Indulgence in the Red Chamber

Daiyu followed Tanchun out of Fujin's house, came to stand under the veranda, Tanchun held Daiyu's hand and smiled, "Sister, are you here?"

"Very good. Why did you suddenly ask this question? Besides, this is still at Gege's house. Wouldn't it be chilling for our sister to come out and talk like this?" Daiyu couldn't understand what Tanchun meant, so she had to speak out what was in her heart.The fact is also the same, a girl from a big family like Tanchun should understand this truth.

"But the old lady always misses you. After dinner, the wife and the others all went back to the room. When the old lady left us sisters to talk and joke, she always sighed that you were not by her side. She was very worried."

After hearing Tanchun's words, Daiyu couldn't help shaking her head slightly, and said: "My sister is a sensible person. It's just a matter of persuading the old lady on weekdays. Don't think of me. It's important to take care of your body. If the old lady Because this body is uncomfortable, isn't it my fault?"

"Sister is such a cold person! The old lady loves you so much, you should go and talk to her old lady, even if it's a day or two. Anyway, the aunt is also the old lady's own daughter. My sister doesn't look after the house. Your old lady, just for the sake of the dead aunt, you should spend a few days in front of the old lady and show some filial piety, right?" Tanchun bit his lip secretly as he spoke, and looked sideways at Daiyu's expression .

As expected, Daiyu's face turned pale, and her eyes turned red again. After pondering for a moment, Fang suddenly smiled and said, "My sister said this, but I have nothing to say. Anyway, I am a cold-hearted person, and I don't deserve to be in the room." The gate of Rongguo Mansion! Simply go back and tell the old lady that you don’t have a granddaughter like me, or that you have already gone with your mother, that’s all!” After speaking, Daiyu turned and walked outside, trotting all the way around the long road. Corridor, went to his own room.

Standing under the eaves of the veranda, Tanchun looked at Daiyu's figure running away, bit his lip again, thought for a moment, then turned and went back to the room.

Seeing Tanchun coming in alone, Xueyan asked strangely, "Huh? Girl, where is our lady?"

"She went out. Maybe something happened." Tanchun shook his head helplessly.

Jinyu hurriedly ordered: "Xueyan, go and have a look, it's hot, we'll have to eat soon."

"Yes." Xueyan hurriedly agreed, and hurried out to look for it outside.

Liansheng followed Jinyu quietly, called the little girl under the eaves, and asked softly, "What happened to Miss Lin just now?"

"It's nothing, I just said a few words to that girl, seemed to be angry, and ran out."

Liansheng glanced at the room, through the window screen, but saw Tanchun sitting on a chair drinking tea as if nothing had happened, he gave her a bitter look, then turned his head and asked in a low voice: "Did you hear what they said? "

The little girl didn't listen to the truth, she only said a few words in a vague way, and it was inevitable that there were some suspicions of embellishment when she couldn't hear clearly. He took a sip, and cursed in a low voice: "Immature things, how about Ms. Lin, how can she teach her a lesson? The whole family is black-hearted, and they can't figure it out if they want to plot others. Now they come to the door again to find fault! Don't turn around!" Hit my hand!" After speaking, Liansheng hurriedly walked a few steps outside to look for Daiyu and Xueyan.

Yinzhen originally wanted to keep Lin Ning in the mansion for dinner, and by the way, talk to him and ask him about his next plan in the capital.The clinker had just had a cup of tea, when the housekeeper hurried in and said, "The fourth master, the third master, the fifth master, the eighth master, the ninth master, the tenth master, and the fourteenth master are all here. in the car."

"So many people?" Yinzhen frowned, with a look of boredom on his face.

"Fourth Master has a guest, Lin Ning will take his leave first." Lin Ning knew that these people came prepared, they must have inquired about the news and came for him, so he couldn't sit down any longer.

"Afraid they will do something? Just sit here and have tea." Yinzhen frowned and said angrily.

"Today is a good day for the fourth master. It is only natural for a few brothers to come to congratulate the fourth master. Lin Ning still has some trivial matters, so he has to go back." After speaking, Lin Ning stood up and faced the Yinzhen cupped his fists and walked out.

Xu Zhen couldn't help but get up to see them off, and he said: "Just come here when you are free, I don't have much to worry about here. You are here, we brothers have a good day's wine."

"When the fourth master is happy, Lin Ning will inevitably come to ask for a glass of wedding wine." Lin Ning smiled, and persuaded Yinzhen: "The fourth master has distinguished guests, please stay and let the butler see them off."

"En. It's good to send the young master back." Yinzhen nodded, looked at the housekeeper Dai Duo and ordered.

"Yes." Dai Duo, who was also a well-rounded person, hurriedly agreed, and led Lin Ning out through another door.

The 160 servants from Nala's family who came to deliver the dowry, each of them received a reward from the fourth master, were all smiling and drinking tea in the wing room in the front yard, but they didn't know that Lin Ning had already returned home first.

Lin Ning rode back home. Although the family members were a little surprised, they didn't dare to ask more questions.Lin Ning threw the reins of the horse into the hands of the servants, but he walked quickly inside without saying a word.

In the big study, the servants were having tea and talking with Baoyu. Baoyu was naughty since she was a child, and was talking nonsense with those handsome servants. As if seeing a savior, he got up and greeted him.

"Why do you guys get together?" Lin Ning looked at the young men who surrounded him in puzzlement and asked.

"My good son, we have guests at our house, but the young master is not at home. Old Fujin asked us to take care of him. How have we ever seen anything in the world? Fortunately, the young master is back. Please hurry up, young master."

"Which family came from the distinguished guests? Scared you like this?"

"Isn't he an honored guest? He is an honored man who was born with jade! The little ones have seen it today."

Lin Ning was taken aback, looked at the door, and thought to himself: Why is he here?But to see Daiyu?When Lin Ning was in a daze, Baoyu had heard the words, and came out curiously. When he saw Lin Ning for a while, he suspected that he was a man from heaven, but he was also a little dumbfounded.

"This must be the second son of the Rongguo Mansion?" Seeing Baoyu staring at him in a daze, Lin Ning smiled faintly and asked, clasping his fists.

"It's Zhuoyu, dare to ask brother Gao's name?"

"Lin Ning." Lin Ning smiled, stepped over the threshold and entered the door directly.

"Oh! Are you the son brought by sister Lin?" Baoyu suddenly realized, and hurriedly followed him and asked.

"Exactly." Lin Ning said, then sat down on the main seat, raised his hand and smiled at Baoyu: "Sir, please sit down."

"I've heard for a long time that the person who came with Sister Lin has an extraordinary appearance. When I saw her today, he really looks like a heavenly man!" Baoyu repeatedly praised Lin Ning's appearance, and his words were very meaningful.

Lin Ning frowned, and said with a faint smile: "I have heard that the young master is used to hanging out with daughters, and seeing him today, he is really extraordinary. Look at the young master's whole body, he really looks like a daughter gone."

If Lin Ning said this to someone else, that person would have been furious.At this moment, even the servant who served the tea at the side listened to it, and secretly sighed that Mr. Ning had made a fool of himself.It's just that Baoyu is talking about Baoyu, who is Baoyu?That is the person who has envied his daughter's family since he was a child, and is determined to cultivate a daughter's body in the next life!Hearing this, he was not angry, but rather pleased in his heart.

Baoyu hurriedly bowed his hands to Lin Ning, and his words meant that he wanted to have a deep friendship with Lin Ning.Lin Ning was originally very tired of this rich man who didn't know the sufferings of the world, but now seeing his words are ridiculous, but he is still an ignorant child of seven or eight years old.

From Baoyu's mouth, Lin Ning heard that Sister Feng and two girls were among the people who came to Rongguo Mansion today, so she thought that Daiyu was inside, and she couldn't be quiet.Then he asked someone to go in and send a message, saying that he had come back earlier, and asked Fujin if he had anything else to say.

Sure enough, after a while, the mother-in-law came back to spread the word that Miss Lin was not well, please ask the young master to go in and have a look.

Lin Ning stood up suddenly, and was not as polite as Baoyu, and went out directly to the back.When Baoyu heard that sister Lin was not well, she was very anxious, so she went in with Lin Ning. I went in with Mr. Ning, and asked everyone to avoid what should be avoided.

In the infantry commander's residence, there was only Jin Yu who was not out of the cabinet.The rest, except the girl and woman, are old Fujin.Baoyu is only an eight-year-old child, and the Manchu rules are not as strict as the Han people, so there is nothing to avoid.

Lin Ning hurried all the way, asked the woman next to him, and knew that Daiyu was in his room, so he went directly.

Old Fujin, Jinyu, Sister Feng, Yingchun and Tanchun were all in Daiyu's room, but there were too many people, the house was small, and it was a hot day, so old Fujin, Sister Feng and others were all in the hall outside Sitting, Jinyu was the only one looking after Daiyu.

And Daiyu was half lying on the bed at the moment, with a white gauze on her forehead, and there were faint red blood stains on the gauze.

Xue Yan's eyes were red and swollen, standing aside, Lian Sheng also had hatred on his face.

Lin Ning's heart twitched suddenly, and he asked sharply, "What's going on?!"

Jinyu was taken aback by Lin Ning's tone, and he had been with him for a long time. This person always smiled lightly, with a clear and disdainful expression on his face, like a person who has seen the world through, but at this moment His face was ruthless, his eyes stared at him ferociously, and there was also a lot of reproach in his tone.

Lin Ning like this makes people dare not look directly at him.

"It's none of their business, it's because I walked carelessly and fell down..." Daiyu opened her eyes, and when she saw Lin Ning, she felt sore in her heart, filled with unspeakable grievances.

"Please Ge Ge get out of the way. I want to see how the injury is." Lin Ning's eyes slipped behind Jinyu, looked at the weak Daiyu's red eyes, and said, holding back the anger in his heart.

"Okay, since you're here, there's no need to invite those doctors." Jinyu got up and stepped aside, Lin Ning stepped forward and sat by the bed, raised his hand and untied the white gauze on Daiyu's forehead.

This is a serious injury.The wound wasn't deep, just scratched a little bit of skin, but on Daiyu's delicate and tender skin since she was a child, this scar looked extremely ferocious.

Lin Ning gritted his teeth, wiped the blood from the wound with clean gauze, and ordered Xueyan to fetch a cup of white wine, then took out a small medicine bottle from his purse, and lifted his hand from Daiyu's head. Pulled out a silver hairpin, soaked the tip of the silver hairpin in white wine, took it out and wiped it clean, then picked out a little khaki powder from the small medicine bottle, and gently put it on the wound that was no longer bleeding , until the wound was covered with the powdered medicine, then he asked someone to take another clean gauze and wrap the wound well.

From the beginning to the end, Daiyu didn't say a word.

Lin Ning just gritted his teeth secretly to clean up her wound, not letting himself yell at the people behind him.After tidying up, he looked at Daiyu again, silently for a while, and said, "Rest well, don't think too much. My medicine has a miraculous effect, and it will never leave any scars."

"Yes. Got it." Daiyu was surprisingly obedient this time.

"I'll go out for a while and ask someone to make you some soup." Lin Ning was used to being taunted by her, but seeing her so well-behaved now, he couldn't bear it anymore, raised his hand to touch the hair on the top of her head, and softly comforted, "I don't drink medicine, I just cook some soup that clears away heat and dissipates fire. If you fall on a hot day, I'm afraid your heart will be stagnant with heat poison."

"Okay." Daiyu nodded again.

"Lie down obediently, let the girls get what you want." Looking at the well-behaved little girl, he was reluctant to leave.

"Well, I see." She smiled lightly, with a faint pear dimple at the corner of her mouth.

"Still laughing! Does it hurt?" He glared at her.

"It doesn't hurt anymore, it's a little itchy." She smiled deeper, seeing his eyes watering, slowly raised her hand, stroked the word 'Chuan' between his brows with her slender fingers, and persuaded softly : "Don't frown. It's ugly."

"Yeah." Lin Ning nodded, his brows widened, and a faint smile returned to the corner of his mouth.

"Sister Lin—" Someone called out anxiously at the door, breaking the tranquility of the room.

"Brother Bao, don't be so stinging." When Sister Feng saw Baoyu barging in, she rushed into the bedroom without saying hello to old Fujin. Family, you have to follow some rules when you do things."

Baoyu was taken aback for a moment, then turned around and saw an old woman with a cold face on the seat above, she hurriedly turned around and bowed to salute: "Baoyu pays respects to Fujin."

"Brother Bao, right? It's a scorching hot day, if you have something to do, just ask a servant to come in and spread the word. Why do you have to come here yourself? Please sit over there and have a cup of tea." Old Fujin had a look on his face. The color of displeasure is just not good for Baoyu to get off the stage in front of everyone.After all, when people came in, they came here under the pretense of giving gifts to their daughter.

"Thank you Fujin. It's just—" Baoyu hurriedly saluted and thanked, then looked up at the inner room, and asked anxiously, "I don't know how sister Lin is?"

"Miss Lin is fine. Mr. Ning is a rare famous doctor. What kind of sickness and pain? After passing through his hands, it is safe. Brother Bao, don't worry. Go back and tell your old lady that it was my old lady who was negligent. But I told Miss Lin to be wronged by me, and when she recovered from her injury, I would take her to the mansion to make amends to the old lady." While talking, old Fujin glanced at Tanchun.Liansheng had already quietly told the story to Old Fujin's maid, Yu Xi'er, and Yu Xier, who was like a human being, had already spread the words to Old Fujin's ears.

Lin Ning came out from the inside, gave Baoyu a cold look, then looked through the room one by one from Sister Feng to Tanchun, and finally clasped his fists at Old Fujin, and replied loudly: "The girl's injury is all right now. Now, if old Fujin has nothing to say, I will go to the small kitchen and watch the servants cook some heat-clearing and stasis-removing soup for her to drink."

"Hurry up. I'm sorry for your trouble! Master Lin will come to Beijing some other day, and I will thank you personally. My wife won't say that word now, girl Lin, I treat her as my own daughter, you are my son. , I'm not an outsider either. Since I'm not an outsider, there's no need to engage in those hypocrisy. Everything is about Miss Lin's body." Old Fujin sighed repeatedly, but treated Sister Feng and her children as if they were transparent.

Lin Ning promised to turn around and go out, Old Fujin also got up slowly, shook his head and sighed: "Let's go out first, this room is small, and it's hot in summer, so many people make the room smell bad. Let the child Let’s rest for a while. Please have dinner ahead.”

"I don't dare to trouble Lao Fujin, let's go back first." Sister Feng is a master who is good at observing words and expressions, and she has already noticed from the eyes of everyone that this matter seems to have something to do with Tanchun.If you don't wink at this moment, just stay here, I'm afraid it will become more and more annoying.

"What did the second grandma say? Could it be that our family can't even prepare a lunch? We should ask the second grandma to do my wife a face and leave after eating." Old Fujin said lukewarmly, Having helped the maid Yu Xi'er's hand out of the room, she turned back and said coldly to the maid serving in the room, "Take care of Miss Lin, if there is any mistake, I will definitely take your skin off!"

"Yes!" The four girls and the two nuns knelt down together.

"Girl Jin, you should stay here too, and watch your sister come to me after eating the soup."

"Understood, Er Niang." Originally, Jin Yu was not willing to go to the front to accompany these people for dinner, but upon hearing what Old Fujin said, she hurriedly agreed.

Lin Ning went to the small kitchen and ordered the cook to take loquat leaves, chrysanthemums, coix seeds, and japonica rice and mix them together according to a certain amount, cook a pot of thick and rotten porridge, let it cool down in the air, and give it to Daiyu sent.He found something to eat in the kitchen to fill his stomach, and Fang went to Daiyu's room again.

At this time, Daiyu had already fallen asleep, Jinyu had lunch in the east room, and Xueyan stayed by Daiyu's side, fanning her gently.

Lin Ning entered the room with light steps, Xue Yan felt someone was behind her, and when she hurriedly looked back, she saw Lin Ning's clear but bottomless eyes.

"What's wrong?" Lin Ning asked softly.

"It doesn't hurt anymore, I just fell asleep." Xueyan replied softly.

"Don't fan, be careful of the wind blowing into the wound." Lin Ning frowned, looked outside, and said: "Ask someone to bring in the ice basin, it's hot in summer, prevent the wound from getting sweaty, let alone good."

"Yes, the young master is thoughtful. We don't understand these things." Xueyan hurriedly put down her fan and got up to go out, brought in an ice basin and put it on the high table beside the bed.

"Come out, I have something to ask you." Lin Ning glanced at the sleeping Daiyu, turned and walked out the door.