The Second Young Master of the Lin Family in the Red Chamber

The Summer Resort is located at the foot of Phoenix Mountain, three hundred miles away from Yanjing. Lin Jin is no stranger to this place.That year, when Jia Min died of illness, he and Lin Yu followed his sister-in-law to the Rongguo Mansion, but by chance, they met Tu Feng who was the Seventh Prince at that time.

I don't know what Tu Feng was thinking at that time, but he actually brought two little dolls who were not very familiar to the Summer Resort. It was because of Tu Hua that a lot of troubles were caused, and it was Lin Yu and Princess Yiyang. Marriage also started because of this.

Of course, the entangled relationship between Lin Jin and Tu Feng, if you really want to go back to the source, maybe you can also trace it back to the original trip to the summer resort, but neither of them likes to recall the past, so this topic is rarely brought up.

After Tu Feng came to the throne, Lin Jin, as a close minister of the emperor, came to the summer resort even more diligently. Only Ding You, who was at home for the past two years, was rarely absent.Tu Feng is not fond of luxury by nature, so naturally he will not build large-scale buildings for his own selfishness. The halls and lofts in the palace, the other courtyards and villas in the suburbs of Beijing, and the summer resort that he must visit every year. What he looked like when he became the throne is now What does it look like.

Therefore, although Lin Jin hasn't been to the Summer Resort for two years, now that he sets foot on his old place, he doesn't feel any strangeness at all.Tu Feng treats Lin Jin kindly, just from the residence he arranged for Lin Jin, it can be seen that it is Qifeng Garden that the two princes envy.

According to the old rules, only officials of the third rank and above are eligible to bring their wives and children to the Mountain Resort. Lin Jin and Dingyou were from the third rank before, but Tu Feng promoted him by half a rank after his recovery. Qifeng Garden.

Lin Wei was only 12 years old. Because she was born in the same family and was the only daughter, she had always been loved by Lin Jin and Shen Yun, so she was a little naive. She had seen her residence in Qifeng Garden, and she couldn't help sighing in front of Shen Yun: "Mother, the style of Tian's family is really different. It's just a temporary residence for summer vacation. It's actually many times richer than our family." Lin Ruhai and Lin Jin came from the imperial examinations and obtained high positions after four generations of princes in the Lin family. , so the Lin family's house is definitely ranked in the capital.

Lin Wei was not happy when she first learned that she was going to live with Lin Jin in the Summer Resort. No matter how nice the outside is, she would not want to go if she could not feel comfortable at home. Unfortunately, the saint has a decree that she and her mother must go together. no.

The emperor drove, accompanied by hundreds of officials, there were so many horses and chariots, and the speed can be imagined. Lin Wei wandered on the road for three days, and finally reached the foot of Phoenix Mountain. I can't even mention it.

Even so, after following Lin Jin and Shen Yun into the Fengfeng Garden, Lin Wei's spirit was lifted up, because the pavilions, towers, pavilions, mountains, rocks, flowers and trees here are really unique, which is very in line with her heart, and immediately made her rise up. It feels like a worthwhile trip.

After entering the courtyard that was said to be specially prepared by Concubine Shu for herself, Lin Wei was even more shocked from ear to ear. Such an exquisite and gorgeous layout, even a princess could live in it. How could it be her turn? It's incredible .

Looking at the daughter who was full of surprises, Shen Yun's face was calm, but her heart was full of ups and downs. The saint's favor for the Lin family seemed to be overdone. Since the establishment of this dynasty, it can be said that there is no precedent, so that it makes people frightened.

Shen Yun is also from a noble family, and she also came to the summer resort with her elders when she was young. She has a sense of what the residence of the family members of officials is like.The site of the Mountain Resort is indeed not small, but apart from the other palaces of the royal family, no one’s other courtyards will be more luxurious than the main residence in the capital. will not have.

The Lin family was naturally no exception, but before Shen Yun sent someone to clean up the other courtyard that had been in for a long time, Lin Jin told her that there was nothing to worry about, the palace had its own arrangements for their residence, just wait for the notice.

Shen Yun had no choice but to give up, but she never thought that the so-called "arrangement" by the saint was actually the Qifeng Garden where he himself once lived, and even letting them live in the west courtyard is enough to make people's jaw drop. Your honor.

"Wei'er, you're wrong!" Shen Yun pondered for a while, then slowly said: "This is not an ordinary temporary residence, but a courtyard where the saint lived before he ascended the throne." The location of Qifeng Garden is much higher than that of King Zhao. Yongyuan Paradise is closer to Mingguang Palace.

Lin Wei opened her lips in shock, but didn't know what to say.She now somewhat understands the envious eyes she saw vaguely when she and her best friends got together. It was obvious that their fathers and grandparents had a higher official position than Lin Jin.

Shen Yun sighed softly, and swallowed the words again. The daughter is still young, and the saint intends to promise her to the third prince. Let's talk about it slowly. After all, the official decree has not yet come down, so it is okay to make the child feel uncomfortable. Not good.

Lin Jin was busy with affairs, and just as his wife and daughter were settled, Tu Feng's attendant came over to deliver a message, saying that the sage had ordered him to meet him in Zixin Pavilion.Lin Jin mistakenly thought that Tu Feng had a business meeting with him on state affairs, so she hurried away after changing her clothes, but found that this was not the case.

It was evening, and the cool breeze took away the summer heat. Tu Feng was not in the study reviewing memorials or dealing with government affairs, but sitting comfortably in the gazebo in the courtyard with a chessboard in front of him.

"The humble minister Lin Jin pays homage to His Majesty!" Even though Tu Feng showed great favor to him, and even gave him a private command to exempt from courtesy, Lin Jin was cautious by nature, and he always maintained the relationship between a monarch and a minister to Tu Feng, no matter who he was before or after. Courtesy, absolutely do not leave room for tongue.

Tu Feng was fascinated by studying the chess record, and his servants didn't dare to disturb him, so he didn't announce loudly until he heard Lin Jin's voice. Come and help me watch this game of chess!"

Lin Jin thanked her, and then walked forward slowly.Others knew that when Tu Feng summoned Lin Jin, he didn't like to be disturbed the most, so they retreated quietly. When Lin Jin walked to Tu Feng's side, there were only the two of them in the yard.

"Little Jinzi, the more you become an official, why do you become more and more reserved?" Seeing that there was no one around, Tu Feng recalled the old address, and the corners of Lin Jin's mouth twitched. He really didn't like it. It's a pity that it's useless to refute this childish nickname.

"Your Majesty treats you generously, and I am very grateful to you. It's just..." Lin Jin hesitated to use his words, for fear that his words would be too motivating and offend Tu Feng, who couldn't get the response he wanted. After all, he is not the innocent and ignorant child he was back then. It is very clear about Tu Feng's identity.

Before Lin Jin could finish speaking, Tu Feng waved his hand impatiently: "Stop, I already know what you want to say next. I just want to ask you, how is the layout of Qifeng Garden, which suits your wishes?" , what about Xiao Weier, does she like it?"

Lin Jin's two children, Lin Xun looks like a mother, and Lin Wei looks like a father, so Tu Feng loves Lin Wei very much, and asks Concubine Shu to invite her into the palace to talk when there is nothing to do, and even wants her to be his daughter-in-law thought.

Lin Jin had no choice but to thank her again.The layout of Qifeng Garden is not unreasonably gorgeous, even if he is picky by nature, he can't find any faults, but this place is so good, the whole family lives in it, and the pressure is great.

Tu Feng was impatient with Lin Jin thanking her back and forth, and immediately changed the subject, asking him to look carefully at the chess game on the stone table.

Lin Jin didn't say much, walked to the opposite side of the stone table, looked slowly, and asked after a long while, "Isn't this a chess game played by Your Majesty?" Tu Feng has always loved to play chess, and his chess skills are quite profound. Lin Jin rarely played against him. Chess, but he has seen a lot of chess.

But looking at it for a moment, Lin Jin knew that this was not the chess played by Tu Feng, because the skills of the two players, not to mention Tu Feng, were even inferior to himself, and he was playing against Tu Feng in one of the few games. Among them, they are always defeated.

This is also the reason why Tu Feng didn't like to play chess with Lin Jin. Lin Jin was not happy when he won hard, saying that he bullied him, and the loss was too obvious. Lin Jin was even more unhappy, saying that he was fooling him and losing without a trace It's not impossible, it's just too brain-intensive. Tu Feng plays chess for entertainment, not to make himself more tired, so he rarely plays chess with Lin Jin, and at most he just lets him watch the battle.

Although it was not the chess game played by Tu Feng, since he let him watch it, it must be on purpose, so Lin Jin watched it very carefully, and finally raised his own question, and by the way, asked Tu Feng, what exactly did he let him see .

Tu Feng didn't mean to be tricky on purpose. Seeing Lin Jin's question, he replied casually: "This is a chess game between Jun'er and Xin'er. Can you see what they are doing?" Although he was not very satisfied with the two sons However, Tu Feng had no other choice at all, so he could only look for various opportunities to investigate the two sons.On the way to Phoenix Mountain, Tu Feng once called Tu Ruojun and Tu Ruoxin to the imperial chariot, and asked them to play a game of chess. At that time, he was just bored and wanted to relieve his boredom, but after watching it later, he found something new.

Lin Jin smiled and said: "How could it be impossible to see that the king of Zhao holds the white pieces, and the king of Wei holds the black pieces." The two princes are his students, and Lin Jin is very familiar with their chess style.

Bai Zi opened and closed, and went forward bravely, with a posture that did not consider the consequences at all. Who else could he be except Tu Ruojun, a guy who couldn't turn his head? If you believe it.

"Is it just like that?" Tu Feng raised his eyebrows and smiled, he thought so too at first, but later he felt something was wrong, so he replayed the video based on his memory, and only then did he see some clues.

Lin Jin frowned and thought hard, and still shook his head slightly for a long while. His chess skills were mediocre, and he didn't see the process of the game between the two sides. He only looked at the current endgame, and really couldn't see anything more.

Tu Feng didn't make things difficult for him, he just pulled him to sit beside him, put away the chess pieces on the chessboard, and set them up again.While marveling at Tu Feng's amazing memory, Lin Jin was also thinking hard, and made a new discovery before Tu Feng completed the review.

"The king of Wei seems to give way to the king of Zhao, wanting him to lose so badly, the king of Wei took the opportunity to attack fiercely, and the king of Zhao was unwilling to lose, so..." Such a chaotic situation emerged.

"That's right!" Tu Feng said and sighed, it turned out that Lin Jin's evaluation really did not wrong them, "One is an elder brother, but has no heart of benevolence, and the other looks smart, but has no self-knowledge .”

Did Tu Ruojun really fail to see that his younger brother was letting him go? Tu Feng couldn't be sure, but as an older brother, he would be aggressive towards his younger brother every time he played a game of chess. Let him take the position, I don't know what will happen.

However, Tu Ruoxin was too kind. When an emperor doesn't like the harmony between his sons and brothers, Tu Feng also showed his brotherly respect in front of the late emperor.But the problem is, you have to be absolutely sure to do things like handing over the chess. Like Tu Ruoxin, if you halfway through the handing over find that you can't control yourself and want to go back on your word, it's better not to let it go.Fortunately, they are only two brothers, and their performances are mediocre. When it was replaced by the first emperor, he had already played himself out.

Listening to Tu Feng's complaint, Lin Jin remained silent, not because he couldn't speak, but because he was afraid of irritating Tu Feng.Who told Lin Jin that although Lin Xun had only one son, he was extremely smart, and he didn't need to worry about him since he was a child, so he envied Tu Feng so much.

Sure enough, after scolding the second son and the youngest son, Tu Feng sighed again: "It would be great if Yi'er was still there. He was a precocious child since he was a child. He can speak in June and act in August. If he is here, why should I have a headache?" The candidate for the crown prince."

Lin Jin didn't know what to say this time. Tu Ruoyi, who was chased by Tu Feng as the crown prince Xiaohui, only lived for more than a year. Tu Feng's memories of him are probably the result of repeated beautification. He is really alive, everything is hard to say.

The emperor and his courtiers still had to work when they arrived at the summer resort. King Zhao became a relative and was qualified to listen to the government, but he had no right to speak.King Wei was still young, all he needed to do was study, and his life was very leisurely, at least he had time to go to Qifeng Garden every day.

Tu Feng looked at it coldly, never objecting, and seemed to support it, no matter how inappropriate Lin Jin and Shen Yun felt, there was nothing they could do.

Fortunately, Lin Wei didn't dislike Tu Ruoxin, and the two of them could talk to each other quite well. Lin Jin wondered if they had found something in common when they were hit by Lin Xun, and thus became bosom friends.

If Tu Ruoxin has a capable and orthodox elder brother succeeding to the throne, Lin Jin has no objection to Lin Wei marrying into the royal family, but Tu Ruojun, he is really not forgiving, he is reluctant to push his daughter into the fire pit.It's not that Lin Jin didn't think about supporting Tu Ruoxin, but the character of that child is really too meek, and he is indecisive, always making decisions. It is a great blessing to have such a prince.

After that day, Tu Feng didn't mention Li Chu's matter again. I don't know if he had made a decision in his heart, or he wanted to observe again.

Until the 18th year of Hongzhi, Tu Feng, who had always been in good health, suddenly became seriously ill. The civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty panicked and wrote letters one after another to ask for the crown prince.It's not that they cursed the emperor, but that people who never get sick will easily become seriously ill. If something happens to the emperor and the candidate for the heir is not yet determined, there will be chaos in the court.This time, Tu Feng didn't type back the book, but responded quickly, he wanted to confer Concubine Shu as the queen.

The courtiers immediately understood that His Majesty was interested in the king of Wei. If he wanted to give him the status of the son of the first son, they all said that the first son should be the first son, but the first son is in front of the elder.

As expected, as soon as the queen's canonization ceremony was over, Tu Feng appointed Tu Ruoxin as the crown prince, and at the same time appointed him a candidate for the crown princess, Lin Wei, the daughter of the Minister of Rites and Prince Shao Fu Linjin.

Then came a series of changes in the court. Zhao Qing and Jia Lian were promoted successively. Lin Yu and Liu Xuan, who had been released for more than ten years, were also recalled to the capital. At the same time, Princess Yiyang also came back. Many people just remembered , The Lin family also has a son-in-law.

The crown prince was young, and he had never been involved in political affairs before. Once the emperor was in power, Lin Jin would be the emperor's teacher and the head of the country, and the position of the chief assistant minister was [-]%.

At this time, Lin Jin didn't care about all kinds of speculation from the outside world.He knew very well that Tu Feng chose Tu Ruoxin not because he had changed his opinion of this son, but because of his kindness and his closeness to the Lin family, and he wanted to keep the honor of the Lin family.

Under normal circumstances, preparations for the prince's big wedding are short for two or three years, but Tu Feng has an order that he must marry the prince within a year, but the Ministry of Rites has been tossed upside down. Everyone understands that the emperor is afraid that he will come to Japan. There is not much to do this.

When Lin Jin thought of this, her heart ached beyond measure, and she didn't even care about what she was busy with every day.

It is rare for Tu Feng to see Lin Jin's emotional expression, and he is both emotional and regretful. It turns out that he has never changed.What is gratifying is that Xu Shi's wedding played a happy role, and the emperor's health gradually improved.

However, the crown prince has already been established, the crown princess has also married back home, and the adjustment of officials has been completed. Tu Feng does not intend to make any further adjustments, so everything will maintain the status quo. , No one dared to say too much.

On the contrary, Lin Yu once complained to Liu Xuan in private: "Your Majesty did this on purpose, it's like killing multiple birds with one stone!"

Liu Xuan raised her eyebrows and smiled: "Your heart is unpredictable, so don't speak nonsense!"

Lin Yu put his hand on his shoulder: "Yes, yes, we don't care about other people's affairs, let's talk about our own. Last night, I remember someone promised..."

Before Lin Yu could finish speaking, Liu Xuan turned around and wanted to escape, but was pulled back by Lin Yu: "You keep your word, don't think you can escape!"

Lin Jin, who was passing by the garden, heard a few words wafting out, a helpless smile rose from the corner of his mouth, and then turned and went to the study.