Indulgence in the Red Chamber

After listening to Daiyu's words, Jia's mother was also thoughtful, but Daiyu was already drinking tea in silence, and she couldn't keep silent.Then he smiled and said, "I don't often hear these scenes. Unexpectedly, the princess knows this."

"I haven't heard of it either. It's just that I passed by outside last time and heard someone talking about it occasionally, so I thought about listening to it today. It's just in the light of my grandmother." Daiyu smiled and held the teacup in her hand. set aside.

A few people chatted a few more gossips, and the small music sounded on the stage over there.The Xiaosheng pretending to be Zhang Sheng opened his throat and sang.

Everyone listened attentively, Dai Yuzhi sat there carelessly, her gaze swept over everyone's faces from time to time.

After listening for a while, Jia's mother smiled and said, "This Mr. Zhang really has some skills. A weak scholar actually knows the art of war and can save people from fire and water. This is also a good luck of the Cui family."

"It's just a pity that Mrs. Xiangguo didn't have a discerning eye, but turned back on what she said, because the scholar's status looked down on him. She gave birth to the idea of ​​regretting the marriage." Daiyu said, looking at Jia Mu with her eyes clearly With a faint smile, it made Jia Mu and Mrs. Wang feel a little chilly. When the autumn wind blew, they couldn't help shivering.

Mrs. Wang saw that Jia's mother was a little silent, and she might be cold.Then she turned her head and smiled, "It's not Mrs. Xiangguo who regrets the marriage. The only thing to blame is that Miss Yingying promised someone else."

Daiyu glanced at Mrs. Wang, and said with a sneer, "This is also strange. Why did she forget that her daughter had been betrothed to someone else when she made a promise that she would betroth her daughter to whoever defeated the enemy?" What? But after Zhang Sheng saved their mother and daughter, he remembered that his daughter had promised someone else? But he was so scared and confused by those powerful enemies?"

"This..." Mrs. Wang was stopped by Daiyu's question, and she didn't know how to answer for a moment.

Aunt Xue hurriedly laughed and said: "They are always orphans and widows. They are pitiful. In fact, it is a good idea to let Ms. Yingying recognize Zhang Sheng as her brother. I just don't know what will happen in the future if I really recognize my brother and sister like that." Sing on."

After hearing this, everyone smiled slightly.

Daiyu glanced at Jiamu, who was about to laugh at Aunt Xue's words, when she suddenly saw Daiyu looking back at herself, and asked hurriedly, "What can the princess say?"

"I don't have much to say. I just think that Mrs. Xiangguo just survived and thought that if her daughter married the son of the Minister of Rites, it would be better than marrying the commoner scholar Zhang Junrui. She just took her daughter to exchange Famous and rich, but some people say that she is an orphan and widowed mother who has lost her power, and she is just looking for a family for her daughter that can be entrusted to her for life." After Daiyu finished speaking, she turned her head and went to continue watching the theater.

When Jia Mu's face changed, she couldn't help being touched, and her eyes passed over Mrs. Wang quietly.

"Good advice, princess." Baochai had been sitting silently between Yingchun and the three sisters. Seeing that Jiamu and the others' faces were troubled, she smiled softly, "It's just that this lifelong matter has always been the order of the parents. The words of the matchmaker. But no one has ever made their own claims. This kind of drama should not be heard by our girls. It’s better to change it.”

As soon as these words came out, Jiamu and Mrs. Wang all nodded secretly, and looked at Daiyu inquiringly.

Daiyu smiled coldly, put the tea cup in her hand on the table, looked at Baochai and asked, "Who are you?"

Baochai was taken aback for a moment, and then replied blankly, "Why doesn't the princess remember me?"

Daiyu immediately changed her voice and shouted sharply: "Snow geese!"

"The servant is here." Xueyan quickly turned around and knelt down in front of Daiyu.

Daiyu said coldly: "You have always followed me, didn't you hear what she said? You are still waiting for me to ask her?"

"Slave maidservant should die!" Xueyan hurriedly kowtowed, stood up calmly, glanced at Chunxian who was standing on the side, and Chunxian followed Xueyan to Baochai. Xueyan shouted: "Mr. Baochai, who doesn't know the rules, has no sense of dignity, dares to disrespect the princess, presumably even the emperor didn't take it seriously, so give me twenty slaps, as a warning to everyone else."

"Yes." Chunxian agreed, took two steps forward, suddenly reached out and grabbed Baochai's collar, pulled her over and raised her hand to hit her.

During the banquet, everyone including Jia's mother turned pale with fright, got up and left their seats in a panic, and knelt down in front of Daiyu.Keep pleading guilty.

"Wait." Daiyu raised her hand, and the words popped out like pearls.

Chunxian's raised hand stopped in the air, waiting for Daiyu's order.

"Drag it out and fight. I don't want to see this." Daiyu gave Jia Mu a cold look, thinking of her mother's face when she died, her heart became more and more angry.The hands that twisted the veil couldn't help trembling slightly, and asked myself over and over in my heart: Is there really such a parent in the world?Are they really my mother's mother and brother-in-law? ?

When such a thing happened during the banquet, the actors on the stage were already overwhelmed with fright, and one by one squeezed to the corner of the stage and stood there, looking down curiously.

"Princess, please spare me! Princess, please spare me..." Seeing someone coming and dragging her daughter out, Aunt Xue hurriedly moved forward on her knees, threw herself at Daiyu's feet, and begged for mercy.

Daiyu looked at Aunt Xue's tears streaming down her face, and she suddenly felt moved, and asked, "You are also a mother. Now I will let you choose one time. It is said that your daughter will also be elected as a princess in the palace. The Lord's accompanying maid. Now you are begging me here again. I only give you two ways. First, your daughter has no dignity today. She dares to point fingers at me and has a contemptuous attitude. I Just follow the rules and slap your mouth twenty times. Second, I will not ask anyone to beat her, nor will I punish her. I will only send someone to the Ministry of Internal Affairs to say that your daughter will be exempted from being selected. How do you choose?"

Aunt Xue was taken aback, couldn't help but stopped crying, and looked back.

Baochai hadn't been taken down yet, and the two women supported her and stood aside. After hearing this, she stared at Aunt Xue in a daze, waiting expectantly, as if she was sure that her mother would choose to save her. Give up the chance to be selected as a palace lady.

Aunt Xue glanced at Baochai guiltily, feeling extremely reluctant.

Mrs. Wang also lost her mind, and Mrs. Xing was even more determined to watch the excitement, and she never said a word.

Jia's mother remained silent, and she seemed to understand that Baochai's disrespect to Daiyu was caused by contempt in Baochai's heart. Shou, this is justified, no one has anything to say.

Aunt Xue looked back and looked, and finally fell to her knees on the ground, holding back her tears and said: "The little girl is ignorant and offended the princess. Please punish the princess, so that the king can be upright!"

Baochai was stunned, and looked at her mother stupidly, unable to believe what she heard.

Daiyu sneered, looked at Aunt Xue's dignified face, then at Baochai's discolored snow-white face, sighed, and said, "No wonder you said that Mrs. Xiangguo did a good job, so you are all panting through one nostril. Regardless of the life and death of their own daughters, they insisted on exchanging their daughters for a rich and prosperous mother."

As soon as this statement came out, everyone was secretly surprised.Unexpectedly, Daiyu came today, but she has other plans. Looking at the situation, it seems that she already knows something.Especially Jia Mu and Mrs. Wang, thinking that maybe they can't hide what happened back then, they each secretly planned how to end today's matter.

Aunt Xue was still kneeling on the ground, she was ashamed and ashamed after hearing what Daiyu said, but she was speechless.

But Baochai turned his heart away, broke away from the mothers-in-law on both sides, walked two steps quickly, knelt down beside Aunt Xue, kowtowed to Daiyu, and said, "Princess Mingjian. It is my long-cherished wish in Baochai's life to be elected to the palace, and it is definitely not my mother's wish." Meaning. There is an old saying that life is nothing more than the four characters of "loyalty, filial piety, righteousness". And the word "loyalty" comes first, so it is naturally the most loyal to the emperor. Although I, Baochai, is a girl, I don't want to lose to a man. The princess just now Now that we have been given two choices for mother and daughter, and my mother has already made a choice, I ask the princess to fulfill her promise. After Baochai has received the punishment, I will thank the princess.”

As soon as Baochai's words came out.Everyone was shocked.

Daiyu also looked at Baochai in surprise. After looking at it for a while, Fang nodded and said repeatedly: "Okay. Okay. Okay..."

She said hello three times in a row, and then she didn't say a word, just looked at Baochai with a smile.

Baochai knelt there anxiously, for fear that Daiyu would see through her thoughts.So he lowered his head to hide his face and remained silent.

Aunt Xue couldn't bear it anymore, she turned around and hugged Baochai and burst into tears.While crying, she scolded Xue Pan, and felt sorry for her daughter, crying "Poor son...".

Outside, Jia She, Jia Zheng, Jia Zhen, Jia Lian, Baoyu and others all heard the movement here.It's just that because of the national system, men and women are different, but they waited anxiously outside, not daring to come in without authorization.A housekeeper's wife had already whispered a word. After Jia Amnesty had heard it, he looked at Jia Zheng and said bitterly, "I told you not to let their family live at home, but you couldn't embarrass your daughter-in-law. Seeing that the old lady loved Baoyu, she urged the old lady to keep the three of them, mother and son, at home. Now something has finally happened, and it has only affected you and my family!"

"Brother's words are wrong." Jia Zheng glanced at Jia Lian dissatisfied, and said slowly: "When they came, why did elder brother say that he would not stay? And who said that our family is about to have a princess. The sale is very big, so we should get closer to their imperial merchants, so as to expand some sources of income? Now that they have something to do, the eldest brother is talking about this? If Xue Pan hadn't given out 5000 taels of silver a few days ago, Jia Yucun I can't even get that stone nerd's fan! The yamen in Shuntian Mansion is not opened by our Jia family, so why not wait for money to deal with it?"

Jia She was furious.Unexpectedly, the second younger brother, who was always honest and trustworthy, would reveal his faults in front of his nephew. For a moment, the old man couldn't get over his face, so he pointed at Jia Zheng and said, "What princess? She's just a concubine in the Prince's mansion. After so many years by the Prince's side, Not even a single egg was laid, it's a pity that you still named your daughter a princess!"

Jia Lian couldn't help but wanted to laugh, but didn't dare. She couldn't hold back anymore, so she pretended to cough and turned away.Baoyu also heard this very unpleasantly, but the two people who were arguing, one was father and the other was uncle, were both elders, and they had absolutely no place to intervene, so they had to stand aside with their heads bowed and kept silent.