Red Mansion: Bastards rule the roost

Chapter 93 Breaking one’s word
  When Jia Cong returned to his room, he had to comfort Qingwen and Qianxue. After washing himself under their service, he returned to Daiyu's room.

Daiyu was not sleepy at all, she was fully dressed and sitting on the edge of the bed. Zijuan hugged her shoulders and talked softly. The candlestick on the table gave off a dim yellow light, illuminating the two of them like people in a fairy tale.

Seeing Jia Cong come in, Zijuan stood up and offered her seat and poured tea.

Jia Cong was honest and polite. He sat down on Daiyu's bed, kicked off his boots, stretched out comfortably, leaned on the brocade quilt, and said with a smile: "My sister's bed is so fragrant and soft. I I felt sleepy as soon as I lay down.”

Daiyu was so embarrassed that letting him tilt was the limit. How could he be allowed to sleep? She hurriedly pulled his sleeves and said: "Look at what you are like, you are not allowed to sleep."

Jia Cong said: "But I'm sleepy. How about if my sister tells me a wonderful story from "Spring and Autumn"?"

Daiyu rolled her eyes at him angrily and spat: "Do you think of me as the daughter who wakes up?"

Jia Cong overtly pulled up the quilt and covered her up, saying, "My sister doesn't want to say it, so I'm going to sleep. I'm really sleepy."

"Don't sleep, I...can't you tell me?" Daiyu had no choice but to compromise.

Jia Cong suddenly became energetic, turned over, gave her half a pillow, and said with a smile: "If my sister is tired from sitting, she might as well lie down."

Daiyu hurriedly spat at him and sat down at Jia Cong's feet, further away from him. She thought about it and said, "I'll tell you a story about Gou Jian's defeat of Wu. How about that?"

"Okay, sister, tell me quickly."

Although Jia Cong had already known this story when he was studying, it had a different taste when told from Daiyu's mouth.

Daiyu glanced at him and said: "In the fifteenth year of Goujian's reign, he planned to attack Wu..."

Daiyu was obviously very familiar with the history of the Spring and Autumn Period. She first quoted from the classics and recited a few lines of ancient prose, and then explained it. Jia Cong listened with great interest.

The concise and precise wording in the original text makes people endlessly memorable, coupled with Daiyu's soft voice speaking softly, it makes people even less sleepy.

After talking for more than an hour, it finally came to an end.

"The king of Wu said in his words: Heaven has brought disaster to the country of Wu, not before or after him, but he is alone and has lost his ancestral temple and his country. The land and subjects of Wu are already there, and they are old and alone, unable to serve the king. So he folded his sword and committed suicide - kill."

Daiyu sighed faintly and said: "That's it. I think King Wu is also a hero of his generation, and he will inevitably end up in the end."

Jia Cong sneered and said: "What a bullshit King Wu. I can't stand a woman's benevolent fool. He deserves to be killed by Gou Jian."

Daiyu's big eyes flickered at him in the dark night and said, "Brother Cong, do you have any ideas?"

Jia Cong felt angry, like a lump in his throat, and said, "I think King Wu and Xiang Yu are the same kind of idiots. One is the kindness of women. King Wu didn't kill Gou Jian, but Xiang Yu let Liu Bang go. It's exactly the same."

Second, we can’t use people. The king of Wu killed Wu Zixu, but Xiang Yu did not use Fan Zeng. How similar.

The third is arrogance and stupidity. They didn't even take their enemies seriously, and in the end they were forced to commit suicide in desperation. Hahaha, two complete idiots. "

Daiyu smiled and said, "So what if it's you?"

Jia Cong said: "Don't say that I am wise after the fact. No matter how stupid you are, you know that Fu Chai should capture Yue first no matter what, and join forces with Wu and Yue to go north to compete with Qi and Jin. Even if he loses, he will not be attacked from both sides.

It’s a pity that the King of Wu was a man of great talent and talent, but he listened to slander. He was really nonsense. He would have died well. If such fools do not die, what will be the law of heaven? "

"So, Brother Cong admires Gou Jian?" Daiyu said.

Jia Cong shook his head and said, "I admire him so much. Gou Jian is a despicable, ungrateful, unkind, and narrow-minded person. You can share hardships with him, but you can't share wealth and wealth with him." If I were in the country of Yue, I would kill him first. .A man like him is worthy of being the king of a country?"

Daiyu covered her mouth and smiled: "Brother Cong has such great ambitions that Gou Jian even wants to kill him."

Jia Cong smiled and said: "Actually, I was mainly angry that he gave Xi Shi to the King of Wu. I thought Xi Shi could not be more beautiful than Sister Lin. If anyone wants me to give my sister my hands, I will kill them."

Bah, Daiyu spat at him, but she felt quite relieved.

After talking for a long time, Daiyu was also a little tired. She couldn't help but pull another quilt, put it behind her, leaned on the other side, and said: "Brother Cong, you have asked me to tell the story for so long. You have to tell it." I heard that this is called reciprocity."

Jia Cong said: "I'm not a well-educated person like my sister. How can I have any stories to tell?"

Daiyu smiled and said, "You are being a traitor again. If I don't believe it, you don't know any short stories. I don't want you to tell stories from books. I want to hear something new, something I haven't heard before."

Jia Cong thought for a while, he had read so many martial arts novels in his previous life, but he still remembered quite a few. Among them, the best ones would not be a problem to fool Daiyu, so he smiled and said: "There are indeed some stories in the rough and treacherous world, I'm afraid it will stain my sister's ears." .”

Daiyu said: "Please tell me and listen to it. If it's a dirty story, don't tell it. I won't listen either."

Jia Cong smiled and said, "I'm afraid if I tell you, you will pester me every day."

"Bah, I'm not ashamed to speak out. I've read so many stories from previous generations. Do you think I'm a country girl who has never seen the world?" Daiyu said proudly.

"Okay, let me tell you something. If you pester me to talk again in the future, you must first pour me tea and water, squeeze my shoulders and beat my legs." Jia Cong said.

Daiyu chuckled and said, "It's a deal." She didn't believe that Jia Cong could tell any story beyond her imagination. No matter how wonderful it was, she could just find a book to read, so there was no need to ask him.

"Listen carefully, this story is called "The Legend of the Condor Heroes""

"The name is quite new." Daiyu nodded.

"Listen to the first episode, the wind and the moon are ruthless. It is said that on the misty South Lake in Jiaxing, a few little girls were laughing and singing in the boat while picking lotus pods. It is impossible to test what they sang, only two lines. , came with the wind, but it was: Loveless lovers secretly changed, old travels are like dreams, and the heart is broken."

Daiyu was shocked. She had never heard of these two good words. She was staring at Jia Cong with all her attention. Could it be that he had done it?
  Just listen to Jia Cong continue: "The singing reached the ears of a young Taoist nun by the lake. The Taoist nun was extremely beautiful, but the scary thing was that her left palm was stained with blood..."

Daiyu couldn't help but exclaimed, there was no such character as Fairy Chi Lian in the story books in the past, she couldn't help but fell into a trance.

Jia Cong loved martial arts novels when he was a boy. He read Jin Daxia's books countless times. Although he forgot a lot of them many years later, he still remembered the main plot. He talked about it in one breath until Guo Jing and Huang Rong appeared and scared away Li Mochou.

"What happened next, what happened next?" Daiyu urged repeatedly, her face flushed as soon as she spoke, and she immediately glared at Jia Cong and ignored him.

Jia Cong secretly smiled in his heart, knowing the appeal of this story, and explained the background of the characters to Daiyu.

"The shadows of peach blossoms fall and fly to the divine sword, and the tide of the blue sea touches the jade flute. There is such a strange hero in the world, Huang Rong is so powerful."

Daiyu couldn't help but murmur to herself, her eyes showing longing.

I couldn't help but ask again: "That Fairy Chi Lian is also a poor person, what happened next? Yang Guo was poisoned, is he cured? Is the little girl kidnapped by Li Mochou okay?"

Jia Cong laughed and said, "I'm tired today. If you want to know what happens next, let's listen to the explanation next time."

(End of this chapter)