[Red Mansion] Mrs. Lin, the Buddhist family

When the news of the death of Jia Daishan and his wife reached Jiangnan, the Lin family was shocked.

Jia Shu and Lin Ruhai looked at each other in blank dismay, both a little surprised.

"I remember when we wanted to say goodbye to my father-in-law before we went to the south of the Yangtze River, he was in good health, and the imperial doctor also said that my father-in-law had two years to live?" Jia Daishan's majestic face flashed in front of Lin Ruhai's eyes, and he felt at a loss.

On the contrary, Jia Shu had expected it: "Jia, my father, he has nothing to gain, and he can use his own life as a bargaining chip to count those two for the sake of the Jia family. Offending others so as to attract schemes? His dilapidated body is not as good as when he was healthy, if he is accidentally schemed against, wouldn't there be only one result left?"

Even though he said that, for some reason Jia Shu's mind flashed Jia Shishi's hesitant expression when he was about to leave.

It can't be that Jia Daishan's death is because of Jia Shishi, right?

But this matter has nothing to do with her, so she didn't say anything about her guess.

Lin Ruhai was already used to Jia Shu's dislike for the entire Rongguo Mansion, so he just frowned when he heard this: "Father-in-law doesn't have many days to live, and because of his illness, he has received the attention of the Supreme Emperor and Jinshang. Someone shot him?"

With Jia Daishan as a person, it is impossible for him to offend a person to the point where he wants to get rid of him quickly, but not to this point, who would risk being discovered by the emperor to murder Jia Daishan?

"You care so much?" Jia Shu was not worried at all, "As you said, the emperor is paying attention to the Rongguo Mansion. If my father is really murdered, can the emperor just watch and let the murderer go unpunished?"

When Lin Ruhai heard this, she immediately put aside this doubt, and began to order the whole family to prepare plain clothes for the two of them and the two children to wear as a filial piety.

Lin Ruhai is only the son-in-law of Jia Daishan and his wife, so there is no need to worry about Ding, he just needs to wear plain clothes to work, and because he is not a direct blood relative of Jia Daishan and his wife, it only takes three months to keep his filial piety.

But Jia Shu, as a daughter, has a year of filial piety even if she is married.

As descendants of foreign surnames, the two children have a filial piety period longer than their father, but shorter than their mother, only five months.

In the entire Lin family, only Mother Lin does not have to keep filial piety, but she is already old, so she simply asked someone to change the decorations of the Lin family, and replaced them all with plain colors.

The only problem is that the third child is only a few months old. Because he is already six or seven months old, he has already started feeding complementary food, and he can also drink some broth. If you don't understand this, you will inevitably cry.

Hanhan sleeps most of the time, only when he is eating is particularly active, and therefore, once his rations are cut off, he will be particularly vicious when he quarrels.

After coming here a few times, Lin's mother, who felt sorry for her grandson, simply spoke up to avoid the boy's taboo.

Time passed by, and soon it was the third child's weekly feast.

Because Jia Shu's filial piety period has not yet passed, the Hanhan's catch-up banquet still failed to be held.But Hanhan has already been wronged by the previous Sanyan Banquet and Hundred Day Banquet. This time, it can't be too shabby, so even though the Lin family didn't publicize the news to everyone, the people who really have a good relationship with the Lin family are still accepted. Here comes the invitation.

Among them, the four major families in Jinling are included.

Originally, Jia Shu just wanted to invite the Xue family, but after all, the four major families were united in spirit, and they didn't want to treat each other more favorably, so in the end they simply invited the other three families as well.

I don't know what the purpose is, but Xue Meng brought all three of his wife and children.

Jia Shu stayed in his yard and couldn't come out, and Zhuzhu was too old to go to the center where Hanhan caught Zhou with him, so Hanhan was carried by Pippi to catch Zhou in front of everyone.

Not surprisingly, Hanhan was put on Zhou's table, and immediately grabbed the official seal that Lin Ruhai put on it.

Everyone immediately congratulated, but Aunt Xue, who was waiting for the news in the backyard, congratulated Mother Lin, then pointed at her daughter Baochai and said with a smile: "It's interesting to say that my daughter also arrested her father when she arrested Zhou. What about the seal. At that time, her father was just making fun of it. I didn’t expect that my daughter would not even want the pen, ink, paper, inkstone, poetry and books that she always liked after she got on the small table. gone."

Lin's mother also heard Lin Xian talk about the anecdote of Xue's daughter catching the Zhou banquet, and immediately laughed: "I heard my eldest grandson mention this incident, saying that this girl is catching the seal and turning around. When I caught the golden abacus again, and then faced Patriarch Xue's begging, he directly hid the two items under his stomach? Ouch, I couldn't help laughing when I heard it."

Aunt Xue's face was a little red, her eyes dodged, and she didn't dare to meet the eyes of other wives at all.In her opinion, it is interesting for her daughter to grasp the seal, but it is difficult to grasp the abacus of gold——

These daughters of powerful families, who will grasp the abacus at the weekly banquet?Although everyone knew that her daughter was the daughter of a businessman, the abacus seemed to brand her as a businessman for the rest of her life. Who would want to marry such a daughter-in-law for their son?

But I didn't want Lin's mother to smile again and said: "You don't know, my daughter-in-law couldn't help laughing when she heard that the girl had caught the seal and the abacus, and kept saying that the girl would have a great future in the future. But managing the back house must be a trivial matter, whoever is lucky enough to marry her back home is lucky."

Mother Lin suddenly thought of the news sent by the Eldest Princess. Although the promulgation of the revised decree was temporarily postponed due to the sudden death of Duke Rong, what the Eldest Princess said was convincing, and the matter must be settled.

Thinking of this, she laughed again, "It's good to raise your daughter, it's best to raise her as a son, maybe she will really look good in the future, and then she can earn you a royal life. "

Aunt Xue poked her head carefully, and finally breathed a sigh of relief when she found that there was no scorn in Mother Lin's eyes.

As for what Lin's mother said about "going out and coming in", Aunt Xue only thought she was joking.How can a woman be an official if she can't even take the imperial examination?

What's more, the Xue family is a merchant.

Let's talk about Hanhan's side, after he finished catching the official seal, he was hugged by his unscrupulous brother to a corner where there was no one, no matter how old he was, he was put directly on his shoulders, and he jumped a few times to scare Hanhan Down.

It's a pity that Hanhan didn't know whether it was because he was born with a low expression, or he was really not scared. No matter how hard Lin Xian jumped, his eyes were amazingly bright, but he didn't make a sound. He lay on his head and closed his eyes, as if falling asleep.

Lin Xian often did this to make his younger brother cry when he was at home, but it had little effect. Nine out of ten times he didn't respond, so he didn't find it strange.Just because Hanhan fell asleep and worried that he would fall, Lin Xian turned sideways, let go of the hand that was holding Hanhan's two paws, and carefully hugged him in his arms.

"I don't know who I followed. I have been like a lazy pig since I was a child and only knew how to sleep." However, both parents and grandmother thought it was normal, and said that he and his sister were also like this when they were young.

"Brother Lin..."

Lin Xian turned his head abruptly, and unexpectedly found a somewhat familiar child in the corner.He stared intently for a moment: "Are you that kid from the Xue family?"

Only then did Xue Pan come out from the corner, and because he found that Lin Xian still remembered who he was, his cheeks flushed with excitement: "Brother Lin, my name is Xue Pan."

After finishing speaking, he glanced at Lin Xian carefully, and smiled shyly.

He thought, elder brother Lin is really good-looking, better looking than those elder brothers and sisters he has seen before, he just looks like the fairy in the storybook.

Lin Xian didn't know what Xue Pan was thinking, but he was a little worried: "Why did you come to such a remote corner alone? Are you following your servant?"

This corner is very hidden, if he hadn't often wandered around the house, he wouldn't have known that there was such a place in his house.If Xue Pan stayed here all the time, and only found out that he was missing when Xue's family was about to leave, they would not know if they could be found.

Xue Pan liked Lin's elder brother very much, and he almost answered every question he had: "Father has been chatting with people and ignoring me, so I left my servants and ran out to play..."

After finishing speaking, he immediately cheered up, "I didn't expect to meet Brother Lin. Brother Lin, you look so good-looking."

Lin Xian: "..."

Lin Xian held Hanhan in his arms, looked at Xue Pan little Doudinger who was still three-headed with probing eyes, thinking in his heart, if Xue Pan wasn't still young and didn't know anything at all, he would have thought that Xue Pan was I'm teasing myself.

Thinking of what he had seen and heard in Jiangnan, knowing that the literati, dignitaries, and wealthy people here are fond of Longyang, and many people even regard it as an elegant affair, Lin Xian's expression became more and more strange.

"At such a young age, I don't know where I learned the glib tongue." After all, the other party was a child brought by a guest, and his age was even dissatisfied with his own fraction. It was really hard for Lin Xian to argue too much with him.

After thinking about it, he still held Hanhan in one hand, walked over and led him to the front yard of the party: "Brother Xue, are you not at home at this moment? Even if you think adults' chats are boring, don't go around If you walk around, lose your things, or meet someone with bad intentions, your parents don't know how sad it will be."

Xue Pan's expression was ignorant, and he was confused when he heard it, but out of Yangou instinct, he nodded cheerfully.

Seeing his blankness, Lin Xian couldn't help laughing and shaking his head, but didn't say any more.

When Lin Xian led Xue Pan to step into the front yard, they bumped into Xue Meng who was looking anxiously with a group of people looking for someone.

Lin Xian frowned invisibly, and quickly stopped him: "Patriarch Xue is looking for Brother Pan?"

Xue Meng turned his head to look at the sound, his eyes fell on Xue Pan who was being led by him, and he immediately rushed over and hugged him: "You monkey, but you disappeared in a blink of an eye, where did you go? "

Xue Pan was embraced by Xue Meng ignorantly, and suddenly recalled what Lin Xian said just now in his mind, and vaguely felt that those words became less obscure, and he understood a little bit of meaning.

He blinked, raised his hand and hugged Xue Meng's neck: "Pan'er knew it was wrong."

Xue Meng paused, lowered his head in astonishment, did he hear correctly?The demon king of his family was... apologizing to him just now?