Chapter 22: Someone from the Palace
Lin Jiang's face was as black as the bottom of a pot. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć info Zheng didn't give up, his face turned pale with anger, and his voice was sharp: "Lin Mo has only one son in his family, how can he succeed?" How can you cut off someone's incense? ā
Daiyu frowned, Aunt Ye also felt very harsh when she heard this, but it was not rude in front of many people, and she still explained with a smile: "Where is the incense that breaks people's houses?" We discussed it with Lin Gongzi's sister Yan Niang, and we picked two families for each person. ā
Lin Jiang couldn't hold back his face, turned around and brushed his sleeves away, glaring at Zheng fiercely as he left. Zheng also wanted to turn around and leave, but was glared at by Lin Jiang and had to stay. She frowned tightly, and held back a sentence for a long time: "Ancestors don't have such rules. ā
Lin Daiyu explained: "There are rules and etiquette. The first Taizu picked two families by himself, so the heads of the two branches of the Lin family were two brothers. ā
Zheng had no words and looked for Yan Niang in the crowd, but Yan Niang did not follow the car. She had to hold a grudge in her heart. The successor notified everyone, and Daiyu and her party said goodbye to the aunts and uncles sent out one by one, and they were ready to leave, leaving some of the Zheng family gritted their teeth with hideous faces.
In the blink of an eye, it is the twenty-eighth day of the lunar month. Although Lin Jiang was very reluctant, but with Lin He and Lin Yuan here, he was afraid that these two would elevate the prestige of the patriarch, and developed their own forces in the clan, so he also came out to preside over the succession.
After a series of tedious ceremonies, the succession ceremony was completed, and Lin Mo was also persuaded by everyone to move out of the small mud-walled courtyard on the Zhuangzi outside the city, and a carriage pulled his only few clothes and bedding, and half a cart of more books and books to Suzhou City. In the Lin Mansion, Daiyu had already asked someone to clean up a quiet courtyard, with a few little maids and girls, and let Lin Mo live in.
When everything was in order, Daiyu took up the pen and wrote a letter, picking up some things here and talking about the things that she didn't want to do, and the letter also said that she had succeeded an older brother. Due to the arrival of the New Year, the letter was not sent to Jia Zheng until after the Lantern Festival. Jia Zheng took the letter and went to show Jia's mother again, the two of them summed it up, and they didn't know what kind of character Daiyu's new brother was, so he told Daiyu not to be credulous in replying to the letter, and it was best to bring the son to the relatives here after the year, but when the letter was sent, Daiyu was already on the way to Jiafu. Of course, Aunt Ye and Lin Mo walked together.
When replying to the letter, Jia Zheng faced the letter paper, hesitated, hesitated whether to consider what Mrs. Wang said, and borrowed some silver from Daiyu for relief. The originally designed drawings were also found to be workers, but because of the lack of silver, it was difficult to transport the good building materials needed. The planned Lantern Festival invited the concubine to return to the province, but now it seems that it has to be postponed, and it may not be possible to wait until the Dragon Boat Festival. Jia Zheng hesitated for a long time, and several times he picked up the pen and opened his mouth to withdraw the money, but he couldn't get over it again, and scrapped a lot of stationery. Jia Zheng finally sighed, and only told Daiyu to leave for the letter as soon as possible.
In the evening, Baoyu got the news of Daiyu's letter from Jia's mother, and hurriedly asked again and again, asked for the letter, looked down and read it, and had mixed feelings in her heart, and was happy and worried. The good thing is that everything is going well in Suzhou for Daiyu, but the worry is that this Lin Mo doesn't know what kind of person he is. Although in Jia Baoyu's heart, Daiyu's vision is the best, he is also worried about whether this stepbrother will be a pedantic Lu beetle, or a hypocrite who is good at hiding his appearance. Of course, what is even more troublesome is that Daiyu stayed in Suzhou for the New Year, and the huge Jia Mansion, without Lin Daiyu, seems to have lost its vitality and brilliance.
At the table, Mrs. Xing, Mrs. Wang, and Sister Feng were all setting up the meal. Mother Jia waved her hand and asked them to go back to the house for dinner, leaving only Sister Feng, who was good at laughing and joking, by her side. Jia Baoyu didn't care about laughing with the girls, she wanted a bowl of rice, soaked in the soup, and ate some bamboo shoots and pheasant melon seeds in a hurry, thinking about replying to Sister Lin. The letter sent by Daiyu has been carried in his arms, and others can't read it if they want to.
Mother Jia hurriedly told him: "Baoyu eat slowly, carefully hurt the spleen and stomach." ā
Sister Feng already knew the internal cause of Jia Lian's entourage Wang'er being beaten in Yangzhou at this time, and she also took a closer look at Jia Lian, and vaguely saw a few green marks left by sticks, and her heart was also very complicated. She was not only angry that Jia Lian didn't know the importance and was greedy and ridiculous, but also hated him for missing the opportunity in vain and losing the silver that was about to arrive. For Daiyu, she was even more jealous in her heart. secretly thought that if she got such a large amount of money left by Lin Ruhai, she would definitely make good use of it, and ask that money to be turned over again in a few years. It's a pity that the money is in Daiyu's hands, and sooner or later someone will have to take it away quietly. Even if the person they succeeded was really good, how could anyone in the world not love money?
While thinking about her thoughts, she joked to Baoyu: "Brother Bao just listen to the old lady, eat slowly, right?" You are in a hurry to go back to the house and write a letter, and no one will send it to the south for the New Year's Day. ā
Baoyu said: "What about someone, right now our family is going to the south to buy things, just let the people who go to Gusu tomorrow to buy silk brocade take it, and someone should also go over there, just tell them not to treat Sister Lin slowly." ā
The "they" Baoyu said not only refers to the people who went out to buy in Jiafu, but also worried that Lin Daiyu was secretly calculated by those relatives in Suzhou, and also worried that the servants of the Lin family would not listen to discipline, and only hated that they wanted to go to Suzhou to Sister Lin's place, and Mrs. Wang and Jia's mother would definitely not agree.
When Sister Feng was said by him, she was also speechless. Baoyu hurriedly picked up half a bowl of blue stalk rice, said goodbye to Jia Mu and Sister Feng, and hurriedly went back. The little girl who followed hurriedly trotted all the way with the lantern to follow.
Back in his yard, Baoyu heard the sound of laughter in the house, he took a few steps into the room, let Musk Moon and Qiu Wen immediately grind the ink, and when he raised his eyes, he suddenly became annoyed in his heart, and secretly thought: Why did she come here! In this way, the letter cannot be written. Those who go to Suzhou will leave early in the morning to take the last boat back to Suzhou before the year. If you miss this trip, you will have to wait until the sixth and seventh days of the Lunar New Year to have a boat trip, which will be delayed for several days.
It was none other than Xue Baochai in Baoyu's room. Because Aunt Xue went home, Baochai was idle, so she came to talk to the attacker.
Although the Jia family still has three sisters, Yingchun, Tanchun, and Xichun, Baochai is always as attentive to them as Baoyu's attack, and outsiders look at her and say that she is sympathetic to her subordinates. But no one thought that the girl in the Manchu Mansion only cared about the people in the room who took care of her cousins, and she would inevitably lose some dignity.
In the eyes of most people in Jiafu, Mrs. Wang is a "bodhisattva-like" person, and her relatives must all be good. Mrs. Wang's sister, Aunt Xue, is a very "loving", and Xue Baochai, the young lady of the Xue family, is naturally gentle and kind. The proof is how good she is at assaulting people.