Heir of the Red Chamber

Sighing lightly, Lin Ya frowned slightly, and put down the Langhao brush in his hand with a look of concern for the country and the people.

The three servants of Fu Lu Shou who were laying paper, grinding ink, and cutting lantern flowers heard Lin Ya sigh and couldn't help but glance at each other. They all stopped their work and stood with their heads bowed, waiting for Lin Ya Ya's order.

It's not that they are lazy, it's that Lin Ya spent most of the day in the small study, and he still hasn't written a single word. Even if they want to be busy, they have to have work to do. It's been so long, it's not easy.

But Lin Ya didn't notice that something was wrong with the boys, he was still thinking about his new husband today.

Lin Ruhai has been busy for a long time, thinking about inviting a famous teacher for Lin Ya during his illness, finally received a reply yesterday, and discussed the matter with Lin Ya in detail after dinner.Speaking of which, Lin Ruhai is indeed quite capable.In the book, the ones invited for one of Daiyu’s daughters are Jia Yucun, who is a serious Jinshi, who is a hundred times stronger than the so-called famous teachers invited by the Jia family who are above the top. Mr.'s name is even bigger.

It was the biography of the previous subject, Chen Xiao from Haining.

Commonly speaking, the number one scholar is the leader of a subject that attracts the world's attention, and Tanhua is the one who is the most handsome and outstanding in appearance and writing in a subject. These two should be the most popular in each palace examination, but this is not the case in the last subject. One person dominates.

In terms of essays and looks, Chen Xiao should be the well-deserved leader, but Chen Xiao's father, Chen Shilang, was also promoted in the imperial examination back then, but he was No. 1 in the second class, that is, Chuanlu.On the day of the imperial examination, Jinjin intended to select Chen Xiao as the number one scholar, but after hearing the chief eunuch report that he was the son of Chen Shilang, he praised "a tiger father has no dog son" and said "how can a son surpass his father", so the imperial pen selected Chen Xiao For Chuanhe.

Although it is a bit embarrassing to say that the change from first to second is a bit embarrassing, but there are so many scholars in the world until their hair is gray, but they don't even have the status of being a juror. Chen Xiao's title on the annual gold list of the weak crown is definitely a young man with a bright future. The threshold of the long-standing Chen family is about to be broken.

As a result, just when everyone thought that Chen Xiao would follow the rules, enter the Imperial Academy, move to the sixth department, or at least choose a lady from a famous family to start a family, Chen Xiao bid farewell to his mother, took a little boy and left Beijing in a cool way, and traveled around the world.

He also lost his father when he was young and achieved success at a young age. Lin Ruhai had a good impression of Chen Xiao. Even though he had some criticisms about Chen Xiao not being filial to his widowed mother, he still highly respected Chen Xiaozhi's talent and invited him to teach Lin Ya.

Of course, it is inevitable to teach Lin Ya to avoid some bad ideas from Chen Xiao.

Lin Ya is not an ancient person, so he didn't feel much about Chen Xiao's behavior that was criticized a lot by others, but he really admired Chen Xiao's ability in the imperial examination. After repeatedly expressing his feelings in front of Lin Ruhai, he was almost so excited that he couldn't sleep at night. , eager to learn the skills to join Tengda.

It's a pity that all his pride and ambition were shattered when he greeted Chen Ling. Lin Ya's always decent and perfect smile froze when he met Chen Ling's eyebrows that looked like a smile but not a smile.

How did Lin Ruhai comment on Chen Xiao?It is said that he has a strong character in the Wei and Jin Dynasties and a handsome appearance.Lin Ya really wanted to tell his stepfather that this man was not noble, he was just pretending to have high skills.

It turned out that Lin Ya and the Fourth Prince Chu Ronghua not only saved each other's lives when they ran a business back then, but also met Chen Xiao once on the way home.It's just that if the acquaintance with Chu Ronghua was considered a good relationship, then Lin Ya and Chen Xiao could be regarded as seeing each other and hating each other at that time.

It wasn't because of a disagreement in temperament, in fact, on the contrary, Lin Ya could tell at just one glance that Chen Xiao was really the same kind of person as himself, with a bright face and a dark belly, a complete hypocrite.

At that time, Lin Ya was staying in an old inn with the caravan members who survived the catastrophe. Because they couldn't pay much, a young man like Lin Ya could only lay a bed in the lobby.When it was getting dark that day, a rich man with a child and a young couple came to the inn one after another.

The son of the rich family is naturally Chen Xiao, but the young couple has a lot to say.It turned out that a man from a down-and-out family abducted the rich man's daughter and ran away.

The young lady is ignorant of worldly affairs, and after listening to Ailang's bewitching, she packs some money and fled softly, not to mention food and drink along the way, and Ailang is no longer gentle as before. Swollen.For some reason that day, the man beat and scolded her twice again.

In such a world, those who are traveling outside are not used to seeing the sufferings of the world, so although the little lady cried pitifully, no one cared about her, only the shopkeeper was afraid of disturbing the guests, so she gave a few words of persuasion.

Unexpectedly, that man was poor, but his heart was high.He doesn't want to spend more money to get a room for himself and his wife. He just has to sit in the lobby all night. Chen Ling's boy came downstairs to fetch water for his master, but he just glanced at him curiously when he was young, so he just treated him like a human being. He looked down on Wei Han, and scolded Tong'er for "he is only a servant of a rich family, but he dares to look down on others".

There is a difference between good and bad, and Tong'er never used power to overwhelm others, and immediately ran upstairs with his head down, not intending to argue with him, but the man still had shortcomings, after scolding Tong'er for being a rich and unkind big family, he was full of air Tossing for half an hour.

At that time, Chen Xiao was sitting upstairs without showing his face. Others said that this young master was well-bred and didn't have the same knowledge as a shabby settler, but Lin Ya felt something was wrong in his heart.

Sure enough, in the early morning of the second day, before the business trip from south to north started, the local yamen servants came to the door, took the man as a kidnapper, and invited the rich lady to the yamen, waiting for her family to come and get her. .

The yamen servants came and went in a hurry, the people who watched the excitement dispersed, and Chen Ling's Tonger slipped in from the door with a low eyebrow.

Lin Ya saw it, and the others were not stupid.It's just that everyone said that Chen Xiao was anxious and righteous, but Lin Ya leaned on the door latch and pouted.However, Chen Xiao, who was leaning on the railing alone upstairs, saw this appearance, and showed a smile with an inexplicable meaning.

There were so many things that Lin Ya encountered during his business trip that Lin Ya didn't remember them at first. If it wasn't for Chen Xiao's outstanding appearance and the same smile he showed during the apprenticeship ceremony, Lin Ya might not be able to remember.

As soon as the apprenticeship ceremony was completed, Chen Ling assigned Lin Ruhai a little homework that made Lin Ya believe one thing: whether he remembered it or not, it was obvious that Chen Ling remembered the way he curled his lips. .

If he can't do his homework, he will be punished. Thinking about the palm-wide ruler that Chen Xiao specially prepared for him, Lin Ya's scalp would be numb no matter how rough his skin is.

When Lin Ya was really punished because he couldn't write an article, the Xue family and his party also went to Beijing.

According to the thoughts of the second wife, Mrs. Wang, although Mrs. Xue is not as good as the whole Xue family, she is still her sister, niece and niece whom she has not seen for nearly 20 years.

The reason Mrs. Wang gave sounds reasonable: Xue Pan is not a fake, but he is still the head of the Xue family. It is also worthy of the ostentation of opening the middle door to welcome.

But Mother Jia, who has always maintained the face of the second room in front of the big room, didn't even raise her eyelids, she directly rejected it, and even sent a message in person, saying that the younger generation is young and unlucky, and it is not appropriate to mobilize teachers, so as not to break the good luck, so that when the time comes Just open the corner door, and everyone knows that there is no need to make a lot of noise. Mrs. Wang's face turned yellow with anger.

Her sister and nephew came to vote for such a big event, and the old man actually let their family enter the mansion secretly without beating the drums. Could it be that they think their relatives of the royal family have humiliated the Duke's mansion?Intuit look down on people!

That's not all.Originally, Mrs. Wang persuaded Jia Zheng to stay in the mansion that day so that she could teach Xue Pan a thing or two, but Jia Mu sent Jia Zheng out with a word from Jia Mu, and taught the girls in the inner courtyard. It is said that there is absolutely no reason for the elders to accommodate the younger in the world.

Mother Jia is the ancestor of Rongguo Mansion, she intends to use the Xue family as a raft, Madam Wang really has nothing to do.So when the Xue family came to the door full of longing, it was inevitable that they would be ashamed.

Mrs. Xue and Xue Pan's thoughts were elsewhere, and they didn't realize anything was wrong when they entered the door.Xue Baochai was sitting in the sedan chair, but he kept looking at the appearance of Ningrong Street through the cracks in the curtain.As soon as the sedan chair passed the main entrance of the Rongguo Mansion with a high plaque, Xue Baochai's heart skipped a beat, and when the sedan chair turned into a rare alley, her heart sank to the bottom.

She didn't know about the fight between her aunt Mrs. Wang and the old lady Shi Shi, so she couldn't help thinking about it. She thought it was because Jia's family saw that her brother was disabled, and she was not even a concubine for the time being. She underestimated her family and deliberately neglected her .

It's just that the Xue family didn't beg to come to Rongguo Mansion temporarily.If my aunt, Mrs. Wang, doesn't want to recognize this relative, she will be like the aunts, and she will not pick up any words, and it is obvious that she will cut off contact with their Xue family.Letter after letter received them affectionately, and then turned around and gave them a big blow. After eating such a meal, what is it if it is not bullying Xue's family?

What a proud person Xue Baochai is, if he hadn't cared about his reputation for being generous and dignified, he might not have been able to squeeze out a smile on his face when he got off the sedan chair.

This side of her is already forced to smile, but over there, Jia's mother still wants to Duan Gonghou's family, Lao Fengjun, is aloof.

Xue Pan is an old man who cannot stay in the house for a long time. The three Jia girls raised by Jia's side only show their faces in Tanchun. The mother ordered the little girl to present the gift, the mother and daughter of the Xue family took a look at it, and even the mistress, who had been through things like Mrs. Xue, froze with embarrassment for a moment.