Survive in the world of Red Mansions

The weather is getting colder and winter is approaching step by step, Lin Rui seldom goes out to participate in various parties now.In the same year, those who were famous in the provincial examination list, and the candidates from all over the country came to the capital to participate in the next year's general examination, and now they have to take advantage of the last opportunity to prepare well so that they can participate in next year's Chunwei. Coupled with the weather, so various names The gatherings have also been reduced a lot.

Now that Lin Rui doesn't need to go to the Imperial College anymore, he has resumed his previous study and life. After getting up early in the morning, he will practice martial arts for half an hour. After breakfast, he will take someone to Mr. Xu's house, not every day. Go once a day.At Lin Rui's current level, he doesn't need to be taught by his husband every day, just a little guidance from someone.Xu Zhuo is based on Lin Rui's learning situation, and gives some pointers. Every time he goes to Mr. Xu's side, Lin Rui will hand over the stereotyped essays and poems he wrote to Mr. Xu for comments, and then improve based on Mr. Xu's explanations and comments. .

For Lin Rui, Xu Zhuo is considered a close disciple in a certain way. He is really dedicated, not only for teaching Lin Rui's stereotyped essays and poetry in the imperial examination, but also for Lin Rui's piano, chess, calligraphy and painting. , Even the appreciation of antiques and antiques.

Because now that Daiyu is married, Lin Hai also goes to the Yamen on weekdays, so after Lin Rui attends classes at Mr. Xu's house, most of them stay at Xu's house for dinner.Now that the weather is cold, and Lin Rui is not an outsider, Xu's lunch is placed on the kang table, and after lunch, he rests at Xu's for a while before saying goodbye and leaving.

Following Lin Rui's six guards, Lin Rui was eating at Mr. Xu's house, and it was impossible for them to wait outside cold and hungry, so let's not talk about what the following guards think, it is Lin Rui himself I'm sorry too.So usually they are asked to go to a nearby restaurant to eat at such times, and Lin Rui has to pay for it. Lin Rui has never been a stingy person, so he won't be reluctant to part with the money. It just so happens that there is a decent restaurant next to Xu's. .

Gan Song and the others also counted the time, and when they felt that Lin Rui was about to go back, they came to Xu's house and waited for Lin Rui to come out.In the past, when the weather was fine, Lin Rui mostly traveled on horseback, but since it started snowing a few days ago, Lin Rui started to drive to Mr. Xu's side.

Usually after getting in the car, Little Treasure likes to gossip about some things, but today is a rare occasion, and he didn't make a sound.Lin Rui looked at Xiaobao curiously, Xiaobao was hesitant to speak, really!

"Xiaobao, just say what you have to say, what are you doing like this, I didn't let you talk."

Hearing what his uncle said, Xiaobao finally breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Master, when we were eating in the restaurant just now, we heard some news about the matter of my grandfather's family. I don't know whether I should say it or not."

The Jia family?I went to Jia's house by myself a few days ago, and the old lady's illness has improved a lot. In fact, the old lady is not really sick, but just suffered from some anger, and the anger is not going well for a while. What's the matter now?Lin Rui didn't make a sound, but just motioned Xiao Bao to continue.

"It's because Young Master Biao's psychic jade is lost!"

When Lin Rui heard this, he couldn't help being surprised. Although Jia's house was ransacked, the emperor didn't show any affection. Rongguo Mansion was preserved as Jia's private house, and Jia Baoyu got married smoothly. This jade throwing situation still happened?The news that Lin Ran sent over two days ago didn't mention it. Did it just happen?

"When did Cousin Baoyu lose his jade? Why, did everyone know?"

"Uncle's grandfather's house had someone draw a picture, and offered a reward of 1 silver, a total of [-] taels. Everyone knows this. Just now, many people in the restaurant discussed that they wanted to find this piece of jade. Whoever finds it will make a fortune!"

When Lin Rui heard Xiaobao's words, he didn't know what to say about the members of the Jia family. He dared to offer 1 taels of silver as a reward at a time like this. Did he want to recruit the emperor to raid the house again?

Regardless of whether the emperor looked at Jia Yuanchun or the little princess last time, or because the property of the Zhen family hidden by Mrs. Wang was found, no matter what the reason was, the emperor was extraordinarily merciful. At this time, the whole family did not say anything Being a man with your tail between your legs, you still make such a move to let others know, is it to tell the emperor that the Jia family still has a lot of money, so you want to raid the house again?

Although Lin Rui knew to some extent that this piece of jade had some effect on Jia Baoyu, he still didn't know how important it was to Jia Baoyu.

After Jia Baoyu lost the piece of jade that came out of his mother's womb, he himself seemed to have lost his soul. He was in a daze all day long, and often talked nonsense, which scared the rest of the Jia family to a loss. .Jia's mother and Mrs. Wang have always regarded Jia Baoyu as their darling. Now that they see Jia Baoyu like this, they wish to suffer the pain themselves. They pray to God and worship Buddha all the time, just to find Jia Baoyu's lifeblood.

After discovering that Jia Baoyu's psychic jade had been lost, he first searched around the house. The maids in Jia Baoyu's room, as long as they had access to this jade, were questioned carefully one by one.These maidservants are protected by Jia Baoyu, and they are all spoiled and spoiled on weekdays. Before Second Grandma Bao came in, she was afraid of what would happen to Second Grandma after she came in.But seeing that Jia Baoyu didn't pay much attention to Xue Baochai who married into the door, he was as usual to Xiren, Meiren, Fangguan, Qiuwen, etc. Even if Jia's house was ransacked, the use of Jia Baoyu's yard The speed did not decrease, and the maids in Baoyu's room were pampered as before.

This time Jia Baoyu's psychic jade was lost, and he became like a fool. Xue Baochai was very anxious. After marrying in, he realized that his life was not easy. As an aunt, the mother-in-law picked her own fault all day long. Not long after she got married, the Jia family ransacked the house, and Mrs. Wang somewhat vented her anger on Second Grandma Bao. Even so, Xue Baochai didn't want Jia Baoyu to become a fool from now on.

I couldn't find that piece of jade anywhere, and thought that I would go to Mrs. Wang to set rules in front of Mrs. Wang. These maids, big and small, only cared about acting coquettishly and foolishly in front of Jia Baoyu, and Baoyu didn't even know how to be considerate of herself. This time something like this happened The first is to find that piece of jade, and the second Xue Baochai is also to take this opportunity to tidy up her yard. In this way, these maids, big and small, will be out of luck.

On weekdays, the servants who followed Jia Baoyu and the maidservants were beaten to death. The whole Jia family was turned upside down by Jia Mu, Mrs. Wang and Xue Baochai, but they still couldn't find it. There was really no way. Mother Jia came up with this idea.For the sake of Jia Baoyu, the sweetheart, she took out 1 taels of silver at this time. As for whether the big house would feel unbalanced, Jia's mother didn't care at all, and what outsiders would think, the old lady didn't think too much .

After hearing Xiaobao's words, Lin Rui was silent for a while, and then said loudly to the outside, "Go to Zuixiaolou!"

"Master, did you not eat at Mr. Xu's house just now?" Xiao Bao asked curiously.

"It's been used, just go and have a sit," after saying this, he leaned against the carriage with the stove in his hands and didn't continue talking.

Arriving at the gate of Zuixiao Building, as soon as he got off the bus, Xiao Er stepped forward to say hello, "Uncle Lin, please come inside!" As he walked in, he prepared to take Lin Rui upstairs as usual, while saying, "Uncle Lin, you've come at the right time, there's a private room upstairs..."

"You don't need to go upstairs, just find a seat in the lobby downstairs." Lin Rui looked around, then pointed with his finger, "There is an empty table over there, so I'll just sit there."

Hearing what Lin Rui said, Xiao Er was a little surprised why Uncle Lin was sitting in the lobby today, but he didn't say much. He hurried over and wiped the table with a rag before inviting Lin Rui to sit. Down.

Lin Rui had already eaten, so he ordered a pot of tea, added a few plates of dim sum, and asked the guards who followed him to sit at another table and let them order by themselves.

Zuixiaolou can be regarded as a high-end restaurant in the entire capital city. Apart from brothels, the price of meals here is also ranked in the top ten, so the people who come here to eat are mostly officials or rich families. Ordinary people can neither afford nor bear it.

At this point in time, after dinner time, most of the people sitting here are ordering a pot of tea and a few plates of snacks, sitting and chatting, talking about gossip and the like.

"Hey, have you guys heard about it? In the past two days, something new has happened in the capital."

"What's new? I know. Is it about that Jia Baoyu? I heard that the Jia family offered a reward of 1 taels of silver just to find Jia Baoyu's piece of jade!"

Lin Rui hadn't sat down for a while, when he heard someone talking about Jia's family, and the person who started talking continued, "I heard that the lost jade is very spiritual. Ever since I lost that piece of jade, Jia Baoyu seems to have lost his soul, like a fool, is that piece of jade really so spiritual, is it really a piece of psychic jade?"

"Who knows?" After speaking, he lowered his tone a little, leaned closer and said to the person at the same table, "A reward of 1 taels is offered! Tell me, why is the Jia family still so rich? It was stolen."

Although the voice lowered a little, but Lin Rui was sitting at the next table, and he could still hear what they said clearly.At this time, someone at the next table probably knew each other, so they came over and said, "You all heard about it, do you think we should also join in the fun? 1 taels, really rich!"

"Come on, it's such a small thing, how can it be so easy to find, and this money is not so easy to get!"

A person next to him continued, "I just don't know what that treasure looks like. If you know how to find someone to carve a piece and exchange it at Jia's house, what do you think? It's 1 taels!"

The person next to him probably thought this was a good idea, and whispered, "Isn't it drawn on the reward, and I can spend some money to ask the servants of Jia's family to inquire carefully. I'm just idle, how about finding some money to spend? "

Lin Rui also understood when he heard this, he probably made a fake, and then asked someone to come to cheat and offer a reward.Although he didn't know these people, he could tell from their clothes that they all had very good family backgrounds, but a good family background didn't mean they could use their money to do whatever they wanted.

Lin Rui himself has never worried about money in his two lifetimes. In his previous life, not to mention that Lin Hai had already issued him an unlimited card, it was his grandparents at home, plus the new year's money given by his uncles and aunts.After coming here, Lin Hai will not wrong this precious son in terms of money. Although it is said that there is only ten taels of monthly silver, he has never counted on this monthly money to live. If he needs money, he will go directly to the accountant To support, never restricted.

However, Lin Rui still knows that although many children of aristocratic families wear bright clothes and use high-quality goods on weekdays, if they fancy a good thing on weekdays, if it costs a few hundred taels, even if they have subsidies from their elders on weekdays, It is also necessary to make a careful calculation before being willing to start.It's okay for a family with a small population, especially for a large family with several people living together. Now that the Jia family offered a reward of 1 taels, it's no wonder these people are tempted.Perhaps these people are not only attracted to the 1 taels of silver reward, but also have fun and want to have fun, thinking of taking the opportunity to spoil Jia's family!

There are quite a few people who know what happened in Jia's house. The guests in the lobby talked about it the most. Lin Rui sat in the Zuixiao Building for half an hour and felt that he couldn't hear anything new, so he asked Gan Song checked out and prepared to leave.

Lin Rui stood up and was about to go out when a man who looked like a servant walked up to him, saluted him and said, "Mr. Lin, my master is here to invite you!"

This little boy was very strange, Lin Rui remembered very clearly that he had never seen this person among the little boy book boys in his friend's same year.But since others have come to the door, there is no reason to hide.

"Lead the way ahead!" When a stranger came forward just now, several guards stood up, and now they were about to go up to have a look, Lin Rui signaled to the guards before following the young man upstairs.

The boy came to a private room facing the lobby on the second floor, stopped in front of the door, knocked on the door, and gestured to Lin Rui with his hand, before stepping back and standing still.Gan Song, who came up with Lin Rui, stepped forward and pushed open the door of the private room, and saw that there were already five or six young masters sitting inside. Although two of them had met before, they had never dealt with each other before. It was a little strange to find myself.

Even so, Lin Rui still stepped forward, bowed his hands to everyone and said, "I don't know why you are looking for me?"

The other people in the room did not make a sound, only one of them pointed to the person sitting beside him and said, "Please, Mr. Lin, this guy next to you is looking for you, he is the eldest son of Prince Zhongshun."

Lin Rui finally knew the reason. It was probably because the elder son saw that his sister's future husband was not pleasing to his eyes. He had the same mentality as when he saw Xu Jingzhi before. It was probably because he wanted to find someone to beat him up.

Although the two families already have a tacit understanding of marriage, after all, it has not been announced yet, so Lin Rui didn't express much, but just bowed his hands and saluted, "I have met the son!"

Li Feng, the eldest son of Zhongshun Prince's Mansion, seemed to be picky, looked Lin Rui up and down before reluctantly said, "Mr. Lin, please sit down!"

After Lin Rui sat down, although Li Feng looked at Lin Rui as if he was picky, after Lin Rui sat down, he introduced the identities of everyone present to Lin Rui, and then continued, "We just now We are discussing that if the snow stops tomorrow, we will go to the suburbs to enjoy the snow scenery, and go horse racing by the way, I wonder if Mr. Lin will appreciate it?"

All brothers-in-law and brother-in-law are unreasonable. Lin Rui thought about it and didn’t have any plans for tomorrow. It’s better not to refuse the invitation of this future brother-in-law, so he replied, "Thank you for the invitation, I just have time tomorrow. Be sure to be on time for the appointment!"

Lin Rui was not familiar with these people, so he just greeted each other and said a few words. After sitting for about two quarters of an hour, Lin Rui asked clearly about the time and meeting place for going to the suburbs tomorrow, and took the opportunity to leave.Lin Rui didn't know that as soon as he left, people inside started talking about him.

"Cousin, I don't understand why you just invited him to visit the suburbs tomorrow. Although we know each other, we have never had any contact with him."

Li Feng didn't drink the teacup, and slowly played with it in his hand. He didn't answer his cousin's words, but said, "What do you think of Lin Rui?"

"Oh, don't mention him. Whenever my old man mentions Lin Rui, he will scold our brothers and say how he has done so much harm. Compared with this Lin Rui, we will be a piece of rotten wood and trash!"

The person who was talking was the grandson of the Guo family, Minister of the Ministry of Officials. Their father was a second-class Jinshi. Even the cousin of the uncle’s family has been in the Imperial College for several years, and has passed the provincial examination twice. One of the candidates has not yet obtained the honor, and he himself, including several other cousins, are not expected to study. The brother's older family donated some small officials. Because of his young age, he still played around with some aristocratic children. The eldest son of the Zhongshun Palace is also a fun person, so a group of talents got together.

The son-in-law who called Li Feng's cousin said, "Cousin, you invited Lin Rui to come together tomorrow, and tomorrow we will go horse racing, what is he doing next?"

"Of course we'll race with us, don't tell me there's a chance we can compete tomorrow!"

Guo Ziyu continued, "Competition? Master, are you sure he can do it? He's just a nerd. He faces books every day, and it's good if he can walk a few steps on horseback."

Hearing other people say the same, Li Feng couldn't help laughing when he thought of what his father had inquired about, "Bookworms, do you know that Lin Rui has been getting up at Yin time every day since he was four years old, and insisting on exercising every day?" , has persisted for more than ten years, and I believe that riding a horse is just a trivial matter to him."

The people next to me were quite surprised when they heard Li Feng say this, "Are you kidding me? Started at the age of four, got up at Yinshi, and persisted for more than ten years, aren't you human?"

Li Feng heard that the faces of those sitting here were all in disbelief, and felt that Lin Rui might not be that bad, and he was barely worthy of his sister.Compared with himself and his usual playmates, at least he is good at reading and knows how to make progress.Some other children of honorable aristocratic families, although they are of high background, it is really hard to find those who are really eager to learn and make progress. Even if there are, there are no such simple families as the Lin family. They are all brothers and sisters. The mother and concubine are really right, Lin Rui is really a good match for my sister!

After Lin Rui returned to the mansion here, he tossed about in the practice room for half an hour, and finally felt that the gloom in his heart dissipated. Sitting in the bathtub, he felt that there was no need for him to make himself uncomfortable because of these things about the Jia family. comfortable.However, it is still a pity for Jia Lan. The Jia family finally had a studious and motivated person, but no one saw it. From before to now, the Jia family has been ransacked, and they still only see Jia Baoyu.

After Lin Hai returned to the mansion, Lin Rui talked to him about it, "I sat in the Zuixiao Tower for half an hour, and the people inside talked the most about the 1 taels of reward offered by the Jia family for that psychic gem." thing."

Although Lin Hai thinks that the Lin family and the Jia family are two families and have little relationship, but when others talk about the Jia family, they always talk about your Yue family or your first wife's family, which sounds really annoying.

"With such a result in the ransacking of the house this time, I thought there would be no such thing as throwing away jade, so if you know what to do, you still can't avoid it."

Lin Hai really has nothing to say to the Jia family. Since the emperor showed mercy when the house was raided, he didn't act obediently and keep a low profile. I'm afraid the emperor doesn't know that your family still has money?

"Isn't this Jia Baoyu going to become a monk? He left earlier, and the Jia family saved more money. I have seen Jia Baoyu a few times since the house raid. Province, it is really true that no one will miss him if he is missing!"

Listening to his son's words, Lin Hai couldn't help but smiled and said, "The old lady still has a lot of private houses, how could Jia Baoyu become a monk?! Can't say, the Zhuangzi and the small courtyard prepared earlier will still be used someday! "

"..."

"By the way, today I met the eldest son of Prince Zhongshun in Zuixiao Tower, and invited me to go to the suburbs to enjoy the snow scenery and race horses tomorrow."

Lin Hai looked at Lin Rui amusedly, "Didn't you also dislike the scenery before? This son-in-law is probably the same. If you go tomorrow, you will bring a guard, but you are his future son-in-law after all, and this son-in-law will not It’s too much, just pay attention to yourself.”

"..." Dad, I'm your son, right? Why doesn't the elder son go too far? Listening to what you mean, you still hope that the elder son will go too far? !