[Qing Chuan + Red Mansion] Midas touch

Chapter 146

Lin Ruhai passed away, Zuo Xi was worried about Daiyu, and wanted to go back to the city to visit Daiyu.If Daiyu is willing, Zuo Xi also wants to take Daiyu's siblings to live in Xiaotangshan for a while.

Zuo Xi thinks he has some experience in how to relieve the pain of bereavement.It can't be too lively, because a place that is too lively makes people sad.It can't be too deserted, because an environment that is too deserted will make people pessimistic and decadent.It is best to be quiet but not deserted, warm and have familiar people around.

There are hot springs in Xiaotangshan Bieyuan, even in winter, it is warmer than other places.Most of the residential courtyards are paved with earth dragons, so it is very warm and comfortable without using a carbon basin to smoke the cage.There is also a glass greenhouse in another courtyard, where flowers, trees, vegetables, and food can be enjoyed, and it is a good place to recuperate.

Moreover, she and Shiyi are relatively free, she can spend time with Daiyu, and Shishi can also act as a teacher for a while to teach Lin Xiaodi.

By the way, in addition to daily life, we also need to pay attention to the arrangements for the New Year's Eve.

According to Zuo Xi's experience, he must not go to his relatives' house for the New Year.Seeing the bustle and bustle and the family reunion, not only will you be out of place and unable to blend into the festive atmosphere, but you will also be unable to suppress your sad emotions.

On such a day, it is easiest to feel nostalgic for one's life experience, and it is very sad.If you accidentally show your emotions, people will still think you are ignorant and artificial, and those who are more mean will think you are unlucky.

But can you cheer up?

The kindness and sympathy of relatives are there.So when it’s Chinese New Year, you have to force yourself to smile. Zuo Xi thinks of the scene when her mother passed away at her relative’s house to celebrate the New Year, and she feels that she is not going to celebrate the New Year, but to suffer.

It's only September now, and there are still several months before the Chinese New Year.If there is no accident, Zuo Xi will celebrate the New Year with Shi Shi in the palace.Zuo Xi didn't intend to let Daiyu's siblings live a cold and quiet New Year, nor did he intend to let Daiyu's siblings celebrate the New Year at Xue's house, for fear that Daiyu would be hurt and forced to laugh.Zuo Xi would first ask Daiyu if she wanted to go to the Yangsheng Tang to celebrate the New Year with the orphans, or to celebrate the New Year with Sister Feng and the others.

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The house that the Xue family bought in Hongye Town in the early years has also been tidied up. After the Dragon Boat Festival this year, Aunt Xue took Wanyan to live there for a while.The Zhenghongqi camp was stationed there, and Xue Pan was there.Since living there, Xue Pan has gone home more often, and the couple have been in the same room more often.Two months ago, Wanyan's diagnosis of Ximai was performed there, and Aunt Xue took Miaoyu to live there with Wanyan's pregnancy.

Zuo Xi wanted to take Daiyu's siblings over to stay for a while, but then thought that Miaoyu and Daiyu could get along, so he wrote a letter to Miaoyu, asking if she would come back to stay with Daiyu for a while.

Early in the morning, Miaoyu dismounted at the gate of the other courtyard wearing a red riding outfit and wearing Xiangyun lamb boots.There was a bit of brilliance and rebelliousness on the cold face, and that beautiful face was even more glamorous, making people dare not look directly at it.

Last night, after receiving the letter sent by Zuo Xi, Miao Yu wanted to rush over overnight.How can Aunt Xue be assured that she is a big girl who has been on the road overnight, even though there are many guards in the courtyard, Aunt Xue did not call Miaoyu over, but forced her to come back after breakfast.When Miaoyu came to the courtyard where Zuo Xi and Shiyi were in another courtyard with her little riding whip, Zuo Xi had just put on his cloak and wanted to go out.

"I'll go with you." As soon as Miaoyu came in, she greeted Eleven, her direct uncle, and then threw the horsewhip in her hand to the girl, and asked Zuo Xi, "Do you have plain clothes? "During the speech, the pearls and emeralds swayed, which was very beautiful.

Aunt Xue attached great importance to Wanyan's child, and Miaoyu was in her late twenties and hadn't been able to marry yet. In order to win the prize, when she asked people to make clothes for Miaoyu this year, she chose all those gorgeous clothes. Material cutting.Miaoyu is good-looking and powerful, and she can hold her back.Aunt Xue and Zuo Xi met, and asked someone to pack up a lot of bright materials to make clothes for Miaoyu.

Miaoyu grew up wearing Taoist nun's robes. After changing her attire, although she remained aloof, she was greatly influenced by Zuo Xi and others in her attire.No matter how unconventional Miaoyu is, she also knows that she can't go to the door of Lin's house in this red riding outfit, so she asks this question.

Zuo Xi took a look at Miaoyu's riding outfit, which she also had, and said, "Why not, I asked someone to make a few of them last month."

Zuo Xi has only been married for about half a year, and as a new wife, she would not have prepared too plain clothes.But she couldn't help that her in-laws had a lot of family members and relatives, and there would be funerals every now and then.So Zuo Xi also prepared several plain cheongsams here, just in case.She changed into plain clothes early this morning, and put on a padded cloak with silver, white, brocade and blue embroidered blessing patterns.Seeing Miaoyu asking now, he quickly asked Yuncheng to find two clothes for Miaoyu to wear.

Miaoyu had her own yard in another courtyard, and now she returned to her own yard to change her clothes, and asked the people in the yard to collect all the bright objects in her house.

"Brother Xuan is still young, the siblings must live together." Seeing Miaoyu like this, Zuo Xi knew that she intended to invite Daiyu to live with her, but Zuo Xi didn't think it was a good idea.From time to time, today's Daiyu and Lin Xiaodi need a relatively independent space, "Yesterday I asked someone to clean up Dianjiang Terrace for their siblings to live in. It's very close to your coral island. The Yuanyuan where we live is not far away."

Although she hasn't picked anyone up yet, and she doesn't know if Daiyu will come, but it is also the way for her to prepare the accommodation first.

Seeing that it was getting late, Zuo Xi and Miao Yu didn't delay any longer, and after saying goodbye to Shi Shi, they took a carriage back to the city.Eleven didn't drag Zuo Xi back this time, and stayed in the other courtyard honestly to wait for Zuo Xi to come back.

This time back to the city, at least three to five days before turning back.Zuo Xi was a little surprised that Shi Yi was so considerate.But when Zuo Xi saw that Eleven was studying the drawings she had drawn before, he understood what this person was thinking.

Before going to Changchun Garden, Zuo Xi and Shiyi both heard about the arrangement to be blessed with Mount Wutai in the coming year.At that time, Zuo Xi turned his head to look at Eleven, and seeing yearning and envy flashing quickly in Eleven's eyes, he somehow thought of the observation elevators in later generations and the installation of elevators outside the old residential buildings.

It is less than [-] miles from the capital to Mount Wutai, and it takes only a few hours to travel by high-speed highway in modern times. However, taking a horse-drawn carriage to Mount Wutai in the case of November, it may take about ten days to get there.Another one, even if you reach Wutai Mountain, you can't climb up the mountain with eleven's physical condition.Unless. There is an elevator cable car or something.Afterwards, in a hurry, Zuo Xi took a pen and paper to draw an elevator frame, and briefly talked about the most superficial knowledge of mechanics such as bearings.At this moment, Eleventh will stay in the other courtyard obediently, probably because of these things are also hanging him.

Zuo Xi shook his head inwardly, thinking to himself that Eleven's step was too big.Instead of running to Wutai Mountain to play the life challenge, it is better to go around the capital first.

For example, go to Tongzhou to take a boat, and then take a stroll to Tianjin Port.Or ask someone to prepare a slider to climb the Mutianyu Great Wall.

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Because Shi Shi was not in the carriage, the two-horse carriage that Zuo Xi and Miao Yu were riding in also ran out of speed, and they saw the city gate within an hour.After entering the city, the carriage slowed down and headed towards the Lin family.

After entering the city, some of the entourage who followed Zuo Xi and others went back to Eleven Baylor Mansion, and some followed Zuo Xi to Lin's house.Because of this, there were not many servants who followed Zuo Xi to the Lin family.But no one would dare to underestimate the carriage with the Eleven Baylor House brand on the streets of the capital.

Arriving at the Lin family unimpeded, the servants of the Lin family had already received Daiyu's orders, and when they saw the person coming, they opened the door and directly brought the person in with the carriage.The carriage didn't stop until it was outside the second gate, then Zuo Xi and Miao Yu got down.

When Daiyu delivered the letter to Zuo Xi, she had expected that Zuo Xi would come, so she sent a message to the concierge.At this moment Zuo Xi brought Miaoyu to the door, and while the Lin family let people into the house, they trotted to report to Daiyu.

The Lin family didn't attend the funeral, but not attending the funeral didn't mean they weren't sad.Originally Lin Ruhai was gone, Daiyu was sad enough, she didn't want a negligence, and made Lin Xiaodi sick again, Daiyu was anxious and in pain, and almost made herself sick.

He severely punished the servants around Lin Xiaodi with thunderous means, and moved Lin Xiaodi to her yard to take care of him personally, and then sent the news to Zuo Xi.

When Zuo Xi was walking towards Daiyu's yard with the wind blowing under his feet, his eyes were also quickly sizing up the servants of the Lin family.

Daiyu has a strong personality. She has been a housekeeper for many years, and she is as scheming as anyone else.Based on what she knew about Daiyu, Lin Ruhai didn't call it a funeral, and with Daiyu's heart, she definitely wouldn't tell the whole story right now.To send her a letter so quickly, there must be something that needs her influence.

Zuo Xi expected well.People's hearts have always been unpredictable, even though Daiyu is the eldest daughter of the Lin family and the head of the housekeeper.But after Lin Ruhai left, some of the servants of the Lin family were flustered, some were overwhelmed, and many of the servants of the Lin family had other thoughts.

How many orphans in the world have been plotted for family property and killed, there are too many to count, and it is not uncommon.Blood relatives may not be unreliable when encountering such a thing, let alone those servants.

The Lin family is a 15-year-old boudoir girl and a five-year-old child. They have no close relatives and no reliable mother-in-law. How can the accumulated wealth not make people feel malicious.Some began to alienate the relationship between their siblings, some began to neglect their duties, and began to test Daiyu's bottom line. This time, Xiaodi Lin's illness was caused by those people.

Daiyu knew that if this unhealthy trend was not suppressed, their siblings would suffer from it.But Lin Xiaodi is too young, a single negligence could easily kill him, so Daiyu was a little bit wary.

When she wrote to Zuo Xi, she wanted to take advantage of Zuo Xi's power to first suppress those big-hearted servants of the Lin family, and let them know that their siblings are all isolated and helpless.The second is to ask Zuo Xi to help look after Lin Xiaodi for a period of time, so that she can free up her hands to clean up the house.

At this moment, after hearing the news that Zuo Xi had entered the mansion, Daiyu tucked the quilt for little brother Lin and came out from the inner room.When seeing Zuo Xi, Dai Yu wanted to smile at Zuo Xi, but just as the corners of her mouth raised, tears flowed out uncontrollably.

The white teeth bit her lips until they were red and bloodshot, and the suppressed emotions made Daiyu's body tremble slightly.Seeing Zuo Xi walking towards her, he opened his mouth to call someone, but because of this action, he released the sadness that had been swallowed in his stomach.

"Wu, huh~" Daiyu, holding on to her strength, hastily covered her lips with a handkerchief, and stopped crying.

In just a few days, Daiyu lost a lot of weight. According to a visual inspection, Daiyu has lost at least seven or eight catties compared to the last time we met.Zuo Xi felt distressed for something, and hurriedly stepped forward to hug him.While patting Daiyu's thin back, he said softly as if afraid of scaring her, "It's okay, I'm here."

With just this one sentence, Daiyu couldn't help crying on Zuo Xi's shoulder any longer.

After a while, Daiyu stabilized her emotions, and then took Zuo Xi and Miaoyu to Nuan Pavilion to talk.Inside the Nuan Pavilion was Xiaodi Lin who had taken medicine and was sleeping soundly. Even so, the voices of Daiyu and the three of them were not too low.

Without him, once Geinlin fell asleep, even if there was thunder ringing in his ears, he might not be able to wake him up from his dream.The quality of sleep is so high that it can be called the number one household in front of the Duke of Zhou.

After being seated, the maids served tea, and Daiyu called people out.Afterwards, without waiting for Zuo Xi and the two to inquire, he organized a conversation by himself and told Zuo Xi and Miao Yu about the recent events.

The second housekeeper Lin Yi, Zijuan Lin Ya and his wife, and Brother Xuan's nanny Lin Nanny were loyal to each other in the past, but they were the first to stand in line after Lin Ruhai left, and wanted to fight Brother Xuan against her, a big girl.Not only that, they even spread rumors that Daiyu couldn't tolerate her younger brother and wanted all of the Lin family's property as a dowry.

The chief housekeeper, Lin Zhong, knew that Lin Ruhai had given most of the Lin family property to Daiyu many years ago, and he did nothing on the surface, making people who didn't know him think that he was loyal and not hiding evil in his heart.But in private, his wife wanted to recognize Daiyu's girl as her daughter, and talked in Daiyu's ears about the benefits of having a baby and a certain honest scholar...

Zuo Xi couldn't see this kind of evil slave bullying the master the most, and now that this kind of thing happened to Daiyu again, he was unwilling to let it go.

"Why is it so troublesome." Zuo Xi sneered, and unceremoniously decided the fate of some of the Lin family's servants, "I need people to quarry and mine here. You make a list, and I will ask someone to take them there. Build bridges and pave roads to benefit the people.”

Although the Lin family's treatment of servants in the mansion is not like that of Rongguo mansion, they have always treated them extremely preferentially.Now that Lin Ruhai dared to bully Daiyu sister and brother like this just after he didn't have those people, it seemed to Zuo Xi that the good times had passed for a long time, and he didn't know how to cherish his blessings.

Eleven of her family has grown physically stronger in the past year, and her heart has followed Long Cao's thoughts and went out.Zuo Xi always thought that the road conditions outside were not good, and was thinking of asking someone to make a notice to recruit workers to repair a few bluestone roads so that it would be convenient to travel on November, when this happened to the Lin family.

What's the point of those servants just beating and selling, they should be asked to pay for their greed, and at the same time, they can teach those who have not made mistakes a good lesson.

The real rough envoys are much crueler than you can imagine.

When Daiyu heard this, she agreed with Zuo Xi's approach after a little consideration. Instead of screaming and beating, it would be better to pull her out to work for the benefit of one party.

As for the matter of staying with Zuo Xi in another courtyard, Daiyu didn't really want to go, but Zuo Xi hung Daiyu with the imperial doctor and the hot spring.Daiyu turned around and glanced at the direction of the inner room, seeing that Zuo Xi really didn't mind their siblings coming to the door at such a time, she nodded slightly in agreement with Zuo Xi's invitation.

"Miss, the mandarin duck girl from Rongguo Mansion is here." Danqing, the eldest girl, did not dare to enter the house directly, but stood under the window and replied back into the house.

Zuo Xi and Dai Yu looked at each other, and they couldn't help guessing whether the Rongguo Mansion had already got the news of Lin Ruhai's death.

"Let Yuanyang come in and answer." Zuo Xi glanced at Daiyu, motioned Daiyu not to speak, she raised her voice and shouted outside.

After shouting, he thought that Miaoyu was still here, and signaled Miaoyu to avoid it first.Miaoyu pursed her lips, lifted the curtain of the inner room and entered the inner room.

Yuanyang didn't know that Zuo Xi was here before she came. When she entered Daiyu's yard, she saw a few maids in robes and a few male servants in inner eunuchs standing in the yard with sharp eyes, and her heart skipped a beat.

This kind of dressed servant is not something that ordinary people would have, maybe Eleven Fujin is also here?

Hearing the voice coming from the room, Yuanyang lost his last thought of luck.He bowed his head and entered the room, greeted Zuo Xi first, then saluted Daiyu, before Zuo Xi and Daiyu asked, he cleverly said what he wanted in the future.

"The old lady is sick?" Zuo Xi narrowed his eyes slightly, and said in a deep voice: "The old lady is naturally strong and healthy, and she is free from illness and disaster. She is sick for no reason, is she angry? Miss Lin It's not too much to work in a hospital, so what's the use of her going. How about Ben Fujin gathering all the people and going to vent the anger on the old lady?"

hiss~

"Fu Jin was joking. The old lady is, she dreamed about her aunt, and then she felt sad and didn't want to eat. Maybe she got better after seeing Miss Lin."

Zuo Xi looked at the mandarin duck expressionlessly for half an hour, and then suddenly laughed, "I heard what you said, why does it seem like you don't welcome Ben Fujin?"

That is indeed true.

When asked by Zuo Xi, Yuanyang didn't dare to admit it, "It's the servant girl who is clumsy and didn't make it clear. The old lady didn't mean it anymore."

Zuo Xi blinked at Daiyu, and asked Yuanyang in a voice full of wickedness: "Then you mean that the old lady also wants to see me?"

Yuanyang dared not say no, so she had to bite the bullet and say yes.

"All right. Since the old lady sincerely wants to see you, then let's go, Ben Fujin."

mandarin duck:"……"