Miss Lin Family of the Red Chamber

Yangzhou is not far from Suzhou, especially by water. The weather happened to be fine on the day Uncle De went to Suzhou. Uncle De hired a fast boat in a hurry and went all the way to Suzhou smoothly.Uncle De is a man of success, and he didn't immediately go to the Lin Mansion to look for Nanny Lin after arriving in Suzhou.

Although Meng Yan didn't show much and didn't say anything clearly, Uncle De also thought that there seemed to be something between the Meng family and the Lin family, so after inquiring again, he didn't come to find someone but waited outside.

Although Nanny Lin was not exiled, she is now being raised with honor.Nanny Lin followed Mrs. Lin's side for a long time, and after Mrs. Lin lost her husband, Nanny Lin naturally followed her to worship Buddha all the year round.

Ever since the news of Jia Min's happiness came from Yangzhou, Nanny Lin would go to the temple every month to burn incense and pay homage to the Buddha; Uncle De naturally heard the news, and decided to meet Nanny Lin there.

"The one in front is Nanny Lin from the Lin Mansion?"

Nanny Lin, who was supported by the younger daughter-in-law who came out of the temple, paused for a while. The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law turned around to see a strange middle-aged man, and they were really surprised, why did this man come to the Guanyin Temple.After all, Nanny Lin was working next to Mrs. Lin, she was surprised in her heart but didn't show it on her face.

"It's the old man, who is Mr. I don't know?"

"May I ask Nanny Lin to speak a little bit more?" Uncle De looked at the people around him a little worried.

"There is an old carriage at the corner, sir please."

Going to the carriage place, Mother Lin obviously didn't want to talk to Uncle De.

Nanny Lin walked forward, but she was full of doubts in her heart. With Nanny Lin's eyesight, she naturally saw that Uncle De should be a housekeeper or something. After all, Nanny Lin's husband had been a housekeeper for decades, no matter what it was There are always similarities in other people's housekeepers.

It's just that what kind of person's housekeeper is doing this to an old nanny who has retired?Could it be that the steward of a salt merchant in Jinling came to work for the master again.

Nanny Lin was suspicious but didn't look back at Uncle De, but the little daughter-in-law who was supporting her by her side looked back at Uncle De defensively, obviously thinking that Uncle De was not a good person.

However, after walking dozens of steps, they arrived at the side of the carriage. As soon as the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law got to the carriage, the young man who was sitting in the carriage jumped down: "Mother, you are out, is this?"

The young man was Nanny Lin's youngest son, and Nanny Lin deliberately walked to the carriage to guard against Uncle De.

Nanny Lin looked back at Uncle De: "Sir, if you have anything to say, just say it here."

At this time, I haven't seen Mother Lin's thoughts. Uncle De has been in vain for decades, but Uncle De is not angry and even the expression on his face has not changed.

"I don't know if Nanny Lin recognizes such a thing?" Uncle De didn't beat around the bush and went straight to the point, took out the jade bracelet wrapped in brocade cloth from his arms and handed it to Nanny Lin.

The little daughter-in-law next to Nanny Lin reached out to take it for Nanny Lin and handed it to Nanny Lin. This was to guard against him. Seeing this family, Uncle De couldn't help laughing to himself, it really deserves to be a family.

Nanny Lin took it and opened it, her face changed instantly and she was shocked: "How did you get this jade bracelet?"

She naturally recognized this jade bracelet. She had served the old lady for decades, and there was nothing in the old lady's that she was not familiar with.This jade bracelet is an inheritance of the Lin family's mother. When the old lady married into the Lin family, she watched the Lin family's mother bring this jade bracelet to the old lady's hand.For the next few decades, the pair of jade bracelets were carried by the old lady until the master took his wife, but the old lady did not pass it on to the current wife immediately.Later, when the old lady went away, she never saw her again. She thought it was the old lady who passed the jade bracelet to the wife. Could it be that the old lady did not pass the jade bracelet to the wife.

But if the jade bracelet was not passed on to the wife, who did the old lady give the jade bracelet to?

"This jade bracelet belongs to my master, and the master asked me to send a letter to Nanny Lin." Then he took out the letter from his bosom and handed it to Nanny Lin, this time it was Nanny Lin who took it by herself.Sister Lin didn't read the letter immediately but stared at Uncle De and asked:

"Who is your master?"

"My master's surname is Meng, and I asked Nanny Lin to return the bracelet..."

Nanny Lin wanted to keep the bracelet, but Uncle De insisted on taking it back. Nanny Lin had no choice but to return it. After taking the bracelet back, Uncle De didn't stay any longer and left. Nanny Lin couldn't stay if she wanted to.

Sitting in the carriage, Nanny Lin hadn't opened the letter to read, the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law were still in shock.

"Mother-in-law...this letter..." The little daughter-in-law looked at the letter in her mother-in-law's hand excitedly.

"Xiaolan, you can also read and read for me."

This little daughter-in-law is Xiaolan, another maidservant of the Meng family. After the Meng family left, Jia Min originally wanted to release her, but she was an orphan who was sold into the Meng family since she was a child. Seeing that the old lady of the Meng family took pity on her, she betrothed her to Nanny Lin's youngest son.Xiaolan's cleverness won Nanny Lin's favor, and Nanny Lin also treated her well for the sake of the Meng family and the old lady. Mammy stays at the ancestral home of the Lin family and doesn't have to wait on the master for a long time.

Xiaolan was very sad when she thought that Mrs. Meng was burned to death. She has a deep relationship with Mrs. Meng and has not forgotten it until now, but she was very excited when she suddenly got the news of Mrs. Meng.

Opening the letter with trembling hands, Xiaolan couldn't help crying when she saw the words: "Yes... it's Miss's name... Miss is still alive..."

She has served the lady for nearly 20 years and she can recognize her handwriting at a glance.

"It's Aunt Meng! Isn't Aunt Meng..." Wasn't she already burned to death? How could...

Nanny Lin stopped half of her words, only her face was full of astonishment.

"It was Meixiang and Xiaoyi who saved the young lady, and the fire was set off by the wife's order." Xiaolan was furious.

"Just read to me what's going on." Nanny Lin was so anxious that she was about to get angry, and if she got older, Xiaolan would have to deal with it if she was in a hurry and told her her beliefs.

The letter was written by Meng Yan, and Meng Yan's handwriting was taught by Meng's handwriting. Meng Yan had already imitated Meng's handwriting to perfection.In the letter, Meng Yan explained in detail the matter of rescuing Meixiang and Xiaoyi's rescue of the Meng family. She also wrote about Jia Min's poisoning of Mrs. Lin, Jia Min's letting Mei Xiang poison Meng's family, and Jia Min's making people set fire to each other. In the letter, he also explained how the Meng family escaped from the Lin Mansion and lived incognito, how to go back to Yangzhou after giving birth and find the old lady dead, and so on.

"This, how is this possible?" Mother Lin was shocked when she heard the news, and her first reaction was not to believe it.

"Mother, what the lady said is true. Meixiang once looked for the lady..." Xiaolan told all the things that Meixiang went to the Meng family and surrendered. I didn't listen, but later the lady told them the matter in order to prevent the wife from discussing with them.

"There is such a thing, why don't you tell the old lady or me."

"At that time, I thought Miss had already gone, I was not sad enough, so I still remember these things..."

At that time, it was difficult for her to save her life, so she dared to say it. If she died, who would be able to defend the young lady; just thinking that the old lady would go away soon, and their family was even left in Suzhou by the wife.

Hey, looking at Xiaolan's appearance, Nanny Lin guessed that she wanted to save her life, but she couldn't guess that Xiaolan still had a heart of revenge.

"Mother, what should I do about this? Old lady...Master..."

"It must be investigated, and the old lady can't just go there without knowing why."

Nanny Lin and Mrs. Lin have had a relationship for decades, and Mrs. Lin holds the most weight in Nanny Lin's heart.

Xiaolan was secretly relieved when she heard Nanny Lin's words, and she was very excited when she thought that the lady was still alive. With Nanny Lin's help, she must see her again soon.I don't know how the young lady's young master will be. For the sake of her childhood, maybe she can ask the young lady to let the eldest son serve the young master by her side.

Nanny Lin was very thoughtful, and immediately asked her son to inquire about Uncle De after returning to the Lin Mansion, but the news she got was that he had already left and returned to Yangzhou.Returning to Yangzhou was the news specially left by Uncle De. After getting the news, Mother Lin thought that Mrs. Meng must be in Yangzhou and immediately decided to go to Yangzhou.

Meng Yan bought some beggars in Yangzhou City and asked them to help inquire about the news. At this time, Meng Yan just got the news and was watching in the study.

After that day, Meng Yan didn't mention the matter of that day to Meng Shi again, and she didn't mention other things. She was waiting for Meng Shi to figure it out. There are some things that are useless to be talked about unless she figured it out; and she is very busy now. , busy investigating what happened to the Zhang family and the Zhang family back then.

She is too young and has been in the city for too short a time, and there are too few manpower to be trained by the servants, and it is not easy to check because of the events that happened many years ago.She ordered the beggars she bought to find out about things outside the Lin Mansion, but the Lin Mansion is not like the Jia Mansion after all, there are not so many slanderous servants who spread everything to the outside world, and there is not much to inquire about, and there was an old lady Lin before. The pressure on the Lin family is even stricter than it is now; if you want to know something now, you can only start with the people around Jia Min.Not wanting to disturb Lin Ruhai, an old fox, Meng Yan had no choice but to take care of the affairs in Lin's mansion by herself.

Meng Yan looked at the information in her hand, but she didn't get much information.Before Meng's accident, Dazhang and Zhang's family were in direct contact with the old lady. Jia Min and the people around her didn't know all about Mrs. Lin's affairs, they only knew that such a thing had happened; after Meng's accident Jia Min only met the people sent by the Da Zhang family once, and those people never came to Lin's mansion after they got the news of Meng's death.

However, it is enough to show that the Da Zhang family and the Lin family have always been in contact.The things that made Meng Yan strange were never mentioned by Mrs. Meng either when she was in the Lin Mansion or later, and she didn't know whether Mrs. Meng really didn't know or because she knew it for other reasons and avoided talking about it.

Before, Meng Yan wanted to ask the Meng family about Da Zhang. Now that she knew this, Meng Yan couldn't make up her mind for a while.If Meng Shi really avoided talking about it for other reasons, she might not tell her if she asked Meng Shi, and she was unwilling to force Meng Shi, the only person in this world who Meng Yan didn't want to hurt was Meng Shi.

Meng Yan secretly calculated in her heart that Uncle De had already been to Suzhou for a few days, and if she found someone to calculate the time, she should come back, which meant that Nanny Lin might come to Yangzhou City soon.According to Meng Yan's plan, now is not the time to see Nanny Lin, nor is it the best time to let Lin Ruhai know that Meng is still alive and that she and her brother exist. At least the three of them cannot appear in Lin Ruhai when Jia Min is alive. In front of her, otherwise, the Meng family will always be a concubine, and she and Meng Zhou will always be a concubine and a concubine, which is not what she wants.

She made up her mind that Meng Yan was planning to go to the backyard to ask Mrs. Meng again when she suddenly heard a knock on the door. Meng Yan, who was pretentious, got up and opened the door without thinking about it or asking who it was. Mrs. Meng was already standing outside the door.

"Mother!" Meng Yan was shocked by the sudden appearance of the shadow: "Mother, why did you come here, I was just going to find you."

"Why can't mother come to you?" Meng Shi had a faint smile on her face, and she looked gentle and full of maternal brilliance.

"Mother..."

"You little girl, you don't see anyone all day long. Mother has to look for a long time to see you, and I don't know what you are busy with." Meng Shi stretched out her hand to hold Meng Yan's hand, and the mother and daughter entered the study.

"Mother, sit down first, I just practiced calligraphy and the table was a bit messy."

Meng Yan didn't want Mrs. Meng to see the news she found, and wanted Mrs. Meng to sit where Meng Zhou usually sat, so she quickly put away her things, but Mrs. Meng didn't give her a chance to pack up.Meng picked up the paper on the desk that Meng Yan hadn't had time to put away, and Meng Yan couldn't help being nervous.

"Mother..."

Meng shi looked at the stack of papers one by one, and Meng Yan's breathing also fluctuated with the movement of Meng shi turning over the paper; it wasn't that Meng Yan was afraid of Meng shi, but it was that Meng Yan cared too much about Meng shi's mother.Meng's selfless maternal love melted Meng Yan's indifferent heart, and it was precisely because of this that Meng Yan took everything on herself in order to give Meng a stable and happy life in return.It was because she cared that she was worried that Mrs. Meng would be angry, and even more worried that Mrs. Meng was afraid of her unusual daughter.

After reading it, Meng shi put the stack of books on the table, and Meng Yan's breathing tightened, and she looked at Meng shi with some apprehension.

"Yan'er."

"Mother..." Thinking that Meng Shi was angry, Meng Yan yelled in a low voice, then paused and continued: "These are all the news I let people inquire about, I..."

"Yan'er!" Meng's interrupting Meng Yan's words made Meng Yan tremble subconsciously and closed her eyes. Suddenly, her small body was tightly hugged by Meng, and Meng Yan could hear Meng's heartbeat. .

"I'm sorry, it's all mother's fault."

Meng Yan felt Meng Shi's tears dripping on her neck, Meng Yan was stunned, she didn't understand what happened to Meng Shi?Meng Yan had never been a mother and was not a real child, so she couldn't exactly understand Meng's mood at this time.

Meng Yan has never had an idea that she has been dealing with things from the perspective of an adult, which is one of the reasons why Meng Shi ignored that she was still a child.A mother always prefers to depend on her child rather than a precocious child.

"It's all mother's fault. Let you worry about these things at a young age. From now on, leave these things to mother. Mother hopes that you can be happy. These things are not for you to worry about."

"Mother..." Meng Yan looked at Meng Shi in great surprise.

She didn't expect Meng Shi to be willing to come out and handle these matters in person. Although Meng Shi promised them to enter Yangzhou City, in fact, she has been avoiding matters related to the Lin Mansion.

Meng Shi sat down and hugged Meng Yan on her lap.

"What do you want to know? It has something to do with my mother's aunt and my grandfather's family...My mother did complain about my aunt, she said she would come to pick me up...otherwise I wouldn't have become a concubine of the Lin family... ...So I didn't have many letters with my aunt, and then my aunt broke up without replying... I didn't expect it to be Jia Shi..."

"Mother, do you still blame them now?"

Meng Yan didn't want Mrs. Meng to harbor resentment towards Mrs. Zhang and others. Whether it was for Mrs. Meng or Mr. Zhou, it was not good for Mrs. Zhang to have resentment against Mrs. Zhang and others.

"Although I don't know why my aunt broke her promise, maybe she didn't want to, at least she didn't give up on me, didn't she?" She had already figured out that there might be a reason for her aunt, and there was no obligation for her to take care of her.

"Mother, there is something I want to..."

"Ok?"

"Mother, I asked Uncle De to go to Yangzhou to find Nanny Lin who was serving the old lady, and he brought that jade bracelet... Mother, you... I..." You won't blame me, right?Meng Yan looked at Meng shi timidly.

"Nurse Lin? When?"

"After learning about the old lady and mother, I asked Uncle De to go to Yangzhou City...Mother, now is a good time..."

"You asked Uncle De to tell Nanny Lin?" Meng's tone was anxious, and she was worried that Meng Yan would tell the story.

"No, I didn't tell Uncle De, I was writing a letter." Hearing that Meng was anxious, Meng Yan hurriedly explained: "Mother, don't worry, I didn't let Uncle De know about it. The relationship between us and the Lin family is nothing other than the three of us. Nobody knows."

"Uncle De has been going to Suzhou for a while, I'm afraid it's time to come back." Mrs. Meng counted the time in her mind.

"It's time to come back. What's the matter, mother?" Meng Yan was puzzled.

"If Nanny Lin knew about that, she would definitely come to Yangzhou. I haven't seen Nanny Lin for many years, and I don't know how she is now?" Mrs. Meng missed her a little bit. Besides the old lady, Nanny Lin also treated her very well. OK

"Mother, do you want to see Nanny Lin?" Meng Yan's heart skipped a beat: "Mother, it's not the time yet, if he sees Nanny Lin, he will definitely know about us."

"Didn't you always want to go back to the Lin Mansion? With Nanny Lin here..."

Meng Shi was puzzled, she knew that her son and daughter wanted to go back to the Lin Mansion, and even though she was escaping, she also knew that the two children were plotting secretly; they didn't go back to the Lin Mansion before because they were afraid of Jia Shi, but now that Nanny Lin is here, Nanny Lin Even the master has to listen to Mammy's words. When they find out that Mrs. Jia murdered the old lady, Mrs. Jia's status in the Lin Mansion will definitely drop. / Ban is absolutely indispensable; when they return to the Lin Mansion, Jia Min can't do anything to them.

"Mother, don't forget that Mrs. Jia is now pregnant with that man's son..." A dead person is not as important as an inherited son. Even if it is Mrs. Lin, don't forget that Lin Ruhai used to refute Mrs. Lin because of Jia Min. .

Lin Ruhai was already in his 30s, and he always thought that since he had no children, he must have regarded Jia Min's belly as much as his eyeballs, and it was impossible for him to do anything to Jia Min.

"I want to go back to the Lin Mansion but now is not the time, mother, I, I don't want to be a concubine."

Meng Shi was shocked, she never expected to know that her daughter was thinking like this, the faint smile on Meng Shi's face froze, her heart was full of bitterness, it was her fault, if she hadn't been a concubine of the Lin family, her child would not have become Bastards and concubines.

Meng Yan gritted her teeth and said everything. "Now when we go back to the Lin Mansion, we have to live under the hands of Mrs. Jia, and in the future, Mrs. Jia will also have to make decisions about my brother's marriage. Mother, do you think she will make better arrangements for us?"

"Mother is sorry for you, but mother is that person's concubine, this cannot be changed..." Knowing Meng Yan's heart, it was the first time that Meng felt regretful about being a concubine.

It is a fact that she is Lin Ruhai's concubine, as long as she is still alive...

"Why can't it be changed, as long as Jiashi is gone..."

"Yan'er!" At this moment, Meng's heart was beyond words of shock, she took a deep breath and said, "Yan'er, even if that Jia is a bad guy, my mother doesn't want you to dirty your hands."

"Mother, I didn't..." Meng Yan was interrupted by a red silk voice outside the door.

"Ma'am, miss, my father is back."

"Uncle De is back." Mrs. Meng stood up excitedly and walked towards the door, obviously eager to know about Nanny Lin.Meng Yan curled her lips behind Meng Shi, she didn't want Jia Min's life, even if she didn't want Jia Min, Jia Min wouldn't live long, but she could afford to wait for a few years, and so could Meng Zhou; They will only be ten years old in five or six years, and she is not in a hurry; of course, the sooner Jia Min can have it, the better.

However, Uncle De has already returned, Nanny Lin will definitely be in Yangzhou soon, she has to think about it carefully and discuss with her mother whether it is best to avoid it.