Lin Jiajinyu of the Red Chamber

Lin Jinyu felt that she was more and more like a matchmaker. The wound on her face was just right, so she was stuffed into the carriage and rushed back to the gate of Xu's Mansion in the capital.

In the morning, when Xu Ziwen was listening to an opera, the wind was warm and the sun was warm. Two juicy opera actors were babbling and singing a tune that Lin Jinyu didn't quite understand, pointing at orchids.Lin Jinyu felt that the operas of this era are too lingering, a word can last for a few minutes, the charm is long and soft, it can't be heard good or bad, but it has a hypnotic effect.However, Xu Ziwen is an expert, leaning on the couch with his eyes closed, tapping his fingertips to the beat, the expression on his face can be described as leisurely and cheerful, and he can't see the depression after having an awkward fight with Tu Jingchen at all.

"Sir." Lin Jinyu didn't think too much about it, and when he came, he would be at ease. He walked over with a smile, cast his eyes on the little actor, leaned into Xu Ziwen's ear with a smirk, and said, "You are so handsome, sir, I finally figured it out. Give up the whole forest for one crooked-neck tree."

Xu Ziwen took a look at Lin Jinyu, pulled Lin Jinyu to sit beside him, "Jingchen sent you here."

"Mr. is really a fortune teller." Lin Jinyu smiled, "Uncle Baozi, ask someone to bring me a wine glass, and I will have a few drinks with you. If I had known that my husband lived a fairy life here, I would have come back with him. He didn't call me when he left."

Xu Ziwen was a little surprised, "Yesterday, I saw that you were all interested in Wu You, why, didn't you take advantage of it?"

Lin Jinyu squeezed Xu Ziwen in, lay down next to each other, curled her lips, and said discouragedly, "Don't mention it, I was beaten by him, and it still hurts now. That thing is really a poisonous snake, I kindly brought him back , and asked Master Xu to see him, he took away all the prescriptions and ointments, as if I owed him."

"If you don't feel indebted to him, why would you take him back?" Xu Ziwen smiled, Baozi put the wine cup on the table, and winked at Lin Jinyu.Lin Jinyu seemed unconscious, straightened up, poured the wine, and said, "I do feel a little guilty. In all honesty, I can deal with it differently. Could Wu You grit his teeth and not confess to me? Forget it, I will It's better to stay away from him."

Xu Ziwen took the table cup that Lin Jinyu handed over. The wine was mellow and intoxicating. He took a sip and asked, "In my house, you were beaten by Wu You? What do those guards do? Or are you an idiot? He was seriously injured, and he has little power left. Can't stop such a person? Even if he tricks him into escaping, no matter how far he can go, he will chase him back."

"Well, when I gave him the medicine, I originally planned to take advantage of it. I was afraid that the guards would hear something bad and affect my image, so I sent them all out. To be honest, sir, Wu You really He's so handsome, I can't do anything. Actually, it doesn't hurt too much, he is good-looking, and it's okay to vent his anger on him." After taking a sip of wine, Lin Jinyu shrugged and smiled, "It was too late yesterday, I asked him to They stayed in the other courtyard overnight, and Wu You left in the morning."

Xu Ziwen nodded with a smile, "Well, you're such a scumbag, you just deserve a beating."

"Beauty is really a kind of capital," Lin Jinyu sighed, smelling the fragrance of cold water on Xu Ziwen's body, "Not only because of his good looks, Wu You is a well-measured person. When I was beaten by him yesterday, I felt very painful. I don't know if it's medicine. Well, there is still some reason, after taking the medicine at night, the pain is not so bad today, I really doubt that he was trained by the Ministry of Punishment."

"Did you see him?"

"No." Lin Jinyu looked up with a pitiful expression, "Uncle Baozi, do you have any snacks? Drinking is so boring. I came here on an empty stomach in the morning."

"It happens that the young master doesn't have breakfast either, so I asked the kitchen to prepare some side dishes, so that Master Jinyu can have a few drinks with the young master." Baozi asked with a smile on his face, "Master Jinyu, is there anything you want to eat at noon, I told them to arrange .”

"Well, fish fillet in milk sauce, shredded crab meat with double bamboo shoots, and a grilled shrimp. There is nothing else to eat." Lin Jinyu smiled, "Sir, let's stop the show. Let them play the music quietly, Let's go to eat in the pavilion over there, and I'll tell you what happened last night."

Xu Ziwen glanced at Lin Jinyu suspiciously, this kid must have hooked up with Wu You, the two of them are not dedicated people, especially Lin Jinyu is a bit lecherous, but Wu You doesn't like Lin Jinyu's delicate appearance Juvenile type.

The servants of Xu's mansion were all well-trained. When the two of them walked into the pavilion, everything that needed to be laid out was done. Lin Jinyu asked the attendants to step down, sat beside Xu Ziwen, and said proudly, "Last night, I told you Xiaoyou slept on the same bed. Not to mention how fragrant it is on Xiaoyou."

"Look at you shameful Dexing," Xu Ziwen said in amazement, "With your face, Wu You didn't kick you out?"

"No." Lin Jinyu smiled, "I'm not stupid. I didn't pay attention at first, so I was beaten by him. Then he fell into my hands, and I didn't do anything. I asked to sleep on the same bed. Is it too much? How badly I was beaten by him."

"Where's Wenfei? Haven't seen him these days?"

"I don't know, he seems to be busy." Lin Jinyu enjoyed the slightly drunken breeze, looked at the two acacia trees in the distance, and said with a smile, "Don't worry about him too much, people should think about themselves more, I'm already pretty good That's right, at least I didn't find someone else, otherwise, with such good conditions as mine, no matter whether it's a concubine or a male favorite, it's a trivial matter to raise a whole house, but I just keep my life clean. Alas, I think it's rare when I think about it. I'm so infatuated , must be like father and sir. Sir, what if you want to break up with the emperor? The emperor asked me to come over to be a lobbyist early in the morning." At the end of the sentence, he was a bit gleeful, "Why don't we go together Looking for flowers and asking willows? I heard that there are many Xianggong halls and brothels outside, sir, have you been there? I haven’t been free before, let’s go once.”

Xu Ziwen's face sank, he patted Lin Jinyu on the cheek, and said admonishingly, "If your father is still alive and hears such bastard words like yours, he will definitely reward you. That's not the place your son should go."

"Oh, if my father was still around, I wouldn't dare to get involved with Wen Fei even if I had eight guts." No wonder Xu Ziwen was able to guard his body for Tu Jingchen, this person has a serious obsession with cleanliness.Lin Jinyu already had a score in her heart, twisted her waist, and showed a nostalgic smile, "I remember when I was a child, I read two opera books and he found out that I immediately dragged me to the ancestral hall to beat the board, and my buttocks were swollen for several days. When I was studying with my husband Every night, my father has to check his homework, and he will be scolded if he doesn’t memorize it well or makes mistakes. I don’t want to sleep in the same bed with him. My father is too strict. Sometimes I think about it, if my father is alive, life must be different. .”

Lin Jinyu asked curiously, "Sir, why didn't you want to get married back then? Even if you were close to the emperor, how could he be so overbearing and want you to guard your body like a jade? Besides, at that time, the emperor hadn't ascended the throne yet. , with the emperor here, he can't control you. In my opinion, master's temper is not as good as my father's."

"I can't remember what happened so many years ago." Xu Ziwen said perfunctorily.

It was really tight, Baozi led a team of attendants meandering over, and all kinds of delicacies were spread out, Lin Jinyu immediately lost interest in Xu Ziwen's gossip, and his stomach growled a few times, which made Xu Ziwen laugh, and his mood gradually It became soft, "You are really worthless, sit down and eat, don't starve you."

Helping Xu Ziwen to sit down, Lin Jinyu was a little shy and explained, "I didn't even drink my saliva in the morning, so I was already hungry."

Lin Jinyu doesn't have many advantages, but good eating is one of them. He is very serious when eating. He has a small mouth, but he likes to eat big mouthfuls. His cheeks are bulging, which makes people feel cute and delicious.It's a pity that Lin Jinyu is thinner now, but Xu Ziwen still thinks he was more likable when he was fat.

"Autumn and winter should be nourishing and nourishing, steamed stuffed bun, stew a cup of polygonatum lily quail soup for Jinyu at noon." Xu Ziwen saw Lin Jinyu go to pick up braised rabbit meat, and frowned, "How can you eat such a greasy thing in the morning?"

Lin Jinyu ate it contentedly before saying, "It looks like Uncle Baozi prepared it for me. I'm not afraid of greasy food. How can I eat vegetables and tofu all day long like sir. Sir, if you go to shave, you won't feel uncomfortable being a monk."

"Bastard talk."

"The chef in Mr.'s house is really top-notch."

Lin Jinyu was very hungry. He had never missed a meal since he was born. He drank two bowls of lotus seed porridge in one go and ate a lot of pastries. This was Xu Ziwen's persuasion and asked his servants to quickly clear the table. Did not continue to eat.

Baozi reported to the princess with a smile on his face, "When Master Jinyu came, there was no need to persuade him at all. The young master followed suit with a bowl of porridge and two minced meat pancakes, with a smile on his face."

The princess smiled and said, "This Jinyu is eloquent and has good eyesight. There are many people like Lili, but he fell into Rui Zhuo's eyes. Maybe it is fate in heaven. Even if Rui Zhuo has My son may not necessarily have any affection for Jinyu."

"Master Jinyu has been studying with the young master since he was three years old, and the young master taught him to grow up. Naturally, the relationship is extraordinary." Baozi laughed, "Your Highness, our second girl and my uncle will arrive the day after tomorrow. It’s the capital, Your Highness wants them to come to greet you one day. The servants will let the people below prepare first. The two girls, the two uncles, and the Ma and his wife are also coming here for the first time. The banquet must be rich some."

"Qing'er and his wife must have come to Ma's house on the first day to meet their parents first. Let them come over on the second day after they arrive."

Lin Daiyu encountered a difficult situation at this time. The older girls who were married as a dowry were all old, and Daiyu didn't want to delay their age. Affection, so I became a matchmaker.It's just that now Daiyu's body is getting bulky, and she can't save people, so she thinks about buying a few little maids first, and Zi Yuan and others will take care of them, and they will be able to get started after Daiyu gives birth next year. will also be married.

Buying someone is a trivial matter, but Daiyu needs to see it herself.When he saw it, he saw an acquaintance. Originally, Lin Daiyu didn't recognize her, but the maid called out with tears in her eyes, "Miss Lin, are you Miss Lin?"

Lin Daiyu frowned, looked at the pale girl in front of her, glanced at the rouge hemorrhoid between her brows, and asked tentatively, "Xiangling, is it Xiangling?"

Xiangling "thumped" and knelt down, sobbing, "Miss Lin, please help me, I know how to work, I can do any kind of work, I beg Miss Lin to buy a servant girl, and the servant girl will repay the girl like a cow and a horse."

Daiyu glanced at Ziyuan, Ziyuan helped Xiangling up and asked, "Isn't Miss Xiangling at Xue's house? How could..."

Xiangling sobbed, "Grandma is at home every day looking for troubles between slaves and maids, beating, scolding and making noises, and saying that slaves beat up villains to harm her, slaves are wronged, Miss Lin, slaves didn't do anything, slaves don't know..." As he spoke He choked on his breath, as if he was about to pass out.

Lin Daiyu hated Xue's family the most. She occasionally heard something about Xiangling's life experience, and knew that the Xue family had gotten into a lawsuit for buying her and hurting someone's life.Thinking about it this way, Xiangling is also a person with no relatives and no dependents, which touches pity in her heart, but it's just that in this critical period, she dare not let her work in the mansion.Seeing that Xiangling is pitiful, even if she met, it was due to some fate that she was sent to work in the Zhuangzi far away, so as to save her from the misery of being bought and sold, which can be regarded as accumulating good deeds for the child in her womb.Thinking of this, Lin Daiyu bought Xiangling.

Because Xiangling reminded Daiyu of the time when she first came to Kyoto to live in the Rongguo Mansion, she calmly picked out a few ordinary-looking and honest maids of fifteen or sixteen, and after handing over Renyazi, Daiyu ordered them to be handed over to the housekeeper first. Tuning, holding Ziyuan's hand back to the room.

Ziyuan knew what was on Daiyu's mind, so she brought a pot of stewed black-bone chicken, red dates and longan soup, and said with a smile, "Grandma, try it, the black-bone chicken is stewed with the skin on, it's not greasy at all."

Daiyu only took a couple of sips before putting it down, Zi Yuan said softly, "Good and evil will be rewarded, it seems to be true. The Xue family was so insolent when they were in that mansion earlier. The eldest girl of his family hangs up the rules and etiquette every day. On the lips, it seems to be more polite than the world. Those who don't know think that the Xue family has such a good tutor, but now even Aunt Fang has sold it, which shows that his family is not peaceful and is not afraid of being laughed at. That is to say, grandma is kind-hearted, and she couldn't bear to see Xiangling girl, so she bought it, but she just let her go, who can tell the girl's fault?"

"It's all in the past, and I don't care about it anymore. Xiangling is just a girl and has nothing to do with her. It's late today, let's send someone to Zhuangzi tomorrow to get an errand." Daiyu road.

Zi Yuan smiled and persuaded, "Since grandma is worried about it, let's drink two more mouthfuls of soup. The snow geese have been stewing on the fire for three hours. How does grandma think her cooking is now?"

"Can't tell you."'