Miss Lin Family of the Red Chamber

Duke Cheng's Mansion

In the large garden to the north of Cheng'en Gong Mansion, there is a viewing pavilion hidden among the colorful flowers. On the stone table of the pavilion, tea is brewing fragrant tea, and several small and delicate snacks are placed on the side. On a rocking chair behind the stone table, a white-haired old man in his seventies was flipping through a collection of poems.

This old man is none other than Cheng Engong Lin Ruhai who is already in his seventies.

"Great-grandfather, where are you, great-grandfather?"

The clear and delicate voice of the child came through the flowers, Lin Ruhai heard the will and quickly asked the young servant to help him stand up, and he looked in the direction of the sound.

"It's here, it's at the pavilion, Xu'er, the great-grandfather is at the pavilion. Be careful, be careful, don't fall."

"Great-grandfather, great-grandfather..."

I saw a little red bean wearing a little red robe, like a big red bandage, rushing up and braiding, walking through the path among the flowers, walking steadily towards the gazebo.This little man is Lin Ruhai's great-grandson, and Meng Zhou's only-three-year-old grandson Lin Xu.

"Slow down, slow down..."

"Great-grandfather, why did you come here? It's easy for Xu'er to find." The little guy pouted with his chubby, pink face.

"Hehe, it's all about the great-grandfather's fault. Xu'er shouldn't be able to find him. Xu'er must be tired. Come and sit with the great-grandfather. The great-grandfather has a lot of cakes."

Lin Ruhai bent down and held Lin Xu's hand, and wanted to hug the little man and sit on the stone bench. This startled the two servants and the maids who came with Lin Xu. Fortunately, in the end Lin Xu refused.

"No, don't want to be hugged by the great-grandfather. Daddy said that Xu'er is already an adult and cannot be hugged by the great-grandfather." Lin Xu twisted Lin Ruhai's hand away. Seeing this, Lin Ruhai originally wanted to sigh with emotion that his great-grandson had grown up; but he didn't want Lin Xu to twist away He turned around and stretched out his hand towards his nanny: "Mammy hug me and sit on it."

Lin Xu's nanny didn't dare to hesitate, and hurried forward to hug Lin Xu and sit on the stone bench.

Seeing this, Lin Ruhai still doesn't understand that his grandson deliberately taught his great-grandson to do this.

"Great-grandfather, our cakes are better than those from my aunt's." Xiao Jia'er took half of a piece with his left hand and squeezed another piece with his right.

"Really? Then these are all for Xu'er to eat, and the great-grandfather will keep for Xu'er."

"Leave some for great-grandmother, too."

"All right, all right, I'll keep it for your great-grandmother too, I'm just thinking about your great-grandmother." The little guy clings to his great-grandmother the most, and Lin Ruhai is a little jealous.

Afraid that his great-grandson would choke, Lin Ruhai took the small cup brought by the maid, poured fragrant milk on it and handed it to the great-grandson.

"Come on, Xu'er, drink some fragrant milk."

"Thank you great-grandfather."

"Where's your great-grandmother?"

"Woooo..."

The little guy had snacks stuffed in his mouth, and he couldn't tell clearly, but Lin Ruhai was startled.

"Slow down, slow down, don't worry, don't choke." Lin Ruhai quickly picked up the fragrant milk and handed it to Lin Xu's mouth for him to drink.

"Where's the old lady?"

Lin Ruhai turned to ask the maid who came with Lin Xu.

"Returning to the old man, the old lady went to change clothes, and the young master was clamoring to find the old man, and asked the slaves to bring the young man over first."

"This little guy didn't see his great-grandfather for half a day, so he clamored that he missed his great-grandfather. When he came back, he rushed to find his great-grandfather before he even saw his mother. The quarrel was so overwhelming that I had to ask the servant girl to bring him here first. .”

The maid was talking, and she happened to come over with the help of Meng Shi, and happened to be listening.

"The old lady is back?"

She doesn't shy away from getting older, Lin Ruhai reached out to Meng Shi, and Meng Shi also reached out to hold her hand. The couple of seventy-year-olds held hands, which suddenly made people feel a kind of indescribable happiness.

"You come here to read again. Although it's already summer, but the wind is strong, don't catch a cold."

"I know, I know, I've only been here for a while, and you, an old woman, just worry about it." Lin Ruhai waved his hand to express his impatience, causing Meng Shi to stare at him.

"Xu'er, are you ready to eat?"

"Well, it's ready, great-grandmother."

"Xu'er is so good, Xu'er will go see your mother first and then come back, okay?"

"Well, that great-grandmother saved cakes for Xu'er." The little guy stared at her with big clear and round eyes, which made people feel very distressed.

"Okay, the great-grandmother will be kept by Xu'er, you go see your mother quickly."

"Great-grandfather, Xu'er has gone to see her mother."

"Okay, go, go carefully."

The old couple watched their little great-grandson disappear before looking away, and sent the servants away, before the old couple spoke.

"How is the empress dowager?"

"It's not bad. I heard from the empress dowager that the empress often carries the little prince to the Palace of Compassion. It's not boring to play with the grandson. Besides, the eldest princess is with the empress. Today, the empress dowager asked about you. Please don't worry, Madam."

"I'm fine, just tell your mother not to worry."

"That's what I said too, it's just my mother, hey, our children are really hard on my mother."

After so many years, Ms. Meng really felt sorry for her little daughter who was trapped in the deep palace.

"This is fate!"

Lin Ruhai was also emotional!

Isn't this life?

Daiyu was doomed to enter the palace, and she couldn't hide even if she wanted to.Although the first emperor went to Daiyu and became a widow, Daiyu was blessed after all, his grandson became a saint and Yu'er became the queen mother.The life of the widowed women in this palace is difficult, but the widowed queen mother is much better than those concubines.

Lin Ruhai sat on the rocking chair and looked at the rockery in the distance or beyond.

Thinking about when his Yu'er was born, the doctors in the entire Yangzhou City said that they couldn't support him. Thanks to his old woman and eldest daughter who were familiar with taking care of him, they raised Yu'er.His daughter, who was once ordered to be unable to support her, is now the most honorable woman in the world.

All this is because of his wife, his old woman.

Looking back on his life, Lin Ruhai felt that the transformation of his life began when he took the Meng family as his wife and brought back his two children.

In fact, Lin Ruhai has one thing hidden in his heart, he has never told anyone about it, and there is also a sentence that has been kept in his heart and he has not said it to Meng Shi.

On the night Daiyu entered the palace, he had a dream.

In the dream, Wan'er fell down and died of miscarriage after Jia Min's nanny set fire to her and escaped from Lin's mansion. Her mother died of chronic poisoning by Jia Min, but he didn't know all this in the dream.After his mother died, he did not take any more concubines. In his dream, he had a deep affection for Jia Min and devoted himself to guarding Jia Min's life.But Jia Min has been infertile, and the couple took a lot of medicine to save their son.

Jia Min asked all the Buddhas near Yangzhou City, and finally when he was 35 years old and was about to despair, Jia Min finally became pregnant.After ten months of expectation, he didn't want to give birth to a frail daughter. Although he was disappointed, it was better than nothing.

In the dream, he was very beautiful, and it hurt to the heart.He would rather raise Yu'er as his son and never think about taking concubines again.In the dream, Jia Min did not die of illness after giving birth to Daiyu, and Jia Min became pregnant again when Daiyu was three years old, and finally gave birth to a son this time. Although the son was weaker than Daiyu, he finally had a son. In the dream he was ecstatic.

But the good times didn't last long, the frail son was only raised until he was three years old, and died of an illness.He and Jia Min were extremely sad, and he was even more gray overnight.Soon after his son left, Jia Min also went.The middle-aged bereavement of his son and wife made him disheartened. Coupled with the turmoil in the officialdom, he was exhausted.Because of the Jia family's reason, he voted for the third prince who was chosen by Concubine Zhen Gui, but he didn't want the third prince to be defeated in the battle for succession, and he also fell into a desperate situation.

In order to save his life, he sent Daiyu to Jia's mansion, but he didn't want this act to become a life-threatening talisman.In order to seize the Lin family's wealth, Jia's family even joined forces with the Zhen family to assassinate him, poison him, and make him die of humiliation.

He saw in his dream that after his death, Jia's family and Zhen's family divided his family wealth, and Jia's mother did not treat his only daughter kindly, causing Daiyu to die in Jia's house after being wronged and crying.

After waking up from the dream, he broke out in a cold sweat, and he was relieved only when he saw Wan'er lying beside him.

The dream was so clear that Lin Ruhai couldn't help but suspect that it was his previous life, or that his original life was like that.

Lin Ruhai thought over and over in his heart that if there were no Meng Shi and the two children, maybe he would be just like in his dream.

In his spare time, Lin Ruhai often couldn't help but think of that dream, the things Jia Min did in the dream, and the couples he found earlier, all of which were actually true.Now Lin Ruhai finally knew why Jia Min had never been able to conceive a child. Jia Min did so many insidious things that he didn't know. How could God let her have children.

And because he didn't know or turned a blind eye on purpose, God would repay him and Jia Min and let his Lin family die.

Fortunately, it was just a dream. Fortunately, there is still time in this life to make up for it. Fortunately, Mrs. Meng is still alive. Fortunately, Mrs. Meng gave birth to a pair of children for him. Fortunately, he married Mrs. Meng, which is why the Lin family is prosperous today. The hall is full of children and grandchildren.There is also his Daiyu, and because of the upbringing of the Meng family, she can become the most honorable woman in the world.

In this life, he had three sons, the eldest son is now a first-rank official, the second son is a third-rank official even though he has been released, and the youngest son has become a military general, but also a fourth-rank general.The eldest son has three sons and two daughters, the eldest grandson has been admitted to the Imperial Academy, and the eldest grandson gave him a great grandson; the second son and three sons have two sons and two daughters.

Now that he is over seventy years old, he has a full house of children and grandchildren, and his children and grandchildren are promising. Compared with the dream that he died before his destiny, his life is really much happier.

From Lin Ruhai's point of view now, this is all a blessing brought by the Meng family. He took a good wife.

"Wan'er." Lin Ruhai suddenly turned to look at Meng Shi, and softly called Meng Shi's boudoir name.

"Huh?" Lin Ruhai hadn't called her boudoir name for a long time, and Meng couldn't react for a while: "What's the matter? Are you comfortable?"

"No. Wan'er, there is something I haven't said to you all this time, Wan'er, thank you!" Thank you for marrying me, thank you for keeping the pair of children for me, thank you for having children for me, thank you Raised such a wonderful son.

"Old man, we are old husband and wife, why don't we say thank you."

Meng Shi gave Lin Ruhai an embarrassed look.

"Hehe, by the way, Yan'er and Qinghe sent letters, saying that they came back when it was your birthday."

"It's finally time to come back, people who are grandparents stay away all day..."