Daiyu of the Red Chamber owes no one

But it was said that Daiyu and Lin Ruhai were discussing in the study to find out whether the toxin contained in the rose dew that brother Zheng drank was aimed at Lin Feng or Concubine Zhen. Lin Ruhai didn't expect that Daiyu thought of a solution a moment earlier than herself.Lin Ruhai was surprised and proud at the same time. If Li Han was not still in the study, he would have gone behind the screen to pick up Daiyu to praise her.

After listening to the analysis of the father and daughter, Li Han was also thinking about how to go to the palace to investigate, so he stood beside Lin Ruhai frowning.Suddenly, Li Han's brows also relaxed, and he sighed in his heart: Why didn't I not think of it?

Lin Ruhai saw that Li Han's brows were also stretched, with a look of sudden realization, and wondered in his heart: Could it be that Li Han thought of it too?You really can't underestimate him.So Lin Ruhai asked: "Looking at Li Han's expression, he seems to have made up his mind. I will leave this matter to you. I wonder if Mr. Li would like to go to Zhen's house?" Grandpa Li in Li Han's mouth.

Li Han bowed his head and said: "Returning to the master, Grandpa Li and the brothers have never seen rose dew. If you want to do this, you should borrow the rose dew for me to have a look with Grandpa Li."

Lin Ruhai nodded and said, "It's easy to do, I just don't know what method Xiao Lihan is thinking of?"

Li Han then shared his own thoughts: "Just now, I heard from the girl that rose dew is a tribute in the palace, and ordinary officials and eunuchs can't get it easily, so I suspected that it came from the imperial concubine Zhen's palace. But little I thought to myself: Since Concubine Zhen has even rewarded the women's history in the palace, I am afraid that her mother's family will also be rewarded. If we go to the Zhen's house to find a bottle, and the one obtained by the Zhen's family is poisonous, the poison is naturally a shock. It was made for the imperial concubine, if the dew from the Zhen family is not poisonous, it is aimed at our family."

Lin Ruhai heard that Li Han's regulations were clear and reasonable, which was exactly what he thought in his heart, and he couldn't help sighing secretly: This Li Han is really talented, he has been among beggars for several years, and he has been waiting for a long time. mind.After thinking about it again, there are experts among the three teachings and nine streams, maybe Mr. Li has extraordinary insight and has already passed on Li Han's ability, so how can I underestimate him?Daiyu was not surprised, this Li Han was originally a general, so he was not surprised if he could think of it.

All three of them naturally thought of this method, and none of them would really want to travel thousands of miles to the palace to seek proof.So that day, Lin Ruhai handed over half of the remaining bottle of rose water to Li Han, and Li Han went to find Grandpa Li to find a way to sneak into Zhen's house to see if Zhen's house also had rose water.

A few days later, Li Han returned to Lin's house, but Lin Ruhai did not return from work that day.Li Han also remained calm, thinking: Master Shan found him that day, and explained the matter in detail, which shows that the master trusts him.This matter is so confidential, depending on whether he is Mrs. Lin's housekeeper or his wife, I only report it to the master.The girl is aware of this, but today the girl also goes to school at Mr. Liu's house, and there is a difference between men and women, so it's hard for me to find a girl.So Li Han just went back to his room as if nothing had happened, and waited for Lin Ruhai to come back.

When Lin Ruhai came back from get off work, he hurriedly changed his clothes before rushing into the study, and sent someone to say: The master asked the girl to go to the study too.This made Jia Min wonder: These two father and daughter often go to the study room to talk in the evening these days, and it takes half a day to talk, and Yu'er is so young, so she is not afraid of being tired.So I told Wang Momo who sent Daiyu to the study: You tell the master, even if you want to take the exam for Yu'er, don't be too busy. It is not enough to have a famous person like Mr. Liu to be a master.

Nanny Wang nodded naturally, and told Lin Ruhai all the words.Daiyu's father and daughter heard this, but they couldn't stop nodding and said, "Go back and tell your wife that we know how to behave."Just waiting for Wang Momo to step out of the study door, the father and daughter looked at each other and smiled.It turned out that Jia Min hadn't been informed about the rose dew yet, and Jia Min was only a father and daughter every day.

After Wang Momo went out, Daiyu still turned to sit behind the screen, and Lin Dacai led Li Han in.Li Han bowed to Lin Ruhai, and took out a bottle of rose dew from his bosom, which was still more than half of the bottle, no different from the bottle he brought out from Lin's mansion.Lin Ruhai saw it and asked, "The Zhen family doesn't have this dew?"

However, Li Han said: "Returning to the master, this bottle was obtained from the house of the second son of the Zhen family. Sure enough, the Zhen family also has rose dew. There is one more thing, I hope the master will forgive me for the crime of making up my own mind."

Lin Ruhai was taken aback for a moment, and asked: "It's easy to talk when you get up, although you are young, you are an old man in doing things, so even if you make your own decisions, there must be some reason."

Li Hanfang straightened up and said: "The young one thanked the master first. This time the young one went to Jinling, Grandpa Li has already accepted the young one as a disciple, this is one of them; this dew is taken by the master, the young master said: Since this dew is from the palace, if a bottle is missing for nothing, if the servants of the Zhen family are more careful, wouldn’t it be easy to find out? So my master exchanged the bottle given by the master with the bottle in the room of the second son of the Zhen family Yes. This is the second."

Lin Ruhai heard it, and said in a dumb voice: "Since that's the case, thank you, Master." He thought: Since the two bottles of dew have been switched, it's fine if all the dew in Concubine Zhen's room is poisonous, or if only the dew sent to the Lin family is poisonous. , that is also the Zhen family's own fault.Lin Ruhai thought again: Mr. Li can't blame him for acting like this.People in the Jianghu are fond of grievances and enmity, and they pay attention to distinguishing between grievances and grievances. If someone in the Zhen family is really poisoned because of this, they need not blame others.

Lin Ruhai wanted to order Lin Da to invite a doctor to come for a drug test, Li Han said again: "There is one more thing I need to go back to the master." Lin Ruhai asked what was the matter again?Li Han replied: "My little uncle is a master of poisoning. He has already tested it. The rose dew from the Zhen family does not contain poison. My little uncle will definitely make a mistake."

Lin Ruhai was stunned for a while, covered his heart and nodded angrily, "Since that's the case, I'd like to thank Uncle Zun for me. In the future, if you need help from Mr. Lin in the Zunshi Guild, as long as it doesn't violate the laws and morals of the country, Mr. Lin will never postpone it." .”

However, Li Han laughed and said: "Master saved my young life, and my ex-son donated a large sum of money to the beggar gang on the first day of the year. Master, the old man said that our beggar gang has accepted Lord Lin's love, and this time it is just a matter of effort. Lord Lin, don't worry about it."

Lin Ruhai had heard of the Beggar Gang, which was once the largest gang in Jianghu, and made great efforts to resist the Mongolian Yuan invasion at the end of the Southern Song Dynasty.Later, Mongolia's iron hooves went south, and the vitality of the beggar gang was severely injured, and its activities gradually turned underground, but the emaciated camels were bigger than horses. Although the current beggar gang has kept a low profile, its strength is still not to be underestimated.

After finding out the truth, Lin Ruhai told Li Han: "You have worked hard these days, go down and rest earlier. Since you have already worshiped Mr. Li as your teacher, you don't need the riding and archery master I invited you to practice martial arts. , I will resign the master of riding and archery in another day, so as to save you from too much homework, so busy that you don’t know the time, and it will delay your growth. I don’t know what it means to respect the teacher. In terms of writing, do you respect the teacher to teach you personally, or are you still studying in the academy?"

Li Han replied: "The master explained, let me still learn from the master." Lin Ruhai nodded and said: "Since that is the case, I also respect the master, and I will definitely teach you well." Li Han thanked himself , backed out.

Daiyu came out from behind the screen. The father and daughter looked at each other, discussed a few more words, and went back to their rooms.

Zhen Yingjia is not a kind person, she has done many violations of law and discipline, some of which Lin Ruhai has obtained evidence for.The reason why Lin Ruhai hesitated to do anything was because he was thinking about a family like the Zhen family, a centipede is dead but not stiff, and with the protection of the noble concubine Zhen in the palace, the sage may not punish the Zhen family severely.Originally, he planned to wait for the real fight in the palace, when Concubine Zhen Guifei was too busy to take care of herself, she would attack Zhen Yingjia, so that she would surely hit the blow and prevent him from turning over.

But Lin Ruhai also thought that if the Zhen family really did something to Lin Feng again this time, they wouldn't have to bear it any longer.I don't want the Beggar Gang to teach the Zhen family a lesson first.It's better to wait for a few days first, if later it is heard that Zhen Baoyu was indeed poisoned, and Zhen Yingjia will suffer the consequences, she doesn't have to reveal the truth in advance.

Since then, Lin Ruhai, Daiyu's father and daughter spent less time muttering in the study.Jia Min didn't know what happened. Seeing that Lin Feng was getting better every day, Jia Min only thought that his elder brother had only been ill for a while. Now he is fine and happy. He discussed with Lin Ruhai about the enlightenment with Mr. Lin Rong, and other things Nothing else.

But half a month later, the steward came back and said: "Outside the Zhen family in Jiangnan is posting a list to invite a doctor. It is said that the second master of the Zhen family is ill, and all the famous doctors in Jinling have been searched to no avail. Now the list has come to Yangzhou."I don't know what kind of disease Zhen Baoyu got, why didn't he recover?

Jia Min didn't know why, but Lin Ruhai and Daiyu knew the reason.But Daiyu thought to herself: Brother Cheng will get sick after only taking rose dew once and a half times. When the poisoning is shallow, it will be fine after detoxification. Why does Baoyu of the Zhen family sound like a serious symptom?

It turned out that Lin Feng was seriously ill last year and his body was weak. He had recuperated for a year. Although he got better a lot, his tolerance was very limited. Therefore, he got sick after eating only one or two spoonfuls of rose water at a time, but the poisoning was not serious.This Zhen Baoyu was like a treasure in the family since she was a child, she raised a boy who was alive and well, and only drank rose dew once or twice, although he was poisoned, there was nothing wrong with him for the time being.After Zhen Baoyu drank most of the bottle of rose dew, when the symptoms broke out, the poisoning was much more severe than that of brother Reng. It is said that he is now demented and unresponsive.

Who in the Zhen family would have thought that Zhen Baoyu was actually poisoned?It was Dr. Xun from Zhen's family all over the south of the Yangtze River. Some well-known doctors in various prefectures also went to try their skills. In the end, an old imperial physician was used to seeing the underworld in the palace. He suspected poisoning and pricked Zhen Baoyu's finger with a silver needle. A slight blackening was confirmed.

Zhen Yingjia was furious, and investigated countless times why this bottle of poisonous rose water was in Zhen's house, but she didn't find any mistakes.In the end, Zhen Yingjia and his wife had no choice but to suspect that after poisoning, they accidentally took the two bottles by mistake.The person who gave birth to the poison was found by Zhen Yingjia herself in the Gu Sect. According to Mrs. Zhen's intention, she wanted to use the person from the Gu Sect to question her, and she had a quarrel with Zhen Yingjia at home.

After all, Zhen Yingjia is not as knowledgeable as Mrs. Zhen, the people of the Gu sect are elusive, and they are the best at poisonous Gu. If you offend them, they will haunt you, and even if you accidentally die of poisoning, you don’t even know how you died. How could he offend someone from the Gu Sect?Zhen Yingjia had no choice but to scold the maidservants beside Zhen Baoyu, but it was nothing more than using them to make her angry.Because Zhen Baoyu missed the best detoxification period, although he only ate half of the bottle and did not hurt his life, it hurt his head after all, he was a little dazed, and he was no longer as clever as before.