Daiyu of the Red Chamber raised a cat

Let’s talk about Li Zhao, the emperor who was far away in the capital, when he received the secret performance from Lin Ruhai, he twitched the corner of his mouth slightly, shook his head and said with a chuckle: "This Lin Ruhai..."

The great eunuch Wei Xing'an who came in with the tea saw that his master was in a good mood today, so he came up to put the teacup away, bowed and stepped aside, boldly said: "It's rare to see Lord Long live so happy, dare Master Lin say something in the memorial Can't it be a joke?"

"Bold!" Li Zhao raised his voice on purpose, with a straight face, full of sternness.

The eunuch hurriedly bowed his head to plead guilty.He is also clever, seeing that although Li Zhao's words were reproaches, the words he said were not angry, but rather teasing and cheerful. He also knew that Long Live Lord was in the right mood at the moment, and he was just making fun of himself in a different way. He was tall, but raised his face with a smile.

"The slave is convicted. It is because the slave has served the Lord Long Live for so many years without any credit or hard work. The Lord Long Live also pities the poor slave. It will not be too late to tell the slave Master Lin what kind of joke he said before punishing the slave. I'm so curious, I'm afraid I won't be able to eat or sleep."

Li Zhao closed the melody with a smile, tipped his toes, and tapped the eunuch's knee kneeling on the gold brick with his yellow cloud satin boots embroidered with dragon patterns, and said, "Get up, you have been with me for so many years, have you never heard of me?" Seeing that he is so calm, he is still so glib, it will not be a joke if it spreads out! What are you doing in a daze, why don't you sharpen your ink and look for a beating!"

Wei Xing'an agreed with a "yes", got up and rubbed the ink with a smile.

Li Zhao picked up the vermilion brush, frowned for a moment, and wrote a few lines with the brush.After putting down the imperial pen, he closed his eyes and thought for a while, then opened them for a long time, and said, "Wei Xing'an, Lin Ruhai's only daughter is born next month?"

Wei Xing'an saw that his master had dealt with the government affairs for most of the day, and he was a little tired. He knew how to go up to him and beat his back and squeezed his waist. That’s right, it’s the Twelve Flowers Festival next month.”

Li Zhao nodded, that's right, it was a coincidence that this girl from the Lin family was born on the day of Huachao Festival, otherwise he wouldn't remember it so clearly.

After Wei Xing'an finished speaking, he frowned, as if he was thinking about something, Li Zhao smiled, and said, "Siam paid a tribute to a night pearl the size of an egg. I remember that you put it away, and you can find it later. Go to my private treasury to find some unique items, pick some nice-colored silk, and send someone to Yangzhou as a birthday present for Lin Ruhai's daughter."

This Lin Ruhai was also too cautious, he accepted the congratulatory gifts for three festivals and two birthdays, so there was no need to specially write a gift list and send it to the court as a donation.Now the national treasury is short of money, but it doesn't mean that the Lin family's money is missing.Thinking that Lin Ruhai was originally a confidant of the emperor and ascended the throne by himself, he felt somewhat apprehensive, and it was in line with his nature to be more cautious.

Although he has never met Lin Ruhai's only daughter, Lin Daiyu, but according to the investigation these days, she is a wonderful girl with a beautiful personality, a beautiful heart, and a beautiful heart, and Lin Ruhai loves her very much.Rewarding this little girl can win her heart more than rewarding Lin Ruhai himself.

Wei Xing'an was secretly startled, it was a great honor for a boudoir girl to receive the birthday gift from the emperor.This Master Lin Ruhai is really capable, two generations of emperors have recommended him as a confidant, and try their best to win him over, which is beyond what ordinary people can do.It's really hard to find the second person, so they secretly thought that they should treat Mr. Lin well when they see him later.

Although his thoughts turned around a few times, Wei Xing'an did not dare to neglect His Majesty's instructions, and hurriedly bowed and said: "Long live Lord, don't worry, the slave will definitely do it properly, and Master Lin and Miss Lin can't help but feel grateful to the Holy Lord." Enhoude..."

After finishing speaking, he left in a hurry and went to do what Li Zhao ordered.

First find out the luminous pearl mentioned by His Majesty the Emperor, and then take a lot of pearls, gemstones, hairpins, cloth, etc., and see the snowflakes and foreign sugar from the new tribute. There were a few bottles left, so I picked a bottle and took it with me.

Although he didn't make it public that the Holy Majesty opened a private treasury to get things in order to reward Lin Ruhai's daughter's birthday gift, but any woman who can survive in the palace for a long time does not have a few brushes, and within a long time, several prominent and respectable concubines in the harem will be there. They all knew more or less what was going on, so they naturally had some plans in the dark.

Not to mention anything else, only Jia Baoyu's sister, Jia Yuanchun, who is now a female historian beside the queen mother, found out about this, and sent a letter to Jia Zheng using the Jia family's internal connections in the palace, telling Lin Uncle is extremely favored by saints. If you want the family to prosper, you must have close contact with Uncle Lin, and you must not slack off.At the end, I sighed again, it would be great if Sister Lin was still living in the mansion. Uncle Lin would take care of his family more or less for Sister Lin's sake.If she had Uncle Lin's help, she would have a better life in the palace.

Jia Zheng took the letter and looked at it, sighed silently, annoyed, and showed the letter to Jia Mu.

Jia's mother was also very annoyed, secretly hating that she should have put Daiyu back so easily.Thinking of this, I can't help but think of my eldest son, Jia She.If he hadn't been fanning the flames and fueling the flames, saying something and nothing, why would the dignified family of the Jia family dominate the niece and not allow anyone to go home to be filial and pass it on to make people laugh, she would not have agreed to let Daiyu so easily Walk.

The more Jia's mother thought about it, the angrier she became, and she became even more angry when she saw Jia Amnesty. If you look at it from the left, it's annoying, but from the right, you don't like it. Nose is not nose and eyes, not eyes.

Finally one day, Jia Amnesty came to greet Jia Mu, and asked Jia Mu to find an excuse to scold her.Jia Amnesty was impatient at first, and he was used to messing around with Tianhai outside. The corners of his mouth were very sharp. It happened that he was angry with Jia Zheng and Jia Zhen and others that day.

Mother Jia didn't take advantage of it, so she was so angry that she patted the table and asked Mrs. Xing to come over.Mrs. Xing had already received Jia Amnesty's order, and was bedridden at home unable to go out. Jia's mother angrily called Mrs. Wang to her, and scolded Mrs. Wang, who knelt on the ground and wept, daring to speak out.Wang felt that she had suffered for Mrs. Xing, and became more and more jealous of Mrs. Xing, Jia Min, Daiyu and others. She cursed thousands of times in her heart, gritted her teeth secretly, and decided to get it back ten times and a hundred times in the future.

Not to mention how annoyed Jia's mother was and how resentful Madam Wang was, this year's birthday gift from Jia's mansion to Lin Daiyu was quite a bit thicker than in previous years.

Jia Lian was detained by his father, Jia She, to study in the long house, but Wang Xifeng still lived in the Xiaobao mansion behind Jia's mother's courtyard in Rongguo Mansion.Jia Amnesty quarreled with Erfang and Jiamu, and Wang Xifeng was caught in the middle, and life was not easy.After several times of persuasion, Ping'er asked her to move to live with Jia Lian in the garden on the east side, which was justified.However, Wang Xifeng was not willing to give up the right to be the housekeeper of the Rongguo Mansion, and repeatedly evaded delays. Ping'er was so anxious that she had no choice but to say boldly:

"I used to be a grandma who was far-sighted, capable and bright. Who would have thought that grandma is now a fool! No matter how talented grandma is, no matter how highly respected she is by the old lady and the second wife, the old lady can't protect you for the rest of her life, right? After all, it depends on our master. Now that the master has moved to live with the old man, what will it look like for us to live in this mansion again, without being gossiped about. Besides, you are the eldest daughter-in-law. I don't want the old lady to like me. After all, he is the upright master of the noble. In the future, the grand master will go, and the title will fall on our master. If grandma doesn't say anything, be softer, live well with the master, and give birth to a little son. There will be a lot of things No, it’s okay to be busy in the second room during the day and night. The old lady and the second wife are like Baoyu’s eyeballs. How can this house full of things fall into our hands in the future?”

Wang Xifeng sighed.

"I don't know what you said. It's not that I am in charge of the monthly money of hundreds of people in this mansion. You also know that we have embezzled usury money in the past few years, and we have a lot of income every year. If you leave There are absolutely no such benefits in this mansion. Besides, although the two families do not live in the same house, the family has no division, and they both receive money from the office. It’s okay for me to take care of these things. If I don’t, our expenses here will still be I don’t know what it looks like to be deducted. Look at the eldest wife. Although the aunt did not explicitly deduct the deductions, every time the vegetables delivered are either wilted or short, and the furniture, tables and chairs are also not bright after being placed for a long time. Even the fabrics of the clothes are mostly of bad pattern or out of date."

Hearing the meaning of her words, Ping'er was reluctant to leave, and was very anxious for Wang Xifeng. A few times before when she went to the eldest room to see the second master, the attitude of the eldest wife and the elder was very bad, and she actually wanted to divorce Wang Xifeng .But Wang Xifeng relied on Jia's mother to dote on her, and her uncle Wang Ziteng was a high-ranking official, so he forgave Jia's family for not daring to offend the Wang family, so they didn't care about it.

But Ping'er could understand that the Elder Master was not joking this time, but Wang Xifeng was still hesitant, and Ping'er stamped anxiously: "Why doesn't Grandma understand? The Elder Master and Eldest Wife are already very upset. The second master also ignored the answer, thinking that he felt cold towards our master and servant. Grandma should make a quick decision, lest the second master be abducted by other vixen!"

"He dares!" Wang Xifeng stared, and said sharply: "What kind of vixen is she, dare to stretch out her claws in front of me, Wang Xifeng, and carefully look at her flesh!"

At that time, in Mrs. Xing's courtyard, Jia Amnesty was losing his temper with the housemaids.

I saw him holding a piece of beef with chopsticks, held it up to the wife in charge of the kitchen, and said: "Look, look, what kind of food are you cooking? Master, I'm old and I don't care about it. It's up to you guys." The slaves are bullying, using these rotten meals to fool me!"

The woman knelt on the ground and met each other like garlic, "Master, calm down, master, it's not a slave to fool the master. This beef was sent by Mr. Lai this morning. It was already rotten when it was delivered, but the master asked for it by name." If you eat beef, the servants can't..."

Jia She was furious, his teeth itching with hatred, his mind was full of Lai Da giving him rotten beef, the bastard slave Wang Bazi, who gave him such courage!

The furious Jia She immediately took people to the kitchen to check the ingredients, only to find that the fruits, vegetables, and all kinds of meat were all stale and stale.You don't need to think about it to know what's going on. He dared to offend the second room these days and took revenge.

Mrs. Xing took the opportunity to talk about the fact that Wang Xifeng has been in charge of the monthly money in recent years, and often delayed the payment or withheld it for usury.