[Red Mansion] Adopted daughter and child

The twins have just turned one year old today, so how could they understand the adults' expressions?

What's more, Lu Sui's heart and eyes are full of the beloved thing he just fell in love with, and he doesn't have the energy to pay attention to his old husband.

Everyone held their breath, their eyes glued to Lu Sui's body, waiting to see whether he would pick up the small gold-made swords, guns, swords and halberds, which are "standard equipment for generals", or the little golden abacus next to him. .

However, to everyone's surprise, Lu Sui suddenly stopped in front of these objects.

On the contrary, He Nian, who had grabbed the Four Treasures of the Study early, blinked his eyes after realizing that everyone's eyes were away from him, grabbed the Four Treasures of the Study, and crawled around the table again to inspect.

Everyone can see from the actions of the twins that the two children probably feel that they have grasped one thing too little, so they want to grasp one or two more.

But no one said that catching Zhou can only catch one thing, right?

Lin Ruhai took a deep breath and subconsciously covered her chest——

What are these two brats trying to do?

After a while, Crane Nian, holding the Four Treasures of the Study, stopped in front of Lu Sui, and before Lu Sui could react, he grabbed the golden abacus in front of him, turned around and was about to leave.

Lu Sui became angry immediately, and immediately forgot the swords, guns, swords and halberds that had been put in place, and chased after He Nian's buttocks.

Some of the guests who came today couldn't hold back, and burst out laughing.

This was like a signal, and hearty laughter rang out one after another among the guests, and the entire Lin family was almost filled with laughter.

Lin Ruhai: "..." What crime did he commit?

Lin Ruhai has lived for so many years, and has never encountered such a shameful thing.But the instigator of this incident was both his sons.

Fortunately, He Nian was just teasing Lu Sui. After being caught by his younger brother, He Nian threw the little gold abacus in his hand in front of him, and walked to the middle tremblingly, and grabbed another book .

Then, He Nian sat down on the table as if he was tired.

Lu Sui's "journey" is not over yet. After getting Xiaojin's abacus from his brother, he turned his attention to other things on the table again.

Just when everyone thought that he was going to get a small golden knife and other weapons, Lu Sui unexpectedly lay down on the table, and then with a swipe of his short, fat little hand, all the objects around him were wiped away. All the children were pulled into his arms.

As far as this is concerned, Lu Sui doesn't seem to be satisfied.

After he piled things together, he kicked left and right, and pulled all the things on the table together, forming a small hill.

Then, Lu Sui pounced directly on the small hill, laughing and croaking in front of all the guests.

Lin Ruhai: "..." Where did this mean son come from!

Even when Jia Min saw this scene, she couldn't help holding her chest and screaming.

Of course, she was amused by the movements of the twins.

The master of ceremonies quickly opened his mouth to say auspicious words, what a wealth of money, there is money that can never be spent in a lifetime; what is so smart, he will definitely be able to be the number one in the exam in the future, anyway, he said a lot of beautiful words without money.

After being interrupted by him, the guests stopped laughing.

Jia's mother was also very happy to see her, she laughed again and again: "You two boys are so mischievous, I'm afraid it will give you a headache in the future."

Jia Min pretended to be embarrassed: "What should I do? Why don't my daughter just throw these two brats to Rongguo Mansion and let the mother teach her?"

Mother Jia laughed loudly: "You are lazy. I just saw you talking happily. If I really agree and bring him back to Rongguo Mansion, I'm afraid you will come to pick him up crying the next day."

Jia Min laughed: "Why is this so?"

But in the end, she didn't make any more jokes about taking the two children to Rongguo Mansion.

Jia Lian also came today, but a boy of his age is not interested in babies, since he stepped into the gate of Lin's house, he went directly to Guiling's room.

But not long after he went in, he came out again.

Mother Jia was a little curious, and asked him. Jia Lian was a little disappointed and aggrieved: "When I went in, Cousin Guiling was studying. I took a look, and Cousin Guiling had already started to read the Four Books, and he had already recited all of them." down."

Originally, Jia Lian started studying with Lin Liu, but soon, his study progress was crushed by Lin Liu, a fake child.

Because of this, Jia Lian once avoided Lin Liu.

Gui Ling was enlightened a little later than Jia Lian, and the person who enlightened him was Lin Liu, not Lin Ruhai, a Tanhua.

But now, Guiling's study progress is faster than Jia Lian's.

Gui Ling is several years younger than Jia Lian. Two years ago, he followed him to catch cats and play birds, but now he has surpassed him.

Jia Lian always felt ashamed, and couldn't help but doubt his own mind.

The original enthusiasm for learning has cooled down a lot.

Mother Jia was stunned for a moment, but she didn't say anything to comfort her.

Or rather, she was even happy to see it happen—

If Lian'er loses interest in studying because of this, there is no need for her to hide behind her back and be a villain, deliberately asking Lian'er's teacher to slow down his study progress.

But soon, Jia Lian cheered up: "Don't worry, old lady, I will definitely study hard when I go back. Even if I can't catch up with Big Brother Zhu, I must not be too far behind Cousin Guiling."

Mother Jia sighed, and stroked Jia Lian's head pityingly.

But in his heart, he became more and more disgusted with Jia She, the eldest son.If it weren't for him, with Lian'er's intelligence, even if he couldn't pass the exam at a young age like his son-in-law Ru Hai, he would still be able to pass the Jinshi exam in his prime like Jing'er!

With Lian'er around, how could the Rongguo Mansion be brought down to where it is today?

But looking at Jia Lian, Jia's mother was also in a bad mood.

The smarter Jia Lian was, the more heartbroken Jia's mother was, and the easier it was to think: If Jia Amnesty hadn't messed up, Rongguo Mansion had such a talented heir, and Rongguo Mansion could definitely be changed.

But this kind of feeling is very torturous. Jia's mother is still smiling on the face, but subconsciously, she has a feeling of resistance to Jia Lian's grandson.

Jia Lian didn't know what Jia's mother was thinking. He had adjusted his mentality and was going to go back to study hard and strive for fame in the future.Jinshi he will not go wishful thinking, but it is still very good to be a free and rich Juren lord.

Thinking of this, Jia Lian laughed out loud.

Everyone had seen enough good shows at Lin's house, and they still had smiles on their faces when they went out.After I go back, I will tell you what happened today. Hey, the twins of the Lin family who have been attracting attention since their pregnancy have become famous immediately.

But after all the twins are young, no one really takes what happened at the Catch Week Banquet seriously——

There are so many babies who have caught Zhou in this world. If every child's future is closely related to the things caught that day, how can there be so many people who are unwilling to fight in this world?

But after seeing Lin Ruhai, there were still some jokes.

But this is all for the future. Now that the weekly banquet has just finished, Lin Ruhai and Jia Min are lying on the bed exhausted to rest.

Lin Liu and Gui Ling, who didn't contribute much during the whole process, said goodbye to their parents and walked to their yard together.

On the way, Little Guiling looked at Lin Liu curiously: "Sister, when I was one year old, I caught Zhou. What did I catch? Was my behavior that day also as naughty as my two younger brothers?"

Lin Liu was stunned for a moment, then shook his head: "Although you were naughty in the past, you never got off the hook when it comes to big things..."

"Drop the chain?"

"No," Lin Liu laughed, "It's because I have never disappointed anyone in major events. When you were one year old, at the Catch Week banquet, you were just put on the table by your father, and you went straight to the Four Treasures of the Study in the middle. Never let go again."

As she said that, she lowered her head and pointed to the Four Treasures of the Study that are still hanging on Guiling's waist, "Didn't you always like it and hang it on your waist every day?"

Guiling was stunned for a moment, then lowered his head and grabbed the small gold jewelry: "So this is something I caught when I was catching Zhou? Look carefully, it is really similar to the Four Treasures of the Study that He Nian caught today."

Lin Liu laughed: "It's not similar. Both of your ornaments were made by the same craftsman at the same time. At that time, there were two made in total. When my father took out the Four Treasures of the Little Study Room in He Nian today, he was still worried about what the twins liked. Similarly, when you see small gold ornaments, there will be a fight."

But it turned out that Lin Ruhai was completely overthinking.

Even if twins have similar personalities, it doesn't mean they have exactly the same hobbies.

Little Guiling looked at Lin Liu: "What about my sister, what did you catch?"

Lin Liu nodded: "It's a book of poetry."

But it's a pity that Lin Liu has absolutely no interest in reciting poems and writing lyrics. Although he usually likes to read books, he mostly reads travel notes or historical documents.

The Book of Songs can be read and recited, but if Lin Liu is asked to compose poems, it will be too embarrassing for her.

Obviously, Xiao Guiling also knew this.

So after hearing Lin Liu's words, he immediately turned his head and secretly laughed.

Lin Liu was helpless: "What's so funny? Just imagine that today, Lu Sui held almost all the things on the table in his arms. Could it be that when he grows up, he will be able to use swords, guns, swords, halberds, swords, swords, halberds, swords, halberds, poems, songs, piano and chess?" Proficient in calligraphy and painting?"

Then he won't be exhausted when he grows up?

Guiling still laughed.

Lin Liu shook his head, turned around and took a step ahead.

Little Guiling quickly raised his foot to catch up, but the laughter didn't stop, it was his laughter all the way.

The twins' Zhou Catch Banquet had just ended, and less than half a month later, it was time for the concubine of Rongguo Mansion, Jia She, to welcome the Spring Festival.

But the Rongguo Mansion didn't value this concubine, so it didn't mean to publicize it.

Because of the attitude of the Rongguo Mansion, Lin Ruhai didn't ask for leave on purpose, but asked Jia Min to bring Lin Liu and Guiling to watch the ceremony.

Yingchun grabbed a small chessboard.

Then she was carried down by a beautiful woman, and Jia Min took Lin Liu and her brother to the garden for a meal.

Lin Liu was a little strange, pulled Jia Min's sleeve, and asked, "Is that woman just now Uncle Xi's wife?"

The woman's dress was quite gorgeous and her temperament was quite outstanding, she didn't flinch at all, much like those old women who need to go out to socialize.

Jia Min froze for a moment, then shook his head: "You pardon Uncle and haven't remarried yet."

She had never seen that woman before, but she could know the identity of that woman when she thought of the letters sent by Jiamu these days——

It was Yingchun's biological mother, Li Shi.

This Aunt Li is not a law-abiding person, because she is beautiful and affectionate enough, and her temper is quite aggressive and let go, so she is very favored.

In addition, the timing of her becoming Jia She's concubine was too coincidental——

It happened to be the time when the title of Rongguo Mansion jumped three times, and Jia Amnesty knew his future clearly, and he was obsessed with life and dreams.

So in Jia Amnesty's place, Mrs. Li is quite embarrassing.

More than a year ago, when Li Shi hadn't given birth and the gender of the baby in her womb was unknown, she even dared to push Jia She to straighten her up.

Although it was suppressed by Jia Mu in the end, it is enough to explain Li's ambition.

Now that more than a year has passed, Jia She, who likes the new and hates the old, does not love Li Shi as much as before, but her position among the concubines around Jia She is still unbreakable.

As the daughter of a concubine, Yingchun naturally couldn't be the kind of Ermu in the original book, who could be bullied by anyone.

As far as Lin Liu saw the details just now, Yingchun's food and clothing costs are all good now, even if it is not as good as her own, it is not much worse.

Even if people who don't know how to look at it, they might think that Yingchun's dress is better than hers——

This is related to the consistent style of Rongguo Mansion. Whether it is home decoration or hairpin jewelry, the whole Rongguo Mansion is filled with a luxurious atmosphere from top to bottom, making people know that this is a nest of wealth.

Yingchun was also dressed up in a rich and happy manner, and she liked to laugh, so she looked very gratifying.

Who would have thought that such a lovely Yingchun would turn into Ermu in the end?

But it is not surprising.

Yingchun's only support now is her mother, as long as Li's backer is gone, Yingchun will end up in the same situation as in the original book, which is really normal.

When the original book started, Li Shi had already disappeared in the long river of time.

Even in the entire Rongguo Mansion, except for the later Mrs. Xing, no one mentioned her in a single word. It can be seen that when she lived in Rongguo Mansion, her popularity was not very good.

Even Jia Min, who doesn't often live in Rongguo Mansion, can't help frowning when he mentions Mrs. Li: "That's a shameless person. If you two meet by chance, remember to avoid her."

Guiling glanced at Lin Liu and nodded blankly.

Lin Liu was not interested in Li Shi either, so she nodded and agreed to Jia Min's request.

After the family finished eating, they prepared to leave Rongguo Mansion.

Today is different from the past, Jia Min is not a carefree person, and there are two little demon stars who are making a fuss in the mansion, so naturally he dare not stay longer in Rongguo Mansion.

Mother Jia also sympathized with her daughter's difficulties, and after saying a few words of kindness to her, she let her go.

Halfway through the carriage, Guiling suddenly remembered something: "Why didn't you see Cousin Lian at the old lady's place today? I remember that when I went to Rongguo Mansion in the past, Cousin Lian would rush over to join us as soon as he got news. Meet."

Jia Min was stunned: "If you don't tell me, I haven't noticed this."

She frowned and thought about it again, and confirmed that she hadn't seen Jia Lian all day today, "I just said that I felt something was missing today, so it turned out that I didn't see Lian'er."

After Jia Min finished speaking, he hesitated whether to go back to see Jia Lian.

Thinking of Li Shi who appeared in front of everyone openly and aboveboard today, Jia Min suspected that Jia Lian did not appear in front of people today because he had suffered at the hands of Li Shi.

After all, although Li Shi is not Jia She's wife, she is treated the same as Jia She's wife in terms of treatment.

Where there is a stepmother, there is a stepfather.

Jia Min knows her elder brother very well, and it's not surprising that it happened to him to wrong her son for pampering his concubine.

Brother Lin Liu and Jia Lian had lived together for several years. After hearing Jia Min's decision, they nodded repeatedly.

Jia Min became more determined, opened the curtain of the car and said, "Turn the horse's head and go to Rongguo Mansion."

Xinghua was surprised: "Madam, the two young masters are still waiting for you at home, what are you doing back to Rongguo Mansion at this time?"

Jia Min laughed and said, "I left something in Rongguo Mansion."

After speaking, she lowered the car curtain, Xinghua got the reason, no matter whether she believed it or not, she didn't ask any more.

Not long after, the carriage arrived at the gate of Rongguo Mansion.

The concierge was startled when he saw the Lin family's carriage going back and forth, and hurried forward to greet him: "What's the matter, grandma? But did you forget to bring something?"

Jia Min nodded: "It is true that a jade hairpin has fallen."

The concierge breathed a sigh of relief, and quickly opened the door to let Jia Min and his party enter the mansion.

Along the way, he met many servants who were curious or surprised, but Jia Min ignored them all, and went straight to Rongqing Hall with his two young servants and maids.

As soon as he saw Jia's mother, Jia Min asked anxiously, "Mother, where's Lian'er?"

Mother Jia was stunned for a moment, and her worried eyes became calm by the way: "You came back for Lian'er?"

Jia Min sensitively sensed that her mother's attitude was wrong, but she didn't know the reason, so she nodded and replied: "Daughter walked halfway, and after being reminded by the two children, she remembered that she hadn't seen Lian'er all day, thinking about today's situation, I was a little worried for a while, so I turned around and came back."

Mother Jia was silent for a moment, then raised her hand to call for Yuanyang: "Go and bring Lian'er here."

Jia Min frowned when she heard the words: "Mother, is Lian'er sick? If so, I'd better go and visit him in person. There's no need to let him go this way, lest the wind on the road will make his condition worse."

Jia Mu shook her head, "Lian'er is fine."

After all, he waved his hands and didn't want to talk about this topic again.

Jia Min opened his mouth, not knowing what to say for a while.

Seeing her daughter's uneasy expression, Mother Jia brought up the topic by herself: "Speaking of which, you may not have seen Zhu'er and Yuan Chun for a long time, why don't you miss them? They are also your nephew and niece. Don’t be too partial.”

Jia Min frowned, not understanding how it took only a few years for her mother to change the subject.

Does mother have no objection to her decision to distance herself from the second room?

She smiled: "Lian'er is naturally different from others. After all, he has lived in our house for two years and has a good relationship with the two children."

After finishing speaking, he lowered his head and looked at the two children, "Do you miss Cousin Lian?"

Jia Min's tone was obviously coaxing the child, which really made Lin Liu feel helpless.But she was really worried about Jia Lian, after a moment of hesitation, she finally nodded along with Guiling.

"Long time no see, Guiling misses cousin Lian a little bit!" Guiling turned to look at the door, looking forward to seeing Jia Lian very much.

Seeing this, Jia's mother was stunned for a while, then smiled and said, "It seems that Guiling really likes Lian'er, but Lian'er is in Rongguo Mansion and won't run away, why are you so anxious?"

Guiling sat up straight in embarrassment, and quietly leaned towards Lin Liu.

Lin Liu quietly reached behind Gui Ling, and patted his back.

She could feel that Jia's mother's attitude towards Jia Lian had changed. Compared with the previous love and pity, her current tone was not only rusty, but even a little cold.

Lin Liu, who didn't think Jia Lian's situation was so difficult, also became worried.

But unlike Jia Min, she didn't think that today's appearance was due to Mrs. Li, but she felt that Jia Lian's absence today was due to Jia's mother.

But before Jia Lian came, everything was just speculation.

She lowered her head and said nothing.

Mother Jia didn't care either, and looked at Jia Min with a smile: "It's a coincidence, I just got the news that Zhu'er's teacher asked him to take the college exam next year, and he said that there is a high probability that he will pass."

The so-called college examination is an examination for talents.

According to the normal procedure, most students had to go back to their hometowns to take the county and prefecture exams first, and only after passing the Tongsheng exams could they take the college exams for scholars.

But a few years ago, Jia Zhu occupied the quota of Yin students in Rongguo Mansion, and entered the Imperial College to study.

After leaving the Imperial College, he can skip the county and government examinations and directly take the hospital examinations.If you pass, you are a scholar. If you fail, you can continue to study and take the exam.

Counting his age, Jia Zhu is thirteen this year, and it is indeed time for him to take the exam next year.

Lin Liu even knew the result of this exam——

Win a scholar.

Li Wan's father, Li Shouzhong, being able to say this was enough to show that he knew Jia Zhu's level very well, and he did have some skills.

And after Jia Zhu passed the examination as a scholar, I'm afraid that Li Wan and Jia Zhu will get engaged.

On the one hand, there is Jia Zhu who passed the examination at a young age, and soon there will be a father-in-law who can help him in his studies and career; Jia Lian bound together...

How Jia's mother will choose between these two grandchildren seems to be no surprise?

Just thinking of Jia Mu's concern and various arrangements for Jia Lian before, Lin Liu could not help but feel that Jia Mu "changed her mind" a little too quickly.

Jia Min was confused by the authorities, and couldn't hear the meaning behind Jia's mother's words for a while, and was a little puzzled why her mother suddenly mentioned Jia Zhu again.

After reacting for a while, she suddenly understood, and suddenly her heart skipped a beat.

Apparently, Jia Min also remembered what Jia's mother said before, that the long family offended the present, and even the next emperor...

She raised her head and met Jia Mu's kind smiling face, her heart sinking uncontrollably.

If even his mother gave up Lian'er, who else could he rely on in the future?

Mother Jia frowned, as if she was not happy with Jia Min's attitude, so she didn't say anything else.

The atmosphere in the room was a little tense for a while.

Fortunately, soon, Yuanyang brought Jia Lian to Rongqingtang.

Lin Liu remembered that the last time we met, although Jia Lian felt a little uncomfortable because his talent was not as good as Guiling, he quickly cheered up and his attitude was still positive.

But Jia Lian, who was standing in front of them now, had a bit of melancholy in his eyes.

Jia Lian must have known something.

Lin Liu has a headache. Such an older child has already understood his situation and started to think about his future?

After Jia Lian saluted Jia Mu and Jia Min, she stood aside, seemingly not intending to speak.

Jia Min was a little distressed, and raised her hand to call Jia Lian to her side: "Your cousin and cousin have not seen you for a long time, and they miss you a little. Now that you are in Rongguo Mansion, as the master, should you take the two of them out for a walk?"

Jia Lian froze for a moment, then nodded in response.

Turning around, he stretched out his hand to grab Guiling's hand, and looked at Lin Liu again: "Cousin Qilin, cousin Guiling, let's go out together."

Lin Liu sighed inwardly, got up and went to Jia Lian's side: "I didn't do much shopping last time I came here, this time Cousin Lian will take me around the house more."

Guiling sensed that Jia Lian's expression was wrong, and held his hand tightly, without saying a word.

After agreeing, the three of them bid farewell to Jia Mu and Jia Min, and left Rongqing Hall.