[Red Chamber] Madam's wishes come true

Not long after, Jia Baoyu and Jia Lan went to Jinling.

The departure of the two did not have any impact on Lin Kou's life, but Tanchun and the girls were depressed for a few days because of Baoyu's departure, but they quickly adjusted.

At the end of the imperial examination, a group of Jinshi took the examination of Shujishi.

The result came out within a few days.

This matter has nothing to do with Zhen Fu——

Lin Kou originally thought so.

But unexpectedly, a few days after the exam, Zhen Fu came back and mentioned someone to her: "Do you remember this year's Tanhua Lang Jiang Lin? He came to report at the Imperial Academy today."

Lin Kou was a little strange: "Is it strange that he reported to the Imperial Academy?"

"Of course it wouldn't be strange if it was placed on other people, but it would be strange if it was placed on Jiang Lin." Zhen Fu smiled, "What's more, he didn't do anything after he arrived at the Imperial Academy, and came directly to me to make connections."

Lin Kou was stunned: "Looking for you?"

Zhen Fu nodded: "He is very careless. The other scholars admitted to the Imperial Academy will actively search for the mansion newspapers over the years and the operation of each yamen at other times, in addition to the trivial matters assigned by the superiors. If you have an idea about where you will go in three years, you may even find out the information of that department and read it, which can be regarded as preparation in advance."

"But Jiang Lin is different. After finishing the tasks assigned by his superiors every day, he will drink tea there slowly. Whenever I am free, he will come to see me and tell me a lot of things."

"I thought that Jiang Lin was worried that the previous rumors would affect my perception of him, so I told him several times that I didn't care about those rumors. Who knows..." Zhen Fu couldn't laugh or cry, "Who knows Jiang Lin actually He is completely unaware of the rumors outside, and he only knew about it when I mentioned it."

"It was also at this time that I realized that Jiang Lin went to Beijing to rush for the exam this year to fulfill his elder's last wish. He himself has no interest in the imperial exam at all."

Lin Kou frowned, "He's not interested in imperial examinations at all, why didn't he just leave after the results came out?"

Zhen Fu laughed: "I asked him that too."

"How did he answer?" Lin Kou was curious.

"He said," Zhen Fu shook his head with a smile, "suddenly realized that his life-long affairs had not yet been settled, so he decided to be an official for a few years for fun, and when the life-long affairs were resolved, he would take his wife to visit the mountains and rivers."

Lin Kou: "..." This is really capricious and perverse to the extreme.

Zhen Fu looked at Lin Kou's speechless expression, smiled sullenly for a while, and then asked, "What do you think of Jiang Lin?"

Lin Kou squinted at him: "He is not mine, how can I see it?"

Zhen Fu coughed twice: "Although it's not yours now, it may not be in the future. Don't you think it's strange that he came to me to make a relationship, and confided so much information to me in a simple way when we first met?" I heard that he was waiting for news at the teahouse opposite the place where the rankings were released, and I remember that you, your elder sister-in-law, second sister-in-law and a few girls were waiting for news at that teahouse on the day the rankings were released?"

Lin Kou reacted for a while, and suddenly realized something: "You mean, neighbor Jiang fell in love with a certain girl?"

She recalled for a moment that she, Baochai, and Yingchun were all wearing women's hair buns. No matter how perverse Jiang Lin was, he probably wouldn't want to have a married woman, so it was most likely Daiyu, Xiangyun, and Tan. Chun waited for three little girls.

Coincidentally, Daiyu is already fifteen this year, and Jia Min is choosing a husband-in-law for her.

Lin Kou narrowed his eyes: "Have you asked him what's going on?"

"How do you say that?" Zhen Fu laughed, "Should I just ask, do you intend to marry a little girl I know?"

It's too weird.

Lin Kou twitched the corners of his mouth and said with a smile, "Then you pretend to have no intention of telling him tomorrow that Madam is picking a husband for Sister Lin."

Zhen Fu paused: "You think it's Sister Lin?"

Lin Kou shrugged her shoulders: "Sister Lin is the most outstanding of the girls. If it was just a one-time meeting, she probably fell in love with the prettiest one. Sexuality, that's all."

"Of course, this is not absolute. So you just need to mention it casually and don't reveal too much information."

Lin Kou had never met Jiang Lin before, but to be selected by the emperor as Tanhualang, he looked pretty good.

Furthermore, I heard that Jiang Lin is only seventeen or eighteen this year, and he matches Daiyu in terms of age. He is also a flower lover, and he wants to have something to say with Lin Ruhai and Daiyu.

If he really has a crush on Daiyu, he can talk to Jia Min about it.

Zhen Fu thought about it, but did not refuse.

Early the next morning, he just waited for Jiang Neighbor who was on duty at the Hanlin Academy, so he greeted him with a smile.Later, when colleagues were talking about the marriage of their daughters or sisters, they seemingly inadvertently mentioned the news that Jia Min was choosing a future husband for Daiyu.

At that time, Jiang Lin didn't respond, and Zhen Fu had to think that Lin Kou had guessed wrong.

however……

After waiting for Xiumu for a few days, Lin Kou and Zhen Fu went to Lin's house together. When they were discussing with Jia Min and Lin Ruhai about Daiyu's marriage candidate, they suddenly heard that a matchmaker came to the door.

Everyone: "???"

Who's so careless, they didn't send a letter in advance, just came to the door directly?

Then people asked, it turned out to be Tanhualang who was just released this year.

Lin Kou: "..."

Zhen Fu: "..."

Isn't this man moving too fast?

Although Zhen Fu and Lin Kou felt that Jiang Lin's character was a bit indescribable, but for a seventeen or eighteen-year-old Tanhua who had never been married, there were still many people in the capital who wanted to recruit someone to their name. down.

And what is the most simple, convenient and reliable way to recruit?marriage!

So, don't look at Jiang Lin's fishing in the Imperial Academy all day long, but there are quite a few high-ranking officials who intend to marry him, and some of them even let people find Jiang Lin to express their intentions in a cryptic manner.

It's a pity that Jiang Lin was unmoved, pretending that he didn't understand everything.

Lin Ruhai also took the test of Tanhualang before, so he has a pretty good impression of Jiang Lin, and it's not like he didn't think about him before.But he was reserved and valued Daiyu very much as a daughter, so after inquiring about Jiang Lin's temperament and his experiences during this period, he dismissed the idea.

Who would have thought that Jiang Lin would take the initiative to deliver Jiang Lin to his door instead of looking for him?

Jia Min looked at Lin Ruhai: "Master knows this person who came to propose marriage?"

Lin Ruhai smiled wryly: "It's Jinke Tanhualang, who is seventeen or eighteen years old. It is said that he grew up with his grandfather and lived alone after his grandfather passed away."

After he inquired here, his interest in this Tanhualang decreased greatly. Later, he heard that he turned a blind eye to the marriage signals released by other people, so he completely excluded him from the game. Naturally, he did not continue to investigate the other party's information.

Jia Min couldn't help asking: "How's your temper? How's your conduct?"

Zhen Fu knows the answers to these two questions best: "The character is good, the temper is generous and he doesn't like to care about others, but he is very unmotivated. After completing his tasks every day, he likes to walk around with a teacup and listen to gossip. I have no interest in being an official, and I guess I will resign after the end of my term in the Imperial Academy."

Lin Kou told Jia Min what Jiang Lin had said to Zhen Fu before: "I think this person should stay in Beijing for Daiyu. If you ask, this person may not continue to be an official. We won’t stay in the capital. But we don’t know about other conditions, so we still have to go to Jiangnan to investigate.”

Jia Min was silent, and asked for Jiang Lin and the matchmaker to come in after a while.

Zhen Fu and Lin Kou did not have a past.

I don't know how Jia Min and Lin Ruhai talked with Jiang Lin. After Jiang Lin left, Lin Kou and Lin Kou saw Jia Min and Lin Ruhai again, and found that there were many smiles on their faces.

This is... done?

Jia Min explained with a smile: "Jiang Tanhua said that he really doesn't intend to be an official, and he can't give Daiyu a rich life, but he can guarantee that he will not be dissatisfied in this life, and he will treat Daiyu well for the rest of his life."

Lin Ruhai also added: "After I talked with him, I found that his thoughts and talents are very outstanding, and many of his ideas coincide with Daiyu's. Feeling bored with nothing to say.”

It can be said that Lin Ruhai and Jia Min raised Daiyu together since she was a child. The husband and wife are very clear about her temperament and what she needs from her future husband.

In choosing a future husband-in-law for Daiyu, the most important thing is never money and material conditions, but whether the other party's thinking can fit Daiyu.If they can match, as long as the other party's family conditions are not too complicated or poor, the husband and wife can relax the conditions; if they can't match, even if the other party is a prince or noble, the couple will never dare to send their daughter to each other.

In fact, Jia Min has been worrying about Daiyu's marriage since last year, but she has never found a suitable candidate——

The person who fits Daiyu's thinking the most is Jia Baoyu, whom Jia Min doesn't think much of.

Even though Jia Baoyu has changed for the better over the years, she is 100% unwilling to ask Jia Min to agree to marry her daughter back to the Jia family and marry a man from the Jia family.

Men from the Jia family are not good matches.

Now that there is a surprise, Jia Min is naturally overjoyed.

Lin Kou suggested instead: "It's better not to get married yet, you find an excuse to hold a banquet, invite Jiang Neighbor to your home to meet Daiyu, see what their attitude is after meeting and talk, and then decide whether to get married or not. "

If you're just looking for a marriage that matches your family, you don't have to be so troublesome.

But since Daiyu wants a marriage of spiritual harmony, the person she will spend her life with in the future is extremely important.Lin Ruhai and Jia Min swore that Daiyu and Jiang Lin would definitely get along, but what about Jiang Lin and Daiyu?At most, the two of them only had a one-sided relationship with Jiang Lin. They still don't know what kind of wife Jiang Lin wants.

Jia Min was taken aback: "Since he came to ask for marriage, he should..."

Lin Kou sighed helplessly: "Jiang Lin has such a temperament, if he gets married and finds that he can be a fairy couple with Daiyu, there is nothing to worry about. I also believe that he will definitely protect Daiyu properly. But he only said that he will live forever. I don’t accept two colors, and I also said that I will treat Daiyu well for the rest of my life, but what if he finds out that he and Daiyu can’t go together, and he runs out to visit the mountains and rivers alone, leaving Daiyu alone to guard the empty boudoir.”

This kind of perverse person is very good when he is good, but he is also very annoying when he is not good.

You can't even take him.

Furthermore, both Jia Min and Lin Ruhai said they knew Daiyu well enough, but how could one person's thoughts be 100% understood by the other?Whether Daiyu can get along with Jiang Neighbor as they imagined is still unknown.

So I still have to find a way to determine each other's preferences in advance.

Jia Min and his wife really loved Daiyu, so they listened to Lin Kou's suggestion, and soon invited the other party to their home when their child was celebrating their birthday, and then found a free time for Jiang Neighbor to meet Daiyu. had a face.

Lin Kou and Zhen Fu were placed with high hopes, and they watched from afar.

So Lin Kou discovered that after Jiang Lin walked into the Huxin Pavilion, Daiyu was still unhappy when she saw the other party at first, but she couldn't bear it because of the other party's identity, but soon, she didn't know what Jiang Lin said What, the resistance on Daiyu's face gradually dissipated, and she even moved a little closer to Jiang Neighbor's identity.

When the meeting time was about to end, Daiyu's face was filled with a rare cheerful smile, and her eyes were full of yearning.

The two of them could not meet for too long, about half an hour passed before Zhen Fu and Lin Kou walked over.

Zhen Fu took Jiang Lin away, and Lin Kou sat in front of Daiyu: "What did he tell you?"

Daiyu simply sat down next to Lin Kou: "Sister, I just found out that there are so many delicious food and beautiful scenery in this world, and there are so many interesting things that I didn't know about."

After listening to Daiyu's narration, Lin Kou finally knew what Jiang Lin said to make Daiyu so happy.

Apart from talking about the Book of Songs and Chu Ci for a while at the beginning, he quickly talked about interesting plants in reality through the images in the poems, and then from plants to animals, and then to the scenery and customs he had seen over the years.

Even if he only heard Daiyu's enthusiastic recounting, Lin Kou could fully imagine how happy a girl like Daiyu would be when she heard these experiences that she had never seen or heard before.

At the end, Daiyu said embarrassedly: "He said that he would resign after getting married, and then take me to travel around."

Lin Kou looked at Daiyu and didn't know what to say for a moment.

For a girl like Daiyu who has never seen the scenery outside, such a simple sentence is probably better than a thousand-word confession, right?

Lin Kou told Jia Min about this.

Jia Min was a little taken aback: "Jiang Lin is..."

As soon as we met, I saw through what Daiyu liked, and told what she liked, and made a promise.It can't be said to be frivolous, but it always makes people feel uncomfortable.

Lin Kou laughed: "Why don't you let the two of you get in touch a few more times? After marriage, you can also let them stay in the capital for a few more years. If something goes wrong, you can stop the loss in time."

Only then did Jia Min feel relieved.

The more contacts you have, the more you can really see each other's real sex.

Some things can be hidden for a while, but they cannot be hidden forever.

As Lin Kou expected, after Jiang Lin and Daiyu contacted each other more times, they soon had conflicts.

Jiang Lin has a perverse temper, but Daiyu's temper can't be said to be very good.

The two get along a lot, and conflicts are inevitable.

What they need to observe is how Jiang Neighbor handles the conflict after the two have a conflict.

Different from Jia Baoyu's blind coaxing, Jiang Lin's approach is to sit next to Daiyu and wait for her to calm down, and then calmly "debate" with Daiyu. If Daiyu is wrong, he will seriously point out Daiyu. If Yu is wrong, then Daiyu only needs to give him a small gift to reconcile as before; and if he is wrong, he will not only apologize in a humble way and coax others to give gifts, but will also pretend to be ugly to him at the expense of face. Daiyu is funny...

Daiyu is quite magnanimous to most people, but she is indeed very temperamental to those she cares about.

But this temperament was only able to "enjoy" Jia Min, Lin Ruhai and Lin Kou in the past. Even Brother Shan, because he was too young, and Daiyu felt that she should let her younger brother and never knew She has a big temper.

Now, ahem...

This was actually what Lin Kou was most worried about, because not everyone could bear Daiyu's temper.

Unexpectedly, Jiang Lin not only adapts well, but also seems to enjoy it?

He seems to enjoy Daiyu's uniqueness to him, and deliberately indulges Daiyu's "uniqueness" to him.

this person...

Lin Kou didn't know how to evaluate Jiang Lin, but this person seemed to be a very suitable person for Daiyu.

Jia Min obviously thought so too, so it didn't take long to finalize the marriage.

Then, Jiang Lin resigned directly from the Imperial Academy.

Lin Kou: "...he really left it here just to solve lifelong events?"

Zhen Fu nodded dumbfoundingly: "I asked, and he said, 'Since I have obtained the goddess of my dreams, why bother to stay in the officialdom and roll around in the mud'."

Lin Kou thought for a while and said with a smile, "That's good, and I won't resign after I officially get married, which will cause bad speculation for Daiyu and the Lin family. It's just that Madam didn't ask to get married in two years, and they will marry after two years. After marriage, you have to stay in the capital for three years before you can leave? What does Jiang Lin plan to do for a living?"

Zhen Fu smiled and shook his head: "I don't know, I just heard him say that the family wealth is quite rich, and after resigning from office, he will immediately return to his hometown and bring the family wealth to the capital as a gift, and then formally come to propose marriage."

Lin Kou smiled: "I'm afraid he will have to wait."

Sure enough, it didn't take long before I heard that Jiang Lin had returned to the south of the Yangtze River with his servant.

Jiang Lin left, but Daiyu was being restrained by Jia Min to learn about housekeeping and other things, so she didn't have much time to invite Lin Kou to play.

But at this time, they heard that Baochai was pregnant again.

How long has it been!

Lin Kou was startled by the speed of Baochai's pregnancy. When she went to visit her, she found that although Baochai's complexion was not as rosy as before, when she kept smiling, she didn't know how to say the words of persuasion.

Baochai noticed that she hesitated to speak: "Sister Kou has something to say, but it's okay to say it."

Lin Kou thought for a while and said, "Your husband has already had both children. Even if you like children, you should rest up and get pregnant before getting pregnant. It's very bad for your health to continue to conceive like this."

After a pause, she said in a low voice, "At least two years after the baby is born, I can conceive again."

Baochai was taken aback: "Mom didn't tell me about this..."

Lin Kou was speechless: "What's Aunt Xue thinking? Originally, you were a little younger when you got pregnant at 16. Why hasn't she reminded you of such an important thing? Once you give birth, your mother's body will age several years. Unlucky If it is good, it will be accompanied by many sequelae, how can she..."

Lin Kou didn't know what to say, is there such a mother?

Baochai is such a strong person. After hearing this, she was frightened and sad for a moment, and the tears fell one by one like a curtain of beads: "I don't know, I thought that after the full confinement, the body will be fully nourished." alright."

As Lin Kou said, Baochai's husband has already had both children, and she has no pressure to conceive at all. If she didn't think that her body is already in good condition, how could Baochai conceive so early?

She has only just given birth for a few months.

Lin Kou was taken aback, and hurriedly said, "Don't cry too, too many tears during a pregnant woman are bad for your health. Forget about it this time, and come to me after giving birth. I have contraceptive pills in my hand, and I can take care of them for two or three years. The body is also harmless."

Baochai nodded again and again: "I can save it."

Jia Min soon found out about this matter, and for a while didn't know what to say.

There is really nothing to say, after all, Aunt Xue is Baochai's biological mother. She forgot or didn't think it was an important matter. If she didn't tell Baochai, what can others say?

Jia Min just asked Baochai to send a lot of expensive medicines, and specially invited the old doctor in the mansion to Baochai's house to prescribe some medicinal prescriptions for her to nourish her body.

And not long after Baochai became pregnant, Jiang Neighbor, who returned to his hometown, came to the capital with all his belongings, and bought a big house with three entrances and three exits directly near the Lin family.

Before he could make some adjustments, the man couldn't wait to invite a matchmaker to come to propose marriage.

After the Lin family refused several times, they agreed to the marriage.

So not long after, Lin Kou and Zhen Fu boarded the carriage and went to the Lin family to help prepare the banquet for Daiyu and Jiang Lin's engagement.

Lin Kou has always been in good health, but today she is busy with Jia Min but always feels backache and leg weakness, which makes her very distressed.

Jia Min sensed her abnormal state and decisively asked someone to help her down to rest.

Lin Kou rested for a while, and felt that his body was almost recovered, so he simply got up again to help.

It didn't take long before the body began to protest again.

Lin Kou was worried that he was sick, so he hurriedly asked the old genius doctor to come over.

The old genius doctor asked a lot of questions, and then concentrated on taking Lin Kou's pulse for a while, frowning and relaxing his brows for a while, and his expression changed many times. Seeing Lin Kou terrified, he almost thought he was terminally ill.

Fortunately, the old miracle doctor quickly came to a conclusion: "If the old man is not wrong, the eldest girl should be pregnant. It's just that the month is still young, and it is less than a month, so the old man dare not guarantee the result [-]% or [-]%. If there is a chance, the eldest girl will come back in half a month, or wait for this month's Yuexiner, if Yuexiner doesn't come, it will probably be Xixiner."

With a bang, Lin Kou's expression became numb: "I'm pregnant?"