A hundred flavors of life

Chapter 727 Daiyu enters Beijing and visits Rongguo Mansion! (Please order in full!)

After reading the letter, Hua Twelve had a complicated expression. This uncle Lin Ruhai was the salt patrol censor in the Red Mansion, and he was also Lin Daiyu's father.

In this letter, Lin Ruhai first said that his wife Jia Min died of a sudden illness in Yangzhou a few days ago. Because Yangzhou was far away and Lin Chong had court errands, he told Lin Chong in the letter that he did not need to go to Yangzhou to express his condolences.

The purpose of the letter was Lin Ruhai's mother-in-law, an old feudal lord of the Jia family. Fearing that after her daughter's death, her son-in-law would be busy with official duties and not take good care of her granddaughter, so she sent Jia Lian, the eldest son of the Rongguo Mansion, to Yangzhou to bring her granddaughter Lin Daiyu to her. Upbringing.

Lin Ruhai was worried that her daughter was young and had never left her parents since she was a child. Even though she was staying at her grandmother's house in Beijing this time, she couldn't rest assured, so she asked Lin Chong, Lin Daiyu's clan brother, to take care of her.

Hua Twelvexin said that this was really a sister Lin who fell from the sky. How could this Lin Chong become Lin Daiyu's clan brother?

Judging from the meaning of the letter, Lin Chong and Lin Ruhai are relatives, but their relationship does not seem to be too close.

Otherwise, when Jia Min died, Lin Ruhai could report the funeral to the Jia family, but did not send anyone to inform Lin Chong who was also in Bianliang. This would definitely not be justified.

Hua Twelve had already understood the meaning of this letter. The letter stated the date when Lin Daiyu would arrive in Beijing by boat. He wanted to send someone to pick her up when she came to the Jia Mansion. It would be fine if there was no one in the Lin family in the capital, but if there were relatives in Beijing. If she doesn't go to pick up the boat, she's afraid that Lin Daiyu will be looked down upon in Jia's house.

Therefore, Lin Ruhai's purpose in writing this letter should be to ask Hua Twelve to pick up the ship as a member of the Lin family.

After understanding the letter, Hua Twelve thought to himself that this was the only bad thing about this scholar. If he had anything to say, he could just go ahead and go around without bothering him.

Lin Daiyu's boat took the canal from Yangzhou to Gaoyou, passing through Huai'an, Huaiyin, and then directly to Kaifeng from Tongluo Canal to Bianhe River. According to the date on the letter, it should be a few days before it can reach Bianliang, Tokyo. Counting the days, he should have already arrived. I am on duty at Longjingwei. It seems that I have to take leave right after I start work to support Sister Lin.

After seeing Hua Twelve reading the letter, Zhang Zhenniang asked curiously:

"Officer, what did uncle say in his letter?"

When Hua Twelve talked about the matter, Zhang Zhenniang felt pity for Lin Daiyu and only said that when her sister arrived in Tokyo, she must move around more.

Hua Twelve pulled Zhang Zhenniang into his arms and asked her to sit on his lap. He rubbed her ears and temples together for a while. When her breathing became short and her cheeks felt dizzy, she began to indirectly ask about her relationship with Lin Ruhai.

What he had done before was because he was afraid that the details would be exposed when asked. When Zhang Zhenniang saw that Lin Chong didn't even remember his clan uncle, wouldn't she be suspicious?

Sure enough, after some tricks, Zhang Zhenniang was very shy when asked about it. She didn't realize that there was any problem, so she told her intermittently that everything she knew was under the hands of Hua Twelve and others.

As Hua Twelve expected, Lin Ruhai was not his biological uncle, but his clan uncle. The two families did not seem to be close. Even Zhang Zhenniang's impression of Lin Ruhai was that when she got married to Lin Chong three years ago, he sent someone to send him off from Yangzhou. It's just a gift of one thousand taels of silver.

Therefore, even though they had never met, Zhang Zhenniang still remembers this favor of one thousand taels of silver with great gratitude to this day.

Hua Twelve nodded, more certain about his judgment, but he had already made up his mind. Although Lin Ruhai's letter probably meant asking him to pick up the ship and take care of the ship, it was a polite word, but since he caught up Well, we can't let Sister Lin end up as miserable and miserable as she did in the Red Mansion.

He was thinking about things in his mind, but his hands were not idle. Zhang Zhenniang was afraid that he would do something outrageous in broad daylight. She couldn't stand it anymore, so she fled the room with a blushing face.

After Hua Twelve asked the question, he was thinking about things, and all his actions were subconscious. When he saw Zhang Zhenniang running away, he was confused. After thinking for a while, he guessed why his wife wanted to run away, and he couldn't help but laugh.

But it doesn't matter if Zhang Zhenniang leaves, he just has something to do.

Previously, he believed that the Song Dynasty was a world full of spiritual energy and martial arts. If he wanted to understand this world, he would start from this aspect.

But now someone from the Red Mansion has jumped out. I am afraid that the history of this dynasty is also very different from the Song Dynasty he knew.

So what Hua Twelve has to do now is to understand the history of the Song Dynasty, so as not to expose any flaws and cause trouble when Long Jinwei is on duty.

Lin Chong also had a small study room in his home. After going in and looking around, he found that warriors were warriors, and there were no history books or anything like that.

He simply said hello to Zhang Zhenniang, left home, and went to find a bookstore on the street. He wanted to buy a few history books to read, but found that most of them were history books from the previous dynasty, and there was no one from this dynasty.

Hua Twelve simply found an old man who was an open-air storyteller. After he finished his speech, he walked over and gave him a small amount of money, saying that he wanted to lend a hand to talk and asked some questions.

The gentleman said that it was only twenty or thirty dollars a day, and Hua Twelve gave him one at a time. The old gentleman took the money without saying a word, packed up his things and left happily with him.

Hua Twelve invited people to his study room and asked his maid Jin'er to bring snacks and tea. Then he humbly asked for advice, saying that he was a martial artist and had never read any books. Now he had found a job at Long Jinwei and would be required to work in two days. I was going on a business trip, and I was afraid of making a joke, so I wanted to ask the old gentleman to tell him about the history of this dynasty.

When the old gentleman heard this, he immediately laughed. If you ask him to do other things, he thinks he has no ability, but if you want to tell history and stories, you can't do it with your hands.

Let’s start immediately with the story of Taizu Wu of this dynasty who conquered the world and conquered the whole world.

"It is said that in the last years of the Tang Dynasty, the ruler was immoral and the government was corrupted. The world was in chaos. All the heroes came together. The Central Plains of China was fighting for years until the people were in dire straits. The country was about to perish and evildoers were rampant. The Taizu of my dynasty was an old man. He was born in the military and had the ability to pacify the world. With the ambition of using a dragon-coiled stick in my hand, I can destroy the demons from all directions, frighten the princes from all directions, compete in the Central Plains, and rule the world!"

The old man spoke in a cadence, and he was a good storyteller!

Hua Twelve was shocked when he heard this and couldn't help interrupting:

"Old sir, let's not talk about storytelling and romance. Just talk about official history!"

The old man's eyes widened: "This official, I'm talking about official history!"

Hua Twelve even laughed angrily. You can buy a fantasy novel for a small amount of money, right? If you want to listen to it, you have to listen to time travel. He said angrily:

"Then tell me, why did we go directly from the end of the Tang Dynasty to the Taizu of our dynasty? Where did the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms in between go?"

The old man looked surprised: "What did the officials say? As we all know, after the Tang Dynasty came the Song Dynasty. Where did the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms come from? Could it be that the story in some storybook was taken seriously by the officials?"

Hua Twelve was so helpless, he thought to himself which one of us had the right words.

Suddenly something moved in his heart. He already felt that there was something wrong with the history of this world, so he asked someone to talk about history. Could it be that in this Water Margin world, there really were no Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms.

He quickly asked for details, and the old man continued.

Different from the history that Hua Twelve knew, this Taizu of the Song Dynasty did not join Chen Qiao's rebellion and wear a yellow robe. Instead, he used his unparalleled martial arts to defeat invincible opponents in the world.

In the process of competing in the Central Plains, there were basically all the original historical figures, such as Gao Huaide, Shi Shouxin, Pan Mei, Yang Ye, etc.

In addition to these historical figures that Hua Twelve knows, there are also several most outstanding heroes. They are all skilled in martial arts and have made great contributions in following Taizu to establish the world. Four of them were granted hereditary princes with different surnames. Eight were granted hereditary status and demoted to the rank of Duke.

Well, it’s the four bastards in the Red Mansion.

The four kings with different surnames are the Prince of Nan'an, the Prince of Beijing, the Prince of Xining, and the Prince of Dongping.

The Eight Dukes are Niu Qing, the Duke of Zhenguo, Liu Biao, the Duke of Liguo, Chen Yi, the Duke of Qi, Ma Kui, the Duke of Zhiguo, Hou Xiaoming, the Duke of Xiu Guo, Shi Shouye, the Duke of Repairs, Jia Yan, the Duke of Ning, and Jia Yuan, the Duke of Rongguo.

Taizu was a great hero, and naturally he would not repeat the unexplained mistake of death by the sound of an ax or a candle in history. According to the storyteller, in the autumn of the 16th year after the dynasty established the cauldron, Taizu broke through the void with force and soared into the sky. .

After Taizu shattered the void, his younger brother Guangyi succeeded him as Taizong. Because Taizong was in the wrong position, he was afraid that the generals who followed Taizu would rebel, so on the one hand, he attracted the founding nobles, mainly the four princes and eight princes, and on the other hand, he began to Chongwen and suppress martial arts.

Although Taizu did not repeat the same mistakes, the Song Dynasty once again embarked on the path of emphasizing culture over military affairs just like the official history.

Talking about the history of this dynasty is naturally not without taboos. This storyteller also spoke in Spring and Autumn style when it was easy to talk about it. When he talked about the current official family, he stopped abruptly, no matter how Hua Twelve asked. I don’t want to talk much. Hua Twelve could understand why people were so cautious. In the end, he only asked whether there was really something about breaking the void by force.

Speaking of which, when Hua Twelve and Lu Da were discussing martial arts with their father-in-law, they had mentioned the martial arts realm in this world.

Let’s not talk about what is below the innate nature. They are mostly the same, but there are still some realms above the innate nature.

In comparison, great masters like Hua Twelve are nothing. According to Zhang and Lu, there are martial saints who have condensed the will of martial arts, and there are human immortals who have perfected the will of martial arts and can sense heaven and humans.

Above the human immortals is the Shattered Void.

Why is it said? Because Zhang and Lu also heard what others said. When they were young, Coach Zhang was at the peak of acquired power. Now he is old and frail, and his strength has declined. Luda is also at the peak of acquired power, but his innate power can compete with the innate power. .

It’s just that these two people have not reached the innate realm, and they have never even seen the techniques after innate. How can Hua Twelve believe them when they talk in vain.

When the storyteller heard Hua Twelve ask about this, he immediately clapped his hands:

"Taizu was the first warrior to shatter the void in hundreds of years after Wu Zhao in the Tang Dynasty. At that time, under the spotlight of everyone, Taizu shattered the void and left. My ancestors were lucky enough to see it with their own eyes. How can it be false!"

Hua Twelve had a look of disbelief: "Who are you talking about, Wu Zhao of the Tang Dynasty? Wu Zetian also broke the void? Old sir, you must have heard it from hearsay!"

The storyteller was so angry that he blew his beard:

"Official, you are too ill-informed. Not only women and children knew about Wu Zhao's disappearance into the sky, but it is not far behind. Historical records record that Emperor Zetian practiced Tang Mi to the point where the sun and moon were clear and bright, illuminating the sky. Realm, when it was broken, it was also the focus of everyone’s attention, it can’t be faked!”

Hua Twelve was even more suspicious: "Which history book is so arrogant and still records this?"

One sentence made the old man angry, and he left the old man saying that he was ignorant, got up, waved his sleeves, and left.

Hua Twelve suddenly became unhappy: "I don't understand, so I'm just asking, old sir, why are you so angry? If you have the guts, you can give me your money back!"

The old man turned around and took a sip: "I've been talking to you for more than an hour, and I'm done talking about it. You have to eat based on your ability, so why should I refund your money!"

After that, he strode away.

When the old man left the yard, Jin'er closed the door and came back. Zhang Zhenniang and Zhang Zhenniang, who had come out to watch the excitement, both looked at Hua Twelve with curious expressions on their faces. They were all guessing that their officers and the old man had been chatting for so long and what had been said. He did.

Hua Twelve smiled coquettishly: "He was impressed by my views and even expressed his admiration for me before leaving!"

After saying that, he quickly turned around and entered the study room, making Zhang Zhenniang and Jin'er outside cover their mouths and laugh.

Then the day came when the day came for him to go to the palace. Hua Twelve went to the front office to report. It was estimated that Gao Qiu had already greeted him. The superior was very polite to him and took him to receive his official uniform, waist badge, and a waist knife. , and then personally take him to the palace guard's office for duty.

Lin Chong's identity as Hua Twelve was originally the instructor of the 800,000 forbidden army. After he was promoted, he was promoted to the fifth rank dragon forbidden captain. Naturally, he could not stand guard and patrol like ordinary guards. He was responsible for sitting in the squad room with several masters of the same fifth rank guards. That’s it.

When several colleagues saw Hua Twelve, they all stood up and called "instructor". Long Jinwei was also a member of the imperial army. From the name "instructor", it was obvious that they had learned fists, feet, guns and clubs from him.

When I met my former coaches, they all had very good attitudes.

I drank tea in the class room, chatted with the apprentices, and spent a few leisurely days comfortably. When Lin Daiyu came to Beijing, she asked for leave early in the morning and went to the Palace Commander's Mansion to borrow some money from Gao Qiu. Two luxury carriages that were not over the limit were loaded up by two coachmen and headed for the dock outside Bian City.

As a result, when they arrived at the pier, they didn't see Lin Daiyu's boat until the afternoon. Hua Twelve felt that something was wrong and hurriedly went to the pier to ask. A porter unloading goods at the pier told him that Rong Guofu's carriage had come in the morning. , but I don’t know who I picked up specifically.

Hua Twelve was so depressed. Lin Daiyu's boat must have arrived in Bianliang when he went to the Palace Commander's Mansion to borrow a carriage, so he missed it perfectly.

Thinking about Lin Ruhai's instructions, Hua Twelve said in his heart that he would go to Rongguo Mansion to meet this clan girl even before he received the ship. He told her that there were people in Bianliang, Tokyo who were supporting her, and that she should not let herself suffer the grievances of others. .

Let the driver drive the car to Ningrong Street where Ningrong's second mansion is located.

When they arrived at Ningrong Street, they saw two large stone lions squatting on the north side of the street. There were three animal-headed gates, and a dozen or so gorgeously dressed servants were sitting in front of them. There was a plaque on the main door with the words "Edict to Build Ningguo Mansion". , and not far to the west, there are also three gates, which is the 'Rongguo Mansion'.

Hua Twelve took out twenty big coins and gave ten to each of the two coachmen. He thanked them for waiting with him in confusion for a long time, and then asked them to go back to the front office of the palace. He walked up to the main entrance of Rongguo Mansion, The two doors standing at the door showed the identities of Lin Ruhai's nephew and Lin Daiyu's brother, and also explained their purpose of coming to see the girl.

Unexpectedly, the two disciples looked him up and down, and when they saw the blue cloth uniform he was wearing, they couldn't help but have a trace of contempt in their eyes, and they smiled and said nothing.

Hua Twelve's face darkened: "You two haven't gone in yet to report!"

Menzi, who was smiling at first, suddenly turned pale, and one of them said:

"Do you know the rules? You even said that you are a relative of my aunt. I'm afraid you came to our house to enjoy the autumn breeze, but you are blind!"

Before Hua Twelve had time to get angry, a carriage stopped behind him, followed by a pretty maid. The maid lifted the curtain and helped a young and beautiful woman out of the carriage. His face changed, he smiled instantly, and he greeted behind him:

"Second Grandma, you are back!"

Hua Twelve looked at the young woman. She wore a red satin gown with gold flowers on the outside and a jade crepe skirt with flowers on the bottom. She had a pair of red-phoenix triangular eyes, two curved willow-leaf eyebrows, and a graceful figure. Pingting.

The beautiful lady was smiling, but when she saw a strange young man standing in front of her house, she was immediately unhappy.

You must know that although the atmosphere in the Song Dynasty was relatively open, women from wealthy families still wanted to avoid seeing their husbands. This does not mean that they should not be seen at all, but at least they should be avoided as much as possible.

So as soon as I got off the carriage, I saw a strange man. The second grandma, who was called the Second Grandma, suddenly showed an unhappy look and asked:

"Who is this?"

Hua Twelve looked at the woman's appearance and dress, and heard his disciple call her second grandmother, so he guessed that it was Jia Lian's daughter-in-law, Feng La Zi Wang Xifeng, and he immediately wanted to explain his identity.

But the man was quick to talk and said: "Back to Second Grandma, this person is here to cause trouble in our house!"

Wang Xifeng glanced at Hua Twelve and saw his green cloth clothes. She couldn't help showing disgust in her eyes and said angrily:

"Since you are here to cause trouble, why don't you break your legs and send them to the Yamen? Do you really think that our government can bully cats and dogs of all kinds? We must set an example and teach these people a lesson. "

When the two men heard this, they immediately became excited. They didn't go in to report just now because they wanted to get some oil and water. However, Hua Twelve didn't understand the style and didn't pay a big buck. He just didn't like it. Now that he got the order, he immediately came up eagerly. .

They saw that Hua Twelve was dressed in ordinary clothes. Even if he was a relative of the old man, he was probably the kind of poor relative who couldn't beat him and came to visit him, so he had such courage.

Hua Twelve was all amused by this family. He kicked out a door and hit the middle door with a bang, knocking open the middle door of Rongguo Mansion.

Then he knocked the other disciple to the ground with a slap, took out the fifth-grade dragon ban captain's waistband from his waist, and slapped that disciple on the face:

"Open your eyes and see clearly. I am also a person with an ID card. Is it so difficult for you to inform me? The threshold of your Rongguo Mansion is really higher than that of the palace!"

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