Red Mansion and Crimson Pearl

Chapter 174 Who will accompany me to the White Snail Cup

"It is said that Miaogu was not tolerated by the rich and powerful, so she could not escape from the temple. She had no choice but to go to Beijing with her master in the name of "viewing the relics of Guanyin and the palm leaf manuscripts".

"As for how she ended up in the Grand View Garden of the Jia Mansion and took refuge in the Rongcui Temple, I didn't ask for the details. I guess it was just to save her life.

"As for me copying the scriptures later, she followed me. I think she really wanted to see the Supreme Lord.

"This Master Miaofa is aloof and arrogant, looking down on the common people. She always says that I am a vulgar person. So I have never investigated her affairs to the bottom.

"If the Queen Mother thinks I should ask, then I will go and ask."

Lin Daiyu spoke frankly and thoroughly.

Cheng Qian frowned and asked her, "Do you know when Miaoyu will go to Beijing?"

"About four or five years ago." Daiyu counted on her fingers and added, "She is twenty-two this year."

Cheng Qian's brows became increasingly gloomy, and she walked away without saying a word.

Lin Daiyu acted as if nothing had happened. She smiled and went to Qingqiu Courtyard with Tanchun, her two aunts, two maids and the clever eunuch.

"These two are my maids, I'm borrowing them for the county lady to use temporarily."

Daiyu pointed at Zijuan and Xueyan, and was about to speak to Xueya, but Tanchun quickly took over the conversation:

"I just took this girl in not long ago. Her name is Snow Crow. She will follow me closely from now on. Auntie will teach her and me together."

The two teaching aunts, one surnamed Zheng and the other surnamed Jing, both laughed when they heard this.

Aunt Jing carefully took Xue Ya's hand and looked at her, then smiled and said, "She is a neat girl, very good."

The two maids were very tactful and stood back with smiles on their faces.

Seeing the eunuch again, he asked with a smile, "What's your name, young eunuch?"

"No, no need to pay..." The eunuch was so frightened that he stammered, smiled bitterly, knelt down and kowtowed.

"My name is Lei Kun. I was sold to the palace by my parents when I was young in exchange for food. I have been in the palace for ten years.

"I don't know anything about what's going on outside. I don't ask for help from the county lady, I just ask you not to cause trouble."

Hearing this, Lin Daiyu smiled slightly and said, "You are so smart, what can't you learn?" She glanced at Tanchun and said, "Your master will arrange for you to learn with others later. Good days are ahead!"

After chatting for a while, he returned the gold and silver that the Empress Dowager had rewarded to Tanchun and left Qingqiu Courtyard with a smile.

But he did not return to the main room, but strolled leisurely and entered Miaoyu's small Buddhist temple.

"Master Miao wanted to open the eyes of heaven and look back to Gusu five years ago. Now her wish has come true. It's cause for celebration." Daiyu smiled softly as she watched her brew tea.

However, Miaoyu's hands shook, and the boiling water she had just scooped up almost poured on her feet!

He hurriedly tidied up a little, then looked up at Daiyu: "What do you mean?"

"Cheng Qian came to ask just now." Daiyu smiled, and made her own tea, drank it herself, and praised the water for being really good. Then she stood up, slightly bent her knees, and said politely:

"Master Miao, the way people meet and make friends depends entirely on sincerity. You should know how I treat you. I also appreciate how you treat me.

"However, the affairs of the world are like chess, each game is new, and I no longer want to ask about Master Miao's private affairs, but now I have to say one thing: You have climbed up through me, but have you achieved your goal?

"If you have already achieved what you wished for, I am only asking for Master Miao's help temporarily. You can return to Rongguo Mansion. If there is still something unfinished, please go to a useful family.

"I have done everything I can here. I don't want to get involved with anything else."

Miaoyu stared blankly.

It was not until Lin Daiyu turned around and left and the curtain on the door fell that Miaoyu suddenly woke up! She turned her head to look at her maid in a panic and asked in a trembling voice:

"She is, what do you mean?"

The maid sighed in her heart and whispered, "Miss, you didn't tell me anything. Now that the Queen Mother has come to our house, I am still completely in the dark. Of course, I don't want to help you anymore.

"Miss Lin is very kind. You can tell her about the family affairs. She will not ignore them. Especially, didn't you say that you saw how the emperor treated her yesterday?"

Miaoyu calmed down for a long time before she suddenly made up her mind. She frowned and looked at the maid: "For our own affairs, we can use other people's help to move forward, but we can't leave everything to them.

"What kind of beast is that? Others may not know, but don't we? I can't let her take responsibility for this.

"She is the best person in the world to me."

Then he ordered the maid, "Pack your things, and we will go to the Muni Temple in the west of the city to stay. This time, we will only stay for half a year."

"If the Lord or Queen Mother intends to investigate our case, they will naturally come looking for us. If they want to get away with it, I will give up the idea of ​​revenge and we will return home."

The maid agreed and packed up her things. While Miaoyu was saying goodbye to Lin Daiyu in a lukewarm manner, she also went to say goodbye to Zijuan and others.

Zijuan knew Daiyu's heart very well, so she held the maid and stopped her from leaving: "What kind of personality does Miaogu have? How can she live in such a filthy place?

"Hurry up and tell her whether she can leave or not. The higher-ups have already pinned this matter on our girl!

"If she leaves in such an unclear way, then our girl will be blamed for no reason!"

When the maid heard this, tears started to fall. She sniffed and nodded repeatedly, then lifted her skirt and ran quickly to stop Miaoyu.

Unexpectedly, Miaoyu had already come out of Daiyu's room and went back to her room to get her luggage with a proud look on her face.

The maid knelt down crying and told Zijuan what she had said: "My dear girl, now that things have come to this, don't be stubborn, talk to Miss Lin! She is a good person, she has been helping you from the beginning, don't pretend not to see it!"

Miaoyu lowered her head and shed tears: "Okay."

Daiyu sat in the room, listening to Zijuan's story about the maid. She sighed and smiled, "Miao-gu has her own pride. She didn't want to talk because she didn't want to implicate me."

After a while, Miaoyu came in and sat down with her head lowered.

Daiyu looked at the sky and ordered, "It's almost noon. I feel a little thirsty today. Bring me some of the Huiquan wine that the Empress Dowager loved to drink the other day."

Then he looked at Miaoyu, "Will Miaoyu accompany me for a drink?"

The two of them drank together.

After three cups, Miaoyu, feeling slightly tipsy, began to talk solemnly about her family affairs.

"My ancestor was the governor of Sichuan and Shaanxi, so he had seen a lot of old things. Later, he returned to Beijing to take up a post, but after a few years, he simply resigned because he missed those things.

"I first went back to Sichuan and Shaanxi, then to Luoyang, Kaifeng and other places, and finally returned to my ancestral home in the south of the Yangtze River. The things I collected filled up an entire yard."

Miaoyu looked at her former home in the void with a dazed look in her eyes. "When I was young, I grew up playing hide-and-seek in that yard. Those things were within my reach, and I could play with them at will..."

After being stunned for a long while, he lowered his head to drink again and said softly, "Later, when Taizu came to power, my grandfather was one of the first batch of Jinshi, honest and upright, and finally retired from the post of Sichuan Chief Justice.

"But my father said that my grandfather had offended more people in his lifetime than there were those old objects in the yard.

"Sure enough, my father's career was full of ups and downs. Not only did he fail in the exams many times, but he finally got a small official position, but was repeatedly reported by his superiors and colleagues.

"When I was six years old, my father resigned from his official post and returned home. My family lived in seclusion at the foot of the mountain. I have never even been to Gusu City.

"When I was twelve, my father took me to the city for the first time, and I got into big trouble."