[Quick Crossing + Red Mansions] I have a strong desire to survive

Jia Min secretly sighed inwardly, feeling both honored and uneasy on the face, quietly listening to the words behind Zhen Guifei: "It's also because your daughter is raised so well, that's why the Rongguo Mansion misses you. Speaking of your girl, I also I’ve seen it before, and I’m still wondering who’s lucky enough to beg your girl to go.” Who in the world dares to be more blessed than the royal family?

Concubine Zhen, who was looking forward to Jia Min's answer, found that Jia Min was sighing, thinking that although she did not have the name of a queen now, she was acting as a queen, so she had to be more reserved, so she didn't rush her.

After Jia Min sighed, she looked at Concubine Zhen Gui with a troubled face: "Your Majesty is the most holy, if this woman has anything to do with it, who would want to cut off contact with her mother's family?"

Didn't this matter have already been said just now, why did it come back again?Concubine Zhen's face became a little impatient.Anyway, thinking about Lin Ruhai's official position, he nodded to Jia Min with a caring look: "Mrs. Lin is very right."

Jia Min sighed again: "But a married woman must obey the three virtues and take her husband as the sky. If my master hadn't already promised him, she wouldn't have thought of Rongguo Mansion because of his wife. So fearless."

"My master was afraid that his wife would turn to her natal family in the future, so he immediately forced her to return the dowry yesterday. Madam, if it wasn't for the master's order, the minister's wife has endured it for nine years, so why not bear it any longer." , Tears dripped down like broken beads, and I couldn't hold it back.

Concubine Zhen was stunned to hear that Lin Ruhai had already arranged a marriage for their girl, and asked Jia Min to send back the dowry in order to avoid any twists and turns in the marriage?This, this is completely inconsistent with her expectations, okay?If she knew that the girl from the Lin family was married, why did she risk being suspected by the sage again yesterday, in front of the sage, when she talked about Jia Min's return of the dowry, why did she personally propose to deprive Wang's imperial order? !

"Aren't your masters too impatient, which family's children are you talking about?" Zhen Guifei asked through gritted teeth, she had made up her mind that if Jia Min said something perfunctory, she would be punished for disrespect.

Jia Min continued to sigh: "It's about the youngest son of He Shilang's family in the Ministry of Rites. He is 16 years old and has already won the Juren. I said that my girl is the eldest daughter, and marrying the youngest son is probably..."

"Who knows that my master has to say that a gentleman is a man, and he can't do repeated things. Madam, how can a daughter's marriage be discussed and not discussed with me, and he insisted on forcing me to break off contact with my mother's family. Our master This is because I am afraid that my ears will be soft and I will delay my daughter if I listen to a few words from my mother."

His voice was so sad and his emotion so intense that those who listened were sad and those who heard it shed tears. Concubine Zhen felt that she had finally understood that Jia Min herself did not want to break up with the Rongguo Mansion. It was Lin Ruhai who was afraid that the Rongguo Mansion would destroy him. The image of a gentleman forced Jia Min to do it.

If he said again that he wanted this girl from the Lin family to be the concubine of the fourth prince, would Lin Ruhai think that it was the fourth prince who damaged his image as a gentleman, and that would be an enmity instead of marriage.Not to mention being the helper of the fourth prince, maybe even the daughter would not recognize her, and stepped up to make trouble for the fourth prince.

Fortunately, looking at Jia Min's appearance, I am still grateful to myself.Forget it, although this Jia Min can't be Lin Ruhai's master, this pillow wind can always blow, and he still wants to make friends with her, maybe someday he will be able to use it.

Thinking of this, Concubine Zhen reluctantly comforted Jia Min, and rewarded two things as congratulations for Daiyu's marriage, and let Jia Min leave the palace.Jia Min had already been exhausted from coping, and felt that Daiyu's marriage was settled so hastily, it was because the people in the palace were thinking about it, and she didn't have a chance to make a good choice.

Before leaving Zhongcui Palace, no matter where it is, he secretly set off a fire to vent his anger.After walking a long way, I heard someone shouting: "It's not good, it's flooded, let the people from the Ministry of Internal Affairs come to put out the fire." Jia Min's pace secretly accelerated a little.

The little lady who sent Jia Min out of the palace listened to the news that there was a fire in Zhong Sui Palace, and she was a little hesitant to go back to fight the fire, but she heard Jia Min say: "There is a fire in the palace, the empress must investigate the person who caused the fire. You go and come back, you can't say Make people think that you have a ghost in your heart."

The little eunuch was shocked by what he said, and he couldn't help but thank Jia Min.Jia Min didn't take it seriously, and slowly talked to the little eunuch along the way, but heard a lot about Zhong Suigong, and even Jia Yuanchun wanted to come to pay respects to Concubine Zhen from time to time, and the little eunuch said it out.

But the little eunuch said with contempt on his face: "That Jia Yuanchun doesn't even think about it, our empress is the most jealous, even if she has already been dealt with, how can she be allowed to be presumptuous. Thinking of meeting a saint in our palace, it is really lard Confused."

Well, Jia Min didn't need to waste his words at all, Jia Yuanchun had already been targeted by Concubine Zhen with the greatest maliciousness.So he only nodded to the little eunuch, and didn't say anything more.It wasn't that Jia Min dared to follow the words of Zhong Sui Gong's people, but that Zhen Guifei had obviously lost interest in her just now, and the person sent to see her off couldn't be a confidant, so Jia Min dared to act like this.

When Lin Ruhai returned home, Jia Min received another piece of news that shocked her: Prince Teng was promoted to inspect the nine provinces, and he was going to go to the border for investigation.It seems that I paid back the dowry and gave the emperor an excuse to deal with the second minister.

What will happen to Wang Ziteng, and when the Wang family will fall, will not change the fate of Mrs. Wang who will become the laughing stock of Beijing. Jia Min is now worried about Daiyu's marriage: "Yesterday afternoon, the He family and the Sun family sent people over. However, there is no movement from the Li family. So in front of Concubine Zhen today, I have already said that the master and the He family have agreed on Yu'er's marriage."

Lin Ruhai listened and nodded: "In the beginning, we were also interested in the He family, but now it seems that his family is also sincere, so let's make a decision, so as not to worry about it every day."

But Jia Min was a little bit uneasy: "He Gang is the youngest son, what if Yu'er has to accommodate him in the future, what should I do?" Isn't this a bit forced, or else I can give Daiyu a good choice.

Lin Ruhai wanted to ask if the most important thing was that He Gang was not as good as Li Sanitation. Thinking that the Li family had shrunk their heads at this time, he was afraid that Jia Min would feel uncomfortable, so he didn't ask. He only discussed with Jia Min, what should be given to Daiyu How much dowry to prepare.

Jia Min felt even more sad when she heard this: "I thought it would be enough to have my dowry as a base. Now that I have saved up from scratch, Yu'er's dowry is much thinner."

How could Lin Ruhai not know how rich Jia Min's dowry was?Thinking that he only has one daughter, because Jia Min returned the dowry back to Rongguo Mansion and wanted to marry in a poor way, he couldn't calm down.

After a while, Lin Ruhai made up his mind: "The mother's dowry and the grandmother's dowry were kept alone, why not give them to Yu'er."

Jia Min was a little dazed when he heard this. Lin Ruhai himself did not have a title, but his grandfather and father both belonged to the Marquis, so the daughter-in-law he married was naturally from a famous family.Even if the dowry of the two is not as rich as the original owner's, it is not much less.Now Lin Ruhai said to give Daiyu both of their dowry, even if the two had spent a little while they were alive, the sum would only be a lot more than the original owner's dowry.

What's more, those two were both from a scholarly family, and the ancient calligraphy and paintings in the dowry are not comparable to the background of the original owner's generals.It's just that I have checked the warehouse more than once, but I have never seen these two dowries. Where did Lin Ruhai put it?

Lin Ruhai stared at Lin Ruhai uncomfortably with questioning eyes, coughed and said: "You also know that our family has always been small in number, and it's not easy to bring everything with us when we leave Beijing. , so the dowry of grandmother and mother was placed in Zhuangzi."

Come on, it's not my own anyway, just give it to Daiyu, Jia Min nodded clearly.Not wanting to have such a calm expression, Lin Ruhai felt even more guilty: "It's not that I didn't tell you on purpose, it's because you were too close to Rongguo Mansion before leaving Beijing, and many things... Mother’s relic, keep it in mind.”

Jia Min really wanted to ask Lin Ruhai, brother, have you ever heard of the word "more and more black"?To put it bluntly, you couldn't see the original owner posting to your mother's house back then, so you just wanted to prevent her.Anyway, I didn't do what happened at that time, and it wasn't me you were guarding against, so Jia Min wouldn't be sad.

"Which Zhuangzi put the thing in, it's better to take it back to the mansion as soon as possible." Jia Min felt that it would be safe to put the thing in Daiyu's space.

Lin Ruhai felt that his wife was too considerate, so he said to Jia Min when he was excited: "Grandma's dowry field is [-] mu, and mother's dowry field is [-] mu. Let's add another [-] mu to Yu'er. This can be done." The capital she will pass on to her children and grandchildren in the future."

Jia Min supported his head and began to think about the size of the original owner's dowry field. He also wondered why there were always peasant uprisings in ancient times. If you marry a daughter, you will be dowry with four thousand acres of land. The land around Beijing is yours, right?

Seeing that she didn't speak, Lin Ruhai thought she was worried about brother Tang's opinion: "These are just from the dowry of grandmother and mother, and the five hundred acres from our mansion is not much. The remaining few villages together have nearly five thousand mu, and [-] mu in the south of the Yangtze River, with more prospects than Yuer's."

"Master, give me the land deed first." Jia Min didn't want to hear it anymore, where is the land in the south of the Lin family?If you think about it with your toes, you know that it is in Lin Ruhai's hometown, Gusu.

Those clansmen with the surname Lin, don't they know?I can't tell how much it has taken over the years.These tribesmen who took advantage of the Lin family didn't care about Daiyu in the original book. If Jia Min didn't ask for the land deed, would the Lin tribe continue to take advantage?

Lin Ruhai didn't have any objection to handing over the title deed even after he had settled with Jia Min. Two days later, he sent someone to bring back the dowries of the previous two mistresses, making Jia Min scold Jia Lian in the original book in his heart. Xiang: The one with shallow eyelids deals with things that the Lin family brought to Yangzhou to take office. He thinks he has made a fortune of 300 to [-] million yuan, but he doesn't know that most of his family's money is in the fields.

Only this time did she really understand what it means to inherit a family of farming and reading. There are not many shops for scholars, but there are many fields.It seems that the income is not as fast as the shop, but the victory lies in the long flow of water.

Take a look at the dowry fields of the last two mistresses, most of them are in Beijing, and the furthest one is less than a hundred miles away from the city, and they are all high-quality fertile fields.Zhuangzi has its own prospects. According to Lin Ruhai, the output of these years has been converted into silver, which happens to be used as silver for Daiyu.

Adding up the two, it was a total of over 20 silver. Just based on this amount, Jia Min knew that the villa heads had some private possessions, but it was not too much.What's more, now is not the time to go to Zhuangzi to check the accounts. The He family has already invited the Iceman to come to the door after getting Lin Ruhai's approval.

This official matchmaker was well-dressed, dressed like a decent lady in charge of a rich family, full of energy, but not too ostentatious, without the flattery of ordinary matchmakers.It seems that when the He family invited people, they also took some care, and Jia Min got another point in his heart.

"Madam is overjoyed," the matchmaker smiled just right when she saw Jia Min: "Madam's family is rich and beautiful, beautiful and intelligent, He Shilang's family intends to marry the girl with two surnames, and I hope Madam will agree."

The two families were interested in each other, and Jia Min had a good impression of the matchmaker, and he deserved it: "Mrs. He Shilang fell in love with the wrong one. The daughter is still young, and there are always things that are ignorant. In the future, I will depend on Mrs. He Shilang to teach her more."

In this way, it was decided that Jia Min and the matchmaker had decided on a date to receive the prize, and then they would sit in the flower hall alone in a daze.After school, Daiyu didn't see Jia Min when she returned to the main room. She asked the spring breeze who looked at the room and found out that Jia Min was meeting guests in the flower hall.Because Jia Min didn't ask anyone to call her in the school, he thought she didn't need to see her, so he sat there and waited for his mother.

I don't want Chunfeng to look at her with a pursed smile, Xia Yang looks at her with a pursed smile, and even Lin Wang's family who brought her food also purses her smile.Several people looked at her and laughed together. Although Daiyu was always indifferent, she was also a little conscious. She only asked Lin Wang's family: "What good thing happened to Mammy, and she laughed for a long time."

Lin Wang's family still laughed: "It's a good thing for the servant, and it's a good thing for the girl. But it's hard for the servant to talk about it. The girl should wait for the wife to come back."

Daiyu faintly felt something was wrong, she couldn't sit still in the main room, and went out on the pretext of going back to the room to change clothes.After thinking about it, I went to the flower hall to see if the guests had left.I don't want Qiu Yu to be standing outside the hall, seeing Daiyu anxiously as if seeing a savior: "The girl is here. Girl, go in and see your wife. Since the matchmaker left, the wife is sitting there alone, and the servants don't dare Urge."

Hearing the word matchmaker, Daiyu's little face turned red, and then heard that the matchmaker had left for almost an hour, and her mother had been sitting alone in the hall, without any shyness, and said to Qiu Yu, "Why don't you come sooner?" Report me."

Qiu Yu was about to burst into tears: "The only one who came with my wife today is my servant, and I haven't seen anyone coming here for a long time. The servant is worried about my wife and dare not go away."

It was only then that Daiyu remembered that Jia Min's housekeeper's rule was that servants were not allowed to walk around and gossip when they had nothing to do, except for their own errands. This time, my mother only brought Qiu Yu to meet the guests, so she couldn't catch anyone to report?He blamed Qiu Yu again and said: "You are also confused, run two steps quickly and let the woman who guards the gate report a letter, and you will have everything."

Ren Qiuyu was annoyed there, and Daiyu had already walked into the hall quickly, calling out as she walked, "Mother."

Only then did Jia Min withdraw her attention, watching Daiyu Pingting approaching, she had begun to take on a girlish appearance, a goose-yellow skirt made her skin white as snow, and her features were picturesque.I have been Daiyu's mother for nine years, and finally raised a frail and sick child who is healthier than women in this world, and has a cheerful and peaceful personality. No matter how much effort I spent, I was about to get engaged.

Just a 12-year-old child, maybe I don’t know what kind of lover I want in my heart, and I will spend my whole life tied to someone I don’t know. Can't help asking: "Yu'er, have you thought about what kind of person you will marry in the future?"

When her mother asked her what kind of person she wanted to marry in the future, Daiyu's face turned red as expected.

People in this age are precocious, especially girls. Marriage is a second reincarnation. When they are ignorant, they know that girls will always marry, and they have imagined what kind of person they want to marry in their hearts.But where has the little girl seen a few foreign men?It's not like letting the elders look up to each other and get engaged.

Daiyu made a few boudoir friends in the past, some of them were a year or two, two or three years older than her, and it was not uncommon for them to be married.The little girls who have not yet engaged, behind their backs, have discussed the news of their betrothed partners, but there are too few sources of information, and no results can be discussed.

I only know that most of them are marriages of well-matched families.Now that her mother suddenly asked who she wanted to marry, Daiyu's first reaction was to confess to Jia Min: "It is good for mother to make decisions about such matters, and I will listen to mother."

Jia Min has already hugged him in his arms: "Stupid child, although it's almost settled now, I also want you to know more about that child, so as not to be careful to test everywhere after getting married in the future."

Daiyu's small face could already be boiled eggs, Jia Min still told her about He Gang's situation one by one: "Although he is a young son, he doesn't need to be a clan wife, just live your own little life. Ma'am, you have seen it too, and I heard that the child Xiaomu will not look too ugly. At that time, the mother will prepare enough dowry for you, and even if you don't get anything from the division, your life will be abundant."

Daiyu knew that her mother's dowry had already been returned to the Rongguo Mansion, and it was the mansion's business to prepare the dowry for herself.What's more, the mother said that she was prepared enough, so it couldn't be a decimal, she said softly: "No mother, Brother Tang is the one who inherits the family, so let's keep the things in the family for Brother Tang."

Jia Min lightly patted Daiyu's hand: "I know you love my brother, but you have to remember that no matter now or in the future, you should love yourself as well as others, let alone wrong yourself for anyone or anything. Otherwise, even if I die, I won’t be reconciled.”

"Mother," Daiyu's eyes were red. She knew that her mother had always loved her more than her younger brother, and she hoped that she could always enjoy this love. She never thought that her mother would die.Suddenly hearing Jia Min say that he would not be reconciled to death, tears were about to come out.I also thought that since I was a child, my mother taught me not to shed tears easily, and tried to hold back the tears from falling.

Knowing that she had frightened Daiyu, Jia Min once again told her about the necessity of dowry for women:

"Since I was young, I let you keep those things for yourself. I told you that I have money in my hand. I don't say that you don't need to look at people's faces when you spend it on weekdays. You have the confidence to reward slaves. If there is something wrong with Brother Tang If you want to help him, you don't have to look at the faces of the He family. In the future, if He Gang really treats you badly, or his mother is difficult, you can ask yourself to live out of the house." However, it’s not good for you. We can live more comfortably with the money.

Jia Min had instilled these words in Daiyu on weekdays, but she didn't say anything later.Daiyu knew that her mother's thoughts were different from ordinary people, so she was not surprised, she just asked quietly: "Mom, you forgot that the money I have collected here is almost 60 taels."

Of course Jia Min knew how much money Daiyu had stored there, so she said to her, "You can keep the money yourself, and no one should mention it, and don't spend it unless it is absolutely necessary." Seeing that Daiyu nodded, she felt relieved.

But as soon as Daiyu mentioned Brother Tang, Jia Min felt that Daiyu had to tell Brother Tang about her getting engaged.In good conscience, although Jia Min usually pays attention to keeping the bowl of water level between the two children, brother Tang has always been a trouble-free and quiet child. His sense of presence is not as high as Daiyu, and his existence is often overlooked by people.

It wasn't until after dinner that everyone sat and talked together that Jia Min discovered that although the nine-year-old Brother Tang sat a little casually after the meal, his body was still tall and straight, and he didn't lean left or right. When you talk or want to talk to someone, you always look at the other person with your eyes intently, and the way you speak with your heart makes the speaker very useful.

"Brother Tang," Jia Min said without discussing with Lin Ruhai, "Your sister is getting engaged soon."

Brother Tang's eyes widened. He looked at Jia Min, then at Lin Ruhai, and finally at Daiyu's blushing cheeks again, and then looked at Jia Min unwillingly: "Mother, my sister is only 12 years old."

Jia Min laughed when she heard this: "Although your sister is only 12 years old, your father and I think the children in that family are very good. If you miss it, you may regret it."

Brother Tang is still unhappy: "What if there is something better later?"

Lin Ruhai cleared his throat and said, "The hasty engagement for your sister is not just because she is nice." Under Jia Min's surprised gaze, he explained why he hurriedly engaged Daiyu, and the last time Jia Min was screened After the concubine was summoned to the palace, she said everything.

When Jia Min was talking about it with Lin Ruhai, he had an eye contact lawsuit with him. He felt that telling Daiyu about these things would only increase Daiyu's troubles and guilt, and told Brother Tang that he was too young.

Lin Ruhai is different from Jia Min. Jia Min thinks that Tang's son has not yet graduated from primary school, and these family events are too early for him.In Lin Ruhai's eyes, Brother Tang is the only heir to the Lin family, and he is going to teach him about these official issues as soon as possible, so that Brother Tang will not be blinded when facing these things in the future.

Daiyu was stunned and didn't know what to think, but Brother Tang clenched his little fist.When Jia Min told Brother Tang about the dowry he would give to Daiyu in the future, Brother Tang had already stood up and bowed to Lin Ruhai and Jia Min:

"We are the only two siblings in the house. My sister is a woman, so I have a lot of ties, and I want more money. I am a man, so I want to study and have a future. I also ask my parents to prepare more dowry for my sister."

Daiyu was about to speak, but Brother Tang had already solemnly asked Lin Ruhai: "Father, I want to take part in the childbirth examination next year."