Picturesque Rivers and Mountains in the Red Chamber

Chapter 396 5.78 Lin Daiyu: Brother Zhou, just put my little sister down

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5.78 Lin Daiyu: Brother Zhou, please put my little sister down

After a while, Lin Daiyu went to the study room outside.

"Sister, are you tired?" Seeing Lin Daiyu sitting on the couch, not once looking at the "Jia Xuan Short Sentences" in her hand, and even her eyelids twitching, Zhou Yang hurried up and sat next to him, patting her gently. The girl's head said, "Go and rest when you are tired. What do you think of sitting here? What if you catch a cold while sleeping, and you don't mind taking medicine!"

"Brother Zhou!" Lin Daiyu's cheeks were reddened by someone's intimate gestures, but she had no intention of rejecting her. After hesitating for a moment, she said, "It doesn't matter, little sister. That girl Xueyan has already gone to the greenhouse to prepare. He boiled hot water for Sister Qin and me, but it might disturb Auntie."

"She never goes to bed early. She is probably idle and bored at this time. She is listening to Tongfu reading to her. How can she be disturbed." Zhou Yang comforted her casually, but did not notice that Sister Lin was all over her body. He stiffened and said, "It's really cold outside. After walking around for a day, it would be better to take a hot shower before going to bed to avoid getting too cold."

"Brother Zhou, what do you do for fun when you don't sleep at night?" Lin Daiyu paused for a moment before asking softly, "My little sister heard Qingwen say that you often practice martial arts and swordsmanship at home, but you are very busy these days. , I mostly rested when I came back, but I didn’t see a few practices.”

"Practicing martial arts is firstly for fame and secondly for physical fitness. Naturally, you practice a lot when you are free. How can you have such energy when you are busy." Zhou Yang said with a smile, "It's just that no matter what the night is, you must exercise every morning. It took at least two sticks of incense, but my sister always got up late, so I didn’t see it, right?
As the saying goes, "A day's plan begins in the morning." My sister always stays up at night, doesn't wake up in the morning, and doesn't move during the day. When it's meal time, she naturally has less tea and porridge. How can she get better?Without a good body, it is difficult to say anything. Even His Majesty, the Emperor, is much more capable in history. Just like Shizong of the Later Zhou Dynasty, what is the use of dying young?The orphans and widows left behind were usurped by a man named Zhao. "

"Brother Zhou, my little sister just said a few words in vain and made you talk so much. How can you dare to compare with a saint?" Lin Daiyu couldn't help laughing, and lightly hit someone twice before saying, "Besides, this shouldn't be the case for a daughter's family. Although my younger sister also envies the two sisters from the Zhao family, they are rarer after all."

"Just say it doesn't conform to the rules." Zhou Yang said with a smile, "Actually, the so-called "Girl's Precepts" and "Naughty Sutra" are all aimed at destroying ladies like you, how can poor girls care about so much? She doesn’t even have enough to eat, and she avoids public appearances. You must have heard that a farmer’s daughter-in-law has to go to the fields to deliver food to her husband, right?”

"Brother Zhou, I have only heard of these things, but have never seen them in person. What I heard from my brother today seems to be true." Lin Daiyu said softly.

"More than that, it's like the so-called 'three-inch golden lotus'." Zhou Yang smiled, lifted Lin Daiyu's calf and put it on his own lap, held her slender feet and said, "If a girl from a poor family destroys herself like this, what's the point? How should you work? You should not bind your feet from now on. I heard that some people even deliberately break the bones of girls' feet for the so-called 'petiteness', which is simply appalling."

"Brother Zhou!" Lin Daiyu's face turned red with embarrassment, and she struggled to free herself several times. "How could you have grabbed my father's hand and loved my little sister before it was too late? How could you be as cruel as you said? My father also specifically said However, other than those corrupt people, who in a normal family would torture their daughter like this?"

"Master Lin has always been open-minded." Zhou Yang smiled and looked out the window.

But I saw that in the garden at this time, the rule of "fifteen moons and sixteen rounds" came into effect again. Although it was the seventeenth day, because after midnight, the basically round moon had slowly climbed up into the sky. The entire garden is sprinkled with a shimmering white light, making people want to take a bath just by looking at it.

"The moonlight is beautiful tonight!" Lin Daiyu followed his gaze, and her beautiful eyes also showed yearning, "It's a pity that the weather is a bit colder. Otherwise, it would be a pleasure to invite my sisters to have tea and enjoy the moon together." What a beautiful thing."

"Where are you? The weather has just turned cooler. If it's winter, why don't you go out?" Zhou Yang smiled and pulled a fur-collar windbreaker from the hanger and wrapped it around Lin Daiyu. "It looks like it's snowing." It will take a while for that girl Yan to prepare the hot water, let's go and take a look now."

"Brother Zhou, little sister has been walking around for a day, and now her legs are still sore!" Lin Daiyu let him stand up, her brows immediately frowned, "So soft that I don't have any strength at all."

"What's the point?" Zhou Yang smiled and hugged her up, eliciting a soft cry, "Let's go, it's only a few steps away, I'll bring two cotton pads in the living room to save the coldness of sitting on the stone bench. "

Lin Daiyu's cheeks suddenly turned red, but she didn't say anything. She let him carry her to the garden outside the house, but she saw that the remaining snow that had not yet melted had frozen again, and even had some reflections under the moonlight. The stone benches and tables were actually clean. Jing, by the time Zhou Yang put down the cotton pad and put the person down, the girl was already so embarrassed that she didn't want to look up.

"Okay, sister Lin, take a look." Zhou Yang saw that it was almost the same, so he simply sat down and put the girl on his body, gently embraced her and smiled, "You look at Maple Leaf during the day, and you have corrected a lot of poems along the way. , There are many famous poems about the moon." "Brother Zhou, please let me down, if I let them see it, I will tease and bully me again tomorrow." Lin Daiyu's voice was almost inaudible, so A little bit of struggle doesn't even have symbolic meaning, "How can you bully people like this? If it gets out, will my little sister still be a human being?"

"Since you've already moved in, why bother moving out?" Zhou Yang said with a smile, "If you don't just move in, let's see who can still laugh."

"Brother Zhou, please put down my little sister!" Lin Daiyu's expression slowly became serious. After someone put her on the stone bench next to her, she continued, "Little sister. But have you ever really thought about this? Taking care of her every day, although the younger sister has not really inquired about anything, she also knows a lot.

Just like the courtyard in front of you, his surname should be Xue, right?The younger sister also knew that there was an elder sister from the Xue family who worked as a female official in a princess's house, but Brother Zhou was chatting and laughing with the younger sister in the courtyard of the Xue family, talking about life, didn't you think it was too childish?What's more, Aunt Xue's family is in the greenhouse not far away. What does Brother Zhou have to say? "

"Things are a bit complicated." Zhou Yang breathed a sigh of relief, and recounted his experience with the Xue family besides Wang Shuying, focusing on the key points. After a long while, he said with a wry smile, "I'm sorry for Sister Bao, but The world is like this. With my current status, she cannot support the inner court, but I will never let her down, and I will definitely take good care of her in this life."

"Scholarship, agriculture, industry and commerce are ancient sayings, and my little sister naturally understands them." Lin Daiyu's answer made Zhou Yang a little stunned, and then he remembered that she was also from a noble family and belonged to a class with vested interests in feudal ethics. She just didn't care about things, but she was not ignorant. "But my little sister also heard that there is a noble prince and even a princess who is like this with Brother Zhou. How can I feel relieved?"

Many people think that Lin Daiyu is deviant, but in fact she is overthinking it. Is watching "The West Chamber" a treasonous act?In the feudal era, most literate girls and wives could be dragged out to dip in pig cages. This is no joke. How many of them really strictly abide by etiquette?Just like modern times, how many people fully abide by the law?

Xue Baochai, who is regarded as a model of "lady's lady", also had a history of secretly reading discordant books when she was a child. Just like modern people have some "rebellious" factors, this is just common sense of human nature; on the contrary, Lin Daiyu showed it in the original work , clearly said that the Jia family "wasted money but made little money", at least she was not a "fairy" who didn't understand housekeeping.

"You know quite a lot." Zhou Yang smiled, talked about the girls on Princess Yongchang's side, and finally explained, "That girl Yongjing is not difficult to talk to, and I believe you can get along well in the future; as for You don't have to worry about the status, I will definitely give you an explanation in the future, not just yours, but sister Bao as well."

"Little sister, wait - it's late at night, please ask Brother Zhou to rest early." Lin Daiyu stood up and blessed her gently. She hesitated for a moment and looked at the Xue family garden greenhouse. After a while, she said carefully, "Also, When I heard you mentioned Sister Xue just now, I didn’t know how you were going to explain it to her, so I didn’t ask. I just hope that my eldest brother can send me back early tomorrow morning."

"Don't worry, sister!" Zhou Yang agreed with a smile.

Watching Lin Daiyu go back to the room, he shook his head with a wry smile. Although he had known for a long time that the Red Mansion Jinchai was a good-looking girl, he didn't expect them to be so smart. Fortunately, in the feudal era, male superiority and female inferiority were serious, such as "poisonous" women like Wang Shuying and Xue Baochai. The form of relationship is not so heinous in this era.

Typical examples include Wu Zetian, Princess Taiping and Zhang Changzong, Zhang Yizhi, Emperor Gaozong of the Tang Dynasty and Li Zhi and his wife Wei Guo and Korea's wife. These are only public records, but they are not isolated cases. Similar ones include Emperor Jiajing and the wet nurse Hakka, etc., in the novels of the Ming and Qing Dynasties. Similar relationship situations abound. The famous "Yangzhou Shou Ma" has a special "project" of this kind.

"Ziyang, what's wrong?" Just as she was thinking about something, a familiar and gentle voice sounded in her ears, causing her to look over immediately, "Why aren't you sleeping yet? It's getting cold. Be careful to catch a cold."

"It's okay, I just thought of you." Zhou Yang smiled faintly, gently held the little widow in his arms and went straight to the outer study, because he saw Xue Yan walking over quickly, and it was obvious that Xi'er had already carried hot water in the room, " Whether it's poisonous or guilty, let me carry it alone, you don't have to worry so much."

"Ziyang, what did you say?" Wang Shuying was a little confused.

"It's nothing. The others have been running all day and are tired and resting. It just so happens that it's inconvenient for you to go there during the day, so make up for it now!" Zhou Yang smiled with relief, and simply picked her up and strode forward to speed up.

"Another nonsense!" The little widow rolled her eyes at him, but she was wise enough not to ask any more questions, because she knew that the man in front of her didn't need her to worry, she just needed to help him relieve his stress when needed!

(End of this chapter)