Through the Ring of Red Mansions

In the twinkling of an eye, it was the eighth day of the next lunar month, and the beautiful ladies entered the palace to be selected. Some of Shui Lang went to see it, and some did not. As a result, Xichun's brand was dropped in the primary election, and Enzhi went home to engage in marriage on her own, so she didn't have to run again.

There are two more papers, which were submitted by the Queen and Concubine Jia respectively. After the Zhen family was confiscated, Concubine Liu Gui kept complaining about her illness. The selection was done by the Queen and Yuan Chun and a Concubine Wen, who had the lowest status. Naturally he refused to presume, but he reported the insignificant beautiful girl whom others had come to ask for to the queen, and pointed it at others along the way.The queen also picked two beautiful women who were not named, their family backgrounds were higher, and some people came to ask, so they presented them to Shui Lang to pray for a marriage.

Because of what happened last time, Jia Huan has been very careful to guard against Shui Lang for a while, and would not easily approach him, so he has never heard him mention the matter of the draft. I can't help but be very worried about the plan, but Shui Lang is very puzzled this time, and he hasn't revealed a word. It seems that he has made up his mind that as long as Jia Huan doesn't ask, he won't say anything.

Seeing that the draft was over, some of the girls who got the final name entered the palace directly, and some went home and waited first. Jia Huan knew at home that although Baochai, Yingchun, and Xiangyun had entered the re-election, none of them had entered. He was defeated in the final election, and a marriage might be given in the next few days, and he didn't care about getting angry with Shui Lang, so he couldn't help but take advantage of the time when the two of them finished their lunch together, and waited for the eunuch and maid to retreat outside before asking Said, "Didn't you say that this draft will give someone a marriage? How many couples have been matched?"

Shui Lang smiled and said, "Do you think anyone can be worthy of the marriage given by the emperor? If you give ten couples and eight couples at one go, how can there be any dignity at all? And it also depends on the man's family background." OK."

Jia Huan said, "Then you still said that you want to give marriages to people, and you chose so many beautiful girls for this?"

Seeing him biting his lips as he glanced at him, Shui Lang couldn't help but patted the empty space in front of him on the couch, and said with a smile, "Although I don't give marriage easily, don't there still be queens and concubines? In fact, there are not many beautiful women left. There are only 16 women who enter the palace to be women's historians, and only six talented men, which is much less than the previous years. Why are you standing so far away to talk? I am not a tiger. eat you?"

Jia Huan had resolutely changed to the outer couch for lunch these few days, and now he knew that Shui Lang did it on purpose, and cursed him in his heart for uneasiness and good intentions, and was afraid that if he got angry and went out, he would not care about Yuan Chun's marriage in a moment of annoyance. Son, I had no choice but to move over slowly, and said, "I'm not sleepy, just sit down for a while."

But Shui Lang said, "You sit so high, it takes a lot of effort for me to raise my head and speak."

Jia Huan had no choice but to take off his shoes and jacket, and lay down next to Shui Lang. He had been dragged into his arms long ago, and he refused to turn his back on him. Fortunately, he had nothing else to do except talk face to face. The son said, "When I went to pay my respects to the Supreme Emperor the day before yesterday, the Supreme Emperor also said that Prince Renjing's sons were too weak, so he asked me to pick two good girls from this year's show girls for him, and the King of Beijing also fell in love with a small official. My son's daughter wanted to be a side concubine, but the old concubine Beijing hated her very much. He relied on him to do a lot of things for me. He came to look for me specially, and I couldn't ignore him. The marriage between Hua and the eldest daughter of Xu Huailan, a scholar, was long ago proposed by the two families. Xu Huailan has been a veteran for many years, so he must be given this kind of grace, so these three people are worthy of my next order. I haven't forgotten, I was thinking of giving the marriage of brother Bao and sister Lin of your family first while there is nothing else, the Supreme Emperor asked me to go this time, quite a bit of a will, telling me not to hurt my family no matter what For the life of my brother, once that woman dies, he will feel that life is meaningless, if something happens, Lin Daiyu will find out that she is a princess who has entered the clan, and I am afraid that there will be a long delay."

Jia Huan listened to Shui Lang's words with a hint of indifference and sarcasm, and felt that his joy at hearing that he was willing to marry Baoyu and Daiyu faded a lot, but after all he felt a serious illness in his heart, he smiled and said, "Old sage Why is it not for your own good, even if no one dares to say that the famous boss who treats your brothers and feet harshly, there will inevitably be historians who will judge you like this in the future, why bother to build your reputation for them? Just put yourself in your shoes and think about it, if your The sons are like this, how can you leave them alone? It can be seen that the old sage is not partial, but you don’t need him to worry about it anymore, so why don’t he just worry about the two things that need to be worried about.”

Shui Lang thought for a while, and couldn't help laughing, "I know you're just saying something to comfort me, but I really feel much better."

Jia Huan thought to himself, even if the emperor has an ordinary heart, he must be tougher than others, but it is not easy to say this in front of Shui Lang, so he had to smile, and the two said a few more words Gossip, and then gradually fell asleep.

Two days later, Jia Huan was talking with Tanchun in the third wife's room. The third wife was still thinking about Yingchun going to send the election, and Tanchun couldn't go, so she was very unwilling to say, "If I didn't complain before , but now I am also a serious wife, isn't the third girl a good young lady? There is another good brother, not ten times stronger than that wooden second girl? The old lady doesn't even think about it. With hereditary titles, how can they lose their girls!"

Tanchun was very angry and funny, and he was always on good terms with Yingchun, so he hurriedly said, "If mom says this again, I'll leave. What a good thing that can't happen? It's so boring to fight and fight like black corns!"

The third wife said, "Amitabha! Who am I for? In a few days, the second girl will be married to a decent son-in-law, and you will regret it!"

Hearing her bluntness, Jia Huan turned Tan Chun's annoyed face to blush and wanted to leave, and hurriedly pulled back a smile and said, "That's all right, don't say any more, what's wrong with Third Sister staying by your side for a while longer?" Okay? When you will worry about it in the future..."

When the third wife was still about to talk, she suddenly saw a little girl running up and said, "There is a commotion in the garden with the second master Bao for some reason, and I have to chase him away! The eldest grandma told the third girl to go and have a look."

Tanchun and others didn't know what was going on for a while, so they hurried over with Jia Huan, only to see a beautiful girl of Xiren sitting on the ground, her body and face covered with ashes, crying and grabbing Baoyu's robe. Sitting still in the chair, his eyebrows and eyes changed with anger, showing extreme anger.

Baochai, Daiyu, Sister Feng, etc. had already arrived in Yihong Courtyard, and they all persuaded them. Tanchun also stepped forward and said with a smile, "You have always treated the girls in the garden so well. Now that you see her crying pitifully, you should live well." The child said, she really annoyed you, what can't be unraveled, it has to be so earth-shattering?!"

Baoyu didn't argue about the reason, but just said to Xiren, "You can go with the wife or the old lady, or go home. I just ask you to leave me quickly, and we are both clean! You said, but you want to kill chickens and wipe your neck like this, what's the point?"

Xiren cried so much that he couldn't care less, and said, "You want to make people die and make people understand. Where did I offend you again, or what did other people hear in front of me, so that they come to annoy me? Anyway, give me a chance to defend myself, even if the prisoner is tried in the yamen, there is no reason why he would push him out and kill him if he is not caught..."

Baoyu sneered and said, "It's fine if you don't talk about others. How can others talk about you?"

Everyone heard the words interesting, so they asked, "What did Xiren say that made you so angry?"

Baoyu saw that Bao, Dai and Qingwen were all in front of him, so he didn't say anything. After a long stalemate, Jia Mu and Mrs. Wang were alarmed. Mouth, just said, "If you are determined not to stay, you should never know this person!" Seeing that Baoyu would not let go, Jia's mother had no choice but to ask Mrs. Wang to lead the attacker to her room first.

Before the people here dispersed, someone reported to Mother Jia again, "Princess Beijing Wang Taifei sent someone to post a message, explaining that the Japanese relatives came to pick up Miss Lin to live in the palace for a while."

Jia Mu wondered, "It's not the concubine, the prince's birthday or something, why do you suddenly want to pick her up?"

Baoyu didn't care about attacking people after hearing this, so she was so busy that Jia's mother quickly refused. Lin Zhixiao's family said with a smile, "brother, this is a joke. The concubine clearly said that she would come to pick her up in person, so there is no way to refuse."

Jiamu asked Daiyu again if she knew what was going on, and Daiyu replied, "It's not too early or too late. I really can't figure out what it is for? Maybe the godmother is bored and wants me to go out with her." Maybe Shangxiang, I mentioned it during the Chinese New Year, it’s just that I’m tired after the Spring Festival, and I don’t think it’s too hot in summer, so I don’t move.”

During the conversation, everyone went back to the room with Jiamu, and met the two nuns from the Beijing Palace. They greeted Jiamu, greeted Daiyu, and said with a smile, "The concubine also specially asked the county Lord, first put together your usual favorite household items and storage boxes, and wait for someone to pull them tomorrow. The servants in the mansion here don’t need to bring any of them, only the mother who came from the south. That's all for the maid."

Looking at this posture, Jia's mother couldn't help but wondered, "What's the point of going to stay with the concubine for three to five days and packing up the box?"

Concubine Beijing feared that Jia Mu would be old and worried, so she told the two of them earlier, and they laughed, "It's a great event, old lady, just relax." Sister Daiyu, Jia Mu knew that there was something to say later, so Li Wan hurriedly led Baochai, Daiyu and Sanchun sisters to go first.Because Baoyu didn't know what was going on, and it was not easy to ask Daiyu in front of everyone, he sighed his own sorrow, grabbed Jia Huan and complained, "You are often outside, but I heard that there is no reason. Sister Lin has lived in our house for so long. How can I just pack up my things and pick them up?! Kuang Zao didn’t pick up the pick up, and I remembered it after two or three years.”

Everyone couldn't help laughing, and Jia Huan said, "I guess it's a good thing after all. Didn't you listen to what the two nuns said? Maybe Sister Lin's good thing is coming soon."

Daiyu spat, "I thought you were a good person, but now you've just learned from them to be so rude!"

Baochai said with a smile, "That's what I heard, but I don't know who is so lucky to get the girl?" Daiyu was anxious to tear her mouth, but Baoyu couldn't laugh at all. Feeling a dark cloud over the top, I can't help but secretly resent why I didn't go to the exam with Jia Huan to get a good name, now I am afraid that the old lady will not be able to keep his wish.