[Red Mansion] Mrs. Lin, the Buddhist family

Emperor Qisheng was surprised to hear Lin Ruhai's name from He Wenyi's mouth by accident, but this matter is related to the safety of the border. The officer can handle it.

Emperor Qisheng thought for a while, and asked He Wenyi to call Dali Siqing to the upper study.

As soon as the minister of Dali Temple entered the upper study room, he knelt down and said, "Long live my emperor."

"Get up." Emperor Qisheng's brows were light, not angry, "Tell me, why did you catch those two spies from the enemy country so quickly this time?"

Although he gave Dali Temple a month, in fact, he never thought that Dali Temple could find people in such a short period of time, and even his own people, he didn't think they could find people so quickly .

He will set a time limit of one month, just to give the ministers and subordinates in charge of arresting people a sense of urgency.

Unexpectedly, Dali Temple not only caught the man in half a month, but also got an unexpected joy——

Directly followed the vine and uncovered the lair of two spies!

Dali Temple Minister told Qisheng Emperor the whole matter, and at the same time did not forget to give Lin Ruhai credit: "Before, Xu Shaoqing always wanted to find a way to improve the artist's painting skills. He always felt that the wanted portraits drawn by existing painters were not enough. Let the people recognize people, but there is no way. Unexpectedly, when we went to Xueshi Lin to inquire about the situation, we saw the portraits of two children at Xueshi Lin. Xu Shaoqing was shocked when he saw it. Heavenly beings, they keep saying that the person in the portrait seems to be coming out of it."

When Dali Temple Secretary spoke up to this point, he was a little hesitant to tell about Mrs. Lin's existence. Later, he still felt that, as a woman, it would not be a good thing for Mrs. Lin to be noticed by the emperor, so she simply concealed it.

"Because the portrait is of Xueshi Lin's two children, he didn't want to give the portrait to us, but he kindly reminded us that the painting techniques used in the portrait came from the West."

"It's just that when I found an artist who was good at the painting method called sketching, I was told that the other party had returned to China. I had no choice but to find Bachelor Lin again."

Speaking of this, Dali Temple Minister's eyes were full of praise, "Scholar Lin is worthy of being a genius who can win the position of Tanhua at seventeen. After learning about our predicament, he learned how to sketch in just a few days and went to Huzhou. I asked about the faces of the two spies from the enemy country, and drew two portraits. And it was by relying on Xueshi Lin's portraits that we were able to find Lingji and Shopkeeper Zhou."

After Qishengdi heard it, he became curious about the so-called sketch.But at the same time, he also sensed a sense of disobedience from Dali Siqing's words, but he couldn't figure out where the discord was.

He couldn't help looking at Dali Siqing with scrutiny: "What you said, is it true?"

Dali Siqing's heart skipped a beat, and he almost revealed Jia Shu's existence.But he still has some conscience after all. Xueshi Lin drew the portraits for them in order to help them work hard for several nights. He didn't want to expose Jia Shu's existence, so Dali Temple Minister naturally wouldn't do anything unnecessary.

What's more, everything he said was true, and he only concealed the existence of Jia Shu.

He just subconsciously felt that with the importance Lin Ruhai attached to his wife, he would not reveal in front of the emperor that she was the one who was really good at sketching.

But what I didn't expect was that Emperor Qisheng called Lin Ruhai to the upper study room for questioning, and he unceremoniously revealed the existence of Jia Shu.

"Back to the emperor, the person who is really good at sketching is actually the wife of this humble minister." Lin Ruhai finished speaking with her head bowed, with a look of pride on her face.

Dali Temple Minister: "..." I was a little confused.

Fortunately, Lin Ruhai did not reveal what he could hide.

"Because Zhuojing's works are not easy to spread to the outside world, the portraits of Lingji and Lingji were drawn by her, and then she taught the ministers a stroke, and finally copied them."

Dali Siqing was a little surprised, but he didn't expect this to happen.

Emperor Qisheng took his expression into his eyes, and misunderstood that Dali Siqing really didn't know, so he let go of his grudge.

"Your wife is also good at Western painting?" Emperor Qisheng was even more curious about Jia Shu.

Lin Ruhai nodded: "Madam learned from others when she was young, and she hasn't let go all these years."

Emperor Qisheng thought for a while: "Is there anything your wife can't do?"

Lin Ruhai's heart skipped a beat, and she shook her head subconsciously: "Madam is only good at business management, even sketching is not proficient. Sometimes I want to discuss poetry with Madam, but she can only answer a few irrelevant words."

Emperor Qisheng lowered his eyelids, no one knew what was going on in his heart.

Just when Lin Ruhai held his breath and was worried about whether he had said something wrong just now, Emperor Qisheng said, "Are you a girl..."

There is no more to say about the others.

Lin Ruhai clenched his fists, only feeling a little wet in his palms.

But in fact, Emperor Qisheng really didn't think about anything.Although he doesn't like the harem interfering in the government - the power in his hands was snatched from his grandmother - he himself prefers women with different styles, but they can only be born by him, but from courtiers and common people From a different perspective, he actually admires women who are talented, courageous, and dare to compete with men.

For example, his eldest daughter, Princess Duanmin.

It's just that his preference and attitude towards his own women has affected the ministers, making them think that he doesn't like capable women very much.

But Emperor Qisheng didn't care too much, after all, Lin Ruhai's wife's current talents are indeed only novel ideas in business, and a sketch learned from a foreigner that is very different from Daxia's painting skills——

Doing business is a talent that can help him fill his private treasury, but businessmen are lowly; sketching seems to bring great changes to the office of Dali Temple, but it is not Mrs. Lin's first creation, even after teaching others, her Existence becomes dispensable.

In general, this invisible Mrs. Lin has attracted the attention of Emperor Qisheng, but it is not enough to attract his attention.

Emperor Qisheng looked at Lin Ruhai, the corner of his mouth twitched: "Say, what reward do you want?"

This time, if he can pull out the enemy's spies lurking in the south of the Yangtze River in one fell swoop, Lin Ruhai's contribution will be too great.

Lin Ruhai said in her heart, I want a gold medal for avoiding death, can you give it to me?But he can't ask that.

After thinking for a while, he said, "Weichen's son is almost three years old, and please ask the Holy Majesty to confirm the position of the son."

The two children are very smart, especially Pippi, who was able to call "Mom" when she was more than seven months old, and "Daddy" and "Grandmother" when she was eight months old; Zhuzhu is slower , but at the time of eight months and almost nine months, these three words can also be called.

Since Lin Ruhai's two children could call people, and found that the children's bodies are very strong, and they are sure to grow up safely, they moved the idea of ​​asking the emperor in advance for the position of the son.

Just at this time, he had the opportunity, and he just made this request.

Emperor Qisheng was a little surprised: "Are you sure?" Although Lin Ruhai's contribution was not enough to promote him from earl to marquis, but if he accumulated it, he would make a great contribution next time... No, there is no need for next time, he even only needs to put the The completion of the book compilation work, and the addition of the two credits is enough to make the earl on his head a marquis.

Moreover, Lin Ruhai's son said that he was three years old, but in fact he was only born for more than nine months.

Lin Ruhai nodded again and again: "I am sure."

The Marquis will still have a chance to earn in the future, but the position of the son... If Lin Ruhai offends Emperor Qisheng or the next emperor in the future, they will ask him to set up a son, but they will not let him establish a son, or make a fool of himself. For other questions, he should cry.

Emperor Qisheng nodded: "Since you insist, then I will make an order for you."

A rightful position as the son of the world is exchanged for such a great contribution. Emperor Qisheng feels that he has earned it, so why not agree?

Lin Ruhai hadn't finished the value yet, and the imperial decree of Qisheng Emperor to enshrine his son followed He Wenyi to the Marquis of Wen'an Mansion.

Jia Shu and Lin's mother knelt on the ground, listening to He Wenyi read aloud the imperial decree enshrining Lin Ruhai's son as Wen'anbo's son, and their minds were a little dazed.

After taking the silver and sending He Wenyi away, Mother Lin and Jia Shucai stood up holding a child each.

Fortunately, the two children didn't like to cry, so there was no trouble when the imperial decree was read out.

The two returned to Lin's mother's yard. Since no one spoke, Pippi couldn't bear the loneliness, and seized the opportunity to call out "Mom, Mom".

If it was usual, when Jia Shu heard Pippi calling her, he would have picked her up and kissed her long ago——

Pippi also likes Jia Shu's kisses very much, so he calls for him whenever he has the opportunity.

Because of this, even Lin Ruhai and Lin's mother, who had always been dignified and reserved, began to kiss their two children, and the family relationship became a little closer.

It's just that the occasion was wrong at this time. After Jia Shu kissed his chubby face perfunctorily, he turned his gaze directly to Mother Lin: "Mother, is it easy to ask for the position of son?"

Lin's mother shook her head: "Ruhai directly took over Wen Anbo's title after his father died; there are several old friends of the Lin family, and one of the children is almost fifteen, and the request to establish a son has not yet been approved."

No one paid attention to him, Pippi pouted a little dissatisfied, and scratched Jia Shu's body with two small hands, but Jia Shu just brushed him away carefully, without looking at him.Pippi suddenly lost his temper, and he didn't move around, just opened his mouth like a small trumpet and didn't know what he was talking about, but it was very noisy.

Jia Shu looked down at him, and Pippi immediately grinned and giggled. The two newly emerged teeth were like rice grains stuck to his gums, which was very funny.

As a result, Zhuzhu in Lin's mother's arms called out "brother", and Pippi immediately closed his mouth, and glanced at Zhuzhu's direction.

After Zhuzhu shouted, without looking at Pippi, she lowered her head and started playing with her hands.

Pippi pursed her lips, and stretched out her hand in the direction of Zhuzhu, wanting to go there.Jia Shu was really worried that Pippi, the stinky boy, would provoke Zhuzhu after being hugged to her side, and he could only cry when he was beaten up, so he quickly hugged him and turned around, not seeing his sister anymore. Only then did Pippi calm down, and smiled again at Jia Shu.

Mother Lin enjoyed watching, but Jia Shu lost his temper.

After a while, Jia Shu's eyes flickered: "Could it be that Lingji has news about Shopkeeper Zhou?"

The fact that the Lin family was able to have a son so quickly must be because of Lin Ruhai's great achievements.But for now, the only opportunity for Lin Ruhai to make contributions is to compile a book, but the project of compiling a book is huge, and it is far from being completed in a year or two.Other than that, it seems that only Ling Ji and shopkeeper Zhou have something to do with Lin Ruhai.

Lin's mother was quietly playing with the beads on her fingers, her expression moved slightly: "It shouldn't be so fast?"

It's not like the Lin family didn't send people to look for Ling Ji and shopkeeper Zhou before, but these two people ran away several months in advance, and they acted carefully. No one around knew where they went, and there was no way to find them.No matter how powerful the imperial court's troops are, it's impossible to arrest him in just over a month?

Jia Shu raised his eyebrows. This is true. Although there are portraits, modern arrest warrants still use photos directly. Isn't there also a suspect who has escaped for decades?

"Then why did Pippi's position as the eldest son be approved so quickly? We can only wait for Ru Hai to come back."

Mother Lin thought so too.

Pippi was hugged by Jia Shu, grabbed her hand and patted her stomach: "Hungry! Hungry!"

Jia Shu couldn't help laughing, and hurriedly asked the nanny to carry her to nurse her, and at the same time had someone bring up complementary food.

After drinking the milk, Pippi's stomach was only half full. When she was carried out by the nanny, a pair of black grape-like eyes stared straight at the custard in front of Jia Shu, "Eggy, Eggy!"

Only then did Jia Shu take him over and feed him egg custard spoon by spoon.

After feeding, the pig was carried out by the nanny. Jia Shu put Pippi into Mother Lin's arms, took her over, and continued to feed her spoonful by spoonful.

The two children usually have a good temper, but when they meet Jia Shu, they get a little rowdy.But most of the time, Zhuzhu will give way to Pippi, but when it's time to eat, if Jia Shu doesn't feed her, it's over, Zhuzhu can directly throw the bowl of custard on the ground.

When Lin Ruhai came back, the two children had already eaten and drank enough, and they were carried back to the house.

Mother Lin told him about the holy decree and asked him what was going on.Lin Ruhai didn't hide anything, and explained the ins and outs of the matter clearly.

"That's very good." Jia Shu said with a smile, "Otherwise, the emperor may give you a marquis directly after finishing the book."

Lin Ruhai waved his hands hastily: "If you really want the Marquis, the others don't know what to think."

He has risen fast enough in the officialdom, if the title also rises, there may be some gossip in the officialdom.

Mother Lin also meant the same thing, so the three of them looked at each other and covered their mouths and laughed.

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The Lin family's side is a good thing, but Jiangnan's side is tantamount to artificially setting off a big earthquake——

In less than three years, all the important officials in Jiangnan were changed, and the "thin horse", which had almost become Huaiyang's characteristics, also disappeared in this turmoil and was never seen again.

It's not completely gone, but on the surface, no one dares to raise a lean horse and send it to the official's house.

For a time, the atmosphere in the whole south of the Yangtze River was suppressed.

But that alone is obviously not enough.Emperor Qisheng was already quite troubled by the intertwined relationship in the south of the Yangtze River. As a wise emperor with great talent and strategy, as an emperor who wished to take all the power in the world in his hands, he had long wanted to wipe out Jiangnan. He has never been able to get in, and can only let him become the pocketbook of some of his sons, and the bank of some of his courtiers. He can withdraw money whenever he wants, and he doesn't take him, the emperor, at all.

But before arresting two spies from the enemy country, they pulled out several spies' lairs, followed the clues, and found many thin horse spies who had been sent to the minister's house...

You must know that those ministers who have skinny horses in their mansions are the mainstay of the court. If they are all taken down by these skinny horses, there may be a peaceful ending after the Great Summer.

Emperor Qisheng hated it so much, so as long as the ministers who accepted the spies from the enemy country were all dismissed without mercy, some of them were directly beheaded to show the public that they had been tricked by spies for a lot of information. .

No one dares to mess around at such a critical moment.

But after Emperor Qisheng locked up all the spies of the enemy country, he discovered that there was a big problem with the salt administration in the south of the Yangtze River.He didn't bother to say much. After people found out the problem, they arrested all the ministers behind the incident. As for the prince?He found an excuse for all of them, and was severely reprimanded in front of all the ministers when he went to court.

For the prince who waited too long in the south of the Yangtze River, Emperor Qisheng directly lowered his title.

Now even the capital has become jittery.

"These are really my good sons and ministers. They all reached out to the Jiangnan Yanzheng. I don't know how much money they have spent in these years!" The evidence of the princes and officials who took bribes was all thrown to the ground.

He Wenyi lowered his head, not daring to breathe.

Having been by Qishengdi's side for so many years, he knows better than anyone else that Qishengdi is furious, no matter who dares to tease the tiger's beard at this time, he can only be thrown to the ground and killed by him!

He Wenyi felt sorry for his life and dared not say a word.

But Emperor Qisheng would not just let him go like this: "Wen Yi, come and tell me, do these sons of mine still care about my father? Do they really care about the people of this world?"

He Wenyi shivered, and said carefully: "Back to the emperor, the other servants don't know, but the fourth prince should not attack Jiangnan..."

In fact, the fourth prince had no chance to attack Jiangnan at all.

There are too many monks and too little food, and the fourth prince does not have enough power in his hands. If he rashly intervenes in Jiangnan, he may be torn and swallowed by other forces that have long been entrenched in Jiangnan, and he will not spit out a single hair.

Originally, the prince should be mentioned at this time. After all, Emperor Qisheng loves the prince the most, but in the Jiangnan incident, the one who intervened the most is the prince. Even as the prince of Daxia, there are more than one skinny horse sent by a salt merchant in his backyard. !

One of them may even be an enemy spy.

There are also skinny horses in other prince's mansions, but the prince is the only one who takes the enemy's spies into the backyard!

Anyway, He Wenyi didn't dare to mention the prince at this time, otherwise he would get burned if he was not careful. He didn't know if the prince would be in trouble, but he would definitely be in trouble.

Oh, I forgot to mention that there is no skinny horse in the Fourth Prince's residence either.

But this time, it's because the Fourth Prince himself is not obsessed with beauty, and has a serious personality, so he doesn't like the origins of those skinny horses at all.

When He Wenyi mentioned the fourth prince, the anger in Emperor Qisheng's heart suddenly subsided a lot.

Even if he knew that the reason why the fourth prince didn't intervene in Jiangnan was because he didn't have enough power in his hands, but if he didn't intervene, he didn't intervene. Anyway, at this time, Emperor Qisheng looked at the fourth prince much more pleasingly than the prince.

After thinking for a while, he suddenly said, "Prince Xuan Si!"

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"Wenfeng, how many people do we have left in Jiangnan?"

"Return to Your Highness, there is not one left."

"Is there not one left?" The man's voice finally lost its usual planning and became sharp, "How much money did we spend on beauties to win over the officials in Jiangnan, but now you tell me, there are not one left?"

Wen Feng bowed his head: "His Royal Highness, those skinny horses we raised in the south of the Yangtze River have also been released by the imperial court."

Fearing that another spy from the enemy country would sneak into the mansion of the court minister through the identity of a skinny horse, all the skinny horses raised in Yangzhou were released, and many were even betrothed to others on the spot.

The loss is serious.

The man covered his chest, only feeling that his heart was bleeding!

But the root of the whole matter was actually because of the third prince who had been imprisoned in the mansion and was not allowed to leave for life.But if he approached the third prince because of this kind of thing, he would only get ridicule and gloat.

After serious thinking, the man turned his attention to Lin Ruhai: "It is said that the two portraits that led the people from Dali Temple to the south of the Yangtze River were made by Lin Ruhai?"

Wen Feng understood the meaning of the man's words almost immediately, but after hesitating, he said: "Your Highness, the Emperor now values ​​Lin Ruhai very much, and we have no way to take action against him."

"What about the entire Lin family?"

Wen Feng bowed his head: "Most of the Lin family's business is based on bookstores and teahouses, and this type of business relies on scholars." However, most of the officials in the DPRK and China are scholars.

It's not that there is no way to attack the Lin family, it's just that it is easy to be discovered after the attack.

At that time, it is very likely that they will steal chickens and lose money. If His Highness's identity is exposed, it will be bad.

"Where's his backyard?" If the man wanted to test Lin Ruhai at first, and if it worked, he wanted to try to win him over, but now he almost regards Lin Ruhai as a deadly enemy, wishing to get rid of him quickly.

Wen Feng smiled wryly, he wanted to deal with Lin Ruhai more than His Highness, but there was nothing he could do.

"There is only Jia's daughter in Lin Ruhai's house, and she hasn't taken a concubine yet." This is because he wanted to get Jia's daughter to the backyard of His Royal Highness before, but was rejected. He has been following the news from the Lin family, "Lin Ruhai even moved the courtyard directly When we arrived at Jia Shu's courtyard, we slept together in the same bed every night."

"It's impossible for a man to guard a woman all his life. If he doesn't take the initiative to ask for it, why can't you just stuff him?" The man vented his anger.

Wen Feng sighed: "I've tried everything except drugging." But Lin Ruhai just won't take the bait, what can he do?

The man also fell silent: "You have never given up on Jia's daughter?"

Wenfeng nodded: "Indeed."

Although His Highness didn't pay much attention to Jia's daughter, the most important thing about seizing the heirloom is not only the power behind it, but the money?Otherwise, they will reach out to the Jiangnan Salt Administration if they are crazy.

But in order to get Jia's daughter away, the primary purpose is to make her give up on Lin Ruhai.Only when she gives up her mind and enters His Highness's backyard in the future, can she be attracted by His Highness and thus serve His Highness.

It's just the final effect, so don't mention it.

The man suddenly thought of something: "Then Mrs. Lin Ruhai has a dowry maid named Chixia, you can go to her and try."

Wen Feng raised his head abruptly: "What does Your Highness mean?"

The man waved his hand: "It's just that I saved her before, but she seems to have misunderstood something. You can take this opportunity to test it out. It might be a useful pawn."

A smile appeared on Wenfeng's face: "I am determined to fulfill my mission!"