The Rebirth of Daiyu in the Red Chamber

When the new year was approaching, someone from the palace said that the eighth princess had invited Lin Daiyu to an opera.Although Lin Daiyu was suspicious that the eunuch who came was of a higher rank, she didn't think too much about it, and went after changing her clothes.

When I went there, I found that it was not the case at all. In the theater garden, the empress dowager, the emperor, concubines, princes and daughters, and prince Fujin were all there. A large group of people were watching the play lively. .

Lin Daiyu was a little dazed, and a court lady led her to kowtow to the empress dowager, the emperor and others, and then she was placed next to the empress dowager.

The empress dowager was not yet sixty years old, her hair was black and oily, and she was in good spirits. She took Lin Daiyu's hand and asked her age, etc., and Lin Daiyu answered them one by one.The empress dowager said to a concubine who was around her age: "He Zhuo, look at this girl, she is well-groomed and has a good temper, she looks like she has read a lot of books, she is indeed the daughter of the Tanhua family. "

The one called He Zhuo by the empress dowager is Concubine Shuhui, the empress dowager's younger sister. She said: "It is indeed a beauty, but it looks a little thinner. Is it because of poor health? Ask the imperial doctor to show you look."

Lin Daiyu replied: "I'm not really sick, but I look thin, but I actually eat a lot."

This sentence made the empress dowager, concubine Shuhui, and the emperor next to him laugh. Kangxi laughed and said, "No matter how much you can eat, I can take care of it."

Wen Ke ran over from the other side of the table, said a few words to the empress dowager and the concubine, and then sat next to Lin Daiyu, looking very happy: "Yu'er, you are here! I have missed you so much for a while, do you miss it?" I?"

Lin Daiyu said: "Of course I miss you too. I brought the sachet you asked me to embroider for you a while ago." After finishing speaking, she took out a wishful-shaped sachet embroidered with lily and honeysuckle flowers in madder red from her sleeve and handed it to Wen Ke. .

Wen Ke's eyes lit up as soon as he saw it: "It's so beautiful." He held it in his hand and looked at it carefully, and smelled the elegant fragrance.

Lin Daiyu said: "It's not worth anything, it's just my heart."

The Empress Dowager saw the two murmuring, and asked, "What are the two girls talking about?"

Wen Ke showed the sachet to the Empress Dowager as if offering a treasure, so the sachet was passed on among the Empress Dowager, Concubine Shuhui, the Emperor, the Fourth Concubine, and Prince Fujin, and it took a long time before it returned to Wen Ke. Depressed her to death.

The Empress Dowager caressed Lin Daiyu's hand and said with a smile: "This child has a solid eye, and any embroidered sachet is so delicate and beautiful. Look at our princesses, who is as capable as you?"

Lin Daiyu then said: "I am idle at home, so I started embroidering. The empress dowager praised her for her poor embroidery."

The Empress Dowager smiled and said, "You don't need to be humble, I say it's great."

Wen Ke stuck out his tongue: "Huang Mamu is alluding to Wen Ke, does he just not like female workers?"

The Empress Dowager smiled and said, "I'm not so bold as to dare to speak out against you, for fear that your imperial father will turn against the emperor's mother."

Wen Ke acted frightened: "The emperor dare not show face to the emperor's mother, only the emperor's mother can teach the emperor's part."

Kangxi pretended to be serious: "Arranging your emperor father like this?"

Lin Daiyu sticks to the principle that "every word is worth everything, it is better to keep silent".When everyone is silent, she concentrates on watching the show; when everyone talks, she listens; when everyone laughs, she smiles.Kangxi secretly observed her reaction, seeing that she was neither cowardly nor cowardly, cautious, and not surprised by honor or disgrace, he liked her very much, and secretly praised her for being the same inside and outside, she was a smart person.

This time, I also invited a lot of princesses from honorable families, but none of them were as favored as Lin Daiyu. They were able to sit next to the empress dowager, so they started talking about it.Lin Daiyu's family has no female elders, so she basically doesn't associate with the noble circles in the capital. The noble ladies asked who the girl was, and when they heard that it was from the Lin family, they decided to keep in touch.

Only Eight Fortune Jin Guo Luoluo Lingshuang was unhappy, with a sullen face, no matter where it was, he was angry at himself.

Wu Fujin and Ta Lashi bumped Ling Shuang with his arm, and asked, "What's wrong?"

Ling Shuang said bitterly: "Look at that Lin Daiyu, with a sharp mouth and monkey cheeks who died young, for some reason, even the empress dowager likes her, what do you think is better?"

Wu Fujin Ta La's family, like Wu Bei Le, is honest and honest, and he said truthfully: "I think Miss Lin is very good, she is sensible at first glance, why don't you like her?"

Ling Shuang was annoyed, she hated the words Zhishu Dali the most: "She can't even ride a horse, she is still not a bannerman." The more she thought about it, the more unhappy she became, so she stood up: "I'll go meet her. "

Seeing something bad happened, Ta Lashi hurriedly informed Concubine Yi. Concubine Yi saw Ling Shuang walking towards Lin Daiyu in a blink of an eye and hurriedly followed.

Ling Shuang walked fast, Concubine Yi couldn't catch up, and she couldn't call her loudly, so she let her walk to Lin Daiyu's side.

"Sister Lin, why didn't you call me when you came, and just cared about kissing Wen Ke?"

Lin Daiyu stood up and saluted slightly, and said, "Please let the eight blessings be safe."

Ling Shuang said: "Don't be polite to me, I can't afford it."

Lin Daiyu smiled without saying a word.

Ling Shuang asked: "Sister Lin, I heard that your maternal ancestor's family is the Jia family of Rongguo Mansion?"

Lin Daiyu stared intently at the play on the stage. At this time, the imperial concubine was drunk and had finished the performance, and changed to The Legend of the White Snake. Wen Ling Shuangyan turned around and nodded with a smile, "Didn't the eight blessings go there last time?" play, looking fascinated.

Wen Ke kept winking at Ling Shuang to tell her not to act recklessly.

Ling Shuang was even more angry, and said to herself: "You don't know when you go out, Jia's family is in Beijing, so it's arousing discussion. It's just that this time the son lives in the main house, but it's strange to drive the eldest son of Xijue to the stables." Few people have heard of it, sister Lin, do you know?"

Lin Daiyu smiled at Ling Shuang, took a sip of tea from the gaiwan calmly, and continued watching the play.

Ling Shuang gritted her teeth, and said: "Also, I heard that the housekeepers of your grandfather's family, Mrs. Wang and Mrs. Wang, are both illiterate. Is this true? Oh, this is an anecdote. If you can't read, how can you be a housekeeper?"

"Oh, by the way, I heard that a cousin of yours was born with a piece of jade, which is the most precious, is it true? The baby's mouth is so small, can you really fill it with a piece of jade?"

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When Ling Shuang finally had enough talking, Lin Daiyu said lightly: "I never thought that Fujin would like to make up groundless stories. It's really interesting. If I didn't live in my grandfather's house, I would have believed it to be true."

Ling Shuang's face turned blue.

Concubine Yi purposely stood sideways to prevent the Empress Dowager from seeing her, took the time to pull Ling Shuang back, and reprimanded her in a low voice: "Isn't the punishment not enough last time? Why don't you have a long memory! You need to be sharp in this matter to be strong in the end." Who did you follow!" It's okay to be strong, why are you so brainless?

Wen Ke comforted Lin Daiyu: "Yu'er, don't pay attention to Ling Shuang, she owes her money."

Lin Daiyu still smiled unchanged: "I'm fine, don't worry." In fact, her palms were sweating with anger, and she just gritted her teeth and endured it.This is the imperial palace, and she cannot be presumptuous.

Kangxi looked at whether it was too early or too late, and said, "Huang Ernie, it's getting late, son, take a step first?"

The empress dowager nodded: "You go about your business, it doesn't matter to me."

Kangxi agreed, and said, "Second, fourth, eighth, thirteenth, and fourteenth, come here to watch a play with your mother, why are you sitting so far away?"

Several people responded, and they all came over and sat at the Empress Dowager's table, and Kangxi left with a smile on his face.

Thirteen and Fourteen were young and the most active, so Yinxiang asked Lin Daiyu: "How are Wuhen and Lin Qiong doing recently? Last time I saw Wuhen's article at Mr. Gu's house, I feel ashamed."

Lin Daiyu said with a smile: "Brother is very good, he should still be studying with Mr. Gu first."

Yinxiang nodded, and asked again: "That fat baby is the third son of Lin? I heard Wuhen call him a tree slave. Where did such a funny baby name come from?"

Lin Daiyu blushed slightly, said that she had chosen the tree slave's name, and then explained the reason.When Yinxiang heard that Lin Daiyu said that her mother had passed away, she hurriedly apologized, and Lin Daiyu shook her head.

Yinfeng said: "It's meaningless to just talk, why don't we make a drinking order." Everyone has nothing to do, so they all agreed.

Only the fourteenth elder brother Yinzhen shouted: "Second brother prince, don't bully me for my young age. I don't play with any polite drinking orders."

Yinfeng said: "Everyone plays, but you don't?"

The empress dowager laughed and said, "I will watch you play with the concubine."

Yinzhen said quickly: "We are playing with the emperor's mother and the concubine, how can we leave you to play by yourself? It's not right."

The empress dowager smiled and said, "The concubine and I came from the Horqin grassland, so we don't know any polite orders, just watch you play."

Wen Ke thought for a while, then smiled and said, "I heard from Yu'er that her younger brother came up with a good order called something to kill. It's very interesting. Yu'er, come out and let's play."

Everyone looked at Lin Daiyu, she had no choice but to say: "It's called a killing game, but everyone can play it."

Yinzhen was excited when he heard it: "I want to play this, this is much better than shooting and tooth card tokens."

Lin Daiyu explained the rules of the game.This killing game was written by Lin Qiong. Take a lottery tube, there are a few sticks in it, one is a county magistrate, one is a catcher, one is a killer, and the rest are all civilians.Each person takes a lottery, except for the county magistrate who must take charge of the overall situation, the rest will keep silent and obey the county magistrate's order.

There are Lin Daiyu and Wen Ke, the empress dowager and concubine Shuhui, and five elder brothers. There are nine people in total, so there are nine lots.

The maids made the lottery. Lin Daiyu took the lottery tube and said, "I will be the magistrate for the first time. The magistrate is a local snake. You all have to listen to me." Yinfeng of the county magistrate changed his lottery.

Holding the county magistrate's sign, Lin Daiyu said slowly, "Please close your eyes when it's dark." Everyone closed their eyes one after another.

"The killer appears and kills."

"The killer closes his eyes, the catcher opens his eyes, and the catcher identifies who is the killer." The catcher refers to Yinzhen, and Lin Daiyu shakes her head.

"Close your eyes quickly, everyone please open your eyes at dawn."

Lin Daiyu glanced over everyone's heads one by one, and then stretched out her hand to Wen Ke: "Wen Ke was killed, give me the sign, and give me a glass of fine wine." Wen Ke had to hand over the sign, and Lin Daiyu showed his sign to everyone: "The killer killed a civilian, please identify the murderer."

Everyone in the seat is a human being, whether it is a murderer or a commoner, it is hard to tell. It is several times harder to guess than Lin Daiyu when she was playing at Jia's house, and her face turned red when she drank at the end.

After playing for several rounds in succession, everyone lost and won, but Sibeile Yinzhen drew the most killers and won the most times, and he was able to hide it from everyone every time.Everyone lamented that Yinzhen was resourceful and resourceful, but he said that he was "immovable as a mountain, resourceful and resourceful".