Concubine daughter of the Lin family in the Red Chamber

Cao Xian didn't see joy, but thanked him politely, and Chen Yi nodded in satisfaction. His grandson-in-law is kind, so he naturally would not hesitate to help, but if he only came here for the power of the Chen family, he would naturally look down upon it.

Seeing that Cao Xian was neither humble nor overbearing, he was very happy and rewarded him with an inkstone: "It was given to me by someone else, who said it was extremely precious, but I didn't understand it. I kept it for nothing. Now that I have given it to you, it is considered a sword as a gift to a hero."

Cao Xian is a scholar, so he has researched on pen, ink, paper and inkstone. He really liked it. After Chen Ruiwen came back, he laughed with Lin Wanru: "Grandfather really likes Cao Xian. The inkstone is an ancient relic from the previous dynasty. If my father didn't give it to me, I would like it I didn't give it to him, but now I gave it to Cao Xian."

Lin Wanru smiled and said, "Are you jealous?"

Chen Ruiwen shook his head: "Grandpa treats Cao Xian well, and the Cao family will pass this love back to Ruixue. After all, grandfather is also for Ruixue."

After being busy with Ruixue's marriage, Shen was free. She said she didn't have time to visit the Dong family's girl before the Dragon Boat Festival, but now she thought about it, and said that if the Golden Buddha Temple offered incense, Second Grandma Chen also said that she would go. Grandma Chen San heard that she was going to go too, so there was a lot of commotion, and Shen's sent a steward to clean up the Golden Buddha Temple in advance to drive people away.

Then he said to Second Grandma Chen: "Since you want to go out, let's make it more lively. The girls who serve in the mansion seldom go out. Now the master is going, and those who want to follow just go." Second Grandma Chen smiled and said: "Sister-in-law is so Having said that, let’s do it this way, it will be lively even if there are many people.”

As soon as this remark came out, the girls in each room came alive, ready to go out, and took out the clothes at the bottom of the box to wear. You borrowed a jacket from me, and I borrowed a skirt from you. It was very lively.

The girls in Lin Wanru's house also looked like they were celebrating the New Year, and they rushed to Longyan and said they were going, and Longyan and Lin Wanru replied: "You go too, I'm going too, someone has to stay and watch the house. Don't ask Suoyu and Xie Niang to serve young mistress, I will stay and look after the house."

Lin Wanru smiled and said: "It's so easy to have fun. It's not good to leave you alone, so why not, you go with me and ask Madam Xia to stay and look at the house. She told me that she doesn't like to move around when she's old. Afraid of being tired."

Long Yan hesitated and said: "Mama is getting old after all, the young mistress forgot, there are still those three people in the family, Mama may not be able to hold back. Let me stay."

She insisted, Lin Wanru didn't say anything, and finally counted the list, Suoyu.Xie Niang, Zhuan Xiang, and Chi Su all followed. As for Gui Xiang and Gui Ye, they wanted to take this opportunity to ask for a day off because they had a baby.Going home, Lin Wanru also agreed, and Shan Hu, Liu Li and Qiong Yao came to Long Yan to beg.Saying that she wanted to go out, the cage smoke went back to Lin Wanru, Lin Wanru waved her hand: "Tell them to go, don't you stay, let's go together."

On the day of going out, more than a dozen cars, large and small, parked in front of the Chen residence, the cars of Shen Shi, Lin Wanru and others went away, and the maids didn't get in the car.All the way is naturally lively.It also caused the common people to compete to watch the excitement, watch the rich and nobles travel, and point and point.Extremely envious.

The abbot of the Golden Buddha Temple had already greeted him outside the mountain gate, exchanged greetings with the members of the Shen family, and welcomed them in. It was not the first time for Lin Wanru to come to the Golden Buddha Temple, so he didn't find it unusual, but those girls who served him on weekdays Li seldom goes out, and now they are all amazed, looking around, and chirping behind them with suppressed voice.

Lin Wanru followed Shen's family to burn incense in the Daxiong Palace, made a wish, and donated the money for the sesame oil, and then went to rest in the meditation room. The servant came to report: "Dong Hanlin's wife brought the girl to come to burn incense, and I know some grandmas are here. Thinking of coming over to say hello."

Second Grandma Chen said with a smile: "Just now, here we come." Shen also smiled and said: "Please come in quickly."

Lin Wanru sat next to her and looked closely. Mrs. Dong and Miss Dong looked quite similar. They had the same oval face, big eyes, and slender eyebrows. How precious, but very decent.

Sure enough, Mrs. Shen liked it, and exchanged pleasantries with Mrs. Dong, while Mrs. Dong was dragged by Chen Ruiyu and Chen Ruishuang to sit aside and talk.

Lin Wanru originally only listened to the greetings between Mrs. Shen and Mrs. Dong, but when she saw that Longyan came over by taking the opportunity of serving tea, she quickly gave her a wink. Lin Wanru was taken aback. If there is a guest, if it is not important, she will not remind her like this.

Lin Wanru saw that Mrs. Dong was being dragged by Second Grandma Chen to speak, so she whispered something into Shen's ear, and Shen nodded slightly: "Go and have a look, be careful."

Lin Wanru agreed, and walked out quietly, and Long Yan anxiously greeted her: "Young Mistress, the coral is gone."

Lin Wanru was very surprised: "But it's too far to go to play? Did you search carefully?"

Long Yan said: "Shan Shan Liuli and Qiong Yao were walking together, Shan Shan said to go to the latrine, Liuli said to accompany her, who would have thought that Liu Li would not come if she left and waited for the right, but she went in and saw that there was no coral at all. , Then I panicked and told me, I hurriedly asked some little girls to look around, and asked the people guarding the mountain gate, and they all said that they had never seen coral."

Lin Wanru pondered, Shan Shan and Liuli were both very safe, and it was because of this that she didn't take it to heart. Could it be that they were really hiding it?

But Chen Ruiwen didn't come here at all today, why did Coral sneak away?The coral is gone, and Liuli comes to report soon. It can be seen that Liuli and Shanhu are not in the same group, so what about Qiong Yao?

Lin Wanru asked Qiong Yao, and Long Yan hurriedly said: "Suoyu was afraid that she would be restless, so she kept asking her to follow."

Lin Wanru nodded slightly, and said: "Don't say anything, Mrs. Dong and Miss Dong are still inside, and the reputation of the Chen family will be damaged if there is a big disturbance. You can ask a few little girls who are close to Shanhu on a regular basis to see if she has been there recently. What is abnormal, ask someone to search it carefully again, since you have not left the mountain gate, you are still in the temple, you can’t escape, you can ask the little novice monks in the temple, they must know where to hide people and it is not easy to be caught turn up."

Long Yan hurriedly responded, and went out to give orders, while Lin Wanru waited for news in the side room.

However, Kung Fu Shan Shan, who has a stick of incense, was escorted over, Xu Shi struggled, her clothes were in a mess, and Long Yan angrily followed behind, saying: "Young Mistress, she has been arrested."

Seeing Shan Shan's sad face, Lin Wanru asked the two women who were holding her to let go, and said, "It doesn't matter if you run away without authorization, but your contract of prostitution is still there, even if you are a fugitive slave, once you find it, it's not too much to kill. Tell me, what is it for that makes you even want your life?"

Shan Shan knelt on the ground trembling, unable to utter a word, Lin Wanru seemed to be hiding something, thinking that the temple was not a place for interrogation, so he asked someone to take Shan Shan down to guard him, and specially instructed: "Don't Tell her to kill herself."

The two women said cheerfully: "Young Mistress, please rest assured." They dragged the coral down again.

Only then did Lin Wanru ask Long Yan: "Where did you find her?"

Long Yan said angrily: "Fortunately, the little master in the temple reminded that there is a small corner door, which is used by the vegetable farmers who come to deliver vegetables every day. The slaves and servants rushed over to see that she was hiding in the cart. In the basket, it is estimated that she wants to send the vegetables out of the temple, and she can go out with her."

He said again: "I heard from Guizi, who is close to Shan Shan, that Shan Shan seldom goes out, and she is usually reticent. Only this time when she came to offer incense, it was her who initiated the three of them to follow. It seems that It was premeditated."

Lin Wanru sneered, I'm afraid that this situation was laid out earlier, how could a little girl like Shanhu know that there is a small corner door here for vegetable farmers to come in and out, behind her, there must be some expert advice!

Lin Wanru ordered Long Yan: "Tell the young master about this and ask him to investigate Shan Hu's life experience. If she wants to fight for favor, why is she running away? There must be a conspiracy here." Long Yan didn't expect the matter to be so serious, so he hurriedly agreed and went out. up.

Lin Wanru frowned, if she was ordered by Guan Shi to do some shady personnel affairs, it would be fine, if there is someone behind Shan Shan who wants to take the opportunity to frame the Chen family or Chen Ruiwen, then Shan Shan is running away now, right? Means it's done?

When Lin Wanru returned to the Zen room, Mrs. Shen was smiling and asked Miss Dong what books she had read, and said with a smile: "Master Dong is very talented, the daughter she teaches must be a talented woman."

Seeing Lin Wanru coming in, she gave her a questioning look, but Lin Wanru frowned slightly, and said, "Mom, I don't feel well, I want to go home first."

Shen became anxious, and seeing Lin Wanru holding her waist with one hand and protecting her stomach with the other, she asked anxiously: "Is it important?" Then she told the girl: "Go and ask for Doctor Wang."

Lin Wanru hurriedly said: "I'm just a little tired, I don't feel comfortable standing or sitting, but it's nothing serious."

Mrs. Dong said: "This is not a trivial matter, young mistress, go back and rest." Lin Wanru apologized: "I'm really rude."

Mrs. Dong was busy talking, but Shen was worried, but felt that Lin Wanru squeezed her hand lightly, she couldn't help being stunned, she met Lin Wanru's suggestive eyes, and then she realized that something must have happened, otherwise Wanru Not like this, calmed down slowly, and said: "In that case, you go back to rest first, and then ask someone to call Ruiwen back, don't hold on alone."

Lin Wanru agreed, apologized again, and hurried back with Shan Shan.

Not long after Lin Wanru arrived home, Chen Ruiwen came back on his back. Seeing Lin Wanru, he said anxiously, "I heard you're not well, what's wrong?"

Lin Wanru shook her head: "It's not me, I'm fine." Then he told about Shan Shan's escape and his worries, and Chen Ruiwen's face turned dark immediately. Since, let him interrogate her carefully, and make her tell the truth."

Lingxi took the order to go, and came back after a cup of tea, her face full of doubts: "Brother Chen has not been tortured yet, Shan Hu recruited him, saying that he was ordered by the second wife of the Shen family to drug the young mistress." , she didn't succeed for a long time, and she was afraid that the second wife would blame her, so she took the time to escape."