Daiyu's wife in the Red Chamber

Wei Ruolan was startled, and immediately remembered that August 27th was Lin Ruhai's death day.In the story of A Dream of Red Mansions, Daiyu has nothing, and living in the Rongguo Mansion is not what she wants. Not to mention offering sacrifices to her parents, even being clean and filial is an extravagant hope. Now that she has the dignity of the county lord, she can do things conveniently, so naturally she will not forget the anniversary of her deceased father. Taboo.If he remembers correctly, Jia Min's death date should be in mid-September, but he doesn't know the exact date, so don't blame Daiyu for insisting on doing things for her parents for seven to seventy-nine days.

"Little Master Xingxu, please don't worry Miss Lin, I have something important to do, I will go out early and return late that day, and I am not usually in the temple, so I will definitely not hinder Master Baiku from doing things." Wei Ruolan said quickly, afraid of being mistaken Daiyu's big event.

Xingxu blinked, nodded and said, "Young monk, tell female Tanyue now."

Wei Ruolan thought for a while, then suddenly bent down, looked directly at Xingxu, and said, "Little Master, I also have something to bother you to tell Miss Lin: The Royal Autumn Hunting is scheduled for September [-]th and will last for nine days. I will come to inspect Iron Net Mountain half a month in advance, and then there will be martial law everywhere, and no one else will be allowed to enter or leave."

Xingxu said with an unhappy face: "Are there many more male Tan Yue hunting?"

"Yes." Wei Ruolan nodded slightly. Every September, the royal family would come to Iron Net Mountain to hunt.

"Men Tanyue are all bad guys, I hate you guys." Tears rolled in his eyes, and Xingxu complained, "The little rabbit raised by the little monk was playing in the woods and was beaten to death by a group of men riding on big horses. !"

The little monk became more and more sad as he talked, and ran away crying with a cry.

At that time, Daiyu was tired, so she put down the pen she used for copying scriptures, and leaned forward to open the window to support it. As soon as she stretched out her hand, she saw a yellow-bellied, green-backed, red-billed parrot outside the window pecking at the water she had prepared, flying like an arrow. Come, landed on her palm, and rubbed her palm with his head.For some reason, after playing with the birds in the orchard that day, parrot thrushes of various colors flew to look for Daiyu from time to time, and even attracted a few kingfishers with gorgeous feathers to surround her and linger.

Grandma Liu and others said that the eminent monks in the temple were so advanced that the birds and birds were all psychic.

Daiyu stretched out her other hand and tapped the top of the parrot's head, and slowly slid to its back, like holding a rainbow, suddenly heard a burst of crisp and tender cries getting closer and closer, and carefully identified, it was not someone else, but Xingxu .

Xingxu was young, and he was born with delicate features, well-behaved and lovable, with a childish look all over his body, Daiyu loved him very much, and his parents often thought of his younger brother who died young, and they treated Xingxu even better. The sound of crying made her worried, and she hurried out of the room holding the parrot who refused to leave, but she saw that Xingxu was running and crying.

Before Daiyu could speak, Xingxu wiped away tears with one hand, grabbed Daiyu's skirt with the other, and said sadly: "Nv Tanyue, there are many bad people coming again, why didn't the Buddha take them away?"

Daiyu was confused and hurriedly asked for details.

Xingxu sobbed and said what Wei Ruolan told him to tell him, and then continued to think about the dead little rabbit.

Daiyu let the parrot go, comforted him softly, and led him into the house. She ordered her servant girl to bring him water to wash his face and hands, and also ordered her mother-in-law to serve him the fresh chestnut flour cake steamed with sweet-scented osmanthus sugar.Although Xingxu is a monk, the monks must have the six senses to be pure, but one is young, and the other has never entered the world, and has never been born. When he saw cakes to eat, he gradually stopped crying and started to eat slowly.

Dai Yufang turned her head and asked Nanny Liu, "Mommy, what's the matter with hunting in autumn?"

Mother Liu replied: "Every year after the Double Ninth Festival in September, the grass is withered and the beasts are fat and thick. If there is no major event in the court, the current emperor will lead all the princes, princes, civil servants, generals and their children to fight against Iron Net Mountain. Depending on their force, one or two of the best ones will be selected and given a job vacancy, usually for a period of nine days. Because Iron Net Mountain is not short from the capital, and the siege cannot go back and forth every day, so every year there are concubines and court wives accompanying them. Normally, there are many descendants of noble families hunting here. Mr. Wei reminded me that this old slave will send the little eunuch down the mountain to buy what he needs."

Wei Ruolan lived in the temple for a few days, Liu mama ordered the little eunuch to go down the mountain, pretending to run into Wei Ruolan's servant who stayed at the foot of the mountain, to find out his identity, and also know that Lin Ruhai has half a teacher from him point.At that time, Daiyu also thought that the person her father entrusted before his death seemed to be the Mr. Wei Ruolan whom he met by chance, but he didn't tell anyone around him this secret.

She frowned and said: "Since the concubine ordered his wife to accompany us, and we live in the temple, we can't pretend that we don't know."

"What the girl said is very true. The girl is afraid of being filial and does not show up. It is her best to send some old slaves to pay respects to the empress. However, the master's work is in Sheji. Hearing that the girl is offering sacrifices here, the empress will definitely summon her Miss. The old slave has to send someone back to the mansion to get the girl's crown and clothes for the family." Liu Mama blamed herself, "It's all the old slave's fault. In doing things, except for the two sets of clothes you wear when you go out, the luggage is full of linen clothes, but you forgot this important matter, thanks to Mr. Wei reminding you, otherwise how will you meet the empress?"

Daiyu hurriedly said: "How can we blame Mammy? When we went out, no one could have imagined that Qiuwei would be in a month's time, so I sent someone back to the mansion to get it. I copied a lot of scriptures these days and offered them to the Buddha. Take a few good copies back to the mansion, and honor the old ladies and wives." He also ordered the mother-in-law and eunuch who returned to the mansion to bring good news to the sisters for him.

Once back and forth, it was already evening.

Mammy Liu inspected the things she had brought back, and heard the mother-in-law and Daiyu report in detail: "The old lady asked how the girl is here, and asked what to eat and drink. I have followed the girl's order and replied that everything is fine. The old lady said that if the girl was uncomfortable living in the temple, she would send someone back to tell her. The old lady asked the second master Lian to pick up the girl, and said that she should call Baoyu to visit the girl and kneel with her. Uncle went out for a while, and caught cold when he came back, so he had to rest, but I ordered me to bring a lot of fresh Hongling chicken head and other fruits and a big stone blue cloak, saying that it was cold in the mountains in late autumn, so I asked the maids around me to change it for the girl To keep out the cold. The eldest lady also asked about the girl, and ordered me to bring two bolts of silk to make her autumn and winter clothes. Baoyu asked the girl when she would return home, and when she returned home to eat crabs, she said that the sweet-scented osmanthus was blooming well, and she folded it Two sticks, filled with water in a crystal bottle and plugged them in, and ordered me to bring them for the girl to enjoy. The third girl and Bao girl ordered me to say hello to the girl, and the fourth girl ordered me to tell the girl, and bring some more for her when I went back. The scriptures. Miss Zihao, who stayed in the mansion to watch the house, packed the crown clothes and clothes ordered by Madam Liu in person, and said that on the day the girl went out, the palace would give Mid-Autumn Festival gifts, and moon cakes and fruits would be honored to the old lady and the old lady on behalf of the girl. Ladies and gentlemen, I ordered me to bring other things to present to the girl, and said that since the iron net mountain is under martial law, the Double Ninth Festival ceremony cannot be delivered at that time, and I will wait for the girl to go back and see."

When the mother-in-law talked about Jiamu and Mrs. Xing, Daiyu stood up, sat down when she heard Baoyu and Baochai waiting for her sisters, nodded slowly, waved her to go down to rest, and then asked Zijuan to take some fruits Share it with the mother-in-law and the eunuch to comfort them for their hard work.

Mother Liu took Qingtan and Chengbi to tidy up the crown clothes, etc., and picked out the Mid-Autumn Festival gifts in the palace alone. Daiyu looked at the list, but there were four kinds of melons and fruits, four boxes of moon cakes, and two pieces of plain satin. , two bolts of wool green cloth and four purses, after reading it, ask Zijuan to put the crystal bottle with sweet-scented osmanthus on the table, dyeing the room full of fragrance.

In a blink of an eye, on the 27th, the ceremony started, Daiyu knelt down, Wei Ruolan really obeyed the foreword, she searched for places in the mountains and forests to practice martial arts during the day, jumping like a bird, and went back to the mountain temple to rest at night, discussing Zen with Master Baiku.

Within two days, Wei Ruolan discovered that the Imperial Forest Army came to inspect and arrange.

He has practiced superb martial arts. Although the lightness kung fu has not reached the level of stepping on the snow without a trace, he has the ability to hide and disappear under the cover of mountains and forests. He can see the imperial forest soldiers patrolling the mountains every day, but none of the thousands of imperial forest soldiers found him. When patrolling the mountain, he did not forget to send someone to the mountain temple to say that he guarded the mountain gate and did not allow the monks in the temple or the pilgrims from the mountain to enter or leave, and also drove the guards at the foot of the mountain away from Iron Net Mountain. , do not call them near.

Rao is so tightly guarded, Wei Ruolan can still come in and out freely.

He waited for a long time for his uncle's news, so he went down the mountain, left the servant and quietly went back to the capital, and knocked on the door of Chen's house at night.

Chen Qi saw him coming alone, without a servant to follow him, even though he knew his martial arts were strong, he was taken aback, and hurriedly asked: "Every honorable family knows that you go to the temple to kneel sutras. Gui, did anyone see you when you came back?"

Wei Ruolan hurriedly said: "Uncle, don't worry, I was very careful and no one found out."

Chen Qi sighed, and said: "It's not something you can't do when you return to Beijing while kneeling. Even if they know, they can't accuse you. I don't know what crimes our Chen family has done. Your mother died early, and you You are in trouble again, your father treats you not like a father and son, but like an enemy."

Wei Ruolan's heart skipped a beat.

He also had this question, so he had to ask the old general and servant left behind by his grandfather.There is a good sentence in the memory he got: "There is no love without reason in the world, and there is no hate without reason."He is an innocent and childish child, and he has never done harm to the world. His father's dislike for him is too abrupt, so it is necessary to find out clearly.

Pressing her thoughts, Wei Ruolan asked about Qiuwei.

A smile appeared on Chen Qi's face, and he said: "Don't worry, when I was gossiping with the Holy Master today, I mentioned that you have martial arts, which is rare. You can smash a red sandalwood chair with your bare hands. Yue, now in the ruined temple of Iron Net Mountain, you can’t show your skills on the autumn wall. The sage heard this, and was quite curious about your skills, so he immediately told you to go over to the paddock to see how good your kung fu is. I I originally wanted to ask the commander of the Imperial Forest Army to tell you tomorrow, but I didn't expect you to come looking for it impatiently."

Wei Ruolan was overjoyed and said in disbelief, "So easily solved the embarrassment of my nephew?"

"What's so difficult about it?" Chen Qi was quite pleased.There is only such a nephew who is a direct relative who is willing to face difficulties for him, not to mention that it is not a very difficult thing for him to do.

She stayed at her uncle's house for one night, and Wei Ruolan left the city to go back to the temple before dawn the next day.