[Red Mansion] Mrs. Lin, the Buddhist family

After chatting, the Lin and Xue families went on the road together. The Lin family's fleet was divided into two, one in front and the other in the rear. Although the Xue family had more ships, they had fewer guards, and they couldn't be compared with the guards brought by the Lin family at all——

That was specially trained by the former special forces Jia Shu, even if it is not as good as the special forces of later generations, but now, all of them are truly brave soldiers, except that they have never really seen blood on the battlefield, they are better than real officers and soldiers Much better.

Moreover, Lin Ruhai is a second-rank official, and no one without eyes would dare to do anything to the Lin family's fleet during the hasty journey.

The Xue family was protected by the Lin family's fleet, even if other people knew the value of the goods on board and looked greedy, they would not dare to take action against the Xue family's fleet.

Xue Meng stood at the bow of the boat, his eyes fell on the big boat where the Lin family was, his eyes were eager.

The goods on these big ships, if they want to be transported to the capital, often don't arrive at all within half a year.Because there will always be some officials who "stop and inspect prohibited items" on the way, or little ghosts who want to ask for some filial piety. Although they will not lose too much money, time is delayed in this coming and going.

It's only been a month now, but the journey has already passed halfway, which is really heart-warming.

This is the power of power!

Xue Meng couldn't help but wonder, did Xue's ancestors really do something wrong by sticking to their identity as an imperial merchant for the sake of money?

It just so happened that the imperial court could also donate officials.

The property of his Xue family can be donated to Pan'er for an official position that can protect the Xue family. When the descendants of the Xue family have the wealth accumulated by their predecessors, and can pass on the book like the Lin family, wouldn't they be much happier than now?

Relying on the power of Jia Shiwang's family is worse than relying on oneself.

At least when the Xue family's juniors stand in front of other people's juniors, they won't feel inferior.

Xue Meng, who is falling into the beautiful imagination of the future, doesn't know that his decision to go to the capital with the Lin family because of Xue Pan's mischief this time has already avoided a death for him.

In the world where Jia Shu did not travel to the Red Mansion, because the business this time was not considered big, Xue Meng did not personally take the goods to Beijing by boat. A group of water bandits rose up, most of them were from poor fishermen, and they hated "profiteers" like Xue's family very much. After learning the identity of the owner of the goods, they looted them all regardless, and then scattered among the people. .

The Xue family suffered heavy losses.

But the buyer of this amount of goods is not something that the Xue family can offend. In order to appease the other party, the Xue family can only add five additional layers of valuable goods when they re-purchase the goods and ship them to the capital.

But at that time, the four major families had already begun to show signs of decline. The Xue family, which had no other support except for the status of an imperial merchant, also began to be beaten by other powerful people. This time, the huge loss almost consumed half of the Xue family's property.

In order to make up for the shortfall, Xue Meng had no choice but to explore the market and contact buyers...

After several years of running around, seeing that the Xue family was getting better, Xue Meng fainted from being too tired on the way to run a business road, and then contracted a cold. The clever doctor, who couldn't get sick, left orphans and widows, and went straight away.

But now that the Lin family was clearing the way, those water bandits didn't dare to provoke him, and the goods of the Xue family's fleet were saved, which directly extinguished the signs of his untimely death.

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After returning to Beijing this time, within half a month, Lin Ruhai was called into the palace by the emperor, and when he came out again, he was promoted by half a level as expected, and became a co-organizer of the first rank.

All of a sudden, Lin Jiake came like a cloud.

By the time the members of the Lin family finally finished their repairs and had time to contact Qin Jiu in Beijing, two months had passed.

At this time, it has been nearly two years since the death of Jia Daishan and his wife.

The Lin family bought a yard in the suburbs, which was full of flowers, and was remodeled by Lin Ruhai according to the garden style in the south of the Yangtze River.

As for those men, travel is not restricted, and they can talk and chat in any restaurant or teahouse at will.

In order to cleanse the Lin family, and in order not to share the identity of the Lin family, which was obviously favored by the emperor, not only those close to the Lin family, but even the four major families were mobilized one after another. The head mother brought a group of children to the Lin family.

The first to bear the brunt, of course, is the Xue Pan brothers and sisters who are deeply grieved by Lin Xian.

However, Lin Xian was getting old and had to prepare for Chun Wei, so he was left in the Hou's mansion and did not go to the small garden in the suburbs.

Xue Pan led his younger sister, who was already able to walk staggeringly, around, but did not see Lin Xian, and looked a little disappointed: "Brother Lin is not here?"

Jia Shu laughed: "Your brother Lin will be crowned in two years, and it is already inappropriate to appear on such an occasion."

Aunt Xue smiled and said nothing, causing Xue Pan to look at Jia Shu half-understanding.

Jia Shu laughed again, "When you reach the age of sub-seats in two years, it will not be easy to meet so many beautiful young ladies."

Xue Pan curled his lips immediately, and almost failed to perform a flood of golden mountains for everyone present on the spot.

Fortunately, Zhuzhu has been sitting next to Jia Shu, and immediately waved to him when she saw this.

Xue Pan naturally liked Zhuzhu more than Lin Xian, and immediately wiped away his tears and walked towards Zhuzhu.

Surprisingly, even though he was sad, Xue Pan didn't forget to hold his sister's hand.

With a sullen face, Baochai followed Xue Pan step by step, so cute that one wanted to hug him tightly and not let go.Thinking of this, Jia Shu did the same thing——

When Xue Pan walked in front of Zhuzhu, Jia Shu immediately grabbed Baochai, whose face was full of baby fat, into his arms.

Xue Pan was startled, and when he saw that it was Jia Shu, he let go of his hands indifferently, and threw himself into Zhuzhu's arms, even taking the opportunity to grab a handful of pastries from the pastry plate placed next to him and stuff them into his mouth.

Jia Shu couldn't help laughing, thinking that Xue Pan was quite funny when he was a child.

Even if she was only a little older, Xiao Baochai was still more sensible than her brother. After being held in Jia Shu's arms, seeing that her brother was not crying, she looked back at Aunt Xue, as if to confirm whether Jia Shu was real. Trustworthy, not the "slapping flower" that my father mentioned.When it was confirmed, she sat obediently on Jia Shu's lap, worried about falling, and stretched out two small hands to hug Jia Shu's arm, which was really painful.

Jia Zhi also came, and couldn't help itching when he saw this, and couldn't help stretching out his hands to Baochai: "Girl Bao, give Auntie a hug."

Baochai looked at Aunt Xue again.

Aunt Xue covered her mouth happily: "This is your aunt's sister, you should call her aunt."

This is for her.

Baochai grinned at Jia Zhi, hesitated for a while, and threw herself into Jia Zhi's arms.

Jia Zhi is happy, she doesn't have any children of her own, so it's inevitable that she will empathize with the children of acquaintances, but her expression is too serious, and children are often afraid of her, so they can only look at her greedily.

Just now when Jia Zhi stretched out her hand, she was actually ready to be rejected, but she didn't expect that the little girl from the Xue family was not afraid of her, and seemed to like her more than her third younger sister, which really made her happy.

Once Jia Zhi was happy, his hands became a little loose——

Anyway, she earns a lot of money every year by relying on the rouge and gouache shop, but she has deep conflicts with her husband's family, and she doesn't want to leave them to enjoy after death, so her daily life seems very extravagant, quite a bit for spending money The meaning of spending money.

At the same time, in order to spend money, Jia Zhi is always generous with rewards and gifts.

But it's not easy to give someone a gift, right?Because of this, Jia Zhi saved a lot of good things.

So, when the others didn't react at all, Jia Zhi directly took out an emerald pendant from his purse. Its color was emerald green, like water, and it was astonishingly beautiful.

Few of the people present were ignorant, and they immediately recognized that this pendant was a rare carving of imperial green jadeite.

Although everyone is not short of money, they are still surprised to give such a valuable item to a three or four-year-old girl when they meet for the first time.

Aunt Xue was even more frightened and hurriedly refused: "Second sister, hurry up and take back this pendant, it's too precious."

Jia Zhi stopped Aunt Xue: "I didn't give the gift for nothing."

"I don't know..." Aunt Xue looked hesitant, she couldn't think of anything Jia Zhi needed the help of the Xue family.

Jia Zhi hugged Baochai and sighed: "I just feel that now that I am old and have no children under my knees, I always feel that life is boring. I want to adopt a child. The little one I have seen The children are all afraid of me, so it's so easy to find someone who is willing to let me hug, isn't this just thinking of accepting a goddaughter."

She turned her head to look at Aunt Xue with a solemn expression: "I don't know if the fourth sister might agree to my unfeeling request?"

Aunt Xue froze for a moment, then frowned.

With her not outstanding mind, she couldn't figure out what good this matter would do to Jia Zhi, and what harm it would do to her family.But what Aunt Xue is smarter is that she will not make a decision easily, and the first reaction to this matter is to discuss it with Xue Meng.

But Xue Meng is not here now, Aunt Xue hesitated and refused first: "I can't make the decision on this matter, or should I go back and ask the head of the house and tell the second sister what to decide?"

Jia Zhi nodded: "It should be so."

After the two discussed it properly, the others spoke.

Jia Shu looked at Baochai who was obviously happier in Jia Zhi's arms than in his own, pursed his lips and laughed: "Baochai is so cute, it's much more interesting than when my Zhuzhu was a child. Not to mention the second sister, even I, who has Those who have sons and daughters also want to recognize her as a goddaughter."

The others laughed when they heard the words, and said that they were also a little moved.

Several people chatted for a while, and the servants of the Lin family came to report that the eldest daughter of the Jia family and the fourth girl had arrived together.

Jia Shu was stunned for a moment before realizing that the servant was talking about Jia Gu and Jia Min.

Before she could speak, Jia Zhi frowned: "Third sister, did you invite the eldest sister?"

Jia Shu shook his head: "No."

If she hadn't learned that Daiyu was one year old, she would have been really curious, Jia Shu wouldn't even invite Jia Min, let alone Jia Gu.

Not inviting Jia Min was to avoid embarrassment, but Jia Gu really didn't want to deal with her anymore.

But when everyone was at the door, it was hard for her to drive them away.

"Go and invite people in."