Xiaoxiang Water Cloud in the Red Chamber

There are many rains in the Qingming season, and pedestrians on the road want to break their souls.

Because Jia Min had already been buried in the ancestral grave in Suzhou, Lin Ruhai and Daiyu had no choice but to sacrifice in the wilderness outside the city.Fragrance and smoke are curling up, sorrowful grass and trees, even if you figure it out, the love is still there, the sorrow is still there, but the pain still has the sweetness of the past.

Because of the Ching Ming Festival, the yamen also had a holiday.After the sacrifice, Lin Ruhai took Daiyu and Xueyan to Slender West Lake to relax.Standing in the east wind, full of light flocks, full of spring.Daiyu quietly walked beside her father, watching the green and weeping willows fluttering gently, like her mother's gentle fingers, she sighed lightly, the time is easy to cross, and her mother has been gone for almost half a year.Looking up at his father's much thinner figure and hair dyed with frost and snow, he felt distressed and blamed himself.I have been depressed and sick, and I even forgot to care about my father.The father misses his mother and worries about his daughter's health. He is probably exhausted physically and mentally. He is really unfilial.

Thinking of this, she quickly took two steps to catch up with her father, lightly held his father's hand hanging under the sleeve and said in a low voice: "Daddy, Yu'er will never make Daddy sad again."

Lin Ruhai was stunned, seeing guilt and a trace of relief in Daiyu's misty eyes, his thoughts turned, and he understood, slowly smiled, looked directly into Daiyu's eyes and said: "Yu'er is Daddy's little baby, Daddy would never be sad."

Daiyu smiled, as if the spring sun was piercing through the smog, and the pear blossoms were blooming lightly on the moonlit night. Lin Ruhai couldn't help being startled by her tranquil and elegant demeanor. Her daughter had unknowingly begun to show the extraordinary beauty of the country and the city. It's gone, and in a few years, I'm afraid it won't be enough to describe it as a fairyland in the world.For a while, the pride of having a young girl in my family arose spontaneously.

Such warm moments always have unpleasant things happen, a rough voice teased and said: "Yo, there are really beauties in the south of the Yangtze River. Unexpectedly, I can meet a little beauty every time I go shopping."

Both Lin Ruhai and Daiyu were displeased. Looking coldly, they saw five or six servants standing not far away. Among them was a chubby young man covered in embroidered silk and jade. With a smiling face, he even held a fan to pretend to be elegant.

Lin Ruhai didn't want to talk to this kind of person, and besides, he didn't point out his own daughter, so there was no reason to rush to find humiliation, so he took Daiyu and Xueyan to go around.Unexpectedly, the young man hurriedly stopped him and said with a smile: "little sister, don't go, let's play with my brother for a while. It's boring for a little beauty like you to be accompanied by an old man. My brother is the most sympathetic, why don't you follow me, My brother will give you delicious food and spicy food."

Daiyu's small face was flushed red, her eyes were as cold as a sword and shot at the young man, her whole body exuded an incomparably noble aura, which was actually sacred and inviolable, the dude was caught by her power and couldn't help but take a step back.When he looked up and saw that the middle-aged man and the little maid were also cold all over their bodies, their eyes were stern, and there was a slight murmur in their hearts.If he is smart, he should know that these three people are not easy to mess with.Not to mention their nobility, just because the clothes on their bodies are made of golden clouds and cold silk, it is impossible for them to be ordinary people.It's a pity that he is obsessed with sex at the moment, and he is an extremely stupid, arrogant and lawless master. Although he hesitated for a while, he didn't think deeply about it.

Speaking of which, this person is so domineering because of the power of Lin Ruhai's cousin Rongguo Mansion.His ancestral home is Jinling, and he is the descendant of Xue Gong, Ziwei's family. Now he receives money and food from his family, and buys miscellaneous materials. His scientific name is Xue Pan.Although he also went to school, he only knows a few words. The so-called "learning" is not as good as a small boy.Although he is an imperial merchant, he doesn't know anything about the economic affairs of the world, but he relies on his grandfather's old friendship, the household department puts up a false name, receives money and food, and has his own staff and family members to handle the rest.The relationship with Rongguo Mansion is because of his mother. His widowed mother, Wang Shi, is the younger sister of Wang Ziteng, the current military governor of Beijing. In his forties, he had only one son, Xue Pan.There is also a daughter, who is a few years younger than Xue Pan, and her baby name is Baochai, but she is born with beautiful muscles and bones, has a refined manner, and is erudite and versatile, which is actually a hundred times better than this idiot brother.

Now that there are only orphans and widows left in Xue's family, the situation of the family is going downhill. Xue Baochai and his mother are really worried.It is gratifying that because today's emperor advocates poetry and etiquette, seeks talents, and does not have the grace of the world, it is decreed that next year, in addition to hiring concubines and concubines, all the daughters of famous officials and officials will be named Dabu, so that they can be selected as princesses and princesses. , Baochai, etc. could not help but move their minds to climb the dragon and become the phoenix, preparing to go to Beijing to be elected.Originally, with the status of a merchant from the Xue family, she could at most be a court lady to accompany her students, but Baochai was always confident in her talents, virtues and appearance, thinking that with her own conditions and the fame and status of the Rongguo Mansion, she would surely be able to make a big splash and jump the dragon gate , so it is determined to win.Xue Pan was envious of the prosperity of the capital, and his family couldn't get along in Jinling anymore, so he took this opportunity to go to the Rongguo Mansion with his family.

Not far from Jinling, he happened to meet a kidnapper who wanted to sell a 12-year-old girl named Chunmei. Seeing that Chunmei had a good life, Xue Pan decided to buy her.Unexpectedly, the kidnapper promised two families for the sake of money and one daughter, and Xue Pan would not let him go, so he ordered his slaves to beat Feng Yuan, the husband of Feng's family who had promised first, and snatch Chunmei away.Xue Baochai liked Chunmei's gentleness and quietness, so she changed her name to Xiangling, and persuaded her mother to accept Xiangling if she had a chance to talk to her brother, she was also a good wife.Naturally, Wang Xue has nothing to do, and he will only mention it when the capital settles down.

Because of the abundance of time, Xue Pan insisted that Suzhou and Hangzhou have been crowded with merchants since ancient times, and that it was lively and affluent, so he should go see the world.Baochai had no choice but to follow.In fact, he didn't really want to see the world, but he really coveted the beautiful girls from the south of the Yangtze River in Suzhou and Hangzhou.Today, when he had nothing to do, he took a few servants to wander around the Slender West Lake. After looking for a long time, he saw a few beauties every now and then, after all, boudoir girls rarely come out.Just as she was disappointed, she suddenly caught a glimpse of Xiao Daiyu, who was standing between the willow shadows on the long dike opposite, smiling sweetly, she lost her soul and fell to the ground, Xiangling, who was snatched a few days ago, was only about seven or eight years old. The [-]-year-old girl standing in one place is like the stars and the moon competing for brightness, there is no comparison at all.

At this time, Xue Pan was looking at Daiyu obsessively, he had long forgotten Jinxi and Hexi, and unconsciously stretched out his fat hand to reach Daiyu's fragrant cheeks, but before he touched it, he felt a piercing pain in his arm, Ma Ya almost jumped up, hurriedly retracted his hand, only to see five black and blue scratches on his wrist.Xue Pan raised his head angrily, and saw a very pretty little girl about ten years old standing opposite her, with a frosty face and a murderous look on her face.And that little angel had long been completely covered by the middle-aged man's body.

Xueyan spat and said coldly: "Our girl is also what you, a toad, can think about, and you don't look in the mirror to see what kind of virtue you are."

Xue Pan yelled: "What are you, you dare to hurt me, sir." As he said that, he waved his hand, and his slaves rushed towards Xueyan and Lin Ruhai and Daiyu respectively.

Xueyan sneered, turned around and stopped the man to fight in one place.

Lin Ruhai stood leisurely by the side with his hands behind his back, knowing that these slaves looked fierce but had no real skills, Xue Yan's current kung fu was more than enough to deal with them.And being able to actually fight is also of great benefit to Snow Goose.

Sure enough, within a short time, those gang of slaves could only lie on the top and ouch.

Xue Pan looked at Xueyan's cold eyes in shock, stepped back a few steps and said sternly, "You dare to hit my uncle, do you know who I am?"

Xueyan raised the corners of her mouth and said with a sneer, "You talk about it."

Xue Pan didn't know what to do, and he wasn't completely careless. He knew that a strong dragon wouldn't overwhelm a local snake, and that he couldn't quench his thirst at a distance. It might not work if he said it himself, so he had to bite the bullet and sneer: "Grandpa is the descendant of Jinling Ziwei. Xue Pan, you, Uncle Xue, my mother is the younger sister of Mrs. Wang, the current housekeeper of the Rongguo Mansion in the capital, and if you beat me, the Rongguo Mansion will not spare you."

Xueyan had never heard of those people he mentioned, and just about to ridicule a few words, Lin Ruhai said coldly: "So they are Madam Wang's cousins."

Xue Pan smugly smiled and said: "Well, be afraid, then obediently accompany you to the master, and then respectfully let your little beauty serve the uncle comfortably, maybe the uncle will not pursue it when he is happy, and accept it. Your beauty is an aunt."

Lin Ruhai sneered and said: "You are not afraid of death, don't say you are just a cousin, even if you are the son of the Wang family, I am not afraid. Xueyan give him a good greeting, and then throw him into the yamen prison. "

"Hey!" Snow Goose agreed bluntly, approaching Xue Pan with clattering knuckles.

Xue Pan immediately turned pale with fright, and didn't care about his subordinates. He ran away in fright, but he couldn't escape, and was caught by the snow geese.

That Xue Pan rolled in the soil, and his face looked like he had opened a fruit shop in a short while, with all kinds of colors, only humming.

Seeing that it was almost done, Lin Ruhai asked Xueyan to retreat, and a few yamen guards from far away had already received the letter from the hidden guards of the Lin family and rushed over. The chief arrester respectfully saluted and said, "Master Lin, what do you want me to tell you to come here?"

Xue Pan was not deaf or fainted, when he heard his head exploded, he realized that he had hit a rock. He only thought he was an ordinary rich man, but he was actually an official. Seeing that the yamen servants were all six-rank in color, the lord was even worse. Not ordinary anymore.

Lin Ruhai said: "I caught this kid flirting with girls in the street, you guys just watch and deal with it."

The yamen servant nodded and picked up Xue Pan to leave.

Xue Pan hurriedly begged for mercy: "My lord, I don't dare to do it anymore, I beg you to forgive me." He kowtowed like garlic.

One of the yamen servants spat: "You still dare to beg for mercy, who doesn't know that our patrolling censor is the most sympathetic to the people, you dare to moles the women in front of his old man, you really don't want to live."

Xue Pan couldn't help but say good things, Lin Ruhai saw that he was impatient, and thought that this man was so arrogant just now that he didn't even have any bones, so he wanted to leave. Seeing that it didn't work, Xue Pan had a flash of inspiration in a panic, Suddenly he understood, and said with a sneer: "It's a shame that you are an official of the imperial court, and you actually use power to overwhelm others. Although I took advantage of a few words, I didn't really do anything. Could it be that this is also against the law? I don't accept that you locked me up like this."

Lin Ruhai sighed, looked Xue Pan up and down a few times, and suddenly a sarcastic smile appeared on the corner of his mouth: "I didn't think you would understand when you are an idiot, okay, I will let you go, I hope you don't offend me again." Said He winked at the yamen servants, but the yamen servants let him go, and Xue Pan hurriedly led his men away in a hurry.Those yamen servants also resigned.

Unwilling to stop, Xueyan said: "Why did the master let him go, it's too cheap for him."

Daiyu also turned around from behind Lin Ruhai with an angry face to ask.

Lin Ruhai smiled and said: "Since he talked about the law with me, I obeyed him first, but, does he still want to get away after bullying my daughter?" A little condolences for this Xue Pan, you might as well stay in prison for a few days, the master's revenge is not so easy to get.After thinking about it, I stopped worrying and turned to Daiyu, "Miss, have you ever been frightened?"

Daiyu shook her head, pursed her lips and said, "But I'm so pissed off, this kind of person really spoils the beauty of the lake and mountains. By the way, Xueyan, you are so good, why do you know martial arts?"

Seeing Daiyu's curious face, Xueyan smiled and said, "I still learned it in the team before. I practiced hard for the past two years, but I didn't expect it to be really useful."

Daiyu yearned in her heart: "It would be great if I could do it too." Xueyan swallowed, thinking about the lady who looked like a delicate fairy standing there, shivering, no, this terrible thought must be It's too scary to ask Miss to dismiss it.He hurriedly said to Daiyu, "Miss, can't you?"

"why?"

"Miss, I really can't, oh, listen to me..."

Lin Ruhai smiled and watched the little sisters getting more and more excited as they talked, and couldn't help smiling slightly, and looked up at Liuyun in the sky, with a little nostalgia: Min'er, did you see, we are all doing well.