Indulgence in the Red Chamber

In the early morning of the second day, Bihan really packed up and brought the little girl Indigo to Daiyu's room to wait.After Daiyu got up, the girls carefully washed and dressed her, but Xuanning went to Jinyu's room early in the morning.Since he didn't take her there, at least he had to give her a reason.Otherwise, this woman will be unforgiving when she comes back.

Daiyu didn't accept the words, insisting on Xuanning to say it himself, but in the end Xuanning couldn't hold back Daiyu, so he had to figure out a way to make up nonsense.

I don't know what Xuanning said to Jinyu, but Jinyu didn't ask any more questions, and sent two capable nuns to serve Daiyu and Bihan, and told them not to eat cold outside in the cold weather. thing.

Xuanning asked someone to prepare two large carriages, one for himself and Daiyu, and one for Bihan and the girl.Xuan Ning sat in the car in front of Daiyu with his arms around him. He had practiced martial arts and had internal strength to protect himself. Daiyu was not too cold in his arms.

The carriage went all the way to the west city gate, and after leaving the city gate, we walked a few miles, and then came to a mountain depression, surrounded by mountains on all sides, with dozens of plum trees planted on the mountain, and a clear spring passing through. There is a high platform to the north of the clear spring. , there is a high ground on the high platform, like a big drum piled up in a mountain depression, the terrain is flat.Someone just built several houses on this small highland, exquisite and elegant, and some plum trees were planted in the courtyards of the houses. The entire mountain depression was actually hidden in the plum trees.

It was the twelfth lunar month of winter at this time, and the plum blossoms in this mountain depression happened to be less than half in bloom, and the branches of every plum tree were covered with flower buds.Red, white, pink and yellow, all kinds of colors, reflecting the white snow in the mountains, full of prosperity, and some taste of boundless spring.

The carriage of Daiyu and others stopped in front of a relatively large courtyard, and Xuan Ning got out of the carriage directly holding Daiyu. Daiyu saw the scenery in the mountains from the road, and after this incident, she got off the carriage and became more and more happy.Breaking free from Xuanning's arms, he tiptoed to a nearby plum tree to pick plum blossoms, and said with a happy smile, "Come on, come on, I want that branch of plum blossoms. Snow, I want to make tea."

"Be careful, be careful. You hit it carefully." Xuan Ning hurried forward, picked a plum blossom for her, and ordered the girls who rushed over to serve her: "Quickly, go and collect the snow from the plum blossom." , make tea for the girl in a while."

Bihan followed from the carriage, and stepped on the snow carefully with Indigo's hand, for fear of slipping and falling.Seeing Daiyu holding a plum blossom in her hand, the red petals covered her smiling face, it was very beautiful, and she was very envious.Pointing to Daiyu, he said with a smile: "Miss Lin is really like a plum blossom fairy descending to earth. Look, this flower has been compared to her."

"Sister likes it, so why don't you ask Xuan Ning to break a branch for you?" Daiyu said happily, holding the flower in front of her nose and sniffing the fragrance.

"Look at what the girl said, why is Mr. Ning willing to fold flowers for our young lady?" Indigo smiled, turned and walked to a plum tree by herself, and tiptoed to pick plum blossoms.But she is too small, but she can't pick it even when she weighs her toes.

Xuan Ning turned around and picked a yellow wintersweet and handed it to Indigo, and said with a smile, "Do you think I'm so stingy?"

"Uh, the servant girl said something wrong, please forgive me, my lord." Indigo hurriedly blessed herself with the flower, then turned around and handed the flower to Bihan.

Bihan got the plum blossoms, happy in her heart, and hurriedly saluted Xuan Ning Fushen: "Thank you, Mr. Ning, Bihan."

"It's just a plum blossom, and it's not 800 taels of silver. Is it worth your thanks?" Xuan Ning shook his head with a smile, led everyone into the yard, waved his hands and said, "Go, it's warm inside, but it's too cold outside. Your little ones If the girl blows the cold wind, it's not a joke."

Daiyu supported Xueyan's hand and followed Xuanning, and Bihan followed Daiyu, and everyone entered the courtyard, where someone had already been waiting for them, and took them in.

It turned out that this house was specially built for viewing flowers, and there were large windows on all sides, and the partitions of the windows were also inlaid with glass. Sitting in the house and looking around, it is a picturesque scenery.Moreover, there are fire dragons under the ground of this small house, and the house is very warm.So here is the best place to appreciate plum blossoms in winter.

Both Daiyu and Bihan are young ladies from a wealthy family, so it is not unusual to have a house surrounded by resistance, and the windows to enjoy the scenery are not so strange, but the plum blossoms all over the mountains can't help but fascinate them.

"Where is this place? How do you know there is such a good place?" Daiyu took Xuanning's arm and said happily, "The most rare thing is that the scenery here is just like nature. There is no trace of human power. It’s great that everything is done according to your heart.”

"It's fine if you like it. Of course I built this place. Look at the dozens of small courtyards here, each of which has this pattern. It's the most wonderful thing to eat wine and enjoy flowers in it. A courtyard charges 500 taels of silver a day What do you think of the cost?"

"Are you a restaurant?" Daiyu's eyes widened.

"Yes."

"The restaurant is built in such a remote place, how can there be guests?" Bihan was even more puzzled.

"Of course someone will come, and anyone who comes here is not an ordinary wealthy family." Xuan Ning smiled proudly: "You know, now here is a small courtyard of 500 taels of silver, and the deposit must be paid ten days in advance. .Otherwise, they wouldn’t be able to squeeze in.” Xuan Ning smiled proudly.

"Ah? Such a good business?" Indigo's eyes widened in surprise.

Xuan Ning naturally didn't want to talk about business matters, so he turned his head and said with a smile: "Let's not talk about it. You see, the snow has been swept off the plum blossoms. Yu'er, how do you cook this tea?"

"Okay, I'll give it to them." Daiyu said, handing the plum blossoms to Xueyan and teaching her to find a vase, fill it with water and put it in it.I ran to the stove guarded by the little girl and handed them boiling water.

There was the sound of carriages passing by outside the door, as well as the neighing of horses and the noise of human voices. Daiyu turned her head and looked through the courtyard gate, but she saw five or six carts passing by the courtyard gate and going to the back. .So he turned around and smiled at Xuan Ning: "Your business is really good, as expected a lot of people have come."

"Well, I don't know who is here. I'm not here to manage. I brought you here today, and I also want you to meet him. I'll let him come to see you later. Let her find you if there is anything in the future Answered."

"Ah? What are you looking for me for?"

"In the future, you will be the master of the house. You see, I have so many things outside the palace. I always work alone in and out of the palace, and you don't help me. How can I do it? This earns a lot of money. The money is for us to spend together, right? This huge family business belongs to the two of us. If you don’t stretch out your hands, I can’t carry such a big stall by myself.”

"I'm still young!" Daiyu pouted, clapped her hands, stood up from the stove, and stared at Xuanning.

"It's not too young." Xuan Ning stretched out his hand and pinched Daiyu's pretty little nose, "After this year, you will be seven years old. You don't need to study, you have already learned all those poems, songs, piano, chess, calligraphy and painting. Besides, those things can’t be eaten or worn in the future, you can’t just live with them. Learn from me to take care of the outside things, ah.”

"Is there anyone like you? You are a man, how can a girl like me come forward in these matters?" Daiyu still refused.

"Oh, my little master. You mean that one day I will be exhausted to death, don't you? That's true, and I have no choice but to admit it." Xuan Ning also pursed his mouth and made a pitiful look .

"Okay, okay. Don't act like this in front of me. I promise you. It's just that as soon as I promised to take care of it, you ran away." Daiyu smiled disdainfully.

"How could it be, how could it be, I can't bear it either." Xuan Ning smiled triumphantly.

He thought for a long time, instead of leaving Daiyu millions of fortunes, it would be better to teach him how to survive in this world.So he wanted to start from here and teach her the way of management. In the future, if he really leaves, Daiyu can live in this world well without being bullied.

Several people drank tea and admired the plum blossoms in the house, and made some small poems to add to the fun.Xuan Ning's medical skills are very good, but he doesn't know anything about poetry, music and fu. He only watches Daiyu and Bihan compose poems, but he only cares about eating.Daiyu saw that he was not interested, so she just let it go.

After a while, the food and wine came out, and the three of them ate a few more glasses of wine.Daiyu was going to go out in the snow to look for plum blossoms, Xuanning had to ask someone to bring a big fur cloak and gloves to dress her neatly, and followed her out of the courtyard gate.

The plum blossoms in the mountains are always more interesting than the ones in the courtyard. As they walked and looked at them, they almost went through the dozen or so courtyards. When they reached a relatively large courtyard at the back, Daiyu saw a green calyx in it. The plum blossoms were full of buds, and the faint fragrance was very special, so I liked it very much, and stood there refusing to leave.

Xuan Ning laughed and said, "What's the matter, the whole Zhuangzi is our own, so go in and have a look if you like it."

"Someone is eating wine inside, so we went in like this, I'm afraid it's not good?"

"What's wrong with it? It's all about plum appreciation. What's the difference between rewarding one person and a group of people?" Xuan Ning is a casual person. He doesn't care about these things on weekdays, and naturally he doesn't think too much about them today.Even if the people here were not ordinary wealthy people, he thought it wouldn't be a big deal if he was there.

Seeing what he said, Daiyu nodded, opened the courtyard door first and walked in.

In order to enjoy the plum blossoms, the snow in the courtyards here is not swept away, and the plum blossoms are kept for people to watch.Daiyu stepped on the snow slowly, walked to the plum tree in the yard, raised her head high, looked at the white plum blossoms in the blue sky, then closed her eyes, quietly smelling the fragrance of plum blossoms , like in a dream.

In the room, several noble children got together to eat wine, one of them raised his head suddenly, saw Daiyu in the yard, and shouted in surprise: "Hey-myna myna, look, whose girl is that? How does it look like?" A plum blossom elf?"

"Old Ninth, why are you yelling in surprise?" The man called Starling was dressed in a black brocade robe, elegant and elegant, and put the wine glass in his hand on the table with a snap, then turned around and saw the little boy in the yard When he saw the girl's figure, he was also stunned.