After the rebellion was successful, I realized that this place was the Red Mansion

Chapter 49: Xiangjiang River Flows Away Chu Yunfei
Shi Xiangyun lowered her head and walked alone in the reeds of the Grand View Garden.

It was spring now, and colorful flowers were in full bloom. Frogs were singing at the roots of the reeds in the pond. She used to think it was lively, but now she only felt it was noisy.

She slept with the old lady last night. The old lady fell asleep very late and got up early today. As soon as she got up, she ordered Yuanyang to ask Lian's second brother if he had gotten up and asked him to come earlier.

The old lady told her a lot of things in the palace, talked about the rules of the palace, and taught her to be careful in what she said and did. She said that the palace is not like her home, nor like the Jia family. The emperor is like a tiger. He can protect you well, but he can also eat you in one bite. As the saying goes, "Serving the emperor is like serving a tiger", and you must never forget this.

Shi Xiangyun didn't say a word the whole night, she just held the old lady's hand tightly and cried several times.

This morning, my second brother Lian came to pay his respects to the old lady and said that he would give the letter to the soldiers of Prince Qian in front of the mansion gate and ask them to deliver it to the palace.

Her name was in that letter.

It happened that at that time, a letter was sent to her family, mentioning that only the Jia family was surrounded in the capital.

The second brother said angrily, "That Prince Qian really did learn from Leng Zixing that the girls in the garden were beautiful, and as soon as he entered the city he sent his soldiers to rob them. He's really a bandit!"

The second brother was scolded for this.

When they learned that the Jia family was under siege, they were both happy and worried.

Shi Xiangyun was both worried and sad.

Unconsciously, she walked to the north side of the Grand View Garden. She saw a woman with a graceful figure and fair skin standing under a willow tree by the river not far away. It was Xue Baochai who lived in Hengwu Garden.

Shi Xiangyun looked at her for a while before walking over and suddenly patting her shoulder, saying with a smile, "Sister Bao!"

Xue Baochai turned around and saw that it was her. A smile appeared on her face, which looked like a rich peony. "It turned out to be Yun girl. You scared me. Why are you here now?"

Shi Xiangyun pouted and said, "I didn't come here specifically to look for you. I came to look for you the other day, but you weren't there. You said you went home. How come you moved back again today? You didn't even tell me! You're treating me like an outsider."

Full of girlish resentment.

Xue Baochai took her hand and said with a smile, "Sister Yun, please don't blame me. The garden is in such a mess, and there are a bunch of servants stuck inside, unable to leave. I wanted to go home and stay for a few days, but I didn't expect that the private alley was also guarded by Prince Qian's soldiers. It really is impossible to have peace anywhere."

Hearing her say this, Shi Xiangyun became happy and asked with a smile: "Sister Bao, why were you staring at the catkins just now? I almost didn't recognize you. I thought you were Xiangling!"

Xue Baochai and Xiangling look two points similar, but Xiangling looks four points similar to Qin Keqing, the grandmother Rong of the East Palace.

Baochai and Qin Keqing are also somewhat similar, so it is common to mistake them for each other at first glance.

"Let me see the catkins." Baochai said.

"What are you looking at?" Xiangyun asked again.

"It's interesting to watch."

Baochai stretched out her fair, glossy hand and caught a willow catkin floating in the wind. "Look at it! A gentle breeze blows it away from the willow tree, or into the river, or swept away by the maids, or falls somewhere and is crushed into the spring mud. Or, perhaps, a gentle breeze will blow it straight up into the sky!"

Xiangyun looked up and saw not a single willow catkin in the sky. She laughed and said, "So what if it goes up to the sky? There's no god holding it up by the hands. It will eventually come down. In my opinion, it's better for it to fly into the mud and take root and sprout in the spring!"

This made both of them laugh.

Xiangling came over from Hengwu Garden and smiled when she saw him. "What are you laughing at, Miss Yun?"

"Sister Bao is laughing at the willow catkins!" Xiangyun said hurriedly.

Xiangling laughed again, then said to Baochai, "Miss, Miss Qin said she wanted to see you for something, so she asked me to come find you. What a coincidence that I saw you just as I was leaving the house."

Baochai smiled at Xiangyun and said, "I won't accompany you anymore."

After saying this, he returned to Hengwu Garden, and Xiangling also left.

Shi Xiangyun turned into a human again, looked at the catkins for a while, and continued to walk towards Tuobi Villa. Seeing a few servants peeking out from the gaps in the curtains of Tuobi Villa, she turned and walked away, and heard a group of maids laughing in Aojing Pavilion.

"Ouch!"

A shuttlecock hit her head. Shi Xiangyun covered her head and looked over. She saw that it was the little girls who sang opera playing shuttlecock. She didn't know who hit her.

"It was Fang Guan who kicked it!"

"Fang Guan, you hit the girl from the Shi family!"

Several little actors started laughing. A girl with delicate eyebrows and eyes ran up to her, took her hand and said with a smile: "Good sister, it was my fault. Please forgive me!" The little actors all gathered around and laughed.

The girls looked bright and lively, how could they look like they were surrounded by soldiers sent by King Qian?
Shi Xiangyun picked up the shuttlecock, and Fang Guan hurriedly said, "Good sister, please give it back to me!"

Shi Xiangyun raised it, but she was taller than Fang Guan, so she couldn't easily reach it. She smiled and said, "You guys are not practicing your opera, but are running out to play in the garden. Aren't you afraid of being scolded by your maids?"

A little actor said, "We'll just play for a while. The maids don't have time to take care of us right now."

Shi Xiangyun threw the shuttlecock up and kicked it, and the shuttlecock flew out. Fang Guan and a group of boys scrambled to grab it.

Only one person stayed.

Shi Xiangyun glanced at her and saw her eyes were bright, her face was thin and her waist was slender. She smiled and said, "I remember you. You look like Sister Lin!"

On the 21st day of the first lunar month this year, which was Baojie's birthday, Shi Xiangyun smiled once, but Sister Lin was annoyed by this.

"I can't compare to you girls."

Lingguan said something provocative, but then realized it was wrong and asked her hurriedly, "Miss, I want to ask you something."

"what's up?"

"The palace gate is surrounded by Prince Qian, and no one can get out?"

"Exactly."

Shi Xiangyun was full of complaints.

Lingguan asked again: "Where is the East Palace?"

"It's the same in the East Palace. Why are you asking?" Xiangyun understood the implication of her words.

Lingguan was silent for a moment, then asked, "I heard that Prince Qian wants to confiscate the Jia family's property and classify them as slaves. Is that true?"

Shi Xiangyun was startled, "Who told you that?"

"That's how it's played in the opera!"

Lingguan's eyes lit up: "In the movie 'The Palace of Eternal Life', the Yang family of Yang Guozhong and Yang Guifei were so prosperous when they were still in power, but later their property was confiscated by the emperor! If Prince Qian enters the city, your family will be confiscated too!"

Shi Xiangyun said angrily, "What nonsense are you talking about? Let Second Madam Lian know if she will punish you!"

Ling Guan was shocked and kept silent.

Shi Xiangyun was not one to embarrass a little maid. She sighed and said, "If our house were to be confiscated, that would be fine. I could go to the opera with you. There's no need to go into the imperial palace where the tiger is crouching in the Golden Throne Hall."

Lingguan chuckled, looked at her and said, "Young lady, you are really the daughter of a noble family. How could you know the hardships of singing opera? We are destined to be lowly. Even if someone treats you well, you... can't help yourself. No one can decide for you."

He lowered his voice, lowered his head, turned around and went back in a daze.

Seeing her like this, and her graceful figure, which was similar to Sister Lin, Shi Xiangyun couldn't help but think of Sister Lin.

She won’t sleep with the old lady tonight. Should she go sleep with Sister Lin?
Do it as soon as you think of it. Shi Xiangyun hurried back to Xiaoxiang Pavilion excitedly. When passing by Longcui Temple, she happened to see Xing Xiuyun entering the temple. She knew that she had gone to talk to Miaoyu again.

Shi Xiangyun and Miaoyu didn't say a few words to each other, but they didn't dare to go in and went straight to Xiaoxiang Pavilion.

After entering the room, she saw Lin Daiyu lying on the kang reading a book. Shi Xiangyun went over to her, took her hand and said with a smile, "My dear sister, guess who I saw?"

"Where did Yun girl go to play again?" Daiyu said with a rare smile.

"I just met another Sister Lin!"

Shi Xiangyun said with a smile.

Lin Daiyu frowned and thought for a moment, then reached out and pinched her face: "So you saw that opera girl and are trying to make fun of me!"

Shi Xiangyun smiled and begged for mercy, saying that she would never dare to do it again.

(End of this chapter)