Six palaces without concubines in the Red Chamber

0001 From Shengshou to Zijing, returning to his hometown, seeing the beauty of the sky with frowns and frowns

"Yaochi received the Holy Mother's instruction, turned around and took a bottle of wine..."

The babbling and melodious singing came from Changyin Pavilion far away, and the Yueshi Building was not far or near from Changyin Pavilion, so you could sit comfortably, see clearly, and hear clearly.

Xue Baochai was drinking tea and listening carefully, when she suddenly saw Jia Yingchun pulling the corner of her clothes, pursing her lips and smiling, and quietly pointing to the left.Looking along, I saw Lin Daiyu sitting upright, her face half covered by a round fan, looking drowsy.

As the two of them came and went, Princess Canyu also saw it, covered her lips with a light smile and said, "Look at me sneaking over to scare her."

"Princess!" Jia Yingchun couldn't be more cautious, and hurriedly called out: "It's fine on weekdays, but today..."

There is no need to say the rest of the words, it is natural to say nothing.Since ascending the throne, the rules in the palace have never been relaxed.Although Princess Canyu is a princess, she doesn't often come to the palace, let alone these few.

Seeing her stop her hands and feet, Jia Yingchun made up her mind and was about to call Daiyu, when she suddenly saw her leaning forward a little, without being called, and she was startled.

Xue Baochai and Jia Yingchun looked at each other and smiled, and said softly: "Why are you so tired, can you sleep in the palace?"

Lin Daiyu woke up a little, covered her lips with a handkerchief, and lowered her voice extremely low: "Last night my elder brother came back, and the whole family sat together and talked a lot. I missed the hour and didn't sleep well in the second half of the night. "

Baochai and the others nodded in understanding.Daiyu has an elder brother with one mother, who is eight years older than her.Since childhood, he regarded Daiyu as a sister and a daughter, and loved her very much.That year, when he won the first prize in the examination, it was time to show off his ambitions, but for some reason, he hurried to the border town.

"Officials released outside are not allowed to enter Beijing without summons." Daiyu flapped her fan lightly, and she couldn't help but reveal a sense of sadness in her words: "I haven't seen anyone for five years, and my mother's intestines are about to break."

"You are back. Today is not what it used to be. Even if Cousin Jue stays, it's okay."

Among these people, Yingchun is the only one who knows something inside.She was engaged to Sun when she was 12 years old.That gentleman is the eldest son of the eldest son of the Sun family, and his double name is Shaoxian.When they were in Yangzhou, they had a good relationship with Lin Jue. Because they were similar in appearance, they were called Guangling Shuangbi.

Because of marrying Sun Shaoxian and Lin Jueyuan leaving Yongcheng, Yingchun also heard about it.Hearing this, he couldn't help being speechless, seeing that the gentle and gentle cousin Jue actually had such a vigorous passage.

Daiyu shook her head, the melancholy was like weeds, growing faintly from the bottom of her heart.

"I don't expect him to stay any longer, I just want...to visit Yongcheng someday."

When Baochai heard this, she glanced at her, and said with a half-smile, "It's simple. The day has passed, what do you mean Baoyu can't rely on? Ask him, and you can go to the ends of the world."

"Sister Bao made fun of me again." Daiyu was so ashamed and annoyed that she put the round fan on the table and said angrily, "If you mention this again, I will be annoyed."

Everyone knew that she was very thin-skinned and easy to get angry, so they all covered their lips and smiled.

Just as Daiyu was about to speak, she suddenly saw a palace lady in an old green palace attire coming in from the other side. She straightened up and looked solemnly, only looking at the stage.

Out of the corner of his eye, he caught a glimpse of the palace servant taking two steps forward, and knelt down to salute her: "Slave, Chu Gui, please greet the Master of Fushou County."

Daiyu paused, and then looked over.Seeing the visitor squatting two or three steps away, with a smile on his face, it makes people feel happy.At the age of seven, Daiyu was granted the title of county lord. Since then, she often entered the palace, and she also knew some maidservants in Shoukang Palace.I haven't come in for five years, the appearance of the palace man is a bit blurred, but I still vaguely remember his name.This appearance and demeanor should have come from the Shoukang Palace, if it was changed to another place, nowhere could such a decent and festive palace person be accommodated.

"Auntie, please forgive me."

She stood up and stretched out her hands to help, but Chu Gui repeatedly said she didn't dare, and dodged sideways.

"I don't know why my aunt came here..."

Asking her to look at her eyes full of light and weeping dew, Chu Gui couldn't help but sigh in his heart, the Lin family didn't know what kind of luck it was, and the girls raised by the Lin family were more exquisite than the other.Originally, Uncle Lin was handsome enough, but this Fushou county lord has grown up to be even more handsome.

Chu Gui made up his mind, and smiled softly: "The Empress Dowager ordered the county magistrate to move to the main building to watch the play."

Since it was the empress dowager's oral order, she could not refuse.Although Daiyu was apprehensive, she still followed Chu Gui out.

Because the courtiers were sitting in the corridor, Chu Gui led Daiyu to the main building through the east gate.Daiyu watched her nose, nose, and heart, and was only guided by her to walk forward, not refusing to miss her eyes.In the past five years, she has followed her brother's instructions and only regarded herself as a transparent person.If the Empress Dowager sends someone to pick her up, it is mostly because she is sick.If it happened twice, the Empress Dowager also understood, just pretend that she is not there.But I don't know why today, but I ordered someone to invite me.

Daiyu felt that a heavy stone was pressed against her heart, and it was so heavy that she trembled.

Reading is that the buildings are all glass doors and windows, walking from a distance, it is like looking in a mirror.Shuangbu Bujing's heart is embedded with shining glass, which is unique and translucent, and it really is the style of Tianjia.I heard that this was ordered to be changed only after I ascended the throne. It is said to be clean and clear, and it is comfortable to look at.

Daiyu took a breath, and secretly thought, is it true for all emperors?It is not enough to control the world in the court, but in the inner court, the scenery outside a window must be under his nose.

Go up to the second floor and enter the Ming room.Oncoming is a red sandalwood hanging screen, inlaid with jade, which looks like a Bogu picture, very elegant and interesting.Daiyu glanced at it, then went around the hanging screen and came in.But I saw a throne bed in the middle of the bright window, with a beautiful color screen on it, sitting a woman in palace attire, wearing a double-breasted waistcoat of moon-white silk and hibiscus, sitting cross-legged, with a pleated skirt of the same color hanging upright. on the edge of the bed.There is only a gold-laid silk ten-thousand-year wishful-style hairpin in the hair, which has indescribable grace and inexhaustible nobility. It is the Empress Dowager.A little to the right of the throne bed, there is a nurse kneeling on the footrest with a swaddled baby in her arms.

There are red sandalwood lacquered thrones on both sides, and two people sit on the left and right.There is another carved armchair behind the two, and two people are also sitting here.

Daiyu had already made up her mind, so she came forward and first knelt down towards the throne bed to salute: "Mr. Lin please greet the Empress Dowager, the two Empress Dowagers, Concubine Wan and Concubine Huang Shu."

The Empress Dowager was getting old, seeing her kowtowed in front of her, she must have looked at her once, but she could only see the top of her dark head.

"Good boy, get up quickly."

Daiyu got up and met several eyes, although she didn't like it, she still stood with lowered eyebrows, letting them scrutinize her gracefully, without showing any twitching.

She stood up, and the Empress Dowager finally saw the whole person clearly.She is the sister of Lin Jue's direct relative, Lin Jue is such a young man from Qingyue who is one in a million, and he hugs the sun and the moon like he is in his arms.Unexpectedly, his younger sister has grown up and is able to overwhelm him.This whole body's body and appearance make people unable to tell what's good, but it happens to be very good.

"You look really good." The Empress Dowager couldn't stop praising her, took her hand and asked, "You were born with a delicate and clear appearance when you were young, but you never expected to grow up to have such a demeanor." She smiled and said to the Empress Dowager Xi Said: "It is said in the palace that you were born with a clear and beautiful face. I look at it today, and you are not as good as her."

The Empress Dowager is a person with a crystal heart, quite independent from the world, and everyone is intoxicated by her solitary nobility.Today, when the Empress Dowager compared her with Lin Daiyu, she was not annoyed. She looked at Daiyu carefully and nodded her head in agreement.

"The old ancestor is right. We know that the four sides of the palace walls in the inner court trap people. They only know how to compare by pointing to this one-third of an acre of land, but they don't know that there is a sky beyond the sky."

The empress dowager and the empress dowager praised her, but she didn't dare to accept it, and immediately said: "The empress dowager is a celestial being, how dare Zhuyu compete with the sun and the moon?"

The Eastern Empress Dowager smiled: "I can't see it." Seeing the Empress Dowager sitting on the throne bed with Daiyu, she smiled and said: "I also think that the Lord Fushou County is more beautiful."

One sentence made Daiyu's heart feel more and more depressed.The two empress dowagers have always had a rift, and she knows about it.I heard that the Eastern Empress Dowager was the mother of the world and treated everyone well, but she hated the Western Empress very much.The Western Empress Dowager has been Concubine Yuan in the palace for more than 20 years. Once she became the Western Empress Dowager with her son, this has made the Eastern Empress Dowager hate it.Later that son failed, and the abolished emperor became the King of Yongle, but the Supreme Emperor did not let go.

Daiyu felt in her heart that the Eastern Empress Dowager was originally a kind person.The girl beside her, Jixue, was originally awarded by the Eastern Empress Dowager.It's a pity that such a graceful and magnanimous person will inevitably show acrimony when encountering that word.

If the Eastern Empress Dowager wants to file a lawsuit, the Western Empress Dowager will ignore it.The Empress Dowager was used to these things and ignored them.He just took Daiyu's hand and asked questions.

"The last time I saw you, you were only that tall." The Empress Dowager compared in front of her: "How old is it?"

Daiyu replied in a low voice: "If you talk about the old ancestor, it's just passed his birthday, and he's fourteen now."

The Queen Mother joked beside her: "The fourteenth girl is a flower, it's time to see her."

The Empress Dowager Dong is good at being a matchmaker, and she grinds her teeth with gossiping, these are common words to her.Daiyu's face turned red when she heard this, and she couldn't answer a word, she just stared at the emerald ring on the Empress Dowager's hand.

"Don't listen to her nonsense. What a good girl, why rush for a while?" The Empress Dowager loves the girl very much, and she always speaks eccentrically: "After leaving the cabinet, I am not as brisk as in the boudoir. Playing for two years is better than anything else."

Daiyu's face was red hot, but she still insisted and said: "The old ancestor is right."

The Empress Dowager knew that the young girl was thin-skinned, so she called the nurse to come forward and told her to hold the baby and Daiyu to look at it: "Look at the girl brought back by King He Rui, is she born well?"

King He Rui's girl?When Daiyu heard this, her heart suddenly turned cold.How can he!Her brother treated him like that, but he secretly had someone else?Daiyu was so angry that she couldn't care less to look at it seriously.

After taking a rough look at her, she forced a smile and said, "She is a good girl who is well-rounded, and she is very lucky to be very rich."

Having said this, I feel sad.To be born in Murong's family is naturally a good fortune for the nobles.It's just that her brother, such a person, gave everything for love, but in the end he got such a result, she was really not worth it for him.

Suddenly, the Empress Dowager sighed: "This child's life is miserable..."

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The story line of this article begins eight years after the writing of "Red Mansion: He Doesn't Want to Bend", that is, five years after Lin Jue and Murong Zhizhi went to the border.

At this time, Lin Daiyu was 14 and a half years old, and Murong Yongxuan was 22 and a half years old.Everyone's age is pushed back by eight years.

Jia Yingchun is married to Sun Shaoxian, Xue Baochai is married to Gongyi Bo Murong Yongyou, and Sun Wanchun is married to Jinzhuang King Murong Yongding.