The jade that pulls the red mansion is also crazy

Yinzhen also directly asked Yinxiang about Lin Long's background, sometimes nodding and sometimes frowning, Yinxiang then asked, "Why is fourth brother asking these questions? But what's wrong?"

Yinzhen shook his head with a smile, and asked him back, "What do you think of this foster brother?"

Yin Xiang thought for a while, and said: "Loyalty, honesty, and simple mind, this is rare."

Yinzhen smiled lightly and said: "Your vision, I am naturally relieved. Although your evaluation sounds right, in my opinion, it may not be completely true. Although I didn't talk much, I watched it with a cold eye. This person is exquisite and changeable, and he is really cunning like a fox. He is a man when he sees people, and a ghost when he sees ghosts, but he is not one of those speculators and flatterers. You are more, it is a great fortune to have such a person by your side, he is born with a talent, if you give him a spark, he will have the ability to start a prairie fire, because of this, but it is also extremely dangerous, brother, do you understand what I mean?"

Yinxiang smiled and said: "I only know that he is nice and has a good temper with me. I didn't think about anything else, so he didn't come here?"

Yinzhen chuckled, and said: "If it were someone else, I would rather die in my stomach, because you and I have recently, every time I see you, I can't help but say what is in my heart, but you don't believe it, so let's put it here , look at it later, it’s not too late, brother let’s go first.”

Yinxiang said goodbye to Yinzhen and came out, constantly wondering in his heart, and saw Lin Long squatting on the horizontal pillar of the vermilion corridor from afar, bored, hitting the opposite pillar with small stones, never resting for a moment, not half as stable as a young master Dignified, seeing him like this, Yinxiang was even more confused and disbelieving when he thought of Yinzhen's words "give a little spark, and you can start a prairie fire", so I won't mention it for now.

Let’s talk about it first, the little maid Zhimo thought to herself when she saw that Lin Long was Yinxiang’s younger brother, her status was extraordinary, and that Daiyu had such a fairy-like character, “Now it seems that although his She is still young, so she will undoubtedly be a beauty in the future. Even if you add up all the concubines and concubines in the harem, you can't keep up with her. Now I have Yinxiang's order, so I will flatter Daiyu well. Seeing these pavilions and pavilions is boring after all. Although the imperial garden and other places are good, they can't go casually. Because they want to please her, they suddenly thought of a special place. Helping her: "Miss, come with me. It's a coincidence that the girl came today. There is a beautiful scene in the palace for the girl to see."

Daiyu smiled blankly and asked: "What place is it?" She thought, if she never liked those noisy places, she would not go there anyway, Zhimo hurriedly laughed and said: "Miss don't know Not long ago, a group of girls from the palace came to participate in the election. There were more than a hundred people. It was a big occasion. One group was selected on February 26, and another group was selected on the [-]th. The most beautiful and well-born, Either hand-picked to promise, or to become a saint, the person who is close to the imperial concubine will have a good future, and the appearance is slightly inferior, but he is very proficient in piano, chess, calligraphy, painting, and needlework. He is also selected as a talented person, praise Kindness, it is also good to be with the princess and princess."

When Daiyu heard this, she smiled and said, "Since you say that, I haven't caught up with the excitement these two days, so what should I go to see?"

Zhimo hurriedly laughed and said: "It's true that the girl did not catch up in the past two days, even if she did, the selection process is extremely strict over there, I'm afraid we may not have the chance to meet in person, so today we can be considered a coincidence. Concubine Liang said that the girls who participated in the election this time were of good character, and they were all good. She wanted to choose a few, so she reported it to the Holy Majesty. At noon today, she will be counting people at the Delong Hall. Those girls who failed twice , I was planning to go home, but when I saw that this opportunity fell out of thin air, I sharpened my head to fight for it, because this time I can relax a little bit, and my father-in-law and I know each other well over there. We watched the excitement secretly, expecting others to also You can’t notice it, we, the lawless, have peeked at it not once or twice when there was such a big event in the past.”

Hearing what she said, Daiyu was even more unwilling to do such things as hiding and concealing, and was about to politely refuse, when she suddenly remembered Baochai's election in Beijing that Baoyu and others had said, and thought, "I don't know if she chose." I couldn't be chosen, because Baoyu, Tanchun, etc. praised Baochai very well, and the servants even said that she was unparalleled, which made me a little curious, "Since she is familiar with the father-in-law, he I must also know about Sister Bao, so it doesn't hurt to go and see, so I agreed.

Zhimo went to get through with Eunuch Yu first, and Eunuch Yu asked in every possible way, "Be quiet, don't say anything, let people know, we are all related", Zhimo agreed repeatedly, and returned half a day later, smiling: "It's all good Come, girl, come with me." He led Daiyu to the small empty attic in the northeast corner, where it was secluded, the back door led directly to the alley, and going straight out was the Hall of Preserving Health.

There are flowers and trees in front of the hollow window, looking at a vast field ahead, covered with a red carpet, it is still early, and the maids and others have not yet arrived, Zhimo brought tea, the two sat on the small clinical table, poured Also quiet.

Not long after, I saw a small group of gorgeous girls coming, all of them competing for beauty, tender and pink, all standing silently in a row holding their voices and holding their breath. Daiyu glanced at it and asked, "I'm the one who asked you to ask." , can you ask for me?"

Zhimo hurriedly laughed and said: "I forgot to tell the girl, Eunuch Yu said that the young master of Baochai was defeated twice, and I think she is not good enough for praise, and she comes from a businessman. Girls, I promise that I don’t think they are good enough. People with looks like her would be great in ordinary people’s houses, but in the palace, there are so many of them. There are a lot of them in any corner. Baochai and Xiaozhu are also waiting to be selected for the concubine Liang. The young master has a plump figure, which is easy to recognize. When I saw her in the front hall today, she was wearing a rhubarb gauze dress. Yes, I dare to ask you Are the Lord and the girl relatives?"

Daiyu pursed her lips and said with a light smile, "They are relatives from my aunt's side."

Zhimo blushed, a little embarrassed, but Daiyu didn't mind, because seeing two people wearing yellow gauze skirts, who might be called plump, and only one, Daiyu thought: It must be her, because the distance is far away. , I can’t really see it clearly, I can only vaguely see a round face, a very restrained and dignified description, after a little thought, I asked Zhimo: "I don’t know why the good concubine chooses someone? Is she still lacking?" Can't the person who ordered him succeed?"

Zhimo smiled and said: "Where is the concubine Liang who chooses someone, the girl doesn't know, the concubine Liang is choosing someone for the eighth master."

Daiyu was startled, and asked, "Which eighth master?"

Zhimo said with a smile: "The eighth master is naturally the eighth elder brother. Didn't the girl hear about the thirteenth master?"

Daiyu nodded in a daze, and said quietly, "Who I thought it was, it turned out to be him." Thoughts abounded, she lowered her head and meditated.

Zhimo originally restrained herself to 'stop talking more', but she mentioned the eighth master again, and couldn't help opening up the chatter box, and first sighed with a small smile: "Our eighth master is good-looking, but he is not usually good-looking. One is difficult to get along with, and only one is weird. Over the past few years, maybe he has gradually become familiar with the affairs of men and women, and gradually he does not like to be close to women, but only makes friends. , causing people to secretly speculate, could it be that the eighth master has other interests? A while ago, I heard that for some reason, I drove most of the people close to me away. As a master, how can we do without many people in the room? Concubine Liang made her own decision and wanted to choose a few for him here. If you want me to say, it’s no use depending on how many people she chooses, I must be right.”

Zhimo talked a lot, but Daiyu didn't reply, and saw that there were suddenly more people in the venue, a group of beautiful court ladies came, surrounded by a very gorgeously dressed lady, and all the girls hurriedly paid their respects, Zhimo Mo said: "This is the good concubine."

Daiyu quietly looked at her, and saw that this good concubine was dressed in lavender, of medium build, with an oval face, her complexion was slightly paler than others, her demeanor was elegant and quiet, she walked in front of the girls, and if she met a sweet one, she would ask a question or two Although he couldn't hear the sentence, Zuo just asked about his background and watched his behavior and conversation quietly.

Just ask them one by one, and weed them out after a while, and finally settled on eight, all of whom are beautiful, dignified, steady and restrained girls. The generals were taken out, the selected ones were very happy, and the unsuccessful ones were listless. Daiyu saw that Baochai was also inside, she nodded secretly and said: "It seems like now, but God will not tell her to come here for nothing. What do you say when you return empty-handed?"

Just as she was thinking about it, she suddenly heard Zhimo's ouch, and when she looked back, she saw Lin Long and Yinxiang came in at some point, and stood behind laughing, so she also hurriedly got up, Yinxiang said with a smile: "You two It’s easy for us to find it, and we only know we’re here after asking people along the way, what’s so interesting about it.”

Zhimo confessed, Fang lowered his head and whispered, "Miss Lin has never seen it before, so I'll take her to see it."

Daiyu said with a smile, "it has nothing to do with her. I heard that there is sister Bao here. Fang Yang came to show me. Since it's not right, I just don't want to see it in the future."

Yin Xiang hurriedly smiled and said, "It's nothing, if you want to see it, I'll invite you next year, how about it?"

Daiyu pursed her lips into a smile, and Lin Long hurriedly interrupted, "Is Sister Bao in there?"

Daiyu nodded and smiled, "That's right. I was chosen by the concubine Liang. If you dare to ask me to send it to the eighth master."

Yin Xiang frowned slightly when he heard about Lao Ba, Lin Long smiled and said: "We have been delayed in the palace for a long time, it's time to go." Dai Yu also nodded and said yes.

Seeing that he was about to leave, Yinxiang quickly gave way with a smile: "Brother Lin came here with great difficulty, it won't be too late to go back after visiting more."

Lin Long glanced at him and said with a smile: "We're brothers now, don't play around with those nonsense, if we want to go for a stroll, we can just go for a stroll, it's only half a day to go back and forth, it's not easy anywhere." Daiyu saw that he didn't speak Whether it was light or not, he stomped his feet and looked at him again: "Brother!" Yinxiang laughed and said, "It's okay, we've been used to it for a long time."

When I got out of here, I ordered the boy to wait for the horses and chariots outside the palace to be ready, and I will talk slowly here. After a while, I looked up and saw a group of eight girls in front of me. They all looked good, and they were just chosen by the concubine Liang. Those who were standing far away outside the study room were waiting for news. Since Daiyu had Baochai in her heart, she was related after all. It was very reasonable for her to meet face to face this time and keep silent. Feeling somewhat repelled, Lin Long hesitated, but Lin Long didn't know this. Seeing the girls were so colorful, she just pulled Daiyu and said, 'Come and see what she looks like'.

Daiyu was dragged by him, and halfway through, she saw a little father-in-law coming out of the study courtyard, with a clear voice, with his head held high, he said slowly: "Ba Ye said, my father was a military officer, and he was a farmer in three generations." , I don’t want it at all, I don’t want it if it’s from the concubine of the family, all the girls please go back, the eighth master will go back to the concubine Liang later.”

Then he turned around and wanted to leave, among the eight people saw six or seven with ashen faces, Zhong Baochai and a tall girl hurriedly stood up, and they all rushed after the father-in-law, talking softly, walking softly, smiling quite Dignified and elegant, he said: "Eunuch wait a minute, what Eunuch said has nothing to do with us, but Eighth Master wants to keep us?"

The father-in-law turned his head slowly, glanced at her twice, and said with a smile: "Yes, I almost forgot, I'm really sorry." Then he said to the tall man: "Ba Ye said, he doesn't like to look up Looking at people, the girl is too tall, half a head taller than the master, think of a way to come back next year." Looking at Baochai again, he said with a smile: "The master said that he naturally likes women who are graceful and graceful, slender and slender. Yes, the girl's figure is a bit bloated, and I'm afraid I won't be able to eat when I face such a person every day, so I'm really sorry." With a slight smile, she turned around and left, Liu Baochai was stunned on the spot, tongue-tied for a long time speechless.