Fairy Road Return [comprehensive]

Chapter 164 The Red Chamber 'True Love' - 62

In the third year of Xinheng, just entering August, the capital suddenly made a big move. The emperor ordered the whole capital to be cleaned up and down. It is necessary to ensure the cleanliness of the streets and buildings in the capital. Lead by example, starting from the palace.

This order was issued by the emperor in the morning, and there was no need for additional orders. In front of all civil and military officials, his face was serious, as if it was a very grand and grand event.

The civil and military ministers of the Manchu Dynasty all looked at the aloof emperor eagerly, hoping that the emperor could give an explanation.

It is only after monopolizing the imperial power that one realizes the weight of this responsibility. Emperor Xinheng has progressed from his high spirits at the beginning to his later calmness. Ministers, those people take credit for their pride, and relying on him as the emperor, they did a lot of outrageous things. Fortunately, they haven't made any major disasters. After learning from the pain, Emperor Xinheng took his own confidants to the knife. Several ministers were demoted or ordered to reflect at home. Others The ministers became obedient all of a sudden, and gradually became smoother in handling government affairs.

"The Taishang Emperor will return to Beijing soon. He has been away from Beijing for three years. I hope to show him a whole-hearted capital city."

As soon as Emperor Xinheng said this, the expressions of the civil and military ministers of the Manchu Dynasty became as serious as he was. Although the Supreme Emperor had been away from Beijing for three years, his reputation as an old man had been spread all over Daqi in the past three years, probably because he was patrolling all over the country. Supervised and dealt with some corrupt officials. There are many other races in the mountains and forests in Yunnan, Guizhou and Sichuan. I heard that the old man stayed there for a year, reconciling the conflicts between other races, the Han people and the government, and promoting the development of local agriculture and economy. .

The people above give orders, and the people below run and break their legs.

The garrison of the City Defense Battalion not only hired labor to clean the streets of the capital, but also took the initiative to participate in it. The people of every household actively cooperated in cleaning their own homes, and the cleaning activities in the whole city were vigorously carried out.

Hanlin Academy, Lin Hai was the editor of the Hanlin Academy at that time. In the spring of last year, Lin Hai won the No.3 ranking in the imperial examination. , and it's just been a year now.

When the bachelor in charge came back from court, he called every official of the Imperial Academy into the courtyard to give a lecture, saying that His Majesty ordered that the entire capital be cleaned up, and the Imperial Academy was no exception. Due to the shortage of manpower, each government department mobilized its officials .

"The Supreme Emperor is coming back soon, and we should welcome him with a new look." The bachelor in charge stroked his beard and ordered. Naturally, the officials would not let the officials do the work of fetching water, but just cleaned their rooms and wiped the dust on the table. Officials do it themselves.

When Lin Hai heard the words of the academician in charge that "the emperor is coming back soon", his whole mind was filled with the idea that Rong Guogong will be back soon, and the five girls of the Jia family will be back soon after.

"Ru Hai, why are you in a daze?" The colleague gave Lin Hai a hand and threw him a handkerchief.

When Lin Hai was 20 years old and Ji, Mr. Zhoushan Academy took the character as Ruhai. He hoped that his mind would be as broad as the sea. After he passed the exam, when he went back to Suzhou to worship his ancestors and then visited his husband, he knew that his father had passed away. , no close male elders, no one to choose the word for him, so he took this word.

Lin Hai came back to his senses, his heart was beating violently. In the past two years, he had not been able to communicate with Rong Guogong and Jia Min who were on tour. He didn't know why he could persist until now.

After passing the entrance examination, the unmarried Lin Hai became a favorite in the capital. Most of the first- and second-rank officials wanted to recruit him as his son-in-law, and the Lin family was originally the family of Liehou. In that way, these first- and second-rank officials are all sincerely marrying their legitimate daughters, and during that time, he often met some noble women. These noble women had beautiful faces and good manners, which made him tired of dealing with them. The mother said that she had already engaged, but the woman's family had something to do, and the marriage was postponed for three years, and the mad bees and butterflies would still swarm up, and it took a long time before this trend gradually subsided.

Thinking of what happened last year, Lin Hai is a little dumbfounded now, and even more terrified.

Because he was busy taking the imperial examinations, after returning to the capital, he didn't make much contact with his old friends, let alone go ahead to curry favor with his two future brothers-in-law.It was Tanhua who passed the exam, and after returning from worshiping ancestors in Suzhou, he gradually got to know Jia She and Jia Yuan. Of course, from the first meeting, Lin Hai knew that the two of them knew him, and they were polite to him.

Aristocratic ladies also have their own pride, since he refused again and again, they won't stalk her, he is all about making love.On the way back when he accompanied his mother to a temple to worship Buddha, the mother and son rescued a young woman who was about to be sold into a brothel by her father. The young woman had no one to rely on, so she entered the Lin family as a maid beside Lin's mother. This young woman is lively and pretty, and she is able to please her mother, so the servants of the Lin family praise her endlessly. They secretly say that she will have the status of an aunt sooner or later. The woman actually confessed her love to him, and said that she would be by his side to serve him for the rest of his life without complaining or regretting.

The next day, Lin Hai told Mother Lin to let Mother Lin release the maid who had accidentally rescued, without any ransom money.This ended like this, as he thought it was over. Soon, on the way back from work, he met a weak woman who was bullied by a bully and rescued her from the bully. The woman was alone and had to be taken back to the Lin family. This time he learned his lesson and didn't put this girl by his mother's side, but let the nurse in charge put her in the sewing room to be a knitting lady. Okay, this young woman has more tricks, she often hurts the moon at night, and often haunts him At that time, it happened to be summer, and he was afraid to appear in the yard at night to enjoy the shade and admire the moon. Later, he couldn't stand it anymore and asked the steward to transfer her to Zhuangzi. The news came that this woman could not bear the hard life in Zhuangzi and ran away.

Again and again, Lin Hai still didn't connect these two things. In the early winter of last year, the snow fell very early. The weather was snowy and the weather was extremely cold. He saved a family of three. The widowed mother brought a son and a daughter. I was driven out, it was freezing cold, I had nowhere to go, and I was planning to go to a mountain not far away, where there was a dilapidated mountain temple, I thought I could shelter there.

This saved people, so it's not easy to leave them behind. Lin Hai brought the mother and daughter back to the Lin family, and let the three of them survive this severe winter. The mother was very diligent, rushing to work in the kitchen or in the yard. Well, the younger brother is not very capable of doing things, and the older sister is also very diligent, especially in the sewing room, followed by laying hands and doing show work. It only took three months to go from zero foundation to good embroidery work.

Then, Lin Hai's clothes were all rounded by this woman, and all the patterns on the clothes he wore were embroidered by her. It's spring, he took off his thick jacket and replaced it with thin clothes, which can better show a person's beauty The standard of living has improved. During that time, when Lin Hai's clothes were worn out, he always attracted the attention of his colleagues and friends. After all, although a person looks good, he can't do without the foil of brocade clothes.

Well, Lin Hai was very proud, but he didn't show it on the surface. Until later, he suddenly realized that every maid and entourage around him would praise that sister in his ears. He suddenly realized that something seemed wrong. According to this trend Going down, does he have to take that sister as his concubine?Otherwise, how could he wear such exquisite and beautiful clothes all his life?

Thinking that he was still waiting to get married, Lin Hai ordered the housekeeper to send the mother and daughter away the next day, and also gave them a settling allowance. After all, the mother and son had done a lot of things in the Lin family.

But that whole day, Lin Hai was thinking about it. He always felt that something was weird, but he couldn't tell where it was.He held his head and pondered for many days, unable to understand it. Until half a month later, when he went out, he encountered a bully who robbed a good girl from a good family. It's a fight, and there are very few incidents of robbing civilian women. After all, this incident will discredit the family or Lao Tzu, and isn't this a blatant way to give political opponents a handle?

Lin Hai returned to Lin's house with a dark face, and then arranged for people to investigate the three people he had rescued, starting with the woman who was sold to the brothel by her father, and after the investigation by his subordinates, not to mention the first two, the nearest one Three mothers and three children. They did not exist in the village they mentioned, and they disappeared after they left the Lin family. No matter how they checked, they could not find them.

"Be careful of beauty tricks!" Lin Hai was angry with a dark face, and suddenly King Cheng's words with a teasing tone entered his mind.

Lin Hai became vigilant, and later encountered him three times. He left without looking sideways, and sent his subordinates back to observe quietly after he hadn't gone far. Sure enough, after he was no longer fooled, those people withdrew, and his subordinates followed him. Three times, but lost every time.

After doing this three times, from May until now, he has not met any young woman who needs his help on the road.

Lin Hai was full of doubts, and every time he met Jia She and Jia Yan, he wanted to ask, but he didn't ask after all, because this matter was uncomfortable in his heart.

The Imperial Academy has been cleaned from top to bottom. Except for the storage room that has been accumulated for many years, today is too late. Lin Hai and his office rooms have been cleaned. Seeing that it is getting late, the bachelor in charge finally nodded in satisfaction and let everyone get off work up.

Lin Hai and his colleagues separated at the gate of the Imperial Academy. The hottest period has passed, and the weather is particularly suitable now.After thinking for a while, he ordered the coachman to go in the direction of Rongguo Mansion. The capital city has a large area and many streets, and the cleaning work cannot be completed in a day. Rongning Avenue and Rongguo Mansion and Ningguo Mansion are making arrangements.

He saw Jia Amnesty, Jia Yan and other Jia family's children on the streets of Rongning Street. Well, the other three seemed to be the sons-in-law of the Jia family. Lin Hai thought for a long time before putting down the curtain of the car and ordering the driver to return to Lin's house, or to wait for Rong Guogong to come back. Let's talk later.

The author has something to say: Good evening (^o^)/~