[Red Mansions] Lord Hou's daily routine

After hearing Lin Jian's words, Xiao Chen laughed at Qian Ying: "No wonder the young master always says that you are not enlightened. The young master is a person with a rough heart. Naturally, he is far-sighted and considerate than you. Unlike you, you are not enlightened." People can only see the love between men and women."

Lin Jian laughed after hearing this: "Forget it. He was right. I also have feelings in my heart. It's just that I gave it all to Miss Lin."

Lin Jian chatted and joked with Qian Ying and Xiao Chen for a while, then wrote a post to Ying Tianyi and handed it to Xiao Chen, asking Xiao Chen to send the post to Ying's house tomorrow.After Xiao Chen put away the post, he left from Lin Jian's house.

The content written on the post was naturally asking Ying Tianyi to preface Lin Ruhai and Lin Daiyu's collection of essays and poems.Qian Ying asked Lin Jian why he didn't come to ask Ying Tianyi to make a preface.

Lin Jian watched Xiao Chen's back disappear at the door, and then turned his eyes to Qian Ying and said, "It stands to reason that I should really come to the door to invite me in person. But now that rumors about me are rampant outside, in order not to implicate Mr. Ying, I still write Please be more careful with this post. At this juncture, on the bright side, I'd better not get too close to Mr. Ying."

Seeing that it was getting late at night, Lin Jian asked Qian Ying to go back and rest, and he was about to wash up and go to bed.But before Qian Ying left, there was a letter from the guards of the Lin family outside.

Qian Ying received the letter and sent it to Lin Jian, and after the Lin family guard who sent the letter left, Qian Ying understood the imprint on the letter: "Master, it's a letter from the second young master."

Lin Jian took the letter in his hand, and smiled while opening it: "I haven't written a letter to my second brother recently. According to his temperament, it is really rare for him to take the initiative to write a letter to me."

Lin Jian Zhanxin read the contents of the letter, and the smile on the corners of his lips gradually disappeared. Just when Qian Ying looked at the confusion and was about to ask Lin Jian, Lin Jian suddenly lifted the corners of his lips and smiled, and directly Turn over the letter in his hand and show it to Qian Ying.

Qian Ying saw a few words written on the top of the letter - "Lingnan affairs, you can find me."

Qian Ying could recognize that it was the handwriting of the second young master of the Lin family, Lin Liang, who is now the magistrate of Lingnan.

Lin Jian showed Qian Ying the few words on the letter, and then showed Qian Ying the other papers in the envelope that he had just read that were full of handwriting.

Qian Yingcai held it in his hand and glanced at it, and then recognized that the self on these papers did not belong to Lin Liang, but Qian Ying couldn't recognize who it was.

Qian Ying hastily read the paper that Lin Jian handed over, and after reading it, his expression was more solemn than Lin Jian's just now, but he didn't smile again like Lin Jian.

Qian Yingdao: "Master, this is something we secretly investigated in Lingnan."

Lin Jian nodded: "Yes. This is something I asked you to secretly investigate in Lingnan, and the results haven't been found yet. Now, the second brother has sent me the progress of the matter."

Qian Ying read the papers again, then returned the papers to Lin Jian, pursed her lips and said, "Young master, these things we secretly investigated should be known to no one except the master and his wife. Now the second young master knows that this is the dereliction of duty of his subordinates, please punish him."

Lin Jian took the papers with a smile, and motioned Qian Ying to bring some candlesticks from the desk, and then burned the paper with only a few words written by Lin Liang.

Lin Jian watched the piece of paper burn to ashes with a smile, and then smiled calmly: "What are you punishing for? It's not like you don't know the second brother's temper. Although he is cold and reticent, he is a human being." But he is very smart. He has been in Lingnan for several years, and most of Lingnan is old friends. It is really not easy to avoid these people when I asked you to investigate in Lingnan. It is not easy for you not to disturb those old people. Yes. The second brother has a delicate mind and pays attention to everything, and he is the magistrate of Lingnan, so it is common for you to avoid it."

"Didn't you use those people under your command when the second brother was at home? The second brother knows your methods. I thought that I might not be able to avoid him, so I told you a few words. But be careful, the second brother found out after all. That’s all, he didn’t mean to stop me when he wrote these words today, our plan is as usual.”

"In the future, when you go to investigate the matter in Lingnan, you don't have to do it in secret. Just like what the second brother said, if there is something you can't find, go to the second brother and ask the second brother to help you look it up. But the eldest brother Forget it there, the elder brother doesn’t know about it right now, so there’s no need to tell him specifically, when the matter breaks out, I will explain it to him. But the inside story, let’s not tell the elder brother yet.”

Lin Jian asked Qian Ying to copy the important information from the papers sent by Lin Liang and put them away, and then watched Qian Ying ask him to burn the papers.

After Qian Ying finished all this, she asked Lin Jian: "Master, the second young master sent the information that the young master wanted to investigate, but he never asked the young master why he wanted to investigate these things. What the young master investigated was the past few years ago Now that the second young master knows these things, he will not be ignorant of the young master's thoughts. This time, the young master has even kept the crown prince a secret, but if the second young master finds out, will there be any problems?"

After Lin Jian cleaned up the ashes from the burnt paper, he said softly, "It's okay."

"Second brother didn't ask, and he used his convenience in Lingnan to investigate these things for me secretly. He made it clear that he knew my thoughts and acquiesced in my actions. Second brother is his own brother. These old things involve the master. It's okay for second brother to know As for His Royal Highness, this matter is related to His Majesty's attitude towards the Lin family. Since I want to test His Majesty, it is difficult for His Highness to let His Highness know. It is most appropriate not to involve His Highness."

Lin Jian said that there was nothing wrong with it, so Qian Ying asked him in a low voice: "The young master originally wanted to accomplish this by himself, but now that the second young master knows, is the young master going to join hands with the second young master?" ?”

Lin Jian lowered his eyes and said softly, "I never had such a plan."

"Even if the second brother knows, I don't want him to get involved in this matter. Not to mention that he understands my thoughts by only asking about these things for me, so I only talk about his current situation. He is in Lingnan Being a magistrate, I have to do these things in the capital, he is thousands of miles away from me, and he can't do it at all. Besides, this thing can't be done with a lot of people. Once there are too many people, it is inevitable that others will be bullied The feeling that I am alone is actually enough.”

Lin Jian raised his eyes, fixedly looked at Qian Ying and said with a smile, "You can tell from the letter written by the second brother that he doesn't worry about me at all. He supported me and trusted me without hesitation before doing anything. It can be seen that This matter is not in his eyes. Our brothers are close friends, and we have never done anything together in this life. Just this one, there is no need to join hands. The second brother knows that I can do it. And he also has his own There are things to do, and he has his own way to go, I can't force him to walk my way."

After instructing Qian Ying to keep her contacts with Lingnan secret in the future, Lin Jian asked Qian Ying to rest.

He asked for hot water to take a bath here, but after he washed and changed himself, he didn't go to bed right away.

This was the first time he spent the Lantern Festival with Lin Hongqiao in the capital since he went to join the army in southern Anhui, it was really rare.But counting carefully, it has been a long time since their brothers gathered in the capital to spend the Lantern Festival with Lin Hongqiao.

In the past, before his second brother Lin Liang went to Lingnan to be the magistrate, Lin Yuan came back from the Lingnan Army to report on his duties, and the family could still gather at Chonglian Temple for the festival. Now that the three brothers have their own errands, it is rare to have such a chance to get together for the festival. up.

Lin Jian missed his elder brother and second elder brother in Lingnan for a while. He was not sleepy at all, and he didn't bother to go to bed at the moment, so he ran to look at the map of Dazhou hanging up in the small study in his middle coat.

This map was drawn by himself.Except that the north and west were drawn based on existing maps, and the south of Lingnan was drawn based on Lin Hong's previous notes and files, and the southern part of Anhui was drawn by himself based on his own notes and field measurements.

Therefore, on the Dazhou map, the topography of Lingnan and Anhui is much more detailed than that of other places.

He has been in southern Anhui for three years. In addition to leading troops to go out to fight, whenever he is stationed in any place, whenever he has the opportunity, he will definitely go out to investigate and survey the terrain. Walk it once, in that case, he will be able to draw a clear and detailed topographic map after walking all the mountains, rivers and rivers.

Even if there is no such opportunity, it is still possible to consult the county annals of various places in Dazhou, but this is his grand plan, and he may not have the opportunity and time to realize it now.

Lin Jian looked at the topographic map in the small study for a while, and then felt that the room was a little stuffy, so he went out of the room and went to the porch to breathe and watch the moon.

At this time, the night was quiet and the dew was even deeper. Lin Jian was standing in the cold night wearing a thin coat. He didn't feel cold at all, but felt refreshed on his body. He took a deep breath of cool air, and after exhaling the turbid heat in his chest, Feeling comfortable all over, I couldn't help doing a few stretching movements.

After moving around for a while, Lin Jian leaned against the railing of the porch to look at the bright moon in the sky.

His second brother Lin Liang took the imperial examination.Lin Liang was quite talented in reading since he was a child. After the palace examination, he was a high school scholar. With Lin Liang's talents and essays, he could have been selected as the No. [-] pick by Emperor Chengsheng, but all the candidates in that class were outstanding. , there are several who stand out from Lin Liang.In the end, the No. [-] pick fell on others, and Lin Liang only came in fourth.

But even so, Lin Liang was already astonishing enough.

There is a scholar who was born as a Jinshi in the family of the general family, and the son of the former general has become a civil servant who was born in the imperial examination. What does it mean?

It means that one seed has two kinds of buds.It means that the Lin family will not hang themselves on a tree.It means that the Lin family still has a way out.

After all, there is no such thing as an absolute path.He and Lin Liang took different paths, but they both came to the same goal, and they both pursued the future of the Lin family and even Da Zhou.