Daiyu's wife in the Red Chamber

Chapter 146

When Daiyu woke up the next day, Wei Ruolan had already entered the palace.

Hearing faint raindrops beating on the window lattice, Daiyu suddenly lost sleepiness, sat up on the quilt, and asked, "Is it raining outside?"

Zijuan came over and parted the embroidered curtain, rolled up the gauze curtain, and said, "No, it's midnight, and what time did it go before, but now it's getting tighter. It's still very cold, girl, don't get up, wait for me to warm up." clothes."

Daiyu asked Wei Ruolan first, and when she heard that he was going out in a car, he also brought a raincoat, so she relaxed a little. Seeing Zijuan busy in the house, she couldn't help saying: "In another ten days and a half a month. You will be out of the pavilion, and then Xueyan and Chunxian will hand over the tasks in hand to the girls who will be promoted and wait to take over. When you are all gone, they will be able to get started."

After Zijuan heard this, Fang asked several maids whom he had educated by Tao Ye to come and serve Daiyu. There were four in total, all around 15 years old, named Bailu, Danhe, Xueyuan, and Qingluan respectively.

When Daiyu was in filial piety, it was not easy to send maids to marry, and after the filial piety, everything was disturbed, so they planned to let them out after their birthdays. This time, except Zijuan got the housekeeper's wife to ask for his son's marriage, Xueyan was assigned to Niu Fang. Chunxian was assigned to the son of the second housekeeper, and other maids also came to seek employment. Du Zihao Qingtan and others were palace maids, and they could only marry outside the age of 25.

Zihao and the others are about the same age as Zijuan, Daiyu couldn't bear to let them continue to waste time, so she asked the empress for extra grace, asked them about their wishes, and promised to several military officers under Wei Ruolan's command, they will marry soon, and now they are working hard Teach the four new ladies-in-waiting.

The four new maids are all fourteen or fifteen years old, and Daiyu has given them the names Cuihu, Qinghui, Baixuan, and Moduan.

When dressing up in the mirror, Bailu carefully combed Daiyu's hair, combed it hundreds of times with a boxwood comb, and put it in a bun after combing her hair. Opening up the dowry, she revealed a full set of jewellery, and asked, "Grandma is here today?" Which one do you wear?"

Daiyu said: "It's raining, I don't have to go out, and I don't expect to have any visitors, so why put on heavy makeup?" Then she ordered Zijuan, who was tidying up the bed, to bring over a pair of hairpins under the mandarin pillow, which were neither gold nor jade. The color is dark green, revealing a bit of simplicity and elegance, but the traces of a pair of mandarin ducks carved on the two hairpin heads are quite new, and the carving work is also ordinary.

Zicuckoo held it in her hand and looked at it for a moment, then handed it to Egret to put on Daiyu's bun, and said: "The material is good, very green, and warm. It is old green sandalwood, and it is of the highest quality, but the hairpin is missing." But, I guess it was the uncle who gave the girl away."

Daiyu smiled and said nothing, so she wouldn't tell them that it was carved by Wei Ruolan herself.

After breakfast, Daiyu didn't care about reading, so she sat at the desk under the window and took out a bloodstone seal from the box and put it in her palm to cherish it.

This bloodstone seal is as bright red as blood and as shiny as jade. It is made of bloodstone collected by Lin Ruhai during his lifetime. It is fine, red, moist, greasy, warm and condensed. It can be said to be the top grade among Chang fossils.

In the year when she and Wei Ruolan got engaged, Daiyu planned to use it to engrave a seal and give it to Wei Ruolan, and she has been playing with it privately for several years. Ruolan asked the famous craftsman in the palace who was in charge of engraving seals to engrave two seals, one of her own was named after the fairy land outside the world, and the other was engraved with Wei Ruolan's inscription, and the latter was engraved with Daiyu. Made in imitation of plum blossom and small seal script, the shape is like an orchid, elegant and graceful, and it is used as a gift for Wei Ruolan's birthday.

When Daiyu was playing, she suddenly remembered something, and said to Zijuan, "I saw the ivory and carved pagoda for the birthday of the immortals that Sister Qin gave me yesterday. superior."

Wei Ruolan has a high position and authority, so she is included in the annual tribute, and Daiyu has spent a lot of time thinking about the tribute.

Not everyone can pay tribute, only the royal family members of the dynasty, high officials in Beijing, local officials, weaving and salt officials in various places, ministers who have become official officials, and Sheng Shenggong can pay tribute.

Big festivals such as Longevity Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, and New Year’s Day must pay tribute, as well as other Shangyuan Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, Double Ninth Festival, and Winter Solstice Festival. For those inside, you can pay tribute anytime and anywhere, and there are many names, but fortunately there is no rule that you must pay tribute to rare things, so as to reduce the burden.

Zijuan agreed, and said again: "I will show the girl all the gift lists I have received in the past few days, pick out the ones that the girl likes or are useful, and put them aside, and put the rest in the treasury."

Daiyu thought for a while and nodded in agreement.

Zijuan took the gift list and presented it to Daiyu. Daiyu put down the seal, looked at ten lines at a glance and got up, ordered Qingluan to grind ink and get a brush, ticked the list a few times, and said: "Leave these alone, I will use them. "

Zicuckoo cooks by herself.

Dai Yufu picked up the seal again and put it in her palm, she turned her head to listen to the sound of the rain outside the window. Half a day later, she came across a word and wrote it on the paper unconsciously. There was no need to modify it, and then it was transcribed in the third volume "Funeral In "Flower Collection".

"The Collection of Burial Flowers" is named after the Ci of Burial Flowers. Wei Ruolan gave her the name, saying that Li Qingzhao has "Shu Yu Ci" and she also has "Collection of Burial Flowers". It records all the poems and songs she wrote on weekdays, whether sad or sad, happy or sad, or about boudoirs, or flowers, or about mountains and rivers, or about people's feelings.

Daiyu was good at this way, and didn't want to shelve the poems and songs she usually made, so she followed Wei Ruolan's idea, and before she knew it, she had already written the third volume, and if she wrote three or five poems, she would have to replace it with a new volume.

As he was washing his hands, Xueyan suddenly came in and said, "Last time, the girl asked to find out why someone made things difficult for Baoyu, and she already has a clue."

Daiyu hurriedly asked what was going on, Xueyan said indignantly: "It's not that Jia Yucun, if he hadn't been a girl's teacher for a year, I could know a few words with him, I really should scold him a few words .It is he who instigates those princes behind his back."

Daiyu was stunned, and suddenly remembered that the Mei family had returned Baoqin's marriage, and turned to seek employment for Jia Yucun and Jiao Xing's daughter. It is reasonable to say that Jia Yucun should not agree, but who knows that the two families are very close, and bowed their heads in thought. After a while, he raised his head and said: "I see, I guess it was the uncle who hated him for exposing his shortcomings at the court meeting, so when the news passed and I was safe and sound, I came to avenge my revenge."

If she guessed correctly, Jia Yucun also had a difficult mind, so that after he got his ambition, he became very rampant, without any regard for his reputation, and it was difficult to deal with Jia Amnesty for a while, so he set his sights on Baoyu.

If you think about the people who come and go with Jia Yucun, the Fu family is not one of them.

Xueyan said: "Niu Fang also said the same thing. The things that Jia Yucun has done are disgusting. Why didn't a thunderbolt strike him from the sky? He was the one who did the wrong thing."

Daiyu sighed: "I don't know that there is a saying in the world called 'the disaster will last a thousand years'."

Their masters and servants were talking about Jiayu Village. After the court meeting was over, Emperor Changtai also mentioned it to Wei Ruolan and asked, "The boss protects Jia Hua tightly. Jia Hua's pleading, ordered the Wu family and Jia Hua to protect their capital together, and promoted Jia Hua's in-laws, I don't know how Jia Hua can be worthy of being the boss."

Regarding the civil and military affairs of the Manchu Dynasty, Emperor Changtai had the power of life and death, but many officials below the fifth rank were inspected by the Ministry of Officials, and the promotion and promotion of some officials did not need to be supervised by Emperor Changtai.

Wei Ruolan said: "I don't know what Duke Mingxiao thinks."

He really couldn't figure out what King Mingxiao was thinking, there was nothing wrong with it, and the people he used were not as good as those that King Mingti had wooed. The only person with high authority was his father-in-law Li Tang, and the control of nine provinces was also important. The vacancies are just not as good as the Jingying in charge of the safety of the capital.

Emperor Changtai smiled coldly and said, "I'm just thinking about the dragon chair under me."

Wei Ruolan listened and bowed her head in silence.

Everyone in the world knows that King Mingxiao fought fiercely with King Mingti and others below. In the court hall, you framed my people, and I impeached you, wishing to cut off each other's wings, but these are not what he can say.

After a while, Wei Ruolan asked: "Since Your Majesty knows what Jia Hua has done, when will he deal with it? Such a person is placed in the court hall. Although he is not evil recently, he is too disgusting, and he is like Xue Panzhi." case, stone nerd case, etc. Jia Hua did no less than [-] to [-] cases when he was in office, and if he was left there, someone else would suffer.”

Emperor Changtai took a sip of tea, put down the tea bowl, and said, "I went to a Jiahua, and the one who came here may not be first-class. All my confidants are traitors, let alone others? I registered in front of me. Guess that Jiahua I won’t dare to do such things again for a while, let’s leave it alone, anyway, there are so many crimes on him, when I can’t tolerate it, I will punish him severely. That doorman and stone nerd, you order people to take care of them, and other suffering masters I also ordered people to find them one by one, and each has a place to settle."

Wei Ruolan was slightly puzzled, a person like Jia Yucun should have been taken care of earlier, why keep him for now?Although full of doubts, Wei Ruolan never delved into Emperor Changtai's plans, so she didn't ask.

Soon, it was heard that Jia Yucun had captured Fu Quan and Fu Shi's father and son on behalf of King Mingxiao, and that the Mei family had also joined King Mingxiao.

Wei Ruolan suddenly realized that Jia Yucun sympathized with Wang Ziteng and Jia Zheng a few years ago, and made friends with many families through the influence of Wang Ziteng and Jia Zheng. Rely on him.

During this period of time, Jia Yucun also wanted to bring down the Jia family, but after receiving the news from Wei Ruolan and Daiyu, Jia She and his son and Baoyu followed the example of the daughter in the boudoir except for socializing. One stays at home to have fun with grandchildren, one stays at home to study laws and regulations, and the other stays at home to adjust fat and make fans, all feel bored, so that Jia Yucun has no way to start.

In fact, Baoyu was the easiest to be bullied, because he only had two or three servants around him, unlike Jia She and Jia Lian, who still hugged each other when they went out, and the sons and sons Jia Yucun instigated to come forward did not dare to take it seriously.

Everyone knew that Jia She's first room was implicated by the Ningguo Mansion and the second room, and it was not to the point where he could never recover.

It is also because of this that recently quite a few families expressed their intention to marry and cherish the spring.

As Daiyu's direct cousin, Xichun and Daiyu have always had a close relationship, and everyone in the family sees it. Who wouldn't want to use Xichun to make friends with the Wei family?They secretly joked that the Zhang family didn't know what was good and bad, and they resigned from Xichun's marriage regardless of the benefits brought by the Wei family. The daughter-in-law he married now is far worse than Xichun.At the same time, they also admired Sister Feng's idea of ​​choosing a marriage for Xichun without looking at high families. Moreover, Xichun is the granddaughter of Duke Rong's direct relatives, and her background is impeccable.

Seeing that Xichun is still popular at such an age, Sister Feng was overjoyed, but she was shrewd, and after she calmed down, she saw that the person who came to propose marriage was either someone whom King Mingxiao could use, or who King Mingti trusted. As a matchmaker, how dare you agree easily?Even Xichun himself disagrees with these people with ulterior motives, and just wants to live in peace.

However, everyone knows that if you marry Xichun, you will be relatives with the Wei family, and no one wants to give up. The faction of the king of Mingxiao County and the faction of the king of Mingti County are diametrically opposed, and even the matchmaker will quarrel when they meet in Jia's house by chance.

Sister Feng was in a state of desperation and didn't know what to do.