Red Mansion Reader

Chapter 122 I am Lin Daiyu, the eldest daughter of the Lin family
"Hey, I said, don't just sit in the room, but come and help me think about how to write this letter?"

As soon as Xie opened the door and came in, he complained to his wife who was reading the newspaper.

She married Pei Huaizhen at the age of 17, and they have walked hand in hand for more than 40 years.

At this age, some titles are too embarrassing to call out.

Pei Huaizhen raised her gaze from the newspaper slightly, and said indifferently: "With your literary talent, it's rare to beat you? Don't overthink it, just write whatever you want."

In the past few days, the situation in the camp outside the city has gradually returned to the right track, and the head of the mountain no longer sits beside the students as in the past.

After all, the weather is cold and people have to accept their old age. He still wants to teach for a few more years.

"It's easy for you to say." Xie muttered, don't look at her maintaining a calm appearance as a teacher in front of Daiyu and Baoqin.In Pei Huaizhen's case, she has returned to her charming childhood.

Xie walked around behind Pei Huaizhen, followed his wife's gaze and looked at the newspaper in his hand.The title above reads "Shocking news!!! West of Yangzhou City will rebuild the Weaving Bureau."

She more or less heard some rumors about this matter, but she was not too surprised.After looking at the newspaper, Mrs. Xie found something interesting.

"Even these newspapers use symbols?"

"Isn't it?" Pei Huaizhen made a rare comment, "It is indeed a convenient thing. This scholar named Yuan He still has something."

He is a leader in the Jiangnan literary world, and it is really not easy to get such an evaluation from him.

"I just don't know why such a person didn't have any reputation before." Xie smiled secretly, and sat down at the desk herself, taking a pen from the pen holder.

"Maybe the wild fox under the tree appeared late." Pei Huaizhen chuckled.

"It's a mischief." Xie ignored his wife's ridicule and continued to think hard.

Pei Huaizhen saw her troubles in her eyes, and knew that the other party was having a headache, so she wrote letters to those officials' wives.

Today is the time for the third batch of refugees to enter the city. They will live in the academy for a period of time. How can the living problems of such a large number of people be solved only by the wives of the masters?
Xie agonized over this for several days, and finally Pei Huaizhen gave her a dirty idea.

Since we don't have enough people, we should borrow from places with people.

Since the neighbors are invited to help for wages, it is better to ask the big family to support some slaves in the house, which is always within their ability.

"Isn't that good?" Mrs. Xie shook her head and refused when she heard the idea.

"If you don't want to help others, you can just give some money." Pei Huaizhen thought about it, and smiled rather darkly, "As the saying goes: helping others is worse than being alone."

Mrs. Xie really couldn't laugh or cry when she heard it, what kind of nonsense is this, and she is not afraid of losing face as a scholar when she speaks out.

But the situation was stronger than others, and Xie froze for a few days, but still had to bow his head and start writing.

If they don't call for someone to come, the seven or eight old and weak women and children in their academy will have to suffer first.

Regardless of Xie's proper maintenance, in fact, gray hair has grown on his head, and his body is much worse than before.

After writing a letter in a few strokes, Mrs. Xie brought it in front of Pei Huaizhen, "Come and show me."

The head of the mountain glanced at it briefly, and gave his pertinent evaluation, "The wording is good, and it would be better to use more exclamation points."

"Then who should I send this letter to first?"

"Let's send it to Ying Hong's house first."

Mrs. Xie was taken aback when she heard this, and couldn't help but stare at Pei Huaizhen, "You don't even let your own students go."

"It's because he is a student that we can't let him go." Pei Huaizhen smiled triumphantly, "Don't worry, Ying Hong has already greeted his family, and your two students will come too."

Upon hearing that Wei Qijun and Wei Shu's aunts and nephews would come, Mrs. Xie still couldn't believe it, "What do you think, you called Ying Hong's juniors over here."

"Whose family's children are not children, don't the students in the academy also go out of the city?" Wei Yinghong said noncommittally, "Besides, your first-grade wife can put down her figure, so there is nothing they can't do."

"I still don't think it's appropriate." Xie shook his head, he came forward because he wanted to set an example.

Pei Huaizhen is also the head of the academy, since she wants to help the refugees, there is no reason for her to hide in the dark and be a smiling jade bodhisattva.

But those girls, that one is not the daughter of the family.Reading the Four Books and Five Classics is just to increase self-cultivation and broaden one's knowledge. Who would be willing to let their children come out to do such things.

"A family's view." Wei Yinghong was born in a poor family, and he hated such a rich family when he was young.

Since the reign of Wu Ding, the atmosphere among the people has become more and more open, and it is inevitable that he will blow the wind into His Majesty's ears.

"You just call someone to deliver the letter. It's up to the family to decide whether others come or not, and we didn't force them."

"Ok."

Xie could only nod helplessly.

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"Mother, just let the child go."

"No, no." Jia refused straight away, without any discussion, "Yu'er, mother is your only daughter. Since you were born, let alone do some work. If you let you blow more wind, mother will feel distressed." very."

Her eyes fell on Lin Daiyu, "Mother is not an unreasonable person. Since the academy is short of people, we just have more people in our family. There is no reason for you to go out to take care of others... my daughter's family."

After Jia thought about it carefully, she still didn't say the words "Miss Qianjin" in front of the child.

It's not that she can't afford it, it's just that she has taught her children not to be bullying since she was a child, so she pays attention to her words and deeds.

"But daddy said that if my daughter wants to go, she can go." Lin Daiyu saw that it was impossible, so she immediately moved out her Tathagata Buddha.

"Then let your father tell me in person." Jia Shi still disagreed.

Who is she, the daughter of the Duke's Mansion, who was also a famous and powerful figure in the capital when she was young.

If it wasn't for Lin Ruhai's eyes, even if His Majesty bestowed the marriage on her, if she didn't want to, no one would dare to force her to agree.

When Jia Daishan was still there, their Jia family had such a scene.

But the child is the debt of the parents after all, even though Jia is so young, seeing her daughter's aggrieved appearance, she still patiently explained, "Yu'er, mother knows that they are pitiful, and also knows that you want to help others."

"But you also feel sorry for your mother. If you suffer from some kind of illness outside, what will your mother do?" Jia Shi said earnestly.

"Father lied to me. My father told Yu'er clearly that my mother's temper when she was young was quite chivalrous, which is definitely beyond the reach of ordinary ignorant women and children." Lin Daiyu rolled her eyes and changed her way to put a high hat on Jia. .

Jia Shi smiled, it was all an old thing when he was an adult.She is a female general, so it is normal for her to be a bit domineering when she was young.

"If you keep talking, Mother will go for you."

Jia Shi also started to play a rascal, she is not unreasonable.It's just about your own daughter, so don't expect a mother to be reasonable.

After ordering someone to take Daiyu back to her room, she sent another nanny to take an extra 300 taels from the mansion and prepare to send it to the academy.

In a word, our Lin family wants money for money, people for people, and our eldest lady, but there is no way.

After finishing this matter, Jia Shi leaned on the reclining chair with some difficulty, and asked the maid beside her to massage the acupuncture points for her.

"Ma'am, don't be angry with Miss, she is kind after all."

This old nanny's surname is Li, and she was born in a poor family, and she was bought by the Jia family after she married.

"A family like ours naturally has its own rules." The nanny who answered the question was Jia's dowry.She is a domestic slave of Jia's mansion, and she was used to the wealth and honor of the Duke's mansion since she was a child, so she said in a very self-satisfied tone, "If we really let our master go out to take care of some servants, the world will not be in chaos anymore."

"Okay, you guys go down too." The more Jia listened, the more upset she became, she waved her hands to signal the two nuns to shut up.

When the two nuns heard it, they also knew that they had said something wrong just now, so they had to leave in dismay.

Seeing that the hostess was really stuffy, the little maid hurriedly ran to open the window to let in more fresh air.

When there was no one around, Jia Shi turned around on the couch, and she didn't know what to think, she muttered, "A family like us?"

"Heh." She suddenly sneered, and suddenly a person came to mind.

When I was about to get married back then, there seemed to be such a person who, with an inexplicable air, said such a sentence to me and Ruhai.

It's been a few years, and I don't think of her.

My good second sister-in-law.

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Xueyan accompanied the depressed Lin Daiyu all the way back to the house. Seeing that the young lady was really unhappy, she was a little clumsy and worried along with her.

"Okay, Yan'er." Lin Daiyu saw her impatience, afraid that the little girl's mind would be confused, and hurriedly said, "You go and call my brother here for me."

"Hey, miss, I'll go right away." Xueyan is good at this, although she is not smart, but what she is asked to do must be very fast.

Not long after, Xueyan led Lin Jue to Daiyu's room.

"Sister, how's it going? Did mother agree?" Lin Jue asked curiously when her butt was next to the stool.

During this period of time, Wang Xianming had been living in the Lin Mansion, and his homework was suddenly put on the agenda, which made him less happy in the past.

When my sister mentioned this matter yesterday, he felt that there was something exciting to watch.

It's not that the first time Xueyan came to his room to call him, Lin Jue rushed to watch the fun.

"If mother agrees, can I still sit here?"

Lin Daiyu raised her hand and tapped her younger brother on the head.

One after another, it seems to be knocking on a wooden fish.

"Let me just say it." Lin Jue shook her head triumphantly, avoiding her sister's teasing, "Don't look at my mother who usually agrees to everything, if she really wants to let you go out, she must be worried."

I knew it was sarcastic, and if I didn't need this kid in a while, I had to give him some flair.Thinking of this in her heart, Lin Daiyu showed a sweet smile on her face.

"Brother, what do you think we study for?"

"Report to the king, and go down to the country." Lin Jue was at an age prone to passion, and Wang Xianming had a temperament that liked to set goals for his children.Hearing my sister's question at this moment, the younger brother immediately slapped the table and said, "Be a person who is useful to the world and the people."

"Like father and elder brother." He added one last sentence.

Lin Daiyu frowned, and said with a smile: "Then if the stepmother disagrees with you going out, do you want my sister to help you?"

"This... can't be."

Lin Jue was stunned. He had never heard of that son. He was raised behind closed doors?
"You have to think clearly, mother is your only son."

Lin Daiyu picked up the teapot, which was rare, and took the initiative to get tea for her younger brother.

This kind of treatment was enjoyed by my father and elder brother in the past. Lin Jue was very moved when he saw it, and immediately said: "Of course I hope my sister will help me."

"Then do you want to help my sister now?"

I knew you would say that, and Lin Jue was not surprised. He just frowned and thought for a long time: "Sister, why do you have to go out? Like Mother said, our family has enough people and money, no It’s also a thought.”

Lin Daiyu raised her head slightly, her slender neck was like a noble swan.

"Because I am Lin Daiyu, the eldest daughter of the Lin family. I also read the Four Books and Five Classics, and I also recite theories of sages."

"The world will not be different because of one more me, but I will become different because I have seen the world."

"Whether it's father, elder brother, or younger brother, you will all move in your own direction in the future. Don't you want me to stay at home and be a resentful woman looking forward to my husband's return?"

"Good sister, tell me. How do you want my brother to help you!"

　Ah, my head hurts, I get a headache when I think of the three girls gathering in the academy! ! ! !
　　
　
(End of this chapter)