[Red Chamber] Daiyu's Rebirth Without Regrets

Chapter 7

Seeing Daiyu's silence, Xueyan tried to comfort her: "Miss, don't be upset, just leave this to the master and let the master decide. Those people who play tricks behind their backs are really abominable, but Aunt Liu is not a good person either. Yes, on weekdays, I see her coming to flatter Miss every day, but secretly doing these sneaky things."

Daiyu looked at Xueyan, this girl has always been stupid, she has never said so many words at once, she couldn't help but said: "Why is she so eloquent all of a sudden."

Xueyan followed Daiyu since she was a child, and she didn't hide it at the moment, and said directly: "Miss is too underestimated. As long as Xu Lanling and Hongmei will please and act good, I will not be able to."

Daiyu looked at Xueyan with a smile and said: "You have your advantages, and blue plums and red plums have their characteristics, why bother to learn from parrots."

Xueyan didn't expect her words to be known as a parrot, and immediately said with some anger: "Then Lanling was not taught by Hongmei."

Daiyu heard this, looked at Xueyan, and knew she was telling the truth, so she asked, "Did you teach?"

Xueyan thought that Hongmei wanted to respect her, and what she said just now seemed inappropriate, so she lowered her head and didn't dare to look at Daiyu. Daiyu took her hand and sat down on a stone bench beside her, and asked in a low voice: "How are you?" What did you hear? Just tell me, I won't blame you."

After Xueyan heard this, she told Daiyu exactly what she heard outside the house that day.

It is said that that night, Xueyan was keeping vigil in Daiyu's house, but because she drank more water before going to bed, she woke up more often at night, and because she didn't want to disturb Daiyu, she got up and went outside for convenience, but she didn't want to Passing by the door of Lanling Hongmei's house, she heard a slight voice inside, Xueyan thought that the two would have to get up early tomorrow, and was about to knock on the door to let them go to bed earlier, but heard that Hongmei said: "You Tomorrow, I will give this purse to Miss, and I will say that you made it." Lan Ling replied: "Thank you, sister Hongmei has such a good craftsmanship, why don't you give it to Miss herself." Hongmei said: "We two We entered the mansion together, and I treat you as my own sister. The lady is used to walking around the yard every day after meals, you must remember to prepare hot water in advance, so that the lady can wash her face directly when she comes back. Don't talk too much if you shouldn't say it, and you must not be too eye-catching in front of Xueyan King's mother."

Xueyan heard the voice inside gradually fade away, and then walked away.Xueyan only thought that this was Hongmei's trick to teach Lan Ling how to coax her master, and she didn't think there was anything wrong with it, but she was a little discouraged, and after thinking about it for two days, she said something flattering in front of Daiyu Come.

After two lifetimes, Daiyu knew that the maids in the yard would always want to win favor in front of the master. As the saying goes, when people go to high places, water flows to low places, and the maids think of ways to win favor in front of the master. can understand.It's just that why Hongmei helps Lan Ling, whom she hasn't known for a long time, is probably a big problem.

Not to mention that Aunt Liu was very annoyed by such a big loss, and Aunt Bai over there didn't sleep well for two nights.The already sallow complexion looked even worse, and the woman in the room comforted her: "Auntie, please have a good sleep, that lady doesn't know me, Miss is young, so she must be focusing all her attention on Aunt Liu now. , will not doubt us."

Aunt Bai threw all the sewing baskets on the table on the ground, and said: "It was a good idea, but I spent so much money on finding a young and unrooted embroidery lady to make her talk about it, how could I know?" Why didn't this embroiderer do what she said?"

The mother-in-law knelt down to clean up the sewing basket, poured Aunt Bai a cup of tea after clearing it up, and said, "I'm afraid this matter hasn't been exposed yet, why don't we find out sooner."

Aunt Bai stared at the old woman, stirring the handkerchief in her hand again and again, her plain face turned ferocious, and then returned to plain.Even his voice faded, he walked into the back room and took out a bag of things and handed it to the mother-in-law and said, "Mama Wu knows what to do."

Then Mama Wu carefully stuffed this thing into her sleeve and said: "The embroiderer is still staying in the young lady's yard, and three meals a day are delivered by the kitchen. I know the steward in the kitchen very well. I'll go to the kitchen later and ask her to make an egg custard for my aunt."

Aunt Bai looked at Mama Wu, and said that ever since my brother passed away at the age of three, the maids and mothers-in-law of Lanxiangyuan have gradually begun to be dissatisfied.Aunt Bai is open-minded, so she simply got angry one by one, and now she is the only one who thinks about herself besides the two ugly girls who are sweeping.

Mama Wu went directly to the kitchen, just in time to see Mrs. Cheng scolding the two little girls, who were mopping the floor in disgrace.Seeing someone coming, Mrs. Cheng asked the two of them to go to work.Mrs. Cheng is a servant of the Lin family, and when she saw Wu Ma coming, she said: "The little girl you see is becoming more and more incapable of doing things. Let them wash the dishes and they can be thrown, what a waste of things."

Wu Ma smiled and echoed, "The little girl now is nothing compared to when we were young. At that time, we were so focused on our work that we didn't say a word every day." Burn something.

Mrs. Cheng pulled Mama Wu to sit down, and saw that she was wearing coarse clothes and patched shoes, so she said, "Your Aunt Bai is too careful, you are the only one around her, and you are so reluctant."

Wu Ma smiled and said: "You misunderstood, Aunt Bai has lost her heart since the young master left. Every day she worships Buddha and is a vegetarian, and she herself is also. I just look at it because of her pity." Wu Ma As he spoke, his eyes turned red.

Mrs. Cheng couldn't bear to see her cry, so she quickly comforted her: "Don't be sad, the master is nostalgic, and he will definitely remember Aunt Bai well. Maybe it will be good to have another brother in two years."

When Wu Ma heard this, she stopped her tears and forced a smile. It is impossible for Aunt Bai to raise her again in this life, and only Aunt Bai knows about this.Naturally, this matter cannot be known to others, so he said: "I hope so."

In the past, Mama Wu came to add food for Aunt Bai, thinking that she would do the same today, she said: "It's a coincidence that you came here, today I just bought a basket of eggs, they are all big, Aunt Bai likes egg custard , I'll have someone steam her." Mrs. Cheng asked someone to steam her eggs as she spoke.

Wu Ma hurriedly thanked her, then pointed to several casserole pots that were cooking on the stove and said, "Are these all Miss's?"

Mrs. Cheng pointed to the first one and said: "This is the bone soup that the lady wants to drink, and the rest are from the master's house."

Knowing that the old man is not in good health, Wu Ma thought it might be getting worse, so she asked: "Are they all soups?"

Mrs. Cheng said: "A few days ago, it was said that the doctor prescribed the soup for the master, and the other was the porridge that the young lady insisted on cooking for the master. Every time it boiled until it was mushy."

Wu Ma wanted to take the opportunity to prescribe medicine, but seeing that Mrs. Cheng was only gossiping with her, she was not busy at all and had no chance.

So he simply sat down and chatted with Mrs. Cheng, thinking about hearing that the lady in the mansion has a good appetite a few days ago, and said: "I heard that the lady eats a lot recently, but it's true."

Mrs. Cheng glanced at Mama Wu, and said: "Even you have heard that Miss usually eats medicine as a meal. These days, she eats a lot, and she eats a little of all kinds of vegetables. Today, she specially asked the girl to come over and ask To add food."

Wu Ma clasped her hands together and said, "Amitabha, it's a blessing in our house that the young miss is recovering. I'll tell my aunt that she will be happy when she hears it."

While they were talking, they saw that the food in Daiyu's courtyard was ready.Naturally, the master belongs to the master, and the servants belong to the servants, and they are all put in the food box and sent away.Wu Ma watched and helped to help, Daiyu's meals were placed in the food box alone, and the rest were Wang Mama, Xueyan's and others' meals together in a basket for people from each yard to pick up.

Naturally, there is no need to bother Daiyu's girl with such rough work. The two girls in Daiyu's courtyard and outside the house came just in time.When Mama Wu saw it, she stepped forward to help, but the two girls gave way and let Mama Wu carry the basket on the other side.

Seeing that Wu Ma didn't know her very well, the two girls asked, "Which courtyard are you from? Why don't you see her very often?"

Wu Ma said: "It's just doing odd jobs in the backyard. Are you from the eldest lady's house?"

The two girls looked at each other and said with a smile: "We think about it, but there were snow geese before, and now there are blue plums and red plums. We are just rough girls."

Wu Ma said with a smile: "I think the two elders are upright, and it won't take long for you to be able to catch the young lady's eyes."

The two girls chuckled and said, "You can really talk."

Wu Ma said: "Do you have to deliver everyone's meals one by one?"

"No, it's fine to send it to Xueyan and the others in the past, but there is one more person in these two days." One of the girls said angrily.

Wu Ma pretended to be unintentional and asked: "Who is there?"

The girl felt that there was nothing to hide about this matter, so she said: "It's the Xiu Niang, many people in the house know about it."

Looking at the two girls, Wu Ma said, "I have nothing to do, why don't I send it for you."

When the two girls heard this, they shook their heads like a rattle and said, "No way, no one can enter Miss's yard randomly."

"I've been in the mansion for many years, and now that I'm old, I just want to learn more, so I just walk around outside." Wu Ma said in a low voice.

Seeing Mama Wu like this, one of the girls said, "Since that's the case, then you take this embroiderer's food and send it to her. You follow us in and just say that the kitchen is here to help."

Wu Ma naturally agreed, she followed the two girls into the yard with her head down, and hurried around the house, and went to the servant's room inside. Xueyan's house happened to be the first room on the left side of the veranda, Wu Ma saw The two girls didn't follow, they put down the dishes when people didn't pay attention, took out the things in their sleeves and sprinkled them on the rice.After looking around and seeing no one there, he took the food and put it at the door of Xueyan's house.

Just as she was about to turn around and leave, she saw the door of the house opened suddenly, and two women came out from inside, one of them happened to be Nanny Wang.Seeing this, Mama Wu decided to throw herself into a trap even if she knew about him.

Wang Momo looked at Wu Ma and said, "If I hadn't seen it with my own eyes, I wouldn't have believed it. They are all old people in the house. You can do this kind of thing."

Mama Wu wanted to deny it, so she took two steps back and said, "I'm just here to help deliver the meals."

Wang Momo looked at her and said to the back: "Tie her up soon."

Immediately, two women came up and tied her with a rope, stuffed a rag into her mouth, and escorted her directly to the woodshed.