[Red Chamber] Madam's wishes come true

It's not that Lin Kou is ignorant, but that she has been very resistant to children since she was a child, so that she doesn't know much about the relevant knowledge, and even if she heard that children are born with red skin monkeys, she is totally indifferent to such pictures. Imagination fails, so...

Lin Kou glanced at her newborn son with a little guilt, and smiled at Zhen Fu.

Zhen Fu was helpless, and stepped forward to hold the child in his arms.

Because he had promised to take care of the child by himself before, Zhen Fu had asked Jia Min and other women who had given birth to children or the nanny he found for the correct posture of holding the child before the child was born. The methods are well practiced, and now it doesn't make the child feel uncomfortable after getting started.

Zhen Fu was a little nervous at first, but when she found that the child was sleeping soundly in her arms, she gradually relaxed.

Looking at the picture of Zhen Fu holding the child, Lin Kou couldn't help thinking of the astonishment in Jia Min's and others' eyes when he asked Jia Min and others about how to raise children, and immediately smiled.

When Zhen Fu saw her smile, the corners of her mouth turned up slightly.

But: "Although your delivery went smoothly, after all, you have consumed a lot of energy and blood after giving birth. You should lie down and rest quickly."

Lin Kou did feel a little tired, so she lay down obediently.

Zhen Fu looked at Lin Kou, and then at the child in his arms, feeling that his life was complete.

Zhen Fu left the delivery room with the baby in his arms, and showed the baby to Jia Min and others who were guarding outside the door.

Jia Min only glanced at it, then smiled and said, "This child's facial features are well-born. I specially pick the place where you and your husband are well-born. When I grow up, I don't know how many little girls I will deceive."

Daiyu leaned over curiously, but only saw a wrinkled little monkey.

She couldn't help frowning: "Mother, are you serious? Why do I feel that my nephew is... not so good..."

Jia Min turned her head and glared at Daiyu: "When a child is not yet grown up, he should be more obedient and boastful, so that he can have a good-looking child in the future. Besides, no matter which family's children are born, they are also like this when they are first born. You are so wrinkled and wrinkled. You were born prematurely, and your skin is redder and wrinkled than your nephew. Aren’t you born so smart? Your cousin and sister were born so well. What’s the matter? The children will grow up as well."

Daiyu was taken aback, and hurriedly searched her brains and said many poems to her little nephew to praise his appearance, and she said that the child was like a fairy descending from the earth. Those who didn't know it thought the child was so beautiful.

But actually?Just an ordinary baby with no face.

It was Zhen Fu, who listened to Jia Min's words, and then recited to his children every day the beautiful sentences in poems and songs.

Lin Kou woke up in the middle of the night and heard his voice reciting poems, thinking that he was going to give poems to the emperor.

After careful questioning, I couldn't laugh or cry: "The child is born, even if you recite more poems, what can you change? It's late at night, you should go to bed quickly, I've been quarreled by you."

Zhen Fu was a little embarrassed. Seeing that her son had already fallen asleep in the sound of her chanting scriptures, Lin Kou and the nanny who took care of the child could not sleep because of her noise, so she hurried over to tuck Lin Kou under the quilt, kissed He kissed her forehead and left Lin Kou's confinement room.

Lin Kou smiled and shook his head. After hesitating for a while, he asked someone to put the child beside him, and then he lay down and fell asleep.

Soon after the birth of the child, the third wash, the full moon, and the hundred-day banquet followed.

The social circle of Lin Kou and his wife is not very wide, but because Zhen Fu is currently on duty in the Imperial Academy, many people still come to attend these important days for the children.

Apart from the Hundred Days Banquet, Jia Min also helped organize the others.

When Lin Kou was out of confinement, the husband and wife immediately carried the child and went to the Lin family to express their thanks with gifts.

Jia Min laughed: "It's true, both of you, what's wrong with me hosting a banquet for you as an elder? Isn't this what it should be? Why are you thanking me with a gift?"

Lin Kou was helpless: "Everything can last for a long time. If we don't want to repay each time we receive the kindness from Mrs. Master and Madam, I'm afraid you two will be annoyed. I still want to trouble you two for a long time. Well, I can't let you bore the two of us."

Jia Min couldn't laugh or cry when he heard this.

But Lin Kou's words made sense, she liked to hear it, so she didn't refute it, but instead asked someone to take the gift to the warehouse.

Lin Kou looked around, "Where's Daiyu? Why can't I see her?"

Jia Min shook her head: "It's also a coincidence that Jiang Lin also came to visit Daiyu today. Daiyu didn't know when you would arrive, so she went to talk with Jiang Lin."

Lin Kou smiled: "It's a good thing that Daiyu can get along well with Jiang Lin."

Jia Min also laughed, and her mood improved a lot: "I was most worried about Daiyu at first. She likes people who she likes very much, but she doesn't like people very much, but I didn't expect to meet Jiang Lin. Master and I It can be regarded as reassuring. The house Jiang Lin bought is near us, so it will be convenient for us to meet in the future."

Jiang Lin really cared about Daiyu, although they would quarrel, but the two would always reconcile quickly, and what Jiang Lin told Daiyu about the outside world might be unremarkable, but to Daiyu it was very novel The things in this world have also broadened her horizons.

Daiyu seems to have been a lot gentler recently, and her gaze at every flower and grass is no longer as melancholy as it used to be.

Jia Min talked about another thing: "I heard that both Baoyu and Lan'er were selected as scholars, and Baoyu would continue to take the provincial examination. Lan'er originally didn't want to participate, but wanted to participate in the rural examination to gain experience, and finally signed up together. Son. I don’t know if the two children will pass the exam in the end.”

Lin Kou laughed: "What does it matter if you don't pass the exam? Anyway, Baoyu only intends to take the exam to protect his family, and Jia Lan has no hope for the provincial exam. It's a surprise that he passed the exam. If he doesn't pass the exam, it's a big deal that he will meet Jia next time." Come back together, there is no need to worry at all. But the old lady, after the news came back to the capital, has her condition improved?"

When Jia Mu was mentioned, Jia Min's face became a bit more sad: "The old lady seems to have reached the end of her life. She is fed with good food, good food, good medicine and good soup every day, but she is barely hanging her life. Before After the news that the two passed the examination as a scholar came back to the capital, the old lady's mood improved a bit, and her complexion eased a lot."

"After the old genius doctor saw it, he said it was just a temporary improvement." Jia Min's eyes were sad. "The old lady seems to be just waiting for the news of Baoyu's success in the examination. When Baoyu comes back from the provincial examination, I'm afraid..."

Although Jia's mother had already lived a long life and was dying, Jia Min couldn't help being sad.

Lin Kou didn't know what to say, so she could only say, "Doesn't the old lady like to be lively? Is there any little girl among the relatives of Jia's family? Why don't you bring her to Jia's house to accompany the old lady?"

Jia Min was taken aback, and nodded: "You reminded me. Tanchun is fifteen this year, and it's time to start looking for a suitable marriage. Given the old genius doctor's diagnosis, I'm afraid we will marry Tanchun this year. You just need to go out, otherwise Tanchun's marriage will be troublesome after a delay of three years. And once Tanchun gets married, the old lady will feel lonely."

Tanchun has a high spirit, and she doesn't necessarily want to marry an official. She just hopes to find a husband who is responsible and can give her support, or just weak and incompetent. She can only make up her mind. Of course, it is best They are the same age and have a simple family population.

She has suffered enough because of the messy relationship in Rongguo Mansion, and she doesn't want to fall into such a pit of fire again.

Jia Min never forgot to find a suitable candidate, but she was worried about the old lady's affairs, so the speed of finding a suitable candidate was not so fast.

Now that Lin Kou mentioned it, Jia Min realized the urgency of the matter and planned to choose the candidate as soon as possible.

As for the little girl from the relatives of the Jia family...

On the contrary, Jia Min encountered difficulties: "When the Jia family was at its peak, all relatives and friends from all walks of life were willing to send their daughters to the Jia family to be raised by the old lady, but now that the Jia family is in decline, who is willing to send their daughters to the Jia family to accompany them?" Where's the old lady?"

There are a few young girls in the Lin family, but Daiyu is waiting to be married and cannot go out at will; the other young girls are not only young, but also have no blood relationship with the old lady. The concubine accompanied me.

Lin Kou hesitated, and said for a while, "The natal families of the wives of the Wang family, the Shi family, and the Jia family, there should be many girls in their families? After the accidents of the four major families, the girls in these families are afraid that their marriages will be ruined. Didn't Wang Ziteng get divorced because he had a daughter? If you say you can help them, these girls should be willing to accompany the old lady."

Although it is utilitarian to do so, it can be regarded as what each needs.

It depends on whether Jia Min is willing to take such troubles on him for the sake of the old lady.

In fact, Jia Min thought it was a very good idea.

She didn't really like the rest of the Jia family, and was even full of resentment and resentment towards the Jia family because of Mrs. Wang and her two elder brothers.But the old lady really didn't feel sorry for her, and thought of her everywhere.

If a few young girls were to accompany her, it would really make the old lady's last journey more enjoyable. Jia Min didn't mind taking some trouble on herself.

Seeing that Jia Min was in a much better mood, Lin Kou changed the subject: "Speaking of which, I have something to ask you when I come to the house today. For some reason, my son seldom cries after birth and sleeps all day, doctor Checked and said it's all right..."

Jia Min was taken aback, and reached out to take Lin Kou's child.

After a pause, she looked at Lin Kou: "This child has been born for more than a month, right? Can he have a nickname? It's not good for the child to call like a son?"

Lin Kou was a little embarrassed: "Zhen Fu took one, named Xiaodouer."

Xiaodouer, Xiaodouer's, always sounds like a girl's name, so Lin Kou doesn't like to call it that much.

Jia Min likes this nickname very much: "This name is so cute. Although beans are cheap, they are inseparable from the staple food. It is very good to be used as a baby name for people. Other things aside, this child will definitely be born in the future." It’s great to be able to thrive.”

Hearing what Jia Min said, Lin Kou also thought Xiaodou'er was a good nickname.

She smiled: "Then Madam, please help me to find out, what's wrong with Xiaodouer? I remember that Brother Shan loved to sleep when he was born, but he didn't sleep all day long."

Lin Kou suspected that the child was sick, and secretly made a wish for the child to be healthy, but nothing happened after the wish was made.

She couldn't figure it out, and now she just happened to ask Jia Min.

Jia Min knew it too well, so she just said: "Xiao Douer looks very healthy, as white and tender as a steamed stuffed bun, so she shouldn't be sick. But I don't know exactly what's going on, just in case, it's better to let the old genius doctor come over and take a look." ?”

Lin Kou nodded naturally.

Soon, the old genius doctor came over with his medicine box on his back.

The old miracle doctor was about to turn eighty, but he looked no different from the five or sixty-year-old old men of this era. He was still full of energy and spirit, and he walked without shaking.

But considering that the old genius doctor was already good at recuperating and maintaining health, such a state seemed nothing to be concerned about.

Seeing someone approaching, Lin Kou hurriedly got up to greet him.

The old prodigy doctor was stunned for a moment, then chuckled: "Young girl is still so polite. I'm just a bad old man with a little medical skills, and I don't deserve such courtesy from a big girl."

Lin Kou said seriously: "There is no one more worthy of your kindness than a doctor."

The old genius doctor talked to Lin Kou many times, and Lin Kou kept going his own way. He also said he was bored, so he shook his head and walked to Jia Min's side.

The old genius doctor looked at the child, felt his pulse, because it was too thin and not obvious enough, so he untied Xiaodou'er's clothes and felt his heart.

After a long while, the old genius doctor looked up at Lin Kou, "Young master is fine, just growing your body."

long body?

Now that the old genius doctor said so, and Xiao Douer really just slept more than ordinary children, Lin Kou let go of her worries.

After the old genius doctor took Xiaodou'er's pulse, he also checked Lin Kou and Jia Min's to make sure that they were both healthy, so he packed up the medicine box and left the main courtyard.

Jia Min laughed suddenly: "By the way, do you still remember the little drug boy that the old miracle doctor took in? He also took the Jiangnan exam this time, and it is said that he also got a scholar."

"But the child is more rebellious than Baoyu. After passing the examination, he wrote a letter to the old genius doctor, saying that there is nothing to be a scholar, and it would be more interesting to follow the old genius doctor, so he decided to wait until the end of the provincial examination. Those who fail to pass the exam will go back to Beijing to follow the old master's medical skills, and will not continue to take the exam."

Lin Kou was a little strange: "I remember that the old genius doctor agreed to follow us to the capital because the master offered to help the little drug boy enter school? He seemed to like reading at that time, why now he wants to study medicine instead?"

Jia Min smiled and shook her head: "Probably because I just realized now that studying medicine is what I am most interested in."

Lin Kou no longer thought about it.

Not long after, Daiyu finally finished talking with Jiang Neighbor, and immediately came to the main courtyard after saying goodbye to him.

For some reason, Daiyu is very popular with children.

Xiao Douer, who was sleeping at first, seemed to have noticed Daiyu's approach, and suddenly woke up, and then looked at Dai directly with a pair of eyes.

Lin Kou found it funny, so she sent Xiaodou'er to Daiyu's arms.

Xiaodou'er smacked her small mouth, rubbed against Daiyu's neck, then closed her eyes again and fell asleep.

Daiyu has become proficient at hugging her younger siblings over the years, and now she is no stranger to hugging Xiaodou'er, it seems even more comfortable than Lin Kou, the biological mother, who knows how to hug him.

Lin Kou couldn't help shaking his head helplessly.

Lin Kou and Zhen Fu stayed at the Lin's house for lunch, then took their leave and left.

On the way, Zhen Fu took the child directly and held him in his arms.

Jia Min took this scene into his eyes and couldn't help laughing: "Fu'er is different from ordinary men. Not only is he willing to take the initiative to take care of the children, but he also seems to be enjoying it."

Lin Ruhai turned around after hearing this, and couldn't help smiling: "Didn't I also take Daiyu for a while? What's so strange? It seems that some people like antiques, some like poetry, and some like Danqing... ...I have my own hobbies, maybe Fuer likes to take care of children."

Jia Min looked at Lin Ruhai dumbfounded: "Maybe what you said is right."

Although she doesn't think so.

Not long after Lin Kou and Zhen Fu returned, bad news suddenly came from the court——

There was a war on the frontier guarded by the king of Nan'an, and the king of Nan'an was defeated and retreated steadily.When the court heard the news, the king of Nan'an County had been completely defeated, and there was almost no room for maneuver.

Fortunately, the enemy is only a small country, unable to take advantage of the victory and pursue it. Instead, it proposes to negotiate peace and marry with Da Yang.

The Supreme Emperor was so angry that he fainted on the spot. The imperial doctor took some treatment to revive the Supreme Emperor. The Emperor was furious because of the Supreme Emperor's coma and the defeat at the front. The general went to the front line, and at the same time had people surround the Nan'an County Prince's Mansion.

It wasn't that the emperor was too narrow-minded, and he was about to convict the general who led the army after losing a battle on the front line.

The reason why he was so angry was because it was found out that the Nan'an County Prince's Mansion was stealing military pay and filling his own pockets, and many soldiers couldn't get their military pay.

After the court got the evidence, it was supposed to convict the king of Nan'an County immediately, but unexpectedly, the king of Nan'an County seemed to have noticed it a long time ago. When the evidence was obtained, a war broke out on the front line.

The emperor also knew that the matter was too coincidental, and the king of Nan'an County was afraid of colluding with the enemy.

But it was a fact that the war started, even the emperor could not change generals just in time for fear of affecting the morale of the soldiers, and also worried that the soldiers would lose the battle if they did not get along well with the general.

This battle has been fought on and off in the past few years, and it has been fought on and off for so many years, but there has been no result.

Just when the emperor thought that this battle was going to last forever, his family was actually defeated?

How can you tell the emperor not to be angry?

Negotiating peace and marriage, this is a great shame in the eyes of the emperor!

The emperor had originally disliked the Nan'an County Prince's Mansion, but he had to postpone the punishment and investigation of the Nan'an County King because of the front-line war.

So Nan'an County Prince's Mansion was besieged.

The four kings with different surnames were connected with each other, and the other three families saw that the Nan'an County Palace was surrounded, so they could naturally sense that the emperor was about to take action against the Nan'an County Palace.

The emperor looked at the three county kings deeply, and sneered in his heart.

But on the surface, he still gave the three county kings enough face. Originally, he wanted to directly confiscate the Nan'an County prince's house, but now he just deprived the Nan'an County king of the military power and directly lowered the Nan'an County king's county prince. Marquis.

The other three county kings were both scared and thankful: at least, their lives were saved, right?

What they didn't know was that the emperor was only worried that the king of Nan'an County would simply take money and join the enemy after hearing the news that his house had been ransacked——

Based on what the King of Nan'an has done, this matter is not impossible.

The facts are just as the emperor expected. After hearing the news that his home was surrounded, the king of Nan'an did have the idea of ​​abandoning his wife, children, and children to join the enemy's camp. Now, he was just deprived of military power and lowered his title, so he quickly gave up the idea of ​​escaping.

After all, how can going to an enemy country in a bitterly cold place compare to eating delicious food in the capital?

So the king of Nan'an returned to the capital.

The emperor had the criminal evidence of the King of Nan'an in his hands, but the other three kings of the county did not hold back, and the evidence collection was insufficient, so the emperor did not take action against the King of Nan'an immediately after he returned, but directly ordered the king of Nan'an to send him away. A daughter enters the palace, is given the status of a princess, and is married to an enemy country.

The King of Nan'an didn't care about this. After all, he had been fighting on the front line all year round, so he had limited return to Beijing, and his affection for his only daughter was also limited.

The princess of the county and the concubine of Nan'an get along with his only daughter every day, and they don't want to send people to marry at all.

Thus, the two had a crooked idea——

Since the emperor can marry their daughters to the enemy's country, why can't they adopt a girl from another family as their adopted daughter?In this way, there is no need for his girl to marry into an enemy country.

The Prince's Mansion of Nan'an County then set its sights on the daughters of various families in the capital.

But getting married has not been a good thing since ancient times, but those who love their daughters cannot push their daughters into the fire pit.

And those families who don't love their daughters enough, the girls they raise are really not decent, timid, petty, no matter how you look at it, they don't look like princesses, if they really adopt people as adopted daughters, I'm afraid they will even pass the emperor's test No, how could it be possible to replace his own girl to make a kiss?

Just at this time, an old nanny beside Concubine Nan'an reminded: "It seems that there are many girls in the Rongguo Mansion that was confiscated a few years ago. They were all raised by the old lady. If you find someone, you might as well look for a girl from Jia's family."

How glorious were the four princes and eight princes back then?Now the eight Duke's mansions are all gone, and the four prince's mansions are also in trouble.

But even so, back then, the four kings and eight lords could be regarded as communicating with each other. The younger generations of each family did not say that they became friends, but the elders all left a certain impression.

The old concubine remembered that the virtuous concubine in the palace was much better than her daughter in terms of bearing.

Seeing the county princess looking at her, the old concubine nodded seriously.

So it didn't take long for the declining Jia family to welcome distinguished guests.

But the purpose of this distinguished guest makes people not very happy——

She actually wanted the daughter of the Jia family to replace the daughter of the princess of the county and marry to the enemy country to make peace!

Jia Min got the news and rushed over quickly.