The Rebirth of Daiyu in the Red Chamber

In the blink of an eye, another year passed, and in the 35th year of Kangxi, Shunu passed his first year of life, and his health gradually improved. As long as he took care of it carefully, his body began to grow flesh.

In early winter and November, everything in the yamen was properly arranged without any mistakes. Lin Hai asked for leave, and brought Jia Min's coffin back to Suzhou for burial with his family.

Lin Hai's branch was outside the customs in the early years, and returned to Gusu and merged into the original branch after Long entered the pass. Lin Hai's branch had no relatives out of Wufu for a long time. Although it was a branch of the Gusu Lin family, it was not very close.There are also some people from other ethnic groups who study and become officials, but they are not as high-ranked as Lin Ruhai. Most of them are illiterate, live in the Lin family village, and live by guarding the Lin family's ancestral grave.

Lin Hai paid for the renovation of the ancestral hall and bought the family property, so the Lin family patriarch was very polite to him and arranged for them to live in the home of the largest landlord in Linjiacun.

Most of Lin Hai's branch has meritorious titles, and the cemetery is located in an excellent place, surrounded by mountains and rivers, it is a place to store wind and nourish energy.

After Jia Min's burial, there was unavoidable sadness, so the Lin family and his son lived in Lin's Village, waiting for the Chinese New Year to offer sacrifices to their ancestors.

The Linjia Village is located in a place with beautiful mountains and clear waters, and the villagers are simple and honest, even if something bad happens, they dare not do it again in front of Lin Hai.There are a few scholars who admire Lin Hai as a Tanhua Lang, and often come to ask for advice, Lin Hai is very happy.Several of them have already passed the Juren examination, and when they go to Beijing to take the Kangxi 36th Dingmao Science Examination next year, they will offer money to support them.

In mid-November, one day someone from the Yanzheng Yamen came to Yangzhou suddenly, begging to see Lin Hai, saying that something happened in the Yamen, and asked Lin Hai to go back quickly, his expression was very urgent.Lin Hai read a letter brought by that person, hurriedly asked someone to pack it up, and rode back by himself on a fast horse.

When Lin Daiyu heard about it, she hurriedly asked someone to set up a carriage, and wanted to go back together, but was stopped by Lin Hai, he said: "I need to ride a fast horse back, maybe in a few days, I will come back again after finishing my work, your brothers and sisters are waiting here." He also told Lin Xiang to take good care of them.

Lin Hai was calm and steady, nothing could be seen from his face, Lin Daiyu calmed down a little, and complied.

After Lin Hai left, Lin Qiong felt that something was wrong, but Cao Da's original text was vague, and he couldn't guess what happened, whether the situation was big or small, so he didn't dare to speak casually, for fear of offending Lin Daiyu.

Half of the world's taxes come from the salt tax, and half of the salt tax comes from the Huaihe River and the Huaihe River. There are 600 million taels of silver in and out of the salt censor's yamen every year. Every little movement is related to the national economy. Lin Hai's position cannot but be said to be extremely important.He is sitting in the world's fattest fat job, whether it is the holy majesty or his colleagues, they all watch with wide eyes, but if he makes the slightest mistake, he will be doomed.

Lin Hai has been conscientious and cautious since he took the job of the salt department, and he has been re-elected for three years, which shows that the Holy One is very sure of his ability.In the 34th year of Kangxi last year, the Holy Majesty issued a secret edict to him, saying that he wanted to conscript Galdan himself and asked him to raise military pay. Therefore, Lin Hai even delayed the burial of his beloved wife, and dared not leave his post for a moment.It was not until 35 years that the Holy One returned to Suzhou on leave after returning from his own conquest.

Lin Daiyu thought a lot, she didn't know anything about official affairs, she only knew that Lin Hai's official position was important, and she knew little about others, how could she not be worried now?Ask Lin Qiong, but he doesn't understand either.

Three or five days later, Lin Daiyu and his sisters did not wait for Lin Hai to come back, but a family servant came and brought Lin Hai's letter, saying that an official ship had arrived from Yangzhou to take the four of them to Beijing to Rongguo Mansion.

The four brothers and sisters asked someone to pack their luggage without any struggle, and got into the carriage to the pier.

On the carriage, Lin Daiyu hugged the tree slave and gently coaxed him to sleep, saying: "Should we go to grandparents' house obediently?" She didn't even know what happened in Yangzhou, so she just left without knowing why?

Lin Qiong is helpless, his history is not good, he only knows that there was a famous nine sons in the Qing Dynasty who took over the heir, and the fourth master won in the end, and nothing else.They don't know the current situation in Yangzhou. If they go there, will they cause trouble for Lin Hai?

The three looked at each other, not knowing what to do.

The tree slave was one year and nine months old, and his speech was already very clear. He laughed heartlessly and crawled around, shouting "sister, brother" in his mouth, and would not stop for a moment.Lin Daiyu was afraid that he would fall, so she clasped her arms around her. She didn't want the carriage to stop suddenly, and the tree slave knocked against the wall of the carriage, throwing Lin Daiyu forward reflexively. Fortunately, Lin Xiang and Lin Qiong stopped her.

The tree slave was about to cry, so he turned his head to look for Lin Daiyu, plunged into Lin Daiyu's arms with his mouth curled up, and complained, "Sister, it hurts."

Lin Daiyu rubbed her head for her, and Lin Xiang lifted the curtain to look out. It turned out that their carriage was surrounded by thirty or forty people. Those people were vicious, and each of them held a short flat stick wrapped with cloth strips. .

There is no one in this place, and there is no way to go to the village or back to the store, and you can't even ask for help. It seems that the person who comes is already prepared.

All the strong men of the Lin family came out to form a group to protect the carriage, Lin Fu went out and said, "Which road are you friends from, who dare to block our official carriage in broad daylight?"

The leader of the bandits pulled out the short stick in his hand, pulled out a gleaming knife, and said with a smile: "Ahead are the family members of the Yangzhou Imperial Envoy's Mansion?"

Before Lin Fu could say anything, the thief laughed and said, "What the reporter said is correct, I am looking for trouble for your family." With one stroke of the knife, a group of people rushed forward.

Some of the members of the Lin family were also armed and fought with the thieves. The scene was chaotic for a while, and blood was seen in a short time.

One person jumped onto the carriage where the Lin Daiyu brothers and sisters were staying, lifted the boy who was driving the carriage, opened the curtain of the carriage and saw the brothers and sisters inside, smiled maliciously, and said loudly to the boss: "I found it! There are quite a few of them. Inside, the little girl is especially beautiful!" After speaking, he covered the curtain as usual, and drove to the open space ahead.

The thief was very good at dealing with the young servants of the Lin family. Hearing what he said at this time, everyone burst into laughter.

The three brothers and sisters looked at each other, Lin Daiyu quietly held the tree slave's mouth to keep him from making a sound, Lin Qionglin took out a dagger from his sleeve, and quietly walked to the door, one on each side.After a while, the carriage was driven to the official road at the front, and the fight there was almost over.

Lin Xiang and Lin Qiong suddenly jumped up, lifted the curtain of the car, and each of them slashed the neck of the thief driving the car, stabbed it in the heart, then kicked, pulled the reins of the carriage and started running, the whole movement was done in one go.

Lin Daiyu was so frightened that her face turned pale, but she still didn't say a word, holding the tree slave tightly in one hand, and holding a dagger in the other, she was ready to fight, seeing that the two had succeeded, she was relieved.

That group of people also had horses, and someone with sharp eyes saw them fleeing immediately, and got on their horses and chased after them.They were all good horse riders, Pian Lin Xiang and Lin Qiong had driven a carriage, and they only whipped the horses vigorously.

After fleeing for dozens of miles, there was a fork in the road ahead, a small road, and a big road. Lin Xiang asked in panic, "Where are you going?"

Lin Daiyu immediately shouted: "Take the road and run to the pier! They won't dare to touch us when we get to the pier."

Lin went to do so.Lin Qiong looked back and saw that the thief's horse was chasing after them only a few feet away. He felt overwhelmed and threw himself on the driving horse. He stabbed the horse with the dagger in his hand. The horse suffered from pain and galloped wildly.

Lin Daiyu staggered back and forth in the carriage, constantly throwing all the heavy loads in the carriage out of the window, and the tree slave who was protecting him in his arms would inevitably bump into each other, and he couldn't help comforting him: "Good tree slave, don't cry, sister hugs you!" .”

Sure enough, the tree slave couldn't hold back his tears, but his voice was trembling with pain: "The tree slave doesn't cry, my sister is knocked too, and my sister doesn't cry."

After running for dozens of miles, their horses ran for a long time, finally exhausted, and slowed down, the bandits behind were about to catch up, when suddenly there was dust in front of them, and a group of horses came head-on.