The Double Soul of Red Mansions

Wang Xifeng came out of Daiyu's house, and directly called the sedan chair to go out from the corner gate and go around to Ningguo Mansion.On the other hand, Daiyu stood under the window, watching the direction Wang Xifeng left with her own eyes, and thinking about where Jia's mother and two aunts were going today, Lin Daiyu had an idea in her heart.What she needs to figure out now is whose idea it is.

It's just that there is no news about Zijuan, so Daiyu is a little passive.The next day, Ping'er, who was beside Wang Xifeng, came to send a message, saying that the mansion had invited the third girl of the Chen family to come to the mansion, and they had already replied that they would arrive in the afternoon, and told Miss Lin not to forget what she had promised her yesterday.Daiyu looked at Ping'er's face as if it should be taken for granted, but there was no smile on her whole face.

"Zicuckoo, see off the guests." Daiyu didn't want to talk nonsense at all. Now she felt more and more that Lian's second sister-in-law was a little confused. Yesterday, she threw a few banknotes and left without waiting for her promise. He advocated inviting Chen Ruixuan to the mansion.Daiyu felt that she was now a justifiable tool in the eyes of others, and she was not polite at all.

"Miss Ping'er, go back and tell your second grandma that what Lin Daiyu hates the most in her life is when others make decisions for me. I don't think I can live in this house anymore." Lin Daiyu got up and planned to go to Jiamu's room. She wanted to see if her grandmother knew about it.

"Miss Lin, why are you doing this?" Ping'er was very clear, thinking about the meaning of Daiyu's words, she knew that her grandmother must have angered Lin Daiyu on her own initiative, so she hurriedly stepped forward to stop Daiyu with a smile She said, "Miss Lin, don't think too much, our second mistress has no malicious intentions. It's just that the eldest girl in our mansion is acting like ice in the palace now, and we as people in the mansion have to do something for her."

"Since you call me Miss Lin, you know that I'm not included in your house." Lin Daiyu was really angry this time, she waved Ping'er's hand and came to Jiamu's room.

Of course, Ping'er couldn't let Daiyu come to Jiamu's place to make a fuss, so he ran all the way to stop Daiyu outside Jiamu's room, changed his attitude just now and said: "I really ask Lin Sorry girl, I was the one who was rude about this matter today. Before our second grandmother came, I asked Miss Lin and the three girls to receive Miss Chen San. I was stupid about this, and Miss Lin just punished me when she got angry. How can our second grandma take care of such a large family when this matter is brought up in front of our ancestors. Miss Lin doesn't know, the whole house is staring at our second grandma, and she can't make a mistake."

Lin Daiyu squinted at Ping'er and said, "Why did I remember you didn't say that just now?"

In today's Jia Mansion, Lin Daiyu doesn't want to stay for a quarter of an hour. Behind the whitewashing of peace, everyone is plotting, you plotting against me, I plotting against you, there is no moment for people to be clean.

"Miss Lin, you can beat me and scold me when you are angry. Our grandma really didn't want to make up your mind for you. She just thought that you have a good relationship with Miss Chen San. It seems that you are bored and flustered alone. Invite someone to come and talk with you, the matter of the eldest girl is just something you just say." Ping'er is really scared now, this old ancestor has the only one for Miss Lin except Baoyu in the mansion, if Miss Lin says What, Ping'er really didn't know how to explain to Wang Xifeng when he went back, if the housekeeper's rights were damaged by this, Ping'er dared to say that he would lose several layers of skin after going back.

It's ironic that she said everything.Lin Daiyu now disdains Ping'er's words, and casts a cold look at Ping'er before entering the house.

Seeing Daiyu enter the room without saying a word, Ping'er was full of anxiety.I just hope that the ancestors will definitely think about their second grandmother's thoughts for the eldest girl, and don't get angry.Ping'er was anxiously listening to the movement outside, but after Lin Daiyu entered the room, she found that Mrs. Wang and Mrs. Xing were in Jiamu's room.

Seeing Daiyu come in, Mother Jia smiled and called Lin Daiyu to her side and hugged her: "Yu'er needs to take good care of her body. Grandmother has seen through it now. Compared with life, nothing else is important."

Daiyu never thought that Jia Mu would suddenly become so sentimental, so she looked at Jia Mu in a daze, and Jia Mu sighed and said, "It's not in the Ning Mansion, Brother Rong's daughter-in-law is not very good now, young Light, hey, now I only hope that my two jade children are healthy and healthy."

For Jia's mother, Lin Daiyu has complicated feelings. Sometimes, although she is concerned, Lin Daiyu can hear something wrong from it, but sometimes this grandmother is really kind to her.Daiyu has always been indifferent to the affairs of the Ning Mansion, so Daiyu only knows the name of Brother Rong whom Jiamu said, and no one has ever seen her before. She has no affection for her daughter-in-law.She was moved by Jia Mu's words, just because Jia Mu put her in the same position as Baoyu, far surpassing Sanchun in the mansion.

"Old Ancestor, Yu'er is a lucky person. Let's not talk about these unhappy things for now. Doctor Zuo Buji didn't say anything bad. He just looked at the Ning Mansion and invited another doctor to come. Maybe This is a joy." Mrs. Wang hurriedly changed the topic, "We are going to have a distinguished guest in the manor today, and this is all thanks to Yu'er."

Hearing this, Lin Daiyu's heart skipped a beat, and the answer was all here.The expression of the first aunt was obviously ignorant, while the second aunt seemed to be beaming, as if she was sure about the future.

"What did Second Aunt say, honored guest? That's not mine. I have never invited any honored guests." Lin Daiyu pretended to be confused, "Today I came to tell my grandmother that I dreamed of my mother last night, and this afternoon I won’t come to accompany my grandmother anymore, I want to copy Buddhist scriptures for my mother.”

As soon as Lin Daiyu's words came out, something was wrong on Mrs. Wang's face, but she was always good at hiding it, and it only took a moment for her to be wrong.Jia's mother didn't know the reason, but she thought of her dead daughter again, and hugged Lin Daiyu again to sigh.

Lin Daiyu didn't like the atmosphere of Jiamu's place, so she made excuses after talking for a while, but when Ping'er saw Daiyu come out, her eyes were full of anticipation.Daiyu looked at her coldly and said: "Only this time, there will be no next time. And yesterday, I never promised anyone. Go back and tell Lian's second sister-in-law that everything is destined to die. No, and I dare not extravagantly hope for any glory in the future."

Lin Daiyu left after speaking, while Ping'er stood there in a daze, she didn't know how she should go back and explain to Wang Xifeng.And Mrs. Wang, who was not in the mood to chat with Jia Mu, also came out of Jia Mu's room on the pretext of being tired.

"Where's your second grandma?" Mrs. Wang didn't get angry when she thought of Lin Daiyu's face when she said that to her second wife. Tutor.

"Back to the second wife, grandma was resting in the room, and she caught a bit of wind and cold last night." Ping'er hurriedly replied, "I'm here to talk to Hu Po about the things my ancestor wanted."

"But why did you catch the wind? But did you ask the doctor?" Mrs. Wang is old and smart, how could she not see Ping'er's clumsy excuses, but she has long been used to disguising herself with hypocrisy, so she doesn't know. Get angry in front of Ping'er, not to mention Mrs. Xing who just came out beside her.

"As for the second wife, I invited the doctor and said that it's not a big deal. It's good to have a good rest." Ping'er hurriedly replied.

"Then you finish your work and go back to take care of your grandma. She will get better some other day, and I will go to see her again." After speaking, Mrs. Wang left, and Mrs. Xing didn't care about what happened to Wang Xifeng, but told Ping'er to live well. Take care and go.For Mrs. Xing, although Wang Xifeng is the eldest, but she is the second wife, and she is a stepmother, so basically she is doing it perfunctorily to save face.

Seeing that the two of them had left, Ping'er casually talked to Hu Po a few words, then hurriedly returned to Wang Xifeng's courtyard to report today's events.It's just how to put it this way, it has a bit of meaning.

"You mean she turned her face and refused to recognize anyone?" Wang Xifeng's whole voice was indifferent, "Who does she think she is? The second wife can let her do things because she thinks highly of her. Since you want to marry Baoyu, you have to do something Awareness of Jia's plan."

"Second Mistress, I don't think Miss Lin is really easy to get along with. I couldn't stop her, so she went to find her ancestors. I don't know what she said, but when the Second Mistress came out, she looked very bad." Ping'er carefully said what he cared about most, and did not forget to pour dirty water on Lin Daiyu, "Grandma, you don't know how I begged Miss Lin, but she insisted that she is a girl from the Lin family. Don't be at our mercy. Listen to this, how can it be manipulation, the big girl's matter is a matter of the whole house, she is not careless to say that, she came to our house to borrow, which one of us is not To praise her highly, no one would have thought that Miss Lin is so ignorant of current affairs."

The more Ping'er said it, the angrier Wang Xifeng became.Thinking of the 5000 taels of silver note I gave away, I felt even more upset: "You are really ungrateful, no wonder my aunt disagrees with the old ancestor's idea, once such a temper enters the door, I don't know what to do How about you, now that you dare to give me a face-off, won't you be eyeing my housekeeper right when you enter the door?"

Wang Xifeng's Achilles' heel is not her husband, nor her daughter, but the stewardship that she holds firmly in her hands. Even though she keeps sticking dowry inside, Wang Xifeng always believes that once Yuan Chun is successful in the palace, , then your own benefits will definitely not be small.The benefits in the future will be huge, so she willingly pours her dowry into the big hole in Gongzhong.Now that Daiyu is suddenly so strong, Wang Xifeng feels a crisis from the bottom of his heart.

Wang Xifeng found Ping'er and whispered something to her.Ping'er raised his head and nodded, then went out the door.

Wang Xifeng is here to arrange for Sanchun and Xue Baochai to receive Chen Ruixuan, who will arrive in a while. She thinks that Lin Daiyu will shame her, so she doesn't believe that people around the girl from Duke Qi's mansion can't receive her. It's nothing to say, Wang Xifeng is also willing to praise Baochai like Mrs. Wang.It's just that Wang Xifeng never expected that Mrs. Wang didn't flatter Baochai. For Mrs. Wang, her favorite was exactly the same as Wang Xifeng, but she was clever enough to hide herself.Being able to praise Baochai in front of outsiders is because she wants to suppress Lin Daiyu, Jia Min's daughter, but if it is really a substantive help, Mrs. Wang will never do it.Mrs. Wang is arrogant and arrogant. When she was a girl, she liked to be top-notch in everything, and she liked to compare herself when she was married. Now that she lives better than Aunt Xue, she has a sense of superiority, and this kind of vanity is not allowed Aunt Xue is better than herself in everything. The reason why she took over Xue Baochai's selection of women's history is just to make some money, and then solve a potential enemy for her daughter.For Mrs. Wang, there is no woman who enters the palace who is not her daughter's opponent, so she only has the idea of ​​destroying her opponent without hesitation, and will never set up an opponent for her daughter with her own hands.

Wang Xifeng didn't know that she asked Xue Baochai to receive Chen Ruixuan with Sanchun, which was to give Xue Baochai another choice, which Mrs. Wang never wanted to see.

And when Xue Baochai learned from Ping'er what Wang Xifeng meant, she was overjoyed and asked Ying'er to dress herself up, so she followed Ping'er to Sanchun.And Daiyu watched Ping'er leading Xue Baochai into Sanchun's house through the window of the study room, she just smiled ironically. Just kicked it out.Although she didn't meet Jia Lian many times, every time she saw him, she could see his eyes fixed on Ping'er. Sometimes Lin Daiyu really didn't know what the Jingmin Wang Xifeng was thinking.And she didn't care how Ping'er went back to answer.After a few days, when we are separated, there will not be too many intersections, so how can she waste her energy thinking about unimportant people.Besides, others don't know about Chen Ruixuan's inner temper, but she knows very well that it was Lin Daiyu who posted the post, how could Chen Ruixuan let others play such a trick on her.If it really got in, Chen Ruixuan would not be the smart and decisive girl in Lin Daiyu's heart.

"Girl, do you want to rest for a while?" Zicuckoo came in and asked, holding a bowl of fish soup, "I saw that there was soup in the kitchen, so I brought one for the girl. It was the sweetest."

"Okay." Lin Daiyu put down the pen in her hand and looked at Zijuan with a smile and said, "Do you have any ideas about the future now? Although you now say that the contract of selling your life is in my hands, after all, you used to belong to your grandmother. I will definitely ask for it in the future. Going home, do you have an idea about where you are going?"

Zijuan thought that Daiyu still didn't trust her loyalty, so she hurriedly knelt down and said, "Girl, did I do something wrong?"

"Get up and talk." Regarding Zijuan, Lin Daiyu was indeed on guard at the beginning, but Zijuan treated her more carefully day by day, and even stopped Ping'er for her this morning. Somewhat touching.The days in Jia's house were enough for Lin Daiyu to know Ping'er's status, and Zijuan stretched out her hand to stop Ping'er without hesitation. For Lin Daiyu, this was already a show of loyalty. But none of the maids dared to stop Ping'er, and none of them dared to ask what was going on.Lin Daiyu knew everyone's thoughts, Ping'er was Wang Xifeng's beneficial assistant, if she offended her, life in the mansion would be difficult.

"Girl, although I am a slave, I also know the word loyalty. One slave does not serve two masters. Although I can't be the master of these things, I only know that my current master is the girl." Zijuan said, "The girl will go Wherever I go, I will follow."

"I see, in the future you will follow me home like snow geese." Lin Daiyu said with a smile, "As long as you treat me faithfully, I will not treat you badly."

Zijuan smiled and said, "Miss, just look at it, I will treat you faithfully."

Daiyu smiled, picked up the bowl and stirred it with a spoon, "I've always wanted to ask you a question."

"Girl tell me, although I don't dare to say how much I know about the affairs of the mansion, most of them do." Zijuan said with a smile.

Lin Daiyu looked at Ping'er who had just come out of Sanchun's room and said: "Ping'er, this maid, is not a good person at first sight, why does Second Sister Lian value her so much?"

Zijuan knew that Lin Daiyu was annoyed by Ping'er's attitude today, but fortunately she still had a bottom line, and she didn't add jealousy to make Lin Daiyu happy, but said very fairly: "Ping'er is the second Grandma followed her when she married in. Girl, you also know that the Wang family’s education for girls is that no talent is virtue. This is a thorough indoctrination, unlike ordinary people. Write something. The second grandma is fine now, she can still read a few words since she became a housekeeper, but most of the time it is Pinger who read her to make decisions, after all, people brought by her natal family can rest assured. It’s just that the second grandma is also a smart person, Sometimes she would ask Baoyu to confirm again in private and write some important things, and she also asked Baoyu."

"It seems that Lian's second sister-in-law is still very defensive, but why does she trust Baoyu so much?" Daiyu said with a smile.

"Girl, you are not close to Baoyu. Although Baoyu was spoiled by his ancestors, he has a very kind heart. He also has pity for women on weekdays. He once said that daughters are made of water and men are If Ni pinches, say that he is happy to see his daughter." Zijuan smiled when he talked about Baoyu.

"It seems that you still like Baoyu very much." Daiyu said this with certainty.

"Miss, you are joking. I often serve my ancestors. Although it is decent, I will inevitably be punished. Every time it is Baoyu who begs for mercy. Besides Baoyu, it is true that he is very grateful, but he does not like it." Zi Juan She smiled slightly and said, "To be disrespectful, although Baoyu is nice, she is not a good match. I don't have any big ambitions, but when it comes to marriage, I have always insisted that I would rather be a flat-headed wife."

"Since Baoyu is as good as you said, why do you say he is not a good match? Isn't it contradictory?" Daiyu doesn't like Baoyu. Seeds she really doesn't like, in Daiyu's heart, this Baoyu is no different from the man that her master and sister like, seeing one and loving the other is really a disaster.It's just that Daiyu's words still meant to test Zijuan.Since he wanted to be her maid well, he had to agree with her on matters of right and wrong.

"Girl, Baoyu is a kind person with a kind heart, but because of his kindness, he is not a good match. He will feel sorry for this daughter's family today, but he will feel the same when he sees other girls tomorrow. Girl, like this How can I entrust my son to him for life? If someone who really loves Baoyu may easily accept it, because if he loves Baoyu, he wants Baoyu to be happy. But I know my identity, and the word love is a luxury for me, and I am also very Greedy, I hope the husband is a commoner, if he eats the last meal, he will only smile at me, and the other will be soft-hearted, and that will be better to me than the concubines and aunts in the wealthy family."

Daiyu nodded in satisfaction and said: "Your idea is very good, but you remember what you said today, as long as you don't change your original intention, I will definitely fulfill you."

"But girl, you don't know, the ancestors wanted you and Baoyu to get married on purpose." Daiyu was stunned by Zijuan's words.After a long while, Zijuan heard Daiyu gritted her teeth and said four words from Daiyu's mouth, "Idiots talk about dreams."