The Weight of the Red Mansion Walks the Road of Life

Chapter 71

As an official family with some power in the south of the Yangtze River, naturally not everyone can enter the Lin family, especially Lin Ruhai does not live in the private house of the Lin family but in the official residence of Xunyan Yushi. Human identity has strict limitations.

Regardless of whether Zheng Chong was counted from his father or from his uncle's family, although he was not considered poor since he was a child, he had never experienced the life of a serious official family.When he left home, it was just a youthful spirit, so he took his own things and found the Lin family without hesitation.But now when he really faced the Lin family's official residence, he was unavoidably timid, so naturally he hesitated.

Zheng Chong, with such a strange face of unknown origin, appeared in vain at the door of Xunyan Yushi's house, with a strange look of poking his head. If he hadn't remembered to bring out his household registration book from home when he was going out, After the inspection, it was proved that he was a good citizen, and he could be taken away on an unknown charge in an instant.

Fortunately, although the Yanyan censor is only in charge of salt administration, he is also regarded as a supervisory official position, not the kind of position that does not eat the fireworks of the world.Now that someone has already found out that this person is not a person of unknown origin, after all, no one cares about his wandering around Lin Ruhai's house, and there are even some people with bad intentions who think that someone is not getting along with Lin Ruhai, At the beginning, I decided to take a look at the excitement of the Lin family.

Lin Ruhai is also a capable official, so naturally he can't let this kind of laissez-faire happen at his door. At first he didn't know about Zheng Chong's existence, but later he heard that there was such a person wandering around the door of his official residence, so he simply let the housekeeper He reminded him not to collide with the inner house, and then invited him in graciously.

Zheng Chong is only 14 years old this year. At this age, he is already considered a half-grown boy, but his face still has a bit of childishness. In addition, he has received a relatively good education since he was a child. There is a bit of decency in speech and demeanor, which obviously cannot be brought up by vulgar people.The clothes on his body were just ordinary cotton, but they were bright and tidy, and he didn't look like he was from a bad family.

Lin Ruhai is such a sophisticated person, he can see the general situation of the other party with just a glance, and it is precisely because he can see the other party's state that he is inevitably a little confused.

Ordinary people always shy away from meeting officials, whether they are plaintiffs or defendants, let alone go to the official's door if they have nothing to do.Unless there is really some serious injustice that makes it difficult to survive, only those who have a serious reputation and are less in awe of officials are not shy about meeting officials.

Looking at the young man's demeanor, although he was a little nervous, he didn't show any sadness, obviously it wasn't the former.But just looking at his age and clothes, he didn't look like the latter, which made Lin Ruhai a little confused.

Zheng Chong's father is actually considered an official, even if he was kicked out of the house at the beginning, after he returned home with his mother, he also had an uncle as a juren, because his grandfather is still alive, the Li family has not actually separated. In fact, his household registration moved to the Li family with his mother, so it stands to reason that he would have no problem wearing silk and satin clothes.It's just that his status is a bit embarrassing now, especially after his father is now arguing about the issue of heirs, in order to prevent being attacked and annihilated by the Zheng family with such a reason, he insisted on changing into cotton clothes of ordinary people, so as to Said that he himself did not appreciate the benefits promised by his father at all.

With Zheng Chong's identity, he is completely different from the Lin family, and he is only a half-grown boy. No matter how he looks at it, he has nothing to do with the Lin family. There is no way to explain why he came to the door .Fortunately, before he went out, he thought that in order to make it easier to identify himself when he came to the Lin family, he not only packed up some of his own things, but also secretly found a letter from his aunt and Mrs. Lin from the study to bring with him.

Right now, he has already entered the Lin's residence. Zheng Chong decided to come to the Lin's house after thinking about the outcome. Now he can only grit his teeth and take the letter from the package and put it on the table.

Because this is a letter between women in the inner house, Zheng Chong didn't read what was written in the letter at all. It is inevitable that there are some private matters between women in it. Although this letter was written by Lin Ruhai's wife, no one knows what is in it. Is there anything about Xiao Zhang, so Zheng Chong only put the letter with the envelope on the table, but did not hand it to Lin Ruhai directly.

Lin Ruhai saw Zheng Chong's actions, although there was still no fluctuation on the surface, but in his heart he silently gave this young man a high score for such actions.And even if you couldn't see what was written in the letter, the handwriting on the envelope was enough to confirm the authenticity. Of course, Jia Min's handwriting could be recognized, and it was confirmed from the envelope that it was indeed sent by Jia Min.However, he didn't know much about the Zheng family and the Li family. In addition, Zheng Chong was still young so he didn't need to avoid it too much. After all, he asked the housekeeper to find Jia Min later.

Because of Jia Min's letter, Lin Ruhai thought that Zheng Chong might be a relative of some Jia Min's old friend's family. This time, he either came to visit and borrow from home or asked for something from his family, but he didn't think of anything else.

After Jia Min came, Zheng Chong finally sorted out his language and told the other party about his family affairs.

Because of his association with Xiao Zhang, although Jia Min didn't know much about the Li family, he had heard about it.

This kind of infatuated daughter and thin lover has never been a novelty.In particular, Zheng Chong's father was just an inconspicuous official from Juren. Although his father-in-law's official position in the Zheng family looked good, he was really just an outside patrolman, only a fourth-rank official. It's nothing to be with the emperor's confidant. With the decency of the Lin family, even if they have really heard of it, it's just that they have heard it, and they don't take it to heart.

There are more than tens of millions of unfortunate people in this world. The Lin family and the Zheng family and the Li family have no friendship, and they want to take care of any injustice that is not so holy.Although Xiao Zhang has some friendship with Jia Min, she is willing to protect Zheng Chong for her sister-in-law who gets along fairly well, but she always has selfish intentions, so she is more willing to leave the old friendship with a little less. In the future, she will ask for some key things for her husband or her own children. It is impossible to really ask for something for her nephew with Jia Min's affection.

Zheng Chong also knew that his uncles and aunts had done enough for him, and he didn't want to involve his uncle's family too much for his own affairs.Even if she came to the Lin family in the name of her aunt at this moment, she didn't intend to use her favor to ask for anything too much. It was just because she secretly heard that the Lin family intended to find a husband for the only daughter in the future, so she gritted her teeth and recommended herself.

Don't look at the same begging for the protection of the Lin family. The former is to use up his aunt's affection and face in front of his old friends to protect himself, while the latter is his own future in exchange. There will be no loss to my uncle's family.

No matter from the perspective of the Li family or the Zheng family, the status of the Lin family is indistinguishable from that of the Lin family.If it is only as a son-in-law, in Zheng Chong's capacity, he wants to beg the only girl of the doctor of Lantai Temple and the censor of Yanyan, which is obviously a matter of wanting to eat swan meat.But as a son-in-law, it is different.

Different from normal wive marriages, the son-in-law who recruits a surrogate has to change his surname from his wife's surname, and abandons the incense of his ancestral surname so far. If it is not for the fact that the rest of the family can't get rid of the pot, they will never do such a thing.The status of the son-in-law is not high from any point of view. Not only is he subordinate to his wife at home, he has no status at all, and if he becomes a son-in-law, he himself has no hope in his career. Even his family will be ashamed because of this, and they will inevitably be pointed at by others, which makes even those who want to sell their sons for glory most of the time they will not choose this path.

So compared to other possible candidates, Zheng Chong also passed the imperial examination when he was last year. Although he didn't have time to participate in the college examination because of the Zheng family's incident, he still passed the government examination seriously. He won the fame of Tongsheng.

Tongsheng is just the first pass of the imperial examination, and this title is actually nothing compared to the fame of a serious eunuch, but considering Zheng Chong's own age, even a Tongsheng is really remarkable.Even if he didn't pass the exam in the end as a scholar, just seeing that he has passed the county examination and government examination, at least it can always prove that Zheng Chong's qualifications for studying are very good among his peers. Lang's Lin Ruhai is really a plus.

It would be a lie to say that Lin Ruhai was not at all moved by such a candidate. After all, if it was only for the son-in-law, although Zheng Chong lacked a little in his background, his own conditions were indeed good.Not only is his knowledge not bad, but even just seeing that he doesn't directly ask for help from Xiao Zhang and Jia Min, he knows that he is also a gracious person, and there is nothing wrong with his conduct. Judging from the fact that his father's family does not have any affection, he must not be worried that he will betray the Lin family in order to recognize his ancestors and return to the clan in the future.

Rao was a little moved, but Lin Ruhai didn't immediately agree. He only comforted Zheng Chong with a few gentle words, and asked Jia Min to clean up the guest house for him and let him live there temporarily. By the way, he asked Jia Min and Xiao Zhang to send a letter The letter explained Zheng Chong's whereabouts, and the Li family in the province was too worried, and at the same time sent people to Li's and Zheng's to inquire about the specific ins and outs of this matter, not just listening to what the family said.

The Li family actually found out that Zheng Chong was missing, but Li Sanlang never thought that Zheng Chong would go to the Lin family, which had nothing to do with their family, and he only thought that Zheng Chong was a young man who wanted to solve the problem on his own. I went back to my family, because I believed that my family could always stop people, so I just sent a letter to tell about this matter, but I was not too anxious.

And when the letter from the Lin family reached Li Sanlang, they were immediately taken aback.Li Sanlang immediately sent a letter to his family in a hurry, but he didn't dare to say Zheng Chong's specific plan, he only said that he only found out that Zheng Chong just went to a friend's house, and told the family not to worry about this matter.On the other hand, Mrs. Zhang immediately packed up some things and entrusted her two sons and one daughter to a friend's house to take care of them temporarily. The husband and wife rushed to the Lin family.

The author has something to say:

Basically, Sister Bao's husband-in-law is settled...

Current age:

Zheng Chong is 14 years old (completely original character)

Baochai is 11 years old

Xue Pan is 13 years old

Daiyu is 7 years old

The fact that Baochai is two years younger than Xue Pan is mentioned in Cao Gong’s original work. The age of Bao’s sister in Dream of Red Mansions has always been a mystery... If you look carefully, she is actually much older than Baoyu and Daiyu, so just ignore it , everything is subject to the author's settings...

Aunt Xue's husband died when Xue Pan was five or six years old, so it is assumed that Daiyu is a posthumous child, so she is six years younger than Xue Pan...

So Baoyu, who has not played at all and will not appear in the short term, is 8 years old...

Well, that's it...

Basically, it is updated every other day. The main reason is that my pressure can be reduced, and even Kawen can survive for a day by saving manuscripts... Basically, I will refresh at [-] o'clock in the evening. If there is no update, I don't have to wait for the day... …