Lin Ruhai of the Red Chamber Reborn

Chang'an City, Rongguo Mansion.

Although it was the end of spring and the beginning of summer, the originally picturesque Xiaoxiang Pavilion in the Grand View Garden was completely cold and quiet as if there were no people in it. Lin Ruhai saw the maids and servants in the Rongguo Mansion passing by frequently, but no one wanted to stay in Xiaoxiang Near the museum, even if someone occasionally looks sideways, what is shown in the eyes is not pity, but indifference.

There was a coughing sound, and Lin Ruhai hurriedly floated out of the window, where Daiyu, his only flesh and blood, lived.

At that time, Daiyu was lying on her side on the bed, coughing so badly that she was almost out of breath. mouth, coughing for a while before it stopped, only felt a burst of fishy sweetness in the throat, swallowed hard, and asked, "Snow geese, where is Zijuan?"

Xueyan, who was accompanying the bedside, had red eyes, and hurriedly said: "Sister Zijuan is home, and she will be back tomorrow."

Daiyu grabbed Xueyan's wrist with all her strength, making her even more skinny, and said, "Don't, don't lie to me, where is Zijuan? Tell me the truth. Zijuan has never left since she followed me. I can't get sick now, how can she go home."

Xueyan couldn't help turning her head away, the girl was so ill, how could she tell the girl the sad news that Zijuan had died?Who would have thought that the daughter of Master Lin, the censor of the Jiangnan Road Salt Department, was entrusted to the Rongguo Mansion, but it ended up being reduced to such a state that every day should not be called and the land is not working, and the girl is only left with herself.

Daiyu let go, remembering that before Zijuan left, she wanted to seek justice for herself from Mrs. Wang. At that time, she felt that there was an ominous omen. Seeing the situation of Xueyan, she asked: "Is Zijuan gone, is it gone?" gone?"

Xueyan turned her head, covered her mouth and sobbed.

Daiyu's heart was shocked, a mouthful of blood spurted out like this, and fell on the skirt of her clothes, dots of bright red like cinnabar.

Xueyan was startled and said: "I'll spend some money to find the woman at the back door, at least I can invite a doctor for the girl."

Daiyu came to her senses, stretched out her hand to grab her, shook her head and said, "Xueyan, don't go!"

Seeing that Daiyu almost fell off the bed, Xueyan quickly turned back to support her, with tears streaming down her face, choked up and said, "Miss! They are so heartless, they took the property left by the master and treated her like this. How close sister and sister used to be, but now the girl is so ill, except for the fourth girl who came to visit her twice, no one else came over."

Daiyu smiled miserably, her eyes were distracted, but she didn't shed a single tear, she forced herself to say, "Silly girl, people don't want to be destroyed for themselves, and grandma is gone, who still misses us? Who makes us helpless."

Xueyan suddenly burst into tears, and was in pain.

Daiyu couldn't suppress the blood in her throat, she hurriedly covered it with a handkerchief, and said with a smile, "Why are you crying? If you die, you'll be clean."

Xueyan thought of the faces of the people in the Rongguo Mansion after Jia's mother passed away, and she felt heartbroken, and said tearfully, "Girl, people say that it's better to live than to die. Let's take good care of her, and the girl will recover."

Daiyu shook her head slowly, and said: "Poor Zijuan followed me, and died instead of enjoying the blessings. Only you and my master and servant are left. What good is it to live? Is it possible that they will send me away?" Is it okay to give it to the rich and powerful? Besides, even the medicines I take are not good enough. From time to time, it is said that there is a shortage of medicinal materials. How can I be cured? Now I feel sore in my heart, but there are no tears in my eyes. Once the fire burned, I came to the world innocently, and I was also asked to leave cleanly. I just want to bring Zijuan back to my hometown. The Jiangnan we have been away for many years, I don’t know if it is the same as in memory. Painting, green willows are like silk."

Lin Ruhai was so anxious when he heard that his daughter was about to die, he was extremely anxious, but he couldn't float in. There were only tears on his face, "Yu'er, Yu'er..."

Daiyu said intermittently and continued: "It's not like a kit to collect beautiful bones, and a handful of pure land to cover up the wind. At the Flower Festival that year, I made this funeral flower poem. I never thought that today it would be a prophecy. Today, It's the Flower Festival again, and it's Baoyu's birthday, but unfortunately, the sisters are so romantic that they can no longer pay homage to the God of Flowers together."

Hearing her daughter's desperate words, blood almost dripped from Lin Ruhai's eyes, and she wailed loudly, wishing she could lay down a million corpses.

Her voice became softer and softer until it was barely audible, and she slowly closed her eyes.

Xueyan lay down on the bed and burst into tears.

The wind suddenly picked up and moved the bamboo shoots, finally blowing away the fragrance in the room. Outside the Qiansha window, a parrot who was reciting a poem with the same rhyme as Daiyu made a mournful cry, and suddenly crashed into the cage and died. At this time, they fell one after another and danced with the wind. In an instant, the entire Xiaoxiang Pavilion seemed to be covered with a layer of green veil, and the sorrow lingered.

Lin Ruhai stood outside the window as a ghost, his face full of remorse, the tears in his eyes turned into blood, flowing down his cheeks, sobbing: "Yu'er, it's all because of the father's incompetence, it's all because of the father's incompetence, it's because Father believed in the wrong person, entrusted the wrong person, and did not arrange everything for you. It is because of father's incompetence, because of father's sorry for you, because of father's sorry for you!"

It's a pity that Daiyu didn't know about his remorse, and had no chance to know.

Lin Ruhai watched Mrs. Wang bring people over to evacuate the Xiaoxiang Pavilion, and removed all the rare books, rare books, famous paintings, antiques and other rare things he left to Daiyu. The smile on his face was like a Bodhisattva before the Buddha, still so honest and kind, He just complained slightly that it was unlucky for Baoyu to be married soon, but he died, so he sent a few women over to bury Daiyu hastily.

In the end, only Xueyan, alone, returned to the south of the Yangtze River with the coffins of Daiyu and Zijuan.

It was a snowy day, and the north wind blew wild geese and snow. The reason why the departure was delayed until the end of the year was because the Rongguo Mansion only kept Daiyu's coffin in Tiekan Temple. No one wanted to pay attention to it, but Madam Wang scolded her a lot, and ordered her to be forced to send her to Tiekan Temple to guard Daiyu's spirit. Throwing away the underclothes, only Jia Lian still had a conscience. Remembering the benefits he had gained from taking care of Lin Ruhai's funeral, he felt a little sympathetic, so he sent a few women and servants to accompany Xueyan back to the south.

Lin Ruhai, who had lost his beloved daughter, was still trapped in the city of Chang'an and could not get out. He didn't know why he didn't set foot on the road to Huangquan after his death, but wandered in the world, and entered the capital with Daiyu. .

He was secretly happy that he could watch Daiyu grow up and get married safely, but in the end, what he saw was the Rongguo Mansion's various bullying of Daiyu, watching her endure the wind, knife, frost, and sword. In the hard days, seeing her being compared to an actor, seeing her being criticized and scolded by others, she was only 16 years old, like a flower, but she withered like this.

He should trust Jia Min and not make his own claims.Jia Min said more than once during his lifetime that Baoyu was very stubborn, hated reading, and only hung out in the inner room. Originally, Mother Jia was sure to protect Daiyu well. When Mother Jia wrote a letter to pick up Daiyu, she insisted on sending her to the capital. , he was afraid that he would bring Daiyu a catastrophe.

Lin Ruhai gritted his teeth with hatred, he hated himself for being incompetent, hated for being blind, hated for being self-righteous, if he had thought more carefully, if he thought of the unpredictability of people's hearts, if he had arranged for Daiyu more properly, his only daughter would never reduced to such a state of isolation and helplessness.Obviously he is a veteran in the officialdom and has experienced ups and downs in the officialdom, why didn't he think more about it?Why do you think that Mother Jia will definitely treat Daiyu well?Why do you believe that Mother Jia will fulfill the marriage contract mentioned in the letter?

Now that his daughter is gone, he can only watch her die, but there is nothing he can do.

"Yu'er, it's all my father's fault. At that time, you obviously didn't want to go to Beijing. It was because my father insisted on sending you to Beijing, which made you suffer and suffer. But don't worry, my father will watch and bully you." Everyone gets the retribution they deserve." Although Lin Ruhai can't leave Chang'an City, he can go wherever he wants in the capital. Not only can he come and go freely in Rongguo Mansion, he can even enter and leave the palace freely. It happens that ghosts are afraid of the real dragon emperor.

As a salt censor who has passed away and died in the confrontation between the Supreme Emperor and the new emperor, Lin Ruhai's favorite place to go besides her daughter is the Daming Palace and the Chaohui. Occasionally, when she is bored, she will wander to other places, knowing a lot It is a secret, so he is very familiar with the affairs in the court, knowing that the current emperor has sharpened his sword and is ready to kill the four kings and eight princes and other centuries-old families, and the people in the Rongguo Mansion are still drunk, so there is no sense of crisis.

As he said, the Rongguo Mansion was heading towards destruction step by step.

Jia Baoyu and Xue Baochai got married in September of the year Daiyu died, and before Xueyan left for the south, the marriage was arranged in Yuanchun. Daiyu was dead. In other words, Baochai was originally charming and romantic, and Yuanchun died of dystocia in the palace shortly after Jin Yuyuan became a child. Lin Ruhai understood that this was a sign that the Rongguo Mansion would collapse.

At the beginning of the next year, the prince of Nan'an defeated Xihai Yanzi and was captured. Shi Xiangyun's husband, Wei Ruolan's father, died in battle. Female, please make me the princess, that is, Tanchun.Jia Zheng and his wife passed away because of Yuanchun, and they were panic-stricken. Everyone knew the benefits of getting married in Tanchun, and they were willing, so they married and set off on the third day of March, crossing the Yangtze River and crossing the sea.

Tanchun's far-off marriage brought the last glory to the Rongguo Mansion, but this glory did not last long. In May of the same year, Xue Pan's case was discovered, and he was the first to be imprisoned for crimes such as shortfall in purchasing.In November of the same year, Wang Ziteng was accused of beheading and ransacking his family on charges of being short-lived by his ancestors, corrupt in office, and accepting bribes to arbitrarily seek officials for his subordinates.

In March of the following year, the historian ransacked the house, and the two governments were arrested together.In August of the same year, the Ningguo Mansion ransacked their homes on numerous charges. A few days later, the Rongguo Mansion ransacked their homes on dozens of charges, including deficit of the ancestors, embezzlement at the post, champerty lawsuits, huge profits, mutual protection between officials and officials, murder and seizure of property, and hiding the property of criminal officials. The crimes are different, death is death, exile is exile, imprisonment is imprisonment, sale is sale, the glorious century-old family, just like Lin Ruhai wished, just disappeared and disintegrated.

Later, a sudden fire burned Ningrong Street. The fire burned for three days and three nights, and was finally suppressed by a heavy snow. dirt.

Lin Ruhai finally let go of her grievances, and while laughing, suddenly her eyes went dark and she lost consciousness.