Red Mansion Soldiers

Chapter 75
May [-]th of the fifth year of Tiansheng, a sunny day.

The city on the riverside is terribly hot.

Coupled with the fact that the climate is currently in a warm period, the heat will come earlier.

Humid and stuffy, Jia Hun, who was already afraid of heat, stayed indoors all day long to cool off.

In the Northwest, there is no way. Coupled with the dryness, sweat is usually evaporated as soon as it comes out, so it can be tolerated.

Jiangnan is different here.

The humid air perfectly traps the sweat on the body, sticking to the clothes, sticky standing outside for a while, sweating, and the clothes are soaked!

It was too hot during the day, so the birthday banquet was changed to evening.

Jia Hun couldn't stand the heat, so he had to live in the Lin Mansion instead of going to the barracks.

It was because of this bit of ice hidden by Lin Fu!
As for making ice with saltpeter, Jia Hun also tried it, but there was nothing but a large basin of cold water.

I used well water to make ice cubes, but the cost went up, and it was a waste of manpower and saltpeter, and the ice produced was still less!
The most important thing is that since gunpowder was used as a war, it directly affected the price of saltpeter and the stock of folks.

As for the saltpeter, he got it from the gunpowder workshop in the army.

Still, it's good for a cold drink.

Suck!

Jia Hun took a sip of the cold herbal tea in the cup, held it in his mouth without moving, and swallowed it all at once after a few breaths.
"Brother Hun, let's go play the pitching pot!" Daiyu, who had just finished her homework for the day, walked into the small courtyard where Jia Hun was temporarily staying, and the maids behind her stopped at the door with the things used for the pitching pot.

As soon as she arrived at the door, Daiyu turned around quickly, covered her eyes, her little face flushed.

Jia Hun was only wearing a pair of bloomers, and was reclining on the arhat bed covered with a mat, with his ponytail casually tied up on the side skirts, and most importantly, he was shirtless!
Jia Hun casually pulled off the cotton and linen round-neck short robe that hung on the front skirt, straightened up, and put on the clothes lazily.

"It's such a hot day, why are you playing pitching pots? Come on, Daiyu, drink some herbal tea before talking..." She said lazily, put on her belt lazily, put on her clogs lazily, walked to the table unsteadily, picked up a teacup, took out a small wooden cylinder from the copper basin, poured a cup of herbal tea and put it back on the table.

After hearing the faint sound of dressing and clogs clacking, Daiyu slowly turned around and looked at Jia Hun through her fingers.

After confirming that the eldest cousin was really dressed, he breathed a sigh of relief and put his hands down.

After thanking him, he picked up the teacup and took a sip. He shivered instantly, and his whole body suddenly became more transparent.

Daiyu's eyes lit up, and she learned Jia Hun's drinking method without a teacher, and drank a cup of tea just like that.

Jia Hun looked lovingly at Daiyu who was wiping her small mouth with a handkerchief.

The age difference is too big, plus Jia Min's aunt and nephew are actually sisters and brothers, so Jia Hun treats Lin Daiyu more as a niece.

Looking at my niece, ah no, the happy look of my little cousin when she drank the cold drink, the irritability caused by the hot weather has been reduced a lot.

"Why don't you play pot throwing with your sister? Could it be that my sister doesn't play well and my brother despises my sister?"

Daiyu sat on the stool, looking at Jiahun with aggrieved expression.

To be reasonable, if it wasn't for the fact that her father was on business in the front yard, her mother and grandmother were busy with the evening banquet, and even Big Brother Zhu was giving lectures to several other cousins, and no one paid any attention to her, otherwise, she wouldn't have come to look for this cousin who choked herself speechless the first time they met!
"Actually, it's not impossible, it's just that my brother's technique is a bit..."

"I thought it was because of this, so it was because of this! It's okay, it's okay, how could my sister laugh at my brother!"

If you weren't covering your mouth and laughing, brother, I'd just believe you.

"Then... let's do it, don't say that I bully you when you are young, I will sit at the door, ten steps away!"

"A word is settled!"

It was the first time for Daiyu to see this big man with draped hair so pleasing to the eye, she turned around and hurriedly arranged the place with the maids and women, there were not many things, just measure the distance and put the copper pot away.

Daiyu hurried out, and Jia Hun also got off the couch and walked out the door stepping on clogs.

"what!!"

As soon as Jia Hun lifted the door curtain, he was hit back by a wave of heat, feeling as if he was going to be roasted.

He opened the door curtain again, endured the sun and let Dai Yuti, who was also sweating from the heat, into the room, and beckoned to the maids and women to bring everything into the room.

"I can't be outside anymore. If I get hot again, your mother will beat me to death! Let's stay indoors!"

Daiyu nodded, she was also hit by the heat wave just now.

Fortunately, the room is quite spacious. The women moved the table and chairs away, cleared out an open space, and placed it on the right side of the room. Jia Hun and Daiyu stood on the left side of the room.

Asking Daiyu to stand six or seven steps away from the pitching pot, Jia Hui took another ten steps back.

"Don't say that brother is bullying you, come on, you cast first!" Jia Hun turned back and held an arrow specially designed for throwing pots, and pointed at Daiyu with a carved feather.

"I'll go first!" Daiyu raised her chin, took out an arrow from her quiver, weighed it, looked serious, took a careful look, then jumped and shot it...

Ouch!
The round wooden arrow pierced through the mouth, circled twice in the air, and fell to the ground with a snap.

laugh!
Daiyu immediately turned around and frowned at Jia Hun.

Jia Hun looked at the wooden arrow on the ground regretfully, shook his head, and had an expression of "What do you think I did?", as if he just realized that Daiyu was looking at him.

"What do you see me doing?"

"Brother Hun, you laughed!"

"You heard wrong."

"Just laughing!"

"I didn't smile. If you don't believe me, ask them and let them tell me if they saw me smiling!"

"Hmph, just ask!"

Daiyu looked proudly at her maidservant Xueyan.

"Slave, servant girl... I don't know..." Xueyan lowered her head guiltily.

Daiyu looked at Xueyan in surprise, then turned to look at the others.

They also lowered their heads one after another, not daring to look at Daiyu.

It's no wonder they didn't help Daiyu, it's because they didn't dare to disturb the governor's interest!
The wealth and life of the entire Lin family were all in the mind of the governor. In case the governor's interest was disturbed, he took his wife and eldest girl back to her natal home in a rage, leaving the master alone here.

It's not unknown how many thieves have come to the house in the past two years, so we can only wrong the young lady.

"Hehehehe...Look, am I smiling?" Jia Hun took out a folding fan from his waist and opened it, writing four words.

Arrogant
"Hmph, it doesn't count, it doesn't count! Just now, my sister was not ready, and the arrows she used were not in hand, so start again!"

Daiyu twisted her body and spoke forcefully.

"Okay, I'll give you another chance!" Jia Hun didn't care, just play with the little girl, as long as he is happy.

Daiyu took out an arrow from her quiver again, took a deep breath, held her breath, and aimed at the mouth of the pot again...

"what!"

Daiyu tiptoed again to throw the arrow in her hand, and the light wooden arrow was thrown up and fell...

"Hey, I won!" The little lady clapped her hands happily, and the maids and women around her spit out auspicious words like they didn't want money.

"Guan Er, it's not bad, you must play a lot in normal times, right?"

"That's... ah, no, no, no, my sister just plays with her mother and grandmother on weekdays."

Daiyu struggled to explain.

"Well, if my sister doesn't want to say it, let's just say it..."

Jia Hun expressed his understanding, and would not tell your wife about your frequent playing of throwing pots.

Seeing her eldest cousin agreeing so quickly, Daiyu felt that something was going wrong for her.

"Stop talking about this, come on, Big Brother Hun, it's your turn!"

She diligently drew an arrow from her quiver, and Daiyu handed it to Jia Hun.

"Come on, look!"

Looking at the wooden arrows in his hand, the whole body is made of pine wood, which seems to be covered with pulp. After carefully examining the arrows, Jia Hui was pleasantly surprised to find that he recognized this set of arrows!

"Alas... In the blink of an eye, eight years have passed!" Jia Hun sighed.

"Oh? What is brother feeling? My sister is curious!" Seeing the nostalgia on Jia Hun's face, Daiyu couldn't bear the curiosity in her heart, so she leaned over and asked.

"It's nothing, sister, do you know the origin of this throwing pot?" Jia Hun suddenly raised a question, which quickly aroused Daiyu's curiosity.

"Brother Hui, isn't this my mother's dowry?"

"Of course it's my aunt's dowry, but before that?"

"Before? Brother Hun, did you do this?" Daiyu also heard Jia Min tell the glorious deeds of her eldest cousin Jia Hun.

"Well, it's close, but how do I have the skills to do this?

This one, I ran all over the whole city of Beiping until I found the best shop that made this stuff, and it took me dozens of taels of silver to make it. "

Jia Hun rubbed the word "Min" engraved on the circular arrow.

"Back then, it was your mother who taught me how to throw a pot. When I got older, she taught me archery again. It's just that her archery skills are poor..."

Jia Hun suddenly stopped.

"By the way, Daiyu, do you want to learn archery?"

"Shooting? Why should I learn this?"

"Why? As a son and daughter of a general, how can you not know how to archery? If you want to learn, I will send someone to buy you a small soft bow tomorrow!"

"Children of generals? But my father is the censor, besides, hasn't the title been gone long ago?"

Daiyu was a little puzzled.

"Well, the lieutenant is gone, but if it is normal, the emperor granted your grandfather a generation of lieutenant, then when the next generation comes, when your father is downgraded to a noble, it should be the earl.

To change the algorithm, remove the generation inherited from your grandfather, your family's title has been inherited for three generations, and your father is also a viscount, no matter what, he is a proper noble general! "

The Lin family is not actually the marquis of this dynasty, he is actually a family of nobles who were conferred at the end of the previous dynasty.

At the end of the Liang Dynasty, the Lin family won the title of marquis by virtue of suppressing private salt dealers, killing the Jiangnan uprising army, beheading the White Lotus Sect, and so on.

Except for the special explanations of the nobles in the Liang Dynasty, the nature of the rest of the people is actually hereditary.

As time passed, it was the last year of the Liang Dynasty after Aizong raised taxes.At this time, the first generation of Marquis Lin had passed away, and the second generation of Marquis fell on the young grandfather Lin Ruhai.

As the only marquis in the south of the Yangtze River, Mr. Lin was promoted by Aizong to guard Jinling.

Then Taizu sent troops from the South Road, that is, the army led by Jia Yan, the Duke of Ningguo, all the way to the city of Jinling.
Old Grandpa Lin, who was in charge of guarding Jinling at that time, blocked the two waves of Qi army's offensive, and knew that Jinling's soldiers and horses alone would not be able to defend Jinling. What's more, the Qi army on the South Road had successfully encircled Jinling, and they couldn't break through.

Relying on the great contribution of dedicating Jinling City, the Lin family's title was continued.

After the founding of the People's Republic, the Lin family also went ashore smoothly. As the first high-ranking nobles who surrendered to Qi, the Lin family kept their wealth.

Soon, seven years have passed!
Lin Ruhai's grandfather made meritorious service in the war, and continued the title of the Lin family for another generation. He was a three-generation marquis.

A few decades later, Lin Ruhai's father took over the title. Due to the emperor's early visits to the south of the Yangtze River, the local nobles in the south of the Yangtze River became acquainted with the emperor. Lin Ruhai's father was one of them. Later, on the one hand, he was comfortable being served, and on the other hand, he wanted to win over the loyalty of the nobles in the south of the Yangtze River.With a swipe of the emperor's pen, he bestowed a generation of titles on the nobles in the south.

Because of this, Lin Ruhai's father won another generation of Marquis.

Later, Prince Li rebelled, and the Lin family in the far south was implicated because they were taking care of Jiangnan affairs for the prince's mansion. They won the title and died in depression.

However, the emperor did not magnify this matter. He just seized the title, and did not confiscate the family property. In addition, Lin Ruhai himself had already passed the first-class examination and was born as a Jinshi. The Lin family completed the family transformation from Wu to Wen in an instant by coincidence.

"In this way, I am really a general girl..." Daiyu always felt that something was wrong.

"I'm a real general girl, so it's settled. I'll send someone to buy you a good soft bow. When the time comes, I'll teach you archery!"

Jia Hun touched the bun on top of Daiyu's head with a smile, causing Daiyu to dodge quickly.

"Having said so much, do you still want to vote? Don't be incompetent and want to lure me around to fish in troubled waters?" Daiyu looked at Jia Hun with an expression of "I've seen through you", and said triumphantly.

"Hey, little girl is a ghost, come on, get out of the way!"

Jia Hun leaned over, stretched out his hand and grabbed the Baotou again, pulling her master aside.

Jia Hun took the wooden arrow and wanted to throw it straight away, but in order to coax the child, he made an exaggerated look, glanced at it, and then threw it out.

"Yu Chu! It's thrown in!" Seeing Jia Hun's arrow hit the center of the pot, Daiyu couldn't help cheering, but thinking that the person beside her was her opponent, she quickly put on a serious face and became serious.

"How, how? Is my skill good?" How could Jia Hun let go of the young lady in front of him so easily, causing Daiyu to roll her eyes at him.

"Don't be complacent, I will definitely win!"

With a puffed face, Daiyu took out another arrow from her quiver, aimed it for a long time, and then threw it hesitantly.

when!
The arrow hit the spout of the pot, whirled and fell to the ground.

"Hahahaha!"

Jia Hun couldn't bear it anymore, and burst out laughing.

"Hmph!" Daiyu didn't want to speak, so she gouged Jia Hun with her eye knife, turned her head away and refused to speak.

"Come on, hand me the arrow!"

Jia Hun poked Daiyu's bun, and Daiyu reluctantly pulled out an arrow and handed it to Jia Hun.

"Come on, look, brother will show you something!" Jia Hun didn't take aim this time, as if he had just thrown it casually, only heard a bang, which was the sound of the arrow hitting the bottom of the pot.

"Lianzhong, haha!"

Jia Hun laughed and rubbed Daiyu's head, but Daiyu got rid of it without saying a word, and walked towards the door.

"Hey, hey, it's hot, where do you want to go? Don't play anymore?"

"I don't want to play anymore!" Daiyu turned her head, gave a perfunctory salute, turned her head and walked away.

"Tsk tsk, compared to me, the little girl is too tender!"

He casually drew another arrow from his quiver, and shot again!
"Hey, hit three times in a row! Scattered arrows!"

　Sorry sorry, I came back too late yesterday, I fell asleep on the keyboard after typing two thousand words, and woke up at three o'clock in the morning...

　　
　
(End of this chapter)