Lu Jing was overjoyed when he saw Daiyu's response, he didn't expect Daiyu to respond like this, and then he saw Daiyu's uplink: "Because lotus can get lotus root?" ”

Instantly understood the meaning, Hetong He, lotus root even, smiled in his heart, it was also in line with Daiyu's character, he immediately wrote the following couplet after it, and after the ink dried, handed it to Zijuan and said: "Thank you for Sister Lin again!" ”

After Zijuan carefully put it away, he said, "Zijuan will deliver it to the girl by hand!" ”

Lu Jing saw that she was sincere to Daiyu, so she nodded and said, "Thank you, if it is a little dark today, I will let Youxia and Qingqiu send you back!" ”

"Uncle Zijuan Xie!" Zijuan was a little moved, and sighed in his heart that Uncle Lu was really a fine person, and he thought about everything thoughtfully.

Zijuan was sent to the Lin Mansion by Youxia and Qingqiu all the way, and after saying goodbye to Youxia and Qingqiu, she went directly back to Daiyu's residence and handed Lu Jing's reply to Daiyu.

Lin Daiyu opened the letter nervously, only to see that it read: "There are apricots but not plums." ”

I was suddenly ashamed and happy in my heart, carefully put away this piece of paper, and recalled these two sentences.

Xing Tongxing, Mei Tong Media, Lu Jing's response told her, since you asked why you got a good match, I was fortunate to meet you without a matchmaker.

Zijuan saw Daiyu's reaction next to her, and she was also happy for Daiyu, although it was the first time to contact Lu Jing head-on, but for what happened just now, she felt that Uncle Lu was an excellent person and worthy of a girl.

She has been crying when she sees Daiyu these days, although she doesn't know what happened, but now she is relieved to see the girl smiling again.

After Lu Jing determined Daiyu's thoughts, he carefully prepared a gift box for Daiyu the next day, which contained a green sandalwood grate comb, and added a postscript: Flying magpie combs acacia in the mirror, and the Huanhua paper paints a heartbeat.

Lin Daiyu cut off a few strands of green silk from her, put them in the sachet, and then wrote: The wisps of green silk are soft, and the lovesickness is densely combed and returned to Lu Jing.

After Lu Jing received Lin Daiyu's reply, he planned to find Lin Ruhai for a showdown to see what Lin Ruhai meant.

It just so happened that Lin Ruhai came back from Rongguo Mansion just now and invited Lu Jing to come over to the mansion for a while.

Lin Ruhai has been quite annoyed by the Jia family's entanglement recently, and these days Shi Taijun has been sending people to pick up Daiyu to live in Jiafu, but he has refused.

Early this morning, the Jia family asked Jia Lian to come over and invited him to the Rong Mansion to discuss matters, Lin Ruhai wanted to make it clear with the Jia family, so he followed Jia Lian to Jia's house.

Shi Taijun has been even more disgusted with Lin Ruhai recently, Baoyu has been clamoring to pick up Daiyu these days, she also misses her granddaughter very much, and she doesn't want to be rejected by Lin Ruhai several times, so after Lin Ruhai arrived at Jia's house, Shi Taijun called him forward and scolded him.

Lin Ruhai thought of Jia Min's affection, endured it all the time, and also symbolically explained a few words, saying that Daiyu was learning how to take care of the house, and it was inconvenient to interrupt her studies, so she would come to see the old lady after a while.

then talked to Shi Taijun about the dowry of Daiyu that he had previously transferred to the Jia family, and offered to take it back.

Shi Taijun immediately looked at Lin Ruhai vigilantly, rejected him without hesitation, and once again offered to teach Daiyu in person.

Lin Ruhai categorically refused, and in the end, the two had a very unpleasant quarrel.

Then Lin Ruhai was invited by Jia Zheng to Rongxi Hall to discuss, Lin Ruhai listened to Jia Zheng, Jia Amnesty, Jia Zhen and others discussed for a long time, before he figured out the original situation, it turned out that a few days ago, Emperor Yong issued an order to allow Jiaofang's dependents to enter the palace to visit relatives, and the Emperor Taishang also issued an edict to allow the concubines in the palace to save relatives, and these people in the Jia family got together to discuss the construction of the provincial relatives' courtyard.

It's just that the money for the construction of the provincial family courtyard has not been scraped together, so far, Rongguo Mansion has paid 100,000 taels, Ning Guofu has contributed 20,000 taels, Shi Taijun has taken out 20,000 taels, Mrs. Jia Zhengwang has contributed 20,000 taels, Mrs. Jia Xing has paid 10,000 taels, Jia Lian and his wife have been forced to take out 1,000 taels, and so on.

In the end, the people of the two mansions were able to make up 180,000 taels, which was far from the one million taels they expected in their hearts, so they hit Lin Ruhai with their ideas, feeling that the Lin family was rich in wealth, and Daiyu had been raised in Rongguo Mansion for five or six years.

When Lin Ruhai learned that he was going to pay to support the construction of Yuanchun's provincial hospital, his face suddenly turned ugly.

Especially when he learned that the Provincial Relatives Courtyard was built from the garden of Ning Mansion, and Ning Mansion paid for it, he was now afraid to avoid Ning Guofu, so no matter what Jia Zheng and others said, he did not hesitate to categorically refuse.

In the end, this matter reached Shi Taijun's ears, and Shi Taijun was angry, so he found Lin Ruhai again, and finally the two had a verbal battle and reached a compromise.

Lin Ruhai took out the 20,000 taels he transferred to the Jia family, which was regarded as lending it to the Jia family.

Shi Taijun returned most of the money transferred to the Jia family by Lin Ruhai, and the rest of Jia Min's dowry was still pinched by her.

Later, Lin Ruhai refused Jia Zheng's retention on the grounds of physical discomfort and returned to the house directly.

Lin Ruhai now has a growing sense of crisis, and feels that he can't delay it any longer, and he must get engaged to his daughter as soon as possible, so he called Lu Jing over to ask Lu Jing what he thought.

As soon as Lu Jing saw Lin Ruhai, he saw that his face was extremely bad, and he hurriedly asked the reason.

Lin Ruhai carefully looked at Lu Jing's body, nodded imperceptibly, and then hid the conflict between him and Shi Taijun, and told what happened to him when he went to Jia's house.

At the end, he sighed: "The Emperor Taishang sent an edict to allow all noble daughters to save their relatives, and the Rong Mansion wants to build a provincial relatives' courtyard, so that I can go over and give some silver taels!" ”

When Lu Jing heard this, his heart was sure enough, although there were many deviations in the process, the Grand View Garden still had to be built after all.

Ever since he met Queen Zhongshun that day, he had been paying attention to the movements of the court, and a few days ago, Emperor Yong offered the white deer to the Emperor Taishang and the Empress Dowager.

After that, I found a lot of elk, and sent a few to many clan elders of the royal family.

King Zhongshun also found a lot of elk and gave them to the emperor and the queen mother.

Some ministers seem to have intentionally or unintentionally emulated Emperor Yuanyong and King Zhongshun to give gifts to their elders or officials, and they have become popular to give golden deer, jade deer, etc.

In the name of filial piety, Emperor Yuanyong allowed his family to visit his concubines, which not only let people know his filial piety to the Emperor and the Empress Dowager, but also used this matter to appease those nobles.

"What does the teacher think of the Emperor's will?"

Lin Ruhai groaned: "The emperor is sympathetic to people and family, and it is a good thing to rule the world with filial piety, but it costs a lot to build a provincial family, which is probably not a good thing for all families!" ”

Then he said with some worry: "The emperor decreed that he would allow him to visit the palace on the second and sixth days of every month, but the emperor opened the grace of heaven and specially allowed the provincial relatives, which is a grace that has never been seen in all dynasties." ”

In the past dynasties, not only did there never have a precedent for empresses or concubines to save their relatives, but it was strictly stipulated that concubines were not allowed to visit relatives to avoid the collision of imperial power and ethics.

Regardless of their rank in the palace, the concubines are the emperor's women, representing the emperor's face, and the concubines' families belong to the subordinates.

But in terms of etiquette, it is a little embarrassing to let parents and elders kneel and kowtow to their daughters, in order to avoid such a scene, those concubines do not talk about saving relatives, it is extremely difficult to meet with their families, even if there is a New Year's holiday or something at home, they really need to visit, and they will all be done by eunuchs.

"What does the teacher mean is that the emperor and the emperor are taking advantage of this matter to fight openly and secretly?" Lu Jing was puzzled, he was a little puzzled by the operation of the Emperor Taishang, no matter how he looked at it, it was not like a favor, but like a pit dug by the Emperor Taishang for the magnates in Beijing.

The construction of such a luxurious palace for concubines and concubines is not to completely hollow out their foundation, especially the Jia family, who did not get the property of the Lin family this time, I am afraid that when the construction of the provincial palace is completed, the life in their mansion will only be more difficult.

Lin Ruhai nodded worriedly and said, "I'm afraid it's the forces behind the harem that the two emperors are trying to woo!" ”

"The matter of the Qin family should have made the emperor aware of the unity of the nobles, there are many women from powerful families in the harem, and the teacher guessed that the emperor should want to use the nobles in the harem to win over their maiden power."

"I never thought that the emperor's grace would go further, and directly allow the provincial relatives to destroy the emperor's plan!"

"But the emperor is always the son of the emperor, or the heir chosen by the emperor, even if the two compete for power, the emperor should not be so obvious to dismantle the emperor's throne, can the emperor still be restored?" Lu Jing shook his head and said.

He has always suspected that the emperor and the emperor are playing double reeds, one singing white face and the other singing black face, in order to use gentle means to weaken the power of the four kings and eight princes and other magnates.

Like boiling a frog in warm water, the emperor is weakened, and the emperor is favored, so that the nobles of Jingzhong will not rebel because they have no choice.

Lin Ruhai was extremely surprised when he heard this, and looked at Lu Jing with some admiration: "You mean that the emperor and the emperor are doing this to eliminate their vigilance and slowly gather their military power." ”

Nowadays, although most of the magnates in Beijing are in decline, but their involvement with the army has not been broken, most of the southern soldiers and horses are in the hands of the king of Nan'an County, most of the soldiers and horses in the border pass are under the command of the king of Xining County, and Rongguo Gong, Fuguo Gong and several other families are also deeply involved in the army.

"The disciple just inferred from common sense that the royal family has always been extremely wary of kings of the opposite sex, not to mention that it is still a noble group that holds military power and forms an alliance with overall interests."

"When Emperor Taishang was in power, he repeatedly reduced the titles of the four kings and eight dukes, but since the twenty-seventh year of Yankang, the court has experienced several turmoil and twists and turns, and when the emperor succeeded to the throne, the court situation was extremely unstable, and the disciples guessed that the emperor and the emperor used such means to deal with them in order to stabilize the court situation."

Lin Ruhai nodded approvingly: "Now that I think about it, I'm afraid it's really as you said, the Emperor Taishang is clearly trying to fight with the emperor, but in fact he is helping the emperor weaken their power." ”

"In this way, the Jia family really shouldn't build this provincial family!"

"Even without these speculations, the Jia family should not build a provincial hospital." Lu Jing shook his head and said.

"The emperor and the emperor are opposed, the Jia family responded to the call of the emperor so much, where to put the emperor, the emperor has given the Jia family many opportunities, and they are also to blame for their own choice."

Since Jia Yuanchun's title, Emperor Yuan Yong has been ordering the Jia family, but the Jia family has never been able to understand what Emperor Yuan Yong meant.

The emperor will reward her father or brother with a small title, and at the worst of all, she will be promoted to the corresponding grade by her mother's decree, but no one in the Jia family has been added to the official title or promoted to the title, nor has she received any substantial reward.

"You have a point, alas! Anyway, what happens to the Jia family in the future depends on their creation. ”

"Now that the Jia family is in charge, it is the old lady who is in charge, how can the deep lady deal with such a complicated situation between the DPRK and China." Lin Ruhai sighed angrily, the Ning Mansion is no longer saved, and now it depends on whether Yuan Chun can wake up the Rong Mansion.