[Red Mansion] Queen's Road

Jiang Xi was walking on the road and pulling a horse, and the unicorn was sitting on it immediately, and many people behind him couldn't get down either. Everyone led the horse in their hands and moved slowly on the road.

Qilin wanted to ride a horse just now, because his legs were relatively short and couldn't reach the stirrups, so Jiang Xi had been holding him to ride the horse all the time.

The weather was getting hotter and hotter, and Qilin felt that Jiang Xi Neng was sweating on his back, so he insisted on riding for a while.

Jiang Xi was stubborn again, worried that Qilin would have an accident while riding a horse, and thinking of the prince, he thought about riding a horse again.It is suggested to find a donkey and let the prince ride it first.

Of course Qilin didn't want to, thinking in his heart why he should ride a donkey when he has a horse, but in the end he couldn't stop, so Qilin sat on the horse and asked Jiang Xi to lead the horse for a quarter of an hour.

Just like that, I walked all the way into Zhuangzi where the Queen Mother was.

I met an old village woman at Zhuangzikou. She watched the group of people coming from a distance without avoiding them, and stood at the intersection with a smile.

After walking in, the old man narrowed his eyes and looked up and down at Qilin. "This should be the uncle of the Cui family. I have seen you before. Your father even rewarded my grandson with half a bag of chestnuts."

Is there such a thing?Qilin thought about it in confusion.

But he still had to pretend to think about it, "Oh... oh oh, so it's your old man, why are you..."

"I made some pickled radishes at home, and I'll give some to your old lady to try. You can eat them after mixing them with sesame oil. It's the best to eat with rice when they're green and yellow."

Qilin had been carried down from the horse by Jiang Xi long ago, acting as the master and leading the old man into Zhuangzi.

The Empress Dowager Xi had known for a long time that her grandson was coming, so she came out beaming at this moment, hugging Qilin, and lovingly touched his little face. "Is it hot? Are you hungry? Let someone fetch water to wash your face."

Princess Changchun awkwardly came out from behind the old mother, and gave Qilin a blessing.Qilin said a few more words to Grandma Liu, and took her sister to the back.

Someone had already brought down the pickled radish brought by Grandma Liu. After pushing it several times, Grandma Liu was given up by the Queen Mother.

An old man like Grandma Liu has such wisdom and knows what these wealthy old ladies like to hear. Although this old man has suffered all his life, the relationship between people is very admirable.

As soon as he sat down, he was worthy of the Empress Dowager Award, "I saw that your eldest grandson is stronger than other children, even stronger than those boys in our village. Your family will raise children."

The Empress Dowager smiled modestly, "Thank you, thank you."

"Why don't I say that you are blessed, madam? All the children in your family I have met are good. I heard from my granddaughter that your second grandson holds a book every day. If there is a Wenqu star, the number one scholar will be yours."

Although these princes don't need imperial examinations, it's better to be educated than uneducated.The Empress Dowager Xi smiled when she heard that, "By your kind words, you are an elderly man with a lot of knowledge. I just want to ask you something."

"I see that you are polite, you just say it."

"I have a little grandson, who is the same as my eldest grandson and second grandson, but this little grandson often drools. I heard people say that children eat pig tails to cure drooling. I want to ask you if it is true? "

"These are some folk remedies. The poor people can't afford to cure their illnesses, so they came up with such an idea. If your government can afford a doctor, it's better to let the doctor see it first. If the doctor can't cure it, then think about these folk remedies. Anyway, pig tails eat It's okay."

"Grandma Liu is right."

The two had just exchanged a few words when Qilin came from behind, wearing a short jacket, a pair of trousers rolled up below the knees, and a pair of straw sandals.

The Empress Dowager looked at it, and felt that her anger was rushing straight to Tianling Gaier.

"Why are you dressed like this?"

Princess Changchun followed behind nervously twisting the handkerchief in her hand. "Grandmother, elder brother wants to wear it like this."

"Grandmother sits here first, and grandson goes to Zhuangzi to have a look. After wearing shoes and going to the fields three or five times, you can't wear them anymore. It's better to save money with straw sandals."

Then he said to Grandma Liu, "Please excuse me to talk to my grandmother here for a while. I have already told the kitchen to leave you here for lunch. Don't refuse."

After speaking, he took the people out in a big stride.

Princess Changchun looked at the Queen Mother, Shi Li followed and ran out.

"This is going to work in the fields. You are really blessed. Your children and grandchildren can know how to make progress like this. If I were an old woman, I would be able to wake up with a smile in my dreams."

Grandma Liu said this sincerely, and the envy on her face had long been expressed.

The Queen Mother just sighed, "I can't control it, I can't control it."

Grandma Liu thought to herself, this is really not knowing the blessings in the blessings.

After eating, Grandma Liu said goodbye and left.The Empress Dowager waited left and right and sent people to the field to urge her several times. She didn't see her children come back until she missed the meal time.

Surrounded by his sisters and younger brothers, Qilin returned to the hall with a hearty smile.

The Empress Dowager Xi saw that the two granddaughters were fine. The two grandsons had already taken off their shoes and came back barefoot after stepping on mud.

The two boys said a few words and went to the back to wash their feet and change their clothes. The Queen Mother caught their sisters and asked them quickly.

"Didn't you say to go to the ground? Why did you come back with two feet of mud?"

"Watering the ground in our house, water ran out in one place, and those people blocked the hole there. My two brothers also went down to the field, and blocked it together for a while." Princess Shouchun said coquettishly He asked, "Is there any food left? I was hungry just now, but my two younger brothers didn't come back. Let my younger sister and I wait over there."

After a while, a table will be set up, and the four children will serve the table together, and the two boys will gobble it up even more, which shows that they really put in a lot of effort just now.

While eating, he said, "In the study before, the master said that the old millet had been eaten, and the new millet was still growing in the ground. Now I have seen what is green and yellow. The wild vegetables and weeds in the field were dug up. "Many people from other villages came to dig wild vegetables from their home villages in groups.

Bai Ze chewed down what was in his mouth, "That's because they are willing to eat wild vegetables. Even though some people have food in their homes, they still want to dig wild vegetables to cook wild vegetable porridge. Now that wild vegetables are all extinct, it's really embarrassing for these wild vegetables. Dig every year, and it will grow longer next year."

"What did you say? If it weren't for the fear of hunger, no one would have dared to eat the food that was so hidden. But fortunately, the wheat will be harvested next month. When the time comes, I will take you to see others harvesting wheat and threshing. You have never seen it before."

Bai Ze nodded at the side, Princess Shouchun also wanted to go, looked up at the Queen Mother and decided to wait a while before discussing with the brothers, she would definitely be scolded by her grandmother if she said it now.

The Empress Dowager looked at them eating, and asked, "What are you going to do later? Why don't you go back to sleep for a while before reading. Go back to the palace when you are almost done."

Princess Changchun seized the time to interject, "Grandmother, elder brother and second elder brother said they will go to the field later."

Bai Ze gave her a blank look, "Yes, we still have to go without you."

"I'll go back to the palace and tell the queen mother that you bullied me."

"You go and sue, go ahead. If you want to go, just say it, but you just put on airs, who is used to you. Just like you, I don't like to play with you."

Seeing that there was going to be a quarrel, the Queen Mother hurried to appease.She has never raised a child in her life, and she feels exhausted after only two or three days.I thought in my heart not to live here, and go back to the palace quickly.

On the same day, someone sent a letter to the emperor, and the whole family went to the palace in the evening.

The emperor and his three sons spoke in front of the Queen Mother.

Bai Ze didn't read at night, so he put Zou Wu in front of him and told him what happened today.

"...When we watered the ground today, we found that the water overflowed a place, and there were actually bubbles popping out..."

Zou Wu swallowed, "... Gudu Gudu..."

"That's right, that's right, it just popped out, those old farmers said there must be a rat hole down there."

Zou Wu cutely learned a sentence, "Rat hole."

"That's right, they used a shovel to plan the place where the bubbles were bubbling, and there really was a nest of mice inside. Only two or three escaped, and we killed the rest. It's so big! It's so fat!"

Bai Ze made a gesture, "There are several big mice, and many small mice, all of which are pink."

"...rat..."

"Those people also said that the voles can be eaten. They beat the voles to death and brought them home. They said that the skins and internal organs of the voles can be removed, and the meat can be cooked into porridge."

"Meat porridge...want to eat it."

The emperor felt disgusted when he heard this, and slapped Bai Ze from behind, "Stop talking nonsense in front of your brother, if he goes to eat voles porridge in the future, I'll settle the score with you."

Then he said to Qian Sheng, "Bring Xiao Wu a bowl of porridge and watch him drool again."

When she came to Linlin, Linlin asked her three sons to stand in a row.

"Let me tell you, whoever dares to try some messy and weird things in the future, I know, let someone break your legs."

Qilin and Bai Ze agreed, and Bai Ze pointed to the younger brother next to him, "Mother, you should have named your younger brother Taotie. Taotie is the fifth son of the dragon, and he happens to be fifth in the ranking of our brothers. He usually wants to eat whatever he sees, and this name was born for him, it couldn't be more suitable."

Linlin rubbed her temples with a headache, "Stop talking nonsense here. When you were young, you ate whatever you saw. How did you grow up without eating? You won't learn from your brother, be quiet How nice."

The emperor stood up and patted Bai Ze's head.After calling Qilin, the father and son went to Linlin's study to talk.

Seeing his father and elder brother leaving, Bai Ze cheekily rubbed over and sat down next to Linlin. "Queen, please give me a little Zhuangzi too. I promise to be as caring as my brother."

Linlin thought for a while, "Yes, yes, it will take another two years and now you go out, you go out at such a young age, your father is worried, and neither are I."

Bai Ze hurriedly hugged Linlin's arm, "You are so kind, Queen Mother."

Zou Wu also squeezed over, "Mother..."

The emperor, Qilin and his son arrived at Linlin's study.Everywhere you look, you can see that the owner is a woman.

There are two or three soft pillows on the chair, and some flowers are depicted on the tea tureen set aside.Not to mention the inkstone pen holder pen washing curtain, even the spices have a sweet fragrance.

Waiting in the study was a big court lady named Lusi, who brought two cups of tea and put them in front of their father and son, lit the candles and stepped back.

The emperor first asked, "You have visited a lot of places recently, what do you think?"

"In the past, the elders boasted that this is a peaceful and prosperous world, and my son used to think so. But now looking at the people around the capital, I feel that it is far from the word prosperous. At best, it is peaceful."

"How to say?"

"Take today as an example. In the morning, I saw many old and young helping each other to dig wild vegetables in the fields. My son also talked to them. Some of them were indeed because the fields at home were not enough to eat. Although some still had some food in their homes, they were afraid of the next The monthly harvest is small, thinking about the germination of all things, as long as the wild vegetables grow, they will eat these unowned things first. The food is kept, and it will be used when it is a last resort.

In short, it is poor. "

The emperor nodded, "It makes sense, you can continue."

"Grandma's Zhuangzi is next to a small workshop of ours. The most produced in that workshop are some tofu, bean sprouts, yuba and jerky meat. I heard that people from several nearby Zhuangzi went to work in our workshop and listened to the management. They said that the common people would take back those unwanted pig bones and make soup. But today they didn’t even let a field mouse go. It can be seen that they ate less meat and more vegetarians. If they ate more meat Now, who cares about that bit of meat."

"It's a peaceful and prosperous age for people to eat and clothe them warmly. As for everyone having a bite of meat to eat... let alone our ancestors, no sage monarch can do it 1000 years ago."

Qilin sighed, "My son doesn't dare to think about anything else, it's just that what happened today is a bit sad."

The emperor patted him on the shoulder, "You are still young, you think too much and you don't grow up. Today your master came to tell me that you have been half-hearted in school recently. What's going on?"

"It's not that the son is half-hearted, but that the son asks too many questions, and he can't answer. He feels that his son has changed his temperament by reading idle books. The son asked him, why does the moon wax and wane? Why do the four seasons reincarnate? Why do we You can only grow crops twice a year here, but those crops in the south can be grown three times a year?"

The emperor thought to himself that the question was so tricky that those old masters would definitely not be able to answer it.

"There are specialties in the arts industry, so it's inappropriate for you to ask them about this."

Qilin said again, "They told me that our place is the upper kingdom where the sages used to work here. I asked them if they also encountered droughts and floods when they were sages. Since they are sages, Why is there still a natural disaster?"

The emperor's eyeballs rolled for a moment, thinking that those old masters would not be round anymore.

There is also some inexplicable pride in my heart, seeing how powerful my son is, those old men are no match for him at all.

However, the emperor felt that he couldn't answer such a question, so he changed the topic and continued the conversation with his son.

"Your uncle entered the venue a few days ago. He just passed the exam yesterday, and the list will be released in a few days. Let's see how your uncle ranks?"

Qilin just remembered this important event that many people are concerned about, "My son is so busy that he forgot about his uncle's imperial examination. I think the elders should have issued some exam papers today. Didn't the father have a sneak peek?"

The emperor shook his head, "We'll talk about it when the time comes. I heard that your uncle's knowledge is not low, and he might be able to pass the exam."

"Then when he becomes the number one scholar, the son will tell the queen about this good thing, and the queen will be happy."

The emperor nodded, and heard the ringing of the clock outside, thinking that it was getting late, he stood up and dragged his son out of the study.

Three years ago, Lin Ruhai also participated in the imperial examination examination papers. Because this year's candidates had his own son, he was avoided sitting at home.

As soon as the spring of this year began, the youngest son was sent to the palace as a companion. Currently, he is only in the palace in the morning and sent back to study after lunch.

At this time, the kid scratched his ears and cheeks, as if a nail had pierced him on the stool, and he felt a little restless.

Lin Ruhai scolded him with a straight face, "Why don't you sit still!"

Lin Jiao didn't sit down any more, just jumped off the stool and ran to Lin Ruhai's side, "Daddy, do you think my brother can enter the top three this time?"

Lin Ruhai stroked his beard, of course he hoped that his son would enter the top three, but this kind of thing is not something that can become a reality just by wishing.

"There are a lot of talents in the world, and there are crouching tigers, hidden dragons everywhere. Although your brother is an outstanding person in our area, the place in the south of the Yangtze River is full of talents."

"Are there many scholars in Jiangnan?"

Lin Ruhai nodded, thinking that since the youngest son had no intention of studying, he was not in a peaceful mood, so it happened that the father and son were talking.

"Don't mention the imperial examination to your brother in the past few days. Let him rest well and sleep for a few days. He was exhausted a few days ago."

Lin Jiao listened respectfully, but then remembered something else, "Even if we don't talk about it, my mother and sister-in-law are in a hurry every day, either going here to worship Buddha or going there Burning incense. Even if my brother is not in a hurry, being surrounded by the two of them, he must be in a hurry."

The fact that Jia Min took his daughter-in-law to burn incense everywhere made Lin Ruhai feel a little too impatient.

He asked the housekeeper standing on the side, "Madam and grandma haven't come back yet?"

The butler replied.

"In that case, let's invite the girl over to have a talk."

The housekeeper went out. After a while, Lin Ruhai saw her daughter holding a round fan to cover her head, and walked over slowly.

The family of three were talking in the study, and after a while, they heard the voices of women chattering in the yard outside.

Lin Ruhai still thought that it was time for Jia Min to come back, but as expected, Jia Min came back beaming.

Lin Ruhai was not only amused after reading it, "Could it be that the masters outside told you that our son is on the list? I hope you will be happy."

"Our son must be on the list, and all I want is to be No. [-] in the list."

"It's better to be modest and prudent. Tell me that you don't want to go out tomorrow. You should rest at home for two days."

"You don't need to tell me, I won't go out tomorrow. Does the master know why I am so happy today?"

Lin Ruhai shook his head, looked at the two children, "Guess, too."

Lin Jiao guessed first, "Mother picked up something good on the road."

Having said that, the whole room roared with laughter.Jia Min stretched out her finger and nodded his small forehead, "What good things on the road can I bend down to pick up, even if there is a piece of gold in front of me, I won't take a second look,"

Lin Daiyu asked, "Maybe it's because the teachers today said that my brother is in high school."

Jia Min shook his head, "I take the imperial examination every three years. I failed this time. My son is still young. I will take the next time. What happened to me today is even more festive than your brother's high school." point."

Lin Ruhai pinched his beard and thought for a while, "Did you meet someone in the palace on the road and heard a letter about our empress, could it be that empress is pregnant again?"

Jia Min beamed with joy, "Although I didn't guess correctly, it's about the same. It's not that our mother is having a happy event, but our daughter-in-law is having a happy event."

Having said that, the atmosphere in the room suddenly became tense.

Lin Daiyu stood up, "I'll go and see my sister-in-law."

Lin Jiao got up, "I'll go to congratulate elder brother."

The two siblings held hands and quickly left the study room, their backs disappeared in a blink of an eye.

Lin Ruhai was still in a dream at this moment, and asked incredulously, "Is it true?"

"Don't you have a junior named Jiang who came back from other places a few days ago and came to visit our house, do you still remember?"

Lin Ruhai nodded quickly when it happened.

"Master Jiang has an uncle who is more than 90 years old this year. He became a Taoist priest before. He learned the art of Qihuang from the old Taoist priest and lived in seclusion in the mountains on weekdays. This time he returned to the capital to give Master Jiang another An uncle sees a doctor.

We happened to meet on the way, Master Jiang's wife was there, we talked a few words, I thought this is an old man and an elder, and I am so old, there is nothing to hide, so I took my daughter-in-law down See you in the car, who would have thought that as soon as the daughter-in-law came out, the old man would say at a glance, 'This is a pregnant person, don't work lightly. '"

Lin Ruhai was overjoyed, "I read that Bian Que met Duke Huan of Qi before, and Bian Que knew what disease Duke Huan Qi was suffering from just by looking at it. I think this old man is also a miracle doctor."

"I didn't believe it at first, but later I took my daughter-in-law to a pharmacy and asked the doctor in charge there to take a pulse. I really had it, but Yueqian didn't know it."

Lin Ruhai stood up, "My in-laws haven't left yet. This is to wait for our son's ranking in the imperial examination. While there are still a few days left, you can put more things in the old man's luggage. This is a happy event. I will give it to you." Greetings from their old man, and also announcing the good news by the way."

Jia Min responded, took people to the warehouse, looked at the good things that were easy to carry on the way and packed them up, and thought that now that his daughter-in-law is pregnant, the housekeeper is slowly handed over to her, and he has been working hard for a year , I will be able to hold my grandson by this time next year.

In the past few days, Lin Hao was so happy that he almost grinned the corners of his mouth behind his ears.I don't care as much about my imperial examination results this time as I did a few days ago.

On the other hand, Lin Ruhai, although happy that the family will have a baby, still feels that his son's imperial examination is the most important thing.

This time at court, the chief examiner checked out three papers and presented them to the emperor.

"Returning to the emperor, these three candidates are the top three, and the essays of these three are all good, but when reviewing, each examiner recommended differently, so the ranking has not been ranked yet."

After hearing this, the emperor looked at three articles with their names blurred.

After ordering people to remove the paper, let the three ministers be on the spot.

When Lin Ruhai heard the second paper.It felt very familiar. After the minister who read the paper read the content, he looked at the name and read it out.

Lin Ruhai felt agitated, and people around him all bowed their hands to him vaguely.

Lin Ruhai desperately controlled her facial expressions, fearing that her beard would fly off.

After reading all three articles, there was a lot of discussion in the court.

Jia Hua and Jia Yucun were originally standing at the end of the line, but now they came out holding the wat board.

"Qizou the emperor, the articles written by these three are colorful and meaningful. At present, the adults are arguing in the court, and don't know who should be ranked as the number one scholar... I think it's better to decide on Tanhua first."

The people standing in the court hall were all human beings, and the people standing on both sides of Lin Ruhai winked at Lin Ruhai.

Jia Yucun said, "Back then, the father-in-law of the country was appointed as Tanhua, but now that he is the uncle of the country, it is better to be named as Tanhua too. It happens that father and son are both Tanhua, and it is also a good story."

Many people in the court agreed, so the emperor asked Lin Ruhai, "What does the king think?"

Lin Ruhai came out later, "It's all up to the Holy One to decide."

After the court, many people congratulated Lin Ruhai. Lin Ruhai thought that it was a blessing that one of the top three fell into his hands.Those who don't study don't know how fierce the competition is, and only after going through it will they know the truth that there are others beyond others.

So I went to the yamen with the wind.

Lin Hao also knew about Lin Hao becoming a prostitute, and it was Qian Sheng who reported the letter with a beaming face.

"...Tomorrow, the No. [-] No. [-] pick will take a few months of family leave after the parade, and I will go to the Imperial Academy later..."

It's nice to have a vacation, but Linlinli doesn't feel too happy in her heart.Linlin felt that her younger brother's talent and learning were really rare in the world, and it was okay to be a champion.

Why should his father be Tanhua and he should be Tanhua.

After the emperor found out, he said to Linlin, "Since ancient times, sons should not surpass their fathers. The father-in-law is a prostitute, and it is best to be a prostitute when you come to your brother."

"This is a fallacy. Is it possible that after I become the son of a seventh-rank official, I can't be a sixth-rank official?"

"That's right. When the laws of the country and the family conflict, only the laws of the country take precedence. The old man who is a seventh-rank official must retire. Otherwise, when he meets his son in the officialdom, should he salute or not?"

After finishing speaking, he looked at Linlin's face, "What are you upset about? My father-in-law is as happy as something, and went home happily. You are here with a sullen face, and you can see who else but I can see see you."

Linlin had no choice but to put this matter behind her.Turning to another matter, "Concubine Dong came to me today and said that she wanted me to ask if there are any of these candidates who are young, handsome and have no family. If there are, I will let you see if they are suitable for us." The son-in-law of the family."

The emperor thought about it, "You turn around and tell her not to think about it. They are all bearded people. Even if there are a few young ones, they will marry their wives early. Did she read too many dramas and think this is a good idea?" Those who are rushing to take the exam in Beijing are all young and handsome boys, who will become the royal consort if they get the first prize in the exam?"

"Isn't she in a hurry to go to the doctor? I told her that our family Shouchun is such a good child. Besides, can the emperor's daughter be worried about marrying? She was so anxious that she couldn't think about it, and I didn't persuade her. "

The emperor thought for a while, and Princess Shouchun still occupied a large place in his mind.So it is inevitable to tell Linlin, "Although Shouchun was not born to you, you also raised her, so you should take care of her marriage.

In the future, you should pay attention to those wives who come to see you. If there is a boy who is about the same age as our child, you tell me that after I send someone to look at it, you send a letter to their family and let them not Married to other people. "

Not long ago, Linlin learned about the process of marrying the royal princess.First of all, he took aim at the young master of a certain family, and then verbally communicated a letter to the head wife of their family, followed by a long period of understanding, and finally the imperial decree was issued.

The process of Princess Shouchun is going to be the first step, first aiming at a certain person.

"Let's look for it in the houses of these people in the capital. If they are from other places, I don't feel at ease if they marry their daughter far away."

"I don't want to marry my daughter to other places. Even if I live in the capital, the son-in-law may go back to visit my parents several times a year, leaving our daughter alone in the capital. Let's go, we don't worry, don't follow , my daughter is not at ease in her heart. So I still have to find someone in the capital."

The two of them talked about this topic for another half an hour, seeing that it was really getting late, they packed their things and went to sleep.

At this moment, no one in the Lin family felt sleepy at all.

Others may not know who Tanhua is the No. [-] pick, but Lin Ruhai already knew it a long time ago. When he got home, he didn't have to suppress his smile, and went to Jia Min's main hall with a happy face.

"Is the clothes made for our son ready? He will go out to socialize after tomorrow. Let him dress decently."

Speaking of this, I thought of another thing, "You let someone arrange a banquet, and I will have a few drinks with the old man of my in-laws."

"Has our son entered the top three?"

"Today I ordered him to be a flower in the Golden Palace, ahem, please don't be happy, our whole family will pretend that we don't know."

Jia Min just thought it was funny, "Okay, okay, listen to the master, the master just goes to drink and leave the other things to me, I will definitely handle it properly."

Lin Ruhai went out of the backyard to the guest yard to look for the members of the Xin family. Jia Min couldn't bear his joy and called his daughter and daughter-in-law over.

"Our master just brought back the news that Haoer has become Tanhua."

Although Lin Daiyu was happy, she was definitely not as good as Xin Yun. Xin Yun's eyes were filled with tears, if it wasn't for the fact that she wanted to stomp her feet in front of her mother-in-law.

In the middle of the night, everyone in the Xin family was drunk, and Lin Ruhai was so drunk that he suddenly thought of the most important thing.

"To open the ancestral hall, we need to tell our ancestors the good news." He pulled Lin Hao again, "Your grandmother loved you the most when you were young, and you must burn incense sticks later."

Of course Lin Hao agreed, there was no way for the father and son in the middle of the night to pull Lin Jiao who was drowsy and about to fall asleep, and the three of them must go to worship their ancestors.

Lin Ruhai said it must be grand.

It was so grand that all the sacrificial vessels had to be washed by the two sons squatting on the ground.

Lin Jiao wiped the plate with the loofah pulp, thinking that I must not become Tanhua in the future, if I become Tanhua, I will be caught and kneel down to my ancestors.

But after thinking about it, if I become a Tanhua, my elder brother will kneel with me, and I can also bring my little nephew with me. After all, I've earned it.

Lin Hao, who didn't sleep all night, was called to parade the street on the second day.Linlin sent people to give rewards to the Lin family, and these eunuchs learned from Linlin after they came back.

"I heard that the master was so happy that he stayed up all night last night. He took the two uncles to clean the ancestral hall all night. He was so happy..."

Linlin just snorted after hearing this, thinking that when my mother became a queen, she never saw him so happy to be a father.

Thinking of Lin Ruhai as a typical feudal scholar-bureaucrat, I let out this sour breath in my heart.Why care about so much? If you care too much, you won't be able to live this day.

The Rongguo mansion also heard the news of Lin Haocheng's visit.The old lady asked Jia Lian to give gifts to Lin's house, and brought Baoyu there as well.

"Also let Baoyu go to see Tanhualang's demeanor, and make friends with some scholars by the way."

The two brothers went back to their room to change clothes. Jia Lian complained to his wife and concubine while wearing his boots, "It's fine to let me go alone. You all know that I don't study. If you let Baoyu go, those cousins ​​who are in the cousin If you can’t say anything inside, that’s a slap in the face.”

Wang Xifeng vomited a piece of melon seeds, "You really don't know or you don't know, the old lady wants Baoyu to visit her aunt's house a few more times so that she can get acquainted. It would be even better if she could meet Sister Lin." La."

"I still say the same thing. If Baoyu doesn't study, he won't be able to get into the eyes of his uncle. Look at the father and son in their family, and the younger one is studying with the prince in the palace. At that time, even if he can't get into the top three exams, he will be ranked first. Jinshi can still be obtained. Baoyu’s knowledge is good enough to fool us people, but it’s not enough to see it in front of my uncle.”

Wang Xifeng thought for a while and gave Jia Lian an idea, "Take him as a visit to relatives, don't talk nonsense. Even if Baoyu has studied, my uncle might not like it. Look at this one today. Tanhualang is five or six years older than Baoyu, and now he has double happiness. It can be seen that my uncle still likes those children who are mature in doing things."

Jia Lian was still about to open his mouth, when he heard someone talking in the yard. Ping'er opened the curtain, and Jia Baoyu had come with the attacker.

"Second brother is good, sister Feng is good, my brother's place is ready, when are we leaving?"

Jia Lian stood up and patted his clothes, "Brother has also done it here, let's go out now."

The two brothers went out together with some people. Wang Xifeng sent the people to the gate of the yard to hold the door frame, looked at it for a while and asked Ping'er beside him.

"What is Xiren holding?"

"I just asked about some poems about Baoyu, and I heard that Baoyu wanted to learn poems with the uncle of the Lin family."

Wang Xifeng's eyes slanted, "I don't believe this, because of Baoyu's temper, I can't wait to hide eight feet away when I hear those officials who are studying. Today is another good day for my cousin. The people who come to their house are all reading Those who are familiar with each other will open their mouths and close their mouths, so Baoyu will not discuss poetry with them."

The two brothers of the Jia family came to the Lin family and saw a long line of cars and horses in front of them.

The two brothers had to come down and walk to the door.The gatekeeper at the door knew the two brothers, so he quickly led them into Lin's house.

The servant asked as he walked, "The two second masters are here. Should we go to see our master first, or go to the back to meet our wife first. There are many gentlemen talking with the master in front, all of whom are from the same family of our master. The wife in the back There are also many wives from other families sitting in front of you..."

Jia Lian said, "Of course I'm going to visit my uncle. By the way, when will my cousin come back? The two of us should congratulate him personally."

"Our master hasn't come back yet. When we come back, we have to go to the master first. You come with me. Our master is in the study."

Jia Baoyu didn't want to talk to those old scholars, so he said, "I'll go to the back to see my aunt."

Jia Lian thought to himself that there are so many women and Taoists in the backyard, why would you go there to cause trouble.

"Baoyu, it's important to visit uncle first. Aunt is our real aunt, and she's not an outsider. It doesn't matter if we meet later."

The two brothers walked for a quarter of an hour, and when they arrived at Lin Ruhai's study, they could hear many people laughing from afar.

Seeing the two brothers, the old butler hurried forward to say hello, and personally closed the curtain to let the two brothers enter the study.

Lin Ruhai introduced to the others, "These are two nephews." Then he told the two brothers that this is Mr. So-and-so, where is he an official now...

Jia Lian seemed to be able to do a job with ease in such an occasion, and was called "nephew" several times after seeing him around.

Then a few more people came. Jia Lian didn't dare to sit down.