Cold fragrance and warm jade [Red Mansion Chai Dai]

"Is this a matter? It has something to do with your second uncle."

Chongyu immediately understood that Lin Ruhai was talking about Jia Zheng.

After he lived in the Rongguo Mansion, he gradually discovered that Jia She didn't like him and Daiyu's siblings, but his dislike was limited. It was more like complaining about his mother's partiality. In the past, he only loved his daughter, but now he only loves his granddaughter. It's all just jealousy, but in fact there is no evil intention.

As for Jia Zheng, because he liked him and Daiyu's literary talents, he was kind to him and Daiyu.But Chongyu thought that Jia Zheng was a bit pedantic, and he copied some of the rules of officialdom to his home on weekdays, and everything was beyond the official career, so he didn't like to associate with Jia Zheng very much.And Jia Zheng had a few other customers around him, and he had to watch Baoyu's homework when he was free, and he didn't have much time to take care of him. He was happy and relaxed, and didn't need to deal with it.

While Chongyu was waiting for Ruhai to write, Ruhai let go of Chongyu's arm, and said with a smile, "Go back to sleep, how can it be your turn to take care of your parents' affairs? That's when you are free." Yes, take care of your sister!"

Chongyu grumbled a few times in dissatisfaction, but he also knew that it was impossible to dig out any more past events from Lin Ruhai.However, he has already gained enough tonight, and now he doesn't have to satisfy his curiosity, so he simply left the study.He just walked to the door, opened it, and turned around and said, "Daddy, you should go to bed earlier."

Lin Ruhai waved to him and ignored him.

Chongyu walked away, Lin Ruhai sank in the chair, his thoughts were surging.

It was an accident that she would marry Jia Min.

He has followed Gu Zhenying since he was a child, and he has been in contact with Prince Yizhong, Li Longning, and Li Longwang. He is only thinking about how to solve the problem of the four kings and eight princes dominating the government, and has never thought about the private affairs of his children.Furthermore, he also understands the truth of what his parents ordered and the matchmaker's words.Although the defense of men and women is looser than before, it is absolutely impossible to allow private giving and receiving.

As he grew older, some people also deliberately acted as matchmakers for him.

At that time, Jia Daishan, the Duke of Rongguo, was still alive, and he urged his second son, Jia Zheng Hanchuang, to study hard, so that his son, who was logically unable to win the title, was born in the imperial examination, so that he could not only donate an official to seek an official position.

Jia Zheng's talent is limited, although he worked extremely hard, he still couldn't do well in his articles.Lin Ruhai was a well-known talent in Beijing at that time, and he studied under Gu Zhenying, a great Confucian who had presided over many imperial examinations, and became the first person Jia Zheng wanted to befriend.

Although the Lin family had little contact with other honorable families, they never showed hostility to anyone, or took the initiative to alienate them.Therefore, Jia Zheng came to make friends with Lin Ruhai first, and it was inconvenient for Lin Ruhai to face him coldly.

After coming and going, Jia Zheng and Lin Ruhai really developed some friendship.It just so happened that Jia Min had also reached the age where he wanted to see her, so Jia Zheng came up with the idea of ​​marrying his younger sister to Lin Ruhai.

Jia Zheng first asked Lin Ruhai's meaning on the sidelines, but he couldn't find anything out. He only thought that Lin Ruhai was really interested in fame and had no intention of getting married, so he went home and told his father Jia Daishan to know.

Jia Daishan thought more than Jia Zheng.

Lin Ruhai didn't know whether it was someone in the Jia family who saw that the honor of the Lord won by virtue of the founding of the country would not last, or what, he only knew that Jia Daishan finally abandoned the other noble sons and chose him as his son-in-law.

Jia Daishan also invited the king of Beijing County as a matchmaker to find out about Lin Ruhai's father's intentions.

One, because of the face of the king of Beijing County; two, because Lin Ruhai's father felt that he had become sicker and sicker in recent years, and he was afraid that if Ruhai's marriage would be delayed, he would not have the chance to see his son get married; Some people in your family already suspect that the Lin family is following Prince Yizhong to deal with them, and they are hostile towards the Lin family for this reason. If the Lin and Jia families become in-laws at this time, some of their concerns can be dispelled, and even Maybe through Jia's family, I can learn about the conspiracy of some four kings and eight princes.

After many considerations, Lin Ruhai's father simply agreed to the Jia family's marriage and held the wedding ceremony to the fullest.

At first, Lin Ruhai was ready to respect his wife as a guest, but later on when he really got along with Jia Min, he gradually felt that Jia Min was lovely, and the couple became more and more affectionate.It's just that Lin Ruhai has a heavy responsibility to bring down the four kings and eight lords, so when he got along with Jia Min at first, he was really in a dilemma.

The more sad he is, the harder he studies.Jia Daishan wanted him to be his son-in-law, and he already liked his talent, so he fell in love with him more and more, which made Jia Shege jealous many times.

After Lin Ruhai won two yuan in a row, Ben was about to take the palace examination, but at this time, his father passed away, and the palace examination was delayed in order to keep his filial piety.He had only kept his filial piety for a year, and unexpectedly Prince Yizhong had an accident. After several years of tossing around like this, he finally took part in the imperial examination.

Most of the people who participated in the palace examination this time were old, and Lin Ruhai was the youngest among them.It is also because of this that the top pick and the second place are both elderly, which makes him the No. [-] pick.There is actually an unwritten rule in choosing Tanhua in this dynasty, the most beautiful one must be selected.Although the number one scholar also requires decent looks, it is far less strict than Tanhua's requirements for appearance.

Later, he took up a foreign post and left the capital with his wife. The Jia family's Rongning and Ningfu's two houses were declining day by day, and they were no longer as prosperous as before, and Lin Ruhai's embarrassment just faded away.

To this day, Lin Ruhai has seen that without him, King Zhongshun and others doing something behind the scenes, the Jia family's second mansion would not last ten years and would surely fall.At that time, he made a move to leave a way out for Jia's family and save some descendants, which meant that he had exhausted his heart for Jia Min, and it would not be in vain for Jia Zheng to have a friendship with him.

Lin Ruhai sat in the study for a long time that night.

The next day, the 24th of the twelfth lunar month, is the traditional day of offering sacrifices to the kitchen stove.

Most of the kitchen sacrifices started at dusk, and many people did it at night. For this reason, Lin Ruhai took Chongyu with him during the day and only made other preparations for the year.

Daiyu originally wanted to hide for a while, but now that she is back at her home, she is not as good as before, she still has her mother, and she only needs to take care of the affairs of the back house in the inner courtyard, so she is diligent if she learns a little by her side.Today, she was asked to learn how to do housework.

Fortunately, most of these matters have already been dealt with by Xu Zhong's family, and now Daiyu is mainly let Daiyu have a look, so that Daiyu will not be tired.It's just that there are some things that Daiyu doesn't understand, and with the guidance of Xu Zhong's family, Daiyu will understand.

When Chongyu looked for Daiyu after noon, when he passed by the corridor, he looked into the house through the glass window, and saw Daiyu casually put the list aside, rubbing his tired eyes there.

Chongyu rubbed his chin, thinking about why he should teach Daiyu eye exercises.It was his miscalculation, which he had never noticed before.

He entered the house while thinking, and the waiting frost curtain in the house noticed him first, greeted him, and then prepared hot tea for him.

Daiyu knew that he was here, raised her eyes and smiled, "You're back from playing?"

Chongyu sat down next to her and replied, "Where is it for fun? I went to several shops with my father and picked out some things for the New Year."

Most of the things to be used during the New Year are purchased by servants.Daiyu couldn't help asking: "This is amazing, what did you buy again?"

"Daddy chose a few pieces of jade, all of which are of excellent quality and exquisite carving. Daddy said it was an annual gift, maybe it was for Prince Zhongshun? Daddy didn't tell me, so I just watched him choose. .”

Chongyu really didn't know very well, he just followed Lin Ruhai and watched Lin Ruhai choose.

Daiyu couldn't figure it out, nor was she interested, so she stopped mentioning it.

Chongyu reached out and took a look at the gift list she had placed earlier, first looking at the name of the gift giver.

He snorted and asked, "He actually knew that he also sent someone to our house? I thought he had already forgotten about us!"

Daiyu spat at him and scolded with a smile: "Look at you, your husband is going to give you an annual gift, yet you still say that about him?"

It turned out that the gift list recorded the annual gifts that Jia Yucun ordered people to send to Lin's mansion, and some of them specifically pointed out that they were for Chongyu and Daiyu. These gifts were not worth much, and they were only used for reading and writing.

Jia Yucun sent Daiyu's siblings to Beijing that day, and had contacts with the Rongguo Mansion. Later, because of Xue Pan's death lawsuit, he had more and more contacts with the Rongguo Mansion and the Wang Mansion.But although he often exchanged letters with the two families, he never asked about Daiyu's siblings.

At this time, Chongyu had also seen the date of receipt on the gift list.It turned out that the things were only delivered to Lin's mansion today.

Every New Year's Eve, the busiest thing for every household is to give each other gifts.And small officials who hold foreign positions and are motivated are often busier than others, so they have to prepare gifts early and send them to Beijing.The imperial court stipulated that officials who held foreign posts had to be ordered not to enter Beijing, so they could only order people to bring gifts.It is not an easy task to consider the possible delay of the journey, but also to consider whether the person you send to the capital can deliver the gift to the mansion of the big man.

Compared with these ordinary foreign officials, Jia Yucun has already taken advantage of it.

Some people began to give gifts at the beginning of the twelfth lunar month, but most people still gave them at the end of the twelfth lunar month.As for New Year's Eve, it is the busiest day for gift giving and receiving.Now that it's the new year, it's a good time for Jia Yucun to send New Year's gifts to Jia's mansion.

Chongyu read the gift list from the beginning to the end again, before asking: "Does Daddy know about this?"

Daiyu replied: "How can you not know? There is more than one gift list, there is another one, and it should have been sent to Dad by now."

Chongyu nodded and put the gift list back on the table.

Daiyu remembered that she was going to the historian's house for a banquet the next day, so she hurriedly asked Chongyu, "Did you see anything new and unusual when you went to the street with your father today?"

She remembered that Baoyu sometimes went out for a stroll and brought back some interesting things. Although they were only small gadgets, the sisters liked them very much, especially Tanchun.It's just that Baoyu didn't bring many things back, and sometimes the girls in Baoyu's room saw them before it was their turn for the sisters to see, and divided them up.

Daiyu could know this because she lived close to Baoyu, and Baoyu was always in a hurry to give these things to her to choose first.

Now that she returned to her home, she could decide many things, so she thought about preparing some gifts for her sisters.

She went to the Shijia just as a guest, although it is not good to give gifts to the girls of the Jia family in the Shijia, but it is her wish to order the servants to deliver them after preparing them.

Hearing her question, Chongyu thought about it, then smiled and said, "Tomorrow I will bring back some fun things for my sister."

Daiyu knew that he would do what he said, so she secretly looked forward to it.