mouth, it still tasted the same.Concubine Zhen poured another cup of tea for the emperor, this sweet-scented osmanthus cake is perfect with tea.

The Supreme Emperor had been upset and irritable after tossing all night, seeing Concubine Zhen's low profile like this, and thinking that Concubine Zhen's words just now had some truth, her mental anger dissipated a little.

After the emperor had finished eating, Concubine Zhen took out the special incense and lit it, and the room was filled with fragrance for a while.Concubine Zhen bent down to massage the soles of the emperor's feet, and the emperor saw the red hairpin on Concubine Zhen's head and remembered that this was the first time Concubine Zhen gave her a bedtime reward.At this moment, the anger that was full of anger dissipated, thinking that Concubine Zhen had served her for decades, she had always been very careful, and she was sincere to herself. Besides, she was getting older now, how could she be pregnant again, maybe it was her Mistaken.

As soon as the idea of ​​this mistake came into being, the emperor looked at Concubine Zhen with pity, thinking that she must have been up all night because of her humiliation yesterday, so he said: "Concubine Zhen was wronged, and I will give you a replacement in a few days." Big birthday party."

Concubine Zhen raised her head and said in a low voice: "The concubine is not wronged, the concubine is just worried that the emperor will not get angry, it is not good to hurt the body."

The emperor heard that Concubine Zhen was still thinking about himself, so he immediately pulled her up, let her sit beside him, and comforted her while saying: "How about just the two of us going to Tangshan Hot Spring together in a few days."

This Tangshan Hot Spring was originally a courtyard of the royal family, and it was built magnificently and luxuriously.Concubine Zhen also often accompanied the emperor, but every time she brought the other concubines with her. Now that she heard this, especially when she heard the word "we two" in the emperor's mouth, she was overjoyed for a moment, and hurriedly knelt down to thank her.

At this moment the imperial physician came, and listening to the voices from outside, Concubine Zhen only felt that it was really not the right time to come, but it was not easy to say much at the moment.

The emperor asked the imperial physician to come in, and Concubine Zhen felt relieved when she saw that it was Li imperial physician who usually took her pulse.The emperor looked at Li Taiyi and said, "Look carefully, Concubine Zhen is not in good shape."

"Yes." Imperial Doctor Li lowered his head and took out the white jade pulse pillow. Concubine Zhen put her wrist on it and attached a silk handkerchief.

In less than half a moment, Imperial Physician Li got up and said, "The concubine is happy."

Concubine Zhen's face froze, she pointed at Li Taiyi and said, "Nonsense!"

Doctor Li lowered his head and took half a step back, saying: "This happy pulse is the gateway to feel the pulse, there is nothing wrong with breaking it."

Concubine Zhen's face was ashen, as if she didn't believe it. Thinking about the pulse case last month, she said: "Last month you said that I was dry in autumn and needed to be supplemented with food. How come I have a happy pulse now."

Doctor Li raised his head and looked at Concubine Zhen in astonishment, and said, "Your Majesty is wronged. Last month, I wanted to show your empress, but she didn't want to, so I had no choice but to ask for supplements. What happened that day?" It is clearly written on it." Li Taiyi turned to the Supreme Emperor and said: "The Emperor, the empress dowager has not let the little minister take the pulse for a long time, and every time I let the little minister add a few tonics, those pulse cases are all the same. Remember it clearly."

Concubine Zhen saw that Imperial Physician Li was spouting nonsense, so she immediately knelt in front of the Supreme Emperor and said, "Your Majesty, this Imperial Physician Li has no idea what kind of intentions he has made to frame me like this, and I beg the Emperor to make decisions for me."

The Supreme Emperor looked at Concubine Zhen, raised her head and started laughing, Concubine Zhen was terrified when she heard that, the Emperor raised her foot and kicked Concubine Zhen's stomach, Concubine Zhen rolled out for a long time, her clothes were messed up, she slightly raised her head and looked at the concubine Zhen. The emperor wants to say more.

The emperor shouted towards the door: "Come in and take this bitch to death row."

Immediately afterwards, a group of eunuchs entered the house, and when they came up, they tied up Concubine Zhen and dragged her away.

Concubine Zhen wept and shouted: "Your Majesty, you are wronged!" Sitting on a chair, the Supreme Emperor's office lowered her head and said towards the door: "Gag her mouth."

The eunuchs took worn-out old socks and stuffed them into Concubine Zhen's mouth. They were about to take them to death row, but they were stopped by the chief eunuch.

The great eunuch was Dai Quan, the personal eunuch of the Supreme Emperor, and he glanced at Li Taiyi next to him and said, "My lord, this matter is not suitable for Zhang Yang."

The Supreme Emperor looked at Dai Quan and Imperial Physician Li, and said after a while, "Concubine Zhen is seriously ill and cannot see others, and Imperial Physician Li is taking care of her."

Since then, Concubine Zhen has been imprisoned here. The court ladies and eunuchs who were serving her died and scattered, and only one old eunuch was arranged to watch over her. In fact, it was just monitoring her every day to prevent her from committing suicide.

After the birthday banquet that day, the Supreme Emperor fell ill, it was really sick, he didn't see anyone every day, and just lay in the bedroom, except for the personal eunuch Dai Quan, no one else knew what was going on with the Supreme Emperor.

It's just that the palace couldn't keep secrets, and somehow the news about Concubine Zhen's pregnancy was spread out. Although it was only a low-ranking court lady and eunuch who passed it on privately, everything that should be known was known.

Immediately afterwards, the matter of the emperor's infertility was also said vividly, which was really a good show.

Sitting on the couch, Daiyu watched Xueyan tidy up the bookshelves. She was very disturbed and disturbed. After eating something, Daiyu thought about going to bed early. At this moment, Lan Ling came in from the outside and took the He took out a sachet and handed it to Daiyu.

Daiyu saw that the sachet looked familiar. She held it in her hand and saw that it was brought from Yangzhou.This kind of sachet is of ordinary workmanship, that is to put some worthless small items, Daiyu immediately asked: "Where did this come from?"

Lan Ling said: "Just now I saw a strange little palace maid by the side of the flowers, she gave it to me, and I saw that it really belonged to our family, so I took it away."

Daiyu opened the sachet and saw a note inside, with only one sentence on it: "The old place at three quarters before the hour."

On this kind of rice paper, there are still faintly complicated patterns, and Daiyu read it again, but she couldn't find any other clues.Looking at Lan Ling, he asked, "Is there any left of this sachet?"

Lan Ling replied: "I brought a total of sixty or so, and usually the rewards are wrapped in this sachet, but now we don't have any in the house."

Daiyu took a closer look at the sachet, and found that the stitching and the background color were indeed the handicraft of Yangzhou, and the sachet was indeed her own.

It's just that the above words are really puzzling, could it be that Wen Renlin sent someone to spread the word, no, absolutely not.Daiyu smiled and shook her head.

I thought that Wen Renlin would definitely not do such a thing, besides, the sachet was extremely ordinary. At that time, I used the sachet to wrap the jade pendant and returned it to him. I just remembered that he casually stuffed the sachet into his sleeve. Things were thrown away.

Now someone has passed this thing to him, and this note is also mixed in. I don't know what An's thoughts are.

Daiyu smiled and said to Lan Ling: "Go and burn this thing, don't let anyone know."

After Lan Ling heard this, she went to the inner room and lit a charcoal basin, and the sachet with the note turned into ashes in the fire.

Xueyan was listening, and seeing her young lady said worriedly: "Miss, what if it is really my uncle who sent someone to pass it on."

Daiyu looked at Xueyan and said, "Young master, what you say is smooth."

Xueyan closed her mouth, lowered her head and said with a smile: "I'm not thinking of Miss, I'm thinking too much."

Daiyu glared at Xueyan, and said: "This kind of private exchange between a man and a woman is the most immoral, you should take care of it."

Xueyan spread her hands and looked at Daiyu and said, "Miss, I didn't do anything."

Daiyu said with a smile: "You have to remember in the future, if someone asks you to pass on a message or something, please be careful."

Xueyan looked at her young lady, saw that her face was reddish and looked good, so she seized the opportunity and said: "It's not that the young lady doesn't know, I'm a solid-minded person, and I can't change it."

"Look for a fight!" Daiyu pretended to fight snow geese.

Xue Yan pulled Lan Ling in front of him and said: "Miss is too biased, the one who took the sachet was Lan Ling, why did she beat and scold me."

Daiyu pointed to Xueyan and said: "It's getting more and more crazy. I haven't hit you yet, but you are shouting. This is going to shake the sky."

Xue Yan laughed so hard that her stomach hurt, she held her stomach and said: "Miss, I don't dare anymore, please forgive me!"

The young lady and maid chatted and laughed all morning and passed by.

Let's say that in the Queen's Palace, Concubine Nan'an came just after noon, and talked with the Queen for a long time.Concubine Nan'an also stayed in the palace before, but now it's the end of autumn, and the falling leaves outside the house is a beautiful sight.

The little princess of Nan'an sat in the corner and listened to the conversation between her grandmother and the queen, only listening with a smile on her face, without saying a word.

Seeing her like this, the queen said: "You are usually the most noisy, but you are quiet today, maybe you are bored."

The little princess smiled and said: "I heard from my grandmother that the chrysanthemums in the palace are blooming well, so I wanted to take a look when I came here."

The queen smiled when she heard this, got up and said, "Speaking of being tired these days, I'm slack, why don't we go and have a look together."

From then on, I walked to the chrysanthemum garden with Nan'an Concubine Xiaojunzhu and others. The group walked past the wisteria flower stand. The little princess pointed to that side and said, "It seems that there are people over there."

The queen followed the gestures of the little princess, and she saw that there was a shadowy figure inside, so she turned to that side and said, "Who is it?"

As soon as he said this, he saw King Fan come out from the inside, greeted the queen immediately and said: "Greetings to the queen."

Concubine Nan'an stretched out her hand and pinched the little princess, the little princess blushed a little, seeing Prince Fan, she asked, "What are you doing there?"

King Fan looked at the little princess with a pair of peach blossom eyes, and said with a half-smile, "Although the wisteria flowers are gone, the fragrance is still there. I'd like to see this place, and read a book here for a while."

The little princess wanted to say more, but Concubine Nan'an held her back and said, "Children are neither serious nor serious, don't blame Duke Fan."

King Fan took two steps, looked at the little princess and suddenly cast a look and said to the queen: "I don't know where my mother is going?"

The King of Fanjun was quite favored by the emperor, and he often came and went to this palace compound. He was not very convinced to the emperor, and naturally he was not very respectful to the queen.

The queen looked at Concubine Nan'an who was holding back her anger, smiled and said: "The little princess is pulling us to see the chrysanthemums, why don't we go together."

King Fan came forward and said, "Thank you, Empress." Then he followed behind the queen. "

The queen saw that his eyes had been drifting towards the little princess, smiled, and walked straight ahead.Concubine Nan'an was talking with the queen, and the group arrived at the chrysanthemum garden, which was full of chrysanthemum fragrance.

It's just that everyone's expressions are different and full of thoughts, especially Princess Nan'an's face is originally ugly when she sees King Fan talking to the little princess without words.

Seeing the two of them like this, the queen smiled and said, "The princess is not young anymore."

Concubine Nan'an immediately lowered her head and said, "Go back to Empress Empress, she is still young, she is very childish."

The queen smiled, and stopped talking. She looked at a pot of chrysanthemums blooming side by side and said, "These two chrysanthemums grow delicately and beautifully."

Concubine Nan'an immediately said: "This year's chrysanthemums are blooming well, and the twin chrysanthemums may herald happy events."

The queen looked at Concubine Nan'an, then at the two little princesses, Princess Fan and King Fan, who were talking on the other side, and said, "What a Bingdiju."

However, Concubine Nan'an brought the little princess out of the queen's palace, and her face turned pale when she bid farewell to the queen. The little princess knew that what happened just now had angered her grandmother, so she immediately begged: "Grandmother, don't ignore me." Then he went forward to hold Princess Nan'an's wrist.

Concubine Nan'an shook off the little princess, and said in a low voice: "Don't make a fuss, go back and talk about it."

With tears in his eyes, the little princess followed Princess Nan'an into the carriage back home, seeing his grandmother's ugly face and feeling uncomfortable, he held back his tears and said: "Grandmother, this matter is very detailed, I don't know where it happened. Something went wrong, Lin Daiyu didn't come."

With a slap, Concubine Nan'an slapped the little princess on the face, and said after a while: "I have loved you for nothing for so many years."

The little princess covered her face, tears rolled out like broken beads, and she couldn't stop it.

The little princess said while sobbing: "Isn't there nothing wrong?"

Concubine Nan'an saw that she didn't understand, so she immediately said: "You think the queen doesn't know about this? Since you suggested to see Chrysanthemum, the queen knows that you have something to do, but she just wants to see you act."

After hearing this, the little princess turned pale, and said after a while, "The empress is always merciful, and nothing happened."

"Mercy!" Grand Concubine Nan'an snorted twice, and then said: "I protect you in everything, now it seems that I was wrong, you are not young, why don't you grow up!"

Seeing that her grandmother was angry, the little princess didn't say a word, just squatted aside, thinking why Lin Daiyu didn't go, maybe she didn't see the sachet, the little princess was very irritable for a while, and Princess Nan'an was not happy. The queen kept it in her heart, and it might happen someday in the future.

That evening, the emperor rested in the empress's palace. The empress told about today's chrysanthemum appreciation by drinking two glasses of fruit wine. She has a big heart, and even used me as a raft."

After hearing this, the emperor took a sip of wine and said, "The emperor has not been in good health for the past few days, and Concubine Zhen is also in poor health. Now she refuses to see anyone. I wonder why Concubine Nan'an came to see you today?"

The queen weighed the words, and said with a smile: "In the past, although Grand Concubine Nan'an also came to sit with me, she didn't say much, and she went directly to Concubine Zhen. I mentioned Concubine Zhen, I didn't even ask about it." The Queen laughed dryly.

The emperor knocked on the table, sighed and said: "She is very good, seeing that Concubine Zhen is dying, she turned around and came to you, it was a good plan."

The queen took the jade chopsticks from the hand of the palace lady, served the emperor herself, looked at the emperor's face, saw that he was in a good mood, and said: "Today, I saw that King Fan and the little princess are really a pair of biscuits. People, thinking about it, someone seemed to have mentioned it for the two of them back then." The queen took a piece of fish and put it in the emperor's bowl, and said, "Look at the memory of my concubine, I forgot who mentioned it at the beginning."

The emperor took a bite of the fish. The fish was well-cooked, tender and delicious, with a fishy smell, but the emperor always loved the fishy smell. Is fish without the fishy smell still fish?

Within a few days, the marriage gift for the little princess of Nan'an arrived at the palace.

Concubine Nan'an took the decree of bestowing marriage, forced a smile and sent the eunuch who delivered the decree out of the house.Turning around, seeing the little princess still looking aggrieved, she immediately said: "The queen has an order, the emperor is not in good health, and specially assigned you to Prince Fan for marriage, and you will be married on the tenth day of the next month. There is still joy here mean."

The little princess straightened up, staring at a pair of big eyes, and shouted at the top of her voice: "I don't want it, I don't want it, why does that woman refer to marriage."

Concubine Nan'an was a little unsteady, and the nurse next to her stepped forward to support her. Concubine Nan'an looked at her delicate and self-willed granddaughter, and felt regretful for the first time, this child was spoiled.