Daiyu of the Red Chamber raised a cat

Although Hanyan was just a concubine who was not taken seriously, Daiyu thought she was her own daughter after all, and Lu Guogong would not watch her being bullied and abused by Princess Fukang's mother and daughter, and might even risk her life.At the beginning, she thought that Duke Lu might not know the situation of this concubine in the Duke's mansion, so she kept ignoring it, and asked her father to talk to Duke Lu in a tactful way, so that Xiaozhi would use emotion to reason , or he himself will send her back to her ancestral home in order to keep this daughter.

The princess was jealous, and if she couldn't bear a son herself, she would kill the pregnant concubines and heirs in the mansion.Therefore, Duke Lu has no sons until now, only two daughters, Wanhua and Hanyan.

Daiyu felt that, not to mention paying more attention to Hanyan, at least he would love Hanyan a little bit.

Unexpectedly, Duke Lu is a muddy person who can't support the wall. He is so afraid of his wife that he is afraid to die, and he doesn't even dare to stand up for his daughter.There was no other way, so Daiyu had no choice but to beg Lin Ruhai to send someone to Hongwu County, Shandong to deliver a letter to Mrs. Tai, and ask her to send someone to pick it up.The old lady misses her granddaughter, so it is reasonable to send someone to live there for a year or so, no one can say anything.What's more, the old lady is not as weak as her son, she is the most stubborn and unyielding, otherwise she wouldn't have had such a fight with Princess Fukang back then.

In the end, the old lady really didn't want to continue the quarrel like this, and she would go back to her hometown just to keep herself clean.

Daiyu said: "Sister Hanyan, you don't have to worry anymore, I have received news that the people sent by Mrs. Tai will arrive in three days. At that time, my sister will go to Shandong, and Mrs. Tai will protect her, so no one will bully her again." is you."

Han Yan was very excited and moved, with tears in her eyes, suddenly, without warning, she knelt down in front of Daiyu, which shocked Daiyu.Daiyu hurriedly wanted to pull her up, but she refused to live or die, and just said: "Miss Lin, you saved my life, and I don't have any decent thank you gifts. In the future, whenever Miss Lin can use me, Hanyan will definitely go through fire and water and die."

Daiyu stomped her feet anxiously and said, "Get up quickly, I'm going to be angry if you do this again!"

Han Yan said: "I don't want to thank you for your kindness, please let Miss Lin accept my worship."

No matter how Daiyu tried to stop her, it was useless. She didn't get up until she bowed respectfully for a few times.But the mood is still a little out of control, crying for a while, laughing for a while, and talking nonsense for a while.Daiyu knew that she was happy, so she just watched and didn't disturb her. After a long time, seeing that Hanyan seemed to have calmed down, she asked, "Do you want to bring anyone with you when you leave?"

While wiping her tears with a handkerchief, Han Yan frowned and thought for a while, then said, "Only Rainbow and Autumn Rain."

Daiyu pondered for a while, and said: "You have traveled thousands of miles, and you don't know what will happen when you arrive in Hongwu County. You must bring the most reliable maid, otherwise you will not only be unable to help you, but will also cause trouble. What do you think of these two girls? Is it reliable?"

Han Yan nodded and said: "The two of them have been with me since childhood, and they are very loyal and reliable. In the past, when others bullied me, they were the two who protected me. Otherwise, I will not just come out this time. Take them both."

Daiyu said: "Sister Hanyan has an idea in mind."

After returning from Hanyan, Daiyu went to see Xueer.Although Xue'er was seriously injured that day, after 20 days of raising her, she has completely recovered. She has grown up and gained weight, and her fur has returned to the appearance of a pure white snowball.Since Xue'er was injured, Daiyu took it into her house to take care of it and slept in Zhou Hang's den.For this reason, Zhou Hang protested a few words, but seeing that Daiyu was very firm, he had no choice but to compromise.

As for Zhou Hang's return to the palace, where did the brown kitten go?Daiyu's solution was to tell the maids that Pangpang had run away and lost her. For this reason, she pretended to be in a daze for several days, and the maids believed it.In order not to make Daiyu feel sad when she thinks of Pangpang, they tacitly agreed not to mention the little brown cat in front of Daiyu.

Three days later, the person who came to pick up Hanyan arrived.

Again, the day before, the people sent by the Lin family to Shandong had already returned.The leader was Li Di, the son of Li Feng. Through the screen, Daiyu personally asked about the situation in Shandong and Mrs. Tai's performance.Knowing that there is a severe drought in Shandong, Mrs. Tai, as a local aristocratic family, is very concerned about the victims. She took out the food stored at home and opened porridge sheds to help many poor people.

I heard that Mrs. Tai is a temperamental person. In the early years, she was stationed in the southwest border with the old man. At that time, there were turmoil in the southwest. Personally prevent women and children from plowing, plowing, and sowing seeds. Every time, they take the lead and do it by themselves, winning the love of the border people.

Daiyu admired such a person.She still has compassion for the strange people, and she presumably would not treat her own granddaughter harshly.

When they set off, Daiyu also ordered people to prepare ten carts of grain for Han Yan to take away, and asked her to hand it over to Mrs. Tai when she saw Mrs. Tai, so that she could open a porridge shed.One, it can be regarded as doing a little bit for the people of Shandong; two, Han Yan also has face on her face; the third is Daiyu's respect for a compassionate and kind old man.

After 20 days of posting the imperial list of recruiting talented people and strangers to trim water conservancy projects, someone finally revealed the list.

It was a Confucian scholar who was around fifty, wearing a flowing azure robe, waving a feather fan in his hand, and looking at the bones of immortality.After a detailed investigation, question and answer, and body search, the person was sent before the emperor.

After that person came in, Zhou Hang stared and examined it for a long time.This person looks elegant and tall. Although he looks old and has an old attitude, he has a good temperament. He looks like a tall hermit on standard TV, but he doesn't know his actual ability.

The man walked to the center of the hall and received a big gift, then got up and stood aside with a natural posture, neither humble nor overbearing.

Li Zhao stared at the man and asked his name.

The man bowed and said, "Wu Zongping, a mountain man, is a Jinshi in the Bingchen year."

Zhou Hang squinted his eyes. Those who claimed to be hermits were usually high-ranking hermits, but this person specifically emphasized that he was born as a Jinshi, but he didn't know what message he was trying to convey.Jinshi exams are about poetry and policy theory, but they have little to do with engineering and water conservancy.

Li Zhao seemed quite interested, he said "Oh", "Bingchen Year...it happened 20 years ago..."

After hearing this, Wu Zongping said, "Exactly 20 years ago."

Li Zhao asked him again, since he was a Jinshi, why he didn't become an official.

He briefly talked about his journey over the years.

Although he was born in the imperial examination, he did not only read the four books and five classics and other imperial examination articles like ordinary scholars. On the contrary, he had a strong nature in matters such as the Book of Changes, divination, geography, hydrology, and craftsman.After becoming a Jinshi, he was selected into the Imperial Academy as a scholar because of his relatively high ranking, but he was excluded because he was ignorant of officialdom and human relations.After working for a few years, he was sent out to a barren county to be a county magistrate. After a short time, when his superiors asked for bribes, but he didn’t give them, his superiors often made trouble for him. Later, he simply resigned and went back to the mountains. , lived a life of seclusion.

This is like a contemporary version of Tao Yuanming who does not bend his waist for five buckets of rice!

After careful questioning, it is found that his knowledge is very profound, he knows astronomy and geography, and he has also specialized in the study of water conservancy facilities built in various dynasties from ancient times to the present.The reason, he explained, was because he had opened up a piece of land in the deep mountains, and because that piece of land was far away from the water source, irrigation was inconvenient, so he thought about getting a canal, a water truck or something for irrigation.So he studied the river canals built in the past dynasties and various water conservancy facilities for diverting rivers to irrigate farmland, and finally let him do it.

In his own words, hearing the severe drought in Shandong, he couldn't bear it, so he went out of the mountain to save the people of Shandong from the fire and water.

Such a person is simply made in heaven, but Zhou Hang always feels that everything is too coincidental.

No matter what, it is good if someone can repair the canal.Immediately, Li Zhao called the Minister of the Ministry of Industry and asked him to take it back to formulate specific measures.

Zhou Hang was still in a daze after he left. Li Zhao glanced at him, thinking that his son was a little cute and funny.Stretching out his hand to touch his chin, suppressing the smile on the corner of his mouth, he pushed Zhou Hang's shoulder and said, "What are you thinking about?"

Zhou Hang raised his head, looked at Li Zhao blankly, and said, "What did you think?"

Li Zhao: "I didn't think about anything, why are you in a daze?"

"..." Zhou Hang, royal father, is your majestic king of a country very idle? Do you want to gossip like this!

However, he just complained silently in his heart, and didn't shout out this sentence.In fact, he didn't think about anything, but he suddenly thought of Sister Lin. Sister Lin just sent a villain to say that he had made a new shoe for him, and he was thinking about when he could go out of the palace to get it.

Zhou Hang didn't want to answer this question, but the emperor's desire to gossip had already arisen, so he chased after him to ask.He had no choice but to pretend to be deep and replied: "I want to know the little secrets between men, father, you are not suitable to know."

Li Zhao smiled and bent over, pointed at Zhou Hang and said, "Okay, okay, my Hang'er also has a little secret between men."

Zhou Hang didn't want to talk to His Majesty the Emperor, he got up and cupped his hands and said, "Mr. Lin is still waiting for my minister to attend class, and my minister will leave."

At night, Zhou Hang found an opportunity to sneak out of the palace and came to Lin's mansion.Seeing Lin Daiyu, he couldn't wait to ask: "Yu'er, where are the new shoes you made for me? Quickly show them to me."

Daiyu covered her mouth and smiled, turned around and took out a small package wrapped in brocade from the cabinet, and said, "Look at it, do you like it?"

Zhou Hang took a step forward, grabbed it in his hand, and didn't open it to look, just said: "I don't like what you do?"

Daiyu was ashamed, stomped her feet and said, "If you say such stupid things again, I won't do it for you in the future."

Zhou Hang hurriedly raised his hands and said, "Don't be angry, I just don't say anything in the future."

The two talked for a while, talking about Hanyan being picked up by Mrs. Tai, the mother of Duke Lu, and so on.Inevitably talking about the disaster in Shandong, Zhou Hang was enlightened by Daiyu's words.

"Wait!" he said.

Daiyu tilted her head in doubt, "What's wrong?"

"What did you just say?" He asked, pursing his lips, "Say it again."