On the canal, in a narrow cabin.
Lin Daiyu opened her eyes and saw her mother sitting on the chair beside the bed, looking a little tired, holding a book in her hand and reading. After hearing the movement, her mother looked over with a look of surprise on her face.
"mom."
Lin Daiyu called softly and sat up with difficulty. Jia Min hurriedly stepped forward, moved an extra box beside her quilt, pressed her daughter's weak shoulders, and said:
"Just sit on the bed and be careful not to catch a cold."
Lin Daiyu sat down obediently and wrapped herself in a quilt. When she saw her mother taking out a bag of red bayberries from the box, she smiled and said, "Uncle Chu gave this to me. I have already washed it. Let mother have a taste."
"Did you wash it yourself?" Jia Min looked at her daughter and asked with a smile.
"That's not the case."
Lin Daiyu was quite proud, "Uncle Chu didn't have a maid to take care of him at home, so he had to do everything by himself. He was lazy, so he asked Sister Qing and I to go to a place called a faucet to wash. Turn the handle and clean water would come out. It’s so convenient.”
"Is he lazy? You and your sister Qing...?"
Jia Min looked strange, lowered his voice and asked again: "Where are the other two former pilgrim saints?"
"They all went back."
Lin Daiyu told her mother about this incident. Although Jia Min heard it several times, she still found it incredible.
Her daughter actually met Tang Taizong and Ming Taizu. Tang Taizong also finished beating Xue Ju early and was now heading to Luoyang.
Every time my daughter goes there, she brings back a lot of fruits and gifts, just like she did when she returned to her parents' home this time.
"What gifts did Uncle Chu give you again?"
Jia Min rummaged through the box and took out a square object.
"This is called a Rubik's Cube, a thing to pass the time."
Lin Daiyu stretched out her hand from the quilt, took the Rubik's Cube from her mother's hand with a smile, turned it left and right, up and down, and then returned it to her mother.
Jia Min saw how it worked, and was about to spin the Rubik's Cube a few times when the boat suddenly rocked slightly, and she couldn't help but cover her head and vomit to the side.
"Mother!"
Lin Daiyu quickly got out of bed and patted her on the back. Then she thought of something and quickly took out a bottle from the box and handed it to her:
"Mother can cure seasickness by taking this medicine. Uncle Chu gave it to me."
After he heard that she was taking a boat to Shenjing, he smiled and asked her if she was seasick. Lin Daiyu herself was not sick, but her mother and several maids and women were very sick.
So Uncle Chu left on a unique-looking two-wheeled bicycle. After returning for a while, he handed her several bottles of motion sickness medicine.
"To cure seasickness? How do you take this? Is it the same as pills?"
Jia Min was quite pleasantly surprised. In the past, she could ride a horse and ride a car without fainting, but she couldn't ride a boat. When Daiyu was a child, she and her husband also took a boat to Yangzhou. They also fainted for a few days and couldn't get out of bed. Later, they gradually recovered. good.
So much so that she no longer dared to take a boat.
But taking a car is more painful than taking a boat, and my daughter also suffers.
"Well, I'll pack it up first."
Lin Daiyu moved the box hard and hid it, then opened the door and asked someone to boil a pot of water in the ship's kitchen.
After a while, Xue Yan came in with a pot of water and two cups. After putting them down, he said a few words. Seeing that the wife had no intention of keeping her at her service, she left again.
When the hot water cooled down a bit, Jia Min took a pill with warm water.
"Mom, come up and lie down." Lin Daiyu said with a smile while resting on the bed.
She believed in the medicine Uncle Chu gave her.
"Everyone is tired after lying down for a long time, so I can just sit down."
Jia Min leaned on the chair and chatted with her daughter to relieve her boredom.
When the effects of the medicine wore off, she actually felt better.
"The medicine Uncle Chu gave you is really magical."
Jia Min sighed, "What else did he give you?"
"Well... there is also a fishing rod that can be extended and shortened. It was used by Uncle Chu in the past. He asked me to swing the rod on the boat."
"Play with the pole..."
Jia Min covered her forehead. Isn't this what Miss Lin Yushi's daughter should do?
It's all her father's fault. He always took her to the river to fish when she was a child. If she came back with an empty bucket, she would go to the fish market and buy a few fish, saying they were caught by him.
Fortunately, my daughter was naive and ignorant at the time and exposed her father's lies.
In the evening, the fleet docked and hundreds of people disembarked. The officials in charge of water transportation diligently sent people to ask Jia Min for instructions.
Lin Daiyu stood next to her mother and looked back at the hundreds of boats, large and small, on the shore, among which grain boats were the largest. The Lin family was moving to the capital, so there were seven or eight boats on this trip, and about twenty servants came to the capital together. .
Since it was the first fleet in the spring, her father told the officials in charge of water transportation and asked them to follow them to Beijing.
After the discussion, Lin Daiyu and her mother got into a carriage and went into the city to rest.
After settling in, Jia Min handed her a folded handkerchief:
"Go and give it to your wet nurse. She's also very seasick."
Lin Daiyu took it and sent it to her wet nurse, Aunt Wang, and told her how to eat it. After talking for a while, she came back and lived in the same room with her mother to avoid being unsafe at night.
The next day, before dawn, the boatmen got up one after another.
The sleepy-eyed Lin Daiyu was also called up, dressed up and went out with her mother, then took a car out of the city, got on the boat and continued her journey.
In this way, from March to early April, when the willow trees on the river bank outside Shenjing City took out their branches, Lin Daiyu had just arrived in the capital.
"Finally we're here."
In the cabin, Jia Min used wooden poles to hold up the windows on the ship, looking at Shenjing with its towering city walls in the distance with complex eyes.
Lin Daiyu raised a long-tubed gadget and brought it to her eyes. She closed one eye and looked at the city gate in the distance. She sighed: "What a big city... is this where my grandfather and grandmother lived?"
Jia Min glanced at her daughter, who looked nothing like a young lady, and raised her hand to pinch her ears.
Lin Daiyu held the monocular telescope given to her by Chu Zhen and looked at her mother aggrievedly.
Needless to say, she looks cute.
Jia Min was unmoved. She looked out the window and said, "Do you know what your mother was like when I lived in Shenjing before she was married?"
"As the daughter of a censor, how could I know how dignified and dignified the lady of the Duke's Palace is... Ouch."
Lin Daiyu was pinched again.
Jia Min said angrily: "Even your mother and I are not as naughty as you!"
Lin Daiyu smiled and fell into her mother's arms. She held her arm and looked out the window. Suddenly she raised her head and asked, "My mother once said that my grandmother's family is different from other families. I guess there are many rules. Why didn't my mother teach me?"
"Your uncles and cousins are all like that, so what kind of rules can you have? They're just trying to save face!"
Daiyu could tell that her mother's tone was not very good, and she seemed to hate the iron.
She didn't dare to ask any more questions, lest she get screwed again.
When the boat docked, a group of nephews and nephews of Ning Rongguo Mansion wearing brocade clothes came over on horseback in the distance. Lin Daiyu could faintly hear them shouting.
"May I ask the boatman if he is from the Lin Yushi family from Gusu?"
"It's the Lin family's boat. Auntie is here!"
"Quickly drive away the rest of the crowd and let the aunt and young lady disembark!"
"Bring the sedan here, why are you still standing there?"
There was a lot of noise outside, and Lin Daiyu saw several young men, wearing gold crowns, gold foreheads, and colorful clothes, or light fur belts. She thought they were all her cousins.
Sure enough, looking carefully, Lin Daiyu saw cousin Lian who had been to Yangzhou.
"Go down."
Seeing that everything was ready outside, Jia Min closed the window and said to her daughter:
"Your father was a Tanhualang, and now he is a fourth-rank official. You are a young lady of the Lin family. Although you are still not as good as your mother and me, you don't have to follow the rules of the Duke's Palace. You just need to be rude.
If the maid and mother-in-law dare to laugh at you, you will have someone slap you and tell me later. "
Lin Daiyu noted that Xue Yan and other maids came in and crowded in the cabin to tidy up her and her mother's appearance.
Soon after, Lin Daiyu and her mother got off the boat.
