Red Mansion and Crimson Pearl

Chapter 204 Four Large Pomegranates

"The Supreme Lord didn't arrange a marriage for me, nor did he want me to have many children. He just gave these things to me before I left home."

Daiyu soon returned to normal and asked Aunt Meng to "rest early", driving away these most curious eyes and this most inappropriate mouth.

Then, Daiyu ordered Qingwen and Xueyan: "I'm hungry. Bring me dinner. Don't let anyone in. You two can just bring it."

The two men looked at each other, realizing that the girl was planning to kick them out as well, so they wrinkled their noses, pouted their lips, and walked out reluctantly.

Lin Daiyu then got up and went to the bedside and took out a package tucked at the bottom of the innermost box.

When I opened it, I found a flat box. When I opened it again, I found the book that I would only open under the lamp in the dead of night.

Lin Daiyu turned the pages to a certain page in the middle, followed the words with her finger, and murmured softly: "Marquis Shi gave me four large pomegranates to congratulate my wife on her pregnancy.

"My wife loved it very much. She placed it in the inner room and often caressed it. Not long after, she gave birth to a son. She said it was because of the pomegranate.

"Because I heard that the Crown Princess was also pregnant, I was forced to immediately present the 'pomegranate' to the Crown Prince. The Crown Prince heard the reason and laughed. Oh! Isn't it ridiculous? Isn't it fun?!"

Zijuan was standing nearby. Hearing this, she couldn't help but laugh quietly and said, "Crown Prince? Isn't that the current emperor?"

Daiyu ignored her and turned a few pages. Her fingers trembled slightly and she lowered her voice to a lower level as she read:

"The Crown Princess died during childbirth. The Crown Prince was heartbroken and angry, and ordered a thorough investigation. But nothing was found. How strange..."

Zijuan was so frightened that her whole body froze. After a long while, she bit her lip and said softly, "It happened more than ten years ago. It has nothing to do with these four!"

Daiyu raised her eyes and looked at the four crystal clear agate pomegranates that were emitting a faint glow, and she trembled with fear.

In this way, the master and the servant stared at the pomegranate for an unknown period of time. Suddenly, Xiaohong at the door whispered to the inside:

"Miss! Sister Qingwen and Xueyan are back with the meal!"

Daiyu was startled at this and quickly put the booklet away tightly again and glanced at Zijuan.

"This pomegranate?" Zijuan hesitated.

Daiyu looked over and after a while, she said, "Leave it there for now. I'll take a closer look later. Tomorrow morning, you can take it back to the warehouse."

Zijuan agreed, and Qingwen walked in. She looked at Daiyu and the table curiously, and was surprised to see that there was no change since she left.

Xiaohong came in as if nothing had happened, helped put the pomegranates temporarily on the Duobao Pavilion, and cleared the table to set the table for Daiyu to eat.

This meal was tasteless.

After the dishes were cleared away and Zijuan brought up some tea, Aunt Meng came over again, picked up the pomegranates and put them on the table again, looking at them over and over again.

Qingwen also came forward, unable to resist the urge to touch her, but she did not dare, so she looked at Daiyu.

Daiyu was amused by her expression and nodded: "It's just a decoration. If you really like it, then play with it for a while."

Qingwen joyfully held up a large pomegranate, brought it close to the lamp, let in the light, squinted one eye to look at the pomegranate seeds inside, and marveled:

"Even the seeds are so real! I don't believe it can be carved here!"

"That's the natural pattern." Aunt Meng answered casually and picked up a pomegranate to look at it under the light.

Seeing that both of them opened and closed one eye, and then moved closer to the same lamp, Zijuan couldn't help but say worriedly: "Don't bump into them, or your hand will slip..."

Before he finished speaking, the two people's hands holding the pomegranates really bumped into each other! Qingwen felt pain and cried out, and the fingers of that hand subconsciously stretched out for a moment!

Then, everyone watched as the big pomegranate slipped from her hand and hit the table with a dull thud.

Aunt Meng exclaimed, "Oh my God!"

Qingwen burst into tears: "I, I, I, I didn't mean it! Girl, help me! I dropped the pomegranate given by the Supreme Lord. Will the Supreme Lord kill my entire clan!!!"

Everyone was shocked and stunned for a moment, then they rushed to look at the pomegranate on the table!

Finally, Xiaohong was the first one to reach out her hand tremblingly and pick up the pomegranate that had rolled onto the table.

There was a small dent on the wooden table, and a small piece of the agate ornament was also knocked off.

No one dared to say anything and looked at Daiyu tremblingly.

How to deal with this? !

The persimmon that Qingwen smashed last time was because of a reason, and Daiyu ordered everyone to keep quiet afterwards, not to say a word to anyone outside. Not only did the people outside not know that the thing was smashed, they didn't even know that the thing had ever entered the Lin Mansion.

But this is different!

This was a reward from the Supreme Being, and Dai Quan helped to get it! No one knew it was such a rare treasure, so almost everyone in the family heard that the Supreme Being had rewarded a "pomegranate"!

Now, the pomegranate is broken!

Qingwen sat down on the ground, crying and hitting her own hands: "I told you I was nauseous! I told you I was nauseous!"

At this moment, Daiyu suddenly grabbed Xiaohong's wrist and shouted in a low voice: "Don't move!"

Everyone was stunned.

Daiyu slowly took Xiaohong's hand holding the pomegranate and moved it three inches away. It turned out that there was a small pile of red powder at the position where the gap of the pomegranate was facing!

Daiyu raised her eyes little by little and looked at Aunt Meng. Her voice was as difficult as a drowning person crying for help: "What is this powder?"

Aunt Meng's expression also became solemn. She reached out her hand to pick it up, twisted it, put it to the tip of her nose to smell it carefully, then dipped it with the tip of her tongue and took a sip, then spat it on the ground.

She was about to speak when Xueyan suddenly stood up and asked outside, "Who's here?"

A crisp voice sounded outside the door: "It's Xue Ya. The county lady asked me to ask, tomorrow is the Mid-Autumn Festival, the princess hasn't said how to celebrate it, but is there anything?"

Xueyan walked out quickly, not giving Xueya any chance to enter the house. She looked at the girl standing at the bottom of the stairs in a well-behaved manner, breathed a sigh of relief, and told her:

"The old lady in Rong Mansion is not feeling well. The princess has been there for half a day today. Although she has recovered, I am afraid that she will have to ask Aunt Meng to come over for acupuncture tomorrow.

"Tell the county lady about this quietly and let her pretend she didn't hear anything. As for the reunion festival tomorrow, let's keep it simple.

"In the evening, the three girls will eat mooncakes together and drink a cup of osmanthus wine, that's all."

Snow Crow smiled and agreed to leave.

Xueyan glanced at the little girls guarding the gate on both sides and praised them, "Not bad, you knew to stop people first."

Then he did not go back to his room, but sat on the corridor with a few cheerful little girls, chatting and laughing, far away from the door.

Everyone in the room breathed a sigh of relief, and Aunt Meng then whispered to Daiyu: "This is a bloodworm secretly made by the southern barbarians.

"It contains some of the most powerful blood-activating and blood-stasis-removing herbs, such as safflower, earthworms, centipedes, and even the blood of the Southern Barbarian Great Shaman!

"This thing can kill people without them even noticing!"

Daiyu looked at the remaining three pomegranates and said, "Take a look at them all. Open them and see."