Dashun, by the river outside Beijing.
The idle people around had been driven away by the servants. Lin Daiyu abandoned the boat and landed with her mother. The cousins came to greet them. After seeing the ceremony, she raised her eyes with some reserve and glanced at them.
Several people were stunned. One of them, a cousin from the Jia family, was richly dressed, wearing a gold jade pendant around his neck and a jade pendant tied with a five-color silk ribbon. He looked at her face carefully.
After a long while, he said: "I feel like this sister is kind-hearted when I look at her, and I can't help but want to get closer to her."
Lin Daiyu lowered her head slightly and did not speak.
The so-called closeness is just a word between relatives, not teasing.
She was used to Chu Zhen's simple attire of short sleeves and long trousers, but now that she saw the gorgeous clothes of her cousins in Rongguo Mansion, she found it novel.
Her second brother Lian, Jia Lian, the eldest son of his uncle Jia She in Rongguo Mansion, said with a smile: "Brother Bao is suffering from dementia again. If you want to get close to your sister Lin, you have to ask our aunt, right?"
Jia Baoyu, Jia Rong and others all looked at their aunt Jia Min.
"Go back to the house first."
Jia Min said in a serious tone: "Sister Lin and I are going back to the mansion to stay for a while, and we still have plenty of time to get close to your brothers and sisters."
"Auntie said yes!"
Jia Lian hurriedly responded and said with a smile: "Auntie, why don't you live with your uncle in the mansion? There are still many vacant rooms in the mansion. The old lady has been thinking about it since a month ago. She didn't sleep well last night. She waited early. Now that I'm in the house, if my aunt doesn't stay for a little longer, I'm afraid the old lady won't agree."
After not seeing her mother for many years, Jia Min couldn't help but wet her eyes and urged them: "Go back to the house first, and bother Brother Lian to ride back and report that I will be back soon."
"My aunt has just said this. Why bother telling my nephew to tell me? My nephew will go back and report to the old lady!"
Jia Lian got on his horse and asked Jia Rong and Jia Baoyu to escort his aunt and cousin. He whipped his horse and rushed back to Rongguo Mansion.
Lin Daiyu and her mother got into the carriage. The servants put their luggage on four or five cars, covered the suitcases with cloths, and the group headed into the city.
"Brother Rong just got married?"
Jia Min opened the curtain in the carriage and asked Jia Rong, who was following on horseback and newly married, with a smile. After receiving his answer, he regretted: "It's a pity that you and I, Sister Lin, can't come back in time. We will meet the old lady later before going east." Let’s meet the bride at home.”
Dongfu is Ningguo Mansion.
The relationship between Jia Rong and Lin Daiyu was a bit distant, and it was too troublesome to call them names, so they called them together with everyone.
When it came to his wife, Jia Rong's expression was not very good, but she managed to squeeze out a smile and said:
"My aunt is still out. Our wife and master have been waiting for my aunt since the morning. After Uncle Lian goes back to report, they will definitely go to the West Mansion with the old lady to wait for my aunt to come back."
Lin Daiyu couldn't help but wonder when she heard this for the first time. After thinking about it carefully, she realized that the wife and master mentioned by Jia Rong were his parents.
Just like her mother calls her grandmother, she calls her the old lady instead of calling her mother directly.
"Is the Duke's Mansion so different?"
Lin Daiyu secretly wrote it down.
"It's hard for you." Jia Min sighed.
"No trouble."
Jia Rong smiled.
Seeing that he was not interested in chatting anymore, Jia Min lowered the curtain.
Another voice came from the other side of the carriage:
"What are the two characters in my sister's honorary name? Have you ever studied?"
It's Jia Baoyu.
Lin Daiyu glanced at her mother and was about to answer when her mother whispered: "Don't say your name."
Lin Daiyu then changed her words:
"I have never read. I only went to school for one or two years. I only need to know a few words."
"My sister is coaxing me again. Someone who looks like an immortal like my sister must be the reincarnation of Wenjun, Tao Yun Yongxu."
He used allusions and rhymed.
Lin Daiyu thought of Uncle Chu who could only see clearly her sister's three sentences. She couldn't help but smile and said to Jia Baoyu outside: "I don't know who Wen Jun is. Please tell me, Brother Bao."
Jia Min glanced at her daughter.
These were words to avoid talking about anymore, but why was she laughing?
"Young Master Wen from the distant mountains, my sister doesn't know about it?" Jia Baoyu said with a smile.
"I don't know."
Lin Daiyu doesn't like distant mountain eyebrows, it doesn't suit her.
Jia Baoyu thought for a moment, clapped her hands and said with a smile: "My sister is coaxing me to be naughty again, and she has never told me her honorary name."
Lin Daiyu was vague.
After chatting for a while, Jia Baoyu asked her name again. Lin Daiyu looked at her mother and saw that she didn't want to speak, so she refused to say her name.
But she couldn't help but wonder, why didn't her mother allow her to tell her name?
Outsiders don't have to tell her, but uncles and cousins in the Jia family can know her name.
The carriage entered the city.
When Daiyu heard that there was a lot of excitement outside, she couldn't help but open the screen window and take a look outside. She saw that Shenjing's market was prosperous and crowded, which was different from Yangzhou.
Jia Baoyu was outside. When he saw Sister Lin showing up, he bent down and pointed to a stall in the distance: "Sister, look over there. There are some delicious pastries there. How about I go buy them for my sister to eat?" "
Lin Daiyu put down the curtain and pretended not to hear.
Isn't this nonsense?
The carriage continued along the street. After walking for half a day, Jia Min suddenly said: "We're almost there."
Lin Daiyu opened the curtain and opened the screen window. She saw a street in the distance. Many people were sitting on the roadside waiting. After seeing the motorcade, they all stood up and shouted "My aunt is back" and hurried again. Step forward and lead the way.
Lin Daiyu could tell that this was because she valued her mother's return, so she arranged for someone to lead the way.
She looked at her mother and saw her mother staring out the window with tears in her eyes.
"This is where my mother grew up as a child."
Daiyu recited silently in her heart.
Just as she was about to hold her mother's hand, she suddenly heard a noise coming from outside.
"Lai Er, you bastard, when the eldest lady comes home, you ask me to pick up the monkey's urine. I will leave all the dirty work to you, Mr. Jiao!"
"Where's the eldest lady?"
"Don't stop me. Back then, the eldest lady was polite when she saw me, but now you bastards are sneaking around..."
"I don't want to think that it was you, Mr. Jiao, who carried him back from the dead. You bastards have completely forgotten it!"
"The stable is full of your monkey urine, and you ask Mr. Jiao to clean it?!"
"Jiao Da, what are you talking about?!"
Jia Rong couldn't bear it, so she rode on her horse and shouted at an old man in the distance who was smelling of sloppy wine: "When will Butler Lai ask you to clean the stables?"
Only then did Lin Daiyu realize that the eldest lady referred to her mother, and presumably her mother also knew him.
She looked at her mother and saw that her mother was unmoved, so she ignored her.
"Is it true that you are carrying your monkey urine? Brother Rong, get off your horse and smell if it is the stinky smell of these bastards of your Ningguo Mansion!"
Carrying a wine pot and his beard covered with wine and food, Jiaoda stumbled towards him. Several boys tried to stop him, but they couldn't stop him.
The more he scolded him, the more he went too far. Zhong Ning and the servants in Rongguo Mansion yelled at him and told him to shut up.
"Tie him up and carry him away!"
Jia Rong said impatiently.
Several strong boys rushed over and held down Jiao Da. Unexpectedly, he was still flapping his feet on the ground and yelling:
"You bunch of beasts, you steal dogs and play with chickens every day, you crawl on ashes, you raise a brother-in-law, you raise a brother-in-law, you are a bastard and a bastard!"
Lin Daiyu just thought he was yelling nonsense. Although it was unpleasant, she heard it fresh.
"Jiao Da!"
Jia Min opened the curtain and shouted at Jiao Da on the ground.
The boys looked over and saw the aunt who was returning home today with a sinister look on her face and a stern look in her eyes. After just one look, they couldn't help but lower their heads in panic and didn't dare to say anything.
Jiao Da also closed his mouth, took a vague sip from the wine bottle, and said with hazy eyes: "Eldest, eldest lady? Hehe, you are back home."
Jia Min said coldly: "If I hadn't thought of your great achievements in your early years, I would definitely punish you for slandering you, and you would just talk nonsense in broad daylight after drinking! How can you humiliate the two descendants of the Duke of the country?"
Everyone watching the show on the street burst into laughter.
Jia Min ordered again: "Gag his mouth and take him back to sober up. Brother Rong will report it to the old lady before dealing with him!"
When Jia Rong heard this, how could he report this trivial matter to the old lady?
He immediately waved his hand and ordered people to drag Jiao Da away quickly.
Jia Min lowered the curtain and the carriage continued to move forward.
Seeing her mother's face calm, Lin Daiyu asked out of curiosity: "He just said 'climbing on ashes', what is ashes?"
After hearing this, Jia Min stretched out her hand and twisted it.
Lin Daiyu covered her ears and shouted that she was wronged, but her mother refused to let her go. She scratched her slender waist a few more times, making Daiyu smile and blush before giving up.
After a long while, Jia Min just whispered to her:
"We only lived at your grandmother's house for more than a month, and we moved out after buying a house."
Lin Daiyu looked at her mother in confusion, wondering why her mother suddenly mentioned it.
After thinking about it carefully, I think it is related to the scorching and ashes.
It's a pity that she doesn't understand what climbing ashes means.
The carriage creaked away and finally arrived at the main entrance of Rongguo Mansion. The door was open and many people in the mansion were waiting.
