The stepson of the Lin family of the Red Chamber

Jia Min said angrily and amusedly, "Of course I know how serious this is. I mentioned it today to make you more vigilant. It's not good to keep people quiet about this kind of thing, otherwise it will attract attention."

Lin Ruhai hugged her and said with a smile, "Min'er is right."

"In my opinion, the few people around Yao'er are still not enough, and we need to add a few more, especially the servants. We have to be matched with four servants, at least for a family like ours. As for the maids, Yao'er already has Bi Wan by her side, adding another big maid and two second-class maids is enough, men don't need too many maids by their side."

Hearing Jia Min's rambling, Lin Ruhai smiled.

During the time when her youngest son died, Jia Min shed tears almost every day. Her birth was dangerous. Although the mother and child were safe, the doctor also said that Jia Min's body would never be able to conceive again. Both Jia Min and Jia Min thought that since they have sons, it doesn't matter if they can't conceive.

But this youngest son has been weak since he was born, even worse than Daiyu. He and Jia Min were careful and careful, but in the end they still couldn't keep the child and made him fall ill.

At first he didn't think about adopting, but one day when he returned home, he heard Jia Min talking to the big maid beside him, Chunzhi, and realized that Jia Min was not only sad about the death of his youngest son, but also worried that Lin Ruhai's family would die because of her.

Lin Ruhai really didn't expect his beloved wife to be so sensitive. Even if the youngest son dies, his branch is in danger of becoming extinct, but it is absolutely impossible to be extinct because of Jia Min. His Lin family branch is not prosperous, as it has been in previous generations, and there are many side branches They are all extinct, which is why it is so difficult for Lin Ruhai to choose a stepson.

How can he blame Jia Min for his poor family members?

Speaking of which, he already has several concubines, all of which were chosen by Jia Min. However, after more than [-] years of marriage, only Jia Min gave him a daughter and a son successively. Those concubines are not as good as none.

In terms of Jia Min's contribution to his Lin family, he has done nothing wrong for so many years.

Several concubines are useless, and Lin Ruhai didn't think that these concubines could bear him a son, so he thought about it and turned his brains to adoption.

He wanted to discuss with Jia Min first, but after thinking about it, he mentioned his stepson just after his son died. He was afraid that Jia Min would be sad, so he just sent someone to Gusu Lin's house to find out if there was any suitable one. Not too late.

Then he picked Lin Yao.

When the adoption was mentioned at the beginning, although Jia Min did not object, she obviously resisted, but this resistance was not because she hated Lin Yao, but because of her son who died young.

Lin Ruhai adopted Lin Yao, one is for the incense of the Lin family, and the other is for the sake of Jia Min's heart, the Lin family will not die.

He didn't let Jia Min know about these thoughts. Now that Jia Min can think about Lin Yao in this way, it can be seen that she has completely accepted Lin Yao. Even if she is sad for her son who died young, it should not affect herself.

He could finally feel at ease.

As long as people have hope, they will not fall into despair.

"It's all up to you."

Jia Min glanced at him, "I can choose to send over the maid's affairs, and I will not interfere with the servants. The master carefully selects a few and arranges them with Yao'er."

"Good good."

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Naturally, Lin Yao didn't know about the private conversation between Lin Ruhai and Jia Min. After he returned to the east courtyard, he was still full of doubts.

Seeing that Lin Yao was in a trance, Song Nanny poured a cup of tea, "What is the uncle thinking? Why are you in a trance?"

Hearing the sound, Lin Yao came back to her senses, took a sip of the tea Nanny Song poured, and then told Nanny Song the conversation she had with Jia Min on the way back to the mansion today, and then said, "Manny said, Madam, what the hell is going on?" What do you mean? Is there something wrong with what I said?"

Nanny Song was startled, and then smiled, "This old slave just now realizes that Grandpa is still a child."

In the past half a year, Lin Yao has become more and more stable. It can be said that the majesty has been established in the three-acre land in the East Courtyard, but Nanny Song still feels that Lin Yao like this is a little strange.

Lin Yao asked her today, which made her find some sense of familiarity.

"Mommy," Lin Yao said helplessly, "I'm not joking with you."

Nanny Song said, "This old slave understands. It's just this question, and this old slave can't answer you. You can only figure it out yourself, sir." After saying that, she resigned without waiting for Lin Yao to persuade her to stay.

Lin Yao: ...

If I can figure it out myself, why do I need to ask you?

But this also proves that Nanny Song understands the meaning of what the wife said, Nanny Song understands it, but he doesn't understand it, Lin Yao can't figure out the deep meaning in it no matter what.

The next day, Lin Yao went to study at Mr. Jia's as usual. When she came back in the afternoon, she saw some strange faces in her courtyard. She couldn't help being puzzled. She called Nanny Song into the room and asked, only to find out that the master and wife had sent him to serve him. of.

Lin Yao was a little speechless, "I'm alone, why do I need so many people to serve me?"

"Did you see how many servants are there around the girl? There are eight maids alone. You are a man, so naturally you can't have eight maids like a girl, but you should have four maids. In addition, you should have four servant girls." Boy, this is all, don't be surprised, uncle, this is all the rules of the high school." Song Nanny explained.

Lin Yao: ...

He thought for a while, Jia Baoyu also seemed to have many maids around him. Looking at Jia's house, there were ten or twenty masters in total, but hundreds of servants.

Thinking about it this way, the people around him don't seem like an exaggeration?

"Since this is the case, the servant girl should follow the old rules, and you will be in charge of it. The new servants, let Ye He take them with you." Ye Heyuan was the person next to Lin Ruhai. Everyone in the mansion should know Ye He, and they will not be dissatisfied.

Time passed quickly, and a month passed in a blink of an eye, and the Gu family handed over the invitation, which was specially for Lin Yao. As soon as Lin Yao heard that it was an invitation from the Gu family, she immediately remembered that Gu Zhen invited him to celebrate his birthday last month. Can't help but helpless.

The younger generation always had a simple meal with their own family on their birthdays, but Gu Zhen wanted to invite him over. How embarrassing would it be to have an outsider in the Gu family?

But all the postings have been handed over to Lin's residence, so it must be agreed by Gu's elders, if Lin Yao doesn't go, it can't be justified, after all, he promised earlier.

Thinking of Jia Min and Lin Ruhai's worries, Lin Yao thought about it and replied.

After a nap in the afternoon, the servant girl came to report that the eldest girl was here.

Lin Yao was slightly taken aback, and hurriedly asked the maid to dress him up, tidied up and came out immediately, "When did my sister come? Why didn't someone wake me up?"

"My brother studied hard, and finally fell asleep. How could I disturb my dream?" Daiyu laughed.

Lin Yao laughed, "Are you going to laugh at me too? Tell me, what do you want from me?"

"I heard that the Gu family handed over an invitation to my brother?"

Lin Yao nodded, and said helplessly, "Yes, it's Gu Zhen's birthday in two days. He invited me last time, and I agreed."

"I know this, brother really going?"

Although Daiyu is young, she also knows that the birthdays of the younger generation are not very important, and it is usually just a meal with the family.

On Gu Zhen's birthday, Lin Yao is the only outsider there, how embarrassing would that be?

"Since all the invitations from the Gu family have been sent to Lin's residence, the elders of the Gu family should all know about it and agree to it. I promised Gu Zhen to celebrate his birthday, but now the Gu family has agreed. , if I don't go, it would be too rude." Lin Yao explained.

Daiyu heard this and said no more.

She came here on purpose, as if to ask Lin Yao if she would go or not, and after asking, she found a reason to go back.

Before Lin Yao understood what was going on, sister Yujin, who was next to Jia Min, came to invite Lin Yao to have dinner together in the main courtyard in the evening.

When we arrived at the main courtyard, we saw Lin Ruhai and Daiyu were there.

Lin Yao:? ? ?

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