Nightly Exploration of the Red Mansion (3)

Nightly Exploration of the Red Mansion (XLI)

Jia Wu returned to the Grand View Garden, far away from the Yihongyuan in front of the grove next to a girl standing in a daze, thin body, long hair, wearing their own familiar dark green dress. He hadn’t seen her for a day, so Jia Wu’s heart fluttered and he happily called out, “Sister Lin, Sister Lin!”

“What ah, all day long you know your sister Lin!” The girl turned around and pouted.

Oh, so it was Fifth Child. Jia Wu was a bit embarrassed and said sardonically, “You, why are you wearing Lin Mei’s clothes.”

“Sister Lin gave it to me,” Wu’er smiled and spun around in place: “Does it look good?”

“Good looking, of course.” Jia Wu pursed the hair on her temples for her: “Is Qingwen at home?”

“Sleeping in there!” Fifth Child said.

“Hey, hey, have you heard?” Muskmoon came rushing in, “There’s a new nun in the nunnery behind us, very pretty, with long hair…”

“Nuns still have hair?” Fifth Child asked curiously.

“That is called with hair cultivation, I heard that the ancestor is still a big official! But this girl has been sick since she was a child, and bought many substitutes that didn’t work. In the end, this girl personally into the empty door to get well. So with hair cultivation, this year is only eighteen years old, the name of the law Miao Yu, or you Suzhou people it! Musk moon said: “want to go see?”

“Really? Go and see, go and see.” The fifth child pulled musk moon, cheek to cheek and went away.

Jia Wu walked into the inner room, and Qingwen stuck her head out of the tent: “Hey, pretty nun! Why don’t you go look?”

“Where are the nuns pretty,” Jia Wu said with a smile, “unless one day you become a nun.”

“Bah, what’s wrong with being a nun,” said Haruna with a smile, “do you want to give up?”

“Of course not.” Jia Wu took Qingwen’s hand: “Guess who I ran into today?”

“Hmph!” Haruna threw her hands in the air: “Seeing someone’s pretty chick again, are you?”

“Not at all, a big black man holding tin-soluble juice!”

“Senior Brother Gan? You ran into him?”

“That’s not true, and I have to bring you a letter!” Jia Wu said, pulling out the letter and handing it to Qingwen, and telling her about the meeting with Gan Fengchi.

Qingwen tore open the envelope: “It’s a letter from Master.” She looked at it, and her face gradually became grave: “Master is sick, and wants me to return to the mountain immediately.”

“Your master is over a hundred years old, isn’t he?”

“But no, I’m so worried for her. I have to leave right away. Alas, Master must not ask me to succeed the Sect of the Sect of the Sect of the Sect of the Sect of the Sect of the Sect of the Sect.”

“Palm is not good enough?”

“Stupid, if you’re a master, you have to be a nun.” Haruhi blushed and pushed Jia Wu: “Quickly help me pack my things.”

“But your injuries aren’t all healed yet.” Jia Wu said anxiously.

“Already 80% better, I hired a car, in the car and then run the power, to the master will be almost well. As for you here,” thought Qingwen, “your kung fu has been introduced, and it’s up to you to see what you can accomplish. Elder Brother Gan is here, so he’ll take care of you from time to time. But should I ask Grandma Lian for leave? If I leave without saying anything, it’ll be troublesome to come back later.” Qingwen glanced at Jia Wu and lowered her head.

“Wow, that nun is so beautiful, like a green onion.” The fifth child ran in with a smile: “Not only can she recite sutras, but she is also a good poet. Our hometown in Suzhou, because I heard that Beijing Guangji Temple has Guanyin relics and the Bay leaf remains of the text, last year with the master to Beijing, her master is very fine performance of the number of the gods, in the winter last year, passed away.

Miao Yu had wanted to help the spirit to return to her hometown, her master’s dying last words, said that it was not appropriate for her to return to her hometown for food, clothing and living, and that she should live quietly here, and then naturally have your results. That is why she did not return to Suzhou, was invited by our old lady.”

“Come here, come here.” Haruna waved to Fifth Child. Fifth Child walked over, and Haruna gathered her hair up and combed it into the same style as her own. Pulling Fifth Child in front of the mirror again, she used small tweezers to pluck a few of her curved eyebrows and drew them on for her, modeling them after her own.

“Huh, what’s this for? I’m becoming the same as you!” Fifth Child asked with a smile.

Haruhi compared with Wu’er: “Not even close, I’m taller than you,” she dragged out a pair of high-waisted leather boots from under the bed, cut a piece of felt to fit inside the boots, and told Wu’er to put them on.

“It’s so awesome, I can’t even tell the difference!” Jia Wu said with a smile.

Haruhi told Fifth that she was leaving: “Remember, from now on, you’re me, until I come back.” Then she turned to Jia Wu: “Hey, take good care of my sister!” After saying that, he picked up his bag and left through the back door.

“Fifth child, fifth child!” Musk Moon hurriedly ran in and looked at Fifth Child: “Qingwen, where did Fifth Child go?”

Wu’er smiled cheekily: “She has something to go back to Suzhou, what’s the matter with you? It’s just as well to tell me.”

Jia Wu almost laughed out loud when he heard that, if Musk Moon couldn’t recognize it, the others would definitely be even more unrecognizable.

Nightly Exploration of the Red Mansion (XLII)

The west wing of the Yong royal residence.

Yongzheng leaning on the kang, Hongli stood at the bottom of the head to give him a leg. Yongzheng slowly and methodically asked: “the monk’s injury is well?”

“Back to Your Highness, the injuries are no longer serious, but it will take three months for the martial arts to recover.” Wu Sidao said respectfully.

“How far has Old Fourteen gone with his troops?”

“Past Kaifeng.” Wu Sidao took out a letter: “This is an express report from Henan, it is estimated that it will take at least two months for the 14th Arhats to reach Xining.”

“Well, Henan and Hebei are Old Fourteen’s territory, and he is well-informed. You notify the blood droplets, all assassination activities are suspended, don’t let the old fourteen find an excuse, a horseback shot and then kill back to Beijing.” Yongzheng from the jade plate picked up a fresh peach, handed to Wu Si said: “you taste, is the Shandong tribute to.”

“Thank you, Your Majesty!” Ushido said gratefully.

Yongzheng waved his hand: “as long as the old fourteenth into shaanxi, sichuan, we can block his news. And then there is Nianzuan Yao everywhere to restrain, that even if the old fourteen again, also is the dragon trapped in shallow water, the tiger fell down the Pingyang. In Beijing, it is up to us.”

“However, Fourteenth Ahgor has had a murderous streak since he was a child, so if Nian Junmen goes against him, he won’t kill Nian Junmen, will he?”

“If someone else, Lao XIV might have killed him, Nian Juan Yao, I told him to fake a letter from Consort Nian to Lao XIV. Old Fourteen is self-appointed as a flirt, and he is merciful in every way, surely he can’t lay his hands on this, hahaha!”

Yongzheng laughed up at the sky.

Wusidao could not help but shiver, Prince Yong on his own brother are so calculated, rather than let people say that they wear a cuckold also want to give the old fourteen tripped, this heart can be really black.

Yongzheng turned his head: “How is the matter of persuading the princes and ministers going?”

“The princes of the eight banners are opposed to the change of law, the ministers are half against half, and the half that is dead loyal to the Emperor, as long as the Emperor agrees to the change of law, they will surely follow the uproar.”

“Hehehe, dare not keep up with me, you make a list of them down, let our blood drops check their shady deeds, not afraid that they won’t bow down!” Yongzheng sneered.

“Father is right,” Hongli interjected: “Now the South family officials do not have to violate the law and discipline. I heard the people say, all the officials in a line, if all beheaded, there must be mistakenly killed. If every other one cut one, there must be a leakage.”

“Yes, the world is as black as a crow.” Wusidao said: “I heard that there is a military office of a big official’s yamen want to see a lady, but the lady has been betrothed, and then forced to force the marriage. People are not convinced, sued to the Governor. That official himself is embarrassed to come directly, out of three thousand taels of silver to the Rongguo House of Wang Xifeng, bribe the Governor, and the result forced out two people’s lives. That young lady and her fiancé who was set to die of martyrdom.”

“You heard it from Aunt Zhao of the Rongguo Mansion, didn’t you?” Yongzheng laughed out loud.

Wu Sidao was shocked and ashamed, rising to a red face, unable to say a word. Prince Yong’s Blood Drops was so powerful that he investigated his own and Aunt Zhao’s private affair clearly as well.

Hongli also could not help but shiver, Prince Yong can be so clear to the investigation of the privacy of the master, his own life can be hidden from him for how long? Although it is said to be “dark under the lights”, no one may dare to tell him about it, but it is always a long night’s sleep, or have to find a way to put an end to Lin Daiyu.

“Good, good, in the future I will let your son Jia Huan inherit that hereditary of Rong Guo Fu how?” Yongzheng said flirtatiously.

“Thank you, Your Majesty, for your golden words,” Wu Sidao was busy kneeling down and kowtowing. This matter is related to the ring child’s life, can not be sloppy.

“Oh, good to say, good to say.” Yongzheng stroked his beard: “I always suspect that the Jaffa has what hall of fame. Yesterday, I heard people say: ‘Jia is not false, white jade for the hall of gold as a horse’. Just heard, seems to say that his family is very rich. On second thought, white jade, seems to be a royal word, only a little more. Jin, is our Aisin Gioro, gold as a horse, does it mean that we want to give the surname Jia as a cow as a horse?”

“Yes, I also have doubts.” Hongli said: “the day on the street to listen to children singing children, real fake not strange, yellow robe mouth with jade, really more woes, fake put the country sit.”

“Containing jade?” Yongzheng all of a sudden and remembered Jiang Yuhan to, and jealous and angry: “That means that Jia Baoyu? That Jia Fei and the old fourteen children?”

“The rumor of a child is an omen from heaven, it must not be prevented!” Wusidao panderingly said: “I see this is due to Jia Baoyu. Your Majesty, you are the real Dragon Prince, he is a fake, and surnamed Jia, all that is true and false is not strange. Yellow robe, only the emperor can wear, he Jia Baoyu is born with jade, clearly said he wants to rebel as the emperor ah!”

“Oh?” Yongzheng double eyebrows locked, eyes through a murderous aura: “Let him live a few more days, and so on the old fourteen into the Sichuan-Shaanxi, that Jia Baoyu to me to kill!”

Nightly Exploration of the Red Mansion (XLIII)

Ever since Qingwen left, Jia Wu always felt a bit empty inside. In the morning, he would get up and sit in front of the window to stare, and the days would go by like this, practicing martial arts for a while every day, and then going to see Sister Lin. Comparing the work taught by Qingwen with the secret manuals of the 14th Arhats, he felt lighter and stronger day by day, and his martial arts skills had grown quite a bit. If she ran into Hongli again now, she would definitely be able to beat him up. However, even if the martial arts skills are high, in the future, the gun is useless. Now the gun is still using black gunpowder, one sulfur, two nitrate, three charcoal, power is not very big.

If only I knew how to make TNT, I could remake history with a gun. Alas, why can’t I remember how explosives are prepared? I only remember that there is a Nobel is to make a fortune by making explosives. The easiest way to make explosives seems to be nitroglycerin, glycerin is okay, but where to find nitric acid? I really regret that I didn’t study chemistry properly.

While he was thinking, he suddenly heard someone call out to him, “Second brother, second brother.”

When I looked back, it was Tangchun. Tanchun smiled and said: “Early in the morning, get up and stare, is it again thinking about your change of law and reform of the matter ah?”

“Huh, how did you know that too?” Jia Wu asked curiously.

“I heard from Aunt Zhao,” Tangchun was full of disdain: “she ran to me last night, said that I should be less with you, you mixed into the gang of the change of law, sooner or later you will have bad luck.”

“Oh, that’s right.” Jia Wu responded with his mouth, but in his heart, he looked down on Tangchun’s behavior. Aunt Zhao is no longer good, at least it is your own mother, why do you always have to pose as a young lady, and when the little wife’s mother to draw a line? Aunt to aunt to aunt, even refused to call mom. Quite a pretty girl, why so snobbish.

“Second brother, you know that Sister Feng is sick, the wife asked me to manage the garden.” Tangchun enthusiastically said: “I also want to do some reforms to our family, first said to you to hear. The other day I went to Lai everyone, and his daughter gossip, who knows that his family so a garden, in addition to their flowers, eat bamboo shoots, vegetables, fish and shrimp in addition to a year, there are also contracted to go, the end of the year, there are two hundred taels of silver left. Our garden is more than twice as big as theirs. If only half more than theirs, plus double the calculation, a year there are four hundred silver interest, if this time also out of the birth of silver, naturally small, not our family such a thing. If we send two certain people to come, there are a lot of valuable things, just let people trample, but also seems to be a lot of treasures. How about in the garden of all the old mothers, pick out a few of the old honest can know the garden of the matter, sent to them to clean up the care, maybe they have to pay the rent and taxes, maybe ask them what they can pay tribute to a year. For one thing, the garden has a special person to repair, flowers and trees have a year like a year, but also do not have to be temporarily busy; two is not to practice, in vain, let down something; three is the old mothers can also take this small supplement, not in vain years in the garden hard work, and four can also save the flowers of these makers, such as the cleaner of the mountain craftsmen, such as the cost of labor.

Take what’s left over and make up for it. Do you think that will work?”

Jia Wu heard, can not help but heart to Tangchun respect, this is not the package production to the household it, than Deng Xiaoping fully two hundred years ago it: “good ah, good ah,” he praised: “sister this is really a good idea.”

“Yo, you can see it’s brother and sister, blowing each other off again?” Daiyu smiled and walked in.

Baochai followed Daiyu, also smiled and said: “fortunate in the beginning of the end of the neglect, repair its rhetoric of its addiction to profit, the third sister to plan a good only.”

Tangchun listened to the point, turn over the roster: “this one old Zhu Ma is a proper, and his old man and his son generations are in charge of cleaning bamboo, now even all the bamboo handed over to him. This is an old field mom was planted in a different crop, the rice village around all vegetables, rice and tares and so on, although it is stubborn, do not have to seriously rule the big plowing, but also have to go to him, and then on time to add some pei field, is not better. It is a pity that the asari garden and yihongyuan this two big place actually no interest in the thing.”

Baochai smiled slightly: “you really public Miss, this asari garden is actually more favorable. Now the spice store and the big market and the big temple to sell all over the spices and herbs, are not these things? Calculated than other interest is greater. Yihongyuan not to mention other, just say spring and summer season of roses, a total of how many flowers? There is also a fence on the rose, moonflower, Baoxiang, honeysuckle vine, alone this is not important to the dried flowers, sold to the tea medicine to go, is also worth a few dollars.

It would be more profitable if those moms had their heads in the game and planted something in short supply.”

“Oh, if we let them, it’s a guarantee that opium will be planted as well.” Jia Wu chuckled.

Bao Hairpin’s face buckled and she turned to the window, looking at the flowers on the fence.

“Third Miss, Third Miss,” Aunt Zhao stomped in, “Good news, good news!”

Daiyu and Baochai quickly got up: “Auntie sit, what good news ah?”

Aunt Zhao sat down, wiped the sweat from her head, and said to Tangchun, “Your uncle has sent a good errand!”

“My uncle?” Tangchun heart furious, how you always afraid of others do not know I am a small mother raised? She was about to say, “My uncle is Prince Teng, who has long been promoted to inspector of nine provinces!”

“Yes, it’s your great-uncle Zhao Chang, who was sent by the Internal Affairs Bureau to take care of the Emperor’s food and living!”

“Really?” Tangchun a stomach of anger suddenly turned into nothing. Taking care of the Emperor’s daily life, do not look at the official is not big, but the power is not small, what big officials have to flatter him a little. Fear that if he said a few bad words in front of the emperor, no one can stand. Thinking of this, she warmly took Aunt Zhao’s hand: “It seems that our Zhao family is going to be lucky, so let’s quickly go and tell the master!”

Nightly Exploration of the Red Mansion (XLIV)

Watching Tangchun and Aunt Zhao go out, Jia Wu and Dai Yu looked at each other and smiled. Dai Yu said, “Don’t look at Aunt Zhao, but she’s really a good mother to Third Sister and Huan’er!”

“That’s right,” Jia Wu said: “That boy Huan’er has a belly full of bad water, but he’s still a filial son to his mother.”

“Filial son? Hey!” Bao Hairpin sneered: “One word filial piety, how many families have been ruined!”

Jia Wu was flabbergasted: “Sister Bao, what do you mean by that?”

“A small child, if born to bear the family’s hatred, all actions are to filial piety, for the previous generation to avenge, no childhood, no joy, and even the conscience is gone.” Bao Hairpin indignantly said: “On that Wu Zixu for example, in order to avenge, worry about white hair, forced to save his fishing father-in-law to commit suicide, and seduced foreign soldiers as a traitor. The good thing is that the king he killed was a tyrant. If King Ping of Chu had been a good emperor, Wu Zixu would have disregarded his country and the common people in order to avenge his death, would his conscience have been so good!”

Jia Wu and Dai Yu were both dumbfounded by what they heard.

Bao Hairpin consciously misspeak, snappishly said: “Oh, the day is not early, I should see my mother to go.” Said and hurried away.

In the evening, the Imperial Garden.

Kangxi walked along the flower path, looking at the sky full of stars: “Heavenly officials move the general star, the Han land willow green, ten thousand miles to pass DiaoDou, the three armies out of the well path. Alas, the old fourteen men and horses should have already crossed the Yellow River, right!”

“Your Majesty, the 14th Brother is a lucky man, he will surely be successful.” Concubine Jia used a green jade plate to bring over a small glass of red wine: “You try this, it is the tribute from France.”

Kang Xi took the glass, to his mouth to smell: “Well, good, and I drank more than 40 years ago that French wine taste the same.” He raised the glass and read aloud: “Raise the glass to invite the moon, the shadow into three people.”

“Your Majesty, it should be: raise a cup to invite the moon, and make four in the shadow. That’s right.” Jia Fei said with a smile.

“What? You even dare to criticize Li Bai?” Kang Xi asked with amusement.

“Your Majesty, that Li Bai is too drunk to count. You see, he himself is one person, the moon counts as one person, and the shadow of the moon shining on the ground counts as one person. The moon is one person, and the shadow of the moon on the ground is one person. But the moon shines in the wine cup and there is still a person’s shadow, isn’t it four people?” Jia Fei said mischievously.

“Shadows in the wine glass, shadows in the wine glass,” Kang Xi sighed: “Time is like an arrow urging people to grow old ah!

It was the time of the crusade against Wu Sangui, I sat on this stone bench and she poured me a glass of wine. Under the moonlight, her shadow was reflected in this glass of wine, who would have thought that that would turn out to be the last time we met.”

“Your Majesty, you’re thinking about your confidante from back then again?” Concubine Jia said with a smile.

Kangxi looked at the Royal Water River willow tree, old tears: “Dreams break incense disappearance forty years, Shenyuan willow old not blowing mian. The love of tired people, engraved in the bones, how do you know the little doll family.”

Concubine Jia’s face turned pale, tears welling up in her eye frames, and she busily twisted her head to wipe them away.

A eunuch hurriedly came over and knelt down: “Your Majesty, the Fourth Brother seeks an audience.”

“Tell him to come in.” Kangxi waved his hand and sat down on the stone bench.

“Father,” Yongzheng bowed after salute, said: “I have been on the change of matters and the eight banners princes and ministers exchanged views, resistance is very ah.”

“Oh? And your opinion?”

“Since the last time the father enlightened after, the son of the court realized that the change of law is the Qing dynasty children and grandchildren of the long-term plan, stick to the old rules will not be able to keep, the world is in chaos, the end of the country and the day of the end of the family.” Yongzheng Luang talked.

“Good!” Kangxi praised: “You and old fourteen are the most talented of the imperial sons, and are born of the same mother.

It’s just that you’re not kind-hearted enough to be a general rather than a marshal. With you assisting Old Fourteen, I am relieved.”

“You can rest assured, I’m closest to my 14th brother, a mother’s womb.”

Yongzheng patted himself on the back and said, “By the way, there is a drought in Shandong and Zhili, and there is a White Lotus sect. There are also rumors around Beijing…” He said, handing over a piece of paper. Kang Xi opened it and read.

“True and false is not strange, yellow robes with jade in their mouths, true woes are many, false ones sit the country down.”

Jia Fei’s face immediately changed.

Kangxi thought for a moment: “ballads, in fact, are man-made. When Li Zicheng rebelled, it was Li Yan who made up a song for him: Eat his mother, wear his mother, open the door to welcome the king, the king came not to pay grain. The poor people heard, do not have to pay food, and then support Li Gan. Our eight banners into the customs, also Hong Chengchou to make up a song: ‘the wind of the eight banners blowing in the north, woke up our bitter brothers, propertyless and jobless up, rise in the Qing dynasty.’ Most of the Han Chinese in the flag were defected to us at that time. Whenever there is a rebellion, public opinion has to be created first.

Alas, I’m old, and it’s raining mountains again!”

Nightly Exploration of the Red Mansion (XLV)

Looking at Yongzheng’s distant back, Kang Xi took a long breath: “If the two brothers can work together, my Qing Dynasty will be blessed.”

“He ah,” Jia Fei disdainfully skimmed her mouth: “only the mouth is not right.”

“Hey, although old four is mean, but he and old fourteen are born from the same mother. Fighting tigers are like brothers, fighting in battle is like father and son. You’re too concerned.” Kangxi said with a smile.

“But  it is me who is multi minded,” said Jia Fei unconvincingly, “I always feel that behind the eyes of the fourth A brother, there is another pair of eyes!”

“Oh, small children, how with the old man old woman like suspicious.” Kangxi patted Jia Fei’s hand: “these days ah, how I always have strange dreams, dreaming of yellow hair and green eyes of foreigners, set up the red barbaric cannon, killed into the city of Beijing. A cannon down, the eight banners of the horse team bombarded corpses everywhere.”

“Your Majesty, I have seen a firearms battalion drill, the cannon is really powerful, there are also foreign guns,” Jia Fei pulled her hand back from Kang Xi’s hand: “Bow and arrow spears are not a match at all. Our army should also use cannons and guns.”

“Alas, you know I have always liked Western playthings. Called the State Council to write a “law and calendar sources”, introduces the Chinese and Western music theory, musical instruments, astronomy and calendar, as well as Western mathematics and Chinese arithmetic; also called the Ministry of household with Western methods to draw the first detailed map of China.” Kang Xi sighed and said: “would have liked to create Western-style schools, teaching Western science and engineering, the creation of the gun bureau, with foreign guns and cannons instead of swords and spears. But the princes of the eight banners must adhere to the ancestral law, said what riding and shooting is the root of the Manchu, the dynasty of corrupt Confucianism and want to adhere to the correct thinking of Confucius, opposed to Westernization, said what science and technology is the form of the next, the strange skills and tricks, and catch up with the Sanfan rebellion, my reforms came to an end without any problems.”

“Your Majesty, I’ve heard Baoyu say∶without reforming the political system, all other reforms are just empty words.”

Jaffe said.

“Reasonable, reasonable!” Kangxi stood up: “This Baoyu is really a talent. But  he can single-mindedly assist the old fourteenth. Old fourteenth’s reform if can succeed, my Qing dynasty can hope the river and mountain forever.”

Summer is here, the day is also long, after dinner the sun has not yet set. The sunlight through the red evening sunshine fell on the red shade of the red shade of the gauze tent, everywhere is red, but the shadow of the people reflected on the wall looks green.

Daiyu sat in front of the bookcase, her hands resting on her cheeks, gazing at the evening sun. When she was small in Suzhou, Grandma Li always loved to hold her to see the evening sun on Tiger Hill. Grandma Li coiled her little feet together and taught her to sing: “Pan, pan, pan, pan foot year. Feet year whole, branding flower cake, flower cake flower, a load of eggplant two loads of melon, rich, buy and eat, no money, chopped her footsteps!” Then he used the palm of his hand to gently chop on her calf, tickling her to the point that she laughed hahaha.

“Alas, Grandma Li does not know how it is now?” She remembered again before coming to Beijing, Mr. Lu took her and Wuniang on the West Lake  boat, it was late spring, the light wind blew, peach blossoms have fluttered with the wind, the evening sun, the mist on the river is also reflected in the red. Mr. Lu smiled and said: “You two students must write a stanza to hand in tomorrow!” Who knows that the next day, his father told himself to follow Jia Yucun into Beijing to find his grandmother.

Daiyu sighed softly, opened the ink cartridge, laid out the paper, and silently said in her heart, “Teacher Lu, I’m writing you a poem now.”

She thought about it for a moment and wrote on the paper: “Flowers, rain, fog, also red.

“Sister is writing poetry again, huh? Let me take a look.” Jia Wu came in with a smile: “The rain of flowers and fog is also red, the fallen flowers are light, far away with the wind, disappearing in the vast twilight, as if the fog of the river is leaking red, what a beautiful mood!”

Daiyu raised her head and smiled at him: “You’re teasing me again.”

“Sister, this is a sincere compliment!” Jia Wu said in a serious manner, “When Tang Pak Fu wrote a poem for someone, he first wrote down the line: “The willow flakes are red”. The master was very upset and said, “How can willow flakes be red? Tang Pak Fu laughed and added a line in front of it: the setting sun shines on the peach blossom dock, which instantly became a masterpiece.

The setting sun shines obliquely on the peach blossom dock, and the willow flakes fly in flakes of red. It’s so poetic and picturesque. Sister this line: flower rain dissolve fog also red, and Tang Pak Fu coincide, but than his more charming a few points!”

Daiyu dipped her brush in the ink cartridge and continued to write∶The east wind is powerless and the boat is light.

“A light wind blowing, if anything, and a tranquil mood, like the lightness of a boat, good!” Jia Wu stood behind Dai Yu, smelling a burst of fragrance coming from Dai Yu’s body, his heart swirled.

“Hehehe, it seems that you are really like my soulmate!” Daiyu said jokingly, and then continued to write in her hand: “The clouds contain a dream of spring, and a thousand peaks are blue.

“Well… the falling flowers and the boat are close-ups, the clouds and the mountain peaks are far away, from near to far, close-ups and then turning into a far shot, and there’s also the word dream, as in a dreamy beauty!”

“Close-ups? Shots? What are you talking about?” Debbie asked curiously.

“Heh! It’s a long story, sister, go ahead and write, it’s time to end it, let’s see what you’ve got in store for us.”

Daiyu pondered for a while and wrote on the paper∶The moon is full and the cold river has a sound at night.

“Good!” Jia Wu couldn’t help but shout out: “That year I was watching the moon in Erhai, Yunnan Province, the moon was round and hung high in the sky. The water of the lake was sparkling, and the lake was full of the moon’s shadow! The word “have” is even better. Originally, everything was silent, and there seemed to be no sound at all, but listen carefully to the sound of the wind on the river, the sound of the light waves lapping at the boat, and vaguely there seemed to be the sound of birds chirping in the distant mountains. At this time there is no sound, that is, there is sound!”

“More and more mixed up,” Daiyu with a finger on her face  shame him: “When have you ever been to the Erhai Sea? I’m afraid it’s a dream, right?”

“It’s not bad to have been there in your dreams!” Jia Wu smiled and said, “Good sister, where have you been in your dreams?”

“Yesterday I had a strange dream,” said Daiyu meditatively, “I was walking on the street by myself, carrying a strange bag full of books. There were so many four-wheeled carts running around by themselves, without horses. Then I walked into a nice big garden, and the people in the garden were all dressed in nice strange clothes. Inside there was a plaque that said, “Peking University.”

Nightly Exploration of the Red Mansion (XLVI)

The back garden of the Yong royal residence.

Yongzheng finished practicing a way of swordsmanship, Wu Sidao hurriedly handed over a wet towel: “Your Majesty, your swordsmanship is getting more and more exquisite, today’s martial arts, I’m afraid that there is no one is your opponent.”

“Oh, this is not necessarily,” Yongzheng one side wiped the sweat, one side smugly smiled: “the old fourteen, and that Jiangnan eight warriors, martial arts are not weak ah!”

“They can’t, I’ve seen Yin’s kung fu, I’m afraid that he won’t be able to go a hundred rounds under you.” Wu Sidao smiled ingratiatingly: “Did you tell the Emperor about that nursery rhyme?”

“Speak!”

“Did the Emperor say anything?”

“No. However, the old man’s suspicion is very serious! He doesn’t say anything, but in his heart, he’s definitely muttering.”

Yongzheng swaggering in the stone bench a sit: “I want you to visit the bad deeds of the officials in the dynasty, you can do how?”

“Your Majesty, really do not know, a check shock, I have checked the officials, there is no one not corrupt.” Wu Sidao shook his head and said, “Hundreds of thousands of taels of silver are nothing, there are several millions, and tens of millions!”

“Good!” Yongzheng slapped his thighs: “Having seized their shortcomings, I’m not afraid that they won’t align with me!”

“Your Highness, do you really want to use them? The common people hate them with a passion.”

“Let’s make use of them for a while, and when I have secured my throne, I will…” Yongzheng made a gesture of beheading them: “Kacha! All the money they raided will go to the state treasury, and the people will praise us for our wisdom. It’s just a case of “breaking the bridge, haha!”

Rongguo Mansion, Aunt Zhao’s room.

Wusidao huffed and puffed a mouthful of water pipe, spat out a smoke ring, said proudly: “This time the ring child this hereditary will not run. Prince Yong’s hands spicy heart black, really the emperor’s talent!”

“Hey!” Aunt Zhao sneered: “Kill the hounds when the rabbits run out, when he really becomes the emperor, I’m afraid there will be no good fruit for you to eat!”

“Hey, I’m a big contributor, didn’t I help make that plan of his happen?” Ushido said without caring.

“Great meritocracy, ever heard of killing a man to silence him?” Aunt Zhao flattened her mouth and said.

As we speak, Jia Huan ran in crying. Aunt Zhao saw him like this, asked in a bad mood: “Where is the money nest again?” A question was not answered, and when asked again, Jia Huan said: “Playing with Sister Bao, Ying’er bullied me and relied on my money. Brother Baoyu threw me out.”

Auntie Zhao spat: “Who told you to go on the plate? You dirty, shameless thing! Where can’t you play? Who told you to run off to have fun?”

Coincidentally, Sister Feng passed by outside the window and heard it in her ears. They said through the window: “What’s wrong with summer? Ring brother child family, a half a little wrong, you only teach him, say these words for what! How can he go, and Mrs. Masters control him, just spit on him! He is now the master, it’s not good, anyway, there are people who teach him, what has it got to do with you! Ring brother, come out and play with me!”

Ushido scrambled to hide behind the screen, and Aunt Zhao didn’t dare to make a sound.

Jia Huan is usually more afraid of Phoenix than of Mrs. Wang, and when he heard him called, he came out in a coy manner.

Sister Feng said to Jia Huan, “You’re also a person with no temperament! I always say to you: you want to eat, drink, play and laugh, and you only like to play with that one sister and brother-in-law, so you play with that one. You don’t listen to me, but you let these people teach you to be crooked and overbearing. You don’t respect yourself, you want to go downstream, you have bad intentions, and you only blame others for being biased. Lost a few dollars? Just like this!”

When Jia Huan saw the question, he could only reply with a promise: “I lost one or two hundred dollars!”

Sister Feng said: “Loss you are still a man, lost one or two hundred money like this!” Turned back and told Feng’er: “Go get a dangling money, the girls are playing in the back, send him to play. You tomorrow again so nasty fox charming child, I first beat you, sent people to tell the school, skin does not reveal your! For you this disrespect, hate your brother’s teeth itchy, not I stopped, nest feet to your intestines nest out of it!” Drinking: “Go!”

Watching Sister Feng take Jia Huan away, Wu Sidao turned out from behind the screen. Aunt Zhao shed tears and said, “Now you’ve seen it, seen what aggravating days we’ve had as a mother and son!”

Wu Sidao’s face turned blue: “How dare you, Wang Xifeng, bully others like this!”

Aunt Zhao said quietly “no wonder, no wonder, he is the master, this one point of the family’s private property or ask him to move to his mother’s home, I am not a person.”

Wu Sidao took Auntie Zhao into his arms: “Don’t be afraid, don’t be afraid, watch me play a little trick, I will make this Rongguo Mansion a mess!”

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Wu Sidao rubbed both hands on Aunt Zhao’s body indulgently and suddenly said, “I know why Wang Xifeng hates you.”

“Hmm?” Aunt Zhao leaned softly into his arms.

“You’re the only one in your combined house with bigger tits than hers!” Ushido said colorfully.

“Yuck! Shameless thing, who have you seen?” Aunt Zhao scolded with fake anger.

Usdao just about to speak, only to hear a sound outside, do not know what, everyone ate a shock not small.

Busy asking, it turned out to be the window of the outer room is not fastened, fell down. Aunt Zhao scolded the maid a few words, led the maid on the window, told Ushido also quietly from the corner door out, they went to the upper room to send Jia Zheng rest.

A head stuck out from the ridge of the room, it is Hongli. He spat out his tongue: “So suspenseful, if the old Wu knows that I bumped into his love affair will not be angry to faint. That Auntie Zhao is really hot body, the old Wu’s good luck. Father’s intelligence is also really watertight.” Thinking of this, he sighed, how much longer could he hide his birth from him?

Hongli has a map of the Rongguofu that Jiahuan got for him, but he came in and walked around. This time the night to visit the Jia House, mainly to see if there is any evidence about their own life, or to make the first move, to save the night long dream, and later fell into the hands of the Prince of Yong can be troublesome.

Then there is also want to see Jia old lady, Jia political their appearance, after all, is their own pro grandma, pro uncle it. Jia mother is a full of peace of the old lady, look at feel close; Jia political fake fake thing hypocrite-like, also quite to their liking. Who knows from the mother of Jia came out on the wrong way, saw the fragrant scene of Wusidao.

Hiroshi pulled out a map, looked at it by the moonlight, and ran in the direction of the Xiaoxiang Pavilion.

The windows of the Xiaoxiang Pavilion were open, and looking through the gauzy windows, Jia Wu had just walked into Daiyu’s room.

Hongli’s heart was tense for a while, since that this was beaten by Jia Wu, he began to be afraid of Jia Wu.

Jia Wu came into the room, saw Daiyu tear-stained face, then asked: “Sister, and who is angry with you?”

Daiyu forced a smile and said, “Who is angry about anything.”

When Zijuan next to him turned his mouth towards the table behind the bed, Jia Wu understood and looked there and saw that there were many things piled up, but they were brushes, ink, paper of various colors, scented bags, scented beads, fans, fan pendants, and so on, and there were also the self-made men brought by Huqiu, the wine orders, the mercury-infused somersaulting boys, the sand lamps, and the clay figures in the play, so he knew that it was the souvenirs of the south of the river that had been sent by Baochai, and he said, making fun of them, “Where did these things come from? “Where these things, not sister to open a grocery store ah?”

Daiyu also did not answer, Zijuan smiled and said: “The second master also mention things, because Miss Bao sent some things, the girl took a look at the broken heart. I am here to persuade, it is just that the second master came very coincidental, for us to persuade.”

Jia five know that Daiyu is to see things homesick, then smiled and said: “your girl’s reason to think of nothing else, must be the treasure girl to send too few things, so angry and sad. Sister, you don’t worry, when I call people to go to Jiangnan next year, and you bring more two boats, so that you don’t have to drip eyes and wipe tears.”

Daiyu heard these words, also know that Baoyu is for their own happy, also not good to push, also not good to any, then said: “I let how not see the world, but also can not come to this point, because of the delivery of things less, angry and sad. I am not two or three years old child, you also look at people as petty. I have my own reasons, you don’t know.”

Said the man, tears streaming down his face again.

Jia five busy walk to the bed, sit down next to Daiyu, will be those things one by one to pick up fiddling with a detailed look, deliberately asked what this is, what name; that is what is done, so neat; what is this, to do what he used; and said that this one can be placed in front, and said that that one can be placed on the bar above the table when the antique child is good it. Will some unimportant words to tease Daiyu happy, Daiyu just do not say anything.

Jia Wu suddenly saw a piece of poetry on the bed, so he picked it up and read it: the moonlight is as cool as water, the starlight is as soft as water; the red lamp passes on the blue lamp, the laughter goes down to the Lotus Tower; the dream wakes up and the person is not there, the nostalgia is a piece of sadness; it floats with the wind for thousands of miles, and the hatred is long and lingering for thousands of miles.

When Jia Wu saw this, he couldn’t help but think of his own home, enjoying the moon with his mother during the Mid-Autumn Festival, watching lanterns and guessing riddles with his girlfriend during the Lantern Festival, and playing cards and fighting wine with his buddies during the Spring Festival, and he launched himself into a daze.

Daiyu saw that Jia Wu was so, her own heart was too much, so she picked up a porcelain burnt unicorn and said, “Baoyu, take a look at this, it’s so much like the one that Locket stole the other day.”

Hongli, of course, knows that Locket, who was sent by Ushido to go undercover in the Jia residence, was later kicked out. He hurriedly pricked up his ears and listened carefully.

Jia Wu took the Qilin and looked at it, “Yes, it’s a great elephant. By the way, sister, the Lin family gave you the last letter you received, right?”

“Put away,” Daiyu eyes reddened again: “in my dresser drawer it.”

Hiroshi’s heart was happy to hear this, this is probably what I’m looking for.

I heard Daiyu say: “You don’t have to bother here. Let’s go to Sister Bao’s side.”

Jia Wu can’t wait for Daiyu to go out to spread boredom and relieve her nostalgia, so she said: “Sister Bao sent us something, we should thank you.”

Daiyu said: “Sisters, this is not necessary. Just to his side, Xue big brother came back, must tell him some of the south of the monuments, I go to hear, just as a trip back home.” Said, tears again in the eye frame spinning.

Jia Wu then stood and waited for him. Daiyu only had to come out with him and went to Baochai’s place.

Seeing the two of them walk away, Hiroshi sneered and jumped from the ridge to the ground.

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Hongli looked around and was just about to enter Daiyu’s house when he suddenly saw a girl coming from afar, as if she was the Haruhi on the portrait Jiahuan brought. He had heard from Ushido that Monk Yuyin had been seriously injured by Qingwen, so he guessed that he was definitely no match for her. Damn, how come she came at such an inopportune time, we have to wait for the next time. Hongli cursed in his heart and slipped out of the Rongguo Mansion unhappily.

“Master Bao Er, Miss Lin,” the fifth child dressed as Qingwen smiled as she walked into the Xiaoxiang Pavilion: “Huh, where have all the people gone?”

“They,” Zijuan came out from behind, “have gone to Miss Bao’s place. Qingwen, what’s the matter with you?”

When Jia Wu and Dai Yu arrived at the Asarum Courtyard, it was not coincidental that Baochai had gone out. The two just strolled casually around the garden, enjoying the moonscape.

It is the fifteenth day again, the moon is full and bright, shaking people almost dare not force to see. I remember the moon in Beijing is not so bright ah, Jia Wu heart secretly thought, or because there is no dirt leakage? Alas, such a beautiful Beijing starry sky, how later made so gray? I’m not a good son or daughter.

Daiyu looked at the moon, gently read: “When is the bright moon, put wine and ask the blue sky, I do not know the heavenly palace, what year is it now?”

“Alas,” sighed Jia Wu, “that Su Da Bei’s article is well written, but his character is not good!”

“What do you mean?” Daiyu asked curiously, “The story of Wang Anshi’s three difficulties with the Su bachelor is only that he was too arrogant when he was a teenager, what does it have to do with his character?”

“Has my sister heard the story of Chuniang?”

“No. You know that I can’t see any idle books,” Daiyu said as she glanced at Jia Wu and lowered her head, “except the ones you gave me.”

“Chuniang was one of Su Dongpo’s concubines,” Jia Wu said, looking at Daiyu: “She was beautiful and had a good writing style. When Chuniang went to the temple to offer incense, she was seen by a young man in the city, who was amazed by her. The villain went to Su Dongpo and offered to exchange his famous horse for Chun Niang. Su Dongpo, who was a horse fanatic, feared the villain’s power, and was no longer interested in Chuniang, agreed to the deal.”

“What about Chuniang?” Daiyu asked with concern.

“Chuniang was a fiery person, and when she heard the news she hit a tree and killed herself. Before she died, she wrote down a poem.”

Jia Wu looked at the moon, and slowly chanted: “I don’t want to be a daughter, and I will let others take care of all the pain and happiness. Now I realize that human beings are inferior to animals, and who would be the one to live in the next life?”

“Being a man is not a daughter’s body, and a hundred sufferings and joys are made by others.” Daiyu repeated in a low voice, tears streaming down her face.

Jia Wu was busy helping Dai Yu wipe away her tears: “Good sister, don’t be sad. It’s my fault for making you sad.”

“Alas, nothing,” said Daiyu with a forced smile, “I was thinking that women are all so miserable, and men are all so negative.”

“No!” Jia Wu patted his chest and said, “I’m not that negative man.”

“Baoyu,” Daiyu looked up, the bright moonlight reflecting on her eyes, beautiful, deep, yet gentle. Jia Wu couldn’t help but look stunned.

“These days I seem to always have a premonition,” Daiyu said quietly: “As if we are going to be in great trouble. I’m so scared.”

Jia Wu pressed against Dai Yu’s body, feeling the warmth emanating from her, and couldn’t help but feel a surge of desire to hold Dai Yu in his arms. However, to do so at this time, wasn’t it a bit of a way to take advantage of someone’s danger. He restrained himself with force, only gently pulling up Dai Yu’s hand: “Sister, don’t be afraid, there’s me.”

The two held hands face to face, and in the moonlight, Jia Wu felt that he could only hear Daiyu’s breathing and his own heartbeat.

After an indeterminate amount of time, tears welled up in Debbie’s eyes again.

“Don’t cry, sister, don’t cry, sister,” Ja’V said tenderly.

“No,” Daiyu said mockingly, “it’s much better now, not as many tears as earlier, as if they had all been shed.”

Jia Wu winced, he suddenly remembered Cao Xueqin said “tears and died”, but could not help but tightly grasp Daiyu’s hand, the pain Daiyu screamed.

Jia Wu hurriedly relaxed his hand and looked apologetically at Dai Yu: “Sister, don’t be afraid, big deal, let’s escape from this Jia Mansion together.”

“Escape?”

“Yes, let’s flee to Jiangnan, to Suzhou.”

Daiyu life has two of the biggest  hope: one is and Baoyu together; two is back to Suzhou hometown to see. Now these two  hopes can be realized? Her eyes were wide open as she looked at Jia Wu: “Baoyu, don’t you dare lie to me.”

“A gentleman’s word is a promise.” Jia Wu said firmly, and extended his little finger again : “Why don’t we pull the hook?”

It was at this moment that he suddenly heard the sound of a zither coming from the lake.

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The sound of the zither was clear and melodious, and then suddenly turned into a magnificent sound. Daiyu gazed and listened: “What an expert in the zither!”

Jia Wu is a man who has seen the world, has attended many concerts, and has a box of pirated CDs of classic music under his bed. Although the man in front of him played the guqin well, he was not good enough to play at a professional level, and that little white girl with a big braid at a party of some kind last year played better than he did. However, since Sister Lin praised it, of course he himself had to praise it a few times.

Before she could think of anything to praise, the sound of the zither suddenly turned mournful. Dai Yu took Jia Wu’s hand, and the two of them followed the sound of the zither.

The sound of the zither turned from bleak to sad, and a young girl’s voice sang along with the zither: “Why doesn’t Heaven have eyes to see me drift alone? For God has a spirit, why not make me in the sky, south, north and south of the sea?”

“It’s Cai Wenji’s 18 Beats of Hookah!” Jia Wu said.

Debbie let out a “hmmm” and her eyes filled with tears again.

The song became bitter and sad: “If I don’t live up to the sky, why should the sky match me? I don’t want God, but God needs me desperately to cross the barren state!”

The aftershocks echoed in the night sky, and the leaves on the trees rustled. Jia Wu couldn’t help but have a creepy feeling.

He took Daiyu’s hand tightly, and Daiyu wiped her tears and continued toward the sound of the zither.

Over the small dirt slope, I saw a red lantern hanging from a big willow tree by the lake, and a zither stand under the tree. On the side of the platform there was a small offering table with an incense burner on it. In front of the zither sat a girl, a habit of white clothes, full of long hair spilling down like a dark cloud, it was precisely Miao Yu.

Jia Wu couldn’t help but look dumbfounded.

Just saw the wonderful jade sighed, wiped his eyes, picked up a few incense, on the lantern lighted, inserted in the incense burner. A repeated smoke curls up, Miao Yu kneeled down: “Keqing sister soul is not far away, please drink this cup.” Said the table wine cup up, to the air a sprinkle, a little water droplets fell into the lake.

“Keqing, is it Qin Keqing?” Jia Wu was so strange: “What does she have to do with Miao Yu?”

Miao Yu stood up: “Sister, I’ve learned your tune for Dream of the Red Chamber, listen to it.” Said again went to the piano and sat down, tuning for a while.

Daiyu said softly: “Jun string is too high, and no shooting law only not match it.”

Only heard Miao Yu with the sound of the piano sang: “open  Hongmeng, who is the clear seed? All only for the bright moon love.”

Daiyu heard, dumbfounded and lost color said: “how suddenly for the sound of change? The sound can crack gold and stone, just too much.”

Jia Wu asked, “What if it’s too much?”

Daiyu said, “I’m afraid it won’t last.”

As he was talking, he heard a pop and the string snapped.

Miaoyu stood up and said with a smile, “There is suddenly a strange sound in the zither, I think there must be a high person present, why don’t you come out to meet?”

Jia Wu was busy pulling Dai Yu out of the shade and said with a smile, “I’m afraid of disturbing you ah, you play the piano really well.”

Seeing that it was Jia Wu, Miao Yu could not help but be stunned, and ignoring him, she turned toward Dai Yu and said, “You’ve come just in time, I was just about to invite you for tea.”

“Count me in for tea too!” A person turned out from behind the bar, and it was none other than Baochai.

“Why are you all ambushed here today?” Miao Yu smiled and said, “Good, you guys wait, I’ll go burn some tea.” Saying that, he pulled Baochai and Daiyu’s lapels, and the two went out with him, Jia Wu quietly followed.

I saw Miao Yu let the two of them in the ear room, Baochai sat on the couch, Dai Yu will sit on the bushel of Miao Yu. Miao Yu since the fan to the wind stove rolled water, brewed a pot of tea. Jia five then walked in, laughing: “cheat you to eat your own tea it!” The two laughed: “You again rushed to cheat tea to eat, here and not you.”

Miao Yu took out two cups, one next to an ear, the cup engraved with three official characters, there is a line of small real characters is “Jin Wang Kai treasures”, and there is “Song Yuanfeng five years in April, Meishan Su Shi in the secret house” a line of small characters. Miaoyu poured a cup of hand with the treasure hairpin, that a shape like a bowl and small, also has three hanging pearl seal script, engraved with “point rhinoceros pellet”.

Miaoyu poured a pot with Daiyu, and still poured Jiawu the same green jade bucket that she used to have tea in before.

Jia Wu laughed: “often said ‘the world law is equal’, he two with that kind of antique curiosity, I’m a mundane weapon.”

Miaoyu said: “This is a common tool? Not I say crazy words, I’m afraid your family may not be able to find such a common tool to it!”

Jia Wu laughed and said: “The saying goes with the countryside into the countryside, to your place, naturally that gold and jade jewelry is reduced to a common weapon.”

Miao Yu heard so said, very happy, the pot to the bucket poured a cup. Jia five ate carefully, the fruit feel frivolous incomparable, appreciation. Wonderful jade color said: “you eat this tea is thanks to his two blessings, only you came, I am not for you to eat.”

Jia Wu laughed: “I know deeply, I also do not appreciate your feelings, only thank him two is.”

When Miao Yu heard this, she said, “That’s understandable.”

Daiyu asked, “Is this also the rain of the old year?”

Miao Yu laughed coldly said: “you are such a person, is actually a big vulgar people, even the water can not taste out. This is five years ago I live in the Xuan Tomb Coiled incense Temple, collected the snow on the plum blossom, a total of that a ghost face green flower urn a urn, always reluctant to eat, buried in the ground, this summer only opened. I have only eaten once, this is the second time. Why can’t you taste it? The next year to remit the rain which is so frivolous, how to eat?”

Jia Wu heard a flabbergasted, when I was in elementary school, I heard the teacher say that snowflakes adsorb a lot of dust when they fall, so snow water is very dirty. I also tried it once myself, using a small canning box filled with snow, put it on the stove, the result was melted out all muddy soup. Thinking about it, I couldn’t help but glance into the glass, clear and transparent. Was there less dust in the air 200 years ago, or did Myrtle have some kind of filtering method?

Daiyu knows that Miaoyu’s nature is eccentric, it is not good to talk too much, and it is not good to sit too much. After eating tea, was about to ask Baochai to walk out, suddenly saw Miao Yu to her to make a wink.

Dai Yu and Miao Yu walked to the inner room, Miao Yu asked Dai Yu in a low voice: “Is your family from Suzhou?”

“Yeah, you too?” Debbie said.

“Sort of, your father’s family brother and sister?”

“Just him.”

“Where are the cousins?”

“Neither.”

“Huh,” said Myuyu curiously, “Isn’t his name Lin Ruhai?”

“Yes,” Dai Yu also wondered: “Do you know the Lin family?”

“No, I don’t know,” stammered Miaoyu, “Just asking, just asking.”

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Wusidao sat on the mahogany sub, crossed his legs, upside down, said proudly: “Fourteenth Aggie’s men have passed Lintong, now we are all ready, all we need is an east wind ah!”

Aunt Zhao poured him a cup of tea: “Don’t be too happy too soon, you guys have a belly full of tricks, if you can’t get it right, it’s a matter of losing your head.”

“A man in the world, there is a chance to make a name for himself, that is, the pot is lying on the road to die also straight.” Wusidao smiled and said: “Besides, I am a living Zhuge, counting nothing, counting nothing ah!”

Aunt Zhao smiled: “You’ll just brag. By the way, you did not say that you must make this Rongguo Fu in the chicken and dogs are restless it, so many days, also did not see you hold out a fart!”

“Oh, you still remember!” Ursidao smiled and pulled something out of his pocket: “Look at this.”

Aunt Zhao took a look, is a scented bag, gorgeous and exquisite, is lovely, but the embroidery is not flowers and birds and other things, one side is a man and a woman two people naked coiled embrace, one side is a few words: “Born in an immortal hole, unlimited scenery in the dangerous peaks”.

Aunt Zhao’s face turned red and she spat, “You old man, which little whore did you get this from?”

“What?” Wu Sidao was busy defending, “This is called the Embroidered Spring Pouch, with it, you can make a mess of the Jia House!”

“How?”

“Listen to me!” Wusidao smiled: “In the Grand View Garden, except for Baoyu’s kid, all the girls are yellow, if they have an affair with a man, their reputation and the reputation of the Jia Mansion will all be finished. Besides, the main thing in Jiafu now is that Phoenix, if something goes wrong, she will be the first to be blamed.”

“Oh?” Aunt Zhao seemed to understand something.

“We want to find a way to make this embroidered spring capsule to the old lady, or Mrs. Wang’s hands, just say that it is in the Grand View Garden picked, and then ah, you just wait to see the fun!” Wu Sidao said triumphantly.

“Which, you mean, for me to give them this embroidered spring bag?”

“No, they will suspect you, we need to find someone they can trust.” Ushido said, “Let’s go to the garden and take a look.”

In the afternoon of the summer, the Grand View Garden was so quiet that only the sound of cicadas could be heard.

Wusidao and Aunt Zhao hid behind the big willow tree, only to see Jia mother’s room of the little girl called silly big sister’s smiling come. Aunt Zhao’s heart was happy, said: “Good, that’s her,” busy throwing the embroidered spring bag to the center of the path.

It turns out that this silly big sister is fourteen, five years old, is the new pick up with the mother of Jia this side of the bucket sweeping yard specializing in rough work of a girl. Just because he was born fat face broad, two big feet for rough work simple and quick and stupid mind, no knowledge, acting out, often outside the rules. Jia mother because she liked his quick and convenient, but also like his words can laugh, they named “silly big sister”, often bored to lead him to make fun of a time, without avoiding. Therefore, she was also called “silly girl”. Even if she has a rude place, see JiaMu like him, all people will not go to criticize. This girl also got this power, if the mother does not call him, then into the garden to play. Today is in the garden to pull out the crickets, the crickets jumped away, she rushed over with.

Silly big sister saw the road there is a flower red and green things, and picked up. This silly girl did not recognize it as Chunyi, so she thought to herself: “Dare it be a fight between two goblins? Otherwise it must be two people fighting.” Left and right to guess not to understand, think to go to take to see with the mother of Jia, on the smiling one wall to see, one wall to go.

Ushido and Aunt Zhao looked at each other and smiled.

Mrs. Xing sat in Mrs. Wang’s place for a time, but also to the garden for a break. Just in front of the garden gate, only to see the silly big sister’s smiling come, holding a flowery green things in the hand. Mrs. Xing said: “This stupid girl, and got a what the dog does not know children so happy? Bring me to see.”

Silly big sister saw Mrs. Xing so said, then laughed and said: “Mrs. really said coincidentally, really is the dog does not know it!

Mistress, please take a look.” With that, he sent it over.

Mrs. Xing received a look, scared to death, busy clutching, and asked: “Where did you get it?”

Silly big sister said: “I dig crickets in the rocky mountain side to pick.”

Mrs. Xing said: “Do not tell a person. This is not a good thing, even you will be killed. All because you are always a fool, do not mention it again.”

This silly big sister heard, but scared yellow face, said: “Never dare again.” She kowtowed and went away in a daze.

Jia Wu sat on a mountain rock and practiced internal energy exhaling for a while, and when he saw Silly Big Sister running over in a panic, he asked, “Hey, what are you running for?”

Silly Big Sister looked at Jia Wu: “I won’t say anything, I don’t know anything.” And hurriedly ran away.

Jia Wu was stunned, how come even silly big sister has become so strange? Alas, there are more and more doubts within this Jia House, how could Miao Yu and Qin Keqing be sisters? She will sing the tune of the Dream of the Red Chamber again, which is the police fantasy fairy nun to Baoyu’s dream? “Open  Hongmeng, who is the clear seed? All only for the bright moon love is thick.” Who is the clear seed? Said but the Qing Dynasty royal family’s hidden secrets? All only for the bright moon love thick, said is nostalgic for the Ming Dynasty?

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Jia Wu was pondering this when he saw Qingwen, dressed as Wu’er, run over in a hurry: “Second Master, the Mother has sent someone to look for you, go quickly.”

Jia Wu heard something wrong with his voice and asked, “What’s wrong with you? Do you have a cold?”

The fifth child rubbed his nose: “okay, just the nose is not air, you go.”

Jia Wu touched the five children’s head, hot, busy said: “You quickly go back to rest, drink more hot water, sweat, tell the attacker to send someone to ask the doctor.”

Assailant was in Mrs. Wang’s room at the moment, having her work report every five days.

Attacker said: “I just want to ask Mrs. a show down, how to change the law, and later even teach the second master to move out of the garden to live on the good.”

Mrs. Wang heard, ate a big surprise, busy pulling the hand of the attacker, asked: “Baoyu is not and who made a mistake not?”

Attacker quickly said: “Mrs. Do not be concerned, there is no such thing. This is just my small insight. Now that the Second Master has grown older, and the girls in the house have also grown older, and Miss Lin and Miss Bao are two aunt-cousin sisters, although they are sisters, in the end, they are men and women, and it is inconvenient for them to get up and sit down in one place day and night, so it is not surprising that they are so worried about them. Besides, there are some frivolous maids who dress up all day long…” As she was saying this, Mrs. Xing lifted the curtain and came in, and Assailant went over to salute her, only to see Mrs. Xing’s face sinking: “Assailant, get out of here!”

Attacker busy back out. Mrs. Wang asked strangely, “Sister-in-law, is something wrong?”

Inside Phoenix’s room.

Phoenix was crooked on the bed, and Jia Rong was half-kneeling on the edge of the bed.

Jia Rong smiled and said: “My father sent me to beg auntie, said last time the old uncle wife to auntie’s glass kang screen, tomorrow to invite an important guest, borrowed a slight swing will be sent over.”

Sister phoenix laughed: “also do not see you, the king’s things are not good? You put those good things there, just can’t see, favoring my is good.”

Jia Rong squeezed his eyes to Feng Sister and said with a smile, “Where is this good, I only ask that Auntie pain me again!”

That phoenix sister just slowly eat tea, out of half a day of God, and laughed: “just, you and go. After dinner you come to say, this time someone, I have no spirit.”

Jia Rong responded, and the party slowly retreated.

Jia Rong just left, heard someone report: “Mrs. They came.” Phoenix heard very surprised, do not know for what to come, and Ping’er and other busy welcome out. See Mrs. Xing complacent, Mrs. Wang’s complexion changed, Sister Feng knew it was not good, busy with a smile and asked: “The two wives are happy today, to stroll here.”

Mrs. Wang ordered: “Ping’er out!” Ping’er saw this, panic do not know how, busy should be a sound, with all the little girls out.

Phoenix also panicked, do not know what such a thing. Only to see Mrs. Wang with tears in her eyes, from the sleeve thrown out a bag of incense to, said: “You see.” Phoenix busy pick up a look, see is embroidered spring bag, also startled, busy asking: “Mrs. from where to get?”

Mrs. Wang asked, more and more tears, trembling voice said: “Where do I get? I take you as a careful person, the whole of the house to you, who knows that you are also the same as me. Such a thing in broad daylight in the garden on the rocks, was the old lady’s maid picked up, not thanks to your mother-in-law met, has long been sent to the old lady to go.”

Mrs. Xing has long been looking at Mrs. Wang and Sister Feng, the hereditary Rongguo Fu is Jia Pi’s, the mistress of the house should be their own, who knows that the mother of Jia is biased, and the power of the housekeeper was given to Mrs. Wang. Mrs. Wang in turn handed over to Sister Feng. Although Phoenix is her own daughter-in-law, but on the basis of Jia mother’s favor, Mrs. Wang and protection, to their own respect and distance, and the public. I was a daughter-in-law suffered so much anger, it is not easy to get to the mother-in-law, but there is no daughter-in-law can be out of anger. Today, I always find a chance.

Mrs. Xing thought of this hehehe smile, put out the mother-in-law spectrum to: “I and ask you, how this thing left there to come?”

Sister Feng heard, scared more color, busy asking: “How do the wives know is my?”

Mrs. Wang cried and sighed and said: “You ask me! You think, what is the use of having a family of wives, except for your husband and wife? Naturally, I got it from that Lian’er’s ungrateful and nasty seed. You’re all in good humor, so you’re treating it as an unruly thing, and you’re still lying to me!”

Phoenix sister heard, and anxious and ashamed, and then purple rose skin, will be based on the edge of the bed on both knees, also tearful appeal: “Mrs. said certainly reasonable, I do not dare to argue that I do not have such a thing. But even if I have, I can only hide it at home, how can I bring it everywhere with me? There is also that Mrs. often brought a few sister-in-laws, all are young concubines, they should have this. And there Jane sister-in-law, she is not very old, she also often brought Pei Feng and other people, how do you know and not theirs? Besides, there are too many maids in the garden, can we guarantee that they are all decent?”

Mrs. Xing had heard that Sister Feng and Jia Rong of the Ningguo Mansion were very close, so she laughed coldly: “Then how about we cut off contact with the East House?”

Phoenix face is a red and said: “Mrs. said yes. Let’s and calmly and secretly visit, only to be true.

Now only to take advantage of the cause of gambling money leather a lot of people this time, the Zhou Rui daughter-in-law Wang’s daughter-in-law and other four, five close can not walk the word of the people inserted in the garden, to check the gambling as a reason to take advantage of the opportunity, where older, or some teeth difficult to deal with, to take a mistake out of the matching people.”

When Mrs. Wang heard this, she called for Zhou Rui’s family to come in. Mrs. Xing laughed coldly again: “Your manpower is not quite enough, right? How about I call my concubine Wang Shanbao’s family to accompany you in the search?”

At one time, Zhou Rui’s family and Wu Xing’s family, Zheng Hua’s family, Lai Wang’s family, Lai Xi’s family of five chaperones came in. Mrs. Xing’s concubine Wang Shanbao’s family also came.

This Wang Shanbao family is a factor day into the garden to go to those maids do not tend to her, her heart is not comfortable, to find their stories, just happened to be born out of this, they said to Mrs. Wang: “Not a slave to talk too much, the reasoning of this matter should be tightened up early. These girls one by one like Miss Qianjin. Other are just, Mrs. do not know, a treasure jade house of Qingwen, that girl on the basis of his birth of the appearance of some more than others, and born a clever mouth, every day dressed like a Xishi look, a sentence is not agreeable, he stood up two tawdry eyes to scold people.”

Mrs. Wang herself was born ugly, the most hate is beautiful girls. Since Jia Zheng married Auntie Zhao, they have been widowed for more than twenty years, the years of the tiger and wolf, the days are really difficult to pass. Now in menopause, is more uncertain, heard this, violently touched the past, then asked Feng said: “Last time we followed the old lady into the garden to stroll, there is a water snake waist, cut shoulders, eyebrows and some like your sister Lin, is there to scold the little girl, this girl must be him.”

Nightly Exploration of the Red Mansion (Fifty-two)

Jia Wu rode a horse in front of a trot, Ming Yan rode a big green mule closely followed. Just before arriving at the west street of the Drum Tower, an old woman in rags suddenly crashed out on the side of the road, almost touching the head of Jia Wu’s horse. The horse let out a long whistle, the front hooves stood up more than a person high, it was hard to stop, and almost threw Jia Wu off the horse.

The old woman was so scared that she sat down on her butt in the middle of the road. Ming Yan jumped off the mule: “Hey, old woman! You want to die!”

Jia Wu hurriedly made a gesture to stop Ming Yan, jumped off the horse himself, and reached out to help the old woman: “Ma’am, are you alright from the fall?”

The old woman lay still on the ground, covering her face with her sleeve and screaming, “Aigoo, I’ve fallen to my death, I can’t even move!”

Ming Yan scolded: “You a foreign to the old gang, still want to blackmail the masters do not!”

Jia Wu glared at Ming Yan: “Shut up!” He took out twenty taels of silver from his pocket and handed it to the old woman: “Old lady, it’s all my fault, you go and find a doctor to take a look at it first, if it’s not enough, then go to my house and look for me.”

The old woman suddenly “puffed” a laugh, stood up from the ground, dusting the dirt on her body: “really children can be taught, no wonder Gan Fengchi likes you.”

Jia Wu was flabbergasted, suddenly realizing that the old woman wasn’t actually old, especially her eyes, which shone with a playful light like a young girl’s.

The woman looked carefully at Jia Wu’s face and sighed: “The heavenly gate is dark, bad luck is haunting you, within a year, I’m afraid there’ll be a plague of bloodshed.” She took out a small jade Buddha from her bosom and handed it to Jia Wu: “Take this with you, whether you can get through it or not depends on your destiny.”

Jia Wu was about to say something when he saw the woman quickly flash into an alleyway and was gone.

Changchun Palace in the Forbidden City.

Concubine Jia lovingly touched Jia Wu’s head: “You’ve grown taller. The Emperor is having a banquet the day after tomorrow, and there will be a poetry contest. I’ve told the Emperor that I want you to come and show off.”

Jia Wu thought to himself: the matter of changing the law is difficult, how there is this leisure. He sighed: “Fourteenth Brother has any news recently?”

Jia Fei blushed: “He? I heard that he’s almost to Qinghai.”

The eunuch Qin Liu came in and knelt down: “Your Highness, the Ministry of Internal Affairs sent you ice.”

Concubine Jia waved her hand. Qin Liu commanded two small eunuchs to place a two-foot square, half-foot thick block of ice into the large gold-lacquered wooden basin in the center of the room, then knowingly retreated.

The room cooled down instantly, and Jia Fei grabbed a few lychees and put them on ice, saying to Jia Wu, “Mother came here the other day and said that you weren’t young anymore and that you should consider marrying.”

Jia Wu couldn’t help but blush and listen carefully.

“The old lady is hoping to add to the family. Inside our family relatives, say looks, Xue Baochai girl is a first-class, and the Xue family is rich, Baochai girl’s temperament, body are good. Our Jia House, as you know, is now cribbing, out more, in less, this frame will soon be unable to support.”

Jia Wu was taken aback by this and said, “No, I don’t want to marry Sister Bao.”

“Why?” Jia Fei asked strangely, “She’s so beautiful and you still don’t like her? Could it be that you have someone else in mind?”

“I, I like Lin Daiyu.” Jia Wu said strenuously.

“Lin Daiyu?!” Concubine Jia’s face immediately sank: “Although she’s beautiful, her body is so thin, she doesn’t look like one with longevity.”

“I won’t marry anyone but her.” Jia Wu said firmly.

“You,” Concubine Jia was so angry that she was trembling all over: “Don’t you know?” She lowered her voice: “Lin Daiyu is in fact the daughter of the Fourth A-Go. The Fourth Brother is sinister and poisonous, he, he has harmed me all my life.”

Said the man, teeth clenched.

Jia Wu walked over to Consort Jia: “I know that Fourth Aggro has harmed you. However, the father’s account can not be counted on the daughter’s head.” He took Jia Fei’s hand: “I know that you have been suffering for love all your life, you don’t  want me to be as bitter as you are, right, mother?”

The word “mother” made Jia Fei feel like she was being bombarded by thunder. She was flabbergasted for a long time, and grabbed Jia Wu: “You, you know everything?”

Jia Wu nodded: “Well, Fourteenth Brother told me all about it.”

Jia Fei tightly embraced Jia Wu in her arms: “Child, child, I am your mother, I dreamt of you calling me mother, call me again.” Said, tears fell like rain.

Jia Wu called out with tears in his eyes, “Mother.”

“Good, good, good…” Princess Jia sobbed uncontrollably after only a few words. After a while, she wiped away her tears and said with a smile, “Good, it’s worth dying for today. You go, and I’ll tell the Old Madam and the others that I’ll marry Sister Lin for you.”

Looking at Jia Wu’s far away back, Jia Fei can not help but fall into tears again. Suddenly saw the ground there is a bright things, pick up a look, but it is Jia Wu fell off the body of the small jade Buddha, turquoise crystal, Buddha image toward her haha giggle.

A head shrunk back from the window, and it was none other than Qin Liu.

Nightly Exploration of the Red Mansion (Fifty-three)

Jia Wu returned to the Rongguo Mansion in high spirits and couldn’t help but be overjoyed at the thought of marrying Sister Lin as his wife.

Should he go and tell Sister Lin first? Thinking of Lin Mei’s shy and joyful appearance, he couldn’t help but smile again.

Walking past Madame Wang’s room, he suddenly heard someone talking behind the shadow wall, Jia Wu lightened his steps, only to hear Madame Wang say, “Just now, your mother-in-law came again, wanting us to hand over all the financial power of the house to her. Otherwise, she will tell the old lady and the two masters about the Embroidered Spring Bag.”

Jia Wu secretly stretched his head to see, only to see Phoenix thought for a while, said to Mrs. Wang: “Mrs., the fist shrinks back in order to hit people. The house is now unable to make ends meet, so why don’t we just leave this mess to them, and let’s build up our strength, then slowly pick their faults and look for opportunities to counterattack.”

Jia Wu was shocked to hear this: what a great idea! Later, when Mao Zedong’s Great Leap Forward went wrong and starved tens of millions of people to death, Liu Shaoqi was pushed out to clean up the mess, and then he was sentenced to death by the Cultural Revolution, and the same tactics were used.

At that moment, I saw Big Sister Silly smilingly approaching, singing, “Scraping the tapper, singing about Liu Hai’er, Liu Hai’er in his fancy pants, who made it, my mother made it, where is my mother? She died long ago, wooo wooo wooo wooo wooo wooo…”

Phoenix sister busy to silly big sister called: “Hey, you that flower purse is where to pick up?”

Silly Big Sister panicked: “I don’t dare to say, I don’t know!”

Phoenix took out a piece of chestnut yam soup, peeled off the paper, and handed it to Silly Big Sister: “Good girl, don’t be afraid, I’m here, no one dares to bully you!”

Silly big sister mouth chewing goat soup, whimpering whimpering said: “just in the mountain stone side pick up, also heard someone talking, like Aunt Zhao.”

Silly big sister left, Mrs. Wang frowned: “Could it be that the master gave it to Aunt Zhao?” In her heart, there was another wave of jealousy.

Phoenix thought: good ah, Aunt Zhao and Mrs. Xing hooked up together, hey, which we will compare, to see whose means high. However, they also have to prepare for it, or maybe it is a fight to the death.

Thinking of this, Sister Feng said to Mrs. Wang: “It seems that it is very difficult for us and my mother-in-law to make things right. Either the east wind overwhelms the west wind, or the west wind overwhelms the east wind. It’s true that only a big fortune can make a big impact. I think we should hurry up and organize the marriage between Miss Xue and Baoyu. On the one hand, the Xue family is very rich, and on the other hand, Miss Xue is a person with a heart, so we also have a helper.”

Jia Wu heard here, can not help but be afraid, he knows that Jia Fei is a person without much heart, if Phoenix set up a trap of any kind, maybe tricked her into really agreeing to marry sister Bao. Only, only rely on the fourteenth Argo to pressure them.

Thinking of this, Jia Wu quickly stepped into the study, to write a letter to the fourteenth Aggie ∶

“My father: I went to the palace today and my mother talked about my marriage. Mother also agreed to marry Lin Daiyu through the door, but I am afraid that the night is long and dreamy, I hope that my father can write a letter to the Jiafu, in order to fulfill this matter.

I wish Father a great victory. I, Baoyu, bow down.”

After writing it, he stamped it with his own seal and put it in an envelope. On the front cover, he wrote: “From the King, the Great General”.

Jia Wu let out a long breath, tucked the letter into his arms, and headed for Yihongyuan.

Only into the Yihongyuan, I feel the atmosphere is not right. Attacker face dark clouds, but seems to have color, musk moon eyes red, as if just cried. Jia Wu thinking of five children, mouth called: “Qingwen, Qingwen!” He reached out to lift the tent. Inside the tent was empty, just a bedpan.

“Huh, where did Haruna go?” Jia Wu asked curiously.

Musk moon “wow” cried out, pointing a finger at the attacker: “You ask her! You ask her!”

“Hey, hey,” the attacker sneered: “Mrs. kicked her out, it’s none of my business!”

Jia Wu was stunned, “Tell me, what happened?”

Musk moon huffed and puffed: “This afternoon, Mrs. sent someone to pull the Qingwen from the sick bed to go, once they met, scolded: ‘good beauty! You’re really like a sick Shi Shi. Who do you want to look at you every day with such a frivolous behavior? I don’t think I know what you are doing! I’ll let you go, but I’ll reveal your skin tomorrow! How is Baoyu today? As soon as she heard these words, she knew that someone was plotting against her, and had made a report to her. Although she was annoyed, she refused to tell the truth, and only said: ‘I don’t go to Baoyu’s room much, and I don’t often stay with Baoyu, so I can’t know whether it’s good or bad, and I’ll only ask the two assailants, Musk Moon.’ Mrs. said: ‘Amitabha Buddha, you do not close to the treasure is my good fortune, I can not see this kind of wave! Who allows you to dress up like this! Someone come, pack up her things and throw her out! When she was about to tell the truth, Wang Shanbao’s family swung his broom at her, scolding her as he did so: ‘Bitchy girl, some people are born to be maids who get beaten up, while others are born to be princesses with golden keys in their mouths, so resign yourself to your fate, you little foxy girl! Ching-mun was sick and was thrown out…”

At this point, Muskie was sobbing uncontrollably.

Nightly Exploration of the Red Mansion (54)

Jia Wu was shocked and angry, and busily said to Musk Moon, “Where is Qingwen now? You quickly take me to see!”

Attacker pulled Jia Wu’s skeleton: “Second Master, it’s too late today, let’s talk about it tomorrow!”

Jia Wu shook off her attacker, pulled Musk Moon, and trotted, out of the Grand View Garden.

Outside the back corner door, there are three adobe rooms. Jia Wu told Musk Moon to stand guard outside and called out, “Qingwen, Wu’er.” He pushed the door and went in.

Five children because of the wind, but also by the wife of Wang’s bad words, sick on top of sick, cough cane a day, only hazy sleep. Suddenly heard someone call her, strong eyes, see is Baoyu, and shocked and happy, and sad and painful, busy a dead clutch his hand, choked for half a day, Fang said half a sentence to: “I only think not to see you.” And then they coughed the canes a can’t stop.

Jia Wu also only choked, helping Wu’er sit up: “Good sister, it’s all because I’ve harmed you.”

The fifth child whimpered and said: “There is nothing to say! But a moment is a moment, and a day is a day. I know it will only be three or five days before I can go back. Only one thing, I die not willing: although I was born a little better than others, and did not have a secret love to seduce you how, how a bite of death bit me is a vixen!

I am too unconvinced. Today has already borne a false name, and on the verge of death, not I say a word of regret, if I had known that, I also had another reason that day.” After saying this, he cried again.

Jia Wu pulled up her hand, only to feel as thin as a withered wood, wrist is wearing four silver bracelets, said in tears: “first unload this to, and then put it on when it’s good.” Because with her unloaded, stuffed under the pillow.

Five children wipe tears, then reached out for scissors, the left hand on the two onion pipe like nails hinge down, and reach to the quilt will be wearing an old red damask jacket off, and the nails are handed to Jia five: “This you receive, in the future, as see me in general. Take off your jacket and give it to me to wear, I will lie in the coffin in the future, it is like still in the Yihongyuan.”

Jia Wu put the nails into the purse, and then look at the red damask jacket embroidered with a flying horse, there are eight words on it: “Heavenly Horses, alone”, or he himself wrote to her embroidered on it.

Jia Wu’s heart sank, and he busily took off the small jacket he was wearing and put it on her, and then he gestured for her to lean in his arms.

Didn’t want Wu’er to be weak through and through, so tossed and turned, had already gasped into a ball. Jia Wu put his hand on her wrist, only to feel the pulse scattered, an ominous thought emerged. He put his head to her ear: “Good sister, I’ll go get you a doctor.”

Wu’er pulled Jia Wu with all her might: “No, don’t go, I’ll never see you again if you go.”

Jia Wu gently pats Wu’er’s bones, “Good, I’m not leaving.” Shouting out the window, he said, “Muskmoon, you tell Mingyan to go and ask Dr. Wang to come.”

Muskie watched from the window, already in tears, and promised to leave.

Wu’er leaned against Jia Wu’s chest, her body shivering uncontrollably, and after a while, she calmed down and smiled bitterly, “Bao Yu, do you still remember when we first met?”

Jia Wu hugged Wu’er, warming her shivering body with his own body heat, and gently whispered in her ear, “Remember, of course I remember.”

A layer of redness appeared on Wu’er’s pale face: “You don’t know, I always dreamt of you after that day. Especially the night before last, I dreamt that the two of us, along with Sinniang and Sister Lin, the four of us went to a deserted island, far away from this filthy place.”

Her eyes suddenly became bright and shiny, and her spirit seemed much better. Jia Wu was a little afraid in his heart, could it be the return of light that people often say?

Wu’er said with a longing: “During the day, we farmed and grew vegetables, raised chickens and ducks, and wove and embroidered flowers. At night, we gather around the fire, tell stories and jokes, and make poems. I just wrote two lines: ‘Whose flute flies in spring, the jade cup is exquisite and the geese shadow is cold’, I woke up.”

Jia Wu hurriedly said, “Sister, you get well, when you get well, we’ll find an island to go and live on him for a few days.”

Wu’er smiled sadly: “I can’t get well. You know, I will be fifteen years old in two days.

When I was a child, a fortune teller once said that I would never live to be fifteen. I always thought that the day before I was going to die, I would find a place where no one was around and leave in peace. But again, it always felt like it was too lonely. I really couldn’t be happier to die in your arms today.”

Jia Wu felt like his heart was going to break at this point, tears falling drop by drop on Wu’er’s chest: “Good sister, pull yourself together, you won’t die.”

Wu’er smiled, smiling so peacefully: “Baoyu, you shed tears. With your tears to send me, I die also at ease.” She slowly closed her eyes and murmured: “Bao Yu, I’m cold, hold me, hold me tight…” Her voice became lower and lower.

Jia Wu hugged Wu’er tightly, as if he felt something slowly drifting out of his arms, and Wu’er’s body turned colder and colder.

“Fifth child, fifth child! Fifth son!!!” Jia Wu screamed at the top of his lungs.

Five smiled calmly, as if asleep.

Jia Wu blacked out and fainted.

Nightly Exploration of the Red Mansion (Fifty-five)

Under the moonlight, the small courtyard of the flower hall of the Rongguo Mansion.

Mrs. Xing is sitting on the willow under the grape arbor to take a cool, carrying a bunch of keys in her hand, flinging them around proudly. Thirty-five years, thirty-five years ah, finally took back the financial power of this Jiafu, is really hard to come by. To guard against Mrs. Wang and Sister Feng to take back, must cultivate their own beloved people, light a Wang Shanbao family can not.

Aunt Zhao walked over with a twist, and when she saw Mrs. Xing, she immediately smiled all over her face: “Oh, Mrs. Xing is here. I heard that you will be in charge of the house from now on, I’m here to congratulate you!”

Mrs. Xing’s heart moved, smiled and said: “This house a thousand things, where I am busy over it, you take the time to help me!”

Aunt Zhao patted her chest: “As long as your wife looks up to me, I’ll leave this hundred pounds to you!”

Mrs. Xing warmly took Aunt Zhao’s hand and said: “I know that Feng Ya Tou and the Second Mistress of the party to ostracize you. My heart has long taken you as the right arm, plus the third girl, we are not inferior to them.

I’m afraid that Wang Shanbao’s family will be alone in the Grand View Garden and they’ll be fooled by Feng Ya. You also go along with the copy, okay?”

Auntie Zhao is a person who has nothing to do but make trouble, hearing this, the heart is very happy: “Mrs., you just leave it to me, insurance that the Grand View Garden turned him bottom to bottom!”

Jia Wu woke up and realized that he was lying on a bed in Yihong Courtyard, and it must have been Ming Yan and the others who carried him back. Feeling unbearably thirsty, he was just about to call Qingwen, when he suddenly remembered that Wu’er was already dead, and couldn’t help but let his tears flow down again.

Suddenly heard noisy footsteps outside, someone knocking on the door. Attacker mouth answered: “Come on, come on, who is it?

It’s so late at night… Oh, it’s Second Grandma, what’s the matter?”

Phoenix sister came in and said with a smile: “nothing serious, do not need to call Baoyu. Is lost an important thing, because everyone mixing rogue, I’m afraid there are maids stole, so we all check a go suspect.” One side said, one side sat down to eat tea.

Wang Shanbao family and Aunt Zhao and other searches, and ask who these boxes are, are called to personally open. Attacker see this, know there must be something different, only to come out first and open the box and box, let them search and check some, but it is the usual things, and then put down and search for others, by and by, they have been searched one by one.

Jia Wu heard of the search, first a shock, and then thought of Lin sister’s jade plate and fourteenth brother to give their own gold Pi, the order of arrows have long been their own oil paper wrapped, hidden in the big acacia tree in the crow’s nest, and nothing else to be afraid of, simply continue to pretend to sleep.

Wang Shanbao family viewed a period of time, there is no very private things, back to Phoenix, to go elsewhere.

Phoenix said: “You can carefully check, if this some check out, difficult to talk back.”

Aunt Zhao saw a letter on the table, written on the cover: “Fuyuan General Wang personally open”, quietly put into their arms, and then said: “are carefully looked over, nothing wrong things. Although there are a few men’s objects, are children’s things, want to be Baoyu’s old objects, not very relevant.”

Phoenix heard, laughed: “Both so we go, and then look elsewhere to go.” Said, a path out, Phoenix to Wang Shanbao family said: “I have a word, I do not know if it? If you want to raid only our family, Xue big girl house, absolutely can not raid.”

Wang Shanbao family laughed: “This natural, there is no copying up relatives.”

Phoenix nodded her head and said, “I say the same thing, let’s go to Miss Lin’s place!”

Auntie Zhao heard secretly wondered: “Why does Sister Feng not let copy Miss Bao but want to copy Miss Lin? Both are relatives? Could it be that Baochai has something unseemly there?”

Outside the Xiaoxiang Pavilion.

Hiroshi listened to the house inside there is no movement anymore, presumably all asleep, so he gently pried open the window and climbed in.

Taking advantage of the moonlight, in Daiyu’s dresser drawer rummage. I found a small bag with a letter inside, and when I looked through the window, the last few lines read.

“You ice snow smart, good understanding, not lose the temperament of the Tian Yin noble family, only the fate of the people, mistakenly fell into my Lin family. More poor my Lin family three generations of single, even broken cigarettes in this also. I have been aware of the coming day is not much, people will die, their words are good, only  one day you can return to the Yong Wang House to enjoy the joy of family. Also hope that you can enlighten my son of the Lin family, so that they recognize their ancestors. Then I die also immortal.

“Handwritten by my father, Lin Ruhai, in his own blood.”

“This is it.” Hiroshi’s heart was happy and he slipped the letter into his arms.

At this moment, the sound of many people talking was heard from outside, Hiroshi screamed that it was not good, and hurriedly jumped out of the window again and drilled into the grove.

Daiyu has slept, suddenly reported that these people come, do not know what for. Only to get up, only to see the phoenix sister has come into, busy press her not to get up, only said: “sleep, we will go.” This side and say some gossip, that Wang Shanbao family with a crowd of open boxes and cages to copy the inspection.

Daiyu heart was shocked, Lin Ruhai that letter was copied out is not a game.

After a while, only to see Wang Shanbao family proudly took a send a name charm, a belt on the belt, two bags and fan set, came over to ask Sister Feng to see. The set of fans, open to see are all Baoyu in the past years in the past hand had taken.

Sister Feng smiled and said: “Baoyu and they grew up in a mix of a few years, which is naturally Baoyu’s old things, which is not something rare, put down and then go elsewhere is serious.”

Zijuan laughed and said: “Until now, we can’t count the things in both of us. To ask this one, even I have forgotten what year and month it was.” Wang Shanbao’s family heard Phoenix said so, can only be just.

Watching the crowd go away, Daiyu busy climbed up, opened the dresser drawer to see, inside the rummage mess, everything is there, just that the letter is gone.

Nightly Exploration of the Red Mansion (Fifty-six)

Phoenix and other people out of Xiaoxiang Hall, the next neighbor is to explore the spring live in the Autumn Shuangzhai. Aunt Zhao secretly thought that these days it is not easy to tangchun and their own close a little, if in order to accompany these people to check the plagiarism, and tangchun fell out again, really  not come. In addition, just stole from Baoyu there to the fourteenth brother’s letter, his heart itching, also want to go back to see what is actually said inside, so pretended to be unwell, back to their own rooms to go.

Phoenix saw that Mrs. Xing, Aunt Zhao and Wang Shanbao’s family have colluded together, and could not help but hate her teeth. She also thought that if they pulled Tanchun into it, that girl has a heart, things will be much more complicated. Why don’t we take advantage of Aunt Zhao’s absence to pick a fight between Wang Shanbao’s family and Tangchun, and said, “The third girl is a powerful person, so be careful and don’t mess with her.”

Wang Shanbao family is a heartless person, today hit the clear, scolded the attacker, searched the Daiyu, is happy to the fart upside down forgetfulness, said with a big grin: “It’s okay, the third girl is my watch grew up, I and her mother and is an old friend, you look at my it!”

Phoenix heart secretly laugh, tanchun most annoying is others mention aunt Zhao, you this stupid bitch just wait to be scolded, mouth but said: “that dare good, mom’s face is big, later it all depends on you.”

To tanchun courtyard, who knew that someone had reported with tanchun. Tangchun also guessed that there must be a reason, so lead to this kind of ugly to, so ordered all the maids to open the door with candles and wait.

The people came, tanchun asked why, phoenix sister laughed and said: “because of the loss of a thing, for days to visit no one, I’m afraid that people rely on these girls, so the more nature of everyone to search for a search, so that people to suspect that it is a good way to clean them.”

Tangchun some time ago in the garden to engage in contracting, phoenix sister mouth promised good, the following is not cooperate. Wang Shanbao family is even more coldly scolded, because she did not get any benefits. Tanchun has been holding a stomach of anger, today see her two actually bullied to their own homes, the heart of anger, sneer: “Our girls are naturally some thieves, I am the first nest master. Both so, first come to search my cabinet, they all stole to me to hide it!”

Said Tangchun will order the maids to open all the cabinets, will be the mirror trousseau, makeup box, coverlet, clothes bag if big or small things are opened, please Phoenix sister to copy read.

Sister Feng smiled and said: “I am just following the orders of the First Mistress to come, sister do not blame me, why be angry.” Because the order of the maids quickly closed, Ping’er Feng’er and other busy for the book to be closed, closed, collected.

Tangchun looked at the service of the book’s expression is not right, said: “my things to allow you to search and read, to want to search my girl, this can not be. I was more vicious than all the people, where the girl all the things I know, are here between me to collect, a needle and a thread they do not have a collection, to search so only come to search me. You do not comply, just go back to Mrs., just say I disobeyed Mrs., how to punish, I go to self-collected.”

Phoenix looked at Wang Shanbao’s family and hemmed and hawed.

Tangchun then said: “you do not busy, natural even your copy of the day there! You did not talk about the Zhen family early this morning, your own home well copied, really today really copied. We also gradually come. We can know that such a big family, if from the outside to kill, a moment is not killed, this is what the ancients have said ‘a hundred feet of the insect, die hard,’ must first from the home to commit suicide to extinguish themselves up to a defeat!” Said, do not feel shed tears.

Phoenix only looked at Wang Shanbao family and the daughters-in-law, Zhou Rui family said: “Since the girl’s things are all here, grandma and please go elsewhere, but also let the girl good sleep.” Sister Feng then got up to say goodbye.

Tangchun said: “can be a detailed search to understand, if tomorrow again, I will not comply.”

Phoenix laughed: “Since the maids’ things are all here, there is no need to search.”

Tangchun sneered: “You really pour good, even my baggage are open, but also said did not turn. Tomorrow, I dare say I protect the girls, you are not allowed to turn over. You explain before it’s too late, if you still want to turn over, may as well turn over again.”

Phoenix with a smile said: “I have even your things are searched to understand.” And asked the crowd: “You all also searched to understand have not?” But the eyes slanted at Wang Shanbao’s family.

Zhou Ruijia’s family all smiled and said: “all turned over to understand.”

That Wang Shanbao family is a heart of not much into the calculation of people, just now blew a big story, although the day heard the name of Tanshun, that is for the people have no eyesight and no guts, where a girl family so up, and is a small wife to raise, she dared to how. Self-importance is Mrs. Xing accompanied room, even Mrs. Wang is still another eye, not to mention others. Now see tanchun so, she only think is tanchun seriously single annoyed phoenix sister, and they have nothing to do. She would like to take advantage of the situation as a good face, because the crowd forward to pull up tangchun’s lapel, deliberately lifted, cheeky smile: “Even the girl body I have turned over, there is really nothing.”

Phoenix saw him like this, heart secretly laugh, fake pulling her and said: “Mom go away, don’t be crazy.”

A word yet, only to hear “pop” sound, Wang Shanbao’s face early with a tanchun slap.

Tangchun was furious, pointing at the Wang family asked: “What are you, dare to pull my clothes! I just look at the face of the wife, you have the age, call you a mother, you have a dog’s right, every day for consumption, specializing in trouble. Now you’re getting out of hand. You understand that I am the same as your girl so good nature, let you bully her, it’s a wrong idea!” Said, will personally undress and remove the skirt, pulling Feng Sister’s fine turn, and said: “Save call the minion to turn over my body.”

Feng Sister forced to hold back the laughter, called Ping Er and other and Tang Chun skirt whole sleeve, mouth within the fake drink Wang Shanbao family said: “Mom ate two mouths of wine on the crazy up, before the Mrs. also rushed. Quickly go out, do not mention it.” Also advised tanchun do not get angry.

Tangchun laughed coldly and said: “I but where there is gas, early head touched death! Otherwise would not allow the slave to come to me to turn over the stolen goods. Tomorrow morning, I first returned to the old lady, and then go over to the eldest mother to accompany the gift, how, I will receive.”

Wang Shanbao’s family had no fun, just said outside the window: “Just, just, this is also the first time to be beaten.

I’ll go back to my mother’s house tomorrow. I don’t need him for this old life!”

Tangchun drink order maids said: “you listen to him say this, still waiting for me and his mouth to go.”

The service book because tanchun did not let search their own boxes, is grateful, then went out and said: “you always bully others, this time ran into our girl, you are the old lady ate persimmons to sip yakuzi. If you really go back to your mother’s home, the house less a sloppy, rumor-mongering, but it is our good fortune, I’m afraid you can not go.”

Sister Feng was overjoyed in her heart and laughed: “Good girl, there really is a master who has his servant.”

Tangchun laughed coldly and said: “We are thieves, our mouths have three words. This is still stupid, behind the scenes only will not abet the master.”

Ping’er busy also with a smile to persuade, one side and pulled the service book in. Zhou Rui family and other people persuaded some, Phoenix straight to wait to serve Tanshun sleep, and then take people to go to Xichun there.

Auntie Zhao just returned to her room, Wu Sidao came. Aunt Zhao proudly pulled out the letter, Wu Sidao read it and excitedly slapped his thighs: “I’ve been looking for it, but I’ve found it with no effort at all! This is the proof!”

Nightly Exploration of the Red Mansion (Fifty-seven)

Baochai just went to sleep, heard the garden noisy, busy sending Ying’er out to see.

Ying’er came back in a while and said: “It’s great, the garden is copied and searched. Baoyu’s place, the third girl’s place, and even Miss Lin’s place were copied.”

Baochai was shocked to hear, since Miss Lin there are copied, they are afraid that they can not be exempted. Those Mrs. Wang loan sharks receipts, in their own here was to hide from Jia Zheng, turned out, even her with their own are strange shame. Then again, their own bookcase things, how to explain it. Just thinking, only to see phoenix sister line of people hurriedly to their own courtyard over.

Bao-chai stood up, and was considering what words to use to excuse herself, when she realized that they had come and gone, but had not come in.

Bao Hairpin thought for a moment, and then came to Tanchun’s room. I saw that Tanshun and Yingchun were talking about this matter of copying and checking.

The two of them got up to give way to the seat, and asked: “How come you are suddenly here alone at this time? It is not not a copy of where you are?” Bao Hairpin thought for a moment and said: “Just because today my mother is not comfortable, the two women at home are not up in the bed because of the disease, I have to go out today to accompany the old man at night as a companion. Trouble third sister to tell Sister Feng a word.

I don’t think it’s a big deal, so I don’t need to tell the old lady, ma’am, and I’ll come in sideways when it’s ready.”

Tangchun said: “very good, not only aunt well still come, then well not come also make.”

Yingchun laughed: “That’s strange, how to kick up relatives?”

Tangchun sneered and said: “Exactly, there are called to throw out, not as good as I first threw out. Relatives are good, but not in the necessary dead to live. We are a family of flesh and blood it, one is not like a black-eyed chicken, can not wait for you to eat me, I ate you!”

Baochai busy accompanying smile: “Third sister, who has offended you?”

Tangchun laughed and said: “Don’t pretend to be honest. There is no beheading except by the court. You don’t have to be afraid. Tell you the truth, I just beat the wife of Wang Shanbao’s family, I still have a crime. But behind my back say some gossip, is he still beat me not!”

Baochai busy asked why he hit him again, Tanchun Sydney how the party copy, how to hit her, one by one said out.

After Hongli jumped out of the window of Xiaoxiang Hall, afraid of being found by the people who copied and inspected, he desperately drilled into the small tree forest, drilled and drilled and lost his way again. He settled down and looked at the stars, above the Big Dipper spoon should be the North Star. He jumped in from the south wall, and after wandering around for half a day, he guessed that he was not far from the north wall. He dusted himself with leaves and cobwebs, and walked toward the north.

Turning the small dirt slope was a lake, and on the other side of the water was the courtyard wall. Hiroshi quickened his pace and walked towards the wall.

Suddenly the right hand side of the lake side of the red light flashed, a red lantern lit up. Carrying the red lantern, is a white girl, long hair, slender figure, although only see the back, also feel out is a stunning beauty.

The girl hung the lantern on the tree, stood in front of the piano stage gently sang: “Ten years to sharpen a sword, the frost blade has not been tried, today to show the king, who has the injustice!” Singing throat crisp and clear, and there is a sad atmosphere, Hongli could not help but listen to stay.

Hongli walked quietly towards the girl along the edge of the lake. Ten yards, five yards, three yards… When the girl heard the sound of a man’s footsteps, she didn’t turn around, but said quietly, “Bao Yu, is that you?”

That girl was none other than Miao Yu. Ever since that night when she had tea with Baoyu, Daiyu and Baochai, Baoyu’s figure was always dangling in front of her eyes. But she was a Buddhist, so she shouldn’t have any male or female love affairs, not to mention her father’s instructions before he died. One wanted to sit quietly in meditation, who knew that the moment one closed one’s eyes was Baoyu’s mischievous smiling face. There is nothing to do, out of the courtyard to take a break, there will be such a coincidence, just bumped into Baoyu?

Hongli walked behind Miao Yu and violently embraced her in his arms. Miao Yu tried to struggle, but her body was limp and had no strength at all, she just said lowly, “Bao Yu, Bao Yu, don’t be like this.”

Hiroshi heatedly smiled: “Little beauty, listen to me, packet you have enjoyed endless glory and wealth.”

Once Miao Yu heard that it wasn’t Bao Yu’s voice, she was shocked and furious, and with both arms shrinking, she slipped out of Hong Li’s arms: “Who are you? Dare to come to my place to act recklessly!”

Hongli see Miao Yu almond eyes round open, cheeks flying red shy look, the body can not help but enter half side, busy smile and said: “I am Baoyu ah, and is the real Baoyu, Yong Prince family Baoyu Beilei, serious Jin Zhi Yu Ye it.” The first time I saw this, I was able to find a way to get my hands on the guy who was in the middle of it.

Miao Yu sneered, right hand tricky Hong Li’s wrist, left hand into a palm, a “Song waved jade axe” split in Hong Li’s right shoulder. Only heard “click” a sound, Hong Li screamed and covered the shoulder sat on the ground, his right shoulder has been removed from the ring, move can not move.

Hiroshi sweating in pain, know that this can run into a high person, is thinking about what to say some flowery words can trick her to release their own.

Miao Yu looked at Hong Li who was sitting on the ground, his eyes were about to burst into flames: “Manchu Tartars, killing my Han Chinese and taking away my Ming’s kingdom, actually dared to bully my head today! Hey, next year today, is the anniversary of your death!” Said in the piano platform a press, “when” a sound, jumped out a six-inch long snow bright dagger.

Nightly Exploration of the Red Mansion (58)

Miaoyu picked up the dagger, hands together, the dagger between the two hands, kneeling down toward the south: “Father, Yongli Huangshi, Ming ancestors, master, your spirits in the above, Miaoyu against the Ching Dynasty to restore the Ming Dynasty is committed, today will be open to kill!” Said, kowtowed three heads, tears fell like rain.

Miao Yu wiped a handful of tears and turned around: “Today I will avenge the Yongli Emperor, Yangzhou, Jiading, and the millions of murdered Chinese!” Said, wrist raised, the dagger in the air turned over, in the moonlight swept up a cold light, and steadily fell back into the hands of Miao Yu.

Hongli was terrified and hurriedly called out, “Miss, Fairy Goddess, don’t do it, I’m not from Manchuria!”

Miao Yu laughed coldly: “Prince Yong’s son is not from Manchuria? Who are you trying to fool? Think I am a three year old child!”

Looking at the cold and brilliant dagger getting closer and closer to his throat, Hongli said pleadingly, “I’m not, I’m really not a Manchurian. I am a Han Chinese, the son of Lin Ruhai.”

Hearing the words “Lin Ruhai”, Miao Yu was stunned: “Lin Ruhai? How could you be his child? What about Lin Daiyu?”

Hongli heard things have a turnaround, busy struggling from the bosom of the letter stolen from Daiyu out, said curtly: “Aunt you look at this,” said the letter handed over: “that Lin Daiyu is Yongzheng’s child!”

Miaoyu took the letter, walked to the lantern and looked, face gradually ease down: “is a bit like Uncle Lin’s font,” she walked to Hongli side: “and then first entrusted you a bit, I good to go in to the right font.”

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Miao Yu went into the room, dragged out a red box from under the bed, opened the lock, took out a bundle of letters. Finding a small stack of letters with the words “Lin Family” written on them, she pulled out a letter and read it, which reads: “Brother, see the words as if they were good.

My brother married half a year ago, the daughter of the Rongguo House, know a lot of secret stories of the Qing Palace, in my career is quite helpful. Third brother lost in love, has been depressed, brother can be discretionary advice. My brother into the day feel around a lot of spies, brother must be careful not to contact rashly.

Second brother Lin Ruhai pays a hundred obeisances.”

Miao Yu carefully compared the fonts of the two letters, and sure enough, they were the same. No wonder Lin Daiyu knew nothing about the Lin family that day, so she had dropped the letter, and the one in front of her was… Thinking of this, she hurried out, squatted down beside Hongli, first repositioned his skeleton, and then unlocked the acupoints on his legs, and said with a smile, “Cousin, I’m sorry.”

Hongli heard and surprised and happy, how this little beauty called his cousin? Of course, there is such a good opportunity to climb the pole, he playfully said: “good sister, tell me about our family, how I do not know it?”

Miaoyu was a careful person, thought for a moment, and said, “I’ll have to check one last time, you take off your shoes and socks.”

Hiroshi obediently took off his shoes and socks, thinking: fortunately, I took a shower and changed my socks before I came out, or else, hey!　You’re dead.

Miao Yu lifted the lantern over and looked carefully at Hongli’s toes: “The nails of the little toes are divided into two halves, Si, you really are a Han Chinese. Oops! Your feet really stink.”

Hongli smiled shyly: “Sister, you haven’t told me our family history yet!”

Miao Yu let out a long sigh: “You’ve heard of Emperor Yongli, right?”

“Of course, that was the last emperor of the Ming Dynasty, who was later killed by Wu Sangui.” Hongli was familiar with this history and said proudly.

“In that year, when Wu Sangui’s army was overrunning the country, Emperor Yongli retreated to Burma. Emperor Yongli had three sons who were less than five years old, and before he left China, he entrusted them to three family members under his command, one surnamed Liu, one surnamed Lu, and one surnamed Lin, and instructed them to raise the three children to adulthood and avenge themselves against the Qing Dynasty and restore the Ming Dynasty.”

“Oh?” Hiroshi seemed to understand something.

Miaoyu continued: “The three family members vowed to bring up the three children. The Yongli Emperor said: Let them take your family name, Zhu is too easy to be suspected. Change their names, too. The hatred of the country and the family is as deep as the sea.

The eldest will be called Liu Ruhai, the second will be called Lin Ruhai, and the youngest will be called Lu Ruhai.”

“Then there was a palace coup in Burma, and the new king, in order to curry favor with the Manchus, surrounded the residence of the Yongli Emperor, and the general Mu Tianbo and others were killed, and the Yongli Emperor was captured, and later hanged by Wu Sangui. The three Liu Lin Lu heard that they then took the three young princes, buried their names and returned to Jiangnan.”

“So, you are…” asked Hiroshi hesitantly.

“I am the daughter of Liu Ruhai. I also have a brother and a sister. My brother traveled ten years ago and has never been heard from, and my sister died, in order to fight against the Qing Dynasty and restore the Ming Dynasty.” Miao Yu said, her eyes filled with tears.

Nightly Exploration of the Red Mansion (Fifty-nine)

The back garden of the Yong royal residence.

Yongzheng took a long breath, ran a few steps tightly, turned around fiercely, and raised his hand∶three eight trigrams of golden darts nailed to the red heart of the target.

“Good! A hundred steps through the poplar!” Wu Sidao applauded loudly: “Your Highness is a master of literature and martial arts, no one can compare to the famous generals of the past and present!”

Yongzheng smiled triumphantly and pulled down the golden dart on the target: “Is there any news lately?”

“Your Majesty, last night in the Western Palace, the old dowager princess died, the Emperor was so sad that he could not be entertained for a hundred days, and the banquet was postponed.” Wusidao came closer: “Have you heard, your mother wants to call the fourteenth brother back to mourn it!”

“Oh? There is such a thing?” Yongzheng’s brows were locked. He and Fourteenth Argo were born from the same mother, and like most mothers in the world, his mother also loved her youngest son the most. He himself had not yet set it up, and if the old fourteenth returned at this time, he was afraid that there would still be trouble.

Looking at Yongzheng’s fretful appearance, Wu Sidao smiled and said, “Your Majesty, take a look at this, it’s what Jia Huan got.” He said, pulling out a letter. Wusidao put this credit on the body of Jiahuan, one is embarrassed to mention Auntie Zhao, the second also want to let Yongzheng have an impression of Jiahuan, the future good promotion, after all, is his son.

Yongzheng took the letter to sit on the stone bench to look carefully: “Hey, this is Jia Baoyu wrote to the old fourteen, but also called him father. Haha! Into the palace to see the mother, even Jia Fei is his mother also recruited.”

“Your Highness, this is physical evidence, we also have human evidence, that day Qin Liu even heard Jia Baoyu calling Princess Jia his mother!” Wu Sidao said.

“Good!” Yongzheng slapped on Wu Sidao’s shoulder: “Emperor recently and Jia Fei is simply inseparable, holding fear of falling, containing fear of melting, if you know that she and the old fourteen have this hand, hehehe!” Yongzheng stood up and laughed up to the sky, shaking the wind chimes hanging on the eaves of the house tinkled. And turned to Wu Si said: “when I boarded the base, you are the founding of the country’s great minister!”

Bao Hairpin loaded a carriage with big bags and small things, and was about to move out of the Grand View Garden, only to see Ping’er hurrying.

Ping’er called out to Baochai: “Did the girl hear our news?”

Bao Hairpin said: “No ah, even days my mother is sick, so you here, all do not know, even sisters these two days also how to see.”

Ping’er laughed and said, “The master has beaten the second master to immobility, did the girl not hear?”

Baochai thought, this can be interesting, full-scale war. Mrs. Xing took Phoenix’s economic power, Jia Pi came to beat Jia Lian, mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, father and son into a pot of porridge, said: “I woke up in a trance and heard a sentence, but also do not believe it. Why did you hit him again?”

Ping’er gritted her teeth and scolded: “It’s all that Jia Yucun, halfway to where the starving wild bastards! I’ve recognized him for less than ten years, but I’ve had a lot of trouble! This spring, I do not know where the master saw a few old fans, home to see all the good fans collected at home are not useful, and immediately asked people to search everywhere. I don’t know what to do, but there is an unknown enemy, the world called him as a stone fool, poor even have no food, but his family has twenty old fans, and he refused to take out the door. The second master easily annoyed how much love, see this person, take out the fan slightly look at it. According to the second master, the original can no longer have, all of the Xiangfei, brown bamboo, elk, jade bamboo, are the ancient writing and painting of the real, because they came to tell the master. The master then asked to buy his, how much silver to give him how much. The stone fool said: ‘I’m starving and freezing to death, a thousand taels of silver a hand I will not sell!

Baochai is a favorite antique, listened to the busy asked: “There are really so good fan?”

“That’s right,” Ping’er went on to say: “The master couldn’t do anything about it, and he scolded the second master every day for not being able to do anything about it. But Jia Yucun, who had no sense of justice, heard it, and set up a way to blackmail him for defaulting on the official silver, and took him to the government office, saying that he owed the official silver and sold his family’s possessions to make up for it, and then copied the fan and sent it to him at the official price. The stone dummy even died in prison. The old master took the fan and asked the second master, ‘How did they get it? The second master only said, ‘It’s not a big deal to break up someone’s family over such a trivial matter. When the Master heard this, he got into a fight and broke his face in two places. We have heard that Auntie has a kind of pill here, which is good for sores, so I’d like you to give me a pill.”

Bao Hairpin heard, secretly sighed in the heart, such a bully, I’m afraid there will always be retribution day, fortune and misfortune, is the unbreakable truth. Their own brother is also all day nonsense, robbing men and women, do not know when it is bad luck. So busy order Ying’er to find a pill to Ping’er.

Jia five sleep to eat dinner time to get up, think of the five children, heart like a knife cut like pain. Lift the leg to the ground, who knows the foot is soft, “goo dong” a kneeling down, the attacker busy over to help him, just a touch his hand, screamed up: “Oh my God, how so hot!”

Only then did Jia Wu feel the gag body like fire, the body is soft. Attacker helped him to the bed, said: “I go to find a doctor”, and hurried out.

Jia Wu leans back on his pillow and calls Musk Moon over to inquire. Musk moon told him, that day she and Ming Yan brought the doctor back, saw Jia Wu fainted, were frightened. The doctor’s pulse, said it was an emergency fire, it may not matter, they called a small sedan chair to carry him back.

“What about Qingwen?” Jia Wu’s eyes moistened again: “Why don’t you find someone to buy a coffin for Qingwen?”

“You just rest, my second master.” musk moon said: “Lin girl heard of the clear clouds of things, on their own gold bracelets called zijuan to take to pawn, and also called zijuan family brother to buy a coffin, loaded convergence on the water moon nunnery parked. Miss Lin also said to send her back to Suzhou for burial!”

“Alas!” Jia Wu sighed, “Sister Lin doesn’t know what she’s crying into again.” Suddenly remembered the letter he gave to the 14th Aggie, busy calling Musk Moon in front of the bed behind the cupboard to look everywhere, but where to find it?

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Jia Wu this burn is a few days, drowsy. Hazily like to see Daiyu sitting in front of himself, pouting and said: “gold and jade marriage, gold and jade marriage, I’m just a person of grass and wood”; but also like to see the Baochai, holding a golden lock, without expression, read: “not to be separated from the age of the world to continue”; and then suddenly saw Feng sister Suddenly, I saw Phoenix, scolding viciously: “I told you to take my power, why don’t you just fight to the death? Suddenly saw Qin Keqing tears: “I’m not willing, I’m really not willing to die!”; Suddenly saw Qingwen smiling. Suddenly, I saw Qingwen smiling and saying: “Take good care of my sister.” Then she felt as if she was leaning in her arms and said lazily: “During the day, we farm and grow vegetables, raise chickens and ducks, and weave and embroider flowers. At night, we gathered around the fire, telling stories, jokes, and composing poems. I just wrote two lines: ‘Who’s piccolo flies in spring, purple cup lingering goose shadow cold’, then woke up.”

“Fifth child!” Jia Wu yelled, waking up with a start. His body was cold and wet with sweat.

The room was dark, with only the moonlight coming in through the window. He suddenly remembered, five children have died, tears can not help but flow down. A man’s tears are not light, only because he has not reached the place of sadness, but when it comes to sadness, a man’s tears are no less than a daughter’s. He sat up and listened to the distant bangs knocking on the door. He sat up and heard the distant bangs knocking four times, it is the fourth day.

A cold wind blew, Jia Wu shivered, he grabbed the pillow of the jacket to put on the body, only to hear a “giggle” the jacket opened the line. When he looked down, the moonlight shone on the jacket, and a flying horse with two wings stepped on the auspicious clouds.

This is the five children’s jacket, he a burst of heartache, and remembered the last time he saw the five children, she shivering to take off the jacket to his own, said: “This you receive, in the future, as I generally see me. Take off your jacket and give it to me to wear, and I will lie in the coffin as if I were still in Yihongyuan.”

The fifth child is now really lying in the coffin of the Water Moon Nunnery, Jia Wu’s tears fall drop by drop on the head of the sky horse, “Things are different, before words, tears first flow.” Jia Wu let out a long sigh, Wu’er’s voice rang in his ears again, “It seems that you are really a good person, even my two sisters trust you so much.”

“I like to stay, too, with the Fourth Mother and Sister Daisy, and you.”

“Little cabbage ah, yellow in the ground ah, three or two years old, there is no mother ah, mention the mother, tears ah, I’m afraid that my father will marry his stepmother ah.”

“What ah, into the day price just know your Lin sister!”

Jia Wu tiredly closed his eyes, Wu’er’s smile surfaced in front of him, playfully said: “She ah, something to go back to Suzhou, what do you have ah, it is the same to tell me.”

A scene by scene of the past, with tears hit his heart drop by drop. He opened the window, the moon outside was like water, shining on the remnant lotus and willow by the lake. “Hibiscus is like a face and willow is like an eyebrow, how can I not shed tears at this?” Jia Wu stood in a daze for a while, took out paper, pen, ink and ink stone, should write a poem in memory of the fifth child, how to start? Let’s use the last two lines left by Wu’er.

With the moonlight, he poured some water into the ink stone, studied for a while, dipped the ink, dipped the pen, and neatly wrote down: “Whose piccolo flies in the spring, the purple cup Linglong geese shadow cold”, and the following? He thought of the embroidered Pegasus jacket, remembered the five children of the poignant smile, the heart of grief and indignation, pen wrote: “folded wings nine days sad jade horse, destroy the heart of the night jealous of the red face”, so good girl, but unfortunately, the red face of the thin life, they have only known a few months. Jia Wu sighed, and then wrote: “not in the acquaintance of acquaintance for a long time, I recite this for the five children”. It’s time to end this piece. Wu’er is such a beautiful and lovely girl, her place should be in heaven with Chang’e, the Weaving Maiden, the Hundred Flowers Fairy, and the Morning Glory Fairy. Jia Wu looked outside, the sky was already cloudy, only Venus hung alone in the sky.

Musk moon woke up, get up and put on the clothes: “second master, the disease is only well, so early to get up? What are you writing?

Let me go sit you down with some hot water.”

“Well,” Jia Wu casually responded: “I’m writing a poem for Haruhi.”

The east is getting brighter and brighter, the sky turns from black to green, from green to red, and in a moment it seems that half of the sky is on fire, the blood-red sunset rolls and roars, reflecting the earth in a golden red. Jia Wu only felt his blood boiling, stood up, looked out the window, and loudly chanted: “Not falling Venus returns to the blue sea, turning into the morning sun full of clouds and sky!”

As soon as the words fell, I heard someone outside the window say, “Good! What a magnificent poem!”

Musk moon just put down the hot water basin, heard the sound of turning back to look, scared and shouted: “Oh my mom! Haruhi manifested her spirit!” And she fainted.

(to be continued)