Chapter 8: Snobbery (Asking for Recommendation Votes)
In the past three years, the North Street side has finally finalized the matter of having a Chinese New Year's Eve dinner on South Street on the 29th day of the month of worshipping the ancestors.
Coming out of the house, the third room Dong family breathed a sigh of relief and returned to his room, Lin Rusheng had already returned from the study, his official residence was the same as Lin Ruhai's one-year examination, the same teacher, when the official was elected, it was stained with Lin Ruhai's light.
Dong is the daughter of a merchant, and this room is a concubine, in the old lady's house, there is no part for her to speak, and some words can only be said to her husband after returning.
The subordinates were all dismissed, and Dong came to her husband's side, rubbing her legs for her husband who was leaning on the bedside reading a book, "According to the concubine, the third sister-in-law is the concubine who came out of the Guogong Mansion, and the concubine still remembers the pomp and circumstance when she married in, ten miles of red makeup, how many people are envious, if you want to say that the third sister-in-law can't teach her daughter, the concubine doesn't believe it." ”
Lin Rusheng put down the book, grabbed his wife's hand, didn't let her continue, flashed his eyes, and was silent for a while before asking, "Why is it so decent, this year I suddenly said that I was going over there for the New Year?" ”
Dong didn't know either, and shook his head, "At first, I said that it was the same as in previous years, but I suddenly said yesterday that I was going over there for the New Year." ”
"Did something happen during Laba?"
Lin Rusheng has dealt with the old lady a lot, and he knows this person very well. She is used to camping, and she has always been unprofitable and can't afford to be early. The third brother was born in Hanlin and is full of knowledge, but because of his upright temperament, he has been in the court for many years, and now he is only from the fifth grade, and he has been lying in the post of Ducha Yushi for many years, although there are many people who have offended him.
Because of this, the old lady has not been allowed to interact with that side for many years, and maybe one day, the trouble caused by that side will implicate them. also because the third brother has no heirs, the old lady also said a lot of sour things.
Dong thought about it for a long time, but he didn't come up with the key to the problem, and finally had to shake his head, "The concubine doesn't understand, I just listen to something in the old lady's house, and the ins and outs are not clear, if it doesn't matter to me, I always don't ask, if the princess wants to know, I'll go and inquire tomorrow." ”
"No need!" Lin Rusheng pulled his wife into bed, "It's good for you to be like this, some things, you should know, God will naturally let you know." ”
"Hmm!" Dong was still not very reconciled, and after thinking about it, he said what the second wife said in the old lady's house just now, "I don't know why the second sister-in-law is so bold, and the old lady will not stop it, so let the second sister-in-law say those words, if it spreads, it will be enough for our family to suffer." ”
The doctor was ordered by His Royal Highness the Eighth Prince to go to diagnose the pulse of the fourth sister, what does it have to do with the second sister-in-law? The child was sick, and he didn't go over to inquire, and he couldn't say anything, but he still said cool things.
If you want her to say, the fourth girl is very right.
"You say, now the doctor from Tai Hospital is going to check the pulse of the fourth sister in the first ten years?"
"Yes! Before the concubine, she asked her grandmother to go over and take a look, saying that it was very bad, and she was afraid that she would not be able to get through. Later, after taking Lin Yizheng's medicine, I gradually got better. Mama Song went to see it today, and her spirit was very good. Amitabha, the third sister-in-law has these two under her knees, but you have to be good! ”
"Well, from time to time, I will send people over there to take a look, if there is something missing, what is short, we have it, don't be stingy."
"Do you still need to say it? When did the concubine not let people see it? If it weren't for the inconvenience of leaving the house, the concubine would have gone by herself. Now Xianggong's statement has completely offset the credit of the concubine, and the concubine seems to have listened to Xianggong's words before letting people go. ”
If it were a normal day, Lin Rusheng would definitely want to coax his wife, but at this moment, he was thinking about his own thoughts, his mother-in-law was really a snob. probably thought that his third brother had caught up with the nobles in the palace, so he suddenly changed his attitude. I don't want to think about it, there are also four or five generations of noble foundations, and the second brother was on the list when he was sage, what a scene.
Over the years, I have always looked down on that side, and my grandmother is really confused!
In fact, Lin Rusheng doesn't understand the old lady's true thoughts, Lin Ruhai's official rank is not high on the one hand, and the lack of heirs is the key.
In Songrui Hall, in the east wing, Daiyu is placed on the bed, and the big girl lightly picks the balm in the palm of her hand, sticks her hands together, and waits for the temperature in the palm of her hand to warm the paste, and then carefully smears it on the girl's face, hands and body.
Daiyu closed her eyes and asked, "Over there in Wutong Courtyard, Aunt Zhou also got Laba porridge on North Street?" ”
"Yes, I heard that it was sent by the second room over there. The slave maid went to inquire, and it turned out that Aunt Zhou on our side was the sister-in-law of the second wife's family on North Street. ”
"My mother's family is just a military general, is this a matter of recruiting the old lady's like?" Daiyu snorted, her momentum did not match her age at all, her light hand paused slightly, and glanced at her face secretly, the child's face was so immature, but inside, it was simply more shrewd than the elderly, I really don't know what's going on?
Tonight, after not asking too many details from Jia's side, Daiyu specially ordered the grandmother next to her mother to send her over, on the way she lay on the mother's body, asked a lot of things in the house over there, and heard that the wife of the second room was also surnamed Zhou, she deliberately asked Qingxu to go to Wutong Courtyard to inquire about it, to see what the relationship between the Zhou family over there and the Zhou family here is.
Sure enough, it's still related.
It's clear what Zhou's idea is over there. When Aunt Zhou entered the door here, Jia's had not given birth for more than ten years, and if Xiao Zhou's came in, he would have become a man in one fell swoop. If the plot in the book develops, in another year or two, Brother Wei will not be there, and the Jia family will be gone, and the huge Lin Mansion will be the world of Xiao Zhou's mother and son?
These are just conjectures, and they don't stand up for reason.
The setting in the original book, how did the younger brother disappear? The younger brother is gone, and the Lin family is gone. Later, soon, Lin Ruhai also died in Yangzhou, and he didn't say anything about recognizing his heirs or anything, and he didn't even explain how much his family was.
"How can the girl be interested in Aunt Zhou of Wutong Courtyard now? But what's wrong over there? Qingxu couldn't help but ask.
"It's nothing, it's just a feeling." Daiyu didn't open her eyes either, after she finished speaking, she kicked her calf, Qingxu hurriedly withdrew her hand, helped her cover the bedding, and touched the soup woman on her feet, and there was still heat, so she went outside, cleaned up, and fell asleep.
After Daiyu waited for her to leave, her eyes opened, there was still heat in the tent, it was not cold, she forced herself to do another set of yoga, her feet against the head of the bed, she did four or five sit-ups, her body was sweating, and she quickly got into the quilt, and she didn't even have a dream all night.