After Lu Jing came back from the Shen Mansion, he came directly to Lin Ruhai's mansion, and when he heard that Lin Ruhai was receiving Jia Lian, he sighed secretly in his heart, Lin Ruhai would be dragged down by the Jia family sooner or later.

In Lin Ruhai's study, Lin Ruhai was closing his eyes and meditating, and Jia Lian was standing aside and waiting anxiously.

Some time ago, Jia Lian saw that Baoyu often came to Lin Ruhai, and he was extremely disappointed, and he also dispelled his mind of asking Lin Ruhai for a title.

I never thought that a few days ago, Baoyu and Lin Ruhai had a falling out, and the second master lost his temper because of this, and wanted to severely punish Baoyu, he immediately saw hope, and in the name of visiting Lin Ruhai, he came to ask Lin Ruhai for advice, and told Lin Ruhai about Mrs. Wang's money.

"This matter is not easy to deal with, although it is ordered by the Wang family, but after all, it is your daughter-in-law who comes forward, and if the second room is to make someone denounce, it can easily deprive you of your inheritance rights." Lin Ruhai pointed out that no matter what the Wang family was thinking, he had to be prepared.

Jia Lian suddenly felt cold all over his body, thinking that this was most likely a situation deliberately set up by the second wife for the couple of them, and now his daughter-in-law has a lot of handles in the hands of the second wife.

Jia Lian hurriedly knelt down and begged: "Please uncle must save my nephew, my nephew is grateful." ”

Lin Ruhai shook his head and said: "After all, this matter is a family matter in your house, and it is really inconvenient for me to interfere, otherwise I will be suspected of provoking discord between the two of you." ”

"Please uncle, for Aunt Min's sake, think of a way for my nephew!" Jia Lian continued to plead.

In the end, after Jia Lian's several pleas, Lin Ruhai pushed the boat down the river and agreed.

"This matter is also very simple, since the Wang family instructed your husband and wife to do these illegal things, you can also check what the second room has done, especially the Wang family!"

"Now that the Wang family is the biological mother of the concubine, the concubine is titled virtuous, if her mother is not virtuous, it will naturally affect the concubine in the palace, if you can find out something, grasp it in your hands, and think about it can also make the second room have some scruples."

"Thank you uncle!" Jia Lian said busily, his heart completely settled down, if the second room really wanted to take away his title, it would be a big deal.

"In addition, you only have one daughter so far, which is extremely abnormal, you must also be on guard!" Lin Ruhai reminded that if Jia Lian has no heirs, then the inheritance of the big house may not belong to anyone at that time.

"Ask my uncle for advice?" Jia Lian's heart that had just settled down tightened again, and he had no heirs for many years, which had always been his heart disease.

"There are some backhouse methods that must be guarded against, you can pay attention to this matter yourself, and I just remind you!" Lin Ruhai shook his head and said.

"This ......" Jia Lian's mood instantly fell to the bottom, if he was really plotted by someone, it would not be a matter of being a knight or not, but a deep hatred of cutting off his son and heir.

Jia Lian said with a cold heart: "Nephew, thank you uncle for reminding me, I will definitely find out about this matter." ”

"Well, that's it for today, if you have something, you can come to me again, and if you find anything, don't say anything!" After Lin Ruhai used Jia Lian to lay out Jia's house, he waved his hand and asked Jia Lian to retreat.

Jia Lian and Lu Jing took a look at each other, and the two sides exchanged polite words without saying much.

After Jia Lian returned to Jiafu with a gloomy face, even his son didn't know, so he began to look for evidence of the crime in the second room, and now his daughter-in-law has come forward to take care of Qin Keqing's funeral, and he is busy with his feet, and he did not tell Wang Xifeng about it.

After Lu Jing came to Lin Ruhai's study, he saw that his face was ugly, and secretly guessed in his heart that Jia Lian came to Lin Ruhai's purpose.

After Lin Ruhai saw Lu Jing, he squeezed out a smile and asked, "Huai Jin, have you gained anything from going to Shen Mansion today?" ”

After Lu Jing's words, he tactfully conveyed Shen Ji's meaning to Lin Ruhai.

Lin Ruhai sighed and didn't say anything more.

In the next few days, Lu Jing refused Lin Ruhai's request to take him to visit Xu Jingnian, and now Lin Ruhai and Xu Jingnian are both on the cusp, and he decided to keep a low profile.

In mid-October, Li Shouzhi's nephew, Li Yi, also came to the capital to participate in the Spring Festival. Li Yi is the youngest son of Li Shouzhong, 21 years old, who was promoted in this year's township examination in Jiangnan Province.

Except for Li Kun, who is widowed in the Jia family, no one is in Beijing, and after Li Yi arrived in Beijing, Li Kun was not notified because of the conflict between the Li family and the Jia family.

Lu Jing met Li Yi when he was a child, and his friendship was also in the past, and he received a letter from his uncle-in-law Li Shouzhi a few days ago. After Li Yi arrived in Beijing, after Lu Jing helped him settle down, he invited Ge Yin to pick up the wind for Li Yi.

On October 20, Lu Jing, Ge Yin, and Li Yi went to visit the chief examiner Xu Jingnian as ordinary candidates.

In Lu Fuzhong, Lin Daiyu is admiring Lu Zhiyu's newly completed paintings.

These days, Lu Zhiyu has been inviting Lin Daiyu to come and paint a portrait of Lin Daiyu.

It's just that Lin Daiyu has been afraid of seeing Lu Jing since Lin Ruhai talked about her marriage that day, so she has not agreed, and after hearing that Lu Jing went out today, she couldn't resist her curiosity and came to Lu's house.

"Vivid, jumping on the paper, how did my sister draw it?" Lin Daiyu praised that this painting is not like ordinary white drawings and ink, and the characters on the painting have clear lines and are very clear.

Lu Zhiyu smiled happily: "It was drawn with charcoal, I have been groping for painting before, and I can finally get my hands on it these few times, so I will ask my sister to take a look!" ”

Lin Daiyu was both admiring and admiring: "My sister is really amazing, I can open a school by myself, I think my sister's technique is unique, different from ordinary painting methods!" ”

"How can I have what my sister said, my sister is still far away, sister, sit down, I'll draw a picture for my sister!"

Lin Daiyu was very curious about how to draw it, so she sat down according to Zhi Yu's arrangement, and then saw Zhi Yu erect a drawing board and write and draw at her.

Two quarters of an hour later, Lin Daiyu couldn't bear it anymore and asked, "Is my sister okay?" ”

"Sister, bear with me for a while, and it will be fine right away!"

An Lan, Luo Mei and the others next to them all covered their mouths and snickered, Lin Daiyu noticed that something was wrong, so she asked, "How long will it take for my sister?" ”

Lu Zhiyu hurriedly stopped An Lan and the others from snickering, and comforted Daiyu: "It will be fine if there is another quarter of an hour, my sister will keep this posture." ”

Lin Daiyu shook her head helplessly, continued to sit in a sitting position, and then asked An Lan and them, "What are you laughing at?" ”

An Lan replied with a smile: "We are not Miss Xiaolin, but think of Miss Yinglian, Miss Yinglian was tossed by our girl a few days ago." ”

"Originally, she still came to talk to our girl every day, but she didn't dare to show her face in front of her for the past two days."

Lin Daiyu asked curiously, "How did Zhiyu toss Yinglian?" ”

Lu Zhiyu didn't wait for An Lan to exit, and hurriedly said: "Sister, don't listen to their nonsense, Sister Yinglian doesn't dare to see me for another reason." ”

A few days ago, she found that Yinglian lived in Lu Jing's room, so she took the opportunity to paint Yinglian and interrogated her, Yinglian was so shy that she didn't come to her for the past few days.

Lin Daiyu asked, "What is the reason?" ”

Lu Zhiyu smiled: "Wait a while, I'll tell my sister." ”

A quarter of an hour later, Lu Zhiyu completed Lin Daiyu's portrait and hurriedly asked Lin Daiyu to come over to admire her masterpiece.

Lin Daiyu moved her stiff delicate body a little, and she couldn't wait to see her portrait.

I saw that her eyebrows in the painting were slightly frowned, and her beautiful eyes were affectionate, which was seven or eight points similar to her, and it was a little more ethereal than her original appearance.

"My sister is so good at drawing, can you teach me?"

Lu Zhiyu smiled happily: "No problem, my sister can learn whenever she wants, but this kind of painting skill is also something I just figured out, and the level is still very shallow, with my sister's intelligence, if I learn it, I will definitely be more powerful than me, and we can discuss it together when the time comes." ”

Then Lin Daiyu asked Lu Zhiyu for sketching and drawing, and in the middle of the day, Lu Zhiyu left Daiyu at home for lunch.

In the afternoon, Lin Daiyu was worried that Lu Jing would come back suddenly, so she offered to leave, but Lu Zhiyu begged her to stay.

Lu Zhiyu found that Daiyu heard her brother's name and reacted very strangely, so she kept chatting with Daiyu about Lu Jing.

Lin Daiyu listened with apprehension and curiosity, and suddenly thought of the doubts that had been buried in her heart, so she asked tentatively: "Sister, have you ever heard 'pay attention every step of the way, pay attention everywhere, refuse to say a word easily, take one more step, for fear of being laughed at." 'This sentence? ”

Lu Zhiyu tilted her little head and thought for a while, and said uncertainly: "It seems to have some impressions." ”

Lin Daiyu was a little surprised when she heard this, and was about to continue asking, but she heard Lu Zhiyu continue: "It seems that when I was a child, I heard my brother say this sentence, and it has been too long, and I don't remember it." ”

Lin Daiyu was suddenly a little surprised, and hurriedly asked, "When did my sister hear it?" ”

"I can't remember exactly, six or seven years old, why did my sister ask about this?" Lu Zhiyu said curiously.

"It's nothing, it's just curiosity!" Lin Daiyu said perfunctorily, but the doubts in her heart were even worse, and she hesitated for a long time and then said: "Can my sister help me ask my cousin, how did he know this sentence?" ”

"And don't let my cousin know, I'm going to ask!"

Although Lu Zhiyu was puzzled, she immediately assured: "Sister, don't worry, this matter is on me!" ”

When the sun came, Lu Jing returned home.

Lin Daiyu hurriedly got up to say goodbye, Lu Zhiyu left Daiyu behind, and then asked An Lan to invite Lu Jing over.

"Sister, is it too late to ask when I'm gone?" Lin Daiyu said anxiously.

"It's not a big deal, sister, you just hide behind the screen and listen, I'll help my sister understand!" Lu Zhiyu comforted Daiyu and said.

She found that Sister Lin always looked shy when she talked about her brother recently, so she felt that Sister Lin should have a good impression of her brother, so she wanted to ask her brother what he thought about Sister Lin.

"No way!" Lin Daiyu directly refused.

"It's okay, sister, it's just a word, and my brother is coming soon!" Lu Zhiyu continued to persuade.

Lin Daiyu glared at Lu Zhiyu helplessly, with some regret in her heart, and asked Zhiyu to help her ask about it, but thinking that she could hear the answer in person, she had to endure the awkwardness in her heart and let her maids go to Anlan's room to hide first, and she herself hid behind the screen.