The Concubine of the Lin Family in the Red Chamber

Later, the guests in the front yard left one after another, and Lin Jue sent everyone off gracefully, fully interpreting the image of a humble and courteous master.

These people came today, and they recognized him as the successor of the Lin family, and Lin Ruhai's connections were being held in his hands bit by bit.

The Jia family was the first to come, but the late to say goodbye.The main reason is that Jia Amnesty, the patriarch of the Jia family, did not mention leaving, and it was not good for the others to take the initiative to say goodbye.

Compared with Jia Amnesty who came here purely to befriend Lin Jue, Jia Zheng's thoughts were much more complicated.In the past, he admired Lin Jue the most, and he often used Lin Jue as an example to educate Baoyu.It's a pity that Baoyu didn't know how to teach, and he hung out in the inner curtain all day long, and went to the Keqiu Wei. He used silver to donate the fame of a scholar to Baoyu, and let him have a try with the end.In the end, even Jia Lan, who was younger than him, was selected, and Baoyu, who was said to be "great fortune", was not on the list, which was really disappointing.

Now that Lin Jue, a "child from someone else's family", has won the Jinshi examination in one fell swoop, and was even hand-picked as a Tanhua, this makes Jia Zheng envious, and at the same time, he can't help but feel deeply jealous of Lin Ruhai who has already been buried.Look at others, not to mention that I am a Tanhua, and I am also a Tanhua after giving birth to a son.

Poor Huan'er, she was about to take the exam, but she was exhausted from reading, and when she recovered from her illness, the exam was delayed.Otherwise, with Huan'er's hard work, it would be good to not ask him to get a Jieyuan, even to hang on to it.Let's not talk about Chunwei first, it is the good fortune of Jia's family to make a juren.

Now among the children, only Lan'er looks good.Jia Zheng sighed in his heart, but it's a pity that Lan'er's hard work is hard work, but she lacks a bit of spirituality. It's not yet known how Chun Wei will be in three years' time.

When Jia's family left, it was past the end of the day, Lin Jue was okay, but Li Yibai was a little unhappy.None of this big family has discernment, what time is it, do you still want to rely on dinner before leaving?

Lin Jue patted the back of Li Yibai's hand quietly, signaling him to stay calm and continue chatting with Jia She.Fortunately, Jia She is not really confused, on the contrary, he is a very scheming person, he deliberately stayed for a long time in order to get close to Prince Yonghe, now seeing Li Yibai's face is not right, Jia She immediately followed suit Goodbye.

Seeing him winking, Li Yibai nodded in satisfaction, at least he gave Jia Amnesty some face when Jia's family left.

When the letter was received in the inner courtyard, Mother Jia smiled lovingly, patted Daiyu's hand, and said, "Since your third sister left the door, my heart has always been empty. Now that you have become a filial piety, you have nothing to do in your free time." If you go to live with me for a few days, how much work do I have left, it’s just that every day is getting less and less.”

Daiyu said angrily: "Look at what the old lady said, the old lady must live a long life, so I don't dare to say such things again."

Jia's mother said: "I know you are filial. If you have nothing to do in the past few days, you will go to the mansion. Your eldest sister has also settled down with someone else, and she will go out in July. You are little sisters, go and talk to her more. "

Mother Jia asked Daiyu twice to stay there for a while, but Daiyu couldn't pretend to be stupid anymore, so she agreed.She looked at Yingchun, who was blushing with embarrassment, in surprise, "This is really a happy event, but when did it happen, my eldest sister didn't tell me anything."

As soon as these coquettish and angry words were uttered, Yingchun became more and more embarrassed.Tanchun is already a married woman, and she also made fun of Daiyu's words, which made Yingchun even more ashamed.When the female family members of the Jia family got into the sedan chair, Yingchun's face was still rosy.

Tanchun walked at the end, took Daiyu's hand, and said in a low voice: "In the past, I looked up to my sister to save me. I don't want to thank you for your kindness. In the future, if my sister can be of use to my sister, just ask."

Daiyu said: "Sister, what did you say? It made my sister confused."

After all, this matter involves the affairs of Xue's house, Daiyu is a girl who has not left the cabinet, so it is really difficult to say more.Knowing that she didn't want to mention it, Tanchun just smiled and passed it.She remembered the favor of left and right, and even if Daiyu didn't need her to repay it, she would find a chance to repay the favor.

Daiyu went straight to the second gate, watched Jia's family members get into the carriage, and then turned back to the inner courtyard.

Mother Fang said: "Miss Xue is really crazy, but I don't know what she is relying on. Listening to what Grandma Xue said, she actually lived in the Grand View Garden where Concubine Yuan visited her family with Miss Jia. This Jia Jiabao The second master also lives there, after all, he is old, and his cousins ​​still live together, so I don't know how to avoid suspicion, it's not good after all."

Daiyu also had this in mind, but habitually took Jia Mu out first, "The old lady has long ignored the matter, and this matter must be the second wife's intention."

Nanny Fang was just reminding Daiyu, she didn't answer the words, she smiled and talked about other things.

Li Yibai stayed overnight, but Daiyu didn't see her brother.Daiyu didn't find it strange, she knew that the Prince of Yonghe was on good terms with her elder brother, after all, the Lin family had no foundation, and with such a prince behind him to help her, her elder brother's journey in the court would be smoother.

Daiyu is not a boudoir girl who doesn't understand anything, she has her own wisdom, and as her horizons broaden, she also understands some things in the court to some extent.

After staying for more than a month, the Lin family began to work hard to rebuild the garden, and arranged all the affairs properly. Dai Yufang went to Jia's house to live for a while.

When Jiamu saw Daiyu coming, she was overjoyed, and Daiyu knew what she wanted to say, "The garden was going to be repaired at home, and it was inconvenient for the craftsmen to come in and out, so I thought about coming to the old lady to bother me for a few minutes." Day, so I can talk with my sisters together."

Jia Mu laughed and said, "What's the matter? I've been living here. My old lady is happier." Then she asked Lin Jue, "You have to go to the palace every day. How can you rest well if your house is in a mess? Our family is not an outsider, so I asked him to come with me, and I will take care of it together, which is also cheap."

Daiyu said with a smile: "So I said the same thing, my brother also wanted to come, but the king of Yonghe County has always been close to my brother. I heard that I insisted that my brother go to him and go to the palace together every day. It's also cheap. My brother couldn't refuse, so he had to go, and asked me to apologize to the old lady."

Jia's mother had already heard Jia She came back and learned the words, how Lin Jue was favored by the county prince, and how she made friends with the No. [-] scholar in the same list, she praised her a lot, and she has no dissatisfaction in her heart.Although he didn't like Lin Jue's status as a concubine at first, and felt that Lin Jue was not close to his Jia family, looking at it now, this child has a pure heart.When Daiyu was well, she was willing to point Jia Lan and promote Jia Lian, but after all, she was separated from Baoyu, and she didn't mention Baoyu.With a secret sigh in my heart, I secretly scolded Mrs. Wang for being a troublemaker.

"Since it's the prince's invitation, we can't refuse it, but it's just disturbing him." He ordered Yuanyang to open the box, took a table gift, and sent it to the county prince's mansion, "It's not easy for you children to show up. , it seems to be out of touch with the lord, and I might offend the lord. I am an old woman, and my status is not low. Let me show their affection, and not make us rude. It is cheap for both sides .”

Daiyu hastily declined and said: "How can we let the old lady spend money? The mansion is preparing a gift, but I don't know what name to send it to. I am distressed. Since the old lady mentioned it, I borrowed it unceremoniously." The name of the old lady. It’s just that the old lady must not take out her own body, so how can I have the face to live here.”

There are several grandchildren of Jia's mother who were concubines, and Daiyu was the only granddaughter. She was willing to spend money on Daiyu, but it was for Lin Jue's gift. good.Jia Mu then did not shirk, so she agreed.

The table gift was originally prepared by Daiyu when she heard that Lin Jue was going to live in the county prince's mansion, but Lin Jue didn't allow it to be delivered. In the name of Jia's mother, he was sent to the county palace.

Daiyu is so sensible, and Mother Jia loves her more and more.He laughed and said: "The former Xiande concubine visited relatives and praised our garden very much. She also said that it was a waste to only visit this time. I asked you sisters to move in. I looked at a place called '□□ Pavilion' 'That's right, it's close to my place, so I left it for you. Later, you go with your sisters to have a look, see what's wrong, what's missing, and ask someone to come over and tell me .”

Daiyu laughed and said, "I don't live here often, so it's a waste to just give me a yard."

Jia's mother laughed and said, "Our daughters all grew up in gold and jade, but it's just a yard, so it's wasted."

Daiyu said coquettishly: "This was an excuse. I was thinking of living with the old lady again. It can be seen that the old lady dislikes me and wants me to live elsewhere. I don't agree."

Jia Mu smiled and pointed to Daiyu and Mrs. Xing, Mrs. Wang, and said, "Look at this sharp-mouthed appearance. I gave her the yard, but I asked her to pick out my faults."

Daiyu also laughed and said, "I know that the old lady loves me and won't really annoy me. That's why I dare to do that."

Jia's mother laughed loudly, "You know it's really a 'get cheap and sell well'."

Everyone also echoed and laughed.

Because of this episode, in the end Daiyu did not live in the first house.However, the □□ Pavilion was specially reserved by Jia Mu for Daiyu. Even if others wanted to, they would not dare to move in, so they still reserved it for Daiyu, as a place to play during the day, or a place to take a nap at noon, and stay in the evening I still have to stay at Jiamu's side.

Daiyu slipped another 500 taels of silver bills to Jiamu in private, and said, "I know the old lady doesn't need this, but I'm staying here for a longer time, so I don't want to eat and drink for nothing."

Mother Jia didn't want it, and said angrily: "My direct grandson lives here, who would dare to talk about it?"

Daiyu comforted me with a smile, "I know that the old lady loves me, so don't I feel sorry for the old lady. So that the old lady can know," Daiyu lowered her voice, "This is the money I earned from my own rouge shop. My wife is not short of these few dollars, but this is what I want as a granddaughter, don't be too little for an old lady."

Mother Jia heard the meaning, but she didn't care to get angry, and hurriedly lowered her voice: "Is this your private property?"

"It's okay. My brother gave me this shop. He said that I am growing up, and the manager should not be limited to one place, so he gave me a shop to practice. He said it was leased out or I started my own business. It's all good, if I make a profit, I will count it as mine, if I lose it, it will be counted in the public account. I don't know how to do business, so my brother gave me a few old shopkeepers who have been in charge for many years. They are usually in charge of me. I just took a look, looked at the account, and I didn’t think I’d made some money. Although it’s not much, I earned it by myself, so I wanted to show filial piety to the old lady.”

Mother Jia was surprised and delighted when she heard the words, so she didn't shirk it. She just said, "It's not easy for you to earn some money. I'll keep the filial piety this time. You don't have to give it to me in the future. You can keep it for yourself. You will come out in the future." Once you get out of the gate, life will be easier if you have money in your hand.”

Daiyu nodded slightly.Now she is no longer the person who blushes when she hears that she is getting married. She is mainly used to being teased by her brother. Except for the slight blush on her face when she thinks of someone, she is already able to deal with the others generously.