[Red Mansion] Adopted daughter and child

Jia Min explained: "In a letter from the Rongguo Mansion before, it was mentioned that Zhu Ge'er's wife was pregnant and gave birth. Not only Zhu Ge'er's daughter-in-law, but also your uncle's concubine had a concubine who was pregnant and gave birth in the same year. One was named Jia Lan. , and one was named Jia Cong. It’s just that we had too many things at the time, so we didn’t specifically tell you.”

Lin Liu nodded: "I'm just curious, why a child suddenly appeared."

It's just a trivial matter, if you know it, it's just a gift, it doesn't have much to do with the Lin family.

On the contrary, it was the matter of Jia Zhu wanting to end Chunwei, which made Lin Ruhai even more unacceptable: "Brother Zhu has just passed the exam for three years, if I have traveled abroad to study, seen many customs and customs, and have some understanding of practical things Forget it, he has hardly left the Rongguo Mansion in the past three years, and where did he get this knowledge? Just end up like this, isn’t it a waste of time?”

"If he is a firm-minded person, that's fine. Even if he fails the exam, it's just an experience, and it will be helpful for the next exam. But I see that Brother Zhu is very easy to be influenced by the outside world. If he fails the exam this time, I'm afraid there will be some troubles in the future." A period of sluggishness is not good for his studies."

Today is a person who likes to do practical things, and the topic of the policy theory of Chunwei in the township examination every year is also related to the politics of the country.Jia Zhu stayed in Rongguo Mansion, where did he have the opportunity to get in touch with these things?

Lin Ruhai shook his head, not understanding why he made such a choice.

Do you think that this time, as before, you can also win the game like before, as long as you sign up for Chunwei, you will definitely pass the exam?

They didn't know that Jia Zhu didn't want to participate in Chunwei this time.

After being in contact with Lin Ruhai and Zhen Shiyin before, he was instructed by them, and he knew his talents, abilities and character very well, and he knew very well that it would be best for him only if he had full confidence before ending the game.

It's a pity that Jia Zheng saw that his son had won the examination at a young age, and his ranking was still so high, so he felt that Jia Zhu would definitely be a tribute this time, so he insisted on forcing Jia Zhu to sign up.Jia Zhu was unwilling, and he even secretly signed up for him without telling the whole family.

When Jia Zhu found out, she was angry and furious, but she had nothing to do with Jia Zheng as a father.

In the end, he even thought about simply burying his illness.

When Jia Zheng knew about it, he provoked him with words, saying that he would be a coward if he didn't go to Chunwei, and he was looked down upon by others, and he was not worthy to be his son.

Jia Zhu was almost not overwhelmed by Jia Zheng's remarks, so he had no choice but to find Jia's mother. Under Jia's mother's persecution, Jia Zheng truthfully said that he insisted on letting Jia Zhu take the exam because he boasted in front of his colleagues. Haikou said that Jia Zhu would definitely win the tribute this time.

Mother Jia: "..."

Jia Zhu: "..."

The grandfather and grandson couldn't understand at all why Jia Zheng would talk nonsense in front of his colleagues, and now he wanted to see his own face lost, but he came to persecute his son again.

But things are already like this, Jia Zheng will definitely force Jia Zhu to take part in the test, even if he is vague in front of Jia Mu, he will never relax his urging when facing Jia Zhu in private .

Jia Zhu was so annoyed by Jia Zheng that his brain ached, and finally he had to agree to his request.

That is to say, Jia Zhu still has Li Wan to comfort him, who can relieve him a little bit of emotion, so that he won't feel panicked, otherwise, with such a father on the table, he will be pissed to death sooner or later.

It was a foregone conclusion that Jia Zhu's participation in the Chunwei event was a foregone conclusion, so he naturally started to study hard, even if he couldn't win the tribute, at least he couldn't let his ranking be so bad that people would laugh at him.

Lin Ruhai was puzzled, but he was far away in Guangzhou, and he could only "look at the ocean and sigh" about what happened in the capital, but there was nothing he could do.

Chunwei is generally held in March and April, and about two months after Chunwei is the palace examination.Generally, no one fails the palace examination, but it is divided into three rankings. The top three in the first ranking are known to the public as the number one scholar, second place, and Tanhua; the second ranking is Jinshi, with a bright future; Even if the family background is very good, in the end, it basically stops beyond the third rank.

Therefore, in the eyes of many people, being a Jinshi in the examination is actually not as good as failing in Sun Shan.

According to Lin Ruhai's estimation of Jia Zhu, he was afraid that he would be dismissed in Chunwei, and he would have no chance of entering the palace examination at all.

But no one thought that he actually passed the Gongshi exam.

And it ranks well.

After Lin Ruhai got the news, she was not happy, but subconsciously wondered if there was something wrong behind it.

He really wanted to write a letter, asking Jia Zhu not to sign up for the palace exam afterward.

But he was stopped by Lin Liu: "Father is kind, the old lady can see it, cousin Zhu can see it, but other people may not be able to see it. If you write to cousin Zhu not to take part in the palace examination, I'm afraid it will make you laugh." People think you have delayed Cousin Zhu's future."

Lin Ruhai thought of the temperament of the second-bedroom couple, and was silent for a while, but did not write a letter to the capital.

Not long after that, I really heard that Jia Zhu was preparing to take the palace examination.

But the end result...

"You mean, cousin Zhu won the Jinshi examination, I'm afraid it was specially arranged by the superiors?" Lin Liu was a little dazed, "Isn't it? If the superiors don't want him to be an official, just let him fail the exam. Why? Let him pass the Jinshi examination?"

Lin Ruhai told Lin Liu that he was born as a Jinshi and was underestimated and excluded by the officials, and said: "Perhaps the Wang family jumped too high, which made the emperor fearful. It is impossible for him to let the Jia family who has the same spirit as the Wang family produce a Jinshi." Born as a civil servant, otherwise the civil and military union will come..."

What's more, the Jia family still has a Jia Baoyu who was born with jade in his mouth. The position under the emperor's buttocks has not yet been secured, so why bother to find trouble for himself.

Lin Liu opened his mouth, but couldn't speak for a while.

It's just a pity that Jia Zhu, a good Jinshi seedling, became a fellow Jinshi with a limited ceiling for advancement because of Jia Zheng's push.

The Lin family was still feeling sorry for Jia Zhu who was far away in the capital, but there was news from Jinling that Zhen Yingjia's eldest son was gone.

The news was so sudden that the Lin family was caught off guard——

In the past three years in Jinling, the Lin family and the Zhen family had become friends, and they had not broken off their contacts during these years. Zhen Yingjia's eldest son had an accident, and the distance between the Lin family and Jinling was not too far, so it was time to come to express condolences.

After the family discussed, it was finally decided that Jia Min would take Lin Liu to Jinling.

The funeral was very grand, not only the local famous families and dignitaries in Jinling attended the funeral, but also famous people from the south of the Yangtze River and even the surrounding areas came with their families to attend the funeral.

But this funeral was just like the original wedding, and something happened——

It turned out that Zhen Yingjia's wife and daughter-in-law quarreled at the funeral. One relied on their status and the other relied on their family background. They refused to give way even in front of their son/husband's mourning hall. It was to expose the truth about the death of Zhen Yingjia's eldest son.

It turned out that the eldest son of Zhen Yingjia was obsessed with beauty, even though there were so many troubles on the day of the wedding and returning home, he was not at all wary of women. Proposed as an aunt.

Not only himself, but even Mrs. Zhen was on the sidelines, deliberately giving the beautiful maids around him to his son.

The euphemism is that the son has no one to serve him, so he cannot be wronged.

Mrs. Zhen handled this matter very well, but her daughter-in-law and brothers had already left Jinling, and Mrs. Zhen used filial piety and women's morals to oppress her, no matter how aggrieved she felt, she could only swallow this grievance.

Just because the daughter-in-law doesn't make trouble doesn't mean she can't do anything.

The wife of Zhen Yingjia's eldest son also saw clearly the virtue of the person next to her pillow, and knew that this was a person who liked beauty, so she simply turned on the maids around her, and after being raised as aunts, she and the few girls bestowed by Mrs. Zhen The maids compete for favor.

The granddaughter-in-law of Zhen's parents was born in the county prince's mansion, and the maids around her were all trained by the maids in the palace, and they also learned piano, chess, calligraphy and painting from her. When it comes to fighting for favor, these little maids are really not brought by her. Those dowry rivals.

But the servant girl bestowed by Mrs. Zhen bears the title bestowed by an elder, and the eldest son of Zhen's family dare not be too negligent.

Therefore, the son of Zhen's family, who had been placed with high hopes by the whole family of Zhen, fell into the wives and concubines' rivalry, and he didn't have a spare time at night.

However, Zhen Yingjia wanted this eldest son to pass the Juren examination, and then to enter the Jinshi examination, so that he could enter the imperial court to honor his ancestors, so he specially made people stare at him to study hard during the day. Beat up.

Zhen Yingjia was obviously a literati, but he hit his son with a stick as thick as an adult's arm. At first, he was worried that his son would still have to study, so the attack was not too heavy. But when his son took the provincial examination again, he fell down halfway again because of his weak health. After being carried home, Zhen Yingjia's heart was filled with anger.

When her son recovered from his illness, Zhen Yingjia felt that he couldn't go on like this, so he specially hired a martial arts master for him, hoping to let him exercise.

Unexpectedly, under the guidance of Master Wu, he passed out again before he practiced for a long time.

Zhen Yingjia was so angry that she simply rushed all the imperial physicians in the family to her son's bed, insisting on making them say he was ugly, and would not stop until he found out why his son was so weak.

Under the instruction of the old lady, several imperial physicians have been concealing the truth for the eldest son of Zhen. Now seeing Zhen Yingjia's truth, they don't dare to hide it any more. The facts are spoken.

It's not just female sex, but also studying too much during the day, so that I don't get enough rest.

The combination of the two led to the extremely poor health of Zhen's parents.

But Zhen Yingjia only listened to the former reason and turned a deaf ear to the latter reason——

Scholars are supposed to work hard, and he didn't force his son to light up the lights to read at night. How could it be a burden on his son's body?

Therefore, he was particularly displeased with the ostentatious concubines in his son's room, and whenever he saw the eldest son, he would definitely scold him head and face.If you catch your son distracted by reading, you used to be careful when you start, but now you don't, you can do it as hard as you want.

Under such high pressure, Zhen Yingjia's eldest son inevitably neglected the concubines in the room.

This is a good thing, because Zhen Yingjia's eldest son can rest well because he doesn't go to the concubine's room very much at night, and he won't be distracted from reading during the day like before, and can't read at all.

Unexpectedly, the maidservants around Zhen's parents and granddaughter-in-law were too competitive for favor, every time Zhen Yingjia wanted to go to the concubine's room, she would definitely go to their concubine's room, and would not go to the concubine's room arranged by Mrs. Zhen.

After Mrs. Zhen found out about this, she naturally didn't want to lag behind her daughter-in-law, so she reminded her son a few words from time to time, telling him not to let her heart down.

Zhen Yingjia, the eldest son, had no choice but to find time to go to the rooms of the other maids.

This came and went, and slowly revived, Zhen Yingjia's eldest son returned to the previous days of singing and singing every night.

Seeing his academic progress, Zhen Yingjia hadn't hit him for a long time, and gradually raised his courage.On several occasions, he even took his concubine's room to play prostitution in the study.

After a long time, it is inevitable that Zhen Yingjia will bump into her.

Zhen Yingjia considers herself a gentleman, and she can't see other people doing things that are insulting to politeness.Seeing that his son was not studying well, he brought his concubine to mess around in the study room. He was furious on the spot, picked up a stick and beat his son.

He was ruthless, and his son's body that he had raised a few days ago was emptied again, and then Zhen Yingjia's eldest son fell ill on the bed.

This matter was originally a secret scandal of the Zhen family, even if the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law had resentment in their hearts, they did not dare to make a noise at such a time.

The daughter-in-law of Zhen's family would make a big fuss in the mourning hall regardless of her status, because Mrs. Zhen's family went too far and wanted to sell all the maids around her——

She was already a loner in Jinling, if she had no arms around her to help her, wouldn't she be bullied by others in the future?Even if he wanted to send a letter to the capital crying and complaining about his grievances, he might not be able to send it.

For the sake of her own future, she couldn't care about filial piety, so she quarreled with her mother-in-law on the spot.

The result of the noise is...

Not only were all the maids around the granddaughter-in-law of Zhen's parents sold out, even the maids and mother-in-law around Mrs. Zhen's family were all sold out by the old lady.

Marriages are a joke, and funerals are a joke.

The old lady was getting old and couldn't bear the stimulation, and passed out after dealing with the farce of the enemy mother-in-law and daughter-in-law.

After Zhen Yingjia found out, she hated the wife she didn't like even more. Afterwards, she only loved the concubine's room and almost never went to her room anymore.

Before the funeral was over, Jia Min took Lin Liu and left Zhen's house.

Thinking about what happened at the funeral, Jia Min regretted for a while——

Why did she have to worry about the relationship between the two families, so she insisted on bringing her daughter to Zhen's house?Such careless people come here to dirty their ears once in a while.She is already married, so she just treats the Zhen family's affairs as a joke. Her daughter is only twelve, and she hasn't even started to see her marriage yet!

Lin Liu looked at the regret that could not be hidden on Jia Min's face, and couldn't help laughing: "Mother don't have to think too much, disputes between wives and concubines have existed since ancient times, even if I read some poems written by great writers, I can get a glimpse of them." , Mother really doesn’t need to make a fuss.”

Jia Min was stunned, remembering that there was a category of poems called boudoir resentment poems, she was dumbfounded.

Lin Liu looked at Jia Min with a smile: "The matter of the Zhen family has nothing to do with us, but I have heard that the second uncle Zheng seems to have the same temperament as Mrs. Zhen. They are both people who like face-saving and are good at handling sticks? I think my mother You don’t have to regret it, but you should be grateful.”

"Since you heard such tragic things in Zhen's house, why not write to the old lady and let her learn from it, so that you can control the second uncle Zheng and don't let him take action against your son. It's all about knowing the severity of the attack, the most worrying thing It was a hand that was moved out of anger. At that time, there was no way to make a move. If you will..."

Jia Min immediately thought of the two brothers Jia Zhu and Jia Baoyu. Because Jia Zhu stayed with Lin Ruhai and Zhen Shiyin for a few years, he corrected some habits formed in Rongguo Mansion.

But how can the teachings of two or three years fight against the habits developed in more than ten or twenty years?What's more, Jia Zhu has now returned to the big dye vat of Rongguo Mansion, even if he can persist now, what about in the future?Under the influence of the surrounding environment, can he really persevere?

And that Jia Baoyu, I heard that he is only a few years old, but he looks like a hungry ghost, he especially likes to mess around in the inner curtains, and it's okay to say inconspicuous words, and he especially likes to eat the rouge on the maid's mouth...

Although Jia Min didn't like Jia Baoyu as a nephew, when he thought of the stick in his second brother's hand, he also felt chills: "Little Qilin, you are right, I really should write a letter to my mother to tell what happened to the Zhen family." She, so that she can control the second brother."

As for her second brother's indifferent appearance, if he doesn't care, he might really be able to kill a son in the future.

Jia Min couldn't wait to return to Guangzhou, so he wrote a letter in Jinling and sent it to the capital.About half a month after they returned to Guangzhou, the capital also sent a reply.

When Jia Min saw the reply letter, she was overjoyed again——

It turns out that after Jia Zhu passed the Jinshi examination, Jia Zheng felt very ashamed. Later, he also met Jia Zhu playing in the study. Although the object was not a concubine but Li Wan, this also made Jia Zheng very annoyed.

Like Zhen Yingjia, he picked up a stick and beat Jia Zhu up.

Fortunately, after hearing Lin Ruhai's words, Jia Zhu kept a certain distance from his concubine's house after getting married, and would only go to Li Wan's house for rest on weekdays. Even in the face of mother Wang's instigation and persecution, he withstood the pressure and did not compromise.

In addition, Jia Zhu has never lost his martial arts, and his body has been maintained very well.So Jia Zheng's beating this time, even though Jia Zhu was lying on the bed for a while, it didn't hurt his muscles and bones, and ruined his foundation.

Afterwards, Jia Zheng saw that Jia Zhu was not pleasing to the eye, but Jia Zhu was cautious in his words and deeds, but he did not let him grasp the "handle". The father and son have always lived in peace.

When Jia Min's letter was delivered to Rongguo Mansion, the old lady opened it and looked at it. Thinking about Jia Zheng's actions during this period, she immediately realized that the father and son should not stay together anymore, otherwise something would happen to Jia Zhu sooner or later.

So she immediately entrusted Jia Zhu with an old friend from the Rongguo Mansion, and directly arranged a post for Jia Zhu, hoping to let him leave the capital and temporarily avoid Jia Zheng's wrath——

Even if the old lady is Jia Zheng's mother, she is powerless to stop Jia Zheng from disciplining his son.If it was possible, Jia Baoyu in the original book would not have been beaten so many times.

The old lady thought that all kinds of changes in Jia Zhu started after going to Jinling, so she specially asked her relatives to arrange Jia Zhu's foreign job in Guangzhou.

Perhaps what she was thinking was that Lin Ruhai could take care of one or two. Of course, Lin Ruhai would not mind taking care of a junior, but it was such an unfortunate coincidence that Lin Ruhai was handed over to the emperor just after Jia Zhu made an appointment to come to Guangzhou. Yes, the experiments and data related to the Yantian method have already been placed on the emperor's desk.

Because he learned a lot of modern knowledge from Lin Liu, when Lin Ruhai wrote this secret booklet, he also subconsciously used more data.

After the emperor saw it, he really felt a little uncomfortable at first, but after he got used to it, he felt that the memorial written in this way was clear at a glance. Even if he didn't understand the data in it, he could see the benefits of the Yantian method after comparing it with the previous one.

Now that he saw the benefits, he naturally didn't want to let go of such a good idea.

So he ordered Lin Ruhai to promote the Yantian method in Guangdong and Guangxi, and must let the sea salt produced by the Yantian method enter thousands of households, so that the poorest people can afford salt.

Naturally, such a grand wish cannot be easily achieved, and it requires countless energy.

There is a small town in Guangzhou in Guangdong for proofing. As long as it is entrusted to trustworthy officials and local people who have watched the steps of the Yantian Law before, it will be easy to promote the Yantian Law. There is no precedent in Guangxi, so Lin Ruhai can only watch it personally with.

So Jia Zhu had just arrived in Guangzhou with his wife and children, but Lin Ruhai's family had packed their bags and was already going to Guangxi.

Lin Ruhai was a little bit sorry, thinking that the old lady arranged him to Guangzhou because of herself, otherwise, wouldn't it be cheaper to arrange him in a rich place like Jiangnan?

After thinking for a while, he took Jia Zhu to meet the Guangzhou prefect. After recommending the two, he asked the prefect to put Jia Zhu in the team of officials promoting the Yantian law. Zhu rubbed this merit for nothing.

The magistrate naturally did not agree.

He is very clear that the Yantian method was discovered and proposed by Lin Ruhai, and even experimented by himself. It is Lin Ruhai that the Guangzhou officials can get a piece of merit for nothing. Now they just want to install a nephew of the Yue family to come and follow the merits. There is no reason to refuse.

Not only the prefect of Guangzhou, but even other officials treated Jia Zhu and Lin Ruhai very affectionately after they knew about the relationship between him and Lin Ruhai.

It was in this fiery atmosphere that Jia Zhu's first training as an official took place.

He is very grateful to Lin Ruhai, and specially brought his wives Li Wan and Jia Lan to the Lin family to see them off.

Now that Jia Min saw Jia Zhu, he could clearly separate Jia Zhu from Mrs. Wang, and was very happy to see him bring his wife and children.

Especially after seeing Li Wan, talking to her and finding that the two have similar hobbies, and even had a lot of common topics, he fell in love with Jia Zhu's family even more.

Lin Liu was more interested in Jia Lan, the little bean who had just spoken, and after talking to Li Wan, he carried the child to see Maoshou and Yingzhu.

Although Maoshou and Yingzhu are older than Jia Lan, but Jia Lan is well-behaved, and they are not noisy with their little cousin and brother, but they like them. Even if they go out to play, they are willing to take this child with them. .

However, the two families only got along for a day, and then the Lin family packed their bags and set off for Guangxi by boat.

There are many ethnic minorities in Guangxi, and the local political situation is more complicated than in Guangdong.

But Lin Ruhai came here not to govern Guangxi, but to promote the Yantian Law——

Yantian law is such a good thing, as long as people with eyes can see its goodness, how can anyone want to refuse?Even if there was a dispute, it was because he wanted Lin Ruhai to go to the government office where he was to promote, so how could he not want Lin Ruhai to go there?

So after Lin Ruhai came to Guangxi, not only did he not feel embarrassed at all, but he became a favorite of everyone.

After the implementation of the Yantian law in Guangxi was on the right track, the emperor ordered Lin Ruhai to go to Hainan, Taiwan and other places to implement the Yantian law.These two places are islands, surrounded by the sea, and there are quite a lot of places suitable for drying salt. The promotion of the salt field method is smoother than that of Guangdong and Guangxi.

Waiting for the Yantian law in the two places to be on the right track, the emperor asked Lin Ruhai to promote it in other coastal areas...

In the following two or three years, Lin Ruhai was either on the way to promote the Yantian method, or he was promoting the Yantian method. He was exposed to the wind and the sun all day, and his fair and moist skin was tanned into black charcoal.

And Jia Min and other family members have been running around with Lin Ruhai, and they are all along the coast. Although their skin is not as dark as Lin Ruhai's, it is darker than before.

Jia Min herself didn't mind much, but seeing that her daughters' skin was not as fair as before, she was so angry that she scolded the emperor in private——

This Yantian method is not particularly difficult, even if the emperor wants to promote it, it won't catch her family Ruhai as a scourge, right?With so many officials in the court, can't he assign a few more to learn from Lin Ruhai, and then promote it to other places?

However, she only complained in private, but when she came into contact with people, she seemed to be grateful for the grace and honored.

In short, people can't fault it.

When the Yantian law was finally promoted nationwide, the emperor mercifully recalled Lin Ruhai to the capital, and then directly gave Lin Ruhai a position as a cabinet scholar, which did not disappoint him for his hard work during this period.

The Lin family heaved a sigh of relief——

They are already cabinet bachelors, and it is basically impossible for them to leave the capital in the future unless there is an accident. Only then can their family settle down completely.

It's just that not long after Lin Ruhai's official appointment, he received a message from the Ningguo Mansion that Jia Rong was about to marry Qin Shi, the adopted daughter of Yingshi Lang Qinye, and sincerely invited Lin Ruhai to the wedding banquet.

The news was like a thunderbolt, hitting Lin Liu directly on the head.