The Red Chamber: The Rise of the Lin Mansion

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Chapter 266: Scenery

Linyuan, Dongnuange.

Accompanied by Lin Yun, Qin Keqing and Wang Xifeng, Jia Min walked into the banquet hall of Dongnuange.

When I entered the room, I saw that several tables in the room were filled with girls.

Daiyu, Baochai, Shi Xiangyun and Tanchun sit at the head, and there is another Baoyu at this table.

Li Wan sat in the second seat with girls Li Wen, Li Qi, Yingchun and Xichun.

Ping'er sat with Xiangling, Yingge, Zijuan, Furong, Zhenzhu and Xueyan, and several maidservants from Rongguo Mansion also sat there.

The rest of the little maids are not qualified to serve at the table, so they can only stand aside and serve.

In the center of the venue, a girl without makeup is singing the Kunqu opera The White Snake.

Everyone was eating melon seeds while listening to the play, and the atmosphere was joyous and festive.

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Seeing Jia Min and the others coming in, the girls all stood up and greeted her.

After everyone had seen the ceremony, Daiyu happily ran forward and invited a few people to sit down.

After Jia Min sat down, Daiyu smiled at Lin Yun: "Brother, everyone is here, can you take out your gift?"

Shi Xiangyun asked curiously: "Sister Lin, what gift is it?"

"I don't know either."

Jia Min smiled at Lin Yun: "Stop teasing Yu'er, look how anxious she is."

"Mother, my daughter is not in a hurry."

Lin Yun stood up and smiled at Daiyu: "You will like this birthday present if you keep it."

After finishing speaking, he rushed to the door and shouted loudly: "Xiao Mo, Wu Gui, bring the gift in."

After hearing this, everyone looked out the door and saw Xiao Mo and Wu Gui walking in carrying a large cardboard box half a person's height, followed by two little boys, Jia Lan and Qin Zhong.

Daiyu looked at the big cardboard box with keen interest, wishing she could run up to it immediately, open the cardboard box and see what was inside.

Xiao Mo and Wu Gui carried the cardboard box and put it on the table in front of Daiyu, then untied the ribbon on it, and took the box apart.

"ah!"

Amidst the exclamation of the crowd, Daiyu covered her mouth in surprise, and stared at the huge three-layer pastry in front of her without blinking her beautiful eyes.

The pastry is divided into three layers, the bottom layer is the normal pastry color, the middle is white cream, and the upper layer is also milky white, but beautiful flowers are carved in the middle to form a heart shape, and the inside is made of colored cream. Butter wrote "Happy Birthday Yu'er!" in six big characters.

Daiyu said excitedly to Lin Yun, "Thank you brother, this gift is so beautiful, I like it very much."

Seeing that her daughter was happy, Jia Min was also in a good mood. She asked Lin Yun, "Yun'er, is this a pastry? Can I eat it?"

Lin Yun: "Reporting to my aunt, this one is made of flour, eggs and milk, so it can be eaten naturally. I named it birthday cake."

Wang Xifeng jokingly said: "Brother Yun, I celebrate my birthday tomorrow, and you have to give me one too."

Tan Chun said anxiously: "Brother Lin, it's my birthday on the third of next month. Please help me make a birthday cake for my little sister."

The little girls immediately reported their birthdays to Lin Yun in chirping chatter, begging Lin Yun to help them make birthday cakes.

Lin Yun pointed at Wu Gui with a smile and said, "I have already taught Wu Gui the method of making cakes. If anyone of you celebrates a birthday, you can go to Wu Gui with a name card to order it, and the cost will be charged to my account. "

Wu Gui said excitedly: "Girls want to make birthday cakes in the future, so please send someone to my restaurant to say, the little ones must be ready and sent to the mansion."

Tanchun hurriedly asked, "What's the name of your restaurant?"

Wu Gui: "It's called Agui Restaurant."

puff~

Everyone laughed when they heard this, and Wang Xifeng jokingly said to Lin Yun: "Brother Yun, you are a Huiyuan after all, why don't you give his restaurant a nicer name."

"Agui Restaurant is pretty good, you can tell who the owner is right away."

Wang Xifeng smiled at Daiyu, "Sister Lin, share the cake quickly, we are all waiting to eat."

Daiyu: "How to divide this!"

Lin Yun: "Slice with a knife. But before that, my sister can make a wish first."

"Make a wish? How do you make a wish?"

Lin Yun gave a demonstration to the cake, and Daiyu followed suit with a smile.

As soon as she finished making her wish, Jia Lan and Qin Zhong each took out a bamboo tube and pressed the mechanism on top of her head, and heard two bang bangs, and countless colored papers fluttered down from Daiyu's head.

Lin Yun took the lead in singing: "Happy birthday to you!"

Xiao Mo, Jia Lan, and Qin Zhong also sang happy birthday with him.

Wang Xifeng approached Qin Keqing and smiled, "Your husband has so many tricks, I don't know how he came up with them."

Qin Keqing pursed her lips and smiled, but she felt a little bit disgusted in her heart. Her husband's pampering of sister Yu'er seemed a little too much, and even she was a little jealous.

...

Next, everyone began to share the cake, and everyone in the house got a share, even the maids.

Xiren was also given a piece of cake, and today is also her birthday, as a maid, she can only obey the orders of her master, and if Baoyu wants to come to Linyuan, she can only follow unconditionally.

"Maybe when I go back at night, I can celebrate my birthday with a few little sisters. It's a pity that there is no such birthday cake. After all, it's almost meaningless."

Fu Rong was surrounded by several maids, and wanted to be flattered by everyone. Her cousin could make birthday cakes, and the maids all wanted to follow her lead, so they could buy birthday cakes cheaper in the future.

Hua Mei looked at Fu Rong surrounded by her, feeling very depressed. Like Fu Rong, she was a maid who was trained by Mammy Lai.

Later she stayed in Rongguo Mansion and became the maidservant in Baoyu House, while Fu Rong went to Lin Mansion.

I thought I was luckier than Furong, but now it seems that Furong is obviously more favored than her, and even her cousin is prosperous.

Baoyu felt even more depressed. This kind of thing to please girls has always been his favorite thing to do.

But compared with Brother Lin, what he usually does has become childish and ridiculous.

After Lin Yun ate a small piece of cake, he bid farewell to everyone and left with Xiao Mo and the others.

The two failed candidates outside were going back to Jinling today, so he had to see them off.

Jia Min sat for a while, then said goodbye to Qin Keqing and left.

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After Jia Min left, Wang Xifeng called Ping'er outside and asked him in an empty place, "Ping'er, do you know how to make this cake?"

Ping'er: "The servant girl is the same as the grandma, and it is only now that I know that the third master made such a cake."

Wang Xifeng: "I think this cake business will definitely be booming. Talk to Brother Yun later. I want to open a cake shop in partnership with him."

Ping'er: "Why didn't grandma tell the third master herself?"

Wang Xifeng rolled her eyes at Ping'er, "You are now a celebrity in front of Brother Yun, I can't speak like you."

Ping'er: "The servant girl is just a big maid in charge, so why should grandma make fun of me?"

Wang Xifeng poked Ping'er's greasy cheek with her finger, and said with a mocking smile: "Don't say you haven't slept with Brother Yun. It's no wonder he let you go when a beauty like you stays by his side."

Ping'er was so ashamed by Wang Xifeng's words about tigers and wolves that he could only count the ants with his head down.

Wang Xifeng smiled and said: "Looking at you like this, I know you have been captured by him."

Ping'er said coquettishly, "Grandma~"

"I won't tease you anymore. You can help me talk to Brother Yun about that matter. No matter whether it succeeds or not, I will accept your favor."

"Slaves, let's try."

At this time, Daiyu led Baoyu and the sisters over, and shouted to them, "Sister Feng, sister Ping'er, let's go to the theater, will you go?"

Wang Xifeng hurriedly said: "Come on!"

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Chapter 267: Palace Examination

After the hustle and bustle, there is peace.

After sending Zhao Hongming and Tian Sheng away, Zhao Lin also moved out of Lin Yuan and rented a house outside.

Zhao Lin will take the No.2 exam, as long as he doesn't travel during the palace exam, he has a great chance of getting into the Imperial Academy.

Although he moved out of Linyuan, Zhao Lin still made frequent appointments with Shangguan Jie and Du Shaoxuan to visit and discuss with Lin Yun many administrative, military and economic issues of the dynasty.

Judging from the questions in previous palace examinations, most of the emperor will pay attention to these aspects. Shangguanjie even determined that the question of this year's palace examination is likely to ask how new scholars should deal with border troubles.

For this reason, he also wrote a policy theory and had an in-depth discussion with Lin Yun.

Lin Yun didn't pay much attention to the imperial examination, and the number one scholar didn't attract him at all.What he was thinking about was when he could return to the Beijing camp and regain control of an army.

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March [-]th was the day of the palace examination, but unfortunately the weather was not beautiful and it started to rain heavily.

Emperor Zhide decreed that the palace examination be held in the Huangji Hall.

At Chen Shi in the morning, Lin Yun, together with the five new jinshi from 360, entered the Huangji Hall under the guidance of officials from the Ministry of Rites.Emperor Zhide had already taken his seat in advance, and all civil and military officials stood on both sides.

A tribute official came forward, and Xuan Xinke Jinshi came forward to pay homage to the emperor.

According to the action prescribed by the Ministry of Rites, he got up after three prostrations, and then under the guidance of the servant, he walked to the desk that had been set up earlier and sat down to prepare for the exam.

After a while, officials from the Ministry of Rituals distributed the questions to everyone.

Lin Yun opened the test paper, only to see the letter, saying: I am the only emperor to rule the world.Create and maintain success, and its way will prosper.Create difficulties.It's easy to inherit bandits... Zi Zhusheng has experienced a lot of history, and if you ask questions, you must have a clear opinion. The details are written in the article, and I will personally read it.

Lin Yun read the exam questions carefully and determined that the central meaning had nothing to do with border troubles. Instead, he asked the examinees: For more than a hundred years since the Great Chu established the Central Plains, although the national power is strong and the world has surrendered, natural disasters have occurred again and again, and the national tax revenue has not been paid.Ask the students how to deal with it.

This is an internal policy question. Although it seems to have nothing to do with the border war, it is closely related. What the war is about is nothing more than sufficient money and food, and soldiers who dare to fight can win.

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