Chapter 34: Inside the Palace

Lin Daiyu originally came out to relax because she was bored, and it was a pure coincidence that she met the monk, the Taoist and Zhen Shiyin. The pen %fun %pavilion www.biquge.info and the monk and the Taoist duo took Zhen Shiyin to come from the nether realm, and happened to rest under this Qinggang Peak. So after saying that, they took their leave. Lin Daiyu wandered alone by the puddle for a long time, and when the boredom was relieved, she went back along the way.

The next day, the housekeeper Lin Zhuo prepared the carriage and guards. The purple cuckoo and the snow goose also got up early with the little girls, packed up the things that went out, and this day was to go to the Panxiang Temple to make incense. Seeing that the hour was almost up, Zijuan came to the bedside and gently called Lin Daiyu to get up. Lin Daiyu opened her eyes, dressed and washed under Zijuan's waiting, Aunt Ye had already washed up outside, and saw Daiyu sitting in front of the mirror, Zijuan held a comb in her hand, stepped forward and took the comb in Zijuan's hand and said, "Let me come!" Have you gone to see if the girl's breakfast is ready? When Zijuan heard this, she handed the comb to Aunt Ye and went out to the small kitchen.

Lin Daiyu sat in front of the mirror, pursed her lips and smiled: "Aunt Lao." Aunt Ye stood behind Lin Daiyu, looking at Daiyu who was smiling like a flower in the mirror, she couldn't help but sigh, and said to her: "The last time I combed the girl's hair, it was when the girl was four or five years old, and in the blink of an eye, she lived in her grandfather's house for four or five years, and when she came back, she was already a big girl." ”

Lin Daiyu said with a smile: "Auntie, I just remembered this, hasn't it been four or five years?" When I went to my grandfather's house from Yangzhou, my aunt and my father sent me to the ferry, and I still remember the scene vividly. ”

Zijuan lifted the curtain from outside and came in and said, "I came from the small kitchen just now, and I met the little girl in my aunt's room, and asked me if I could see my aunt, and there was breakfast in the house over there." I said that I would bring the food here, and my aunt and girl would eat it together, I don't know if it would be okay? ”

Lin Daiyu nodded in front of the mirror and smiled: "It's very proper." I was thinking about having my aunt eat with me, when you thought about it. I just don't know if my aunt is willing. ”

Aunt Ye was wrapping her black hair scattered on her shoulders, dividing it into four or five handfuls, combing it from the bottom, combing it through one by one, and when she heard this, she smiled and said, "How can you not want to." It just so happened that I was eating with you girls and going out together. Fortunately, I was born and raised here, so I can't go wrong to be a guide. ”

As he spoke, Zijuan and Snow Goose came in together, and a few little girls then rushed in with food boxes and fish, laid out the meals, and went down silently. Aunt Ye combed Lin Daiyu's hair, tied it into a pattern, decorated a few big pearls on the left and right as pendants, tied them with ribbons, and said while looking at the mirror: "When I go out today, I won't wear those hairpins, so as not to bump the carriage on the road and get injured if I bump into it." ”

Lin Daiyu looked at the hair combed by Aunt Ye's exquisite craftsmanship in the mirror, and couldn't help but nod and said, "What Aunt said is very true." She looked left and right in the mirror, deeply attached to this kind of family closeness, and only looked at Aunt Ye in the mirror and smiled. Zijuan let go of her hand, and when she saw this, she said with a smile: "I said that the girl is only afraid that from today onwards, she will not look down on me and Xue Yan's hair, and I have to ask Aunt Ye to come and comb the girl's hair often." ”

Lin Daiyu said with a smile: "You also eat your aunt's vinegar, if you are afraid that I will not look down on your craftsmanship and refuse to let you comb your hair, why not kowtow to my aunt early and beg her to teach you two days?" ”

Zijuan said: "I should kowtow to my aunt, but I don't know if my aunt thinks I'm stupid?" If you don't dislike it, my aunt will comb the girl a few more times, and I will follow the learning. ”

Aunt Ye smiled and said, "I like to comb your girl's hair, I'm afraid that you will think I have robbed the errand." If I say that today, I will come here often from now on, and you will watch from the sidelines. ”

Zijuan smiled and saluted, "Thank you, auntie." Breakfast was already on the table, and Aunt Ye pulled Lin Daiyu up to eat. After the master and servant finished eating, Lin Mo in the outer courtyard was also ready and carried all the things into the car. Lin Daiyu took Zijuan and Snow Goose, and Aunt Ye took the two little girls into the carriage. Yan Niang and the other two aunts were reluctant to go out, saying that they would stay in the house to take care of the family.

Steward Lin accompanied dozens of guards, and the carriage and horses went out of the city.

Nearly noon, I saw a few people in monk hats on a land and water beach from a distance, and the snow goose lifted the curtain to look at it, and said: "Xu is the people of Panxiang Temple who greeted him and opened it." ”

Aunt Ye listened, also glanced at the window, and said, "It's the people in the temple." Sure enough, when the carriage approached, a person headed by the head stepped forward and asked, "But is it the family of the old man of Yangzhou Yanjiaolin?" Steward Lin stepped forward and replied, "Exactly." The man said, "The abbot has prepared his room for it to be cleaned, and has commanded us to wait here early in the morning, so that we may show you the way." Steward Lin said, "Thank you." The nuns led the way in front, and the Lin family's carriage followed them slowly, passing behind the temple and coming to a quiet and clean courtyard separated from the temple.

Lin Daiyu and the others in the carriage had already smelled a refreshing fragrance of plum blossoms, and when they heard someone talking outside, it turned out that Lin Mo got out of the carriage first. Zijuan, Snow Goose and the two little girls went down first, helped Lin Daiyu get out of the carriage, and then came to help Aunt Ye. Everyone stood still on the ground, only to see the flowers and trees around them, the branches of the old plum were full of flower bones, and there were a few plum trees blooming in the wind, and the fragrance of the flowers floated, which was very gratifying.

Zijuan and the others were busy moving all the things they had brought in the car and putting them in the room to settle them properly. Steward Lin was about to drive the carriage to another place, and one of the nuns said, "Don't worry about the donor, the temple is equipped with horse sheds and forage." With that, he led them over, and vacated a room for Lin Mo to live in, and also found two rooms for those guards to rest.

After the placement was completed, Lin Daiyu, Aunt Ye and Lin Mo went to the temple to find the abbot, set up tablets for the deceased Lin Ruhai and Jia Min, and received incense offerings in the temple. Because Lin Daiyu had been to the Illusory Realm and was reborn, she was quite serious about things like gods and Buddhas. The matter of the tablet was agreed, and they went to the main hall of the temple to put incense, and after adding incense and oil money, they walked to this plum forest to enjoy the scenery and relax.

Although the plum blossoms are not yet fully blooming, there are occasionally one or two early-blooming snow plums, and then one or two trees are in full bloom, which is also pleasant. The clouds in the sky were gray, but there was no wind, they walked for a while, and they did not feel cold, and they saw several families living on the other side of the temple, both men and women, and the nuns of Panxiang Temple came over and invited them to go to the feast.

Lin Daiyu's eyes were sharp, and she saw that there were two girls living there, both of whom were only about twelve or thirteen years old, one was wearing an old silk jacket, which looked like an adult's clothes had been changed, and the other was dressed as a monk, who had never cut her hair, holding a plum bottle in her arms, and was walking forward while talking. These two people, who are they not Xing Xiuyan and Miaoyu?