Red Mansion and Crimson Pearl

Chapter 110: Can't Go to Shengjing Alive

Zhuangzi? Which Zhuangzi?!

Tanchun suddenly became uneasy and looked at Daiyu for help.

Daiyu understood and asked hurriedly, "Do you know which village?"

"The one farthest away..." Qingwen thought for a moment, her eyes brightening, "It's next to the East Palace, the one headed by Wu Jinzhong! If we walk slowly on the road, it will take a month just to get there."

Then you are not on the same farm as Aunt Zhao.

Tanchun breathed a sigh of relief.

Daiyu frowned, "Wu Jinzhong manages eight farms in Rongfu, and the farthest one is beyond Shengjing. What's the point of going so far? Who will take him there?"

"They said that Master Lian would escort her there." Qingwen didn't understand the reason and just told him the news she had heard.

As he was speaking, someone outside suddenly asked, "Is Miss Lin here?"

It was Miaoyu.

Daiyu quickly stopped talking and asked someone to invite her in. Miaoyu came in wrapped in a pure white feather satin cloak.

When he entered the house, he took off his outer coat, still wearing a Taoist robe underneath.

Daiyu smiled and asked her to sit down. Tanchun also smiled and greeted her. Miaoyu exchanged a few pleasantries and went straight to the point:

"I heard you guys have been making a lot of noise these days. I'm impatient and I want to go back to the Grand View Garden."

Daiyu smiled and shook her head: "This is a long story. You go back first. When the confirmed news comes in three days, I will come to find you and tell you everything.

"But, I was just about to tell you. I need to do some renovations on my garden, and I'm afraid your Buddhist temple will be a bit noisy. Take a stroll around the house these two days and see where you like. I'll decorate it for you and you can move in."

"Move there again? Why don't you let me go?" Miaoyu was unhappy.

Looking at her attitude and then at Lin Daiyu's patience, Tanchun felt jealous but dared not say it. She just smiled and said "goodbye" with a tactful look.

Daiyu did not want to keep her. After watching her go, she called Qingwen over and asked her to tell Miaoyu everything that had happened recently. Then she said:

"I originally said that I would wait until the major events of the East and West Palaces were settled and the news came, and then let you choose. At that time, whether you want to return to Rong Mansion to share the hardships with them, or stay in my small temple to continue practicing, I will let you do it.

"But it's not possible now. If you go back now, many people will come to you to find out about my movements, and they might even use you to blackmail me.

"That would be too much of a risk. Even if you are brave and loyal, I won't let you go back and take risks at this time."

Miaoyu suddenly realized what was going on. She looked Daiyu up and down with a strange expression and asked her, "So, when you first made friends with me, you actually wanted to protect me from getting involved?"

Daiyu smiled and denied: "You are a person from outside the world. If you stayed in the Jia Mansion from beginning to end, you would have no intersection with me and would not have mixed up! Why think so much? Go back and chant your Amitabha!"

Miaoyu wanted to say something but stopped herself when she saw that Daiyu refused to admit it, so she had to leave.

After she left, Qingwen was also curious: "Yes! Miss, what happened to her? No matter how you just left the Jia family, the first thing you did was to save her?"

An idea suddenly occurred to him, and he lay on the table, observing Daiyu closely, and asked in a low voice, "No, the first thing the young lady did after she sent the master back to Beijing from Yangzhou was to get me by her side!

"Miss, before the master passed away, did he pass on his ability to predict the future to you? Miss, did you ask me to come here because I will become a very powerful person in the future and can assist you in achieving great things?!"

Daiyu put a finger between her eyebrows, pushed her away, and glared at her:

"Great cause? As a girl, I have everything I need to eat and drink, sleep and play! As a girl, what kind of great cause do I need to accomplish?!

"I finally know who got those opera scripts for Aunt Meng!

"You've learned to read for three years, but you never read a single serious book. Instead, you've learned all these weird things! It's fine if you use them to entertain yourself, but you're actually using them to frame me! Do you think I'll beat you up?!"

Qingwen jumped up in fright, shouting "Miss, I was wrong", and ran away holding up her skirt.

The yard suddenly became lively again.

Everyone laughed and laughed.

It was as if the news that the second wife of the Rong family, Mrs. Wang, was "seriously ill" had just been heard did not exist.

Daiyu sat quietly in the room, her back straight, looking out the window.

Madam Wang, you cannot go to Shengjing alive.

An hour later, Ni Er, a subordinate of Jiang Yong, brought two brothers, wrapped in fur coats and thick hats, carried their bags, rode fast horses, and galloped out of the capital.

Daiyu slept very uneasily that night. When she woke up the next morning, she had dark circles around her eyes. Aunt Meng frowned at her, forced her to feel her pulse, and then ordered her to walk in the garden.

He also ordered the Liu family to stew red dates and longan water for her, and steamed yam cake with date paste. When it was mid-morning, after she had eaten and drunk, he asked someone to untie and comb her hair.

After a few combings, Daiyu felt extremely sleepy, so she lay down and took a nap, waking up at three quarters past noon.

Everything is settled at this moment.

Daiyu sat on the bed, staring blankly at the eunuch who had been waiting outside the screen for a quarter of an hour.

"Already, approved?"

"Yes. His Majesty immediately approved the memorial after reading it."

The eunuch waited for Daiyu to slowly react, then quickly stood up, dressed neatly, and walked out quickly, smiling and bowing to her:

"Your Majesty said that it was the men of the Jia family who did these bad things outside, and it had nothing to do with Miss Lin or the girls in the boudoir.

"They are all the blood of the two Lords Rong and Ning. Those who are guilty will be punished, and those who are innocent cannot be implicated. So I asked me to tell the young lady so that she won't feel sorry for her former best friend."

Daiyu turned aside to avoid the greeting and greeted with a smile: "I am Menglang, I haven't even asked how you are, eunuch. You have been busy coming and going several times, and today I finally have the opportunity to thank you in person!"

As he said this, he knelt down.

The eunuch was startled and hurriedly tried to help, but then realized something was wrong and quickly dodged, saying with a smile, "I will do the job if the superiors give me the job. The job here is easy and quick, and I can do it smoothly, so how can it be hard?"

"When Lord Lin was in the imperial court, both the Supreme Emperor and the current emperor loved him very much. If he had not passed away due to illness, he would have been appointed as a prime minister for sure!

"Our Grandpa Tao came back and told us about your appearance in Yangzhou, and all of us who were there to serve him followed suit. Who wouldn't give him a thumbs up?

"Miss Lin, there is no need to be so modest. Just do what you should do. His Majesty said that he is worthy of his subjects; our Grandpa Tao said that he is worthy of his friends!"

Hearing his eloquent and fast speech, Lin Daiyu could not help but smile and invited him to sit down and have tea, but the eunuch said he didn't dare.

Aunt Meng came over after hearing the news. Seeing that it was him, she smiled brightly, patted him on the shoulder, put her arm around him, and introduced him to Lin Daiyu:

"This is the most famous eunuch in Daming Palace. He once offended the entire harem with a single word. Even the Queen Mother wanted to tear his flesh apart!"