Rebirth of the Zhang family in the Red Chamber

Lin Yuan hurriedly went to Meizhuang. The flustered servants in the Zhuangzi found the backbone when they saw the master came, and soon got busy in an orderly manner.

The housekeeper and Lin Yuan went to Mei Zhuang together. Lin Yuan watched the housekeeper direct the servants to cleanse his father's face and put on his shroud.

Lin Yuan watched his father being slowly put into the coffin, feeling no sadness at all, only a touch of sadness.

After "Young Master" closed the coffin lid, the butler walked up to Lin Yuan respectfully, waiting for his orders.

"Prepare the carriage, and carefully transport the father's coffin back to the ancestral house." Lin Tai'an is his father no matter what, and he is the master of the Lin family. Relatives and friends must pay homage. It is impossible to mourn in such a village. Meeting the ancestral home.

"The servant understands." The butler obeyed and went down to prepare to go.

Grandfather was not clear about not letting him go back. This is not a problem in Lin Yuankai. Meizhuang is full of servants of the Lin family, especially the ones who serve by his father. The master left suddenly. If it is not for other people's reasons, It wasn't because of some external emergencies that the master went, then they would have to bear the charge of ineffective service and wait to be punished.

Faced with this situation, they will definitely try their best to push the charges out. Anything unusual or wrong recently will be drawn out bit by bit by them.

Lin Yuan sat down in the main hall, "Go and bring in the servants who take care of father."

Lin Xiang had already let people look at those slaves, and after listening to the young master's order to see those slaves, he went out, went to the wing room guarding the slaves, and said to the guarding servant, "Take these slaves to the main hall, the young master has ask questions"

There were four big servant girls and two long attendants who served Lin Taian personally. The first one who found out that the master had gone was the maid who went to wake up in the morning. They were frightened and stupid, and then they began to wonder if there was anything wrong in the past two days. What was wrong, several people exchanged information and found that if things were as they thought, then even if they were punished, their lives would be kept anyway, and they would not even be sold out.

Although they had confidence in their hearts, waiting for the trial was the most difficult thing. When the young master came, they began to look forward to it, hoping that the young master would send them for questioning as soon as possible.

Now the young master finally remembers to ask them for questioning. It is impossible not to be afraid, but more people are relieved, the trial will be earlier, and the heart will be grounded sooner.

"Slave (servant) greets the young master"

The six servants knelt on the ground. Lin Yuan put down the teacup in his hand, but did not cry out. He observed the faces of these servants. There were fear and anxiety, but also happiness and peace of mind, without fear or despair.

"Tell me, master, who first discovered it?"

The six servants looked at each other, and according to what they had discussed a long time ago, Chunzhu, the eldest maid, said, "Young master, there was nothing wrong with the master when he went to bed yesterday, but the servants went to wake the master up in the morning." At that time, after calling for a long time, the master did not respond, and the slaves lifted the curtain of the bed, and found that the master had been gone for a long time, and his body was already cold."

Chunzhu carefully glanced at the young master, and found that the young master's face was calm, without any change, and he didn't intend to interrupt his questioning, so he continued, "This servant is about to die of fright, so I called someone immediately, Moyan (Chang Then) arranged for someone to go to the ancestral house to pass the message"

After hearing this, Lin Yuan knew that his father should have passed away during the night. It must have happened yesterday, "Then what happened yesterday?"

"After noon yesterday, the master just woke up from his lunch break and was reading a book in the study. Master Yue and Mrs. Yue came to see the master. At that time, the master Yue said that their family was going to move to Yangzhou. This time, he came to say goodbye to the master."

Ever since the tea ceremony, Lin Yuan had never seen his father, nor had his father returned to his ancestral house, nor had he returned during the Chinese New Year. The family didn't even pay attention to it, and didn't expect the Yue family to move out, "Move away, that woman agrees to move away?"

After leaving Gusu and the backing of the Lin family, can she still dominate the Yue family?

All the servants of the Lin family know that the young master doesn't like Mrs. Yue's family. The master's cousin, Mrs. Yue's family, is always called that woman in the young master's mouth, "Mrs. Yue doesn't want to move away. Master Yue is here to say goodbye, but Mrs. Yue I hope the master can stop Master Yue from making a decision, the master has been persuading Master Yue for a long time, but Master Yue doesn't pay any attention to it at all, and has no intention of changing his mind at all."

Lin Yuan raised his eyebrows. Master Yue has endured it for so many years, and now he is so stubborn. He must have found a backer, otherwise he would never be so stubborn to move.

"No matter what the master said, Master Yue didn't change his mind, and Mrs. Yue started to make a fuss. Later, Master Yue said that if Mrs. Yue didn't want to go together, he would give her a divorce letter. After hearing this, Mrs. Yue burst into tears. make a fuss"

Lin Yuan thought that the backer Mr. Yue had found should be quite powerful, so he said the letter of divorce. It seems that his father's death should be inseparable from him.

"Master Yue said that he wanted to talk to the master about something and asked all the servants to go down. The servants went out of the study and stood guard outside the room. I don't know exactly what happened after that, but I also vaguely heard about human life, retribution, and salt merchants. besides……"

Speaking of this, Chunzhu seemed to have thought of something taboo, and hesitated a little, not knowing whether to continue, "Why don't you say it?"

Chunzhu squirmed his mouth, and then seemed to have made up his mind, "There is still the prince."

Lin Yuan was a bit surprised when he heard about the prince. He had thought that Mr. Yue's backer should be quite powerful, but he didn't expect him to have a relationship with the prince. When he thought about the salt merchant, he knew what was going on.

Although that woman dominated Master Yue in the Yue family, the business of the Yue family started to be taken care of by Master Yue after the old master Yue left. Originally, Master Yue was just a dude, and he never cared about business at all. If he didn't If he marries that woman, he may be a dude in his life.

It was because he married that woman. Ever since the family was controlled by that woman, Mr. Yue began to focus on business, and began to socialize frequently, thinking about when he would become powerful and control the Yue family by himself.

Lin Yuan also knows a little bit about this. After the initial stumbling, Mr. Yue really slowly learned about the business field. This time, it should be that he met a salt merchant from Yangzhou during the entertainment. The salt merchant should be the prince's disciple. Master Yue relied on the salt merchant to pick up the prince. The prince's influence in the south of the Yangtze River is basically concentrated in Yangzhou. After all, Yangzhou is home to the richest salt merchants in the world. worst of all.

Yangzhou is now mainly controlled by three major forces, one is of course the Holy One, and the other is the prince. The prince is the most beloved son of the Holy One. The prince was able to enter the Yangzhou circle of influence smoothly at the beginning, because the Holy One gave him some forces on his own initiative.As for the last force, it is the second prince. Behind the second prince is the Zhen family, and Yangzhou is the headquarters of the Zhen family.

If Master Yue's backer is the prince, then it makes perfect sense for him to move his family to Yangzhou.

"Mrs. Yue finally left with Mr. Yue. The slaves asked people to inquire. The Yue family had already packed up the gifts. After Mr. Yue and Mrs. Yue returned, they set off for Yangzhou."

"Is that all and nothing else?"

This time it was Mo Yan who replied, "Chun Zhu and the others went to send the Yue family couple away. When the slave entered the house, he saw the master was in a daze, and he was still talking over and over again. The slave heard it faintly, as if it was 'my My whole life is a joke, a joke, I lost my conscience for her, for betraying my family, in the end she also left me, and said she hated me' The servant heard this, the master didn't say anything after that, but his face was very bad, The slave wanted to ask the doctor not to let me go, and said that it would be good to lie down on the bed. When it was time for dinner, the slave saw that the master looked much better, and he had used up a lot of food, so he was relieved. I didn't expect the master to go at night. up"

After hearing this, Lin Yuan understood that Master Yue must have said something to his father sneeringly through those people in his family who died in vain. Father was wronged and had nothing to say. Daqi, his father didn't want to confront him, so the woman obediently followed him and left.That woman is the one who is ruthless, she is about to leave, and finally said ruthless words to her father. My father had already had a disturbed conscience and a depressed mind because of what Master Yue said. It's okay on the surface, but in the dead of night, it must have been a dead end again, and I didn't get over the hurdle in my heart, so I just went.

Lin Yuan didn't think about avenging his father or anything. The Yue family master should hate his father. Besides, his father did this for that woman. He didn't want to get karma for this matter.

Regarding the father's matter, I'd better go home and let the grandfather make up his mind, but from the point of view that the Lin family is the most important thing in the grandfather's heart, even if the grandfather feels uncomfortable and sad, he will not face the prince's people because of the father.

"Okay, I know what you said. Although the master's death was not caused by you, as a slave, I didn't know what happened until the master's body was cold. You are also responsible for slack. I call the shots and demote you to be rough." If you want to sweep away the servants, just stay in this village, and don't go back to the ancestral house to hinder the eyes of the old man."

When the six servants heard this, not only did they not lose their lives, but they also stayed in the mansion. They were not sold out, so what if they were reduced to coarse envoys? They bully them too much, they don't know the ancestral house, they also understand that this matter is tainted with the prince, the old man can't avenge the master, maybe he will take their anger out on them, they have to go back to the ancestral house, everyone is very grateful He kowtowed several times to Lin Yuan before he was taken down.

Lin Yuan had no use for anything other than breakfast. After a busy day, he finally returned to Gusu City before the city gate was closed, and hurried back to the mansion.

The old man was lying on the bed, recalling his son's childhood and growing up in his mind for a while, and wondering whether the Lin family really couldn't get rid of the shadow of extinction.

He kept thinking about these things in his mind, not to mention recovering from the rest, but his complexion became even worse.

After the initial blow, Mrs. Liu recovered after lying down for a while. Although she was sad, she didn't feel the pain of dying. The old lady and her have to change the decorations in the house, write funeral posters and send them to the people they have made friends with, and instruct the needleworkers to prepare filial piety clothes, and the kitchen has to pay attention to the filial piety meals...

The daughter-in-law is the master, but how busy she is, Mrs. Liu has no time to immerse herself in the pain of her husband's death. If the servants can't take care of the grandson, if something happens to the grandson, it will kill her. It's better for her to take over these things. It's good for the daughter-in-law to take good care of her grandson. If she has the energy to help with small things, it doesn't matter if she doesn't have the energy. Nothing is as important as her grandson.

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Thinking about it, Mrs. Liu put that heartache to the wind, and asked Qingzhi to go back to their yard to watch the little glutinous rice balls, and then she directed the servants of the mansion around.

When Lin Yuan returned to the mansion, the afterglow of the sun was almost gone, and the mansion was covered with white flags, full of solemnity, sadness and desolation.