The Forest of Red Mansions

From the founding emperor □ □ Hachi founded the country to the present, the Qing Dynasty has passed down to the fourth generation of emperors, namely Emperor Kangxi today.

Speaking of this current sage, it is enough to call him "extraordinary". He ascended the throne at the age of eight, took office at the age of 14, captured Oboi, pacified the San Francisco, recovered Taiwan, expelled Tsarist Russia, and personally conquered Galdan... All kinds of deeds have shown him. With extraordinary wisdom and extraordinary ability and means, he can be called a wise monarch of a generation.

Now this emperor is in his prime, when his ambition is so high and he is acting resolutely, his mind and methods are extremely tough, no matter who you are, if you dare to commit crimes, you must be ruthless.

What the Zhen family did is no longer enough to be described as "violating taboos".

Not two days after being escorted back to Beijing, the entire Zhen family, regardless of age or gender, was sentenced to be beheaded. With a knife in hand, countless heads rolled down. In an instant, the entire vegetable market was filled with blood, and the extremely strong smell of blood made people want to fainting.

Then Zhen Yingjia was sentenced to Ling Chi's death. After the blade was intact, he was finally freed, but his bones were crushed and ashes were scattered. It can be said that he died an extremely miserable death, not even a bone was left.

However, no one thinks that the emperor's methods are too harsh. The people have always hated corrupt officials the most. The Zhen family has tried their best to amass tens of millions of dollars. Blessing the common people and bullying others has long caused the common people to be full of resentment, but they are afraid of their power and dare not speak out. Now that the saint punishes them with cruel hands, I don’t know how many people are applauding, even though the execution scene is really too scary. However, the common people only felt that the Zhen family deserved it.

The guilty should be punished, and the meritorious should be rewarded.

Today's son is hard-hearted, but he is also a monarch who distinguishes between rewards and punishments. Lin Ruhai has served as a salt censor for many years, inspecting salt administration and rectifying lawlessness. Environment, can be said to have worked hard and made great achievements.

Especially this time when the Zhen family was arrested and tens of millions of treasures were confiscated and put into the treasury, Lin Ruhai deserved to be the number one hero. Besides, he almost put his life in it for this.

A large number of rewards entered the Lin family like flowing water, which only made the Lin family's treasury a bit richer, and there was no doubt about the promotion. Just like what Lin Ruhai revealed earlier, the University of Martial Arts Hall and Minister of the Ministry of Officials jumped into the The center of the capital regime.

It was just unexpected that, in addition to this, the Holy Majesty even granted Lin Ruhai a first-class Zhongyi Bo and gave him a mansion.

This shocked the jaws of many people.

It should be known that today's emperor is simply "stingy" in conferring rewards, whether it is the former dynasty or the harem. Even though Lin Ruhai has worked hard and made great achievements, it is not easy to get such an honor from this "stingy" emperor. It should be called "confidant minister".

For a while, Lin Ruhai became the hottest existence in the capital. The continuous stream of invitations made the concierge soft. Today, the host's birthday is held, and tomorrow, the west's family has a baby... and every day, someone comes to see him with a big gift.

Fortunately, Lin Ruhai is not that kind of frivolous person. On the contrary, he became more vigilant and cautious because of the unexpected big reward from the Holy Majesty. He refused to accept all the important gifts that came to his door. As for the banquets of his colleagues , but he never attended, he just asked people to deliver the congratulatory gifts according to the rules, not rude, but not outstanding.

He is not afraid of being coldly treated and excluded by his colleagues because of this, but he hopes to be isolated. Now that he has sat in this seat, if he is more slick, long-sleeved and good at dancing, he will be called brothers and sisters with those colleagues, then he will really rush to death. It's better to be a noble and lonely minister honestly.

So what if you are isolated by your colleagues and ostracized by the powerful?As long as the Holy One trusts him and reuses him, he will be able to stand still!

Sure enough, Kangxi, who had been watching all this in secret, was very satisfied with Lin Ruhai's "knowledge and interest". will not be reused.

He is not afraid of his courtiers being smart, because only a truly smart person knows what is the most correct choice, and he will not be stupid for a little profit, unlike those idiots who are so stupid that they are so stupid but still like to pretend to be smart!

As far as their idea is concerned, who really doesn't know?But he also didn't think about it, he Aixinjue Luo Xuanye ascended the throne when he was young, surrounded by tigers and wolves, if he couldn't even understand this, how could the throne be so secure?Really greedy for profit, all fools who pretend to be smart.

With a sneer, Master Kangxi, who had a vicious tongue again, pulled out those "idiots" from the bottom of his heart and satirized him from beginning to end, pondering the word "Lin Ruhai" in his mouth, his eyes flashed, and there was idea.

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But he said that although Lin Ruhai kept a low profile, some people could push him away, but some people had to visit in person, such as his Yue's family—Rongfu.

Early this morning, the Rong Mansion opened its doors, and the head of the family, Jia She, led the family members to welcome the distinguished guests in person.

To be honest, Lin Ruhai didn't think much of Jia Amnesty. Compared with this ridiculous elder brother, he was closer to Jia Zheng's second brother back then. But at least he is still knowledgeable about books and etiquette, and a man of duty.

It's just that judging from the occasional few words in the letters from his children in recent years, he also has to admit that he was wrong, or that people's hearts are fickle, but his impression of this Rongfu second room has plummeted, especially after asking The girl and woman next to his son and daughter, after learning that Erfang had bullied his son and daughter many times, he became even more annoyed, and had already missed Wang and Jia Baoyu.

On the contrary, Wang Xifeng, the eldest wife's daughter-in-law, took good care of his three children. Whether it was because of Jia Lian's small official position, or because of Lin Ruhai's status, he wanted to befriend him, anyway, he accepted the love.

Therefore, Lin Ruhai's attitude towards Jia She was more intimate and solemn, and even Jia She was flattered, thinking to herself that this noble brother-in-law had changed his temper?

After exchanging simple greetings, Jia She hurriedly welcomed Lin Ruhai and the Lin siblings into the room, and said, "I heard that my brother-in-law is here, and the old lady has been talking about it for a long time, but the old lady always loves my second brother the most, and beats my second brother." After she left, the old lady’s health has not recovered, and she is still sick in bed, and now she is looking forward to her brother-in-law in the house.”

Even though he was saying this, Jia She's expression was clearly a little off, especially when he mentioned the words "sick in bed", there was a cold sarcasm.

Lin Ruhai only pretended not to know, and only said "ashamed" with self-blame all over his face.

But I didn't expect to stay in the old lady's courtyard, but the mandarin duck said: "The old lady just took the medicine and fell asleep, please wait outside."

Jia Amnesty's face was completely dark, and when he just went out, the old lady was still in high spirits!

In this icy and snowy place, with goose feathers and heavy snow floating in the sky, to ask someone to stand outside and wait for her to "wake up", it was clear that she was deliberately making things difficult!Who knows how long she will "sleep"?Even if it is just "sleeping" for a few hours, it is enough for a person to suffer. It must be frozen into a lump of ice. How dare this old lady!

Lin Ruhai was a fine individual, so how could she not know this trick, and even sighed secretly, the old lady probably really hated the Lin family because of Jia Zheng's death.

He himself doesn't care, no matter what, the old lady is also his wife's mother, and he should respect her, but now he has three young children by his side, how can he endure such a crime?The three of them have lived in Jia's house for several years. Could it be that the old lady really doesn't know that their bodies are no different from ordinary people, they are always weaker, and the body of the girl's family is even more delicate. But what to do?

He originally thought that the old lady loved Jia Min so much back then, and she should have a kind of love for these three children, but now it seems that the old lady has no kindness for the children at all. He was so cruel!

Lin Ruhai has always loved the three children like the most precious things, how could he stand others' humiliation on his precious pimples, his face turned cold immediately, and said: "Since the old lady has fallen asleep, let her rest in peace, and catch up tomorrow." Get empty like the sea and come to see the old lady again."

Wang's face was full of wrinkles, and even a little gray appeared in his hair, but he looked at the Lin family members with dark eyes, and said with a sneer: "The old lady told you to stand outside and wait, didn't my brother-in-law not hear clearly? Or did you dare Disobedience to the old lady? Although the old lady is not my brother-in-law's biological mother, she is still your mother-in-law. I'm afraid it's not good for my brother-in-law to be so disrespectful?"

"Do you have a place to talk here?" Jia She spat in her face, hooked Lin Ruhai and turned around and left, "Let's go, brother-in-law, go sit in my room for a while, ignore that woman, and beat her up." Since she became a widow, she has been acting strangely all day long, probably because she is lonely without a man, let her go crazy, brother-in-law must not be as knowledgeable as her."

Wang's face turned green, and she was thrown on her back by Jia Amnesty's unrestrained anger.

Wang Xifeng touched her big belly habitually, glanced at Wang Shi with a sneer, stepped forward and took Lin Jinyao and Lin Daiyu's hands affectionately, and said with a smile: "I haven't seen you two sisters for a long time, my sister-in-law is thinking very hard, knowing The two younger sisters love to drink tea, and my sister-in-law asked someone to prepare it early today, but it is not as good as the tea my younger sisters are used to drinking, but it is better not to dislike it."

The two sisters left with Wang Xifeng and the Xing family, along with Sanchun and Xue's mother and daughter. Jia Lian only followed Jia She to entertain Lin Ruhai and Lin Jinjun. Seeing that the two sisters of the Lin family didn't blink, they kept wanting to approach the other sisters without winking, only to make Lin Ruhai's face turn black into the bottom of the pot, and it was only after being reprimanded by Jia She that Jia Baoyu was reluctant. She reluctantly withdrew her eyeballs, and reluctantly followed those stinky men who were "stinking" and left.

Although the two sisters of the Lin family did not get along very well with Xue Baochai, they had a good relationship with Sanchun. They had lived in the Jia family for several years, and the sisters had grown up together, so they had a relationship. It's been a month, and it's hard to avoid feeling strange in my heart, but now they finally get together again, but the chatter is also very lively.

After gossiping for a while, Wang Xifeng pulled Lin Jinyao into her room alone with an excuse.

Lin Jinyao couldn't help wondering: "Sister-in-law, what's wrong, could something happen?"

Wang Xifeng sighed: "Sister-in-law knows that you are always smart, sister-in-law, but now sister-in-law wants to ask sister to help her with an idea."

"Sister-in-law, please tell me."

"It's not that old lady, she's started acting like a demon again!" Wang Xifeng sneered, gritted her teeth and said, "Do you think she's really sick in bed? It's all just pretending!"