The steward of the Lin family was well-informed, and only ordered the two of them to hang up the firecrackers that they had specially bought a few days ago with a long pole, and they were crackling.

The people at the door did not disperse, but watched lively.

A few children, who were not too big or small, looked for one or two complete fish that had slipped through the net with a red wreckage.

After a few plates of firecrackers were finished, a man in a blue-black steward's uniform walked to the main entrance.

In his hand was a plate with a shallow belly of brass, and it was filled with bright copper coins.

When I looked at those people, my eyes began to glow.

In the next moment, the steward really opened his voice and threw money.

"Congratulations to my young master for obtaining the name of Xie Yuanlang in the capital. ”

"Those who see it have a share, and everyone rejoices!"

'Whoa!'

A handful of copper coins were scattered by this steward, causing everyone to scream, and they stretched out their hands and took them to the sky.

This Lin Mansion is really generous.

The pots of copper coins were scattered three or four times, and even the little man of a few years old carried three or four in his arms, and then the steward who was standing aside arched his hand, listened to the auspicious words of everyone, and cleaned up the front door.

It's a coincidence.

The little guy sent out by the old lady of the Jia Mansion followed the gate to get a red seal, and then secretly followed behind the person and grabbed a handful of copper coins, only then did he speed up a few steps, and rushed to the Jia Mansion to ask for another reward from An Qingtang.

"Congratulations to Lao Taijun, the grandson of the Lin family, who won the first place in the Gyeonggi Township Examination. ”

"Counting the little three yuan in front, the young master of the Lin family is already in his fourth year. ”

"If you think about it again, this is even a matter of six yuan, and it is also deserved. ”

This Jia Mu likes to listen to auspicious words, and when Lin Zheng's evening passes, she will be a heart-to-heart in front of everyone.

Jia Zheng, who was sitting in the outhouse, was envious of Lin Ruhai.

Let's compare Jia Baoyu, who is cowering like a quail on the side.

Jia Zheng's heart is even more panicked.

is only two or three years old behind Lin Zheng, but he still looks like a child who doesn't grow up.

When others were twelve years old, it was already safe for Xiucai to try.

But what about his own son?

Thinking of the eldest son who died early, Jia Zheng's eyes were slightly red.

I had to ask about the follow-up exam.

Hearing the elders' inquiry, Lin Zheng put down the dishes and chopsticks in his hand.

"I should try it this year, but there are not many chances to win six yuan. ”

"But?" Jia Zheng didn't know what his psychology was, so he wanted to persuade him: "Will the examiner want to suppress you because you are too young?"

Hearing this, Lin Zheng smiled.

"Young talents have existed throughout the ages. It's the heyday of the storm, and it's a good thing to have me as a young model. ”

"If I get the first place, the Hanlin Academy is the best choice, I have been polishing it for six years, and when I come out, it is a good scenery of twenty. ”

"Even today, I am willing to give me this kind of glory. ”

"As long as the article is really good, there is something to say, and the pen is old-fashioned, my nephew thinks that even the middle six yuan can be thought of. ”

Really ambitious.

Jia Zheng, who was choked on the spot, couldn't even speak, so he had to laugh, turned around and slapped Jia Baoyu's back.

"Look at your brother's ambition, go to my study tonight to test your homework. ”

Hearing this, Jia Baoyu almost knocked the dishes and chopsticks to the ground, and Lin Zheng hurriedly lowered his head.

Dead friends don't die in poverty, I already knew that hard work in reading can also be disguised as a pit Jia Baoyu?

Then he must go to the college examination that year.

This year was a calm year for Jiafu, but for the Lin Mansion of a relative, it was a year of storms and waves.

Without him, Lin Zheng really went directly to participate in the next college exam as he said at the banquet.

He was like a hanger, and with his rather old-fashioned articles, he fascinated all the examiners of this year's session.

When the rankings came out and the name column was revealed, no one expected that it was done by a teenager who was only 14 years old.

Five yuan in a row, Huiyuan also fell into Gu Zheng's hands.

But in one day, the great talent spread to the entire capital.

During this exam, the article made by Gu Zheng was also handed to the desk of the Son of Heaven.

At the same time, it made the emperor's family turn over the situation in Lin Ruhai's house.

"I'm only fourteen years old, so I can get ready. ”

The big eunuch on the side kindly reminded: "The Lin family belongs to Qinggui. ”

Emperor Wanwang raised his noble hand, but don't choose a princess of the county to spoil such a good family, if he is rejected by this kind of clear stream in the name of not clinging to the powerful?

Don't want the emperor's old face.

I heard the emperor's sigh for a while.

How can good men be in such a family?

If Lin Zheng can't be kissed, isn't there still Lin Ruhai?

The Son of Heaven, who rolled his eyes, suddenly thought of a family in the clan that was about to lose his heir.

Speaking of which, the Son of Heaven has not yet come out of the five suits, and he is the lord of Zhuyang who is personally sealed by the imperial court.

Because he was widowed when he was young, he never had children, but he lived a pure heart and few desires in the years of double ten.

Isn't it just right for this person to match Lin Ruhai?

The identities of the two are not much different, Lin Ruhai has already achieved the high position of the second assistant, so naturally he has no worries about clinging to the powerful, and by the way, he can also make the Lin family closer to the royal family, which is simply a good thing to kill three birds with one stone.

The emperor who smashed his mouth conveyed this oracle with a move of his mouth.

After asking the joy of the county lord of Zhuyang and getting an affirmative answer, the palace test had not yet started, and the will of the paper marriage was delivered to Lin Ruhai's hands in advance.

"This!"

Lin Ruhai couldn't cry or laugh.

I was quite happy to be single, but I didn't think that the eunuch was not in a hurry, and the emperor was in a hurry.

This shows that the Son of Heaven attaches great importance to Lin Zheng.

Lin Ruhai, who was brushing his beard, was not worried about Gu Zheng's palace test this time.

Regardless of whether His Majesty the Emperor is out of face or compensation, his son will not be able to run away from a top three ranking.

Looking at the strength of this appreciation, maybe he will really become the youngest champion of the six yuan and the first in this dynasty.

To say that this Lin Ruhai is old and strong, what he is looking for is really right.

He had just received a letter from the Son of Heaven on his front foot, and the results of the palace test on his back foot came out.

This time, the champion was his son, a young man under the age of fifteen.

As soon as this man came out of the gate of the Imperial Palace, the list that appeared spread to the homes of all the eunuchs in Kyoto Castle.

The people who flocked to the gate of the Lin Mansion to report the good news, the people who heard the news and came to congratulate them, and the people who were lying around happily rushed to the gate of the Lin family.

It was so crowded that Gu Zheng had to sneak through the corner door of the house.

They are so happy in the Lin Mansion, and Daiyu, who has been waiting for news from her brother in the Jia Mansion, naturally can't forget it.

When the steward of the Lin family informed the little lady of the good news outside the door, this Lin Daiyu actually grabbed a handful of small beads like rice grains from the makeup box.

Let the servants who stayed in the Lixiang Courtyard in Jiafu to serve be praised.

Everyone knows that this Lin girl is generous, and when she learned about Yuan among her brothers, she rewarded a big red envelope.

Who would have thought that as soon as the trial of this temple was over, there would be not only money but also rewards.

Such a good thing, with a silver wire pinch, make a pendant or hairpin is excellent.

Of course, no matter how happy she was, this Lin Daiyu did not forget to inform the ancestors in the Jia Mansion.

The Lixiang Academy, which was divided into two routes, received two completely different treatments from Jia's mother and Jia's uncle.

This Shi Lao Taijun, that is, Jia Mu, is sincerely cheerful.

In her opinion, the better Lin Zheng did in the exam, the more face he would win for the Jia family.

The more ambitious his future is, the more he will be able to help the Jia family in the future.

As for the two uncles who sat together and waited for news?

Jia Yu laughed, saying that he wanted to give his best set of fans to Lin Zheng to play with, and he would be an official in the future, but he couldn't lose his identity.

As for the most related second uncle, he twitched his skin and showed a wry smile.

It is said that he Jia Zheng is the best at reading, but now he is a five-grade petty official with a shadow, and he actually has no fame.

And his son, Jia Baoyu...... It's better not to say it.

Jia Zheng, who was depressed, was naturally wilted.

When the two families got together again in the evening, Lin Zheng saw that Jia Baoyu was limping.

How many times has this been?

Because Lin Zheng was beaten?

He was a little embarrassed, he was like this, he could only continue to dig holes, preferably for a lifetime.

In this dinner, the atmosphere was really lively, Wang Xifeng gag, and brought his sisters and sisters to pay tribute to Lin Zheng together.

I thought that I couldn't suppress this kid of the Lin family in terms of learning, and I always had to make up for it once in eating and drinking, who would have thought that this Lin Zheng didn't know how to be born, it was simply a thousand cups.

Just like a character like Feng Lazi, who can drink two cups, he has drunk powdered peach blossoms, and Lin Zheng on the opposite side is still breezy and calm.

He smiled and sent Daiyu back to Lixiangyuan, watching a group of Loli scatter around, not to mention how proud he was.

"Oh, my brother of the Lin family, isn't he particularly proud. ”

"People say that there are four joys in life, when the title of the gold list is inscribed. ”

"I mean, you don't have anything to do with our sisters, do you?"

It was Wang Xifeng who had not yet left who said this, she slanted her peach blossom-like eyebrows, with a bewitching atmosphere, and glanced at this young man who made her deflated everywhere with a smile, and wanted to laugh with him, and when she returned to her own room after dispersing the smell of wine, Ping'er, who was always in her dreams, walked out of the small corridor of the side door at this time.

"Grandma, can you take a look?"

Hearing Wang Xifeng's frown, the two walked to the front porch where they were avoiding.

Lin Zheng, who was standing outside the courtyard, tilted his head and smiled, not knowing what he was regretting, so he turned around and covered the door of the courtyard.

Without the last bit of hindrance, Wang Xifeng bumped into Ping'er.

"What are you doing in a panic? What is worth your expression?"

Wang Xifeng's strength in drinking has not passed, and he is naturally impatient with Ping'er's tone.

But after Ping'er said the name of that person, this Wang Xifeng began to sneer again and again.

"What kind of fragrant and smelly thing dare to think of me Wang Xifeng?"

"Isn't the sin he ate last time enough......? That......"

After a whispered admonition, this Ping'er said yes again and again, and followed Wang Xifeng in the direction of the road between the two mansions.

When these two people walked cleanly, Lin Zheng, who was sticking to the door, raised his eyebrows.

Jia Rui, this is really a bold character.

Even he Lin Zheng didn't dare to start, even if it was Wang Xifeng's secret signal, he hid from afar.

A side branch of the Jia family, a family with the same family, dare to think about Feng Lazi?

Isn't this waiting for your life to be lost?

This thing was not what Lin Zheng expected.

When he traveled from the new champion to the final selection of the Hanlin Academy, he vaguely heard that Jia Rui had been frozen for a few nights, and he was afraid that it would be bad news soon.

Originally, he still wanted to take a look at the Fengyue Treasure Mirror.

He always felt that they were all called Fengyue, maybe they had something to do with the previous world.

Who would have thought that Lin Zheng hadn't started yet, and a holy decree would break the tranquility of the Lin family and the Jia family.

This is the emperor's marriage will, and it was sent directly to the Lin Mansion.

People also let people get the eight characters right, choose a good date, and give everything ready before announcing the will.

The Jia Mansion was caught off guard.

When Mother Jia heard who the woman Lin Ruhai was marrying, she couldn't even say anything against it.

Who dares to make trouble with the royal family, even if she is a noble of the four kings and eight princes.

The richness given by this wedding period happened to be in the autumn of the following year.

Seeing this, Lin Zheng sighed for a while.

Because it happened to be the early teens of Na Daiyu and the years before she was eleven years old.

If it is in the timeline of the original book of Dream of Red Mansions, it is when Lin Ruhai is seriously ill and asks Daiyu to return to Yangzhou.

Because of his Lin Zheng's little wings, he gave Lin Ruhai a relatively safe life.

I don't know if Lin Ruhai's life and death in the Red Mansion can be changed after being linked to the royal family.

It won't be like his mother in this life, Jia Min, who is powerless.

It's going to take time to test.

Thinking of this, Lin Zheng was very calm, he honestly went to the Hanlin Academy to join the company, starting from the revision of literature and sorting out the materials that others were unwilling to do.

All of a sudden, I was immersed in the sea of books and the busyness of the workplace.

His attitude completely won the love of the group of old Hanlin people who still stayed in the Hanlin Academy.

This noble foreign family, and the child of a family with a top Qingliu background, has no arrogant appearance at all.

What a gentle and down-to-earth young man.

can withstand polishing and sink down, such a good reputation, word of mouth, has great benefits for Lin Zheng.

No, when Lin Ruhai got married as scheduled, and took Lin Zheng and Lin Daiyu to the mansion to meet his new mother, the very outstanding county lord of Zhuyang couldn't help but look down on Lin Zheng.

is full of expectations for Lin Ruhai's family style and education level.

When talking about the two children of the Lin family with his own mother, he was also full of appreciation.

Seeing that the noble county lord had finally found a good home, this royal teacher was really happy for her young lady.

When the two of them talked behind closed doors, they couldn't help but be full of longing for their future lives.

"In the future, the county lord of my family will also have such a considerate child. ”

"They are the eldest brother and sister of the Lin family, and they will be the most annoying children of the Lin family. ”

"I look at these two of the Lin family, but they are both tolerant. ”

"Miss, you've been so bitter. ”

Looking at the county lord who looked at the old lady in the dressing mirror and put her hair in a bun with her own hands, thinking of her handsome and graceful Xianggong, I thought that my heart was cold, and I couldn't help but live a little.

On the face of the color, a touch of red appeared, which really made this once famous beauty in Kyoto return to the appearance of her youth.

"Well, Mama, I'll get along well with my husband. I will also be kind to his children. ”

"I'm not a cardamom girl after all, I know all those things. ”

"I just want my husband to treat me as I would treat him. Don't ask for the side, I can still do it for the Lin family, and take care of the housework. ”

Speaking of this, the county lord of Zhuyang actually showed a smile like a little daughter.

Let Lin Zheng, who was standing outside the house with Lin Daiyu and Lin Ruhai eavesdropping, made a look at these two.

After leading the two to the bamboo forest on the side of the main house, Lin Zheng smiled narrowly.

"Congratulations to Daddy, for finding such a good confidant. ”

"Daiyu and I are very happy. ”

Hearing this, Lin Ruhai's old face turned red, and he forced his eyes to glare: "Go!

"Looks like I should go to your mother and see someone else for you. ”

"Find a powerful daughter-in-law and control you!"

Lin Zheng, who said this, hurriedly begged for mercy, pulled Lin Daiyu and ran towards their respective courtyards, giving this beautiful reunion to Lin Ruhai, who was still cultivating feelings, and the county lord of Zhuyang to get along.

When the brother and sister ran away, Lin Daiyu pulled Lin Zheng's sleeve in confusion and asked him to stop.

No matter what, Lin Daiyu always has to ask.

"Brother, aren't you awkward?"

Why is it awkward?

Isn't it because this family has a new hostess, he and Lin Daiyu have a new mother who is not related by blood?

Lin Zheng, who understood Lin Daiyu's worries at once, smiled and touched Lin Daiyu, who was about to enter cardamom, and gave the other party a detailed answer to why this family needs a mother.

"Daiyu, I know that you have been smart since you were a child, and your relationship with your mother is the most intimate, and you must be reluctant to give her up. ”

"But, sister, one day we will grow up and leave this warm little home like eagles. ”

"But what about our father at that time? how pitiful he will be, he will sleep in a lonely bed in an empty house, and his heart will not be as cold as winter. ”

"Our father is so young, can you bear to spend the next twenty or thirty years alone in solitude?"

"He also needs to have a partner who can be with him for life, which is exactly what we can't do as children. ”

Also, aside from his father's mental and physical health, whether it is public or private, his father's continuation is necessary. ”

"Everyone who has daughters in the family knows that everyone marries a daughter-in-law and does not marry five times. Do not marry a daughter of a rebellious family, do not marry a girl from a disorderly family, do not marry a criminal person in the world, do not marry a woman with a bad disease, and do not marry the eldest daughter of a widow. ”

"And sister, you are the eldest daughter of the widow. ”

"If your father never marries, you will not be able to return to the house for a day, and the grandmother of the family will go before the mother, and I am a man's house, but you will always live in the grandfather's house. ”

"I can't return to my family, I can't afford to get together, how sad my father and I should be. ”

"Besides, my father is far away in Jiangnan, alone, and in danger, and he doesn't marry a wife for self-protection. ”

"But now, for our sake, he has been transferred back to the capital, the official eunuch, the second auxiliary family, a widower who has lost his wife, and his colleagues will not be able to stand it. ”

"And one last point, our father is a close minister of the Son of Heaven, and the loyalty that the royal family cares about the most is reflected in this marriage. ”

"There is no more reassuring way to make a man completely obedient and faithful than to make him his own. ”

"And this Zhuyang County Lord, if my guess is right, she must be someone from the emperor's faction. ”

"Marrying into my Lin family, only those who contribute to my Lin family will never harm us. ”

"Even if it's for the sake of royal face, you and my brother and sister will only have a better life!"

After speaking, Lin Zheng casually crumpled the two mustaches that Daiyu had just combed early in the morning, and jumped to the side with a grinning smile when Lin Daiyu hit her backhand angrily.

But he said even more inconspicuous words in his mouth: "So, you and my brother and sister are the direct beneficiaries." ”

"Brother, the woman I married was raised a notch all of a sudden, and your marriage must be either rich or expensive, and the young talents in the capital are left to my sister to choose. ”

"Haha!"

After speaking, Lin Zheng, who knew that Lin Daiyu was going to beat someone, ran as fast as he could, leaving Daiyu alone, with the shame of stomping his feet with snow geese.

She can't catch up with her brother, but she also has some hope for her future days.

At least not like the beginning, nervous, after all, it became steady.

This day has gradually become regular, and in the days when Lin Zheng pinched his fingers and counted the days, he spent this year peacefully.

From the very beginning, there was suddenly one more person in their family and they were a little unfamiliar and polite, but now they can already say a few thoughtful words after running-in.

What makes Lin Zheng most satisfied is that although his stepmother has an extremely high status, she is proper and gentle when the children left by their two ex-wives get along.

Not only can she manage the Lin Mansion in an orderly manner, but she is also quite gentle and considerate to her husband Lin Ruhai, and she has no pampering and extravagance of the royal clan, she is really a proper person.

It is also because of this kindness that Lin Daiyu, who is also a kind person, got a little closer to this stepmother in the midst of repeated greetings.

Even in the dialogue with Lin Zheng, there are more and more words of appreciation for this woman.