[Red Mansion] Adopted daughter and child

The news of Rongguo Mansion spread to Jinling one after another, which really made people see a lot of jokes.However, Lin Ruhai was a senior official, and Jia Min was at home all day, so he didn't hear much gossip from outside.

But even at home, when Jia Min mentioned this matter, he was angry and laughed at the same time.

But how should I put it, the Rongguo Mansion did not hesitate to lower the standard to marry Mrs. Xing. The idea is that her family background is not old enough to be liked by Jia She when she enters the door; Madam Xing is willing to marry into the Rongguo Mansion. , and the wealth of Rongguo Mansion.

The goals of both parties have been met, so the good and bad brought about by each will naturally be accepted.

With such an experience in Rongguo Mansion, all they can say is "it's time".

Since Daiyu was carried to the main room, Jia Min's mental state has improved a lot, not to mention the same as normal people, but not much worse.

But some time ago, the cloud of "morning sickness" made Jia Min suffer enough, and she inevitably had some psychological shadows, so even if life is better now, Jia Min dare not relax at all.

Like the news from the Rongguo Mansion in the capital city, she only thinks about it for a day and a half at most, and she won't think about it after she sleeps, and is worried that thinking too much will affect her mood.

Since Jia Min didn't want to listen more, the people below naturally wouldn't mention it.

So within two days after the news came out, it disappeared in the Lin family, and no one mentioned it again.Not only did the news of the Rongguo Mansion slowly disappear from the Lin family, but even the news of the four major families in Jinling and the Zhen family, the people below would try their best not to spread it to Jia Min's ears.

If the people below don't mention it, it will be difficult for the people above to know about it.

Lin Liu was an exception, because Ji Song started running outside again——

Ever since he found out that Gui Ling also knew Ji Song's identity, Ji Song had no scruples, and every day he raised the banner of Gui Ling asking him to go out to buy things, and disappeared early in the morning, and he didn't see her until evening Come back from the outside.

Although the reason why Ji Song went out was to find a way to get in touch with Ping Nanbo's confidants, but there were inevitably a few times when he couldn't sit still and wanted to let the wind go outside.

Ji Song didn't know what to think, as long as he wanted to relax, he liked to go to places like teahouses and restaurants.

News circulated in these places, so he naturally heard a lot of gossip.

Lin Liu was worried at first that he would be seen as a man disguised as a woman, and also worried that Ji Song would feel uncomfortable in front of strangers wearing women's clothes.

however……

He may have been wearing women's clothes for too long, and he has calmed down about it. He doesn't think there is anything wrong with wearing women's clothes, but instead swaggers into crowded places.

As for being discovered, it is even more impossible.

After Ji Song stayed in the Lin family for so long, only Gui Ling, who has a golden finger with a flash memory, discovered his identity. Others still thought he was Chun Xiao's "girl".

Ji Song felt relieved.

Lin Liu was speechless, and could only say that Ji Song was born too exquisitely, and he was a boy who was indistinguishable between male and female. After wearing women's clothing, he didn't think about it specially, so naturally no one would think that he was a man disguised as a woman.

After walking a lot outside, Ji Song inevitably heard some news that had nothing to do with the Lin family.

"I heard people say in the teahouse just now that the Bowling Marquis from the Shi family is gone." Ji Song told Lin Liu the news as an anecdote, "This Bowling Marquis has no son, when the news of his death came back to the capital, Mrs. Bowlinghou passed out on the spot, and then found out that she was pregnant. Now it depends on whether the child is a boy or a girl. If it is a boy, he may inherit the title of Bowlinghou, but if it is a girl... ..."

"The Marquis Bowling has two brothers, and the emperor may pass the title to the second brother."

Lin Liu suddenly realized that the historian also had an accident in this year.

The eldest son of the historian had an accident, leaving only one posthumous son, Shi Xiangyun; because he was a girl, he could not inherit the title, so the title was passed on to the second eldest, Shi Nai. A noble family with two lords.

However, judging from Shi Xiangyun's dictation and his life from childhood to adulthood, the two masters of the Shi family should be smart people.

The Rongguo Mansion has been in decline, and it still pays attention to ostentation, and it is gradually unable to make ends meet, even to the point where Wang Xifeng is required to subsidize it with her own dowry; the historians are so frugal, and although their living standards have dropped too much compared to before, as long as nothing happens, It will last forever.

Although the matter of the historian had nothing to do with the Lin family, Jia Shi was born in a historian, and the historian became Jia Min's maternal ancestral home.

With the tripod bearer of the historian gone, the Lin family had to show something.

After Lin Ruhai learned the news, he didn't let anyone tell Jia Min. Instead, he took out a few good things from the warehouse and sent people directly to Beijing with the people from the Jinling Historian.

When the news came from the historian that Shi Nai had inherited the title, it was already more than two months later, and Jia Min's stomach had already bulged like a balloon.

Before the Lin family came to Jinling from the capital city, they never thought that Jia Min would conceive a child so soon, because they didn't take Wen Po with them on the way.Now that Jia Min is about to give birth, without a trustworthy stable wife, Lin Ruhai is really worried.

Jinling is prosperous, and there are quite a few famous Wenpos, but it's a pity that Lin Ruhai can't trust even one of them.

Just in case, he deliberately asked people to go back to Gusu, and asked the old man in the old house to find two trustworthy midwives in private.

It's just that everyone in Jinling's official circles also knew that Jia Min was pregnant, and after counting the days, they knew that Jia Min was about to give birth. If Lin Ruhai didn't make any sign of looking for Mrs. Wen at this time, I'm afraid it will make people suspicious.

So Lin Ruhai also made the appearance of asking people to look for Wen Po, but every time it was time to invite people into the house, there would always be accidents of one kind or another, and they were always unable to invite people into the house.

There were also many people who wanted to curry favor with Lin Ruhai and tried to introduce themselves to him as Wen Po, but Lin Ruhai tried to find a way to decline them one by one.

The rest of the Lin family didn't have any special feelings about this, because when Jia Min gave birth before, Lin Ruhai also strictly checked the candidates for Wenpo. It is the utmost care and prudence.

Ji Song felt a little strange: "It's just a stable woman, why is Uncle Lin so careful?"

It was as if someone was trying to harm the child.

Lin Liu was stunned for a moment, if Ji Song hadn't suggested it, she wouldn't have noticed that Lin Ruhai was indeed too cautious in finding Mrs. Wen.

She hadn't noticed such an obvious anomaly before.

But facing Ji Song, Lin Liu could only smile and didn't say much: "Who knows? Since my father did this, he naturally has his reasons. We children just need to watch obediently and don't make trouble for him." That's it."

After all, Lin Liu really didn't know the reason behind Lin Ruhai's actions.

Ji Song hesitated for a moment, then nodded, without further questioning.

It didn't take long for Gusu to find two suitable stable wives, both of whom were innocent, often walked in the countryside, and had nothing to do with wealthy families.

After Lin Ruhai brought him into the Lin family, he immediately let out his words, putting an end to the matter.

People in Jinling who have been paying attention to Mrs. Lin's pregnancy are bound to feel curious, but no matter how curious other people are about such a big matter, they can only choose to remain silent.

And just half a month after Lin Ruhai brought Wen Po to the Lin family, Jia Min suddenly felt a stomachache while eating at noon, and Lin Liu immediately sent her to the delivery room.

At the same time, he did not forget to send people to the Yamen to invite Lin Ruhai home.

As soon as he entered the delivery room, Jia Min couldn't restrain the pain of tearing his lower body and body, and his shrill screams almost spread throughout the Lin family.

Lin Liu's heart skipped a beat, always feeling flustered.

Just when she didn't know how to calm down her heartbeat, Xinghua suddenly found Lin Liu, and said that the second girl was sleeping soundly in the small bed, but she suddenly wailed and kept calling "Mom" and "Mother" Words like this really make people feel distressed and flustered.

Xinghua also had no choice but to come to Lin Liu and ask if she wanted to bring the second girl to the delivery room.

Lin Liu's heart stopped, and she suddenly figured out something: "You wash the second girl, change into new clothes, and then carry her directly to the mother's delivery room. Daiyu has always been very good, there must be a reason for her constant crying. It is said that children's eyes are different from other species, so Daiyu may have noticed something, so don't delay, bring him here as soon as possible."

Xinghua was startled when she heard this, and immediately turned around and ran towards the main courtyard.

In less than a stick of incense, Xinghua came to the delivery room with Daiyu in her arms, and before she could salute Lin Liu, she waved her hand: "I heard something wrong with my mother's cry, so I quickly carried Daiyu away delivery room."

Daiyu has been eating and living with Jia Min during this time, the relationship between mother and daughter is extraordinary, maybe Daiyu really noticed something.

Strange to say, after Xinghua carried Daiyu into the delivery room, Daiyu, who had been crying all the time, stopped crying immediately, and even Jia Min, who had been screaming in pain, gradually lost her voice.

At first, Lin Liu was worried that something happened to Jia Min, so she hurried to the door of the delivery room and asked, "Mother, are you okay?"

Jia Min's voice was a little weak, but she sounded sober: "I'm fine. But you, why did you carry Daiyu to the delivery room? This place is very dirty, and it will be bad if she gets sick. .”

Lin Liu didn't want to argue with Jia Min at this time: "Daiyu kept crying, and Xinghua and the others couldn't coax her. I thought she was worried about her mother, so I asked Xinghua to hug her. You see, she arrived in the delivery room. Didn’t you stop crying? Didn’t you feel pain anymore? This shows that my decision is correct, you, just listen to what Wen Po said, don’t open your mouth to speak, and gather your strength.”

When Jia Min heard this, she couldn't say what she wanted to let her carry Daiyu out of the delivery room.

Turning her head to look at Xinghua, who was standing beside her holding Daiyu, she happened to meet Daiyu's Wuliu eyes.

Jia Min couldn't hold back, and smiled at Daiyu.

Daiyu's eyes lit up with a swipe, and she kept waving her little arms with joy, Xinghua almost didn't hug her.

Fortunately, it was only for a short while, and Daiyu quickly calmed down again.

Looking at the interaction between mother and daughter, Wen Po was amazed in her heart: she had never seen a pregnant woman carry her daughter to the delivery room when she gave birth.The strangest thing is that this actually works.

Maybe this is the heart-to-heart connection between mother and child.

Wen Po smiled, didn't care too much, and continued to observe Mrs. Lin.

Then, Wenpo involuntarily opened her mouth wide——

Before, Mrs. Lin kept crying for pain, but there was no movement in the birth canal, as if all of Jia Min’s pain was fake, but it took only a long time for the second girl of the Lin family to come in, and Mrs. Lin’s birth canal opened to two and a half fingers, and she was about to die. Open to three fingers, ready to deliver the baby!

"Mrs. Lin, don't be distracted. The birth canal is about to open to the third finger. Get ready. I will tell you to exert force. You must exert force immediately!"

Jia Min immediately withdrew her gaze from Daiyu, closed her eyes and waited for Wen Po's order.

Seeing that her mother stopped looking at her, Daiyu clapped her hands unhappily, as if she wanted to attract Jia Min's attention.

It's just that Jia Min is really unhappy now, so he can only try his best to ignore Daiyu's commotion.

Daiyu was not reconciled, and kept looking at Jia Min: "Mother, look at Yu'er!"

Jia Min lost his power in an instant, and turned to look at his daughter dumbfounded: "Daiyu, be good, first wait for mother to give birth to a younger brother..." Brother.

Before the last word "disciple" came out, Jia Min suddenly felt a pain in his lower and lower body, as if something had flowed out.

She was startled, and immediately turned her head to look at Granny Wen: "Grandma Zhao, why do I feel like..."

Wen Po stretched out her hand in a daze, and held a baby in her arms: "Child, did you give birth?"

Is this too fast?

Everyone in the delivery room: "..."

Only Daiyu blinked and grinned at Jia Min: "Mother, brother!"

Jia Min: "...Yes, brother!"

After a while, Jia Min suddenly stood up and looked at Wen Po, with panic on his face: "Why isn't this child crying?"

Wen Po was stunned for a moment, hurriedly grabbed the baby's feet, and patted his buttocks upside down.

"Wow--"

Suddenly, the baby's loud cry resounded throughout the delivery room.

Jia Min lay back on the bed relaxedly: "This kid is too naughty, it's really a tosser!"

But this delivery was really the smoothest she had ever given birth.

Thanks Daiyu.

Thinking of this, Jia Min smiled and raised his hand to wave to Daiyu: "Do you want Yu'er to come to mother's place?"

Xinghua hesitated: "My wife has been in labor for a long time, she may be tired, why don't you take a rest?"

Jia Min took a look at her physical condition, smiled and shook her head: "This time the delivery went smoothly, I didn't use much force, let alone feel tired, I feel like I can hold Daiyu out of bed and walk a few times !"

"It can't be like this!" Xinghua was taken aback, and hurriedly sent Daiyu to Jia Min's bed, and put her next to her, "Although my wife doesn't feel tired, childbirth consumes the energy of the mother's body, you still just look at it like this The second girl is fine."

Jia Min lowered her head, just in time to meet Daiyu's cheerful smile, and couldn't help laughing: "Okay, I'll listen to you."

At this time, Mrs. Wen also carried the newborn baby after washing it, and wrapped the baby in swaddling clothes.

She carried the baby back to the delivery room, and seeing that Jia Min was in good spirits, she resolutely carried the baby to Jia Min's side: "Look, Mrs. Lin, this baby looks a lot like you."

Jia Min turned her head when she heard the words, and was about to reach out to pick up the child, when Wen Po put the baby next to Daiyu, "You just gave birth, it's better not to make a fuss, if you have anything to do, just tell the maid beside you to go Do it, it's good for your health."

Jia Min smiled and nodded, looking down at the two children, her mood calmed down.

Lin Liu stood guard outside the door, naturally he did not miss the child's cry.

only……

Lin Liu looked at the three younger brothers standing beside him in a daze, and then at Ji Song, with a complicated expression: "Since when is it so easy to have a baby?"

But that's not the point.

After Lin Liu asked this question, she immediately brought her younger brothers into the delivery room.

When they entered, Jia Min was looking at the two children with a smile on her face. When she heard footsteps, she looked up at the door. Seeing Lin Liu and the others, she immediately smiled and waved to them: "Are you here? Come and see you younger brother."

Guiling stopped in her tracks, with a dissatisfied expression on her face: "Why is he a younger brother again? I already have two younger brothers, but only one younger sister. Mom, can't you give me another younger sister? My younger brother is not cute at all."

As soon as he finished speaking, Jia Min's face darkened.

The two brothers He Nian and Lu Sui also turned their heads in unison, staring at Gui Ling.With a smile on his face, He Nian said, "Brother, do you want to tell younger brother why we offended you and made you so disgusted?"

"That's right, brother, I remember that the two of us have always followed your lead and never dared to offend you, big brother. Why do you repay your kindness and speak ill of us in front of your mother? How can we not be cute?"

As he said that, Lu Sui raised his chin with his hand and made a blooming pose, "How am I not cute?"

Guiling: "..."

Lin Liu burst out laughing seeing Guiling deflated.

Gui Ling immediately looked over sadly, but Lin Liu didn't intend to pay attention, but walked up to Jia Min first, and reached out to hug the newborn fourth brother.

Although the child had tormented Jia Min severely when he was in the womb, after he was born, he looked no different from other children except that he was a little thinner.

The child was sleeping soundly with eyes closed, Lin Liu hugged him for a while, and then put him back to Jia Min's side.

As soon as she put the person down, Daiyu who was lying next to her blinked her eyes, smiled and stretched out her hands to Lin Liu: "Sister, give me a hug~"

Lin Liu couldn't be happier, and quickly hugged him up: "Daiyu behaved really well today, my mother was able to give birth to the fourth brother without suffering any serious crimes this time, I'm afraid it's thanks to Daiyu, you are our family Great hero."

Daiyu didn't know what a great hero was, but she was smart, and she could hear her sister was praising her, so she laughed so hard that she couldn't see her teeth, she was so cute.

Lin Liu couldn't hold back, and lowered her head to kiss Daiyu's little cheek.

Daiyu immediately giggled happily.

Children's smiles are the most contagious. When Daiyu smiled, everyone else in the room also laughed.

At this moment, the door of the delivery room was suddenly pushed open.

Everyone turned around, only to find that it was Lin Ruhai who had been late to open the door.

At this time, Lin Ruhai was sweating profusely. He obviously ran all the way here after getting the news. He didn't know whether he was worried or wanted to witness the birth of this child with his own eyes.

but……

Lin Ruhai's eyes fell on Jia Min, and as expected, he saw a baby next to her.

Lin Ruhai: "...Am I late?"

He counted the time, "Isn't that right? I rushed back as soon as I got the news. The yamen is not far from our house. I walked for half an hour at most. I came back in a carriage and trotted all the way. The delay was only a quarter of an hour at most. ? The child was born?"

Lin Ruhai was in a daze, unable to believe this fact at all.

Jia Min held back her laughter and pretended to be angry: "Why, you are not happy that I gave birth to the child so soon?"

Lin Ruhai quickly denied: "No, I was just an accident!"

After a pause, he explained, "I didn't dare to delay at all when I heard the news this time, so I immediately asked someone to harness the carriage and drive back. I thought that no matter what, I would be able to catch up with the birth of the child and be the first to see the child. What about people..."

Who would have thought...

Lin Ruhai looked at the little red face in the swaddle with a complicated expression.

Jia Min burst out laughing: "You are only a little late, the baby was born not long ago. Don't stand here complaining about yourself, come and see the baby quickly. Just like the doctor said, it is a baby son."

Lin Ruhai separated the children and walked up to Jia Min to see the newborn son.

……

Because this child was very tossed when he was in Jia Min's stomach. Although he was not as weak as in the original book after birth, Jia Min's morning sickness in the early stage had a certain impact on this child. He didn't seem to have many brothers who were just born. Time to be healthy.

The Lin family attaches great importance to children, let alone a young son who looks a little weak at first glance, even healthy children such as Guiling, on the third day after birth, they do not have a feast like other children.

So when faced with other people's inquiries about whether the child was going to have three banquets, Lin Ruhai directly denied it.

Worried that others might misunderstand, he also explained the reason specially——

The baby didn't look very healthy after birth, and he was afraid to let him freeze for fear of getting sick.

The most important part of the three feasts is to put the child in a basin of cold water.

Lin Ruhai is not that stubborn, so naturally he doesn't want to let the newborn child suffer.

Others also knew that Mrs. Lin had suffered a lot in the early stages of pregnancy, so they roughly guessed the reason for the child's emaciation, but they didn't think too much about it.

But when the Lin family said that they didn't even plan to hold the child's full moon banquet, these people couldn't help muttering: "Master Lin, I'm afraid the people who dislike our Jinling are full of copper stink, so he is not as noble Bar?"

The rumors spread quickly, and it didn't take long for Jiangning Weaving to hear about it.

He had been in contact with Lin Ruhai before, knew that he was a real gentleman, worried that he didn't know about the rumors outside, so he came to the door and told Lin Ruhai about it.

Lin Ruhai didn't expect that his family would cause troubles if they didn't hold the three wash banquets and the full moon banquet for their children.

He smiled and said: "When the child is full moon, he is not in good health, so naturally he doesn't dare to mess around. But it's not that we didn't hold a full moon banquet for the child, but we didn't invite anyone, but our family sat together and ate It's just a table of wine."

Jiangning Weaving didn't mind this: "I think those people really want to celebrate your children. You can't give them a chance, right? I'll figure it out, and then there's only one hundred-day banquet left." It's time to catch the Zhou banquet, it's still early to catch the Zhou banquet, you can't even hold the hundred-day banquet, can you?"

That's true, those rumors about Lin Ruhai's innocence will probably spread more and more outrageous.

Lin Ruhai thought for a while, then nodded: "My youngest son is almost in good health. By the time of the hundredth day, he should be able to be raised like an ordinary child. Then he should send the first invitation to the family."

Jiangning Weaving waved his hand: "The first letter is unnecessary, but the second letter is fine."

Lin Ruhai froze for a moment, then nodded with a smile: "Okay, the first letter is for the Zhen family, and the second letter is for you."

Jiang Ning Weaving just laughed: "The Zhen family has an unusual status in Jinling, we are not from Jinling, so it is better to give the Zhen family face in doing things."

Lin Ruhai cupped his hands: "Don't worry, I understand."

That's how the matter was settled.

After Lin Ruhai went back, he told Jia Min about it.

Jia Min nodded after hearing this: "It's normal. The hundred-day full moon banquet held by the children before was extremely grand. Maoshou couldn't hold the full moon banquet because of his health. It’s not a big deal, when he grows up, I’m afraid he might be misunderstood.”

Because the child looked thinner and weaker than ordinary children when he was first born, Lin Ruhai thought about it, and directly gave him the nickname Maoshou——

Cats and butterflies, because they sound the same as old people, have the implication of centenarians, just like unicorns, ghosts, deer, cranes, stones and other things, they have always been symbols of longevity.

As for the big name, Lin Ruhai was a little troubled.

Because whether it is the pines and cypresses of the three sons, or the peaches of Daiyu, they all have the meaning of longevity.

But among the remaining trees, those with the meaning of longevity are gone.

In the end, Jia Min reminded: "The little unicorn's big name, Liu, is just full of vitality, and has no meaning of longevity? Since not all children's names have this meaning, you don't have to be too demanding. Marry a child with a little Qilin's name has a similar meaning, that's enough."

Lin Ruhai nodded, and finally decided on "Feng" for the child.

The [-]-day banquet had already been decided, and Jia Min was already confinement at that time, so she naturally decided to organize the banquet by herself.

Who would have thought that just two days before the Hundred Days Banquet, the Feng family, who had been quiet since she was pregnant, suddenly activated.

Feng's was not like Jia Min, Daiyu was there to escort her during the delivery, her child was just like other elderly mothers, the delivery was extremely difficult.

It would be fine if it was just difficult childbirth. After all, there is an imperial physician in the family. The old gentleman has also said before that Feng's pregnancy is very good and the fetal position is also correct. She can definitely give birth safely.

But what everyone didn't expect was that on the second day after Feng Shi entered the delivery room, a monk floated in from the door together. The first time he saw Yinglian, the scarlet monk burst into tears: "Benefactor, why are you holding this lifeless thing that affects your parents?"

Zhen Shiyin was already worried about his wife's childbirth, but now seeing that the monk cursed his daughter, he suddenly became angry, but because the other party was a monk, he didn't want to speak ill of each other, so he just hugged his daughter and turned his back, not wanting to be with him Say more.

Who would have thought that the scarlet-headed monk kept pestering him endlessly: "Give me up, give me up!"

Zhen Shiyin was about to be so angry with this scorpion monk that his forehead hurt, and he didn't care whether the other party was a monk or not, so he immediately yelled at him: "You monk is so unreasonable, my Zhen family finally got a daughter, and I treat her like a daughter. Zhenbao, you still want to take her off! My wife is still giving birth in the delivery room. If you know that my daughter will be taken away by you, and you will die, I will see if you, a monk, can get rid of the sins! "

As soon as this was said, the scorpion-headed monk stared wide-eyed: "Your wife gave birth in the delivery room?"