Indulgence in the Red Chamber

Xueyan followed Lin Ning out of the room, just as Jinyu also came out from the east room after lunch, saw Lin Ning and asked in a low voice, "Have you eaten yet?"

"I've eaten." Lin Ning nodded, and still walked out the door.He didn't want to talk to Jinyu right now either, in his heart he was still angry with Jinyu.Daiyu is still young and needs someone to take care of everything. He went to give her a dowry, but she hurt Daiyu.This is an unfair account.Lin Ning thinks that he is very small-minded, and he will settle this matter carefully with her later!

"Hey—you..." Seeing that Lin Ning treated her indifferently, Jinyu felt unhappy, and cursed bitterly, "It's all caused by that damned woman!"

Xueyan took a look at Jinyu, and didn't dare to say much to go out with Lin Ning. Without waiting for Lin Ning to ask, she explained the ins and outs of the matter.It turned out that Daiyu ran out of Lao Fujin's room, crying all the way back to her own room, but she ran so fast, and because she was crying, she wiped her tears with a handkerchief all the way, so she didn't see her feet. I accidentally tripped over a small stone, and happened to step on my crony again, so I knocked on the gravel path, and was hit on the head by a rockery stone on the side of the road.

Lin Ning knew that this matter was related to Tanchun, so he told Xueyan: "Take care of her, and when she wakes up, feed her the porridge." Then she turned and hurried out.

It was just after noon, the hottest time of the day.Bi Shu knew it and neighed tirelessly. The hot weather and such neighing made people upset.Lin Ning stopped for a while at the gatehouse at the second gate, and saw two carriages coming from one side, several servants outside the gatehouse hurriedly hid in the house, and four women went out to serve.

Lin Ning knew that the guests inside were about to come out, so he held his breath and just sat in the porter's room and looked out.

While waiting for another cup of tea, as expected, Sister Feng came out with Yingchun Tanchun and Baoyu, and the four nurses in charge of Lao Fujin's room saw them off on both sides.

Everyone stood under the shade of the tree and said some polite words, then Sister Feng got into the car first, followed by Yingchun and Tanchun.Baoyu didn't ride a horse, but got into Sister Feng's carriage.Lin Ning watched the crowd getting into the car from the gatehouse, smiled coldly, turned around and walked quickly through the corner gate.

Under the scorching sun, there were few pedestrians on the street, and even beggars who were begging for food were looking for shady corners to sleep.

Lin Ning wandered to a corner, where there were four five or six-year-old children sleeping against the wall, their bodies were as dirty as mud monkeys, there was not a clean piece of cloth on their bodies, and there was a small His buttocks were bare, revealing his dark skin, and there were a few pimples on his legs and feet that were bitten by mosquitoes. The skin was broken due to scratching hard, and it was about to fester and sore.

Why!Poor children~ Lin Ning shook his head, stepped forward, raised his foot, and gently kicked the oldest child among them.Called: "Hey! Wake up!"

"Huh? What's the matter?" The little beggar opened his sleepy eyes and looked hesitantly at the young man in cocoon silk gown.

"Do you want money?" Lin Ning asked with a smile, waving a sling of copper coins on his finger.

"want!"

"Yes!"

"give me!"

"The young master rewards me! The great kindness and great virtue will never be forgotten!"

The four children immediately regained their spirits, and knelt down at Lin Ning's feet in unison, with happy expressions on their faces.

"I'll pass two carriages here later, and whoever of you can run over and pull the youngest of the two girls in the carriage behind me out of the carriage, I'll reward him with a penny. Whoever can tear the clothes on her body, I will reward another tael of silver. As for the jade pendants and jewelry on her body, it is your ability to snatch them away, I don't care."

"I said, big brother, are you trying to kill us? Money is important, but if we are dead, what do we need money for?" The older beggar shook his head in disappointment and was about to get up from the ground.

"That's right, isn't it because we're tired of robbing girls from rich families?" Another beggar echoed.

Lin Ning smiled, shook his head and said, "If I guarantee that their families will not be able to keep up with you, would you dare to go?"

"Why can't people catch up with us? We are not monks from Shaolin Temple with peerless martial arts. You must know that all the slaves are in good shape." The biggest beggar still didn't believe it.He had already got up from the ground and turned to leave.

"Look—" Lin Ning held a copper coin and waved it.

There was a scream of a bird in the air, and a wild magpie fluttered down and fell to the ground. After a few flutters, it lost its breath. When the youngest child ran over to pick it up, he saw that the copper coin was deeply embedded in it. , cut off the magpie's neck.

"Oh?!" The little beggars' eyes widened, and they looked at Lin Ning in disbelief, "My lord is very capable!"

"You guys go up and grab it, I'll be by the side, and I promise to break the legs of those servants. How about it?" Lin Ning said, and took out a few pieces of silver from his purse, "After the matter is done, the money and silver, It’s all yours. If you don’t trust me, how about you take the money first?”

"it is good!"

"to make!"

"Okay! Let's do it!" The four beggars agreed unanimously.

"Then we've made a deal. All four of you go to the intersection over there and wait. Their car is coming." Lin Ning pointed to the side of the street.

"Okay, let's go." The biggest beggar took a sling of money from Lin Ning's hand and walked to the side of the street with the three little beggars.Naturally, they wouldn't miss out on a good job with money.

The car of Sister Feng and others came slowly from one end of the street, and the family members holding the reins of the horse in front walked listlessly, wiping sweat with a sweat towel, while secretly cursing the terrible weather.The women on both sides of the carriage were also full of complaints. On this hot day, who wouldn't want to hide in a cool room and sleep while walking on the hot street?

A group of people walked lifelessly on the empty street, lifeless.

After the little beggars approached with the carriage, the leader waved his hand, and the four of them rushed up together, stopped the second carriage and shouted in unison: "Master and wife, please do me a favor, and give me a stutter..."

"Hey! You little bastard who can't die of hunger! Get out of the way!" The servant leading the horse stared and kicked.

The little beggar was dexterous, and hurriedly took two steps back, avoiding that sweet foot.The other few took the opportunity to rush to the carriage, jumped into the carriage one by one, lifted the curtain of the carriage and got inside.

"Hey-hey--little bastard, what are you trying to do?"

"Ah - get out quickly, what are you going to do?" In the car, Yingchun and Tanchun were startled by the little mud monkey that suddenly got in, and hurriedly hugged each other.

The two children behind also took the opportunity to get into the car, but were pulled back by the nanny who followed.

"Get out!"

"Get off!"

"How can you mess with your mother!" The two women each grabbed a child and dragged it down. They were hit by something on the wrist, and they hurriedly stopped with a scream, and the arm was as painful as if a bone had been broken. pain.

The two women couldn't care about the little beggar for a while, and hugged their arms and howled repeatedly.In the car, Yingchun's maid, Si Qi, and Tanchun's maid, Shishu, rushed forward to protect the two ladies, and beat the little beggar who got in with his head and face covered.

Helpless, the little beggars tried their best to pull the smaller girl out of the car. The slap of a little girl like this is just a tickle to them, compared to those wolfhounds released for the rich and unkind. , a hundred and eight thousand miles away.

All of a sudden the three little beggars got into the car, and the servant leading the horse outside was injured by Lin Ning, sitting on the ground with his legs crossed and crying, the reins of the horse were held by the little beggar, the horse refused to accept, and jumped back and forth restlessly .The carriage swayed, Tanchun and Yingchun couldn't sit still, Tanchun's head bumped into the carriage unexpectedly, it was bruised and purple, and a big bag was formed.

"Ah—don't touch me! Get your dirty hands away!" Before Tanchun had time to reach out to cover the big bag on his forehead, his arm was grabbed by a little beggar.He hurriedly yelled to hide in Yingchun's arms, "Second Sister—Second Sister, save me!"

"Come down for me!" The little beggar grabbed Tanchun's wrist, while plucking off the gold bracelet from her hand, and pulling it out desperately.

The other two little beggars held Si Qi and snatched the hairpin from her body, while the other grabbed the servant book and beat each other.

"Damn it! Don't catch me! Let me go! Second sister—" Tanchun had already been dragged to the door of the car by the little beggar. While panicking, he desperately held Yingchun's hand and wouldn't let go.

"Third Sister! Don't be afraid!" Yingchun herself was so scared that she would die, but she still cried to comfort Tanchun.

"Come down!" The little beggar who led the horse outside saw that the one inside had got his hands, threw the reins of the horse, and ran over to help, tearing and pulling, and the two dragged Tanchun out of the inside together.

"Ah—help!"

"Come on people!"

The carriage in front heard the movement and stopped hurriedly. Several women and family members came over to help, but Lin Ning took copper coins from a dark place as a hidden weapon, and each of them was hit in the hollow of the leg, lying on the ground and unable to stand up .

Sister Feng looked out from the car, and she didn't care too much when she saw this scene. She got out of the car in a hurry and hurried forward to see Tanchun, but she was also a woman with a long dress with small feet, and she couldn't walk easily. When he got to Tanchun's side, Tanchun had already fallen on the ground, and the little beggars snatched all the clothes he wore on his head, and fell to the ground with disheveled hair, crying.

The little beggars got their hands and scattered, running faster than monkeys.

Sister Feng helped Tanchun to get up, and while wiping the mud on her face with a handkerchief, she kept cursing: "Where are you bastards who can't die of hunger! Report back to the admiral of the Nine Gates and order them to be caught and thrown to the western suburbs." Buried alive on the chaotic graves!"

The two maids and Yingchun also got out of the car and helped Sister Feng tidy up Tanchun's clothes and appearance. Tanchun was crying and leaning against the servant's arms out of breath.

Baoyu had been so frightened for a long time that he stood aside and forgot to persuade him. The woman next to him was afraid that he would get sick again, so she hurriedly persuaded him to go back to the car.

For a while, Sister Feng scolded the servants again, and sighed for a while, but after all, the street is not a place to stay for a long time. After a while, people from the shops on both sides came out to watch the excitement.The big family is most concerned about face. Sister Feng didn't dare to delay, so she hurriedly asked someone to help Tanchun into the car, and the group hurried back to the house, without any trouble.

Lin Ning stood at the entrance of the alley, and after watching the farce on the street, half of the anger in his heart finally subsided, so he gave the little beggars a dozen taels of broken silver in his purse, and told them Go hide outside the city for a few days, it is best to find a legitimate livelihood, and don't beg along the street.The little beggars thanked Lin Ning thousands of times, kowtowed to Lin Ning, and Fang happily left with the silver in his hands.

The climate in summer is uncertain, and it is unbearably hot at noon. At this moment, a cloud of dark clouds suddenly drifted from the northeast corner. Seeing that it covered the sun and the sky darkened, it will be a heavy rain.Lin Ning didn't dare to delay, thinking of Daiyu again, he hurried back home.

As soon as Lin Ning stepped into Daiyu's courtyard, it began to rain with a crackling, heavy and rapid raindrops, and the ground was completely wet in an instant.

Daiyu was startled awake by the sound of rain, opened her eyes and looked at the dark sky outside, and asked, "Xueyan, is it raining?"

"It's not raining! It's a heavy rain, but it's the first heavy rain this year." Xueyan said, carrying the porridge from the kitchen into the bedroom, and smiled and said to Daiyu: "This is the rain. Mr. Ning ordered the kitchen to cook porridge specially for the young lady. The young master said that this is for clearing away heat and dissipating fire, and the young lady must eat some, so that the wound will heal sooner."

"I'm not hungry right now. I don't want to eat." Daiyu sighed and was about to sit up.Xueyan hurriedly went over to help her up, and persuaded: "Miss, you should eat as much as you want. This is specially boiled for you, if you don't eat it, you will always take away the good intentions of others, won't you?"

"Where did Lin Ning go? Did my uncle's sisters-in-law and sisters all leave?" Daiyu asked, leaning on the bed and looking out the window.

"They're all gone." Lin Ning stepped into the door, the long gown on his body was wet by the rain, sticking to his chest, back and back, looking very embarrassed.

"It's raining so hard, why did you come here without even taking an umbrella?" Daiyu asked strangely, and then ordered Xueyan to say, "Why don't you go and get the clothes and change them for him?"

"What Miss said, where are the men's clothes in our room?" Xueyan sighed helplessly.

When Daiyu heard this, she blushed, pondered for a moment, and said, "There is a bag on the top shelf in the kitchen over there, and there are two long gowns inside. I'm afraid the size is fine for him. Take it off and change it for him. "

Xueyan hurriedly searched for it, and there was indeed a honey-colored package with two long gowns inside, one silver-gray silk with embroidered pine and bamboo longevity characters, and one light gold with gold thread embroidered with bamboo to signify safety.Xueyan picked up the light gold one, handed it to Lin Ning and said, "This is the clothes our girl made for the master, and it's brand new. Young master, let's change this wet one first."

Lin Ning agreed with a smile, thanked Daiyu again, and took the clothes to Donglijian to change them.

When she passed here, Daiyu was already eating porridge.

Lin Ning sat on the side and watched her eat a bowl of porridge, and Fang persuaded: "Those irrelevant people's nonsense words must not be taken to heart. Naturally, they mean to make us feel better. If the girl really To be angry is to fall into other people's tricks. It's better to live your own life happily."

"How do you know what's on my mind!" Daiyu sighed, shaking her head, got off the bed, walked to the window, and watched the pouring rain outside. A vast expanse of whiteness.Heaven and earth are indistinguishable.

"How can there be so many things on your mind? If you have something to do, just tell me. I'll go out and do it for you, so it's over? No matter what big or small things, you just keep bored in your heart, and eventually you will get sick and suffer yourself. After all, it's nothing benefit."

After hearing this, Daiyu turned her head and looked at Lin Ning helplessly, without speaking for a while.

Xueyan went down with the rest of the porridge, and by the way ordered the little girl outside to leave.

"What do you have to say that you can't tell me?" Lin Ning looked at her melancholy eyes and asked puzzledly.

"My mother died for no reason, I am not reconciled." Daiyu's voice was very low, mixed with the noisy rain, it was almost inaudible.

"I know." Lin Ning nodded.Before Daiyu's mother died, there was only Jia Lian by her side.Although she had something to say to Lin Ning and Daiyu when she was dying, they were all insignificant.What exactly Jia Lian told her before, and why she suddenly had a phlegm attack that took her life, became a mystery.

If you want to find out the truth, you have to learn it from Jia Lian.And Jia Lian - naturally knew the importance of the matter, how could he say such words casually?

"You don't allow me to go to their house. I'm afraid I won't be able to figure out what happened to my mother until I die." Daiyu sighed, then turned to look out the window.

"Don't say that." Lin Ning walked to her side and slowly sat down on the chair next to him. He was sitting and she was standing so that the two could look at each other. "I will find a way to investigate this matter. But I You can't go to their house to be wronged just to let you understand this matter. Master Lin will definitely not allow it. So we'd better go out and buy a house, and live in another house by ourselves."

"Well, I understand what you mean." Daiyu nodded, "But buying a house is not a trivial matter. Where can I buy it casually?"

"I told the fourth elder brother today. He has promised to help us find out. In fact, it is very good for us to buy a piece of land and build a separate courtyard by ourselves, but it is very troublesome and there is no time. So we had to buy one first. I live in a small courtyard, so I have to plan slowly to build another courtyard."

"Why be so ostentatious? The house is just for living, as long as it's enough. It's good to build a separate courtyard, but there are only a few of us, but what's the point of building such a large, empty yard?"

"How come? We won't just keep these few people forever. I was thinking about opening a few shops in the capital and let these shops make money for us, and then build another courtyard, buy a few houses for our family, and tell them to separate. Live in the house, the man runs the store outside, and the woman waits on you at home. When you grow up, find a man you like and marry him into the Lin family. Wouldn't it be nice to carry each other for a hundred years?"

"You!..." Daiyu listened carefully at the beginning, and was secretly happy for Lin Ning's words, but who would have thought that she would marry her into a husband-in-law or something later, her heart suddenly ached, and she could only I felt like my stomach was overwhelmed, I felt dizzy before my eyes, turned around and vomited out the porridge I just ate, and kept vomiting until I vomited all the porridge in my stomach.

"What's wrong?!" Lin Ning was shocked, and hurriedly stepped forward to help her.But Daiyu pushed her away: "Hurry up and get out of the way! I will never dare to work for you again..."

Before Daiyu could finish her sentence, tears began to flow down her cheeks. Looking at Lin Ning's pale face in a haze, her heart ached.

No matter how she pushed and shoved, Lin Ning still stepped forward to hug her, put her on the bed, and called Xueyan to come in to clean up.But I took a handkerchief and wrung it wet to wipe her face. Unexpectedly, Daiyu snatched it again, turned around and threw it on the ground, and said angrily, "Are you still going out? What are you doing standing here? Just look at me." Are you happy when you're dead?"

"Why bother? I didn't say anything wrong." Lin Ning shook his head helplessly, seeing her crying and fussing, not knowing how to coax her.

"Get out!" Daiyu was trembling with anger, pointing at the door and crying with all her might.

"Okay, okay, I'll go out first, don't cry, don't cry--" Lin Ning hurriedly turned around and went out, but he didn't dare to walk away. He just listened to Daiyu crying again for a while under the eaves, waiting for her to calm down , Fang braved the rain to leave.

Lin Ning walked out of Daiyu's yard in the rain, and returned to his room feeling very irritable.He leaned heavily on the chair in front of the desk, and closed his eyes dejectedly.

"Hey, my lord, I see you are soaked all over, hurry up and change your clothes, and be careful of catching a cold!" The servant in the study came out from behind the bookshelf to clean up when he heard the movement, and was busy seeing Lin Ning's appearance Come forward to persuade.

"Ah, help me get some clothes." Lin Ning said, he got up and untied his belt, and took off the light golden gown.But because the middle clothes inside were also soaked, he simply took off all of them.

"My lord looks thin and weak. Unexpectedly, he took off his clothes to see, but he is not thin." The boy took out the clothes and handed them to Lin Ning. Lin Ning put them on one by one, and handed him the clothes he had just changed. He ordered: "Send it to my room."

"The clothes have been rained, or should they be sent to the laundry room, let them wash them, iron them, and send them to the young master?"

"Alright, you can tell them to be careful, the clothes don't have to be unusual."

"Yes, son's things must be taken care of, of course. Old Fujin has already ordered it. You must not treat you poorly. Now you are a distinguished guest in our house!" The young man said with a smile.

"You old Fujin are too polite. Our girl and I fled to the door with no one to rely on, but instead we became honored guests."

"Young master, don't say that. With your abilities, you can create your own business wherever you go. Where do you need to go to someone? Today's dowry delivery is enough for the people of the capital to talk about for ten and a half months." ! Mr. Ning of our family has truly become a rare young hero in the world."

Lin Ning was taken aback for a moment, secretly thinking that it was not good.

Today, I was only focusing on protecting those dowries, but I forgot to restrain myself.Didn't such a publicity show startled all the people in the capital?They are all shrewd masters, and it is hard to guarantee that they will not use this to cause trouble.

In this way, he went from the dark to the bright, and became a living target for some people!

Thinking of this, Lin Ning couldn't help but frowned and fell into deep thought.