[Red Mansion] Adopted daughter and child

The scarlet-headed monk didn't wait for Zhen Shiyin to answer, and immediately turned his head to look at the lame Taoist priest: "Quickly count your fingers, what's going on? Did we find the wrong person, or did something happen?"

The lame Taoist didn't obey, but walked up to Zhen Shiyin, scanned his facial features, and said with a smile: "I didn't find the wrong person, it's just..."

The lame Taoist smiled, and suddenly appeared in front of Lin Liu, who was watching from the side, "It's just a change."

Lin Liu was startled, gathered his mind, and then raised his head to meet the eyes of the lame Taoist priest.

She was immediately on guard, worried that the lame Taoist priest would attack——

After all, judging from his actions just now, the lame Taoist really wanted to attack him, not to mention himself, even if everyone present shot at him together, they might not be able to do anything to the lame Taoist.

Unexpectedly, the lame Taoist stared at Lin Liu for a long time, but turned around and said to the monk with scarlet head, "What happened here is too different from what we knew before, even Fairy Jing Huan will be unable to undo it, so let's leave as soon as possible. "

The scarlet-headed monk frowned: "Since we agreed to come and take off a few, how could we give up at the beginning?"

The lame Taoist smiled while shaking his head: "The place you are now is the Lin family where the reincarnation is. Do you remember the original fate of the Lin family? Look at the current situation of the Lin family."

The scarlet-headed monk also knew a little about physiognomy, so he turned his gaze and finally landed on Lin Ruhai's face. After a while, he widened his eyes again: "Look at it, Lin Ruhai has become a child wrapped around his knees." , a good fate with a lot of children and grandchildren?"

The lame Taoist stepped forward and dragged him away, laughing as he walked: "That one not only has an older sister, but also has several older brothers and younger brothers. Do you think she can still shed tears to repay her kindness? She lived with me in the ordinary life. He Meimei, there is no need for us to get rid of it, and it is useless for us to stay, it is time to go!"

The two were talking, just like when they entered the door before, they quickly drifted away and disappeared before everyone's eyes.

that...

It should be Sister Lin, the Crimson Pearl Fairy, right?

Lin Liu stared blankly at the direction in which the monks left, with a dazed expression: The monks who ran through the whole text left so easily?

She couldn't believe it.

But the fact is like this, people come easily and leave easily, even if Lin Liu doesn't believe it, he can only believe it.

Lin Liu didn't know if this monk would go to find other people together, but at least they would not be able to come to Yinglian and Daiyu again.

And according to their words, the future fate of Daiyu and Yinglian has changed.

No matter whether they died in tears or were abducted to death, they have nothing to do with these two lovely little girls. Regardless of their predestined relationship, they can at least spend this life safely and happily.

Lin Liu used to wonder whether changing Daiyu's fate by herself would cause her to cry and fail, and thus go down to earth in vain.

But at the moment when he saw this monk, Lin Liu suddenly remembered the words that the lame Taoist once said in the original book——

"It's really rare. I haven't heard of tears being returned."

Apparently, before Fairy Jiangzhu offered to repay her kindness with tears, even a master like Yiseng Dao had never heard of anyone repaying her kindness with tears.

There are thousands of ways to repay a favor, but what kind of favor can you repay with tears?

In the original book, Cong Yiseng also proposed to take Daiyu out of the house, and was not angry after being rejected by Lin Ruhai. Tears or not, in fact, is not important.

Otherwise, it is for the sake of merit to get rid of these "idiots and resentful women" together. Wouldn't it be detrimental to merit to repay kindness by hurting others?

So Lin Liu put the matter aside and was only happy that Daiyu and Yinglian had changed their fate.

But she didn't want this scene to fall into Jia Min's eyes. When she turned her head to look at Daiyu, she happened to meet Jia Min's thoughtful eyes.

Lin Liu's heart skipped a beat, feeling a little flustered.

But when Jia Min found that Lin Liu was looking at him, he quickly showed her a comforting smile, as if saying "It's okay, I believe you", and quickly put Lin Liu at ease.

I don't know if the monks did anything together. After they left, the crying of the baby came from the delivery room immediately.

Although it was a little weak, listening to Granny Wen's surprised voice, it was obvious that the mother and child were safe.

For pregnant women who give birth, the safety of mother and child is the greatest joy, and nothing else can compare with it.

So soon, all the people present were attracted by the baby that Mrs. Wen carried out, completely forgetting the monk who suddenly appeared and disappeared before.

Maoshou was already very thin when he was born, and Zhen Shiyin's son was even thinner than the newborn Maoshou.After she was happy, Zhen Shiyin couldn't help frowning, as if she was worried about the child.

Lin Ruhai, who came back from the scattered value, heard about it, and couldn't help but go to the old doctor to inquire about the situation. He was worried that the children of Zhen Shiyin's family were also like Maoshou, and they were so thin because of other reasons.

However, the imperial physician said: "There is nothing wrong with this child's body. It's just that Mrs. Zhen gave birth at an advanced age. During the pregnancy, it is not necessary for a pregnant woman in her prime to take good care of her. The child born will naturally be much thinner. But as long as it is well taken care of In less than a year, the child can be raised as healthy as an ordinary child."

The implication is that the child's thinness is normal, and it is completely different from Maoshou's thinness.

Lin Ruhai didn't mind, but heaved a sigh of relief: "That's good. I'm still worried that if this child is as old as my cat, I don't know if it will be useful to carry him to Daiyu's side to raise him."

The old doctor thought for a while, then shook his head and said: "If it's really the same situation, I'm afraid holding him by your daughter's side won't improve his physique. Your girl is not a panacea, she will work on your son, you should It’s because of other connections the two kids had before.”

After a pause, he shook his head with a smile again, "But it's not necessarily true. There are so many mysteries in this world, and no one can be sure that there are really some mysteries in your daughter. But even if there are, Mr. Lin still doesn't want people to find out. good."

Lin Ruhai naturally understood the truth of the crime of being pregnant, and nodded after hearing it, not feeling that the imperial doctor was making a fuss over a molehill.

Lin Ruhai had a good chat with the imperial physician, but something unexpected happened to Lin Liu——

After Lin Liu had dinner with the family in the main room, she had just returned to the room with a few maidservants. So closed.

She was about to ask Jin Qiu and others to open the door, but when she turned her head, she found that there was no one in the room except herself.

Lin Liu was stunned, feeling uneasy in her heart.

Just at this moment, there was a knocking sound of "Tuk Tuk Tuk" from the direction of the window.

Lin Liu hesitated, and walked to the window: "Who is outside?"

"Hahaha..." The lame Taoist laughed heartily, "Little friend Lin, don't panic, it's the poor Taoist who is knocking on your window. If the poor Taoist has something to ask, please open the window, so that you and I can face each other, and we can talk away."

Lin Liu was stunned for a moment, then raised his hand to open the window: "Can't you open the window?"

The lame Taoist smiled and said: "Although I am a foreigner, since I choose to enter the world of mortals, I must abide by some rules of the world of mortals. You are the daughter of a boudoir. If I come in rashly, it's okay if I don't get caught. If someone finds out , wouldn’t it ruin your reputation?”

Lin Liu was speechless: "Why did the priest lie to me?"

When she said this, the lame Taoist was not angry, but just smiled and said: "Little friend Lin is smart, but it's too straightforward. Even if you know that the poor Taoist is lying, don't expose it directly."

Lin Liu: "..."

The lame Taoist smiled lightly: "The poor Taoist came here today because there were so many people during the day, it was not good to expose Lin Xiaoyou's secret in full view. But I couldn't help being curious, so I had to take the liberty to bother."

Lin Liu was a little dazed: "Didn't you already see my identity..."

She stopped talking, not sure if she was thinking too much.

If the person standing in front of him was an ordinary person, Lin Liu might just go straight in and say what he has.Even if the other party has no good intentions, but now she is at the Lin family. Once she finds something is wrong, she can call someone to catch him.

But whether it's the ability of the lame Taoist to "leave as he wants" during the day, or just quietly making everyone disappear into the room...

The lame Taoist saw her guard and said with a smile: "What is Xiaoyou Lin thinking? Can you tell the poor Taoist?"

Lin Liu was stunned for a moment, then hesitantly said: "The maids in my room, how did you make them all disappear from my room?"

The lame Taoist shook his head: "The poor Taoist has no such ability. I just found a gap where everyone left the house temporarily, and temporarily locked the space here. Outside your door, there are still two maids standing at the moment Three wives, two are going out, and three are about to open the door to enter."

Lin Liu glanced in the direction of the door, not sure if he was lying.

The lame Taoist didn't mind her doubts, and raised his hand to signal: "If Xiaoyou Lin doesn't believe it, you can look out through the crack of the door, but it's best not to open the door. If so, my magic power will be invalidated, but I can only appear in all places." in front of people."

Lin Liu nodded, walked to the door, and looked out along the crack of the door. As the lame Taoist said, there happened to be five maids and women on the steps and corridors outside the door.

Lin Liu was relieved now, and walked up to the lame Taoist priest, "Does the Taoist priest want to enter the house?"

The other party shook his head: "No need, I only have one question. After asking, I will leave and I will not enter the house, so as not to leave any traces and make you unclear."

Lin Liu nodded and didn't ask any more questions.

The lame Taoist thought for a while and said with a smile: "My question is, does Xiaoyou Lin already know all the directions of the world here?"

He could see that Lin Liu was from another world, and he could also see that she had the ability to make people pregnant.

But the lame Taoist struggled for a long time, but couldn't figure out how Lin Liu managed to make Zhen Shiyin avoid all the key points so skillfully.

Lin Liu wanted to deny it, but she couldn't open her mouth when she met the Taoist priest's eyes.

She realized that this should also be a special ability of Taoist priests. After struggling a few times to confirm that she had no way to do it, she nodded knowingly: "As far as I know, your world is actually a book called A Dream of Red Mansions." book of."

Lin Liu didn't reveal too much, but the lame Taoist stretched out his right hand to count his fingers after listening, and quickly nodded suddenly: "Thank you Lin Xiaoyou, I already know everything I want to know."

After speaking, he turned around, as if wanting to leave.

Lin Liu hurriedly stopped him: "Master Taoist, since I have solved your doubts for you, should you also solve some problems for me?"

The lame Taoist turned around and looked at Lin Liu with a smile: "Little friend Lin, please tell me."

"I want to know, can Fairy Jiangzhu's tears return the kindness of waiter Shenying?" Lin Liu thought for a while, but was still a little uneasy, "Is there any special nectar that waiter Shenying used to water Fairy Jiangzhu in the first place?" role?"

The lame Taoist smiled: "The nectar watered by Shenying's waiter is naturally very effective, otherwise, before Fairy Crimson Pearl took shape, there would not only be a plant of grass growing on the riverside, why did she take shape alone? ? As for whether you can repay your kindness by still crying..."

He shook his head and reconfirmed Lin Liu's guess, "I've never heard of such a saying, so it shouldn't be possible. But even if tears are useful, Fairy Jiangzhu shouldn't cry at Jia's Baoyu, she should cry at Jia's Baoyu. Baoyu from the Zhen family is crying."

Lin Liu suddenly realized, did sister Lin in the book really repay her wrong kindness?

She couldn't figure it out: "Since Fairy Jiangzhu came down to repay her kindness, why did Fairy Jing Huan give Daiyu such an identity and make her recognize the wrong person?"

When Jing Huan Fairy was mentioned, the lame Taoist's expression became serious.

He hesitated for a moment, then explained: "Little friend is just an ordinary person, it's better not to mention her name in the future, she can always sense a thing or two. As for why..."

The lame Taoist sighed, "When the monk and I heard that Fairy Jing Huan wanted to send a group of fairies to accompany Shen Ying's waiter to go down to the earth to cross the catastrophe, we thought it was a good thing, so we sent the psychic gem to him. I also went down to experience a world of mortals.

Unexpectedly, after descending to the mortal world, we discovered that the identities of Tongling Baoyu and Shenying's waiter had been switched. The monk and I sensed something was wrong, and immediately went to Jinghuan Fairy's illusory realm, only to find that outside her palace that was originally shrouded in fairy spirit, There are many demons floating around.

The monk and I were taken aback, expecting that Fairy Jing Huan was not the same as before, so we didn't dare to stay, so we had to go down to earth immediately, trying to save a few poor people from her. "

Lin Liu was stunned: "So, the matter of repaying kindness and wronging the wrong person is the police... Her plan?"

The Taoist nodded: "The monk and I went to find the psychic jade, but he has already been reincarnated. Even if we want to take him away, we have no choice but to watch him being used by the police."

The psychic jade was originally the only stone left by Nuwa to mend the sky, not to mention other things, the merits carried on her body can blind everyone's eyes.

That Jing Huan exchanged him with Shenying's waiter, probably because he took a fancy to his special features, but he didn't know what she wanted to use the psychic jade for.

Lin Liu was a little dazed, this was completely different from the plot of the Red Chamber she knew.

After the lame Taoist finished speaking, he looked at Lin Liu with a smile: "The monk and I are both from this world. Even if we want to help, we can't interfere too much. Xiaoyou Lin is from another world, so he can intervene at will. Now It has destroyed many plans of Jing Huan and saved many poor people."

Lin Liu nodded, still unable to recover.

The lame Taoist shook his head, thought for a while, and took out a talisman from his pocket: "There are also many miraculous people in this world who have means beyond the reach of ordinary people. When you are human, you can also have some self-preservation power."

Lin Liu stretched out both hands to take the talisman, and was about to say thanks, when she looked up, only to find that the lame Taoist had disappeared.

In the blink of an eye, the door that was blown shut by the wind was pushed open from the outside, and the silent room became noisy.

Lin Liu came back to his senses, glanced briefly at the appearance of the talisman, and stuffed it into the purse he was carrying indiscriminately.

Because no one paid attention to Lin Liu, no one noticed her action just now.

Jin Qiu quickly brought a basin of water for her to wash, Lin Liu smiled, resolutely kept everything that happened before in her heart, and planned not to tell anyone.

A night without dreams, and it's dawn in a blink of an eye.

Lin Liu went straight to Jia Min's room after finishing her breakfast.The two younger ones, Daiyu and Maoshou, were still sleeping, and Jia Min was sitting in front of the bed watching them, with a peaceful smile and a gentle demeanor.

Seeing Lin Liu coming in, Jia Min smiled and waved at her: "Why did you come so early today? Why don't you sleep a little longer?"

Lin Liu shook her head with a worried expression.

Jia Min rolled her eyes and immediately understood what Lin Liu was worried about. She couldn't help but shook her head with a smile, "You think too much, kid. I told your father everything that happened during the day last night. I think the same, and I don't think your identity will affect our relationship. No matter what, you are our daughter, aren't you?"

Lin Liu opened her mouth, and after a while she smiled in relief: "Yes, I will always be your daughter."

Jia Min reached out and pulled her into his arms: "Isn't that enough? You will always be our daughter, and we will always be your parents. Nothing else really matters."

Lin Liu nodded: "I was thinking too much."

Jia Min smiled and patted her head: "It's because we didn't do well enough."

The mother and daughter talked for a while, and seeing that it was almost time for Lin Liu to attend class, she got up and saluted and said goodbye.

Not only Jia Min, but even Sheng Man and the others behaved as usual when they saw Lin Liu, as if they had never heard what the Taoist priest said yesterday.

Lin Liu lowered her head and smiled, feeling a little moved in her heart.

On the contrary, Ying Lian became closer to her: "Yesterday my father also told me that my younger brother was born thanks to my elder sister. I am so close to my elder sister. I will find a chance to repay you."

Lin Liu smiled and shook her head: "You study hard and spend this life safely and happily, that is my reward."

Yinglian looked at her shyly: "Sister, don't worry, I will."

The fact that a monk came to the Lin family together was like a stone falling into the water, causing ripples and then disappearing quickly, without any impact on the lives of the Lin family and the Zhen family.

Two days later, it was the [-]-day feast of Maoshou.

Because Maoshou was too weak compared to his brothers and sisters when he was born, and after three months of raising him, he still couldn't raise him to be white and fat, which really worried Jia Min and his wife.

Thinking that many places have the custom of wearing patchwork clothes for children who are prone to illness, Jia Min got into a carriage in person after confinement, walked the streets and alleys every day, and begged thousands of pieces of rags from people's homes. Then he personally sewed a patchwork garment for Maoshou to wear.

So on the day of the Hundred Days Banquet, when Jia Min brought Maoshou out, the eyes of all the guests were involuntarily attracted by the colorful patchwork clothes on Maoshou.

After knowing that the rags on this patchwork garment were all begged by Jia Min's family, the guests present looked at her with a little more admiration.

But Jia Min didn't take it seriously. After handing Maoshou to Lin Ruhai, she walked to the female family and sat down.

There are not many procedures for the hundred-day banquet, and there are only two important ones——

Uncle recognition ceremony, and naming ceremony.

The Rongguo Mansion was far away in the capital, so the two uncles, Jia She and Jia Zheng, naturally couldn't come here.So Jia Min directly sent someone to the Jia family in Jinling to invite two uncles of the same generation to help replace Jia Amnesty and Jia Zheng.

After the uncle recognition ceremony was over, Lin Ruhai went through the naming ceremony step by step, and finally wrote down the word "Maple" that had been drawn up on the paper. Maoshou, the protagonist of the [-]-day banquet, had completed his task and reached his maturity. when retreating.

The [-]-day banquet was held grandly, and it could be regarded as an explanation to the people in Jinling.

But when he was counting the presents, Lin Ruhai frowned, the folds piled up into mountains could almost kill a mosquito.

Lin Liutong was tidying up beside him. Seeing Lin Ruhai's expression was unfriendly, he stepped forward with some doubts and followed his line of sight...

"A figure painting?" Lin Liu blinked, and after seeing the name and inscription of the painting clearly, she also lowered her expression: "Is this Gu Kaizhi's "Luo Shen Fu Picture"?"

Gu Kaizhi was a very famous painter in the Eastern Jin Dynasty. Although there are not many paintings handed down, each one is a masterpiece.As long as it gets out, it will definitely be sought after by countless people who love painting.

If it is a treasure, the price is higher.

For example, Lin Ruhai's "Luo Shen Fu Picture" has a market price of at least 10 taels of silver.

No wonder Lin Ruhai's face darkened.

Lin Liu realized the danger, and quickly asked, "Father, do you know who gave this painting? Let's return this painting as soon as possible."

Generally, when people receive gifts, they will read out the name and the gift on the spot, which can also arouse some people's heart of comparison and make people give more precious gifts.

But the Lin family is not happy with this, and thinks that gift giving is just a wish, and doesn't care about the value. In order to prevent some guests with low value gifts from feeling ashamed when they sing the ceremony, the servants of the Lin family will not open the gift after receiving it, but Just put it aside and tidy it up after the banquet is over.

Who would have thought that even the Lin family showed their own attitude, and someone would give such a precious gift.

If the gift exceeds a certain value, it is not a gift, but a bribe.

Lin Ruhai flipped through the gift list, and quickly found the gift giver: "It was sent by Zhen Yingjia."

Lin Liu opened his mouth wide: "The Zhen family? Did he ask his father?"

Lin Ruhai shook his head: "Among the old people who followed the Supreme Emperor back then, only Concubine Zhen was favored. If the Zhen family really needs something, just go to Concubine Zhen directly. How can I be used? If Concubine Zhen is not convenient to do it, don't Is there still the princess of Beijing County?"

But the most frightening thing is that the Zhen family wants nothing.

If there is a request, the Lin family can still refuse on the grounds that they cannot help, and return the gift.

But there is nothing to ask, the Lin family can't even find a reason to refuse, and they can't find a suitable reason to return the gift.

Lin Liu frowned for a long time, then suddenly raised her head to look at Lin Ruhai: "Father, I remember that next month will be the provincial examination? President Zhen's eldest son should be going to the exam, right? Can you return a gift of comparable value?"