Red Mansion and Crimson Pearl

Chapter 125 The matter of caning education

In the dark sky, the stars in the clear sky had not yet fully appeared, but suddenly several sky lanterns rose in the air.

The deep orange flickered, floating up in the cool breeze of early spring. The lights near and far were also gradually burning up, some high and some low, as if they were responding to each other.

There were not many lights, from one or two that suddenly appeared, to dozens rising up, and then to dozens gradually filling the courtyard. In just a quarter of an hour, the entire Bodhi Temple was covered with lights.

Daiyu looked up at the warm lights in a daze, feeling mesmerized for a moment. Against the backdrop of the increasingly clear dark blue night sky, the Kongming lanterns swaying in the wind were as beautiful as a poem or painting in a dream.

Suddenly, Daiyu's heart moved, her eyelids blinked, and tears suddenly came to her eyes. She sniffed, lifted her skirt with both hands, and ran to the back door of the nunnery!

Xueyan, who was fascinated by counting how many lights there were, was startled. He was reluctant to leave the lights, but was also worried about the girl, so he stamped his feet and gave up and ran out!

Holding her pounding heart, Daiyu hid beside the back door of the nunnery and peeked out through the crack in the door.

A dozen flatbed horse-drawn carts carrying goods were slowly leaving.

There were two horses in the front, but the silhouettes of the people on the horses were particularly blurry in the night, and one could only vaguely make out that they were two men.

Xueyan arrived breathlessly, pulling Daiyu's sleeve, gasping for breath: "Miss! This is the first time in my life that I have seen you run! You can run faster than me! I am so scared!"

Daiyu turned around and glared at her: "Your daughter is having her birthday today, and you are so desperate. I will ask Aunt Meng to punish you when I get home!"

Xueyan bit her tongue, chuckled twice, and helped Daiyu up in a flattering manner: "Are you tired? Let's go back and rest. It's time for dinner. Miaogu is getting impatient and will get angry again. It's hard to appease her!"

Daiyu then felt her legs sore. She smiled with a red face, held Xueyan's hand, looked up at the Kongming lanterns rising into the distance, and slowly walked back.

After returning to the room to eat, Miaoyu seemed to calm down. After finishing her meal and rinsing her mouth, she suddenly said, "There are so many lights falling in the city and outside the city. It would be better if they don't light other people's firewood."

Daiyu was holding a mouthful of water in her mouth, and it all spurted out onto the ground with a "plop" sound! She choked and coughed repeatedly, and with red eyes she glared at Miaoyu.

Miaoyu smiled, stood up, and went back to her room to make tea.

The years in Bodhi Temple are peaceful.

A storm is about to come in the Taiji Palace.

When Prince Beijing came to see the Supreme, naturally he did not go to the Yanjia Palace, but to the Ganlu Palace.

The Supreme Lord originally asked him cheerfully and kindly about his recent academic performance, his job, how his mother was doing, and whether he was in good health; but Prince Beijing just said a few perfunctory words and then knelt down with a lewd face to ask for a marriage.

The Supreme was stunned for a moment, and looked at him incredulously: "Is your wife dead?"

"Never..."

The emperor was even more surprised: "If you want to take a concubine or a concubine, you can do it yourself. How dare you come to me to ask for a marriage? And bypass the emperor? Rong'er, what do you want to do?"

Prince Beijing Shui Rong was startled, and hurriedly explained with a smile: "Because I heard that the girl from the Lin family is admired by both the Supreme Lord and the Queen Mother, so I wanted to ask for a decent treatment for her..."

The Supreme could not believe it even more, and asked him directly in the face: "You want me to find a meritorious official of the court and the orphan of a marquis to be your concubine?!"

Shui Rong suddenly realized that the Supreme Master did not seem to be pleased with his request, and his heart was slightly moved. After a second thought, he felt that it should be fine, and tried his best to show his most polite smile:

"Replying to Your Majesty, although Miss Lin is an orphan, with few people to help her and teach her, and the Jia family can't even handle their own mess, they actually left her out there to live alone. But I think this girl is okay and can add fragrance to my sleeves.

"I have been taught by the Supreme Lord for many years, and I still have some heart to help the poor and needy. My home is large and has many people. If she passes away, she will have my wife and mother to teach her, and my sisters to keep her company, so her old age will not be miserable."

The Emperor looked at him with a look that changed from disbelief to speechlessness. He finally waved his hand and said, "Go home and tell your mother to go to the Queen Mother immediately. I have something to say to your mother."

Shui Rong didn't understand what was going on, so he had to do as he was told and leave.

Just as Dai Quan was about to see him off, the Supreme Lord gave him a cold look. He stopped in his tracks and ordered an ignorant young eunuch to see him off.

After leaving the palace, Shui Rong thought about it and realized that this arranged marriage might not go through, and he couldn't help feeling a little regretful.

Presumably, he asked his mother to enter the palace so that she would come home and scold him, telling him not to think about women all the time.

Thinking of this, Shui Rong returned home nonchalantly without saying much. He just asked his mother to go to Yanjia Hall of Taiji Palace immediately.

The Queen Mother of Prince Beijing was startled. After careful questioning, she realized that her son wanted to take a concubine, which made the Queen Mother angry. She could not help but punch Shui Rong twice and cursed:

"You have a whole yard of beautiful girls and you are still not satisfied! You are even showing off your virtues to the emperor! For a vixen, you even let your mother take the blame for you!

"With your little ability, if your father were here, I'd see if he would beat you to death!"

As she spoke, she quickly dressed up and went to the Yanjia Palace.

The Yanjia Palace had been in a state of restlessness for a while, and the Empress Dowager was very unhappy. When she heard that it was because of Lin Daiyu again, she became even more annoyed.

Just waiting for the message from outside: The Queen Mother of Prince Beijing is coming in.

He sarcastically said to the emperor, "Is there anything wrong with what the child said? His father passed away early, and you have been teaching him since he was seven or eight years old.

"Isn't it you who set an example and taught them how to be lustful and blinded by beauty?

"The child called this helping the poor and needy, and said it was all your teachings. What's wrong with that? I think it's not wrong!"

The Queen Mother of Prince Beijing heard everything clearly. She was not frightened to death. She walked to the imperial steps, knelt down without thinking, and confessed her crime with tears and snot:

"I've spoiled him. He's getting more and more naughty as he gets older. He can't even speak. I guess he hasn't recovered from his illness a few days ago, so his mind is still confused..."

The emperor raised his hand impatiently: "Shut up first."

The Queen Mother of Prince Beijing quickly stopped talking.

The emperor silently thought that he was the blood of his savior after all, so his expression softened a bit and he said, "Old sister-in-law, I have always treated Rong Ge'er as my own nephew, you know that."

The Queen Mother of Prince Beijing nodded repeatedly: "Yes, yes! I am grateful for the grace of the Lord!"

"I still treat him as my own son or nephew. I will teach him a lesson and punish him when necessary. Do you agree, sister-in-law?" the emperor asked again.

The Queen Mother of Prince Beijing was so moved that she burst into tears: "If I could receive the guidance of the Supreme Lord, I would be so lucky!"

The Queen Mother sneered: "You pushed your son to the Emperor Retired to teach. Are you going to die today or tomorrow?!"

The Supreme Emperor glared at the Queen Mother in dissatisfaction.

The Queen Mother rolled her eyes.

The Queen Mother of Prince Beijing fell to the ground, crying and apologizing.

The Supreme Master calmed down and ordered Dai Quan to come over: "Take the people in front of the palace and go to the North Palace, pin down that bastard, and beat him with forty sticks. Ask him about the rules, laws, and morality for me!"

The Queen Mother of Prince Beijing's eyes went dark and she fell to the ground.