[Red Chamber] Buddhist concubine

The teahouse was going crazy because Zhou Yao broke the appointment without any warning, so why did Zhou Yao suddenly break the appointment?

This matter started more than half a month ago, when Jia Min suddenly asked her to be called to the main courtyard for questioning.

That day Zhou Yao was playing with two children in her own room, when the maid guarding the gate suddenly came to report that it was his wife who asked Aunt Zhou to go over and ask questions.

Because the original owner served Jia Min before, Jia Min's feelings for Zhou Yao are very complicated. Compared with the other two aunts, she does not like Zhou Yao more. If it is not necessary, she has never called Zhou Yao over. Sit down.

Even the greetings on the first and fifteenth day of each month, Jia Min can avoid it.

Anyway, I just don't want to see Zhou Yao.

Suddenly hearing Jia Min's summons, Zhou Yao had many bad thoughts subconsciously.She couldn't help turning her head to look at Nanny Guo, but seeing Nanny Guo frowned, she shook her head slightly.

It seems that Nanny Guo doesn't know why Jia Min called her.

Zhou Yao looked at Red Palm and Emerald Palm again. They had a wider network in the Lin family, maybe they heard something?

However, she was still disappointed, and Red Palm and Emerald Palm never knew why Jia Min suddenly called her.

Feeling uneasy, Zhou Yao took the red and brown couple to Jia Min's yard.

After saluting, Zhou Yao sat down at Jia Min's lower head.

Jia Min sat in the main seat, her expression was calm, her eyes were half downcast, making it difficult for people to see what was going on in her heart.

Zhou Yao looked at Jia Min, who was at the top, feeling more and more uneasy.

After a while, Jia Min suddenly said, "Has Aunt Zhou ever heard of Mr. Zhuang Zhou's Dream of the Red Chamber?"

Zhou Yao was startled, and tried her best to remain calm: "I never heard of it."

Jia Min raised his eyes, and the corners of his mouth were slightly upturned: "Really? This Mr. Zhuang Zhou Meng Honglou is the author of the story book that has become famous during this period. His first novel "The Widow" is cooperating with my Lin family's teahouse. After the storytelling, it became very popular. This story is still very good, even the ancestors are full of praise after hearing it. It would be a pity if Aunt Zhou had never heard of it."

Zhou Yao's smile was a little stiff: "Since this story is so highly praised by my wife, I will definitely have someone buy the script and read it carefully after I go back. Even if I can't understand it, I can ask the red and brown to help recite it."

Jia Min looked at Zhou Yao suspiciously: "Aunt Zhou can't read?"

Zhou Yao swallowed her saliva, lowered her head and replied: "Because I dozed off when I read books since I was a child, my mother only let me know a few words, so I won't become a blind person and never study again. , except for some common characters, most concubines don’t know them.”

There was a flash of joy in Jia Min's eyes.

Also, although the person she sent to investigate said that the man who wrote the story of "The Widow" was from Zhou Yao's yard, there was no way to find out which one wrote it.

Whether it is Zhou Yao, Red Palm and Emerald Palm, or Mother Guo is always uncertain.

Jia Min looked at Zhou Yao and squinted her eyes: "Since Mr. Zhuang Zhoumeng of the Red Chamber is Aunt Zhou's personal servant girl, as their master, don't you know anything about it?"

Zhou Yao clenched her hands, subconsciously wanting to turn her head to look at the red palm and emerald palm behind her.

Thankfully she stopped herself.

"Mrs., I don't know what you're talking about?"

Jia Min raised her eyebrows: "It seems that Aunt Zhou is planning not to cry when she sees the coffin?" She turned to call Xinzhong's companion, "Mother Zhao, why don't you tell Aunt Zhou the results of your investigation so that she Completely give up."

As the head mother of the Lin family, who was brought up by Jia's mother since she was a child, Jia Min has always looked down on those stories that are regarded as treasures outside.In her opinion, those stories were not only ridiculous, but also suspected of insulting her mind, which really made her feel uncomfortable.

However, even if the dialogue book is not eye-catching, Jia Min still attaches great importance to "The Widow", which has attracted a lot of business for the teahouse.

After careful investigation, she found that the story of "The Widow" was well-received among literati, and many well-known talents even praised it, saying that it was extremely original and groundbreaking, and might even completely change the future. How the article is written.

In the end, Jia Min even heard the title of the book from the mouth of her husband Lin Hai, as well as her admiration for Zhuang Zhou who wrote the book Dream of the Red Chamber.

Jia Min has always put Lin Hai first, facing her husband's exaggerated stories, even if she doesn't like it, she still asks someone to buy a copy.

Unfortunately, the shopkeeper of the teahouse said that this book has not yet been published.

So Jia Min came up with the idea of ​​publishing this story in the Lin family's book shop, but the shopkeeper said that Xian Wang also had the same idea.

Jia Min became more and more curious, so she simply asked the shopkeeper to copy "The Widow".

After that, Jia Min was fascinated.

Jia Min is smart and sharper than others. She can easily see the implication of Qian Xiucai's misbehavior in the details of "The Widow", and she can also see the protection of Wu Qianjin and the relationship between the lines of the husband who wrote this book. Disapproval of behavior.

While she was indulging in all kinds of feelings brought by the story, she couldn't help guessing the identity of Zhuang Zhou's Dream of the Red Chamber——

Is this gentleman really a man?

Jia Min has met many men since she was a child, among them are courageous and resourceful like her father Jia Daishan, romantic and dandy like her elder brother Jia She, pedantic and rigid like his second brother Jia Zheng, and several male relatives and friends in the Ning Mansion. Plus her current husband, Lin Hai.But even Lin Hai, who respects women the most, never moved her.

What's even more frightening is that Jia Min resonated with many of Zhuang Zhou's views on Dreaming of the Red Chamber.

In addition, she even saw many eye-catching viewpoints in it.Although these viewpoints seemed a bit outrageous and directly broke her previous cognition, Jia Min unexpectedly felt that these viewpoints were more reasonable than those she had heard since she was a child.

Jia Min once cited him as a confidant.

Because of this, she naturally wanted to see Mr. Meng Honglou's true face.Jia Min even thought that if this gentleman is really a woman as he guessed, he must find a way to make friends with her.

If you get a confidant, you will have no regrets in your life!

Mr. Zhuang Zhoumeng Honglou was originally a partner of the Lin family's teahouse. As the mistress of the Lin family, it was easier for her to inquire about him than others.

The shopkeeper wanted to conceal his identity for Zhuang Zhou's Dream of the Red Chamber, but the others in the teahouse followed her lead.

Jia Min soon learned that Mr. Zhuang Zhou's Dream of the Red Chamber had a great relationship with the Lin family——

Even if they are not from the Lin family, they are still guests living in the Lin family temporarily.

But Jia Min knew that there were no outsiders in the Lin family.

After some investigation, she quickly locked the identity of Zhuang Zhou's dream of the Red Chamber in Zhou Yao's yard.

Because of his identity, Jia Min never thought that Zhuang Zhou's dream of the Red Mansion would be a maid like Hong Zong, so he called Zhou Yao over directly.

But now it seems that Zhuang Zhou's dream of the Red Chamber might not be Zhou Yao?

Jia Min frowned, somewhat unable to believe such speculation.She looked at the two maidservants standing behind Zhou Yao with a serious expression, "Which one of you is Zhuang Zhou's Dream of the Red Chamber?"

Even if Red Palm and Cui Palm are daring, they dare not pretend to be their masters!

So the two shook their heads.

Jia Min kept staring at the two of them, naturally he did not miss the panic in Cui Palm's eyes.

"What's your name?" Jia Min stared at Cui Palm.

Cui Palm was stunned, and came to Jia Min with a stride, and knelt down on the ground with a "plop": "Madam Mingjian, even if the servants go all out, it is impossible to write a story like "The Widow."

"Have you seen The Widow?"

Cui Palm's body froze, and she whispered: "Mrs. Hui, I was lucky enough to go to the teahouse and listen to it once or twice."

"As Aunt Zhou's personal servant girl, you dare to go out to have fun when you don't usually serve her? Don't say that Aunt Zhou asked you to go out to do errands. Aunt Zhou said before that she has never heard of "The Survivor" "This story." Jia Min glanced at the anxious Zhou Yao, "You are seriously dereliction of duty! Come on, why don't you drag Cui Palm down and beat her eighty times!"

Eighty strikes, even if you don't die, you will be disabled!

Cui Palm immediately collapsed to the ground.

Even knowing that Jia Min might be defrauding her, Zhou Yao couldn't bear it anymore.She hurriedly said, "Madam, please spare Cui Palm, she didn't listen to "The Widow" from the teahouse."

Jia Min raised his hand to stop the women who wanted to go forward, and looked at Zhou Yao with a smile: "How do you say that?"

Zhou Yao sighed: "Zhuang Zhou's Dream of the Red Chamber was indeed written by my concubine. If the wife wants to punish, just punish me, the culprit, and please don't wrong innocent people."

Jia Min raised her eyebrows: "Who said I'm going to punish you?"

Zhou Yao finally admitted that she is Zhuang Zhou's dream of the Red Chamber, and Jia Min's mood is not complicated.Because she had already guessed, Jia Min was not very surprised that Zhuang Zhou Menghonglou was a woman, but she never thought that this person would be Zhou Yao.

It doesn't matter who it is, but why is it Zhou Yao who is dedicated to power and wealth?

Could it be that the idea of ​​"women should be self-reliant and self-reliant" revealed between the lines in the story of "The Widow" is all false?

Jia Min was a bit lucky at first, but now that Zhou Yao's identity has been confirmed, she seems to have been hit hard.

Thinking about it this way, she actually lost her interest.Jia Min waved her hand: "I'm just curious about the identity of Zhuang Zhou's dream of the Red Chamber, and I never thought of punishing you for it. You go first."

Zhou Yao looked at Jia Min suspiciously, and seeing that she really had no intention of calling those wives, she quickly got up: "Mrs. Xie is tolerant, I will leave first."

After returning to her yard, Zhou Yao collapsed on the bed with a look of fear on her face: "I thought that even if it wasn't the king of idleness, it would be the shopkeeper of the teahouse who knew my identity first. Madam, I was the first to find out my identity."

When Mother Guo heard this, she was startled: "Did Madam punish Auntie?"

The words that are popular outside are basically absurd to women, and they may be severely punished if they are caught reading, not to mention that Zhou Yao wrote it herself?

Mother Guo couldn't help feeling somewhat regretful: "If my aunt had this idea at first, and my old body dissuaded me, it wouldn't be..."

"My wife didn't punish me." After regaining her senses, Zhou Yao also noticed Jia Min's strangeness, "After learning that I was Zhuang Zhou's dream of the Red Mansion, my wife seemed very disappointed, and then kicked me out of the house. "