[Red Chamber] Daiyu Reborn

In the early morning of the second day, after dressing up carefully, Daiyu got into the carriage from the palace to pick up people, and walked towards the palace accompanied by the frosty autumn.

The imperial palace has red walls and green tiles, golden dragons and silver scales, and it contains the wisdom and indifference that can survive the wind and rain.Looking from a distance, the high gate of the imperial city is very majestic, because it is still early, the road is silent, and there is only the creaking sound of wheels along the way.

Daiyu carefully poked out a pair of terrified and nervous eyes from the small window of the carriage, looking at the mighty guards and quiet maids in the most magnificent palace, she couldn't help but think of when she wrote chrysanthemum poems in her previous life, she explored Chun's phrase "Short temples are cold with dew on three sides, and Gejin is fragrant with nine-autumn frost"-it can't be more appropriate to describe the imperial palace at this time.

Now in the palace, the empress dowager worships the Buddha behind closed doors, even if the empress dowager covers the sky with one hand, she still cannot bear the ceremony of being a regular wife; in the next generation, the middle palace hangs empty, and the noble concubine Zhou is the prime minister of the six palaces, but she is just a The noble concubine of the second rank.In this inexplicable and inevitable delicate balance, the harem is empty and silent, and even the routine greetings every morning have disappeared.

The imperial palace is very large. When entering the palace gate, the carriage was changed into a sedan chair; when entering the inner palace, another beautiful sedan chair was changed. Along the way, one had to show tokens to the guards, and signaled like a great court lady and eunuch. It was a hundred times more cumbersome, and by the time we arrived at Fenghua Palace, it was already a quarter of an hour.

Daiyu was picked up from the sedan chair by two eunuchs, she thanked several court ladies and eunuchs who picked her up in a low voice, then she lowered her head, withdrew her eyes, and stood silently outside the palace, quietly waiting for the imperial concubine to be summoned.

The Zhou family and the Lin family are political enemies, and Daiyu has long been prepared to take the horse's power. Today, she specially wore a thick woolen jacket and deerskin boots to enter the palace, and she was lined with a dense fleece. Fortunately, she is extremely thin. , dressed like this, and when she moves, she is still weak and flirtatious.

But to Daiyu's surprise, Concubine Zhou did not intentionally make her stand in the autumn wind, the fourth-rank eunuch came out shortly after entering, saying that Miss Lin was invited to go in according to the imperial concubine's order.

Daiyu thanked her father-in-law in a low voice again, and secretly pinched her delicate palm lightly, forcing herself to relax and not to be nervous.

The inner hall of the imperial concubine is magnificent, needless to say, and the imperial concubine Zhou who sits in the main hall also looks glamorous, she is all in bright gold and purple, with enchanting makeup, unsmiling, but glamorous pressing.It can be said that compared to the original Yuanchun, this woman in front of her is more noble, more graceful, and more worthy of the word "imperial concubine".

For some reason, Daiyu suddenly had a strange feeling that Concubine Zhou is a noble and glamorous beauty, and Nongyue is a proud and willful little princess, these two people who are not mothers and daughters together...will they get along well?

Daiyu saluted according to the rules, Concubine Zhou glanced at her indifferently: "Raise your head and show me."

"Yes..." Daiyu slowly raised her eyes, and tried her best to focus her eyes on the eyes of Concubine Zhou, not daring to cast a glance or make mistakes.

Concubine Zhou naturally couldn't like the girl from the Lin family, but she still didn't feel too embarrassed, she just snorted coldly: "It seems that the rules are not bad. Anyway, it's your blessing that the princess has taken a fancy to you. I will send two palace ladies Teach you slowly, you study hard, serve the princess well, understand?"

Daiyu just wanted to reply, but Zhou Guifei didn't intend to listen, but waved her hands, frowned slightly, and continued to order: "There is only one thing I have to remind you, you are the princess's companion, and everything must be done with the princess in mind. First——but, the princess has a stubborn personality, and when it is time to persuade you, you have to persuade her. If there is something wrong with the princess, I am the only one who asks you, understand?"

"Minister girl understands." The last sentence made Daiyu feel cold, it seems that her guess was right, Nongyue loves to mess around, and Concubine Zhou can't control her, so she can only vent her anger with her companions - no wonder, In the past, my brother would say that anyone who reads with the moon will stay in the palace for a month at most.

Watching Daiyu retreat carefully, Concubine Zhou couldn't help pressing her temples, her face full of exhaustion: "Here comes another girl from the Lin family... Nongyue girl... is trying to torture me to death!"

The members of the Lin family, Lin Ruhai and Mother Kang, were all anxious, for fear that Daiyu would fall into the hands of Concubine Zhou, be coerced into private revenge, and suffer great grievances—but they hadn't thought about Concubine Zhou's situation. From nine to eleven years old, Nongyue said less that there were thirteen or four companions, and these companions were all pampered officials in Beijing!

Not to mention that she took the opportunity to take revenge on the girls of the Lin family, even if she didn't take revenge on anyone, if a good girl is sent to the palace, who is not crying and wronged when she is caught between the willful moon and herself who has to lead by example in order to control the rules in the palace? Want to go back?Over the years, she has offended so many families and swallowed so many bitter fruits just because of one trickery!

Now Concubine Zhou only hopes that the girl from the Lin family is like the one she saw today, quiet and careful, soft-tempered...

Concubine Zhou sent Daiyu to the court lady to teach her the rules, and also to monitor her not to be out of line. Naturally, Daiyu did not dare to offend these two people, but Daiyu had just returned to Qinfang Courtyard of Princess Nongyue with the two of them. A dissatisfied reprimand: "What are you doing here?"

Daiyu was startled, and the two maids beside her knelt down on the spot: "Back to the princess, the imperial concubine asked the servants to teach Miss Lin how to behave."

Daiyu hurriedly knelt down, but luckily Nongyue was not targeting her, she raised her delicate chin and sneered at the two maids: "Teach the rules? Another old nun has been taught, and female flies are buzzing in my ears every day." chanting scriptures?”

"The slaves don't dare, the princess forgives the sin." The maids were obviously used to it, and hurriedly begged for mercy with their heads lowered.

"Okay, please help me thank the imperial concubine, and then tell her that there is no shortage of slaves in this palace, and I don't want to support idlers, let alone idlers who are an eyesore—do you hear me!"

"Yes, princess." The maids stood up without even looking at Daiyu, and hurriedly retreated.

"Get up too." Nongyue glanced at Daiyu, obviously not as angry as before.

"Princess..." Daiyu bit her lip, hesitated for a long time before asking in a low voice, "Ministers have just entered the palace and are not very familiar with the rules here..."

"Didn't your family have a nanny who was let out from the palace? Didn't she teach you?" Nongyue raised her eyebrows, proud of her delicate appearance, "Besides, there's Bengong, what's not to understand? , Ben Gong personally taught you—do you still have any dissatisfaction?"

Daiyu hurriedly said "No", and was secretly startled again—how could Nongyue know so clearly about her own family affairs?

"But princess, if the imperial concubine asks about it..." After thinking about it, Daiyu still felt uneasy.

"What happened to the imperial concubine?" Nongyue blinked her big beautiful eyes, and suddenly smiled mysteriously, "Hey, do you know what the four virtues of women are?"

This Daiyu naturally knew: "It's women's virtue, women's words, women's appearance, and women's merit."

"What about the three servants?" Nongyue continued to ask.

"If you are not married, obey your father, if you are married, obey your husband, and if your husband dies, obey your son." Daiyu replied.

Nongyue looked at Xiao Daiyu who was answering the question seriously, and suddenly felt that the girl was very funny when teased, so she narrowed her eyes and bent them like crescent moons: "Then what do you think, whether it is the three obediences or the four virtues? , is there something wrong with this palace?"

Ordinary people would immediately laugh at Her Majesty's "unexpected but unquestionable answer" question like "The princess is excellent in everything", but Daiyu really thought about it for a while: Yue doesn't respect Concubine Zhou very much, but Concubine Zhou is not the mother of Nongyue. Just now, Nongyue only called "Grand Concubine Empress" instead of "Mother Concubine", which shows that Concubine Zhou is not even a adoptive mother, and—"Three From" says "unmarried follow father", but there is no "unmarried follow mother".

As for the Emperor and Concubine Zhou—besides being in harmony with each other, is there any other possibility?Thinking of this, Daiyu seemed to suddenly realize: Nongyue's grand favor is by no means so inexplicable on the surface; there is a Nongyue in the palace, which not only stabilizes the delicate balance between the Supreme Emperor and the Emperor, but also affects the entire harem. Whether it is power or people's hearts, there are also unspeakable hidden meanings.

Nongyue looked at Daiyu's tangled look and was about to laugh when she suddenly saw Daiyu blessed and said respectfully, "Princess, please don't underestimate yourself. Daiyu would like to thank Princess for her teaching."

Nongyue was taken aback for a moment, her stomach full of smiles and the rhetoric she had prepared for a long time just choked in her stomach, Nongyue blinked her eyes, and then gave her a false look for a long time: "I can't see that you are still a sharp-tongued person." Good!"

Daiyu didn't know why, now that she was living under someone else's roof, she never dared to be sarcastic.

"Come with me," Nongyue stretched out her hand and pulled her in, and suddenly stopped calling herself "this palace". It seems that in this Qinfang courtyard, she is quite casual, "I am the only one in the palace who needs to go to school now." 'Princess, so there will be female officials coming to teach every day. In the morning, there are four books and five classics, women's virtues and female commandments, etc., and in the afternoon, embroidery and arithmetic. There are three or four hours a day. These are not difficult for you, right?"

Before Daiyu could answer, Nongyue blinked her big eyes, folded her arms and continued, with a strategizing appearance: "You have been living in Yangzhou before, and Yangzhou embroidery is similar to Suzhou embroidery, but also different. Embroidery' and 'Ink and Wash Freehand Embroidery' are famous all over the world, your embroidery skills should not be bad; as for studying, you have finished the four books, so there must be nothing that can hinder you."

Daiyu could only keep silent except for apologizing, because she found out again that she had almost no secrets in front of this eccentric little princess.

As a companion reading, Daiyu naturally also lived in the palace, in the Qinfang Courtyard where the moon is stretched. According to the rules, every five days a holiday, Daiyu can go home once.

Because Nongyue seldom goes to Fenghua Palace, Daiyu doesn't have to go there every day to ask An to give her eyes. Nongyue also specially sent two young maids to serve her. The daily homework is not heavy, and the female gentlemen are gentle and never corporal punishment. The rules in Qinfangyuan are not very strict, and Nongyue is quite easy to talk to most of the time except for being self-willed. Daiyu almost thinks that the job of accompanying the princess is not as difficult as she imagined at first.

This afternoon, embroidery class.

The two hot charcoal pots were burning hot, and the room was so warm that I didn't even need to wear jackets.The comfortable and lazy atmosphere seems to infect people's hearts. Not only the snow-white Persian cat on the soft couch squinted its green eyes and nestled into a ball sleeping soundly, but also Daiyu, who was busy sketching its appearance beside the soft couch, felt There was a comfortable tiredness.

After all, they are girls, and their homework is not as heavy as that of men. The female gentlemen embroidered with Nongyue and Daiyu for a while, and looked at the two cute little girls—Nongyue was unceremoniously huffing and squinting resentfully. She has a pair of cat eyes, almost the same appearance as that snow-white proud Persian cat; and Daiyu, although she is also very tired, still tries hard to suppress her sleepy little yawn.

The two female gentlemen looked at each other, then smiled and left.But before leaving, he left a small homework for the two little girls to embroider a blooming flower and hand it in the next day.

Flowers are not difficult to embroider, but the petals on the drawn pattern are complicated and layered, and they have to be blurred layer by layer with different colors. Daiyu has the calculations, and it will take at least half an hour to do it—but, get Yue suddenly threw her share to her, and just said "Help me embroider it" and ran out in a hurry.The autumn wind was rustling outside, and Nongyue rushed out wearing only a thin skirt. Her maid was in a hurry, and quickly took a thick little jacket and chased her out.

Tuliu Daiyu looked dumbfounded at the two sketches, and it took a long time before she met a sympathetic look from a young lady in the palace: "Miss Lin, hurry up and embroider...princesses have always been like this."

"But..." Daiyu was at a loss, and couldn't help thinking of Concubine Zhou's words, "The princess has a stubborn personality. When it's time to persuade you, you have to persuade the princess. If there is something wrong with the princess, you are the only one in my palace to ask." Help the princess cheat , is definitely something that Zhou Guifei, who manages the palace affairs and educates the princess, cannot tolerate it?

At this moment, the thick door curtain suddenly opened, Daiyu thought that Nongyue had returned, and was pleasantly surprised, but when she saw the face of the person who came, she couldn't help being stunned—this person is... Big Sister Yuanchun?