There is no phoenix

In a blink of an eye, it was already the beginning of February, and peaches and plums were everywhere in Yangzhou city and outside the city.

On this day, Daiyu was writing in the room, when she heard Lin Ruhai and a stranger's voice approaching from a distance, she couldn't help being curious, she hurried out of the room to have a look.A man of the same age as Lin Ruhai walked in, followed by two who seemed to be attendants, tall and strong, with sabers on their bodies.

Daiyu was about to return to the house, but Lin Ruhai had already seen her, and said to Daiyu, "Yu'er, come here."

Daiyu walked over hurriedly, Lin Ruhai said: "Yu'er, this is Uncle Shui from the capital, why don't you meet him soon?"

After hearing this, Daiyu hurriedly stepped forward and said, "Yu'er has seen Uncle Shui!"

The man looked at Daiyu carefully and said with a smile, "Is this Daiyu?"

Lin Ruhai nodded and said: "Brother Shui has a good memory, it is the little girl. Yu'er, how about you help me and Uncle Shui make tea today? Uncle Shui is a distant visitor, and he even hugged you when he was young."

After hearing this, Daiyu went to make tea with Xueyan.

It turned out that this visitor was none other than Shui Ruoning, king of Beijing, who was sent by the emperor to inspect and visit the south.Several generations of kings of Beijing have worked hard, but when it came to Shui Ruoning's father's generation, because they had no male heirs, the former emperor adopted Shui Ruoning, the younger brother of the current emperor Shui Ruoyang, to the Beijing Palace.

It's a pity that although the Beijing Palace has been loyal for several generations, its descendants are not prosperous.Shui Ruoning originally had two sons and three daughters.But the eldest son, Shui Ming, died unexpectedly five years ago while hunting with the emperor on Iron Net Mountain. The second son, Shui Xi, was born to his concubine's room. Bei Jing Wang Shui Ruoning's pain in his heart.

For a while, Daiyu served Shui Ruoning and Lin Ruhai tea, Lin Ruhai said to Daiyu: "Yu'er, go tell the kitchen, just say that we have distinguished guests at home today, and ask them to prepare a few more dishes." Daiyu listened, He hurriedly took the snow geese down.

Shui Ruoning looked at Daiyu's leaving figure and said: "Brother Lin is so lucky, Yu'er is weak, but she is so handsome, full of book fragrance, she will be as outstanding as Brother Lin in the future!"

Lin Ruhai sighed: "Brother Shui, I'm not boasting about my daughter, she's really smart and smart. Even though she's a daughter, his grandfather always told me not to teach Yuer well just because she's a girl. My Gusu Lin family has never been happy with girls without talents. This is the set of virtue. My Yuer has been able to read and write since she was three years old, and she has a good handwriting. I have a lot of things to do, so I hired a special teacher to teach her. However, my daughter doesn't know whether it is fate or fate. Min'er left when she was six years old. I am a big man, so I had to send her to her Grandmother's house. She stayed at her grandmother's house for three years, and I wrote a letter a few years ago to let her come back to see me. I am really at a loss for this daughter, Yu'er!"

After hearing this, Shui Ruoning couldn't help sighing: "Brother Lin, you and I feel sorry for each other. Of my three daughters, one went to Qianxiang Country, and I haven't seen her since she got married; the other married to Mobei. See; one went to Sichuan with her husband's family. Right now there is only one sick child from a concubine guarding our palace, and I don't know how long he can live."

Lin Ruhai said: "Brother Shui is the emperor's younger brother, and Beijing Palace is the emperor's clan. No matter what, the emperor will make arrangements for Brother Shui."

Shui Ruoning said: "I have nothing to say to the emperor. He has never treated me badly to the Beijing Palace. Besides, we are brothers, and he has never had a relationship with me because I was adopted. Such siblings I have to cherish love. Years ago he told me that I liked the fourth prince, Shui Rong, so much that he wanted to adopt him to me, but now the queen is in poor health, so I didn't agree. "

Lin Ruhai said: "Thinking about how chic we were in the capital at the beginning, we are already dying in the blink of an eye. Min'er left early, and the queen is now sick again. Brother Shui, how is your princess now?"

Shui Ruoning sighed: "Since Ming'er left, she almost never cried blindly. The Empress personally came to the mansion to accompany her for several days, and she also washed her face with tears every day. Now her heart is almost ashamed, and she is always there. Read scriptures and write scriptures in the back hall."

Lin Ruhai sighed: "The empress and concubine are sisters, so it's not bad to be able to do this. Brother Shui didn't agree to the adoption of the fourth prince to the Beijing Palace, because he was worried that the empress would not agree?"

Shui Ruoning said: "That's not true. Not long after Ming'er left, the princess fell ill in bed, and the queen brought Shui Rong to see her, and comforted her by saying that when Shui Rong grows up, she will let Shui Rong be our son. But the princess told me that the queen actually loves Shui Rong more than the prince Mizusawa. The two brothers are 12 years apart, and Shui Rong has been raised and taken care of by the queen herself since childhood. , although he is more naughty than the prince, he often takes the little eunuch out of the palace, which is actually very likable. Every time he sees me entering the palace, he pesters me, the emperor's uncle, to teach martial arts."

Seeing that Shui Ruoning said this, Lin Ruhai was very pleased, and couldn't help laughing: "Brother Shui likes the fourth prince so much, and the fourth prince likes to learn martial arts from you, why don't you agree with the emperor to adopt the fourth prince to your Beijing Palace."

Shui Ruoning sighed: "Brother Lin, I really like the fourth prince, and I seem to see my Ming'er in him. But the princess went to the palace to visit the queen a few years ago, and said that the queen was really sick. The spirit is better, so the empress asked the fourth prince to accompany her for dinner. The fourth prince is only 14 years old now, and he is still a child. How can I bear to agree to the adoption right now? The emperor has many princes and daughters, but the empress only has two sons. The prince now wants Helping the emperor handle state affairs, the emperor has so many concubines to accompany him, the only one who can comfort the empress is the fourth prince, after all, the empress is my concubine's biological sister."

After hearing this, Lin Ruhai nodded and said, "So that's how it is!"

Shui Ruoning said: "Brother Lin, when I came to Yangzhou, the emperor said that you have made remarkable achievements in Jiangnan these years, and asked specifically, if Brother Lin has any wishes, he will try his best to make your wishes come true, you may as well think about it."

Lin Ruhai heard this, and sighed: "The emperor's kindness to my Lin family in Gusu, I can't repay it even if I am in a daze. But since brother Shui said so, I will not shirk it. Brother Shui has also seen that my current body is The dying years, since last winter, there have been ups and downs, and the medicine has not been effective. Maybe one day I will leave without saying goodbye. I have nothing, but what I can't let go of is my Yu'er, she is only ten years old now , and I don’t have a real brother or sister. Although I recognize Lin Zhong as my brother-in-law now, I only hope that my Yu’er will not be too downcast in the future.”

Shui Ruoning hurriedly said: "Brother Lin's house is the fifth generation of Gusu princes, a century-old scholarly family, your daughter will not fall down even if she guards these ancestral properties."

Lin Ruhai said: "Who is from a family that has always been poor and rich for a long time, who can tell what will happen in the future. But my Lin Ruhai's daughter, if the emperor still remembers the loyalty of my Lin family for generations, I would like to ask the prince to help me ask the emperor for a favor. "

Shui Ruoning hurriedly said: "Brother Lin, don't worry, I have already said that, if the emperor said you have any wish, he will try his best to make your wish come true."

Lin Ruhai said: "Actually, it's nothing. It's a piece of cake for the emperor, but it's a great grace to my Lin family. I want to ask the emperor to leave me a letter so that my Yu'er can't enter the palace for drafts. If she herself No fault and no involvement in any way, her marriage can be done by herself!"

After hearing this, Shui Ruoning was a little surprised and said: "Brother Lin actually wanted such a letter from the emperor? Why is that? Now Daiyu is ten years old, and she can talk about marriage in at most five years. Does Brother Lin feel that he can't wait five years?" Year?"

To know how Lin Ruhai answered, read below.