Xiaoxiang Water Cloud in the Red Chamber

Mother Jia turned pale with fright, so she let Yuanyang walk forward and asked, "What's going on?"

The attacker didn't understand very well, and cried: "The letter just came from the front. It seems that someone from the Zhongshun Palace came and said something. The master called Baoyu and insisted on beating him to death."

Mother Jia was shocked, how could she offend King Zhongshun?

It turned out that Jia Zheng was studying in his study today, when something happened, someone came back and forth: "Someone from Prince Zhongshun's residence has come to see the master."

After hearing this, Jia Zheng thought to himself, "I don't communicate with Zhongshun Mansion on weekdays. Why did you send someone here today?" Please come in and see that it is the chief historian of Zhongshun Mansion.Before we could talk about it, the chief historian said: "The official came here not to build the Tanfu, but because he was ordered by the king, and there is one thing to ask. From the face of the prince, if you dare to trouble the old man to make decisions, not only the prince I know, and even the lower officials are grateful."

After hearing this, Jia Zheng couldn't catch his head, and quickly stood up with a smile and asked: "Since my lord came here by the king's order, I don't know what to say. I hope my lord will make it clear, so that students can follow the order."

The chief historian sneered and said, "You don't have to do it, you just need to say a word from your lord. There is a young official in our mansion, who has always been in the mansion. Now I haven't gone back for three or five days. I'm looking for it everywhere." , and couldn't figure out his way, so he visited everywhere. Eight out of ten people in this city said that he had a very good relationship with the son who held the jade recently. The lower officials listened, The Zunfu is no better than other houses, you can ask for it without authorization, so enlighten the prince. The prince also said: "If there are other actors, there are only a hundred, but this official responds randomly, cautious and honest, which is very suitable for my old man's heart. Absolutely, there is no need for this person.' Therefore, I beg my lord to pass on to your son, please put Qiguan back, one can comfort the prince's earnestness, and the other can save the lower officials from the pain of looking for it." After finishing speaking, he hurriedly called bow.

When Jia Zheng heard this, he was shocked and angry. He ordered Baoyu to come and ask about Qiguan. Baoyu dared not admit it, so he argued.The Chang Shi sneered and said, "Why should we rely on the evidence now? It must be said in front of the elders. Wouldn't the young master suffer? If you don't know this person, why did the Qiguan red sweat scarf get into the young master's waist?" Baoyu was afraid and told the truth.

Jia Zheng waited to send Chang Shi away, and when he came back, he scolded Baoyu.How private this sweat towel is, the behavior of the two of them obviously has an ambiguous affair, and moreover, they all know that the loyal and obedient king must be repaid, Baoyu has already offended Lu Haotian very much by this fact.Why Jia Zheng was not angry or afraid, he cursed a few words and moved the board when he was puzzled.

After hearing the letter, Mrs. Wang rushed over to persuade her a few words, not wanting to add fuel to the flames.Seeing Jia's mother come in, Jia Zhengfang stopped.Anxious and in pain, Jiamu carried Baoyu to Jiamu's room, and after packing up, she ordered Baoyu to be sent back to the garden. Seeing this, Xiangyun and Tanchun Xichun followed her back.

Only then did Jia Mu's room ask what happened.Jia Zheng sighed and explained the reason, and finally said: "Mother also knows that King Zhongshun is the most narrow-minded, but this time it is a knot."

Jia Mu said: "It's not a big deal, it's just an actor."

Jia Zheng smiled bitterly and said, "Mother doesn't know, but now that King Zhongshun is in a bad mood, he is worried that there is no place to spread the fire, but Baoyu bumps into him."

Jia's mother was puzzled, and Jia Zheng hurriedly spread the rumors about Lu Jingyuan outside. Jia's mother was also stupid. She didn't want Baoyu to offend this great god at this moment, and said anxiously: "What should we do? I can't afford it now."

Mrs. Wang said suddenly: "The King Zhongshun is only worried about losing his sons and grandchildren. After all, no official girl will marry him like his son. Old lady, this is a good opportunity to get on the backing of King Zhongshun."

Jia Zheng hurriedly said: "No, we can't climb him. There are rumors outside that this prince has a heart of disobedience."

Mrs. Wang said: "Since the master speaks rumors, he cannot be true. Otherwise, how could the emperor have trusted him for so many years and did not cut his power."

Jia Mu nodded and said, "My wife is right. Tell me why it's a good opportunity."

Mrs. Wang said: "Nowadays, there are no rich and noble women who are willing to marry like the prince. Why don't our family take this opportunity to send the third girl to be the concubine? The prince must be grateful to us."

Jia Zheng said angrily: "The son sent Tan girl over like this now, isn't he pushing her into the fire pit? Why do you feel at ease?"

Mrs. Wang was aggrieved and shed tears: "I am not for this family. Our family is in ruins now. If we offend King Zhongshun, is there any possibility of gaining a foothold? Could it be that Ren Baoyu, the only flesh and blood, will be tortured to death by King Zhongshun later. Then the son will inherit the title in the future, and Tanchun will be the princess, what a glorious thing. King Zhongshun can still let his son behave like that, and he will definitely visit famous doctors. If the son recovers from his illness, it will not be our family's turn. "

Jia Mu pondered for a while and said, "It seems to be a good way."

Jia Zheng was also a little shaken, hesitantly said: "What if he can't be cured in the future?"

Mrs. Wang said firmly: "Impossible, the prince will only have one son. Besides, even if it always happens, as long as the girl leaves an heir, the family will not say anything in the future even if she doesn't enter the family. As a third girl, a princess With her identity, it is not possible for her to even dream, but that girl is a high-minded person, and she will not follow her heart this time."

Jia Zheng rubbed his brows and sighed: "Let's do it this way, maybe they won't like it. Let's go to the door tomorrow to mention it."

But Jia's mother didn't know what they said was listened to by Caixia, the maid of Mrs. Wang in the outhouse. "How can I, a girl from a concubine, have the chance to be the son and concubine?"

Caixia ouched and said: "My third girl, you are still doing a good job. Not to mention that the son of the loyal and obedient prince is known to be an adulterous person, but in the current situation, the girl has simply fallen into a pit of fire. What about the person who was punished by the Buddha." He told the rumors about the son he had heard.

Seeing that Tanchun stayed there stupidly after listening to it, Caixia shook her head sympathetically and said: "Girl, this servant told the girl first, the girl has a bottom line, the slave has to go back, if people find out, it will be miserable." gone."

Tanchun reluctantly got up and smiled, "Sister Caixia, thank you." Caixia Tanchun fell down on the chair and burst into tears after seeing off Caixia Tanchun. I really want to spend my whole life with a filthy person.

The waiter saw his girl crying pear blossoms with rain, and advised sadly: "Girl, don't be sad, now that our family is like this, maybe people will look down on us, anyway, it is an important place in the palace, so it is so easy to enter."

Tanchun shook his head fiercely: "You don't understand, what makes me most sad is why my wife treats me like this. Over the past few years, my wife has treated me better and better. I thought she had already treated me like her own daughter and hurt me. Am I really Is it wrong?" The waiter sighed, how can I say this, Mrs. Wang treats Yuan Chun the same way, no one knows that Yuan Chun has become an abandoned son of the Jia family, that's why they hit the third girl body, but she didn't dare to say, wouldn't the third girl be even more desperate.

It should not be too late, Mrs. Jia Zhengwang came to visit King Zhongshun the next day, so Lu Haotian hated Rongguo Mansion because of his son's affairs, and he didn't even treat Jia Amnesty that much, so he was quite surprised to hear the intention of coming.He didn't expect the Jia family to ask him to forgive him in this way. He knew the reputation of the Jia family's daughter, but he didn't expect to be used by his parents. Even he, an unscrupulous person, felt that it was too shameless.But why not do it.It's just that Tanchun is just a concubine after all, and can only be a side concubine. Mrs. Wang hurriedly obediently agreed, and her face was full of joy.

When Mrs. Wang was going out, she suddenly saw the back of a man dressed in men's clothes flashing by at the corner door. She thought it was quite familiar, but she didn't think so. Seeing that her eyes were dazed, Jia Zheng hurriedly said, "What's the matter?" "It's nothing, I was stunned watching the scenery." Jia Zheng snorted and stopped answering her.

At the same time, Daiyu was playing the piano with nothing to do at home. The warm golden sun shone into the house with the unique fragrance of spring. It is clean, like being in the clear brilliance of the bright moon in the mountains, ethereal and clear.

When the song was over, someone at the door clapped and laughed, "My sister's piano is getting better and better."

Daiyu got up and said with a smile, "Why is brother here?"

Yifei laughed and said, "Brother Gangzhen brought over the 20 taels of silver that Jia's family owes to my sister." He said and handed the banknote to Daiyu.

Daiyu said angrily: "Brother just took it, what else did you send it for, making me look like a little money fan."

Yifei knocked on Daiyu's head, and said: "Naughty. Brother Gangzhen said that the old lady begged him to speak kindly in front of his sister, saying that some things about the old lady's past were not acceptable. In fact, he still loves his sister very much. Let my sister not bear any grudges against the Jia family for the sake of blood relationship."

Daiyu sighed sadly: "What's the point of the old lady saying these things now. If these things happened to her, she would have hated her to death. Why would she think that I should forgive her?"

People in this world are always more lenient than others and more lenient than others. No matter how much wrong they have done, they can always find a reason why they can’t do it, and they will feel that they don’t understand their own difficulties and painstaking efforts when they complain. funny!

Seeing Daiyu's displeasure, Yifei said with a smile: "Okay, Brother Zhen is just passing on a message, but I wish you didn't express your opinion, so I went back without even seeing you."

Daiyu nodded and said, "Brother Zhen's thoughts, I know. By the way, brother, how are the second, third and fourth sisters in Jia's mansion?"

Yifei's eyes darkened, and he said with a smile: "What can they do, but let's go, Yingchun is going to marry, I heard that the marriage is not going well, and her husband's family is actually a servant of the loyal king."

Daiyu was startled: "Then the elder Jia's has really taken refuge in King Zhongshun?"

Yifei sighed: "Why not? It's a pity that Yingchun was sold by his own father."

Daiyu is silent and unhappy, although she doesn't have much contact with Yingchun, but Yingchun is one of the few people who has no bad intentions for her, how can she not be sad now, but what right do I have to control her.After a long while, she sighed quietly, and said: "We can't go to the Jia's letter, brother only prepares a gift, but I think this gift will not reach the second sister, and then send someone to send more gifts to give quietly. Sister Feng, letting her give to Second Sister will complete our sisterhood."

Yifei nodded and said: "Forget it, that girl is also a poor one. Oh, who let her be born in Jia's family?"

Seeing you fly away, Daiyu's face darkened, with thin sadness on her face, she stared at the bright sunshine outside the window, she looked pleasant in spring, who would have noticed that it was already late spring.

Hong Yan sighed: "Miss also knows that such girls are just pawns, even Yuan Chun looks dignified, isn't it? Now that they don't need it, they don't hesitate to abandon her and let her fend for herself in the palace. What's the use of worrying for a girl? If there is a chance, I will help you in the future."

Daiyu said: "I know it, but I just lament why the Jia family only attaches wealth to their daughters. I don't know what will happen to the third and fourth sisters. I just hope it will be better. After all, the old lady is reluctant to give them away. To a place that is too bad. And the fourth sister should not be too bad if Brother Zhen decides."

Hongyan and the others will not tell about the fact that Tanchun is about to be given to Lu Jingyuan. The girl can't use any excuse to save her, so she doesn't have to worry about it.Chunxian said: "It's just like what the girl said. The fourth girl has Master Zhen, and now she hears that she talks about Zen with Miaoyuan every day. She is afraid that she is going to become a Taoist. For such a family, if she really becomes a Taoist, she might escape a catastrophe." The third girl is so shrewd, she knows how to keep it safe even in adversity, so don't worry about it, girl."

Daiyu said: "What right do I have to worry about, I just think that the sisterhood in the past cannot be ignored."

Hongyan and the others didn't want Daiyu to go down so low, they laughed and said: "Young lady, you know that Princess Xinyue came again this year and is now living in the Beijing Prince's Mansion."

"Really, Sister Xinyue is here." Daiyu was really happy, and then she pouted and said, "She clearly knows that it's not good for me to go there, and she doesn't come here, making me so bored every day."

Xueyan smiled and said: "Good girl, you are still bored when the prince comes here every two days."

Daiyu gave her a light look and said, "You don't have anything else to say, you make fun of us every day. After a while, brother will go to the palace and ask him to invite her to play for me. I really miss her."

Xue Yan and others smiled and said: "Okay, it's all up to the girl. But the princess is really noisy, don't the girl even have time to sleep, the prince will be angry at that time."

In a small courtyard to the west of Rongguo Mansion, Baochai held the small box in his hand in shock, and heard the voice of King Zhongshun colder than an iceberg: "If you succeed, I will let you go; if you fail, you I know what the result will be!" She shuddered, and now she really has no way out, but how can she get close to Lin Daiyu and King Beijing Jing, God, is it true that my Xue family will not succeed!I really hoped to climb up to Lu Shizi, but in the end it caused a catastrophe. I happily followed others into the palace. What was waiting for me was not the prince's smile but the prince's fierce eyes. It became a pile of dry bones.

Baochai felt powerless for the first time, and finally realized that her self-righteous calculations were more than enough to face the sisters in the inner house, but she was even more humble than ants when facing those who were rolling in the nest of power.

She looked at Aunt Xue's dim face and sighed: "Mom, don't worry, I will definitely kill that foxy girl, and the prince will still help us when the time comes." She didn't dare to say that there was another person in her mission. King of Beijing.

Aunt Xue cried: "She is the princess after all, how can you see her? I heard that the old lady can't see her now." Baochai gently stroked the golden lock on her chest and said: "There is no such thing as a solitary man." Lu, mother still doesn't believe in her daughter? Before half a year comes, Chai'er still has a chance to marry into Jia's mansion. When she succeeds, both matters will be settled. I heard that the second younger sister is getting married, so I'll go and see Well, it can't be too far away from Jia's house."

Aunt Xue nodded, Baochai got up and changed into a half-worn dress, with a shining golden lock still hanging on her chest, with a dignified smile on her face, she was still the generous and virtuous sister Bao.

There is also a festive atmosphere in the big room. After all, there are only three or four days left, so appearance is still needed.But this celebration still makes people feel a little shabby and cold that cannot be concealed.Especially Yingchun, who is the protagonist, can't find the joy and shyness of the newlyweds on her face. She is completely without sadness or joy, as if she is not the one who is about to have a family.Baochai sneered in her heart, and with Sun Zhaozu's experience among thousands of flowers, it would be a big joke that she would like Yingchun.Secretly said: Jia Yingchun, as a sister, I think you are about to suffer, how can I not help you, anyway, it can be regarded as sisterhood for many years, but you should not be too grateful.Thinking of this, she smiled and said, "What is Second Sister busy with?"

Seeing Baochai standing at the door, Yingchun's slightly thin body was a bit slender, and there was a certain kind of coquettishness, she got up and smiled, "Why is Sister Bao here?"

Baochai laughed and said, "Second sister is overjoyed. I have been busy with family affairs for the past few days and have not come, so I feel very sorry."

Yingchun smiled lightly and said, "My sisters are heretics when they say these things." After speaking, she quietly looked at the chess record in her hand.

Baochai sighed slightly, this Yingchun is too incompetent to be a human being, so at least she also greets herself, what's the matter with leaving herself alone.She put on a somewhat disappointed smile and said: "Second sister also knows that my sister's family has been troubled recently, and there is nothing to give my sister. I have a golden phoenix hairpin and a sachet embroidered by myself as a congratulatory gift. The trivial things are shallow. But after all, it is my heart, I hope the second sister will not dislike it, otherwise I will not dare to show it."

Yingchun took it over and saw that it was a top-notch gold hairpin but there was nothing outstanding about it, so she knew that the Xue family really couldn't even keep up with the facade, but these were beyond her control, so she picked up the sachet and looked at it again. , but I like it very much. The bright red background is embroidered with pink flowers and green leaves. The stitches are exquisite and exquisite. I can't help but praise: "Sister Bao's embroidery is really exquisite. I'm afraid it's nothing more than Huiwen."

Baochai smiled and said, "It's good that the second sister likes it. If you don't dislike it, you can keep it on your body. It will be the same as when we were in love in the Grand View Garden."

Yingchun smelled a sweet fragrance, which was refreshing, and she liked it very much. She hurriedly said: "Sister Bao can embroider it with her own hands, but I can't ask for it. Don't worry, I will always carry it with me."

Leaving Yingchun's room, Baochai went to the yard, and occasionally met a few little girls on the way, all whispering behind her back, even if some came up to say hello with a smile, Baochai felt that there was something in the eyes of those people. Endless ridicule, as if a boulder was suppressed in his chest, it was difficult to dispel the anger that was about to burst out.But what can I do then?

As soon as I arrived at Baoyu's house, seeing Mrs. Wang's maid, Baochai hurriedly withdrew. Now Mrs. Wang was very reluctant to approach Baoyu by herself, so she sighed and turned to Qiushuangzhai. Be yourself as always.How frightening is the coldness of the world!Thinking about how he was reduced to looking for comfort from a concubine slave girl, it was ridiculous.

It was very quiet in Qiushuangzhai, Baochai felt strange, went to the window and listened, and couldn't help changing his color, but accidentally heard an astonishing thing.