[Red Mansions] Minruo Spring Breeze Returns to Dream

Met the dumb king at a wedding banquet

The red rosewood dowry sent by Lin Jinshu is exquisitely carved. Once the top cover is lifted, it becomes a glass mirror that can be erected. The dowry is divided into two layers, and some silk flowers, pearl flowers, hairpins and hairpins can be put in ornaments.Lin Daiyu smiled and said, "Why, my brother loves to go out more and more recently, have you read all the books thoroughly?"

"Following father's instructions, I just went to deliver things to the adults in the Ministry of Rites." Lin Jinshu said with a smile, "On the way back to the house, I thought that you and your mother were probably bored at home, so I went to buy some story books and poetry collections. , and went to the silver building to pick out some exquisite things for you and your mother to bring back, do you like it?"

"Of course I like it." Lin Daiyu said coquettishly, "My brother is the best to me."

"Of course, but when it comes to the word 'brother', I met an old friend who I met once." Lin Jinshu narrowed his eyes, "I haven't seen him for many years, I almost didn't recognize him."

Lin Daiyu flipped through the collection of poems sent by Lin Jinshu, and asked, "Who is it? There are old people my brother knows that I don't know?"

"I only met him once in Yangzhou, but he is not quite the same as I remembered, and I only found out who he is after careful questioning." Lin Jinshu stroked Lin Daiyu's bun, "You were only one year old that year, Your Majesty came to Yangzhou with the Emperor Taishang and the Empress Dowager on a southern tour. The Xue family also came to Yangzhou Miansheng after receiving the emperor's favor, and visited our house. Today I saw Xue Pan, the eldest family of the Xue family. It has only been many years I haven't seen him, but his appearance has changed a lot." Thinking of the reason why Xue's family went to Beijing, Lin Jinshu naturally didn't intend to talk about friendship with Xue Pan.

"It turns out that the Xue family still has such a friendship with our family, but I see that my mother is indifferent to the Xue family." Lin Daiyu said.

"There is no friendship, it's just an ordinary greeting." Lin Jinshu said, "Okay, you have to study with the master this afternoon, so my brother won't bother you. Although those books are for you to pass the time, But you are not allowed to indulge in it, you know?"

"Understood." Lin Daiyu pouted, "Brother should also study hard, and we will be busy again in a few days." It was about Jia Lian's wedding.The wedding invitations came down early, and during these days, people from Jia's family came to invite her to play at the house every now and then. In the past two days, she complained to Jia Min that she didn't have time to embroider a handkerchief for Li Hui. son as a gift.

Lin Jinshu looked at Lin Daiyu's unhappy face, so he had no choice but to say softly: "Be patient for now, didn't the left and right mothers find all the excuses to shirk?"

"That's all there is to it."

Lin Ruhai took a sip of the wine, looked at the scene of drinking and drinking in front of him, lowered his head halfway, his face was dark and unclear.After all, it was the marriage of the future heir of the Rongguo Mansion, so some officials had to come to curry favor; I also saw that the Rongguo Mansion was full of flowers, and the decorations were extremely luxurious.

"Daddy, let's drink a few glasses less, or you will go back full of alcohol, and mother will talk about it again." Lin Jinshu saw that Lin Ruhai was silently about to add another glass of wine, and hurriedly asked the waiter to bring hot tea, "First Have a cup of tea."

Lin Ruhai glanced at him, then lowered his voice and said, "How do you feel seeing this grand occasion?"

"...My son thinks it's too much." Lin Jinshu pondered for a while before replying, "Rongguo Mansion is rich and luxurious, but for this wedding, we put a lot of effort into arranging it, which probably seems nothing to outsiders. It's just that now the four kings with different surnames and the other Duke's mansions all send people to have a banquet, which is not a happy thing for the superiors."

"You're right." Taking advantage of the noise of the crowd, Lin Ruhai said in a low voice, "Wait, if someone you don't know comes over to make friends, you can just find an excuse to refuse."

Sitting in the flower hall with Lin Daiyu, Jia Min in the inner courtyard frowned slightly as he looked at the extravagant decorations in the room.There are not many bright red coral bonsai, and if there are, most of them are paid tribute to the palace, but there are four pots of coral bonsai more than one foot in this house, which are arranged symmetrically like wild goose wings; Agate ornaments, shining in the candlelight.Not to mention the various azure official kiln plum vases that are placed on weekdays.

"This decoration is very gorgeous. After all, it is the old lady's house, but it is different." Shi Ding's wife Yu Shi flattered, "I heard that brother Lian's daughter-in-law is also a gentle and elegant girl, but it's a pity we can't see it now."

"It's fine if you want to see him. Why don't you just go to the new house and have a look later?" Shi Nai's wife, Yun Shi, smiled with half-curled lips, "It's just that we are elders, so we rush to see people like this. Something is wrong."

Shi Yu gave Yun Shi a cross look, but didn't answer, just continued to flatter Jia Mu; Yun Shi, who cared about Jia Mu's face, couldn't get angry, just drank hot tea sullenly.

Jia Min thought about it, and only remembered that Shi Xiangyun seemed to live with Shi Nai's family.It's just that Shi Nai and Yun Shi never wanted to see their niece who had lost both parents and parents, and they didn't want to see her more on weekdays.If Mother Jia hadn't been thinking about Shi Xiangyun, she might have left her to fend for herself.But they all forgot that Shi Nai's title of Marquis of Bowling was passed on to Shi Nai after Shi Xiangyun's father passed away. They did it.Compared with Shi Nai, Shi Ding has done a lot better, at least he still cares about Shi Xiangyun, so Shi Xiangyun is also close to Shi Ding and the Yu family more inside and outside the words.

"...I originally wanted Baoyu to follow me, but I don't want him, so I want to take him out to meet your lords." When Jia Min heard Yu's question about Jia Baoyu, he pricked up his ears and listened. I got Jia Mu's answer.It turned out that I asked my second brother to go to the front, but it was okay.

"Baoyu is growing up gradually, so it's time to see more guests." Yu said with a smile.There is no man who does not accumulate contacts. Jia Lian is the heir of the Rongguo Mansion, and Baoyu has to find another way out if he wants to get ahead.

"It's not that I don't want to, it's just that Baoyu has always been weak, and I always worry about it."

Today was a good day for Xu's son's big wedding, but Jia's mother opened her mouth and shut up "Baoyu".Jia Min took a sneak peek, and saw that although Xu Shi was still smiling, the dissatisfaction in his eyes was beyond words, so he raised his wine glass, touched Xu lightly, and told her to press down the eyes with a wink. dissatisfied.

Mrs. Xu blinked her eyes, smiled and drank a glass with Jia Min, and accepted the congratulations from several official wives with a smile.

"Old lady, the auspicious time has come. Let's invite all the ladies to the wedding banquet." Seeing that Mother Jia and Mrs. Yu were talking more and more vigorously, Mrs. Xu interrupted, "It's a big day today, and I can't call you all." Madame is hungry."

"Okay, let's all go." Mother Jia didn't notice Xu Shi's displeasure at all, and dragged Yu Shi to continue chatting.

After drinking for three rounds, even a person with a good capacity for alcohol can't bear it, let alone Lin Jinshu.Some officials drank too much, and would toast everyone they saw; some were flattered when they saw Lin Ruhai, and Lin Jinshu naturally couldn't escape the possibility of being forced to drink.Finding an excuse to escape, Lin Jinshu sat on the corridor in the outer courtyard and exhaled slightly.

"Hey, aren't you the one who met me in the silver building some time ago?" Lin Jinshu waited for the smell of alcohol to dissipate, and was about to get up when he saw a man in blue clothes walking in front of him. , Those words were said by the man in the green shirt.Taking a closer look, it turned out to be Xue Pan.He also thought of what his mother said that Xue's family was temporarily living in Rongguo Mansion, and he understood why this person appeared here.

"Are you here for a banquet?" Xue Pan asked again.He remembered meeting this man when he was a child, but he forgot where he met him once.

"Exactly." Lin Jinshu said, "It's getting late, I have to go back."

"Wait! Did I let you go?" Xue Panniu didn't care as soon as his temper came up, "You look familiar, but you have been to Jinling before?"

"I have never been to Jinling before, so I'm afraid I have identified the wrong person." Lin Jinshu didn't want to entangle with him, "I came to Jia's house with my father. It's been a long time since I came out this time, so I bid farewell." Let the young servants who followed lead the way back.

Xue Pan just wanted to follow, but also thought that he was a filial person now, and his mother had repeatedly asked him not to cause trouble, so he mumbled a few words and went back to the Lixiangyuan.

Lin Jinshu breathed a sigh of relief, and pretended to casually ask the waiter beside him: "Who was the person who was talking to me just now? Could it be that he was also a guest invited by my cousin's wedding?"

"Oh, young master Lin, you don't know something. This is the nephew of the second wife of our family, and he is the current head of the Xue family after Ziwei Sheren." The servant naturally knew Lin Jinshu's identity, so he answered naturally She was careful, "It's just that Uncle Xue is still in the period of filial piety, so of course he can't attend the wedding banquet this time. Probably because he heard that our place is lively, so he came out to have a look."

"Oh, why did the Xue family come to Beijing so well? And I remember that the Xue family had their own mansion in the capital, so why wouldn't they live in their own mansion?" Lin Jinshu narrowed his eyes slightly and asked.

The fact that Xue Pan committed a murder is not considered a secret in the Jia family, but can these things be said casually?The young man smiled and ignored the first question directly: "I heard that he was in a hurry to go to Beijing, and the house in the middle of the capital has not been repaired, so he is temporarily staying at our house, and besides, he is a relative of the second wife."

"I see." Lin Jinshu nodded.His father told him that Xue Pan was carrying a murder case on his back, and now that he can appear in the capital with his whole body and tail, there must be someone to help solve the problem.Mr. Wang Ziteng has no time to patrol the border. Now that I think about it, only the second wife dares to do it.Jinling, the Zhen family, and the second wife... really want to die.I don't know if the people in the Rongguo Mansion know what the second wife has done.

Lin Jinshu flicked his sleeves and sat back at the banquet, with a calm expression on his face.

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