Daiyu from the Red Mansion is also arguing with people today

"Cough cough cough, Xueyan, help me back to the house!" Daiyu pretended to be weak and pulled Xueyan's hand and walked into the house. When she turned around, she winked at Lan Rui who was standing at the door.

Lan Rui understood what he meant, and after everyone entered the yard, she slammed the door to the second entrance shut.

The old woman was caught off guard by this action and did not even bother to argue with Lan Rui. She hurried back to inform the other maids.

Daiyu asked the others to go down and rest first, leaving Lin Ji alone.

"Brother Lingji, why did Dad send you here?"

Lin Ji bowed deeply to Lin Daiyu from afar, then took out a letter and handed it to Xueyan.

He explained: "I volunteered. After receiving the girl's letter, the master investigated at home for two days and finally decided to send us over."

As he spoke, he took out a box from his bag and said, "This is also what the master specifically asked me to hand over to the girl personally."

Daiyu paused to open the letter, she opened the box and looked through the contents. On top was a stack of indentures, presumably belonging to these people.

Below the indenture were several land deeds, and below those was a thick stack of silver bills.

Daiyu's hands trembled slightly, and she quickly closed the wooden box and asked him, "Brother Lin, you brought so many people out with you, is there anyone to serve Dad?"

"To answer the young lady's question." Lin Ji lowered his head, his voice full of sorrow, "Since the young lady left, the master has given some silver to the concubines and maids in the backyard and sent them out to find families for them.

Now, apart from those of us who were sent here to serve the young lady, there is probably no one left in the mansion’s backyard.”

Daiyu looked at the thin layer of dust on his trouser legs and said to him in a gentle voice, "I understand. Brother Lin, please go downstairs and take a rest first, and come back later. I still have something to ask of you, Brother Lin."

"I dare not. Miss, just tell me if you have anything to say!" Lin Ji bowed and turned to leave.

"You can go down too." Daiyu waved her hand to signal everyone to leave, and walked into the inner room alone holding the wooden box.

According to Lin Daiyu's memory, Jia Min was ill in a strange way and died very quickly. Lin Ruhai had sent someone to investigate, but did not get any useful clues from the doctor.

When checking the servants in the backyard, a maid saw that the situation was not good and committed suicide.

The maid committed suicide decisively, leaving no evidence in her room. We only know that she had some contact with the servants of the Zhen family and had access to the food of the female family members, but all the clues ended there.

The forces in Jiangnan are intertwined and complex. Although the Lin family has been operating here for five generations, they still cannot resist the infiltration of various forces.

The Jia family and the Zhen family are old relatives, but Jia Min, as the former eldest daughter of the Jia family, was easily abandoned.

This also explains why Lin Ruhai was in such a hurry to send Lin Daiyu to the capital before even a hundred days had passed since Jia Min's death.

Obviously, he also wanted to entrust his son to someone else.

Poor Lin Daiyu, who lost her parents at a young age, was sent to a place like the Jia family where wolves were everywhere, and she was at their mercy.

Under the influence of these factors, Lin Daiyu's character gradually became sensitive and sharp.

Daiyu carefully checked the seal on the seal of the envelope to confirm that there was no sign that it had been opened before she opened Lin Ruhai's reply.

She walked to the desk and ground ink while thinking about how to reply.

In the past few days, Daiyu has written many letters to Lin Ruhai, and at the end of each letter she would ask him to take care of his health.

After seeing his reply this time, Daiyu was truly relieved. She guessed that Lin Ruhai had given up the idea of ​​a desperate struggle and instead adopted a strategy of taking things step by step, no longer being as fearless and reckless as before.

As soon as Lin Ruhai received Daiyu's letter, he immediately sent a team of people to rush to the capital by land.

Even if Daiyu had not wasted time along the way, they would have arrived in Shenjing City half a month earlier than Daiyu.

By then, the Lin family's house in the city should have been tidied up, and news from the Jia Mansion and Shenjing City could be delivered to her in a timely manner.

She was no longer completely in the dark as in the book, confined to the backyard, where she laughed and played with Baoyu and other sisters every day.

Even though Daiyu now has the first eighty chapters of "Dream of the Red Chamber" in her hands, she only knows what Shitou saw when he followed Baoyu.

She only knew fragments of the actual situation in the court, the palace and the outside world, and she needed to send people out to inquire and plan all of this.

"Oh, what is this all about!"

Recalling the story that Baoyu told Daiyu about the rat spirit stealing taro during the past two days of class, she picked up her pen and wrote this story into the text.

As a former top scholar in the imperial examination, Lin Ruhai should be able to understand the profound meaning of this.

She wrote at the end: "I only have one old man and one child by my side. I am afraid I can't control the servants in the Jia family. I hope you can find a nanny to take care of me. Please remember to take care of yourself. I wish you the best."

After finishing writing, she folded the letter, dripped some wax on it, and planned to ask Nanny Wang to deliver it to the post station later.

Daiyu wrote down the address of the house and farm in the wooden box, put the letter in the wooden box, and put it into the system's storage box together with her small cash box.

The two boxes only took up one storage box slot, and the system described them as: two wooden boxes.

[111, can the things in the storage box still be folded? ]

[Yes, each slot can hold 99 items of the same type.]

[That is to say, as long as it is a wooden box, no matter what is inside, it counts as one; one grid can stack 99 large wooden boxes! ]

【Yes. 】

Daiyu's cheeks flushed with excitement. By this calculation, she could store 990 large wooden boxes, enough to hold all the space in Zhen's house!

She suppressed her excitement, but silently wrote this down in her notebook. The Zhen family would be confiscated sooner or later anyway, so she might as well take advantage of it.

After performing several sets of boxing moves, Daiyu's mood gradually calmed down.

At this time, there was a knock on the door, accompanied by Qinghe's voice: "Girl, I bought the book you wanted!"

"come in."

Daiyu took the book handed to her by Qinghe, and her mind was tinkling with thoughts, as she gained another 17 points.

"Miss, I don't know what type of books you like to read, so I picked one of each. I still have a few dozen coins left." Qinghe spread out her hands and showed them to Daiyu.

"It's okay, you can use the money to buy more dishes. Are you used to it these days?"

Qing He's face immediately lit up with a smile, but she crossed her hands in front of her chest when she thought of Nanny Wang's teachings. "To answer the young lady's question, there is nothing that we are not used to. We are just learning the rules these days. It is much more relaxed than at home or in the pawnshop."

Daiyu nodded slightly: "Go down, you can only relax for the next two days. In a few days, we will continue to set off for the capital.

Tell the other people that if there are any acquaintances in this city, go and say goodbye. We don’t know when we will come back to Huai’an Prefecture after this departure.”

"Yes, girl."