Red Mansions: No Tears

?Mother Jia and Mrs. Wang heard that the virtuous concubine in the palace seemed to be in a bad mood, so they hurriedly sent a post to the palace to ask for an interview the next morning. But this time it was different, the servants got an answer as soon as they left, the palace insider actually said that because Concubine Xiande was inconvenient to see guests recently, her family members were not allowed to enter the palace to pay her respects.

When Mrs. Wang heard the news, she panicked immediately, and hurriedly cried to Mother Jia: "It seems that the words of the Huaining county magistrate may not be wrong. The empress must be seriously ill. Otherwise, why would she refuse to face her?" Let's meet? This, what should I do?! Old lady, you have to think of a way to save your mother..."

"You also give me some time, let me think about it... If we can't go into the palace to visit the empress, it seems that we can only entrust others to inquire about the news." Why is Jiamu not in a hurry?It's just that she hasn't been in contact with the nobles in the palace for many years, and now at this moment, she really can't find a suitable person to help. She also thought about asking the Lord Huaining for help, but they only offended someone yesterday. If you go to the other party for help, they may not be happy.

Jia's mother relied on her status and couldn't bear this face. Mrs. Wang was able to risk one or two for her daughter's life, and this happened. See a farce.

It's a pity that Mrs. Wang doesn't care about her dignity, and the Lin family refuses to help. She is helpless, but she feels that Lin Daiyu and Zhao Hua are unwilling to help even such a trivial matter, so why take her money?Therefore, it took more than half a month for the items that Mother Jia asked her to return that day, but there was still no trace of them.

Mother Jia asked Mrs. Wang two or three times, and Mrs. Wang said she was still looking for her. In this way, could Mother Jia not know what the second daughter-in-law was thinking?It's just that these days, she asked her old relatives and friends to find out about the situation in the palace, and the news she got was extremely unfavorable. Looking back at the Rongguo mansion, apart from a vacant title and an idle position with no real power, there is actually There is no one who can stand on the stage, she sighed in her heart, how did she know that it would become like this in the past?In the past, she always thought that the eldest son was extravagant and naughty, so she favored the second son more. She thought that the second son who could study would definitely be more promising than his elder brother. How could she have thought that he was so useless? !

Now Jia's mother can only try to restore the precarious in-law relationship between the Jia family and the Lin family. At the beginning, she was also obsessed with ghosts, thinking that after Mrs. Lin disappeared, only two ignorant children were in charge of the Lin family. If she didn't, she didn't care about Lin Daiyu's indifference and alienation at all. She never thought about coaxing this granddaughter well and letting her care about her uncle's family.

It's just that no one thought that that kid would be very promising. With his half-baked talent, he dared to follow others to take the imperial examination after studying for a few years, and it really made him famous, not only that, but even more. Favored by nobles, marrying a county lord as his wife, what kind of status does Zhongsu Palace have in the royal family?Although Jia's mother didn't understand it very well, she also knew that the Zhongsu Palace was absolutely sacred, otherwise, the emperor would not have conferred a concubine daughter of the palace as the county lord based on just one word, and even decided to give her a marriage.

Jia's mother also thought of a deeper meaning. She thought that the emperor's gift of marriage was not so much for Huaining County, but for the boy of the Lin family. After all, Lin Yu's family had no parents or elders. The relatives and elders of the family are all white, and I am afraid that they would not dare to come forward to propose marriage for Lin Yu who has already entered the court as an official. Therefore, naturally, only the Holy Majesty bestows a marriage.

However, it seems that Lin Daiyu will leave the cabinet in less than a month, but the Lin family's property and Jia Min's dowry that were said to be returned at the beginning have only been recovered so far. Where is the madam, or the empress in the palace, not to mention seven out of ten, eight out of ten almost hollowed out the bottom of Rongguo Duke's mansion.

Li Wan and Jia Tanchun looked at the red ledger, and they were speechless. They knew that the family's expenses were beyond their means, but they never thought that even the last bit of the family's wealth was not their own, but they did not know. When was it dug from the Lin family? What's more helpless is that such a big matter is no longer something that the two sisters-in-law can withstand. After much deliberation, they had to push the matter to Jia Mu.

Mother Jia looked at the account book that Li Wan and the others handed over, and her face immediately turned more than half green. How much money did the Wang family... get greedy? !Thinking about when she was young when she was managing the family, the assets in the public school were not so small, and after looking through a few account books, she felt that something was wrong. Fortunately, she still knew that she should not lose face in front of the younger generation at this moment, just like before. Li Wan and Jia Tanchun were discussing privately, and sighed helplessly.

"That's all! Back then, the dowry my wife and I bought for Min'er was only tens of thousands of taels of silver. Since the county magistrate Huaining was only here to ask for the dowry for Yu'er, I checked, and luckily most of the things had already been found." Come back, the remaining vacancy can be filled with only 3 to 3 taels, Yuanyang, you first take out [-] taels from my private room, together with the things you have already recovered, let Lai Da find some safe boys tomorrow Send it to the Lin family." Mother Jia thought and thought... Finally, she could only grit her teeth and admit the bad debt by herself, but she thought in her heart that she would have to settle the debt with the Wang family someday.

"This... I know, don't worry, the old lady, when Miss Lin sees those things, she will be able to understand the old lady's intentions, but I think Miss Lin definitely doesn't have the intention to get angry with the old lady like this, otherwise she wouldn't Hearing about the fainting of the old lady, he hurriedly sent someone to visit her for condolences. It must be that the Lin family can no longer let her, the little girl who is about to marry, decide, so some things are unavoidable... and I heard that the Jiang family is The south is a very wealthy family, so could they be without Miss Lin's idea of ​​a dowry? Today's Lin family is not the Lin family of the past. If Miss Lin's dowry is still calculated according to the dowry of Aunt Min back then, I'm afraid it's really called It's too eye-catching." Yuanyang sighed in embarrassment, and comforted Jia's mother nicely.

"You don't understand this kind of thing. It is the Jiang family's business that the Jiang family is rich. That can only mean that Yu'er will not have too many hardships in the future, and the richer the family is, the more they will care about the dowry of the new wife. The dowry that Yu'er brought into Jiang's family is the basis for her to gain a foothold in her in-law's family in the future. Even if it can't be too eye-catching on the bright side, the foundation should not be too thin. You just do what I want, the only thing is that when the time comes, you must be called They made it clear that it was all for Yu'er's dowry, don't ask the Lin family to give away Yu'er's things." At this time, Jia's mother still didn't forget to smear Lin Yu with words, as if everyone was People like Mrs. Wang who are open to money also forget that Jia Min's dowry seems to only account for a small part of the many things that Lin Ruhai entrusted to Jia's family that day, and the rest are all Lin's property. It should be returned to Lin Yu, but now she doesn't seem to have this matter, and plans to leave the original part of the Lin family behind.

How could Yuanyang not understand what his master meant?Just thinking about the increasingly difficult situation in the mansion, don't you know the difficulties of the old lady, Grandma Zhu and others?I can't guarantee that the second wife deliberately didn't take out other things because she knew that the old lady had a lot of money, because she expected that the old lady would help fill the gap, but... that day I heard that the second master Lian brought back the things Quite a few, but the old lady made the decision and only returned Aunt Min's dowry back then. It's hard to guarantee that the uncle of the Lin family will not continue to cause trouble, after all, there are still most of the things of the Lin family that have not been returned....

On this day, just after the time of day, many people saw a dozen large boxes lined up on the streets of the capital, and they were carried all the way from the Rongguo mansion to the door of Uncle Lin, who is now an upstart in Beijing. The troublemaker still had the guts to go up to a few good-looking young men to inquire. Heard that Mr. Lin had sent Aunt Jia’s dowry to his mother’s house before his death. He was specially ordered to send those things that were originally deposited back to the Lin family.

This sounds a little strange, it's not that there is no one in the Lin family, why did the master of the Lin family want to send his wife's dowry back to her natal family for deposit?Oh~~ That's right!I heard that the uncle of the Lin family was not the son of Mr. Lin, but was adopted from the clan. The eldest girl in their family was born of Mr. Lin. Could it be that Mr. Lin didn't believe in this heir, so he deliberately put the girl's dowry I entrusted it to my uncle's house, right?But it's not right... That old man is very promising now, not only is he working in the household department, his wife is also a majestic county head, since he is a scholar, how can he bully his sister?Moreover, since he has become Master Lin's son, how can the entire Lin family not belong to him?Why covet my sister's dowry?

What others think, the Jia family doesn't care, and the Lin family doesn't bother to get rid of it. It's just that the timing of Mother Jia's return of things seems to be poorly chosen. It just so happened that it happened to be the day when Lin Yu was resting. Lin Yu listened to the concierge. He said that the Jia family sent people to send a lot of things and asked him if he wanted to accept them. After thinking about it, he first asked Lin Butler to watch those people move things in, and then went to the study room where Lin Ruhai left him. I found the list... oh?What is that list?Of course it's nothing else, but the list of belongings that Lin Ruhai asked Jia Lian to bring back to Rongguo's mansion back then! !

Lin Yu brought the list to the large open space in the front yard, and saw a steward of the Rongguo Mansion directing the servants to arrange the boxes, while the housekeeper Lin stared at them. Not long after, all After all the boxes were moved in, the steward came up to Lin Yu with a smile and cupped his hands and said, "Your servant, Lai Da, ordered by the old lady to return the things that Mrs. Lin left in our house to your house, but the old lady He also explained that these things were originally Aunt Min's dowry, so logically, they should belong to Miss Lin, and I hope that Uncle Lin will show his noble hand, so don't accidentally touch it."

"It's just my wife's dowry? Why do I seem to remember more than that? Steward Lin, take this list and check it carefully." Lin Yu shook the paper in his hand, sneered at Lai Da, and then turned around The head ordered Lin Butler to count the things returned by the Jia family.

"Uncle Lin, you can't talk nonsense. The old lady clearly said that Aunt Lin sent Aunt Min's dowry to Rongguo Duke's mansion for a while. How can I listen to you? Could there be something else?" Da Lai Seeing Lin Yu's appearance of planning to make trouble, his face immediately collapsed, and he asked back with displeasure.

"Yes or no, your old lady knows it well, but I am not a fool, not to mention my late father. Do you think that if he really just 'stored' things in the Rongguo Mansion, he would not leave some certificates?" The booklet in my hand is exactly the list of belongings taken away from Yangzhou by Lian’s second cousin back then, or the very important things that my father personally handed over to me before he was alive, and repeatedly told not to lose them, and I Remember not to mention how many things are inside, just say that there are more than a dozen boxes containing things, at least...it must be twice as much as them? Or three times? In short, it is definitely more than that." Lin Yu pointed to the He piled up the boxes that were being opened, and said to Lai Da unceremoniously.

Even though Lai Da usually used the name of the Duke of Rongguo to show off his power outside, but now he heard Lin Yu's upright tone, for some reason, he felt a little guilty. There was a wry smile on his face, Silently complaining about how his old lady assigned him such a hard job?Not only did it cause him to lose face in front of a junior, but he also lost face. Speaking of which...he seems to remember that when Second Master Lian came back from Yangzhou, there seemed to be more than these things?Alas! !How should he explain it now? ! ?