Daiyu's wife in the Red Chamber

Daiyu didn't have time to change her clothes, let alone see Mrs. Zhang. After hearing the announcement, she had to welcome Mrs. Zhang in first.

Before entering the hall, Mrs. Zhang hurriedly said: "Master, where is my poor daughter? Please let us see our mother and daughter. I never thought that there would be such a fate, the court sent her Send it to the county lord's mansion." At this time, there is a need for others, and her daughter's life is in Daiyu's hands, Madam Zhang no longer has the pride of the past.

Daiyu was not a man of madness when she was successful, so she sat down in the hall and ordered someone to call Mrs. Zhang up. It was presumably because Mrs. Zhang's family was there to take care of her on the way. It is clean, and it is hard to hide its stunning appearance.

Zhen Baoyu's temperament is just like Baoyu's, so her grandmother will naturally focus on this instead of choosing a marriage.

When Daiyu saw Zhang Shi for the first time, she carefully looked at his description, appraised her for a while, and found that his appearance and bearing were slightly inferior to her own, her brows and eyes stretched, and she smiled in her heart. .

On the way from Jinling to the capital, Mrs. Zhang had no servants from her natal family to take care of her. Not only did she suffer a lot, but she was also humiliated. When she saw her mother, she couldn't bear the grievance in her heart any longer. Without saluting Daiyu first, she rushed to Mrs. Zhang and cried, "Mother, I just want to never see mother again!"

Mrs. Zhang hugged her and cried loudly, calling her "heart and heart" and "fateful son", without any scruples about her demeanor, tears fell down, soaking the clothes on Zhang's shoulders in a moment, and then He hurriedly untied the cloak on his body and put it on his daughter.

When the Zhang family became an official and a slave, someone from the Ministry of Internal Affairs did not dare to accept the sable fur, and hurriedly said: "My daughter dare not wear this precious thing."

Mrs. Zhang was stunned, crying even harder, and said: "My son, you are so thin, what have you suffered? There are only a handful of bones left in your whole body."

Mrs. Zhang was full of grievances. When she heard her mother's question, she broke down in tears and said, "It's really hard to put it into words. The daughter has suffered all the troubles in the world. The daughter has been in the house for half a year, and finally conceived. After such a change, Xiaoyue became shocking. At that time, she was locked in a servant's room in the backyard with the old lady and sister-in-law. Not to mention hot soup and rice, she didn't even have hot water or a jacket. Knowing how much wind blows, it's hard to survive."

Hearing this suddenly, Mrs. Zhang was heartbroken. She touched her daughter's hand again, and it was really cold. She also felt the bones in her hand, and she couldn't help crying: "Is this so? My son has suffered so much. I hate that I am in Ping'an Prefecture." I don’t know anything, how important is Xiaoyue, a woman’s house? You have suffered and suffered like this.”

Zhang sobbed and said, "It's a blessing for my daughter to survive. A concubine in the second sister-in-law's room was also four or five months old. In panic, she dropped a formed male fetus and disappeared with her. .”

The mother and daughter cried together, and the latter complained countless times.

The maids, servants and women who came with Mrs. Zhang all covered their faces and wept. When Daiyu saw this scene, she remembered that Rijia's family had also been robbed, and her tears rolled down. After half a day, she wiped her tears with a handkerchief and persuaded : "Ma'am, don't cry, it makes me feel sad after crying. It is very rare to be reunited here with mother and daughter."

After hearing this, Madam Zhang gradually stopped her tears, pulled her daughter and said, "This is County Mistress Jingxiao, fortunately County Mistress Jingxiao is here with General Wei on duty, otherwise our mother and daughter would never meet each other. "

Mrs. Zhang had already wiped away her tears, and when she looked up, she suddenly saw Daiyu, graceful and graceful, like a fairy, with a somewhat kind face, and her heart moved.

However, thinking that he would serve her as his master in the future, Mrs. Zhang immediately put away some doubts in her heart, and bowed down humbly.She used to be rich and noble, but now she has become lowly, and Zhang feels even more sad.

Seeing Mrs. Zhang's distressed eyes, Daiyu raised her hand and said, "Excuse me. If you come to me, although I can't resist the decree and exempt you from hard labor, it's still easier than falling into someone else's hands. Shame on you." As he said, he ordered someone to move a foot over to sit with her, turning a deaf ear to Mrs. Zhang's action of stuffing the stove in her arms.

Mrs. Zhang thanked her again and again, Fang Xie signed and sat on the footrest, clasped the stove with both hands tightly, bowed his head and said: "Thank you for the kindness of the county magistrate, seeing my mother today is already a good thing that I wish for without death and without regret."

Mrs. Zhang felt sorry for her daughter the most, and hurriedly said, "I don't know what kind of work the county lord has arranged for my son?"

Daiyu's face showed deep thought. Although she sympathized with Mrs. Zhang's experience, she would not support her. Of course, she would not arrange dirty and tiring work for her. When she was thinking, Mrs. Zhang had already He was so anxious that he got up and said with tears in his eyes, "I've only had this one girl in my life, I beg the county lord to forgive me."

After hearing this, Daiyu sighed: "Life is full of ups and downs. Who doesn't have ups and downs? I can't do anything without looking at the monk's face and the Buddha's face. I was just thinking about what kind of work is easy at home, and I don't know what my wife can do." What kind of work."

Mrs. Zhang hurriedly said: "No matter what kind of work the county lord arranges for her to do, I will buy ten, no, twenty or thirty, even fifty or one hundred people who are proficient in this kind of work for the county lord. Order, at least reduce some of her responsibilities. To tell you the truth, my daughter has been spoiled and spoiled since she was a child, not to mention being ordered by gold slaves, there are always dozens of maids and servants in the house, where did she do the work of servants?" , Mrs. Zhang couldn't help crying again.

Mrs. Zhang also wept below, saying: "Back to the county lord, the servants really don't know how to do other jobs, but the needlework is better, and the color matching is quite elegant. However, no matter how the county lord arranges the servants, the servants will obey."

Hearing this, Daiyu felt amused, and said, "Since this is the case, how about I arrange you to work in the sewing room? It's very cold today, but fortunately there is enough charcoal fire in the sewing room. I heard about it a while ago Many of the cotton-padded clothes of the soldiers in the village were not enough to keep out the cold, and their hands and feet got sores from the cold, and the sewing room was ordered to sew some cotton-padded clothes and shoes for them before the Chinese New Year, but there was a shortage of manpower."

Mrs. Zhang knew the elegant meaning when she heard the string song, and she couldn't wait to say: "The county magistrate doesn't need to worry about this matter, just leave it to me. I will have people make [-] cotton-padded clothes and [-] pairs of shoes and socks before the twelfth lunar month and send them to Ping'an Prefecture University Not only that, but I also ordered people to buy medicine for frostbite and charcoal for heating, and keep them so that the soldiers in the camp can spend the winter in peace, so that General Wei and the county magistrate will not worry about it." Not much, not Few, Ping'an Prefecture Daying has never had a situation of empty pay, so there are [-] soldiers.

Daiyu hurriedly said: "How can I ask Madam to spend money? These things are not a small sum. I can't even afford them myself. I just want to make cotton-padded clothes and shoes to give to the soldiers who are most exposed to the cold."

Zhang shook his hand and said, "No fee, no fee, it's just a matter of a few taels of silver."

Daiyu said with a smile: "In this way, I will thank my wife on behalf of the soldiers in the camp. I will not ask Ling Qianjin to work tomorrow, and I will have an explanation to the servants at home. With such things as my wife, it will solve how many troubles in the camp. Thinking of Madam's virtue, I shouldn't assign another errand to Ling Qianjin. If the servants are dissatisfied with Ling Qianjin not working, I have something to say."

Mrs. Zhang breathed a sigh of relief, and said gratefully: "With the words of the county lord, I feel relieved. The county lord lacks manpower to do the work, so I will send two more servant girls to the county lord, and I just ask the county lord to allow them to be with my daughter. Live together."

It is said that it is to send a maid, but in fact it is to send it to Zhang Shi.

Smart as Daiyu, she naturally understands that she won [-] sets of winter clothes for Zhang's sake. She didn't reject Mrs. Zhang's good intentions. Anyway, she didn't think Zhang could do any work. These two maids served all of Zhang's Madam Zhang's face, Madam Zhang naturally has to think of her own favor, and it will be much cheaper to act on her own.

Thinking of this, she smiled slightly, and said: "Madam's kindness should be unreasonable? I was just saying that there are not enough people in the sewing room. Madam gave me two maids for nothing, which relieved my urgent need."

Mrs. Zhang was worried because she was afraid that Daiyu would refuse, and when she heard her answer, a stone finally fell from her heart.

Daiyu pondered for a while, then smiled and said, "Madam let Ling Qianjin take a rest for the time being and raise her health. How about Madam come and take her home for a reunion in the twelfth lunar month? Can I come back to work after the New Year. "

Mrs. Zhang didn't expect such an unexpected joy. Thinking of her daughter Xiaoyue's poor health, she wished she could take her home at this time, and begged: "The kindness of the county lord shouldn't be so kind, but I just thought of her little one. She was not taken care of at the time of the month, fearing that her life would be damaged, I implore the county lord to be merciful, and allow me to take her home to recuperate and send it back in a few days, and take her back next year."

Daiyu had expected Mrs. Zhang to say this, and thinking of her loving mother, Daiyu had already agreed in her heart, but her face showed hesitation, as if she agreed to take her daughter home, but also seemed to agree. There is a bit of scruples.

Mrs. Zhang felt that this matter could be expected, so she blurted out: "If the county magistrate has any scruples, just say it."

Daiyu smiled and said: "It's nothing, I just want to make Qianjin come to me as an official slave. I will let her go back to her natal home to reunite with Mr. Jiedushi and his wife. The news will spread to the ears of outsiders, or spread to the capital." If you let His Majesty know, you will inevitably think that I am arrogant because I am favored, and I seem to ignore the court regulations and act recklessly."

After hearing this, Mrs. Zhang hurriedly said, "It was the county magistrate who allowed our family to reunite. Why don't I know? Since the county magistrate is worried, how about borrowing the winter clothes as a pretext? When I go home, I will ask someone to take away the soldiers' winter clothes first." Driven out."

Daiyu smiled and agreed, and finally said: "For the winter clothes of those soldiers, I should also agree to Madam's request."

After finishing speaking, he suddenly thought of something again, and said with a smile: "Madam loves her daughter, when Ling Qianjin comes back after some treatment, I'm afraid she will be a different person, and I don't know if I can recognize her."

Mrs. Zhang's heart trembled, and she raised her eyes to see Daiyu calm and breezy, so she had to suppress a thought in her heart.

Bringing her daughter home, Mrs. Zhang hugged her and wept bitterly again. On the one hand, she ordered people to prepare clothes, bedding, dowry, and asked the doctor to check her daughter's pulse. They rushed to make winter clothes, shoes and socks for the soldiers, and at the same time ordered people to buy chilblain ointment and other things, and at the same time ordered people to call the male and female servants who came and went to the capital to inquire.

These servants were terrified of Mrs. Zhang's methods. Fortunately, the woman in charge was Mrs. Zhang's companion, who was a bit respectable. Seeing Mrs. Zhang's inquiry, she told everything like beans in a bamboo tube.

Hearing that Mrs. Wang had fulfilled her request after receiving the salute, but failed to do anything and did not return the money, Mrs. Zhang was furious.

At that time, Mrs. Zhang came out of the shower, wrapped in a sable cloak, listened quietly for a while, and said: "She said that she has arranged all the places, and asked someone to discuss and exonerate us from the crime of selling them. I'm afraid it's a lie. .”

Mrs. Zhang was puzzled, and asked why, Zhang sneered and said: "When we arrived in the capital, we were all locked in a servant's room in the backyard of our house, just like in Jinling, with our wife and third sister who came to Beijing three years ago." I heard from my wife that on the day when the decree was issued, the news from our family was quicker. Before the house was searched, my wife quickly transferred several boxes of jewelry and property to various old homes for future management or use after exoneration. Among them is the Rongguo Mansion. The second wife took it the next day when a few wives sent it over. If we women are released without charge, why not ask for our belongings? The second wife will naturally not expect us to be innocent. "

Mrs. Zhang was startled and angry, she pondered for a moment, and immediately ordered people to say: "Go to the study to find the master, and ask if the information from the capital has been delivered. If it has been delivered, look through it carefully. After all, the Jia family helped the Zhen family when the sentence was pronounced." Are you busy?" Because she was worried about her daughter, she couldn't rest day and night, and because she had a message from her mother-in-law saying that Mrs. Wang had promised to save her daughter, she didn't have the time to check the news.

The confidant maid went there for half a day, then came back and said: "I looked through the messages for several days, and finally found it in the message sent today. No one in the Rongguo Mansion said to absolve the aunt from the crime, but tried her best to promote the sale. But in the end it was a distribution."

Mrs. Zhang was furious, and said with wrathful eyebrows: "Okay, the scheming has actually been used on me."

Mrs. Zhang was puzzled when she heard this, and asked, "What's the difference between a sale and a distribution? Didn't they all become officials and become slaves? Since the second wife sent someone to take care of it, how did she alone facilitate the sale? "

Mrs. Zhang took her hand and said: "My son, you are young and don't understand the power of it. If I guessed correctly, she didn't intend to help my son get rid of the crime from the beginning, but beat my son. When I was sold, I bought my son to prevaricate me." Immediately asked the four women about Mrs. Wang's words and deeds at that time, and sure enough, she only said to keep her daughter safe, not to save her from the crime.

Only then did Mrs. Zhang understand, and cried: "I know that when our family encountered such a thing, many people either fell into trouble, or avoided them. They refused to give charcoal in a timely manner, and I don't blame them. Why bother to accept my mother's things?" , make mother happy for nothing?"

Mrs. Zhang gritted her teeth and said, "This is a couple made in heaven!"

Zhang didn't want her mother to be too angry, so she hurriedly said, "Mother, don't think too much, what's the use of thinking? My daughter has already fallen to this point, and she can't even redeem herself, let alone get rid of the crime? I've been home for half a day, where is my father? Why didn't you see me? "

A trace of resentment flashed in Mrs. Zhang's eyes, she put her arms around Mrs. Zhang and entered the bedroom, and said: "Your father has a lot of official duties and is very busy. When he finishes his work, he will naturally come to see you. In the evening, our family will have a good meal." , the doctor will come in a while, and he will give you a pulse diagnosis, so that you can recuperate, so as not to suffer from illness in the future."

Mrs. Zhang is also a smart person. When she saw her mother like this, she felt cold and said with a wry smile: "Could it be that those brothers said something in front of my father again? That's why my father felt ashamed of me and refused to see me. Everything about me is my mother's fault." worry."

Mrs. Zhang covered her daughter's mouth and said softly: "Don't worry too much, your father is really busy. I never pay attention to those things. I hope you will be fine. If your father really annoys me Well, I have my own way to make him regret it. I know so many things about him, and I have arranged for someone to be in a place where he doesn't know. If he harms me, someone will leak the secret according to my words. Anyway, you are the only one Daughter, you have become such an identity again, unless you are amnesty, it will be extremely difficult to get rid of it, and I am not afraid of anything anymore."

Zhang said with tears: "Mother, don't say that, the daughter also hopes that the mother will be well, the mother is well, and the daughter can rest assured. Seeing that the county master Jingxiao is a benevolent and generous person, although the daughter is now an official slave, I'm not reconciled to it, but if I don't cause trouble in her home, I don't think it will be very hard, it's better than being like a maid at home who was bought by the brothel Chuguan to make troubles."

At one time, someone reported that the best doctor in Ping'an Prefecture had been invited, and three or four doctors were invited. Mrs. Zhang hurriedly wiped away the tears on her face, sent her daughter to the tent, and then ordered several doctors to diagnose the pulse separately. Choose the best way to give your daughter medicine.

When the family had dinner in the evening, Zhang Kuang was furious when he heard that Mrs. Zhang wanted to donate [-] sets of winter clothes.

He put down his chopsticks, and said angrily, "I thought it was to save my daughter when I gave away so much money before. Now, why do you promise [-] sets of winter clothes? Ma'am, don't you know how much [-] sets of winter clothes cost? A set costs at least seven or eight hundred renminbi, and it can be as much as a penny, or a hundred thousand pennies, all of which are piled up into a mountain of copper coins! Not to mention what kind of chilblain ointment you have to give.”

Mrs. Zhang slapped the table and said: "Your son is here, master, don't say these things in front of me. If I don't make such a promise, how can you take your son home? I'm just such a daughter, you don't feel sorry for me! You are reluctant to part with the 10,000+ taels of silver, because you are afraid that if I use the money, there will be less distribution to your son in the future! Tell those things to collect these small thoughts as soon as possible, which annoys me. I don’t know which one is unlucky! Anyway, I My daughter is already like this, there is nothing to be afraid of when I am alone."

Faced with Mrs. Zhang's anger, Zhang Kuang was speechless, and was also afraid that Mrs. Zhang would do something out of hand regardless. When he saw Zhang's face full of tears, he felt a little guilty, and hurriedly added: : "Gui Er, I don't think you spend money, but I think your mother doesn't need to spend the money on making winter clothes."

Mrs. Zhang said angrily: "If you can't speak, don't tell Gui Er, what is the money? When did Gui Er spend the money? You should find a way to get back the things sent to Rongguo Mansion, that is unnecessary money !” As he said, he took his daughter back to the room and slept together at night.

There was a slight rift between Zhang Kuang and Mrs. Zhang, and Daiyu and Wei Ruolan knew nothing about it.

Daiyu confiscated the presents from Mrs. Zhang. Three or five treasures were worth more than ten thousand. She didn't like the people of Zhang's family, and she also felt that these things were hot, so she and Wei Ruolan folded these things into silver and subsidized them. Soldiers in the camp or poor people.

Wei Ruolan said: "Keep it for now until we need it. I didn't expect His Majesty to send the Zhang family's daughter to our house to make you vent your anger. It's rare for the soldiers under his command to get winter clothes, shoes and socks for nothing. I thought about it. Using this incident, how can we find out the evidence that exposed Miao Bai and others."

Daiyu asked: "There is no evidence so far?"

Wei Ruolan sighed: "No, they follow the rules now, and they don't do anything out of the norm. I want to start with the things they robbed in the past, but I don't see them take out those things. Those things seem to have disappeared It seems."

Daiyu also found it tricky, and said: "They are too meticulous in their actions, let me think about what a good way to do. Oh, yes, when the young man escorted Mrs. Zhang over, he brought many letters from the capital, grandma's, I took apart those of my second aunt, Lian’s second sister-in-law, and fourth sister. The second uncle’s and Baoyu’s are there. You can take a look. There are also those of my mother, two uncles, Han Qi, Chen Yejun and others. There are two full boxes of letters, and I don't know how much there is to say."

Wei Ruolan said: "When I heard about today's incident, I immediately sent someone to instigate the sons of the Zhang family. I wonder if I can create a rift between Zhang Dushi and Mrs. Zhang, so that we can take advantage of the opportunity." Said, took the letters and opened them one by one to read carefully.

Daiyu was stunned, and when she learned of his plan, she thought about it carefully and said, "This matter is very promising." Mrs. Zhang and Zhang Kuang have been husband and wife for decades, even if they don't know everything about Zhang Kuang, they should know at least half of it. If the couple really had a rift because of property, Mrs. Zhang's nature would definitely not tolerate Zhang Kuang's plan.

Wei Ruolan smiled and said: "I don't know yet, just wait and see, if not for a while, sooner or later there will be disagreements. Mrs. Zhang only has one daughter, but Dushi Zhang has many children, so naturally she is unwilling to spend all her property on Zhang's body. In the eyes of the world, especially in the eyes of Zhang Dushi, a daughter is far inferior to a son, even a bastard."

Daiyu nodded, feeling very reasonable, and slowly talked about Mrs. Wang's original plan. Those who benefited from the Zhang family were unwilling to take care of it carefully, and she didn't know whether the Zhang family, who knew everything about the capital, knew about it.

Wei Ruolan shook her head and smiled, "It has nothing to do with us, don't worry about it."

Seeing the letter from the first uncle and the second uncle saying that the Taishang Emperor was so sick that he couldn't get up and was often unconscious, which was worse than last month, Wei Ruolan couldn't help thinking, no wonder the Changtai Emperor frequently The action first moved the Zhen family who was favored by the Supreme Emperor. I am afraid that the Supreme Emperor will not be able to stop it because his time is numbered.

After listening to him, Daiyu frowned and said: "I also received a letter from Lian's second sister-in-law saying that the selection was delayed, and we will talk about it after the Supreme Emperor is well. I hear you say it seriously. Could it be that there is no end in sight?" Who dares to marry during the national mourning period?Let alone selection.

Caixuan is the selection of concubines and the wives and concubines of the princes. Today and the princes are all descendants, how can the descendants not be filial.

Wei Ruolan smiled lightly and said: "The selection was not originally intended by His Majesty, especially there are a few families who were specially ordered by the Supreme Emperor to send women to participate in the election. Your Majesty does not care about this. If the Supreme Emperor dies, I am afraid that the selection will be cancelled." The choice is also unknown.”

He had said something inadvertently, but at the end of the month, Emperor Changtai canceled the selection after receiving the news of the national funeral.

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