The eldest brother of the Lin family in the Red Chamber

Shui Rong smiled: "Master Hou went to see Jing Ruinian today?"

Lin Mo was startled, and he had some idea of ​​the people who followed him today, but he kept calm: "Go to visit the old friend of the master." Shui Rong poured himself another glass of wine: "If you come according to your official position, you should be Go to Li's house first. If you walk around according to your closeness to Lin Hai, you should go to Yu's house first. Even if it's for convenience, Gao's is the closest to the household department. He occupies that position and doesn’t do anything, but he doesn’t know that he is very smart—but he never repays his favor, no matter how much others help him, he just dares to stay elsewhere, watching the people who call him brothers die, you go beg He probably doesn't know anything, why don't you ask me. Maybe I'm happy, so I'll tell you?"

Lin Moce turned his head and looked at him: "How can you have such a good heart!"

Shui Rong shook his head: "Maybe."

"I've always felt strange. You seem to be pretending to be crazy and crazy today. What are you planning? Even if you think it's boring, you still have a concubine and two girls at home. Don't you think about them " Lin Mo said, "What Uncle Jing knows, and what he doesn't know, I don't know either. What happened more than ten years ago is just a word from the person concerned. What you said is the same as what he said , I don’t know if I can believe it, what’s the use of telling it?”

Shui Rong was stunned for a moment, and then smiled wryly: "Sixteen or seventeen years ago, from today onwards, my royal father's health has collapsed, and every day is worse than every day. He barely survived with medicine for a while, and then passed away. The family members, Including himself, everyone seems to know that he will have this disease, and everything is in order—you said, why is the Beijing Palace located in the capital?" His body shook involuntarily, "I am about to... also In a few years, it will be the year of standing."

Lin Mo felt suffocated, and raised his head to take a careful look at Shui Rong. Today, he has a slumped face, with a bit of unwillingness and arrogance. His whole face is completely ashamed. If Princess Bei Jing sees this look, I don't know what to do How distressed, but Lin Mo looked at it, but vaguely gloated, and even thought profanely, this person is kind of pitiful and cute.Just like Shui Rong said, knowing too much is not a good thing. He died because of the unfulfilled ambitions of Lin Qing and others, and he was determined to clean up the dirt in the officialdom. Not superficial scars.

"Actually, you're right. Great-grandfather, grandfather, and father all died early, obviously because we were too timid. Before, I was even afraid of you—it's ridiculous."

Lin Mo saw that his face was pale and he was talking nonsense, so he leaned over and touched his forehead, which was very hot, and he frowned unconsciously: "What happened to you, and you still drink so much wine? Don't try to touch you You beat yourself to the ground before the person in charge made a move. Are those two little girls in your family already full moon? You’ve been tossing them like this.” He said in his heart, others had a fever, and their faces were flushed. This person is pale as gray, I really don't know what's wrong.

"Aren't you going to take them in as daughters-in-law? Is that still counting?" Shui Rong said with a silly smile.

Lin Mo turned his head and kicked him: "You should lie down first. Does your girl go out as the county magistrate of the Beijing Prince's Mansion, or go out without a father or a mother? Will the result be the same?" The servant in his room Quite a few, although the king of Beijing Jing said a lot of stupid things today, the servants held their breath and didn't dare to open their mouths, but they were waiting there, and when they heard the uncle said that the water-soluble fever, they would go out to listen to the song and ask someone to give it to them. The medicine is boiled, now Lin Mo waved his hand, and Miao He came in first, carrying Mrs. Tang, two thick quilts, and a thick goat wool blanket: "My lord, these are all new quilts made by our uncle yesterday. It’s just sun-dried, and the uncle hasn’t covered it yet, please don’t worry, my lord.”

It was not the first time for Shui Rong to sleep on Lin Mo's bed, but it was also rare for him to ask some big girls to serve him personally. He sneered: "Your Lord Hou is going to be angry with you, so generous. Led a wolf into the house."

Miao He also knows some gossip - to be honest, which man in this capital does not have a close friend?However, the relationship between these two people has spread all over the city. It is obvious that their uncles go home directly from the household department every day, and the king of Beijing Jing is also in the middle of the ceremony. It is just that knowing and seeing Shui Rong so outspokenly making fun of it are two different things. .The young girl was thin-skinned, and immediately turned red as if she was the one who had a fever.

Shui Rong clapped his hands and laughed.

"What kind of skill is bullying children!" Lin Mo asked someone to remove the small case on the kang, and pulled a handful of water, "Lie down first, otherwise I really don't know how to explain to the concubine."

Shui Rong lay down obediently, thinking about the discomfort, he got up again, asked Miao He to help him take off his clothes, and then found a comfortable position to lie down again, and muttered, "What are you doing?" Did you offend Li Dukai? The old man is targeting the household department everywhere, and he almost said in front of the emperor that you wronged a good person by talking nonsense."

"His favorite student, Lu Hong, the prefect of Yongchuan, handed in a messy account." Lin Mo just smiled, and didn't look angry, "Li Dukai is also very talkative, and his sons are useless , three sons-in-law—what kind of people are they? He alone can't stand up to anything, not to mention his eyes, he can tell that his liver is not good. At his age, he can't last long. You can't say that Speak out, anyway, I have nothing to say to him."

Shui Rong giggled silly.

Sitting across from him, Lin Mo suddenly felt that Shui Rong was indeed different from what he had imagined.

After the new year, Shuifu will take in two concubines, one of whom is the niece of the chieftain of Tibet, which is enough to show that this eldest son and the most righteous person is not willing to hide his ambition at all, and plans to give it a go up.

Lin Mo lowered his head and laughed muffled.The chieftain of Tibet has six sisters. Tibetan women are different from the Central Plains, and they have a certain status, but can a niece and a biological daughter be the same?It just shows that this man has a lot of ambition, and he doesn't even want to cover his fangs.This is also somewhat similar to when he went to Shanxi in the early years, no matter what he didn't care about, he was too rigid, but he didn't break.

They are wealthy people who are good at keeping in good health, and Shui Fu is also a person who has passed the time. He is in his prime of life. Some things, no matter how much he conceals them, no matter how much he hides them, others are not fools. His father, emperor and brother Not a fool, he simply drew his sword out of its scabbard and fought vigorously, so as to avoid some shady tricks to greet him indiscriminately.

"King Zhao has the intention to give in, but King Han is in charge of the military department and has made friends with King Qi." Lin Mo smiled and pulled at a small lock of hair curled up by Shui Rong, "Do you think the Third Highness will be jealous of me, Avoid me, give me up, or use me?"

Shui Rong was already in a daze. He had no time to think about other things after listening to it, so he just said in a low voice: "What are you thinking about? He is not the emperor after all. If I can live a few more years now, no matter how much he uses you , abandon you, abandon you, I will advance and retreat with you. Fight to pieces—" Although he was sick and confused, he knew that the next sentence really shouldn't be said, so he muttered a few more words, and finally fell asleep.

"Master?" Miao He poked her head and asked.

"I'll sleep with him to make it warmer." Lin Mo smiled, "Miaohe, tell me, everyone says that it's because he's not sober when he's drunk. How can you take what you say seriously. Because even if it is the truth, when you wake up, you have to weigh the pros and cons, and ask other people. In this world, few people can follow the truth."

Miao He didn't quite understand these things, she just asked: "The girl and the third master are going to part ways..."

"I'll go and see them." Lin Mo got up, asked Miao He to help him put on his boots, and told Wen Qin, "Look at King Bei Jing, if he is thirsty, you can pour him water, if he is sweating , just give him a wipe, don’t let him kick the quilt off. I’ll come as soon as I go.”

Daiyu and Lin Che listened to the play for half the night, but let me tell you which actor is beautiful and which figure is good. Judging from their appearance, they probably can see foreigners during the Chinese New Year, and asked them to perform a few more lively plays. When they heard Lin Mo coming, they were overjoyed and said, "Brother walks back and forth, not afraid of the night cold and dew."

"It's okay, I'll take you back to your room anyway, and I'll go see Jingning." Lin Mo asked if Xiu Lang had fallen asleep, and when he heard that Yun Xi had taken him back to rest, he nodded again, "Very well." good."

Lin Che was curious: "Brother, what is Prince Jing doing here?"

He was actually very nervous. His elder brother told him last night that he was going to visit Uncle Ruhai's old friends and inquire about some old things. He had been curious for a long time, and the king of Beijing Jing came here uninvited. Of course, he also had a purpose. Not to mention, these two things alone made him very worried. Now that he saw his brother looking tired, he wanted to share the burden with him, but he was worried that the matter would be too big. Yu listened and had no choice but to ask tentatively: "Brother went to see his sister-in-law, do you have a lot to say? It's better to go early, sister-in-law should go to bed early these days, and it's the same for me to send my sister back to her room."

"Ask whatever you want." Lin Mo said with eyebrows narrowed, "You are also the son of my Lin family. I was afraid that you were young and restrained you. It's just that after the New Year, your experience will naturally be different. But As an older brother, I don't want you to touch these things. If you take good care of Shan Ren Tang Shan Xing Tang and help Han'er, it's a great achievement. But if you are really interested in these things, I won't either stop you."

Lin Che stuck out her tongue: "I'm just worried that things won't go well at home when I go to Northern Xinjiang."

"If anything goes wrong, I will do my best to protect everyone in my Jingyuanhou Mansion today."

Daiyu's thoughts were delicate, and she couldn't help but think, does everyone here include King Beijing?