Chapter 38: The Inside Story

"My sister is not feeling well, Dongfu has been inviting you to drink these days, why don't you come to the house?" Before anyone could say anything, Baoyu's voice arrived first, and as he spoke, he walked in from outside with a cold wind, dressed in a large coat to see a guest.

Daiyu, who was cleaning the fish tank, saw Baoyu holding her hands and breathed uncontrollably, wondering and wondering: "Is it so cold outside today?" How long have you been out there and frozen like this? Didn't the attacker bring you a hand stove? As he spoke, he handed Baoyu his hand stove.

Baoyu took it and said with a smile: "I didn't feel how cold it was, and I didn't stay long, I just froze my hands." As he spoke, he carefully looked at Daiyu's expression, nodded and said, "Well, my sister's complexion looks good, in this case, why didn't you go to Dongfu to listen to the play?" ”

"I don't like to listen to dramas, and the winter in Beijing is colder than in Jiangnan, so I was a little uncomfortable, and I was afraid of making old diseases, so I went back to the old lady and didn't go."

Daiyu's reason is only one of the reasons, and another reason is that when Jia Rong married Qin Keqing, although Jia Min had passed away, the Jia family and the Lin family were still in-laws, not only did they not cut off because of Jia Min's death, but the Rongguo Mansion even contacted Lin Ruhai more diligently.

However, Qin Keqing, who married a wife here in Dongfu and married into the door, was a clan wife, and in the family, in terms of status, was not even lower than Jia's mother. Such a big event, Ning Guofu didn't even give the Lin family news, or Lin Jin knew it from the descendants who came to Rongguo Mansion to give gifts to his family, this matter was handled by the Dongfu a little inauthentic, and in addition, the big and small things that happened in the Dongfu after Jia Min's death were not told to the Lin family, as if they had broken off their relatives with the Lin family since Jia Min's death.

Lin Jin knew that Ningguo Mansion was filthy, no better than Rongguo Mansion with Jia Mu Town on it, although it was chaotic, but after all, there were no big folds. Therefore, at home, in front of Daiyu, on this matter, he did not say much bad things about Ning Guofu, and made a big fuss about Qin Keqing's personal experience.

Although there are many speculations about Qin Keqing's life experience in later generations, there is no strong evidence, as for some people to adduce evidence, saying that Qin Keqing's funeral was too extravagant, and the four kings and eight princes actually set up road sacrifices, and the furnishings and utensils in Qin Keqing's bedroom are extraordinary, so as to speculate, Qin Keqing is the illegitimate daughter of Prince Yizhong, the abolished prince.

The original Lin Jin was skeptical of this conclusion, but in this era, after learning about some social customs, she felt that this statement was a bit absurd.

In ancient society, the local government was governed by a combination of clans and governments, and at a very high time, clans were even above the law, and this phenomenon was tacitly acquiesced by the world. Therefore, the status of the clan women is very high, and many times, women are not allowed to enter the ancestral hall, but the clan women are not included.

Moreover, the clan woman must be a yuan match, so even if Qin Keqing is a junior and has no fate, but among the Jia family, she has the highest status.

To put it mildly, her death was no less serious than the death of Jia's mother, and when Qin Keqing died, although the Jia family had gone downhill since the death of the old man of Jia Daishan's generation, it had not yet shown its decline, and even because of Wang Ziteng's promotion and Yuanchun's concubine, the family had a rising trend.

In addition, Jia Zhen was heartbroken because of Qin Keqing's death, spared no money, was casual and extravagant, so it is understandable that Qin Keqing's funeral was grand. As for the four kings and eight dukes, although they all came to the road to worship, but their arrival, Lin Jin felt that it was not only to attend Qin Keqing's funeral, but also to show a signal to the imperial court.

After all, many times, many things are closely related to the dynamics of the court, but Cao Gong has almost no writing about the people and things in the court, so it is impossible to guess. But not long after Qin Keqing's death, Yuan Chun, who had been in the palace for many years and had not moved, was suddenly made a concubine, and it was a small woman who went directly to the concubine position, which can be described as a step to the sky, which naturally makes people think about it.

As for the reason why Yuan Chun was named a concubine as speculated by later generations, it was because she told the royal family that Qin Keqing was the blood of the abolished prince, so she was promoted.

This possibility is not high, because Qin Keqing is a girl, even if it is the bloodline of the abolished prince, in the eyes of the world, it will not be successful. moreover