Red Mansion: Picking up a Lin Daiyu

Chapter 368 Brother Yue is a pervert!
"Returning Jun Mingzhu to tears, hating not to meet him when he is not married."

Lin Daiyu leaned over to Yue Ling's ear, whispering softly, her pretty face blushing with embarrassment.

Lin Daiyu already felt ashamed enough when listening to Yue Ling's words. This time she had to whisper it to Yue Ling, which made it seem as if she was using poetry to describe people.

I tried my best to say something that wasn't too ambiguous, but even if love poems are full of twists and turns, they are ultimately about expressing feelings. How can I get away from that feeling?

Therefore, every time he said something, the other girls would agree with him, which made Lin Daiyu feel even more embarrassed.

Yue Ling, on the other hand, seemed as if nothing had happened. He held Lin Daiyu tightly in his arms, looking as if he was enjoying it very much.

"You were born before I was born, but I was born before you were old. You hate that I was born late, but I hate that you were born early."

Hearing Lin Daiyu's whispered words, Yue Ling felt a little tickled. He smiled and turned his head and said, "Sister Lin, isn't this poem not so appropriate? We are less than ten years apart in age, so it's not as if we were saying 'I hate that you were born too early'."

Lin Daiyu's cheeks were burning hot, and she immediately argued, "What are you talking about?! This is not a joke, how can you take poetry seriously? Brother Yue, don't think too much!"

Yue Ling smiled bitterly and shook his head, then added: "Sister Lin doesn't look like she's taking them as a joke."

Lin Daiyu slowly raised her head, looked over Yue Ling's shoulder towards the gate, and saw that everyone was covering their mouths and laughing, trying very hard to hold it in, and were looking at them who were still walking around the garden under the eaves.

Seeing that the two of them were still and seemed to be whispering, Xue Baochai waved and called out, "Sister Lin, if we are ruining the mood, shall we leave first?"

Lin Daiyu drew back her head in shame and anger, complaining in her heart, "I thought these people were all good people just now. They were just watching the show when they were teasing me. I really misjudged them!"

"If I had known earlier, I would have stopped Sister Ke'er, and nothing would have happened today."

Suddenly, Lin Daiyu felt Yue Ling's hand moving up and touching her buttocks, causing Lin Daiyu to shiver unconsciously.

Her eyes were moist with shame, and she said with tears in her eyes: "Brother Yue! What are you doing? You are... you are still watching us."

Yue Ling said awkwardly: "I held you for a long time. I was afraid you would fall, so I held you up."

Lin Daiyu was even more ashamed and angry, "You, you, you said I'm heavy?"

Yue Ling shook his head repeatedly, "No, of course not. I just drank a lot of wine and my body is a little weak. It's not Sister Lin's problem."

Yue Ling didn't mean to take advantage of Lin Daiyu. That was not his style, at least not in front of Lin Daiyu. So he withdrew his hand and continued to support Lin Daiyu's legs.

Lin Daiyu took a few deep breaths to calm herself down, then she had to think quickly to come up with more poems to end it all quickly.

"If I could change my heart for yours, I would know how deeply I miss you"

"A spring feast, a cup of green wine and a song. I bow and make three wishes: one is that my husband lives a thousand years, two is that I am always healthy, and three is that we can be like the swallows on the beam, and see each other every year."

After reciting another poem, Yue Ling took a big step and happened to return to the main entrance.

Fortunately, Yue Ling's one step was equivalent to the normal three or four steps. Otherwise, in such an embarrassing situation, Lin Daiyu's brain would not have been so agile and she would not have been able to think of dozens or hundreds of love poems.

"Well, you are worthy of being a couple of gods. With your close cooperation, you have completed such a difficult punishment. I thought you two would cheat."

Xue Baochai smiled and supported Lin Daiyu who had fallen to the ground, and eagerly welcomed her back into the room.

Even though Lin Daiyu did not move, she felt ashamed and angry in Yue Ling's arms. She was also nervous as she followed his steps up and down. She had already sweated a lot. She kept saying, "Okay, okay, it's getting late. Let's stop here for today."

"If you haven't had enough fun yet, play again when you get together."

Qin Keqing blinked and said teasingly, "Sister Lin won't just send us away, will she?"

The blush on Lin Daiyu's face had not yet faded. She looked at Yue Ling, who was breathing heavily and drinking tea beside her, and turned her head again, snorting softly, "You are talking nonsense again. Let's go back. I need to take a rest. Daddy should be back soon."

"If we continue to play like crazy in the yard, he will lecture us again."

The girls have lived in the Lin Mansion for several months and have a clear understanding of the family style of the Lin family. When Lin Ruhai is at the mansion, it is really serious and even the servants walk lightly. The room is extremely quiet.

Compared with the noisy Anjinghou Mansion, they are simply two extremes.

"That's right, let's go back to the room first."

"Sister Lin, are we leaving?"

Everyone waved goodbye, leaving the girls from the small opera troupe to tidy up the room and clean up the various decorations.

Yue Ling sat on the table and was reluctant to get up. Lin Daiyu could not help but frown and asked in a cold tone, "Brother Yue must be exhausted after walking around just now. Why don't you go back and take a rest? Starting tomorrow, I will also have to eat less, so as not to gain extra fat and tire Brother Yue out."

Yue Ling stood up slowly, then smiled with relief and said, "So Sister Lin can't wait for me to hug her next time?"

After saying a few words of joke, Yue Ling rushed out of the door like a gust of wind and disappeared without a trace.

Lin Daiyu was left in the room, stunned on the spot. When she came to her senses, her face turned red again, but she was no longer able to express her anger.

"you!"

Lin Daiyu raised her little fist and then put it down again.

"Brother Yue is a pervert!"

Lin Daiyu pouted and took a few breaths before she stood up and went back to her room.

Zijuan, Xueyan and Qingwen all followed behind her.

Because they were among those who had just made fun of Lin Daiyu, they all lowered their heads in the room, suppressed their laughter, and waited for Lin Daiyu to give them orders.

Sitting next to the bed, Lin Daiyu saw the three of them trying to hold back their laughter, and she became impatient and pouted, "Prepare some water. I still need to take a bath and change clothes."

"Yes."

The three of them took on the task and left quickly.

Lin Daiyu was left in the room, sitting on the bed in a daze.

She was the only one left in the room. She calmed down, but the scene just now still lingered in her mind.

Originally, she was surprised and happy.

She was afraid that she would be the one to be punished, but when Yue Ling was picked along with her, she was looking forward to the punishment.

As a result, it played into Xue Baochai's hands and she fell into a trap, causing her to lose face in front of all the other women.

Now that’s bad, Lin Daiyu will no longer have the confidence to establish her authority in the room.

He always said that he could manage his family by being self-disciplined, but in the end he couldn't control himself at all.

Thinking of this, Lin Daiyu threw the inkstone and rouge box on the table onto the bed, and punched the pillow a few times to vent her anger.

"One sister Ke'er and one sister Bao, now it seems like they have set a series of traps for me!" "And Brother Yue, I think he is enjoying it too!"

After a long sulking, Lin Daiyu was exhausted. She fell on the bed, staring at the necklace hanging on the top of the bed. She thought to herself, "But... Brother Yue holding me and reading love poems... It seems that this is actually quite good."

"Oh, it would be nice if there weren't so many people watching."

Lin Daiyu felt embarrassed again and rolled back and forth on the bed.

"It's so infuriating! This is a game that Brother Yue and I can play when we're alone!"

Qingwen tiptoed in and saw Lin Daiyu, who was usually as quiet as a flower reflecting in the water and as graceful as a willow swaying in the wind, rolling around on the bed in excitement. She was stunned for a moment.

I didn't know whether I should step back and pretend I didn't see it, or go up and stop Lin Daiyu, and touch her forehead to see if it was a bumpkin.

Just when Qingwen was in a dilemma, Lin Daiyu was tired of rolling, so she stopped, took a deep breath and stood up, just in time to meet Qingwen's eyes, their big eyes facing each other.

Qingwen's face twitched and she said, "Um, young lady, the water is ready, now we..."

Lin Daiyu's cheeks turned red at a speed visible to the naked eye, and it seemed that steam was coming out of her head. She raised her hands to cover her face and said, "Okay, let's go... Just now, I was not feeling well, don't think too much."

Qingwen smiled bitterly and thought to herself, "Miss, if you hadn't said that, I really wouldn't have thought too much about it. But now that you've said it... who wouldn't think too much about it..."

……

As the sun sets,

In the main courtyard of the Salt Inspectorate's Mansion, two concubines were walking and chatting together beside the pavilion.

"They must have had a great time. We didn't see them after noon. They all went back to their rooms to rest."

"Under normal circumstances, they would definitely go to the garden to play."

Aunt Zhou shook her head with a little regret, feeling a little sorry that she could not join Lin Daiyu's birthday party.

Aunt Bai covered her mouth and chuckled, "Of course. I heard from the servants passing by that their noisy voices could be heard clearly outside the courtyard."

"Oh?"

Aunt Zhou's eyes lit up and she asked, "What's going on?"

Aunt Bai shook her head. "I don't know the details, but I heard someone reciting love poems in the courtyard. It was the voice of Marquis Anjing, and there were little girls making noises around them. I guess they were teasing the girl."

"I haven't seen the girl being teased by others. This is a bit of a pity."

The two were chatting when a man came in from the courtyard gate. His relaxed brows suddenly raised and he asked word by word, "What do you think they are doing?"

Aunt Bai and Aunt Zhou looked up at the same time, and seeing that it was Lin Ruhai who had returned, they immediately went forward to greet him.

The two looked at each other and changed the subject in sync: "Master, have you taken care of all the government affairs? If so, then we concubines can rest assured for you."

"Yes, yes, yes."

Lin Ruhai nodded and said, "Sign and seal the confessions and send them to the capital together with the memorial. This case should come to an end."

"Ah, I just don't know how His Majesty will calculate the salt tax audit last year. After all, this group of people did not cause trouble last year, but they began to plan to sell private salt after Cui Ying became the prefect of Yangzhou."

"Moreover, the background of the brothel is not clean. Many of the bandits have been gathered together to become thugs, causing trouble to the village."

"I haven't found out how much tax was embezzled yet, and whether it can be deducted."

Aunt Bai also sighed and agreed, "Originally, the case should have been investigated by the prefect, but the prefect himself was not clean and put the burden on the master."

"If it weren't for Governor Cui's hidden support, it wouldn't have been so easy to hide it from the master."

Lin Ruhai still blamed himself very much. "The Ministry of Justice and the Dali Temple have already been informed of this case. The provincial procurator of Jiangsu and Zhejiang will come to Yangzhou soon. Someone will take over the case by then, but I must give an explanation to His Majesty first."

After expressing his feelings, Lin Ruhai changed the subject and asked about what happened in the room, "Are you talking about Yu'er and the others playing in the room and reciting love poems in the yard?"

"It's really immoral. Don't you know the rules of my Lin family?"

The two concubines looked at their bellies and felt embarrassed to continue talking about the family rules.

Seeing the two of them bowing their heads, Lin Ruhai also remembered the lesson he received from Lin Daiyu that day, and he became furious. He waved his hand and said, "Let Madam Wang call her over. I will discipline her again! See if she still has me as her father!"

……

Not yet,

Lin Daiyu, who was about to rest after bathing, now came to the main room with her hair loose.

I bowed to my father first, and then I looked at the faces of the two concubines behind my father and asked tentatively, "Dad, you called me here in the evening. Is there any official business? I'll call Brother Yue to come as well."

When Lin Ruhai heard the word "Yue", he began to frown.

This kid was very popular outside, and everyone knew his good side. Even the clerks and soldiers in the Salt Court were conquered by Yue Ling's personal charm in a few days.

But in front of Lin Daiyu, he acted like a lecher and led his precious daughter astray.

Lin Daiyu, who used to observe the precepts of a woman, enjoy seclusion, be well-educated, dignified and gentle, and understand her parents' feelings, has quietly disappeared. Today, she has become the foolish girl who is obsessed with her beloved brother, which really makes Lin Ruhai angry.

"What do you mean by Yue? I called you here because I have something to tell you."

Lin Daiyu slowly lowered her head, knowing that the news of the prank in the yard had been leaked and her father was about to start scolding her again.

However, Lin Ruhai opened his mouth and said, "Today is your birthday. Since you grew up, Daddy has missed eight of your birthdays. I feel guilty about it. It is understandable that you play around at the birthday party. Daddy will not ask the reasons."

Lin Daiyu felt relieved and secretly said, "Daddy is still very open-minded."

"Dad, your words are too serious. I will pay attention to them in the future."

Lin Daiyu was of course a smart person and quickly went down the stairs.

I didn't want to, so I breathed a sigh of relief, and then I heard Lin Ruhai say: "But there is only one thing, Daddy can't give in."

"Now that the salt business in Yangzhou is settled, there won't be too many disputes in the future. Yue Ling will set off to return to Beijing soon."

"You are old enough to get married, but Yue Ling hasn't given you a betrothal letter or a betrothal gift. How can he let you follow him back to the capital?"

"Unmarried men and women must avoid suspicion at home. This is a custom and cannot be changed. You wait at home. If he really wants to marry you, come and pick you up. Then we can discuss it separately!"

"Daddy is really not open-minded!"

(End of this chapter)