[Red Mansions] Lin's first genius doctor

After sitting in the inner room of the Shantang and talking for a while, Princess Shao went back in the carriage first: "You sisters just stay here for a while." Then she smiled at Daiyu: "Isn't it quieter here than at home?"

Daiyu also nodded with a smile, and sent Princess Shao out with Lin Jiang.

In the twelfth lunar month, the Prince Shao's mansion is full of visitors every day. Some of the royal family are visiting relatives, and some are related to each other. They always take advantage of the New Year to talk.

Coincidentally, as soon as I watched Princess Shao's carriage leave the alley, I saw Rongguo Mansion's carriage coming.Daiyu said to Lin Jiang: "My aunt didn't just talk about it that day, but she really helped a lot these days."

The two stood still, waiting for Mrs. Ying Xing to enter the door together. Mrs. Xing was obviously familiar with the way, and once she came in, she asked, "I heard that you picked up an older child from the road?"

Lin Jiang and Mrs. Xing went to see the girl who was washing vegetables in the yard, and they happened to see if she had any ailments that needed to be treated.

Walking over to take a look, I saw that although the little girl was born thin and bony, with some bruises on her face, but now she has put on clean clothes, her eyebrows and eyes are pretty and delicate, even under her right eye Mole with a little carmine.

Rouge mole, Lin Jiang always felt like he had forgotten something.

It was Mrs. Xing who came over, and seeing Lin Jiang looking at the little girl's face, she said, "Mrs. Xue has a little girl who also has a rouge mole between her eyebrows. It is said that she was also abducted by those goddamn kidnappers, because she gave birth to her." Alright, I was spotted by the stalker."

Mrs. Xing pointed at the little girl and said, "I think it was because she was dirty and her face was so ugly after being beaten, otherwise she would have been taken away by kidnappers. Amitabha is also a blessing in disguise."

Lin Jiang suddenly remembered: Yes, Xiangling.

Besides, since Xue's family entered Beijing, Lin's family, especially Lin Changzhou's side, and Xue's family have gone from unfamiliarity to hostility, and there has never been harmony.

A sociable person like Xue Baochai only came to attack her twice in total, and they both came back unsuccessfully.

So Lin Jiang had never seen Xiang Ling with his own eyes.

Now this rouge mole reminded her.Maybe she doesn't know the family and roots of the trafficked girl next to her, but she knows about Xiangling.

She couldn't help feeling annoyed for a moment. After all, she wasn't very familiar with the girls in the book, and she just hoped that it would be too late.

After all, if Xue Pan had already married that Xia Jingui, it would be like putting a Hades on Xiangling's head.

It's just that suddenly, how could she go to the Xue family to ask for someone?

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After going to the Baby Girl Shantang, Lin Jiang added something to his mind.After Wei Ren returned home, he asked her as soon as he saw her: "Is something wrong at home? Why are you so worried?"

Lin Jiang glanced at him and couldn't help laughing, "You know again."

Wei Ren nodded: Anyway, he could tell at a glance.

Lin Jiang rested his chin and said, "I just want to ask you, do you know Jia Yucun?"

Speaking of Jia Yucun, Lin Jiang met once when Lin Jiang first entered the Lin family.At that time, Lin Ruhai was suffering from some illnesses, and he was struggling to support his official duties. He didn't have the heart to teach his daughter homework, so he invited such a Jinshi to teach his daughter studies.

But with Lin Jiang's visit, Lin Ruhai recovered, and he refused to send Daiyu to the capital to be educated by the Rongguo Mansion. Jia Yucun, who wanted to go to Beijing to find a way out, couldn't stay at the Lin's house anymore, so he bid farewell and left.

It can be said that he only stayed in the Lin family for half a year.

Lin Jiang thought, Jia Yucun is the only one who knows Xiangling's origin and her parents.Even Lin Jiang had only read it in books, and only remembered that Xiangling's father was a country gentleman named Zhen Shiyin. After his daughter was gone, he seemed to have become a monk with a monk, and there was nowhere to look for her.

I really want to find Xiangling's mother who doesn't know if she is still alive, so I have to rely on Jia Yucun.

And even if he wanted to find Xiangling's mother, he still had to think about how to get the contract of sale from the Xue family first.

Wei Ren was surprised when Lin Jiang asked about Jia Yucun: "Of course I know this person. Before the Beijing camp, Shuntian Fu Yin, as the person recommended by Wang Ziteng, followed me many times to impeach me - that is Jia Yucun. .”

Shuntian Prefecture is the land of Gyeonggi, and being the governor of this place is not comparable to the governors of other provinces.

Wei Ren continued: "He was also an official in the Ministry of War before. Later, Wang Ziteng helped him and wrote a letter to the Supreme Emperor. That's why he became the governor of Shuntian Prefecture. Of course, he must reciprocate."

Lin Jiang was speechless: "It turned out to be him."

When talking about officials in the court, they always use their official names, so that Lin Jiang has never been able to match the names.

"Then now, where is Jia Yucun?"

Wei Ren thought for a while: "Since this incident, he has been cut from his official position and has become white. It is said that his ancestral home is in the south of the Yangtze River. I don't know if he is living in the capital now. Looking for a way to recover, or go back to his original place. gone."

Lin Jiang asked him: "Can you help me find him?"

Wei Ren didn't ask any more questions, he just responded and told her if he found it.

Speaking of Jia Yucun, Lin Jiang simply asked another person she was impressed with: "Do you know Sun Shaozu?"

Sun Shaozu, the legendary Zhongshan wolf.

To say that in the Red Mansion, the vast majority of men are not worthy of the word, but Sun Shaozu is not worthy of using these two words.

He is a beast.

It really is "Zhongshan wolf, ruthless beast". Poor Yingchun is such a weak and harmless princess, she was abused to death within a year after she came to his house.

Lin Jiang felt that the eldest prince and him should have a common language.

And even the eldest prince is stronger than him, so he won't beat and kick his wife and concubines every day.

Lin Jiang just wanted to know where this person is now.

Wei Ren handed the teacup to her: "You don't need to go out to inquire about this, I know now - he lives in the prison of the Ministry of Criminal Justice. In the case of corruption in the Beijing camp, he used to be a chief of the Armory Division of the Ministry of War, and he had many contacts with the Beijing camp. People colluded with each other, and even secretly sold imperial weapons."

Wei Ren has a very good memory in this regard, and he clearly remembers the crimes of the people involved in this case - and this case is also closely related to him.

Even if there is a stern and selfless person like Cai Shilang in the Ministry of Punishment, Wei Ren himself has to stare at each criminal to obey the law, so that he will not be ambushed and killed once in vain.

Hearing his wife's question at this moment, Wei Ren doesn't even need to check the files, but he has counted Sun Shaozu's crimes, even if he is not the first criminal: "Then Sun Shaozu's official position is low, and it has not yet been thoroughly tried and dealt with. Now that it is the twelfth lunar month, it is estimated that he will not be ranked this year, so he will have to be sentenced next year—it should be a crime of exile, ranging from one thousand miles to three thousand miles, it just depends on what other minor crimes he has committed , and whether there will be some other small fish and shrimps to take the blame."

Lin Jiang was very happy to hear that.

Oh, exile, that's just right, to live up to his name of Zhongshan wolf, wolf, should return to nature, go to the quarry three thousand miles away to dig stones with bare hands to contribute to the country's stone accumulation.

However, Wei Ren's prediction was still a little wrong.

He misjudged Mr. Cai's enthusiasm for work.

Although the old Shangshu of the Ministry of Criminal Justice was thinking that it would be fine to finish the trial of the major criminals in the "Beijing Camp Corruption Case" years ago, and save those small shrimps for another year - so that the Ministry of Criminal Justice could save a little bit of this year's case files before the year. Less work.

However, Cai Shilang felt that if half of the culprits were still suppressed without trial, even if they were minor accomplices, he would be ashamed to receive the country's year-end award!

So I applied with the old Shangshu, and I was going to work overtime to review the next batch.

The old Shangshu is over seventy years old, and he thinks about becoming an official every day. He can also see that the emperor admires Cai Shilang very much, but he is only in his early forties, and his qualifications are a bit shallow. The emperor can't promote too much, so he keeps Just take a place for him.

At this time, seeing that Cai Shilang wanted to expedite the trial, he thought that the emperor had something to tell Cai Shilang, so he had no choice but to agree.

In fact, it's just that Cai Shilang himself loves work, and plans to send these people who should go on the road years ago, and also supplement the human resources in the exile.

So Sun Shaozu was tried in advance.

It seems to be a predestined relationship, Sun Shaozu in the hall, in order to save himself from being exiled for a few miles, he started to chat, and offered a lot of friends who had been with him.

He even bit out Jia Amnesty.

Of course, Jia She was not the one who colluded with him in the Ministry of War. After all, everyone knew that Jia She, a first-rank general who had attacked the rank, had a false position and never went to work. Colluded.

However, Sun Shaozu's talk about Jia She was in the mentality of pulling the next one down. He only insisted that Jia She had lent him 5000 taels of silver before, and for this reason he introduced him to Jia Daishan's old acquaintance in the Beijing camp.And the Jia family and Wang Ziteng are relatives, I'm afraid Rongguo Mansion is not clean!

Not only that, but he also said something in the hall. After Jia She borrowed the money, he also said that he could promise his daughter to him in the future.

Cai Shilang interrupted on the spot and stuffed cloth into Sun Shaozu's mouth when the matter involved the reputation of the young lady of the Duke's family.

It's just that this kind of gossip was ignored by the criminal court, but he claimed that Jia Amnesty was also related to the corruption case in the Beijing camp, but Cai Shilang had to ask, so he sent an official to Jia's house to explain the matter.

However, the previous evidence and accounts did not show that Jia Amnesty had anything to do with this matter, so Cai Shilang did not ask anyone to summon Jia Amnesty for interrogation, but just handed over the official official post of the Ministry of Criminal Justice, asking General Jia to come to the Ministry of Criminal Justice to explain the matter. .

But even so, the entire Rongguo Mansion was scared to death.

In the past, the Rongguo Mansion would have felt that 'it's okay to sue them for treason' because of their status and status, but with the collapse of the Ningguo Mansion and the complete defeat of the Wang family, the Rongguo Mansion had long been scared out of their wits, and it would not be an exaggeration to say that there was a lot of panic.

Especially Jia She, almost lost his temper when he heard the news.

Isn't this all over?Why is there still something about him!As God can testify, he doesn't even know where the door of the Ministry of War opens.All the people in the military department I knew were met at the wine table, and they had absolutely no business dealings except drinking.

So Jia Amnesty panicked and sent Jia Lian to immediately go to Lin Ruhai's door for help.

Lin Ruhai was also surprised when he heard about this.However, the case handled by the Criminal Department is a major case involving court officials, and the other five departments have always avoided it.So Lin Ruhai sent someone to Wei's house that night to ask whether the Rongguo Mansion was involved in the matter of the Beijing camp, no one knew better than Wei Ren.

After getting the news from Wei Ren that Sun Shaozu was just jumping over the wall and biting wildly, Lin Ruhai didn't rest at noon the next day, but went to Jia's house in person to comfort Jia She.

Sure enough, the eldest brother Jia Amnesty has become a frightened bird.Seeing him was like seeing a Bodhisattva descending to earth, and greeted him directly from the gate of Rongxi Hall, with a faint light in his eyes: "Brother-in-law..." Jia Lian had to follow and support her, fearing that her father would fall.

Seeing this, Lin Ruhai didn't say any more polite words, and comforted him: "Don't worry, brother, there is nothing wrong with the family, it's just that the official surnamed Sun bit him randomly. Brother, I found a time these two days to bring Lian'er went to the criminal department to explain it clearly. Cai Shilang of the criminal department is very clear in judging cases, so he will not wrong my uncle."

After he said these words, Jia Amnesty's heart sank in his stomach, and then his head and feet hurt and he felt uncomfortable.

Lin Ruhai knew that he was frightened before, but now he was relieved suddenly and remembered the pain, so he asked Jia Lian to help Jia Amnesty to rest, and then he went to tell Jia Mu about it again.

Jia Amnesty nodded again and again, immediately went back to lie down, and did not follow to greet Jiamu.

When he arrived at Jiamu's place, Lin Ruhai found out that Jia Amnesty didn't have a headache and feet, but hid himself from seeing Jiamu: Besides, Jia Amnesty did borrow 5000 taels of silver from Sun Shaozu, and he also said something nonsense after drinking. You are not bad, you are young and promising, how about promising your daughter to you? 'In this case.

The people from the Ministry of Punishment said what Sun Shaozu said that day. After hearing this, Jia's mother was worried and angry at the same time.

Now there is no grand view garden, and there are no girls of all colors around Jia Mu. The girls in the family, Yuan Chun, worry about life-long affairs and stay by Wang's side; Tan Chun helps Sister Feng's housekeeper; Mother Jia felt the warmth of welcoming the spring in a gentle and gentle way.

Of course, I also found that Yingchun's cowardice and meekness are easy to be bullied.

He was thinking about arranging a suitable marriage for his granddaughter in the future, but Jia Amnesty almost wanted to give up his daughter for 5000 taels of silver.

In the past two days, Mother Jia was worried that Jia Amnesty would have an accident in the mansion, and she was worried and angry. Now that Lin Ruhai brought the news that the Jia family was fine, Mother Jia just concentrated on being angry.

First, she sent Lin Ruhai away in a good way, and then regardless of what Mrs. Xing said, "Jia Amnesty's heart hurts, and she has already fallen asleep." Jia's mother was going to see Jia Amnesty immediately, and said sternly: "His heart hurts? My heart hurts." , tell him to come over, if he is one step too late, he will have to end it with me!"

This is too serious, Mrs. Xing dare not persuade at all, of course she does not want to persuade, she still wants to see Jia Mu beat Jia Amnesty, so she hurried back to spread the word.

Jia Amnesty had no choice but to bite the bullet and come.

As soon as he arrived, he found that Jia Zheng was also there, and in an instant, Jia Amnesty's radar rang: Could it be that Jia's mother was angry that she had made a mistake, and she wanted Jia Zheng to live in Rongxi Hall again, that would be impossible!Jia Amnesty decided to kill him and not move.

Fortunately, Mother Jia didn't mean that. She called both brothers here for one thing: "Although the daughter belongs to you, I shouldn't care about it. It's just that I can see you taking children. In the future, the marriage of these children , or let me call the shots.”

Now that there is no virtuous concubine in the palace, and Wang Ziteng is in decline, Mother Jia can be said to be everything in Rongguo Mansion.

Jia Zheng had no intention of objecting. He was a self-proclaimed extremely filial person and had always agreed with Jia's mother's arrangement of Baoyu's marriage. Seeing that Mrs. Wang couldn't even arrange for Yuan Chun, her own daughter, to come, she was very dissatisfied.

When Jia Amnesty saw this was the case, she quickly responded, and Mother Jia gouged out his eyes again and said, "Let me know again, I won't obey you if you pay your daughter for silver! If you can’t give it, you can marry it yourself!”

Mrs. Xing, who was standing next to her with low eyebrows, couldn't help but laugh out loud.

Jia She gave her a embarrassed look, and had no choice but to respond.

These wonderful remarks were also shared by Mrs. Xing with Daiyu and Lin Jiang.

After Lin Jiang heard this, she also felt that this was a very good remark. Moreover, if Jia's mother decides the marriage of several girls, even if everything does not go well, at least it will not be so absurd.

After seeing off Mrs. Xing, who came to gossip about Jia Amnesty, Daiyu asked Lin Jiang again: "My sister specially asked me to come here today, why?"

Lin Jiang said: "My sister still remembers Jia Yucun who was your teacher for half a year."

Daiyu nodded, and Lin Jiang explained how Jia Yucun clinged to Jia's family and became an official, and how he ignored the daughter of his former benefactor. He clearly recognized Xiangling as Zhen Shiyin's daughter, but he still ignored her and let her be taken care of by Xue's family. I have talked about things like going to a concubine's room.

Daiyu frowned when she heard this, feeling very sad for Xiangling.

Unlike when Lin Jiang lived in Jia's house, he also entered the palace on a regular basis, had little contact with Jia's family members, and even never saw Xiangling face to face, Daiyu had seen Xiangling.

She liked Xiangling's appearance very much, and thought that it was pitiful for her to be Xue Pan's concubine, but she didn't want to have such a painful past behind her.

Daiyu and Lin Jiang soon thought of the same thing: Xiangling's deed of prostitution was in the hands of Xue's family, so she found her biological mother, so what if Xue's family refused to let her go.

Lin Jiang smiled: "I was thinking, please ask my sister to go back and see Shi Taijun. For the Xue family now, Shi Taijun's words are really good, much more useful than us."

After all, Xue Baochai didn't want to marry them.

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Besides, it's the twelfth lunar month of the year again, and the Royal Merchants' House in Beijing is going to take stock of the accounts for the year.

The Xue family is no exception.

Just counting the bills brought in from outside, Aunt Xue couldn't help sighing.

"This year's business is not as good as in previous years. Your brother only said that he would go to the south to do business. After several months of tossing around, he didn't expect him to make money, but he lost a lot of money. I don't know. Did he spill the money, or was it tricked by those people."

Xue Baochai had no choice but to persuade: "Mother just thinks that if my brother is in Beijing, drinking and having fun with those young masters will cost ten times more money."

Aunt Xue nodded: yes.

I can only think of it this way, since they are all losing money anyway, it would be better to choose one with less loss, and Xue Pan was not at home a few months ago, so he was quite clean.

Xue Baochai continued to persuade: "What's more, my mother has arranged a marriage for my brother. When my sister-in-law passes through the door, I will be able to persuade my brother."

Aunt Xue smiled wryly and said, "I'm just looking forward to it. I also thought about it. When I have a wife and children, maybe I will know how to make progress."

He couldn't help thinking that Xiangling had been with Xue Pan for several years, and there was no decent grandma on top, so don't have other thoughts about wanting a concubine to surpass his wife, and teach Xiangling a thing or two later.

When talking about her son's marriage, Aunt Xue couldn't help but look at Baochai, and then sighed.

A few days ago, the elder of the Rongguo Mansion did not know what to do, so that the old lady in the mansion said that she would personally manage the marriage of her grandchildren in the future.

From the Xue family's point of view, this is because the drunken man's intention is not to drink.

Jia's mother just pinched Jia Baoyu and refused to marry the Xue family.

The day before yesterday, Aunt Xue went to visit Jia Mu, and Jia Mu specifically mentioned that Xue Pan didn't get engaged until he was in his 20s. As expected, Aunt Xue loved her son so much, so she chose her daughter-in-law carefully.And Baoyu was destined not to marry early, and he would have to hire a good wife for him in the future.

Speaking of this, Jia's mother asked Aunt Xue kindly, "It's just that girls are no more difficult than men. Your Baochai is such a good child, why don't you talk about kissing?"

At that time, Aunt Xue only felt that she was rushing upwards, and she wished to reply to Jia's mother: "Why didn't Baochai say goodbye? Don't your family know?" ?

Just thinking about the disappearing Wang family, Aunt Xue was discouraged again.

What would Baochai do if he left Rongguo Mansion at this moment?Xue Pan is the eldest son of the eldest son of Xue's family. In terms of marriage, he can only marry a daughter of an imperial merchant whose father died early and whose family only has sweet-scented osmanthus business. She doesn't even think about being a decent official lady.

What can Baochai do?

It wasn't that the Xue family insisted on hanging on Jia Baoyu's tree, but that apart from Jia's family, they were crooked-neck trees that their mother and daughter really looked down upon.

In terms of family background and young master's appearance and personal qualities, Jia Baoyu is really the pinnacle that the Xue family can see.

The mother and daughter were worrying about each other, when they suddenly saw the mandarin ducks approaching to greet each other, it surprised Aunt Xue, mother and daughter.

Yuanyang is Jiamu's first confidant maid, and she seldom visited this Lixiangyuan in the past.Aunt Xue put away the melancholy just now and asked people to serve new tea with a smile.

Yuanyang stood in the hall and said with a smile: "The old lady asked my aunt and Miss Bao to go over and talk." After a pause, he said: "Mrs. Shizi came to visit today. The old lady said that there are more people."

Aunt Xue hurriedly said: "Mrs. Shizi is a new wife, so it's rare for her to come to her house. Since that's the case, let's pack up and go talk."

Baochai was a little surprised: the relationship between her and Daiyu could not be described as mediocre, it could be said to be weak, and Mother Jia always attached great importance to her granddaughter, so why did she invite them today.

But Baochai has always been a sociable person, so he went out with Aunt Xue.

Yuanyang was half a step behind, and when she went out, she saw Xiangling leaning against the door watching the little maids folding plum blossoms, so she called out, "My sister happened to come with me, the old lady said there is a shoe, please describe it." , saying that your hands are the most skillful."

When Xue's mother and daughter arrived at Rongqing Hall, they saw Mother Jia sitting on the couch with Daiyu, talking intimately, and the wrinkles on Mother Jia's face seemed to be smiling.

Baochai followed Aunt Xue to meet the wife of Shizi.

For Baochai, although she was envious, she didn't feel any humiliation for the girl who lived with Jia's mansion in the past to salute today.It is Baochai's specialty to see who and what to do, and he will not fluctuate for the sake of emotion.

Just like if Yuanchun was an imperial concubine, Baochai would come and kneel down to pay her respects seriously, and when she saw Daiyu, a concubine of the royal family, Baochai would follow the etiquette.

Jia Mu laughed and said, "Sit down quickly."

Before Aunt Xue took her seat, she saw a lady with a familiar face, but she couldn't remember it at the moment.