Be a maid in the red mansion [Comprehensive]

This time the old sage really made up his mind to take the Zen position, and the auspicious day is set on the beginning of spring.

Since the old sage proclaimed the throne of Zen, officials from all over the borders have brought important gifts to Beijing to celebrate the new emperor's ascension to the throne.In short, Beijing was overcrowded before the new emperor ascended the throne.

Finally, when the old sage abdicated and the new emperor ascended the throne in Lichun, after the celebration, the crowds in Beijing receded, leaving only the candidates rushing for the exam.Because of the new emperor's ascension to the throne, Chunwei, which was originally scheduled for the beginning of March, was postponed to the end of March, and it was regarded as Enke after the new emperor's ascension to the throne.

There will be Exam Nine. After the exam begins, the gate of the Gongyuan will be closed, and no one will be allowed to enter.

After Lin Yu entered the Tribute Court, the new emperor, who had been recovering in a hurry, finally thought of Lin Yu.

"Lin Ruhai's son also participated in Chunwei?"

The new emperor confirmed with his confidant eunuch.

"Returning to Your Majesty, Lin Yushi's eldest son, Lin Yu, did indeed participate in Chunwei."

"Send someone to tell me, and bring Lin Yu's papers to me after the exam. I would like to know if Tan Hualang's son has the literary talents of Lin Tanhua back then."

"Yes, Your Majesty."

Knowing that the test will start on this day, Jiang Wanyin went to the Buddhist hall early in the morning to worship incense and chant sutras to pray for her son, hoping that the Buddha would bless her son, and of course, it was more to make her feel at ease.

Although Lin Ruhai also cared about his son, but he was so busy with work that he had no time to be distracted.

With the flood season approaching in late spring and early summer, Lin Ruhai had to inspect salt furnaces in various places just in case, and also inspected salt merchants in the south of the Yangtze River to prevent salt merchants from accumulating salt and raising salt prices.

Knowing that Lin Ruhai was going to inspect, Jiang Wanyin worried about her son and worried about Lin Ruhai.

Now that the old saint and the old saint are alternating between the old and the new, it is too dangerous for Lin Ruhai to inspect at this time, and Jiang Wanyin is worried.

"Master, how about I go with you."

Lin Ruhai couldn't laugh or cry when he heard the words, and reprimanded in a low voice:

"Nonsense, how can an official take his wife with him on business? What kind of talk is that?"

"I'm not worried about you. Those guards you bring are mediocre martial arts. Those salt merchants are rich and rich. They have plenty of money. They spend a lot of money to hire killers. The guards are no match for these killers. You take them. They guard If you can't stand you, they will be so tired that they will lose their lives in vain; it's better for me to go with you."

"If you are worried about being told by others, I will disguise myself as a man and follow you."

Lin Ruhai was moved but also dumbfounded.

"My wife, is being a husband so useless in your eyes?"

"Madam, you don't have to worry. The guards this time are different from the past. Besides the guards from our mansion, some are from the middle of the capital. They are all very skilled and will be fine. Madam, just wait for your husband to come back with peace of mind."

It is now April, and it will be the middle of the year soon. The tax money from last year should also be transported to Beijing, so the old sage and the sage secretly sent many people south.Lin Ruhai would not tell Jiang Wanyin about these things originally, but he was worried and proposed to follow him on patrol, Lin Ruhai only said it in order to appease Jiang Wanyin.

"Come from Beijing, are those people trustworthy?"

"It's a matter of millions of taels of tax money, and those two confidantes are here, so nothing will happen."

At least nothing will happen until the tax banker boards the ship.

Although Jiang Wanyin was still worried and always had a bad premonition in her heart, Lin Ruhai insisted.

"Besides, if you calculate the time, these two days should be the palace examination. If you want to come sooner, it will be seven or eight days slower, but it will be ten days later. It's time for Yu'er to write. If you don't follow me, Yu'er's letter is wrong. You just Wait in the mansion, wait for Yu'er's letter, and wait for my husband to come back safely."

"Then you must come back safely."

"Fuding came back safely."

Lin Ruhai made a promise.

After tidying up the burden for Lin Ruhai and personally sending Lin Ruhai out on the sedan chair, Jiang Wanyin never let go of her heart.Guarding the Lin Mansion, guarding the daughter and the youngest son, worrying about the eldest son worrying about her husband.

Since the day when Lin Ruhai left, Jiang Wanyin was waiting for news from the capital besides taking care of her youngest son and raising Lin Daiyu every day, and Mrs. Zhen was waiting for the news with her.

After finishing the palace examination, it was the day of Chuanlu, Lin Yu went outside the palace gate early and waited for the decree to be called into the palace with other tribute students.Hundreds of Gongsheng students stood outside the hall, all silent like cicadas without a sound.

At this time, the eunuch in charge of the imperial court came out to call.

"Your Majesty has a decree. Lu Yanzhen, a tribute from Shandong, Li Jingyi, a tribute from Jiangsu, Lin Yu, a tribute from Jiangsu, and Tang Mingyuan, a tribute from Jiangsu, have an audience..."

The eunuch thought that the four tribute officials were all young talents, among which Lin Yu and Tang Mingyuan were the youngest.

The four of them entered the palace with the eunuch.

"The ministers are waiting to see my emperor, long live."

"Flat body."

After thanking them, the four got up and stood with their heads bowed.

"Raise your head and let me see the young talents of my Dajing Dynasty."

The four raised their heads but lowered their eyes and dared not look directly at the saint.

"Which one is Lin Yu?"

The saint suddenly nodded to Lin Yu, and Lin Yu hurriedly bowed to salute.

"Return to Your Majesty, the minister is."

The saint's eyes fell on Lin Zhu, Lin Yu was named by the saint, and the rest of the three were even more worried, not a little jealous and worried.

"You are the eldest son of Lin Ruhai and Lin Tanhualang."

The saint is not asking, but affirming.But Lin Yu still replied.

"Return to Your Majesty, the minister is right."

The sage looked at the young man standing in the middle of the temple, with a clear temperament and a handsome appearance, he could be called a unparalleled son in the world.

"Sure enough, you are worthy of being the son of Tanhualang. The blue is better than the blue, and you will live up to your father's name as Tanhualang. You are a fearsome future generation."

Lin Yu was overjoyed when he heard the words, and immediately knelt down and kowtowed.

"I thank Your Majesty Long En."

In Yangzhou Xunyan Yushi's official residence, Jiang Wanyin and Mrs. Zhen were chatting with Zhen Xi and Lin Daiyu while doing embroidery work, when the joyful voices of servants outside interrupted the work they were doing.

"Madam, the young master has sent a letter, the young master has sent a letter."

"Mother, brother has sent a letter."

Lin Daiyu put the embroidery shed aside, got up and rushed to the door.

"A letter, my brother's letter."

Lin Daiyu stopped Butler Lin who was holding the letter.

"Miss, this is a letter from the young master."

Lin Butler took out a letter to Lin Daiyu, and there were still two envelopes in his hand.

"This is a letter from uncle and young master to my uncle."

Seeing Lin Daiyu looking at the envelope in his hand, Steward Lin smiled.

"My master has a letter, come on, bring it here."

Mrs. Zhen also got up excitedly to get the letter. Lin Daiyu had already brought the letter to Jiang Wanyin's side. Seeing that she was anxious, Jiang Wanyin asked her to open it and read it by herself.

Mrs. Zhen moved faster than Lin Daiyu and had already opened the letter and read it.

"Oh my god, this, this..."

Madam Zhen covered her mouth with an expression of excitement and disbelief.

Her cry startled Jiang Wanyin and the others.

"Sister-in-law, what's the matter?"

"Sister/Sister, master, he has become a Jinshi. Master, he has become a second-class Jinshi."

Mrs. Zhen was completely overjoyed, she never thought that her master would become a Jinshi.

Even Jiang Wanyin was dumbfounded.

She even wondered if she had made a mistake.Obviously she was the one who asked her elder brother to accompany her son to take the imperial examination, but now her elder brother has passed the imperial examination.This news is really, really unexpected.

It took Jiang Wanyin a while to recover.

"Elder brother has won the Jinshi examination. This is a great joy. But what is going on? Elder brother doesn't seem to have said that he will also participate in this spring."

"The master did not say it, and I only found out about it now. The master said it in the letter, sister/sister, look."

The aunt and sister-in-law got together and opened the letter to read.

Originally, Master Zhen really did not want to participate in the Spring Festival, but who would have thought that he would meet the new emperor enthroned Kai Enke, so Master Zhen thought of giving it a try before the new emperor's ascension to the throne was over.Who would have thought that in this test, he would actually get the honor of a second-class Jinshi.

At that time, Master Zhen was considered a young talent, but he got the honor of Juren in his early twenties, but he failed to make the list after taking the exam three times, and he was over thirty without a son and a half, so he rested in despair. The idea of ​​continuing to take the imperial examination.Who would have thought that after nearly 20 years, Mr. Zhen, who was already over fifty years old, would get the honor of the second-class Jinshi in one fell swoop.

"It's really nice."

The aunt and sister-in-law were delighted to hold each other's hands.

At this time, both Mrs. Zhen and Jiang Wanyin were very happy with Master Zhen's success in the examination.

The Zhen family can also be regarded as Jiang Wanyin's natal family, and if Mr. Zhen was able to become an official after passing the Jinshi examination, Jiang Wanyin's natal family's background would naturally harden.More importantly, Master Zhen's appointment as an official has also improved the family status of the Zhen family, which is good for Master Zhen's two children.

Lin Daiyu on the other side held Lin Yu's letter but did not dare to open it, as if she was afraid that she would not see good news.

At this time, Jiang Wanyin also thought of her son's letter.

"Yu'er, what did your brother say in the letter? Did Yu'er pass the exam?"

In the letter, Master Zhen didn't mention whether Lin Yu had passed the exam, presumably he wanted Lin Yu to say it himself.

Jiang Wanyin, Mrs. Zhen and others looked at the letter in Lin Daiyu's hand, but Lin Daiyu dared not open it.

"Mom, come and take it apart."

Lin Daiyu handed the letter back to Jiang Wanyin.In fact, Jiang Wanyin was also nervous. She held the letter and took a deep breath before opening the envelope and taking out the letter paper, unfolding it with trembling hands.

"The son greets his father and mother for peace:..."

When Jiang Wanyin saw the first line, she didn't dare to look down, but Mrs. Zhen read it faster than her, and she cried out in surprise.

"It's Tanhua Lang. Congratulations to my sister, congratulations to my sister, Yu'er is so upbeat, he turned Tanhua into Tanhualang. This is really a double Jinshi, father and son are both Tanhua. Congratulations sister."

Hearing Mrs. Zhen's congratulations, Jiang Wanyin tremblingly held the letter paper and read it carefully. Sure enough, seeing Lin Yu mentioning in the letter that he had won the prize, Jiang Wanyin burst into tears of joy.

"My son has become Tanhua, and my son is Tanhualang."

"Mother is it true? My brother is a Tanhua Lang, and my elder brother is a Tanhua Lang just like my father." Lin Daiyu also exclaimed, and the little face was filled with joy.

"Congratulations sister/sister."

Mrs. Zhen held Jiang Wanyin's hand to congratulate her, and Jiang Wanyin held Mrs. Zhen's hand to congratulate her.

"Congratulations sister-in-law too, let's congratulate each other."

"This old slave congratulates Madam, and congratulates Uncle and Madam, this is truly a double blessing."

Lin Butler congratulated the two of them with a wrinkled face, and the servants in the room also congratulated them one after another.

To Jiang Wanyin and Mrs. Zhen, this is not Double Happiness Gate.

"Steward Lin, pass me the word that the Eldest Young Master has won Tanhualang, and everyone in the house will reward you with three months' monthly money."

"Slave/servant thank you Madam for your reward."

For a moment, the whole mansion was beaming with joy.

At the same time, in front of the gate of the mansion, the guard covered in blood rushed to the gate.

"Madam, I want to see Madam..."