[Red Mansion] Adopted daughter and child

If it weren't for the letter sent by Lin Ruhai to Jiangnan, the Lu Sui and He Nian twins might not have taken the next college exam seriously.

After all, with the knowledge of the two of them, the test for talent is already a certainty, and it is not difficult at all.But since Lin Ruhai said so, if he passes the exam, it's okay, if he doesn't pass the exam, when he returns to the capital, I'm afraid the two brothers will be miserable.

So the two brothers, who were originally flying in the south of the Yangtze River, took more than half of their time to start sprinting for the next college exam, hoping to get a good grade in the exam.

But after calming down to study, the two brothers discovered that they had forgotten some of the exam content, and if they really wanted to take the college exam in their current state, of course there would be no problem in passing the exam, but the ranking would be hard to say.

The twins of Lin Ruhai's family went to Jiangnan three years in advance for the imperial examination, and they passed the exam, but they ranked last. Will they be squeezed into the list of scholars?

What Lin Ruhai was thinking, the two brothers didn't know, but if this happened, the two brothers would be ashamed and hit the wall.

The most important thing is that when the two brothers were busy with their careers and wasted a lot of time, Mao Shouke had been studying hard all the time. Because he had a good relationship with Zhen Yingzhu, he would go to Zhen's house to take classes from time to time. You can also ask Zhen Shiyin the first time you have any questions.

So the two were horrified to find that Mao Shou's knowledge was already faintly catching up with them, or even surpassing them.

The two brothers didn't dare to waste time on other things, and immediately put all their energy into their studies.

Fortunately, the years that the two brothers lived longer than Maoshou were not in vain. After checking for omissions and making up for vacancies, the twins, Maoshou and Yingzhu took part in the hospital examination together, and the final results did not lose two years. the human face—

The year of the crane took the leader, the year of the deer came second, and the life of the cat came third. Yingzhu seemed to be a little stage frightened. He didn't perform well in the exam and only came in fifth.

But this result is enough to surprise people.

After many people knew that the four of them were all taught by the same teacher, Zhen Shiyin's home was almost broken by those parents who wanted their children to pass the imperial examination.

Zhen Shiyin wasn't poor in the first place, but it was definitely not enough to sit and eat, so after struggling for a while, he still picked a few students.

He has no need for fame and wealth, so the addition of the Shuxiu handed in by the students he picked is just enough for the monthly expenses of the Zhen family. Because the class is too tiring, Zhen Shiyin doesn't want to accept more students.

After the results were passed to the capital, Lin Ruhai didn't say much, but looked at Lu Sui's name and snorted: "This kid can still use his brain, and he's doing fine now, but next year's provincial exam, I think he'll just I'm afraid that the cat's lifespan will be surpassed. Even in the year of the crane, it's a bit dangerous."

The boy Maoshou is more serious and stubborn, he will do one thing with all his heart, and will never be distracted by other people or things in the middle.

Such a person is very scary. If the twins continue to have this attitude, it will be a matter of time before the cat's lifespan is surpassed.

But after all, they are all their own children, Lin Ruhai just said it casually, and didn't intend to write a letter because of it, and then "remind" the twins, so that the two brothers can tighten their skin.

He already has this attitude, the twins will naturally relax after the exam, and focus on the script and business again.

At this time, the letters from Lin Liu and Dai Yu were also sent to Jiangnan.

The two looked at the contents of the letter, and after looking at each other, they immediately decided to ask Daiyu to write those verses with a feminine tone in the script——

After all, they are brothers and sisters who grew up together. Daiyu is so talented, and the two of them naturally see it in their eyes.

When He Nian first started writing story books, if he hadn't found that his verses were a bit awkward, after Lu Sui started a newspaper and began to publish readers' comments and opinions on the story, he also understood that his verses were a bit awkward. problem.

Originally, I was thinking about where I should go to ask a female poet who didn't mind spreading her poems to help write poems, but when I was sleepy, Daiyu came to send a pillow, and Daiyu immediately delivered it to my door.

The two brothers looked through the poems written by Daiyu without any hesitation, and when the full text was published later, they directly replaced all the original poems in the story with those written by Daiyu.

The full-text version of the book began to go on sale. Those readers who bought the story back read the new poem, and they really felt that it was more appropriate, and after reading it, they had a longer aftertaste. Many readers sent letters to the bookstore on the spot, replacing these The verses are full of praise.

The Year of the Crane and the Year of the Deer combined, and simply sent a copy of all the articles praising Daiyu to the capital. After the letters arrived, Daiyu's face turned red after reading it, and Lin Liu looked at her, and almost ran away.

But since then, Daiyu has become more enthusiastic about writing poems for stories.

Maybe now that she has serious business to do, Daiyu's mental outlook is different——

At first, I was still a little bit sad about spring and autumn, but now I read all kinds of books hard every day, hoping to fill in more knowledge and expand my knowledge, so as not to have to wait until writing poems to scratch my head and have to look for books again.

Now Daiyu's whole body is positive, as if she has been injected with chicken blood, and there is no trace of sentimentality at all.

Xu Shi felt that it was very interesting to write poems about the stories that countless people saw. In the end, even Jia Min became interested in it, and gradually picked up his own interest in writing poems, and began to try to write by himself. , and will compare with her daughter. If she thinks that she writes better, she will also send her poems to her son.

This time it was difficult for He Nian, because he felt that the poems written by his mother and sister were very good, and these two were people he could not offend, so he simply pushed the matter to Lu Sui.

How old is the deer?After seeing two poems that were both very good and fit the story very well, he felt that there was no need to give up at all. The two poems were published in the newspaper in advance, and then readers were asked to vote for the one they liked more. That's it.

In this way, even if the poem is not selected, it is still chosen by the readers.

Even if the mother and sister wanted to blame, they couldn't blame them, could they?

Furthermore, two excellent poems of similar level are published in newspapers. Because of aesthetic preference, people who like the two must be evenly matched.At that time, these readers will definitely vote more actively for their favorite poems to be selected.

Lu Sui quietly wrote down in his notebook——

It can be stated in advance that you can vote only once when you buy a book.People who worry about losing their favorite poems will definitely spend more money to buy more books, and they will definitely make a lot of money by then.

After the voting ended, the readers whose favorite poems were selected naturally cheered and cheered. Those who voted for their favorite poems, but their favorite poems were not selected must be excited and would write articles to vent their anger at the bookstore.

If one party writes an article saying how good his favorite poem is, will the other party let it go?

There will definitely be quarrels at that time, and maybe a few real great scholars will be attracted.

In this way, wouldn't Lin Liu achieve the goal he set at the beginning?

Lu Sui thought proudly: while making money, I also did the things my sister ordered. I am really a mediocre little business genius!

Everything in Jiangnan seems to be going well, but Lu Sui, who often travels outside, finds the Zhao family again.

He also didn't understand what the Zhao family wanted to do. Thinking about what his sister said before, he simply went to the Zhao family and asked to see the Zhao Shishi who made his sister very afraid.

After just meeting each other, Lu Sui was startled by Zhao Shishi's aura for a moment.

He immediately put away his slightly relaxed mood, his whole expression became much more serious, and he looked at Zhao Shishi with guarded eyes: "Madam Zhao, may I ask you to follow our three brothers all this time, what is it?" for what?"

Zhao Shishi chuckled: "I was still thinking, when will you find out. It turned out that you found out early in the morning, but you haven't been exposed? Or don't you want to talk to me?"

Lu Sui frowned: "Madam Zhao, let's talk straight, I don't have time to go around in circles with you."

His time stinks of money, and he doesn't want to waste it on anyone outside his family.

Zhao Shishi laughed, and said with a smile: "Knowing that Mr. Lin is busy, I won't waste your time. The reason why I followed you three brothers is because of your looks. I really want to know, who is your mother?"

Lu Sui froze for a moment: "Aren't you from a historian? How could you not know our mother?"

Although Jia Min came from Jia's family, Jia's mother was a serious historian lady. She was from Zhao Shi's historian, so how could she not know that Jia Min married into Lin's family?

The smile on Zhao Shishi's face remained unchanged: "Although I came from a historian, I have not contacted the historian for many years, and I will not tell me the news of the historian. Listening to your tone, is your mother originally from the historian?"

When he said this, Zhao Shishi's tone was rarely disappointed.

she thought...

Forget it, Zhao Shishi smiled and shook his head, he has lost interest in the three children of the Lin family.

She waved her hand: "Since your mother is related to the historian, I will definitely not let anyone follow you in the future. If Mr. Lin has nothing else to do, I will rest."

Lu Sui looked at Zhao Shishi's eyes. For some reason, his heart skipped a beat, and he subconsciously said what Lin Liu asked her to tell Zhao Shishi: "Are you looking for your sister who was abducted back then? My sister said, She knows where your sister is now."

Zhao Shishi suddenly stood up: "What did you say?"

Lu Sui was taken aback by her: "Madam Zhao, don't be so excited, I'm just passing on my sister's words."

Zhao Shishi narrowed his eyes: "Who is your sister?"

Lu Sui swallowed: "My sister is my sister, who else could it be? If you really want to know, just go to the Lin family in the capital to find her."

Zhao Shishi sat down again, looked at Lu Sui's nervous little face, and suddenly laughed: "You are a real person, my business has been shrinking since you came here, if it wasn't for your face , you are probably already dead now. You should thank your sister, otherwise..."

If it wasn't for this face, Zhao Shishi might have taken action against Lu Sui, a person who is capable but inexperienced and has a lot of loopholes around him.

Just now, after confirming that this person's mother was related to the historian, she was still thinking about whether to kill him directly, so as to prevent her business from being hit again.

But now it's not necessary.

Zhao Shishi smiled: "You go first, I will go to Beijing the next day."

Lu Sui was stunned, his heart was beating wildly, and after he calmed down, he raised his head and met Zhao Shishi's eyes that seemed to be smiling but not smiling.He was startled, and hurriedly bid farewell and left Zhao's house.

Zhao Shishi stretched out his hand and called for the nanny: "Go and pack your things, and bring the mother and children with you, and remember that none of their daily necessities are left behind. We will go to Beijing someday."

The nanny glanced at Zhao Shishi, hesitated to speak.

Zhao Shishi smiled: "Why, do you have anything to say?"

Mammy hurriedly said: "Don't tell the master, let him go to Beijing together? There is also business in Jiangnan, don't you need to make other arrangements?"

Zhao Shishi's eyes were light: "I went to Beijing to look for relatives, what do I bring Zhao Rui with me? Wouldn't it be better to let him have sex with my lover at home? As for business, it's just something I got to pass the time, why should I care about it? "

Just about to make people retreat, suddenly thought of something, smiled, "The salt business is nothing more, the Lin family can't afford it, you leave the relevant contract directly to the Zhao family, and let them pick a capable person to come up In fact, it can be regarded as my reward for staying in the Zhao family for so many years."

"As for the cloth shop business, you take the deed and send it to the Lin family, as a thank you for the information provided by Mr. Lin."

Mammy stood beside her with a look of reluctance.

Whether it is salt or cloth, the annual income is quite a huge amount, and the mother is really reluctant to give the business to others for nothing.

Zhao Shishi glanced at her and sneered: "Why, you don't listen to me anymore?"

Mammy was startled, she didn't dare to think about it anymore, she hurried into the house to get the deed and sent it to the Zhao family and Lu Sui.Immediately after delivery, I went back to Zhao's house and started to pack my luggage for Beijing.

Everyone in the Zhao family paid close attention to Zhao Shishi. Seeing that she was packing her luggage, and seemed to be bringing her only son with her mother, everyone was shocked——

Since the Zhao family's food business was over, the Zhao family's hundred or so people all counted on Zhao Shishi to eat. Now that Zhao Shishi was leaving, how could the others have no reaction at all?

Zhao Rui was immediately pushed out to ask Zhao Shishi about the situation, Zhao Shishi didn't mean to hide anything, and directly said that he was going to Beijing to find relatives.

The Zhao family didn't know until now that Zhao Shishi had a younger sister who was abducted back then.

Now that there is news about her sister, Zhao Shishi can't wait to find her back, or go directly to live with her, completely ignoring everyone in the Zhao family.

The whole Zhao family didn't dare to look for Zhao Shishi, so they had to go and push Zhao Rui again.

It was also at this time that Zhao Ruicai told the rest of the Zhao family about the real relationship between the husband and wife——

It turned out that not long after Zhao Shishi married into the Zhao family, he quietly took away Zhao Rui's authority and controlled the Zhao family's grain business in his own hands.Afterwards, the money earned from the grain was invested in other businesses. After so many years, Zhao Rui had no idea how much Zhao Shishi had.

He said he was Zhao Shishi's husband, but he was actually Zhao Shishi's subordinate, a tool for her to solve her physical needs, and he had no relationship with her at all.

After hearing Zhao Rui's words, the rest of the Zhao family were dumbfounded.

But after regaining their senses, they immediately realized that Zhao Shishi was a sweet potato, and they must not let her go, otherwise the Zhao family would definitely not be able to maintain their current social status and extravagant life.

Some of them were vicious and even wanted to put Zhao Shishi under house arrest.

Zhao Shishi was too lazy to argue with the Zhao family, so he directly ordered the man in charge to beat him to death: "This time is because Zhao Rui has served me comfortably during the years I have been in the Zhao family. It killed you, but if you continue to pester me, it won't be so easy next time."

The Zhao family was taken aback by Zhao Shishi's sternness, and no matter how many thoughts they had in their hearts, they did not dare to express them. In other words, most of the Zhao family members could not express any other thoughts at all when they faced Zhao Shishi's face. .

At this time, Zhao Shishi took out the salt transportation business and handed it directly to Zhao Rui: "This business is left to you. Whether you plan to control it yourself or hand it over to others, it is up to you. Zhao Rui After the family, it has nothing to do with me, you can take care of yourself."

So decisively took the child and mother and left Jinling.

After the people left, someone from the Zhao family made an afterthought: "It's fine for Mrs. Zhao Shi to leave by himself. How can you take away the blood of our Zhao family? Zhao Rui, why don't you chase after him and bring him back? That child is yours." son!"

Zhao Rui looked at the other party with the eyes of an idiot: "You have the ability, you go and get it back. As long as you can get it back, I will hand over the salt transportation business to you immediately, you go?"

The man smiled awkwardly and retreated back into the crowd in despair.

……

Not long after Zhao Shishi left, the Zhao family returned to calm again.

The three Lu Sui brothers fell into deep thought because of the stack of land deeds and house deeds sent by Zhao Shishi and the deeds of selling their lives by many people.

Lu Sui himself is also in business, but the workers he hires are all ordinary people. Although there are contracts, they are all normal employment contracts, and there is no such thing as a contract of sale.

But what Zhao Shishi sent was nothing more than the house deeds and land deeds. There was a thick stack of sales deeds of workers and craftsmen, and many of the sales deeds were masters who were once famous but disappeared in a short period of time.

Lu Sui panicked and asked people to meet these people, and then learned from these masters who had signed the contract of sale that they all had to sign the contract of sale due to various accidents.

For example, more than half of them are because they were brought into the gambling house by their friends, and then they became addicted to gambling. After losing their fortunes, they had to sell themselves in order to prevent their wives and children from suffering; Money, in order not to go to jail, he had to sign a deed of selling himself; and there was a sudden fire at home...

Looking at these deeds of prostitution, Lu Sui felt a chill run down his spine——

Even if Lu Sui thinks that he doesn't have much bottom line in order to make money, but he abides by the law and obeys the law every time, and every time it is a fair transaction as you like, Zhao Shishi's way of doing things really makes Lu Sui, who is involved in the world. The young man who was not deep opened his eyes, and then he was terrified.

He subconsciously wanted to send these things back. After all, the money earned from these businesses was stained with the blood and tears of these people, and he really couldn't accept it with peace of mind.

After Lu Sui put forward his idea, He Nian and Mao Shou raised their hands and feet to show their approval.

After all, the Lin family is not short of money. They only make money because of interest, not because of money itself.Losing their reputation and conscience for money that they don't care about, the three brothers feel that this is very bad.

But when Lu Sui came to the door, Zhao Shishi had already left Jinling with his people.

No way, although Gusu and Jinling are very close, it still takes a few days to travel.Within a few days, Zhao Shishi's boat did not know where it went.

Lu Sui had no choice but to carefully investigate whether the experience said by those craftsmen was true, ask them what they thought, and then let go of all those who wanted to leave, and those who wanted to stay were hired under his own name Same, same salary and benefits.

After dealing with these remaining problems, Lu Sui dared to merge the business sent by Zhao Shishi into his own business, and began to contribute to his great business of making money.

It would take two or three months for Zhao Shishi to rush to the capital with the old, weak, sick and disabled.But before Zhao Shishi rushed to the capital, a person who set off two months earlier than her had already arrived in the capital. After staying in the temple on the outskirts of the capital for a period of time, he was taken to the Grand View Garden by people from the Rongguo Mansion.

Because of the absence of Lin Daiyu, Xue Baochai, and Shi Xiangyun, today's Grand View Garden is not as lively as in the original novel. Jia Baoyu likes to be lively, and likes to hang out with his daughter's family. Hang out.

But now, a young lady lived in the Grand View Garden. Although she was a monk, she was beautiful and lonely. Jia Baoyu was very happy for a while.

Not long after, Mrs. Xing's niece Xing Xiuyan also came to Rongguo Mansion.

Although Jia Baoyu can't be regarded as lingering, he does spend more time at home.Mother Jia didn't think too much about it, but Mrs. Wang had other thoughts because of this, so she wanted to bring all the girls from relatives to Rongguo Mansion to play with Baoyu.

It's a pity that she had a good idea, and several relatives were unwilling to agree.

Xue Baochai is now in the palace like a fish in water, and he doesn't want to go to the muddy water of Rongguo Mansion at all; historians don't want Shi Xiangyun to set foot in Rongguo Mansion because of Mrs. Wang's previous offense; let alone the Lin family, except Jia Min No, the two girls never entered the Rongguo Mansion.

So after looking around, Mrs. Wang set her sights on Wang Ziteng's two girls.

But Wang's parents and daughter are already engaged, and they will leave the court this year. Most of them stay in the room on weekdays to embroider wedding dresses, and they will never visit relatives around, let alone live with relatives.

On the contrary, the youngest daughter of the Wang family is willing to live in Rongguo Mansion for a while if she is free.

But before Mrs. Wang sent someone to bring him to Rongguo Mansion, Wang Yushi stopped her little daughter and refused Mrs. Wang's invitation.

Mrs. Wang was furious and sent someone to find Wang Ziteng.

Although Wang Ziteng knew Mrs. Wang's plan and was willing to help his sister, but he was not very willing to make him lose his daughter——

It would be fine if it was in the past, but now the Rongguo Mansion has almost completely emptied out because of the construction of a grand view garden, and there is not much money left. Marrying a daughter into the Rongguo Mansion is also suffering and suffering, and it is really hard to use the dowry to supplement the husband’s family. It was unnecessary, so Mrs. Wang was also rejected.

Fortunately, at this time, Li Wan's natal aunt took her two daughters to Beijing. Although Li Wan was still working as an official with Jia Zhu in other places, the Li family kept the etiquette and naturally wanted to visit.

Mrs. Wang, who originally looked down upon Li Wan very much, was quite enthusiastic when facing Li Wan's natal aunt and two cousins, and she said a lot of good things to keep him.

The kindness is hard to come by, Li Wan's natal aunt can only agree to stay for a while.

The Xue Baoqin brothers and sisters who were engaged to the son of Mei Hanlin's family also came to the capital, but because the Xue family did not live in Rongguo Mansion, Xue Biao and Xue Baoqin brothers and sisters did not come to visit, but directly found the Xue family to marry.

Xue Baochai was very happy when the Xue Tiao brothers and sisters arrived, and even breathed a sigh of relief——

She stays in the palace most of the time every month, and she can only come out for one day a month. Even if she is slick and knows about business, she can't do anything in one day.

Now that Xue Biao went to Beijing, Xue Baochai also knew Xue Biao's ability, and immediately handed over most of the business in his hands to Xue Biao, asking him to help take care of it.

Aunt Xue was a little reluctant, she was always worried that Xue Biao had a different heart.

But this time, Xue Baochai firmly suppressed Aunt Xue's opinion, and said bluntly: "I spend most of my time in the palace now, and I don't have time to deal with business matters. Mom, you don't understand, and my brother is not stingy when he has something to do. If we don't find a helper, our family's business will be over sooner or later. It's better to hand it over to Brother Xue Biao and let him take care of it. Even if he has a different heart, the Xue family's property can always be kept. It's better than letting my brother lose everything good."

Even if Aunt Xue doted on her son, she knew what kind of virtue her son was, so she stopped talking——

She was also worried that her son would ruin the Xue family's business, and her husband would complain later.

So the matter was settled.

It's just that something went wrong with Baoqin's marriage. She and Xue Biao went to Beijing to be married, and they brought several boats of dowry along the way.Unexpectedly, when they arrived in the capital, the two brothers and sisters learned that Mei Hanlin's family had already followed Mei Hanlin to work in other places.

And this family didn't send a letter to the two brothers and sisters to mention this matter.

When the two brothers and sisters knew about this, they were dumbfounded.

Xue Baochai felt uncomfortable when she saw her clan sister being treated so coldly by the Mei family. In addition, she still wanted to use Xue Biao, so she naturally hoped to gain Xue Biao's loyalty, so when she entered the palace again, she proposed to Princess Shile. Take a bite.

Princess Shile didn't know where she thought of this incident, so she was furious. After telling Prince Zhongshun, she ordered Mei Hanlin's wife and children to be forced back to the capital to prepare for the wedding.

After Xue Baoqin learned of this, she felt a little uncomfortable.

Because of this, it seemed that she had forced this marriage by relying on her family sister relationship, and she was very worried that after she got married, she would be treated coldly by the Mei family.

However, Xue Baochai saw this family thoroughly: "I have inquired about it a long time ago. This family is all snobbish. You really don't need to worry about your life after marrying into the Mei family. As long as you are loyal to the prince, as long as I am not betrayed by the world." Princess Le dislikes it, and the Mei family will not dare to do anything to you."

After hearing this, Xue Baoqin was not only unhappy, but also had a grudge against the Mei family because of it.

But she has no way to withdraw from the engagement, so she can only pinch her nose and prepare for the marriage.

Not long after that, Shi Xiangyun's marriage was also finalized.As many people guessed, her fiancé in this life is still Wei Ruolan.

Wei Ruolan has a good relationship with Feng Ziying, and Feng Ziying mentioned it when she was a guest at Lin's house.

After hearing that Wei Ruolan met Shi Xiangyun, she had a good impression of her.

At this time, Zhao Shishi also came to the capital, and immediately after settling down, he found the Lin family.

When Lin Liu learned that Zhao Shishi came to visit, she was immediately invited into the Lin family.

Just seeing Lin Liu, Zhao Shishi stared at her facial features for a long time, and then said with a smile: "If my younger sister grows up, she should look just like you."

She didn't pay attention to etiquette. After entering the room, she found a chair and sat down, leaning on it: "You are the girl of the Lin family, Lin Lusui's older sister? Do you know the whereabouts of my younger sister?"

Lin Liu nodded: "I have been in contact with it before, but she said that she had a high fever after being abducted, and now she has lost the memory of her childhood. But her facial features are very similar to my mother. I also suspected that she was my mother's sister living abroad. .”

Zhao Shishi's eyes flickered: "In this case, why are you sure she is my sister?"

Lin Liu looked at Zhao Shishi and smiled: "I'm not sure, but... I have the other party's address in my hand, does Mrs. Zhao want it?"

Zhao Shishi glanced at Lin Liu, and chuckled: "What does Miss Lin want me to exchange? I remember that the Lin family seems to be searching for food everywhere? I still have millions of catties in my hand. Do you want it?"

Lin Liu was startled: "Why do you have so much food in your hand?"