After a few days, Lin Ruhai rested and was asking Zhuang Li about his books in the study, but he saw Fu Bo coming in from outside, saying that Jia Lian was here.

Before leaving, Lin Ruhai instructed Zhuang Li: "I read the article you made yesterday, it is very good, if there is no accident, you should be able to pass next year's township test." Now you can pick up a few topics I circled and practice again, you can find some favorite books to read on weekdays, and go outside to talk with friends in the spring, which is good for you. ”

Lin Ruhai sighed in his heart, this Zhuang Li is young but has a heart, the article is not only clear and substantial, but also extraordinary, and has a beautiful pavilion style. If others have such talent at his age, it is inevitable that they will be sharp or proud, although he is angular, he is not blindly reckless, and he is still good at scheming. If this son enters the official career, I am afraid that he will be a generation of powerful ministers!

"Mingjing strictly follows the teachings of his uncle." Zhuang Li sent it off.

After Lin Ruhai left, Zhuang Li first swept a few topics on the paper, knew what to expect, and then looked at the books on the shelf. Since coming here, Lin Ruhai has treated him very well, and the study room allows him to come and go at will to read, just after making an article and resting his mind, Zhuang Li plans to pick a book to read. Unintentionally took out a foreign travelogue, and when I opened it, I found that it was a manuscript, and the handwriting in it was neat and neat, like a woman's handwriting, and suddenly I remembered that there were two young ladies in the Lin family, but I was afraid that the book copied by a certain lady was given to Uncle Lin for entertainment. I was about to put the book back, but a piece of paper floated out of the book, and the handwriting on it was tied to a person's hand in the book, writing a plum blossom poem, with new and elegant words, romantic and chic, with poetry to view people, you can see its intelligence and dexterity, proud and natural.

Zhuang is a generation of scholars, both men and women have been literate since childhood, Zhuang Li has also seen the poems of the sisters in the family, although it is good, the aura is far less than the one in his hand.

I don't know which Miss Lin did it?

Zhuang Li quietly clipped the poem back into the book and returned it to the bookshelf.

In the outer hall, Lin Ruhai was silent with tea, but Jia Lian, who was sitting at the bottom, had a difficult face, and he didn't make a sound several times when he opened his mouth to speak. It's not that Jia Lian is pretending to be a gesture, but this time most people can't open their mouths, and they can't help but complain that Wang Xifeng didn't help stop him, but he asked him to run errands and lose face. Although he is used to taking care of housework, he is still the second master of Rongguo Mansion, how can any gentleman of Guogong Mansion open his mouth to ask his relatives for money?

That's right, it's asking for money, not borrowing money.

Jia Lian really didn't have the face to open his mouth.

"A gentleman's family, if you have something to say, you can do it!" Lin Ruhai's tea bowl was lightly buttoned, and a crisp sound was particularly harsh in the hall.

Jia Lian thought that Uncle Lin took the initiative to help him find an official last time, but before the matter was done, he was smart and silent, and even Wang Xifeng didn't know. So Jia Lian smiled bitterly: "Uncle Rongyu, it's really this time, my nephew has no face to open his mouth." The grace of the old sage in the palace, the special decree allowed the concubines to go home to save their relatives, our mother has not been seen in the palace for many years, and now she has just been given the title to meet such a long grace, and the old ladies and ladies want to take the mother home for a reunion. After all, the mother has a noble status, and if she wants to invite the mother back, the family will naturally have to prepare for the construction of a place to be stationed at the gate. The old lady said that the family did not have enough money, and it was difficult to raise a large amount of money for a while, so she sent her nephew to ask her uncle for help. ”

"What did the old lady say?" Lin Ruhai was indeed a little surprised, when he encountered such a thing, others rushed to send money, which is called staining, so what is the matter with opening his mouth to his relatives in turn? Even if the Jia family is out less and more in now, in the end, it is impossible for the Guogong Mansion, especially Jia's mother, not to have the face of the Guogong Mansion.

“…… It was the second wife who said that there was no money in the house, so she borrowed some from relatives for turnover. Jia Lian paused, but still took Mrs. Wang out, these words have already been polished. According to Wang Xifeng's relay, Mrs. Wang's tone at that time was completely condescending, as if she was asking for money from her relatives to give her a lot of face, and she didn't think anyone would refuse at all.

Lin Ruhai had a bottom in his heart.

When Jia Min was alive, he and Mrs. Wang were a little dirty, although Jia Min couldn't be publicized out of family ugliness, even in front of him, but the two husband and wife, how could they not know at all. He didn't have much theory about the dislike between his aunt and sister-in-law, but Mrs. Wang's temperament was a little unsightly, and it was always someone else's family affair, until Daiyu encountered a qiē in Jiafu later, which made him disgusted with Mrs. Wang. The Wang family taught her daughter to pursue "a woman's lack of talent is virtue", the girl's family only roughly recognized a few words, and she didn't know anything about poetry and ink, and she only worked the female red housekeeper, and she came out of the family of military generals, and she took the power of gold and silver very seriously. Mrs. Wang and Wang Xifeng's pair of aunts and nephews are very similar, so it is not surprising that Mrs. Wang raised this, but Mother Jia also nodded......

Thinking of Jia's mother having mentioned the marriage of the two jades several times, he was also cold when he was not awarded the official, and now I am afraid that he wants to bring up the old matter again, and use this matter to test his attitude.

Thinking of this, Lin Ruhai said: "This kind of thing is also difficult for you." ”

Unexpectedly, when he heard this, Jia Lian had mixed tastes for a while, and he couldn't speak with a dry smile.

"At the end of this year, officials from all over the country want to go to Beijing to report on their work, and it is also a good time to seek officials, and a colleague of the Ministry of Officials said that Shunning Mansion has been judged to be vacant, if you are interested, I will make someone keep it for you, and you can go to take office after the year."

Jia Lian's eyes lit up first, although the general judgment was a six-grade, but it was a real job, and there was a family background of the Jia family, it was easy to be promoted, but it was just ...... Shunning Mansion, that is in southern Yunnan, not to mention remote, is still very chaotic. Moreover, in the current situation of the Jia family, where can he get out? Don't talk about others, I'm afraid he won't be happy.

"What, it's bitter? Can't bear the money in your house? "How Lin Ruhai can't see through his mind.

“…… It's just that the family has to build a provincial hospital, and they have to prepare for the provincial family, which is really impossible to get out, and the old ladies and old men will not be willing. "Although there is this reason, Jia Lian is really reluctant to leave the house to endure hardships, not to mention how much oil and water can be made by building such a large provincial hospital! This Rongguo Mansion should have been inherited by him, and if he didn't take it, he would be taken away by the second room.

Lin Ruhai saw that he couldn't support the wall in the mud, so he didn't bother to take care of it for a while, so he got up and left.

"Uncle!" Jia Lian was dumbfounded, knowing that he couldn't help but regret annoying Lin Ruhai, in the end, his future was important, and finally Uncle Lin helped him, but he hesitated in a lard blindfold. Jia Lian can't wait to give himself two slaps!

"Second Master Lian, this is what our master entrusted me to transfer to Second Master Lian, saying that the Zunfu has a mother, this is a congratulatory blessing, talk about it." Fauber handed over a wooden box.

Jia Lian opened it and saw that there was a stack of silver tickets, one thousand taels.

Jia Lian returned to the house with a thousand taels of silver tickets, Jia's mother looked at her with a faint look, and did not say anything, but Mrs. Wang's face was cold, and she said hardly: "What a glorious event for my mother's mother, my mother's brother heard about it and sent someone 50,000 silver, and the Xue family gave 100,000, Aunt Lin is like this, it can be seen that Aunt Lin and Grandma Lin went, and the Lin family and our house were separated." ”

Jia Mu, who was on the top, returned the tea bowl in her hand without warning, and smashed it straight in front of Mrs. Wang, and with a snap, Mrs. Xing on one side almost screamed and jumped up. I only heard Jia Mu scolding coldly: "What is the Min'er that surrounds me in the words, that is what you can say?" Our family has built a provincial hospital, and it is their intention for relatives to pay money, how can you pick more and less, and you don't understand the rules more and more! ”

Mrs. Wang had already stood up, and seemed to bow her head respectfully as usual to listen to the training, but her face was purple, her eyes were full of resentment, and she only held back her anger with both hands. Now she is the mother of the concubine, who doesn't flatter, but this old pious woman always presses her with her mother-in-law's money.

"Go down and think carefully!" Jia Mu blasted everyone out.

When she went out, Mrs. Xing glanced at Mrs. Wang with a smile: "Brother and sister are frightened, right?" Ouch, it scared me just now, who would have thought that the old lady would suddenly be annoyed. If you want me to say that my younger brother and sister are not sensible, the old lady loves you too much on weekdays, why do you stick a knife in the old lady's heart. Besides, your Wang family is rich, but the Lin family is noble, and now Aunt Lin is a first-class household book in the emperor's heart! Maybe your master will count on Aunt Lin to carry him in the future. ”

"Humph!" Mrs. Wang didn't have a good face in front of Mrs. Xing, so she shook off and left.

Mrs. Xing only felt that it was very happy to win back a game, but when she thought that more than 100,000 taels of silver had fallen into the hands of Mrs. Wang, her heart hurt with jealousy. After thinking about it, he ordered someone to prepare the car immediately, and told the eldest master about it.