The Red Chamber: The Rise of the Lin Mansion

Jia Zheng smiled and said: "I only heard that Ruoyu was assigned by the emperor to practice in the army, and I was worried about him, but I didn't expect him to have the talent to run an army."

Zhan Guang quickly flattered him and said, "I heard that Master Lin's nephew just won the Jinshi this autumn, and now he is showing his talent in the army. Such a young hero who is capable of writing and martial arts is rare!"

Hu Silai pretended to be emotional and said: "Master Lin will have successors!"

Ji Haogu was a piano master who was not good at flattering. When he saw that Zhan Guang and Hu Silai both made Jia Zheng happy, he joked, "General Lin is the contemporary Huo Qubing."

Fu Shi secretly smiled in his heart. "You are the one who praises everyone so much, Huo Qubing died young, you are cursing him for his early death."

Jia Zheng hadn't thought about this yet, and when he was smiling happily, he saw Cheng Rixing walking in from the door, cupped his hands at him and said, "Old man, please forgive me for being late."

Jia Zheng hurriedly said, "No imitation, no imitation."

Cheng Rixing took out a letter from his pocket and handed it to Jia Zhengdao: "I met Master Lin's nephew outside the mansion. He has a letter and asked me to pass it on to the old man."

"Oh,"

Jia Zheng took the letter, opened it and asked, "Since Ruoyu is outside the mansion, why didn't he come in?"

Cheng Rixing asked in surprise, "Don't the old man know?"

"Know what?"

"The servants of your mansion do not allow General Lin to enter the mansion."

"what?"

Jia Zheng turned dark when he heard this, and blocked his relatives from the door. To him, this kind of thing was like a slap in the face.

Since there were several clean-up guests sitting in the room, he couldn't say anything, so he had to look down at the letter in his hand first.

Political master Taiwan lesson:

The younger generation has heard that a family that accumulates good deeds must have celebrations, and a family that does evil must have disasters.

When I came to Beijing that day, your mansion gave my aunt a little maid. Out of trust in my brother and sister-in-law, my aunt never asked for his family, thinking that your mansion would treat her kindly.

It is said that due to the political disagreement between the elders of the two families, the servants of your mansion treated Wu Gui, your cousin, badly.My little sister heard about it and asked me for help.The younger generation wanted to pay a large sum of money to redeem him, but your mansion refused to let him go.

In desperation, the younger generation had no choice but to ask Mr. Zheng for help, and begged the lord to treat my aunt and brother and sister kindly, and the younger generation would be grateful.

Junior Lin Yun kowtows

...

After Jia Zheng read the letter, he felt his cheeks burning.

Lin Yun talked about each junior, and he didn't even recognize his uncle. He didn't come to beg for servants, he was clearly accusing himself of being incompetent in housekeeping and unworthy of being his elder.

Jia Zheng put away the letter, smiled awkwardly at the cleanup guests, and said, "I still have something to attend to, everyone, please go back."

Everyone was full of curiosity, not knowing what was written in that letter.But since Jia Zheng didn't say anything, they couldn't ask, so they could only get up and say goodbye.

After all the Qing guests had gone out, Jia Zheng shouted angrily, "Come here."

A leader ran in, bowed and asked, "What is the master's order?"

"Tell Lian'er and Housekeeper Lai to come and see me quickly."

"Yes."

...

Not long after, Jia Lian and Lai Da walked into the study together.

Jia Zheng looked at the two of them and asked, "Who gave the order not to allow Brother Yun to enter the house?"

Jia Lian's heart skipped a beat when he heard the words, it turned out that Brother Yun was going to start with the master, and he didn't know who helped him spread the news.

Lai Da looked at Jia Lian, hoping that he would take the initiative to report to Mr. Zheng, but Jia Lian lowered his head and said nothing, as if he would not open his mouth even if he was beaten to death.

Jia Zheng raised his hand and slapped the table, "Lai Da, do you still see me as your master?"

Lai Da thumped and knelt down on the ground, and said with a frightened expression: "Report to the master, it was the wife's order."

"I just guessed it was her."

After a pause, Jia Zheng asked again: "Does the old lady know about this?"

Lai Da: "The old servant doesn't know."

Jia Zheng turned to Jia Lian and asked, "Lian'er, does the old lady know about this?"

Jia Lian said hurriedly: "My ancestors don't know."

Jia Zheng's face softened a little when he heard the words, and then he asked Lai Da, "What's the matter with Wu Gui?"

Lai Da said with a confused face: "Wu Gui, what Wu Gui?"

Jia Lian looked at Lai Da disdainfully, and said to himself, "When is this, you still want to fool around in front of the master, dreaming?"

Jia Zheng threw the letter on Lai Da's face and scolded angrily, "Brother Yun has already written letters to ask for help, and you still want to pretend to be confused with me?"

Lai Da quickly picked up the letter, read it hastily, and then said aggrievedly: "Don't dare to lie to the master, this old servant really doesn't know about it."

Jia Zheng said coldly, "You mean Brother Yun is framing you?"

"The old servant dare not."

Jia Zheng turned to Jia Lian and asked, "Lian'er, do you know about this?"

Jia Lian hurriedly said: "There is indeed a cook named Wu Gui in the mansion. My nephew asked the woman who was in charge of the kitchen in the afternoon to inquire. She said it was the boss's words and asked her to punish Wu Gui."

Jia Zheng asked Lai Da again, "What else do you have to say?"

A trace of cold sweat broke out on Lai Da's forehead. He raised his head and said to Jia Zheng: "It is true that my old servant never gave this order. Please let me go and find out. I will definitely give you an explanation."

"Okay, I'll give you a chance. If you can't give me a reasonable explanation, I will hand you over to the old lady."

"Yes." Lai Da got up from the ground in response, put the letter on the desk, turned around and ran outside quickly.

...

After Lai Da left, Jia Zheng asked Jia Lian: "Brother Yun said that he wanted to redeem Wu Gui and his family. Did you ask your wife to mention it?"

Jia Lian nodded and said, "I asked Brother Feng to mention it to my wife."

"She refused?"

"Yes."

Jia Zheng thought for a while, then said: "You go and send Wu Gui and his family to Linyuan and hand them over to Brother Yun."

Jia Lian hesitated and said, "Where is the wife?"

Jia Zheng: "I will inform her, don't worry."

"Yes."

...

Jia Lian went back to her room and smiled at Wang Xifeng who was sitting on the heated kang, "I've really convinced Brother Yun today."

Wang Xifeng hurriedly asked: "What's the matter with him?"

"The master just told me to send Wu Gui and his family to Linyuan."

"How did the master know about this?"

"I only know that Master received a letter from Brother Yun. I don't know who passed it on for him."

"letter?"

"That's right, after the master received the letter, he scolded Butler Lai."

As soon as Jia Lian finished speaking, a little maid came in to report: "Second Master, Second Mistress, Director Lai is asking to see you outside."

Wang Xifeng hurriedly said: "Please ask him to come in and answer."

...

Not long after, Lai Dahei came in with a face, cupped his hands at Jia Lian and said, "Second Lord, the matter has been found out, it was the order from Miss Qianxue in the second Lord Bao's room, you see what should be done about it." How to deal with it?"

Jia Lian: "If you don't report this to the master, what are you going to tell me?"

Lai Da: "I'm worried that after the master finds out, he will beat the second master Bao, and then I will hate the old lady and the wife."

Jia Lian: "Then what do you say?"

"I want the woman in charge of the kitchen to take this responsibility, and I also ask the second master to help me relax in front of the master."

After Lai Da finished speaking, he reached out and took out a few bank notes from his pocket, and put them on the kang table.

Seeing this, Wang Xifeng smiled and said: "Since it was caused by the servant girl in Brother Bao's house, then it's better to turn the big trouble into a small one, and make it into a small one."

Jia Lian nodded and said, "Okay, I won't be consulting on this matter."

"Thank you, Second Master, Second Mistress."

After a pause, Lai Da said to Wang Xifeng again: "Since that Qianxue doesn't obey the rules, please ask the second mistress to say something to the old lady and drive her out of the house."

Wang Xifeng: "Let's talk to Brother Bao about this first, and see what he means."

"Ok."

Chapter 2 Forty: Qianxue Was Evicted

Jia Lian said in front of Mr. Zheng that the old lady did not know that Lin Yun and Daiyu were banned from entering the mansion, which was wrong.

As the most honorable old matriarch in the Rongguo Mansion, Mother Jia has many eyes and ears in the mansion, and such a major event as Lin Yun and Daiyu being banned from entering the mansion by Mrs. Wang, naturally cannot be hidden from her.

It's just that Lin Ruhai impeached Wang Ziteng for lying to the emperor about his military merits, which made Jia's mother very passive. With Mrs. Wang's strong attack, the old lady couldn't come forward to refute her daughter-in-law's decision, so she could only pretend not to know about it and wait and see what happened. develop.

...

At about three quarters before noon, Mother Jia woke up after a nap and called Yuanyang to come in to help her change and wash.

After the mandarin duck came in, he helped Jiamu up, and said in a low voice: "Old lady, Lai's sister-in-law just came here once and said that a small incident happened in the mansion, and I asked my servant to tell you."

"Oh, what is it?"

Yuanyang lowered his voice and said: "I heard that the nephew and young master in the mansion over there asked someone to ask his wife to redeem the lives of the cook Wu Gui and his family in our mansion, but his wife refused, so the young nephew wrote a letter to ask the master for help."

Mother Jia perked up after hearing this, and asked quickly: "Do you know who Wu Gui is? Why did Brother Yun want to redeem his family's life?"

"It is said that Miss Lin's eldest maid, Furong's uncle, was sent to make things difficult by Miss Qianxue in Master Bao's house because of the impeachment of uncle Lin by Mrs. Lin. It must be that Miss Lin knew about it , please ask the young nephew to come forward and redeem him."