Survive in the world of Red Mansions

Sitting in the car, Xiaobao looked at the uncle sitting opposite him, with a gloomy face all the time, without making a sound.Now Xiaobao only regrets that he shouldn't have got into the uncle's car just now, it's so nice to be with other people.I always thought that the old man has a good temper and never gets angry. It seems that he has never encountered anything that made the old man angry. Now it seems that the old man is very scary when he gets angry. It is better to be careful in the future!

Lin Rui sat in the car with a straight face, and waited until the door of Mr. Xu's house, then took a deep breath, adjusted his emotions, and jumped out of the car when he felt that the expression on his face had returned to normal.

As soon as Lin Rui walked to the gate, Old Zhao, the concierge, saw him and shouted happily: "Master Rui, you are here!"

"Uncle Zhao, is sir at home?" The Xu family has gradually declined since the death of the top-ranking uncle. Now the entire Xu family has left a lonely old Zhao as the gatekeeper, and there is another room, mainly Cooking, cleaning, traveling, etc., are all taken care of by the person in this room.

"Master is at home. Master must be happy to know that Master Rui is here."

The concierge, Old Zhao, said happily that while welcoming Lin Rui into the courtyard gate, the servant who followed brought in the gifts he had brought.

Walking into the room, I saw Mr. Xu sitting on the couch with his eyes closed, listening to his grandson reciting "Thousand Characters".Lin Rui took his steps lightly, and waited until the little guy finished a paragraph before speaking, "Sir, student Lin Rui has met Mr.!"

"Rui'er, here you go, sit down, oh, the Imperial College is on holiday today," Xu Zhuo patted Xiao Sun's head again, and said with a smile, "An'er is so happy to see your senior brother coming over, so let's take a break too. Go out and play."

"Ruier, are you still getting used to going to the Imperial College? Well, you've lost weight, aren't you used to eating?" Xu Zhuo saw that his student had lost weight obviously just now.

"It's all good, but the food inside is unpalatable."

"Hehe, the Guozijian hasn't changed in this aspect for decades, but you can endure hardships to be a master. Master Lin has spoiled you too much. The hardships of the Guozijian are nothing. There will be more places to suffer in the future. Going to the Imperial College is good for you, you can make more friends of the same age."

"Look, sir, you don't feel sorry for me even though I've lost weight." Lin Rui said to Mr. Xu with a smile.

"Stinky boy, you are not in good shape. Well, since you are here, let me know what you have studied in the Imperial College these days."

"Sure, I also specially brought over the articles I wrote these days. Sir, please help me see if there is any progress?" Lin Rui laughed and handed the articles that he specially brought before going out to Mr. Xu look.

Lin Rui waited for Mr. Xu to comment on the articles written these days, and then played a game of chess with Mr. Xu. He stayed at Mr. Xu's house for almost an hour and then left. Said to make an appointment with someone, but did not eat at Xu's house.Lin Rui also knows the situation of Mr. Xu's house. If he wants to eat at Xu's house, Mrs. Xu has to add one or two extra dishes. Although he often sends things over, this kind of expenses that can be avoided by Xu's family should be avoided as much as possible. good.

Lin Daiyu was even happier that Lin Rui was able to go back home to eat, and specially told the kitchen to cook more of Lin Rui's favorite dishes, wishing to make up for Lin Rui's weight loss in just one day off.

Lin Hai's study is definitely an important place in Lin's mansion. There are always people guarding the outside of the study for twelve hours a day. Anyone else is not allowed to enter unless Lin Hai's permission. Of course, this other person does not include Lin Hai. Rui.

All the servants in the mansion know that since the wife passed away, the inner court is ruled by the elder girl, and the outer court is ruled by the master and the uncle. The words of the uncle are as effective as the master. People discount the orders given by the uncle.

After the lunch break, Lin Rui went directly to Lin Hai's study. After practicing calligraphy for half an hour, he finally felt completely calm, so he took out the information Lin Ran had collected during this period of time and looked through it.For this information, Lin Rui often regards it as gossip, and it is very interesting to read a lot.From the information revealed by the stewards of these various houses, after a long time, they have a general understanding of the situation of each household in the entire capital.

For those families with lax rules and a bad family style, you can’t expect him to be strict with his mouth, so he prefers to expose the affairs of the master’s family to the outside world. This is not to blame for the affairs of Rongning and Ningfu. There are many.

In this year and month, the names of ladies and gentlemen are not easy to be known by others. The two mansions of Rongning and Ningxia are very good. The names of the girls in my own mansion and the girls who borrowed from many relatives in Rongguo Mansion are almost known by everyone in the capital. Know.This time it was written that Jia Baoyu of Rongfu took out the poems written by the girl in the house who opened a poetry club, and publicized them everywhere, probably because he was afraid that others would not know that he had these versatile sisters in his family. Jia Baoyu never thought about it. Taking out the poems of my sisters to publicize in this way will cause adverse effects.

Lin Rui is glad that he reminded her in time. Last time Lin Daiyu couldn't push it, so she went to a poetry club, Lin Rui reminded her not to write any poems in that mansion, just in case someone in the mansion If you are not strict with your mouth, it will be good to be spread by others.Probably because Jia Baoyu had a bad influence on Lin Daiyu at the beginning, so he was quite disgusted with Jia Baoyu and a group of women to start a poetry club, so he listened to his younger brother and didn't write poems.But after returning home, he still couldn't hold back, and insisted on writing two poems for Lin Hai, Lin Rui and Mr. Qiu to comment on before giving up.

Lin Hai went home as soon as his son was on vacation today, and went straight to the study when he came back to ask the servant.

Seeing his son turning over a stack of papers in his hand, Lin Hai couldn't help asking, "Rui'er, it's a rare holiday, why didn't you go out?"

Lin Rui raised the paper in his hand and said with a smile, "I don't want to go out, it's interesting to read these gossips."

"The news that was sent this time is all gossip. The girls in Jia's mansion are not only being rumored in restaurants and tea shops, but have also spread to officials and eunuchs."

"Father, did you hear about it in the yamen?"

When Lin Hai said this, his face was a bit ugly. After all, the Rongguo Mansion was his own Yue family, and now it was rumored all over the street. It's not a matter of face.

"That's right, people in the yamen are talking about Rongguo Mansion. The person who is related to Mei Hanlin's family is called Xue Baoqin. I think this marriage is pending."

Lin Rui couldn't help being curious, "I remember that in the original drama, Xue Baoqin came to Beijing just to get married? Isn't it impossible to regret it under such circumstances?"

"The Mei and Xue families set up their sons and daughters' families and exchanged tokens because of Xue Er's kindness to Mei Hanlin. Although the Xue family was a businessman back then, they had the name of Ziwei's descendants and the name of an imperial merchant. Mei Hanlin was only a small juren at the time of prosperity. Now, the situation of the two families is just the opposite. The Xue family has lost, and the Mei Hanlin family is gradually growing. The one who is engaged to Xue Baoqin should be the youngest of the Mei family. Son, he is only sixteen or seven now, and he already has the reputation of a scholar. Besides, I guess Mrs. Mei would not want her youngest son to marry a business girl. Mr. Mei is not young, but until now I didn't go through the six ceremonies, just because I had already exchanged tokens, so I shouldn't go back on my word easily, or the Mei family's reputation would be bad. However, after the Xue family came to Beijing, they still lived in Jia's mansion. for?!"

After hearing this, Lin Rui felt that Lin Hai's analysis made sense, "That's right, taking advantage of the wind, the Mei family is regretting the marriage, and others are more on the side of the Mei family. Although everyone has guessed, the Mei family must have been unhappy. Fulfilling the marriage contract of the year. Yesterday I was thinking that Daiyu is too early to get engaged. Now that I think it is a good thing, all the posts sent by the Jia family in the future will say that Daiyu will be married at home. Just push it away Oh, I'm not happy to think that my sister will take advantage of that bastard Xu Jingzhi in the future!"

Lin Hai looked at his son's depressed face and wanted to laugh, "Men should marry when they are colleges, and girls should be married if they are colleges. In the future, you will also have to marry daughters and sisters who come into other people's homes. Then your brother-in-law and brother-in-law will treat you like this. Look at you. what to do?"

"It's still early for me to get married, what's the hurry?" Lin Rui waved his hand and said indifferently.

"Early? Even if you get married at the age of seventeen or eighteen, at the latest, you can't exceed twenty, and I will be engaged to you in two or three years. You can talk to your father in advance, what kind of marriage do you like?" , then we’ll try to find one like that.”

Talking about his own marriage, Lin Rui seemed a little less interested, "It's not in modern times, do you still want to fall in love and get married? Find someone with the right family, decent looks, and someone who can manage the house and manage the board. There are no special requirements."

"Son, why do you say that? You feel like you've done everything you can." Lin Hai was happy to see that his son didn't have high expectations for marriage and love. It is always easier to be hurt, and Lin Hai never wants his son to be hurt because of these one day.

Needless to say, Lin Hai himself did not marry because of love in his previous life. Later, after agreeing to divorce Lin Rui's mother, he also found many women, but it was never because of love. Those women got money from him Right, he gets happy, fair trade.Even if there are women who keep saying that they love him, it's not because of his money, and he never thought to believe it. If he was just a penniless and poor boy, the women who said they loved him would probably have gone far away.He never thinks that love is the necessity of life, no matter whether his son is influenced by him or not, but he doesn't think there is anything wrong. After his son gets married, he can respect, support and considerate each other with his future wife. These are enough. It is best to have a relationship like a relative after getting along for a long time. Is there any love? What is the importance?

"Originally, marriage pays attention to the right marriage. Don't you still think that I fall in love with a girl from an ordinary civilian family on a whim? If I want to, and you agree, will you be happy after such a marriage? Even in modern times Well, how many ordinary girls can be truly happy when they marry into a wealthy family, let alone here? My future wife, dad, you can do as you see, I don't have any special requirements."

When Lin Hai heard what Lin Rui said later, he couldn't help laughing. Before entering the mansion, the depression caused by hearing others talking about the Rong Mansion in the Yamen finally dissipated.

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Lin Rui got up the next day at the beginning of Yin, practiced martial arts for half an hour, and after a quick refreshment and breakfast, he rode a horse and led his guards directly to the Imperial College, and Licorice would bring Lin Rui's salute later Just go alone.

After Lin Rui's day's class was over, he remembered to look at the salute brought by Licorice. The things he brought had already been sorted out by Licorice. When Lin Rui saw these things, he didn't know what to say.The clothes were no different from the ones I brought last time, but there were two whole bags of food, including all kinds of sauced meat, stewed meat, and all kinds of pastries that were easy to store.When Lin Rui saw this, he knew that it should be Daiyu who saw that she had lost weight and heard that the food here was not good, so she prepared it specially. Seeing what Daiyu specially prepared for herself, she was very happy.

There was so much that I couldn't finish it by myself, so Lin Rui ordered Licorice, "Licorice, pick up some of these, and I'll go to Cousin Hao Nana later."

"Yes, sir."

Lin Rui brought a pile of licorice to eat, and came to Yao Hao's dormitory. It happened that Yao Hao was also in the dormitory, "Cousin Hao."

"Cousin Rui, why are you here?"

"Come over from home today, my sister has prepared a lot of food, and the portions are quite large, so I brought some here for you to try."

Yao Hao saw a large bag of licorice on the table, "Cousin Rui, how much did you bring here, do you have any more?"

"I have prepared a lot at home, is there more?"

The two cousins ​​were talking, when a voice came from outside, "Brother Yao, are you there?" As soon as the voice fell, he walked in without waiting for Yao Hao's reply. Personally, he should be very close to Yao Hao.

"Are you going to the dining room? Wait a minute, my cousin has brought a lot of delicious food, you should try it too."

"Oh, this is your cousin, this year's 'Little Sanyuan' in the capital?" said one of the three who was younger.

"Yes, this is my cousin Lin Rui. His father is the left servant of the household department. Cousin Rui, let me introduce some of my friends. This is Xu Jia, the grandson of Master Xu, Minister of the Ministry of Rites, and this is Mei Mei of the Imperial Academy. Master’s son Mei Wenjun, this is Master Zeng’s son Zeng Hong from the Procuratorate.”

Hearing Yao Hao talking about the young master of the Hanlin Academy, Lin Rui couldn't help but take another look. He looks handsome, and looks really good from the outside. This Mei Wenjun should be the one mentioned just yesterday. Mei Hanlin's family has a marriage contract with Xue Baoqin The youngest son of the Mei family, what a coincidence!

After Yao Hao's introduction, and after several people bowed their hands to salute each other, Zeng Hong directly picked up a piece of stewed meat and put it in his mouth, "Well, it tastes good. Oh, when will the Imperial College improve the diet?"

"Don't think about it in vain!" Mei Wenjun replied with a smile on the side.

"Cousin, let's go to the dining hall for dinner," he turned to his servant and said, "Pick up a few of these and pack them up, we'll use them for dinner."

Lin Rui thought that he didn't have an appointment at night, and it was a good intention for Yao Hao to invite him to have dinner with these people, so he went directly to the dining room with Yao Hao and the others.