Red Mansions: No Tears

The palace examination was over, and then the ranking was announced by the imperial court. Lin Yu only got an unremarkable result-No.I heard that you have been formally apprenticed to a teacher for less than ten years and studied hard for the scientific examination. Now that you can get this rank in the examination, it is quite a feat. No wonder Lin Hai will choose you.

Such a seemingly understatement not only made Lin Yu shine in front of everyone, but also showed that the emperor had never forgotten Lin Hai, a courtier who had passed away for many years.

A few days later, the emperor decreed that the three daughters of Prince Zhongsu were conferred the titles of Huaining County Lords, and bestowed upon Lin Yu, the head of the Marriage and Household Department Shandong Qingli Department, so the name Lin Yu suddenly became popular in the capital for a long time, after all, a name was unknown. It is said that the young man was able to climb up to Prince Zhongsu's mansion and marry the prince's daughter... Although this daughter was almost unable to marry, it can be regarded as a miracle of turning a sparrow into a phoenix. As for Lin Yu's family background, etc. Conditions, those people who love gossip must ignore it.

The Zhongsu Palace and the Lin family have no time to pay attention to those gossips, they are busy, just like what Lin Daiyu guessed at the beginning, Princess Zhongsu sees that Zhao Hua is about to become an older girl, if she doesn't get married soon, she will The two younger sisters who are already old are afraid that they will be rejected by their husbands, not to mention that Zhao Hua is the county head, and the two younger sisters are only county heads. Although there is only one word difference, the difference in treatment is not one or two points. To suppress the birth mother of the two concubines from the beginning, God knows how many times those two women have come to cry and complain about this matter these days, and they almost pissed her off!Really... If you really wanted your daughter to have that title, wouldn't you go and have a promising son first? !Otherwise, it is fine for the prince to invite them to be side concubines!Nothing, why are you still crying? !

In other words, although the situation here in the Zhongsu Prince's Mansion is chaotic, it seems to be even more chaotic at the Rongguo Mansion!

Concubine Nan'an had already run into a wall with Princess Zhongsu many times, so she no longer accepted Jia Mu's request, and even refused the 1 taels of matchmaker gift that she had originally agreed upon, and rejected Jia Mu's invitation several times in succession. Jia Mu was so angry that she almost got internal injuries.

What was even more unexpected was that Mother Jia's depressed mood hadn't recovered yet, and she was immediately so angry that Lin Yu was going to marry the head of Huaining County that she fainted. It happened suddenly, and the most embarrassing thing was that she just came to Wang Xifeng asked Jia's mother if she could go to the Lin family to help with the marriage.

After hearing the news, Mrs. Wang who rushed over saw the commotion in Jiamu's room, and felt secretly happy, but she still had a very angry look on her face. She just came back to the side and was directing Yuanyang and others to see Jiamu off. Wang Xifeng, who entered the inner room and sent someone to invite the imperial physician, scolded: "What's going on?! Isn't the old lady all right this morning? Why did she suddenly faint?"

"I, I don't know either! I just came to ask the old lady if I could go to Sister Lin's place to help, but...the old lady suddenly turned pale, and then..." Wang Xifeng replied innocently.

"Go to the Lin family? How can you talk about this in a good way? Don't Miss Lin think she is quite capable? In the past few years, she has been taking care of her own affairs, when will she need help? Did you go there?" Mrs. Wang asked suspiciously.

"Isn't Uncle Lin getting married? Sister Lin said that she doesn't understand such things and it's inconvenient to show her face. Although there are a few elders in the clan to help, they are not familiar with the capital, so they sent someone to beg me. , I hope I will go to the Lin family to suppress the situation." Wang Xifeng quickly explained concisely.

"Uncle Lin is getting married? Whose girl is it?" Mrs. Wang was quite surprised, thinking to herself, if she really passed the Jinshi exam, would she turn over?How dare someone marry that kid without fear of offending the Duke of Rong?

"Don't the second younger siblings know? Yesterday the emperor issued a decree to marry the uncle of the Lin family and the third girl in the Zhongsu Palace. Now it is spread all over the capital, saying that Uncle Lin really doesn't know the blessings he has cultivated in several lifetimes. Not to mention that he changed from an unknown and down-and-out boy to the son of Mrs. Lin, and now he even married a county magistrate. In the future, even if there is no official position, the salary of the son-in-law alone can support several people. There are people here." Mrs. Xing, who came last, said sourly.

"Ma'am, are you kidding me? The combined salaries of the county magistrate and the magistrate's son-in-law are only 400 taels a year. Even our family's monthly expenditure is not enough. How can it be possible to support several people?" Wang Xifeng seemed His tone of contempt for the meager money was actually intended to eliminate some unnecessary troubles for the Lin family.

"Maybe it can really be done! Didn't Lian's daughter-in-law look at the gifts sent by the Lin family during the New Year's holidays? I don't have any valuables. I figured that Lin Yatou knew that the old lady missed her, but she didn't dare to come to our place often. Maybe it was because Uncle Lin was too stingy and didn't dare to give her good things. But I still remember that the old lady was so sad to let her stay. Not only did she refuse, but she also said so confidently that her brother would never wrong her. Now she must be afraid of embarrassment, so she refuses to come often. "The more Mrs. Xing talked, the more she felt that her thoughts must be right. Brother Lin's stinginess is comparable to hers. Maybe the Lin family really spends less than a hundred taels of silver in one year. Oh, if this is the case , that Brother Lin really made a lot of money.

"Hmph! A white concubine of the county lord? It seems that Prince Zhongsu really doesn't like this daughter, otherwise how could it be..." Madam Wang naturally knew that Lin Yu was a Jinshi of the new science after all. If Prince Zhongsu didn't want his daughter to marry Lin Yu's life is too sad, no matter what, he will get an official position for Lin Yu, not to mention that the third girl has a compatriot brother who holds real power, and as a brother, he will not stand idly by.

But emotionally, Mrs. Wang really wished that Lin Yu would get nothing but the status of the son-in-law, no official, no job, and no real property in the family. Come to Rongguo Mansion to beg them for food.

Mrs. Xing sneered lightly when she heard the words, but she didn't intend to refute, maybe she felt the same in her heart?Seeing that the two elders were still thinking about bickering at this time, Wang Xifeng was really too lazy to talk, so she stood silently not far behind them, waiting for the arrival of the imperial physician together with everyone.

Not long after, Imperial Physician Wang arrived with the woman leading the way. After everyone dodged for a while, only a nanny was left to serve. Without saying much, he prescribed a prescription for tranquility and peace of mind and left. Afterwards, Jia Amnesty and Jia Zheng also came to care about their old mother.

The questions asked by the two brothers were similar to what Mrs. Wang asked earlier. Jia Zheng said only when he heard that Wang Xifeng was entrusted by Lin Daiyu to go to the Lin family to help with housework, "Lien's daughter-in-law should really go to the Lin family to help. After all, the Lin family There are only two children, niece and nephew, who usually close the door and no one can control their family, but this time it is different. Although the nephew of the Lin family has no official position, he has always shown his face in front of the emperor, and he is loyal and respectful. The prince's prospective son-in-law, the officials shouldn't dare to suppress him... It's better to ask brother Lian to help, maybe he can make a good impression in front of the prince or the Duke of Zhenguo, in the future we have If there is something important, you don’t have to worry about finding someone.”

"What's the master talking about? Let's..." Mrs. Wang felt that Jia Zheng was planning to ask the Lin family for something, and because it was contrary to what she had just thought, she felt a little unhappy.

"Shut up! What do women know?" Jia Zheng didn't bother to explain his thoughts to his wife, so he just scolded in a low voice.

In fact, it is not to blame that Jia Zheng would be angry and not give Mrs. Wang face, but because he was dismissed from office for no reason a while ago, and now he has not dared to mention it to Jia Mu and Mrs. Wang, but it is better to go out all day to find friends from the past. His colleagues wanted to quickly find a way to get an official position. If this kind of thing had been put in the past, he would naturally not be in a hurry. Anyway, Wang Ziteng, the brother-in-law of the Wang family, was in the capital. For the sake of his sister, he would definitely be able to help him. Busy, it's a pity that Wang Ziteng is still patrolling various places because of the mission of inspecting on behalf of the heavens. If he wants to wait for him to come back before asking him, he doesn't know how long he will have to wait, not to mention some good jobs that don't wait for anyone of.

Prince Zhongsu only held idle positions in the court, and he didn't have much real power in his hands. However, many people were willing to give some face to what the majestic prince said. Since there was finally an opportunity to find a job in front of him, how could Jia Zheng Can you let it go easily?Wang Xifeng was asked to go to the Lin family to help, naturally he wanted to indirectly let Lord Zhongsu know that the Lin family had relatives from the Jia family, so that after a while he could come to ask Lord Zhongsu to find an errand for him. For the face of Lin's elder brother, Prince Su could not agree to his request to be an uncle? !

Jia Zheng thought very well, but he didn't want to think that since he is a royal prince, sometimes he would not pay attention to relatives with ordinary people like them, especially like the Jia family, which is no different from moths, and can pull an ox cart at any time Relatives who hate, besides, my daughter is the lord of the palace anyway, so the emperor didn't intend to sell his woman's face?He is just a prince, can he surpass the emperor?

Mother Jia was in a coma for a long time before slowly waking up. She opened her eyes and saw that several juniors of her family were surrounding her, all of them with worried expressions on their faces. Finally, she felt a little bit of comfort in her heart.

"Old lady, you really scared Baoyu to death! How could you faint when you were fine? I heard about this from the person sent by our mansion outside, so I hurried back to see you. Fortunately, there was nothing serious, otherwise What do you want Baoyu to do?" When Jia Baoyu saw Jia's mother waking up, he immediately rushed over, crying with snot and tears.

"It's okay! It's okay! It's probably because I haven't slept well in the past two nights. Now that I've had enough sleep, I'm fine." Mother Jia patted Jia Baoyu's back lovingly and comforted her softly.

"The old lady is already awake, drink some rice soup first, and then drink the medicine later." Yuanyang walked forward with a small bowl, and smiled at Jiamu as if relieved.

"Well, you all go back, I'm fine." Mother Jia nodded, now she remembered the reason why she was so angry before, but she didn't want to explain the cause and effect to her son and daughter-in-law, so she just drove her away.

But when everyone was about to turn around and leave, Mother Jia suddenly said again: "Since Brother Feng wants to help Girl Yu prepare for her brother's marriage, then go, so as not to let people say that I am a grandmother. You don’t even want to help with such trivial things, but you don’t want to make their faces swollen to make them fat, after all, the Lin family’s wealth is there, if it is too exaggerated, there will be plenty of places to complain in the future.”

"I see, old lady, don't worry." Wang Xifeng's eyes rolled away, and she always felt that Jia Mu's words seemed to imply something. On the surface, he looks like he understands everything. ?