Heir of the Red Chamber

Chapter 42

Lin Ya didn't move and didn't speak, just looked at the little girl with a smile on her face, but the voice of discussion around her gradually died down, and the bolder ones started to glance at Lin Ya and the girl back and forth.

It's really because Lin Ya was born so well, at this moment, he looks harmless and compassionate, and the clothes on his body are made of rare materials that most people have never seen before.Isn't the most popular storybook in the market are rich men and poor women?It feels that there are not a few people who can publish another romantic story today.

Lin Ya was destined to disappoint these people.

He seemed to have seen enough of the excitement, and turned around to leave. The eyes of everyone who were sure that he would step forward to save the helpless and weak woman from the fire and water almost popped out.Looking at Lin Ya again, there is really no trace of nostalgia.

Lin Ya was about to leave, the girl who had been crying silently all this time finally couldn't help sobbing, her voice was quiet and mournful, just like a small animal whining, instantly there was a soft-hearted one who couldn't see the suffering of others with red eye circles, and there was a standing still The young man behind Lin Ya stood up and blocked Lin Ya's way.

"I think this uncle is dressed in rich clothes, and he looks like a benevolent person. Why don't you help this little lady?"

To put it more clearly, it means that seeing that you are a son of a great family, and you have exchanged slaves for maidservants, and you are not short of money, why don't you just take this little lady away. Little effort.

The man who spoke was not tall, but his face was honest and honest. At this time, he opened his arms to block Lin Ya's way. One of the two was covered in silk and silk, and the other's clothes were old and washed, and they were a little pale. Which one would win the hearts of others? Recognition goes without saying.

The servants who were about to squeeze to Lin Ya's side were annoyed at that time, but Shou Sheng, who always took the lead to scold Lin Ya, didn't speak this time, and covered the mouth of Lu Sheng, who also wanted to win , Frustrated those who were looking forward to watching another drama about slaves oppressing good people.

Lin Ya, who was caught to be taken advantage of for no reason, gave Shousheng an approving glance, and looked at the man blocking the way with a bit of admiration, and even bowed his hands in a salute: "Brother Tai is chivalrous, the boy is so inferior, I am ashamed Dare to do it."

Speaking of this, Lin Ya saw that the man's face was pale, so he changed the topic: "It's just that if I take it away, it will be a long time and a long way, and it will inevitably cause the girl's flesh and blood to be separated. , with Xiongtai's chivalrous heart, he will definitely be able to arrange it properly."

Lin Ya has lived in the south of the Yangtze River for a long time, and his accent is of course different from that of the people in the capital. His excuse really made everyone nod frequently. Lin Ya didn't say much, and directly ordered Fusheng to take out all the broken silver they brought out today, and handed it to the dumb man hands, striding away.

The woman wanted to follow Lin Ya and I saw You Lian thank you, but she was so delicate, how could she be crowded with people.There was also a class of people who watched the excitement and didn't think it was a big deal. They urged the man who took the money to go to the girl's house quickly to save people from the fire, but it was more lively than before.

After all, for the ancients, Lin Ya's gift of gold seemed to fulfill the fate of the man and the girl. It was really a good talk, and they also wanted to see the reunion ending with their own eyes.

It wasn't until he went a little farther that Lin Ya's gentle expression revealed a bit of solemnity.

"Do you think there are more stupid people or smart people in this world?" Lin Ya suddenly got on his horse and asked, but there was still no emotion in his eyes.

Shousheng just got the compliment, and he was thinking about it, and he spoke faster than usual: "Of course there are many smart people, but stupid people always do wrong things, and in the end, they end up ruining themselves." This kind of world will be very miserable. No, always be stupid, that will cut off the family's livelihood.

After hearing this, Lin Ya didn't say right or wrong, but became more and more silent. Only when he saw exquisite and rare gadgets, he would get off his horse and go over to buy them himself, and hand them over to the boys for safekeeping. That's it. Walk and stroll as you go, and slowly return to the mansion.

The stewards had already heard the good news from the person who came back to report the letter first, and all of them were smiling. When they saw Lin Ya came back, they all gathered together to congratulate Lin Ya. Monthly money, plus a winter coat.

After the happy event was finished, the smile on Lin Ya's face remained unchanged, but the next order made all the stewards feel shocked.

Lin Ya said it very simply. He just said that from today until he leaves Beijing, everything in the family will be strictly and cautiously done. No traffic inside or outside is allowed, and no private entrainment is allowed. Throw it out to fend for itself.

The punishment was so severe that the stewards immediately responded in unison, but then they couldn't help arguing with each other, guessing what happened, and asking the uncle to go out for a trip was like facing a big enemy, but the biggest one in Beijing recently The storm has just passed, and there is really nothing new.

Lin Ya can't care about people's concerns, he just casually clicked on Jia's house alone: ​​"The Jia's house is my grandfather's house after all, and there is nothing small about my family's family. If they have anything, they have to report it to you." I know, but after all, they are people with different surnames, so you have to be sure."

The stewards responded respectfully again.They have handled this matter very smoothly since the master's illness. It is nothing more than that the Jia family's excitement must be said, and the people of the Jia family have no time to see the Jia family's posts. Yan, don't take your hands with your ears.

Those who can be in charge are all smart people. When you think about it together, you can vaguely guess that the in-laws are having trouble again.

Although it is not in the middle, it is not far away.

Lin Ya pondered many things in his mind after he saw that the woman on the side of the road had set up a trap for him.A deception that can be seen at a glance, is the Jia family really so stupid?

From the Jia Lian whom he had seen before, to the three generations of Rongguo mansion headed by Jia Mu, Mrs. Wang, and Wang Xifeng, who are full of ink in the book, and then to Wang Ziteng, the second master of the king who came after Shenyin, the more Lin Ya thought about it, the more he felt that things would not be so simple. .

Think about the things involved with the Jia family in the book, and think about the plot of the Jia family to directly poison Lin Ruhai to death. The gentle method of seducing Lin Ruhai with beauty is not at all like the style of the four big families. They should be in the same line. If you believe in doing it, you will do it.Even the women's family members are willing to kill people and kill people's children and grandchildren. Lin Ya doesn't believe that the men outside will use such tricks after they have a big feud.

Except for one Xue Pan who is a real human head and a pig's brain, the injury in his hands is purely self-inflicted, Jia Lian's plan almost came to fruition, and most of the reasons for the fall were due to Lin Ruhai and Jia Lian's self-conceited plan. Arrogant, not because he is really as stupid as Xue Pan.

Now everyone's feng shui took turns, and when they arrived at the home of Jia and Wang's family, there was only one Lin Ya who came over from the Lin family. With Wang Ziteng's methods and Jia Lian's hatred, most likely he wanted to stay with his life.Today, Lin Ya thought about it for a long time, and became more and more suspicious that this was just a feint shot by the other party.

Lin Ya also used a similar strategy in shopping malls in his previous life.The purpose is nothing more than to make the opponent feel that his side is stupid and weak, and then become paralyzed, so that he can hit it with one blow.

Knowing that someone has bad intentions like this, but not knowing when the knife in the dark will fall, the feeling is really bad. Although Lin Ya doesn't show it on the surface, the daily arrangements are well-organized, whether it's studying for homework, or going out to visit. In the same year, Lin Ruhai's old friend and the Zeng family also formally issued a marriage contract, and planned to welcome their relatives in January after the release of the Chunwei Xingbang, but there was always an increasingly ominous feeling in his heart.

Jia's family was too quiet, there was not even a word in Jingzhong that Lin Ya, the heir, was ungrateful and never went to Rongguo Mansion to visit his stepmother, Mrs. Jia's mother.When something goes wrong, there must be a demon.

In fact, Jia's family has nothing to do with tranquility. On the day when Lin Ya brought two live geese to Zeng's mansion to ask for marriage, Qin, the grandmother of Xiaorong in Ningguo mansion, finally got married with her stepmother-in-law You. Under the devout worship of the three sticks of incense in the morning and evening and the hope of many people, he completely fell ill.

But this time, the Ningguo Mansion did not behave as usual. Even the coughing of this grand-grandmother, who was loved and valued by several layers of elders, was regarded as a big deal. The palace asked the genius doctor Zhang Youshi to sit in the town, but they just sealed up the courtyard of the Qin family and Qin Keqing, ensuring that not even a sparrow could fly out, and then kept it secret.

Qin Keqing's body and bones have not been strong since she was sent to the West Mansion to eat food supplements for several months, and she slipped a fetus again. Continue to be the director of the family and socialize and entertain.Fortunately, that Zhang Youshi is indeed a proper person of his own. He kept silent about Qin Keqing's symptoms, and just prescribed a useful prescription. Later, he even prepared the medicinal materials and asked his own medicine boy to fry them. Without pretending to be someone else, he actually helped Qin Keqing recuperate when it was impossible for her to confine herself to confinement.

It's a pity that all this hard work will be in vain after all.

Long before Lin Ya arrived in Beijing, Zhang Youshi was respectfully sent out of the mansion by Jia Zhen with a shockingly generous consultation fee. The mansion neither invited a doctor nor took medicine. Qin Keqing was left by her two children Accompanied by the big girls Baozhu and Ruizhu, she was lying alone in her beautiful boudoir where most of the rare treasures looked like broken copper.

In fact, after more than half a year of recuperation, Qin Keqing's complexion is much better than when she just had a miscarriage. Even if she takes off her makeup and powder and takes a closer look at this moment, she can't see any signs of illness, but her eyes are filled with The desperation she felt was too obvious, making her look lifeless and lifeless, and even though she was beautiful and beautiful, she was no longer as lively as before.

Qin Keqing couldn't help but despair.

Although Diaoliang Huadong still lives there and eats dragon liver and phoenix marrow, a rough girl in the yard was beaten to death by Jia Zhen yesterday because she wanted to climb another high branch and utter bad words to Baozhu who went out to spread the word, but she knew that she was Can't escape the young man's death.

Qin Keqing is not an orphan girl without father and mother in the health care hall at all, and she herself is very clear about her life experience.Her mother was the real Princess Zhenjing who was supposed to kiss her outside the Great Wall.Princess Zhenjing had a relationship with the former prince that she shouldn't have, so she resorted to a trick to become the former prince's concubine, and got her again.The former crown prince planned to take Qin Keqing's mother and daughter into the palace when he ascended the throne, who knows that people are not as good as heaven, he left first, the crown prince's building collapsed, Princess Zhenjing's water-like beauty could not withstand the storm, Also passed away when Qin Keqing was a child.Then Qin Keqing was taken away by Qin Ye, and then hired by Jia Jing with ulterior motives to his grandson.

It is precisely because she knows her own life experience that Qin Keqing understands better than anyone else that she can marry into the Ningguo Mansion as the eldest grandson-in-law with the status of a fifth-rank petty official and the daughter-in-law. The prince's concubine, the Jia family felt that her direct brother might become the second grandson of the emperor and rule the world, and wanted to rely on her to make a fortune.

Otherwise, she is a daughter-in-law, and she doesn't have any strong natal family, how can she force her step-mother-in-law, Youshi, who has taken up filial piety, to be like that?As soon as she entered the door, her mother-in-law was the director of the house. At that time, You Shi was still favored, and she and her father-in-law Jia Zhen were also innocent.

But now, this day has changed.

Duke Rong of the Western Mansion has always been more optimistic about Zhen Guifei's family in his heart. Qin Keqing knows very well that there have been a lot of dirty things between the two mansions. In order to help the two girls of the Wang family wake up, they even took the Xue family's face seriously.

Before, she was heartbroken about the child in her womb, and she hesitated to make up her mind to send the child who shouldn't come. Jia Zhen even got dizzy, and wanted her to give birth to the child and raise it as Jia Rong's child. The Wang family borrowed the help of Xifu She was reassured, and it was justified, so whether it was Jia Zhen, who was gloomy and gloomy for a few days after losing her child, or she, who was crying secretly at night, they didn't get into trouble with Xifu. The feast of Acacia.

Originally thought that such a day when everyone was hiding a belly full of calculations would last for at least a few more years, but they didn't expect Xifu to convince Jia Zhen and his son so quickly.

Wang Tu dominates the industry and is an extremely personable minister. In the face of such temptations, what is a woman who is considered to be a favorite?

It's not that Qin Keqing doesn't understand that there are too many things like this in the Tian family. It is precisely because she is too clear about her identity, and since the day she became sensible, she has not been able to be herself in this life and can die well.But this man, as long as nothing happens one day, he always fantasizes that he can be different.

As a result, before the battle for great position ended, he became an abandoned child.

Thinking of the last night she spent with Jia Zhen before she was put under house arrest in the courtyard, Qin Keqing didn't think about Jia Zhen's face full of guilt, but narrowed her eyes and carefully recalled the letter she picked up from Jia Zhen's case.

But a few words, saying that the Northwest Barbarian Tanlang Camp plundered several cities, burned the city and killed the people indiscriminately. Dayue, soon General Pingxi and other meritorious ministers will be rewarded.

Who doesn't know that the name of the Tanlangying camp is up and down?That is a living Rakshasa who can stop children from crying at night, a ghost in human skin, General Pingxi's contribution is indeed too great, and he has to reward him.

Moreover, Qin Keqing also knew that General Pingxi was a follower of Zhen Guifei's eldest son, the Fourth Highness, and a pillar of the Zhen family.

Presumably, it was precisely because of the extraordinary achievements of the Northwest that Jia Zhen and his son finally gave up on themselves.Who made the Fourth Highness so prosperous, but her first brother has no ambitions, the elder brother has not made any achievements in his age, not to mention that he has no hope of becoming a great treasure, and he has acted inappropriately, and is rejected by the Fourth Highness.

The character of the Jia family, even though Jia Zhen has always regarded her as a treasure, would not offend the new king just because of a woman.No, the matter has not yet been resolved, and she is already "sick". In order to cheer herself up after the miscarriage, Jia Zhen ordered the second and third sisters of the You family not to be picked up again, and returned to Ningguo Mansion to share with them. The elder sister, You Shi, lived together in the upper room of the main courtyard of the Duke's Mansion.

Taking a deep breath, Qin Keqing didn't wear a coat, got out of bed in a snow-white tunic and sat down in front of the dressing table. She picked up the sandalwood lotus pattern and combed her messy long black hair. Seeing his still young face in the mirror, tears suddenly overflowed his eyes.

A man roams the world, and the rain turns the clouds. She was born as a woman, so she can only go up and down with the waves, and she can't help herself in her life. Until they thought she was damned.Even the words her mother insisted on telling her before she died, she didn't do it in the end.

But who wants to die if there is a glimmer of life?

The memory of her mother's death suddenly jumped into her mind. Qin Keqing, who could hardly eat anything these days, did not know where the strength came from, and suddenly ran out barefoot, with long hair like a waterfall blowing in the breeze, and this disheveled look The servants in the yard were so shocked that they lost their minds for a moment, and they actually made Qin Keqing run to the gate of the yard.

Seeing that Grandma Xiao Rong was really about to run out, the maids and women broke out in a cold sweat and rushed up to stop her in a panic.But in fact, before they rushed over, Qin Keqing had already stopped.

She didn't look at the young woman in the garden who was left with a flowery back and didn't know whether it was the second sister You or the third sister You, nor did she look at Jia Zhen's panic-stricken look and hurriedly hid behind the pillars, she just bowed her head slightly , let the long hair slide over the cheeks, covering the beautiful face of hibiscus that Jia Zhen praised as "Chang'e in the moon is nothing but this", and looked deeply and quietly at the feet that had been bumped and wounded.

Three days later, the imperial decree in recognition of General Pingxi's achievements was finally made known to the world, and a three-day banquet was held in the palace. Even Lin Ya, who finally escaped from socializing and began to study behind closed doors, got the news.Even though he couldn't help frowning at the identity of General Pingxi, a stable frontier is always a good thing, but he didn't stop his servants from privately admiring General Pingxi's remarks.

But this palace banquet had a major event.

On the third day of the palace banquet, as usual, I went to rest at the place of Linggui, one of the two nobles of the Zhen family who have been quite worry-free for the past two years, but suddenly fainted in the middle of the night, and the whole palace was shocked. Even Concubine Zhen got scolded.In the end, the furious present even ordered people to tie Linggui to a pillar and beat him to death. No one was allowed to collect the body after death, and he was thrown directly into the cremator without a place to bury him.

Immediately afterwards, when many people were guessing that the Zhen family was going to suffer bad luck, now, as if they suddenly came back to their senses, they issued an order to reward Concubine Zhen generously and not count the four or six Highnesses, and even sent people south to Jinling, Reward the old lady Zhen, and show with actions that Concubine Zhen and the prince under her knees are still favored, and the nobles who entered the palace together with Mrs. Ling all entered the position and became concubines.

This court storm left people confused and at a loss as to what to do. After Lin Ya heard about it, she was only worried about one thing, which was her current body.

According to the news that is quietly circulating in Beijing, after waking up from this coma, his body and bones are not as good as before. It seems that a minor illness has caused hidden dangers for many years. Ask the imperial doctor to wait by your side.

According to the current situation, no matter what the third prince Chu Ronghua's strategy is, if there is a good or bad situation today, Concubine Zhen will have General Pingxi who is leading the army back to Beijing soon, and there will be the Jingying Jiedu who will lead the troops in the capital. As for Wang Ziteng, there is also Zhen Yingjia in Jiangnan, no matter how you look at it, it is a sure win.

It's a pity that he can't do anything, he can only continue to study hard, and secretly pray that he must hold on now, at least until next year's spring, so that he can find a family.

The gods seem to have indeed heard Lin Ya's wish. Although he often has headaches and brain fevers that make everyone's hearts fluctuate, there has never been a real dragon controlling Bintian, and he even presided over the New Year's ceremony.On the contrary, the Hubu Shangshu, who was said to be in good health, drank too much wine in the twelfth lunar month and was knocked to death on the spot.

The Minister of the Household Department died strangely but no inside information could be found out, the most urgent thing is to pick out a new minister to preside over an official business.According to the rules of this dynasty, the vacancy of the post of Minister of the Ministry of Households is usually filled by Zuo Shilang of the Ministry of Households, or a minister from the other five departments is transferred there. Zhezi, direct imperial pen Zhu Bian, personally ordered a new Hubu Shangshu.

Lin Ruhai, the salt censor in the south of the Yangtze River.

This time I was really shocked.

He has already expressed his loyalty to the Fourth Highness, and he is only waiting to be appointed as the Minister of the Household Department. Concubine Zhen and his family are unavoidably surprised and uncertain about what this means today, and it seems that they don't even know the candidate for the new Minister of the Household Department. What is the chaos below, and another imperial decree was issued, and the sixth prince was granted the title of prince of Zhongsu County, and he enjoyed double salary.

Following this imperial decree, the sixth prince instantly overwhelmed his elder brother, the fourth prince, and became No. 1 among the princes of this dynasty.

The transfer order and the Jinfeng mansion report of the sixth prince were almost sent to Yangzhou City.

After sending all the servants out, Lin Ruhai carefully put away the dispatch order and residence report, and sat alone in the study making tea, not lighting the lamp when it was dark, letting the moonlight pour into the room, reflecting the glass cup Flickering the light of fireflies.

It was Daiyu who was worried about her old father when she heard about it, so she came over with a lantern to persuade her.

The study room was pitch black, and the candlelight from the octagonal palace lanterns was very dazzling. Lin Ruhai knew that her daughter would complain about not taking care of her body in eight out of ten, so she simply pointed out another matter to distract Daiyu's attention.

"We're going to Beijing to find your elder brother to reunite, is Yu'er happy?"