The Opening of the Red Chamber

Lin Fan was puzzled, and even more curious: "What's going on? Why did it go to your brother?"

The Seventh Prince smiled and said: "A few days ago, it was probably in the teens. I'm not sure how many days it was. This is what one of my followers told me, saying that my brother's subordinates exchanged money in the silver building that day. When I was buying bank notes, I discovered that someone was using this set of monkeys to exchange money for the bank notes. You know, the set of monkeys you made is very cute, provided that you don’t know the curse words behind them.” He was talking , looked up and down Lin Fan with playful eyes, but looked at Lin Fan's curious face, suppressed his thoughts, and continued to explain, "The subordinates think those monkeys are cute and naive. The price of 500 taels of silver was exchanged with the person who came here. Then, it was delivered to my brother. My father had a bad temper a few days ago, so my brother didn’t know what was wrong. , I sent this set of doll ornaments in. Originally, I was thinking of giving my father some adjustments, but the result..."

Hearing this, Lin Fan went on to say: "The question is, how did the curse words get in?"

"I don't know about this." The Seventh Prince took a sip of tea and said leisurely, "Maybe it's because my brother's recent luck is really not very good."

Lin Fan smacked his lips and said dissatisfiedly, "My set of monkeys was made of 120 taels of gold, and it actually cost so much silver."

"Lin girl, you are so generous!"

"I originally thought that my second aunt took such a thing and wanted to put it in the house, but I really didn't expect her to take it out for money."

The Seventh Prince was startled when he heard this, as if he had thought of something, and then he came back to his senses and said: "Your second aunt, doesn't she have a daughter who is a daughter in the palace? I think it should be exchanged for a bank note for her daughter. , the palace costs a lot."

"What I want to ask is, how did you know the words behind the monkey's back?"

"That day, after the subordinate hurriedly replaced the doll set, the person who brought it didn't leave immediately. In the silver building, I chatted with the guys. I just said this by chance. That day, I was also asked to go to the silver building to handle some things. So, the word spread!"

"I really underestimated the power of this gossip!" Lin Fan clicked his tongue and couldn't help sighing.

"Gossip? What gossip?"

"Oh, I'm talking about eight women, why are there so many slanderers? All the words in this mansion have spread outside!" It was completely beyond her expectations. It seems that the lives of the ancient people really lacked the nourishment of gossip. , A little bit of things can spread the sky.

After talking about this field, Lin Fan felt that this coincidence was really too coincidental, which made her speechless.

"Qiye, do you know that my second aunt seems to have some festivals before my mother came out of the court." Lin Fan coughed deliberately, and saw the seventh prince holding a teacup and beckoning her to continue with his eyes, she then continued with a sigh of relief, " After I went to Rongguo Mansion, I was attacked by those who criticized and cursed Huai. So, I am not a person who just sits and waits to be killed, so I fought back."

"Just that?"

"Otherwise? What else can I do to her, she is an elder." Lin Fan snorted and stopped talking.

At this time, the sound of footsteps coming upstairs, talking to the servant and the slight sound of objects colliding came from outside the door.The Seventh Prince glanced at the large copper smoker in front of him, and said to the attendant who had been standing behind him as a wall, "Go get someone to bring some charcoal." The attendant got the order and walked out quickly.

The moment the curtain of the door of the room was lifted, through the corridor upstairs, I happened to see a scene and sky in the yard that was even more hazy than before.

Lin Fan stood up, walked near the curtain of the door, stared at the gloomy scene outside the window, and sighed exaggeratedly: "In such a weather, if you want to fish, catch grain, change granaries, etc., the next spring will be a good day." What?" Lin Fan deliberately breathed out, ignoring the sharp eyes cast by his side as soon as he said that sentence, pretending not to know anything, and complaining to himself, "The land of fish and rice is great!" In the south of the Yangtze River, if you want to catch fish in winter, can you still have a happy Chinese New Year?!"

Really, the emperor doesn't look at the day when it comes to 'fishing'.The matter of the list was released, and her father's Jiangnan was in the core area of ​​Yangzhou, and safety became a big problem again.She was still thinking about what gift to give her beautiful uncle father during the Chinese New Year, and by the way coaxing him to give him a name.Lin Daiyu's nickname is not her Lin Fan's after all, and sometimes it's really inconvenient to do things.But now it seems that how should she tell her beautiful uncle father that there is going to be an earthquake in the Jiangnan officialdom, father, you should do a good job in earthquake resistance and safety issues.

"Girl Lin, what exactly do you want to say?" The Seventh Prince's voice suddenly turned cold, "Such a meandering way of speaking is not suitable for you!"

"Have you bought anything in Jiangnan? I mean..." Lin Fan said here, and immediately turned around and smiled at him, "Or, you..." Have you placed someone in Jiangnan? Hurry up and hide it!

The moment the Seventh Prince heard these words, a ray of light suddenly flashed through his normally deep and dark eyes.Then he narrowed his eyes a little bit, the beautiful eyes were so slightly curved, complemented by the curvature of his lips that seemed to be a smile but not a smile, it was strange.At this moment, Lin Fan seemed to have forgotten his identity as a child, but he was careless, no, with a completely calm demeanor, looking directly at the eyes of the Seventh Prince whose words turned into eyes.

The two looked at each other, neither of them spoke.

In a short time, in the private room of the next room, some busy waiters in the shop came out carrying a large smoker.Lin Fan stretched out his hand to lift the door curtain, tilted his neck and poked his head out.But at the end of the long, smooth wooden corridor, there was a man standing at the door of the private room, with straight eyebrows, handsome features, extraordinary bearing, and full of nobility.Lin Fan was very curious, and was about to step forward to take a closer look, but unexpectedly, the hand that raised the curtain was grabbed by Master Qi who was walking behind, "Little girl, what are you looking at? Come here quickly. Finish what you didn't finish just now, and those who talk halfway will pee their pants when they sleep at night!" As the Seventh Prince was talking, he took advantage of the situation and dragged him back to his seat.

Handsome guy!Before I could see clearly, I was interrupted!I hate people who hinder people from looking at beautiful men!

Lin Fan suddenly felt a little irritable in her heart, so the frizzy virtue that she deliberately restrained broke through the watch in an instant, and suddenly burst into the most straightforward and clear words that were suppressed in her heart, and at the same time the volume was still Inadvertently raised the height: "You just peed your pants! I'm not a child! I said half of what I said, I mean your father is going to go fishing, and started to clean up your brother's subordinates and the people standing in the Jiangnan side. Now you Brother Huang is going to be miserable, if you don't want to be angered by your father, then sleep well for the winter!"

This was a good one, after waiting for all the words to be said, Lin Fan's impulsive energy was gone, and his mind was clear.

"Girl Lin! You are a ghost, are you finally telling the truth?" The Seventh Prince looked at Lin Fan and smiled like a cunning fox. There was no anger at all in that smiling expression, but rather a smirk. , "Why are you not a child? No, you are a villain!"

Lin Fan stared at him, and after choking out a sigh of relief, he said a little unhappily: "I grew up beside my father, and I have been influenced by my ears and eyes, and some things are naturally understood." She said, but the seventh prince listened quietly, He didn't answer.It was the weird look in her eyes that made her flustered, and she said again, "I have a good memory, and I heard something like that from my father before, but I didn't expect it to come so soon." , Lin Fan stopped talking.Because she felt that in the eyes of the Seventh Prince, she saw a look called 'I knew you were pretending, but I didn't want to expose it, I want to see how long you pretended'.Then she thought of the superfluous theory he said just now, so she chose to shut up.

Both fell silent.

At that time, the entourage who went out just now had already returned, and the servant who called to add hot charcoal also came in with hot charcoal and fiddled with it in front of the big smoker.Lin Fan watched the boy's movements, waited for him to finish his work and left, and then said: "Qiye, you brought me to dinner, but you got a few peanuts to go with the wine and put them here, just like that A treat?" Well, if you want to play patience with her, she will play thick-skinned.

"Well, let's go, the yard behind the downstairs has already prepared what you like to eat." Faced with Lin Fan's actions and words, the Seventh Prince didn't bother to entangle himself in one topic.What he wanted to know was now extremely clear.Lin Fan has said everything clearly here again, and today she was asked to admit that she understood the words on her own initiative, which is more rewarding than anything else.

After the Seventh Prince went to the back yard with Lin Fan, the handsome man whom Lin Fan saw just now was in another private room.He sat quietly at the table, staring at the steaming tea in front of him, his mind wandering far away.

This is defined by Lin Fan as a beautiful man who hasn't had time to take a closer look at it, and it happens to be Lao Qi's brother Lao Wu.

When the list incident happened today, the fifth child helped His Royal Highness speak in the hall, but he was angered and scolded severely.After going to court, he wandered to the restaurant owned by the idle prince and uncle to sit and relax, but he never expected that he would meet Lao Qi here, and also meet such a clever and witty little girl.The roar just now was really interesting.I didn't expect to hear a voice that was so rare to see and see the situation so clearly here.

"Lian Chun."

"The slave is here."

"Go and ask, whose family is the little girl who talked to Lao Qi today?"

"Yes."

The sky was full of gloomy clouds outside the house, and at noon, the sky turned dark early.

Lin Fan had lunch with the seventh prince, talked about some trivial things about his life in Rongguo Mansion, and finally told Lao Qi his worries very straightforwardly, telling him not to rush forward to die.By the way, I would like to remind you that his father's fishing net must be very large, and there may be an afterthought, so I quoted some of the history I read in the history book and said it.After the seventh prince heard this, he smiled and stretched out his hand to touch the top of her head, telling her to live in the Rongguo Mansion and stop thinking about it.He also said that as long as he was not busy, he would invite her out to eat delicious food.After that, they sent someone to send Lin Fan back to Rongguo Mansion.

After Lin Fan returned to Rongguo Mansion, it was already around Shen Chuchu (three o'clock in the afternoon).

The weather was still bad. After Lin Fan came back, he planned to send someone to visit Jia Mu's yard.Let someone tell Mother Jia that she has returned safely and there is no need to worry.But after thinking about it in a blink of an eye, I felt that I hadn't been to Jia Mu's place for a few days to show my presence, and it was necessary to show my face, so I came back to rest for a while, changed my clothes, and took the women and maids there.

This time, I really caught up with things.

This matter is really a big one. It turns out that Sister Bao's family is about to arrive in Beijing, and it is already two or three days away.

It turned out that a few days ago, I heard Yunxia say that Mrs. Wang was arranging for someone to clean the small courtyard in the northeast corner.She lives in Yaoquanxuan in the northwest, and when she came here, she was also curious about the Lixiangyuan in the northeast corner, just curious about when Sister Bao would appear.I was still wondering if Sister Bao's family would show up next year, but it just came out like this.