Chapter 259 Breaking the Barrier
Lin Ruhai asked Daiyu to bring him the complete set of "Xu Xiake's Travels" so he could see if he could find any clues in it.
Is this a completely new printing technique?
Yuan Hongqu tricked Daiyu by saying it was a handwritten copy, which only fooled a naive child like Daiyu. A cunning old fox like Lin Ruhai could tell the difference at a glance. Why did Yuan Hongqu make up such a lie to deceive Daiyu?
Even while still ill, Lin Ruhai began analyzing Yuan Hongqu's thoughts.
If Yuan Hongqu knew that Lin Ruhai was so free and had such a heavy mind, she would definitely say that they were indeed father and daughter!
Seeing that her father also liked this set of "Xu Xiake's Travels", Daiyu would always go to her father to exchange reading experiences after he had been reading it for a while, and they would also discuss the scenery described in the book, which seemed to be something she longed for.
The red leaves in the courtyard have turned completely red, and the autumn atmosphere is strong.
After Lin Ruhai went to report on his duties, the emperor surprisingly kept him in the capital temporarily, knowing that his health had not yet recovered, and granted him permission to go south after the winter.
As for the salt administration, it was nearing its end. The Emperor summoned Lin Ruhai back to the capital to prevent those people from making a final desperate gamble and harming Lin Ruhai's life.
Lin Ruhai is so useful that the Emperor is reluctant to let him die in the south...
In her recent dream, Daiyu discovered that she was in a fairyland, not just a spectator, but a participant.
In her dream, she saw her grandmother holding a flat, black, glowing object containing many images and sounds. She also saw a portrait of her grandmother inside, but the portrait moved and spoke, as if there was a real person inside.
The clothes and hairstyle worn by the nanny in that scene were extremely simple, but they looked very comfortable and neat.
What Daiyu saw was a video that Yuan Hongqu had filmed when she was a blogger.
Yuan Hongqu knew that Daiyu dreamed about the space, but when Yuan Hongqu was in the space, she couldn't sense that there was another person inside, as if the two of them were on different wavelengths.
However, Yuan Hongqu never risked bringing Daiyu into her space, since her space had no instructions and she had to figure everything out herself.
In her recent dreams, Daiyu discovered that she could take books off the bookshelf and even go outside into the courtyard.
Suddenly, her activities here were no longer subject to so many restrictions.
What's even more amazing is that, not only in her dreams, but recently even in her daily life, her consciousness can freely enter and exit different spaces.
That day, Daiyu was reading "Yingya Shenglan", a work written by Ma Huan, the translator during Zheng He's voyages to the Western Ocean.
Having seen the famous historical sites and scenic spots across China, Daiyu began to want to learn about the customs and cultures of other countries.
In one passage, a fruit is described, which Daiyu feels she seems to have seen in the fairyland of the former nanny.
The book says: There is a kind of stinky fruit, called "Eryan" by foreigners. It is shaped like a Chinese water chicken head, eight or nine inches long, with sharp thorns on its skin. When ripe, it splits into five or six segments, smelling like stinky beef. Inside are fourteen or fifteen pieces of crispy white meat the size of chestnuts. It is very sweet and delicious. The seeds inside can be fried and eaten, and they taste like chestnuts.
It's a fruit with sharp spiky edges, but the flesh isn't as small as a chestnut; it's in large chunks.
Daiyu wondered if she had seen it wrong, and she was determined to see what was going on if she dreamed of it again.
But in the blink of an eye, she found herself in a blessed land of immortals.
Daiyu was quite surprised, wondering why she was reading a book in broad daylight and then having a dream.
She looked at the spiky fruit that was half-peeled on the table. It didn't smell very good. Daiyu was curious, but she endured the strange smell and held her breath as she approached.
Daiyu reached out her hand, wanting to feel the sharp thorns to see if they were soft or hard.
The moment she touched the thorn, her delicate fingers were slightly cut by the rough barb, and she quickly withdrew her hand.
Yuan Hongqu, who was outside the space, was touched and was suddenly pulled into the space involuntarily.
"Daiyu?" Yuan Hongqu called out tentatively when she saw Daiyu standing in front of the tea table.
She had a hunch that Daiyu would eventually find out that the space was real and not just a dream, and that she might even be able to freely enter and exit it.
Seeing Daiyu in the space today, Yuan Hongqu wasn't particularly surprised.
Daiyu looked up, her eyes filled with disbelief.
Yuan Hongqu looked at her and said softly, "Daiyu, this is our fairy space. Would you like to learn more about it?"
"Granny, you really are a fairy!"
Daiyu, excited and relaxed, immediately smelled that indescribable durian aroma again. She fanned her nose with one hand and pointed to the durian on the table with the other.
"This stuff tastes really weird."
Upon seeing this, Yuan Hongqu quickly grabbed a food storage container, put the uneaten durian inside, and then quickly put it in the refrigerator before turning on the air circulation system in the house.
Taking advantage of this time, Yuan Hongqu pulled Daiyu into the courtyard.
"Granny, is this really a fairy's abode? Am I dreaming? This dream is too real!" Daiyu looked at the exotic flowers and plants she had never seen before in the courtyard, and the ginseng and lingzhi mushrooms everywhere, her mouth slightly agape in surprise.
Before, she could only see but not touch. Now she could actually touch them. The nanny even picked a big, purplish-red cherry for her to taste. Was this really not a dream?
“It’s not a dream. Everything I’ve given you to eat in the past was produced here. The ginseng hydrosol we make also mostly uses ginseng from here.” Yuan Hongqu dispelled Daiyu’s previous doubts one by one.
After strolling around the courtyard for a while, Daiyu felt that her eyes weren't enough to take it all in, and even her brain seemed to be struggling to keep up.
There are too many things here that are difficult to explain.
Yuan Hongqu followed behind her, introducing her to the types of plants and their places of origin.
Tired from walking around, the two went back inside.
Daiyu sat on the soft sofa, almost sinking into it, but it was really super comfortable.
She imitated the original nanny, hugging a cushion to her chest, resting her chin on it, and drinking freshly squeezed juice from a straw cup.
She saw that the old woman simply washed the fruit, cut it into pieces, and put it into a strange-looking container. Juice then came out from the side. If you wanted to drink some freshly squeezed juice outside, you would have to go through so much trouble!
It seems it really wasn't a dream; the juice really did end up in my stomach!
Daiyu was lost in thought when she saw Yuan Hongqu looking at her with a smile.
"This place is only for the two of us. Could Daiyu help me keep this secret?"
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