[Red Chamber] Jagged Lin Daiyu

Chapter 246 The Queen's Girlhood

The prince likes Hu's daughter a little bit, the daughter of the Taifu, that is, his little junior sister.It's not like the kind of love between men and women, but appreciation.Although the girl was young, she was swift and resolute when she gave orders, and she was smooth and smooth in handling things, even more sophisticated than the Tai Tuo.The Taifu has an old daughter, and his wife has no time to manage the housework, so Miss Hu is the housekeeper.

No one in the whole family did not talk about her benefits, and no one said anything about Miss Hu's mistakes when the sisters-in-law fought.

When I went to visit the Taifu, I saw Miss Hu from a distance. She looked about ten years old, stood and talked with people with a smile, she looked gentle and virtuous, and her voice was gentle and low-pitched, but everyone in the courtyard was silent, and accompanied her. Listen carefully to the training.Even the standing postures of her three sister-in-laws seemed to respect her.

Sometimes you can't see the nature of a person by looking at his appearance, then just look at how the people around him treat her, the attitude of his friends, and the attitudes of his superiors and subordinates, you can see this. people's daily conduct.

The crown prince respectfully thanked the duplicity girl Hu.

The emperor took a bunch of lists and asked, "Who is more suitable to be the second concubine?"

The prince lightly recommended Miss Hu from Taifu's family. The second child is a bit dull, not good at communication, and a bit weak and introverted. Let a girl like this protect him.

Although the second child looks ordinary, he is quite handsome when he is called the prince, and he is also a good person, with no bad problems at all, and has no other hobbies except reading novels and hunting.

After the matter is settled, it doesn't matter if the second prince learned about it from the imperial decree. Anyway, if he is alive, he must get married.

Ajaan was in the filial piety again: "Are you going to get married?"

"It's still a few years, wait for me to be crowned, wait for him to reach Ji."

A Jiang was excited like the protagonist of a girl comic: "Is Miss Hu pretty? Is she good-tempered? Have you seen her?"

The second prince looked calm: "What do you see her for? Things are up to now, whether it is good or bad, it can only be like this. If she is good, I will live a good life with her. If it is not good, I am too lazy to take a concubine, okay Women are all in the folk, and those who marry into rich families are all bastards."

After he figured it out, the concubines in the harem are not good things, and the concubines of the kings are always eccentric. The young ones are domineering, and the old ones look gloomy. No one is pleasing to the eye.Smiling and smirking, telling lies, and wearing fake flowers, even if the food is real, you can't eat it while it's hot.

A-Jiang asked enthusiastically: "Why don't you take a concubine? Beautiful wife and beautiful concubine, how happy the flowers are."

The second prince curled his lips mockingly: "My father doesn't have a concubine, don't you know that there are two situations in which wives and concubines get together."

"Which two?"

"Fight openly, fight secretly."

A-Jian wanted to ask again, but seeing the disinterestedness on the second prince's face, the expression on his face was more disgusting than when he stepped on dog shit in the imperial garden, so he obediently didn't ask.I remembered that I had seen "Secret History of the Former Dynasty Palace", "Deduction of Imperial Concubine's Amorous History" and "Empress Lu's Amorous History" in the bookstore. I thought it was very boring and all made up, so I didn't read it at all. Maybe I should read it now.The battle in the harem in the history books is very simple. First, look at the family background of the concubine, and second, look at the emperor's preferences.

For example, after the deaths of Wei Qing and Huo Qubing, Empress Wei suffered from witchcraft, killed her two daughters and one son, and then committed suicide.This has nothing to do with fading and falling in love, it has long since faded and fallen in love.It is common for the inner court to be implicated in the struggle of foreign relatives.Thinking of this, A-Jiang glanced at the second prince thankfully, fortunately his uncle is an honest and dutiful ordinary person, no matter how he fights, he will not be implicated.

After seeing off the second prince, A-Jiang changed out of the mourning clothes and put on ordinary people's clothes, and went secretly to buy books.

"The Romance of the Amorous History of the Imperial Concubine", I casually flipped through it in my hand, and immediately swallowed.Soft and warm freshly peeled chicken head meat, lubricated and stuffed with crisp.——Qin Zhongyu shouted in his heart, I want a woman!I don't know what to use it for, but I really want it!When can I marry a wife!

The library owner recommended it wisely, and happily sold eight copies.

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At the same time, Miss Hu didn't know that she was engaged to the second prince until she received the imperial decree, and she was a little unhappy.

Taifu Hu twisted his gray beard, carefully looked at his 50-year-old daughter: "Little Nan, don't you want to?"

"Dad told me the day before yesterday that there is a young man who is gentle and introverted, likes to read without asking for deep understanding, polite and not arrogant, and asked me how I feel, and he was talking about the second prince?"

"Yeah, hehehe, the Holy Spirit intends to be a matchmaker, and asked me what I think, so I'm coming back to ask you."

Miss Hu frowned slightly. Her original life plan for herself was to find a smart, open-minded, studious and good-natured scholar, and train him step by step to become the chief assistant. How interesting!Now, it's a lazy prince who doesn't make progress at all. What's even more irritating is because of his status. If he makes progress, he will die easily. All the knowledge he has learned has no place to put it to good use. How angry.

Taifu Hu saw that she was going to be angry like a puffer fish—he had seen live puffer fish, it was delicious, and it was so funny when she was angry—he laughed: "Why, the second prince has nothing to do with the world, what's wrong? I'll send someone to I checked quietly and found that he has a very good relationship with the prince, and he only has one friend, the only son of Qin Yushi's family, and he is also an honest child."

Miss Hu is still full of anger. What she wants is a man who is 'honest and obedient, who can be controlled by herself to achieve prosperity', or a man who is 'ambitious but obedient, and can become the chief minister of the court through unremitting efforts'.

Not a man who fights cocks and horses, reads idle books and drinks flower wine.To teach ordinary people to be obedient, you can use both kindness and strength, and use both soft and hard. When facing the second prince, you can only use soft ones, and you can't beat, scold, or frighten!If an ordinary person wants to take a concubine for no reason as a son-in-law, he can have his two older brothers beat him up, alas.

"How about this, I'll find a way to arrange for you to meet each other in a few days, okay?"

Miss Hu pondered for a moment: "No need. Since Daddy has decided on the marriage, I have nothing to say."

He left with a look of 'I'm asking for blessings', and asked my brothers and sisters-in-law about the second prince.

It can probably be summed up as 'little transparent', 'little transparent', 'little transparent', 'mother died early', 'unfavored', 'normal temper', 'he used to look gloomy, but now he is much better', 'loves hunting, but his skills are not good enough' Good ''do not love to study''.

Miss Hu was even more unhappy, but there was no other way.When he went back, he asked daddy why he chose the second prince, Taifu Hu avoided answering, and the eldest girl asked someone to serve wine, and prepared the master's favorite appetizers.

Taifu Hu told the truth when he was drunk: "You are too ambitious. It is easy to live with a stable person. If you are strong, you will be easily broken. I am afraid that you will be misunderstood by your cleverness. Sometimes there is a coup in the court. , That’s a big trend, even if you are an important minister and a filial son, you can’t escape if you get involved in it. For example, why are your two elder brothers being demoted again and again? It’s not their fault, it’s the emperor who wants to control the crown prince.”

When Miss Hu was young and frivolous, she thought she was smarter than everyone in the world, and she was spoiled and spoiled since she was a child, so she didn't take these words seriously.I went back at night and thought about it, and couldn't help but write a letter, which only contained one sentence, and asked my father to hand it over to the second prince the next day.

Taifu Hu is quite entangled and curious. Could it be a love poem?He held the letter up to the sun and looked carefully, trying to see the letter paper inside, and he did see it, there was only one line of writing, but the flower paper was folded, and this line of writing happened to repeat.Taifu Hu stood in the courtyard of the East Palace and watched for a long time. He was so dizzy that he almost fell down. The prince who came back to class was a little dazed.

The second prince was about to write a letter to his fiancée, he hesitated all day but did not write anything, he planned to talk to foreign aid, but he was called here, met his brother and father-in-law, took the letter and went back to open it suspiciously .

This font looks gentle and graceful, but the tone is loud. It has no beginning and signature, and is very rude.

Only one sentence was written: "How about the old 'Golden House Cangjiao'?"

The second prince had a barrage of bullets in his heart: [Jinwu Zangjiao means too much! ]

[Did she ask, will she become Chen Ajiao, will I have Wei Zifu and Mrs. Li Zhao Jieyu again? ]

[Still asking me if Liu Che wanted to fight for the throne at that time? ]

[Or to test my historical knowledge and attitude towards concubines? ]

[Ahhh, women are so troublesome! ]

The second prince thought about it for a while, didn't even eat dinner, and wrote a sentence cautiously: "Wei Ruo'the old sword is deeply in love'."

There is no beginning and signature.I am secretly proud in my heart, it is also a fight between two beauties, and it is also a potential dragon in the abyss.Joyfully, I felt something was wrong, why in all the allusions about the union of emperors and empresses throughout the ages, there is no one who can start well and end well, and grow old forever?It's so weird.

He simply wrote a large article eloquently. From Emperor Wu's evil heart when he saw the beauty at that time, he wrote that this person is very superstitious. He believed in ghosts and gods since he was a child, which caused disasters in his life. I never believed in ghosts and gods. The three melons and two dates.

Taifu Hu came home with the letter, the girl only squeezed the thickness of the letter, and then smiled.

It was supposed to test his ambition and his attitude towards his wife, but in the end he seriously discussed "the danger of superstition to the emperor".Since the current Holy Majesty is very fond of things about Shinto ghosts, the two of them wrote more and more taboo and cautiously, almost using code words.

Chatting and chatting, I don’t know why I talked about the sacrifices and sacrifices in ancient times. Confucius said “respect ghosts and gods and stay away” and said “I have already prayed.” Is the tortoise shell divination in the Shang and Zhou Dynasties accurate? To be sure, why is Qin Shihuang such a suspicious person, as long as Xu Fu fools him, he will believe, what are the benefits of alchemy.

While writing the letter, Miss Hu flipped through the books in the vast study at home, reading the Taoist scriptures in a critical spirit, and she felt that what was said was quite right and good, so she believed it a little bit.

The second prince usually hides his clumsiness and pretends to be stupid and dull on purpose. Only the prince knows that he is smart, and he also waits for the prince to ascend the throne before displaying his talents—the prince promised in this way.

He has only one friend, and the companions around him are all playboys, who cannot understand the deep and surging emotions in his heart.

But this girl understands me very well, she even knows that my life is very depressed.

The second prince: "Ah Jiang! How about you accompany me to climb over the wall to see my fiancée?" I really want to see her, and I dare not send some words in letters.

Qin Zhongyu looked at him speechlessly, read a lot of martial arts novels and late-night novels for adults, and thought he was very experienced: "Your Highness, do you think that is my house? The houses in the village are all similar, and the layout is roughly like this." He picked up the pen, and drew a rough drawing, marking the height of the wall.

The second prince tried it on the courtyard wall of his house, rubbed his butt, and silently canceled the plan: "Ah Jiang, what kind of stories are circulating in the market, about monks and Taoists deceiving people, and stories about deceiving people with pills and spells?" , tell me about it."

Ms. Hu frequently took out a Taoist scripture that I had never heard of, and transcribed a paragraph that made sense. I am indeed ignorant, but I have something that she doesn't know~

Qin Zhongyu took him to the bookstore to search for it.

The second prince muttered: "My butt hurts, my tailbone is about to break."

"Chi Chi." A dark and strong young woman with big breasts beside her laughed, "Eat some chicken butt to mend it."

The second prince frowned, and ignored such a vulgar and rude woman with a sour smell on her body.

Not long after, a young man in coarse clothes took a few books and left to check out, and said to the young woman: "If I don't look at you for a moment, you will cause trouble, won't you?"

The young woman squeezed her throat and said delicately: "Oh, you are bad, you are a murderer."

A-Jiang snorted happily: "Did you see her, she's so big."

Big breasts and big butt, no matter how you look, this figure is very good-looking for a teenager who has just entered puberty.

The young Zhuo Donglai looked indifferent, and just read the book: "Don't be flirtatious." I have never read this book in my previous life, and it describes some dynasties that I don't know. It must be read!

Wen Si roared angrily: "Fuck! It's boring to be with you! This little money will let you buy books!" She strode away, changing her delicate and plump posture, she was murderous.

A-Jiang was a little sluggish: "Women are scary. The speed of changing faces, tsk tsk tsk, hey, was she just seducing that boy? She's dry and thin, I'm afraid she's about to be drained, hehehe."

Zhuo Donglai looked at her contemptuously and helplessly, what good is drinking flower wine, which wastes money and can't get any benefits, there are many news that it is sold in brothels.I can still get knowledge by buying books, which will be useful in the future. You have been listening to music for so long, what is the use?Can't sing a song, and it's useless to sing, it's better to eat meat, the fat one can block the knife.

He followed quickly, using a tone that she would never refuse—close to her ear, lowered his voice, and stroked her neck: "Go back, I'll tell you a story. Huh? I'm leaving the capital tomorrow." Take away the almost limp fat man.

The second prince looked indifferent, bought books and went home.

After reading the book, he casually wrote the things in the book as if he knew it all along, and sent the letter.

Ms. Hu was amazed to see how the "Selling Dali Pills" used sliced ​​cakes to make fake pills and sold fake pills with real kung fu.

In the spring of the following year, there was a box full of letters, and the second prince wrote anxiously: "In five days, I will go to the Great Compassion Temple to be a dojo for my mother and concubine." Are you coming back to see me?

Miss Hu replied mercilessly: "I have already believed... I will eat vegetarian food and chant scriptures for the concubine Xian at home."

The second prince was very disappointed, but it was also very good.

Taifu Hu brought in a letter and brought out a letter every time he entered the palace, and he had been asked by the emperor and the crown prince more than once or twice.

He couldn't bear it anymore: "Second Highness, come to my house tomorrow, talk about life, talk about the cycle of burdens between heaven and earth, the universe, how about it?"

The second prince almost left with him that day.

Taifu Hu went back and happily told his daughter about his arrangement.

Miss Hu nodded slightly: "Okay." She didn't eat dinner, and hurried back to the study to burn paper.

What was burned was not correspondence, but some analyzes and plans that had been written down all the time, some inappropriate poems, some letters that were written but felt bad and never sent, and the second prince's petty temper that was found in the letters , an excerpt from a stack of papers.These are all piled up in the study, it is not good to be seen, and they are all burned.

There are also some books that should not appear here, "Qin Law", "Han Law Collection", "Tang Law Shuyi", as well as the law books of this dynasty, and a large number of military books.

"Guiguzi" and "Warring States Policy" appear in girls' study rooms, but law books are not girly enough.

Miss Hu hypocritically took two copies of "Women's Precepts" and "Women's Virtue" that she never read, and pressed them on the law book, and put away the sword in the study, put away the words that were too murderous, and put away the wild grass, The painted Zhong Kui is put away.

The painting of the beauty that has not been signed yet was originally a self-portrait drawn in the mirror, and the signature was written as "the picture of the beauty in the dream".

Instructing the servant girl to tidy up for a few hours, the bronze beast was changed into a jade bottle, and the dark Taihu stone was replaced with an Suzhou embroidery table screen.

He smiled softly and shyly in the mirror.On weekdays, no one comes to my study, only servants come and go, not afraid of being seen by them.Will the second prince come back to my study now?

Miss Hu went to rest cautiously and restlessly, feeling quite tense as if she was waiting for a fight, and the success or failure of life and death depended on one action.

The next day we met, it was in Mrs. Hu's study, and there was no chance to go to her study—that is, the boudoir.

There are countless words in the correspondence, but they are speechless when they meet, both of them are a little shy.

The gentle and quiet lady and the quiet and well-behaved boy looked at each other and smiled with mutual affection.

Turning his head, he felt that this person's appearance did not match the emotions expressed in the letter. *2

And...not as beautiful/handsome as expected. *2

The second prince sighed secretly, as expected, pretty women are not good things, and such a good girl is not particularly good-looking.After looking at it for a while, I thought it was actually pretty good-looking, and there was an aura in the eyebrows: "Beauties don't need gold houses, and heroes don't need promises."

Miss Hu smiled slightly: "A-Jiao should live in the pepper house, and the golden house is not suitable for etiquette."

The second prince understands what she means, Han Wu is superstitious and unruly, he is not a serious man at first glance.

"When I leave the palace to build a mansion, there will only be a royal mansion, and there will be no such troubles. Miss, what flowers do you like?"

"Flowers that never fade in four o'clock."——Ms. Hu was fascinated by the Taoism.

The second prince nodded, it was simple, originally there were flowers that bloomed continuously in four seasons in the imperial garden.It's good not to be picky.

The author has something to say: youth is very different from being mature.

Miss Wen's strength steals the spotlight.