The True Winner of the Red Chamber

Zhen Yingjia showed Lin Ruhai's reply letter to Zhiqi. Although Zhiqi was still a little bit reconciled, she stopped chasing Zhen Yingjia to contact the Lin family.

In the following time, the entire Zhen family, big and small, was busy.They were going back to the capital at the end of the year, and they had to leave at least one and a half months on the way.

Besides, apart from Zhen Yingjia, the rest of the Zhen family, old and young, although they don't need to do anything, just making an idea is enough to be tiring.

Zhen's mother is getting older, and she has never had a hard life since she was a child, and she has enjoyed more and more blessings after marrying into the Zhen family.

Not to mention the remaining four children, I can't wait to take the bed away.

So Zhen Yingjia went out during the day to get in touch with old friends and said goodbye, and came back at night to help make up ideas and throw things away. When the days were busy, there was no time to take care of other things.

In the blink of an eye, it was October, and the Zhen family packed up five large ships with their belongings, and made an appointment with Li Yi. On the morning of the fifth day of October, the whole family arrived at the pier.

Li Yi was already waiting on the pier.

Mother Zhen got out of the carriage, turned her head to look in the direction of Jinling City, and sighed, "I'm afraid I won't be able to return until..."

"If mother wants to come back, I will accompany you on your tour after Beijing is settled down." Zhen Yingjia comforted with a smile.

Li Yi also said: "Next year, whether you pass the exam or not, I have to come back. If you miss Jinling, I can accompany you to come back and have a look first."

A smile appeared on Zhen's mother's face immediately, and she said, "Let's go." Zhen's mother handed her hand to the servant girl, and she was the first to get on the deck.

Zhen Yingjia looked back, the children were nothing, Zhiyin and Baoyu kept talking about how good the capital is these days, besides, children like novelty things, so they don't have any worries about parting.

It's just that Zhen Yingjia was walking behind Zhiqi when she was on the deck, seeing her keep looking back, she was a little strange and said, "What's wrong? Don't want to go?"

Zhi Qi shook her head hastily, "No... I am, I am..."

It took a long time to say nothing, Zhen Yingjia glanced at Zhiyin, and saw Zhiyin nodding with him, he knew that Zhiyin understood this matter.It happened that they were all on board again, so he couldn't be distracted, so he put this matter aside first, and then went to say goodbye to his father-in-law and grandfather, and repeatedly emphasized that he would take good care of Li Yi, so he was the last one on board. up.

Accompanied by the housekeeper, Zhen's mother took a few children around. Zhen Yingjia caught up with them a few steps, and heard Zhen's mother laughing: "It's better to have a big boat. I remember when I was married to your grandfather, he took me to Go boating on the West Lake. At that time, we were both young, so we thought it would be better to build a small boat and your grandfather row the boat by himself, which is quiet and artistic."

Thinking of the interesting events back then, Mother Zhen smiled knowingly, and said: "It's a pity that your grandfather is so inactive that he can't even row a boat, and there is no shade on the boat to keep out the sun and rain. Later, it was the servant who came to tie us to the bow of the boat." I tied the rope and hung it behind the big boat, and your grandfather pretended to row twice so that it wasn't too embarrassing."

The crowd burst into laughter.

A few people walked to the stern again, seeing Jinling City being left far behind by them, a little melancholy, but more excited.

Zhiqi and Zhilan each took Zhiyin's hand and said, "I went to the capital and my sister wants to take us to play, and also to see the market in the capital, to see the lanterns, to burn incense..."

Zhiyin laughed and said, "Go! We will be in the New Year, and the lanterns on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month are so beautiful."

It was not the first time for Baoyu to take a boat, he was the one who danced the most out of the four children, causing Zhen's mother to stay behind and say: "Be careful, there will be storms and waves when you leave the port, be careful and you will get dizzy for a while!"

Zhen Yingjia said from the side: "Our boat is big, so it won't get in the way."

Zhen's mother glared at him, and Zhen Yingjia hurriedly said, "Come on, two people, follow Baoyu."

After half an hour, the boat had completely left the town, and there were endless fields or wastelands along the way, and the scenery was tired of seeing, and the few people who went out for the first time lost interest and went to rest in the cabin.

Li Yi sat on the grand teacher's chair, holding a teacup in his hand, and said with a little bit of envy in his words, "Brother-in-law's boat is really nice, it's safe to walk on, and the hall is well-decorated." As he spoke, he sighed, and said: "It's fortunate that my brother-in-law tried it, but it's still my luck."

"How did it become your blessing?" Zhen Yingjia said with a smile: "The fame is mine, the boat is mine, and the tea is also mine."

Li Yi said: "It takes a lot of time to manage and take care of such a big ship, but now I don't need to work hard, and I can sit on the ship. It's a great blessing in my life."

"Drink your tea well!"

The life on the boat was pretty good in the first two days when I got on board. Several people felt that it was very fresh. But after three or five days, I have seen all the places on the boat. Some people even went to the bottom of the boat to watch the boatmen rowing boats. .

But once this freshness is over, it becomes more and more boring, and the weather is getting colder, and the wind blows on the river again, so I dare not go out of the cabin too much, so the activity is less, and I don’t even eat much. down.

At noon that day, Zhen Yingjia was sitting in the living room drinking tea and digesting food, when suddenly he heard Li Yi call: "There is a boat on the river!"

This is actually not surprising... If there is a horse-drawn carriage on the river, it is worth seeing.

Zhen Yingjia felt that his heart was a little bit broken at the moment, but in order to pass the boring time on the boat, he stood up slowly, walked out of the cabin to take a look, and finally understood why Li Yi was so excited.

The boat was indeed strange.

The two ships in front and back are not big, and they can even be described as a flat boat.

It wouldn't be surprising if they were on other rivers, but the key is that Zhen Yingjia and the others are now taking the canal.

The canal was specially excavated by the imperial court. To put it bluntly, it is actually a fast track for the imperial court to transport supplies or for officials. Zhen Yingjia is not an official yet, so he was able to walk through the canal because the emperor took care of him and gave him a lot of post tickets. To go back and forth from the canal.

Therefore, there are generally only two types of boats that can walk on the canal. The first is to transport supplies from south to north, and the second is for officials.But the one in front of me doesn't look like it no matter how you look at it, because it is really too small.

For a ship of this size, except for the boatman in the bilge, the entire ship has no more than ten people.You must know that the officials who can go to the canal are at least in groups of masters in the yamen, plus the handymen and servants, they will definitely not be able to sit down.

So Zhen Yingjia also became curious and watched intently.

The two boats in front saw the big boat coming from behind, and after signaling the signal, they slowed down and headed towards the river a little bit, leaving a place in the middle. Zhen Yingjia made the boat slow down too. Several children in the cabin also came out wrapped in thick coats, standing at the bow and watching.

When the two boats intersected, Zhen Yingjia suddenly saw that the person standing on the boat ahead was very familiar, and before he could remember who this person was, he heard Zhiqi beside him calling out, "Sister Lin!"

Zhen Yingjia was taken aback, and sent Lin Daiyu to the capital... The person in front of her was Jia Yucun!

He still went to the Lin family to work as a teacher.

But he immediately became suspicious again, as if Jia Yucun was able to go to Beijing because Lin Ruhai entrusted him to deliver Lin Daiyu, and by the way, he conspired with Jia Zheng to fill the vacancy for him, but now Jia Zheng has been fooled by him and resigned. Can Jia Yucun go to Beijing so smoothly?

But...Lin Ruhai suddenly ignored him, could it be that Jia Yucun said something?

As soon as he thought of this, he saw Jia Yucun standing on the bow of the boat saw him, "Youzhong!" Jia Yucun exclaimed in surprise. Seeing his attitude, Zhen Yingjia was a little unsure.

Now that I recognized it, it's hard to pretend I didn't see it, Zhen Yingjia laughed loudly and said, "Why don't we go on board and tell the story?"

Jia Yucun said: "How disrespectful!" But when the two boats approached, Zhen Yingjia put down the boat to pick him up again, Jia Yucun's face was a little hesitant, and said: "I'm escorting Master Lin's daughter to Beijing, I'm afraid..."

"It doesn't matter," Zhen Yingjia said with a smile: "The children in my family also frequent her, so please come up together."

Only then did Jia Yucun agree.

Zhen Yingjia ordered people to prepare tea, then looked at Zhiqi and smiled and said, "I saw your sister Lin today, so you can ask why."

Who would have thought that the expression on Zhiqi's face was very complicated when he said this, Zhen Yingjia looked carefully, he was angry, annoyed and a little sad, but not happy, he couldn't help asking: "What's wrong?"

Zhiqi glanced at him, pulled him by the sleeve and pulled him to a place where no one was around, and whispered: "Father, I...do you remember when I got on the boat that day, and I looked back?"

Such a reminder reminded Zhen Yingjia that he still wanted to ask Zhiyin that day, but he was very busy when he got on the boat and there were so many things to do, so he forgot it all at once.

So Zhen Yingjia asked: "But it has something to do with her?"

Zhiqi nodded, and whispered: "When I was still in Jinling, my father read the reply letter to me. I was so angry that I went back and packed up all the purses, hairpins, and handkerchiefs she gave me over the years. The day before we boarded the boat Someone sent it to the Lin Mansion..."

This is really something that the little girl's family did. If the person involved was not his own daughter, Zhen Yingjia would have laughed out loud. He touched his daughter's head and said with a smile: "Our boat is much faster than hers. Think about it." , We have been out for a few days before chasing her, so she must have left when your things were delivered."

Zhiqi was stunned for a moment, and then annoyed after a while: "You don't understand, I even wrote a letter. Said that if she sent me off, I don't care if she ignores me these days, if she doesn't come to send me off... ..."

Zhi Qi bit her lower lip and stopped talking.