Indulgence in the Red Chamber

Mrs. Xing was furious and cursed directly, and then brought Sister Feng and Jia Lian in.Jia Lian wasn't Mrs. Xing's own child, and she received favors from Mrs. Wang on weekdays, so naturally she wouldn't come forward to help at this time.And Sister Feng is Mrs. Wang's niece, so it's good that Mrs. Xing doesn't scold her, but she will suffer if she scolds her now.Inevitably, he also came forward but just held Mrs. Xing's hand and did not let go.He said nice words, but he tried his best to press Mrs. Xing's hand.Mrs. Xing's hands were caught by Sister Feng and she couldn't resist, and she was suddenly slapped several times by Mrs. Wang.

For a moment, the Rongqing Hall was full of chaos, and there was no peace at all.

Mother Jia sadly supported the girl's hand and turned back into the room, simply out of sight and out of mind, and wept alone on the couch.

Seeing this, Baoyu and Xichun had no choice but to go in with Jiamu.

Outside, Mrs. Wang, Mrs. Xing, Sister Feng, and Tanchun were caught in a group. Li Wanyou and his wife were anxious but could not stop them. They were suddenly pushed away by Sister Feng and fell into Jia Zheng's arms. inside.Li Wan was ashamed and angry for a while, and hurriedly broke away and ran out. You Shi laughed angrily, and turned to look at Jia Zhen with a sigh.Jia Zhen looked like an old god, as if everything in front of her had nothing to do with him.

When the commotion was raging, suddenly a housekeeper rushed in and said: "Masters and ladies, something is wrong!"

Everyone in the room was startled by the yelling, and they couldn't help but stop their hands and turn around to look, but they saw Lai Da stumbled in, pointed to the door and said, "Fourth Master and Fourteenth Master come to pass the The imperial decree tells both masters and young masters to go to the front."

When Madam Wang heard this, she felt dizzy for a while, and her feet were so weak that she almost collapsed on the ground.Thanks to Tanchun's quick hands and feet, he hurriedly stepped forward to support her, and Fang leaned on Tanchun's body and slowly sat down on a chair beside her.

It's just that these people understand in their hearts that the real nightmare has just begun.

Old Summer Palace, the autumn colors are just right.

Daiyu watched the two cooks make dim sum in the small kitchen, giving instructions while watching. The cook peeled the steamed purple taro according to her instructions, mashed it with a stone mortar, and then mixed it with honey to make the stuffing. In addition, roll the freshly steamed milk flour into a thin dough, stack it layer by layer, and put the stuffing of purple taro in it, and finally put it into a patterned mold and cover it Back into the oven.

The oven was improved according to Xuan Ning's attention, and the baked dim sum was soft and crispy, which was several times better than the original method.

As time passed little by little, the air gradually had the fragrance of purple taro, and a slight smile appeared on Daiyu's face.

"Master, this purple taro cake will be ready soon, please go back to the room and make it for a while, master?" Xueyan took a handkerchief to wipe off a little flour stuck to Daiyu's body, and persuaded in a low voice.

Daiyu looked away from a distance, turned to look at Xueyan and asked, "Is the young master back?"

"Not yet, but it's coming soon. Young Master said that you will come as soon as you go." Xueyan said and supported Daiyu's arm, and the two slowly left the small kitchen and walked slowly along the winding corridor , suddenly heard someone talking outside, when she listened carefully, Daiyu smiled slightly and said, "He's back."

Xueyan laughed and said, "What did the maidservant just say? Didn't she just come back?"

"Your hoof is becoming more and more shrewd now." Daiyu was in a slightly better mood, so she turned to greet the courtyard gate with a sweet smile, but saw Kangxi and Xuan Ning entering the garden gate one after the other.

Daiyu hurriedly went to meet the holy car.Kangxi has already stretched out his hand to grab it.He sighed and said: "Get up. Don't kneel. I have really wronged you girl these years."

Daiyu thanked Shengen, then turned around and asked Kangxi to sit inside.Kangxi walked under the eaves of the corridor and suddenly smelled a sweet smell, so he smiled and said: "This is the taste of purple taro cakes, isn't it? I just woke up early and said that Lin girl's purple taro cakes are good. I don't want to be here now. .”

"The emperor likes to eat it. Tomorrow, Daiyu will write down the cooking method and hand it over to the masters of the imperial dining room, so that they can make it for the emperor every day. I'm afraid the emperor will get bored by then."

"You girl always like to leave things out, why don't you often make them and send them to the palace? How can those people in the imperial dining room have your ingenuity?"

"When the emperor said this, Daiyu happened to have something to go back to."

"Oh? What's the matter?" Kangxi turned his head and saw Daiyu's sad face. He thought it was the Jia family's incident that made her sad, so he comforted her: "I have already asked the fourth and fourteenth to go to that matter." It's done. Don't worry, they not only bullied you, but also committed the crime of bullying the king. I will definitely make decisions for you. Give you justice."

"That incident is over, my mother is dead, and I can't live anymore. And the money was originally belongings outside of her body. Now Daiyu is under the care of the emperor. She doesn't need anything. It's useless to ask for it. If Fourth Master can get it back, Just charge it to the national treasury. Daiyu has been in the capital for more than ten years. In these years, the emperor has taken care of her in the capital, and she has the care of the fourth master and Mr. Ning. Daiyu lives without worry. There was no incense on her parents' graves. More than a dozen Qingming Festivals have passed, and Daiyu has never burned a piece of paper on their graves. Now that the autumn wind is blowing again, it seems that it is the anniversary of her father's death. Daiyu I would like to ask you to go back to the south of the Yangtze River and add a few handfuls of loess to your parents' graves. I also ask the emperor for permission."

Kangxi couldn't help sighing when he heard Daiyu's sad words, and said: "As the saying goes, raise a child to guard against old age. Lin Ruhai and his wife have a daughter like you, and they should rest in peace. Since you want to go back and have a look, then Go back. Let Xuan Ning go with you, bring more guards, and check the people's situation for me along the way. But there is one thing, both of you will come back to me during the Chinese New Year. I still want to have a reunion year this year."

After hearing this, Daiyu hurriedly knelt down and kowtowed, and said gratefully: "Thank you, Your Majesty, Long En."

Kangxi suddenly laughed and said, "Okay, okay, let's just talk about it, but I won't let you eat your purple taro cake?"

Daiyu hurriedly smiled and said: "Where will it be? Daiyu will go and bring it to the emperor." After saying that, she turned around and retreated after blessing her.

Xuan Ning kept smiling as she watched her figure disappear behind the bead curtain, and Fang heard Kangxi ask, "What do you think?"

Xuan Ning was taken aback, and hurriedly turned around and replied, "I don't know what the emperor is asking about?"

"Are you still pretending to be confused with me?" Kangxi looked at Xuan Ning with a half-smile, with a sly look like an old fox in his eyes: "Don't tell me that you will obediently bring this girl back to accompany me for the New Year. You I have been secretly dealing with your shares in those transactions of the Shanxi Ling family for several days, and some small shares were even sold at a low price, do you think I don’t know?”

"Your majesty was joking. Those businesses are not very profitable anymore, and it's useless to keep them. Besides--Yu'er needs some money to go back to Jiangnan this time. It will take two thousand miles to go all the way, and she has never received anything since she was a child." A wronged person. Money is an essential thing when you are out of the house." Xuan Ning smiled on his face, but sighed secretly in his heart, after all, this fox is still an old man.

"Hmph, if you dare to play any tricks with me again, and disappear for another ten or eight years, I'll see if I will expose your skin!" Kangxi wanted to say more, but Daiyu had already personally held a red lacquer cloud dragon to offer her birthday Comes in a small gilt tray.The stack of freshly baked purple taro cakes above exudes a tempting aroma, so I had no choice but to put those words aside, and said happily: "Yeah! My stomach growled as soon as you came in."

Daiyu hurriedly put purple taro cakes in front of Kangxi, Fushen said: "Your Majesty, use it slowly, Daiyu is going to prepare some tea."

Kangxi had already pinched a taro cake and took a bite, nodding while eating: "Mmm... yes... yes, let's go. I want to drink Hangbai Chrysanthemum with rock sugar."

Daiyu smiled and nodded, then turned and retreated.Before leaving, he said to Li Dequan: "Li Wenda, come and help me. I don't know how hot the emperor is to drink tea."

"That's right, Li Dequan, follow Miss Lin quickly." Daiyu's words fit Kangxi's mind, and she waved them all down without waiting for Li Dequan's order.

Li Dequan hastily agreed, and then winked at the accompanying maids, everyone meandered out, only Kangxi and Xuanning were left in the room.

Seeing that Kangxi was eating happily, Xuanning also reached out to take a piece of snack and put it in his mouth when he looked around for no one.Kangxi was not happy when he saw it, he hurriedly pulled the dim sum plate towards him, and said dissatisfiedly: "You are tired of being with Lin girl every day, don't you have enough to eat? Unexpectedly, you come to grab me again at this moment. With you Is this like a son?"

Xuan Ning said without hesitation: "Old man, you are the Ninth Five-Year Master, rich in the world. What delicious food have you never eaten? Why do you like this purple taro cake so much? There is nothing special about it when I eat it? "

"Stinky boy, where is it your turn to take care of me? Don't let me go!" Kangxi completely lost his original serious look at this time, and looked like an old naughty boy. Hugging all the dishes, he looked at Xuan Ning vigilantly, and said while eating: "Stinky boy, you still tricked me truthfully. What is your purpose in encouraging Lin girl to go back to Jiangnan?"

"No purpose." Xuan Ning made up his mind not to say anything, anyway, he would take Daiyu away when the time came, and they couldn't help but think whatever they liked.But thinking of this, Xuan Ning felt a little bit reluctant to part with the old man.how to say?It doesn't matter whether blood is thicker than water or the love between father and son is deep, anyway, Xuan Ning is very comforted by this old man no matter what he says or does in the past few days.The original resentment in my heart disappeared without a trace.Thinking that one day in the near future, I would quietly leave, and I was really reluctant to part with it.

Kangxi was waiting for Xuan Ning's reply, but when he suddenly saw him staring at him in a daze, he felt that something was wrong, so he reached out and patted Xuan Ning on the forehead, and asked bitterly: "Stinky boy, what are you thinking?"

"Uh..." Xuan Ning came back to his senses, smiled foolishly, reached out his hand to wipe off a few crumbs of dim sum from the corner of Kangxi's mouth, and said, "It's nothing, I was thinking that if those people outside saw your appearance like this old man, they would not know what to do. How do you feel?"

"..." Kangxi was so angry that he choked on a mouthful of dim sum in his throat, unable to speak.

Half a month later, the 56 taels of silver and more than 70 antiques and curios that Mrs. Wang and others calculated from the Lin family were all recovered by Yinzhen with thunderous means, but Daiyu gave them all to the treasury with one word.At this time, the national treasury is empty. Although the money is far from enough compared with the deficit of the national treasury, it can also relieve the financial tension a little.

Jia Amnesty and others were exempted from all their official titles, and Jia Mu and others were also exempted from their orders.This was undoubtedly a fatal blow to Yuan Chun in the Prince's Mansion.For a while, I was depressed and frowning.I went to beg the prince to intercede and was scolded by the prince again. In the evening, the fetus less than three months old suddenly slipped and became red.At the fifth watch, a ray of fragrance returned to the west.The girl hugged her body and cried loudly, then watched her family drag Yuan Chun's body out and bury it indiscriminately.But the prince was fine, and within two days he took another concubine into the mansion.

In October of that year, when Kangxi patrolled the river in the south, when he arrived in Linqing Prefecture, he decreed that the princess-to-be, Lin Daiyu, would return to Gusu to pay homage to her parents, and ordered the thirteenth elder brother to escort her to Gusu with 1000 troops from the Pioneer Battalion.He also ordered Xuanning Road to take good care of Daiyu's body and bring her back intact.

Xuanning naturally understands what Kangxi meant, but Daiyu's intentions are certain, and she doesn't want to stay here to continue entanglement, she made up her mind, and just agreed casually, ready to play by ear.

The brigade of Kangxi's southern tour and Daiyu separated in Linqing Prefecture. Kangxi went to Jinan to inspect the Yellow River. Daiyu and Xuanning were escorted by Yinxiang and went south along the canal to Suzhou.

The autumn colors in Gusu are lighter than those in Beijing.The weather is also warmer.Daiyu had already put on Xiaomao's clothes when she came, but she didn't need them when she arrived in Gusu.

Although he hasn't been back for many years, the old house of the Lin family is still there, and the old housekeeper who followed Lin Ruhai didn't leave either.Daiyu sends people to visit every year. The old house is cleaned every day and repaired before the rainy season. Everything remains as it was before.So after Daiyu entered the door, she felt in a trance that time went back and she returned to the past.

It was the first time for Yinxiang to come here. He originally thought that the courtyard would be in disrepair after years of disrepair, but he didn't expect it to be like this.He was even more impressed by Daiyu's ability to plan and arrange the affairs of the family so well from thousands of miles away.Can't help boasting to Xuan Ning: "You have a good eye, and you have found a good Fujin."

Xuan Ning just smiled and said nothing, but he was happy in his heart.

Daiyu heard this in a daze, her face was flushed with shame, but she stepped inside quickly, pretending she didn't hear it.

until evening.The family set up a banquet for Daiyu, Elder Brother Thirteen and Young Master Ning.Although Daiyu is older now, the Manchus are no better than the Han people, and the rules of intimacy between men and women are also lighter. Besides, Yinxiang and Daiyu grew up together.So the three of them sat in front of the table, pushing cups and changing cups, talking and laughing, and it was fun.

According to Kangxi's request, Yinxiang rushed to Jiangning to answer the emperor after escorting Daiyu to Gusu.So Yinxiang will leave after staying here for one night.

That night, when he was a little drunk, Yinxiang said that he couldn't drink anymore, and he would be drunk if he drank any more, which might delay his departure the next day.

Xuan Ning didn't try to persuade him any more, and slept with Yinxiang and Yinxiang at that time, and they talked for most of the night.When Daiyu got up early the next morning and came to see her off, the family members reported that Mr. Ning had already sent the Thirteenth Master off.