Indulgence in the Red Chamber

The rain outside changed from heavy to light, and gradually turned into a drizzle.The sky was groggy, like the mood of a pair of master and servant in a room.

"Come on, miss, do you want to eat something more?" Xueyan came in with another bowl of porridge, "I just came from the kitchen, look at it - peach kernel hawthorn and lotus leaf porridge. Just looking at the color makes people appetite. This It's just right to eat when it's neither hot nor cold."

"Let's put it there." Daiyu sat on the chair facing the window, watching the rain outside through the propped up window.

"Would you like to eat something?" Xueyan brought a small bowl of porridge and begged.

"Tell you to put it there!" Daiyu usually didn't care about the little girl, but when her stubborn temper came up, no one could do anything about it.

Xueyan bit her lips in embarrassment, and wanted to persuade her, but was stared back by Daiyu.I had no choice but to give up, turned around and went down with the porridge.

Daiyu's nanny, Nanny Wang, saw Xueyan go in with porridge, so how did she come out?Then I knew that Daiyu would not eat again.So he quietly pulled Xueyan aside and asked in a low voice: "Did the girl have a problem with Mr. Ning?"

"It should be. I went in late at noon. I didn't hear what they said. I only saw the girl let him out, crying while talking. It seems that the guy has offended the girl." Xueyan said bitterly.

"Then you go to him and ask him to accompany the girl."

"Is this useful? I'm afraid that the girl will be even more angry when she sees him, and she might even kick me out."

"How come? You go to the front and invite Jin Gege along to make sure the girl won't lose her temper." Wang Momo whispered.

"That's good. Mommy listen to the girl, I'll come as soon as I go." Xueyan felt that what Wang Mommy said made sense, so she quickly put down the porridge bowl, turned around and went forward.

Xueyan is a clever girl, she first went to Lao Fujin's room to invite Jinyu, and asked her to talk with Daiyu first, and then went to the study to find Lin Ning.

Lin Ning, the clinker, happened to be not at home at this time, so he asked the servant, saying that he had gone out on something.

"You troublemaker, you caused trouble yourself, so you'll go out to have fun. Wait until you come back and see how I deal with you!" Xueyan scolded as she went out, pretending not to be full of enthusiasm with Lin Ning who was entering the door.

"You scolded me behind my back again, let's see how I deal with you!" Lin Ning came back from the outside with a parrot in his hand and an umbrella in his other hand. His clothes were clean and he wore rain boots. Get some rain.

"Fortunately, you still know how to come back! You left, and the girl cried all afternoon. It's not too late for dinner now, and you vomited the little thing you ate at noon. Not only did you ignore it, but you also went to get these boring things. It really is a fool." Heartless!" Seeing that Lin Ning was holding the parrot stand, looking like a playboy, Xue Yan couldn't help adding another layer of anger.

"It was I who made her angry, so I found this to apologize to her." Lin Ning said, handing the parrot stand to Xue Yan, and said: "Wait for me, wait for me to change into clean clothes and let her go." You go and see her together."

"Okay, hurry up." Hearing this, Xueyan smiled and stood under the eaves of the corridor waiting for Lin Ning.

When Lin Ningxueyan came over holding an umbrella and carrying a parrot, Jinyu was indeed in the room persuading Daiyu.

"Miss, miss! Take a look—what good things are here?" Xueyan entered the room first, and smiled like offering a treasure with a parrot stand.

Daiyu turned her head and saw a five-color parrot standing on the shelf, with a silver ring on its foot, tied to the shelf with a thin silver chain, with emerald green feathers and five-color wings, it was very cute, so she smiled and said: " You damn girl, where did you get this?"

"Where is me? Do I have such abilities?" Xueyan smiled and sent the parrot to Daiyu and Jinyu, and said to the door behind him: "You haven't come in yet, do you want the lady to invite you in person?"

"Here we come. You girl clearly has small feet, how can you run so fast?" Lin Ning originally slowed down on purpose, but now he heard Daiyu smile, so he entered the door with confidence.

When Daiyu raised her eyes, she happened to meet Lin Ning's gaze.He smiled slightly, gentle and elegant, making people feel like a spring breeze.Daiyu felt her heart sour, and her eyes turned red.

Lin Ning smiled, bent over and asked, "Is this parrot good?"

"What's so good about it? You chained the parrot up, and it's a crime. How can it be said to be good?"

"But it is a parrot, and it is born to live like this. If you are kind and let it go, maybe it will end up in someone else's house. It's okay if you meet a kind person, but if it's not kind and disobedient It’s a sin to beat the parrot and not give it food.” Lin Ning smiled, took the parrot, and whistled to tease it: “Say, girl, please eat.”

"Miss, please eat." The parrot really had been carefully trained, and it came as soon as it opened its mouth.

Jinyu and Daiyu were immediately amused by it, and even the little girls in the outside room laughed when they heard it.

"What are you laughing at? Didn't you hear that the girl wanted to eat? Why don't you bring the food?" Lin Ning turned around and said to the little girl.

After hearing this, the little girl hurried out and brought Daiyu's food and set it up.

"Who said it's time to eat? You're the only one born to be talkative." Daiyu pursed her lips and glanced at Lin Ning.

"You don't eat, but it's the beast's fault." Lin Ning pointed at the parrot and threatened the parrot: "If the girl is angry and refuses to eat, I will beat you."

"Girl, spare your life! Miss, spare your life!" The parrot was actually a ghost, and as soon as Lin Ning said that, it immediately begged for mercy.

When Daiyu heard this, she became more and more happy and fond of it. She said to Xueyan, "Hang it under the window over there, and get water for it."

"Okay, okay!" Jinyu brought the parrot over and asked someone to take it away, and then persuaded Daiyu, "Don't just worry about eating and drinking the parrot, are you hungry?"

After hearing this, Daiyu also felt that she was a little hungry, so she said with a smile, "Can you use some more with me?"

"Forget it, I eat in my mother's room, and she forces me to eat like an animal, as if I can't get married if I don't get fat. Where can I eat?" Jinyu said, got up and sat down elsewhere.

"I've been running for a long time, and I haven't eaten yet. I'm hungry now, so I don't need to bother others. You can't finish the food. Why don't I help you?" Lin Ning was not polite. He sat down and looked for the food. Chopsticks.Xueyan quickly went to get another pair of bowls and chopsticks and put them in front of him.

Because Lin Ning ate very sweetly, Daiyu also ate half a bowl of rice.

Then Daiyu felt her stomach swell again, so she clutched her chest and called out that Lin Ning had hurt her.

"You have always eaten too little, and if you eat a little more occasionally, your stomach can't stand it. And don't move around, just sit there and be quiet for a while." Lin Ning said, had already rinsed his mouth and got up, and went to wash his hands again. Come back and stand behind Daiyu, massage her back back and forth.

His slender fingers moved back and forth on her thin back with neither light nor heavy force. In less than a stick of incense, Daiyu felt a lot more comfortable in her stomach, and it was no longer so bloated.

Jinyu was outside alone, but fell in love with the small Yaoqin that Daiyu brought with her. She sat in front of the piano and tried to play a few times. Very clumsy taste.

"Okay." Daiyu suddenly felt that the room was too quiet, except for the out-of-tune sound of Jinyu playing the piano outside, there was no sound, and she suddenly felt a little nervous.

"Not uncomfortable anymore?" Lin Ning stopped his hands, turned to her, looked down and saw that her face was reddish, and there was a thin layer of sweat on the tip of her nose.

"Well, it's all right." Daiyu nodded and glanced away.

"It's fine." Lin Ning smiled, and followed her gaze, but it was the clay pot he used to hold tea, so he asked with a smile: "I said I couldn't find this, why did I run to it?" Come here?"

"Didn't that girl Xueyan bring it? I just told her to send it back to you."

"What to give, you like this tea, I still have it over there. I'll bring you some more tomorrow."

"Don't dare, this is the best tea in Yangzhou, how can you get it so easily?" Daiyu couldn't help laughing again as she spoke.

Lin Ning knew that she had calmed down the anger just now, so she also laughed.

For the next ten days, it was fairly stable.Lin Ning often went out, but never came back after getting drunk.Daiyu also took care of her with peace of mind. Jinyu was busy with getting married, so she didn't see anyone every day. In her free time, Daiyu just played the piano, read books, wrote, and teased the parrot.

The day before Jinyu got married, Yinzhen actually sent someone to take Daiyu and Lin Ning to Baylor's residence first.

Old Fujin didn't understand the reason, Jinyu thought about it, and said with a smile: "That's fine. The two of them won't be able to live in our house for a long time after all, why don't they just move there for a few days, and they can be regarded as accompanying me."

"You said it lightly. I thought you were married. My place is very desolate. I left Miss Lin to talk to me. Why did you ask her to go first?"

Jinyu retreated from the crowd, and whispered to Old Fujin: "Er Niang, don't just think about Miss Lin. Just take a closer look at Lin Ning, and you'll understand."

Old Fujin was taken aback, pondered for a moment, looked at his daughter hesitantly, and asked in a low voice: "Could it really be Master Liu?"

"Is it true? I don't dare to talk nonsense, but when Si Bei Le was in Jiangnan, he treated him as a brother, and compared him to the Thirteenth Master."

Old Fujin murmured, nodded and sighed: "At first I thought it was very similar, but then I thought about it, Brother Liu has been dead for ten years. How can you say that if you are not dead, you are not dead? People in this world have similar looks in the first place. Yes, it's just a coincidence. Now it seems that this is true?"

"Whether he is the sixth elder brother or not, no one may be able to clarify this matter. But now that the fourth master wants them to move there first, he naturally has a plan. Don't be stupid to stop Er Niang, that's all."

"Well, what you said is very true. Then quickly ask someone to pack up for the two of them, and follow the visitor over there."

"En." Jinyu nodded, Fang got up and called his family to come in and give instructions.

Daiyu suddenly heard that Sibeile was going to pick her and Lin Ning to live there, she was a little strange, and then she thought about Lin Ning's life experience that her mother and father had talked about before she died, and she understood why.It must be that Sibei Le was afraid that it would be unsafe for Lin Ning to live outside, so he decided to take him to live in the mansion there, and he was afraid that Lin Ning would definitely drag him with him, so he simply said to take the two of them over there.

Thinking of this, Daiyu couldn't help sighing again, thinking that she was like an accessory, no matter what they arranged, she couldn't decide everything.Then she shed tears again.

Xueyan and Wang Momo had to say a few more words of comfort, and then they heard Lin Ning's voice from outside.Xueyan said: "If the girl doesn't want to move, why don't you just tell him directly and let him talk to the fourth master. We live here well, but it's hard for the girl to move back and forth?"

"Don't talk nonsense!" Daiyu hurriedly reprimanded Xueyan, "It's related to the royal affairs, even a small matter is a big one. You just talk nonsense like this, and you won't know when you lose your life someday!"

Xueyan hurriedly stopped talking, and went to pack her things obediently.

Lin Ning entered the door when both Daiyu and Xueyan were too silent.

"Is everything packed?" Lin Ning saw a pile of baggage when he entered the door, big and small.Several mahogany boxes were also carried out and placed at the door.It looks like they are about to move.

"It's almost there. When are we leaving?"

"Clean up and leave." Lin Ning said, approaching the house, saw Daiyu sorting her books, went to help her, and whispered: "The house has been bought, but it hasn't been cleaned yet. Let's Let's move there and tidy up slowly, okay?"

Daiyu immediately beamed with joy, the book in her hand quietly fell on the desk, she just looked at Lin Ning in surprise.

"I bought it quietly without telling anyone." Lin Ning said with a mysterious smile.

"What did Si elder brother say?" Daiyu asked worriedly.

"Just take advantage of him sending someone to pick us up, so we can leave. Otherwise, how can we get out of this door? Although Lao Fujin is a nice person, this is not his home after all, don't you think so? We will leave the house in a while. Just change the route." Lin Ning looked at the busy girls outside, and whispered: "We will go to our own home to settle down first, and then we will go to the fourth elder brother's house in the morning to do some work. Isn't it all right?"

"It's fine if you go alone tomorrow. I don't know them well, so what are you going to do?" Daiyu regained her energy and went to sort out her books again.

"Although it's boring, it has to go. First of all, Jin Gege can't hide it. She is also sincerely kind to you. How can you not go to accompany her? Just stay with her in the new house. Later , I will take you home." Lin Ning smiled mischievously and winked at Daiyu.

Although Daiyu was puzzled, she believed him when she thought that he had definitely arranged everything.

The boxes and luggage were moved to the car one by one, and two carts were loaded in total.Simply, Daiyu didn't bring many things with her when she came here, and she didn't live in this house for many days.Some of the things Fujin sent were not brought, anyway, there will be future visits, so things don't have to be cleaned up so cleanly.Just pick up what you carry with you and take it away.

Out of the mansion, not far away, Lin Ning called Dai Duo, the general manager sent by Yinzhen, and ordered a few words, Dai Duo didn't answer at first, but then I don't know what Lin Ning said, Dai Duo finally complied, Then he changed direction with his servants, and walked to a piece of house behind Sibeile Mansion.

After walking for about half an hour, the carriage stopped in front of a whitewashed wall.Xueyan lifted the curtain of the car, and Daiyu looked over, but saw three gates in the middle of the white walls and blue tiles. The head is shining with golden luster, and it is a brand new courtyard at a glance.

"It's here. Come down." Lin Ning walked to the front of the car, stretched out his hand to hug Daiyu out of the car, pointed to the gate in front of him, and asked with a smile, "Are you satisfied?"

"Well, it's very good. It's quiet here, and it's convenient to go out. I like it very much." Daiyu nodded. In fact, as long as she doesn't depend on other people's homes, she is very happy to live in her own yard as she likes.

"Let's go in." As Lin Ning said, he ordered Grandma Wang next to him, "This is the key. Grandma, go and open the door. It's too late to buy a buyer today. After Si Ye's happy event, Let's also call Ren Yazi to buy two families."

"Okay." Wang Momo happily took the key, went forward to open the door, Lin Ning Daiyu looked at each other with a smile, and went in with Xueyan and other family members hand in hand.

Dai Duo hurriedly ordered the people he brought to carry the boxes and burdens, and move everything in.Wang Momo went around looking for things to put here.Lin Ning instructed Xueyan to say, "There is a kitchen at the back. There is a firewood and charcoal stove in the kitchen. You take the two little girls over there to clean it up, and boil some hot water to make tea for your girls."

"This tea is easy, but how to prepare the food?"

"Don't cook today. Let Dai Duo ask someone to order a table of meals outside later. Let's make do with it. Let's go to Si Ye's house to congratulate him tomorrow morning, and let Wang Momo slowly clean up at home." Lin Ning grew up in a modern society, everything can be changed in his eyes, not like following the old rules.

Dai Duo took his family to bring the things in and put them away one by one. According to the instructions of Wang Momo, he called a proper servant to go outside and ordered two tables of wine and vegetables and two jars of high-quality Shaoxing wine.

Lin Ning Daiyu and Dai Duo sat at the inner table, and the outer table was for the servants who carried the goods.Wang Momo, Xueyan, etc. had already cooked simple meals in the kitchen, and only waited for the master to clean up the meals before using them.

Daiyu saw that there was more than enough food for three people at a table, so she smiled and said, "It's considered living at home now. Let's not waste too much. Let's pick out some of these dishes and give them to Wang Momo and the others. You don't need to be in front of me." After serving, we will drink by ourselves, just like those small families, so it is more interesting."

"That's right." Lin Ning has always liked to be loose, and hates rules the most.Hearing what Daiyu said, she was naturally happy.

"Miss Lin is the master who cherishes the old and the poor the most. Following such a master is the result of slaves." As a slave, Dai Duo felt inferior.But seeing Daiyu act like this, he naturally felt kind in his heart, and felt a little grateful.Seeing that Xiao Daiyu was young and weak, and her behavior was really painful, she showed a little more love for her, and said to Lin Ning: "The slave's wife has been released by the fourth master, and now she is idle at home. If you have nothing to do, why don't you let her come and serve Miss Lin, so you can rest assured?"

"It's better. Your wife is naturally a decent person. She came to take care of me. If I'm not at home, I can let go." Lin Ning hurriedly nodded and agreed. He originally wanted Yinzhen to find some reliable people. Dai Duo himself said what the local people meant to serve Daiyu, which is better than telling Yinzhen.Then he simply said: "You should find two more people to take care of you. Just tell me how much money you will spend, and I will not treat you badly."

"Look at what the young master said, is it possible that the young master will make us suffer?" Dai Duo hurriedly agreed, and then raised his glass to respect Lin Ning.

Daiyu just sat on the side, listening to Lin Ning and Dai Duo's gossip, and eating something occasionally.