A Dream of Red Mansions Unexpected Visitors

On this day, when Lin Qingxuan woke up, it was extremely strange to see the flustered expressions of the people around him.After Lin Ruhai woke up, everyone in Lin's residence no longer panicked. They knew that even though they were the daughter of Lin Ruhai's savior, they were just a sojourner, but they never neglected them. How could they be so out of their minds today.It was not until Lin Ruhai's courtyard that he found out that someone from the clan wanted to adopt a son to Lin Ruhai, and finally sent it away temporarily, saying that they would discuss it after the daughter came back.

Seeing Lin Qingxuan, he waved back and smiled wryly: "I'm not dead yet, so I want to divide the family property. Now I want to leave a charter, and said that Dai'er is young, and she wants to replace her inside and outside of her words." Our family is taking care of the property. After all, the Jia family still has a mother-in-law who is thinking about Dai'er, and it seems that the family can't entrust her to her." Suddenly, a notification came from the courtyard: "Second Master Lian has returned with the girl."

Lin Qingxuan had known for a long time that Lin Daiyu must have the watchful eyes of Fairy Jinghuan. It turns out that Jinghuan cultivates with emotion, and if Baodai's love ends in tragedy, it will definitely improve his skills, so he is very concerned, so Lin Qingxuan started from today From then on, you can't use the fairy method at will.

After Daiyu entered the mansion, she had already cried like a tearful person, and ran into Ruhai's house, crying with her head in her arms. Looking at her father's pale face and haggard look, Daiyu couldn't help crying, "Daddy, don't What's the point of leaving my daughter alone in the world?" Before he finished speaking, he saw a servant girl behind him stepping up to persuade him: "Master Lin is weak, and the girl's crying will not only make everyone sad, but even more useless. Ah!" It turned out that it was Zijuan, a maid bestowed upon Daiyu by Mother Jia.Only then did Daiyu stop crying. Lin Qingxuan looked at her, she was indeed a fairy of Jiangzhu, she was like a beautiful flower shining in the water when she was quiet, and like a weak willow supporting the wind when she moved. Probably because of worrying about Lin Ruhai and the dust along the way, he was already too weak.

Probably seeing that her father was fine, Lin Daiyu felt relieved, and just now she saw Qingxuan next to her, and Lin Ruhai introduced: "This is the daughter of my savior several years ago. You planned to recognize her as a righteous daughter, but she didn't want to, she just wanted to be a servant girl, although she is a servant in name, but she is one year older than you, so you should regard her as your sister." Lin Daiyu nodded in agreement.

Seeing that her daughter was so exhausted, Lin Ruhai hurriedly ordered someone to help her in to rest.Lin Qingxuan said: "Now your lifespan can only be extended by one month at most, so you should spend more time with your daughter." On the second day, Lin Ruhai summoned everyone and said: "My Lin family is a single heir for five generations, and it is probably destined to be childless. So there is no intention of adopting it.”

When the clansmen heard this, their faces showed dissatisfaction, and Lin Ruhai immediately said: "But I

I have ordered people to sort out the sacrificial fields, and I am going to use 10 taels of silver to sort out the ethnology, which is also my wish. "The people of the clan know that they can have so much, although they are not very satisfied, but there is no official figure in the clan, and they are not Lin Ruhai's direct branch within the fifth generation, so that's all.

Lin Ruhai turned to Daiyu again: "My son, you are young and ignorant, so you can't go out to take care of things outside, and our family doesn't have any relatives to help you, so I'd better entrust it to your grandmother, big and small, and even the land rent. Lian's second elder brother cooks, of course there is nothing to worry about. Only I picked some of your mother's dowry for you to keep in mind, and our family has a rouge shop and a small village in the capital, and there are hundreds of taels a year. Your future will be treated as your daily pocket money, and your elder sister Qingxuan will take care of it. She can be regarded as your housekeeper. The rest of the things can be sold, and the title deed of the old house has also been left. It is considered the root of my Lin family and cannot be sold. , the annual maintenance fee will be deducted from your pocket money. I have already let go of the servants in the mansion, and I will leave as they wish after I go." In fact, this is the reason why Qingxuan did not become a righteous daughter. Because how can the daughter of a rich family go out of the house to take care of housework, it is so convenient to go out of the house on weekdays because she is neither a master nor a servant.Daiyu burst into tears when she heard this.

When Jia Lian heard this, he was overjoyed. He thought that the lawsuit with the Lin family was a lawsuit, and he needed to seek help from the Zhen family in Jiangnan. By then, there would be a lot of profit, but Lin Ruhai settled it in advance. Now, how could such a trivial matter should not be done at this time, let alone Lin Ruhai's will.

Only then did Lin Ruhai feel relieved, and the sale of the family property was left to Jia Lian to take care of.I just get along with my daughter every day, and quickly and quietly sent a few letters to the old man in Beijing and the emperor. If Baodai's marriage cannot be carried out in the future, the person in the letter and the emperor will help. The feeling is touching.The person who received the letter should have nothing to say, the emperor knew that Lin Ruhai died for himself, how could such a loyal person make his descendants helpless, and he also took this matter into his heart.

Lin Ruhai knew that his time was short, so he tried his best to teach Daiyu some skills in housekeeping.Although Daiyu didn't learn much in Jia's house, she was taught by Jia Min's precepts and deeds when she was five years old. She learned some early on, and made friends with Sister Feng, and she also read the account. Otherwise, how could she say to Jia Baoyu in the future, "If you don't To be frugal, you must be too late', so Lin Ruhai is very pleased that he has made rapid progress.

After more than a month like this, the letter from Jingzhong has arrived, Lin Ruhai's heart is relieved, but his spirit is lifted, he knows that he has returned to the light, these few days Lin Qingxuan and Daiyu have been together, he has long been convinced by her wisdom, and it is no longer a matter of face She fell in love with her, and Daiyu was also shocked by this sister's boldness and detachment from the world.Although Lin Ruhai was still a little worried, but there was nothing he could do. He had done everything he could, and died suddenly one afternoon while taking a nap after laughing and discussing poetry and books with Daiyu.

When Lin Ruhai died, Lin Daiyu cried so much that she almost passed out, and she didn't care about anything else. Fortunately, Jia Lian was also a bit smart, and while she was handling the funeral affairs, she sent someone to Beijing to ask Jia's mother for instructions.More than half a month later, Wang'er sent Da Mao's clothes and a letter from Jia's mother. It was even more joyful to know about Concubine Yuan's visiting relatives. They had to be kept as decorations. The Zhuangzi shop was originally going to be sent to people from Jinling's hometown to take care of it, but now they couldn't care less about the cash, so they had to sell it at a low price. In this way, they got more than 120 million taels of silver, plus two ships of utensils.And because this mansion is an official residence, it is necessary to pack up and help the spirit return home.

Although Lin Ruhai was a member of the third rank, the funeral was not very lively. Fortunately, Jia Lian took care of it, and everyone saw that Rongguo Mansion also came a lot. It turned out that Lin Ruhai was at odds with the Zhen family who were loyal to the Supreme Emperor. Now that Lin Ruhai passed away, which family would dare to commit crimes? It is for the face of the Zhen family, but it is difficult for the old friends in Beijing to meet in person, so they can only send some servants, so it seems that even Jia Min died in the same year.

During the funeral, everything was complicated, and when the coffin was sent back to the ancestral grave, some members of the Lin family threatened to come up to beat the autumn wind.However, the news of concubine conferment in Yuanchun had spread to the south of the Yangtze River. All the officials in Gusu, big and small, were eager to flatter Jia Lian.

What is strange is that Jia Lian was not in a hurry to go back, but sent a letter to the Zhen family. It turned out that the imperial court had stipulated that daughters of families without heirs should hand over half of their family property even if they did not hire a son-in-law. Jia Lian actually conspired with the Zhen family. Although Jia Lian did not use the Lin family's manpower but the Zhen family's manpower when transporting the finances and checking the warehouse, but the Lin family has many eyes, and someone always sees it clearly and is reported to Daiyu.Daiyu sneered and said, "Let them go." It happened that Lin Ruhai had no way of discovering the part of the belongings that Lin Ruhai asked Qingxuan to hide secretly, and he didn't care, but packed up all the books in the study room except for the common ones on the market and prepared to take them away. He was raised by Lin Ruhai as a boy when he was young, and there are many memories here.

Only when Jia Lian wanted to touch the part of Lin Ruhai's gift to Daiyu in Jia Min's dowry, Qingxuan stepped forward and said, "This is what our master left for the girl, so you can't touch it." When Jia Lian asked Daiyu to reason, "Sister Lin, You servant girl even dare to refute the words of the master, and you still don't teach her."

Daiyu replied: "Although Sister Qingxuan is called a servant, she doesn't have a deed. In fact, she is called a sister to me. She takes care of my affairs for me. This is my father's will. How can I violate it? Besides, she I didn't do anything wrong, so is it wrong to defend my master?"

Jia Lian was drenched in cold sweat as he talked, so he had to step back and complained to Wang'er: "I used to hear people in the house say how petty Miss Lin is, but now I have seen it." Lai Wang'er looked at it carefully Jia Lian glanced at her and said, "I heard that Miss Lin is extremely smart, I'm afraid she already knew about our deeds, and now she is warning us not to push our boundaries."

Jia Lian sighed: "I can't help it, the old lady and the wife are pressing on my head, I am just following orders, that's all, anyway, what we got in the mansion will definitely not be returned, so I will keep it as hers. The dowry, anyway, it won’t fall on me if I bring it back, so instead of arguing about it now, let’s see where I can get a little more oil.”

After finishing speaking, he went out.

It was early spring at this time, although the ice and snow had not completely melted, how could the two boats of belongings go by land, so they had to wait another half a month before sailing back to Beijing by boat.