Mo Daoqiu is all winter killing, and the south of the Yangtze River is like spring in October. The frost is light and the grass is not smeared, and the desert sand is dry at the beginning of the warm day.

The old leaves are yellow like tender trees, and the cold cherry branches are white and wild flowers. The son in front of the door stared and waited for the guests to enter the house.

In the fourth year of Yuan Yong, on the first day of October, the gate of the Lu family in Yangzhou Prefecture, Jiangnan Province was opened, and a handsome and resolute young man with a tall figure was standing outside the gate with the Lu family, waiting for today's special guests.

This young man's name is Lu Jing, his ancestral home is Gusu, and he is the son of Lu Yu, the former governor of Yangzhou.

In addition, he is sixteen years old this year, and he has achieved such achievements, which makes him even more extraordinary, so Lu Jing also has a lot of talent in a place like Jiangnan where his literary style is flourishing.

Thinking of the hard work he has studied for more than ten years, Lu Jing sighed with emotion, and the township test has finally passed smoothly.

Looking back on the past, one scene after another comes to mind, who would have thought that this promising young man, whose soul comes from the Chinese Empire in the 21st century, came to this world unexpectedly thirteen years ago and became a three-year-old child.

In the first few days, he couldn't accept it, he was reluctant to let go back to his parents in his previous life, and wanted to die again and travel back.

Later, under the warm care and careful care of his family, he gradually accepted the reality, and also recognized his identity, planning to marry three wives and four concubines, and conscientiously become a second-generation young master of an ancient official.

It wasn't until Lu Jing was five or six years old that he intermittently heard Lin Ruhai, Jia Min, Jiangnan Zhen family, Jinling Jia family, these familiar name families, that he figured out that he had actually traveled to the world of Dream of Red Mansions, and what surprised him even more was that his father Lu Yu was actually cousins with Lin Ruhai.

Lin Ruhai's mother turned out to be his father's aunt, that is, his aunt and grandmother, when he first knew about it, Lu Jing was still complacent about being Lin Daiyu's cousin, looking forward to going to the Lin Mansion one day, seeing Zhong Lingyu's beautiful little Daiyu, never thought that the Lin family and the Lu family had broken off contact when he was more than four years old.

Later, under his side knocks, he inquired clearly, it was originally from the twenty-seventh year of Yankang, and after his aunt and grandmother died, the Lu Lin family did not move much.

In the twenty-eighth year of Yankang, the two families directly broke off contact, the reason was the conflict between his aunt and grandmother and Jia Min's mother-in-law and daughter-in-law.

Since the spring of the fifteenth year of Yankang, after Lin Ruhai and Jia Min got married, Jia Min has not given birth to an heir in the following years, and her aunt and grandmother are not in good health.

On the grounds that Jia Min had not come out for many years, she continued to open a concubine room for Lin Ruhai, and his father also matched Lin Ruhai at the request of his aunt and grandmother to introduce a good concubine to Lin Ruhai, which also caused Jia Min to hate the Lu family and was unwilling to deal with the Lu family anymore.

Although Lin Ruhai was worried about his heirs, he loved his wife very much, and after Lin's mother died, he also followed Jia Min's thoughts and faded his dealings with the Lu family.

After the Lu family noticed Lin Ruhai's thoughts, they naturally didn't bother themselves, so they gradually broke off contact with the Lin family, which also caused the Lu Lin family to have no contact for nearly ten years.

Lu Jing thought about it, which was why Lin Ruhai entrusted Lin Daiyu and the Lin family's property to the Jia family, and never mentioned the Lu family in front of Lin Daiyu.

After all, when her aunt and grandmother died, Lin Daiyu was not yet born, and Lin Ruhai and his wife deliberately concealed this relationship, so Lin Daiyu did not know that she still had relatives of the Lu family.

Lu Jing has been forced by Lu Yu to take the road of the imperial examination over the years, he doesn't want to travel over and do nothing, and he also wants to see the prosperity of the world of Red Mansions.

Especially when Qianhong of Ning Rong's second mansion cried, Wan Yan was sad and sorrowful, so he followed his father's wish, determined to take the imperial examination, and continued to take the unfinished career path in his previous life.

In the thirty-sixth year of Yankang, Lin Ruhai was appointed by Emperor Yankang to come to Yangzhou as the imperial history of the two Huai patrols, when Lu Yu was the prefect of Yangzhou Prefecture, and the two were officials in the same place, it was inevitable that there would be some intersections, but the Lu family and the Lin family had a disagreement, in addition to the necessary contact in the officialdom, the two families did not have too much contact.

Until the early winter of the first year of Yuan Yong, that is, in October three years ago, after Jia Min died, Lu Yu went to mourn, when he and Lin Ruhai sighed at each other, and each sighed.

At that time, both of them were over forty years old and had seen through the world, and with Jia Min's death, they didn't care so much about the past.

Lu Yu sincerely comforted Lin Ruhai, but Lin Ruhai did not brush Lu Yu's kindness, and the meeting between the two could be regarded as slightly making up for the rift between Lu and Lin's families.

Later, Lu Jing mediated between them, and the two families gradually resumed contact, but it was only the most basic etiquette exchange, so in the past three years, Lu Jing only went to Lin Mansion to visit Lin Ruhai a few times during the New Year's Festival, and naturally he did not see Lin Daiyu, who was sent to Jia's house by Lin Ruhai three years ago.

The guest Lu Jing is going to greet today is his cousin Lin Ruhai, thinking of Lin Ruhai, Lu Jing sighed, Lin Ruhai is forty-five years old this year, although the body is a little sick, but the appearance is moderate, the style is extraordinary, and the elegance and ease make people feel good.

Thinking that in another three years, Lin Ruhai would die with a whimper, leaving Lin Daiyu alone, facing the treacherous people in Jiafu, and finally ending up with his family wealth being swallowed and dying in tears, Lu Jing felt a little regretful.

But he also knows the truth of intimacy, if he dares to tell Lin Ruhai about Lin Daiyu's ending, I'm afraid that Lin Ruhai will not only not believe it, but will suspect that he has ulterior motives and wants to provoke the relationship between the Lin family and the Jia family.

And what worries him even more at the moment is his father's illness, which was bedridden a month ago when he was appointed to the prefect of Yangzhou due to illness.

He knew that his father was terminally ill, and the reason why he had been holding on was that he didn't want to delay him for three years, and he wanted to see him get the exam, and the thought of this made his heart ache.

Just when Lu Jing was thinking about it, his personal entourage Lu Lian saw that the Lin family's carriage had arrived, and hurriedly reminded: "Young Master, Lord Lin's carriage has arrived!" ”

Lin Ruhai took a green car, followed by more than a dozen guards, all the way to the Lu Mansion, and now it is only a few hundred meters away from the Lu Mansion.

Lu Jing hurriedly put down his thoughts, and without waiting for Lin Ruhai to get out of the car, he took everyone from the Lu family to greet him with a respectful expression, Lu Jing bowed down and said, "My nephew has seen my uncle!" ”

Lin Ruhai opened the curtain from the carriage, walked down slowly, and when he saw Lu Jing, he chuckled and said, "Jing'er is exempt, I heard that you did well in the township examination this time, and you got the Central Asian Yuan!" ”

"Thank you for your uncle's advice, otherwise my nephew wouldn't have achieved such a result!" Lu Jing immediately thanked him.

Then he continued apologetically: "Uncle, please, my father is unwell and can't go out to greet him in person, please forgive me!" ”

"It doesn't have to be this way!" Lin Ruhai waved his hand, then frowned, and asked with some concern: "Has your father's health improved in the past few days?" ”

Lu Jing sighed, shook his head worriedly, and said, "It's just that my spirit is slightly better, uncle, please!" ”

Lin Ruhai wanted to comfort Lu Jing a few words, but when he thought of his own body, he felt a little inexplicably sad.

And Lu Yu still has children who can inherit the family business, he only has one daughter, Daiyu, and now he is not around, thinking of this, Lin Ruhai looks a little sad.

The two of them had their own thoughts, and they just chatted casually about the recent situation all the way, and walked all the way to the inner hall.

When Lin Ruhai saw Lu Yu, he hurriedly restrained his sad expression, and laughed loudly: "Brother Shichang, congratulations, congratulations!" ”

"Jing'er passed the township test this time, and the title of the gold list in Japan is in the future, and the Lu family can be regarded as a scholarly inheritance, and Hanmo has a long biography!"

"Thank you Ruhai, please sit down, cough cough!" Lu Yu smiled and hurriedly stood up to greet him, but before he could stand up, he coughed violently.

Lu Jing walked quickly to Lu Yu, hurriedly helped Lu Yu to sit down, and said with a worried face: "Father! ”

Lu Yu waved his hand to stop Lu Jing's words, and said to Lin Ruhai: "Ruhai, please sit down!" ”

He immediately glared at Lu Jing and scolded: "Don't be rude, don't hurry up and serve tea to your uncle!" ”

Lu Jing forcibly concealed his worries, ordered the maid to serve tea, personally served tea to Lin Ruhai, and then stood beside Lu Yu with a worried face.

Lu Yu held the table with his left hand, forced his body to sit upright, and said apologetically: "Let Ruhai see and smile, and hope that Ruhai will forgive his sins, you are here today, and the foolish brother should have ...... in person Ahem...... Welcome! ”

Lu Jing stood beside Lu Yu, looking worried, and busily stroked Lu Yu's back to ease him.

Lin Ruhai also said worriedly: "Brother, between you and my brothers, why bother with these false courtesies, you are sick now, you should have a good life!" ”

"Thank you Ruhai for your concern, my body is like this, if it weren't for the news of Jing'er's township test, I would have been, alas!" Lu Yu sighed as he spoke, and swallowed the words that followed.

He immediately glanced at Lu Jing with relief, and said with a smile in the corner of his eyes: "Now that I can see Jing'er pass the township test, I can rest assured!" ”

Lin Ruhai also glanced at Lu Jing approvingly, and said with a smile: "Jing'er is really good, she won the Asian Yuan at the age of sixteen, especially better than us back then!" ”

Lin Ruhai was also amazed by Lu Jing in his heart, he participated in the township examination at the age of eighteen, but he was worthy of the example, even so, he was still called a young talent, and now compared with Lu Jing, he is not as good as him.

"Ahem!" Lu Yu took a strong breath and said with a solemn expression: "If Hai Mo wants to praise him, his temperament is jumpy, don't see him solemn in front of people, but in fact, he is stubbornly tight, if no one disciplines him, I don't know what chaos will be caused!" ”

Lin Ruhai smiled when he heard this, thinking of the perfume business that Lu Jing had given him, he glanced at Lu Jing with some deep meaning.

He was a little surprised by this nephew, not only precocious, but also without the frivolity of young people, calm in temperament, and far-reaching in his work.

As far as he knows, the Lu family has made a lot of things over the years, and it is quite popular in this Jiangnan area, and it is not an exaggeration for the Lu family to make money every day in recent years, which is what Lu Jing is doing behind the scenes.

What surprised him even more was that his nephew used these businesses to get on the side with many forces in Lianghuai, and in the name of joint stock management, in fact, he weaved an invisible network of relationships, and even used the name of his uncle, which can be described as vertical and horizontal, and the means are amazing.