The Concubine of the Lin Family in the Red Chamber

"Fengju, how is brother today?" Daiyu fell seriously ill after Lin Ruhai passed away, so she followed her brother on the boat to the capital just in time.Not long after boarding the ship, Lin Jue, who had been supporting and arranging all the affairs, also fell ill.

Lin Jue was always in good health, but suddenly fell ill, it was really a sudden illness, which scared Daiyu and the servants of Lin's family enough.Fortunately, Master Luo followed them on the boat because he was worried about their brothers and sisters, otherwise he didn't know what to do.

"Back to the eldest girl, the uncle is much better today. He drank a bowl of porridge in the morning and ate a few slices of sweet and sour white lotus root. Now he drank the medicine and took a rest."

Daiyu lifted the curtain and took a look, seeing that Lin Jue's face was no longer as pale as before, she felt relieved.Instruct Feng Ju to say: "The further you go to the north, the colder it gets. You watch the sky these few days, and light the silver charcoal at night, so as not to freeze my brother."

"It was prepared early in the morning," Feng Ju said with a smile. "The uncle said before boarding the boat. I am afraid that the eldest girl will be cold, so I need to prepare more good carbon. The slaves have already been handed over to Mother Fang. If there is not enough , the girl will inform the servant, and the servant will send it to you."

Daiyu's eyes were slightly red, at that time her father was newly mourned, the house was in a hurry, and her elder brother was busy going in and out, unexpectedly thinking about her.

Feng Ju was taken aback, "What's wrong with the girl? It's all the fault of the servant girl. She wanted to comfort the girl, but she didn't want to make the girl cry."

Daiyu laughed and said, "What's wrong with you? If you don't tell me that I don't know how hard my brother has worked so hard, it's fine if Daiyu can't help her brother. Now I have to take care of my brother all the time. I feel really guilty."

"Girl, please don't say that. If the uncle hears it, you may be very sad. You are the younger sister of the uncle, and it is not right for the uncle to take care of you. If you don't want the uncle to take care of you, the uncle will be sad."

"Feng Ju is right. If my younger sister is being polite to me, she will be out of touch." Lin Jue woke up at some point, opened the curtain, leaned on the bed and looked at Daiyu with a smile.

Feng Ju hurried over to hang up the curtain, and put on Lin Jue's coat.

Daiyu said with a smile on her cheeks, "I woke up my brother."

"It's okay, Yuan couldn't sleep anymore, just so you came and talked with me."

Daiyu agreed with a smile.

Fengju led Daiyu out of the room, and only after Lin Jue was fully dressed did she invite Daiyu to sit in the room again.

Lin Jue handed the plate on the table to Daiyu, "Taste this dessert, Feng Ju made it with her own hands, and see if it suits your taste."

Daiyu picked up a piece of dim sum with one hand, held the handkerchief to her lips with the other hand, and began to eat small mouthfuls. When she finished eating, Fang nodded and praised: "Fengju is indeed the most proud person around my brother. The cooking skills are so good."

Lin Jue nodded and smiled, "I'm sick, and I want her to come back to take care of me again. Can my sister take care of everything?"

"Nurse Fang is here. What's more, I learned to take care of things at home before, and now there are fewer things. It's not inconvenient."

"Looking at my sister's recovery, I didn't go to see my sister after my illness. Is my sister still in good health?"

"Don't worry, brother, everything is fine here." Daiyu pursed her lips and looked at Lin Jue with a smile, and said angrily, "Before, my brother said that I had grown up, but now he treats me like a child again."

Lin Jue smiled and said, "That's right, it eats like a kitten, isn't it a child!"

Daiyu became shy at Lin Jue's words, and glared at her brother with half anger, which made Lin Jue laugh even more.

After the brothers and sisters chatted and laughed for a while, Lin Juefang asked, "Our boat has been sailing for more than a month. We didn't go ashore for supplies because we were in a hurry. There aren't many fruits and vegetables on board, right?"

"I was just going to tell my brother that when I was a child in the south, I didn't dare to bring more because of the hot weather. At this time, the reserves on the ship were indeed running out. There are still two and a half days before the next port. I want to let Lin Fu go ashore to buy some. What do you think brother?"

"My sister made a good arrangement. Since that's the case, why don't you go ashore with me for a walk."

"I... I'm afraid I'm not in compliance with the rules?" Daiyu really wanted to go, she kept swaying on the boat like this, making her dizzy, thinking that it would be good to just step on the ground and walk around.

"It's okay, I'll make arrangements."

Daiyu pursed her lips into a smile, and didn't say much, just nodded slightly.

Lin Jue said earnestly: "Yu'er, remember, although I let you learn the rules, it is not to restrain you. This is the way this world is, people always like to use women as abuses. As a woman, you have to be stronger than a man. Be bound by this world. If you have the slightest irregularity, there will be a large number of so-called moralists to discredit you, trample you, and attack you to humiliate those who care about you.

Rules are dead, but people are alive. Only rules have always been used by people, but no one has been controlled by rules in turn.I let you learn the rules so that you understand it and know how to use it to protect yourself, and even fight back against other people's bad intentions.Yu'er, if one day you are bullied and I'm not by your side, even if it's against the rules, I want you to spit back immediately, and you can't let anyone bully you.

You are the daughter of my Lin family, even if my father is gone, you are still the eldest daughter of my Lin family, my younger sister who is connected by Lin Jue's blood, and the only relative.Although I only have the status of Juren now, I'm afraid it's not very useful in the capital, but, as the eldest girl of my Lin family, no one can bully you, do you understand? "

"Brother..." Daiyu choked with sobs, no one would say such words to herself again, such crude truth, only the closest person would tell herself, the closest relative, her brother.

"Silly girl!" Lin Jue stretched out his hand and rubbed Daiyu's head, and his hair, which was originally in good shape, was immediately messed up by him.

The emotion in Daiyu's heart was immediately destroyed by Lin Jue, she slapped Lin Jue's hand away in shame and embarrassment, and said angrily, "Brother..."

Lin Jue laughed out loud.

Daiyu rubbed her handkerchief and looked at Lin Jue in embarrassment.Lin Jue had laughed enough, and it was not good to let her sister go out in this state, so she called Fengju to fetch Daiyu's makeup box to recomb her hair.

After Daiyu went back, she listened to Lin Jue's words to Mother Fang, and Mother Fang smiled and said, "Although what the old man said is superficial, it is so reasonable."

Daiyu said: "I have some ideas, I don't know if it's right, I also ask my mother to help me go into details."

Nanny Fang nodded with a smile, "It's okay, girl."

"I have been going to my ancestral home in the capital since I was six years old. My grandmother is the most disciplined. When my sisters and I accompany her to eat, the second aunt and the second sister-in-law Lian will wait on the sidelines. When we run out, They can go back to their small courtyard for dinner. Grandmother is very well-mannered, but she is extremely kind to the servants in the family. The eldest girls in her house are still more respectable than the girls in the family.

I didn't think so at first, but now that I think about it, servants must abide by the rules of servants, but shouldn't the master also obey the rules of the master? The second aunt and the second sister-in-law are both masters, and they still have to behave like this What is the use of servants for what people have to do? "

Daiyu thought about it for a long time before she said this, and she continued without waiting for Nanny Fang's answer: "Then there is the power of the housekeeper. The power was gradually handed over to me, and Fengju was asked to come and help me. The family has a small population and there is no mistress, so it’s okay to leave it to me. It’s just that the grandmother’s housekeeper was supposed to be the housekeeper of the grandparent’s house, and it should be handed over to Mrs. Daughter-in-law, even though the eldest wife is the stepmother, the power of housekeeping should not pass over her eldest daughter-in-law and directly hand it over to the second wife.

Moreover, the eldest uncle was the one who formally inherited the title of Rongguo Mansion, but now he lives in a corner.It would be filial to say that the main house was lived in by the grandmother, but now that it is lived in by the second uncle, it doesn't look like it. "

Those who had heard about it, they were silent for a while and then said: "It's about the girl's ancestral home, I shouldn't have said too much as a servant, but the girl mentioned it, so I should also explain the girl's doubts."

Daiyu smiled and said, "I believe in Mammy."

Mother Fang smiled and said to Daiyu: "Needless to say more about the duty of a servant, the girl already knows that the girl will be the head of the house in the future, and whether the servant behaves properly depends on how the mistress "stands up" This rule. The master's rule that the girl said is actually the principle of how the master 'establishes' the rules.

As the girl said about the Jia family, the old lady Jia is a merciful person, needless to say, but the old lady is old, and it is inevitable to favor the younger son, which is nothing in ordinary families. It's enough to pay attention to yourself, but in this Hou's mansion, doing so is too slap in the face.

The title is bestowed by the royal family. The old matriarch does not pay attention to the elder who inherited the title and allows the second master to steal into the main house. Not to mention the estrangement between the brothers, it will be more likely to displease the royal family.Furthermore, the grand lord's legitimate son actually married the second wife's niece, and he also took care of the house with the second wife. In the future, this must be a public case.

Besides, what the girl mentioned about asking the daughter-in-law to serve her at meals is just a small way for some people to control the daughter-in-law, it is really not clever.If the girl gets married in the future, if the mother-in-law uses such means to manipulate you, you don't have to worry about it. The means of such a mother-in-law are really limited.A girl only needs to find her weakness, and if she wants to get it back, it can't be easier.As the girl said, there are a lot of servants, but you still need your daughter-in-law to serve you, and why do you want servants?

With all due respect, although Jia's mansion is the home of the girl's maternal grandfather, the girl really doesn't need to be too close to other people except for being filial to her grandmother. "Fang Nanny came out of the palace, so she can see the problem right to the point.

Daiyu sighed when she heard the words, "I think so too. When I was in Jia's house, only my grandmother loved me the most among the elders. It's just that there are a few sisters, and we play very well. They never treat me badly. I'm like a sister."

"The relationship between sisters is not a big deal. In the future, these girls will marry each other. It is inconvenient for men to come forward in many things, and you have to contact each other. It's just that although girls and sisters can't maintain their own identities, they can't let people I got you right. Now you can only see a few people. In the future, the uncle will become a Jinshi and become an official. I am afraid that there will be many ladies and noble ladies who will invite you to a banquet. The girl's celestial appearance will inevitably be so petty If you take the opportunity to take advantage of the girl, the girl must know what to do."

Daiyu thought about it carefully, then nodded and said, "What Mammy said is absolutely true."

"Girl, don't be offended."

"I told Mammy because I trusted her. If Daiyu did something wrong, please tell Mammy directly. Although Daiyu is dull, she is not so uneducated."

Mother Fang smiled and said, "I've never seen such a smart and intelligent person like the girl."

Lin Jue specially hired a sedan chair to take Daiyu around the city, and bought a lot of local snacks and folk playthings. On a whim, Daiyu went to a nearby temple to burn incense and pray with Lin Jue. Brother and sister Both are happy.

After the ship was replenished, it continued to set off, and after more than half a month, it finally arrived in the capital.