Indulgence in the Red Chamber

In a blink of an eye, spring and autumn come.The autumn colors in the Yuanmingyuan are getting stronger, the maple leaves are red, and the sweet-scented osmanthus is fragrant.The lotus pods in the pond turned yellow, and the lotus leaves gradually withered.

This day was the day when Xuan Ning and Lin Ruhai fell off the cliff.Daiyu set up a banquet by herself in the Hexiang Pavilion by the pool. There were three sets of tendon chopsticks on the banquet. She sat on the side next to her hands and poured her own drink, but she didn't say a word.

Xueyan and Chunxian stood aside, seeing this scene, their hearts were sore but they didn't dare to persuade them, so they had to step forward from time to time to serve Daiyu with vegetables.

Daiyu looked to the left and right, and saw that the maids were all standing with their heads bowed, so she waved her hands and told them to go down: "You all go down, I will sit alone."

"Girl, it's getting colder today, and your body can't drink cold wine. Can the servant take this wine down and heat it up before bringing it back?" Xue Yan picked up the jug from the table and carefully persuaded her.

"No need. My body has been fine for a long time. Besides, it's just the autumn wind in August, so it's not cold."

"This pavilion is next to the water, so it's cooler than other places. The servant asked someone to add some hot soup?"

"Go. You all go down, I just want to sit alone."

"Yes." Xueyan blessed her body helplessly, and slowly retreated with Chunxian and a few little girls, but she didn't dare to stay away, and only waited under the shade of a tree by the pool two feet away.Chunxian went to the kitchen to send a message, asking the cook to make hot soup to warm Daiyu's stomach.

Yinzhen walked slowly from behind the willow tree, stood beside Xueyan and asked softly, "How long have you been sitting?"

"It's been an hour." Xueyan replied subconsciously, feeling something was wrong again, and when she turned her head to look, she realized that it was Yinzhen, so she hurriedly greeted her: "Slave, please greet fourth master."

Yinzhen ignored Xueyan and just walked towards the pavilion.

Daiyu turned her back to the direction Yinzhen came from, and when she heard footsteps, she said impatiently: "I said, I want to sit alone for a while. You are bothering me again."

"It's time to go back. It's cold, and I'm leaning on the water again. How can my body bear it?" Yinzhen said, and had already walked to Daiyu's side. After seeing the three sets of tendon chopsticks on the table, Feeling a stabbing pain in my heart again, Xuan Ning's smiling face is vaguely in front of my eyes.

"The fourth master is here." Daiyu didn't get up, but just sat there and bowed her head towards Yinzhen, "Please sit down."

Yinzhen sat down on the stool beside Daiyu, took up the glass of wine in front of him and drank it down, looked at the scattered lotus leaves on the lake and said: "There are early autumn scenery, maple red and cinnamon are all pleasing to the eye. , why do you have to guard this pool of residual lotus?"

"Among Li Yishan's poems, I like the most: stay together to listen to the sound of the rain. Now the lotus leaves have withered, but the sound of the rain is missing." Daiyu smiled lightly, but the sound of the rain from last year was in her ears.On the day Xuan Ning went west, it was raining continuously.

Yinzhen's heart ached again, the chrysanthemum wine he drank was faint, but it could burn his aching chest.

"Where does fourth master come from?" Daiyu said, picking up the jug and filling it up for Yinzhen, and poured a glass for herself.

"From the palace."

"Long Live Lord and Concubine De Concubine are all well." Daiyu said, raising her wine glass to Yinzhen, "I haven't gone to pay my respects to Your Majesty for a few days. Your Majesty should blame me."

Yinzhen also raised his wine glass, raised his face and drank the wine in the glass, sighed and said: "There is nothing to blame. Er Niang also loves you very much, but there are some things that cannot be ignored. Today I went to pay her respects, and I saw her red eyes. When I am old, I always think about some melancholy things that I shouldn't think about. If my sister is free, I should really go to the palace to persuade her."

"What's there to be sad about? It's just a temporary separation from a loved one. Maybe one day, he will come back again. We are sad, but it will only make him miss him so much." Daiyu smiled wryly, and drank all the wine in her glass.

"I can't drink any more." Yinzhen said, raising his hand to take Daiyu's wine glass.It can be seen that this girl said she was not sad, but in fact she was sadder than anyone else.This kind of deliberate depression is not as good as crying happily to vent the pain in my heart.

"Don't worry about me today. Once a year, I'm just going to let it go today. Fourth Master, please go back in advance. The Fujins are waiting for you in the mansion. It's a rare time for the family to get together, don't miss it I regret it when I'm done." Daiyu said, took the jug and poured wine, only to find that there was no wine glass, so she simply raised her face and poured it directly into her mouth.

"Yu'er!" Yinzhen snatched the jug and put it aside heavily, then turned around and hugged Daiyu in his arms, sighing heartbroken: "Silly girl! Why don't you drink like this and cry happily?" Better."

"I don't cry!" Daiyu rested her head on Yinzhen's shoulder, shaking desperately, "Why should I cry? None of them died! My father, and Xuan Ning, they are all alive and well. Someday they'll come to me, take me away, take me out of here..."

Yinzhen gritted his teeth hard, wrapped his arms around the thin girl, lowered his head slowly, but saw her face burst into tears.

Daiyu wept silently, and the tears stained the blue-gray Suzhou embroidery skirt embroidered with five blessings and longevity.

Yinzhen just hugged her, looked at the calm water, without saying a word.

Until she was tired, she gradually fell asleep in his arms.Fang Yinzhen raised his hand and took the handkerchief at the side, wiped away the tears on her face, then turned around and picked her up, and sent her back to the room.

In the sound of lanterns and shadows, the sky is still cold, and the water is still cold.

In the dream, the silk and bamboo sing softly, the building outside the building, the mountain beyond the mountain.

No one outside Loushan returned it.

Before the person returns, looking back with the word geese is earlier than Wangchuan.

The person who played the piano was full of tears, and Xiao Xiao Yang's flowers fell all over his shoulders.

The shoulders are covered, the sound of the flute is cold, and the shadow of the window is residual.

Where is Jiangnan in the sound of smoke and oars

Yinzhen's carriage passed through the bustling night market. In the hustle and bustle, I don't know who is singing.

In Baylor's mansion, Jinyu ordered someone to prepare a midnight snack for Yinzhen to come back, but he smelled of alcohol all over his body.

After serving Yinzhen to rest, Jinyu went out of the bedroom, and ordered someone to call the little servant who Gen Yinzhen had gone out into the wing room, and asked in a low voice, "Where did fourth master go to drink? If you drink like this, if it is rumored In the ears of the emperor, you look good again."

"Back to Fujin. The fourth master was in a bad mood when he came out of the palace. The servant dared not ask more questions. Later, the fourth master got into the car and said that he was going to see Princess Lin at the Old Summer Palace. The servants there said that Princess Lin was by the pond. Drinking alone, the slave thought, Lord Baylor must be drinking with the princess." The dog didn't dare to say more, and he didn't dare not to say anything, so he had to say a few concise words.

As soon as Jinyu's heart sank, her eyes became astringent.He waved his hand dejectedly, and said, "Okay. I forgot what day it is today. No wonder I'm drinking like this. You all go down."

Gou'er rushed out, wiped the sweat from his forehead with his sleeve, and left the courtyard with a sigh of relief.

"Today is the day when Xuan Ning and Lord Lin fell off the cliff. Look at me—how did you forget it!" Jin Yu patted her forehead with self-blame, and sighed heavily.

Xinghua, the girl next to Jinyu, hurriedly persuaded: "Fu Jin is busy every day these days, you don't have to worry about these chores in the mansion, besides, the family has never allowed the family to discuss matters about Mr. Ning, even if we think about it, we dare not remind Fujin There is no need for Fujin to blame himself, let's rest earlier."

Jinyu sighed softly, turned around and went back to her room, changed her clothes and lay down beside Yinzhen.At the beginning, I tossed and turned and couldn't fall asleep. After thinking about it until the middle of the night, I gradually fell asleep in a daze, but suddenly I heard Yinzhen beside me screaming: "Yu'er, don't!"

Jinyu woke up with a jolt, turned around to see how Yinzhen was doing, but saw him falling asleep again.

A sour feeling flooded her heart, listening to the low chirping of autumn insects outside, she could no longer fall asleep, and just kept her eyes open until dawn.

In the early morning of the next day, the sun had not yet risen, and the autumn morning in the capital was still in a hazy sleep.Jinyu quietly got up and got out of bed, washed up briefly, changed the clothes for going out, brought four or five snacks such as hibiscus cake, chestnut cake, and pine nut cake that were newly made last night, and ordered someone to prepare a car to go to Yuanmingyuan.

Daiyu was not sober from drunk, she was still sleeping deeply in the quilt.

Jinyu didn't allow the servants to disturb her, so she handed over the snacks to Xueyan, quietly entered the bedroom and looked at Daiyu, she saw that she was thinner, although she was not as sickly as before, but she was born weak and suffered a catastrophe, she was still the same as haggard.

After coming out of Daiyu's room, Jinyu went to the east room to sit down and have tea, and then called Madam Xueyan Wang and others to come in and inquire about Daiyu's daily life.

Xueyan naturally didn't dare to hide it, and reported Daiyu's daily affairs to Jinyu in detail: "The girl always practice calligraphy for an hour every day, read books for half an hour, and then eat and sleep for the rest of the time. , just looking at those accounts, and going out to a few shops when I have time. I am always busy all day long, and I hardly have time to relax."

"That won't work. You can see that she has become so thin. No matter how important the business outside is, it's not as important as her body. It's better to hire a big shopkeeper to take care of it for her. It's more important for her to take care of her body in her spare time." Jinyu shook her head. , said worriedly.

"We think about it too, but our master doesn't agree. It's better to be busy if you say that you are bored when you are free."

"I'll discuss this matter with Fourth Master, and I'll talk to your master later." Jinyu sighed, and stood up: "I'm leaving first, Hong Hui will cry again if he doesn't see me when he wakes up early. You are all so sorry Serve me, drinking too much alcohol will hurt your body, she is already weak, this body cannot be ruined casually."

Xueyan and the others hurriedly agreed to send Jinyu out, watching the carriage go away, Fang sighed: Fourth Master just came last night, why did Fujin come here so early in the morning? "

Wang Momo was thoughtful, but she shook her head so she couldn't say more.

"Sister, do you think that Sifujin is not happy that the fourth master came here to see our girl?" Chunxian was young after all, and there was no outsider at this time, so she asked Xueyan in a low voice.

"Okay, why aren't you happy that fourth master is here?" Xue Yan was startled, but after asking, she understood, so she frowned and sighed softly, before saying after a long while: "It would be great if Mr. Ning was here, everyone will be happy. Although the fourth master is good, he is not the person in our girls' hearts. Besides, Sifujin..."

"Okay, these things are not something we can talk about casually. The girl is a princess now, and she is still young. She is not old enough to talk about marriage. Even if she is old, her marriage will naturally be decided by Long Live God. We If you are a slave, you are not allowed to talk nonsense." Wang Momo immediately stopped the two of them, then looked back at the little girls behind her, and went back to the room first.

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The bright moon hung high in the mountains, and the moonlight shone into the room through the window screens, making Xuan Ning's face pale on the bed.

Turning to look at the female nurse who was taking a nap at the desk next to the computer, Xuan Ning twisted her body to feel the pain in her waist, then rubbed her feet, and slowly pushed off the thin blanket on her body. Twisting her waist, she sat up slowly, slipped her legs under the bed, swiped back and forth to find the slippers under the bed, slipped them in slowly, and stood up quietly.

The door of the room was ajar, so he walked quietly to the door, gently opened the door with his foot, then went out secretly, found the next ward, looked in through the glass of the door, and saw Lin Ruhai lying on the bed seemed to have fallen asleep And the female nurse sitting next to him was lying in front of the computer reading a second-rate novel handwritten by some third-rate network writer.

Why!When these women are bored, they can go online and read those amusing love stories, but they don't know what Daiyu is doing at this time, what can this little girl do when she is bored?calligraphy?reading?Will you be sad?Did you cry yourself to sleep again?

With a snap, Xuan Ning trembled all over.Sighing in frustration, she turned her head and saw the angry face of the female nurse in charge of her.

"Little six! If you really want your lumbar spine to be disjointed again, just stand here. Tomorrow I will go to the military adviser and tell someone else to take care of your body, or put your waist in a plaster cast!"

"It's worth it—beauty, big beauty, super invincible girl in the universe! I'll go back, can't I go back? I've stayed with a beauty like you for a long time, and I can't even eat with someone else, you are still pitiful Have pity on me."

"You said that in modern society, science and technology are developing rapidly, and spiritual civilization and material civilization are superior. Today, you can get what you want in a five-star nursing home in this country. If you don't recuperate well, why do you always want to go back to the Qing Dynasty? What's so good there? No computer, no phone, men are superior to women, the place where you will kowtow and kneel when you meet your boss, what is there for you to miss?" The female nurse stretched out her hand to hold Xuan Ning's shoulder, half-carrying him back to the room, angrily nagging.

Xuan Ning let out a long sigh, unable to defend himself.

Yes, there is nothing in that dilapidated place, there is no KTV karaoke room, and the beauties in the brothel are worth less than the female nurses here.There is no modern communication equipment, no network, and the living space is very small, but there is Daiyu there, and there is a little girl I miss, and I feel so sad when a big man leaves her, and she will feel better when a little girl leaves me where?

Thinking of these Xuan Ning upset.I don't know if the tigers and wolves of Jia's family took the opportunity to blackmail and plot again, whether the little girl was crying all day long, whether the property and silver that I left for her were enough for her expenses, whether Empress Defei would embarrass her, or was she Didn't he move to Rongguo Mansion again and stay with that Baoyu all day long, completely forgetting his own existence?

At this time Xuan Ning wished to travel back to Daqing immediately, to return to Daiyu's side, and stay with her all the time.Helplessly, my injuries haven't healed yet, and my actions have been monitored by this seven-star ladybug. It's been more than ten days, and I still can't leave this building for half a step, let alone find a military adviser to use a time-traveler to travel through time and space. .

Daiyu, on the other hand, has been waiting like a year.

Day after day, waiting for a year.

Three years have passed since the day Xuan Ning left.

The ten-year-old Daiyu's childishness has faded long ago. Although her stature has not yet grown up, she already speaks and acts like a big girl. In addition, she occasionally enters the palace, and Kangxi, Concubine De and the concubines of the harem occasionally I can see you.Everyone pities her background and likes her character and appearance, and Kangxi dotes on her very much, she is better than the serious princess Gege, so everyone also try their best to please her.In this way, the business in her hands became more and more prosperous, and several offerings in the palace fell into her hands, and the business of the Ling family in Shanxi also flourished.

In life, there are always people who are happy and others who are sad.Daiyu and Ling's family rose step by step, but Xue's family was put down by comparison.By this year, the palace flower that the Xue family relied on to support the reputation of the imperial business was also taken away by the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and the title of the imperial business was completely empty.The officials of the household department were urging Xue Pan to go to the yamen to reconcile and write off the accounts every day, worrying Aunt Xue and Baochai so much that they couldn't eat well and sleep well, and they lamented all day long.

In the early winter of this year, there was another happy event at Sibeile's residence.The emperor pointed out that Niu Gulu, the daughter of the fourth grade Dianyi Lingzhu, is Gege in Yinzhen's mansion. Jin Yu honored the imperial decree and set up a banquet in the attached middle school to welcome Niu Gulu into the door. It's just to invite all the princes of the royal family, elder brother Belle and Fujin side Fujin and other women's relatives, to have fun together for a day.

It happened to be snowing that day, and Daiyu was invited to go to Hexi. When she went out, she changed into a festive white fox long jacket with rose and purple brocade, and she wore a honey-colored cotton satin jacket, a white satin pleated skirt, and folded branches embroidered on the skirt. plum bossom.The carriage went straight into the back garden of Baylor Mansion, and Daiyu caught everyone's attention as soon as she got out of the carriage.

The Eighth Fortune Jin entered the door earlier than Daiyu, but before anyone entered the room, he heard movement behind him, Fang looked back and was amazed: "Hey! Is this our Princess Gulun? I haven't seen her for a while, and today she is dressed like this." The clothes are really nice."

"The Eight Fortunes are auspicious." After getting out of the car, Daiyu took two steps forward, and smiled at the Eight Fortunes Guo Luoluo.

"Good sister! As soon as you come, our garden full of women can only be green leaves." Ba Fujin stretched out his hand to hold Daiyu, and the two walked side by side.

"The eight Fujin are over-reputed. The Fujin are all beautiful and beautiful. How can Daiyu Puliu's beauty be compared?" Daiyu smiled faintly. In the past two years, no matter how tired or disdainful she was of such entertainment, she had to be patient. Bear with your temper.Therefore, I miss the time when Xuan Ning was by my side, everything was taken care of by him, and I didn't have to worry about it myself.

The two entered the room, the princess and others were all there, and they couldn't help exchanging a few words of greeting when they saw Daiyu.Daiyu ordered Xueyan to present a congratulatory gift to Little Gege, and quietly sat aside to drink tea and eat melon seeds. When people around her were joking, she would chat and laugh with her, and sip tea while no one was talking.

Yuan Chun, who is the crown prince's concubine, also came with the crown princess. Because she thought she was related to Daiyu, she went to Daiyu to chat and laugh.Daiyu then said some irrelevant things to her.The sound of Yingying and Yanyu in the room was particularly lively, everyone was focused on showing off their clothes and jewelry, but they didn't pay much attention to Daiyu and Yuanchun talking over there.

There was a sudden snap, which startled everyone in the room.Looking at the reputation, I saw Daiyu over there with an angry look on her face, a teacup at her feet had been smashed to pieces, and the crown prince and concubine Jia's purple face on the side was swollen, and she smiled helplessly, saying: "Sister, don't be angry, It turned out that I was talking nonsense and talking nonsense. Sister, don't take it to heart."

"What's going on?!" The crown princess looked at Yuan Chun angrily, and angrily scolded: "It's fine if you can't speak, why don't you hurry up and apologize to the princess, and give me a sister, what are you and me, the princess is Huang Ama herself Imperial Princess Gu Lun, who are you, dare to call her younger sister? What kind of rules is this?"

It was originally Yuanchun who used Yinzhen's taking concubines to test Daiyu, and asked Daiyu if she fell in love with Yinzhen. Although she didn't say it directly, she had already reached this point by beating around the bush, and incidentally said that her grandmother wanted to ask the emperor's grace to let Daiyu Yu and Baoyu made a pair, kissed each other, and said some words of righteousness such as mutual support and mutual dependence.So Daiyu became furious and couldn't stop her with words, so she threw her teacup to show her anger.

The Crown Princess and the others were unaware of the inside story, but from Yuan Chun's justification just now, there was no royal rule.So the princess scolded Yuan Chun as the main wife, and Yuan Chun quickly turned around and knelt down in front of the princess, claiming to be guilty.

Now that everyone was watching, Daiyu couldn't say those bastard words, so she just said lightly: "It's nothing, I accidentally dropped the teacup, and it has nothing to do with the concubine."

After hearing this, the princess concubine Fang scolded Yuan Chun and said, "It's your good fortune that the princess doesn't care about you for the sake of Si Ye and Si Fujin. Why don't you go and thank the princess for your kindness?"

Yuan Chun hurriedly went to Daiyu to kowtow to thank her, but Daiyu said indifferently, "Sister, get up."

After this incident, Daiyu became more and more irritable, Sibeile's residence seldom came over, every time Jinyu invited her over, she always said she was sick and couldn't come, and Yinzhen occasionally visited Yuanmingyuan, she always found an excuse not to see each other again , After three or five times, Yinzhen secretly became suspicious, only suspecting that someone in his own family had offended her, and never thought of Yuanchun.

Seeing that the new year is approaching, the accounts in Daiyu's hands are becoming more and more complicated. In the Zhiyuan Pavilion of Yuanmingyuan, seven or eight old accountants made statistics overnight, and finally settled the accounts on the 22nd of the twelfth lunar month. The net profit of more than a dozen shops on the Internet is 90 taels, which can be described as a bumper year.

In the evening, Yinzhen came to see Daiyu in person, and invited her back to Baylor's residence to celebrate the New Year together.Daiyu had no choice but to meet him at the Zhiyuan Pavilion. After serving tea, Fang said: "Thanks to the care of the fourth master in the past few years, Daiyu can live until today. Daiyu will never forget the kindness of the fourth master. One day when Xuanning comes back, Daiyu Yu will definitely tell him how the fourth master cares for Daiyu in detail. But now that Daiyu is getting older every year, the population in the fourth master's house is also increasing, and there are many people and things. Being busy with state affairs is already enough to worry about. Daiyu is living a good life here. Fourth master can rest assured that if necessary, Daiyu will send someone to tell Fujin. I also ask fourth master to read Daiyu less."

When Yinzhen heard the words, he was surprised, but he couldn't understand it.

After thinking about it, I did not offend her, and with her intelligence, it is not difficult to see the friendship between herself and Xuan Ning, and she has a deep affection for Xuan Ning.Now that Xuan Ning is gone, it's only natural for me as an older brother to take care of her.Even though she is favored by the emperor, has the title of princess, has the voice of more than a dozen shops under her name, has no shortage of gold and silver, food and clothing, but she has no relatives at this time.In the past few years, I have been treating her like my own sister, and she didn't treat herself as an outsider.Even among the people in the mansion, and even among the royal family members, no one knows that she is the princess of Sibeile's mansion, and now this Old Summer Palace is also an property under her own name, so living here means she lives here.But now he suddenly changed his tune, and why?

Helpless, Yinzhen was a man of few words since he was a child, and he was not a person who could speak well.The more he cares about people, the more he only keeps them in his heart, and rarely talks about them.So now that Daiyu said this, he was speechless instead.

After a moment of silence, Fang sighed: "What my sister said is very true. It's just that Huang Ama often asks me about your situation. If I don't come to see you in person, how can I return Huang Ama's words? Well, since you don't like The mansion is busy, but I like the quietness here. Then follow my sister. Tomorrow, I will ask someone to bring you a copy of everything for the New Year. On the night of the New Year’s Eve, Huang Ama will hold a banquet in the palace. I asked Dai Duo to bring someone over to pick you up and enter the palace with your fourth sister-in-law."

Daiyu's heart was sour, thinking that after Xuanning left, the only two relatives she could rely on would gradually become estranged, her nose became sour, and the circles of her eyes turned red.It's hard for Yinzhen to see it, so he stood up while agreeing, "It's getting late, Daiyu is inconvenient to keep fourth master sitting for a long time. I will see you off soon."

Yinzhen was also stunned.I had no choice but to stand up slowly, walked out of the Zhiyuan Pavilion, and then looked back at the four characters of "Quiet Zhiyuan" at the door, Xuan Ning's hippie smiling face came to mind again.He shook his head, let out a long sigh, and left helplessly.

This year, except for going to the palace to receive a banquet on New Year's Eve, Daiyu stayed alone in the Old Summer Palace, and did not step into Sibeile's mansion.

Jinyu was surprised, but she was too busy to buy New Year's wine. Every mansion had to sit down and invite her back, and she was so busy that Wuxia came to see her. It was the Lantern Festival in no time.

Seeing Daiyu depressed, Xueyan urged her to go out to watch the lanterns, and said how lively the lantern festival was on the street with many shops outside, and there were people guessing lantern riddles, walking on stilts, dancing lions, and playing dragon lanterns.She also persuaded Daiyu that Ling San had already reserved a private room in her own restaurant, and if the master went to sit down, everything would be ready-made.

Daiyu thought that Xueyan and the others were by her side all year round, and when she seldom had fun, now she was idle, so why not take them out to play and make them happy.He nodded in agreement and asked Xueyan to prepare in advance.