[Qing Chuan+Red Mansion] Mr. Lin from the Lin family

Jia Min said to Lin Hai: "Master, Brother Jin is not young anymore, I plan to marry Brother Jin, and after handing over the family affairs to Brother Jin's daughter-in-law, I will return to Yangzhou with the master, you see how?"

Lin Hai naturally had no objection to this, so he said: "In a few days, the beggar's paperwork will be approved, and I will go there first for my husband, but the wife has a candidate? Does Brother Jin know?"

Jia Min smiled and said, "Master, what do you think of Jia Xichun, the youngest daughter of Jia Jing in General Ning's residence, Jia Zhen's sister, Jia Xichun? I asked Brother Jin earlier, and Brother Jin said he has no objection."

Lin Hai thought for a while and said: "I have met that child once, he looks good, he is very close to Daiyu, he is a good candidate, you can ask Brother Hu's daughter-in-law, if Jia Jing and the others have no objections, It’s good to settle down.”

Jia Min laughed and said: "I just thought that Xichun played well with Daiyu and had a calm temper. If Daiyu was wronged in the future, the siblings of her natal family would not ignore her, and would force her husband to have a relationship with the eldest sister." gone."

"In addition, Brother Rong's daughter-in-law is also a good one. Xichun was almost brought up by her alone. She knows her temperament and methods well. I can rest assured if I marry her."

Lin Hai nodded with a smile and said: "Madam can do these things as she sees, but don't bother yourself, and don't worry that Brother Jin will be estranged from Daiyu after getting married. As far as the relationship between their siblings is concerned, you can blame Xichun." It's also suitable, otherwise, which woman can be happy when her husband takes care of her sister?"

After hearing this, Jia Min thought for a while and then smiled: "That's right, this brat, if we hadn't touched him, he would probably have been a bachelor for the rest of his life."

Lin Hai gave up after hearing this, and quickly said: "Ma'am, did you underestimate Brother Jin? Our brother Jin is in high demand. Don't you know that as a husband, he is pestered every day to ask about Brother Jin's marriage. If it is not afraid To offend people, our brother Jin has already made up his mind."

It is said that Jia Min loves his son, but in fact Lin Hai is the one who really pampers and spoils his son, otherwise Lin Ruijin would not be able to become so skinny, and even bring a few little buddies to follow suit.

Jia Min smiled and glanced at Lin Hai, and didn't say anything else. She is always a child, and she is a baby like a lifeblood. What can she say as a mother?

On the second day, before Jia Min could leave a post for Jia Hu's wife, Jia Lian's wife, his sister-in-law and his wife came to the door by themselves, bringing the children with them.

Jia Min, who was sitting in the front seat, saw the two sisters-in-law and their children about to salute, so she waved her hands and said, "They're all from my own family, so there's no such thing as so many salutes, so sit down and drink some water."

The two got along well with Jia Min, Jia Hu's wife said: "Auntie doesn't know, we are here to hide from Auntie."

Because some things were not easy to say in front of the children, the maids asked the children to bring some pastries and toys that the children liked, and took the children to the backyard to play.

After dismissing the children, Jia Min asked curiously: "What happened? The old lady came yesterday. I heard that it was Jia Zheng's business, so I didn't bother to care about it. I didn't ask. Anyway, it's just his virtue. Why? Can’t do anything big.”

Jia Lian's daughter-in-law twitched her mouth and said, "Aunt really guessed wrong this time. Uncle Zheng was involved in the imperial examination fraud case this time, which has alarmed the court."

Imperial examination fraud?Jia Min was shocked. The imperial court attached great importance to the imperial examination. If any officials were found to have cheated in the imperial examination, they would be severely punished. He hurriedly asked, "What's going on here?"

Jia Hu's wife, Mrs. Zhang, sighed, because Jia Zheng was involved in this matter. Although they were divided into clans, they couldn't write two Jia characters in one stroke. In addition, Jia Hu is now the Minister of the Ministry of Officials, so she knows a lot. some.

It turned out that Jia Zheng was sent to Henan to do Xuezheng because of the recommendation of the Eight Kings. The so-called Xuezheng actually avoided the taboo of Zhengxuezheng. to distinguish.

Henan Xuezheng selected a good scholar, taught editing and editing, and promoted Yu Hongtu to study. This is a well-known and upright official, and also a confidant of Yinzhen. Academic politics.

The eight kings Yinhu sent him there really out of good intentions, and he was also sorry for what happened to Yuan Chun, thinking that he would get some credit and then make up for his lack of external release.

Because he knows that anyone who Yinzhen approves must be prudent and honest. Jia Zheng used to, as long as he didn't do anything and waited for the scientific examination, he walked around the examination room twice, and his political achievements were considered to be achieved.

To be honest, the Eighth King really put his heart into it, but he never expected that Jia Zheng was not only incompetent, but also extremely unlucky, and most importantly, he was also pretentious.

However, if you want to talk about bad luck, you have to say that Yu Hongtu has bad luck, and he is also blaming himself. Although he has not reached the point of pampering his concubine and destroying his wife, he still loves the concubines in the mansion very much. Go to the main room, and spend the rest of the day in this concubine's room.

And Xuezheng, also known as Xuetai, is a person appointed by the emperor to be in charge of local scientific examinations. They are a kind of imperial envoys. They will not stay in one place for a long time. One year, at least a few months to leave.

Yu Hongtu thought, usually because of the rules, his concubine often sets rules in front of his wife, this time when he is out on business, he might as well bring him out to relax, and the two of them can spend more time together.

Unexpectedly, this little concubine is ignorant and greedy for money. After being flattered by Mrs. Wang, she doesn't know what her surname is. add.

Jia Zheng couldn't tell the height of his eyebrows, and he didn't feel that his wife was losing face by mixing with a concubine. Instead, he praised Mrs. Wang a lot, thinking that she was enlightened, and knew how to help him make connections, and to be a wife's diplomacy.

After these two women got together, they hooked up with many local female relatives of wealthy families. It was the first time for the two of them to experience the feeling of being under the spotlight, especially when these people gave them overtly or secretly. They have a lot of banknotes or treasures.

Yu Hongtu and Jia Zheng are two bastards who really don't know anything about what their women do, but they all know the seriousness of cheating in scientific exams, and they are arrested almost every year for being involved in cheating in scientific exams. Officials who ransacked their homes and asked them to be executed.

When it was time for the township examination, Yu Hongtu was cautious everywhere, thanking guests behind closed doors, guarding against death, and thinking that Jia Zheng was specially entrusted by the Eight Kings to take care of him, so he also mentioned Jia Zheng.

Although this Jia Zheng is called a hypocrite, he really respects scholars, otherwise he would not have paid out of his own pocket to accompany the favor and find a way for Jia Yucun to return to his post.

Therefore, he was as cautious as Yu Hongtu, and thanked guests behind closed doors, and he didn't even go to the banquets of famous local talents. Yu Hongtu was very satisfied with this.

The two even sympathized with each other because of their words and deeds, especially Yu Hongtu hated accepting bribes, and Jia Zheng, who pretended to be aloof, also disliked accepting bribes.

The two people here are strict with themselves, but their respective female relatives have made them suffer. These two bold and reckless women dared to secretly collect more than [-] taels of bribes from the candidates, and then agreed to sell the test questions to these people.

It turned out that those who complimented them and gave them gifts were all low-educated students who were greedy for fame and fame. Seeing that Yu Hongtu was upright and upright, they let their wives or mothers walk in the footsteps of Mrs. Wang and that concubine. .

The concubine also knew Yu Hongtu's temper, so she bribed Yu Hongtu's personal servants to collude with each other.

The concubine tried to obtain the examination questions first, and pasted the examination questions on Yu Hongtu's official uniform. After Yu Hongtu took off his official uniform when he went out, his servants tore it down and passed it on to the Wang family.

People from the Wang family passed things on to the wives or mothers of the examinees who had paid a lot of money outside. When these examinees got the exam questions, they asked learned people to help write the answers. After memorizing them, they copied them on the answer sheet.

But those who buy test questions don’t even think about it. They have made the questions for you. When they take the test, if they see the exact same test questions, don’t they know that the test questions have been leaked?

The students got angry immediately, and gathered together to smash the Confucius Temple in Henan when they left the examination room. After investigating, Wang Shijun, the governor of Henan, found out that Yu Hongtu was the source of the leaked examination questions, so he wrote a letter to impeach Yu Hongtu, accusing him of taking bribes for personal gain, and accepting bribes. Students take huge bribes.

Emperor Anping was furious. This happened just after he ascended the throne. Isn't this a provocation to him?So Yinzhen was asked to investigate, after all this Yu Hongtu was his disciple.

What Yinzhen hated the most in his life was that officials took bribes, otherwise he would not have left the title of emperor who confiscated his family in history. Hearing that his disciples had done such a thing, he immediately rushed to Henan without stopping.

In addition, Yinzhen is also very face-saving. Fang Chengcheng from Shandong fell on his concubine back then, and his cheap uncle Longkodo almost caused a catastrophe because of his concubine. Now here comes Yu Hongtu again. I feel ashamed and ashamed.

Fortunately, Emperor Anping had a gentle personality. When he got angry, he immediately thought of his fourth brother's temper, and quickly ordered Jia Hu to follow him to see what was going on. He must not kill the good official by mistake.

The reason why Zhang escaped was that when Mother Jia knew that Jia Hu was an investigator, she immediately forced Zhang to write a letter to Jia Hu, and she must push the fault to others to keep Jia Zheng.

How could Zhang's family of officials agree to do this?Isn't this pushing Jia Hu into the fire pit?It was just an excuse. If Uncle Zheng was right, the court would definitely not embarrass Uncle Zheng.

Seeing that she couldn't move Mrs. Zhang, Jia's mother knew that even if she wrote [-] letters and wrote the dragon's cry, Jia Hu's rebellious son would not raise her eyelids, so she went to Jia Lian's mansion to block Jia Lian and his wife, trying to make Jia Lian Ask for leave to intercede with Jia Hu.

When Jia She saw it, he immediately became angry, and said directly: "This old lady is not enough to kill my son, is it? I will watch today. Whoever dares to force them will die, and I will run away immediately." Henan chopped up the prudence, so as not to harm my son."

Therefore, Jia Lian and his wife took advantage of Jia She and Jia Mu's entanglement and ran away. Jia Lian went to the Yamen and stayed at Honghui's place at night. .

As soon as Mrs. Zhang discussed it, they simply brought the children to Aunt Jia Min's place. They had heard that Jia Min had pushed the old lady back yesterday.

Jia Min sighed, the old lady was really in a daze, Jia Zheng was involved in the scientific examination fraud case, and it was probably a dream to get out clean.

Whether it's for leaving a son for the elderly in the future, or for the safety of Jia She's lineage, at this time, Jia Hu and Jia Lian should be warned to avoid suspicion.

However, Jia Min also understood Jia's mother. Jia Zheng was her lifeblood, and she always favored her. Even if it wasn't her lifeblood, it was the flesh that fell from her body. How could she just watch Jia Zheng die?

At this time, Jia Min couldn't say anything more, so he could only order someone to clean up the guest house and let Mrs. Zhang and others live first.

Jia Hu took the imperial decree and didn't dare to delay, so he hurried to Henan. When he arrived, he caught up with Yinzhen who was furious, pointing at Yu Hongtu and cursing, hating iron and steel just like Fang Cheng did back then.

Jia Hu, who used to be very ordinary in riding and shooting, was relieved when he saw Yu Hongtu was still alive when he got there, and he heard that Jia Zheng was only locked in a prison to wait for his punishment. After saluting to Yinzhen, he collapsed aside.

Yinzhen disliked Jia Hu who was slumped on the chair and looked like a dead dog. His physique was too poor, so what else could he do?

Just looking at his eyes, Jia Hu knew what he was thinking. She thought to herself, if she didn't know that Yinzhen was in a bad mood at the moment, she might catch fire if she dipped in the fire, and she was very careful, she really wanted to ask , Among the officials of the Qing Dynasty, what qualifications does the last one in riding and shooting have to look down on himself?

Jia Hu, who had finally managed to calm down, asked, "Fourth Master, is the investigation clear? Did they participate?"

Because Yinzhen personally investigated the matter, the truth of the matter was quickly found out. Otherwise, according to Yinzhen's temperament, how could he be in the mood to reprimand Yu Hongtu here?

Yinzhen said: "The investigation has been clear. These two fools are still cherishing each other. They don't know what the children in the backyard are doing. They are so stupid. What's the use of keeping him?"

Jia Hu looked at Yu Hongtu and shook his head, sympathizing with Jia Zheng, which was really stupid, but he still said: "Fourth Lord, what the emperor means is that if it is possible, let's save the merits and make amends, after all, he is a rare Capable and honest officials.”

Yinzhen got up and kicked Yu Hongtu and said, "Don't go thank Mr. Jia, for your dog's life, Mr. Jia rushed here with all his might."

Yu Hongtu hurriedly thanked his master Yinzhen first, and then thanked Jia Hu.

Jia Hu shook his head and said: "Your Majesty, you don't need to thank Jia, it's just that the death penalty is inevitable, and the living crime cannot escape. After returning to Beijing, the emperor will still punish him."

Yu Hongtu knew that his official career was over, but he was lucky to be able to save his dog's life, so he hurriedly said: "Mr. Jia owes Yu's life to him. Thank you is necessary."

Yinzhen said bitterly: "Okay, when you look at people in the future, you should keep your eyes open. With your discerning eyes, what will you dare to do in the future?"