[Red Mansion] Adopted daughter and child

Jia Min was of course very happy when she heard the result, and immediately went to call Lin Da, and asked the three aunts to recognize their relatives on the spot.

But when looking for someone, I found that Lin Da had gone out with Lin Ruhai, and if he wanted to see him, he had to wait for Lin Ruhai to finish the matter.

Jia Min was a little embarrassed, but the three aunts shook their heads to express their understanding——

The wife's attitude is all here. Lin Da will come back sooner or later, and this will happen sooner or later. They really don't need to have other thoughts because of the wife's momentary omissions.

Jia Min smiled, and asked people to take out the deeds of sale of Aunt Li and Aunt Lai, and took out the three concubine release letters written by Lin Ruhai overnight, and handed them directly to the three aunts: "Get the deed of sale With the release of the concubine letter, you can go to the government office to get rid of your slave status the next day and restore your freedom. If you don't know how to do it, you can ask the servants in the house to help. It's a small matter, there is no need to run away yourself one trip."

Aunt Lin looked at Jia Min, pursed her lips and said with a smile: "It still doesn't work, I hope to see my name removed from the Lin family's household registration."

She had been looking forward to this for so many years, and she almost forgot that she still had this dream. She never thought that after arriving in Huaiyang, her dream would come true.Without watching everything happen with her own eyes, she always felt empty in her heart, and she couldn't really feel relieved.

Although Jia Min didn't understand, she wouldn't interfere with her thoughts, so she didn't say much.

The other two aunts didn't feel much about it. After hearing Jia Min's words, they directly took the deed and concubine release letter to the maids around them, and asked them to help them run errands to get the household registration.

Seeing that the business was done and the three aunts were about to leave, Jia Min hurriedly asked, "The three of you are planning to get married in Huaiyang, right? But I need to write to the capital to bring your relatives over." attend a wedding?"

Unexpectedly, the three aunts all chose to shake their heads on this question.

Aunt Lin's choice is understandable. After all, she was forced by her parents to be Lin Ruhai's concubine, and she has long accumulated resentment towards her parents.

Later, although the parents were not as insatiable as Mrs. Sun, they did take a lot of benefits from her, and Aunt Lin had already broken up with them.Later, her parents passed away, and the relationship between her and her brothers was even more estranged, as if she had broken off contact with her. There was really no need to invite people to her wedding.

But Aunt Li and Aunt Lai shook their heads, which was beyond Jia Min's expectations.

The two aunts seemed to see Jia Min's doubts, and they all opened their mouths to explain.

Aunt Li said: "I was bought back from outside by Madam Lai from Rongguo Mansion. I was separated from my family a long time ago. Even if I wanted to pick me up, no one picked me up."

Aunt Lai smiled: "As early as when I married my wife to the Lin family, my mother gave me 500 taels of silver, saying that she would only care about my two brothers in the future, and no longer care about my daughter. I am not If you don't know what's interesting, don't bother your mother."

As for the brothers?Forget it, she has no relationship with the two brothers.

Jia Min froze for a moment, then nodded: "Since that's the case, I won't notify the capital. I'll find suitable candidates for you in Huaiyang, and then I'll personally preside over the wedding for you."

The three aunts were overjoyed and thanked them repeatedly.

Before leaving, Aunt Lai moved her lips, as if she wanted to say something to Jia Min, but she was pulled away by Aunt Lin who was silent beside her. She immediately lowered her head and left the main room silently.

Xing Hua, who was beside Jia Min, saw this scene in her eyes, and couldn't help but said, "Madam, I think the three aunts are afraid that they have something to hide from you, why don't you interrogate Ren Haosheng?"

Jia Min shook her head: "I think they have some scruples, maybe they will say it after they get married, there is really no need to force them to speak now."

Xinghua thought about it, and also felt that the three aunts were trapped in the back house all day long, and there was really no way to find out what was going on. She also felt that maybe they didn't know about something, but instead they wanted to ask their wives. Can't part my mouth...

So she quickly forgot about the three aunts and didn't take it seriously.

According to the requirements of the three aunts, Jia Min quickly selected suitable unmarried candidates for them——

Because of their age, most of these candidates are widowers who have lost their wives.

But Jia Min put his heart into it, and basically all the candidates he selected had no offspring, and most of them had little savings in their families.Even if there are one or two children, the family conditions are better than others, and there are no sons under their knees.

The three aunts marry in, at least they will not face the situation of "difficult to be a stepmother".

When Jia Min handed over the list of candidates to the three aunts, Aunt Lai and Aunt Li were fine, but Aunt Lin burst into tears on the spot.

After the three of them looked through carefully, they quickly selected the desired candidate.

Jia Min looked at it and asked seriously: "Are you sure you've made your choice and you won't regret it? There are so many people on the list, you don't need to make a decision so quickly, you can take it back and take a good look, and even ask the maid around you to help You can do some research."

The three aunts looked at each other and quickly shook their heads.

Aunt Lai looked at Jia Min with a smile: "We believe in your wife's vision, you will definitely not harm us."

Jia Min smiled, quite happy for their trust in him.

Soon, under the auspices of Jia Min and Lin Ruhai, Lin Dazhen adopted the three aunts as goddaughters in front of hundreds of members of the Lin family.

Although the three aunts are remarrying, and the other party is also remarrying, but with the face of the Lin family, the other party does not dare to belittle, and they all strictly follow the process of three letters and six rituals, and walked over step by step.

The only problem may be that less than three months have passed since the marriage was decided to the wedding, which is a bit too short.

But for the three aunts who were thinking about a new life, three months was not only not short, it was even a bit long.

For convenience, the three aunts got married on the same auspicious day.

Originally, Jia Min was worried about outsiders talking, and wanted to rent a yard outside for the three aunts, and let them get married in that yard.

But after Aunt Lin and the three discussed it, they agreed that it would be better to marry in the Lin family——

Getting married in the courtyard outside is nothing more than worrying that outsiders will know that they used to be Lin Ruhai's aunt, so they will look down on them.But this matter is not a secret at all, as long as you want to inquire, you will always know.

Moreover, the husbands of the three people all know about their past, so there is no need to lie to them.

On the contrary, if they were married in the Lin family, even if other people knew their previous identities, they would also know that they were backed by the Lin family, so they would not dare to bully them easily.

Jia Min and his wife didn't mind this matter, so they agreed to their proposal.

The process of preparing for the wedding has been uneventful, without any accidents, and soon the night before the wedding came.

It stands to reason that the three newlyweds will stay in their own rooms on this day and cannot easily come out.But to Jia Min's surprise, that night, the three of them made an appointment to come to the main room together, saying that they had something to see.

Lin Ruhai had already come back at that time, and was talking with Lin Liu, when the three aunts begged to see Jia Min, they couldn't help but look at each other.

Jia Min was worried that the three of them had something to ask for, so he quickly asked someone to invite them in.

After the three of them entered, they saw Lin Ruhai sitting next to them at first sight.Thinking of the time they spent together in the past, the three of them had complex expressions and violent mood swings.

But thinking of their purpose of coming here today, the three of them immediately regained their composure.

Aunt Lin is still in the lead——

I don't know when, this Aunt Lin who was like an invisible person got the right to speak and became the leader of the three aunts.

She pursed her lips, first looked at Jia Min, and finally turned her head to look at Lin Ruhai: "Master, we hesitated for a long time, but we decided to tell you one thing, you will definitely care."

After finishing speaking, she took out a handkerchief from her sleeve pocket, "This is a token of love I gave to my ex-fiancé. I thought he would burn it after he got married, but I didn't expect to keep it. And... Before When I was in the capital, someone handed me this handkerchief, saying that my ex-fiancé would never forget my old relationship and wanted to reconnect with me."

To be honest, when she heard the news, her heart was very shaken, and her originally silent heart slowly became active.

If she hadn't kept in mind that her ex-fiancé found a matchmaker for a blind date on the second day she became Lin Ruhai's concubine, and if she got engaged soon, got married and had children a year later, she might not be able to bear it at that time, and would have a resurgence with him. .

But this obviously cannot be said.

She lowered her eyelids and said in a low voice, "I refused at the time, but from time to time, people sent me letters, gifts, and some small objects that I used to like very much. I don't know who the other party asked to help deliver the letters. But this kind of behavior continued for a year, until the master and wife returned from Jinling, these things were gone."

"I burned the letter and those things as soon as I received it. I only kept this handkerchief until today."

After all, it is the only evidence of a relationship when she was young. Even Aunt Lin, who has always had a clear goal, can hardly keep calm when she sees the handkerchief.

"Before he left the capital, he wrote to me, saying that his wife was seriously ill, and he might not live long. If I had the opportunity to leave the Lin family, he would be able to marry me in immediately after his wife died."

After finishing speaking, Aunt Lin took a careful look at Lin Ruhai. Seeing his gloomy face, she immediately lowered her head, not daring to look any further, "Before I was dazzled by emotions, and I didn't realize what was wrong. Until my wife said she would let us out, After I was happy, I immediately regained my composure, and only then did I realize what was wrong."

"I thought I was a special case, but I didn't expect that when I chatted with Aunt Lai and Aunt Lai, I slipped my mouth and discovered that they had similar experiences during this year."

After she finished speaking, Aunt Lai immediately said: "A year ago, I began to receive frequent letters from my brother Lai Er. The letters seemed to have the intention of repairing the relationship with me. I'm just a cold-hearted person. Now that it has been torn apart, there is no reason to repair the relationship, so I have been ignoring it."

As she spoke, she took out a small cloth bag from her sleeve pocket and handed it directly to Jia Min, "Here are all the letters my brother wrote to me."

Because the relationship between the two is transparent, and there is nothing in her heart that cannot be revealed to others, she has been preserved to this day and has not been burned.

Immediately afterwards, Aunt Li also took out a bag of things: "A year ago, the sister I had the best relationship with in the Rongguo Mansion suddenly sent me a bag of things, saying that someone found her with this and wanted to be with her." I recognize my relatives."

Jia Min took it, opened it, and found that there were fetal hair and swaddling clothes inside, as well as a letter.The strangest thing is that this letter is well preserved, it seems that it has never been opened.

She froze for a moment, then looked at Aunt Li: "Can you take it apart?"

Aunt Li nodded: "Madam, you can watch it if you want. I am different from others, and I have a very good memory. I always remember that I was taken to Ren Yazi by my father and sold, just to save a gift for my brother, so this letter Since I got it, it has never been opened."

Jia Min opened it immediately, and found that in addition to writing some touching thoughts in her heart, she also wrote some interesting stories about Aunt Li's childhood, and her birthmark and so on.

Obviously, as Aunt Li said, the other party wrote this letter to recognize their relatives.

There is nothing wrong with these three things separately, but when the three things happened at the same time, even Jia Min immediately found out that something was wrong——

Obviously, someone wants to deal with the Lin family.

Jia Min turned to look at Lin Ruhai in a daze: "But we were still in Jinling a year ago, why did those people plan to deal with the Lin family so early?"

Ever since she said she would let the three aunts go, Aunt Lin's performance has become more active day by day, not to mention Jia Min, even the servants in the house who are not familiar with her have seen her joy. Clearly.

Who doesn't know that Aunt Lin has always wanted to leave the Lin family?

If she hadn't said the words of letting her concubine go first, who could guarantee that Aunt Lin would not choose to take risks and really do something bad under the double pressure of leaving the Lin family and her first love?

It's not just the Lin family, even Aunt Lai and Aunt Li, who seem to be indifferent to those people's methods, are not without the possibility of harming others——

Those people found that if the two of them didn't take this trick, they could always think of the next trick.

There have always been only those who have been thieves for a thousand days. How can there be any reason to guard against thieves for a thousand days?If those people don't give up, who knows if these two people will be moved by other methods?

Thinking of this, Jia Min suddenly shuddered.

What scares her the most is that she has never been able to figure out why the other party did this.

A year ago, they were still in Jinling.

Lin Ruhai and Lin Liu looked at each other, and combined with what happened in the past year or so, they quickly had some guesses.

Lin Liu spoke first: "Mother, don't worry, those people should come for the position of inspector of salt and censor."

Lin Ruhai nodded: "The job of inspecting the salt censor is of great importance. No matter whether it is the emperor or the emperor, it is impossible to point out a person to take up this position. After countless debates, the candidate can be decided."

After all, the patrolling salt censor is in charge of the salt administration, and the annual tax revenue of the salt administration accounts for almost half of the treasury's tax revenue, which cannot be tolerated by the court.

And once one of his own people is placed in this position, even if it is just a little casually, the money he gets will be a huge amount, which can fully meet the huge expenses of someone above.

It's just that there are two people in power in the court now, one is dedicated to pleasure, and the other has no eyes for rubbing sand, and can't tolerate others' corruption and bribery at all.

The two wrestled with each other, and this position naturally became "a must-have for military strategists."

Some people want to deal with him, Lin Ruhai is already prepared, some people want to start from his back house, he also expected, some people even make a breakthrough on the three aunts, he is not completely unaware.

The only thing Lin Ruhai didn't expect was that the other party's arrangement was so early.

Lin Liu glanced at Lin Ruhai, and sighed: "Obviously, the Supreme Emperor and the Emperor had chosen to let father be the inspector of salt and censor a year ago."

It's just that there has been no leaks before.

But most people don't know the plans of the Supreme Emperor and the Emperor, but the people around them don't necessarily know.Even if there were only one or two of them, if there were people around him who were related to the Jiangnan Salt Administration, they would have to guard against Lin Ruhai.

If the three aunts hadn't spoken out about it themselves, they might still be kept in the dark, and they would be tricked when the time comes, and they still don't know when they were tricked.

Lin Liu smiled, got up and walked in front of the three aunts, and saluted them one by one.

The three aunts were startled and stretched out their hands to support her.

Lin Liu took the opportunity to infuse some abilities into the three of them. After they got married, they would definitely be able to conceive immediately. This would also make their life after marriage a little easier, which was also her repayment to the three aunts.

The three of Lin and Liu still had something to discuss, so the three aunts bid farewell and left.

After they left, Lin Liu looked at Lin Ruhai: "It's been a year, and the other party is located in the capital, and the mountains are high and the water is far away. We have no way to investigate the other party's identity. What's the father's plan?"

Lin Ruhai shook his head: "The enemy is in the dark and we are in the light. It is really impossible to guard against."

Jia Min said: "I will sort out the servants in the house again, maybe I can find a few wrong people."

Lin Liu thought for a while, looked at Jia Min and said, "When mother investigates, remember to pay attention to the people we brought out from the capital. Gusu is too far away from the capital, and the news didn't reach the capital so quickly. Even if you want to buy people here It's impossible for a servant to be so fast. On the contrary, it's the capital side..."

Because of trust issues, most of the servants taken away by the Lin family twice were the sons of the Lin family.

The family's children and grandparents have lived in the Lin family for generations. Although they are more trustworthy than other servants, they also have many relatives and friends.And these relatives, friends, and even their family members are the best means of threat.

The Lin family can use these people to threaten their loyalty, and other people can also use these people to threaten their subordinates to betray as long as they find an opportunity.

Although they go out as a family, there are always too many family members, and only half of them can stay.

The Lin family has been away from Beijing for three years, and no one is guarding the capital. There are too many things that may happen.

Jia Min nodded again and again: "Don't worry, I will let people watch those people."

It's just that tomorrow is the day when the three aunts will go out, so Jia Min can't make a big move. It wasn't until the three aunts returned home that Jia Min sorted out the top and bottom, and successfully found out the five children who often wandered around the kitchen. And the servant who almost succeeded.

These five servants were really all brought out from the capital.

Jia Min called all the servants in the house to the garden, beat the five servants half to death in front of everyone, and threw them out of the Lin family on the spot.

Because there was no one to treat them, the five servants died of wound infection that night.

Even their family members did not get well, and were all sold to Ren Yazi.

Jia Min is soft-hearted, but once her family is threatened, she will never do it easier than Jia Mu——

After all, she was taught by Jia's mother by her side by precept and deed.

This is also the first time Jia Min has shown her cruel side in front of everyone.But unexpectedly, no matter Lin Ruhai, Lin Liu, or even the other little ones, they didn't think Jia Min like this was scary, on the contrary, they got closer to her.

The Lin family is not stupid, so they naturally know who Jia Min's attack is for.

The servant was taken aback by Jia Min's thunderous tactics, and for a long time after that, he was afraid to do things with trepidation, not even daring to be lazy, let alone communicate with the outside world.

The Lin family was very calm for a while.

In addition, the Lin family married three aunts before, and when the news spread that Jia Min had killed five servants, even the wives on Huaiyang's side had their tails between their tails, and they didn't dare to mention it in front of Jia Min again. A few words from Yangzhou Shouma.

Afterwards, Jia Min never forgot to have people staring at the kitchen all the time, so he was worried that someone would prescribe medicine.

But maybe Lin Ruhai just came to Huaiyang not long ago, and has been actively participating in various banquets organized by Huaiyang officials. The salt merchant officials here have a good attitude towards him, and the Lin family has not had any other accidents for the time being. .

In the blink of an eye, more than half a year has passed.

News suddenly came from the capital, saying that Jia Jing's wife had dystocia and died after giving birth to a girl.

My mother died early, my father became a monk, my elder brother is a jerk, and my sister-in-law is afraid of her husband, and she doesn't care about people and things he doesn't like.So one month after the girl was born, no one had named her yet.

Mother Jia felt distressed when she saw it, so she simply had someone carry her to Rongguo Mansion, like welcoming the spring and exploring the spring, she took the name Xichun along with Yuanchun to raise her well.

Along with Xichun's birth came the news of Yuanchun Xiaoxuan's entry into the palace.

The Supreme Emperor gave the Rongguo Mansion face, and after she entered the palace, she was directly arranged to be a female official in the Queen's Palace.

It's a pity that today's people are very disgusted with the forces of the Four Kings and Eight Dukes. Even if Yuan Chun, a beautiful woman who is beautiful and beautiful, dangles in front of him all day, he can still sit still and treat her as nothing, and has no intention of benefiting from it at all.

Mother Jia had anticipated this, and when she mentioned it in her heart, she used ordinary words, without any extra emotion.

Even when it was mentioned that Yuan Chun couldn't bear the pain of serving others, and couldn't bear the humiliation of the emperor treating her as nothing, Jia Mu's tone was quite flat, as if Yuan Chun was not her granddaughter, but just a stranger.

Not long after, news came that Li Wan was pregnant again.

At the same time, Jia's mother also mentioned that the maid in Jia She's room was also pregnant.

The good news of Rongguo Mansion came out one after another, but Jia Min couldn't laugh at all, because as the Lin family stayed in Huaiyang for longer and longer, the local officials and wealthy businessmen in Huaiyang had different attitudes towards their husband and wife. colder -

Because this year is almost at the end of the year, there is no news that someone will replace Lin Ruhai in the capital.

The Xunyan Yushi is appointed once a year, and usually when the Chinese New Year comes, the successor for this position should be announced.Even if there is no news from Huaiyang, they still have eyes to see if Lin Ruhai is going to return to Beijing to report on his work.

Lin Ruhai himself was also anxious. Although the position of patrol salt censor was easy to make money, for someone like him who was not short of money and didn't plan to make money, it was a hot potato.

He can work hard to balance the forces of all parties in this position, and he has exhausted all his efforts after persisting for a year, but judging from the intentions of the capital, it seems that he is still required to continue in this position.

But the fact is just as Lin Ruhai expected.

Just after the Spring Festival this year, the imperial decree finally came from the capital.

But the result was that Lin Ruhai was allowed to continue to serve as the patrolling censor——

Because during the year when Lin Ruhai was the inspector of the salt censor, the salt tax in Jiangnan and other places was a full 100 million taels of silver more than last year.

The difference was so huge, even if the Supreme Emperor regretted it and wanted to replace Lin Ruhai in this position, the Emperor was willing to bear the anger of the Supreme Emperor and continue to push Lin Ruhai in this position.

When Lin Ruhai heard this number, she was almost scared to death——

It's just that he is not corrupt. Who would have thought that those officials and salt merchants would tuck their tails and dare not mess around, so that Jiangnan's tax revenue was so much higher?

When he received the imperial edict, Lin Ruhai could still maintain his expression, but when he got home, he slumped on the chair and kept muttering: "It's over..."