Dream of the Red Chamber: Rong Dai

With the footsteps of the cold wind, snowflakes come lazily, fluttering and hanging all over the branches and roofs, showing its domineering and uniqueness.

The white snow covered the green pines and cypresses, and the big red feather satin gown swayed slightly with the strong wind, blowing the small bells around the waist, as if the wind chimes of a pagoda in the distance were ringing lightly, dignified and calm with a slight smile.

At this time, in the Forbidden City, the glazed tiles on the palace walls have already been covered, and the palace lanterns standing on both sides of the Qingshiban Road can no longer distinguish their original appearances, and they only come to the face with a sweet breath.

Concubine Bei Jing walked beside Daiyu, and ordered Qingmei and Chunxian beside her to support Daiyu, and said with a smile, "Be careful when the road is slippery."

Daiyu nodded, pushed Qingmei's hand and said with a smile: "It's better to let elder sister Qingmei support the concubine mother, I already have Chunxian and Xueyan beside me."

Concubine Bei Jing shook her head, and said with a smile: "My old bones are still quite strong, it's better to be more careful now that your body is different from before." She smiled and said, "Sister-in-law, don't worry, I have the armrest of my concubine's crutch, so hurry up and go."

Patting Shui Wanyu's little hand, Concubine Bei Jing said half-angrily: "Who told you to support me? It means that I have become a useless old thing."

Suffocating her nose, Shui Wanyu was a little angry, and said, "Come on, my good intentions have gone to waste, so I don't care if I don't help you." Daiyu stopped, and said with a smile: "Sister Wanyu, let's support her, and let Qingteng and Wisteria also support her, so that you and the concubine mother will be safe, otherwise I will feel uneasy."

After glaring at Shui Wanyu, Concubine Bei Jing patted Daiyu's little hand, and said, "It's a pity that you still say that I'm biased. After all, you don't understand my thoughts better than your sister-in-law." Wan Yu hummed and said: "I just looked at my sister-in-law and supported you."

After all, we are a family, and after talking about it, I just felt that the words were really naive, and I couldn't help but burst out laughing, and even the faces of the few people who were serving at the side were flushed, holding back wanting to laugh but not daring to laugh. Wan Yu couldn't stop smiling.

"It's such a happy family, I'm a little jealous when I see it." The smiling words came from behind, but when I listened carefully, they contained indelible anger, and I didn't realize who it was.

Concubine Bei Jing turned around and said with a quiet smile, "Why is the eldest concubine here? This is not the way from the East Palace."

Sun Li smiled faintly, looked at Daiyu with a little arrogance, then looked at Concubine Beijing with a smile: "Just now I went to the House of Internal Affairs to pick out some things with my grandmother, and I happened to meet the three concubines. gone."

As he spoke, he turned his gaze to Daiyu, and said with a faint smile, "Yo, what's the matter with Princess Beijing today? Her face is paler than snow, is there something wrong? Or did she lose her peace of mind after hearing some gossip?" There seems to be concern between the eyebrows, but it is easy to see the gloating.

"Is there anything that the prince concubine cares about so much? Could it be that the prince concubine knows something? If you know something, it's okay for everyone to hear it, right? If it's just an ordinary matter, just throw it away as a joke."

"You." Sun Li's face turned green and white, and she sneered, "Princess Beijing Jing has such a big heart, it's really hard for thousands of men to match, I just hope you don't go home crying today."

Daiyu saw that her face was completely lost, she didn't realize that there was a smile in the corner of her mouth, she held the iris embroidered on the kerchief in her hand, and said with a faint smile: "I hope the princess' wishes will come true."

The sarcasm between the words made Sun Li's face paler, and she turned to look at Concubine Bei Jing and said, "After today, it will be congratulations to Concubine Dowager."

"It should be congratulations." Concubine Bei Jing smiled faintly, her face was so peaceful that no one could see anything.

After hearing that, Sun Li smiled, then turned around and left with a flick of her sleeves.

Seeing her leaving back, Shui Wanyu spat first, covered the place where she had just stood with snow under her feet, and said coldly: "I don't know how such a person with bad character can become the royal daughter-in-law." ?”

Daiyu held Shui Wanyu's little hand, a little amused by her behavior, never caring about Sun Li, she just smiled lightly and said: "It's just a word of power. Sister Wanyu, this is in the deep palace, she like that People like you don't deserve this."

Shui Wanyu listened and nodded, and finally said indignantly in her heart: "I'm afraid that she feels a crisis in her heart now, and those dirty thoughts are hard to realize, and it's just messed up. Who cares about her?"

Once in the Empress Dowager's Palace, a warm fragrance hit her face, and the warm fragrance warmed Daiyu's heart, Zhao Rong, a servant in the palace, had already stepped forward to take off the gowns and Guanyin pockets of the three of them. Kneeling and saying blessings, "Wanfu, Concubine, Concubine, and princess."

Concubine Beijing took Daiyu and Wanyu's hands into the bedroom behind the Palace of Compassion and Ning, and saw the Empress Dowager lying on the couch, with a silver thread holding a long bun, and only a wooden hairpin carved from red sandalwood loosely , wearing a brocade cotton robe embroidered with blessings and longevity.

Concubine Bei Jing walked in softly, and seeing that the Queen Mother seemed to be in a deep sleep, she took the cotton blanket from Mother De and put it on her body, which might as well have awakened the Queen Mother.

Seeing that Concubine Bei Jing was in front of her, the Empress Dowager stood up lazily holding her hand, leaning against the pillow behind her, beckoning Daiyu and Wan Yu to come forward, holding their little hands before saying angrily: "You two Lazy girl, if Ai's family doesn't summon you, don't you want to enter the palace to accompany Ai's family?"

Daiyu hugged the Empress Dowager's arm and leaned against her arm, and said with a bright smile: "Of course Daiyu misses the Empress Dowager's grandmother, but she just came back and didn't have any free time after all. I heard that my grandmother was recuperating behind closed doors and seeing no one. Where did we get the courage Came to see grandma?"

The queen mother pinched Daiyu's nose, smiled lovingly and said: "Just you ghost, don't pretend that I don't know, and you are playing tricks again. Say, didn't you send the green grapes that were sent the day before yesterday? If you don't come in to see me, but you still have the nerve to say it, I'll be ashamed for you."

With a smile on her face, Daiyu got up and walked to the grapes in the green glass, gently broke off a branch and stepped forward, then took a small blade as thin as a cicada's wing and peeled off the green skin, put it in the Queen Mother's mouth, and said with a smile : "Is it delicious?"

The queen mother nodded, and said: "It's delicious. It's hard for you to leave this thing to the old lady Ai's family in this snowy day." She didn't know that it was left in the ice cellar when the grapes were abundant a while ago. .She was reluctant to eat it, but personally sent it to the palace, how could she not understand this kind of intention?Feeling more and more cherished in my heart, caressing Daiyu's forehead, eyebrows, temples and temples, a faint smile overflowed.

Daiyu's eyes were a bit gloomy, the Queen Mother's body is getting worse day by day, and she is sleeping more often, although the imperial doctor of the imperial hospital did not say it clearly, but she also knows it.

Concubine Bei Jing smiled and said: "I came earlier today, but I have good news to tell the empress dowager."

"Oh? What good news?"

Concubine Bei Jing held Daiyu's little hand and said, "Yu'er is very happy now."

"Really?" The queen mother looked at Daiyu with surprise in her eyes, and the hand holding her little hand trembled slightly, gently stroked and smiled: "Okay, okay, now that Yu'er is pregnant, it's not a big happy event ?” As he said that, he wanted to turn around and tell Nanny De, but unexpectedly, Nanny De had already smiled and said, “Don’t worry, Empress Dowager, the servants will definitely hand over all kinds of tonics to Princess Beijing in person.”

The queen mother couldn't close her mouth from ear to ear, she asked the maids in the palace to look at every corner of the palace, find out all the things that are harmful to the body and throw them out, and even change the warm incense, light The comfortable aroma drifts away with the curling green smoke.

When she was young, Sang Qingyan also rushed over, saw that Concubine Bei Jing had arrived, stepped forward and slightly bowed her knees to salute, and said with a smile: "The princess, concubine, concubine and princess came earlier than us."

As he spoke, he stepped forward to take the ivory comb from Mother De's hand, combed the Queen Mother's bun little by little, carefully tied a bun, and then put the emerald emerald six-winged phoenix on the dressing table on the Queen Mother, carefully After looking at it for a long time, he smiled and said: "Grandmother, take a look, is it still in your eyes?"

The queen mother looked at the bronze mirror, held her hand and said with a smile: "Qingyan's craftsmanship has become more and more refined, but this phoenix is ​​too grand, and it is too heavy to bear."

Sang Qingyan smiled and said, "It's not too serious. Just now, my granddaughter-in-law heard from Eunuch Liu in front that today the king and princess of the Lie Yu Kingdom will come to pay their respects to grandma. Grandma will be wronged for a while if she is impatient to wear these things."

The Empress Dowager nodded after hearing this, looked at Daiyu with a loving smile and said, "Princess Yanling lived in the palace for three days, and the Ai family had never seen her because of her unhappiness. I heard that she was a beauty like a flame. Today We all know each other."

Looking at Daiyu's clear and beautiful face with some worry, Yanling and Sun Li have not only been very friendly with Sun Li in the past three days, but also asked a lot about Shui Rong and Daiyu. Now Daiyu's body is double, let alone the slightest damage.

When she was young, Concubine Zhongshun and the concubines and concubines of the three mansions all came in to meet the Empress Dowager. The banquet was just ready when someone from the palace came and said, "I invite the Empress Dowager Jin An. The King of Canglang knows that the Empress Dowager is entertaining all of you." Concubine and Concubine, I am afraid of disturbing the Empress Dowager, so I only let Princess Yanling come to pay her respects."

The Queen Mother smiled after hearing this, and said: "The Canglang Monarch is too polite, please quickly invite Princess Yanling in."

It was Sun Li who accompanied Princess Yanling in. Looking at the expressions of everyone present, Sun Li didn't realize it. She just held Yanling's hand and bowed her knees and said Wanfu, then smiled and said: "Daughter-in-law Sun knows Grandmother was tired, so she led the way with Princess Yanling herself."

Concubine Nan'an and the princess had already stood up, and said with a smile: "The eldest concubine can share the burden for the empress dowager everywhere, which shows that she is a kind and filial person. It is a great blessing for the empress dowager to have such a granddaughter-in-law, but it makes us all a little jealous gone."

The Empress Dowager smiled slightly, and beckoned Princess Yanling to come forward and said with a smile: "Since the princess came to the palace, the Ai family couldn't greet her because of her illness, if there is anything wrong, she should tell Concubine Mei. "

That Princess Yanling is a beauty beside the snow-capped mountains outside the Great Wall, her white face seems to be moist with the snow that never melts all year round, her red phoenix eyes are like deep autumn water, her red lips are like plum petals, and she is wearing a fiery red dress that is tight around her waist, thin and thin. Cotton quilts don't add more clothes because of the severe winter, even so, there are still some thin sweat floating on the face.

Seeing the beautiful and prosperous people surrounded by pearls and emeralds in the room, Princess Yanling smiled lightly, paused for a moment when her eyes swept over Daiyu's face, and said with a smile: "There is nothing wrong with it! It's just that Yanling naturally grows in the snow-capped mountains. On the other hand, the physique is already extremely cold-resistant, so the cold breath is not worth anything."

Daiyu looked at Princess Yanling lightly, her red lips bloomed like plum blossoms, and her snow-white hair made her face as gentle as poetry, as elegant as jade, this Princess Yanling was not a bad person at all.

Just as she was meditating, she saw that Sun Li led Princess Yanling to the front, her smiling eyes contained a bit of color, and said: "She is the Zhengwangfei of our Beijing Palace in the Celestial Dynasty. She is Princess Lin."

Regarding Sun Li's indignity, the Queen Mother frowned almost inaudibly, and then smiled and said: "Li'er is rude. Your aunts and sister-in-laws are all there, so why did you only come to your sister-in-law Bei Jing first? If you don't Those who know, think it's because of your rudeness." Then she looked at Sang Qingyan and said, "Why don't you invite Princess Yanling to meet them?"

When the Empress Dowager mentioned it face to face, Sun Li blushed immediately, and immediately leaned over and said: "It's the granddaughter-in-law's negligence, please forgive me, grandma and princess."

While speaking, Sang Qingyan had already walked up to her, and greeted her with a smile: "Princess Yanling, please follow me."

Princess Yanling didn't say much, she just smiled and followed Sang Qingyan to meet everyone, only Sun Li stood there with flushed cheeks, her face was full of embarrassment Unable to cover it up, he hurried to his seat aside.

The Empress Dowager gave Sun Li a cold look, and gave a faint smile that was barely audible. The Crown Princess is the concubine of the prince of the country and the future queen, and she should not be recommended by her as the eldest concubine due to emotion and reason.

It seems that she lost her sense of proportion, cut off their left and right arms, and dragged foreigners to join in it. Since this kind of thinking has arisen, it is an unforgivable sin.

Sang Qingyan led that Yanling to Daiyu, and said: "I didn't introduce the details just now. She is the wife of Prince Beijing, Princess Beijing, and also Princess Yundai, the granddaughter of the Empress Dowager."

Yanling glanced at Daiyu with indifferent eyes, then stretched out her hand and said, "It's a great honor to meet the legendary Princess Beijing."

Daiyu got up, didn't care about the strangeness in Yanling's words, smiled lightly and reached out to hold her hand, saying: "Both, I am also very honored to meet Princess Yanling who is famous in the snow-capped mountains and deserts."

Although Yan Ling didn't move on his face, his eyes were a little surprised, and he didn't feel that his cold words slowed down a little, and he said with a little appreciation: "Princess Beijing is really different from others. It is different from what I have heard in my daily life. The women of the Celestial Dynasty are very different."

"Everyone has their own temperament and thoughts, how can everyone be similar? In that case, wouldn't the world have already lost its fun, just looking at one person is enough."

"Wangfei, do you know where my name comes from?" Princess Yanling suddenly said.

Everyone in the audience suddenly froze, the words of Princess Yanling were very provocative, Daiyu had never had a close relationship with her, how could she know the origin of her name?

After being slightly stunned, Daiyu smiled, and said: "Princess Yanling is both a title and a taboo name for a princess. Naturally, it was taken by the former emperor and queen mother of Lie Yu Kingdom. It is only in their hearts where it comes from."

Yan Ling didn't care about this, and just sneered: "This is just your excuse. I usually hear that Princess Bei Jing is very knowledgeable, so don't you even know this place?"

The more rude words made Shui Wanyu on the side jump up, and said: "Although you are the princess of Lie Yu Kingdom, it is right to respect you as a guest, but you should not be too rude, it is a bit contemptuous The meaning of the country's prestige."

That Yanling looked at Shui Wanyu, and said lightly: "Yanling lived beside the snow-capped mountains since she was a child, but she also heard about the reputation of the Celestial Dynasty, so naturally she didn't dare to take it lightly, otherwise I wouldn't be standing here today with Bei Jing The princess has spoken."

Daiyu stopped Wan Yu's words, and said with a faint smile: "Since the princess insists on asking, then the princess will tell what is in her heart. If there is something wrong, please forgive me." Don't lose your dignity and dignity as a master. "Ask the world, what is love, it only teaches life and death? Flying from the south to the north, how many times does the old wing come back to the cold and heat? Joy is fun, parting is bitter, and there are even more idiots in the midst. You should have words, ten thousand miles of stratus clouds, thousands of mountains and evening snow , Who is the only shadow going to? This is Yuan Haowen's fishing, if it is correct, the name of the princess should come from this poem."

Before Yanling could say anything, Sun Li laughed and said: "Princess Beijing's words are really funny, there is not a word of geese mentioned in the whole poem, such a far-fetched explanation will only make the princess laugh."

Daiyu raised her eyes and looked at the surprise smiles of all the concubines present, there was a bit of disdain in that smile, so the corners of her mouth curled up, she glanced at her without saying a word, she just looked at Princess Yanling.

"In the fifth year of Taihe, at the age of Yichou, he went to Bingzhou for an examination, and met a goose catcher who said, "Once you catch a goose today, you will kill it.Those who escaped from the net screamed and couldn't go, but threw themselves to the ground and died. "I bought it because of it, and buried it on the Fenshui River, and piled up stones as my knowledge, and named it Yanqiu." Qingyue's words were tactful and light.

Princess Yanling took a deep look at Daiyu, and the admiration and smile could no longer be hidden in her indifferent eyes, "The road is full of chaos, loneliness is like an umbrella, and the wild smoke is still flat, what is calling the soul?" Sigh? The mountain ghost secretly cries the wind and rain, the sky is also jealous, and has not believed in it. Yinger and swallows are afraid of the loess. For thousands of years, I will leave it to the poets, sing and drink wildly, and have not visited Yanqiu."

After a pause, he said with a smile: "Princess Beijing is really quick-witted. The word Yanling is really derived from this, and it is my favorite word. It is Yanling who is rude." I feel a little sorry.

Daiyu smiled slightly to bless her body, and sat down without saying a word.

Na Yanling looked at Sun Li, who had a purple face beside her, and looked at the Queen Mother with a slight smile, "I have come to your country, and I have seen the difference between heaven and earth. After all, playing the piano with a cow is two extremes. My eyes were wide open. Today, I was disrespectful in front of the Empress Dowager, and I ask the Empress Dowager to forgive me more."

Several younger princesses and Shui Wanyu couldn't help giggling and laughing. This Yuan Haowen's poems are so famous, even boudoir girls with different articles should know some of them. Why is she half-decent? I don't know?Could it be that the tutors in Shangshu's mansion are all fake?If you really answered Daiyu's words, the word "power" is enough.

The Empress Dowager ordered Zhao Rong who was beside her to come up with Yan Ling, and said with a smile: "I can't tell that Princess Yan Ling is full of knowledge."

Yanling shook his head, looked at Daiyu and said, "I'm really ashamed, it's definitely not one-tenth as good as Princess Beijing, no wonder the Prince of Beijing can love you so much."

The Empress Dowager's brows loosened, and she looked at Concubine Mei with lowered eyebrows and said with a faint smile: "The love between the prince and Yun Dai is naturally seen by the Ai family."

Seeing Sun Li being humiliated today, the concubine of Nan'an at the bottom was already a little bit annoyed, so she stood up and greeted her with a smile: "What the empress dowager said is that after all, as a royal heir, a regular wife is not like a regular wife after all, not to mention that it has been a year since then. It's been a long time since I've heard of the happiness of Princess Beijing, how about sending two good sisters with Princess Beijing to be companions?"

The Queen Mother of Nan'an also agreed with a smile: "A while ago in the south of the Yangtze River, the Prince of Beijing uncovered Zhao Shixun's conspiracy, the Empress Dowager should also be rewarded, what does the Empress Dowager think of such a proposal?"

The queen mother smiled quietly, her lowered eyes seemed to be listening carefully, but she was a little alienated, and said with a smile: "Your proposal is naturally very good. However, today is the day when Princess Yanling comes to pay a visit. Are you afraid that the princess will laugh at you when you mention this?"

He paused and said: "It just so happens that Ai's family had a happy event today, and it happened to be a reward for their husband and wife."

"I don't know what the empress dowager is happy about? Could it be that the empress dowager already has some people she likes?"

The Empress Dowager glanced at Sun Li and Concubine Nan'an, and said, "That's not true, the Ai family's happy event is another matter."

Not only the three of them, but also the other concubines in the palace stood up, listened to the Queen Mother's words, and glanced at them lightly. The plain words were shocking: "Princess Beijing is pregnant, and the twelve fans in the Aijia Palace Send the carved white magnolia glass screen to congratulate her, and take out the white jade inlaid with precious stones and the lotus hairpin."

As soon as these words came out, it was like a thousand layers of waves were stirred up, and it was difficult for everyone to recover for a while, not only because of Daiyu's pregnancy, but also because of the twelve screens, just because the whole magnolia plant was already green. Carved from emerald and yellow and white jade, the bottom frame is made of golden nanmu, and the three friends of Sui Han are hollowed out on both sides, which is very elegant. There is also 12 yuan glass covering it, how precious.

The Tongzixi lotus hairpin was carved out of a whole piece of deformed white jade, inlaid with gemstones of various colors, it was the dowry of the Empress Dowager when she was married, and almost all the skilled craftsmen used to carve it out, it can be seen that she really attaches great importance to Daiyu up.