The Weight of the Red Mansion Walks the Road of Life

Chapter 52

The Lin family seems to have had some unfavorable times recently. In just half a year, three and a half of the four masters of the family fell ill one after another. First, the young master of the Lin family caught cold. I was exhausted and sick, and it was so easy to wait for Mrs. Lin's illness to see that she was almost taken care of. The eldest girl of the Lin family felt a little unwell and her old illness was brought back. After this, Lin Ruhai himself was quite exhausted, and he couldn't help it. He stopped taking medicine, and looked like he was about to fall ill.

The whole Lin family was filled with the bitter taste of medicine.

In fact, there are not too many other conspiracies and tricks mixed in here. To put it bluntly, it is just a chain reaction-because the Lin family brother and wife are both sick, and Lin Ruhai has to be busy with the affairs of the yamen. During this period of time, the internal affairs of the Lin family's butler director naturally fell on the eldest girl of the Lin family who was more than seven years old at that time.Don't look at the eldest girl of the Lin family who looks round and plump, she seems to be healthy, but in the final analysis she is also a person with a fetal disease. Under the stress and fatigue during this period, it is inevitable that she will be ill, even because of this time The illness is not entirely due to the old illness, even the effect of the Lengxiang pill is not too obvious, and I can only drink the medicine to calm down and rest, and follow the doctor's advice and stop worrying.And here, watching the head of the family fall ill one after another, Lin Ruhai must be physically and mentally exhausted for a while, and the members of the Lin family have never been very healthy. When everyone in the family fell ill, Lin Ruhai would inevitably A little sick, but still holding on to not fall ill.

The successive illnesses of the Lin family, only the illness of the young master of the Lin family was calculated at the beginning, and even the mastermind behind the scenes was extra careful not to let the young master of the Lin family suffer from the illness in order to prevent himself from driving the Lin family to the point of death. If something really went wrong, everyone's illnesses afterward were due to their own unhealthy health, but they couldn't be completely blamed on the Zhen family.

But who said that in such a situation, people must be killed to truly have a deep hatred, such as the current situation of the Lin family, this is enough to anger Lin Ruhai.

Even those who are not familiar with the Lin family can know how much Lin Ruhai, who has a son in middle age, attaches great importance to his only son if he thinks about the fact that the Lin family has been passed down for several generations.It was only because the young son of the Lin family had been deeply branded in the hearts of his parents as a congenital deficiency and prone to diseases since he was born, that made neither Lin Ruhai nor Jia Min realize that there was a deliberate element in it at first.

It wasn't until Baochai, who didn't have a detailed understanding of his younger brother's physical condition, was unwilling to investigate the matter carefully, and Lin Ruhai and Jia Min didn't stop Baochai from finding something for him for various reasons. Baochai really grasped a little handle and sent it to Lin Ruhai, which made Lin Ruhai discover the problem and investigate these things.

Then Lin Ruhai followed the clue of Aunt Qian's family background who was arrested, directly to the Jia family, because the Jia family had no intention of harming the Lin family, so they came from Aunt Qian's natal father and brother family. By following the clues, the matter of the Zhen family was involved.

Although there was no danger in his family, he did not lose too much because of this incident, but there is no doubt that the actions of the Zhen family still aroused Lin Ruhai's sense of fighting.Even for Jia Min, who was a mother who got the news from Lin Ruhai later, even if the pair of children were safe and sound this time, it was entirely due to God's blessing and not the other party's mercy, even if she was in the middle. Even her natal family couldn't resist her anger.

Really don't underestimate a woman's determination for her own children, even if it is her own mother who stands in front of her.

Because of the small size of the Lin family, there has never been any need for house fighting. After all, there is only one child in each generation, so there is really nothing for the family to fight. The relationship between the husband and wife of the Lin family is far more honest than that of other prosperous families.

There is no need to compare with other families that are too far away. For example, when Mrs. Wang was the housekeeper in Jia's house in the early years, Wang Ziteng was not too powerful. In her eyes, except for her own children, the people around Jia's family are not as close as her natal family. After all, the mother-in-law has other grandchildren, and the husband has other children, which is not enough for her to trust her wholeheartedly.Even though there were only Aunt Xue's own son and daughter in the Xue family, Aunt Xue often had to rely on the power of the Wang family for a total of eight households in the Xue family.

On Jia Min's side, one is that her husband's family does not have too many people, and the couple enjoys a lot of fun, so she does not have to be subject to any restrictions. The other is that the Lin family is more powerful than the Jia family now, and Jia Min does not have any You need to rely on your natal family.Her love for her natal family is limited to her sincere filial piety to her old mother. If one day Jia's mother dies, Jia's family will completely become Jia Min's relatives instead of relatives.

——Of course, this does not conflict with her more trust in the housemates who are used to her. After all, when she first married into the Lin family, it was always more familiar and more convenient for her natal housemates to use.

In other words, all this is at best a habit.

When Jia Min heard that Lin Ruhai told her everything about Aunt Qian and the Jia family after finding out the truth, even though she knew that the culprit of this matter was the ambitious Zhen family, she still couldn't hide it. Angrily, he sent all the companions who might be involved back to Jia's house, and wrote a letter to Jia's mother in a righteous way, expressing her anger.

As for what Mother Jia, who doesn't know anything about it, will think or deal with this matter when she receives a group of servants and letters sent back by her daughter when it is not a festival, it has nothing to do with the Lin family. It doesn't matter, but in the end there was a vague news from Beijing that the current invisible mistress of the Rongguo Mansion, Mrs. Wang, was severely reprimanded by Mother Jia, even if she had a daughter who had already entered the palace as a support. It can change Jia's mother's idea of ​​wanting to clean her up.

You know, the concept of clan these days is completely unimaginable to people hundreds of years later.For example, hundreds of years later, people would never imagine that even though the youngest son of the Lin family was born of a concubine, Jia Min, as the wife of the family, would still treat this son as his own.But for today's people, even if Jia Min doesn't think about her own future, and fights hard to have no incense heirs in the future and doesn't let her husband take concubines and have children, she can't afford the crime of killing the Lin family-even if It's the Jia family who dotes on Jia Min again. If Jia Min, the married daughter of the Jia family, makes her husband's family extinct, outsiders will never consider whether it is because the Lin family itself is destined to have a weak fate. You will think that Jia Min is not virtuous, and even the entire upbringing of Jia's daughter will be questioned.At least for a long period of time, the daughters of the Jia family will have difficult marriages, especially those girls who are relatively close to Jia Min by blood, such as Sichun from Ningrong Second Mansion in the next generation.

In the eyes of Mrs. Wang, her own daughter has already entered the palace, and the rest of the girls in the family are all nieces or concubines who have nothing to do with her. Even if she is involved in anything, it is absolutely impossible What is distressing is that when he collected the large sum of gifts from the Zhen family into his private treasury, he slightly opened the back door to the Zhen family's plan to attack the Lin family.

After all, in the eyes of Mrs. Wang, if some benefits are given to the Zhen family so that Concubine Zhen Gui in the palace can support her daughter, let alone a small stumbling block for the Lin family, it will really sacrifice the Lin family and the family. It's okay for girls who don't come out of the cabinet.

But Mother Jia obviously didn't think so.

Yuan Chun entered the palace at the age of 16, and it has been many years now. Yuan Chun is now an old girl in her 20s. Even Jia Mu always felt that the fate of this granddaughter who was born on the first day of the new year was precious, and she was a little bit giving up at the moment. Thoughts.

The love for her own daughter, the emphasis on the overall reputation of the Jia family, and the disappointment in Yuan Chun, the eldest granddaughter, were mixed together, enough to make Jia's mother temporarily ignore the identity of Mrs. Wang as Baoyu's mother, and scolded Mrs. Wang severely for once.

Because Jia's mother tried her best to make up for it, and the Jia's family was not the culprit this time, Jia Min finally decided to forgive her mother.However, this doesn't change the fact that she doesn't dare to fully trust her natal family.

In addition to the fact that what happened to the Zhen family this time made Jia Min feel uncomfortable, it was also because when Jia Min looked at her natal family with a critical eye, she had already found out from various channels that her natal family was unreliable, such as being covered in blood like a sieve. It's a loophole, any little girl dares to say anything about the head wife.

——Where do you think Jia Min got the news from?In addition to Jia's mother, the elders of the Lin family in the capital almost passed on the recent situation of the Jia family, and the similarity between the two was too high.

Lin Ruhai was actually very happy about the decrease in the trust value of Jia Min and her natal family.At the beginning, Jia Daishan was willing to betroth Jia Min to Lin Ruhai who hadn't been admitted to Tanhua. To a certain extent, it could be regarded as a kindness of knowledge, and Lin Ruhai was naturally grateful to this father-in-law.

But this gratitude was not enough for him to empathize with the two brothers.

The reason why the Lin family can still gain a foothold in Yanzheng as the emperor's favored ministers even without a title is largely because the Lin family is not as numerous as ordinary families, and only the Jia family is considered a close relative.

To put it cold-bloodedly, since the Jia family can indulge the Zhen family to harm the heirs of the Lin family this time, who knows what will happen in the future, Lin Ruhai is not at all regretful that his family lost such a relative as the Jia family.