[Red Mansion] Mrs. Lin, the Buddhist family

Lin's mother was stunned: "The prince is eyeing the Lin family, why?"

Jia Shu told Lin's mother everything that happened at the Hu family's side today, and expressed his guess: "The Lin family is about to rise now, but after all, they are following the path of civil servants, and Ruhai is no more He is a bachelor's student, so logically, he shouldn't be looked down upon by the enemy's spies."

But the final result was that even if the so-called Ling Ji and shopkeeper Zhou picked up the relationship from decades ago in a roundabout way, they still wanted to harm Jia Shu and still wanted her to have a miscarriage.

If they were more vicious, they might still think that Jia Shu would never have children in his life.

"Daughter-in-law is thinking, could it be because of the make-up shop I opened before, and the recent fire in the Lin family bookstore, and all of them have something to do with the emperor, which made the prince behind me anxious."

Mother Lin was puzzled: "Because of the prince?"

"It can be said to be yes, or it can be said to be no." Jia Shu pursed his lips, "After all, the Lin family and the Jia family are related by marriage, and the Jia family is one of the most steadfast supporters of the crown prince. Although we They all have direct contact with the emperor, which makes the relationship between the Lin family and the prince separated, and Ruhai has not had much contact with the prince so far, but the other princes don't think so."

The two families tried their best to marry each other. If something happened to the Jia family, would the Lin family help?

But if something happened to the crown prince, the Jia family would definitely fall into it.After such a calculation, the Lin family and the prince are still related.

It is impossible for all the princes who want to see the Lin family who has a close relationship with Emperor Qisheng to become a member of the princeling party——

It is difficult enough for the prince to have Duke Rong who is trusted by Emperor Qisheng, but if there is another Lin family, when will they wait until the prince falls?

The stronger the Lin family is, the more they will attract the attention of others and then target them.

"But why did they choose to attack the child?" Mother Lin couldn't figure it out.

Jia Shu also found it strange at first, because all the arrangements in Hu's yard were aimed at the two children she had conceived before, and unlike Lin Ruhai's previous attempts to test Lin Ruhai, this group of people directly attacked to death.

But Mother Lin's reaction just now gave her the answer.

The Lin family has few descendants, and they value the succession of their descendants far more than others. Even if Jia Shu doesn't care much about having children in this life, Mother Lin and Lin Ruhai don't care.

If Jia Shu's miscarriage hurts his body, and it will be difficult to get pregnant in the future, Lin Ruhai will have to take a concubine no matter whether he is active or passive.

As a regular wife, no one can tolerate her husband's concubine——

Even if the princes don't know about this point, there are always one or two of his staff who have a clear understanding of it.

Furthermore, Jia Shu and Lin Ruhai still have the pain of losing their son.

When the time comes to provoke a few more words, how can Jia Shu and the Lin family be as harmonious as they are today?

……

Jia Shu's thinking reached this point, and he also knew that the person the other party really wanted to deal with was himself.

Ever since Jia Shu married into the Lin family, she has been in charge of the Lin family's affairs, with the pearls and jewels from the Caizhuang Pavilion in front of her—Jia Shu hadn't married into the Lin family at that time——the Lin family's bookstore made some noise, and it seemed that nothing would happen. So strange.

What kind of people are Lin Ruhai and Lin's mother, and what abilities do they have, as long as those who are interested are willing to investigate, they can get news from their relatives and friends without wasting a lot of manpower.

They don't seem like the kind of people who can come up with such a money-making and fame-making idea, which is not at all noble.

Only Jia Shu, who has a vague connection with Caizhuang Pavilion and Lin Family Bookstore, but has been hiding behind Lin Ruhai and the Lin family, and can only occasionally hear her existence from Lin Ruhai's mouth, is more likely to be the real one. The person who helped Lin Ruhai and the Lin family gain a lot of fame and brought a lot of wealth to the Lin family——

It is not surprising to guess this point, because neither Lin Ruhai nor Lin Mu is the kind of person who is willing to take credit for her.

If there is no accident, Jia Shu, the wife who loves Lin Ruhai and his wife, will definitely be caught in the backyard house fight ).

If Jia Shu really had a quarrel with the Lin family, the Caizhuang Pavilion would have little impact, but the Lin family bookstore, which is now gaining momentum, will definitely be unable to continue and be replaced by other competing bookstores.

If Emperor Qisheng still wants to continue to cooperate with the Lin family, then the Lin family bookstore can be changed to another owner, or the principal who is pushed to the surface, can only be changed to one person, and this person is also obvious;

If Emperor Qisheng was disappointed with the Lin family bookstore and wanted to change his partner, that would be even better. There is no more suitable partner than that person: noble and talented, with suitable talents, and a suitable reputation among civil servants.

The one who was framed by Hu Yao during the fall of the head of the academy, suffered a great loss, and even almost lost his mother's family...

Your Highness the Third Prince.

No matter what the third prince's temperament is, his reputation of being fond of reading and being brilliant has spread among scholars.Moreover, in order to maintain his reputation among scholars, most of the properties under his name are relatively elegant bookshops and teahouses.

Whether it is to take over the well-known Lin family bookstore, or directly use his own bookstore to cooperate with the emperor, the convenience that the third prince has is too great.

Even Qishengdi, knowing that it will be profitable, would he still pass the benefits to other people?

If the fat and water don't flow to outsiders, the third prince is obviously the most suitable candidate.

But without probing, he directly attacked her...

Is the third prince's mind too small?

Yes, because the Lin family might help the prince, so he wanted to deal with the Lin family, and even deal with her, the head wife of the Lin family who helped the Lin family.

That's fine.

But on the premise of never testing the attitude of the Lin family, he directly made a move, and directly pinpointed the issue of the lifeline of the Lin family's heirs. form a death feud...

The third prince obviously didn't pay much attention to the Lin family, and was not afraid of the Lin family's revenge at all.

Of course, what made Jia Shu suspicious of the thinking of the third prince and his staff behind him the most was that he had treasoned against the enemy for the chair under his own father's buttocks before he was dead.

However, it may also be because the third prince has already mixed in with a highly trusted staff member from an enemy country.

This made the third prince even more incompetent. After all, the dignified prince was touched by the enemy's spies, and he was directly instigated against him without even a little bit of character.

Jia Shu: "...if the emperor knows what the third prince has done, he might die of anger!"

Mother Lin was shocked by Jia Shu's guess, but after thinking about it, she felt that what she said made sense.Mother Lin knew the character of the third prince and Qisheng Emperor better than Jia Shu, so she said: "The third prince is small-minded, most of us who are often in contact with the royal family are well aware of it, and we are very careful not to pay attention to it." Offend him."

Jia Shu raised his eyebrows: "Then he chose to cooperate with the enemy country, is it also because of the idea of ​​'what I can't get, you can't get it easily'?"

For the first time, Mother Lin opened her mouth wide without caring about her image, but after she blinked, she admitted with some difficulty: "With the third prince's temper, it's really possible."

She added another sentence, "The prince is the most favored by the emperor today, followed by the third prince who is very talented in reading. He and the eldest prince can be said to have a literary and military skills, and they are both the right-hand man chosen by the emperor for the prince."

Jia Shu paused for a moment, then hesitated and said, "So His Majesty deliberately raised and abolished the First Prince and the Third Prince?"

"It's not enough to raise the disabled," Mother Lin shook her head, "but because the eldest prince and the third prince are close in age to the prince, when the emperor raised the two princes at the beginning, he taught them all the skills that a courtier should have. The real one Your Majesty never taught the two princes the way of being a king."

"The first prince is reckless, but his achievements in the military are quite valued by generals; the third prince has a complicated mind, loves superficial skills, and his talent in reading has earned him enough reputation among literati."

Lin's mother frowned, "It's just that after the Holy Majesty saw that the reputation of the two princes among the civil and military officials seemed to surpass the crown prince's, he simply trapped the two in the palace and did not let them have any contact with the civil and military officials. Over the past few years, the reputation of the two has been replaced by the wise prince, and they can no longer threaten the status of the prince."

Jia Shu squinted his eyes: "Mother is saying that the third prince's biggest reliance on winning the heir is not his mother's family, but his good reputation among literati, even civil officials?"

Mother Lin nodded, then realized something, and opened her eyes slightly.

Jia Shu also thought of it: "So the third prince will attack me directly. Apart from wanting to seize the Lin family bookstore and prevent the Lin family from helping the prince, the biggest reason is that Ru Hai's reputation among scholars surpasses him?"

In other words, the third prince is very displeased with Lin Ruhai's current reputation among literati, but he wants to snatch Lin Ruhai's current reputation into his own hands, so as to compete with the prince.

Lin's mother couldn't figure it out: "But the emperor was able to directly cut off his channel to build his reputation among literati because of the threat of the crown prince's status before, how could he still agree to let the third prince take over the Lin Family Bookstore?"

Thinking of the ending where the crown prince left the title of "Prince Yizhong" in the red building and left nothing else, Jia Shu said lightly: "The emperor was able to suppress the eldest prince and the third prince in order to protect the prince, but now he may not be able to do so. will do that."

Although there are still more than 20 or [-] years before the plot of the Red Mansion begins, the conflict between the prince and Emperor Qisheng cannot happen in a day——

The relationship between the two was so good at first, even if Emperor Qisheng suddenly realized that the prince was threatening his status, he would not be able to immediately suppress the prince desperately, and even force the prince to rebel soon.

If this is the case, the relationship between him and the prince will have to be questioned.

But the prince in the Red Mansion can still have a very good one after something bad happens, which is much better than the title of Prince Zhongshun, the son who has done nothing wrong. fake?

Mother Lin didn't think Jia Shu's worry was a problem at all: "In the first two years, the Holy Majesty would occasionally reprimand the Crown Prince, but in the past two years, the relationship between the Holy Majesty and the Crown Prince has become much better than before."

Jia Shu was taken aback for a moment, realizing that this was probably due to Jia Daishan.

She blinked: "Then we can try to tell the emperor about this..."

"No." Mother Lin's first reaction was to refuse.

Jia Shu was puzzled: "Why not? What the third prince is doing now is not only trying to seize the heir, he has even got involved with the enemy country. If the emperor is not prepared as soon as possible, if the third prince really comes to a desperate situation in the future , directly telling the secrets of Da Xia to the enemy spies, wouldn’t we have become sinners?”

Mother Lin sighed: "But we are just guessing, there is no evidence at all to point out that all this was done by the third prince."

Jia Shu was slightly taken aback, yes, although they concluded from the results that the third prince might be the mastermind behind everything, and he even colluded with the spies of the enemy country to murder the wife of the Earl Chaopin.But without evidence, how could Emperor Qisheng choose to believe them and doubt his son.

Things are at an impasse.

Jia Shu intends to use his abilities to go to the third prince's mansion - just last year, the eldest prince, third prince, fourth prince, and fifth prince all went out of the palace to build their own mansions - to find evidence, but this kind of thing cannot be told to Lin Mu , she can only choose to shut up.

Just when the two were talking, Lin Ruhai was also drinking tea with a distinguished guest who had never met before in a booth on the second floor of the teahouse.

On this day, Lin Ruhai was busy with the work of compiling the book, and went to work on time, and wanted to go home to have dinner with her mother and Ruo Sang.Unexpectedly, as soon as he left the entrance of the Imperial Academy, he was stopped by an eunuch dressed as a servant: "Scholar Lin, my master is here to invite you."

The voice of the eunuch is different from that of ordinary people, and Lin Ruhai is very familiar with it during his duty in the Imperial Academy.

Knowing that the person who came to him must be a certain prince, even though he didn't want to, he could only follow behind the eunuch and go to the place where the prince is now.

The capital city is huge, and there are many famous teahouses, but the most famous one is Miyang Tower, which was owned by Emperor Qisheng when he was still in his residence.

As we all know, Mi Yanglou was recorded in the name of the prince after the prince was born.

Lin Ruhai just arrived at Miyang Tower, and her heart kept beating.

When he actually saw the owner of the little eunuch, he became panicked: "His Royal Highness!" He bowed and saluted.

Prince Tuluo got up with a smile, walked to Lin Ruhai and bent down to help him up: "Ruhai is no more polite!"

After the eunuch set the tea on the table next to the prince, the prince directly led Lin Ruhai over to sit down: "I have admired Ruhai's talent for a long time, but I have not been able to see him because of trivial matters. Today I just have the opportunity to leave the palace. Order someone to invite you here, but don't care about the solitude and abruptness."

What else can Lin Ruhai say?Of course, I can only say: "Going back to His Royal Highness, it is my luck to be summoned by His Highness."

The smile on the prince's face became more and more gentle: "Why should Ruhai be self-effacing? Even the emperor looks at you differently. Presumably, he thinks that Ruhai's talent and ability far exceed others, and he is a person worth making friends with."

Lin Ruhai bowed his head: "This humble minister is terrified."

The prince pretended to be angry: "Didn't you say before that you don't need to be too polite? If Hai is like this again, Gu will be angry."

The crown prince is a king and he is a minister, what else can Lin Ruhai do?

He had no choice but to smile at the prince, then picked up the tea on the table, savoring it carefully as if he had drunk something delicious.

The prince didn't care, and just sat opposite him, waiting for Lin Ruhai to drink a cup of tea, and then picked up the teapot to add tea to Lin Ruhai.

Lin Ruhai stood up in fright.

But seeing the smiling eyes of the prince, he had no choice but to suppress his anxiety and sat down again.

"I heard that the ancestors of Ruhai are a famous scholarly family, and I think they have a lot of research on tea, but what kind of tea is this?"

Tasting tea requires meditation and concentration, but Lin Ruhai only cared about dealing with the prince just now, so how can he judge whether the tea is good or not?

But that tea was really good tea, the fragrance of tea still remained between Lin Ruhai's lips and teeth.

After calmly discerning, he carefully replied: "But Wuyi Dahongpao?"

The prince burst out laughing immediately: "Ruhai really loves tea." He asked again, "Can Ruhai taste more?"

Lin Ruhai said ashamedly: "I'm not good at learning, so I can't taste more."

The prince waved his hand indifferently: "What's the matter? Ru Hai is already blessed with reading, and it is obvious that he has made great efforts to achieve his current achievements at a young age. It is a great thing to know the origin and variety of tea after drinking a cup of tea.”

Even though Lin Ruhai was on guard in his heart, after hearing this, he couldn't help but feel ironed in his heart.

After that, the atmosphere between the two became much better.

But until the palace was about to be locked and the prince left, Lin Ruhai didn't know why the prince asked him to meet at the teahouse.

Lin Ruhai returned to the Lin family hungry.

Jia Shu and Lin's mother stopped talking when they saw him enter the house.

Lin Ruhai greeted Mother Lin first, and then looked at Jia Shu: "Ruosang, have the two children cried today?"

Jia Shu got up and walked to him, shaking his head: "With the mother taking care of me, what is there to worry about? The two children are also well-behaved. They only cried a few times when they were hungry and wanted to change their clothes. The rest of the time they played quietly by themselves. Son."

Lin Ruhai smiled, and then took Jia Shu's hand to say goodbye to Lin's mother: "Mother, son and Ruosang go back to the house and change their clothes, and come back later for dinner." He said, stroking his stomach, " My son drank a lot of water today, so don't have too much soup for dinner."

Mother Lin responded with a smile, and the two left.

When the two returned to Mother Lin's room again, two tables were already filled with dinner.Lin Ruhai looked up and found that many of the dishes were his favorite, and as he asked before, there was only one soup.

Jia Shu let go of Lin Ruhai's hand and walked to Mother Lin's side, while Lin Ruhai occupied the table by himself.

The two children were held in the arms of the nanny, and their pearly eyes turned around on Jia Shu and the three of them. Other than that, they were very well-behaved and did not make any other movements.But Pippi, unwilling to be lonely, broke free from the shackles of her swaddling clothes, stretched out her two paws, and waved them in the direction of Jia Shu, yelling ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh Mhhhhh howhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.

This was the first time such a situation had happened, Jia Shu and the three of them couldn't help looking in Pippi's direction while they were eating.

Seeing that the adults were all looking at him, Pippi waved her two chubby little arms more vigorously.Of course, he barked even more vigorously.

Jia Shu had no choice but to turn his head and stare at Pippi.

But Pippi thought that Jia Shu was looking at him, grinning with a small toothless mouth and screaming, and his fleshy body also tilted in Jia Shu's direction.Fortunately, the nanny kept holding him and didn't let him mess around.

Pippi got angry, turned to look at the nanny who was holding him, frowned, stared at her with a pair of black eyes, and punched the nanny's chest from time to time.

It is also very fierce!

But he is not a strong Zhuzhu, but even if the three-month-old Pippi hits the nanny with all his strength, it will not hurt or itch.On the contrary, the nanny was worried that he would hurt her hand if he kept hammering herself, so she quickly grabbed his paw and stuffed it directly into the swaddle.

Pippi: "..." Ahhh!

Beside Zhuzhu heard the sound, turned her head to look at Pippi, and soon turned her head bored, even raised her paw to cover her small mouth and yawned a little.

Jia Shu and the other three watched happily, and the speed of eating slowed down.

When the two children arrived at one o'clock and began to doze off, the three adults finished their dinner.

Jia Shu waved to the nanny: "You take the two children back to the yard, feed them and put them to sleep."

The nanny should be, and then left Mother Lin's house with the two children in her arms.

Mother Lin said to the maid in the room: "You go out first."

When there were only the three of them left in the room, Jia Shu looked at Lin Ruhai: "Why did my husband come home so late today? Did you go to have tea with your colleagues?"

Thinking that when Lin Ruhai came back, she said that she drank a lot of tea, she would have this problem.

Lin Ruhai frowned, as if she didn't know how to speak.

"What's the matter? But someone made things difficult for you?" Lin's mother asked him worriedly, thinking that he had encountered something difficult.

Lin Ruhai shook his head: "It's not that someone is embarrassing me, it's just...today my son paid off on time, but just as he walked out of the gate of the Imperial Academy, he was stopped by the eunuch next to His Royal Highness the Prince."

Because of the uneasiness in his heart, Lin Ruhai told the conversation with the prince in the afternoon without saying a word.

After hearing this, Jia Shu and Lin Mu both had thoughtful expressions on their faces.

Mother Lin glanced at Lin Ruhai, and spoke first: "If my mother remembers correctly, you should have never met His Royal Highness the Crown Prince before?"

Lin Ruhai nodded: "At first, my son thought it was the prince who wanted to see me, but he was led to Miyang Tower by the eunuch, and then met the prince."

The prince is different from other princes, because of his status, he cannot go out of the palace to build a mansion.But the entry and exit of the palace are strictly guarded, even the prince cannot leave the palace easily——

Even if he wanted to leave the palace, he had to inform Emperor Qisheng.

But it was the crown prince who wanted to see him, and made people wait at the gate of the Imperial Academy, which made it hard for Lin Ruhai not to think about it.

Lin's mother thought for a while, and said, "Is the crown prince trying to win over the Lin family for Duke Rong's sake?"

Lin Ruhai had some thoughts in his heart: "My son doesn't think it's right. If the crown prince really wanted to win over the Lin family for Duke Rong's sake, he wouldn't have waited so long to see me."

It has been almost three years since the engagement between the Lin family and the Jia family, to the marriage between Lin Ruhai and Jia Shu, and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has never deliberately wooed the Lin family.

Lin Ruhai saw the real prince for the first time today.

Jia Shu obviously thought of something with Lin Ruhai: "The daughter-in-law also thinks that it is impossible for the prince to look at her husband differently because of Duke Rong. The daughter-in-law even thinks that the prince may have thought that the Lin family and the Jia family were related by marriage before, so he was naturally tied to him." We are together, so I have no intention of spending more time on my husband."

If Jia Shu's words are true, then the prince obviously didn't take Lin Ruhai seriously before.

In fact, otherwise, how could the prince find time to meet Lin Ruhai after the marriage between the Lin family and the Jia family.

"But it's different now. First, the husband became a servant, and then he got the favor of the Holy One, and then the Caizhuang Pavilion and the Lin Family Bookstore cooperated with the Holy One. The relationship between the husband and the Holy One is obviously no longer an ordinary monarch. Attitude can also be called a favor." Jia Shu glanced at Lin Ruhai, "But for such a big matter, we never took the initiative to find the prince from the beginning to the end..."

"The prince probably also saw our plan, and at the same time, he didn't want to give up the fat of the Lin family, which was already on his lips. That's why he came to my husband and tried to win him over."

"But the prince didn't mention anything else today." This is what makes Lin Ruhai uneasy.

It's not surprising that the crown prince wanted to win him over, but he just invited him to drink tea, but he never said a word of win-win, not even mentioning Rong Guogong, which always made him wonder if the crown prince had other schemes.

Before Jia Shu could speak, Lin's mother glared at him: "The crown prince wants to win you over, condescendingly treats you to tea, and praises you for being so kind, isn't it enough?"

Lin Ruhai stared: "That's it?"

Mother Lin smiled: "Otherwise, what else can I do? These princes and grandchildren are distinguished and proud. How could they tell you bluntly that they want to win you over? Inviting you to drink tea is the olive branch that the crown prince gave you."

Lin Ruhai was in a hurry: "Then I didn't refuse, did I become a princeling in the future?"

If he hadn't been related to Emperor Qisheng, Lin Ruhai would only be happy to receive the invitation from the prince.But the Lin family has already been bound together with the emperor, so it is very safe, how could they still be willing to get involved in the muddy waters of Duoyi?

That's something that could be ransacked and exterminated if you don't pay attention.

Now it was Jia Shu's turn to stare at him: "The prince invites you to drink tea, just to show his attitude that he wants to win you over. If you accept his invitation, give him a gift, or ask Duke Rong to give him a gift." He brought a sentence. Asking someone to help you seize the heir, can you buy and sell by force?"

Lin Ruhai smiled embarrassingly: "My husband is just too shocked to see the prince, and I haven't reacted yet."

Jia Shu didn't expose his intentions: "In the future, there may be other people who invite you to drink tea. If it's a minister, you just refuse it, but if you can't refuse it, you just go, just don't agree to anything casually. "

His Royal Highness the Crown Prince handed over the olive branch to Lin Ruhai, maybe he didn't intend to force it, but he is the Crown Prince, so he has confidence.But the other princes would not drink tea with Lin Ruhai and not dig holes for him.

Lin Ruhai nodded naturally.

Jia Shu and Mother Lin looked at each other, paused, and said again: "But if the Third Prince seeks you, you must not agree."

Lin Ruhai was taken aback: "Why?"

He clearly said before that whether it is the crown prince or other princes who want to win him over, as long as they don't agree to their request, they can go to their appointment in order not to offend them.

With a sullen face, Jia Shu recounted what happened at Hu's today.

Lin Ruhai grabbed Jia Shu's hand after listening, "Ruosang, will the medicine cause harm to your body?"

Jia Shu froze for a moment, then shook his head: "After I came back, I had Dr. Li examine it carefully. Because of the short contact time, my body was not affected."

Lin Ruhai didn't care about it at first, but now she was a little anxious: "If you are pregnant..."

Jia Shu hurriedly interrupted: "What are you thinking? How long has it been since I was confinement? How could I be pregnant so soon?"

Even if she is prone to pregnancy, Lin Ruhai is not.

Lin Ruhai was still a little worried.

Jia Shu quickly grabbed his hand: "Ruhai, don't worry, I will never have a child."

Lin Ruhai was stunned: "Why?" Didn't they have sex yesterday?

Jia Shu sighed, "I have taken contraceptive measures."

It is very difficult to get pregnant, and it depends on luck, but if you want not to get pregnant, it is really too simple.

She was pregnant with two children in her first child. Even if the birth went well, the pregnancy itself consumed too much of her body. Not only in the previous month, she even decided that in the past two years, she would not plan to Have another child.

No matter what, you have to take good care of your body before thinking about having children.

But she didn't tell Lin Ruhai about her contraception, and now she said it in front of Lin's mother. She was a little worried about Lin's reaction.

Surprisingly, Lin's mother smiled and nodded to her instead: "It's a good thing that you can take care of your body." Seeing Jia Shu's eyes puzzled, she explained, "I hurt my body in order to ask for a child, and I gave birth to a child. After Ruhai, I asked the imperial physician to help recuperate, the imperial physician once told me that after a woman gives birth, it is best not to get pregnant again within a year."

Jia Shu breathed a sigh of relief.

Lin Ruhai cared about Jia Shu, so when she heard that it was good for her health, she naturally had no objection.

After finishing their business, Lin Ruhai and Jia Shu quickly bid farewell to Mother Lin and returned to their yard.

Early in the morning of the second day, Lin Ruhai went straight to duty after finishing his breakfast.

But the news that the prince had an appointment with Lin Ruhai yesterday might have spread, and he just walked to the gate of the Imperial Academy, and saw several young servants standing at the gate.Lin Ruhai hesitated for a moment, but walked over.

But before reaching the door, those eunuchs rushed to Lin Ruhai——

"Lin Xueshi, my lord has something to do today, and I would like to invite Lin Xueshi to have a meal in Zhencui Pavilion."

"Bachelor Lin, my lord has something to ask you for advice. If you are free after finishing the value, please come to Yueyang Tea House to talk with me."

"Bachelor Lin, the younger one is..."

"Bachelor Lin..."

It sounds like these people are officials that have nothing to do with the prince, but Lin Ruhai is not stupid, so he naturally knows who is standing behind these people.

Counting the number of servants, Lin Ruhai found out in astonishment that apart from the crown prince and the fourth prince, all the grown-up princes who wanted to fight for the heir had sent someone to invite him.

This is the first time for Lin Ruhai to feel the madness of seizing the heir, and what kind of position the Lin family is standing in now——

If you don't pay attention, you may be smashed to pieces.

Because of this, Lin Ruhai became more and more determined to stay away from seizing the throne and hugging Qi Shengdi's thigh tightly.

Thinking of Jia Shu's explanation, Lin Ruhai cupped his hands apologetically: "Please also tell my lords that there is something at Lin's family, and I must go home as soon as possible after finishing my work today. I have failed your lords' love, and please tell my apologies."

The boys looked at each other in blank dismay. They originally thought that there were so many people here today, and only one person could successfully invite Lin Ruhai, so they tried their best to impress Lin Ruhai, but who knew that the other party rejected everyone?

Those little servants still wanted to say something, but in the end they could only make way for Lin Ruhai to enter the Imperial Academy.

After Lin Ruhai entered the door, he went straight to the library where the book was compiled without stopping at all.

It wasn't long before someone came in to call him.

Lin Ruhai was busy repairing books, when he heard someone calling him, he was stunned for a moment, and then said: "Is someone looking for me?"

Ji Ru nodded: "I'm looking for Eunuch He who is beside the emperor."

When Lin Ruhai heard the surname, he immediately trembled, and his whole body became sober: "Brother Ji, please send a message."

Ji Ru waved his hand and walked directly to his seat.

Lin Ruhai hurried to see He Wenyi: "Eunuch He, I don't know why the Holy Majesty summoned me?"

As he spoke, he gave He Wenyi a purse.

He Wenyi turned upside down, and a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth: "Scholar Lin has to be careful with his answers today. Your Majesty knows that the Crown Prince invited you to meet at the teahouse yesterday."

Although the crown prince is the heir apparent, it is not out of the ordinary to summon a bachelor attendant, but who made Lin Ruhai so popular recently?

Lin Ruhai appreciated it and thanked He Wenyi.

"Tell me, what did you talk about when you met the crown prince in the teahouse yesterday?" Qi Shengdi narrowed his eyes, with a smile on his lips, as if he was no different from when he met Lin Ruhai before.

But who is Lin Ruhai?Getting along with Jia Shu every day, can he not detect the difference in Qi Shengdi's attitude?

Lin Ruhai knelt down without saying a word.

Emperor Qisheng took a look at him, but this time he didn't let him "flatten".

Lin Ruhai became more and more sure that Emperor Qisheng was angry, and hurriedly replied: "Your majesty, the prince met with Weichen in Miyang Tower yesterday, and we only chatted for a while, drank a few cups of the best Dahongpao, and nothing else .”

Worried that Emperor Qisheng would not believe it, he also raised some words that the prince said and told Emperor Qisheng.

Emperor Qisheng didn't respond much. If the future king of a country he taught was still humbled to win over Lin Ruhai, he would be too disappointed.Emperor Qisheng narrowed his eyes and asked him casually: "Don't you feel happy when the prince praises you?"

Lin Ruhai was stunned, not knowing how to answer this question.

If he said he was happy, would Qi Shengdi feel that he had already taken refuge in His Highness the Crown Prince?After thinking about it, he still decided to use his experience with Jia Shu to answer directly: "My Majesty, I am naturally happy."

Emperor Qisheng raised his eyebrows: "Why?"

"His Royal Highness thinks that Weichen is talented, but it is more due to his own efforts to achieve his current achievements." Lin Ruhai's ears turned red, "This is different from other people who say that Weichen is born to study, and Wenquxing descends to earth. .”

"Do you prefer the prince's words?"

Lin Ruhai looked up at Emperor Qisheng: "Return to Your Majesty, it is true."

Qishengdi's depression dissipated, and he asked again, "What do you think of the prince?"

Lin Ruhai only felt that the questions the emperor asked today were all lies, but he was the emperor, and Lin Ruhai couldn't refuse to answer, so he could only say, "The prince is virtuous, and he is worthy of being my prince."

No matter how good it is, the prince is not just a prince in Lin Ruhai's heart.

Emperor Qisheng laughed: "I haven't seen you for a few days, but Lin Aiqing is more talkative than before."

Lin Ruhai blinked, did he answer correctly?

"My lord praises me!"

"stand up!"

Lin Ruhai breathed a sigh of relief and got up quickly.

Emperor Qisheng was in a better mood, so he was naturally in the mood to talk to Lin Ruhai about other matters: "I'm looking for you today to publish a book at the Lin Family Bookstore."

Lin Ruhai was stunned for a moment, didn't Emperor Qisheng suspect that he had joined the crown prince, so he asked him to test it?

Emperor Qisheng glanced at him, and he could see what was going on in Lin Ruhai's mind. He just felt that he was so different from the state of the fluent conversation just now, that he didn't look like the same person at all.

Fortunately, Lin Ruhai quickly reacted: "But the adults agreed to print the past test questions into a book and let the Lin family bookstore sell it?"

Emperor Qisheng nodded: "Those old foxes will naturally not agree so easily."

Lin Ruhai was a little anxious, but he heard Qi Shengdi say again, "But they dare not disobey my order, so it is finally confirmed that not only will you publish and print the test questions of the spring and palace examinations in the past, but also other books you want. I can buy the test questions from the Ministry of Finance. As for how they will layout and print the test questions after they get them, it is beyond my expectation."

Lin Ruhai panicked for a moment, but when he thought of the inventory in his printing workshop, he quickly calmed down again: "Your Majesty is wise!"

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Lin Ruhai ran directly to the house after he left, and didn't stop at the people standing at the gate of the Imperial Academy.

Those boys who waited around the Imperial Academy for a day and wanted to impress Lin Ruhai with their "sincerity" and let him follow them to meet their adults were all dumbfounded.

Several servants looked at each other with fear and sympathy for each other.

But this is also helpless, the human scholar Lin said early in the morning that he had something to do after the end of duty, and he had no time to attend the appointment. They themselves were afraid that the master would blame him for staying here, but in the end, they were all in vain. Can they still blame Bachelor Lin?

They were all prepared to be unfavorable in their affairs, and they would be beaten or deducted their monthly silver when they went back, but when they went to the place where their adults entertained Lin Xueshi, they said that they failed to invite Lin Xueshi.