The Lin family of the Red Chamber has a son

In late autumn, the night is as cool as water.A cold moon was hanging in the middle of the sky, the brilliance was spreading, and the night breeze was blowing, and it was a great weather.

In the study of Xunyan Yushifu in Yangzhou, the candlelight was flickering, and a thin figure was writing at his desk, coughing from time to time, breaking the tranquility of the night.

There was a soft knock at the door, and a sixteen or seventeen-year-old boy stepped into the room, holding a small red lacquered tray in his hand, with a small lid cup with colorful mottled patterns on it.

"Father, it's late at night, and it's time to rest." The young man's clear voice sounded, and it was very pleasant to hear in the originally silent night, accompanied by the occasional chirping of crickets.

Lin Ruhai finished writing the last word, put the pen on the brocade-patterned stone pen stand, sat up straight, smiled at the young man and said, "I'm writing a letter to Zhongrong Mansion in Beijing, asking how your sister is doing. It's you I just arrived, I'm afraid it's just when I'm tired, so I should go to bed earlier. These things are done by a girl, so why bother you to do them."

There were several muffled coughs while speaking, Lin Ruhai picked up the handkerchief beside the table and covered his mouth, trying to hold back, but how could he hold back?

The young man's clear eyes were full of smiles, and the corners of his slightly curved lips showed a bit of mischievousness unique to young people. Seeing that Lin Ruhai was feeling uncomfortable, he hurriedly stepped forward to put down the soup cup, and gently patted his back for him. .

With great difficulty, Lin Ruhai stopped coughing, and the young man shook his head and said, "I'm not tired. This journey is all by boat and sedan chair, and there is rarely time to ride a horse. Just now I heard from the housekeeper that my father sleeps very late every day, but this It’s impossible. My father’s health is poor, so he should take care of it. I’ve heard from people in Beijing that if you can’t sleep well at night, drinking some warm milk before going to bed can help you sleep.”

As he spoke, he picked up the teacup and presented it to Lin Ruhai respectfully.

Lin Ruhai couldn't help but laugh, and when he took it and opened it, it was really steaming milk.

"I don't like this stuff very much. It always smells like beef." Lin Ruhai took a sip, frowned slightly, and quickly let go.

Pointing to a chair next to him, Lin Ruhai sighed inaudibly, and whispered to himself: "In a blink of an eye, Yu'er has been to the capital for a few years, and it's time to come back." gone."

The young man heard him talking about Daiyu, because he had never seen this sister before, so he couldn't say anything else, but he couldn't be cold, he just smiled and said: "Father is going to bring my sister back?"

"I already said in the letter that my health is getting worse day by day. Ask your sister to accept the letter and get up from Beijing immediately and come back."

"It's just that the weather is getting colder, I'm afraid my sister will suffer some hardships on the way." The boy changed his expression of worry.

Lin Ruhai naturally knew that her daughter followed her mother, Mrs. Jia, and was weak since she was a child. She hadn't seen her in the past few years, and she didn't know if she was getting better.Now it is late autumn, if you go all the way south, you will have to work hard.As long as there is a different way to go, Lin Ruhai is not willing to let her daughter suffer from this ups and downs.

only……

Every time Lin Ruhai thought that her intelligent and sensitive daughter was handed over to the Rong Mansion by herself, she secretly hated herself for being ignorant of people's hearts, so that she almost missed her daughter.

I think that when Mrs. Jia was still alive, she had a very close relationship with her natal Rongguo Mansion.There is also the second son of the second uncle, named Baoyu, who was born with jade in his mouth. It is rumored in Beijing that he will have great blessings in the future.Every time the old lady of the Rong Mansion's Shi family received a letter, she had to praise it, which meant that the Jia and Lin families would become more intimate.Mrs. Jia is naturally willing, but she mentioned that her daughter is young and has not had time to formally mention the marriage.

When Mrs. Jia died of illness, her daughter Daiyu was under seven years old, and there were no elders in the house to teach her, nor did she have any brothers or sisters of the same generation to accompany her.It happened that the old lady of Rongfu wrote a letter to pick up Daiyu.After thinking about it, I actually agreed, and personally entrusted my daughter to Jia Lian to take her to the capital.

Originally thought, the old lady is Daiyu's direct grandmother, and the Rong Mansion is Daiyu's uncle's home, no matter what, her daughter will not be wronged there.Even if the relationship between Mrs. Jia and her second sister-in-law was not very harmonious back then, considering that she was the third-rank inspector and censor of the dynasty, Mrs. Wang should not make things difficult for Daiyu.

Therefore, in the past few years, I have been very relieved of my daughter.

Originally thinking that Daiyu would be older, so she took her back.If that Jia Baoyu is really good, it doesn't matter if we marry according to the old matriarch's wishes.Anyway, I can't last a few years with my body.As soon as I left, my daughter lost her support.If she marries elsewhere, I'm afraid there will be embarrassment in the future without a supportive husband's family.Rong Mansion is her natal family after all, so the old lady should take care of her.

Ha ha, after all, I was too naive.He should have known that the people in the Rong Mansion were rich and powerful, but he regretted that he had made the most serious mistake on his daughter after being in the officialdom for many years.

Forget it, it's too late to think about it now, how to arrange her daughter's future is what I should do now.

"Father?"

Seeing Lin Ruhai's eyes alternately angry and sad, the young man couldn't help calling out.

Lin Ruhai just woke up like a dream, looked at the young man in front of him, and saw that his features were picturesque, and the dancing candlelight shone on his face, creating a faint halo.A pair of phoenix eyes are radiant, but clear and clear, full of concern.

"Yan'er, how long have you been studying in Beijing?" Lin Ruhai asked.

Lin Yan, the young man at the bottom, thought for a while and replied, "It's been two years."

"Then tell me, what kind of people are the Ningrong and Rongfu in central Beijing?"

Lin Yan thought about it for a while before he said with a faint smile: "Father asked, I dare not say nothing. I also passed by those two mansions in the past, and it is really grand."

Lin Ruhai looked at the young man in front of him, and the young man was also looking at Lin Ruhai, and both father and son laughed for a while.

"That's right, the two prefectures of Rongning and Ningxia have been impressive for a hundred years." Lin Ruhai tapped the back of the chair with his fingers, and a look of ridicule flashed in his eyes, "Their two prefectures started with military exploits. A hero. The ancestors of Rongning and Ningfu were conferred the title of Duke together with the other six families, and passed on to this generation, that is, the title of first-class general. If there is no grace, the title will be gone after one or two generations .”

Lin Yan listened carefully without interrupting.

Lin Ruhai coughed twice, Lin Yan hurriedly got up and went to the small table beside him, and poured a cup of the always warm tea for Lin Ruhai.

Lin Ruhai drank a couple of sips, but felt that the coughing pain in his chest eased a bit, and he sat up wearily just now.

Lin Yan persuaded: "It's really getting late today, father, why don't you rest first, if you have something to say, why don't you tell your son tomorrow."

Lin Ruhai shook his head and gasped, "My body is like this anyway. You don't have to worry."

Lin Yan saw that his complexion was sallow, and his originally elegant and gentle appearance looked haggard.Come to think of it, it is true that the disease has become serious.Now that he is his son at least, since he has this name, it is necessary to fulfill his wish for him.

Lin Ruhai took Lin Yan's hand, and said for a while, "Yan'er, I want to study hard for my father for many years. Once he was in the middle of the court, he was originally a proud person. He also won the favor of the Holy One and his official career went smoothly. He thinks he can see through the world. Who would have expected But he thinks he's smart, but it's ridiculous..."

Under the excitement, it is inevitable to cough again.

Lin Yan patted him on the back while persuading him bitterly: "Father, why did you say that? You have been in the south of the Yangtze River for more than ten years, with clear political affairs and outstanding achievements. Presumably, the emperor also saw it. Don't say anything else , but how many people have not achieved good results in the position of inspector and censor? Only my father has been in office for more than ten years, but he has lived in peace. This alone is enough to prove that my father can do it."

Lin Ruhai smiled wryly, and said dejectedly: "If it wasn't for this Lao Shizi official, I would have brought Yu'er back a long time ago. Why did I let my daughter of the Lin family look at people in the Rong Mansion and be wronged by others?"

Lin Yan knew it in his heart, but with a look of surprise on his face, he asked, "Isn't the Rong family home of my sister? I heard that the old lady of the Rong family only had a mother and a daughter. Now that my sister is there, it is natural that she should be a noble family." Relatives of Jiao Ke, can you still be angry?"

Lin Ruhai let out a long sigh, thinking that when her daughter Daiyu was young and innocent, she was supposed to be pampered by her parents, but now she is living in the Rong Mansion, surrounded by tigers and wolves, and the old lady loves her dearly, ignorant, I am afraid Still thinking about them.

Thinking of this point, my heart feels like a knife, but the grief and anger turned into a deeper voice: "Yan'er doesn't know. I thought so too, and since your sister arrived in Rongfu, every time there is a letter, It was mostly talking about sitting and lying with the girls in the Rong Mansion, or talking about the old lady's love. I didn't think about anything else. It was also because my father didn't do enough. It wasn't until the year before last that I I really know how Yu'er lived in Narong Mansion."

"That old lady didn't care about etiquette at all, and let your sister live in the green gauze cabinet in her house, and outside the green gauze cabinet is the residence of her grandson Baoyu."

Lin Yan's eyes widened, his expression was full of disbelief, and he said angrily: "It's unreasonable! Seven years old and different seats, even brothers and sisters, have to avoid it. How can the old lady be like this..."

He stopped abruptly, swallowing the word "confused" abruptly.

Lin Ruhai waved his hand, took a sip of water to moisten his throat, and continued with a hint of sarcasm at the corner of his mouth, "This is one of them."

Lin Yan was shocked and said, "Could it be something else?"

"Before Yu'er went to Beijing, I was also afraid that she would be slandered, so except for her wet nurse and personal maid, a servant never took her with her. And I sent silver taels to your sister every year. If so, I heard that In the Narong Mansion, it is also said that your sister has been provided by the Jia family for the past few years."

"What is even more hateful is that there is a guest lady in the Rong Mansion, who is a descendant of the former Jinling Emperor Xue's family and a relative of the second wife of the Rong Mansion. I hate those powerful people in the Rong Mansion who secretly arranged Your sister is not as good as Miss Xue's."

"boom!"

Lin Yan jumped up against the table, his face full of anger, and suddenly remembered that he was in front of Lin Ruhai, and hurriedly looked at Lin Ruhai and said, "Father, don't blame me. I got angry for a while."

Lin Ruhai talked for a long time, and Yuan was a little tired, so he just waved his hand to signal him to sit down, and didn't care about it.

Lin Yan then continued: "In our Lin family, we don't say that our ancestors were also enfeoffed as marquises, but how many generations of scholarly heirs are we talking about? In the past generations of the Lin family, there has never been a man who commits adultery, and no woman who remarries a prostitute. Number one, Qinggui, the daughter of the Lin family, how can she be compared to a businessman? I'm really angry!"

Lin Ruhai remained calm on the surface, but his eyes were fixed on Lin Yan for a moment.Although this child has always been taken care of by him, Lin Ruhai dare not make any omissions when it comes to her daughter's future future.

Lin Yan met Lin Ruhai's gaze calmly. Although his face was still immature, it was resolute and frank.

Lin Ruhai smiled. This newly adopted son seems to be doing well.Now that I have a descendant, my daughter Daiyu will have the support of her natal brothers in the future.