Reborn Lin Family Funing

Qingtian Town, a small town under Huarong County in Nanzhou during the Great Zhou Dynasty.

The surname Lin is the most common in Qingtian Town, and the largest clan here is the century-old Lin family.

The century-old Lin family, in fact, 350 years have passed since the ancestors of the Lin family moved to Qingtian Town, which happened to be the founding time of the Great Zhou Dynasty. According to legend, the ancestors of the Lin family were also the founding heroes of the Great Zhou Dynasty, but, for some reason, they moved here , became a businessman, and the direct descendants of the clan did not take the imperial examination. On the contrary, more of the collateral descendants became officials, but they were all small officials.

Although the descendants of the Lin family did not have any great power, the Lin family has a very high reputation here. Of course, the descendants of the Lin family were former imperial merchants, but more of the reason is that the Lin family is kind and generous, and the Lin family is strict. The family members of the previous dynasties were all upright and honest people, but this generation of Lin family grandpa is a well-known Confucian scholar, and every year there are scholars who come from afar to seek advice from the Lin family grandpa.

As for the master of the Lin family, the head of this generation, although he is a businessman, he is also a well-known Confucian scholar.

The ancestral house of the Lin family is located at the east gate of Qingtian Town, at the end of a quiet alley, behind the bamboo forest, is the ancestral house of the Lin family - Sanjin courtyard, where only the head of the Lin family lived in the past dynasties.

The brilliance of the morning sun is slowly falling in this bamboo forest, the bamboo forest is lush and lush, the wind blows past, the sound of rattling bamboo leaves is refreshing, and in the pavilion near the ancestral house of the Lin family, a child with a blue belt tied in the middle of his forehead is on the left Waving his hands and kicking his feet again, the serious and serious expression on the delicate facial features makes people laugh, and beside the child is a 15-year-old maidservant in a green dress standing respectfully, looking after him carefully Looking at the child, his eyes were full of smiles because of the child's serious movements of waving his hands and kicking his feet, but he didn't dare to show it on his face, and looked at the child respectfully and carefully.

Outside the pavilion, there were two children around ten years old, one wielding a gun and the other wielding a knife, and a middle-aged man beside him pointed.

After the two ten-year-old children finished playing a set of moves, they put away their guns and knives, and the two maidservants who were around fifteen or sixteen years old and dressed in green dresses rushed forward and respectfully presented the plates. Inside are clean handkerchiefs and teacups.

Each of the two children picked up the handkerchief and wiped it casually, then ran into the pavilion, looked at the serious child who was still kicking, and laughed, "Ning'er, if you really want to practice martial arts, please tell grandpa about it. Maybe my great-grandfather agreed in a moment of soft-heartedness."

The child was still serious and twisted his waist. The five-year-old child was sullen and twisted his waist. The seriousness pretending to be an adult made the two children who ran into the pavilion couldn't help laughing. up.

"Ning'er, you should really let your father and mother see you like this!"

"Exactly! Seeing you like this, father and mother will definitely agree to let you practice martial arts...haha..."

The child let out a breath, turned his black and white clean and bright eyes, looked at the two little kids who were smiling with their hips akimbo, and then looked at the side who was trying to hold back his smile, shaking his shoulders but not daring to laugh The maidservant who spoke out, the child looking at the sky in his heart, sighing brightly and sadly, the generation gap between the New Year and the cross-border, what he just did was the ninth set of radio gymnastics, how serious he was, I think he did it when he was in school When he was doing the fuck, he was always groping for fish in the back, but now he was being laughed at when he was serious.

The child silently lowered his face and turned around. Is this his punishment for not being serious about doing gymnastics?

The two children saw the child turned around with a downcast face, thinking that the child was annoyed by their laughter, one of them with a slightly pale complexion hurriedly bent down, stepped forward and coaxed, "Ning'er is not angry, it's my brother's fault."

"Ning'er, be good, don't be angry, today the elder brother will bring you your favorite pastry." Another kid who was slightly taller hurried forward to coax you.

The child, that is, Lin Funing, raised his face slightly, glanced at them, and said silently in his heart, would a person who has spent three years in his two lifetimes get angry because of such a trivial matter?

"Brother, I want three pieces of mille-feuille."

"Second brother, I want the bone carving that grandpa gave you last time."

……

The slightly taller child suddenly smiled, and raised his hand to stroke Lin Funing's head, "Okay. No problem." Mille-feuille or something, it's trivial!

The other child had a frowning face, "Ning'er, can we change it?" The bone carving was given to him by his grandfather...a thing he likes very much...

Lin Funing threw out two words crisply, "Not good!" A pair of big eyes looked at his second brother Lin Fu'an with wet eyes, and it was clearly written that if you don't give it to me, I will cry for you!

Lin Fu'an was embarrassed for a moment, and scratched his head helplessly, "Okay." As for the bone carving, anyway, if Grandpa knew that it was given to Ning'er, he wouldn't have any objections.

Seeing Lin Fuan's reluctance, Lin Funing still agreed, instead he grinned and secretly smiled, the idiot second brother, he just borrowed it to enjoy it, and returned it to the second brother after playing... It's good for a gentleman not to take what others have.

When Chen Hui began to slowly spill out of the bamboo forest, Lin Funing and his two elder brothers walked out of the bamboo forest and walked towards their own house.

Lin Funing's two elder brothers both attend private schools in the clan. Although there are teachers at home, and his grandfather is a well-known Confucian scholar, the Lin family's patriarchal line is that direct descendants must attend private schools in the clan.

Standing at the door of the house, watching his elder brother go out, only the little book boy and no maidservants followed.The clothes are also very simple, this is the family law of the Lin family, according to Lin Funing's popular saying in his previous life, that is - low-key.

It has been five years since time travel.He is also eight years old, although he still looks very weak... at most six or seven years old.Really depressed.

It has been two years since he worshiped the great monk as his teacher.

Speaking of which, he has blurred a lot of pictures about his previous life.Sometimes, he would think, is it real in this life or in the previous life? Perhaps the four words Zhuang Zhou's dream of a butterfly can be summed up?

But the feelings are definitely real.

He likes two elder brothers, the eldest brother Lin Fukang, the second brother Lin Fuan, he likes his mother and father, he likes his elder sister Lin Shuwei, and he likes the serious and serious grandpa.

——The only thing I don’t like is my identity as a Huawazi.

Lin Funing thought distressedly, if he wasn't Huawazi, he should be going to a private school with his two older brothers now.

Instead of standing behind the screen in the flower hall, accompanied by my mother and sister Lin Shuwei, who is one year older than me, listening to all kinds of miscellaneous reports from the housekeeper and stewards outside.

—Hey, he's a man!Why are you listening here with your sister?Isn't this all a woman's house thing?

But looking at his mother's dignified and friendly face, Lin Funing lowered his eyes and sighed inwardly.

He didn't dare to make his mother angry.Last time my second brother got angry with his mother, and the result was miserable.I was punished by my father to kneel in the ancestral hall, not to mention, every day I served steamed buns with pickles, copied the "Book of Filial Piety" every day, and recited the "Book of Filial Piety" to my mother before meals... and so on for seven days...

After that, the second elder brother was very well-behaved, at least in front of his own mother, he was very well-behaved.His mother said to go east, but he dared not go west, and his mother said one, but he dared not say two.

Next to Lin Funing was a nine-year-old girl wearing a light yellow skirt with a sweet face. She gently squeezed Lin Funing's hand.

Lin Funing turned his head and looked at his sister Lin Shuwei, blinking, is sister okay?

The little girl, that is, Lin Shuwei was about to speak——

"Ning'er." Suddenly, a soft voice with a smile sounded.

Lin Funing hurriedly turned his head and raised his eyes, looking at his mother - Wen Niang, the current head of the Lin family.

The young woman with a beautiful face sitting on the couch looked at Lin Funing softly and lovingly, with a smile in her tone, "Ning'er must be attentive and not sloppy."

Lin Funing responded obediently, "Ning'er understands." But his heart was extremely embarrassing, why did he want to learn such a thing!

Young woman——Ms. Lin looked at Lin Funing's face and pretended to be well-behaved, but her eyes showed helplessness and distress. By the way, it's so much fun!

Mrs. Lin looked at Lin Shuwei again, and said softly, "Wei'er should also be careful."

Lin Shuwei quickly responded, "Wei'er understands."

Mrs. Lin nodded slowly, and said softly, "You all have to listen carefully later, after listening, mother has something to ask."

"Yes!" Both Lin Funing and Lin Shuwei responded at the same time.

Outside the screen, the head housekeeper Lin Zhongshui said respectfully, "I want to report to the mistress, the land rent and new grain for this autumn have all been collected."

As Steward Zhong said, the maidservant in purple dress standing beside Madam Lin stepped out of the screen and took the ledger from Steward Zhong.

The maid respectfully presented the account book in her hand to Mrs. Lin.

Mrs. Lin flipped through it casually, and handed the ledger to Lin Funing.Lin Funing looked at Mrs. Lin in puzzlement, but he still reached out to take it, muttering in his heart, what is mother going to do?

After the housekeeper Zhong had finished speaking, the woman in charge outside stepped forward and said respectfully, "To the mistress, the silks and satins from southern Jiangsu have been delivered."

"Well, send it to the second master's house according to the rules of previous years."

Then, another woman in charge stepped forward and said respectfully, "I want to report to the mistress, the longevity housekeeper of the third master's family has brought this year's new tea."

"As an additional gift, take a set of blessing emeralds among the four sets of emeralds sent from Kyoto yesterday. Steward Zhong, you can send it yourself, and send it when the third master is not at home."

The loyal butler at the side hurriedly bowed and respectfully responded.

After the loyal housekeeper respectfully responded, the steward continued to step forward and said respectfully, "I want to report to the mistress, the list of maids and servants whose contracts expire this autumn has been sorted out, there are fifteen of them in total, and five of them have children who have reached the age of marriage. .”

"The list of maidservants and servants whose contracts have expired will be put down first. If the children of the five families have already been matched, they will be given a congratulatory gift as usual."

"Yes!"

After Madam Lin finished speaking, she paused and said softly, "Find a good toothmaid."

"Yes!"

Then, several women in charge reported other matters, and they dispersed after a while.