In the twilight of spring, the south of the Yangtze River is already peach and willow green, butterflies and warblers flying, and the eyes are full of spring color, and Lin Ruhai's family boarded the ship at this time to go north. After nearly 15 years, when they returned to Kyoto again, Lin Ruhai and Jia Min were not in a calm mood. Compared with the court with more serious disputes, Lin Ruhai preferred to stay in Jiangnan at that time. But no, he has been in Jiangnan for too long, and if he stays any longer, the blessings and disasters are unpredictable, so he will grind Xiao Jin and ask him to transfer himself back to the DPRK when he returns to the DPRK to report on his work.

Compared with Lin Rui, who was born in Kyoto, Daiyu was born in Yangzhou and grew up in Jiangnan, and has long regarded Jiangnan as her hometown. When she left Jiangnan this time and returned to Kyoto, she was uneasy in her heart, and she followed Jia Min all the way, listening to her and her brother talk about everything. Including the grandfather's family, the future sister-in-law's maiden family, as well as the saint, the queen and several princes.

She has been smart since she was a child, and she remembers everything very clearly when she was a child, and the prince who came to live in her house for several months naturally remembers. That is the big brother who loves her very much, although it is a little cold, but he will also be like the eldest brother, coaxing her to be happy and taking her to play.

There was nothing on the boat, Jia Min hugged Daiyu and spoke carefully, the first thing to say must be the royal family, but the only thing that can be mentioned is the queen mother, the queen mother Jia Min has only seen it twice, and she is not very familiar, all she can remember is that the queen mother is always smiling and looks very amiable. Their return to the court this time is no better than before the release, Lin Ruhai is already an important minister in the court, in charge of the household department, which is equivalent to controlling the economic artery of the entire country, she will definitely have many opportunities to enter the palace to ask the queen mother and queen to say goodbye, and even bring her daughter into the palace There will be many opportunities. Now that there is nothing to do, I will give my daughter a vaccination first, so as not to panic when I get it.

"Mother, I heard that you and the queen are best friends?" Daiyu has a very good memory, and when the prince came, he told her what he said in ancient times, and she still remembered everything.

Jia Min smiled slightly, "Yes." When your brother was young, he often went to King Ning's mansion to play. When she said this, Daiyu felt less pressure on her heart. She exhaled slightly, "What about the Queen Mother?" ”

"The Queen Mother." Jia Min thought for a while, "Back then, your father was a young official, and your mother only met the Queen Mother twice, and she was also a very gentle person. ”

The mother and daughter were talking, Lin Ruhai came in with a curtain and said with a smile: "I told my daughter bad things about me again." ”

Jia Min raised his hand to comb his sideburns and said with a smile: "Before we let it out." Aren't you very young, am I wrong? ”

"Ha Luha, that's right, that's right, when I was released, I was just a five-grade petty official." Lin Ruhai laughed out loud.

Lin Rui, who came in behind his father, sat down quietly beside Daiyu, looked at his sister, and comforted him gently: "When the prince gets married, I will go back to the capital to celebrate." I have seen the Queen Mother many times. She is the most loving and gentle of the elderly, and she is especially kind to her grandchildren. Whenever the third prince and the fourth prince get into trouble, they will run to the queen mother to intercede. "When the bear child grows up, he will become the prince of the bear. The baby born to the queen's mother fully proves this.

"What about the Queen?" Daiyu asked.

Lin Rui said with a smile: "The queen mother likes girls the most, and the princesses in the palace like to go to the queen's palace to play." "Even the daughter born to her husband's little wife. The queen mother cherished it, not to mention his sister. The last time he returned to the court, the queen mother directly let him live in the East Palace. also asked him to come over and talk from time to time, comparing him to the six princes and the seventh prince from the saint's concubine, and treating him as his own son.

As soon as Lin Rui said this, Daiyu felt a little more relaxed, and the smile on her face increased.

After talking about royalty, the next thing to pay attention to is relatives. The maternal grandfather of the two siblings, Rongguofu, and the aunt of the two, Lin Yun. Speaking of Lin Yun, Jia Min had to give this girl a thumbs up. After getting married, she grew up very quickly, and now she has grown into a very qualified lady of the Houmen. After the death of her mother-in-law, she held the entire Hou Mansion in her own hands, although her husband also had concubines and concubines, none of them had pregnant children, and now there are only two sons and two daughters from her in the house.

Jia Min stroked her daughter's hair, "Your aunt's two cousins are both married, and with the release of her husband, the two cousins are in Duzhong, and they have also become married." "After many years of daughter-in-law becoming a mother-in-law, Lin Yun can be regarded as having survived. Speaking of Lin Yun, then there is Rongguo Mansion, compared to the Lin family's simple family, Rongguo Mansion is much more complicated. "Yu'er, your grandmother's family has three sisters who are about the same age as you. This time, you don't have to worry about having no sisters and sisters to play with you. ”

Daiyu was obviously very happy, "I heard my mother say that my grandfather's family has four sisters, and the eldest sister has entered the palace to be a female historian." How old is the second sister older than me, but the third sister is a month younger than me, and the fourth sister is a little younger than me, right? ”

"Yes." Jia Min nodded. When I mentioned the Jia family to my daughter before, I just talked casually, this time I am going back to the court, and the two families are in the same capital, so there must be some contacts, and it is time to talk about it with my daughter. It also happened that there was a lot of time on the boat, Jia Min said some today, tomorrow, and talked about the Jia family and Lin Ruhai's friends such as Yang Ze, Mu Lin, Mu Ying, etc. in detail. And then there is Jia Min's own old friend, and this time he will definitely reconnect. Especially when the children are older, she will definitely take her daughter with her. Daiyu is now eight years old, and it is time to build her own small circle and have her own friends.

This time, they went back to Kyoto, and the trip was exceptionally smooth, and when the wisteria flowers bloomed in the capital, they finally arrived in the capital. The head of the Lin family, who returned to Beijing first, and his subordinates had already waited at the dock, carrying a sedan chair and pulling the carriage and horse for salutation. Not only the Lin family came, but the Jia family also sent someone to wait at the dock early. At this time, as soon as the Lin family's boat arrived, Lai Da hurriedly took someone and followed Lin Li, the chief steward of the Lin Mansion, to the boat to greet Lin Ruhai.

Lin Ruhai first instructed Lin Li: "There are five boats that follow me all the way back, you take people to work harder, move the things home first, how to settle them, listen to your wife's instructions." ”

"What is prepared for each family, on this boat, put it aside alone, and turn it back so that it can be delivered."

After Lin Ruhai finished giving the order, Lin Li responded respectfully, then retreated and commanded the little ones to start moving things.

Lin Ruhai sent Lin Li out of the way, and then said to Lai Da with a smile, "It's hard for the old lady and the two insiders to remember, and I bother you to wait here every day." ”

Lai Da said with a smile: "My aunt is too polite, the old lady and the two masters have ordered, let the little ones be quick with their hands and feet, they can't be lazy, everything is at your disposal." ”

Lin Ruhai smiled: "The subordinates in the family look like it's enough, let them move there first, it's really understaffed." I'm sorry for your help. ”

"This ......" Lai Da was about to speak, so he heard the little guy from outside come in and report: "Master, Uncle Zhen of Ningguo Mansion, Uncle Zhu of Rongguo Mansion, Second Master Lian, please see you." ”

Lin Ruhai said: "Why are they here?" He turned to his son, "Rui'er, go meet your cousins." ”

Lin Rui responded, lifted the curtain and went out, and after a while, he led three sons in Chinese clothes and walked in, Jia Zhen, Jia Zhu, and Jia Lian knelt down together when they saw Lin Ruhai. Mouth called uncle. After seeing the ceremony, Lin Ruhai asked someone to help them up, and said with a smile: "Why are they all here?" ”

Jia Zhen stepped forward and said with a smile: "Uncle and aunt Zhilu Dao came to Kyoto today to greet them. When we were about to go out, the old lady sent someone to say that we must take my aunt and my cousin and cousin to stay for two days, and then go back to the house together after my uncle is consecrated. "When Lin Ruhai returns to Kyoto, he must go to see Xiao Jin as soon as possible. Then I can go home.

Jia Zhu also stepped forward and said with a smile: "I don't know where my aunt is, my nephews should go over and snort." ”

Lin Ruhai thought about it, and let his wife, son, and daughter go to Jia's house for two days first, although there are stewards at home. What can be arranged is inevitably not intimate enough. While he was in the palace to face the saint, his wife could ask someone to go home and arrange it, and then move back comfortably. "That's fine, Rui'er. Father, go to the inn in a moment, and take your cousins to see your mother. ”

Lin Rui responded. first took Jia Zhen and the three of them to see Jia Min, and then went out to order someone to clear the scene, helped his mother and sister to get off the boat and take a sedan chair, and he rode a horse and followed Jia Zhen and the three of them all the way to Ningrong Street.

Daiyu listened to her mother talk a lot about her grandfather's family on the boat, and she was very curious when she sat in the sedan chair, quietly lifted the sedan curtain, and looked out of the screen window. The prosperity of the Duzhong market and the populated city are different from other places. After walking for a long time, I saw two big stone lions squatting in the north of the street, three beast-headed gates, and more than a dozen people in gorgeous clothes sitting in front of the door. There is a plaque above the main entrance, and the plaque has a big book "Build Ningguo Mansion." "Well, this is the ancestor's long house, and the eldest brother Zhen I saw just now is a person from this mansion. Listening to her mother, the fourth sister Xichun is the sister of Zhen's eldest brother. Because of the early death of his biological mother, he was raised by his grandmother.

The sedan chair went westward again, and it was not far away, and it was still three gates, which was Rongguofu. The main entrance is not open, but the side door is gone. The sedan chair man carried in, walked a shot, changed three or four well-dressed little guys up, and fell in front of a heavy flower door, and after the little guy retreated, the mother-in-law came forward to open the sedan curtain, and the girls around Daiyu, Su Yue and Fangju, had already come over, and reached out to help Daiyu down. I saw my mother, who was already standing not far away, looking at herself and smiling slightly.

Daiyu felt that she was still a little flustered just now, and she calmed down suddenly.

"Yu'er, Guo'er, I've seen your two aunts and sisters-in-law." Jia Min returned to her parents' house this time, and her sister-in-law Xing and second sister-in-law Wang both came out with their daughters-in-law and daughters.

Daiyu hurriedly walked a few steps and came to her mother's side. I saw two middle-aged women dressed gorgeously and surrounded by beads, both smiling at each other, and their expressions were extremely gentle. She stepped forward and blessed her body, calling her aunt.

Mrs. Xing moved quickly, grabbed Daiyu, and said with a smile: "Oh, this is my niece, she was born so well, just like a fairy in the sky." ”

Daiyu has been praised since she was a child, and she doesn't know how many words of praise she has heard, and she knows that everyone praises her, and most of them go to her father. At that moment, he replied generously: "My aunt praised me too much, Daiyu really can't afford it." ”

"Look, look, not only does he look good, but this little mouth is so good at talking, it is all taught by my aunt and grandmother well, but I can compare this one to our family." Mrs. Xing said with a smile. The one she mentioned in our family refers to the spring season. Yingchun has always been introverted and gentle, never competing with others, and has an excellent temperament.

Mrs. Wang also smiled gently: "My aunt and the eldest girl have been in the dust all the way, I think they are tired, come into the house to rest, the old lady is in a hurry." ”

What Mrs. Xing wanted to say immediately, she choked immediately, and she couldn't say it anymore, she snorted hatefully, glanced at Mrs. Wang, and stopped speaking.

Jia Min didn't bother to pay attention to the dark turmoil between the two sisters-in-law, and said directly: "I also miss the old lady very much, but I can't wait to meet my mother-in-law." ”

"Please, please."

Mrs. Xing and Mrs. Wang accompanied each other in front, Daiyu followed behind her mother, and beside them were two beauties in gorgeous clothes, both in their twenties, one gorgeous and the other delicate, but they were two styles. Look at dress. She knew that these should be two cousins. I heard my mother say that the eldest son of the second uncle, Brother Zhu, married the eldest daughter of the country's priest Master Li, and gave birth to a son named Jia Lan, who was only four years younger than himself. The eldest uncle's eldest son, Lian's second brother, married the nephew of the second uncle's mother-in-law, the daughter of the Jinling royal family, and now has only one daughter.

Jia Min was in front and passed through the Hanging Flower Gate. Looking at the familiar hand-copying verandah on both sides, I can't say what it feels like in my heart. When she left Beijing, she was only in her early twenties, and when she came back, she was already in her forties.

Everyone walked through the hall, and there were five upper rooms in front of them, all of which were carved and carved and painted, and the wings of the verandah on both sides of the mountain. There are all kinds of parrots, thrushes and other birds. On the platform, there were a few girls dressed in red and green, and when they saw them coming, they hurriedly came up to say goodbye. smiled: "It's coming, the old lady is in a hurry." ”

Daiyu was slightly stunned, sure enough, if it was as her mother said, the rules of her grandfather's house were not quite the same as those in her own family. In your own home. The girl outside her mother's room always stands under the porch in a regular manner, waiting for orders. How grandfather's house. So loose? However, this is not my home, so I hide it in my heart.

At the door, three or four people scrambled to open the curtains, and someone could hear someone reply: "Mrs. Gu and Miss Lin have arrived." ”

Jia Min turned around and took her daughter's hand and entered the room together. I saw the two of them holding an old lady with sideburns like silver and coming up. As soon as Mother Jia saw her daughter, she cried and pounced, hugged Jia Min into her arms, and cried: "You ruthless girl, you have been gone for more than ten years, and you don't say that you will come back to see my old woman......"

Jia Min couldn't help but shed tears, she was afraid that she would cry her mother, so she wiped her tears, helped Jia's mother to sit down on the Luohan bed in the middle, sat directly next to Jia's mother, and said with a tearful smile: "Old lady, don't cry, I'm not back?" This time I came back, but I won't leave, I will come back every day to serve you, and you won't dislike me when the time comes. ”

"No, no." Jia Mu cried for a while, and under the persuasion of everyone, she slowly stopped crying.

Jia Min got up and took her daughter to meet Jia's mother. Jia Mu beckoned to Daiyu, "Good boy, come over and let me see." ”

As soon as Daiyu saw Jia's mother, she felt very cordial in her heart, and when she heard the words, she slowly stepped forward and stood in front of Jia's mother. Mother Jia looked at the delicate nephrite-like girl, and loved her so much that she pulled Daiyu to sit down beside her, hugged her in her arms, and asked her carefully, how old is she? What do you like to eat? What do you love to play? Tired all the way, right?

Daiyu answered one by one, and Jia's mother looked at her granddaughter, and then at her daughter, and only felt very satisfied.

Jia Min smiled: "Old lady, don't patronize your own happiness, you have to let our mother and daughter recognize people." ”

Mother Jia glared at her with a smile and pointed at Xing's family, "This is your eldest brother's daughter-in-law, surnamed Xing." ”

Jia Min got up and blessed Xing's body, and Mrs. Xing hurriedly returned the salute and said with a smile: "I saw it just now." ”

Jia Mu pointed to Mrs. Wang again, "Your second sister-in-law, you have already recognized it, and the rest are all going to be given to you as a gift, but are you ready to show your gifts?" I'm not going to be hah. ”

Jia Min covered her lips and smiled: "Don't worry, I will like my nieces and nieces." ”

Li Kun and Wang Xifeng came over to greet Jia Min first, and then the three sisters of Yingchun, Tanchun, and Xichun, Jia Min looked carefully, Sister Feng was really born like a fairy concubine, and she was dressed very gorgeously. In contrast, Li Kun's clothing elements are much more elegant, and she takes advantage of her appearance. The three sisters, as written in the book, welcome spring gently, explore spring handsomely, cherish spring delicately, and each has its own beauty. Teenage girls are going to bloom flowers and bones, all of which are beautiful and cute.

Jia Min gave gifts one by one, but rouge gouache, cloth clothing, hairpin ring jewelry and the like, what a few people liked the most was the set of fans in spring, summer, autumn and winter, all of which were brought back from Yangzhou.

Jia Min has met his nephew, daughter-in-law and niece, and has also called his daughter, and met with them.

Li Kun smiled softly at Daiyu, but Wang Xifeng praised with a smile: "There are really such iconic characters in the world, I only saw them today, and I saw two at first sight, which is really a long insight." ”

Jia Min glanced at Sister Feng with a smile, "I heard the old lady praise earlier, Brother Lian's daughter-in-law has the most clever mouth, and now I see it." I can't complain that the old lady loves you, and she didn't forget to mention you even when she wrote to me. ”

Mother Jia looked at her daughter with a smile, "Are you jealous?" ”

"No, I'm jealous."

"Who told you not to come back,"

"You're being unreasonable, and you have to come back."

Everyone laughed and looked at the mother and daughter laughing, and Daiyu whispered to the three sisters who had just met, and they were very happy with each other.

"By the way, where is Brother Rui?" Jia Mu suddenly remembered that Lin Rui was here.

Jia Min smiled: "He's an adult, where can he casually drill into the back house?" I think it's with Brother Jane and them. ”

Jia Mu immediately ordered: "Go, Brother Rui called." He said to Jia Min again: "They are all blood relatives, and there are no taboos." When the prince got married, Brother Rui came to celebrate, but he only stayed at home for one night, and I only saw him. More than half a year has passed, and I don't know if I have grown taller again. ”

Jia Min smiled: "It's grown a lot, since he was lifted, he has spoken and acted, and he has more and more ideas, I'm a mother, when I encounter something, I have to listen to him in nine out of ten stops." "Lin Rui had already won the examination two years ago, but his husband said that he was still young and did not advocate that he be admitted to the Jinshi again. Lin Ruhai also felt that his son should be more stable. However, every time he deals with political affairs, he takes his son with him. All the outside affairs of the family have also been taken over from Jia Min, and then Lin Ruhai goes out to socialize with others, and often takes him there, Lin Rui has grown very rapidly in the past two years, and he has become much calmer.

Jia Mu smiled: "That's your blessing." ”

Jia Min: "Who's to say it's not?" ”

Mrs. Wang sat on the side with Xiaoxiao, feeling very uncomfortable, her son Jia Zhu had just won the show, and Lin Rui, who was so much younger than him, had even passed the exam. This kind of comparison makes her feel like she has lost Jia Min.

While talking and laughing, the girl came in and replied, "Uncle Zhu, Second Master Lian, Uncle Lin, and Second Master Bao are here." ”

Jia Min smiled, "Why is this coming?" "But what about Jia Lan and Jia Huan?

The Yingchun sisters didn't move, but Li Kun and Wang Xifeng hid, and Jia Mu said, "Call them in." ”

After a while, Jia Zhu, who was described as handsome, pulled Lin Rui in front of him and entered the house first. First greet the old lady, then meet Jia Min, Mrs. Xing, Mrs. Wang, and then the Yingchun sisters and Daiyu to greet a few brothers.

Among these nephews, Jia Min was the only one who had never seen Baoyu, so he specially beckoned to him, "This is Baoyu, come and let me have a look." ”

As soon as Baoyu entered, she saw the first woman on the right who sat in a beautiful posture, only about thirty years old, dressed in gorgeous clothes, looking at herself and smiling slightly, with an indescribable elegance. Come to think of it, this is my aunt. No wonder the old lady kept talking about the birth of a man like Cousin Rui. As soon as he saw Jia Min calling him, he obediently walked over and let Jia Min hold his hand.

"It's really good-looking, how many daughters are afraid that they are not as good as him." Jia Min looked at Jia Baoyu and felt very satisfied. It's no wonder that Xin Dao was called a sister by Ling Guan'er, and she was born like a girl.

Jia Mu was happy when she saw Baoyu, and when she saw Jia Min let go, she called him to sit beside her.

Jia Min beckoned Daiyu to come over, and saw a few cousins, and when Baoyu saw Daiyu, she was stunned, and suddenly said: "I recognize this sister." ”

Jia Min's face suddenly darkened half, the plot was twisted like this, you didn't forget to say the original lines.

Sure enough, Mother Jia feigned anger and said: "Nonsense again, your sister only came today, when did you see it." ”

Jia Min didn't wait for Baoyu to speak, and directly interjected and smiled: "Rui'er entered Beijing last year, and I met my nephews. Their brother and sister were born alike, and it was Brother Bao who said so. ”

Jia Mu looked at Lin Rui, then at Daiyu, and nodded one by one: "There are indeed five or six points of likeness." She beckoned Daiyu and asked her to sit beside her. At this time, Jia Mu sat Daiyu on the right and Baoyu on the left, she looked left and right, and only felt very satisfied. He gave Daiyu and said, "This is your cousin, who is the most considerate sister on weekdays." ”

Daiyu smiled and didn't speak.

Baoyu suddenly said: "Does my sister have words?" ”

Jia Min went crazy in an instant, you still have no end, why do you have to finish the fixed lines! (To be continued......)