The majestic sister of the red mansion

Even Mo Yue could feel Lin Qiyuan's change. He was dressed in a sky-blue scholarly silk robe and official boots. His long black hair was neatly combed, and he wore a jade hairpin. He had grown a short beard under his nose, which was neatly trimmed. Lin Qiyuan Compared with Suzhou, there have been great changes!It's not just because of her clothes, but mainly because of her much more mature expression.

It’s not the old-fashioned image of a scholar who doesn’t know how to adapt. His eyes are very bright, and he has a short beard. He is more stable and mature. , The image project is done well, it has a bit of the official feeling in ancient paintings.

One look can make Shi Qiu'er's complexion turn red, this look makes him look like an old couple, why is he so shy, Mo Yue secretly smiles when he sees it, even a person like Mo Yue who has never been in love can feel the spark, it's too obvious On the other side, Lin Qiyuan talked with Mrs. Zhao while looking at his family members. He was very satisfied to see that his family members looked fine, only a little tired.

I looked at my wife with longing eyes, I have been a monk for a long time, you understand that look, I patted my son Lin Yuanxi on the head, picked up the youngest daughter, Mo Yue, and asked the family to get on the bus, the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Wharf left Beijing The city is very far away, and it takes a long time to make a car, let alone a sedan chair, so both Lin Hai and Lin Qiyuan arrange horse-drawn carriages.

Lin Qiyuan also knew that his mother had a lot of questions to ask him, so after loading all the suitcases and bags into the car, the family squeezed in after getting into the car and sedan chair. The craftsmanship of ancient carriage carriages is sometimes comparable to that of a small house. Even if the Lin Hai family It's not obvious, but it's still after the Marquis. The size of this carriage is larger than that of ordinary people's four-seater carriage, and smaller than the noble eight-seater carriage, which happens to be a six-seater carriage.

After getting into the car, Lin Qiyuan still hugged Mo Yue lovingly, answered Zhao's every question, and whispered the details of the parting, some of which had already been explained in the letter, and some of which could not be written in the letter. Lin Qiyuan said that after the announcement of the rankings, he finished his exams in the Hanlin Academy, and he didn't pay much attention to the ranking in his heart. Who doesn't know that the ranking of the Imperial Academy is based on manpower, not talents.

Those with high rankings can be short of official positions early, and those with low rankings may not only wait for a three-year period. This is still the state when the dynasty has not been established for a long time and the lack of official positions is still balanced. He is different from Lin Hai. Lin Hai is the successor of the prince Well, the emperor is impressive, and it is now hand-picked Tanhua, who has taken up the post of the sixth rank of the capital, the capital of the procuratorate, and the noble position, and has given the right to leapfrog the ranks.

And even with his previous family background, the most he could find a vacancy would be someone from the seventh grade, not to mention that he is no longer from that family, a nobleman, a commoner, he has long been prepared for the treatment, Lin Hai also vaguely As I mentioned, so I didn’t lose my mind during the exam and performed better. Later, after considering the pros and cons, and adding that he grew up in the capital when he was young, he decided to settle in the capital.

After the exam, he told Lin Hai about his plan. Lin Hai supported his decision very much, and gave him the silver to settle down in the capital. Lin Qiyuan refused, so he accepted it. He was very self-aware. Some things don't need to be so clear, he believes that he will use his own strength to repay Lin Hai that day, so that Lin Hai's support and support will not be in vain.

If you talk about the debts owed, not only these silver taels, but also the whole imperial examination period, because of Lin Hai, I don’t know how many are valuable and priceless.Do your best to give back!Lin Qiyuan told Mrs. Zhao about his plan, Mrs. Zhao nodded, Lin Hai's status in the court was not high, and the prince he had served was very quiet on the outside.

Following him thought it would not cause big trouble, Lin Qiyuan saw Mrs. Zhao nodded, and then continued, he got Lin Hai's support, bought a courtyard house on the edge of Nancheng City to live alone, and waited for his family to come, Lin Qiyuan did not do nothing, he He went to the bookstore to read books every day, visited Lin Hai when he was not on duty, and never stopped his official career.

Lin Hai was about a year older than him, and he was top-notch in knowledge and conduct. He was less than one-tenth of others. During this time together, Lin Qiyuan admired him more and more. Even after the imperial examination, he still insisted on coming to ask for advice. The way officials do things is to prepare for the future, especially some customs and bad habits in the capital, some relations in the officialdom that can be fought or not, and the relations between officials' in-laws and former ministries.

These should be what a father should do, but unfortunately, Lin Qiyuan has a father who does not recognize his son, so now he can only learn from outsiders. Lin Hai still thinks highly of Lin Qiyuan, and sometimes he will take him to certain banquets and gatherings, and will He introduced it, but there was an accident during this period. Once when he went to Lin Hai's mansion, he happened to catch up with a distinguished guest at his house, the steward said so.

Lin Qiyuan knew that Lin Hai could be called a distinguished guest, either by his superiors or nobles. However, in the capital city where officials and lords walk everywhere, there are people who are higher than the sixth grade, so he didn't care, and went leisurely. I went to the study in the outer courtyard to read, but I didn't expect Lin Hai's distinguished guests to invite him to talk about learning when they heard that he was coming. The talk lasted for two hours.

The honored guest's knowledge made him sincerely admire him, and he was so impressed that he knew everything about classics, history and classics. He pointed out the shortcomings of the imperial court. Even when he returned home, he was still shocked by the knowledge. Unexpectedly, the next day, Lin Hai came to tell him , he may get an official early, and it is a Beijing official.

Mo Yue listened intently from the side, clearly feeling that his father was hiding something when he talked about that honored guest. He guessed that those things were not for the children to listen to casually, Lin Hai's honored guest?Although I was curious about the identity of that person, I knew that this was not the time to ask, as he was still in the car!When people come and go, there may be some words that others cannot listen to.

After Lin Qiyuan finished speaking in the car, Mrs. Zhao also explained the big and small things in Suzhou. After driving for a while outside, after entering the city, he didn't always go with Lin Hai's family. They walked separately on the street. The bumps, Mo Yue knows it well, in the modern age of the Internet, Mo Yue has seen many adjectives for Beijing City during the Qing Dynasty.

The most distinctive feature is the definition of the rich in the east, the rich in the west, the poor in the south, and the cheap in the north. The east city is where rich but not rich people live, and the west city is a place where nobles can live. , the people are pretty good, and there is no need to worry about law and order. Only Beicheng is a place where humble people and actors live together. There are people from all religions and schools, and it is very chaotic.

My father must have known this, and based on his own financial resources, he chose to live in the poor but not chaotic Nancheng. Besides, Nancheng is mostly poor Hanlin, scholars, and small families living in courtyards!It is a place that is common in novels and has been visited by tourists but never lived in. She can also live in a courtyard house in old Beijing.

When they arrived at the place, after unloading their bags, they left the whole family and Chang with Lin Chang. The coachman from Lin Hai’s mansion drove back to the mansion. Lin Chang’s wife, son and daughter had already opened the gate of the courtyard house and greeted them at the gate. Lin Qiyuan introduced them to his family. After a while, Lin Chang and his wife are the same age, 38 years old this year, originally bought from the Lin family's own teeth, Lin Chang learned some martial arts in the Lin family, and knows some boxing skills.

Lin Chang's wife, Ye Hong, also bought the house with Ren Yazi, and has been working in the kitchen. Later, because of their age, the two were married by Lin Hai's mother, Mrs. Lin. After twenty years of marriage, they had one son and two daughters. The eldest daughter, Lin Luzhi, is 19 years old. She has been married to Lin Haipuzi for three years and has a son, Lin Cheng, who is 16 years old, and her youngest daughter, Lin Luye, who is 11 years old.

The whole family is honest. When Lin Hai planned to send Lin Qiyuan to his servants, he chose Lin Chang's family, who had a child outside his family and had a simple population. Lin Chang's family was counted, Lin Luzhi was not counted, only the deed of sale was given to Lin Chang and his wife. In ancient times, parents were slaves, and children were born with low status, so there was no need for a physical deed.

Lin Cheng and Lin Luye are almost the same as their own family now. After the introduction, Lin Chang and his wife took the child and saluted Mrs. Zhao and others a little uneasy. Mrs. Zhao was not in a hurry to subdue the servants, and only after telling them to get up did they begin. Lin Qiyuan, Zhao Shi, and Shi Shi also helped carry the luggage, leaving Yuan Xi Moyue to visit around the yard.

Mo Yue sighed for them as servants, human rights!However, she is enjoying the convenience of human rights, and she has nowhere to talk about her objections, so she had to visit her own courtyard house. After seeing it, Mo Yue sighed in disappointment. This courtyard house is different from the one she visited. , facing south, covers an area of ​​about two acres.

ah!By the way, the units of measurement such as jinliang and mu hectare in ancient times are different from modern ones, such as jinliang!Ten taels a catty in modern times, and 16 taels in ancient times. Thinking about it this way, the area here is about one and a half acres of ancient times. The area is not small. Unfortunately, it is on the edge of Nancheng City. The house is half new and not old, the wood on the window sills has lost its paint, and the window paper is also yellow.

There are five main rooms, and the middle one is not a living room but a fire stove. The two fire stoves are connected to the kang in the east and west rooms, two small halls, two inner rooms, and five side rooms on the east and west sides. , There are also two south houses built on both sides of the south gate, and the others are courtyard walls made of mud and straw, which are half-toppled by the spring rain.

There is a fairly open space in the yard, only two small pomegranate trees were planted, and a few tree-root-shaped wooden stakes were erected as stools, and the rest were left empty. The weather in Beijing is not good and the wind is strong, and the ground is very cold. It is hard, not as soft as the land. With such a spacious open space, Mo Yue thought that her grandmother would definitely be willing to plant something on it, but the soil quality is limited, so it may not be easy to survive, and she will secretly help again.

This idea flashed through her, and then she got to know her new home, and took a closer look. Including the kitchen in the middle, there are a total of nineteen rooms, of which the main room is the largest, each with an area of ​​more than 30 square meters. The side room is about twenty square meters, and the south room is even smaller. There is a courtyard wall several meters long beside the gate, and the two south rooms are completely shrunk to the east and west corners.