Concubine daughter of the Lin family in the Red Chamber

Long Yan said: "In such a big family, Second Grandma Lian has to worry about eating, drinking and having fun. No matter how strong her body is, she can't stand such trials. Young Mistress should learn from it."

When Chen Ruiwen came back in the evening, he went into the clean room first to freshen up, and then he came out and hugged Lin Wanru: "How do you feel today? Do you feel sick? What did you eat?"

Lin Wanru smiled and said, "I ate fish at noon, and bird's nest porridge with side dishes at night."

Except for the smell of milk, Lin Wanru has no taboos about the rest, and the food tastes delicious.

The maids brought up the dinner prepared for Chen Ruiwen, a plate of duck meat, a plate of pickled goose breast, two kinds of fresh vegetables, a big bowl of green bamboo shoots and shrimp soup, and a big bowl of green rice. Lin Wanru looked at it , other things are fine, the plate of goose breast is so red and bright, I can't help but move my index finger.

Chen Ruiwen looked funny, and fed her two mouthfuls with chopsticks, Lin Wanru actually got an appetite, and said: "This will be delicious with porridge." Chen Ruiwen hurriedly asked someone to go to the stove to prepare the porridge, Lin Wanru drank another big The bowl of porridge was a little full, and she lay in Chen Ruiwen's arms with her chubby belly.

Chen Ruiwen was both angry and funny: "I ate too much, if I like it, I'll just ask someone to prepare it tomorrow."

Lin Wanru said, "I just want to eat it now, but I don't want to eat it tomorrow."

Chen Ruiwen was afraid that she would support her, so he walked with her in the yard for a while. Before going to bed, Lin Wanru remembered to tell Chen Ruiwen that he was going to see Sister Feng, and told about Shi Aizhu and Liu Xuan's marriage. Xilinmen, in fact, the queen mother wanted to use this incident to reassure the emperor. The crown prince was deposed. In the final analysis, the emperor condoned and failed to discipline him. He also blamed himself in his heart. He has been in a depressed mood for a while. In the past, he often went hunting and archery. Apart from dealing with political affairs, I don’t go anywhere now. The queen mother and the empress dowagers are very worried.”

Lin Wanru sighed: "Children don't live up to expectations, but fathers are always sad and disappointed." Then he laughed: "Have you ever been beaten when you were young?"

Chen Ruiwen smiled and said: "No, I was brought up by my grandfather. Except when teaching martial arts, I can use my fists and feet. The rest of the time, my grandfather used reasoning to persuade people. My grandfather said that the ability to convince people is the best. I have been running work towards this goal.”

Lin Wanru put her arms around his waist and said with a smile: "In the future, if our child makes a mistake, you are not allowed to beat him. You must reason with him and convince him with reason."

Chen Ruiwen's tone immediately softened: "Of course."

The next day, Lin Wanru reported to Mrs. Shen, and went to Jia's mansion with Longyan and Xie Niang. Sister Feng was recuperating in bed, and Ping'er and Feng'er were busy taking care of things.Seeing Lin Wanru approaching, he hurriedly greeted him and poured tea again.Sister Feng wanted to get up, but was held down by Lin Wanru: "Sister, don't be so polite, lie down quickly."

Sister Feng's face was pale, her eyes were red and swollen, and she knew she had cried at a glance, but she forced herself to exchange pleasantries with Lin Wanru: "I knew you had good news, and I wanted to go over to congratulate you, but who would have encountered such a thing again, I didn't Just luck."

Lin Wanru felt sad when she saw it, and comforted her: "What's unlucky? It's because this child has no fate with my sister. My sister is still young. Take good care of your body. Are you afraid that you won't be able to conceive in the future?"

Sister Feng shed tears silently: "I heard from the doctor that it is a well-formed male fetus. What I have been looking for all these years is to have a son. Now this has dispelled my desire to compete..."

Ping'er beside him couldn't help crying, and Lin Wanru comforted him a lot, and then went out to drink tea with Ping'er. Ping'er had worked hard these days, his eyes were red from the heat, and his voice was choked up: "Since the crown prince was deposed The money that the second master invested in the business was also in vain, the second grandmother was so angry that she almost passed out, and the empress in the palace was like that again, the old lady was sad all day long, and the wife was also uncomfortable, so the second grandmother held back her body Zhang Luo, who was not feeling well, thought it was due to inaccurate letter dates, but who knew it was a miscarriage, and lost a brother..."

Lin Wanru asked Long Yan to wipe Ping'er's tears, and said: "Your grandma is already so sad, you have to pull yourself together, you can make more money if you lose money, if you lose people, leave such a big mess behind But what should I do? You are a shrewd person, and you should be more cautious. Sister Feng is like this, what about Lian's second brother?"

Ping'er wiped his tears, listened to Lin Wanru's words and nodded repeatedly, and said, "Second Master is not at ease, he said he is also sad to see Second Mistress like this, and now he is sleeping in the study outside."

Lin Wanru nodded, and said a few more words of comfort, leaving behind the medicinal materials she brought, and then went to meet Jiamu. Now that Lin Wanru is the eldest mistress of the Chen family, she is pregnant again, so even Jiamu has to use the etiquette to greet distinguished guests. Greeting her, Mother Jia asked a few words about her body, and said: "Sister Feng is like this now, and she can't be housekeeper anymore. I want to ask your sister to take care of it for a while. At least I can get through this hurdle."

Lin Wanru couldn't say anything, so she stood up and said goodbye after a few words of politeness, and went to see Lin Daiyu, but Lin Daiyu was in charge in the flower hall in the garden, and there was a line of housekeepers standing outside. He came out to greet her: "You are pregnant now, why are you still running around? Just ask someone to tell me that I will go there."

Lin Wanru said with a smile: "How can there be such a fortune, it's all about relaxing, my sister is working hard as a housekeeper now?"

Mentioning this, Lin Daiyu sighed straight away: "The cost of the house is high, and the harvest is not as good as every year. Now I can only find ways to increase revenue and reduce expenditure, otherwise all the foundations will be wiped out."

Without avoiding suspicion, she showed the account book to Lin Wanru. After a rough look, Lin Wanru found that there was a deficit of nearly 1000 taels in the account every month. She couldn't help being surprised: "Where did the shortfall come from?"

Lin Daiyu didn't make a sound, Lin Wanru immediately understood, and called Daiyu the housekeeper, and she was the one who made up for the shortfall. Presumably this was the real purpose of Jia Mu and Mrs. Wang calling Daiyu the housekeeper.

Lin Wanru couldn't help sneering: "That is to say, all the members of the Jia family are now supported by my sister's dowry?"

Lin Daiyu said: "I know you must be unhappy, but there is nothing you can do about it. Money is dead, but people are alive. If I just watch the Jia family fall into poverty, and I have money in my hand but don't take it out, so what?" Are you worthy of my grandmother's kindness in nurturing me? But don't worry, all the money is spent now, and I haven't touched those farm shops."

After hesitating for a while, he expressed his own thoughts: "The Lin family can't have no successors. I want to make the second son the heir of the Lin family, so that my parents will also have someone to offer incense in the future."

Lin Wanru was really taken aback, this is not a trivial matter.

Lin Daiyu felt that the time was not ripe, so she kept her mouth shut and asked about Lin Wanru's body.

After eating at Jia's house, Lin Wanru went back, and the Shuirou just came to the door, and when she saw that Lin Wanru was not at home, Lin Wanru went back, so Lin Wanru asked Xie Niang to ask what's the matter.

In the evening, Shuirou rushed over in a hurry, sweating anxiously: "Didn't I say to invite Duan Ling and Lin Ruojiang over last time and let Aizhu and Xuan'er choose by themselves? Somehow the Queen Mother knew about it, Said it was a good idea, and invited several girls and the young master to participate together, it seems that it means to match up intentionally, this small matter becomes a big one, I am afraid that it will be self-defeating, and I want to ask your idea."

Lin Wanru smiled and said: "If you really achieve a good marriage, won't you be a matchmaker in the future? Since the Queen Mother is interested, then you can just take care of it at ease. Have you ever chosen a place?"

Shui Judao: "I borrowed the peach garden of Zhongshun Prince's Mansion as a place for the banquet, and I also invited the princess of Xining County to help greet the guests, because I borrowed the place of Zhongshun Prince's Mansion, and the third young lady of Zhongshun Prince's Mansion also volunteered to help, so there is no need to worry about manpower. But the key is to invite people in the post. If there are too many people invited, I am afraid that something will happen. If there are fewer people invited, I am afraid that I will disappoint the Queen Mother’s good intentions in vain. Besides, I am really worried about who I want to invite. "

Lin Wanru paused slightly with the hand holding the tea bowl: "You are very familiar with Prince Zhongshun's Mansion? Why are they willing to lend you the garden?"

Shui Judao: "Miss Wu of Zhongshun Palace and I grew up together, our two families can be regarded as old acquaintances, not to mention Miss Wu is not married yet, Palace of Zhongshun also wants to take this opportunity to pick a son-in-law."

Lin Wanru nodded, and said: "Since that's the case, what are you afraid of? How about this, you name one of the unmarried young masters and girls from the countable families in the capital, and let's figure it out and see who we should invite."

Fortunately, Shui Rou has a good memory, no matter whether she is a lady from a noble family or a daughter from a noble family, she knows something about it, so it is easy to write one at a time.

The two of them have been busy for almost an hour, and they finally got a clue. Shui Rou judged to see who these people were against whom, and if you invited one, then don't invite that other, so as not to cause trouble, and said who has a good relationship with whom, please. This one must invite that one.

When Chen Ruiwen came back, the two of them were still busy on the kang table, Shui Rou blushed, knowing that it was too late for bothering her, so she left in a hurry, Lin Wanru couldn't help smiling, but Chen Ruiwen said: "It seems that you are busy with something else. gone."

Lin Wanru smiled and said, "Shui Rou originally wanted to help Xuan'er and Ai Zhu to win the red line, but who knew that the Empress Dowager would pay attention to this, and would like to have a La Lang to match, there will inevitably be a lot of excitement."

Chen Ruiwen told her not to be too tired, lying on the kang and sighed comfortably, Lin Wanru wondered: "What are you busy with today?"

Chen Ruiwen didn't want to make Lin Wanru worry about troublesome things, but seeing her piercing eyes, he couldn't hide it, so he said: "It's the second uncle and the third uncle. The second uncle was originally the prefect of Hangzhou, so he was supposed to be the official of one of the parents, but he I don’t feel satisfied. This time I came to the capital to take a three-month family leave. Today I invited me to drink and said that I wanted to stay in the capital and told me to find a way out. The third uncle wanted to open a shop and asked me to help find out if there is any. The shop was sold, and it was said that it would be best to be in Dongxi Street, but the rent of the shop on Dongxi Street is at least 500 taels a year, but the third uncle wants to buy it for 500 taels, I am really worried."