Little Lady of the Red Chamber

The time flipped and it was March. Both Beijing and China were busy with two things. The imperial examination was a national event, and the draft was related to the balance of the harem. The emperor had no family affairs, so it was also a national event.

The imperial examination is a matter of the Ministry of Rites, and Lin Hai, as the minister of the Ministry of Rites, has been busy since the beginning of the year, so naturally he has no time to take his daughter back home for a short stay.Daiyu was considerate of her father, but she was only worried that his father would be tired and no one would take care of her. She intended to go back to the mansion to take care of her father, but Tu Yuanrui stopped her and only advised her that there would be no one in the mansion. When she returned to Lin's mansion, Lin Hai would be even more worried about her. It's lonely in the mansion alone, it's better to go back to live after this busy life.This is also reasonable, Daiyu is most afraid of causing trouble to her father, so let it go.

The inner palace draft is a matter for the masters of the harem. This time it is the Empress Dowager, Concubine Zhen Gui and the Empress together. As expected, Jia Amnesty sent Yingchun to participate in the election. To be dismissed from office, she naturally has no qualifications. Even if she had, the Wang family would not let her go.Yingchun is the sister of the concubine, but the identity of the general's daughter has passed the primary election, and it is not yet known whether she can enter the palace.

Xue Baochai borrowed the hands of the Wang family to pass the small election, and has already entered the palace, but now he is serving in the Empress Dowager's palace. Daiyu heard Princess Changtai mention it, and it seems that she is very popular. If you don't stay for a long time, you don't know who it means.

After returning to the mansion, Tu Yuanrui went to see Daiyu as usual, and heard the sound of the piano from a distance before approaching, stopped for a while, remembering the time when they met formally, the corners of his mouth slightly raised.

In the flower room, Daiyu is among the flowers, and her ten fingers are plucking back and forth on the strings, and the sound of the piano pours out.Like an elf among flowers.Tu Yuanrui leaned against the door and listened. After the song was over, Daiyu raised her head to see the visitor, she got up to greet him with a smile, "You're back, why didn't you say anything?"

Tu Yuanrui smiled, stepped forward to Daiyu's side, his eyes fell on the qin, and his eyes flashed, "Why did you change the qin, did you not like the previous one?"

On that day, he gave Daiyu a famous piano through Yuanjun's hand, but he never said clearly afterwards that Daiyu still doesn't know.It's just that the piano has been placed in the greenhouse all the time, but today it's a different one, so Tu Yuanrui is naturally a little puzzled.

Daiyu smiled and replied, "This is Duyou's father, knowing that I occasionally play the piano to amuse myself, so someone found it from the storeroom and brought it here."

Tu Yuanrui went to the piano stand and plucked the strings. After hearing this, he said with a smile: "If Yu'er doesn't like "Jiuxiao", I'll ask someone to find another one. There's no need to work on my father-in-law."

Zijuan brought the tea, and Daiyu took it and handed it to Tu Yuanrui, saying, "I've never been picky, but it's just my father's wish. It's all good if I tell you. I don't want to get some good pianos for me to waste." Anyway, I’m just trying to relieve my boredom.” Daiyu’s beautiful eyes turned slightly, and she smiled suddenly: “When I was young, my father said that I would leave “Duyou” to me, brother Rui, don’t think too much about it.” Tu Yuanrui didn’t want to Being caught by Daiyu's small thoughts, she felt a little shy, coughed twice, and changed the subject: "Have you ever thought about learning from a teacher, Yu'er?"

Daiyu was puzzled, but Tu Yuanrui said nothing, he just put the teacup away, sat down in front of the piano stand, raised his hands, and plucked the strings with his ten fingers.There was a pleasant sound, and Daiyu listened carefully with a handkerchief in her hand. Although she didn't know what the song was, it was really good.Only when the sound of the piano faded away was still reminiscing, Daiyu's eyes sparkled and she stepped forward to pull him and said, "Since you know how to do it, you don't mention it, just watch me make jokes on weekdays." Tu Yuanrui's piano skills are much better than hers , but he didn't mention it in the past, but it seemed that he was out of class.

Tu Yuanrui stretched out his hand to hold her and sat down and said with a smile: "Yu'er thinks highly of me, I only know this song. How about this song?"

"Excellent, but I've never heard of it before. What's it called?" Daiyu asked.Tu Yuanrui smiled and said nothing, stretched out his hand to grab Daiyu's little hand and plucked it on the strings, teaching her the tune himself.

Sunlight fell on the two of them through the glass. One taught and the other played. The figures next to each other seemed to be entangled together as if they were fate from the previous life.

Xueyan pushed Zijuan beside her, and said in a low voice with a smile on her lips: "Sister Zijuan, look quickly, the son and our girl are so suitable."

Zijuan nodded Xueyan's head in a low voice, "It's Shizi Concubine, Aunt Chen heard it, and she should be punished again. Shizi and Shizifei were ordered by the master himself, they are a natural pair, and they are a good match." Ming Zijuan said However, she never thought that she would become what she is today, but it looks good now.

After practicing the tune all afternoon, Daiyu was really hungry when it was time for dinner, and it was rare that she used half a bowl of rice.Seeing this, Tu Yuanrui smiled and said: "It seems that it is really time to apprentice."

"Brother Rui never forgets, doesn't it mean that he really wants me to worship this piece of music?" Daiyu said with a smile, but made fun of Tu Yuanrui who only knows this piece of music.

Tu Yuanrui raised his eyebrows, "Yu'er is getting bolder, this is a joke on me. Although I think so, it's a pity that I can't be your master."

This is another plan, Daiyu was about to ask again, but he changed the subject and said: "Speaking of how many years Yu'er has lived in that mansion, do you know all the girls in that mansion?"

"Naturally? How did brother Rui ask this?" Daiyu was puzzled, and suddenly thought, "But what happened to the draft? Is it the second sister?" The smile on Daiyu's face disappeared, and her brows frowned slightly.

Tu Yuanrui saw her reaching out to smooth her eyebrows like this, "I haven't said anything yet, you're just so worried."

"I don't intend to take care of the affairs of the mansion, but the sisters who have been together for a few years, I always wish them well." Daiyu sighed, she didn't think that Yingchun was suitable for the palace at first.

"Everyone has their own destiny!" Tu Yuanrui was not like Daiyu, but he felt that the second girl of the Jia family might not be suitable to stay in the palace.After reassuring Daiyu, she informed about today's affairs in the palace. The girls who passed the primary election will stay in the palace and wait for the re-election. There are naturally some problems due to the large number of people.No one knows how it happened. There was a conflict between the three beautiful girls, and Jia Yingchun was one of them. He was sent out of the palace, but Jia Yingchun asked the emperor to send someone to send him back, so he probably stayed.

Daiyu just felt inconceivable, "The rules in the palace are so strict, how could this be so?" Besides, even if Xiunu was ignorant, how could there be no one around the emperor, she did not believe that such a coincidence would happen.

Tu Yuanrui smiled, "Yu'er is smart, why don't you guess the question."

Seeing his expression, Daiyu's face changed slightly, "Brother Rui said that His Majesty did it on purpose, why?"

"Your Majesty doesn't really have much interest in this. There are already several princes in the palace. It doesn't really matter whether newcomers get in or not, but the others obviously don't think so. Concubine Zhen Gui wants to send the girl from the Zhen family into His Majesty's family." The harem, but anyone with a little brain knows that this is impossible, even the emperor can't say this. But it doesn't matter if it is not directly related to the Zhen family. If it is the emperor's intention, it is not easy for your majesty to worry about such a trivial matter Refuse." Tu Yuanrui calmly analyzed the joints to Daiyu.

Just like what he said, Daiyu is smart, and after a while of meditation, she understood what was going on.With a wry smile, "No wonder Princess Changtai mentioned Sister Bao repeatedly." In the end, whether Xue Baochai or Jia Yingchun is just a pawn.It's just that Xue Baochai did it voluntarily, while Jia Yingchun was pushed out by the family.

Sure enough, after the draft, Jia Yingchun stayed in the palace to be enshrined and repaired. Although he was only from the third rank, it was not a low rank.As for the sisters serving the father and son, they are just sisters in the next room, and they are just grooming. Although the censor whispered privately, they didn't get it to the court, after all, they were just grooming.

But Xue Baochai, who would have thought that a poem about peach blossoms would make her show her face in front of the emperor and win the emperor's favor, and one would be concubine Shu, a woman who had passed the general election.What about the concubine, even if she entered the emperor's harem, and there are a few concubines who can reach high positions, they may only end up in the lowest position for the rest of their lives.

The Emperor Xu felt that he had accepted Xue Baochai and wanted to appease Jia Yuanchun, so he rewarded Jia Zheng again.Jia Zheng was satisfied, but Jia Yuanchun hated her teeth so much that she had no choice. She didn't bring Xue Baochai in because she wanted to compete for favor with herself. As a result of this, the person who was originally in the hands of him will be on an equal footing with himself.No matter how calm Jia Yuanchun was, he would hate it.

Jia Zheng was reinstated, Jia Yingchun was appointed, and Jia's family became more and more lively.The two rooms have become evenly matched again.However, the matter of repairing the family visitation garden is a rare thing to pass, without him, after the draft, the emperor decreed that all the nobles above the third rank in the harem can visit their relatives, and the grooming is also a third rank, that is to say, they can also go out of the palace to visit their relatives in the Spring Festival.Since he can also be decent, Jia Amnesty naturally has no objection.

The Jia family held a banquet and passed a post to Daiyu, but Daiyu was so angry that someone tore it up and ignored it.The man doesn't know how to work hard, he just wants to sell his daughter too much.What else does she have to say.

Tu Yuanrui knew that Daiyu was soft-hearted, and he didn't want her to get angry, so he simply settled the matter, so he revisited the bet that day.Daiyu immediately put those things aside, her beautiful eyes were full of anxiety, she gritted her teeth and said, "Since I agreed, I will not regret it, but brother Rui, can you give me a lighter punishment?"

She really didn't want to be too ashamed, and Daiyu was very distressed.Stealthly glanced at Tu Yuanrui's expression, trying to see something.It's a pity that Tu Yuanrui deliberately put on a straight face, and when he saw her peeking, he only raised his eyebrows slightly, but he didn't show any signs.

Tu Yuanrui asked Daiyu to change into the clothes she was going out, and took her out of the palace.Daiyu was a little nervous in the beginning, but later on she was just fine.It's just that the longer the carriage goes, the longer it has already left the city gate and headed for the suburbs.Daiyu couldn't help but said: "Brother Rui, where are you going?"

"Why, are you scared?" Tu Yuanrui scratched Daiyu's nose in a funny way.Daiyu stared painfully at the person who loves to tease her whenever she has nothing to do, "What are you afraid of, Brother Rui can still sell me." She is not afraid.

"Isn't it just going to sell!" whoever wanted Tu Yuanrui replied.Daiyu widened her bright eyes and opened her mouth slightly.What's the meaning?