Red Mansion and Crimson Pearl

Chapter 176 It’s all in the dream

"This prince, is he Prince Zhongshun?" Daiyu held Miaoyu's hand again.

This time Miaoyu did not struggle, but gently held it back and nodded slightly.

"Then last time, when I wrote down these people's names, you saw Jia Yucun and Prince Beijing, and they seemed very familiar to you? Why?"

Miaoyu sneered: "Who do you think that prefect was?"

Daiyu looked at her in surprise: "Jia Yucun?!"

"That's right!" Miaoyu snorted coldly, "I didn't know until I entered the Jia Mansion that this Jia and that Jia are actually from the same family!"

Daiyu was silent for a long time before she sighed, "My father's kindness back then..."

Miaoyu looked at her and smiled: "Your father was the cause, and now you have realized the result. I suddenly feel less guilty."

"That's all right, if that's the case." Daiyu also smiled. When she was about to ask more, Qingwen came in from outside and said, "Miss, Sister Yuanyang is here. Can we see her now?"

Daiyu looked at Miaoyu.

Miaoyu stood up and bowed, saying, "I am very confused now. I have many things to deal with after arriving in Beijing. I will sort them out and tell you tomorrow."

Daiyu nodded and asked someone to invite Yuanyang in.

Yuanyang came in, just as Miaoyu was going out. The two passed by each other, and Yuanyang hurriedly turned aside and made a half-salute, but Miaoyu seemed not to notice and walked away on her own.

Daiyu smiled and called Yuanyang in: "Your coming must be something important."

Yuanyang also smiled, but bowed to Daiyu seriously and said, "This servant greets Princess Zhaoqing. Long live the Princess!"

Daiyu smiled and said, "Get up. You should take it seriously too!"

"How can you not take it seriously? I came here to deliver gifts from my family to the princess." Yuanyang smiled and presented the gift list.

Daiyu only glanced at it and put it aside: "Anything else?"

Yuanyang sighed softly, as if she found it difficult to say: "The second master wants to take the third girl back."

"Second Master? It wasn't his decision to expel the clan in the first place. Now he is making the decision without the permission of the Empress. Does he deserve this?" Daiyu looked at Yuanyang with a smile.

Yuanyang shook her head, and seemed reluctant to say, "The Second Master has always felt that the Third Miss is a rare treasure. But since the Empress has spoken, the Second Master naturally dared not say anything.

"Now that the third lady has become the county lady, and the people around the second master have praised him a few more times, he feels that he can be more powerful."

Daiyu sneered and looked at Yuanyang and asked, "Did the Second Master mean this, or did the Old Lady and the First Master mean this?"

"The old lady, the first wife and the second wife all thought that this matter would never work out and there was no need to bother. But the second master was stubborn and always thought that filial piety was more important than anything else and that he would be able to call the third girl back."

Mandarin duck sighed.

Daiyu looked at her with interest: "Don't you know what the old lady said in Yanjia Palace?"

Yuanyang was stunned: "I heard from the eldest wife that he just made up a reason for the rift and explained it to the Queen Mother."

Daiyu laughed softly and repeated what Grandmother Jia had said word for word, saying, "Yimin said that she had been expelled from the clan, no longer lived in Rongfu, and no longer had the surname Jia.

"Which one is wrong? None of them are wrong, right?

"But the old lady said this and that, and pushed Yimin straight to the path of death, being unfilial to his father and disappearing without a trace.

“Almost all the imperial edicts above the sixth rank in the capital are in that palace.

"If the Queen Mother doesn't help, do you think Yimin will commit suicide when he returns, or hang himself at the gate of Rong Mansion?!

"Under such circumstances, no matter who it is, if they still have a bit of shame, they shouldn't force her to recognize Jia as their mother, right?"

Yuanyang was speechless, cold sweat dripping down his face. He couldn't help asking Daiyu: "What's wrong with the old lady? Is she possessed?"

"Thinking back to when the Empress eliminated Yimin's clan, and when Yimin moved out, she secretly had someone send her some money, telling her that she would never have to worry about the life and death of the Jia family again.

"Although I comforted the Queen's intention to save my sister, I also doubted her vision: Is the Rongguo Mansion really so unbearable?

"It's fine that they can't accommodate an orphan girl like me, but how could they not even accommodate the most capable girl in their family?

"Now it seems that Your Majesty still understands our ancestor three points better than I do.

"I heard that the Sun family came to propose marriage. I just want to ask, if my second sister is not married yet, will the old lady and the eldest master approve the marriage without even checking her character?!"

The mandarin ducks fell silent.

After a long while, he said, “The old lady once talked about the girls’ marriages, saying that their fathers were still alive and it was not her turn to worry about them.

"Besides, the marriage of children is determined by fate and cannot be forced by human power, so it's fine as long as it's roughly the same."

Daiyu laughed through her nose and asked, "I heard that Mr. Sun couldn't get Second Sister to come to him, so he asked Yimin for help.

"So if I persuade Yimin to go back, won't she be married to the guy surnamed Sun immediately?"

Yuanyang forced a smile and said, "Second Master hates that guy surnamed Sun very much. He says he is vulgar and obsessed with fame and gain. Naturally, he will not be willing to marry the county lady to him!"

Daiyu covered her mouth with a handkerchief and laughed, "That's right. Originally, I was planning to let my third sister become the concubine of Prince Beijing. How can she condescend to be a commander now?"

Putting down the handkerchief, his expression was cold and calm, "Unfortunately, the Queen Mother said that she only has this one daughter, and this daughter must also have this one mother.

"The Second Master suddenly came up to Yimin and wanted to be his father again. Ask him on Yimin's behalf, does he want to compete with the Empress Dowager? Or does he want to compete with the Emperor?"

Yuanyang was startled and subconsciously stood up, crossed his hands and lowered his head: "Second Master has no such intention."

"Of course I know he has no such intention. My second uncle is just stupid and greedy, and he has no intention of disobeying me.

"But if other people hear this, they may not say that about him. Even if they ignore his intentions and just make fun of the Queen Mother and the Supreme—

"Sister Yuanyang, guess what will happen to the Rong Mansion?"

Daiyu smiled, picked up the wine cup on the table and drank it in one gulp.

Yuanyang's cold sweat instantly soaked his vest.

Daiyu put down the cup and smiled nonchalantly: "In fact, grandma may not be unable to think of these words. Even my uncle should be able to think of one or two.

"But they were too lazy to tell Second Uncle, so they asked you to come to me. Let me go and persuade Yimin.

"To put it in a positive way, this is because they hope that I will wake up and use my status as a princess to explain everything to my second uncle.

"Thinking dirty, the old lady and the eldest uncle, are you just sitting on the mountain watching the fight between tigers? Do you want to see the jokes of me and my second uncle?

"Or are you hoping that I, being inexperienced and shallow-minded, will do this for my second uncle, and together with Yimin, offend the Queen Mother, and have no good future?

"Or maybe they want to embarrass me, Yimin, and my second uncle first, and then teach us a lesson to show how smart they are?"

Daiyu looked at Yuanyang with a smile.

Seeing this, Yuanyang's face changed again and again. He lowered his head and sighed dejectedly.

"I heard someone say something the other day that makes a lot of sense. If you're thinking about beautiful things, you can't open your eyes. After all, they exist in dreams."