[018] Lin Daiyu is in a life and death situation
"Huh?" Lin Daiyu opened her cherry lips in astonishment, her eyes widened, thinking that she had misheard, and asked rhetorically, "Brother Chen, what did you say?" ”
Jia Chen realized that there was ambiguity in his words, and sneered:
"I mean, Sister Lin, don't worry, in the future, I will take care of you."
Lin Daiyu's face was slightly pale, and she smiled gratefully:
"Brother Chen is so good to me, since I entered the Rong Mansion, I feel that everyone is separated from me, only one Baoyu comes to bother me every day, but it is just to play with me, unlike Brother Chen, who cares so much about me."
"Sister Lin, come with me, I have something important to tell you." Jia Chen saw that there was no one around, took Lin Daiyu's little hand, and pulled her into a secluded and uninhabited pavilion.
Lin Daiyu was weak and had never run so fast, she was so tired that she was out of breath, frowned and asked:
"Brother Chen, what's the important thing that needs to be so mysterious?"
Jia Chen said softly:
"Do you know someone is trying to poison you?"
Lin Daiyu's eyes widened, her face was discolored, and she exclaimed:
"Brother Chen, is what you said true? Who is trying to harm me? ”
She never expected that in this seemingly heroic and harmonious Rongguo Mansion, there would be people who wanted to harm themselves.
If she hadn't witnessed the death of her brother and mother, she wouldn't have believed it.
But now, I can't help but believe it.
Jia Chen said with a solemn face:
"It's true, I heard with my own ears the conversation between Sister-in-law Liu, the kitchen supervisor of the Rong Mansion, and another woman, and someone instructed Sister-in-law Liu to poison your food."
"It can't be, right? If the food was poisonous, I would have died. ”
Lin Daiyu still can't believe it, after all, this is her grandmother's house, she is a newcomer, she is cautious every step of the way, she is careful in everything, she doesn't dare to make a mistake and take half a wrong step, she shouldn't have made a feud with anyone, who would be so desperate and vain trying to poison herself?
Jia Chen analyzed:
"She should give you a chronic poison, or it may not be poisoned, but she uses the principle of food restraint to mix several ingredients together and react with each other to produce toxins."
Lin Daiyu had never heard of this set of theories of food restraint, and felt more and more that Jia Chen was very mysterious, and her curiosity about him became heavier, so she asked in surprise:
"Can you be poisoned with a normal diet?"
Jia Chen bowed slightly:
"Yes, for example, eating plum vegetables with lamb can cause chest tightness, dog meat with ginger can cause abdominal pain, and ginseng with radish can cause bloating."
Lin Daiyu's eyes dimmed, and she suddenly realized:
"It turns out that the improper combination of diet will cause so many diseases, no wonder I have always had bloating recently, it turned out that after I entered the Rong Mansion, I was used to eating ginseng Yang Rong pills before every meal, and I had to drink a bowl of wolfberry radish soup after the meal, which was originally for consumption, but I didn't expect that ginseng and radish were eaten together."
Jia Chen said meaningfully:
"If you can't think of it, it doesn't mean that Sister-in-law Liu can't think of it, even if Sister-in-law Liu can't think of it, it doesn't mean that the person behind the scenes who instructed her to poison you can't think of it."
Although it was a bit of a twist, Lin Daiyu, who was smart about Bingxue, was still a little thorough, and when she got there, she frowned a pair of smoky eyebrows, and asked with a tense face:
"Brother Chen, do you already know who is behind the scenes?"
Jia Chen smiled bitterly and shook his head:
"In order to avoid startling the snake, I didn't question Sister-in-law Liu in person, but I have vaguely guessed that the mastermind behind the scenes is likely to be your second aunt."
When Lin Daiyu heard that the mastermind behind the scenes might be Jia Baoyu's mother, Mrs. Wang, she immediately gasped, her lips spurted a few times, tears filled her eyelashes, and she said in a trembling voice:
"Why did my second aunt want to harm me?"
Jia Chen analyzed:
"Before your mother left the cabinet, she had a very bad relationship with your second aunt, because your second aunt was jealous that your mother was more beautiful than her, and she was more favored than her in the Rong Mansion, and she always held a grudge, and after you came, she became angry with you and transferred her resentment towards your mother.
Also, the four generations of your Lin family are very wealthy, and your second aunt wants to kill you, so that your Lin family will be out of business, and take the opportunity to take away all the property of the Lin family. ”
Lin Daiyu trembled with anger and said angrily:
"What a vicious plan! Although I have always disliked speculating maliciously about others, when I first entered the Rong Mansion and met my second aunt, I found that there was disgust and hostility buried in her eyes when she looked at me. Moreover, my mother also told me that she did not have a good relationship with her second aunt. ”
Jia Chen bowed slightly, Mrs. Wang has always held a grudge against Jia Min for many reasons.
In the past, when Jia Min was a girl, she attended banquets in various provinces, and among all the female dependents, Jia Min was always the focus of the audience and took the limelight.
Later, the Wang family wanted to marry Jia Min, but she refused.
The marriage of the four major families is an unwritten rule, but Jia Min is an exception.
Looking at Jia Min's sick Xi Shi's appearance, she dresses up bewitching every day, and the maids and women under her are the first to eat and wear, and Mrs. Wang hates it so much.
Later, Lin Ruhai, who married Jia Min, was the son of Houmen, and he was also a popular Tanhualang, which made Mrs. Wang's jealousy deeper.
Because Mrs. Wang, as the daughter of the Wang family, originally wanted to marry the long house of the Gongmen Hou Mansion, but she only married the second room of the Rong Mansion, which also made Mrs. Wang very uncomfortable.
In fact, in this era, the status of the sister-in-law is slightly higher than that of the sister-in-law.
For example, when eating in Jiafuzhong, Wang Xifeng's sisters-in-law only sat and ate, but Wang Xifeng and Li Kun, the daughters-in-law, could only serve beside them, and they could only eat when their mother-in-law and sisters-in-law had eaten.
Such a scene must have appeared in the Rongguo Mansion back then, but the parties were replaced by Jia Min and Mrs. Wang.
At that time, Jia Min was a sister-in-law, and Mrs. Wang was a sister-in-law, and Jia Min's status was higher than that of Mrs. Wang, which undoubtedly made Mrs. Wang hold a grudge against Jia Min.
These are all grievances and entanglements between Mrs. Wang and Jia Min.
Jia Chen's face solemnly admonished:
"Sister Lin, you can't eat and drink in the Rong Mansion in the future."
Lin Daiyu said with a puzzled face:
"However, I live in Rongguo Mansion now, if I don't eat in the mansion, where can I go?"
Jia Chen smiled warmly and said:
"You can come to my house, and I'll cook for you."
Lin Daiyu's eyes lit up for a moment, then dimmed again, and shook her head in disappointment and said:
"I'm afraid this won't work, I'm a girl in the boudoir, for the sake of fame, I must not go out of the gate, I can't even go out of Rongguofu, how can I go to your house for dinner?"
In the Great Zhou, the shackles on women reached a peak, and women who did not leave the cabinet were raised in the boudoir, and it was easy not to see outsiders, and women who went out of the cabinet could not easily see foreign men.
"The Book of Female Filial Piety: Guangyao Dao Chapter" proposes:
"When a woman goes out, she will hide her face...... Sending a brother is not beyond the threshold. This woman's way. ”
Facing Lin Daiyu's frightened and pitiful gaze, Jia Chen thought for a moment, then his eyes suddenly lit up, and he said with a smile:
"Sister Lin, don't worry, I have a way."