Lin Daiyu hurriedly cleaned up her tears and thinly applied powder to make herself look more energetic.

Then she wore a veil to cover her face, and was surrounded by Zijuan, Chunxian, Snow Goose, Wang Mama and others in the bow of the boat.

Looking at the bustling crowd at the dock, Lin Daiyu frowned, and her heart was worried, both feeling of hometown timidity and worrying about her father's physical condition.

Lin Zhong saw Daiyu come out, and hurriedly pointed to Lu Jing in the crowd, and said: "Girl, the first team is the one who takes the girl back to the house, and the one at the front is the girl's cousin Uncle Lu, Uncle Lu was accepted as a disciple by the master three years ago!" ”

"Cousin?" Lin Daiyu was puzzled, she has lived in Lin Mansion since she was a child, and she has never heard of her cousin, could it be that her grandmother's family still has relatives surnamed Lu in Yangzhou.

Immediately, Lin Daiyu vaguely remembered her grandmother's surname Lu, and wondered if it was her grandmother's relatives, but she had never heard her father and mother mention it, and her father had not mentioned it in his letter in recent years.

When Lin Ruhai accepted Lu Jing as a disciple three years ago, he planned to write a letter to tell Daiyu about it, but later thought of the grievances between his wife and the Lu family, so he did not mention it in the letter.

Lin Zhong served the two generations of masters of the Lin family, so he naturally knew the grievances between the Lin family and the Lu family, but this matter involved the grievances of the two generations of the Lin family's mothers, and he was not good at explaining the inside story to Daiyu, just introducing Lu Jing's identity and background.

"The Lu family and the Lin family are both ancestral hometowns of Gusu, and Uncle Lu's lord is the late former prefect of Yangzhou, and the late Lord Lu and the lord are cousins!"

"Miss wait here first, and the old slave will inquire about how Uncle Lu arranged it!"

Lin Daiyu listened to Lin Zhong's explanation, and became more and more puzzled in her heart, since she was a relative of her grandmother's mother's family, why she had never heard her father mention it.

Listening to Steward Lin's meaning, the Lu family and the Lin family are both officials in Yangzhou, and the two families should be closer, why did my father never talk about the Lu family.

Lin Daiyu was shrewd, thinking that there might be something she didn't understand, so she suppressed the doubts in her heart and looked at Lu Jing intently.

Seeing Lu Jing's handsome eyes and extraordinary bearing, she secretly compared the younger brother of the Jia family with Lu Jing in her heart, and thought about everyone in the Jia family, but she couldn't find anyone who could compare with Lu Jing.

Lu Jing saw Lin Zhong get off the boat, and greeted everyone in the Lin Mansion, and said with a smile: "Steward Lin has worked hard all the way!" ”

Lin Zhong, as Lin Ruhai's confidant, naturally knew a lot of things about Lu Jing, he always felt that Lu Jing was a great character, and he didn't dare to slack off, so he hurriedly saluted: "The little one has seen Uncle Lu, thank you Uncle Lu for asking, these are all small things that should be done, not to mention hard work or not." ”

Lu Jing smiled and helped Lin Zhong up, looked over the crowd, and looked at Lin Daiyu.

Seeing that he was only eleven or twelve years old, he was dressed in a plain white gauze dress, with a pale pink long skirt, a light and elegant outfit, three thousand green silk coiled into a Chinese bun, and a jasper hairpin on it, embellished with a few tassels.

The two bends seem to be frowning and not frowning, not pointing, a pair of eyes that seem to be happy but not happy, may cry too much, swollen a bit like walnuts.

Although there is a veil to cover it, it can still distinguish its rare face, but its body is too thin, like a willow in the wind, it will fall down at any time, and it is slightly sickly, and his face is full of sorrow and brows.

Lu Jiaxin sighed: "No wonder the ancients often said, 'Wisdom will hurt, love is long-lived', although God gave Lin Daiyu a peerless face and a world-class talent, but it also caused Lin Daiyu to be sensitive and worried." ”

immediately thought that Lin Daiyu came here to return tears after all, if there were no many traversers intervening, she would be doomed to a desolate life and die in tears!

After Lu Jing retracted his gaze, he looked at Steward Lin and asked, "Sister Lin, has you been okay all the way?" ”

Lin Zhong hurriedly replied: "The girl is fine all the way, but she is a little worried about the master, when she passed by Liaocheng, she made an old illness!" ”

Lu Jing sent someone to protect Lin Daiyu all the way, so he naturally knew about it, but his people only secretly protected it, and they didn't know the details.

"Have you ever asked a doctor to heal you?"

Lin Zhong replied: "I invited a doctor, I stayed in Liaocheng for two days, and the girl was in good health, so we set off again!" ”

"What did the doctor say?"

Lin Zhong recalled for a moment and said: "The doctor said that the girl was overly worried, had a cough disease, and had a deficiency of qi and blood, so he prescribed a few medicines to calm the nerves, relieve cough and asthma, and told the girl not to think too much. ”

Lu Jing nodded, and then ordered: "Youxia, Qingqiu, you take someone to invite Miss Lin into the sedan chair!" ”

Youxia and Qingqiu were busy taking the maids and women to ask Daiyu to get off the boat and get into the sedan chair.

Lu Jing saw that there were only a few maids around Lin Daiyu at the bow of the boat, and then asked, "What about the people from the Jia family?" ”

"Second Master Lian of Rongfu ate wine yesterday, and now he is resting on the boat, the little one has already asked people to invite, and he must have come out!"

Speaking of Jia Lian, Lin Zhong's tone was quite bad, he and Lin Daiyu were anxious along the way, wanting to rush back to Yangzhou as soon as possible, but this second master Lian kept delaying the trip.

Lu Jing was a little curious about Jia Lian, after all, Jia Lian was the only person in the fourth generation of the Jia family who could handle it.

And Jia Lian's appearance rate in Dream of Red Mansions is relatively high, except for being more lustful, he has not done anything hurtful.

For half an hour, Jia Lianfang walked out of the cabin with a few servants, and Lin Zhong was busy introducing the two sides to each other.

At first, he heard that Lu Jing was a disciple of Lin Ruhai, and he was quite enthusiastic about Lu Jing, but later asked about Lu Jing's background, and after hearing that Lu Jing was a member of the Lu family, his attitude became cold.

When he came, the second wife personally confessed, saying that the Lin family also had a relative in Jiangnan who was the Lu family, but the Lu family offended his aunt more than ten years ago, and the two families stopped moving.

Jia Lian felt that the Lu family had offended his aunt, and his family background was not as prominent as the Jia family, so Uncle Lin could naturally tell the difference, and the Jia family and the Lu family were familiar with each other, so after a few polite words with Lu Jing, he stopped talking.

Lu Jing didn't care about Jia Lian's attitude, but kept observing Jia Lian, and saw that although Jia Lian was a little talkative, he was full of joy and anger, so he knew that Jia Lian's city was not deep and lacked experience.

After Lu Jing received Lin Daiyu, Jia Lian and others, he directly led everyone back to Lin Mansion.

When it came to the Lin Mansion, the door of the Lin family was opened, and the servants were all standing outside the door to welcome Lin Daiyu back to the house.

The reason why the Lin family is so solemn is because in addition to Lin Ruhai in the Lin Mansion now, there is only Lin Daiyu as the master.

Since Jia Min died in the first year of Yuanyong and Lin Daiyu was sent to Jiafu, Lin Ruhai sent all the concubines, and the Lin family has been cold and lacking vitality.

Now that Lin Daiyu has returned, the Lin family is overjoyed.

After Lin Daiyu and Jia Lian entered the Lin Mansion, Lin Ruhai first arranged for Lin Daiyu to wait for him in the inner courtyard, and then he met Jia Lian in the outer study.

Lin Ruhai asked Jia Lian about some news in Beijing and the current situation of the Jia family, so he asked people to arrange the residence of Jia Lian and others, and let Jia Lian go down to rest first.

Jia Lian knew that Sister Lin had just returned to Yangzhou, and Uncle Lin was anxious to see Sister Lin, so he didn't take out the letter from Shi Taijun to persuade Lin Ruhai to transfer the family wealth, and thought that in a few days, he was looking for a suitable opportunity to discuss the matter with Lin Ruhai.

Lu Jing knew that Lin Ruhai's father and daughter would reunite after a long absence, and they would definitely tell each other about their father-daughter affection, so after he sent Lin Daiyu and others to Lin's mansion, they were in Lin Ruhai's study to watch Lin Ruhai's collection of books.

And he knew that Lin Daiyu would come back today and bring his sister to the Lin family, planning to let his sister and Lin Daiyu get to know each other.

Lin Daiyu saw that her father's temples were white, and his body was much older than six years ago, coupled with the longing for her father accumulated over the years, she couldn't hold back anymore, and threw herself directly into Lin Ruhai's arms and cried.

Lin Ruhai hadn't seen each other for nearly six years, and when Lin Ruhai saw his daughter's thin body and sickly face, he was extremely self-blaming in his heart, but when he heard his daughter's crying like a complaint, his tears couldn't help but roll in his eyes.

Just in order not to lose the majesty of a loving father in front of his daughter, Lin Ruhai has been holding back her crying and patiently comforting her daughter.

Lin Ruhai received letters from Lin Zhong and Jia Zheng on April 23, he didn't expect the Jia family to send Daiyu back to Yangzhou.

Now Jiangnan seems to be calm, but in fact, a bigger storm may break out at any time.

When Lin Ruhai received the letter, Daiyu had already set off, and he knew that the matter was irreparable.

He was very worried about Daiyu's safety on the road, but he was pretending to be sick now, and his every move was being monitored by various forces, so he really couldn't send someone to protect Daiyu.

In desperation, Lin Ruhai had no choice but to ask Lu Jing for help.

Lu Jing was also very surprised to learn that the Jia family sent Daiyu back to Yangzhou at this time, although he didn't know how Lin Ruhai arranged it, but he also knew that Lin Ruhai would never let Lin Daiyu return to Yangzhou at this time.

The Jia family sent Lin Daiyu back to Yangzhou at this time, but they did not mean to clear up the relationship with the Lin family.

However, he understood the choice of the Jia family, after all, compared with the Zhen family, the power of the Lin family was not worth mentioning.

may be the only one who can enter the eyes of the Jia family, that is, the wealth accumulated by the Lin family for more than 100 years.

Moreover, in order to paralyze the enemy, Lin Ruhai pretended to be seriously injured and dying, and Emperor Yuanyong in Beijing was still letting the situation develop, and did not show his intention to protect Lin Ruhai.

In this case, a normal person knows how to choose, after all, compared with the family inheritance, the relationship between Lin Daiyu and the Jia family is insignificant.

Lu Jing asked Wu Ze to lead the team, and at the same time, with the help of Qi Changqing's manpower, he searched along the canal to find out the news of Jia's boat, and found Jia Lian and Lin Daiyu and his party in Tai'an on April 28.

After Wu Ze passed the news to Lu Jing, he did not show up, but led people to silently protect Lin Daiyu and his party.

Lin Ruhai was worried about Daiyu, and counted the days every day to wait for Daiyu to return safely, but Daiyu and his party were very slow, which made Lin Ruhai suffer every day, so that he became ill.

The injuries that had not healed in the first place recurred again, and the old diseases that had been recurring one after another also followed, so that the fake became true, Lin Ruhai fell completely ill, and it was a bit like his life was in danger.

Lu Jing saw that Lin Ruhai fell ill again because of Daiyu, and on the one hand, he invited a famous doctor to treat Lin Ruhai, and on the other hand, he asked Wu Ze to constantly send people back and forth between the two places to report Lin Daiyu's itinerary, so as to calm Lin Ruhai's heart.

At the same time, Lu Jing also had some emotion in his heart, if Lin Ruhai had not chosen to cut off the involvement of the Jia family and the Zhen family, but only took him out, or told the Jia family about it as it was, the situation would not have been like this.

This incident also made Lu Jing a little vigilant, Lin Ruhai's fate seems to have returned to its original trajectory, originally Lin Ruhai was seriously ill, Jia Lian sent Lin Daiyu back, and now it is the same, although the reasons for coming back are different, but if Lin Ruhai really can't hold on, he will die and the ending seems to be similar.

In order to avoid this situation, and also to end the turmoil in Jiangnan as soon as possible, let Lin Ruhai survive the catastrophe, and let Lin Daiyu not fall into a crisis after she returns.

At the same time, in order to promote Emperor Yuan Yong to make a decision earlier, Lu Jing chose to ignite the fire of the prairie in Jiangnan again.