The eldest grandson of the Red Chamber

later

Mingxu returned to Beijing six years later, and Shengjing was still the same Shengjing, just like it was back then, but without the once famous Jia Wang Shixue family.

As soon as Daiyu settled down, she went to Zijuan in Beijing to inquire about the current residence of Jia's mansion, but learned that she was no longer in Beijing.

"The elders of the family are gone, the old ladies are exiled, and they have long since disappeared. Lian's second grandmother is gone, and the others are walking around, scattered, and I don't know where they are." It has been combed. The Zijuan with the woman's head sighed and said: "Second Master Bao and Miss Bao left the year before last. Their family was ruined and their families were destroyed. It's not good to stay here anymore. It's plain to remember the hurt. Second Mistress Bao has been busy running around for business these years. She Married, but there are no restrictions."

Daiyu actually heard these letters when she was away, but what Zijuan said was more clear.When the master and servant talked about the old things, they sighed for a while.

"I have been away for six years, but I don't want to come back, but the old people will disappear."

"We will meet again if we are destined." Zijuan can be considered to have passed the past, and she is very calm when she mentions it. "The second girl passed away a few years ago, but the third girl is still here. Grandma knows about it. She lives with my uncle on West Street, not far away. When grandma comes back, the third girl will come here often in the future. Stopped by."

"I do know this. I heard that she gave birth to a daughter who is one year older than my Chuchu." These years away, Daiyu and Tanchun have been exchanging letters, so they are naturally more familiar.

"Yes, it's called Sister Ling." Zijuan is obviously familiar with Tanchun, and said with a smile: "It's not as good-looking as our eldest girl. When I was just born, the third girl came to look for me several times, and every time I said Father Xiao, my daughter, looks like her father, and looks darker."

"Children can see what they can see, and they will be fine when they grow up." Daiyu has never met Tanchun's daughter, but the person who set up this marriage is Mingxu. A classmate, who was born in a farming family, thought he shouldn't be called Bai. "Third Younger Sister is always considerate. She probably planned the time for me to settle down, so she didn't come here. I will send her a post to invite her."

Daiyu only talked to Zijuan about her sisters when she was young during the day, but Mingxu brought it up again when she came back at night.

"It's a long journey, and there will be delays in sending letters. I didn't pay attention to this back then. I'm afraid those few houses are even worse." Mingxu entered the room, and when he saw his daughter playing on the small table, he used to approach her and give her a hug. Hugging, and noticing that the baby was sensitive after drinking today, fearing that it would intoxicate her, she waved her hand and let the nanny carry her away.

"Back then, there was no one in the court of the Jia family. Even if they made mistakes, they were limited. Those few families were different. I drank with them today, and during the dinner, I met a singer who said that he was also from a noble family before, but his family was in decline. , her husband’s family has also been reduced to sinners, serving as official prostitutes." Ming Xu just returned to Beijing, and his old friends from the past helped him clean up the dust and celebrate his return.

"Which one is Chengjing talking about?" Daiyu's hands trembled, since Mingxu told her, it must be an acquaintance.

"It's the Wei Shi family. I heard Yu'er talk about her friends in the boudoir earlier, so I paid attention to it." Mingxu was also a little helpless. This kind of thing shouldn't be said to Yu'er, but Yu'er has returned to Beijing , must be asked.

"When I was young, some of my sisters died, some left, and some became monks, and they were all scattered all over the world." Daiyu didn't know what to do for a while, and they were generally the same in the past, but now their lives are very different.Mingxu said that they are official prostitutes, so they can't help much.She fell into the quagmire, and these old people couldn't be seen anymore, it was terrible to see them.

"The world is impermanent, you have to grow up in one place, but individuals have fate, and most of your friends and sisters were separated when you were young." Mingxu wrapped them in his arms and sighed: "It's not just Yu'er, most of them are like this, don't be sad gone."

Tanchun came over the next day, and with her daughter Ling, Daiyu asked Chuchu to go out to play together.

"Looking at them, I think of us. The leader of the poetry editorial is still in front of me, and the next generation has come out again." Tanchun laughed.

"Chuchu has followed us outside all these years, which is different from our Beijing, and she has to be played by sister Ling." Daiyu also said the child: "Now that she has settled down, her father wants her to go to school. The day before yesterday I went to the home school to have a look, and said a few things to change."

"Brother-in-law asked Chuchu to go to school?" Tanchun was startled, then smiled and said, "It's true that she was raised as a boy."

"He didn't think so." Daiyu shook her head: "It's just the first one, it's rare, let me learn everything."

"Brother-in-law is really extraordinary." Tanchun was a little envious, his family was not from a high family background, so it was inevitable that he would be slack in raising his daughter. "Speaking of which, why don't you see anyone? I haven't seen you for six years, and I almost didn't recognize Sister Lin. When facing Brother-in-law Lin, wouldn't it be even more difficult to meet each other?"

"I've been in the palace since the morning, and I haven't come back yet." Daiyu shook her head, since she returned to Beijing, she hasn't been at home for a day.

After hearing this, Tanchun smiled: "It's not like I'm away, my brother-in-law can do something, and I'll be busy in the future."

It's not that I'm busy, it's just that in the blink of an eye, it's just half my life.

Wenzhang Hall.

The young emperor was sitting behind the case, with the ink brush hanging on the paper, but it never came down.The chief eunuch approached quietly, disturbing the cinnabar on the tip of the pen, which fell on the paper and condensed into a small bead.

The emperor seemed to have just come back to his senses, rubbed his face, and said with a little impatience, "Which ones are they this time?"

The Empress Dowager suddenly wanted to leave the palace and go to Mount Wutai to pray for the late emperor, but there was no movement from the Emperor's side. The ministers did not know what had happened to the mother and son who had always been kind, but the mother and son were at odds, so they couldn't just sit back and watch the Empress Dowager leave the palace.So they took turns to persuade, but the emperor didn't see him, so he knelt in front of Wenzhang Hall.

"Return to Your Majesty, the Grand Master is here."

There is more than one cabinet scholar in this dynasty, but there is only one who can be called so affectionately by the emperor's side: Master Ming Xuming.

But he didn't want the emperor toss his sleeves and snorted, "He didn't see me when he came."

"Your Majesty, the Ming University scholar heard about this and went to the Empress Dowager's place first. This is from Kangshou Palace." The chief eunuch lowered his head.

"Kangdang" Emperor Qi Ci violently pushed the case down, closed his eyes and took a few deep breaths, but in the end he didn't say anything embarrassing.

He sneered and said: "If that's the case, then kneel down, since you came from the Queen Mother, you can't bear the pain for a long time."

When Mingxu opened his eyes again, what he saw was the worried gaze of his old wife, and he understood it immediately, and smiled wryly, "I'm old, it's useless, I made Yu'er worry about me." Feeling the still numb and painful Ming Xu sighed in his heart, knelt for decades, but finally couldn't hold it anymore.

"Do you still think you were young? The day before yesterday, you were so painful that you couldn't speak, and you went again today. It would be hard to live without you." After sleeping together for dozens of years, Daiyu didn't understand what he was thinking. His nose was sour, and he almost shed tears again. Others only knew the scenery of being in a high position and the emperor's trust, so how could they understand the suffering and hardship.

"Bosses come, I can't refuse." Mingxu said, Daiyu just treats him as the emperor and doesn't give him face, but the reason is really a wry smile, Qi Ci's journey has been so smooth, it is inevitable that he acted recklessly, but The empress dowager's sudden stubbornness caught people off guard.

After all, old friends have been together, these years can be regarded as advancing and retreating together through wind and rain, Ming Xu's heart is biased towards the Queen Mother, and to correct the cause of the matter is also a misunderstanding on the part of Qi Ci.

But no matter what, this matter can no longer interfere.

"You seem to be Ershun's age, how old are you? How old am I?" Daiyu sighed: "These years have been through ups and downs, since the crown is counted, it has never stopped , do you want to learn from my father and die in office?"

Mingxu didn't expect Daiyu to say that, and was stunned for a moment: "Yu'er is saying?" Resignation?

"Why?" Daiyu was more surprised than him: "Could it be that you haven't thought about it?"

"It's not too late to think about it now." Ming Xu smiled, and pulled back his angry wife, "Speaking of which, Mi'er and Nuo'er are also stable, and I can do almost the same." It's true that it's not necessary to stay in Chaoshang.

"In the beginning, after you were brought back, that girl went into the palace immediately, and she couldn't be stopped." When she mentioned the child, Daiyu remembered what happened just now.

"It doesn't matter if you go for the first time, the young people don't understand the things of the older generation, but they can talk about it themselves."

Why doesn't Daiyu understand that her daughter is still single after her age, apart from entering the court as a woman and having no mood for love, it is also part of the reason now, but the situation has reached the present, and she is just taking one step at a time. Have an idea.

"The Empress Dowager intended to marry us at the beginning of the year. If you hadn't been worried about this and that, it wouldn't be the current situation." You know, you know, but complaints are inevitable.

"Yu'er, please forgive me. You didn't say one thousand, but eight hundred." Mingxu smiled wryly: "That man is definitely not my first love. If it really happens, he will break my daughter's wings. Kings and ministers are the best."

As for the beginning.It's good now, the Tao in the eyes of others may not be your own, and the right is not the best.

"Yu'er, I remember what I promised you when I was young, and I will go to Lanting Academy to have a look." Mingxu laughed, his eyes were still bright when he mentioned this matter, he was a person who would do it when he thought about it, and now he is resigning from office, but he just said to leave Walk.

"Yes." Daiyu also remembered, and said with a smile, "If you go now, you don't have to pretend to be your younger brother."

"More than that, Yu'er is just like me to be a gentleman."

"Have you thought about it?"

"Think about it, my grandfather returned to Jiangnan in his later years, and so did my father. I'm too late."

"So, let's go back to our hometown together."

When I was young, Yangzhou, the capital city of my youth, the young people traveled around, and now I still have to go back to the original place.It's just that I left alone back then, and since then I have been accompanied by someone hand in hand, this life is enough.