The return of Fengxi of the Red Chamber

After Jia Shishi's birthday banquet, Lin Qiong took the opportunity to express her conjecture to Ping'er.

Ping'er was very shocked when he heard this, and after thinking for a long time, he found the servant girl and said, "Go to Zhaoming Hou's mansion and ask your sister Xia Zhu to tell you that I am thinking about grandma next month. I am going to make clothes for grandma for her birthday. I just don’t know what style grandma likes now, whether tomorrow or later. When grandma is free, I will send a letter and I will go to the house to have a look over there. "

"By the way, you brought the few pots of begonias and golden osmanthus that Zhuangzi just sent over, and said that I gave them to the girls and grandmas to enjoy."

The servant girl immediately took the order and went down, and went to the coachman and the boy to bring flowers and things without mentioning it.

In the room, Ping'er and Lin Qiong sat opposite each other, and after dismissing all the servants serving in the room, Fang asked softly: "What kind of rules do you have in mind? If it doesn't matter, then that's fine, just do what you want." But if there is a relationship, how should our family deal with it? And how should the grandmother and the old man know? They have raised my father for decades."

Lin Qiong was silent for a while, before saying: "Grandmother knew about this a long time ago. On the way back, I already asked my father. He said that when his mother-in-law came to visit last year, he had already sent someone to Yangzhou to inquire about it. The mansion is quite strict, and the nanny who went there returned without success, so he let it go."

"What grandma means is that our family's foundation is shallow, and I will go to participate in Chunwei next year. If I really have something to do with the Lin family, I can help. Her old man really loves the younger generation, as long as she can do good things for our family , she will agree, as for the old man, that's what he means too."

Lin Qiong explained the meaning of the elders in the family, and then added: "It's too early to say these things now, if it really doesn't matter, isn't it because we are making trouble on our own."

Ping'er doesn't think so, friendship is always revealed, when she and An'er were in Jia's house, they got along very well with all the sisters in the house.But now they are married, and some of them have left the capital with their husband's family and moved to other places. Now when they deal with Jia's family, they will inevitably be far away.

It's okay for her to be like her, because she is so close, besides celebrating the festivals and two birthdays during the three festivals, she often brings some things to sit and talk.For those who are not so happy, they only go to give a gift during the Chinese New Year, and the friendship will become weaker as time goes by.

Ping'er's own thinking, if Lin Ruhai really looks like his father-in-law, and also has the surname Lin, maybe he can't recognize a relative or something.Just like Wang Chenglin's family and Wang's family in the past, even having a clan is actually beneficial to both families.

The number of descendants of the Lin family is really too thin, and now they are in the fifth server with Lin Ruhai, and they can be counted on one hand.And Lin Ruhai is over 40 this year. He has a son and a daughter. The daughter is only ten years old, and the son is only seven years old. Although he is extremely intelligent, he is too young.

Although there are in-laws of the Jia family, they are not of the same clan after all. Once Lin Ruhai and his wife have any accidents, the Lin family will fall apart in an instant, and the future is really worrying.

Lin Qiong and his wife saw this, so they wanted to find out. If there is any surprise, then their family will be safe.

Zhaoming Hou Mansion, Wang Xifeng heard Ping'er's words, and knew that there was something to discuss, so she immediately sent a message to ask her to come over tomorrow afternoon.

On the second day, Ping'er went to Jia's house with his son Zhaogeer and two maids.

He first went to say hello to Mrs. Jia Shi and Madam Xing, and then followed Wang Xifeng to her house.

After sending someone to play with Brother Zhao, and waved away the servants who were serving him, Wang Xifeng asked with a smile on his face, "I'm in a hurry to get someone to deliver a letter to me, but what's the matter?"

Ping'er hesitated for a moment, and said the matter in a selective manner, and finally said: "Grandma, you know that we used to only think that our family was a merchant, and we never knew that my father-in-law had such a background. Now I am not the only godmother, Even my grandfather was stunned at a glance, so I came to bother grandma."

After listening to the cause and effect, Wang Xifeng thought inwardly, and then said: "I have never met your father-in-law, and people in our house have only seen your family, so we can't say anything. But this matter is also strange, How about this, next month my birthday is too close to the wedding with the second girl, so it probably won't be a big event."

"But on the day when the second girl gets married, Mrs. Lin will definitely come, and your family will also come to join in the fun. At that time, I will find an opportunity to let the two of them meet in person, and everything will become clear. Let's It’s not good to talk about it now, but it seems like there is something.”

Naturally, Ping'er didn't say anything else, speaking of her father-in-law's background, as a daughter-in-law, she shouldn't interfere too much.It's just that she is the only one in the Lin family who can get Lin Ruhai, so she has to come forward to find a chance.

Now that it was decided, Ping'er was relieved, and made a suit of clothes for Wang Xifeng with all her heart after returning home, and gave them to her on her birthday.

September 21st is the day when Yingchun gets married. As early as three days ago, the Jia family was so busy that their feet didn't touch the ground.

Wang Xifeng had to look at the arrangement of the utensils, the tea banquet for the guests, and the scheduling of personnel in various places.Fortunately, Mrs. Xing, Li Wan and Tanchun also helped out, taking care of a lot of unimportant trivial matters, which saved Wang Xifeng a lot of mental effort.

The closer the official day was, the busier Jia's family became. Waves of old relatives and subordinates in charge came to Jia's house in an endless stream to add make-up and congratulations for the Spring Festival.The dowry for Yingchun was also put out. The big boxes were so full that you couldn't put your hands in it. It was so real that everyone praised it.

In Wang Xifeng's opinion, no one asks if you are poor in the busy city, and you are rich if you have distant relatives in the mountains. In Wang Xifeng's opinion, this is really true.

Compared with the desolation and helplessness in the previous life when Yingchun got married, in this life, all those who were related to Jia's family, none of them were left behind, all came, and the makeup gifts were extraordinarily generous.Among them, the Xue family was the most generous. They gave a box-pressing gift of 3000 taels of silver, which stunned a group of people.

However, according to Wang Xifeng, this ceremony is not very important. Just because Yingchun brought Xue Baochai into the upper class several times in the past and helped her meet many noble ladies, it is not something that 3000 taels of silver can do.Changing to another family or other means, I am afraid that Xue Wang's holding 3 taels of silver will not be able to do such a thing.

Xue Baochai was selected into the palace in the small election, and she has already become the female history of the three princesses, so she did not come this time when she was married in the spring.However, she still entrusted Mrs. Xue Wang with a gift of makeup, a jade carving with golden branches and jade leaves.Not to mention auspicious and noble meanings, it is rare that the carver is also very good. It is a good thing at the bottom of the Xue family's box. It was originally a dowry specially saved by Xue's father for Xue Baochai, which shows his intentions.

Needless to say, the grandness and excitement of the wedding, when the bride was finally carried out by Jia Lian and sat in the sedan chair, Wang Xifeng found an opportunity to let Lin Ruhai and Lin Qing meet.

The age difference between the two was more than ten years, but when they met, they couldn't help being stunned.

Lin Ruhai looked at Lin Qing on the opposite side, was stunned for a while, and then said: "When Marquis Zhaoming told me that, I just took it as a joke, so it really looks like this."

Lin Qing was somewhat restrained. Although he was not a merchant now, he was only a small landlord. He naturally felt inferior to Lin Ruhai, a high-ranking official with real power.

Seeing that he was really restrained, Lin Ruhai went on to say: "When I was young, I heard my father say that our family's descendants were weak, and we didn't even have a brother for five generations. Only in my generation, because of some reasons of my father, it is said that I There was an elder brother, but unfortunately he was only three months old, and was stolen during a civil strife in the Lin family, and he was nowhere to be found. My parents searched for it for several years, but there was no news. My mother wept secretly for a long time. I just died."

Lin Qing was silent for a while, and then asked with some hesitation: "I don't know when Mr. Lin's elder brother disappeared? Are there any marks and tokens on his body?"

"On the seventh day of April 47 years ago, I was wrapped in a swaddle of red Yunjinxiu pomegranate flowers, and a bat-shaped longevity lock with longevity stones embedded in it."

Lin Ruhai's answer was very fluent, and it seemed that it was something firmly in his heart, and he never hesitated or stumbled at all.

Lin Qing said: "My mother said that she found me in a wild field in Tongzhou. At that time, I had nothing on my body, only a piece of coarse cloth, but I looked fair. My mother had just suffered the loss of her son. It hurts, and I heard me crying by chance, so I hugged me back as a parent-child parenting, and I didn't know that I was not my own until last year."

"When my mother picked me up, she didn't see any Yunjin baby clothes or bat longevity locks. In this way, I should have nothing to do with Mr. Lin's family." Lin Qing added calmly, "Although it is 47 years ago, it was not the seventh day of April, but the tenth day of April, and everything was wrong, so we should have made a mistake."

Before Lin Qing could say his apology, Lin Ruhai interrupted him excitedly: "No mistake!"

Seeing Lin Qing's surprised eyes, Lin Ruhai calmed down a bit and said: "You are not mistaken, swaddling babies and longevity locks are actually not uncommon, let alone the Jia family, there are not many similar things for any child Yes. But the other thing I didn’t mention is the key, my brother, whom I have never met, has a mole on his forehead and two moles behind his left ear!”

Lin Qing stood there dumbfounded, all she wanted was to reach out and touch the mole on her face, but there was no reaction at all.

Unexpectedly, he is really the heir of the Gusu Lin family!

When Lin Qing was emotionally agitated, Lin Ruhai didn't calm down a bit, but he still suppressed it and said calmly, "Today is the wedding banquet of the second girl of Jia's family, and I will go to Shenjun Prince's Mansion for a banquet later. I won’t be free. But don’t worry, after the banquet is over, I will visit your mansion, please wait a moment for the old lady and the old man in the mansion. , will it affect the rest at home?"

Lin Qing shook his head again and again: "It doesn't matter, it doesn't matter, Quanzi and my wife went to Shenjun Wangfu early in the morning, and they won't be able to return home until around Xu time. Maybe they can meet Mr. Lin."

Lin Ruhai just smiled: "That's the best. If I can meet your young master over there, I'm afraid I can go with him."