Chapter Seventy-Eight: A Thousand Feet of Green Pines is Proud of the Cold
Daiyu was surveying the drawings of Xichun in the Grand View Garden at this time, Xichun was timid and did not dare to return to the Grand View Garden, Daiyu left her to Jueyuan, Daiyu and Zijuan came to the Grand View Garden of Rongguo Mansion, along the red line in the picture of Xichun, they quickly entered Yihong Courtyard from Xiaoxiang Pavilion, and the mirror of Yihong Courtyard turned out to be an import, which was determined by Daiyu after many references. She is familiar with this place, there is a vague speculation in her heart that has not been confirmed, when she saw a magnificent treasure house under this underground, a question was solved, they saw that some lights were turned off in the corridor of this underworld, it seems that there are some days no one to take care of, one by one the doors are opened, one by one the treasure troves are presented, arranged in a very standardized manner, calligraphy, painting, antiques, porcelain, and even a huge arsenal is simply a museum of the Ming Dynasty, and the bottom of many porcelains is marked with the seal of King Fu, There are also some things that the Ming Dynasty vassal kings paid tribute to, Zijuan said: It turns out that the wealth accumulated by King Fu is still here, and the emperor of the Ming Dynasty can be regarded as working hard, but these princes and ministers are not willing to give up their wealth until they die.
Daiyu saw several coffins in a room, Zijuan was afraid and wanted to dodge, Daiyu opened the coffin with internal force, and saw that the coffin was actually full of gold, and kept shaking her head. Daiyu saw that there was a house painted at the exit of the mansion that was not in the Grand View Garden, but this house was so familiar to her, she quickly decided that this was the house where her grandmother lived, she lived in the outhouse for a while when she was a child, and Baoyu lived in the opposite door at that time, and the two of them had to have as much fun and stinginess as they had in this house every day. She leaned against the wall and silently listened to the movement outside, Zijuan found the mechanism, but couldn't open the door, Daiyu calmed down, remembering that Hou Baoyu was naughty at that time, and his grandmother taught him some mantras for battle, her heart moved, she smiled at Zijuan: The wall is on the old lady's house, you avoid it first. He turned the bronze beast's head around a few times. Sure enough, the wall turned around, and the grandmother and the mandarin duck were turned around.
The mandarin duck was shocked, but Daiyu had already quickly sealed a few acupoints of her grandmother, and gave her grandmother the Jiuhua Yulu Pill in her purse, and the grandmother gasped and said that you are the best child, don't waste your good medicine. Daiyu burst into tears, and her grandmother was also doubly sad when she cried, and sighed: Good boy, you see that I won't live long, just let me explain something to you, so don't provoke me to cry. How could Daiyu endure it, nodding her head, tears still holding back her tears. The mandarin duck saw it clearly, didn't say more, and took the initiative to guard and let the two talk well. Who knew that when they came out, they saw Zijuan, sisters meeting, the two of them shook their hands together, and they didn't need a word for thousands of words.
Here, Daiyu held Jia's mother's hand, how to loosen it, how could she not hold back her tears, Jia's mother sighed, "Good boy, since you have arrived here, I will tell you directly about the things here, it turned out to be the treasures of the Ming Dynasty, and was privately owned by King Fu, when our nursery was pardoned by Li Zicheng, not an inch of land was moved, and there was a treasure house of King Fu hidden underground, King Fu was killed by Li Zicheng, only part of the property that was intended to be taken away was taken away by King Chuang's troops, and the rest was entrusted to your uncle to hide here." Your uncle was just a five-grade petty official at the time, and he was ordered to do such a big thing in danger, how did a person do such a big thing, and discussed with your grandfather, your grandfather fought for his life in order to protect the emperor, and your uncle was helpless, and he had no military power in his hands, and he worked hard to maintain it for a year. In order to cover up this secret, the Grand View Garden was built over the years. These four girls turned out to be the female soldiers I brought out, and now I have let the mandarin ducks hand over these keys to you, you bring them, this is the order, and they will do their best to protect this treasure house. The words were too long, Mother Jia held Daiyu's hand and became colder and colder, Daiyu wiped her tears: "Ancestor don't say anything, wait for me to give you luck"
"Good boy, let me finish, this big family, the real blood relatives are us, your uncle is also a loyal person, it turns out that you are just a girl, but you are very talented, you have to try to preserve his family in the future. I only have your mother's child, and the Lin family has no descendants, so we all hope that you can continue the bloodline for the two families. I originally thought that you went to the Beijing Mansion for other reasons, but now I know that it is for your brother Jia Zhu's children, and they use this treasure to coerce them to marry Baochai, I have no objection for the sake of the overall situation, and let you be wronged.
Daiyu said: "I didn't dare to blame my grandmother before, but now that I know the truth, how dare I blame my ancestors, Baoyu's matter, and there is also the will of God." With a red face, he whispered something in Jia Mu's ear, and Jia Mu happily held her hand, "This is very good, so I can also die." You will call me grandmother in the future, and you don't need to take the extracurricular lesson. The eyes stopped talking, but the hand was cold, and he saw that it was Bintian. Daiyu spat out a mouthful of blood, called out to her grandmother, and fainted on Jia's mother. Zijuan and Mandarin Duck hurriedly came over.
Xue Baoqin, who was on the side of the wall, turned around and couldn't see the old lady and the mandarin duck, she was looking at the wall in a daze, and heard that there was a eunuch outside asking the little girl if the old lady had returned to the west, and she hated itchy, and she wanted to shout, saying that the old lady was gone, and then she thought that maybe the old lady had escaped by taking advantage of this, and she could delay it for a while, and explain a few words to the little girl, but she was relieved, and she sat on the chair and had good luck, and she didn't want to fall asleep. Who knew that she was awakened by a burst of crying, it turned out that the old lady was lying straight on the bed at this time, she had already changed into new clothes, and she had already lost her breath, Xue Baoqin had not had time to cry this time, and the eunuchs came in for an autopsy. had to hide on the beams of the house, the eunuch let everyone go out, not allowed to report the funeral, and then stood on both sides, lit incense in the house, only to see a woman surrounded by people to come in, Baoqin recognized it as the queen mother, hid on it and did not dare to come out.
The woman wiped her tears, asked everyone to retreat, held the old lady's hand, cried loudly, and said while crying, what Baoqin heard was that the Manchu and Han were incompatible, the emperor only knew the sinicization, learned from the foreigners, did not want a little of the rules of the ancestors, was ruthless, disobedient and unfilial, and had no choice, sooner or later he would have to turn against him. It stands to reason that you have helped me too much, I shouldn't have let you take this step, but there are so many things in your heart, if you are old and faint, and you leak the news, how can I have royal face, and I am afraid that the world will be in chaos again. Then he said that you have worked hard all these years, and it is all for Baoyu's child, and now that he is dead, I promised to let this child be the emperor, and you should also be blind. The old lady was lying there at this time, where did she care about the queen mother's muttering, but Baoqin was already stupid, Baoyu's life experience, I don't know if my sister knows it, and the first thing I thought about after going out was to tell my sister about it.
I saw that the old lady stood up straight, called the big eunuch who served her, and said to bring all the girls who served the old lady. was brought up together, even the old mother and five of them, and the mandarin duck was the first. The Queen Mother said: Give death, burial. The little girls didn't have time to beg for mercy, so the eunuchs behind them covered the girls' mouths with white cloths and immediately suffocated to the ground. The mother struggled desperately, and her strength was great, and the eunuchs simply strangled her with white silk, and the old mother was strangled to death. The mandarin duck stood still, and the eunuch behind the mandarin duck knelt down, but it was Eunuch Zhou, "The Queen Mother, this is my daughter Mandarin Duck, who has been doing things for the Queen Mother, begging the Queen Mother to spare her life"
The Queen Mother looked at Eunuch Zhou, and the murderous intent in her eyes became heavier and heavier, "She is really your daughter?" The mandarin duck said indifferently: "Queen Mother, if you want to kill, you can kill, I don't know this person." I don't know what to do for you, and if you die, don't ruin my name. Eunuch Zhou was in tears. The rest of the eunuchs stopped to look at Eunuch Zhou. The mandarin duck smiled coldly, looked at the little girls who were bored on the ground, and said indifferently: "I hope the Queen Mother will give me some time, let me break it myself, and finish my righteousness to the old lady." Usually the old lady's affairs have nothing to do with them, they are all miscellaneous servants in the outhouse, and there is no big girl, if you can pardon these three girls, it is your kindness to the old lady. ”
The Queen Mother sighed: "You are a righteous servant, these little girls are exempt from death, and I don't look good when it is passed out, I only order them to be buried well." The eunuchs hung the fainted girls from the beams of the house. Then they all knelt down and begged the Queen Mother to save the mandarin duck from death.
Mandarin Duck sneered, "In the peaceful and prosperous world, it is also spectacular for so many people to hang themselves together," and smiled gently at Eunuch Zhou, "I have been kind to the old lady for many years, and I am willing to be buried for the old lady's granddaughter and the old lady. I went over and took the white silk, moved a stool and hung the white silk on the beam, and loosely tied a knot. Let everyone out.
Eunuch Zhou released the mandarin duck, and the Queen Mother sneered: "If she is really your daughter, you are not as reasonable as her, you can see clearly, is today the day for you to intercede?" Come, take him away. Eunuch Zhou jumped up: Queen Mother, I have been dedicated to you all these years, from birth to death, you can let her go. He grabbed the queen mother's clothes, "Please let her go for the sake of me serving you for many years."
Eunuch Zhou had already been held up by several eunuchs and wanted to be dragged out, and the mandarin duck said: Queen Mother, although this person has recognized the wrong person, he is the best in the world for me, and I beg you to let this person send me on the road. The Queen Mother looked at the mandarin duck's strong face, and couldn't help admiring, "Get up and leave him here to watch his daughter on the road." Your daughter doesn't die, and you don't have to come back alive" Everyone went out, and only Eunuch Zhou and Mandarin Duck were left in the house. The mandarin duck looked at his father, carefully tidied up the torn clothes for him, and went to the water in the kettle to wash his father's face. Tears flowed, and I kept saying something, why don't I die for you. Mandarin Duck said: Father, we have different interests, I don't know how to explain to you what I do, but I want you to know that as long as you live, it will be good news for your daughter. My Zhou family is about to die for this war, it's good to leave a witness, father, daughter, no matter how difficult it is, you must live well. I'll have someone take you out. Beckoning to the beam, Xue Baoqin hurried down. Xue Baoqin jumped down: "Sister Mandarin Duck, let's go together." “
"There should be a way out here, I just saw it", Xue Baoqin hadn't finished speaking, she had already been interrupted by the mandarin duck, she couldn't let Baoqin leak this secret to her father, after all, her father has always been a person in the palace, and he has always been the queen mother's person, and he is the secret agent that the queen mother put next to Concubine Yuan before: "Miss Xue, you can't say anything to anyone about everything you see here, the relationship is heavy, if you leak the news, there will be a disaster of killing, you originally had something to find the old lady, now you have to find a way by yourself, the sky will soon dawn, you hurry up, It's too late. This is my father, the Queen Mother has already started to kill, and he has no way to live when he goes back, you take him away with him, settle down, and it will be good for me. ”
Xue Baoqin still had something to say, but she knew the mandarin duck's personality, and she didn't care whether Eunuch Zhou wanted to or not, so she pulled him away from the same way.
Here Daiyu can see the situation in Jia's mother's room through a mirror placed in Yongdao, she originally wanted to rush in to save people, but was stopped by Zijuan: "This mandarin duck girl is already desperately protecting this treasure house, why do you want to spoil her business, we grew up together since childhood, and we have the same mind, if I encounter such a thing, you don't want to save me, protect yourself, it is good for me." "Two people can only look in the mirror. saw the mandarin duck shouting down a person on the beam, but it was Baoqin, and then instructed again, the two seemed to be explaining something, Xue Baoqin dragged away Eunuch Zhou.
How was Eunuch Zhou willing to go, but apparently the mandarin duck persuaded him, the two of them left, the mandarin duck smiled at the mirror, flashed and walked away, Zijuan pulled Daiyu away, and returned to the entrance of Yihong Courtyard, but saw the mandarin duck waiting there, Daiyu breathed a sigh of relief. scolded Zijuan and said: I scared you to death a few times a day.