Chapter 72: Palace Flowers
Jia Zheng listened thoughtfully, his eyes turned around Baoyu, retracted it, and asked Daiyu, "That's this, my niece listened to what the Eighth Prince said, right?" ”
Daiyu shook her head, "His Highness never told me this, he only took care of me more now because he had lived in my house for more than a year. These cabinet ministers all knew about it, and even spread it to Yangzhou, and now those salt merchants in Yangzhou have not restrained their own children. ”
Aunt Zhou held the rice, Aunt Zhao entered the soup, and was speechless for a while.
After the meal, Jia Zheng said that he asked Baoyu to go to the outer study with him, and Baoyu drooped his shoulders and lowered his head, just like a quail, trembling and following behind. As soon as Jia Zheng spoke, Mrs. Wang glanced at the maid outside, and the maid tiptoed out and ran away.
Daiyu knew that she was going to report to the old lady, she lowered her head and took a sip of tea, and she was not in a hurry to leave, but she drank a cup of tea before saying to leave.
"I'll go with you, take a look at the old lady, I don't know how much better the old man is now!"
"Yes, it is a sin to be starving!"
Coming out of the main room, I just passed the West Corner Gate, and in front of the big shadow wall of powdered oil, I saw Xifeng coming over in a hurry, and asked in a hurry, "I just heard that the master called Brother Bao over, and I don't know why, I was so anxious that I didn't even have a good meal to eat." ”
"What's the hurry? Can he beat him to death? If you are in a hurry, it is better to call a girl to call one of the people who serve beside him, and see if you have said what you have done these days? ”
On the one hand, he asked someone to call for an attack, and on the other hand, Xifeng said to Mrs. Wang, "I also said that I asked Zhou Rui's family to ask Mrs. Liu, who said that she had been to our Wang family before, and her son-in-law's family was surnamed Wang, and she had a sect with us." ”
Mrs. Wang couldn't help pausing for a while, thought hard, and then said, "There is such a shadow, she and we are not a family, no wonder you don't know, her ancestors were Beijing officials back then, and they happened to be with your grandfather. In previous years, her family has also come, and she has never been empty, it is not worth anything, you just send it away. ”
At this time, Xifeng had no intention to send away, and when she entered the old lady's yard, Mrs. Wang went to Baoyu's house, and Xifeng also followed, but Daiyu went to the old lady's side and replied, and then went back to her own house.
Seeing that Daiyu was like no one else, she picked up the book and read it, and wrote a few words as usual, but she didn't see any lack of effort, so she asked, "Why did the girl say these things today?" You know that he doesn't like to listen to those who are in the business economy. ”
Daiyu took the tea poured by the autumn marks and said, "If you have a heart, put more thoughts on me." What do you like to listen to and what he doesn't like to hear? Have you ever seen me look after anyone's preferences? ”
Autumn Scar glanced at the light scarf, and the two crept out. After a heavy curtain, I heard Qiu Zhen whispering lightly, "I see that you are a clever person on weekdays, and the girl still relies on you, why don't you have eyesight now?" Really, the girl has always disliked getting too close to people, and you don't know it, she just said it on purpose today, and you still ran to ask her, and you don't blame her for being angry! ”
"I'm just thinking we're going to live in his house!"
"So what? It's not that our family has no place to live, where can't the Lin family live? Also, what's wrong with the girl following the old lady in Yangzhou? Could it be that you invited us to come, and you still have to look at his face, and you can't be angry with him? ”
"It's me who wants to be left, but shouldn't it be like this? Obviously, the girl doesn't like to talk to people, but every day when she opens her eyes, she is about to come, and once she came to our house and asked me to comb his braids. I heard that when I went back, I gave the attacker a good meal, and said that I didn't dare to serve him in the future, so I asked him to come to our side, and someone would serve him......"
Daiyu frowned, pushed the bowl to the side, touched the inkstone, and a little sound came out, and the sound of muttering outside was gone.
After a while, Li Mi came in, followed by Zijuan, and heard that the old man in front of him scolded Baoyu fiercely, and assigned him a lot of homework to write, so that how many days have he not been to study now? After a lecture, it didn't do anything, so he came back, and now his face was pale and listless, crooked in the old lady's arms, saying that he couldn't even speak.
"Got it!" Daiyu said, and the two went out.
In the afternoon, Daiyu woke up from a nap, usually at this time, Baoyu must have come to make trouble, saying that she had taken a long nap and would sleep at night, but today she had a good sleep. Baoyu hesitated to come over, Daiyu had already finished grooming, took a book and was reading, saw him, and asked with a smile, "Where did Second Brother Bao come from?" I don't know what my uncle told you? ”
Who knows, Baoyu climbed over, approached her and said, "Sister Lin, I went back to check the scenery you said, and I only sighed that I am now, my grandmother's parents are alive, and I have brothers and sisters, and I can't be free for a while, and I can't learn from the ancients, a pair of straw sandals, a cane, shoulder the sun and the moon, and walk all over the landscape." ”
Daiyu was silent, only stared at him, and listened to him continue to say with a look of fascination, "I can only imagine the prosperity over there through the records in the book, Sister Lin, you haven't told me about the rouge on the Qinhuai River, and the delicate ...... of Yangzhou's daughter."
As he was talking, Qiu Zhen came in and said, "Girl, Mother Zhou is here, saying that Aunt Xue called the palace flowers over there, I said that the girl has always worn these less, and Mother Zhou said that it was Aunt Xue's little meaning." ”
Daiyu had already seen Zhou Rui's family outside the curtain raised, and it was his wife's companion room, she hurriedly stood up and greeted her, "Why don't you invite Mother Zhou in, Aunt Xue said to send palace flowers to me to wear, don't you say thank you for helping me, and push it out, you say that you girl, why are you becoming more and more unable to do things now?" ”
"Girl, don't talk about it, where is this not going to do things? In my opinion, more than any maid I've ever seen, she can do things! With that, Zhou Rui's family handed over the box, and Qiu Zhen took it and handed it to Daiyu.
In the huge box, only the last pair is left, and Daiyu also knows that Zhou Rui's family's trip is to send it to Sister Feng first, and then Sanchun in the house, and her side is the last stop. She didn't care about these things, so she didn't care, and picked up the silk flowers inside, the style of the palace pile of flowers was not the style she always wore it, but she still smiled, "This is really, it's a new pattern this year, right?" Well done! ”
As he spoke, he handed it to Autumn Scar, "Go and put it away, and wear it another day!" ”
Zhou Rui's family saw Daiyu today, combed a short bun, inserted a begonia flower with a green head flower, and inserted a gold-inlaid sapphire dragonfly hairpin on the other side, and the snow-jade-like Hao wrist was wearing a vice-tortoiseshell bracelet, which looked unremarkable, but each piece was a rare treasure.