[Comprehensive wear] You will get used to it

Shui Chen stroked the qin with his eyes closed, and suddenly heard the faint sound of the flute from outside the boat in harmony with his qin, Shui Chen paused for a moment, listened carefully, and continued to stroke his lips Qin said to Wu Fu who was standing behind him, "Go and see who is playing the flute."

Wu Fu quickly left the cabin, ran to the Lin family's boat to inquire about it, and when he came back, he leaned into Shui Chen's ear and said, "If you come back, it's the young master of the Lin family who is playing the flute."

"Lin Qiuyu!" Shui Shen whispered. In fact, he had already guessed in his heart that the little girl of the Lin family told them just now that Lin Daiyu got angry with Lin Qiuyu to avoid suspicion. When a man blows the flute.

"Wufu, what do you think of Lin Qiuyu?"

Wufu shook his head, and replied: "The servant can't see through. Although the young master Lin behaved ordinary, he couldn't hide his demeanor. To put it bluntly, young master Lin didn't look like that fake Lin Ruhai. The son of a high-spirited scholar is more like a child from a wealthy family in Beijing."

"You think so too?" Shui Chen said: "Every time I see him, I feel very weird. I have seen that old man Lin Ruhai several times. This Lin Qiuyu's appearance really doesn't seem like something he can teach, and these times From the point of view of Japanese contact, the behavior is very different from what Qinglan said before, which is very strange."

Wu Fu frowned and asked, "You mean, is there anything weird here?"

"When you get to the town, you send someone back to Yangzhou to investigate this Lin Qiuyu. I'm afraid Father's body won't last long, and he's probably starting to worry, otherwise he wouldn't have sent me to Jiangnan in a hurry this time to investigate. The matter of the Zhen family is just to arouse the dissatisfaction of those old officials with me and my second brother. In order to protect the crown prince from ascending the throne, and to maintain loyalty and safety, the father may ask Lin Ruhai to help him with some tricks."

"Is the servant trying to persuade Master Yao to stay away from Young Master Lin?"

"No need for now, let's find out later. And if he really approached us with a purpose, we can see what he wants to do."

A piece of music was over, and the boat was about to sail to the pier of the small town. Yao Qinglan knew from Wu Fu that it was Yang Yi who played the flute, so she knew that he was in a good mood, and sent a servant to invite Yang Yi to the place he said. Yang Yi did not refuse to eat at that restaurant this time.They have been driving non-stop on the water for several days. This time, they were going to stop in a small town for a while to buy some food and supplies. Yang Yi wanted to get off the boat and take a walk to relieve boredom. Now someone invited him to dinner , why not do it, but also save a meal money.

It's not that Yang Yi is greedy for cheap, it's that he doesn't have much money on the surface, which always makes him feel that he has no confidence in a place where only money is in the eyes of the Jia family, so now food and clothing can be saved as much as possible.

In fact, the shop that Yang Yi opened in Yangzhou has a very good business, but even though this wealthy family has some shops, the children of the aristocratic family are not allowed to do business, especially in a scholarly family like the Lin family. .So Yang Yi didn't dare to publicize it, and the shop was only a small business of buying, selling and eating, and his monthly income was only a dozen taels of silver, and he earned less than 100 taels in the past six months. 100 taels is really not enough.

After the boat arrived at the shore, Shui Shen and Yao Qinglan invited Yang Yi, and the three of them went to the restaurant Yao Qinglan mentioned.This restaurant is nothing more than an ordinary two-story building in the old days, but the lobby and the second floor are full of guests.

"It's a bit of a coincidence that we came here, it happened to be the time when there are the most people." Yao Qinglan said, waving her hand to call Xiaoer over, and asked him if there was any room near the river.

"The three masters are lucky. A few guests just left after eating, and a room is vacant. The younger ones will lead the way for the three masters."

Xiao Er enthusiastically led the way, and the three of them followed up to the second floor.The vacant box was at the end of the corridor. They walked all the way in, and when they were about to arrive, they heard a man's drunken voice from a box with the door not closed tightly; "...several brothers want to ask to marry a rich man I have found the right person for her maid. I, Leng Zixing, have no other abilities. This matter will definitely make everyone happy. The maids in the Rongguo Mansion, not to mention the first-class maids, are just the second and third Waiting to serve the master in the house, which is not a sign of being first-class. This year, there are quite a few girls who are going to be released or matched with servants when they reach the age. You can tell me the appearance or character you like, and I will help you later. You find what you are satisfied with."

"Can second- and third-class girls be released as a match?" someone asked.

"That's right, there are three to four hundred girls in the Rongguo Mansion, and there are more than a dozen of them who reach the age of one year. If the master doesn't keep them and doesn't match them with people in the house, it doesn't matter what kind of girl you are. Even the first-class ones were released without the slightest hesitation. How can the mansion support idlers? A few years ago, there was a girl named Meiren next to the second master Bao in the mansion, but she made a little mistake. If you let it out, you will let it out. Such a person is well raised in the mansion, no worse than those young ladies from rich families outside. I heard that after going out, she married a scholar and became a lady. Maybe she can earn a fortune in the future! "Leng Zixing said triumphantly.

"Then we will all be entrusted to Zixing." The rest of the people said again and again.

Another person asked: "I heard that Xue Pan, who beat and killed a person just because of a girl, is also living in the Rongguo Mansion, isn't it?"

"That's right. She said she brought her younger sister to the draft, but she has been there for two or three years. She has no intention of drafting at all, but she gets along well with Second Master Bao. Everyone in the house says that she will be the future treasure." Where's Second Grandma!" Leng Zixing said.

"I was lucky enough to meet that girl before. She is really more beautiful than Concubine Yang. She is not bad to be the second mistress of the Rongguo Mansion," said the man.

Another person said: "How did I hear that the girl from Lin Ruhai's family was in love with Second Master Bao? When Second Master Bao used to go out for dinners, he often said that Sister Lin was his favorite. Since then When a Miss Lin lives in Rongguo Mansion, he will be full of Miss Lin."

Leng Zixing laughed loudly after hearing this: "That's right, Second Master Bao is really nice to Miss Lin, but there are so many girls that Second Master Bao is full of. I have already taken a share, and there is Miss Bao from the Xue family, Second Master Bao is shouting all day long, Sister Bao, Sister Bao!"

"It turned out that there were two girls fighting for one. Second Master Bao is really lucky. Why don't E Huang Nvying come to hug her from left to right?"

Until Yang Yi entered the box, after the door was closed, Leng Zixing and the men in the box could still be heard laughing.The three asked Xiao Er to serve the best food here, and Xiao Er left.

Yao Qinglan walked around in the box, feeling that she brought Yang Yi here and caused him to hear such nonsense, so she felt very sorry, so she made a gesture to find Leng Zixing and the others, "I want to see if this Leng Zixing is How can anyone dare to say such things that damage the girl's reputation."

"Don't go. How can you explain this kind of thing clearly? When they say this, others will only think they are talking about men's nonsense. If we really make trouble, others will believe it." Yang Yi stopped Yao Qinglan's clothes, Yao Qinglan didn't really want to find Leng Zixing and others, so she sat down after being pulled.

Shui Shen poured a glass of water, took a sip, and said, "Brother Lin, do you want to rectify it secretly, can I lend you a few hands?"

Yang Yi shook his head, "Don't bother, I can shut up this Leng Zixing's mouth, I can't shut up the mouths of thousands of servants in Jia's mansion, and I can't shut up the mouths of many people in this world."

"That's true. None of the servants in Jia's mansion are qualified. The masters are always talking about things, and they are almost becoming a joke in Jinling City. But they don't realize it. It’s really a mess. I advise you to be more careful when you enter Jia’s mansion, otherwise, if you do anything wrong, everyone in Jinling will know it within a few days.” Yao Qinglan said.

Yang Yi didn't respond to his words, but just took a sip of his wine and smiled.

After the food and wine were served, everyone stopped talking about those troublesome things, and just picked up the funny jokes. After a few glasses of wine, the three of them talked a little more intimately, and finally began to call their names directly.

After another five days, the boat finally arrived at Jinling City.As soon as he arrived at the pier, Yang Yi saw from the window two rows of chariots and horses standing on the bank.In the front row, an old man with the appearance of a butler and twenty or thirty servants were standing upright with eight sedan chairs and two large carriages.The other row was led by a handsome man in a royal blue brocade robe, followed by seven or eight women and more than a dozen servants, all standing with their backs arched and talking and laughing softly. A sedan chair and three bare carriages.

Yang Yi guessed that the man in the blue dress was Jia Lian, and Jia Lian was the only master in Jia's family who would do this kind of stewardship.Sure enough, when Yang Yi and Lin Daiyu got ashore, the man came over to talk to Lin Daiyu, and asked Yang Yi to call him Lian's second brother.

"Sister Lin and Brother Lin get on the sedan chair first and wait. The butler of the Zhongqing Wang Family is also here to pick us up with us today. We have to wait for them to leave before we can leave," Jia Lian said.

"King Zhongqing?"

"Brother Lin probably doesn't know that this King Zhongqing is the third prince of today. He has a very surly temper and hates others not to behave in front of him. Most people in Jinling City dare not offend him, otherwise he will get angry He didn't care about other people's decency, I don't know how many high-ranking officials here have lost face in front of him." Jia Lian said.

Shui Chen turned out to be a prince, which was somewhat beyond Yang Yi's estimation, he thought that Shui Chen was at most a lord or something.However, with Shui Shen's personality, it is better to say that he has a high vision than a surly personality, and looks down on most people. Otherwise, how could a person like Yao Qinglan who has always been unruly be dangling in front of Shui Shen all the time!

Yang Yi and Lin Daiyu got into the sedan chair and waited for the water to sink before they left for Ningrong Street. The sedan chair wobbled for about half an hour and finally saw two big stone lions appearing on the street. Knowing that these are the only clean two stone lions in Rongguo Mansion.

The sedan chair passed the front gate steadily, entered the small corner gate on the west, passed through the long corridor, and stopped after turning a corner. The women hurriedly helped Yang Yi and Lin Daiyu get off the sedan chair.Jia Lian jumped down from the horse, handed the reins to the boys beside him, walked up to them and said, "I have something else to do, so I won't accompany you in. Say hello to the old lady for me."

"Second brother Lian, since you have something to do, let's go first, we will help you to greet the old lady." Lin Daiyu smiled and said, she had been losing her temper a few days ago because of the quarrel with Yang Yi, but now she is in Jia's house. Happy again.

"Go, I'm leaving. It's almost time for dinner, don't delay." Jia Lian waved his hand and said.

Yang Yi and Lin Daiyu got into two small sedan chairs under the leadership of several women, and after walking for a while, they arrived at the main house where Jiamu lived.When Yang Yi got off the sedan chair, he saw houses all around were decorated with carved beams and painted buildings, and a row of bird cages hung on the veranda, filled with precious and beautiful birds.Two maids in water-red jackets stood at the door, one of them greeted them with a smile, the other raised the curtain and shouted to the people in the room: "Miss Lin and Uncle Lin are here, hurry up and tell the old lady. "

"Miss Lin, you are back. Second Master Bao is looking forward to your coming every day. He has already run out several times this morning." The girl who ran over to greet them said with a smile.

Lin Daiyu smiled, took the girl's hand and said: "Sister Glass, why are you and Sister Fei Cui standing outside? In such a cold day, let those thick women stand outside, be careful not to freeze your body. "

"It's not that Baoyu came out to look for you in a hurry, and couldn't sit still for a moment, so the old lady sent us out to watch. But today's weather is good, and it's not cold to stand outside in the sun." Glass said with a smile, But his eyes kept looking at Yang Yi.

Yang Yi made up his mind to play the role of a shy and gentle child from the moment he entered the gate of Jia's mansion, so that he wouldn't shrink back, but he certainly didn't look threatening.This would reduce the defenses of other people in Jia's mansion, and try to please Jia Baoyu as much as possible. If he remembered correctly, that Qin Zhong was of this type.

At this moment, Glass looked at him, and Yang Yi smiled shyly at him, and called out Glass Sister.

Glass dragged them into the house, and said: "Just now, Fei Cui and I were thinking about what Uncle Lin would look like, but now I see that he is really a good character, not much worse than Bao Yu. "

"How can he compare with Baoyu? He's just a kid who knows how to play. Let's go in quickly, I'm afraid our ancestors will have to wait." Lin Daiyu said from the side.

At this time, a young man in red brocade fur hurried out surrounded by a few maids. When he saw Lin Daiyu, he held Lin Daiyu's hand with a smile on his eyes and said, "Sister Lin, you are back. How can you return these days?" Okay, do you miss us?"