Since Daiyu was taken by Yang Wan and Aunt Lin to burn incense and spread her heart once, she has made friends with people outside, often exchanged letters, and sent small gifts to each other. In this regard, Lin Jin is happy to see it, but she is also a little puzzled, because Daiyu is not the kind of person who will make friends with others when she meets her, so these two should be rare to get her eyes.

However, Lin Jin had no intention of interfering with Daiyu's friendship, and she didn't think to inquire, but she didn't expect Daiyu to find her because of her two friends.

Hearing Daiyu's intention, Lin Jin was stunned for a moment, and asked curiously, "Why did you suddenly come to me to ask for water to make tea?" ”

No wonder Lin Jin is curious, she is really eating and drinking, and Daiyu is not very particular. Like the Jia family, the way of making eggplant and fish needs to take more than a dozen chickens to match it, which does not meet Daiyu's taste, therefore, when making cakes, if it is not Poria cocos cakes, which must use Poria cocos, when making cakes, she doesn't care whether to add Poria cocos or add pearl powder, and even she feels that she doesn't add anything, and it is better to keep the original taste of the raw materials when making food as much as possible. Therefore, when drinking tea, although she knew that the south water was soft, the north water was hard, and the tea suitable for brewing was different, but she did not deliberately ask for any alternative tea such as rootless water, bamboo dew, and plum blossom snow.

But Daiyu didn't, Lin Jin had collected a lot. She did this because of Wu Jiugong. Wu Jiugong loves tea, and always says that she doesn't have the style of a son of a family and doesn't understand elegance, so she collected some lotus leaf dew, pine branch snow water and other water to make tea. But later, she didn't care about this, so she didn't collect it, but she didn't give all of the things she collected before to Wu Jiugong, and she left a lot. At this time, Daiyu came to the door to ask for this.

Daiyu said with a smile: "Yesterday Miaoyu sent someone to give me a copy of "Commentary on the Book of Tea", and I saw that there were many comments on it that were written by her, thinking that this book must be her beloved. Therefore, the return gift must be at her heart's will, because I think that when I first met her, she was collecting snow from the plum tree and preparing it for tea. She must love this, that's why she came to Sumire to ask for it. ”

Miaoyu? Lin Jin was stunned when she heard this familiar name, she didn't expect Daiyu and Miaoyu to meet so early. immediately reacted, Miaoyu settled in Gusu Panxiang Temple before entering Beijing. With Miaoyu's personality, and after entering Beijing, she was able to enter the eyes of Mrs. Wang and was invited into the Grand View Garden, which shows that her background is not bad, and the temple where she lives should also be more famous. In this case, there is a very high chance that Aunt Lin and Yang Wan will go to burn incense and choose the temple where she is located, so it is not surprising that Daiyu and Miaoyu will get acquainted.

Lin Jin, who had figured it out, didn't bother with Daiyu and Miaoyu's early acquaintance, and ordered: "Yuzhu, you will go and grasp the water collected from the flowers and trees collected before and find it out and send it to your sister's room." ”

Daiyu hurriedly stopped: "You don't need to send it, I'll send someone to pick it up when I go back." After hesitating for a moment, he said, "Brother Jin, in addition to Miaoyu, I also met a girl Xing when I went to Panxiang Temple that time. Speaking of which, I am more close to Miss Xing, but Miss Xing's family is poor, and I have the heart to help her, but I am afraid of hurting Miss Xing's face, so can you help me find a way? ”

Lin Jin knew that the girl Xing in Daiyu's mouth should be Xing Xiuyan, the niece of Mrs. Xing of Rongguo Mansion. Although her father Xing Zhong did not describe it positively, he later took his wife and daughter to the capital to join Mrs. Xing, and mixed with Jia Zhen, Xue Pan and others, so he knew that he was not doing his job. Saving the emergency is not helping the poor, in the whole society, how the family lives, most of them depend on the men in the family, and Xing Zhong can't stand up, how can she help?

Looking at Yin Yin looking at her Daiyu, Lin Jin couldn't bear to disappoint her, and said with a smile: "I'll let the housekeeper take a look when I go back, and then decide how to help the Xing family, okay?" ”

Daiyu nodded with satisfaction and said with a smile: "By the way, Brother Sumire, do you still have the calligraphy to learn to paint red in your early years?" If so, can you give me a few, I want to give it to Miss Xing. ”

"Yes, keep it." Lin Jin asked Yuzhu to find out the calligraphy that Jia Yucun taught her to write and give it to Daiyu, and asked: "Sister, I remember that the two of us learned to write together back then, and you painted red posts when you were a child, I remember that you put them away before, why didn't you take your gift to her, but came to me instead, did you lose your move this time?" ”

"I didn't lose everything, but when I moved and packed up my things before, I only left the notebooks when my father taught me to write, and I didn't keep the ones that Mr. Jia wrote. Besides, I'm a boudoir girl, and my handwriting is not easy to leak out, if Miss Xing's family is particular about people, it's fine, but like that, although I haven't disliked it, I will worry that my handwriting will fall to the Xing family, in case it falls outside again, causing something, it's not good. ”

Lin Jin thought for a moment and pointed to Daiyu: "Sister, when you go back and give Miss Xing something, don't send flower notes, sets of paper and other valuable things that should not be eaten or used." Instead of sending that, it is better to send some rice, flour, cloth, and other things to get by. If you don't think it's good to send it directly, you can talk to Miss Xing first and ask for some pickles and dried vegetables and other things, so that when you return the gift, you can give them daily necessities and subsidize one or two, which is not too much. Also, when you send it, don't send it to our family, as long as the level of the housekeeper at home is fine. ”

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Daiyu stayed in Lin Jin's room until lunch, and then left. Lin Jin had lunch with her family, and when she was walking in the garden to eat, Tao Mo hurried over and replied, "Uncle, Aunt Wen wants to see you." ”

When Lin Ruhai was alive, in addition to Jia Min's wife, there was also Yang Wan's second room in the backyard, and there were several concubines. These concubines are all for the sake of extending the heirs, and after having two sons, Lin Jin and Brother Mao, there are no more people in Lin Ruhai's backyard.

Later, Lin Ruhai was injured, and before he died, his arrangement for several concubines was that although they did not give birth to a son and a half daughter, they served him in the end, so after he left, if they were willing to stay, they would be a companion with Yang Wan, and the Lin family would not be without them, and they would definitely support you in their old age. If you want to leave, it is not difficult for them in the house, their own ladders and all the furnishings in their house belong to them, not only can they take them all, but also the house will give you three hundred taels of pension silver per person, which can be regarded as the love between the Lin family and them.

Because of the generosity of the Lin family, after Lin Ruhai passed away, except for the two old concubines who felt that they could not have children, the rest left. The two concubines left behind, one surnamed Wen and the other surnamed Hu.

Thinking of his father's concubine, Lin Jin couldn't help frowning and asked, "What is the matter with her coming to me, do you know?" ”

"It seems that Aunt Wen wants to take her niece over and raise her."

Hearing this, Lin Jin raised her eyebrows and said unhappily: "Pick up her niece?" Is this to see if the idea of beating my sister is not successful, and the idea is hitting me again? Isn't she afraid of touching her nose like Aunt Hu? ”

The reason why Lin Jin is so angry and says this is because there is a precedent.

Aunt Hu is already forty years old, her parents have passed away, her brother can't study, and she refuses to honestly guard dozens of acres to live, so she goes to business again, but somehow, she lacks luck, and she almost loses money in any business, so the eldest is old and has achieved nothing. It is often a problem to eat at home, so from time to time I come to her sister to fight the autumn wind.

Because he has no heirs and is already old, even if Lin Ruhai occasionally goes to Aunt Hu's room to rest for the night while reciting the old love, it is just pure sleep. Therefore, Aunt Hu regards her mother's family as her future dependence, so whenever her brother asks for something, she will not be refused. Therefore, over the years, Aunt Hu's little ladder has been subsidized to her brother's family.

Knowing that after Lin Ruhai passed away, the Lin family was going to enter Beijing after completing the 100-day filial piety, and Aunt Hu didn't want to be separated from her brother's family. Aunt Hu doesn't want to be separated from her relatives, if she goes to talk to Lin Jin, it may not be impossible to bring Aunt Hu's brother's family, but Aunt Hu has a crooked heart when she talks to her brother about going to Beijing.

It turned out that Aunt Hu wanted to give Daiyu to her nephew, so she ran to Yang Wan and said that she wanted to take her nephew over for a few days. Yang Wan didn't know her idea, thinking that she was reluctant to give up her relatives, so she responded.

After Aunt Hu took her nephew over, she took her nephew to walk around in front of Daiyu from time to time, and kept praising her nephew in front of Daiyu for how good, good reading, good personality, and outstanding conduct,...... What is the idea of fighting, almost bluntly said. Therefore, Lin Jin was so angry that she kicked people out and seriously warned Aunt Hu and her brother's family.

Mama Tao defended Aunt Wen and said: "Uncle, Aunt Wen wants to take her niece to her family to raise her, but it may not be your idea to beat Uncle." Aunt Wen's maiden village's village was infected with a plague some time ago, and only her niece was left to die in this plague. Aunt Wen and this child are the closest in blood, and they are also the richest, and it is not difficult to support a child, so the family contacted Aunt Wen in the hope that she can adopt her niece. ”

"If so, then I agree. But Mama, you have to make it clear to Aunt Wen that she took her niece to raise her, and all the food and clothing were taken from her share, and I didn't raise my niece for her. Although the Lin family does not lack money to raise a child, in order to let Aunt Wen and her niece understand not to think about anything wrong, Lin Jin feels that it is better to divide the boundaries clearly from the beginning.