Chapter 9 Burning manuscripts and abandoning hairpins
Mama Wang and Xueyan received the deed and package, and cried sadly on the side, and Zijuan also accompanied her to tears. Pen, Fun, Pavilion www.biquge.info Daiyu gave Zijuan the rest of the gold ingots, broken silver and other things, and said, "Sister Fang Caifeng is here, I have already asked her for your identity deed, and I should send it in a while." In the future, I will take this little thing to my family and do some business with my parents and brothers, and I will not be looked down upon in this house in the future. ”
Zijuan knew that Daiyu's heart disease was that she had no parents to rely on, and when she heard her words as if she was explaining what was going on, she couldn't help but hide her face with a handkerchief, and tears rolled down.
When Sanchun and Ping'er came to the Xiaoxiang Pavilion, they were crying inside. Daiyu saw that Sanchun was coming, and hurriedly cheered up and called Zijuan to take a seat. Tanchun looked at Daiyu carefully, her face was snow-white without a trace of blood, and even her speech was different than usual. The spring greeting on the side wiped his face with a handkerchief and burst into tears. She was worried about Daiyu's idea, and the old lady Yang helped her withdraw from the marriage. Yingchun later asked someone to inquire, and the Sun family only half a month later set up a down-and-out official lady, and soon after marrying into the door, he heard that he killed someone.
Daiyu asked Zijuan to take the deed, and then asked Ping'er to go out.
Zijuan wiped her tears and sent Ping'er to the door, and Ping'er asked quietly, "Why are you so sick?" Zijuan wiped her tears, the old illness was not gone, and today she vomited blood again, and Ping'er accompanied her with red eyes. The two broke up in front of the door, and Ping'er went to Wang Xifeng without mentioning it.
When Zijuan came back, Mama Wang and Xueyan both came out of the room and waved their hands at her, meaning that Yingchun and the others were talking to Daiyu. Zijuan stood still under the porch, and in the room, Daiyu leaned on the couch and asked Yingchun to take the jewelry box left by Jia Min. Daiyu opened the box with her own hands, gave a set of ruby to Yingchun, a set of emerald to Tanchun, and finally picked out a string of Canaan honey-scented Buddha beads and gave it to Xichun.
Sanchun hurriedly excused himself, and Daiyu said: "You and I are both sisters, and I have no other sisters and brothers. "Yingchun and Tanchun have to endure. Xichun saw that Daiyu treated her differently, and secretly thought that she could know her mind, but she was ashamed of the idea of taking the lead.
Yingchun and the others were gossiping slowly with Daiyu, and suddenly no one responded for a long time, but Daiyu was asleep. The three of them walked out quietly, and saw that Zijuan was choking silently under the corridor, and her eyes were already swollen from crying. Yingchun quietly beckoned to her, and when Zijuan arrived, she asked softly, "Let me ask you, why did you suddenly become sick like this?" ”
Zijuan took the root of the illness that fell on Baoyu's wedding night, and after many days of recuperation, it didn't get better, and said the words of Sister Feng and Caiyun at noon one by one, and the angry Yingchun and Tanchun said again and again: "Isn't this bullying? ”
Zijuan choked up and told the marriage contract mentioned in the suicide note left by Lin Ruhai, which stunned Sanchun. If Daiyu took Lin Ruhai's letter to the yamen, the Jia family would be treacherous and the reputation of bullying orphans would go out, and Jia Zheng's career would be over.
Sanchun was sent to the door of the Xiaoxiang Pavilion by Zijuan with a shameful face, and after half a mile away from the Xiaoxiang Pavilion, Xichun suddenly cried loudly. Yingchun and Tanchun hurriedly coaxed her, only to hear Xichun crying: "How could such a conscience-defying thing happen in our family!" Sister Lin is so miserable! The second wife and Sister Bao are too much! Yingchun and Tanchun hurriedly covered her mouth, and while wiping away her tears anxiously, they pulled Xichun back to Zilingzhou in a hurry.
Daiyu fell asleep for an unknown amount of time, and when she opened her eyes, it was getting dark outside. A light was on in the room, and there was a man sitting by the lamp, his shoulders shaking, sobbing. She looked closely, and only then did she realize that it was none other than Zijuan. Daiyu coughed slightly, alarmed Zijuan, and said, "What time is it, go and ask the small kitchen to boil a big bucket of hot water and help me change my clothes." ”
Zijuan knew that she was going to bathe, so she hurriedly went out and instructed the little girl below to boil hot water. When he returned to the room, he helped Daiyu find a change of clothes. Daiyu slept groggily for an hour, and felt more and more that she had no strength on her body, and watched Zijuan open the box and be busy, so she said: "Don't be too troublesome, just pick up the clothes in the box that haven't been on the body, and pick a set of plain colors." Zijuan really took a set out.
Daiyu looked into the room, saw the dozen poems on the table, and said, "Bring a brazier in." Zijuan also obeyed.
Daiyu had to go through the poem again, and threw it into the brazier page by page. Zijuan cried to stop it, and Daiyu smiled dismally: "I'm going to die for the second time now, and let me burn it quietly." He burned the manuscript of the poem, and asked Zijuan to find the old veil of the two poems. Daiyu stared at the handkerchief for a while, then turned sideways, turned her back to Zijuan and said, "Burn it for me." As he spoke, tears wet his pillow.
Zijuan couldn't help crying bitterly, knowing that Daiyu's heart had become ashes, and she didn't want to brush her mind anymore, so she threw the two old handkerchiefs into the brazier.
At this time, Xue Yan said that the hot water had been boiled. Zijuan hurriedly asked Xueyan to ask her mother-in-law to bring in the large wooden bucket for bathing, and put it in the center of the house to add hot water. Zijuan and Xueyan tied the door, and the two worked together to help Daiyu bathe, and used a paste mixed with rose fragrance to help Daiyu wash her hair. Under the steaming heat, Daiyu's face also became ruddy, and her eyes brightened a little with Zijuan and Xueyan helping her dress and freshen up.
When the mother-in-law withdrew the bathtub and went down, Daiyu took Zijuan's hand and said, "You go out for a walk with me!" ”
Zijuan hurriedly tried to persuade her to take a bath and not blow the wind, but she saw Daiyu looking at her with blazing eyes, and she couldn't say anything in her throat. Such a sudden recovery of energy is too much like the old man's mouth often says that the light returns. Zijuan forcibly suppressed her tears, nodded and said "yes".
She brought a thick wool cloak to drape Daiyu on, and the fluffy wool almost obscured the person. Daiyu took the box left by Jia Min in her arms, got out of bed with her shoes on, helped Zijuan walk a few steps, took a slight breath, and walked out of the Xiaoxiang Pavilion with Zijuan and walked to the depths of the Grand View Garden. Far away in the direction of Mrs. Wang, a group of people had already come with lanterns. Daiyu knew that it was Sister Feng and others who came with a small sedan chair, and they walked even faster with Zijuan.
When she arrived at the Qinfang Gate, Daiyu let go of her hand holding Zijuan, grabbed a handful of things from the box, regardless of the gold and jade, and threw them into the turbulent water. She asked Zijuan to help her up, and walked forward again, and walked to the tributary where the water was diverting to Daoxiang Village, grabbed a handful of things and threw them down. There was only a slight splash, and the treasures that had made Madame Wang's eyes fall into the mud at the bottom of the river.
The things left by Jia Min, some of which were treasures given by the palace when the Jia family was wealthy, and some of which were handed down by the Jia and Shi families, were somehow not given to Mrs. Wang, but were given to Jia Min. If these things are left to Zijuan, Xueyan and others, not only will they not be able to bring them benefits, but they will only cause trouble for them.
Daiyu lost some in the upper reaches of Daoxiang Village, and then went downstream along the tributaries. In the distance, a group of people with lanterns had already come this way. Baoyu in Yihong Courtyard still refused to eat, and Jia's mother also came to spread the word that she wanted to see the two Yu'er, and Mrs. Wang was already anxious. While angrily scolding Baochai for her inability and unable to coax Baoyu's heart, she asked someone to hurry up to find Daiyu, and heard that the mother-in-law in the garden said that someone was going downstream to Daoxiang Village with a lantern, and hurriedly led someone to chase after her.
Daiyu walked for a long time, felt that her legs were sore, leaned on Zijuan to rest for a while, saw the shadowy lights in the distance, and walked downstream, she still had the last third of the jewelry in the box not lost. Zijuan helped Daiyu and stumbled forward for more than half a mile, and Mrs. Wang and others also caught up behind him.
This is the place where several tributaries under the Qinfang Gate converge in one place, and the water potential is much more turbulent than that of Daoxiang Village. Daiyu helped Zijuan panting slightly, standing on a mountain rock by the river, and saw Mrs. Wang with Sister Feng, and behind her a large number of domestic servants and mothers-in-law and others, all gathered here. Daiyu smiled, opened the box, and threw it into the river along with the rest of the jewelry.
The precious ornaments reflected the firelight, drew a shiny parabola in the air, and fell into the river with a soft "plop". Mrs. Wang shuddered and screamed, and almost fell to the ground, but fortunately Sister Feng and several mothers-in-law helped her. She shouted frantically, "Go and get it!" Fast! I sent someone down to get it back, and I got one, and I got a reward! ”
Sister Feng also hurriedly said: "Whoever catches it will go to the account to receive the silver." "Those domestic servants just look at me, I look at you, and no one wants to go down. Now is the month of wax, these servants have to keep their lives to enjoy the wealth, who is impatient to go desperately for those Xu Yinzi. They already knew that Jiafu was just an empty shell now.
Sister Feng was also anxious when she saw that she was not moving. After making a promise for a long time, none of those servants refused to go down. Mrs. Wang slowly regained her composure, she stared at Daiyu viciously, and ordered the mothers-in-law to arrest Daiyu.
Daiyu held Zijuan's hand, and there was no movement for a long time. Zijuan saw that the evil servants under Mrs. Wang came up, and hurriedly pulled Daiyu back. This pull, but Daiyu fell straight down.
That night, there was a sad cry in the Xiaoxiang Pavilion, and Yingchun and others from Zilingzhou woke up from their sleep, and after listening to it for a long time, they knew that the Daiyu in the Xiaoxiang Pavilion was gone. Yingchun and Tanchun Xichun talked for half a night, and they all slept in the Yingchun house, looking at each other at this time, and silently weeping with each other.
Another day passed, and the crying sounded all night in Yihong Courtyard, especially the cries of Mrs. Wang and Xue Baochai were the most desolate.