Survive in the world of Red Mansions

Sister and brother Lin Rui, after Lin Hai also came to pay respects to Jiamu's birthday in the afternoon, they sat for a while and then left.Originally, when Jia Baoyu was happy with her sisters and sisters getting together, when Lin Daiyu was about to leave, because of Lin Hai's relationship, thinking of the cold face of her good-looking cousin was also very scary, so although Jia Baoyu was a little bit reluctant , but he didn't dare to open his mouth to keep someone. Besides, although he still likes this fairy-like sister very much, after all, he doesn't have much time to spend with him. This cousin has always been honest with him. Coaxing him and pampering him, although he is willing to be a little fugitive to accommodate Daiyu, but even so, this fairy-like sister doesn't show good looks, and after a long time, she will gradually fade away.

Lin Rui invited for a day, and rushed back to the Imperial College early the next day.This year is the exam year, and it will be this year's autumn soon. Many of the students in the Imperial College are planning to participate in this year's autumn. Those whose families are in other places also packed their bags early and went home to participate in this year's competition. Township examination.Among the people Lin Rui knew in the Imperial College, many of them were also going to take this exam. Yao Hao and Mei Wenjun were all going to take this autumn exam.

In Lin Hai's opinion, Xu Jingzhi is only 15 years old this year, so it is not necessary to take the provincial examination so early, and it would be more appropriate to wait until the next age, but Xu Jingzhi himself insisted on taking part, and said that if he is lucky enough to win the honor of Juren this time Hearing what he said, Lin Hai and the others guessed that he should be in order to get married, so that it would be better to have a reputation as a juror.

In the past few days, because many supervising students of the Imperial College are preparing to participate in the Qiu Wei, some people's hearts are fluctuating, but for Lin Rui, these have nothing to do with him, how to live or how to live on weekdays.

It should be said that Lin Rui has become more and more used to the life here in the past few months in the Imperial College. The saddest one may be encountered by others, but it is definitely not as serious as Lin Rui.

Lin Rui started to get up early to practice martial arts at the age of five or six, but because Lin Rui was born weak, he couldn't become a peerless master no matter how much he practiced, so he regarded it more as a kind of exercise, but the original purpose of Lin Hai and his son was just to maintain Lin Rui's body is good, so I'm not particularly disappointed.After so many years of persistence, it is a fact that Lin Rui's body is very healthy. Except for the first few years, he rarely catches cold and coughs now.

After entering the Imperial College, Lin Rui didn't lose his habit of exercising in the morning and evening. When he was in the Lin Mansion, there were a lot of maids, wives, and servants waiting to serve Lin Rui. He knew that Lin Rui would take a bath after exercising. , They always prepared hot water early, but Lin Rui's habit in the Imperial College made him worry about the boy who followed him.When he first entered the Imperial College, Lin Rui had no choice but to let the people following him drink some cold water to wipe them off. Fortunately, it was summer when he first arrived. Later, Lin Rui paid the kitchen boy to boil hot water for him every day, so he reluctantly It can be considered as a solution to this problem, but even if it is like this, it is incomparable with being at home, and it can only be overcome in this way.

Lin Rui closed his eyes and sat on the bed, while Gan Zhu stood aside holding a handkerchief, slowly wiping his freshly washed hair.Lin Rui stroked his hair, "It's almost dry, Gan Zhu, you should rest."

"Master, today I gave 7 coins for heating the hot water in the kitchen this month, and 120 coins for today's order." Gan Zhu told Lin Rui about today's expenses. It will be paid by the servants who follow, but they will still report to Lin Rui what expenses they will have. This is a rule that Lin Rui set early.

Sometimes when I think about it, I feel that the money is very valuable. It is very cheap for them not to go to those high-end places to eat in Guozilin, but it is not that there are no high-end restaurants. The same meal costs a few hundred cash, and some have to use it There are dozens of taels of silver, or even more than a hundred taels of silver.

Thinking about what I heard yesterday when attending a banquet in Ningguo Mansion, the second master of Cao Shangshu's family, in the most famous Tianxiang Tower in the capital, fell in love with a newly listed oiran, and even took out ten thousand taels of silver to redeem her. Is this the rhythm of meeting true love? !

Lin Rui heard it yesterday, and he just regarded it as a romantic affair, so it's fine to listen to it. Now that he heard Gan Zhu repaying himself, and thinking about Cao Erye's spending a lot of money, it can't be compared!To Cao Erye, this money is worthless.

Lin Rui was a little curious, isn't Second Master Cao the concubine of the Cao family?The Cao family is not separated now, how did the second master manage to spend so much money all at once?

For the entire social circle in Beijing, Cao Erye's move was just to give everyone a chance to gossip and make people see the Cao family's jokes, but the news caused consequences in the Cao family no less than a magnitude [-] earthquake.

Cao Erye Cao Weiqi is definitely a special existence in the Cao family. When his biological mother was Cao Jianwai as the magistrate, a local businessman who had just started to prosper spent a lot of money to build a relationship, and then sent his daughter The one who sent it to Cao Jian as a concubine was to find a backer for his family.

Although Cao Erye's biological mother, Lu Shi, is only the daughter of a merchant, she is a woman with a history of evil. When Cao Jian accepted this merchant girl who came to his door, in addition to enjoying the beauty, the merchant also gave Cao's family a lot of benefits every year.During the years when Cao Jian was sent out, the Lu family relied on Mr. Cao to take care of the local business several times. The Lu family was born beautiful. Of course, she would not give her to Cao Jian if she was not beautiful. In those years, he was very favored by Cao Jian, and the Lu family quickly gained a firm foothold in Cao's residence. In the second year of following Cao Jian, he had Cao Erye.Lu Shi also relied on these, digging a lot of money for himself from his natal family back then.

After returning to the capital, Mrs. Lu has all kinds of scheming methods, and has heard people say that the mistresses of these wealthy families have superb methods, but she still underestimated the experience of women from aristocratic families.After she returned to the Cao Mansion, she kept a low profile to the mistress and would never fight for favor or act like a baby, but even so, she did not escape being framed. Cao Weiqi accidentally miscarried after she became pregnant when she was seven years old. This miscarriage also made Lu Shi Since then, he has been lingering on the sick bed, and Cao Weiqi passed away before he was nine years old.

Before his death, Mrs. Lu took advantage of Cao Jian's feeling of guilt towards him about his miscarriage. Maybe he didn't feel any guilt. He asked to transfer the shops and farms he brought from his natal family and the shops and farms he had acquired over the years to his son, and file them in the government. He said that his son, as a concubine, would have to live alone in the government. Let him have nothing to worry about.Although Cao Jian valued his son more, but his son was also his own son. Since he couldn’t give his son more support in his official career, it’s okay to leave the money to Lu’s own son to make his life better in the future. It’s for his son anyway. So it was done before Lu Shi passed away.

Since Mrs. Lu's death, Second Master Cao has grown more and more crooked under Mrs. Cao's blind love and pampering. Cao Jian is not unaware, but he has two sons, so he really doesn't care about the sons, just don't cause trouble for the family.In fact, from a deeper point of view, it may not be that this Second Master Cao is ignorant of his mother-in-law's praise and killing of him. Even if he didn't know it at the beginning, he will be very aware of it when he grows up, but in order to save his life, he can only do so.

The boss of the Cao family is approaching the year of knowing his destiny. With the support of his family, he can only be released as a Zhizhou. It doesn't matter if you are motivated, as long as you live happily, so there is no psychological pressure at all to spend tens of thousands of taels of silver to redeem an oiran, since he is rich anyway.

So Second Master Cao is a special existence in the Cao family, and the direct descendants look down on him, but when it comes to the money in their hands, even the direct descendants are envious of him.The Cao family was born in an honorable family and had always had a thriving descendant, so we only talk about Cao Jian. Although Cao Jian only has three sons, there are now more than ten males in the generation of Cao Jian's grandchildren, and the number is still increasing.Prosperous offspring is a good thing, but the wealth of the family is getting thinner and thinner. Cao built this house, and now there are thirty or forty masters, big and small, plus some half masters, aunts, concubines, and concubines. Naturally, the expenses will be greater if there are more people. up.

Because the family has not yet been separated, the masters, big and small, can only live by division. Naturally, it is impossible to live as comfortably as Second Master Cao.It's not that Mrs. Cao didn't have the idea of ​​sharing this property back then, but Second Master Cao didn't care about other things, but he was very strict about the property left to him by his biological mother, so he insisted not to be coaxed by Mrs. Cao.Even if she later married the children of a distant relative of Mrs. Cao's natal family, she didn't hand over the financial book to her wife like other families, but kept it in her own hands all the time, making Mrs. Cao grit her teeth with hatred, but there was nothing she could do.

Mrs. Cao and several members of the Cao family who are able to take care of themselves all know Cao Shangshu's current physical condition and dare not bother him with troubles.This time Cao Erye spent a lot of money for an oiran, and many people in the Cao family knew about it, but they kept it from him because of Cao Shangshu's body.Dafang's eldest grandson is proud of himself but lacks talent, and he is very displeased with his grandfather's opinion of his cousin.

His second uncle spends a lot of money for an oiran, and as the eldest grandson of the eldest son, he can't even compare with a cousin of the direct line, he is especially angry.I like antiques, and I have to hesitate for a long time when I fancy something with a few hundred taels, and dare not make it lightly.The father let it out, and most of the things that were sent back to the mansion every year were returned to the public. As the second uncle who was a concubine, he had a large amount of private property, so it was unfair to throw away tens of thousands of taels casually.

So at the Mid-Autumn Festival family banquet, the matter was revealed immediately. Cao Shangshu was not in good health, and when he first heard the news, he fainted from anger.

After Cao Shangshu was awakened by the imperial physician, he looked at his son kneeling in front of the bed, pointed at him tremblingly, "Niezi, Niezi, cough..." Cao Jian coughed for a long time before continuing, "For A prostitute, are you going to kill the entire Cao family?"

I can't wait to beat him to death!Spending a lot of money for a prostitute, and even buying a foreign house, I have to be careful in front of the emperor at this time, why is this son so unbelievable, how many times have I been warned, don't expect him to make progress, but don't cause trouble for the mansion, this is Sending your family's handle to the emperor's hand?

"Fubao is not a prostitute, she just fell out of the family, and it's not a big deal." Cao Weiqi subconsciously retorted, but seeing his father's face getting uglier, his voice became lower and lower.

Cao Jian was so angry that his chest heaved violently, and he stared at him with his eyes open, "You, you..." You didn't say anything for a long time, and Mrs. Cao who was next to him hurriedly sat down on the bed and gave him comfort, "Shut up!" Mouth, second child, are you going to piss off the master?" Although Cao Weiqi felt that he had done nothing rebellious, but seeing his father and mother-in-law like this, he didn't dare to say anything more, so he just lowered his head and continued to kneel .

Cao Jian waited until he was finally able to speak smoothly, and said to Mrs. Cao: "Madam, send that woman away..." When Cao Erye heard that he was going to send Fu Bao away, he hurriedly said, "Father, Fu Bao It is already my person, if it is not good to put it outside, take it back to the mansion..."

It is said that the name Fubao was a nickname given to her by her parents who loved her very much when she was at home. Erye Cao really liked this woman. Seeing Mrs. Cao's wink and acting, I don't think she values ​​her. There have been many women in Cao Erye's room these years, but only Fu Bao, a weak woman, is wholeheartedly attached to him. He really likes her. He found the self-confidence and youthful vigor of a man in him. It's not that he doesn't know that these things are a bit unreasonable, but if he doesn't take this opportunity to take Fu Bao back to his house, it will be even more difficult in the future.

Cao Erye hadn't finished speaking, Cao Jian lay on the bed and couldn't help him for a while, Madam Cao picked up the cup in hand and threw it over, and hit Cao Erye on the shoulder.

"It's a good thing you can say it and take it back to the house? Let a woman from a brothel enter the gate of the Cao family. In the future, the descendants of the Cao family will not have to discuss marriage or go out to meet people?" It doesn't matter if you raise this bastard, but absolutely Don't allow this bastard to corrupt the Cao family's style and affect his children.

Mrs. Cao really didn't expect that the second child could be counted. She watched him grow up, although he was not in tune, but he was not stupid after all these years. She was really dazzled by this brothel woman for being able to say such innocent words at this moment. head? !

At this moment, Cao Jian finally calmed down, and said directly to Mrs. Cao, "Madam, find someone to check the details of that woman. If there is no problem, just send her away, and ask the second child to go to the yamen to ask for leave. Don't worry about it during this time." Let him go out, if he dares to sneak out, don't answer me, he will break his leg directly!"

"Father..." Cao Weiqi yelled when he heard what his father said.

Cao Jian didn't want to say anything, just waved his hand, and soon two guards came in, dragging Second Master Cao away.