Dai Meng of the Red Chamber

The waning moon gradually faded, and the darkness before dawn made the room even more cool. Zicuckoo was awakened by Daiyu's cough, got out of bed in her clothes, and walked towards Daiyu gropingly.

Hearing the movement, Daiyu said softly: "I woke you up again, bring me a glass of water." According to the usual familiarity, Zijuan slowly retreated to the table, poured water, and came slowly. When she got to the bed, Daiyu took a sip of the water, let out a long sigh of relief, and said, "Let's go back and have a rest, it's not yet dawn."

Zijuan caressed Daiyu's back gently, and said in a low voice: "The girl can't sleep again, it's not that Zijuan is talking too much. Now that she has come to this point, the girl should let it go. Why bother to abuse her body? Looking at other things, we also need to look at how the old lady treats girls on weekdays, don't you have the heart to let her white-haired man send a black-haired man."

Daiyu handed the cup to Zijuan, sighed softly, waved her hand, and said, "Go to sleep." Seeing this, Zijuan couldn't persuade her any more, so she had to wait for Daiyu to lie down and lightly put the brocade quilt on her back. Gently pulled it up, and said: "Girl, just squint for a while, it will take a while before dawn, as soon as you feel lighter in the past two days, don't be tired anymore."

Lying on the bed, Daiyu stared at her eyes, there was no trace of drowsiness, what Zijuan said just now kept revolving in Daiyu's heart, remembering the feeling of despair when she heard "Golden Jade Love", and now thinking of it, I still feel pain in my heart Incessantly, the thorn between him and Baoyu finally pierced fiercely, and his heart ached.

Turning around slowly, Daiyu couldn't help but look out of the window. The sky that was still dark just now gradually gave off a glimmer of light. The early autumn morning wind blew the bamboo leaves outside rustling, and the water-red window curtains swayed from time to time. The corners were lifted by the penetrating wind, and the shadows were faintly visible. Over there, the even breathing of the azalea could be faintly heard.

Looking at the window that was shaking from time to time, Daiyu couldn't help but think of Jiamu's advice to herself: "Girl Lin, the original intention of grandma to pick you up is to make you two jade children. After so many years, I also know Baoyu's thoughts. It's not that grandma doesn't love you, grandma has no other choice. You and Baoyu are my heart's apex, and the palms and backs of my hands hurt, but this is the order of the empress in the palace, and grandma can't do anything about it. If you say something unpleasant, I know it's you The second aunt went behind my back to ask for my mother, but now that the order is made, my grandmother is powerless. Good boy, don't worry, as long as I still have breath, I won't wrong you. I will definitely find you a good family. Otherwise, how would I go to see your parents."

Throwing into Jiamu's arms, Daiyu seemed to be back when she was a child again, crying heartily, and Jiamu followed her old tears, persuading her in a low voice: "Cry, grandma, although I have been ignorant in everything these years, I closed my eyes, but I know the grievances you have suffered, but when you leave this room, you are my Miner's daughter, I would rather shed tears in my heart than let people gossip, Miss Lin, do you understand."

Seeing that Daiyu didn't make a sound, Mother Jia stroked Daiyu's head again, and said bitterly: "Girl Lin, get well soon, there are so many people who don't know what to do or what to do, waiting to see the jokes between grandma and you, remember , don’t let people underestimate my Min’er’s child, that way even your parents will be ashamed under Jiuquan.”

Daiyu was stunned, but her father's eyes and earnest entrustment flashed across her heart when she was dying: "Yu'er, you are the only one left in the Lin family. Father has been an official for many years and has always been innocent, but there is one thing that is father's fault." Troubled."

Looking up at the tearful, delicate and miserable Daiyu, Lin Hai sighed softly, took out a piece of jade pendant and a letter from under the pillow, and said in a low voice: "After Daddy passes away, you should go back to Jia's mansion." After all, your grandmother is still there to protect you, and the aunts in the house can do as they please. Yu'er, if someone makes things difficult for you because of your father, you can go with the jade pendant and letterhead..."

Daiyu nodded in response, but said in her mouth: "Father will be fine, how can you bear to leave Yu'er alone." As she spoke, tears flowed non-stop.

Lin Hai raised his skinny body, patted Daiyu lightly, and said, "Silly boy, birth, old age, sickness and death, human nature, who can avoid it, well, you're all grown up girls, don't cry, remember what daddy said, daddy will live forever Innocent, I don’t want to be reviled after death.”

Slowly flashing past the father and daughter parting scenes and father's solemn entrustment when he was dying, Daiyu slowly raised her head and looked at Jiamu's loving and stern eyes again, but her heart gradually calmed down. After clearing up, he said in a low voice: "Don't worry, old ancestor, I will not let you and your parents down."

Mother Jia narrowed her slender eyes, nodded, and said, "I know you are a smart child, but there is one thing my grandmother wants you to do."

Looking at Daiyu's water-like eyes, Mother Jia sighed, turned her gaze away, and said in a low voice: "My child, grandma knows that you are a good girl who keeps her duty, but Baoyu is a master who doesn't care. After so many years of love He must not be able to accept it for a while. Grandmother is afraid that he will turn the world upside down, let the servants read the joke, and if it spreads, it will lose the face of the house, and for you... Since the decree has been made, no matter whether Baoyu is willing or not, This is something that cannot be changed.”

Glancing at Daiyu's flickering expression, Jia's mother said, "Girl Lin, do you understand what grandma means? You two are the children I love the most. Grandma doesn't want to look at you a little badly. How can you make grandma feel right?" Grandpa and your parents go first." After speaking, Mother Jia's voice choked up.

Daiyu listened in a daze, but her heart fluctuated like boiling water. For a moment, she thought of Baoyu's affection for sending Qingwen to give the handkerchief after being beaten, and that sincerity warmed her heart; There was no disappointment, this anticipation made Daiyu's heart cold again, it really chewed on Daiyu's weak and sensitive heart, even Jiamu felt Daiyu's body trembling slightly beside her.

After a while, Daiyu leaned down gently, sighed slowly, and heard a strange voice from herself saying: "Old Ancestor, don't worry, Yu'er knows what to do."

Mother Jia breathed a sigh of relief secretly, and said: "My dear child, I have suffered so much for you. Grandma is sorry for you and your parents. Take good care of her. Later, I will ask Lian'er to invite the Imperial Physician Wang to give you a good diagnosis and treatment."

Thinking of this, Daiyu couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. Although she tried hard to make Baoyu, who came here in despair, leave in despair, she didn't know that she was also ashamed at that time.

Although for many days I forced a smiley face in front of people, made jokes and jokes, gradually disappointed those in the mansion who watched the jokes, and made those gossips disappear unknowingly, but behind people, only Zijuan understood her true nature. Lonely, seven years of being together day and night, seven years of little things, how can it be forgotten or broken.

Seeing the long night unable to sleep, seeing the plain face in the Linghua mirror getting thinner and thinner, Daiyu is like the chrysanthemum plant after the frost. Although she stands stubbornly and silently facing the cold wind, her heart is already overwhelmed. It was bleak and overwhelmed.

The clever Zijuan saw it, neither persuasion nor hatred, secretly anxious in her heart, so she had to serve her carefully on weekdays, and tried her best to enlighten her, hoping that Daiyu would forget it and gradually get better.

The light outside the window gradually came in, Daiyu gently wiped her eyes with a handkerchief, but she couldn't help being surprised, the tears that flowed in the past are much less today, could it be that her tears really flowed out? .