The Double Soul of Red Mansions

It was raining lightly outside the window, Daiyu gently pushed open the window on the boat, and at a glance, she saw a few egrets residing among the green mountains and green waters, and when she walked to a place with clear water, she could vaguely see them. School of fish jumping underwater.

Boarding the boat from Yangzhou, during this journey, apart from practicing the basic methods of the ancient tomb sect, Daiyu also just looked at the scenery by the window, practiced calligraphy and read books.

"Girl, it's still a bit cold today, why don't you put on more, girl?" Wang Momo knocked on the door with hot soup in her hand, saw Lin Daiyu practicing calligraphy again, with a smile on her face, thinking, the girl deserves to be Children taught by adults can practice calligraphy well without supervision on the boat.

"Mother Wang, why are you here?" Lin Daiyu said with a slight smile, "I have snow geese here, I will tell you what to do. You are getting old and the boat is bumpy. You should rest well."

"It's okay for the old lady, the old girl is worried about it." Wang Momo's concern for Daiyu is very beneficial. Now she thinks that Daiyu is the best girl in the world. Wang Momo puts hot soup on Daiyu On the small table, walked over to the desk and said, "Young lady is practicing calligraphy again?"

"I've already finished practicing the copybooks. When I think of my mother, I plan to copy a copy of the scriptures as a memorial." Daiyu sighed in her heart. It has been more than a year since her mother passed away, and in just a short year, she only had her father as a relative. Thinking of Lin Hai, Daiyu felt sad in her heart. Now she can't do anything to help, and she secretly annoyed herself that she has no skills. The more she thought about it, the more determined Lin Daiyu was to practice martial arts and study. She always believed that she was strong, Only then can you not become a drag, and even, you can protect the people you want to protect in the future.

"It's a bad day, it's a little dark, I'll light a lamp for the girl, she won't damage her eyes." Nanny Wang said with a smile, "Young lady, drink a bowl of soup while it's hot to warm up."

Daiyu was very impressed with Wang Nanny's carefulness, walked to the small table with a smile, picked up the bowl, drank a clear drink, and instantly felt much warmer.

Wang Momo came here to find Daiyu on business, seeing that Daiyu finished drinking the hot soup obediently, she patted her increasingly forgetful head and said, "Look at my brain, I'm here to ask Ask the girl, the ginseng Yangrong pills we brought are not much left these days, I was thinking, why not stop at the next stop and go to Jining to make some prescriptions. So I came to ask the girl for an idea. After all, They are all from the Duke’s Mansion, so it’s hard for me to speak.”

Lin Daiyu remained silent, and said after a while, "Ma'am, go ahead and do it. When you arrive at Jining Port, stop the boat and go ashore for supplies."

"Come on, if there is a girl who wants to talk about it, I will send someone to do it immediately." Wang Momo smiled and picked up the empty bowl on the table and said, "Then I won't bother the girl to copy the scriptures." Closing the door and leaving, Lin Daiyu came back and closed the window, and began to practice the ancient tomb sect's introductory mentality.

The mind method of the Ancient Tomb School is infinitely profound, so how could someone like Lin Daiyu understand the mystery within a day or two?In today's time, only by studying hard can one appreciate a thing or two.

"Wrong, Yu'er." Li Mochou once again corrected what Lin Daiyu didn't understand. Li Mochou personally took control of Lin Daiyu's body and showed her the operation circuit of the mental method, and then floated out and said, "Remember Living?"

Lin Daiyu nodded, and re-executed the mental method. After repeating this several times, she made some progress.Watching Lin Daiyu practice her mental skills, Li Mochou nodded in satisfaction. She is young and has high comprehension, so she is a good seedling.What Li Mochou is worried about now is what to teach Daiyu next. Although she has taken in apprentices before, she just dealt with errands and never taught martial arts in detail. Daiyu, let Li Mochou re-examine how to teach apprentices.

The days on board were boring and monotonous, and when they sailed to Jining Port, Li Mochou decided on the next step of raising apprentices.

"Yu'er, today you and I will go to Jining City personally, find a place, and get a few sets of silver needles done. Next, I will teach you how to use needles and lightness kung fu." Li Mochou said, "As for your weapons, for the time being We will not consider it, you have to lay the foundation first, and I will consider the weapon again."

"Okay, but I'll go alone, I'm afraid the nanny won't agree." Lin Daiyu was very beautiful when she smiled. Now that she has practiced the ancient tomb school's mentality, her face is no longer pale and weak as before. There is a little pink on the skin, and the weakness brought about by the mother's womb on the body also looks much better.

"Since when do people from the Ancient Tomb Sect need other people's approval?" Li Mochou's expression remained firm, and Lin Daiyu stuck out her tongue, thinking that she had said something that made Master and Sister unhappy again, so she hurriedly made amends, "Don't be angry, master and sister. I didn't ask Mammy for permission, but it's just for Daddy's wish. Mammy is also an elder sent by Daddy to take care of me."

Li Mochou felt powerless, raised her hand to stroke Lin Daiyu's hair, and said, "You don't have to think about others, you are you, they are just following orders. Even if you go to a government office, you will remember it, no No one needs to be accommodated, and our Ancient Tomb Sect has never had such a complacent disciple since the ancestor mother-in-law."

Lin Daiyu is like this, but because she has heard her mother say that her grandmother's family has good rules since she was a child, so from the moment she stepped on this boat, she has been very polite to the mothers and maids of Jia's house along the way, for fear of making a wrong move. , it makes people laugh.

It's just that in Li Mochou's eyes, Li Mochou was very depressed, and when it finally broke out today, it also scared Lin Daiyu.

Li Mochou looked at Lin Daiyu's small face, and said to Daiyu patiently, "Yu'er, I understand what's on your mind, it's just that you are still young and don't understand, sometimes it's not because of your prudence and humbleness that you can get others' respect. You are you, Lin Daiyu, you have a pure personality, a little cunning, a little naughty, very much like the little Guo Xiang in the past. But look at little Guo Xiang, you never compromise for others."

Lin Daiyu nodded, thinking of Guo Xiang who was called Xiao Dongxie, she felt a lot of emotion, "Master and sister, do you think I don't need to do this when I go to my grandmother's house?"

"Do you think you still need it?" Li Mochou said, "You are just here to play, your father gave you the money, and your father has already prepared for the maid. If you are happy, you can stay. If you are not, we will leave. You What are you afraid of?"

"Then I understand." Lin Daiyu said with a smile, Li Mochou saw that Lin Daiyu was no longer sentimental and timid, and felt very comforted.How can the disciples of Fairy Chilian live their lives based on people's faces? How can this be said? Their Ancient Tomb Sect has always followed their own temperament since the ancestor mother-in-law. In the arena, they speak according to their strength, and put it on Lin Daiyu. The same reason However, Li Mochou didn't believe it anymore. How could the members of the Ancient Tomb Sect be forced to death by imperial power and politics? Back then, the imperial court relied on people from the Jianghu to resist foreign enemies. Now Li Mochou still believes that as long as Lin Daiyu is strong enough, then she Then you can stand out from the crowd.

The day when the ship docked is coming soon, Lin Daiyu has been taught a few words by Li Mochou from time to time these days, now in just a short time, she has gradually revealed her true nature.

"Girl, we don't know the city of Jining well. You're still resting on the boat. If you want anything, this old slave will help you get it." Lin Daiyu was not stopped by the mother of the Jia family, but by the mother of the Jia family. .

"You can't handle the things I want to buy." Lin Daiyu squinted and smiled, "If you are tired, you should take a good rest."

"Hey, miss, how can you go out from a girl's family." The nun hurriedly reached out her hand to stop Daiyu, "The girls in our house don't show their faces outside."

"Nurse, I'm a girl from the Lin family." Lin Daiyu smiled slightly, thinking, what to say, it's so refreshing, she waved her hand and pushed away the hand in front of her nun, "I'll go back as soon as I go , Mammy, rest by yourself."

After Lin Daiyu finished speaking, she hummed a ditty and got off the boat, leaving the mother behind with a surprised expression on her face.

"Sister Master, is that so?" Lin Daiyu raised her mouth to show her good mood, "It's better to be casual and unrestrained. Sister Master, let's go to a shop to get some sets of silver needles. You can learn from Master’s sister’s Bingpo Silver Needle, but can mine not be poisoned?”

"What do you think?" Li Mochou said angrily.

Lin Daiyu stuck out her tongue and said, "I think my current level is too bad. I only need one set to quench the poison. I will use the rest to practice first, otherwise it will be bad if I accidentally hurt myself."

"You're thinking too much." Li Mochou lashed out, "A person who doesn't even know how to use poison wants to imagine how to quench poison. I'd be ashamed of you."

"Ah? Sister master, you don't mean to let me learn how to poison myself?" Lin Daiyu said in disbelief.

"Could it be that you want me to quench the poison for you?" Li Mochou asked back, Lin Daiyu stuck out her tongue and remained silent. Can she say that her master and sister are actually quite poisonous snakes?Calling her a rookie by beating around the bush, she really deserves to be a teacher and sister with Xiaolongnv, her mouth is from the same line of master, and she is so sharp in hurting others...

"Girl, what do you want to see?" Daiyu walked into an embroidery studio, and was warmly greeted by the young servant as soon as she entered.

"I want to make several sets of silver needles." Daiyu directly explained her purpose, "Compared with the size of the embroidery needles, I want to make several sets of sterling silver needles."

The boy didn't expect to buy silver needles, so he was stunned for a moment, but he refused to answer Daiyu's words. Daiyu glanced at the boy and said, "Maybe?"

"Ah? Yes." The boy came to his senses, and he looked at Daiyu in a strange way, "Girl, what kind of silver needle do you want, can you tell me the detailed design?" The boy thought, this must be everyone Miss, even the needles used for embroidery have to be made of sterling silver. You know, the cost is high. He thought about the commission he could get, and his face became like a flower with a smile.

"You don't need any patterns, just compare the size of your embroidery needles and make a set. As soon as possible, I want it urgently." Lin Daiyu said.

"There are seventeen kinds of embroidery needles, how many do you want for each type?" The servant and Daiyu are not at the same frequency. Lin Daiyu wants a needle, but the servant has no idea what a needle is.

"You're so stupid, a set of thirty." Lin Daiyu said angrily, "Tell me, how soon can I get it?"

"Oh, you need 510 silver needles, and it will take six days at the fastest." The servant thought for a while and said, "And the labor cost is also high."

At first hearing the number of needles, Lin Daiyu was a little frightened, "Sister Master, is this too much?"

"How much is too much? How many stitches did I spend in the middle of my practice. A few hundred are just not enough for you to practice." Li Mochou said, "Buy some more ordinary needles, these 500-odd stitches are the weapons you will learn in the future. On weekdays, you can use silver needles mixed with impurities. Also, you just said that others are stupid, but I think you are the one who is stupid. First, go and see the length of their silver needles, and decide on a specification that you feel comfortable with. It was made into the same specification at one time. How can there be weapons with different lengths and shorts, which is outrageous."

Being personally attacked again, Lin Daiyu muttered a few words, and then said to the boy, "Let me see the specifications of your silver needles first, and I will choose the specifications of the sterling silver needles."

Regarding Lin Daiyu's changes before and after, the servant was very patient. He led Lin Daiyu to the compartment at the back of the shop and introduced them one by one.

"For this size, I still order [-] pieces, and then give me [-] pieces of this finished product." Lin Daiyu directly took out the silver ticket from her body and said, "How much does it cost in total?"

"70 taels of silver." The boy said with a smile.

"So expensive?" Lin Daiyu didn't say anything, but Li Mochou was a little dissatisfied, "Yu'er, I'm afraid you look like a little fat sheep. Back then, I ordered silver needles, but I sent them away for only ten taels of silver."

You are robbing, okay? Throw a piece of broken silver at someone, and then threaten with force, who will agree to it? Compared with life and death, money is nothing.Li Mochou didn't know about Lin Daiyu's complaints, but the servant beside her looked at Lin Daiyu frowning and muttered to herself, fearing that the business would run away, she insisted on dropping ten taels of silver.

"You really treat me like a fat sheep." Lin Daiyu didn't expect to be hit by Li Mochou's advice. "Business requires integrity. If you don't want to sell, I'll change to another."

"Ah, girl, 50 taels is the least. The specification you want is the most difficult to make, and you need it urgently. 50 taels cannot be less." The boy said with a slap.

Lin Daiyu didn't care about money, just now she was just depressed that this boy was really like what Li Mochou said, he was a bit embarrassed, it would depend on the boy's appearance, Lin Daiyu didn't bother to care about it, just found a 30 taels I handed the bank note to the boy and said, "This is the deposit. I will come to pick up the needle in six days, and I will pay you the remaining 20 taels."

The servant happily accepted the money, and hurriedly promised that the quality would be guaranteed. Only then did Lin Daiyu leave the shop contentedly, and walked towards the sparsely populated woods.