The Second Master Lian of the Red Chamber

As the saying goes, there is an autumn rain and a cold, this year’s autumn in the south of the Yangtze River is especially rainy, and it is always densely entwined. Jia Lian had a good taste of the autumn scenery in the south of the Yangtze River, and was forced to write autumn rain poems for a long time. Fu, finally felt the sadness of Jiangnan talented scholars, and the poems and Fus have also made great progress along the way.

In Lin Hai's words, he knows how to rhyme flat and oblique, and he barely has a bit of craftsmanship. At last, it is not the virtue that he has mastered nine of ten orifices and knows nothing.

Jia Lian didn't blush after hearing such comments, and was happy for many days. During the winter solstice sacrifice banquet with Lin Hai and Jia Min, he wrote a poem about reunion. Jia Lian's sons and daughters tasted so well that Jia Lian flushed with embarrassment and begged for mercy.

As soon as the winter solstice passed, Lin Hai checked Jia Lian's homework again and again, and cut his daily calligraphy and review time by half. Jia Lian felt confident about his knowledge, and began to help Jia Min prepare for the annual ceremonies everywhere. The mansion came to answer chores.

On the contrary, Beijing Central sent a letter before the winter solstice. Apart from boasting about the splendor and wealth of Jia Zhu's marriage, it also urged Jia Lian to go to Jinling Mansion to celebrate the New Year with Jia's clan, which was considered a reunion.According to Jia's mother's intention, Jia Lian's trip to the south originally meant to check the ancestral property in Jinling and supervise the servants, and the closure of accounts in the twelfth lunar month happened to be an investigation.

Another thing, although Jia's mother didn't think that Jia Lian could get any results in the past half a year, since he was going to end, there was no reason for the mansion to stop him. As soon as he got the news, he wrote to the old servant who stayed in Jinling to clean up. After cleaning the yard and coming out, he planned to let Jia Lian live in the mansion directly to try out the rankings, and also avoid the pain of running around temporarily.

Of course, Jia's mother's original words were very rude, saying that she would go there earlier, so as to avoid Jia Lian's end, and blame the exhaustion of the journey.

Since Jia Min would not tell Lin Hai and Jia Lian's master and apprentice this, he just locked the letter and asked Lin Hai and Jia Lian what he wanted.

Of course Jia Lian had no intention of going to Jinling to join his tribe.When he went to Jinling, one reason was that there were few people to take care of him from his aunt, and the other reason was that someone would visit the door every day to invite him to a drink and a theater, and because he was a slave who might not obey discipline, he would waste time by working hard.

And Jia Lian remembered that sister Lin was born on the twelfth day of the February Flower Festival. He waited for his aunt to give birth safely before rushing to Jinling and resting for two days before starting the exam. There was enough time, so he bluntly said that he wanted to Stay until four or five days before the exam starts before going to Jinling, and come back immediately after the exam.

Jia Min was also worried about the lack of time, and wanted to tell Jia Lian to leave earlier, but Lin Hai directly agreed after a little calculation, and wrote a letter asking an old friend in Jinling to help take care of Jia Lian for a few days.

Lin Hai is an expert in scientific examinations. Although Jia Min was afraid that Jia Mu and others would think too much, she trusted Lin Hai's handling more, so she wrote a letter politely rejecting Jia Mu's entrustment, and handed over all the trivial matters related to Jia Lian's examination to Zeng. The butler who accompanied Lin Hai to the exam.

Since then, Jia Lian has stayed at Lin's house in Yangzhou to prepare for the Chinese New Year and exams. Besides reviewing books, he also helped Jia Min to take care of everything inside and outside the house, so that Jia Min, who was already a little clumsy, could feel at ease. Raising a baby really made the wives and grandmas who are close to her envious. They sighed that Mrs. Lin's nephew was more caring than other people's sons.

Because Jia Min is about to give birth, the Lin family is more cautious than before, and Jia Lian can't sleep without looking at his aunt Jia Min.

During the half a year he lived in the Lin family, not less than [-] well-known and experienced nuns were invited into the mansion under various guises, but none of them saw anything inappropriate about Jia Min's pregnancy. It inevitably made Jia Lian even more worried, always wondering if something went wrong during the labor.

Until the day before the Huachao Festival, everything inside and outside Lin's residence was peaceful, but Jia Lian was so anxious that he could hardly sleep at night, and the four big girls in the yard were also so startled by his disturbance that they dared not close their eyes.

As a result, just after Yin time, the lights in the main courtyard were brightly lit, and girls and women came and went in a hurry but not chaotically. Jia Lian, who was just dozing, almost jumped off the bed when he heard the slightest sound, and put on a big cloak indiscriminately. Wearing soft shoes, they went out, and Hongxiang and the two had no choice but to lead the two little girls to catch up with the lights, holding hair crowns, boots, cotton clothes and other things.

When Jia Lian arrived, Jia Min had already been helped into the delivery room that had been prepared before, while Lin Hai was pacing back and forth in the yard wearing a crane cloak. When he saw Jia Lian coming, he just raised his eyelids and continued to stare at the delivery room that Jia Min gave birth to. The wing room was in a trance.

Nanny Zhang originally hoped that Jia Lian could persuade Lin Hai to have a cup of tea in the room to warm up, but she saw that Jia Lian was either staring in the direction of the delivery room, or staring sullenly at the mother-in-law walking back and forth in the yard. The girl can only rest this thought, let the two masters enjoy the wind in the yard, and go to the delivery room to stare.

Fortunately, Jia Min's birth went very smoothly.Not long after Chenshi arrived, Lin Hai and Jia Lian, who were standing frozen in the yard, heard Jia Min's cries of pain in the delivery room stop suddenly, followed by a baby crying.

Just at this time, the warm morning sun in early spring reflected on the doors and windows of the main courtyard, and all kinds of flowers planted in the entire Lin Mansion also bloomed.Amidst the bursts of scent of flowers, Mammy Zhang lifted the curtain happily and announced the good news loudly: "Congratulations to the master, congratulations to the master, the wife, mother and daughter are safe, the eldest girl weighs 5 catties!"

As soon as Nanny Zhang said this, Lin Hai and Jia Lian breathed a sigh of relief almost at the same time. They were full of words and wanted to talk to others, so they looked at each other involuntarily, and then suddenly froze together.

Only then did Lin Hai see that Jia Lian's hair was disheveled, not to mention the small crown, even the ribbon tied with the braid was missing, and it seemed that he didn't even wear an outer robe inside the wrapped cloak, and he was wearing a pair of soft shoes on his bare feet. The insteps were so cold that they turned purple.

It was also the first time for Jia Lian to see Lin Haiguan's crooked clothes, the belt of his outer robe was tied wrongly, and a pair of boots were worn backwards...

The two were silent for a moment, then Youzhi turned their eyes away together, said a few words to Jia Min through the window, and looked at the newborn girl with Zhang Nanny's hand.

Lin Hai originally wrote a book of baby names for the upcoming children when he learned that Jia Min was pregnant. All of them were elegant and decent, but he forgot all of them the moment he saw his daughter's immature face.

Seeing her daughter's black eyebrows and smooth complexion as soon as she was born, the word "Daiyu" suddenly appeared in Lin Hai's heart. After reading it silently for a few times, she loved it even more. She also said that she knew Jia Min, and the couple decided on the baby's baby name on the spot. , called Daiyu.

Lin Hai and his wife were busy rejoicing, while Jia Lian was busy observing Sister Lin's complexion. Seeing that she really gave birth to Yuxue, she was cute and healthy, and half of the huge stone in her heart finally disappeared.

It's a pity that Jia Lian will take the luggage that the Lin family packed for him to Jinling to catch the exam before Daiyu can wash his hands.