Officials are usually released every three years. After three years, they return to Beijing to report on their work and evaluate their work. It is best to stay in the capital if they can rely on their connections to get an excellent grade. In the capital city, it is also good to go up one level.It can be said that there are almost no such positions as Lin Ruhai who have been in office for four times.

The position of Xunyan Yushi is lucrative, but also hot, and there has never been an example of re-election.Lin Ruhai had ambitions in her heart, and she only thought that she would not be able to achieve anything in one term, and it would be better to serve in two consecutive terms.If you have merits and then move around, even if you can't be a minister of the six departments when you return to the capital, you must be a cabinet bachelor.Who would have thought that people are not as good as heaven, and the emperor actually canceled the assessment that year.Afterwards, Lin Ruhai couldn't go back even if he wanted to.

The water on the salt road is very deep.The first patrol salt censor left after two or three years, and the fur may not have been touched yet.And after Lin Ruhai stayed for so many years, even if he opened his eyes and pretended not to see, the black histories of various officials in his hands could fill half of the study.These pieces of evidence are like hot potatoes, neither should they be thrown away nor kept.

Not to mention the officials of Lianghuai, Lalin, who was all thinking of ways, went into the water like a sea.Even the emperor may not be willing to put these things on the table.It is a credit for corrupt officials to catch one or two typical models, and it is a disaster for a string of hundreds of numbers from top to bottom.So the emperor didn't mention letting Lin Ruhai return to Beijing at all, and let Lin Ruhai realize it by himself.

Who is Lin Ruhai? A smart person among smart people, even if he was dazzled by utilitarianism at first, he has calmed down a long time ago.By the third term, I knew that I was afraid that I would not end well.After Jia's death, he sent his daughter Daiyu to his ancestral home outside the capital.This unexplained illness is a signal that this fourth term will be his last, so don't think about the future.If Lin Ruhai was sensible, he would have died of illness like this.If he doesn't know the taste and insists on carrying it to death, then it is not his business alone, and it is not impossible to ransack the family and exterminate the family.

Therefore, Lin Ruhai's original plan was to die of illness and win a good reputation directly in office, but he didn't take the anomaly of Dai Ke into consideration.Not only did Dai Ke unknowingly make up for his deliberately broken body, but she also took advantage of the fact that he had just drunk the medicine and was confused, so she fooled him into agreeing to write a letter and called Dai Yu back.By the time he woke up, the letter had already been rushed to Rongguo Mansion.

Lin Ruhai really didn't want Daiyu to come back. Although the titles of the Jia family had been reduced to about the same level after several generations, and the few gentlemen held idle jobs in the imperial court, they were far away from the political center, just in time for Daiyu to grow up safely.

But ever since he met Jia Lian who sent Daiyu back, Lin Ruhai was at a loss again.

Jia Lian was not yet an adult when he first announced his marriage to Jia Min.Now that Lin Ruhai saw it, he was such a playboy.The fan in his hand has an ivory handle, and the landscapes and inscriptions on both sides of the fan are the autographs of two contemporary masters.This fan alone is worth more than a thousand pieces of gold.

When he came out to do errands, Jia Lian brought two handsome servants with him, and his clothes were still fragrant.When Lin Ruhai asked, Jia Lian didn't take it seriously, saying that all the men in the family were like this, and he was restrained.

If he just didn't want to make progress, Lin Ruhai wouldn't be so worried.When he asked about the situation of the two prefectures, what shops he had in his hand, and how the harvest of the farm was, Jia Lian was obviously a little vague, and only said that the balance of income and expenditure was reasonable. , he is a big man and doesn't care about these trivial matters.

There are thousands of people in Ningrong and Rongfu, how can they make ends meet with just a few errands and income from the land, and the families of several generations may be fine for a while, but it depends on Jia Lian's ostentation. I'm afraid I won't be able to survive for a few years if I sit and eat mountains and sky, and I will lose sooner or later.

A few days later, someone from the capital sent a letter, saying that Grandma Xiaorong in Ningguo Mansion was not well, and asked Jia Lian to help find some famous doctors.Jia Lian came to say goodbye to Lin Ruhai the next day after hearing the news, but Lin Ruhai didn't stay long.Although he felt that it was a bit crazy for a female family member in the next mansion to seek medical advice all over the world when she was sick, but Jia Lian could take advantage of this to leave, he couldn't just leave Jia Lian at the mansion and watch him find a way to kill himself.

According to Lin Ruhai's original plan, after his death, Daiyu must be accompanied by people from the Rongguo Mansion.The branch of the Lin family was already weak, and with the help of people from the Rongguo Mansion, Daiyu would definitely take away a lot of the family property.As for Dai Ke, a concubine must have a share of the dowry. Before he dies, he will marry Dai Ke, and the Lin family's house in Yangzhou will also be left to Dai Ke. After three years of filial piety, Dai Ke will marry. It is also worthy of this daughter.

But the Jia family's finances were in trouble, and Lin Ruhai dared not entrust the family property to such a Yue family.In the past ten years in Yangzhou, he has already saved millions of family fortunes.Not to mention the big head, but the filial piety of the salt merchants in the usual rituals, that is not a small number, it can be tens of thousands of taels of silver.In the beginning, Lin Ruhai bought some properties, but after seeing it through, not only did he put away his filial piety, he was not relentless, he also sold the shops under his name as soon as he could sell them, and besides the first few hundred mu of land for sacrifice, he didn’t keep any other mu, and all of them were converted into cash.

The money was originally intended to be left to Daiyu.Now Lin Ruhai is afraid that Daiyu won't be able to keep her wealth.

A few months after Daiyu came back, Lin Ruhai also tried to let Daiyu learn to be a housekeeper.After all, what a concubine can do, Daiyu, as his concubine, is extremely intelligent, so how could she not be able to do it.But Lin Ruhai is a man after all, and he still has some resistance to the trivial things in the inner house. He only said to let Daiyu learn, but he couldn't teach Daiyu anything.

And Daiyu has been pampered in Rongguo Mansion, and has never been exposed to these things.It is absolutely easy to tell her to recite poems and write poems, but she is a bit powerless in dealing with the housekeeper and director.Daiyu herself is very thoughtful, and if the housekeeper's daughter-in-law shirks a little, she will be overwhelmed.I thought too much, couldn't sleep all night and all night, and fell seriously ill within a few days.

This disease frightened Lin Ruhai.After a few months, he also got a rough idea of ​​his daughter's ability, the housekeeper is no good, even the big things in the future can't be told to her, otherwise just worrying can kill Daiyu alive.

There was no other way, Lin Ruhai had no choice but to focus on Dai Ke.

Lin Ruhai couldn't tell how she felt about this concubine.In the first six years, I didn't have such a child in my impression. Later, Daiyu was not by my side, and I mostly placed my heart on Daike.When Daiyu came back, he asked Daike for the right to be a housekeeper, and Daike gave it without saying a word. Province, almost without leaving home.

So sensible.

Sensible Lin Ruhai regretted why Dai was not from the Jia family.If it's a descendant, he doesn't have to hesitate, if Daiyu fails, everything will be left to Daike, the two sisters defected to their grandfather together, and they can support each other.However, Dai is a concubine and has nothing to do with the Rongguo Mansion, otherwise he would not have planned to keep Dai Ke in Yangzhou.

Just for Daiyu's sake, it's okay.If he wants to keep his family property, he can only count on Dai Ke. Dai Yu can be kept in the dark, but he has to explain clearly to Dai Ke and let Dai Ke go to Beijing with Dai Yu.

Dai Ke had been clean for a few months, when suddenly her mother-in-law came to say that Lin Ruhai wanted to see her, so she hurriedly changed her clothes and took a car to the front yard.Originally, Dai Ke suspected that Lin Ruhai was hiding something terrible in his heart, but when Lin Ruhai finished telling her with a serious face, she was still dumbfounded.

According to Lin Ruhai, either he died alone as soon as possible, or his family died together in a few years, there was no third choice.Dai Ke naturally didn't want to die, but she didn't want to go to Rongguo Mansion either.

"Father, are there no other relatives to count on?"

"If so, why would my father be in such a difficult situation? Doesn't my father know that you are too young to carry such a heavy burden?" Lin Ruhai shook his head, "Although the foundation of the Rongguo Mansion has been defeated, there is still a shelf to support it. , at least not until you marry your sister. As for the future, it depends on luck."

Dai Kexin said that it wouldn't take that long at all, and the Rongguo Mansion would be ransacked in a few years, but she couldn't tell Lin Ruhai about this, because Lin Ruhai didn't think she was frightened and hysterical.

"Your sister is not good at trivial matters. After much deliberation for my father, I can only entrust this family to you. Your mother's dowry was originally agreed to be given to your sister, and this father can't touch it. The rest, you You and your sister are half of each other, and I will never take sides as a father."

"Your sister's grandparent's house is just superficial now. If you really need help, don't be reluctant, but you can't be bullied. Your sister doesn't understand these things, so you have to worry about it. As for Yangzhou, this If you want to keep the house, you can keep it, if you don’t want to keep it, sell it.”

"Your sister's marriage is decided by the old lady of Rongguo Mansion, but your father doesn't know what to do. Originally, my father wanted to find you a good family in Yangzhou, but I couldn't worry about your sister, so I might wrong you gone."

At first, Dai Ke thought that what Lin Ruhai was rambling about was that people were about to die, and his words were kind.It sounds like something is wrong.What does wronging her mean?Although she is a concubine, she is still the concubine of a family of a third-rank official. It is not a problem for a high-ranking family to climb up, but it is no problem for a small family to be the main wife.

What Lin Ruhai means now is that he wants to learn from Yao and Shun by co-authoring, and let her marry Daiyu and take care of Daiyu for the rest of her life.Daiyu doesn't have the ability to be a housewife, but her younger sister does, so she should be a concubine for Daiyu's husband and take care of Daiyu's housekeeping, why!

Besides, Lin Daiyu is going to marry Jia Baoyu, the two of them are in love with each other, and the position of the aunt is still a hit.Xiren can even coax Mrs. Wang, so managing the house is a piece of cake?How hard is she to think about it, not to mention being a concubine, but also to fight with a maid for the right to housekeeping?

"What my father said is that I am lucky to be able to help my sister. It's just that my father's intentions are good, but if the old lady of the Rongguo Mansion is reluctant to part with her sister and keeps her by her side, how should my daughter deal with herself?" In this era, cousin The cousin can get married, even if there is no Jia Baoyu, there are still people with the surname Jia. If Daiyu married someone from the Rongguo Mansion, would she be needed to help Daiyu housekeeper?

"This..." Lin Ruhai really didn't expect this. Thinking about it carefully, Dai Ke's words are quite reliable.Mrs. Jia may not be sure, but she is really reluctant to marry Daiyu.If they married into Rongguo Mansion, it would be a big scandal for sisters to serve a husband together.

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