Nightly Exploration of the Red Mansion (1)

Nightly Exploration of the Red Mansion (I)

“A thousand dollars for a fucking plaything like this?” Jia Wu bristled, turning over and over the piece of ancient jade in his hand.

“Sir, you’re an expert,” the countryman at the stall said enthusiastically, “Look at this color, this workmanship, it’s really a rare item!”

Jia Wu has just graduated from university and hasn’t found a job yet. It’s not easy to find a good job for a Chinese language student, and mom can’t bear to let him leave Beijing. The good thing is that his father can send him money from abroad, although he married another wife outside the country, but he always thought of him as a son. If it wasn’t for mom’s uneasiness, he would have left the country a long time ago.

Jia Wu every day to come to the small market child shopping, usually only look at not buy. But today this piece of jade is really lovely pain, although smaller than a pigeon’s egg, but white and red, meet the sun a light, colorful, like a shell like flash, touch warm and smooth, a little bit of blemish is not.

“Turn it over and see, there’s still writing on it!” The vendor turned the jade over, “It’s still in seal script! Look at the workmanship of the knife.”

Jia Wu, who had learned a bit of seal script, took a closer look at it: “Mo Mo Mo Mo Forget, Xian Shou Heng Chang”. He was struck by the thought, “Isn’t this…” He turned his head and looked at the villager: “Boss, what kind of writing is this?”

“I don’t know this,” the countryman said in a lowered voice: “It’s my village road construction, TieDan they dug out from the cemetery of the Cao family compound, and it’s really an antique!”

“Cao’s compound?” Jia Wu suppressed his excitement: “Well, Jade is not bad, but it’s a pity that it’s a bit small, let’s give you 500 dollars!”

“What’s 500 dollars worth these days! Sir, let’s make a profit, give me 800!”

Jia Wu was about to continue haggling when a hand reached out from the side: “Show me.”

“What’s up, what’s up, what’s up, what’s up, what’s up, what’s up, what’s up, what’s up?” Jia Wu busy put the jade into his pocket, ordered 800 dollars to the countryman.

The countryman counted the money, put it into his satchel, and said mysteriously to Jia Wu: “Sir, I’m not superstitious, but you have to keep your eyes peeled, I heard that the Cao family’s belongings were made by a spiteful ghost, so they can’t be seen in the light of blood.”

In the friend’s house half a day of cattle, and went to Dong Lai Shun eat a full meal of shabu-shabu, Jia Wu returned home, the sky is already dark. He remembered that piece of jade, looked left and right under the lamp, the more he looked, the more he loved it.

“Mo Lost and Mo Forgotten Immortal Longevity Everlasting. That’s right, that’s what the jade of Jia Baoyu in Dream of the Red Chamber says. It seems that the reverse side of his jade also has writing on it, what is it…” Jia Wu turned the jade over in his hand, and sure enough, three small lines of writing, so worn that they were barely visible: “First, to remove evil spirits; second, to heal wrongdoing; and third, to know good fortune and misfortune.”

Jia Wu from mom’s room to the book “Dream of the Red Chamber” took out, have been torn and tattered, I do not know mom read hundreds of times. He flipped to the eighth “than the spirit of the golden warbler slightly exposed intention. Explore the Bao Hairpin Daiyu half with acid “, which reads: Tongling Baoyu front pattern: Mo Lost Mo Forgotten Xian Shou Heng Chang Tongling Baoyu reverse pattern: a removal of evil spirits and two treatment of grievous illnesses and three to know the blessings and misfortunes.

“Oh my god, it’s this piece of jade of mine la, haha! Let’s see what’s so magical about it. No, that’s too much of a coincidence, it must have been copied by a later generation.” Jia Wu suddenly felt a little frustrated: “That’s not much of an ancient jade, it’s 200 years old at most. But it feels so good in my hand.”

Jia Wu gently rubbed his hand over the piece of jade and felt that there seemed to be a piece missing from the edge, and upon closer inspection, no, it was chipped with a small gap and stained with a small black spot of mud.

Jia Wu took a toothpick, trying to pluck off the small mud point. One, two, the black spot can still stained really solid, Jia Wu force a pick, “ga bar” sound, the mud point did not pick, the toothpick broke into two, poked the back of his hand at once.

“Shit!” Jia Wu was busy pulling the toothpick out of the flesh, and a drop of blood dripped onto the piece of jade.

Jia Wu suddenly felt so sleepy that he didn’t take off his clothes and collapsed on the bed and fell asleep.

When I woke up, I felt like my headache was going to crack, why was this pillow so uncomfortable. Jia Wu opened his eyes, he was sleeping in a large red tent and the air was filled with the smell of sandalwood.

“Strange, how did I get here? I didn’t drink yesterday!” Jia Wu felt a tickle in his throat and couldn’t help but cough his staff.

“Master Baoji… Master Baoji is awake?” The tent flung open, and a beautiful girl with big eyes poked her head in: “Aigoo, you’ve been scaring everyone to death for the past few days, blessed be the Buddha!”

Jia Wu was taken aback, looking at the girl in Qing Dynasty attire: “Miss, you, who are you?”

“I’m Haruna, don’t you recognize me?” The girl’s mouth pouted, her eyes rolled back in her head, and she suddenly laughed again: “Okay, then you can continue to play dumb, don’t recognize anyone, and give them a good scare.” She turned around and ran out, shouting, “Mr. Bao Er wakes up!”

Jia Wu of course knew that Ching Wen was a pretty female maid in Dream of the Red Chamber, “Did I run into the

She called me Master Baoji. She called me Master Bao Er, have I become Jia Bao Yu?” The appearance of Jia Baoyu in the TV series Dream of Red Mansions surfaced in front of him. Oh my god! I’ll be disgusting if I turn into that creamy look.

There was a noise of footsteps from outside, and someone called out, “Greetings, ma’am…”

A woman of about fifty years of age, with a head full of gold and jade jewelry, assisted by two maids, rushed in. The woman hugged Jia Wu: “My son, you’ve woken up~~”

Jia Wu smelled a sour and stinky odor, oh my god! This woman hadn’t bathed for a few days. He pushed the woman away with all his might: “You, who are you?”

The woman was shocked: “I’m your mother!”

On the side, a pretty girl with a round face and snow-white skin came up to support the woman: “Auntie, Brother Bao has not yet fully recovered from his illness, and his mind is not yet clear!”

Jia Wu then realized that the woman turned out to be Mrs. Wang. This white-skinned girl calling her aunt must be Xue Baochai. Seeing that girl smiling sweetly towards him, he couldn’t help but feel a stirring in his heart: “Sister Bao?”

Behind her came a voice that seemed familiar: “Yo, you don’t even recognize your mother anymore, but you only recognize your sister?”

Baochai blushed: “Knit your brows, see if I don’t tear your mouth!”

Jia Wu turned his head and a melon faced girl with big eyes was smiling at him. Knitting her brows, that would be Lin Daiyu. Not quite the same as the Lin Daiyu of his own imagination, she seemed much more playful, and those eyes seemed to have a deep, regal attraction, as if he had seen them somewhere before. He said dumbfounded, “Sister Lin… Lin?”

Daiyu nudged at him and he turned his face to see Mrs. Wang looking at him expectantly. Damn! Give up the child to catch the wolf, for the sake of these two beautiful chicks, Jia Wu strained to call out, “Mother.”

Mrs. Wang took a long breath and said to Baochai and Daiyu: “Let’s all go, let him sleep a little longer. Attacker, you accompany me to tell the old lady, so that the old lady can also rest assured.”

A girl in purple came over: “Yes, ma’am.” She tucked Jia Wu in and whispered in his ear : “I’ll be back in a little while, if you want to eat something just let the Haruhi girls order it first.”

The people went out and the room was quiet. “Strange, strange, have I really become Jia Baoyu?” Jia Wu got up and walked to the dressing mirror, took a look, it’s still me, thick eyebrows, big eyes, high nose, not too creamy. But, who shaved my head? Also, he touched behind him, really crying and laughing, a big black oily braid.

He sat down on the edge of the bed as if he had been stabbed by something. Turning over the mattress to see, it was two paper figures with small words written on them and a few pins. He suddenly remembered that this was the part where Aunt Zhao used a demonic spell to trap Jia Baoyu and Wang Xifeng, and then a monk and a Taoist priest broke that demonic spell.

Hearing footsteps outside, Jia Wu hurriedly lay down. The curtain lifted and a very sexy woman came in. The woman’s mouth called out: “Bao Ge’er, Bao Ge’er!” But she looked around with her eyes. Jia Wu pretended to be asleep and squinted his eyes a little.

I saw the woman walk over to his bed, lift up the mattress, and take out the two little paper figures.

Jia Wu sat up and grabbed the woman’s hand: “Aunt Zhao?”

The woman was startled and knelt down with a thud: “Brother Bao, Master Bao, please spare me!”

“Well, who stood you up?”

“It’s Madonna, she says Prince Yong sent her to do it.”

“Prince Yong?” Jia Wu was so strange, what did Dream of the Red Chamber have to do with Yongzheng?

“Yes, it’s the Emperor’s Fourth Argo. The Fourth Argo and the Fourteenth Argo don’t get along, and Brother and the Fourteenth Argo are good friends.”

“Fourteenth Brother?” Jia Wu was even more confused, what is this all about?

“It’s that Argo that the Emperor has crowned King of the Great Generals, he’s going to fight in the Northern Border, the common people call him the King of Northern Silence!”

Jia Wu seems to understand a little, no wonder the Jia family failed, actually involved in the royal family dispute. He snatched the paper figure in Aunt Zhao’s hand: “I’ll spare you this time, in the future, if you hear any news, report it to me, otherwise I’ll give this to the old lady, and you’ll be a dead man.”

Aunt Zhao stood up and gave him a wink: “Brother’s heart is so good, where can we bear to see others set you up, we will definitely give brother a hand in the future.”

Nightly Exploration of the Red Mansion (II)

After mixing for a few days, Jia Wu finally recognized all the characters in the Rongning and Ning houses.

Anyway, he went everywhere with Qingwen, met people who do not know, pretend that the problem again, by Qingwen for him to deal with. Jia mother and his impression is almost the same, a fat old lady, quite happy child. It is that the old lady always love to hold his heart meat a mess of screaming, really a little bit can not stand, if Qingwen let so hold on good.

Jia Wu peeked at Haruhi, always feeling that this chick had an aura of awe-inspiring inviolability, and there were times when he wanted to give her a hug, but then backed off when it came down to it.

Seeing Jia Zheng feel awkward as hell, that “father” word in the throat, but how can not call out. Originally, his real father in the United States, had to vaguely call “yeah”. That Jia Zheng is not as serious as in the TV, always looking at Qingwen colorfully, and when looking at him, he turned into a grim look.

The structure of the Grand View Garden is a bit like the North Sea, but of course on a much smaller scale. Every day to eat is really good, even the name of the name, just not much to play. Then there is a morning and a night have to give Jia mother, Jia political, Mrs. Wang please, strange annoying. That Jia Zheng saw him on the face down, I do not know why, he always felt that Jia Zheng has a kind of hatred for him. Of course he will not be afraid of Jia Zheng, on the contrary, he felt that Jia Zheng that pretense is a few points afraid of him.

The garden was picturesque, but he always felt that there was a secretive atmosphere, as if there were hidden killing opportunities everywhere, and it was far less relaxing than reading the novels of Dream of the Red Chamber.

The Dream of the Red Chamber, Jia Wu has read it many times. Until now, the first 25 times still remember clearly, even Baoyu “sleepwalking through the illusion” of the song can be memorized. But after 25 times, why can’t you remember it at all? What else will happen after that?

“Yo, Brother Bao ah, what are you thinking about?” A sweet and greasy voice came from behind him, and a hand hit his shoulder. Looking back, it was Wang Xifeng.

Jia Wu stood up at a loss for words: “Sister Feng, please sit down.” Phoenix pressed him back into the chair and sat on his lap: “Good brother, have you missed me in the past few days?”

“Master Bao Er, the master is calling you~~” Haruna’s voice rang out from outside.

Phoenix got up from Jia Wu’s lap and twisted his face fiercely: “If you look at any little goblin and forget about me, hey, see if I don’t tear your skin!” She said and walked out of the back door.

Jia Wu walked to the door: “Why did the master call me again?”

“Hee hee, I lied to you.” Qingwen laughed and said, “Otherwise, why would that Phoenix be willing to let you go. Let’s go to Miss Lin’s place to play for a while, okay?”

The two walked through a small bamboo forest, and across the street came a girl dressed in pink, with two large earrings jingling. The girl winked at Jia Wu: “Mr. Bao Er, I have fresh rouge on my mouth, do you want to eat it?”

Haruhi went up to her: “Jinchui-er, you’re in deep trouble, and you’re still so happy?”

Jin Chuan Er smiled and said, “I don’t attract or provoke anyone, what trouble can there be.”

Qingwen said, “You don’t know yet, Master has taken a liking to you and wants to take you as his concubine.”

Jin Chuan Er skimmed her lips: “This is the news of which year, but unfortunately both Mrs. and Aunt Zhao refused to do it, and the master has no clue.”

“It’s different this time, Aunt Zhao is flirting with Master to marry you!”

Jin Chuan’er was dumbfounded: “Is it really so?”

“But no, if you don’t believe me, go ask Caixia, we have to go.” Qingwen pulled Jia Wu towards the Xiaoxiang Pavilion.

“Flowers and flowers are flying all over the sky, red fades and there is pity”, Daiyu looked at the falling flowers outside the window in succession, her eyes filled with tears.

“Miss, Miss!” Zi Juan ran in with gusto. Dai Yu was startled and turned around, “Dead girl, what are you screaming about?”

“I was chatting with Ying’er from Aunt Xue’s house,” Zijuan said while catching her breath, “and Ying’er asked: What is your Master Bao’s first name?”

“Called Baoyu ah, this also do not know!” Daiyu said strangely.

“That’s what I said,” said Zi Juan, “but Ying’er said, “That’s strange, look at Master Lian, Master Zhen, and Young Master Huan’s generation, all of them have single-letter, jade-bordered names. How come Mr. Bao is not in the same line as them?”

“Oh?” Debbie looked up thoughtfully.

“I said: Mr. Bao’s name also has a jade, or two jade!” Zijuan continued: “But Ying’er said: the two characters and the three characters don’t match. People have to be very particular about the ranking of their names, but the Jia family is a great family of poets and writers, so how can you come up with names in such a haphazard way? I had no more to say and said I would ask my girl. Miss, what do you think is going on there?”

“Well,” Daiyu said, “there are some strange things about Master Baoji, such as…” Hearing this, Qingwen poked Jia Wu: “Let’s go in.”

“Master Bao Er is here…” Before Xueyan’s voice dropped outside the door, Qingwen and Jia Wu had already lifted the curtain and entered.

Zijuan laughed and clapped her hands, saying, “It’s true that when you speak of Cao Cao, Cao Cao arrives.”

“What is sister saying about me?” Jia Wu looked at Daiyu with a smirk.

Daiyu blushed: “Bah, talking about your Jia family’s weird name, your brother and sister all have single word names, why did you have to be two words?”

Qingwen’s face changed all of a sudden, Daiyu was startled: “It’s not good to say even if it’s not good.” She said, giving Zijuan a wink. Zijuan said knowingly: “I’ll pour tea for the second master.” She turned around and retreated.

As she watched Zijuan walk out of the room, Ching Wen took a step forward and whispered in Dai Yu’s ear, “Please don’t tell anyone about this, it’s a matter of life and death…”

“Master… Master…” said Assailant, bursting in from outside: “Go now, the Master is calling you!”

Nightly Exploration of the Red Mansion (III)

Looking at the back of the two of them going away, Dai Yu’s heart was surprised and happy. She and Baoyu grew up together, childhood sweethearts, from a young age. Big, gradually understand the love of men and women, Baoyu is the only boy she can touch, a kind of itchy, Marginal feeling, can not help but think of Baoyu every moment.

Although she likes Baoyu, but there are dissatisfied with the place, is his mother-in-law, sticky, greasy, too feminine. Who knows that after this disease, that slimy strength all gone, talk more funny, and when through a YingJingZhi. “Reminiscent of Gongjin year, Xiao Qiao first married, and majestic hair.”

It was Daiyu’s favorite sentence. Now that she had seen her beloved wash away the fat and powder and become majestic as well, her heart couldn’t help but beat chaotically.

Jia Wu walked out of the garden, Xiao Pei Ming was waiting for him: “Second master, the master said that the 14th Aggro wants you to go to his royal residence. Wait here, I’ll get the horses ready.” Pei Ming left.

Jia Wu heard someone talking behind the carved dragon shadow wall, and peeked over his head to see that it was Ping’er and Yuanyang. He stood on his tiptoes and was about to go over to them to scare them, when he heard Ping’er say, “You said the old lady loves Master Bao Er so much, how come the old master can’t see him?”

Hearing them talk about “themselves”, Jia Wu quietly retreated back. He heard Yuanyang say, “There’s a lot to be said for this. The other day, Huan wrote a poem and showed it to the Grand Master and the Second Grand Master. Can you guess what the Grand Master said? He said, “Good boy, you can’t escape from this hereditary career!”

“What?” Ping’er asked in surprise: “The Grand Master’s hereditary should be our Lian Er Master’s!”

“That’s right!” Yuanyang said, “Even if the Grand Master doesn’t like Master Lian, there’s still Master Bao, the Second Master’s eldest son and the wife’s son, so it’s not Huan’s turn. Unless…”

“Unless neither Master Lian Er nor Master Bao Er are of the Jia seed.” Ping’er paraphrased smoothly.

The two of you look at me, I look at you, eating and laughing, mandarin ducks said: “No wonder people say, only two stone lions in the Jiafu is clean. Hee hee!”

The hall of the 14th Aristocrat’s Royal Mansion was simply furnished, not as luxurious as Jia’s mansion. In addition to the bookshelf is the weapon rack. Just hanging in the center of a more than one person long painting, a red armor general, hand holding a sword, running in the snow. Above the inscription: “Want to ride lightly, snow full bow knife.” The font is not smooth, but there is a forceful momentum, a look is out of a martial artist’s hand, probably fourteen Ah Gao wrote himself.

The guards led Jia Wu into the inner study, where Fourteenth Argo was talking about something with a few of his staff.

He and Jia Wu nodded like acquaintances, pointed to a chair and said, “You sit down first, we are discussing the strategy to pacify the Qinghai rebellion.”

Jia Wu sat down and sized up the 14th Arhats, aged between about thirty and forty, with a weathered face, but with eyes that sparkled playfully at times. Somehow, he suddenly developed a feeling of closeness to this great general king.

“His Majesty holds His Majesty in such high regard, His Majesty will surely be able to collect all the credit for this trip. The day of triumph will also be the day when His Holiness makes His Highness the Crown Prince.” A man in a blue tunic said with a smile.

“Yes, it is said that a year ago, the emperor was going to set up our prince. But hate someone to the four A brother out of a trick, told him to take his son to see the emperor every day, the emperor loves grandchildren, there are also people say, not only to look at the son, but also look at the grandchildren, a good grandson can protect the Qing dynasty for three generations, the emperor only then can not make up his mind.” A white beard said.

“So the royal grandson is Hongli from the Fourth Brother’s house?”

“Yes, he is a good-looking man, with a wide knowledge of things and a quick mind. Small name is Baoyu, the fourth brother really take him like a treasure like jade.”

Of course Jia Wu knew Hongli, that was Emperor Qianlong, who had been named Prince Bao, but he didn’t realize that his nickname was also Bao Yu.

“Oh, introduce everyone.” Fourteenth Argo laughed and pointed at Jia Wu: “This is Duke Jia of the Rongguo Mansion, also known as Baoyu.”

People’s gazes all looked toward Jia Wu, and one squinted and said, “I’ve long since read Mr. Jia’s poems, and they are really well-written. He’s so young and handsome, it’s marvelous!”

Fourteenth Argo laughed loudly and said, “Old that, you are who you see who you shoot ah, you can read what his poetry?”

The old man stood up: “Your Highness, you have wronged me this time: ‘The rain outside the cold window on the pillow, the dreamer in the spring color in front of me.’ How about this poem? It’s all over Beijing.”

The white-bearded man also came to join in the fun: “Ah ah, this is a poem by Mr. Jia, I’ve admired it for a long time. Your Majesty, if you have such a son, you can compare Hongli of the Fourth Brother’s family.”

Fourteenth Argo turned his head: “Baoyu ah, then you will succeed me as a son how?”

Jia Wu was furious in his heart, there is no such thing as letting someone give you a son as soon as you meet them. He said, “Thank you for your kindness, but I have to go home and talk to my parents first.”

The room immediately quieted down, probably no one has ever dared to give fourteenth Aggie nails touch to his face.

Fourteenth Argo eyes a glare, through a regal light, but then laughed: “small age, not afraid of power, good!”

Everyone present breathed a sigh of relief. Fourteenth Argo took out a string of coral beads from a drawer and handed it to Jia Wu: “This is for you. We’ll talk more about it when we return from the expedition.”

Nightly Exploration of the Red Mansion (IV)

Looking at Fourteenth Argo’s affectionate gaze, Jia Wu felt a little touched. He suddenly remembered that the history books said that while Fourteenth Argo was on his expedition, Kangxi died and Yongzheng seized the throne. As soon as Fourteenth Argo returned to the capital, he was imprisoned by Yongzheng until Ganlong came to power.

“I can’t bear not to tell him, but how?” Jia Wu hesitated for a moment.

Fourteenth Argo seemed a bit distracted: “How is everyone in your family?”

“Pretty good.”

“How’s your sister?”

“My sister?” It took Jia Wu a moment to realize that it was Concubine Jia who was the Queen: “She’s not bad either.”

Fourteenth Argo pondered for a moment: “Do you have anything to say?”

“Well, when will your army leave the capital?”

“There are still a few months to go, we need to plan for food and provisions first. Before the soldiers and horses move, the food and provisions go first! You can always come to me if you have anything.”

“Okay.” Ja’V let out a long breath, a few months, there was always the chance that he could be reminded of that.

It was already dark when he came back from the Fourteenth Aristocrat’s mansion. Jia Wu hurriedly ate his meal and ran to Xiaoxiang Pavilion.

“Sister, sister, I have something for you.” Jia Wu was holding take strings of coral beads in her hand, smilingly saying to Dai Yu: “Fourteenth Ah Brother just gave it to me.”

Daiyu bristled: “What stinking man’s house has taken, I don’t want it!”

Jia Wu was flabbergasted, and with a twinkle in his eye, he said to Zijuan: “Sister, can you pour me a cup of tea?”

“Of course I can, isn’t it better to come back as slowly as possible?” Violet Cuckoo smiled and walked out.

Jia Wu put the string of beads in the brass basin and washed, and carefully dried one by one, looked at Daiyu and said: “Well, the smell of stinking men are washed down!”

Daiyu looked up, and with a thump, her eyes met Jia Wu’s. She realized that Jia Wu had changed, grown up, and had a wild, flirtatious light in his eyes. She realized that Jia Wu had changed and grown up, and there was a wild, flirtatious light in his eyes. Her heart skipped a beat like a deer’s, and she wanted to turn her head away, but she was sucked in by Jia Wu’s gaze and couldn’t move.

The Marco Polo team was able to get to the front of Daiyu, and gently put the beads around her neck. The two were so close that Daiyu felt Jia Wu’s breath blowing on her face, warm and, she felt as if she was about to faint.

Feeling Daiyu’s hair brushing against his face, an itchy feeling penetrated all the way to Jia Wu’s heart. The beads were on, his hand rested on the back of Daiyu’s shin, her skin was so smooth and delicate. He looked at Daiyu, Daiyu gently lowered her head, a fire like desire turned up from the bottom of his heart.

“Here’s the tea~~” came the voice of the purple cuckoo from outside.

Jia Wu hurriedly took a step back and sat on the chair, pretending to say: “Do you think it’s strange? Prince Yong’s son is also called Baoyu, and it is said that he looks quite similar to me!”

“Hey, hey, he is,” said Zijuan disdainfully, “a wild seed!”

“What?” JaV asked curiously.

“You have not heard of it?” Zijuan said: “Prince Yong Fujin originally born a girl, afraid of the emperor think Prince Yong has no son, can not be the crown prince, and Haining Chen’s son dropped the package.”

“I’ve also heard of this,” Xueyan just walked in: “At that time, the Chen family and our Lin family are very good, the year we gave birth to our girl, Master Lin had to go on a tour, so he entrusted his wife to the Chen family. Our girl was born in the Chen family.”

“Is there really such a thing?” Daiyu asked strangely, “Why don’t I know anything about it?”

“Alas, once Master Lin returned, he quarreled with the Chen family for some reason. There’s been no communication since then. Actually, that Chen family is still quite good.”

“Then that Gege from the Yong Wang Mansion has been living in the Chen family?” Jia Wu asked.

“He was ten years old when he fell ill and died. At the funeral, Prince Yong gave a lot of money!”

Zijuan said: “dead or good. If not Prince Yong heart poisonous and ruthless, the Chen family a day price of fear, for fear of exposing the wind.”

“Yes! The Emperor is saying that Prince Yong is mean and unkind. I heard that he has quite a few martial arts masters under him, called something like Blood Drops.” Xue Yan said.

“What ah,” said Zi Cuckoo with a smile: “that blood drop is a weapon, like a big bucket, to a person’s head a set, the head will fall off.”

Late at night, Jia Wu tossed and turned, unable to sleep. Counted nearly ten days, how is also strange homesickness. Mom must be anxious. If I put another drop of blood on the jade, I don’t know if I can go back. But here is also quite good, there are so many girls with the company, but also to uncover the “Dream of Red Mansions” of the old bottom, which is learning Chinese people dream of things.

He touched his own arm, it seems to have thinned a circle, like when he was in junior high school so thin. Right, Jia Baoyu should be only 15 years old at this time. He touched his chin, the beard is gone, just fine hairs. Haha! Interesting.

“Second Master, Second Master,” came a low voice from outside the tent.

Jia Wu opened the tent to see that it was Haruhi, dressed in a black nightshirt.

“What is it?” Ja’V asked.

“You change into this,” Haruna handed him the other set of night clothes: “Let’s go out and take a look.”

Nightly Exploration of the Red Mansion (V)

Jia Wu put on his night clothes and was excited to be a chivalrous man himself.

He asked Haruna excitedly, “What weapon do I use?”

“A weapon?” Haruna gave a “pfft” and picked up the mallet standing in the corner, “You can use this.”

Jia Wu was a member of the baseball team at school, and he felt quite comfortable with the mallet, sticking it in his back and happily following Qingwen. The two of them walked to the northwest corner of the garden, where there is a flat land, Jiafu’s garbage are dumped there, and then sent by Lin Zhixiao’s family to transport to the countryside.

Haruhi pointed to a large pine tree and pouted at Jia Wu. Jia Wu had been a tree-climber since he was a child, so of course this was no problem for him, and he climbed up the tree with a grin, looking at Haruhi proudly. Haruhi smiled at him and leapt, reaching him in a few bounds.

Jia Wu was so impressed that he was just about to say something when Haruhi covered his mouth with one hand and pointed downward with the other.

The moon was so bright, probably either fifteenth or sixteenth. Two women came from the southeast, Auntie Zhao and Granny Madao. The two of them walked to the edge of the garbage dump and stopped, looking east and west, walking around uneasily.

Three clappers sounded in the distance, it was the third watch. A dark shadow flashed above the wall and landed in the center of the junkyard, a big fat monk with a big pocket on his back and a zen staff in his hand.

“Monk Yuin!” Haruna couldn’t help but softly call out off the top of her head. She waved her hand at Jia Wu and moved herself another six feet upward.

Only to see Aunt Zhao and Madonna trembling as they walked toward Duyin, who droned in a low voice, “Have you found what the King wants?”

“Not yet, I beg Master to forgive for a few more days.” Aunt Zhao said pleadingly.

“Baoyu has gone to Fourteenth Brother’s place again?”

“Yes.”

“What for?”

“It seems like nothing, just a little chat, and the Fourteenth Brother gave him a little plaything.”

“Oh? What’s the game?” Daein seemed interested.

“It’s a string of beads,” Aunt Zhao said fawningly, “Do you want me to steal them for you?”

“Forget the beads,” Yuyin shook his head, “if there’s anything big enough to hide something, just put a pot of flowers outside your window according to the old code, and I’ll come here to find you at night. Also, have you inquired about the whereabouts of Miss Lin’s nanny?”

“There is! Outside of Suzhou, in Tiger Hill, her man runs a small tavern called Plum Grove.”

Yuyin grunted through his nose and turned to Madoka: “What about you?”

“Master, it wasn’t my fault that the paper man wasn’t retrieved.” She pointed at Aunt Zhao: “It was her who was discovered by Baoyu, who took the paper man away.”

“Useless thing!” Yuyin sneered, “What about the paper figure that I made for 14th Brother?”

“No, it’s gone, it’s been stolen.” Madonna said fearfully.

“Heh heh, guaranteeing with your life that you won’t leak out the sprinkler’s spells, is that what you said?” Yuyin put down his pocket and took out a black ball about a foot in diameter from inside.

“Blood droplets!” Haruna’s face suddenly turned white, her lips clenched.

Madam Ma dropped to her knees with a thud: “Master, please forgive me, Master, please forgive me…” Before she could even say the word “life”, Hein had already placed the black ball over her head. There was only a metallic clanging sound, and Madopa slowly fell backwards… her head was gone, but only blood was dripping from her neck.

Aunt Zhao was so scared that she fainted on the spot; Jia Wu was also so scared that he swayed and almost fell from the tree.

Hearing a movement in the tree, Yu Yin yelled, “Who is it!” With a flick of his hand, the blood drops flew towards Jia Wu. Qingwen is too far away, dry anxious not to make strength, only to see Jia Wu instinctively posed as a baseball star, mallet swing, “when” a sound, the black bucket hit the wall outside. Jia Wu was so proud of himself, haha! A home run.

Haruhi was busy flying over and whispered in Jia Wu’s ear, “Don’t move.” Then she jumped down from the tree and walked over to Yu Yin with a big grin: “Eldest Brother, long time no see!”

Hee-yin was stunned: “Are you… Little Sister? Fourth Lady?”

“Hehehe, Eldest Brother has climbed to the high branch of Prince Yong, where would he still recognize me?” Qingwen said coldly.

The original has always been in love with the little sister, but he is a monk, the rules are strict, never dared to show. Now see their longing for the little sister suddenly appeared in front of their own, and fell more beautiful, do not feel surprised and happy, and angry, angry is how to favor their own killing time was seen by the little sister.

“Young Sister, I… I… I… I swear by the heavens that I have never forgotten or forgotten you for a moment.” Dewin was so excited that he began to stammer.

“Really?” Qingwen smiled sweetly at Yuyin: “Tell me how you’re doing at Prince Yong’s place, and save people from worrying about you all the time.”

“Haha, of course my family is doing well, once Prince Yong ascends to the throne, my family will be the State Master.”

“Master Kokushi.” Haruna gave a Hail Mary to Dain.

The cause of the happy mouth and not on: “Little sister, we are still polite what ah, I became a master of the country, you also have to enjoy endless glory and wealth.”

“That’s great, but…” said Ching-ming thoughtfully, “I heard that the Emperor wants to install the Fourteenth Brother!”

“That’s why your senior brother and I were able to get credit for it!” Yuyin said proudly, “Now Beijing is all Prince Yong’s people. If the emperor died at the time of the fourteenth brother’s expedition, and the emperor did not have a secret edict, then the Yong Prince will not be determined to be the emperor?”

“Then how do you know that the Emperor didn’t give a secret edict to the 14th Arhats?” Haruna asked.

“It’s just that I’m afraid that there’s a secret edict left behind, so all those who have interacted closely with 14th Aggie are being watched, including Jia Baoyu of the Rongguo Mansion.” Yuyin said.

Three mournful owl hoots came from outside the wall. “Junior Sister, the king has something to do, I have to go, if you need anything, come to the Yong King’s Mansion to find me.” After saying that, Yuyin pocketed the corpse of Madonna, his Zen staff was a little on the ground, and he flew and leaped out of the wall.

Nightly Exploration of the Red Mansion (VI)

Watching Yuyin leave, Haruna waved to Jia Wu, who slid down the tree with a giggle and said admiringly, “Sister Haruna, you’re still a warrior woman!”

Haruhi smiled and said: “It’s a long story, I’ll tell you about it later.” Her big, dark eyes twinkled: “You hit that bat pretty well, too! It scared me to death.”

Looking at Haruhi’s concerned look, Jia Wu couldn’t help but take her hand and felt the back of her hand go cold. “Let me warm it up for you!” Jia Wu put Qingwen’s hand into her own clothes and pressed it against her heart. Feeling Jia Wu’s heartbeat, Qingwen’s face reddened as she slowly raised her head, her long eyelashes slowly lifting. The moon was reflected in her eyes, and the clear light like water shimmered in spots.

After staring at each other speechlessly for a long time, Jia Wu cupped Haruna’s head and slowly moved his lips over, Haruna shivered and closed her eyes.

Aunt Zhao, who was lying on the ground, suddenly grunted, startling them. Qingwen poked her tongue out at Jia Wu: “Let’s go back quickly, tomorrow you have to go to the palace with your wife to see the Queen!”

The next morning, Jia Wu came to greet Mrs. Wang. Mrs. Wang was half lying on the kang, and said impatiently, “I’m not feeling well today, so go on your own! When you see Your Highness, say good morning to the whole family.”

Jia Wu promised and retreated out, seeing Jin Chuan Er standing to the side and fuming, she came over: “Good sister, give me the rouge on your mouth!”

Jin Chuan’er’s eyes reddened: “What time is it, but still mixing!”

“What, does the master still want to take you as a concubine?”

“Well,” Jin Chuan Er nodded: “The night before last, Master and Mistress quarreled all night, Master scolded Mistress for being a jealous woman, and Aunt Zhao also helped on the side. Mistress was so scolded that she had no words, and when they left, she scolded me one after another.”

“Don’t be afraid,” Jia Wu took Jin Chuan’s hand: “Or, I’ll talk to the old lady and betroth you to me.”

Mrs. Wang has been in the doorway eavesdropping, at this time can not help but jealousy, kicked the door open, pointing at Jin Chuan Er cursed: “Dirty little whore, good men have been abetted by you bad, first seduced the master, and then to seduce the young master!” She said, pulling down the hairpin on her head and stabbing Jin Shui-er in the face.

Jia Wu stepped forward and grabbed Mrs. Wang’s wrist: “Mother, if you want to hit me, just hit me, it’s none of Jin Chuan’er’s business.”

Mrs. Wang ate a shock, viciously glared at Jia five, suddenly sat down on the ground, bawling: “My God ah, I can still how to live ah, there is a heartless husband, there is an ungrateful son, all by the dog days of the little prostitutes seduced by the bad, I do not want to live ah ~ ~”

Caixia hurriedly went over to help Mrs. Wang, and made a wink to Pei Ming. Pei Ming went up and pulled Jia Wu: “Second master, it’s getting late, you should go to the palace.”

Jia Wu was raised in Beijing, of course, has been to the Forbidden City quite a few times. 200 years ago, the palace seems to be the difference with the Forbidden City is not too big, just inside the empty, almost can not see what people, there is a kind of eerie atmosphere.

Jia Fei lives in the northwest corner of the Palace of Changchun Palace, she is about thirty years old, people full of beautiful, a little like Demi. Moore, just a little fat, Jia five think Jia Fei than Mrs. Wang to be more lovely and lovely.

Jia Fei asked a few questions about her family, then asked Jia Wu to stand beside her. Jia Fei stood up and compared herself to Jia Wu: “You’ve grown much taller.” When she finished speaking, tears streamed down her face. She hugged Jia Wu into her arms, almost sobbing uncontrollably.

Jia Wu was at a loss as to what to do, when an old eunuch knelt down: “Your Highness, please take care of yourself, brother’s son is already an adult, male and female are not related, it’s not in keeping with the royal decency.”

Jia Fei heard the anger: “Qin Liu’er, you are my family’s lackey, here you have the right to speak? Baoyu was brought up by me since I was a child, and I am more like a mother than an elder sister, so why can’t I hug her? Come on, drag him down and beat him with forty sticks!”

The two eunuchs dragged Qin Liuer out, and Qin Liu gave Jia Wu a vicious look. Jia Wu’s heart flinched, he knew that this kind of scheming villain was the hardest to offend.

“Banzai arrives~~” came a loud roar from outside.

Oh, it’s Emperor Kang Xi coming. Jia Wu looks at Concubine Jia, who wipes a handful of tears from her eyes and pulls Jia Wu to kneel down outside the door.

“Chun Er ah, quickly get up, quickly get up!” Kang Xi said smilingly, “This is your brother, right? Lift up your head for me to see.”

Jia Wu raised his head and thought that Kang Xi looked and sounded like an old man on the streets of Xuanwumen. That old man is also full of pockmarks, he does not play chess, but especially love to give others moves, every time you go to the subway station, you can hear him in the roadside chess stalls there chatter: “Arch pawn ah, arch pawn ah, hey, I told you, arch pawns.”

Kangxi looked at Jia Wu: “Strange, Chun’er, how come this brother of yours looks exactly like Hongli of the Lao Si family?”

Jia Fei’s face flushed: “See what you’re saying, my brother doesn’t have that kind of fortune.”

“Tsk, tsk, like very, like very!” Kangxi surveyed Jia Wu with great interest: “I don’t know if the learning is like it or not, I’ll test you, okay?”

Jia Wu smiled faintly : “Please ask the question.”

Kang Xi thought for a moment: “Last night, I couldn’t sleep and got up to look at the moon. When I walked under the peach tree, a gust of wind blew and the petals fell all over me like rain. I wanted to make a poem in seven-character stanzas under the title of “Rain of Flowers”, how about you do it for me now?”

The little palace maid laid out the paper, and Jia Fei personally inked it. Jia Wu pondered for a while, put up his pen and wrote: “A piece of flowing clouds and a piece of heart”.

“Well, good, it starts naturally. Your characters are also very skillful!” Kang Xi said.

Jia Wu heart secretly laugh, if not when mom forced to practice brushstrokes, today can be present eye. He went on to write: “The night is deep for no reason”.

“Good, to compose a poem you have to start and finish, start well and finish well, see how you spin it.”

Jia Wu went on to write: “The east wind does not relieve the hatred of lovesickness”.

“Good, that’s a good turn. But…” said Kangxi contemplatively, “three lines in, and you haven’t even gotten to the topic of ‘Flower Rain’ yet. The last sentence must synthesize the above three sentences and also tie in the title, which requires a great deal of skill.”

Jia Wu thought for a moment and waved his brush: “Flowering rain and hitting people indiscriminately”.

Kang Xi stared blankly at Jia Wu, a few tears falling from his eyes. Jia Fei hurriedly held Kang Xi: “Your Majesty, Your Majesty!”

Kang Xi took a long breath: “Alas ~ ~ I just remembered last night when I was enjoying the moon under the peach blossoms with the Empress, things were different, life and death. The petals fell on the body, hit the heart, hit the mind disturbed. The flowers and rain are hitting people in a chaotic manner. Brother is really a great talent, Hongli is just compact.”

“Speaking of chaos, what do you think of the rebellions in Qinghai and Huijiang?” Kangxi turned to Jia Wu.

“The people will not rebel if they can live a good life. Rebellions are forced by corrupt officials. Instead of adding water to the pot, there should be no firewood under the stove. GI repression is treating the symptoms but not the root cause.” Jia Wu said.

“Alas, I’m getting old, and in the future, I can only rely on Old Fourteen to straighten out the officials. Chun’er, you should tell your brother to get closer to Old Fourteen.” Kang Xi said.

Concubine Jia laughed: “Fourteenth Aggro can like Baoyu, and also want to accept him as his godson!”

“Nonsense, nonsense!” Kangxi laughed: “your brother according to the generation should be his uncle, how can be a son?”

“What ah!” Jia Fei said petulantly: “Then my wife’s master and Taizong to fight the world, I still count your niece in terms of generation!”

“Well well, you hand over your own, I do not care.” Kangxi smiled and said : “I heard that brother was born with a piece of jade, show me ah?”

Jia Wu took off his own jade and handed it to Kang Xi. Kang Xi looked at it again and again: “Mo Mo Lost Mo Forget, Xian Shou Heng Chang, seems like I’ve seen it somewhere before!”

Jia Fei’s face flashed with an uneasy look : “You’ve seen a lot of babies, of course they all look a bit alike. By the way, you’re about to take your medicine again, right?”

Kang Xi took out his gold pocket watch and looked at it: “Yes, I should go back. Tell your brother to come and chat with me often.”

Sending Kang Xi away, Concubine Jia attached herself to Jia Wu’s ear and said nervously, “Brother, in the future, that piece of jade must never be shown to anyone else.”

Nightly Exploration of the Red Mansion (VII)

After a month or so, Jia Wu had fully gotten into the role and felt that he had really become Jia Baoyu. From now on, we’ll just refer to him as Jia Baoyu as well.

Bao Yu was lying in bed taking a nap when he heard Qingwen and Assailant chatting outside.

“I heard that our Mother is sick again.” Haruna said.

“Alas, the Mother is also strangely pitiful.” Assailant said.

“Pitiful?” Haruhi smiled cheekily, “Eating fragrant food, drinking spicy food not to mention, under one person, above ten thousand people, still pitiful?”

“You have only been here a short time, do not know,” said the attacker: “heard of our old aunt, is the old lady’s aunt.”

“Of course I’ve heard of it, wasn’t it the old aunt who breastfed the present Emperor?”

“That’s her. The Emperor remembers the old days and always invites her to the palace for a chat. Old Auntie’s favorite was our eldest girl, the current Empress, and always brought her along to the palace. The eldest girl was still small at the time, and when she entered the palace, she ran around everywhere, and ended up playing with Fourteenth Argo.”

“Oh, it’s still a childhood friend, what happened afterward?” Haruna asked.

Attacker sighed: “The two grew up, more and more good, I heard that they are engaged to be married. That year, fourteenth brother went out to war, said he would come back to marry our big girl. Who knows let the Prince of Yong know. That year, the Prince of Yong in charge of the selection of the showgirls, the eldest girl was selected into the palace.”

“Why is he so bad!” Haruna said indignantly.

“Alas, wait for fourteenth a brother to come back, the big girl has long become the emperor’s people. Fourteenth Argo was furious, lost his mind all day long, and talked back to the Emperor, and was scolded severely by the Emperor several times.”

Hearing this, Baoyu realized, no wonder the fourteenth Argo is so good to him. It seems that 14th Argo is going to be unlucky when he goes to war, last time he lost his wife, this time he is going to lose his throne. How can we convince him not to go to war?

After a nap, Baoyu came to Xiaoxiang Hall to find Daiyu. Walked to the window, feel a wisp of fragrance from the blue window through the dark. Baoyu then put his face on the window, looking in, ears suddenly heard a long, thin sigh, said: “‘Every day home love sleep faint.'” When I looked again, I saw Daiyu stretching on the bed. Baoyu said with a smile outside the window: “sleepy thoughts day by day.” On the one hand, he said, lifted the curtain and came in.

Daiyu was startled, her face has been red to the root of her neck, lowered her head and did not say anything. Baoyu sat down beside her, singing softly: “You ask how deep I love you, I love you a few, you think again, you look again, the moon proves my heart ~ ~” Daiyu’s face even more red, Baoyu continued to sing: “gently a kiss ~ ~” to Daiyu’s face over. The face to come over.

Daiyu pushed him away with force and called out, “Zijuan, come and pour the tea!”

“Coming, coming,” Zi Cuckoo smiled as she came in with a set of purple sand pottery tea set, “Second Master’s voice is really good!”

Baoyu’s face also reddened, and he said sardonically, “Sister Zijuan, when you came home that day, did you hear any fresh stories?”

“There is no story, but, saw two scholar quarrel.” Purple azalea said: “readers, the quarrel of WenZouZou, I don’t understand, one scolded the other eye not recognize JinXiangYu, this JinXiangYu is what is the plaything?”

Baoyu looked at Daiyu: “Sister, you’re knowledgeable about things past and present, tell me.”

Daiyu smiled: “This you can not test me. That is when Bianhe under the Jing Mountain, see the phoenix perched on the stone, the stone was offered to the king of Chu, plowed open, there is a piece of jade. Later, Qin Shi Huang got that piece of jade, told Li Si to write eight words on it: ‘Ordered by heaven, both life and prosperity’, carved into a jade seal, also known as the Jade Seal of Transmission. It was also called the Jade Seal of State. Whoever got it was the emperor. Later, when Wang Mang usurped the Han Dynasty, the Empress Dowager hit him with the Jade Seal and broke a corner of it, which was later put on with gold. That’s why this Jade Seal of State is also called Gold Xiangyu.”

“Sister powerful ah,” Baoyu looked at Daiyu a smile, and turned to Zijuan: “have eyes not recognize Jin Xiangyu, that is to say that people do not have eyesight price, have eyes not recognize Taishan.”

“Then is this piece of jade the same Heshi Jade that was returned intact?” Zijuan asked.

“As if,” said Ja’V.

“Heshi Jade, Heshi Jade, haha, I know, it’s that jade of Master Bao Er.” Xue Yan, who had just come in, interjected.

“Oh, what are you making up?” Baoyu couldn’t help but laugh.

“Isn’t that so, they say that when the second master was born, the wife dreamed of a monk and a Taoist priest coming to deliver jade, monk, Taoist priest, jade, and He Shi Jade.” Xueyan argued.

“What ah, that monk also said gold and jade marriage, does it mean that Bao Er Master’s jade to Xiang on a piece of gold should become the seal of the state?” After Zijuan finished speaking, she remembered that the marriage of gold and jade was Daiyu’s taboo and spat out her tongue, peeking at Daiyu.

Dai Yu was flabbergasted, unable to imagine that a golden jade marriage could be interpreted in this way.

“Haha, interesting, interesting,” Xue Yan laughed aloud, “Let’s find some gold for Master Bao Er, turn his jade into a jade seal, and he’ll be the emperor.”

“Nonsense, our family has more gold, how come the second master hasn’t become the emperor yet?” Zijuan also laughed.

“This gold is not that gold, this gold is…” thought Xue Yan, unable to continue.

“What this gold and that gold, how dare you talk about the Emperor!”

Shi Xiangyun burst in with a lift of the curtain.

“Big Miss Shi, we are talking about gold, what does it have to do with the Emperor?” Xue Yan said.

“Stupid girl, the Emperor’s surname is Aisin Gioro, which means gold in Chinese!” Xiang Yun said teasingly.

“Haha, I understand it all,” Xueyan clapped his hands and said: “Golden Jade Marriage is to say that the second master of Bao will marry the daughter of the emperor, and will be able to become the emperor.”

Dai Yu was shocked in her heart, a Xue Baochai is bad enough, if there really is another daughter of the emperor, wouldn’t it be a mess. And it’s not impossible, it’s been said that Emperor Kangxi is going to pass on the throne to the 14th A-Go, and the 14th A-Go likes Baoyu so much. Thinking of this, she couldn’t help but raise her head to look at Bao Yu.

Bao Yu was also pondering. Xue Yan seemed to be making it all up, but it seemed to make some sense.

The Dream of the Red Chamber said at the beginning that this piece of jade by itself is used to mend the sky. To mend the sky should mean to make up for the world, could it be that he really had some dispute with the royal family?

Nightly Exploration of the Red Mansion (VIII)

Baoyu look at Daiyu, Daiyu in a daze as if thinking about something. Sister Lin seems to have lost weight again, Baoyu a burst of heartache, walked over and asked with concern: “sister want to eat tonight?”

Daiyu shook her head : “Don’t want to eat anything.”

“The girl has not eaten much for several days,” said Zijuan sadly: “Master Bao Er, you persuade the younger sister ah.”

Bao Yu thought for a moment, “Sister, will I cook for you tonight?”

Daiyu laughed: “Yo, you can still cook?”

“Of course, as long as my sister is willing to eat.”

“Good, good,” Xiang Yun clapped her hands and laughed, “as long as you make it Sister Lin will eat it,” she leaned her head on Dai Yu’s shoulder, “right, Sister Lin?”

Daiyu scratched Xiangyun’s nose: “Greedy girl, it’s you who wants to eat it.” And towards the treasure jade smiled and said: “However, you also have to do a little more delicious.”

“Of course it’s delicious,” Baoyu raised his head triumphantly, “Sister Zijuan, go find Sister Qingwen and bring me the jar of barbecue sauce I made. Sister Xueyan, you go to the kitchen and get an iron grate, a bundle of bamboo sticks, and three pounds of lean meat. Sister Lin, Sister Yun, the three of us will go gather firewood.”

Daiyu flattened her mouth toward Baoyu: “You still think of Liu Lou Lou that lady who smokes firewood under the snow ah.”

Baoyu playfully said: “Oops, should let Xueyan ask for another bottle of vinegar.” In Daiyu’s ear: “Good for you to drink.”

Daiyu gave Baoyu a hard whack on the back. The three of them walked out of the house cheekily.

Baoyu borrowed three small axes and three ropes from the wife who looked after the garden. He tied one of the ropes around his waist and thrust the small axes upwards. Daiyu and Xiangyun followed his example and loaded up. The three of them looked at each other and couldn’t help but laugh. Daiyu said: “A woodcutting eunuch, two woodcutting grannies.” When she said this, she realized that she had made a slip of the tongue, and her face turned red again.

There were many big trees on the northeast corner of the Grand View Garden. Baoyu and Xiangyun climbed up the trees to cut dead branches, while Daiyu bundled firewood below. Xiangyun climbed up and down the trees like a monkey, giggling: “Second brother, this firewood cutting is really fun.” Daiyu watched enviously from below: “Brother Bao, I’ll go up and play too, okay?”

Bao Yu jumped down and picked up Dai Yu with both hands and placed her on a tree branch. Daiyu climbed up a few steps, look at the bottom, heart beating hard: “Brother Bao, I’m dizzy, so scared.” Xiangyun laughed loudly from above: “Sister Lin, you are so timid!” Started to shake hard.

The tree swayed vigorously, and Daiyu was terrified, clinging to the trunk: “Brother Bao, brother Bao, come and save me!”

Baoyu smiled and walked underneath Daiyu: “Sister Lin, you jump down.”

Daiyu looked at Baoyu, then at Xiangyun, who was even more pleased with herself, jumping hard on it. The tree shook even more. Bao Yu opened his arms and looked at Dai Yu encouragingly, Dai Yu closed her eyes and jumped down, landing right in Bao Yu’s arms.

Warm jade embraced in the arms, Baoyu could not help but kiss Daiyu on the face. Daiyu was instantly frozen, Baoyu didn’t know what to do, and Xiangyun on the tree was also frozen.

The three of them fumed for a while, Daiyu was red-faced and pushed Baoyu away: “Still not quick enough to go and cut firewood.”

There were a lot of dead branches in the forest, and in no time at all, a large pile was cut. Baoyu divided the firewood into three parts and tied them with a rope. One small bundle was given to Daiyu, and two large bundles were given to himself and Xiangyun. The three of them carried the firewood back with great joy.

The maids watched them return with three large bundles of firewood, and couldn’t help but laugh their heads off. “Miss has also become a long laborer today,” Zi Juan hurriedly took Dai Yu’s bundle of firewood and quietly whispered in her ear: “What’s good, your face is so red.” Daiyu was embarrassed and twisted Zijuan’s shoulder.

Xiaohong came over holding a large jar: “Second Master, is this it? Sister Qingwen is not at home.” Baoyu opened the lid and took a whiff: “Well, not bad, this is it.”

Baoyu commanded the maids to move everything to an open space under the corner, cut the meat into small pieces an inch square, and put it in a basin to soak it in barbecue sauce. Baoyu picked up a few bricks, set up an iron grate, picked a few thin branches and put them underneath, lit a fire, kneeling on the ground and blowing. As the fire gradually built up, Baoyu put on a few larger firewood sticks. Xiangyun watched with amusement, and also knelt down to blow the fire with him.

The fire burns more and more hot, jumping in the fire, firewood branch “ snap  snap” sound. Baoyu stood up, like the general’s accent on the stage: “It’s getting late, our army will settle down here and have a meal ~ ~” Daiyu sneered: “You’re a stupid general, here are two sides of the wall. If you set up camp here, when the enemy comes, you will have nowhere to run.”

Bao Yu threaded the soaked meat into skewers with bamboo skewers, put them on the iron grate and grilled them, and sprinkled them with a bit of pepper and peppercorns. The meat skewers began to rattle silkily. Xiangyun bored at the edge of the watch, suddenly remembered: “I heard a children’s song yesterday in the street, say to you listen,” “real fake fake not strange, yellow robe mouth with jade, really more trouble, fake to sit in the country.”

“Jade in your mouth, as if you’re talking about our Master Bao Er.” Zijuan said with a smile.

“Haha, the second master has jade and the surname Jia, yes.” Xiao Hong said.

“Hee hee, I’ve said it before, the second master may not become the emperor that day.” Xue Yan also came over to interject.

“Mixed up talk, mixed up talk,” Zijuan interrupted her: “By the way, let me guess a word for you, with jade in your mouth.”

“I know,” said Pao-yu: “It’s a character for ‘country’, a big mouth with a character for jade inside.”

“Make up, make up,” Daiyu smiled cheekily: “Where is that word, the country inside the word is clearly a word or, not jade.”

“That’s simplified Chinese.” Bao Yu blurted out, but then he suddenly remembered, where in the Qing Dynasty were there any simplified characters?

“Sister Lin, folk popular many vulgar characters!” Xiang Yun said: “My house accountant is so write this national character, our master said he is a big vulgar man, white character Mr..”

Daiyu made a face at Baoyu, “Then you’re awesome, born with a country, which country’s king?”

Baoyu’s heart was again shocked, how can this piece of jade always be associated with the royal family?

An aroma wafted out, and Baoyu turned the meat skewer over, and after a moment, picked it up again to look at it.

Xiang Yun looks at him blearily: “Second brother, is it okay?” Bao Yu took a bite, “Uh, yes.”

Xiang Yun let out a cheer, grabbed four or five skewers, and took a big bite: “Tsk, tsk, it’s really delicious.” Then she said to the maids, “Come and try some too.” The maidens giggled and roared up, each picking up a skewer and chewing on it.

Bao Yu handed Dai Yu the meat skewer in his hand: “Sister, try it.” Daiyu took it, carefully picked off the blackened part with her fingernails, and took a small bite: “Well, brother Bao, it’s very good, when did you learn it?” Baoyu smiled, and said in his heart, “I learned it from the lamb kebab seller in Xidan after 200 years.

In the blink of an eye, a big row of meat skewers was eaten up. Xiang Yun wiped her mouth and begged, “Second brother, I still want to eat.”

Baoyu looked at the wretched image of her face covered in black dust and oil, and couldn’t help but laugh: “Alright, you can go to the kitchen again and order some meat. By the way, why don’t you call sister Bao to come too, so we can all have a good meal.”

Nightly Exploration of the Red Mansion (IX)

Not long after, Xiang Yun led Bao Hairpin laughing and joking over, followed by three or four maids, picking, carrying. Baoyu past a look, brought a jar of wine, two baskets of dried fruits, three large boxes of snacks and small dishes, a large piece of raw leg of lamb, a roll of carpet, and a gutted suckling pig.

“Ouch, Sister Bao, it’s a rehearsal for your wedding party, right?” Daiyu asked with a smile.

“Bah your knitted brows,” Baochai put down the bottle of spices in her hand: “get cheap and still selling good, tomorrow is not your birthday, let’s play a good game.”

“Sister Bao,” said Bao Yu with a frown, “I can’t do this suckling pig.”

“I’ll do it,” said Bao-chai with a smile, “it’s still the one that General Nian gave to my brother, and I brought it.”

“Great General Nian? Is that the Nian Jiao Yao?” Dai Yu asked.

“It’s not who he is. My brother spent money like running water when he went to Jiangnan to pick up military supplies for him.” Baochai said.

“I heard that the Great General was powerful that year, killing people without blinking an eye, and everyone was afraid to see him. But it was quite good at fighting.” Zijuan interjected.

“What a shit general,” Xiang Yun said indignantly: “cut off his own sister for the future, a little bit of human flavor is not.”

“Huh, what’s wrong with him? Tell me.” Baoyu said curiously.

“Alas ~~” Xiang Yun sighed, “Miss Nian, that is, Nian Juan Yao’s sister, originally came to my house all the time, although a few years older than me, but we can be good. Miss Nian is pretty and has good literary skills, so she couldn’t stand any man until she met Fourteenth Brother at my house that time.”

“Fourteenth Brother? Is that the Argo who was originally good with our eldest girl?” Zi Juan asked.

“Yes,” Xiang Yun then said: “that fourteenth brother since the big sister into the palace, ten years, no matter what woman, even look at not with look, who knows on the side of the year like the girl. The two are very good, the fourteenth brother also said to ask the emperor to give them the main wedding it!”

“And what happened after that?” Debbie asked, coming over interested as well.

“Later, needless to say, Miss Nian told his brother. That Nian Jieyao at that time was with the Prince of Yong hot, told the Prince of Yong. I heard that at that time, the emperor again wanted to establish fourteenth a brother as the crown prince, Prince Yong is worried about it. His master Wu gave him an idea.”

Xiangyun took the tea handed over by the azalea, a drink: “said fourteenth ah is a man of nature, if in the love affair is lost, will certainly do ridiculous things, a ridiculous, the emperor will not set up him as the crown prince. So they set up a poisonous plan, told Prince Yong overnight to marry the girl as a concubine. After the girl was tricked into the Yong Wang Fu, crying to death. Fourteen a brother heard the next day, immediately angry, immediately sent troops to surround the Yong Wang House to rob people. Prince Yong had prepared, immediately reported the emperor, the emperor was furious, personally brought people to Yong Wangfu, scolded fourteen a brother, but also almost killed him.”

“Yes, I’ve also heard Master tell this part,” said Zijuan: “In a fit of rage, the Emperor said that he would never again establish a Crown Prince.”

“Do not talk about state affairs, do not talk about state affairs,” Baochai spread the carpet, put snacks fruit small dishes: “We sit down to drink.”

Baoyu told the little girls to cut up the meat, marinate it, put it on skewers and grill it, and then rattled the fire and added a few more pieces of firewood, and also came over to sit next to Daiyu and drink together.

The sky was getting dark and the moon was rising. Xiang Yun said: “Let’s tell ghost stories, okay?” Daiyu said: “No, no!” But the little girls shouted.

Baochai put Daiyu in his arms: “knitting children do not be afraid, there I am,” and to Xiangyun said: “Well, you tell it.”

Xiang Yun cleared her throat: “Once upon a time there was a scholar who went to catch the examination, missed the inn and stayed in a broken temple at night. He didn’t know that outside the temple was a cemetery. At night, he came out to relieve himself, only to hear what sounded like someone crying in the distance. He took a few steps forward, and then there was a sudden gust of wind, and dark clouds covered the moon at once. He became frightened and was just about to retreat when he heard a…”

The crowd held their breath to listen to the story, and it seemed that a cry really came from the distance, and then the moon slowly got darker, and a gust of wind rose violently over the pool water, scraping the hairs of the people. Daiyu was so frightened that she leaned close to Baoyu.

Xiang Yun lowered her voice: “He heard…” and then violently raised her voice an octave and shouted: “Who is it!”

Xueyan screamed in fear with an “ah”. Everyone looked over to Xiang Yun’s side, and under the moonlight, there seemed to be a shadow moving around.

After a while, Xiang Yun laughed and said proudly, “I’m teasing you!”

When everyone took a long breath, Xiangyun spoke mysteriously, “The scholar heard a clattering in the grass, and slowly a pale face appeared, with bright red blood flowing out of two green eyes…”

Speaking here only to hear a sizzling sound in the grove, Zi Cuckoo shouted: “Miss Yun, there are two eyes behind you!”

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Xiang Yun smiled cheekily, thinking that Zi Juan was scaring her, but looking at everyone looking nervously behind her, and seeing Dai Yu’s face as white as paper in fear, grabbing Baoyu’s skeleton shoulders and shaking uncontrollably. Xiang Yun heart a hair, turn around and look, mama, more than three feet away, two flashing green eyes!

Pao-yu held the fire tongs in his hands as the girls ducked into the corner behind him.

The two green eyes moved out of the bushes, the floating clouds over, the moon gradually bright. Only then did Baoyu see clearly that it was a large python, a golden-scaled python that was more than two feet long and a bucket thick.

The python raised its head a man’s height and spat out a foot-long, bright red letter, making a silky sound as its writhing scales glistened.

The girls let out a squeal. Pao-yue made a gesture to quiet them all, and he added a handful of firewood to the fire, which fluttered and jumped high. He calmly raked the burning firewood into a line across between them and the python again. The python’s head bobbed back and forth, but every time it approached the line it was forced back by the flames. Once, twice, three times, a shrill flute sounded in the distance and the python grew restless.

Under the moonlight, Baoyu’s face was pale, but his eyes emitted a regal light, and the fire tongs in his hands swayed with the snake’s head as he added wood to the fire from time to time. The palms of his hands were wet and sweaty. What to do? Really let Sister Lin said right, blocked by the big snake in the corner of the wall, there is no place to run. What about jumping over the wall? It’s hard for me to climb such a high wall, and these girls definitely can’t climb it. Should we call out for help? This is the most remote corner of the garden, it is difficult for anyone to hear, and shouting will be even more troublesome if it stimulates the snake’s wild nature and rushes through the line of fire without any consideration.

The girls fell silent. Baoyu looked back and Daiyu gave him a trusting smile. Baoyu smiled bitterly, the girls all saw him as a life-saving hero. He looked at the big snake again, the bloodshot snake’s eyes glittered with greed. I’ve heard that among snakes there is also a kind of beautiful snake, whose eyes can mesmerize people into sleep… Baoyu suddenly felt a wave of drowsiness, and he shook his head vigorously to wake himself up.

There was a roar in the distance and the flute stopped. There was a faint sound of fighting.

The fire began to small down, firewood is about to burn out, had to go out to fight a little. Baoyu raised his head, looked at the moon, and for some reason remembered Du Fu’s poem: “The moon hangs in the middle of the sky, which makes the night quiet and chatty, and the sad reed is moving, and the brave men are not proud of themselves.”

“A strong man is not proud,” said Po Yuk, feeling a great sense of pride in his heart. He moved his shoulders, wiped the sweat from his hands on his pants, walked over to Daiyu, leaned over her ear, and said, “I’ll rush out to lure the snakes away from you, then you take everyone and run…” Daiyu pulled him tightly to her, her eyes glistening with tears, “No, I want to go with you! “

“It’s too dangerous, Second Master, it’s better for me to go, I’m a maid anyway.” Zijuan stood over and said quietly, “As long as you can don’t forget me and treat our young lady well.”

Baoyu looked at Zijuan’s mournful look, couldn’t help but have a sore nose and tears welling up in his eyes. Zijuan lifted her feet and left, Baoyu pulled her back: “No, you can’t go!”

Zijuan was pulled by Baoyu and stumbled, tripping right over the suckling pig and almost falling.

Baoyu’s eyes lit up: “Sister Zijuan, you peel open that pig’s belly.” Said the fire poker and picked up large pieces of charcoal to fill the pig’s belly. After filling it up, the pig’s belly was tied up with a rope.

Bao Yu lifted up the suckling pig, looked at the eyes full of fierce snake, turned in a circle, “Hey” a roar, like throwing discus, the suckling pig like a big snake thrown over.

The snake was taken aback, backed up a few steps, sniffed at the suckling pig, took a bite, and swallowed it inch by inch. The eye saw the snake’s neck protrude into a bag and go down a little bit.

The fire was getting weaker and weaker, and the big snake crawled over again, looking at them viciously.

Suddenly, the snake twisted uneasily… and then again… and it opened its bloody mouth, gasping for air and spraying foul-smelling mucus everywhere. The snake became more and more frantic as it twisted and twisted, and its tail flapped desperately, snapping several of the small trees around it.

Gradually, the big snake’s writhing slowed down, and they saw a slit open in the middle of the snake’s belly, a curl of smoke rising, and a burning stench permeating the air.

“Second brother, how true!” Xiang Yun excitedly forgot to hug Baoyu. Before she finished speaking, she saw the snake jumping up more than two feet in the air, viciously pouncing at Daiyu. Baoyu pushed Xiangyun away and used all his strength to hit the snake’s head with the fire poker in his hand.

The snake’s head was knocked askew by Baoyu and fell onto the stone bench beside Daiyu, slapping it to pieces. The snake’s tail flicked from side to side a few more times, finally not moving.

Baoyu sat down on the ground with his buttocks, his body was soft, he had no strength at all, a kind of feeling that he was going to get rid of himself. He closed his eyes, but the heart quickly turned a few thoughts: such a big python only tropical forests, deep mountains and swamps, the actual birth of dragons and snakes, how will run to Beijing? Is the flute player manipulating the python? And who are the people fighting outside?

Baoyu opened his eyes and looked around at the girls who were looking at him with concern, smiled tiredly and said, “Don’t spread the word about today’s events, especially don’t let the old lady, the master, and the three wives know about it, or else this garden won’t be livable. Zijuan sister, you go tomorrow to find a few people to bury this snake.”

Nightly Exploration of the Red Mansion (XI)

Baoyu returned to Yihongyuan, lying on the bed to rest for a while, quietly called Qingwen over, and told her what had just happened in its entirety. Qingwen thought for a moment: “You take me to see.”

Baoyu, carrying his handable mallet, led Qingwen to the scene. The lawn was rolled to pieces, and the python was lying straight in the middle of it, staring at people with two dead eyes. Qingwen spat out her tongue, “Second Master, you’re really something, actually killing such a big snake.”

The two of them followed the traces of the python crawling through until they found the wall. “That snake must have been thrown over the wall, let’s go out and take a look.” Qingwen said as she took out the Ruyi Hook from her Hundred Treasure Pouch, flung it at the wall, and jumped up as soon as she pulled the rope herself. Baoyu also followed and pulled the rope and climbed up.

Going over the wall, he saw a wagon tethered under a big tree, and inside the wagon there was a big iron cage, which was fishy and smelly. “This is the cage for the snakes, isn’t it?” Baoyu said.

Haruna waved her hand to him: “Hush ～～～～”The wheat field behind the car was a trail of struggle, and a big man in black clothes was lying in a pool of blood.

Haruhi looked around and listened carefully before walking over gently. She used one of her hands to turn the black-clothed man over, but the man did not react at all, and seemed to have been dead for a long time. Qingwen leaned down and took a closer look by the moonlight, and couldn’t help but shout out: “Old Snake Mangyang!”

“Why, do you know him?” Baoyu asked curiously.

“He’s a bandit leader who has monopolized the underworld for over a decade. His martial arts skills are quite impressive, especially the golden scaled python he raised and tamed, with the human and python working together, he is almost unbeatable. It seems that it was also the will of God that he enlarged the python to harm you guys, and he himself fell alone and was also killed.”

“What enmity does Old Snake Mangyang have with us?” Baoyu asked curiously.

“It’s sent by someone, isn’t it, let’s go explore.” Qingwen unhooked the carriage from the tree, jumped on herself, kicked down the iron cage, and smiled at Baoyu: “You come up too.”

“Where to? Sister Haruna?” Baoyu jumped into the car.

“We’ll go wherever it takes us,” said Haruna, leaning comfortably on the back of the cart: “The horse is spiritual and recognizes its home.”

The carriage crossed a few streets and turned into a small hutong and stopped.

“Liu Hai Hutong, who lives here?” Chanting under her breath, Qingwen and Baoyu climbed over the wall and climbed to a large acacia tree in the hall courtyard.

In the flower garden, a big white fat man and a small thin man with a beard were drinking. The white fat man said, “Master Wu, it’s been so long, why hasn’t that old snake Mangyang come back yet, won’t something happen?”

The small thin man said, “Uncle Long, it won’t happen, he is so skillful in martial arts and has a big python, he still can’t deal with a few girls?”

Long Guoyu, that would be Long Keduo, Baoyu thought, what’s wrong with him and us?

Long Keduo sighed: “kill the little girl is really sinful ah, you are sure it is her?”

“That’s right,” said Master Wu, “I’ve found out all about it. That year, Lin Ruhai was sent to inspect the river, but his wife was in labor and could not go with him. Mrs. Lin and Haining Chen Shi’s wife is very good friends, just Mrs. Chen is about to give birth, Mrs. Lin lived in the Chen family. At that time our Prince of Yong Fujin is also about to give birth to a child, Fujin delayed very much, for fear of not giving birth to a son to their own will lose favor.”

“Alas, Fujin is also pitiful,” said Long Kodo.

“Hey!” Master Wu sneered: “Fujin really gave birth to a girl, so she sent someone to the Chen family to ask if the birth was a boy or a girl. Master Chen was about to send his butler to the back to see if he had given birth, just to Mrs. Lin’s midwife ran in, a mouthful of congratulations to the master, gave birth to a boy. At that time, the people sent by Fujin said that Fujin wanted to see the little boy. The Chen family did not dare not give, let the people carry the boy away. Who knew that when it was returned at night, it had turned into a girl.”

“Then won’t the Lin family be furious?”

“That’s right, Mrs. Lin made a big fuss in the Chen Mansion, but she couldn’t afford to mess with Prince Yong. She had to eat a dumb loss. Since then, the Lin and Chen families are no longer friends. Mrs. Lin missed her son and cried day and night, and died within a few years. Master Lin gave the girl a name called Daiyu, Dai, generation also, is the meaning of replacement, was dropped. Later, Master Lin sent her to live at her grandmother’s house as well, not his own child, out of sight out of mind.”

Hearing this, Baoyu ate a shock, Lin sister was Yongzheng’s daughter. No wonder the “Dream of the Red Chamber” said “fake do real time is also fake”, grass and wood people of Lin sister is the real golden branch of jade leaves!

“In that case, that Daiyu is Prince Yong’s own daughter, then you still dare to kill her?” Long Keduo asked strangely.

“But if this matter is revealed, with the Han people instead of the king’s grandson, Prince Yong will have the crime of deceiving the king. Besides, the reason why Prince Yong still has a ray of hope now is because the Emperor likes Hongli, if he gives to know that Hongli is a fake king’s grandson, hehehe! If you know that Hongli is a fake grandson, hey, you can keep your head on the good side.” Master Wu said fiercely: “The great man, can not have a woman’s benevolence ah!”

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Hearing this, Baoyu realized that the original master Wu was to kill for Yongzheng.

Now Sister Lin was in danger. He looked at Haruna, who was frowning and seemed to be thinking about something.

Suddenly heard below someone called: “Yong Wangfei to ~ ~”. Baoyu fixed eyes to see, a green tweed sedan chair carried into the courtyard, behind the sedan chair stood a young white warrior, forehead is so big, Baoyu can not help but think of the children’s song: “Ben Er head of the melon eyes, eat pick big bowl, give him a small bowl he does not want to give him a big bowl of his shyness.

Long Keduo and Master Wu hurriedly stood up: “See you, Your Highness~~”

“Strike that, strike that.” Sedan chair door lifted, out of a thirty-something years old lady, head full of jade, looks really a few like Lin Mei. Just see her big prick to the hall a sit, waved his hand, let carry the sedan chair back down, and then to this Long Keduo sneer: “State uncle adults, you actually bully to my head to come!”

Long Keto hastily knelt down: “Your Highness is mistaken, how could I dare…”

“Cha Ying, tell us about this evening.” Princess Yong interrupted him and turned to the big runt-headed warrior.

“Yes, Auntie.” Cha Ying took a step forward: “This evening I went out to walk my horse, and when I walked to the back of the Rongguo Mansion, I heard someone playing a flute on the wall. I called out to him what he was doing. That person jumped down from the wall and pounced on me, his mouth also shouted: what little thing, also dare to come to my old snake Mangyang matter. I was also shocked, I heard that the old snake martial arts is very powerful, people and python, almost unbeatable. I fought with him for more than a hundred rounds, that python actually did not appear, I settled down, and finally used a move of the dragon battle in the field, ruthlessly printed a palm on his chest. That old snake cried out and spat out blood from his mouth, seeing that he couldn’t make it.

I went up and forced him to ask before he said that Long Keduo had sent him to kill Lin Daiyu, and after that he died of gas.”

“I was taken aback by what I heard, and hurriedly climbed up to the wall to look, and found that the python had already been killed, and it seemed that that Jia Baoyu also really had two hands.”

“Stop,” the Princess of Yong stopped Cha Ying: “Uncle Long, let’s not speak in the dark, you have long known that Lin Daiyu is my daughter, right, hehehe! Also still dare to lay this poisonous hand.”

“No, Your Highness, I really don’t know.” Long Keduo was trembling with fear: “I only just heard it from Master Wu. God in heaven, if I had known, even if it cost me my life, I wouldn’t have dared to hurt Daiyu gege.”

“Daiyu Gege?” Bao Yu almost laughed, the name was so funny.

“So, it was your idea?” Princess Yong coldly turned to Master Wu, a murderous look appearing on her face.

“The Princess is very clear,” Master Wu kneeled down in no hurry: “The big river has water, the small river is full, the big river has no water, the small river is dry. The old emperor is weak and sickly, the throne is a first-class matter. If the fourteenth brother when the emperor, you also know, he and the Prince of Yong for Jia Fei and years of Fei two when the child thing, hatred as deep as the sea, I’m afraid that the Yong Wangfu House of the House up and down to suffer.”

“Oh?” A look of anxiety appeared on Princess Yong’s face.

“The 14th brother will be leading the army, this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.” Master Wu spoke eloquently: “Our prince has already set up a wonderful plan, the old emperor is old, it is likely that in the absence of the fourteenth brother, the throne will be passed on to our prince. Just before the fourteenth brother left the capital, must not make any mistakes. Not afraid of ten thousand, just afraid of the unexpected.” He lowered his voice: “But there are already people down there who are already rumoring about Hongli and Daiyu Gege.”

“What?” Princess Yong shivered: “Our Prince knows about it too?”

“Of course not,” said Master Wu curtly, “we are all for you to hide the king which. We had no choice but to send old Snake Mangyang to the Jia Mansion to save the car.”

The princess of Yong pondered for a while: “I can’t give up my daughter. You want to kill to silence, kill who, kill as many as you can, but do not move my daughter.” Said here, her eyes showed fierce light: “Long Keduo!”

“In, in.” Long Keduo replied in a loud voice.

“I leave Daiyu in your hands, if anything happens to her, I will kill your whole family!” Princess Yong stood up, dusted off her sleeves, and said to Cha Ying, “Let’s go!”

Bao Yu then let out a long breath, it seemed that Sister Lin would not be in any danger. He looked down below, only to see Master Wu looking at Consort Yong’s faraway back with a sinister heave. Baoyu couldn’t help but delay again.

Nightly Exploration of the Red Mansion (XIII)

Jia Wu tossed and turned in bed, unable to sleep. In the early summer of Beijing, the weather suddenly became hot and muggy, and there may be a thunderstorm tonight. He always felt like there was a big invisible net that was spreading towards him. On the surface of the soup of songs and dances of the Jiafu, in fact, it is a killing machine in all directions.

He let out a long sigh, really missing his carefree days in the year 2000.

However, it wasn’t as if he wanted to go back to the year 2000. Jiafu has so many beautiful girls with him, this kind of luck can be too hard to find. Especially Sister Lin, in front of his eyes, Dai Yu’s smile that seemed to be sorrowful and joyful appeared in front of his eyes, and her finger was pointing at his forehead: “You, you.”

And then there’s Harumi, with her big, playful eyes that seem to speak. Harumi and Lin look so much alike, as if they were sisters. Which one I like more, I can’t tell myself.

Of course, if it were Jia Baoyu, he wouldn’t have this kind of hesitation, because Qingwen was just a maid, at most a concubine. But Jia Wu, who came from the year 2000, did not have any idea of family and rank at all, and he always felt that Qingwen had a special demeanor that mesmerized him. Moreover, there seemed to be some kind of special understanding between Qingwen and his character, Baoyu, and he would have to ask himself later what secrets she and Baoyu were keeping.

His eyelids heaved, and the shadows of both Haruhi and Daiyu loomed in front of his eyes, both so lovely. Gradually, the two shadows synthesized into one, and he fell asleep.

Suddenly heard someone crying softly in the ear. Jia Wu opened his eyes, through the hazy moonlight to see, is the attacker. He asked strangely, “What’s wrong with you?”

Assailant cried even harder, sobbing: “Ever since you recovered from your illness, you have been unresponsive to me. I know I’m a maid and not very pretty, so you’ve been playing with me for years and you’re tired of it, but…”

Jia Wu most can not see the girl’s tears, busy assault in the arms: “do not cry, do not cry,” he just remembered, assault is the first and Baoyu had sexual relations with the woman, he suddenly seemed to feel a sense of self-loathing, since he has now become a Jia Baoyu, is not even his debt of adultery also want to take over?

Assailant took off her clothes, got under Jia Wu’s covers, and clung to Jia Wu’s body, kissing him obliviously. Jia Wu felt that her body was on fire, and this fire gradually burned into his body, a hot stream from the assailant’s tongue to his mouth, igniting his chest, his belly, a kind of wild demand surged up from the bottom of his heart, and in front of his eyes, the assailant seemed to have turned into Daiyu, into Chingwen, and he rolled up to press the assailant underneath his body, and madly pounded away.

After the storm, Jia Wu felt so tired. Attacker put her head on his chest, eating and laughing, said: “You know, I would like to die in your arms like this.” Jia Wu said in a daze: “What dead ah living ah, how unlucky.”

Attacker sighed: “I always feel that Jiafu is about to be in big trouble. There are so many strange things going on, and so many people are dying in mysterious ways. You masters are kept in the dark, but we as slaves know everything. Take the East House’s Jing Daoliang for example, it is said that he died from eating the golden elixir, but in fact he was killed.”

“Jia Jing, really?” Jia Wu asked curiously.

“That’s not true,” said Assailant, lowering her voice, “Jiao Da told me. He went to dress Master Jing in his birthday suit, and found a three-inch wide bloody gash on his front and back chest, as if he had been pierced through the heart with a sword.”

“There is such a thing?” All of a sudden Ja’V’s sleepiness was gone.

“There are other things,” said the attacker continued: “Take the East House of the small Rong Grandma said it, also died for no apparent reason.”

“Qin Keqing!” Jia Wu couldn’t help but call out.

“That’s her,” said the attacker: “said she died of disease, but her maid Ruizhu said she saw her body neck has a red mark was strangled, also said she died the night she heard a man talking in her room. Ruizhu told me that she died the next day, saying that she committed suicide. I knew that Ruizhu would never commit suicide.

It must have been silenced.”

Jia Wu rolled his body over a bit: “Is it that suspenseful?”

“What’s more,” said Assailant, raising her head and resting it on Jia Wu’s shoulder, “that Bao Er’s family, the woman who messed around with Master Lian Er and caused Grandma Lian Er to beat up even Ping’er, said she hanged herself. She slept with everyone. Her skin was thicker than the city walls. How could she commit suicide? Someone saw her, she was strangled alive.”

Jia Wu sucked in a breath of cold air: “So many people died?”

“When the Queen let you and the sisters together to live in this Grand View Garden,” attacker sighed: “We all think that the Queen is so confused, which does not bring you into a sissy white boy? Later you show me the note that the Queen wrote to you.”

“The note, what note?” JaV asked.

“is that you hide in the bottom of the cabinet that,” said the attacker: “that wrote if you want to be no trouble, greedy wine and sex do not read. I think the mother even more strange, people educate the children to abstain from alcohol and sex, study hard is ah. She this when sister, how to teach you to learn bad ah. As a result, first you got that strange disease, like a demon like, and then came that python. Alas, every day I’m on tenterhooks, not knowing what’s going to happen,” she said as she pushed herself into Jia Wu’s arms, “Only in your arms, only in your arms do I feel safe… only in your arms do I feel safe… only in your arms do I feel safe… Only in your arms do I feel safe…” she murmured, and gradually fell asleep.

Jia Wu heart seems to understand some, the original red chamber dream Baoyu good sex, masturbation, all day price in the girls pile of mixing, and do not love to read, do not talk about politics, are in the pretense, in the avoidance of disaster. But he has not been out of the house of the son of a boy, will be able to make a deep hatred with whom?

Nightly Exploration of the Red Mansion (XIV)

Jia Wu had just eaten breakfast when the little girl Hui’er hurried in: “Second Master Bao, Master Xue sent someone to say that Miss Bao is asking you to go!”

“Yeah.” Jia Wu put on his clothes in a flurry of excitement and left. Hui’er chased after him and shouted, “Master Xue also said that Miss Bao is in Li Xiang Yuan!”

Li Xiang Yuan was quiet, Jia Wu made a gesture toward Ying’er telling her to keep quiet, and tiptoed into the study himself.

Xue Baochai is writing something on a booklet, saw Jia Wu came in, blushed, panicked and closed the booklet, said with a smile: “Bao brother, which gust of wind blew you here?”

Jia Wu smelled the faint aroma of Baochai’s body, and his heart swung: “Good sister, what do you write?”

“Nothing, just the ledger.” Bao Hairpin said.

Jia Wu explored his head and looked at the cover, his mouth reading: “Remember the small fragrant pear, hairpin treasure Xue.”

Baochai puffed and laughed out: “What are you chattering about ah.”

Jia Wu then remembered that he was pronounced backwards, the Qing Dynasty, the words are read from right to left. He said mockingly: “Hairpin Bao Xue, Bao Xue, this name is quite good.”

Bao Hairpin’s face suddenly flashed a hint of panic, interrupting to say: “Brother Bao, what books have you been reading lately?”

“There are no interesting books.”

Baoyu fiddled with Xue Baochai’s desk: “Sister, you have so many interesting books! The Whipping of King Ping of Chu by Wu Zixu, The Revenge of the Zhao Orphans, Jing Ke’s Assassination of the King of Qin, Avenging Brother’s Revenge by Wu Song’s Killing of Sister-in-Law, Avenging Father’s Revenge by Yue Lei’s Assassination of Qin Hui, Assassination of Lee by the Red Queen’s Revenge on Her Husband, and The Judgement of Pan Mei and Yang’s Family for their Hatred…”

“That’s all my father left behind, there’s nothing to see.” Baochai looked even more uneasy.

“Brother Bao, Brother Bao,” Xue Pan ran in steeply, pulling Jia Wu by the hand, “quickly go and drink with us.”

“I can’t, Sister Bao still has something for me.” Jia Wu explained.

“Me? No?” Bao Hairpin’s eyes widened curiously.

Xue Pan laughed: “Which is me lying to you for fun, if I didn’t say my sister invited you, how could you come so fast? Hurry up, everyone is waiting for you.” Said pulling Jia Wu to go out, leaving Baochai alone to sulk.

Jia Wu walked and pondered all the way, how come Sister Bao loves to read books about murder? Xue Baochai, hairpin Bao Xue, Bao Xue, revenge snow, revenge snow? Sister Bao’s father died a long time ago, but he never heard anyone tell how he died. Could it be that… Another cloud of suspicion rose in his heart.

There is a table in the flower garden, Xue Pan smiled and pulled Jia Wu over: “Come on, come on, we know know, this is my cousin, Jia Baoyu, is the one who was born with the jade. This is my cousin, Jia Baoyu, the one who was born with the jade. This is General Shenwu’s son, Cha Ying, who is very good at martial arts and is known as the first master in the capital. Hey! Old Cha, why do you have a bruise on your face, who did you fight with again?”

“Where, where!” The head of Dabeng’er, Cha Ying, arched his hand toward Jia Wu: “After I was taught a lesson by my father, I don’t dare to fight anymore, it was a harrier’s wing that slapped me during the roundup.”

Jia Wu also arched his hand and said with a smile, “Oh, I thought I was being whipped by a snake!”

Cha Ying blushed and thought for a moment, but said nothing.

Xue Pan pointed to a young man who looked like a girl and said, “This is Jiang Yuxin, a famous actor in Beijing.”

He said, turning to Jia Wu: “It’s your brother.”

Jiang Yuxin hurriedly saluted Jia Wu: “Master Xue is making fun of me, I’m an opera singer, how can I climb up to Second Master Bao.”

Xue Pan said: “Listen to your name ah, Jiang Yuxin, will jade contain, treasure brother born also contains a piece of jade, is not your brother?”

Jia Wu returned Jiang Yuxin’s bow and said with a smile, “All brothers are brothers within the four seas, and I can’t wait to have such a beautiful brother.”

The woman in red holding a pipa across the table stood up, “Master Xue, why don’t you introduce me?”

Xue Pan patted his head: “It’s time to beat, it’s time to beat, Brother Bao, this is Yun’er from the Jin Xiang Yuan, she is good at both color and art, she plays a good tune, and her martial arts skills are especially impressive.”

“Grand Master is talking nonsense, where would I know any martial arts?” Yun’er pursed her lips toward Jia Wu.

“Your kung fu is extraordinary… Last night…” Yun’er snatched over and covered Xue Pan’s mouth: “Don’t say anything, don’t say anything!”

The five of them sat down around the round table, and the family poured wine. Jia Wu said to Cha Ying, “Brother Cha, I’ll drink to you first. You are a strong martial artist and have traveled extensively, what news do you have for us?”

Cha Ying a drink and said: “Little brother in Beijing as a scandalous name, last month to go out to see, only to realize that there is a sky beyond the sky. Today’s martial arts to push Jiangnan eight warriors for the most. The first of the eight monks, a monk with the Iron Shirt work at the peak of excellence, invulnerable to knives and spears. The next Gan Fengchi, internal strength is exquisite, a tin pot in the hand can be melted into juice. The youngest, Lv Sinniang, is the only one with lightness of being in the world, and her Phoenix Sword Technique is out of this world.”

Jia Wu’s heart stirred: “How old is Lu Sinniang then?”

“Seventeen, eight years old,” said Cha Ying: “I heard that it is a flowery beauty, but it is a pity that more than a year did not show up in the jianghu.”

“Haha, Brother Bao,” Xue Pan took a sip of wine: “You have so many sisters and sisters and still think of Lu Sinniang? You must be afraid of your wife if you marry such a powerful woman.”

“The other day I heard a joke about being afraid of one’s wife,” Jiang Yuxin interjected: “A big man was especially afraid of his wife. One day when his wife wanted to beat him, he was so scared that he went under the bed. The wife scolded him: “Manly man, dare to do it, you come out! He said back: “Manly man, if you say you won’t come out, you won’t come out!”

Xue Pan laughed so hard that he sprayed wine all over Yun’er’s face: “Oh my god, this is the story of Lian Erge and Phoenix!” He pointed at Jia Wu: “It’s about his brother and his sister-in-law. He pointed at Jia Wu: “It’s about his brother and his sister-in-law, how did it get to you?”

Jiang Yuxin hurriedly apologized to Jia Wu, who smiled and said, “It’s fine, this is the first time I’ve heard this, I dare to think that Lian Erge has such a sense of humor.”

A moment later, Jia Wu got up to go to the toilet, Jiang Yuxin also followed out, repeatedly accompanied. Jia Wu was a bit uncomfortable. Jia Wu casually asked: “I heard that there is a Beijing called Qiguan’er, opera singing is particularly good, do you know him?”

Jiang Yuxian smiled: “That’s the name of my play.”

When Jia Wu heard it, wow, it is a big star! So he took out his fan and tried to get Jiang Yuxin to sign it.

Who knows that Jiang Yuxin accepted it without ceremony, thought for a moment, and unbuckled the waistband of his own pants: “This sweatband of mine was sent by the 14th Argosy, tied on the body to keep warm in winter and cool in summer, so I’ll give it to you, the second master! I’ll give it to you, Second Master, and you can unbuckle your belt and give it to me.”

Jia Wu couldn’t help but take a step back and look at Jiang Yuxin who was holding up his pants, two big men swapping pant belts?

That’s a little bit too much. Is this guy gay?

Jiang Yuxin said anxiously, “My second master, you should hurry up a little bit?” He lowered his voice: “You go back and take a closer look and you’ll understand.”

Jia Wu had no choice but to unbuckle his pants and give it to him.

The two were tying their pants, only to see Xue Pan come over with a strange smile on his face: “What a good thing, count me in too!”

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The three of them returned to the banquet, only to see Xiao Pei Ming running in in a flash: “Bao Er Master, the Great General King calls you to go over immediately.”

Entered the fourteenth Aggie’s residence, the heart is full of emotions, Jia Wu very much like the person of this great general king, hope that he can become the emperor. But if he became the emperor, then the Prince of Yong will have bad luck, and the Prince of Yong is Lin sister’s own father. I love the house and the Wu Wu well, of course, also love Lin sister and her father.

Fourteenth Argo was practicing his writing in his study, and as soon as he saw Jia Wu come in, he smiled and said, “Baoyu ah, His Majesty complimented your writing to me the other day! Come on, you come to write me a banner, I want to hang in the middle army tent.”

Jia Wu lifted his pen, thought for a moment, and wrote with a dragon’s flourish, “Draw the bow when it is strong, use the arrow when it is long, shoot the man first, capture the thief first.”

Fourteenth Ahgor read it and praised: “Good words, good words, and the poem is also well chosen. It seems to be gold is always to shine, is to tell you to be greedy for wine and sex do not read is also useless.”

Jia Wu was flabbergasted, how did he know about the note written by Princess Jia?

Fourteenth Argo blinked at him: “You’re great, you killed the python of Old Snake Mangyang.”

Jia Wu smiled awkwardly, “Your Highness, you know about this too?”

“Oh, Lao Si has his blood drops, I also have my intelligence network!” Fourteenth Ahgor sat down in the eunuch’s chair, “Baoyu, I’m going to leave for the army in a month, what’s your opinion on pacifying the rebellion in Qinghai and Tibet?”

“The crisis is not in Qinghai and Tibet, but in Beijing,” Jia Wu couldn’t help but blurt out as he looked at the Fourteenth Brother’s affectionate gaze, “The Emperor is very old and weak, and with you leading the army outside, if there is any change in Beijing…”

“Alas ~ ~” Fourteenth Brother sighed long: “the old man always do not believe that they will die, I also know a little bad, you look at this.”

On the table there are six money, white paper neatly written: “Jian: favorable southwest, unfavorable northeast; good to see the Lord, chastity auspicious.”

Jia Wu in the “I Ching fever” when Hou also did some research, a glance to see “Jian” is one of the four difficult trigrams. He couldn’t help but inhale a breath of cold air: “Your Highness, this, is your hexagram?”

Fourteenth Brother nodded. Jia Wu looked further down: “Tuan said: “Jian is difficult, and the danger is in front. If you can stop when you see the danger, you know what to do! Tuan says: “If you can stop when you see danger, you know what you’re doing! Gua said well understood, favorable southwest, that is, pacify Qinghai and Tibet no problem. Unfavorable northeast, that is, fourteen A brother back to Beijing, there will be a big trouble.

Just thought of here, outside came a burst of shouting: “Long live the master to ～～～～” Fourteenth Argo hurriedly brought Jia Wu to welcome out, only to see Kang Xi in Jia Fei’s support, wobbling walked over. Jia Fei saw the fourteenth brother, suddenly a red face.

“Get up, get up.” Kang Xi said smilingly: “Bao Bao’er is also here. Chun Er ah, you see how much they are like ah!”

Jia Fei’s face turned even redder: “What nonsense are you talking about, my brother has no such fortune.”

Fourteenth Argosy busy took the words over: “We are discussing the war in Qinghai and Tibet.”

“Oh,” Kang Xi turned to Jia Wu with interest: “Tell me.”

Jia Wu thought for a moment: “Qinghai, Tibet and Xinjiang are all roving bandits, once my army arrives, it is not difficult to quell the rebellion. The difficulty is that once the army withdraws, the rebellion starts again. Miles and miles, radish to the front line have become the price of meat, a few times, I’m afraid that the treasury will be emptied.”

This is touching the pain of Kang Xi, he immediately became serious: “Then you see what should be done?”

“Tuen Mun Settlement and Immigration, War feeds war,” Jia Wu said firmly: “Encourage the victims along the Yellow River to move to the west, and do not pay money and grain within five years, and after five years, the taxes in the west will be enough to feed an army of 300,000 or 500,000 men.”

“Good!” Kangxi slapped the table: “Old Fourteenth, what do you think?”

“I think it will work,” said Fourteenth Brother excitedly, “And the immigrants brought with them the culture of the Central Plains, which will improve ethnic communication and reduce hostility.”

“Well, reasonable,” said Kangxi: “when it comes to the national problem, our eight banners soldiers are lazy, war is not smart. Rely on the Han Chinese, but also afraid that they are not with us in one heart.”

“This is something I have thought about for a long time,” Fourteenth Argo said: “should break the boundaries of Manchu and Han, for example, tube Manchus called the vanguard of the Chinese nation or something, where the Han people loyal to our Manchus, he was authorized to enter the Manchurian lifting the flag, to become a Manchurian.”

Jia Wu heard, this is not with the party almost well, then casually picked up: “should also be in the army vigorously call for the Han people into the flag, each cattle record should have a representative of the Zongrenfu, which is called the Zongrenfu built on the company.”

“Good, you draw up a folding up,” Kangxi said happily: “old fourteen ah, you this expedition, not only for the sake of war, I want you to make a good tour in the provinces, to understand the people’s customs. After the second incident, you brothers and sisters, only you, the old eight and the old four have talent. But Old Eight is too soft, Old Four is temperamental and mean, and you haven’t been through much of a hammering.” Said a burst of coughing staff, Jia Fei busy over to give him a back.

Kang Xi saw the six money on the table, asked strangely: “Old fourteen, you still know divination ah?”

Fourteenth Argo knows that Kang Xi’s least favorite is fortune-telling and divination, and for a moment he didn’t know what to say.

Jia Wu took a look at them and hurriedly said, “I brought it here, learning to play with the old one.”

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Kangxi sighed: “people old, began to suspect. I had a dream yesterday, you guys give me a round. It was a long table with a row of gold crowns. I counted, there were thirteen in total.

Suddenly the earthquake came, shaking left and right, the thirteen gold crowns all shook to the ground. Three bagua flags slowly grew out of the ground, each labeled with a number: fifteen, sixteen, seventeen.”

“That should mean the fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth hexagrams of the I Ching,” said Jia Fifth: “The fifteenth hexagram is Earth-Shan Qian, the sixteenth hexagram is Thunder-Earth-Yu, and the seventeenth hexagram is Zephyr-Thunder-Suite, I’ll think about it again,” he flipped over the Zhouyi on his desk, and looked at it attentively.

“Old fourteenth ah,” Kangxi turned to the fourteenth brother: “Today I read a folding, a county official actually embezzled several million taels of silver. Officials are corrupt, how many killed can not be stopped. Alas, the wildfire can not be eliminated, the spring breeze blows again.”

“Father, I think there is something wrong with our system,” Fourteenth Brother said: “The officials are hiding from the top and deceiving the bottom. Although you are wise, after all, you can’t penetrate the common people every day. If the officials for their own selfishness, blinded the emperor’s eyes and ears, the country will be in danger.”

“So what do you think we should do?”

“There is no other way but to change the law.” Fourteenth Argo said firmly.

Jia Wu was flabbergasted. Yes, if the reforms had been carried out during the Kangxi era, China would have embarked on the road of capitalism more than 200 years ago, and would have been far ahead of Japan. China would have remained strong and there would not have been the Opium War, the Sino-Japanese War, the burning of the Yuanmingyuan, the Japanese invasion of China, the Great Leap Forward, the Cultural Revolution… Thinking of this, his heart warmed up: “The Great General Wang is right, only a change in the law can save China.”

“And how does one come to change?” Kang Xi asked with great interest.

“If a portion of the power can be distributed to the people, and the ruler and the people can jointly supervise it, there will be no way for the officials to hide it from the people.” Fourteenth Ajax said.

“Yes,” Jia Wu interjected, “there should be a constitutional monarchy.”

“Constitutional monarchy?” Kangxi scratched his head: “It seems like I’ve heard which missionary mentioned it, tell me about it.”

“It’s when the people elect a parliament, which makes a constitution and elects a cabinet, which runs the country.”

JaV said.

“And what does the Emperor do?” Kangxi asked.

“The Emperor oversees the functioning of the Cabinet, but has no right to directly interfere in state affairs.” Jia Wu said.

“Daring!” Kangxi slammed the table and stood up, his eyes shining majestically, “Do you want me to surrender the Qing dynasty to you!”

Concubine Jia hurriedly knelt down in fear: “Your Majesty, Your Majesty, he’s a small child, don’t be angry with him.”

Jia Wu said without flinching: “The people are the most important thing, the gods of earth and grain come second, and the ruler is the least important thing. In the history of China, there have been many dynasties, which did not flourish and then decline. In the case of the Ming Dynasty, to the last emperor, the people’s blood flowed into the river, the Zhu family descendants were also killed almost extinct. The way of heaven is not constant, you really think that the Aisin Gioro family can not be eternal?”

“Alas,” Kang Xi smiled miserably: “the sun is not in the center, the moon is full is missing, I also know this truth. The other day I read a book “push back map”, which says: the water will eventually dry up, the reverse of the August. It also says that the Qing Dynasty will not last long. Lao Si said he wanted to ban the book, but I said forget it, banning the book will not ban the people’s mouth. Changing the law to cut off some of the emperor’s power, in exchange for a long time, the people’s peace and happiness, is also not a way. I’m just afraid that my ancestors will scold me for being unfilial in the Yellow Springs.”

“Your Majesty, counting the world’s profits when counting, seeking fame when seeking the name of the world,” Jia Wu said hopefully: “You succeeded in changing the law, that is, to the whole of China’s people set the foundation of the world, to ensure that the Aisin Gioro’s descendants will not stop, China will also be strong. “

“Well, I’ll think about it,” said Kangxi: “Old fourteen, do you think?”

“Nowadays, corrupt officials rampant in the world, the law is non-change is not possible.” Fourteenth Brother said confidently: “I talked to Tang Ruowang, Nanhuairen several foreign clergymen many times, they said that England, originally a small island, in the constitutional monarchy, after a few decades to become the world’s first power.”

“Since ancient times in China, those who changed the law did not end well, aren’t you afraid?” Kangxi asked.

“A great man would rather call his name in the body than in the body, and to be able to favor the world, even though he dies, he is still honored!” Fourteenth Brother spoke with his head held high, and Concubine Jia looked at him adoringly.

“Well, you will change the details of the law also write a folding up,” Kangxi turned to Jia Wu: “My dream you round out yet?”

Jia Wu hesitated for a moment and said: ”When I say so, you also hear so. The thirteen golden crowns represent the thirteen emperors of the Qing Dynasty. Earthquake to the gold crown down is that the thirteenth emperor after the world will be in chaos. The three eight trigram flags refer to the three people who took over the Qing world.” He looked at Kang Xi, who listened attentively.

The seventeen trigrams are Ze Lei Sui, Lei, the image of the East, alluding to a man named Zedong. After the thirteen emperors of the Ching Dynasty, the three who chaotic the world are Nakayama, Kai-shek and Zedong.”

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The air is extraordinarily crisp after an overnight thunderstorm. The grass blades were green and sparkling, and the sky was blue and purple. Jia Wu was in a good mood; he had never seen Beijing have such a blue sky. He walked to the big willow tree beside the brook; the brook in the Grand View Garden was full of vigor as it gurgled with living water drawn from the Back Sea. He squatted down and dipped his head into the water, the cool stream made him shiver as a golden-red carp brushed his nose and swam past. Frogs with black stripes jumped onto the lotus leaves that rolled with water droplets and looked at him with exasperation.

Jia Wu did his best to calm his thoughts. Yesterday, after Kang Xi left, he and the fourteenth brother discussed for a night, and formulated the initial policy of change and reform. He had always hated politics, thinking that those who engaged in politics were merely “thick-skinned”, i.e., thick-skinned and black-hearted.

One of his favorite jokes was: Einstein went to a party and talked to the people: do you have an IQ of 200? Okay, let’s talk about relativity. Do you have an IQ of 150? Well, let’s talk about the Big Bang; your IQ is 100? Okay, let’s talk about stocks; your IQ is only 50? Let’s talk about politics!

However, I did not realize that once he was involved in politics, he was also addicted to it, and could not sleep at night, thinking about all the things to change the law. Jia Wu laughed bitterly, remembering Wang Jingwei said a foul language: “Politics is like a woman’s word, men say it is unclean, but they desperately want to get into it.”

But after all, he is not the same as them, the change of law can save China from 150 years of suffering, although hate politics, but always patriotic? If the reforms were successful, the history of China and even the history of the world would be rewritten. But is it really possible to rewrite history?

Upstream of the brook came a sweet song: “a good jasmine, a good jasmine, full of flowers in the garden fragrance is not fragrant it ~ ~” is the voice of the younger sister Lin.

Jia Wu looked around the rockery and through the bamboo forest, Dai Yu was wearing a white dress, carrying a small red lacquered wooden bucket, and had just finished watering the jasmine flowers. Daiyu pulled off the jasper hairpin on her head and her long hair spilled down like a dark cloud. She knelt by the brook, dipped her hair in the water, rubbed it gently, and sang in soft Suzhou dialect: “The apricot blossoms on the apricot ridge are fragrant, planting a sycamore tree to attract the phoenix, a cup of wine brewed for ten years, what is the purpose of combing the hair of my sister?”

Jia Wu quietly sat down behind the bamboo forest, the atmosphere does not dare to come out, he is used to that smart and clever, talented, good to cry, good to make small sex Lin sister, never seen this quality  natural Lin sister. Feeling that the Lin sister body issued a holy aura, he could not help but start to stay.

Daiyu stood up, threw her head, her long hair floated up and turned half a circle, the water droplets thrown out drew a rainbow under the sunrise’s illumination, and the birds in the trees chattered and chirped into a frenzy.

Daiyu pulled her hair loosely into a bun, smiled and shouted in Jia Wu’s direction, “Come on out, I saw you earlier!”

Jia Wu walked out from the bamboo forest with a bit of embarrassment: “Sister, you sing so beautifully, who did you learn from?”

“Alas,” Daiyu’s eyes reddened, “I learned it from my enlightened teacher, Lu Xucai.” She sat down on the stone bench, picked up the red onyx bracelet on the ground and gently put it on her wrist. Her fingers are long and delicate, as white as transparent.

“That Lu teacher to me like a daughter,” Daiyu continued: “You know, my father is a cold person, a year and I rarely see a few times, and when we meet and have nothing to say. Just like uncle to you exactly the same.”

Jia Wu thought: that can not be blamed on Lin Ruhai, he saw you remembered his own son was dropped, how can not cold? Is it because of the lack of parental love in her childhood that Sister Lin is so pessimistic and loves to cry? By the way, that Jia Zheng is also always cold to me, could it be that Baoyu is not his own son?

“Teacher Lu’s talent is great. More than ten years ago in Beijing to catch the examination, in a big official’s banquet, writing poetry, shocked the whole audience, everyone said this section of the first prize must be his.” Daiyu reminisced: “The daughter of that official took a liking to him, and insisted on marrying him. But Mr. Lu already had a wife, so of course the official couldn’t let his daughter be his concubine, and the court’s rule was that the Manchus and the Manchus didn’t intermarry. So the official thought of a poisonous plan, in the examination room to plant evidence for Mr. Lu, saying that he cheated, beat a board, and drove out of the capital overnight.

In a fit of pique, Mr. Lu vowed never to enter the capital to take the examination again, and to write a book in the civil world. When my father came to Suzhou, he heard that he was well learned, so he hired him to teach me.”

“And what happened to the daughter of the big official afterward?” Jia Wu asked.

“Who knows! I heard that she married a prince.” Daiyu said: “Mr. Lu is also poor, not a few years the wife died, leaving two daughters. The eldest daughter is called Sinniang, since childhood, like to practice martial arts, said to a martial arts foreigner to take away to learn martial arts to go. The youngest daughter is called Wu Niang, like poetry and literature, Mr. Lu brought her to accompany me to study, we are as good as sisters,” Daiyu sighed: “But since I came here, and they cut off the news, I do not know how they are now?”

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A rush of hoofbeats, a black Dawan horse, galloping north along the Andingmen Street. On the back of the horse rode a blue-clothed eunuch, his face full of anxiety, the leather whip in his hand fiercely smacking the horse’s butt.

The Dawan horse stopped at the entrance of the Yong Wang Mansion in the northeast corner of Beijing. The eunuch jumped off his horse and arched his hand toward the vigorous concierge: “My name is Qin Liu, I have urgent business to see Master Wu, Wu Sidao.” He said, pulling out a silver ingot and handing it over.

Once the concierge saw the silver, he immediately changed his face and said enthusiastically: “Master Wu is talking with the king,” and brought Qin Liu into the west room: “You first have a cup of tea here, I’ll go in and take a look.”

On the court, the fourth brother Prince Yong face gloomy, right hand twirling his beard: “Sidao, you this news can be true?”

“True,” Wusidao stood in the side, answered with a waist: “You know that the emperor has loved Western games since childhood, what the self-timing bells, thousands of miles of eyes, muskets, red barbarians cannon, but also with the missionary door to learn what geometry, algebra. That year, South Huairen calculated the moment of the eclipse, the emperor also wanted to change the calendar, the ancestors handed down the Taiyin Calendar changed to the foreigners use the solar calendar. Luckily, the Qin Tian Supervisor united eight iron hat princes together against, and coincided with the Wu Sangui their three feuds rebel, only to suppress this matter. Now fourteenth master a talk about learning Westerners change reform, the emperor back then interest hook up again.”

“Then the Emperor wants to make Old Fourteenth the Crown Prince again?” The Fourth Brother moved uneasily.

“Yes, Your Highness,” said Wu Sidao, “but the Emperor is not ready to give him the title of Crown Prince. He said that he wanted to take the opportunity of the change of law, a good examination of the civil and military ministers, princes and nobles. Gave the prince status rather inconvenient, ass-kissing will all come up.”

“What are the statutes of the old fourteenth change?”

“The specifics are not clear, I heard that the main constitutional monarchy, eliminating the power of the royal family, officials directly elected by the people; abolish the privileges of the eight banners, the implementation of the Manchu-Chinese family; the abolition of the Imperial Examination, the establishment of a new type of school; encouragement of industry and commerce, the opening up of the sea ban; the protection of private property, prohibit the plagiarism of the family; to formulate the laws of the Qing Dynasty, no one may go beyond the law above. What other articles are there.”

“Old Fourteenth is so bold, isn’t this going to change all the ancestral laws?” Fourth Argo asked strangely.

“That’s not true. I heard that it was that Jia Baoyu who gave him the idea. That kid isn’t a big guy, but he knows quite a lot, especially about the Western world, and he’s full of fancy ideas.”

“Didn’t you originally say you were going to take out Jabberwocky?”

“A failure, a failure, a failure,” said Ushido dejectedly, “Monk Yuyin’s spell was about to succeed, but a mangy monk and a crippled Taoist priest came out and broke Yuyin’s spell.”

The Fourth Brother’s face changed: “Mang Mang Da Shi, Miaomiao Miaomiao Real!”

“Why, you know them?”

“You’ve heard of the Three Immortals Outside the Square, right?” Fourth Brother frowned and said, “That’s the Munchkin, the Miaomiao Realist and the One-Armed Master. These three people’s martial arts is unfathomable, but never involved in secular matters, how now also out of the mixed water? Could it be that they also want to help the old 14th change the law and reform it?”

“Hehehe, Your Highness is well informed. Historically, those who changed the law never had a good ending, like Shang Yang, Wang Anshi. Changing the law in favor of the people, but certainly to touch the interests of the officials, who  want their privileges to be canceled it?” Wusidao smiled triumphantly: “So you see, big and small officials, is the mouth does not say, the heart is also certainly opposed to change the law reform. You privately these people together, I think of a few more ideas for you, once the old emperor to heaven, we can not embrace you as the emperor.”

Fourth Brother also laughed: “Old Wu ah, really have you.” He saw the poking head of the concierge: “Hey, what’s the matter?”

The concierge hurriedly knelt down: “Back to Your Majesty, there is a eunuch from the palace looking for Master Wu.”

Fourth Argo waved his hand : “Old Wu, you go and take a look, I have to go to my uncle’s place for a while.”

Wu Sidao came to the west room, full of smiles: “Aiya, Eunuch Qin, which gust of wind blew you here?”

Qin Liu said with a gloomy face, “Master Wu, it’s not good, it seems that Princess Jia knows Hongli’s birth.”

Ursidao’s face immediately sank: “What does she know?”

“The specifics are unclear, she said she suspects that Lin Daiyu of the Jia family is the child of Prince Yong, and that Hongli is the child of the Jia family.”

“Does she have proof?” Ushido was starting to get nervous.

“It seems not yet, she said she wanted Fourteenth Brother to investigate Lin Daiyu.”

“Thank you for coming to report,” Wu Sidao took out a one thousand taels silver ticket and stuffed it into Qin Liu’s hand: “In the future, when the Prince of Yong ascends to the throne, you will be greatly merited ah.”

“Where, where, thank you, Master Shifu, for your mention.” Qin Liu put the silver ticket into his pocket and smiled cheekily, “I think it’s better to send someone to finish off Lin Daiyu which chick, to give him a death sentence.”

“Well,” Ushido’s mind was racing: “Killing Lin Daiyu is the best way. But Fujin said that if Lin Daiyu was killed, she would have to kill me. This matter can not tell Prince Yong. If Lin Daiyu is alive, Prince Yong’s risk is too great. To make a scene, this Prince will be difficult to protect, that Hongli pretends to be a prince, I’m afraid that he will also have to be beheaded.”

“Hongli, yes, that kid is ruthless and has many devious ideas. As long as the news is revealed to him, he will naturally find a way to get rid of Lin Daiyu, and he himself can not be a risk. But Hongli heart is too black, who told him this news, afraid that he will also be silenced. However, isn’t there a ready-made scapegoat right now?”

Thinking of this, Wu Sidao said to Qin Liu: “This news of yours is directly related to Hongli Beile’s future. He lives in the backyard, do you want to tell him directly? In the future, Prince Yong became the emperor, he is the crown prince. Climb up to him, you will be waiting for promotion and wealth.”

Qin Liu was so happy that his mouth couldn’t close: “Alright, I’ll listen to you.”

Wusidao called the concierge over: “Take Eunuch Qin to see Hongli Beilei.” Also attached to the Qin Liu ear said: “This is all your work, I am not sorry to divide your. You and Beilei front also do not have to mention my name.”

Nightly Exploration of the Red Mansion (XIX)

Hiroshi in the back garden in the uneasy round and round. Yesterday night came a cold front, the weather a cold down, but Hongli only wore a single coat, the heart of the fire burning fire: “how to do? How to do?” His brows were locked tightly.

Hongli does and Jia five look like, thick eyebrows, big eyes and high nose. Only Jia five is always lazy and thoughtful look, and Hongli always penetrate a sinister and violent atmosphere.

“Could it be that I am really a descendant of the Han Chinese? No wonder Fujin is always cold to me, the children in the school also say that I am like a Han Chinese,” Hongli sighed a long breath: “It is a pity that my parents are gone, to be able to go to the Jiafu to see grandma they are also good. However, I can’t let the Emperor know that I’m afraid I’ll die if I impersonate the grandson. Why don’t I just run away?”

“But how can I leave the glory and wealth in front of me? Besides, if my father became the Emperor, I would be the Crown Prince, the future Emperor. Anyway, not many people know about this now, so let’s kill them…” Hongli suddenly felt his blood boiling: “That Qin Liu must be killed to silence him, so must Concubine Jia, the family of Chen Shi, and the family of Lin Daiyu. The first one to be killed is Lin Daiyu.”

See Wu Sidao is walking from afar, Hongli called him, make a colorful look: “old Wu ah, I heard that the Duke of Rongguo Jia House there is a called Lin Daiyu chick looks good, you can not give me to find a piece of her portrait to ah?”

Wusidao pretended to think for a moment: “This can not be easy, to be I ask around, in a few days to give you back.”

Looking at Hongli’s back as he walked away, Usidao secretly laughed in his heart, this kid took the bait so quickly, my ploy is really spiritual. Thinking of this, he could not help but admire himself again.

Hongli walked into his room: “Kill Lin Daiyu, kill Lin Daiyu, but who to send to kill? This must be hidden from my father, but his intelligence network is so powerful, how can I hide it from him? Unless I do it myself, without anyone realizing it…”

Hongli practiced martial arts since he was a child and is confident that killing a weak girl is no problem. But it is necessary to have an insider in the Jia residence, to feel out the situation. Suddenly, he remembered Jia Huan, a thieving kid he met when he went to Prince Fruit’s house to watch a play, desperately trying to flatter him. He was too lazy to answer Jia Huan at that time, but he never imagined that it could come in handy now.

It was hard to wait until dark, Hongli put on a small short coat, slipped out of the back door, mounted a big green horse, and galloped along the root of the city wall.

Wu Sidao turned out from the gate room, looking at Hongli’s distant back: “Good boy, said to do it. He also said he wanted a portrait to stabilize me first, if Lin Daiyu died today, even I should not suspect him.” Thinking of here he could not help but shiver, this Hongli careful mind, means poisonous, afraid of the future is not a good match.

He sighed and also clapped his horse toward the Jaffa House.

When Jia Huan heard that someone from the Yongwang Mansion was looking for him, he hurriedly came out. When he saw that it was Hongli, he was startled and flattered him, saying, “Master Pele, what are you doing here, still in civilian clothes, quickly, please take a seat in the hall. Zhao Da, go and ask His Lordship to come and greet you…”

“Slowly,” Hong Li was busy reaching out to stop him: “I came here this time, it was a secret order from the Emperor. I think you are a talent that can be made, so I came to look for you. But this must be kept a secret, no one can tell, even parents are not allowed to say, can you do it?”

“Yes, yes…” said Jahuan, nodding his head like a chicken pecking at rice.

“Our emperor’s heart is not old, and he wants to choose a few pretty chicks to enter the palace. But he’s too embarrassed to let the ministers know, so he asked me to make a private visit to see where the best girls are. I’ve heard that Lin Daiyu from your palace is quite good…”

“Cousin Lin? No, she looks just like a heavenly fairy,” as soon as he talked about women, Jia Huan’s excitement came: “There’s Xue Baochai, Shi Xiangyun, and even Baoyu’s brother’s girl, Qingwen, is also a stunning beauty!”

“Oh? Then you show me the garden.”

The two entered the Grand View Garden. Hongli sat down behind a piece of Shoushan stone and said to Jia Huan, “Go and scout out where Lin Daiyu is.”

Jia Huan went for ten minutes and came back: “Cousin Lin is watching the moon by the octagonal well under the big willow tree! Wearing a silver fox skin cloak.”

“Good, you’ve earned it. Go back, you have no business here.” Hiroshi said.

“Is it okay if I look around here?” Jahuan said.

“No!” Hongli glared: “You dare to disobey my orders!”

Jia Huan was so scared that he didn’t dare to say anything and obediently left.

After watching Jia Huan walk away, Hongli stood up and tiptoed toward the large willow tree.

Under the moon, beside the octagonal well, a girl in a silver fox cloak with a slim figure walked around uneasily, and sighed softly from time to time. The girl turned around, curved eyebrows, dark eyes, small mouth, really a stunning beauty.

Hongli sighed, he really wished that Lin Daiyu was a bit ugly, how could he lay his hands on such a beauty?

Hey, it’s better for me to lose the world than for the world to lose me!

The girl heard the commotion and whispered, “Who is it?”

Hiroshi grabbed a handful of rocks and threw them at the grass across the street.

There was a clatter in the grass and the girl turned her head to look. Hiroshi jumped out violently, both hands strangling the girl’s neck with deadly force. The girl struggled a few times and gradually became immobile, her silver fox cloak slipping to the ground.

Hiroshi looked around, threw the girl’s body into the octagonal well, and took off.

One person came over in the distance, and it was none other than Ushido. He looked toward the well, hemmed and hawed, and walked toward the east room of the Rongguo Mansion.

Nightly Exploration of the Red Mansion (XX)

Jia Wu came out from the old lady’s to bid her good night, and saw the shadow of a man flicker and enter Aunt Zhao’s house. Curious, Jia Wu followed, climbed the steps, licked a small hole in the windowpaper with his tongue, and peered inside.

Wu Sidao leaned comfortably on the kang, and Aunt Zhao was giving him a shoulder rub: “Sidao, why haven’t you come to see me for so many days, which woman have you fallen in love with again?”

“No, no,” Wu Sidao said defensively: “Prince Yong where there are many things, now is the critical moment, the emperor’s throne is who, also depends on these few months.”

“Ugh, you men, you fight and kill for power, I’m scared.”

“Heh heh heh heh, a general’s work is not enough, if you don’t kill people, where will you get the power? Struggle with people, the joy of it ah!” Wu Sidao said smugly, “Besides, don’t you also want Huan’er to get this hereditary of the Rong Guo Fu?”

“I’d like to, but I can’t.” Aunt Zhao said dejectedly, “With Jia Lian and Baoyu, where would he get a turn?”

“Don’t be anxious ah, when the Prince of Yong when the emperor, find a ballast to Jia Zheng, Jia Pi, Jia Lian, Baoyu are all enlisted in the Heilongjiang, this title is not the ring child,” Usidao lascivious smile, in the Aunt Zhao’s face pinched a bar: “and then I will marry you, this flowery Rongguo House can be ours! “

“That’s good,” Aunt Zhao smiled and got tired of Wu Sidao’s body: “Our master won’t be back tonight, so you can sleep here!”

“I can’t, I still have to go back to the royal residence to check, I’m afraid that something has happened at Fujin’s place. You know, Hongli killed Lin Daiyu and threw her into the octagonal well in the Grand View Garden…”

Jia Wu’s mind “boom”, Lin sister was killed? He turned around and jumped down the steps, stumbling towards the Grand View Garden.

A silver fox cloak was thrown on the grass by the octagonal well that Jia mother had given to Sister Lin ten days ago.

Jia Wu’s heart was in his throat. He looked into the well and saw nothing in the black hole. He thought for a moment, turned and ran over to the florist’s house, pulled down a rope for drying clothes, and hurried back again.

Jia Wu tied one end of the rope to a tree, climbed the other end himself, and descended into the well. The well was pitch-black, and I couldn’t see my fingers. The water was chest-deep and cold. Jia Wu hands groping, touched a soft body, his heart a cold, busy which body lifted out of the water. Feel the pulse, no; feel the heartbeat, also no; try to breathe, or no.

Sister Lin was killed! Jia Wu only felt disheartened and saddened. The voice of Sister Lin’s song from yesterday rang in his ears again: “A cup of fine wine has been brewed for ten years, what is the purpose of combing my sister’s hair?”

He rubbed the cold hand, the onyx bracelet on his wrist was still the one he had bought for Sister Lin. His tears flowed down in bunches. Men have tears, Jia Wu never thought he was a hard man who bled without tears, who would have thought that even now he had become uncontrollable sobbing. He hugged Sister Lin tightly, really wanting to die head first in this well and follow Sister Lin.

Jia Wu was so dizzy that his head hit the wall of the well hard. He snapped out of it, revenge, revenge, must avenge Sister Lin first!

He undid his tunic, tied Lin’s body to his back, and pulled the rope to climb out.

On the grass, Jia Wu knelt beside Sister Lin. He took Sister Lin’s hand and kissed it gently: “Sister, life is different from fm radio and death is the same hole, when I have avenged my death, I will definitely come to accompany you.”

Suddenly his lips touched a scar on the back of his hand. Lin sister’s hands are no scars, he was shocked in his heart, lifted the hair scattered in her face, attached to the body, through the weak starlight, a closer look: it is Jin Chushuier, not Lin sister!

Jia Wu felt soft all over, he rubbed his eyes, it was really Jin Chuan Er!

Jia Wu only felt shocked, happy and sad. Joyful because Sister Lin was still alive, sad because Jin Chuan Er had been killed. He thought for a moment and used that fox-skin cloak to cover Jinchuier’s body, and waddled himself towards Xiaoxiang Pavilion.

The Dash House.

Zijuan held a cup of Huangshan Mao Jian on a tray: “Miss, you should drink less tea! If you drink too much, you won’t be able to sleep.”

Daiyu took the teacup and smiled sadly: “Thank you, sister Zijuan, I think I’ll have to lose sleep again tonight.” Said a circle of red eyes, and remembered what just happened.

After dinner, Daiyu went to the garden for a walk. Zijuan seems to have a cold front, afraid of her catching a cold, repeatedly coaxed her to put on that silver fox cloak. Daiyu strolled along, looking at the crescent moon in the sky, remembering her childhood in Suzhou, dew from this night white, the moon is the hometown bright, almost to shed tears again.

Seeing Jia Huan probing behind the tree, Dai Yu asked curiously, “Huan, what are you doing?”

“Nothing, nothing.” Jahuan scurried away.

Daiyu heard a low cry over the wigwam, and turned to see that it was Jinchushiel, so she went over and asked, “Sister Jinchushiel, what’s wrong with you?”

“The master forced me to be a young wife, and I’m going to be married in the second half of the year,” Jin Chushu’er cried, “and the wife beat me again, saying that I’m a vixen, seducing the young master and then seducing the master.” She said, showing Daiyu the scars on her hands.

Dai Yu was silent for a while and gritted her teeth, “Sister, why don’t you just run away!”

“What?” Kim Kushiro took a step back, her eyes widening.

“Escape.” Daiyu took off the gold flower jade hairpin on her head, the gold earrings, and the gemstone ring on her hand, and after hesitating for a moment, she faded the onyx bracelet on her wrist as well, and handed them all to Jinushuier: “Sister, take these, I heard that they can be worth thousands of taels of silver, and run far away.”

“Miss Lin, I…” said Jin Kushiel, not knowing what to say for a moment.

“It’s not too late, if you don’t run you’ll regret it for the rest of your life.” Daiyu said enthusiastically, “This place is like a big cage, there is no freedom at all, even I want to run.”

Jin Chuan Er hesitated for a moment: “Miss Lin, to tell you the truth, I am planning to run away today, and later my cousin will come here to pick me up.”

“Cousin?”

“Uh-huh.” Kim Kushiel’s face immediately reddened and she lowered her head.

Daiyu took off her own fox skin coat and draped it over Jinchuan’er’s body: “Sister, take this with you as well, the old lady said it’s also worth several hundred taels of silver, good luck to you two.”

As he was reminiscing, he heard a sharp knock on the door outside.

“Coming, coming, who is it, so desperate,” Zijuan opened the door: “Yo, it’s Mr. Bao Er, why are you all wet?”

Daiyu hurried out of the inner room, only to see Jia Wu pale and shivering, water dripping down his clothes.

“What’s wrong with you?” Daiyu asked with concern.

Jia Wu took a step forward, grabbed Dai Yu’s hand with a death grip, and looked straight at her. After a long time, he suddenly laughed out loud.

Daiyu’s face reddened and she shook off Jia Wu’s hand, “Zijuan, help Second Master take off his wet coat and put a blanket on him. Xueyan, go get Qingwen to come over and bring the Second Master a set of dry clothes.”

(to be continued)