[Red Chamber] Madam's wishes come true

Jia Min couldn't help laughing: "It's fate."

At first glance, Madam Lin's facial features are five points similar to Lin Kou's, but Madam Lin has a gentle temperament, every frown and smile seems to have a soft light, which is completely different from Lin Kou's cute appearance.

After looking at it for a long time, it doesn't feel like it anymore.

However, Jia Min didn't care. She specially introduced Lin Kou and Madam Lin to each other, just because she knew Lin Kou's background and wanted to establish a connection for the two to meet in the future.

But this is not a good time to get to know each other, and she doesn't know Lin Kou's specific thoughts, so she doesn't expose the relationship between the two.

Mrs. Lin said that Lin Kou's kind words made her very happy.

As soon as Lin Kou heard the name of Mrs. Lin's husband, she knew the identity of the husband and his relationship with him.But she is not in a hurry to get to know each other. After all, her life experience is not what it appears on the surface, and there are probably some secrets behind it. It may not be a good thing to get to know the mansion of General Zhen Guo at this time.

Seeing this, Jia Min stopped talking.

After a few people chatted, Jia Min took Lin Kou and Mrs. Lin to say goodbye, and then walked to an empty seat and sat down together.

Lin Kou was a little curious: "This Mrs. Lin is my aunt?"

Jia Min nodded: "This Mrs. Lin's real name is Lan Yun, and her mother is a county lord. Although she was not favored, she was also related to the royal family. She was a bit spoiled and domineering in her early years. But when she met General Zhen Guo at a banquet, she was very impressed. After falling in love at first sight, and hearing that the other party likes weak and talented women, she changed her previous arrogant style and became more gentle."

"There were many twists and turns when she and General Zhen Guo got together in the beginning, but now it's all a lot of hardships. Not only are the two sons and one daughter of General Zhen Guo born by Mrs. Lin, but there is only one concubine in the mansion. The capital city is the envy of many wives and girls."

Lin Kou raised his eyebrows: "It sounds like General Zhen Guo really likes this lady."

Jia Min smiled: "I don't know either, but it should be. Otherwise, how could General Zhen Guo have only guarded her for so many years, and the children in the mansion are all born by Mrs. Lin? It's just that Mrs. Lin is a bit biased, so with General Zhen Guo quarreled many times."

"Partial eye?" Lin Kou was curious, "Who is partial?"

Just as Jia Min was about to answer, Madam Lin got up and walked towards a young woman, she smiled and pointed at her: "Look, that is the only daughter Madam Lin loves the most."

Lin Kou looked up and found that Mrs. Lin had joined him, and they sat in a corner together.

Halfway through, the mother and daughter seemed to have an argument over something, but Mrs. Lin quickly pulled her daughter to say something, and then her daughter burst into a smile.

There are many similar small details, and every time there is a dispute, Mrs. Lin bows her head first.

Obviously, this Mrs. Lin hurt her daughter to the bone.

Seeing this, Jia Min couldn't help sighing: "It's strange to say that there are many people who are biased in today's world, but most of them are partial to their sons, and few are partial to their daughters. If it wasn't for Daiyu who had been with our husband and wife for many years before Brother Shan, even I would I can't guarantee that I won't be more partial to my son, but this Mrs. Lin is different from ordinary people."

When Jia Min mentioned this matter, he also looked ashamed.

Lin Kou paused, and said with a smile, "Why should you be ashamed of something that didn't happen? Don't you care more about Daiyu than you do about Brother Shan?"

Jia Min was taken aback, and couldn't help laughing: "Yes, I'm fine now, but I can't be like Mrs. Lin."

Lin Kou was surprised, but Jia Min had already diverted her attention, so she couldn't ask any more questions.

But not long after, Lin Kou saw Mrs. Lin again.

That was several months after the banquet. Lin Kou was learning embroidery from Jia Min that day, because she said that at Lin Kou's current age, she would marry in two years at the latest, and now she can start preparing for marriage. clothes.

As for the wedding dress, even if you can hand over most of the process to the embroiderer, and only embroider a few random stitches at the end to show that you have done it, you still have to be able to do basic sewing, otherwise you will need to stab the outside when you add the last few stitches. If it is wrong, or pick a thread or something, then it will become a joke.

The original owner can embroider, but because he has to learn other skills, his skills are really not good.

So Lin Kou had to learn from Jia Min.

Just when Lin Kou poked the tip of the needle into his fingertips for the eighth time, almost spilling blood on the cloth, the little girl came in and spread the word, saying that General Zhen Guo's wife was asking to see her, and she also sent a greeting card.

Generally, greeting posts are delivered the day before, and people come the next day.

This Mrs. Lin arrived with the invitation.

Jia Min thought that the other party was in a hurry, so he hurriedly asked Mrs. Lin to come in.

Unexpectedly, after Mrs. Lin entered the door, she told Jia Min about the news from the palace: "The niece from the natal family who heard that Mrs. Lin entered the palace got His Majesty's favor a few days ago, and she is about to wake up. Tian Tian got another piece of fertility medicine from Jiangnan, and said that it will take a long time to give birth to a dragon heir for His Majesty, so I would like to congratulate Madam here first."

Jia Min was stunned, for she didn't remember which of her nieces entered the palace.

After a long time, she finally pulled out a person from the depths of her memory: Mrs. Wang's daughter who was selected into the palace and is now working as a female official in the Queen's Fengzao Palace, Jia Yuanchun.

Jia Min fell silent, and said with a smile for a while: "Ma'am, don't talk nonsense. My useless niece is just a little female official. To put it bluntly, she is just a court lady, but she can't be said to be favored by His Majesty. She can serve well." If the nobles in the palace do not make mistakes, we will be Amitabha."

Mrs. Lin froze for a moment, she didn't expect Jia Min's reaction at all.

Thinking about her purpose of coming today, she suddenly felt that it was difficult to open her mouth. She always felt that speaking out her request under such circumstances would not only fail to achieve her goal, but would also affect Jia Min's perception of her.

Mrs. Lin sighed and had no choice but to change the subject.

She chatted aimlessly with Jia Min for a long time, and felt that it was really boring, so she simply took someone to say goodbye and left.

Mrs. Lin came and went in a hurry, directly hitting the Lin family with a big thunder.

Lin Kou suddenly recovered after a moment. After all, she knew that such a thing would happen, so she accepted it well.

But Jia Min was in a daze: "Madam Lin, what do you mean, Yuan Chun has become the emperor's concubine?"

Lin Kou paused and nodded.

Jia Min still couldn't believe it: "Yuanchun entered the palace on the [-]th, and now it has passed xx years. The emperor didn't like her for so many years, but now that he is older, the emperor actually likes her?"

It would be fine if Yuan Chun had never seen the emperor before, but she was on duty in the empress' Fengzao Palace, and the empress had a good relationship, wouldn't the emperor see her every now and then?

Newcomers enter the palace every year, which one is not tender enough to pinch water?The emperor didn't like anyone, but an old man who had been in the palace for many years?

What's the point of this?

I always feel that there is a ghost in it.

When Lin Kou watched Dream of the Red Chamber in his previous life, he felt strange when he saw this plot.

Not only is it strange that Yuanchun was suddenly conferred the title of concubine, but also her two-character title "Xiande", and the decree written with concubine Feng on the imperial decree, and the decree of being named Fengzao Gong Shangshu is even more strange.

Not to mention that double-character titles are mostly used for posthumous titles. Isn't it strange that a concubine is also a female official in the Queen's Palace?

Oh no, she reversed the order.

In the concubine decree given to Jia Yuanchun, she was first conferred the title of Shangshu of Fengzao Palace by the Jin Dynasty, and then conferred the concubine Xiande.

Fengzao Palace Shangshu's position is before Xiande Concubine.

Even if it is concurrently, it should be Fengzao Palace Shangshu next to the empress concurrently serving as the emperor's virtuous concubine.

Lin Kou: "..."

Although Yuanchun concubine's time seems to be a few years earlier than the original book, but the plot of the story should not have changed much?

In the original book, the plot of concubine Yuanchun is after Qin Keqing's "mourning in Tianxianglou" and "Lin Ruhai's donation to Yangzhou City". .

now……

Lin Kou glanced at Daiyu, she was only seven years old.

But at this time, Yuanchun's will to be a concubine has not yet been issued, and it is not easy for her to tell Jia Min about these things.

But Jia Min still felt strange.

And suddenly.

When eating in the evening, Jia Min told Lin Ruhai about this, and Lin Ruhai frowned instantly.

Daiyu frowned: "So I still have a cousin?"

Jia Min paused and explained: "Your cousin is called Yuan Chun. Because she was born on the first day of the Lunar New Year, your grandmother and aunt both thought that she would have great fortune in the future, so they named her this. The names of the three cousins ​​are all after her."

"But," Daiyu wondered, "Didn't you say that your grandfather's family is very rich? Then why does his cousin enter the palace as a palace maid to serve people?"

Jia Min's face turned red, and she felt ashamed: "The men of your grandfather's family are not good enough, so they can only set their minds on the girl, and want to send the girl to the palace to fight for wealth. She entered the palace at fourteen. , Now many years have passed, and I don’t know how much I have suffered in the palace.”

Daiyu nodded, "So that's the case."

In my heart, I lost interest in the male members of the foreign ancestral family, and even gave birth to a bit of contempt.

She seemed to be not interested in prosperity and wealth by nature, so she couldn't understand the behavior of her grandfather's family sending her daughter to the palace for wealth. After all...the grandfather's family was not poor?

Jia Min found it difficult to see people from her natal family who were like this.

When she had filters before, she would automatically ignore these problems, and she could still speak well of her mother's family in front of Daiyu, but now, it's good for her not to speak ill of her mother's family.

Lin Ruhai sighed, reached out and grabbed Jia Min's wrist.

The next day, Lin Ruhai wanted to find out if the incident was true or not, and if there was any misunderstanding.

but……

On the same day, the eunuch went to Rongguo Mansion to summon Jia Zheng into the palace, and read Jia Yuanchun's imperial decree to be a concubine in public.

Lin Ruhai: "..."

Yuan Chun is at least a concubine who can send someone from the palace to her mother's house to pick her up and listen to the palace order.

But since she is the main concubine above the rank of concubine, Jin Feng is naturally a big deal, shouldn't Qin Tianjian pick an auspicious day?Why are you in such a hurry?

Lin Ruhai went to duty full of doubts, and soon learned the specific content of the imperial decree from his colleagues.

Then, he received numerous congratulations from his colleagues.

Lin Ruhai: "..."

He really couldn't be happy, and couldn't even help guessing that there was some conspiracy behind this matter.

Because the whole thing was really weird everywhere, he had to think about it.

Different from the worries of the Lin family, the Rongguo Mansion hastily received the imperial decree from Yuanchun, although it was surprised for a moment, it quickly adjusted its attitude and welcomed the imperial decree with joy.

The entire Rongguo Mansion, no, it should be said that the entire Jia family became excited because of this imperial decree.

Jia Mu brought Mrs. Wang, Mrs. Xing, You Shi and others into the palace to thank her. Jia pardoned Jia Zheng and Jia Zhen also changed their court clothes. Jia Rong and Jia Qiang also entered the palace in the name of serving Jia Mu.

The whole Ningrong Street is like celebrating the New Year, everyone is jubilant and excited beyond control.

After Lin Ruhai learned about it: "..."

So many people enter the palace, as for?

What made Lin Ruhai even more speechless was that after the Jia family came out of the palace, they immediately decided to throw a big banquet and sent invitations to the Lin family without any surprise.

The Lin family: "..."

Just, I really don't really want to go.

But, I really had to go.

In the name of celebrating Concubine Xiande's conferment, they handed you invitations but you didn't go. They can say that you are disrespectful to Concubine Xiande.

Lin Ruhai suddenly had a headache.

He can predict that there will be many similar things in the future.

In order to celebrate the banquet held by Rongguo Mansion to confer concubine in Yuanchun, the Zhen family who had traveled all the way to the capital also came to attend.

In view of the fact that the old lady of the Zhen family had served as the emperor's nanny (not the nanny), after the emperor got the corruption list of the Yanzheng, although all the people involved in the Zhen family were arrested, those who deserved the death penalty were also sentenced to death. Those who should be exiled were also sentenced to exile, but the men and women who were not involved in the incident were all acquitted.

Some of the eligible female relatives even kept their dowry intact.

But this does not mean that the rest of the Zhen family will live an easy life.

From frugality to luxury is easy, from luxury to frugality.

The Zhen family has long been accustomed to a luxurious life, and when the quality of life drops sharply, even if they can still maintain food and clothing, or even be considered wealthy, these people can't bear it.

What's more, now that women are in control of the economic power, the life of the men in the Zhen family can be described as "terrible".

For example, no matter how much these useless men want to meet friends and drink flower wine, they must not be able to do so; for example, it is impossible to keep those enchanting and beautiful concubines around them; If you want to spend money lavishly, it is definitely impossible...

Not only that, even if they just want to buy some gadgets, they have to give their wives a face to get the money.

Even so, if the wife is unhappy, she will still be blamed.

These days, it didn't take long for the men of the Zhen family to bear it.

In addition, the Zhen family used to be arrogant and domineering, bullying men and women, and had a very bad reputation in the local area.In the past, due to the power of the Zhen family, they did not dare to resist, but now that the Zhen family is in trouble, everyone naturally has grudges and complaints, and soon the Zhen family is forced to dare not go to the streets anymore.

Within a few months, the Zhen family came to the capital with their family, and the in-laws who wanted to defect to the capital——

The concubine of Beijing County is a girl from the Zhen family, the wife of eldest brother Zhen Fu is the only daughter of a dignitary in Beijing, Zhen Fu's mother is from the Rongguo Mansion, and Zhen Baoyu's mother is from a wealthy family...

In the end, it was only the Zhen family that fell, and there were others to rely on.

Their main object of refuge is the Prince's Mansion of Beijing County——

Firstly, the old lady is still there, and no one will gossip about the daughter taking care of her mother; secondly, some of the money that the Zhen family has stolen has also entered the pockets of the Beijing County Prince's Mansion; thirdly, the Beijing County King's power is at its peak.

The Prince's Mansion of Beijing County did receive them.

But it was obviously impossible for the whole family of the Zhen family to live in the Prince's Mansion of Beijing County, so they found another house for the Zhen family and housed them there.

The Zhen family has also settled down in the capital.

Now that they heard of such a happy event in the Rongguo Mansion, the Zhen family was naturally overjoyed, and they would definitely come to congratulate them.

Mrs. Wang received them angrily and resentfully.

Lin Ruhai and Jia Min went to Rongguo Mansion by car, but did not bring their three children there.

Ningrong and Rongfu are not a good place, both husband and wife don't want their children to associate with Jia's family.

Daiyu has no idea about taking care of her younger brother.

Lin Kou was a little disappointed, after all, she had only seen Daiyu for so long in the Dream of the Red Chamber, and she hadn't seen any of the other twelve golden hairpins.

but……

Forget it, don't worry.

Brother Shan has already learned to crawl, and every day when he is awake, he begs for someone to put him on the bed, and then crawls around the bed like a puppy.

As long as someone is watching, he can climb until his physical strength is exhausted without making a fuss.

Jia Min loves the child very much, always feels that this will make the child tired, and every time the child crawls for a while, he has to hug him in his arms.

The child is always attached to his mother, and Brother Shan won't make trouble after being hugged by Jia Min.

But when the old doctor found out about this, he immediately scolded Jia Min unceremoniously, until he scolded an aristocratic wife who was always moody and angry in front of outsiders until she blushed and smoked from her head.

After that, Jia Min knew that it was better for the child to move more, so he didn't feel "distressed" about the child.

Daiyu was also there at the time, and after learning about this incident, she took care of her younger brother and always followed him.

Lin Kou decisively took the opportunity to kidnap Daiyu to go out for a walk, but Daiyu really likes to be quiet and doesn't like to move, and her health is indeed a little weak. Every time she went out with her for a walk, she was so tired that she was out of breath and wanted to rest.

However, as time passed, and with the old doctor's two-pronged treatment of medicine and diet, Daiyu began to spend more time exercising.

At least now, she was able to walk around the garden with Lin Kou three times before she started to breathe heavily.

Brother Shan climbed for about five or six minutes. He was a little tired, so he just squatted, squinted his eyes and rested on the bed. When he heard the sound, he would turn his head and look over.

Lin Kou watched from the side, eating snacks and following Ga Ga Le.

Daiyu suddenly said, "Sister, do you know why mother and father don't want me to go to my grandfather's house?"

She is a very sensitive little girl, and she has already noticed the attitude of her parents.

It's just that Daiyu is used to not talking.

Until today, when her parents went to Rongguo Mansion to attend the banquet, she finally couldn't help asking her sister who was more like her friend this question that had been hidden in her heart for a long time.

Lin Kou bit half of the jujube cake in his mouth, paused, and ate the jujube cake into his stomach after hearing the question clearly.

She thought for a while and said, "Because the Rongguo Mansion is the enemy of the Lin family, it is very stupid to bring a child who has no ability to protect himself to the enemy's home."

Unlike Lin Ruhai and Jia Min's secretiveness, for fear of hurting Daiyu's fragile heart, Lin Kou clearly understood that Daiyu's intelligence and sensitivity, as well as her soft exterior and strong personality, made her not so easy to be hurt.

Daiyu was stunned for a moment, and quickly realized: "What did they do?"

Lin Kou summed it up in one word: "Eat the Juehu! They want to eat the Lin family's Juehu, even if they have no conditions to create the conditions."

Daiyu was dumbfounded.

After combing through her nearly two years of memory, she quickly understood what the so-called calculation was all about.

Xu Shi has never been in contact with her grandfather's family. Xu Shi's parents are here now, and her sister and younger brother are by her side. sad.

Lin Kou blinked: "I thought you would cry."

Although Daiyu doesn't like to cry very much, she thinks that Daiyu will always cry when she knows that this kind of thing happened to her.

Daiyu shook her head and sighed, "They're not worth it."

Lin Kou nodded, feeling relieved.

Lin Ruhai and Jia Min came back from the banquet quickly. When they went there, the weather was calm, but when they returned, they were worried.

When Lin Kou asked, he found out that the Jia family had released a letter, saying that the emperor had invited the emperor and the empress dowager to allow the family members of the concubines to enter the palace on the second and sixth day of each month. The emperor and the empress dowager were overjoyed, and The concubine was allowed to go out of the palace to visit relatives, and anyone who was interested could report it, and then build a relatives' hospital at home.

It is said that the construction of Zhou Guiren's home has already started, and Wu Guifei's father has also begun to choose a site.

The Jia family has always been unwilling to be left behind, so naturally they also want to build a family-saving villa.

But Lin Ruhai and the two knew very well that the Jia family had no money.

In other words, they have money, but they don't have the money to build a family-saving villa.

Daiyu was very calm: "But, what does this have to do with our Lin family?"

Lin Ruhai paused: "I'm afraid they will borrow money."

Daiyu snorted, "Our Lin family only has books, but no money."

Lin Kou burst out laughing, she always knew that Daiyu was narrow-minded, but her narrow-mindedness was only used on Jia Baoyu, and it was the first time she saw Daiyu use her narrow-mindedness on Rongguo Mansion superior.

Not to mention, it's pretty cool.

Daiyu turned her head and gave Lin Kou a blank look: "Am I not right? Some people are willing to slap their faces to make them fat. Let's just have fun. Do we really want to be obedient and give them a slap to slap their faces even more swollen?" Some? Their faces don't hurt, but my hands still hurt!"

Jia Min couldn't laugh or cry and nodded Daiyu's nose: "You, you, I don't know who is following this mouth!"

But after what Daiyu said, the husband and wife really had no worries.

When Jia's family came to borrow money, the husband and wife said one word——

The Lin family has no money.

It is conceivable how angry the Jia family was. Mother Jia asked Jia Min to come over several times, but Jia Min resisted the pressure and did not let go.

She also added fuel to the fire: "If the family really has no money, they will resign from the family. The empress will only stay for half a day at most, but the Rongguo Mansion has to spend millions of dollars in construction and construction. There is really no need to be so extravagant and wasteful."

Then, Jia Min was scolded back.

Not only was she not unhappy, but she was relieved: "This matter can no longer involve us."

However, during these few visits to Rongguo Mansion, Jia Min also discovered something else: "I remember telling you before that Rong'er in Ningguo Mansion got married the year we went to Weiyang? To Rong's daughter-in-law. Later, the servants said that she had slipped her tongue, and I found out that Rong's daughter-in-law was actually sent to the temple before Yuanchun became a concubine."

"Send it to the temple?" Lin Ruhai frowned, "Do you know the reason?"

Jia Min shook her head: "It is said that the delivery was very urgent, and no one of the servants knew the inside story. But I wondered if the time between the sending of Rong's daughter-in-law to the nunnery and Yuanchun's concubine happened too close?"