Queen of the Lin family in the Red Chamber

Doctor Zhang's family was ransacked and beheaded, but he did not commit any crimes to the nine clans. This is an unspoken rule for changing dynasties, which is commonplace.However, this doctor Zhang from Jiangnan can dress up as a beggar and enter the capital, there must be something hidden in it, so...do we want to care about it?

Those who are officials, especially those who have reached the rank of Lin Ruhai, are no longer able to do things alone, and being well-informed is more important than not caring about other matters.

Lin Ruhai quietly instructed the butler a few words, and then returned home in a carriage.

At three o'clock in the unitary hour, the housekeeper brought someone in. Dr. Zhang was nearly seventy years old, and he knelt on the ground as soon as he entered the door, and he opened his mouth: "The late emperor was murdered to death!"

Lin Ruhai jumped up from the chair in shock, and subconsciously covered Doctor Zhang's mouth. "You can't say that!"

No matter how doctor Zhang came from a family of imperial doctors, no matter how well-maintained his body is, his age is nowhere to be seen, not to mention the fact that he has to hide from others all the way, and with the lives of hundreds of members of his Zhang family, he has long been exhausted physically and mentally. After being covered by Lin Ruhai in such a way, he would faint twice.

Lin Ruhai hurriedly let go of him, took two cups of ginseng tea that the servant had just served, and Doctor Zhang woke up slowly, opening his mouth to cry.

"Shut up!" Lin Ruhai scolded in a low voice, "I don't care why you went to Beijing, but because of our friendship in the past, if you keep pestering me like this, no matter what, I won't be able to listen anymore."

Doctor Zhang nodded slowly, calmed down a bit, grabbed the teapot on the table without caring about getting it hot, and hurriedly drank half a jar of tea and said: "My family has two rooms in the middle of the capital, and the first room is my poor son. The other house didn't care much, and sold the property in a hurry to return to the hometown, but he disappeared after leaving the capital. Two houses in the south of the Yangtze River, one house was caught in a fire, and less than ten servants escaped , and there is another house, and I met a bandit when I went to burn incense..." Doctor Zhang cried subduedly, "My Zhang family's fourth house has sixteen members, and now I am the old man who has half of his body buried in the ground. "

Lin Ruhai remained silent.

Doctor Zhang finished crying, "If my son really has the wrong pulse, I will admit it. It's just that my son has studied medicine hard since he was a child, and he has seen [-] or [-] patients. The prescription for recuperation has to be handed over to the imperial hospital envoy for record, and the medicine has never been passed through his hands, so how can it kill the late emperor!"

Dr. Zhang tremblingly took out a stack of torn and dirty paper from his pocket, and said, "This is the prescription my son prescribed half a year before the late Emperor passed away. It was sent back among the letters on weekdays, and the late Emperor In any case, it doesn't look like a short-lived person!"

audacious in the extreme!This was Lin Ruhai's first thought, how dare they reveal His Majesty's pulse in private!But... Lin Ruhai narrowed his eyes and said, "It's not necessarily true. The Supreme Emperor's stroke was not diagnosed. The late emperor..." Maybe it was because the sickness was too tired, which caused the disease.

"Why can't a diagnosis be made? It's just that the first emperor never listened to persuasion." Doctor Zhang retorted, "Think about it, if the first emperor really died of a disease, after taking the names of my son's family, why should he not be named? Those who are related will not be spared. This is clearly for the purpose of eradicating the grass!"

"Do you have evidence?" Lin Ruhai asked with a gloomy expression.What Dr. Zhang is saying now is all conjecture, without any real evidence, who would dare to talk about the late emperor, especially...

If the first emperor was killed, then who did it?Who would be so cruel to kill the late emperor?

Doctor Zhang hesitated for a while, shook his head, and suddenly said with certainty: "The late emperor must have been murdered!"

Lin Ruhai already regretted letting him in. Doctor Zhang didn't have any evidence, and only relied on the reason of believing in his son's medical skills.It is indeed suspicious that all four members of his family died within three months, but it is not impossible to say it is a coincidence.

The house in Beijing was moved to the original place, after all, he was in a hurry, and this haste must have missed something. Even if you take the official road from the capital to the south of the Yangtze River, there are still uninhabited places, and it is not impossible to find the way.

As for the fire at home, it is not unheard of.

Going to Shangxiang to meet bandits, of course, the possibility of encountering bandits when burning incense in a big temple is very small, but if you find a small temple in the mountains, many of them are pretended to be bandits. Lin Ruhai heard of it twice when he was in Jiangnan.

Looking at it this way, Doctor Zhang is more because of his son's death, and the Zhang family is the only one who... got into a dead end.Lin Ruhai sighed, and said, "It's inconvenient for me to entertain you right now. I'll ask Lin Kai to take you out later. You..." Lin Ruhai left without saying anything.He can understand a thing or two about the pain of not having a son, and even more than that, Dr. Zhang is already a little crazy. There are many nobles in Beijing, so don't lose your life for no reason.

Lin Ruhai sighed again, it was all gone, so he probably didn't care about his life anymore.

Having said that, Lin Ruhai still didn't sleep well all night, all he dreamed about at night was the late emperor, and when he woke up the next day, he was head-heavy, but today when his daughter returned home, she was excited to think about it.

Going back home is not an easy task. When you get up in the morning, you have to go to the palace to pay your respects before you can come out. After lunch, you have to leave at noon at most, and you probably can't stay at home for more than two hours.

Fortunately, the Queen Mother didn't go out, so the Empress Dowager said when she saw her enter the door: "Just kowtow, I'll go home after a long time, let's go early."

Returning home is considered the last procedure of marriage, and it is considered a formal couple after it is completed.Wanyu couldn't help sweating when she heard Mammy's talk, so she wasn't considered a couple when she talked about the bridal chamber, so she should not have sex with him.

Returning home is also a day for the son-in-law to give gifts to the father-in-law's family. In fact, after Wanyu woke up next to Kant for the second time, because he had been promoted to the emperor's brother, and because he was married, he was named the king of Dejun. Kant asked. "What do Master Lin like? I have prepared some calligraphy and paintings, as well as jade articles. Why don't you take a look first?"

This attitude is not bad, Wanyu nodded.Even if the Ministry of Rituals and the Ministry of Internal Affairs prepared to return home, Kant did not say that he would leave it alone.But when the things were spread out and put on the table, she felt that no matter what he gave, it probably wouldn't be able to please Lin Daddy.

Father Lin likes daughters, and if he applies the tense relationship between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, he will probably repel the same sex... But Kant prepared things carefully. It’s almost ten inches long, which is extremely rare; an ink stick with rosin, with carved patterns on the top and small prints on the bottom, looks like it was made by a famous artist; there is also a pen holder and matching paperweight, which should theoretically be It is made of wood, but the weight of this wood has caught up with gold and silver.

Wanyu chose these three, presumably her father will be satisfied.

Because there was not much delay in the palace, Wanyu urged the coachman to hurry up along the way. When the two of them entered the house, Wanyu was very happy, and ordered the coachman to give a big red seal when they got off the car.

Calculated in this way, if I go back in a hurry, I can probably stay at home for almost three hours.

Wang Momo was already waiting at the door, and when she saw the girl and uncle coming back, she kowtowed to the two of them first, and then said: "Master didn't sleep well yesterday, but he woke up in a good mood this morning." After finishing speaking, Wang Momo Mammy smiled and said, "Not only the master, but also the second young lady and the young master!"

Father Lin waited at the inner door with his son and daughter, his eyes turned red when he heard Wanyu's inexplicable laughter, when he saw someone, cough, he had to salute first.Even if it is the first rank, even if the vacant title on the head is greatly promoted, it will be as short as seeing the prince.

Fortunately, Kant still had a wink. Lin Ruhai didn't even bend down, so he let Kant help him up. It was not a vain support, but he really used a lot of strength, "Master Lin, don't be polite, we are a family. people."

Marriage to the royal family is not good at this point. Although it is father-in-law and son-in-law, father can't be called father. Whoever makes someone kiss his father is the emperor?

After the two younger members of the Lin family came up to see Li, they each took Wanyu's hand and couldn't drag her away.

Logically speaking, just logically, Wanyu should go to the backyard next, and Kant followed Lin Ruhai to the inner study, and then the two sides chatted separately until lunch. Yes, or you can go to rest for a while, and then return to the palace within noon.

However, the Lin family didn't have a backyard, and Lin Ruhai had always played two roles, being both a father and a mother and raising the child.Moreover, the Lin family has no backyard, and there is no concubine in the main house, so this kind of situation is rare.

Or some people would invite the aunt of the previous generation of the Lin family or the natal mother or sister-in-law of the wife of the main house to fill in the number, but when it comes to Lin Ruhai, he is the only one, and no one can understand the pain of the five generations.

As for Jia Min's natal family, Wanyu even pretended to be sick and didn't go to the last New Year's call, let alone invite people to her own territory.

In this way, the Lin family was not close to the Jia family, and Kant made a secret in his heart.Thinking about it, it should be, the Jia family... Actually, they are a little confused about the situation, and now the building is about to collapse, so no one can get too close.

"Lin Ping, you take the prince to the inner study first, and I'll be there later." After Lin Ruhai ordered his son, he said to his daughter: "Daiyu go back first, your sister will be here in a while."

Lin Ruhai is planning to be a mother first and chat with the girl.

Lin Ping pouted a little, looked at Lin Ruhai, as if saying: Father will replace me earlier, then smiled a little too hard, and said: "My lord, please."

What can Lin Ping and Kant talk about?The two met once when they were hired, and they were not familiar with each other at all.In other words, Lin Ping's [-]th year and Kant's [-]th year also have no common topics.

All the way to the study in silence, when the servant girl brought tea, Lin Ping looked at the snacks on the table and suddenly said: "My sister likes steamed shortbread cheese, the kind that requires a lot of sugar and cream, nothing else is added. "

Kant nodded, hummed, and his mood suddenly jumped up several steps.Wanyu didn't pretend at all in front of him, she asked for a bowl of goat's milk with a lot of sugar on it the next day, and she was very satisfied and a little embarrassed when she finished and asked, "Do you want some?"

The smile on Kant's face suddenly became sincere, the family is doing well, and he and Wanyu must be doing well in the future.Although there is an old saying that the best relationship between husband and wife is to respect each other as guests, but Kant always felt that if both of them respected each other as guests, why bother to get married?But he didn't tell anyone about this idea, but it just came to mind again today in the study of Lin's family.

Lin Ping looked at his brother-in-law and prince who seemed to be distracted. He didn't know what to think of, and the smile on his face...was a little subtle, so Lin Ping silently swallowed the sentence "Don't let my sister suffer wronged".Well, in fact, he didn't think about how to express this meaning tactfully, and it would definitely be embarrassing for the prince to say it so bluntly.But looking at the person opposite, he can lose his mind while talking, and his sister must not be able to bear the grievance.

In the small study of the Lin family, the father and daughter were sitting opposite each other. Although Lin Ruhai had ordered Dr. Zhang to be sent away, it was unavoidable that he was affected. The first thing he said was: "The emperor didn't treat you well, did he?"

Wanyu raised her eyebrows, and asked in a strange way, "What does father mean?"

Lin Ruhai coughed, and originally wanted to interrupt, but he still said, "Earlier, he also showed some intention of begging you to marry, and even hinted..." Xu Yizheng's position... Lin Ruhai was stunned suddenly, the emperor's words were extremely cryptic , all are metaphors, but it’s not that I can’t understand. I didn’t think much about it at the time, but now I’m suspicious of the emperor, and I feel that these words are all inside and out: If you agree, I’ll turn around and say this solved.

Lin Ruhai shook his head, and said: "After all, you still live in the palace, so you should be more careful. The prince will live in the palace for at least three years, and you should also pay attention to avoiding people."

Wanyu nodded in agreement, and comforted her: "Father, don't think too much. When someone's girl gets married, several people come to ask questions. It's not that much. Besides, there is also the Empress Dowager and the Empress Dowager in the palace. .”

"You have your own ideas, so I won't say more. I originally thought that you would marry the prince. If the first emperor was still alive, there would be a fight. But now that the new emperor has succeeded, the two of you should avoid the edge. Don't be too conspicuous in the palace, you can talk about it when you leave the palace." Lin Ruhai confessed again.

"Father, don't worry, I heard from the Empress Dowager that she would move us to Nansan." Wanyu said: "In the palace, the Empress Dowager doesn't care about things and is weak. The Empress Dowager is in charge. She is here, and my daughter can't suffer."

Lin Ruhai nodded, and sighed: "The empress dowager has not been easy all these years, and she has to come out to take care of things at this age. Sigh, it's good for you to move to the third South Institute." Similarly, Qiandongwu is located on the north side of the Twelve Palaces of the Inner Court, and shares a wall with the Inner Court, so it is the Inner Palace.Nansan is located on the east side of Baohe Hall, and in front of it is Wenhua Hall, which is a place for holding sutra banquets, which is considered to be the outer court.

Wanyu nodded, "It will be easier to see my father then."

Lin Ruhai's mind suddenly flashed, and he caught Wanyu's words before, and asked nonchalantly, "Where's the Queen Mother? Is she sick? Are you not helping the Empress Dowager?"

"Yeah, I didn't see her when I went out this morning. I went to kowtow on the day we got married. She was so thin that she was out of shape. I didn't expect that she and the late emperor..." The relationship is so good.

Lin Ruhai's heart was shocked. She really didn't have such a good relationship with the late emperor. When the late emperor was still there, he said a lot, not to mention it was boring to watch, but it has reached the point where they met three times and quarreled once.

After talking to Wanyu again, Lin Ruhai said: "I should go to see the prince, and seeing him today is honest, you two have a good time."

Wanyu has heard these words no less than ten times since she got married, but the sincerity of what her father said was very pleasant to her ears, "Don't worry, father, I naturally know how to live a good life."

Lin Ruhai came out of the small study room and walked on the way to the inner study room. Thinking about it, he felt uncomfortable, so he hurriedly called Lin Kai over, and said in a low voice, "I asked you to send that old man away last night. Where did you send him? Go quietly. Take a look, find someone to bring back when no one is there. Just remember to avoid people!"

Lin Kaidao: "Master, don't worry, after all these years of errands, have I ever made a mistake?"

Lin Ruhai nodded, and said again: "Go out after changing your clothes, the food delivery service will come later, you go with them!"

Although Lin Kai didn't know what was going on here, but Lin Ruhai was so cautious, he said it again seriously, "Master, don't worry, I will definitely not miss the mark."

Seeing Lin Kai turn around and leave, Lin Ruhai felt relieved and went to the inner study.