The Second Young Master of the Lin Family in the Red Chamber

Lin Ruhai is a veteran minister who has followed Jinshang for many years. He has been entrusted with important tasks for a long time and has won Jinshang's trust.This time, the Jia family was suspected of the crime of confusing the royal bloodlines and murdering the royal princess, and it also involved the struggle for the throne between the current prince and his brothers. As the son-in-law of the Jia family and Tu Feng's former teacher, Lin Ruhai was just dismissed and returned home. Not pursuing joint and several liability is already considered kindness today.Therefore, Lin Ruhai didn't dare to delay. After receiving the order, he simply packed up and took his children and servants on the road back to his hometown, instead of staying in the capital, a place of right and wrong.

Lin Yu and Lin Daiyu had no doubts about Lin Ruhai's decision. It's an eventful time right now, so it's good for them to avoid it temporarily. They still don't know what the sky in the capital will be like. Only Lin Jin felt a little bit reluctant, but he was a little A scholar, there is nothing he can do if he stays.

On the way back home, the Lin family received follow-up news from the capital one after another.It is a foregone conclusion that the Jia family will seize the title, but the specific handling of the two families is different.All the males except the chief culprit in the East Mansion were exiled, and the female family members were sold. However, the West Mansion just seized the title and took over the family property, and released both men and women as civilians.Lin Yu guessed that the sage took Tu Feng's face lightly. After all, the prince hadn't changed yet. Uprooting his Yue family would give bad hints to outsiders, so everyone in Rongfu escaped.

Lin Jin had a different opinion on this. He frowned and said, "It doesn't have to be the prince. Isn't the side concubine Jia in the Ninth Prince's residence also very favored?" , Lin Jin was very curious whether Yuan Chun felt regretful at this moment.

"Ninth Prince? Hmph..." Lin Yu sneered, how could it be him, as long as he doesn't add fuel to the fire.

"If the sage really believed in His Highness, why would he rush to recruit the Eighth Prince?" Both Lin Jin and Lin Yu knew about the old grievances of Tu Feng and Tu Hua. Hua recalled him, he was a guy who had no bottom line than the Ninth Prince.

Hearing this, Lin Yu sighed quietly: "He is the emperor, but he is also the father!" Apart from this, Lin Yu could not find a suitable reason to explain the sage's capriciousness.It's just that although this reason makes sense, it is difficult for people to accept. The Tian family has no personal affairs. The princes' struggle for power has endangered the stability of the regime. bad thing.

Lin Jin was speechless, his fists clenched tightly, and the expression on his face was obvious concern.

Two days later, there was new news that Tuhua was attacked on the way to the capital. Thanks to the powerful guards around him, he escaped, but was still seriously injured. There was a gossip claiming that His Royal Highness did not want his younger brother to enter the capital. Only then did they send experts to try to stop the Eighth Prince's itinerary.

Upon hearing the news, Lin Jin immediately dropped the teacup in her hand, and said anxiously: "It's just nonsense, Your Highness will not make such a bad plan."

Everyone knows that a sage is the most soft-hearted towards his relatives. Tu Feng is just when he is offended. Is the sage too merciful enough for himself?Based on Lin Jin's understanding of Tu Feng, he would not do such a stupid thing that harms himself and benefits others. Was it Tu Hua who directed and acted himself, or the Ninth Prince fishing in troubled waters.

At this moment, Lin Ruhai was also there, and seeing Lin Jin's strange behavior, he couldn't help but glared at him. Although there were few people on board, and there were only his father and son in the room, some things should not be said casually. Lin Jin usually watched Steady and mature, but today's behavior is a bit out of place.

Lin Yu didn't want Lin Ruhai to see anything wrong with Lin Jin, so he hurriedly lowered his voice and said, "The point is not who did it, but who the sage thinks did it?" It's not that he's being stupid, it doesn't make any difference at all.

Lin Ruhai nodded, and said in a deep voice: "The Eighth Prince can do whatever he wants, and the Ninth Prince will take revenge. If it is..." As long as it is not Tu Feng, it is not a good thing for the Lin family to have any of his brothers rise to the top.It's just that in the past, Tu Feng's opponent was his brothers, and they, the courtiers, could still help him. Now that Tu Feng is facing the saint, the two layers of shackles of the monarch and minister, father and son, no one can get in, and they can only look at him. I have dealt with it myself.

After the boat sailed for more than a month, Lin Yu and others finally returned to Suzhou. Before they could settle down, another thunderbolt fell.

The nine princes killed their father and were seriously injured. Before his death, the crown prince Tu Feng was abolished, and the title was changed to King Suiyuan, and the eighth prince Tu Hua was made the crown prince.That night, Jinshang passed away and the prince succeeded to the throne. Before Empress Liu recovered from the series of blows, she was promoted from the status of empress to empress dowager.

This time, the Lin family father and son were speechless, and the development of the matter had completely exceeded their expectations.

Among the many sons of the former emperor, the Ninth Prince is the most cautious, and he will never do anything without being absolutely sure. Even if he was executed, Lin Yu wouldn't believe it, that's impossible.

What happened after that was even more strange. After the late emperor was buried, Tu Feng took the last decree left by the late emperor and went to the fiefdom of Youzhou.

No one knows more about Tu Hua's hostility towards Tu Feng than Lin Jin and Lin Yu. Once he ascends to the throne of God, Tu Feng will only make life worse than death. How can he let him go to the fiefdom, and it's still Youzhou.Where is Youzhou? It is the hometown of the Tu family, and it is the land of Longxing in the Dayu Dynasty.Who is the guard of Youzhou? It is Liu Ce, Marquis of Dingbei. Who is Liu Ce?

Back then, the first emperor fell in love with Empress Dowager Liu because her family had great martial arts skills and had no successors, leaving only a 16-year-old eldest daughter and a 16-year-old youngest son.When Empress Dowager Liu entered the palace, the Liu family had no relatives, and Liu Ce had no one to take care of him. The late emperor simply took his brother-in-law, who was younger than the previous sons, into the palace to keep his sons company.Later, there was Tu Feng and Tu Hua, and they all chased after their little uncle since childhood. It was just that Tu Feng chased Liu Ce, and Tu Hua chased Tu Feng, until Liu Ce left the palace at the age of [-] and went to the military camp. They separated, but their relationship remained the same as before.

Lin Jin and Lin Yu followed Tu Feng to the Summer Resort twice, and heard him talk about Liu Ce more than once.This young Marquis of Dingbei was trained by the former emperor himself. He used his soldiers like a god, and marched strangely. For more than ten years, he had been guarding Youzhou, and the Wai people did not dare to cross the threshold.

Liu Ce has always been close to Tu Feng and distant from Tu Hua. With the support of his 20 soldiers, Tu Hua let Tu Feng go to Youzhou, which is no less than letting a tiger go back to the mountain. The Lin family and his son couldn't figure it out. Why is Tu Hua? Although this is definitely a good thing for the Lin family.

Once the emperor and the courtiers, the person sitting on the dragon chair has changed, so naturally the person standing in the court hall will not remain the same.Tu Hua's ascension to the throne was beyond everyone's expectations, and almost no one stood in the right line.The law does not blame the public. Under normal circumstances, except for those ministers who are particularly close to Tu Feng, Tu Hua should not make big moves against the court, which is the safest way.But Tu Hua has never been a normal person, and no one can understand his employment standards except himself.All of a sudden, there was a turmoil in the upper echelon, and those who were promoted and relegated continued in succession, almost to the point where everyone was in danger.

Lin Ruhai was dismissed from office when the first emperor was in power, so it should have no effect, but he once taught Tu Feng and Tu Hua, and he had a close relationship with Tu Feng. Turned to those characters who were far away from the court.

Dangerous signs first appeared in Daiyu's marriage. The Zhao family, which was the first to lend a helping hand when Lin Ruhai was dismissed without hesitation, backed down this time and sent someone to the door to divorce the marriage.Lin Jin and Lin Yu were furious, and wanted to argue with the visitor, but Lin Ruhai shook his head lightly, and nodded in agreement without saying anything.It was Zhao Qing's third uncle who came to withdraw from the Zhao family, and his expression was both guilty and grateful, which was indescribably complicated.

"Father, why did you agree? What do you ask my sister to do in the future?" Everyone knows the marriage between the Zhao and Lin families. If they are retiring at this time, what will happen to Daiyu in the future? Will there be any good people to propose marriage to her? Lin Yu was puzzled, but Lin Yu seemed to understand.

Lin Ruhai was silent, and said for a long while: "It's not that the Zhao family doesn't keep faith, it's that they really can't hold on..." The Zhao family has been a scholar for generations, Zhao Qing's grandfather and uncle entered the cabinet one after another, and the Zhao family's disciples, It is all over the world.When the first emperor was in power, the Zhao family had countless sons and nephews who became officials, no matter the capital or the locality. But after Tu Hua came to the throne, the Zhao family also bore the brunt of the pressure, and Zhao Qing's uncle was directly dismissed.This is the first time since the founding of the People's Republic of China that the chief minister of the cabinet was dismissed without fault. The ruling and opposition parties were shocked and everyone felt insecure.

"How dare he do that..." From Lin Jin's point of view, Tu Hua's madness was tantamount to lighting a fire, but before he burned himself to death, countless people would probably be buried with him.The Zhao family's self-defense is not wrong, after all, the opponent is too strong, but Daiyu is too hard.

A few days later, Lin Jin and Lin Yu received a letter from Zhao Qing. He said that retiring was the elder's idea. He tried hard to resist, but failed, but he would not give up, so he left Hangzhou and planned to go to You Zhou took refuge in King Suiyuan, who said that as long as Daiyu didn't marry, he would definitely not marry.

Lin Jin and Lin Yu thought about it, and instead of giving the letter to Daiyu, they gave it to Lin Ruhai first.Lin Ruhai pondered, "I never doubted that King Suiyuan would make a comeback, but I don't know if we will see that day." No one can see through Tu Hua's actions.

The uneasy days pass very slowly, half a year is like half a century, which makes people feel suffocated.Fortunately, Tu Hua was very busy and didn't have time to think about the Lin family, so their family's life was fairly peaceful, but Lin Ruhai's health gradually became worse.