Through the Ring of Red Mansions

As soon as Jia Huan turned the mechanism to close the door after he came out of the secret passage, Xiao Linzi asked someone outside, "Where did I tell you to prepare the fruit to bring in?" Someone hurriedly asked and brought it.Jia Huan was afraid to go out suddenly and scare them, so he coughed softly, and after a while, he saw Xiao Linzi bring in an agate plate filled with grapes, and said with a smile, "I just heard that Mrs. Jia is coming, so let people go Report to the saint!"

Jia Huan laughed and said, "Then there's no hurry, I'm probably still discussing matters with people this time!"

Xiao Linzi said with a smile, "It's almost time for lunch now, it must be here today, but Master Xiao Jia would like to eat something, the slave asked them to rush to the imperial dining room to do it."

Jia Huan was embarrassed to make such a pie, and hurriedly said, "There is nothing special that I want to eat. I saw such things in his lunch, which time he really eats it!" So Xiao Linzi went to Jia Huan again. Talked to the waiter for a while, and when Shui Lang came in, he asked for instructions and went out to pass the meal.

Shui Lang sat close to Jia Huan for a while, and smiled, "This time I'm being cute, after all, I didn't make me wait so long." Looking up, he saw a plate of crystal clear grapes on the kang table, and stretched out his hand to Jia Huan. Huan walked forward and said, "This is the Honey Milk Grape tribute from the Western Regions. I guess you must like it. I only sent some to the Empress Dowager, and kept the rest for you."

Jia Huan was held in his arms with one hand, and the other hand was holding the grape plate for himself. He couldn't help but blushed and said, "I can't put it on the table properly? If you have to do this, people will see you when you turn around. What do you think?!"

Shui Lang liked to see him embarrassed, smiled and kissed him, "I'm afraid people won't see me?"

Jia Huan knew that the more he talked to him seriously, the worse things would happen, so he pushed him, "I'm afraid that's okay? I'm here to give you a serious 'thank you'. Anyway, the few things you sent didn't bother us. The eyeballs of the family members popped out, I told you a lot of things in order to lie to you, and now my father insists on inviting you to a wedding at that time, what are you going to do?!"

Shui Lang smiled and said, "That's amazing, just ask me to go, what's there to embarrass?!"

Jia Huan glared at him, only seeing that this person seemed to be okay, he must have a way to deal with it, and because the date of Tanchun's marriage has not yet been decided, so he put it aside and thought of something else, and said to Shuilang, "By the way, when I just came from the secret passage, I heard the voices in the room very clearly from behind the door. It can be seen that the sound insulation effect of this secret passage is not very good. It is better to talk less when walking in it from now on."

Shui Lang smiled slightly after hearing this, "You are very careful, but you don't want to think about how many people's thoughts have been spent on the secret passage below. How can you not worry about this? In fact, the walls at the exit of each secret passage are specially made of sound-absorbing stones. Yes, the stone is very interesting. It is divided into gray and black sides. The gray side absorbs sound and the black side amplifies sound. Therefore, although the movement outside the secret door can be heard clearly in the secret passage, even if you shout in the secret passage, the people outside People can't hear it."

Jia Huan had never heard of such a kind of stone in the world, and when he realized it, he thought it was very interesting, but it was a pity that the hidden secret was not a secret, so it was not easy to let him test it. Since Shui Lang said so, naturally the stone is It works wonders.Therefore, the two sat in the same place and chatted a few trivial words, and then heard Xiao Linzi report outside, "It's time to pass on the meal, my slave asks for the order of the sage."

Shui Lang said, "Let's pass it on!" Fang took Jia Huan's hand and went out.After eating for a while, he ordered people to bring in the fresh food and play that he paid tribute to outside recently, and picked up what he had left for Jia Huan. Now it is the time for the harvest of melons and fruits, so the southern and western regions have the most aspirant fruits.The second is silk from the south of the Yangtze River and a new batch of famille rose porcelain from official kilns.

Although Jia Huan was influenced by the ideas of later generations, he knew that Yuan blue and white porcelain was the most valuable, but he himself still loved the pink color on the pastel porcelain. Where I often love to stay, I have replaced all other decorative porcelain with famille rose porcelain without knowing it.So it's not just Shui Lang, but everyone who knows him well knows that Mr. Huan likes pastel porcelain very much.

Looking at the porcelains of various sizes, vases, plates, bowls, cups, pots, all the designs on them are very familiar. The honey-like melons didn't bother to eat them, so they hurriedly washed their hands and picked them up one by one for a closer look, then asked Shui Lang, "Why did you burn all those paintings into porcelain? You didn't follow me." I'll say it!"

Shui Lang lightly stroked the pattern of the little figure under the sycamore tree in the middle of a plate with a diameter of about one foot, and said with a smile, "I knew you would like it! This is a furnace I specially ordered them to open for you. Just as I thought, look at the inscription on the back."

Jia Huan turned over the pastel bowl with lotus petal pattern in his hand, and saw that although the bottom was still inscribed with the "Changping Annual System", there was a seal-like word "Langhuan" beside it.

If these porcelains can be the same as the antiques handed down to modern society in later generations, people after thousands of years will surely have countless textual researches and legends because of these two words, and who knows if there will be a truth in those legends, records The tenderness of an emperor...

Jia Huan was stunned for a while, and didn't know how to deal with it. He just felt that he had never experienced such affectionate feelings in two lifetimes, but now that he met him, there would be no good ending, so he felt a wave of pain in his heart. In addition to lamenting Shui Lang's sorrow, Hui felt very painful.After a long while, he forced a smile and said, "If you want to burn, you can only burn the ones you painted. I don't paint very well, and it's useless to burn these porcelains."

Shui Lang came over to caress his eyes and said, "Why are your eyes red?"

Jia Huan did not dare to say that the future number has not yet been determined, but leaned on Shui Lang's shoulder and said, "You recruited that too."

Shui Lang took advantage of the situation to hold him on his knees and rubbed him together for a while, seeing that Jia Huan was so obedient with his eyes half closed, the worry on his face disappeared.Where was he still able to restrain himself, when he was about to take off his clothes, he suddenly heard two sharp cries from outside the hall, Jia Huan was startled, sat up and asked, "What's the matter?"

Shui Lang suppressed the fire with great difficulty, and shouted, "Lin An!"

Xiao Linzi hurriedly ran in and kowtowed, "Damn it, slave! You have disturbed the master! Damn it, slave!!" He accidentally caught a glimpse of Jia Huan's waist belt, which was mostly untied, and where the collar of his clothes was exposed, there was a piece of it. Hong Yinzi was so frightened that he didn't dare to lift his head.

Shui Lang asked, "Who was outside just now?"

Xiao Linzi was eager to bring disaster to the east, and hurriedly said, "Yin Guiren sent two palace daughters to deliver cheese and cold rolls to the Holy One. According to the ancestral system, the servant is about to order people to drag these two palace daughters out and stick them to death. How about this How dare the two lowly maidservants make noise in front of Yongchang Palace!"

Shui Lang said in a deep voice, "Don't tell me she doesn't know the ancestral rules?"

Xiao Linzi reported, "According to my conjecture, it's probably not because Yin Guiren didn't know. It's just that since the old sage ascended the throne a few years ago, he hasn't punished anyone for such a mistake for at least eight or nine years. Yin Guiren entered the palace for the first time, perhaps he has never experienced it, he thought... thought..." He hesitated for a long while at the end, but he didn't dare to say the sentence "I thought it didn't matter".

Jia Huan knew that even a close attendant like the chief steward of the imperial study would not dare to violate the ban. Even in the history of Daqing, there were occasional people who had to come to Yongchang Hall to seek an audience due to emergencies. Because of his compassion, the emperor at that time pardoned him. It is a crime, but there are only a handful of such examples.He couldn't help being very surprised, what kind of support did this Yin Guiren have to do such a thing.

Shui Lang thought for a while, and then ordered, "Bring those two court ladies to Yin Guiren and stick them to death, let her watch. After reading, send them to Qiyue Palace!"

After Xiao Linzi received the decree and went down, Jia Huan asked, "When I came here, I heard Hong Dai and the others talk about Yin Cairen, and now it belongs to Yin Guiren. Is it the same person?"

Seeing that he had arranged his clothes, Shui Lang knew that the time had passed, so he could only take another picture slowly, so he said calmly, "I said, why do you think the secret passage is not soundproof, is it because you heard them chewing their tongues behind their backs? "

Jia Huan hurriedly said, "I didn't say a few words, I just said something about the small gap between Concubine Jia Gui and Yin Cairen."

Shui Lang smiled and said, "It's really not that big, this nobleman was just appointed in the morning, so Hong Dai and the others don't know."

Jia Huan couldn't help sighing, "The speed of promotion and demotion is too fast. I've heard people say that the Qiyue Palace is a cold palace. But now our family can't help Concubine Jia Gui, you see, she wants us to share After the separation, coax Baoyu to take Mrs. Wang out again. Now the old lady is gritting her teeth to stop her. When the old lady is gone, she will probably have to divide up. At that time, Mrs. Wang will be able to handle Sister Lin. I see that she is not the kind of person who is clumsy in eyes and heart, how could she be provoked by a young talent this time?"

Shui Lang nodded and said, "Concubine Jia is indeed not stupid, but she is not very smart either. Ziqian came back from Shandong and heard about Shui Yu's demotion. Come here, so this time I took the opportunity to embarrass her, let's see what she can do. I don't mean to fancy that Yin Cairen at all!"

Jia Huan saw that the last sentence seemed to be just for him, so he couldn't help but blushed, turned his head and said, "He said something like that again! I just ignore you. Is there something wrong with Ziqian?"

Shui Lang smiled and said, "Now that the manpower has been dispatched, whether it is what I think, I will tell you when I have some clues. There must be confidence before the autumn hunting. Instead of worrying about that, you might as well think about it." How do you want to tell the family, how about staying here tonight?"

Before Jia Huan came here, he originally planned to have lunch here at most before leaving, but now he felt a little bit reluctant to let go of the person in front of him, so he turned around and tidied up the pastel porcelain placed outside, and said in a low voice, "You only let people Go and say that it's over if Fourth Master Long stays." Pointing to a few more pieces of porcelain, "Leave these few pieces with you, and let the rest be carefully sent to the villa for me." After speaking, the base of the ear was already blushing , Shui Lang couldn't help leaning over to be intimate, not mentioning everything.