Miss Lin Family of the Red Chamber

After saying goodbye to Miao Jing, Xiao Ya went back to her small courtyard in a good mood.In the small courtyard, Xiao Bao was reading silently on the ground with a branch.Books, paper, pens and ink were expensive things in ancient times, and Meng’s current ability could not be used for their daily use of paper and ink. Meng Yan pretended that she had no intention of writing on the sand and let Meng find out, so Meng made it for Hao and Xiaobao alone. A sand table is used to practice calligraphy.

Xiaoya had just entered the courtyard and Xiaobao just stopped and looked up at her: "Are you back?"

"Well, where's mother?"

"I went to grow vegetables. But wait until Master Miaojing?"

The nuns in the nunnery grow all the vegetables and food they eat by themselves, and the three mothers and sons of the Meng family naturally have to farm now that they live in the nunnery.

Little Treasure has never been willing to call nuns and elder sisters respectful as Master, and he is very persistent on this point.Xiaobao didn't accompany Xiaoya to wait for Miao Jing in the teacher's meditation room, and Xiaobao came back first after the teacher finished teaching.

"It's time." Meng Yan pulled Xiaobao up: "Let's go, let's go find mother."

Meng Yan and Xiaobao also often go to the vegetable field to help. Of course, the only thing they can do when they are young is pulling weeds.Little Treasure didn't know anything about working in the fields. At the beginning, he was unwilling, but after being scolded and ridiculed by Meng Yan, he put down his aloofness and aloofness as a scholar after working so hard for Meng. Meng Yan helped together.

"If you have any news, please tell me."

Xiaobao let Xiaoya drag him away.Regarding the matter of holding hands with each other, at the beginning Xiaobao insisted that men and women could not give and receive clearly, but was defeated by Meng Yan's thick skin and his sister, brother and milk baby, so he could only let Meng Yan go.

In the contest with Meng Yan, Xiaobao, who doesn't have much life experience, is often not Meng Yan's opponent, and is often defeated by Meng Yan without any strength to fight back.

"Go, talk while walking."

"That man has returned to Yangzhou."

Meng Yan and Xiaobao didn't dare to mention Lin Ruhai in front of Mengshi for fear that Mengshi would be sad, and they were also afraid of accidentally leaking the truth, so they used that person to refer to Lin Ruhai.

Meng Yan couldn't go to Yangzhou City, but she often inquired about Yangzhou City from the nuns who came to the city. The adults only thought she was curious about a child, and even the Meng family didn't care too much.Meng Shi never mentioned their father in front of the two children, so naturally she didn't think that Meng Yan and Xiaobao would know.Since this year, Meng Yan counted on the day when the old lady was going to be a filial piety, and inquired about the news of the Lin family without any trace.

"Didn't you be sure that he would come back?" Xiaobao was not surprised. Meng Yan had already said that the man would definitely return to Yangzhou, although he didn't know why Meng Yan was so sure. He will definitely go back to Yangzhou, but he trusts Meng Yan very much.

"That Jia family is really a powerful woman. Without the old lady, the backyard is completely controlled by her."

Meng Yan has seen Jia Min's actions for several years, but Meng Yan is the clearest. I have to say that Meng Yan admires Jia Min from the bottom of her heart, which has nothing to do with her status.Only a woman like Jia Min can defend her own happiness. Of course, if Jia Min can bear children for Lin Ruhai, her life will be more perfect; then she can at least be like Jia Mu.The ancients valued the inheritance of children, if Jia Min could give Lin Ruhai an heir, she would be impeccable.

In this regard, the current Meng family is not as good as Jia Min!

"The back house is a woman's business. Don't tell me these things. Tell me something useful."

Even if he said it, he didn't understand.In his previous life, he was just a bastard who was exiled outside. He was sent to a remote village to be raised at birth and almost never returned home. He even handled the imperial examinations by himself.

It has to be said that Xiaobao is very similar to the men in ancient times, regardless of the back house and treating the back house as a trivial matter.

"Don't underestimate women!" Meng Yan glared at Xiaobao fiercely: "The fierceness of women's struggle in the back house is by no means inferior to that of men's official struggles. Don't forget, the Jia family almost made us have no chance to come out. Look down Women can capsize in the gutter, but that man, there are no children in the backyard except the two of us, and this is all thanks to Mrs. Jia."

"You hate that Jia Shi?"

Xiaobao didn't have much feeling for what Meng Yan said about Jia, he didn't seem like Meng Yan knew what Jia had done, of course there was resentment, after all, Meng was his biological mother and Jia almost harmed Meng. He is still in Meng's womb, but he is not enough to seek revenge and kill Jia.

"I can't talk about hatred, after all, we have different positions! Our mother and the Jia family will never stand on the same ground. My mother and I are one."

Meng Yan's meaning is very clear, Jia Min is a concubine, her biological mother is a concubine, the interests of the two are at odds, and they will never be able to coexist peacefully.The struggle in the backyard has always been either the east wind overwhelms the west wind or the west wind overwhelms the east wind. In the Lin family, it is either you die or I live.Just because Jia Min wanted Meng's life, Meng Yan would not agree to Meng's going to live with Jia Min under the same roof.

She remembered clearly what happened in the past few years. Although the Meng family's tricks were small, compared to Jia Min, they were really scumbags.If Mrs. Meng brought them back to the Lin Mansion, she and Xiaobao would not only be confirmed as concubine children immediately, but also lose the way of changing Mrs. Meng's status; under Jia Min's nose, Mrs. Meng might not be able to protect her She and Xiaobao, even though she has seen a few backyard fights, she is not confident that she can escape from Jia Min, a Shi family who has been carefully raised.

But these Mengyans won't say too much to Xiaobao, there's no need for that.

Seeing the changing expression on Meng Yan's chubby face, he was a little suspicious.

"Why, are you afraid that Mrs. Jia won't want to go down the mountain?"

He was looking forward to going down the mountain.

"How is it possible, going down the mountain is certain, but it's definitely not now." Meng Yan insisted, but soon Xiaobao poured cold water on her.

"Don't forget, you haven't convinced your mother yet."

"What me! And you, this is a matter of us together. But I have already thought of a reason, and I am sure my mother will agree."

"Huh?" What's the reason?

"It's up to you. Do you know how to study hard?"

"Shh, I won't be studying someday. Let me tell you about Yangzhou City and him." Xiaobao was extremely curious about his father in this life, and Meng Yan didn't hide it from him, telling him all the news he found out.

"That man is a capable official!"

Hearing what Mengyan said, Xiaobao's father in this life admires him a little bit, and most boys have a tendency to worship their father.

In his previous life, Xiaobao was an exiled bastard. In his short life of 20 years, he had seen his father more times than he could use up his fingers, and he had no affection for him, let alone worship.Lin Ruhai seemed to be compensation for his previous life, and he longed for it in his heart.

Meng Yan originally wanted to say something, but seeing Xiao Bao's eyes were bright, she didn't say anything.

"When will we go down the mountain, and if you have any plans, please tell me."

Xiaobao really wanted to go down the mountain, not that the mountain was not good.Although the life on the mountain is poor, it is peaceful, but his ideals and ambitions have not yet been realized. Now he has the best opportunities, resources and experiences in his previous life, so he will go further.

"The matter of going down the mountain can't be rushed, we're too young, mother won't agree to go down the mountain in two years."

"The reason you just said?" Although Xiao Bao had his own thoughts, he also wanted to know Meng Yan's thoughts.Although he didn't want to admit it, his elder sister in this life was a smart and bold woman.

"Didn't you tell mother that you will be the No. [-] scholar in the future? Since you want to study, how can you not have a wife?"

"That's all?" Xiao Bao didn't believe Meng Yan because of this.

"Of course there are other things, but I can't tell you now. It's up to you to tell me what you think."

The two siblings walked and talked, exchanging their facial expressions.

"Okay, it's up to you, wait another two years!"

In the end, Xiaobao and Meng Yan finally agreed.

The land that had been frozen for a day was reopened to plant various vegetables and fruits, and the green melons and vegetable seedlings fluttered with the spring breeze.The rain stopped for several days, and Meng Shi and a few girls watered the vegetables, while Meng Yan and Xiao Baozuan pulled the weeds under the melon trellis.The two of you recited poems sentence by sentence, and the immature, crisp and childlike voice echoed in the mountains accompanied by the chirping of birds in the mountains.

"Xiaoya and Xiaobao are really good children. They are so hardworking and serious. Miss Wan, you will be blessed in the future!"

"No, it's really smart to memorize so many books when you're young. In the future, you will be the number one in the examination and give Wanniang an imperial order. Wanniang, you just wait and enjoy the blessing."

"Not only is he smart but also good-looking, it's really enviable."

Listening to the voices of the two children reciting poems, several nuns talked about the two children in a hurry, with love for the two children in their words.

"It's just memorizing two poems. It's not worth boasting like this from masters."

Meng said modestly, but she couldn't hide the relief and pride on her face. Her two children were indeed sensible children who made her worry-free.

"Xiaobao, it's time to go back, little girl." After pouring the vegetables, Mrs. Meng stood at the head of the garden with a forest bucket and called to the two children.

"Here we come, mother!"

Meng Yan and Xiao Bao got out from under the melon stand, both of them wore cloth caps on their heads to keep their hair from getting dirty.

"Wash your hands first, it's time to go back to have breakfast."

Meng Yan's little meat hand held Meng Shi's hand: "Mother, are you going to the mountain to dig wild vegetables today?"

"Eat and then go."

Not long after the beginning of spring, the vegetables grown in the field have not grown enough to eat, and the wild vegetables on the mountain have become the main source of vegetables in the nunnery. Fortunately, Miaoyue nunnery is built on the mountain, and there is no shortage of wild vegetables and fruits every year.

"Mother, take us to go too. Grandma Shitai said that studying should combine work and rest, and we will go north to endorse after we come back from digging wild vegetables." Xiao Zao and Meng Yan had already found an excuse to go up the mountain.

"Wanniang is just a matter of Xiaoya and Xiaobao, let's look after it for you, we can't lose it!"

"Mother, take us there..." Meng Yan shook Meng Shi's hand coquettishly.

"Okay, stop shaking, just take you there."

"Oh, go up the mountain, you can go up the mountain now."

Meng Yan had been looking forward to the big mountain behind Miaoyue Nunnery for a long time, but unfortunately she was too young and never had the chance to go there.Isn't it said that there are treasures in the mountains?Maybe she could find something of value to raise money for the descent.

"But you have to be obedient and not follow around."

"I know mother, we must be obedient. Mother, let's go, let's go back to have breakfast and go up the mountain earlier."