Chapter 24: Blessings and Misfortunes (4)
Old lady Lin squinted her old eyes and looked at Lin Jinrong on the ground seriously. This granddaughter, who was not brilliant before, looked delicate and cowardly when she saw it, asked a question, answered a question, he thought that she would try to hide some of these things this time, or she would push back, or only shout grievances, and ask him to uphold justice, or perhaps, she would cry and cry, afraid that he would be afraid to death. Who would have thought that she would be like this? thought he was a gentle, virtuous and obedient person, but it turned out to be such a person, who was the daughter of the Tao family.
Women should be gentle and virtuous, but Old Lady Lin still prefers Lin Jinrong's straight back even though he knelt on the ground and admitted his mistakes. Lin Yizhi was only then asked by him, knelt on the ground and didn't know why, and his back collapsed...... Can a person's waist collapse easily? No. After a long time, Old Lady Lin said, "Do you think you deserve to be punished?" ”
Whether it should be punished or not, you old man knows it yourself, and it is useless for me to say anything. Lin Jinrong was noncommittal. But she still made a gesture and reviewed sincerely: "The first thing is that I don't have time to tell my grandparents; The second thing is that I complained that I didn't have the ability to turn big things into small things, and small things turned into small things, and I lost the face of the Lin family with personal grudges; The third thing is that I instigated my younger brother to curry favor with my grandfather. ”
"Flattering?" Old Lady Lin burst out laughing suddenly, and she smiled for a moment, and said lightly: "The first thing you have never done wrong, if you sit back and watch your brother-in-law jump into the water and ignore it, you are an unrighteous person who ignores the affection of your siblings!" The second thing, you did something wrong, your younger siblings don't know how to maintain the face of the family, you should stand up, what is the personal grievance? Without a family, without a father or brother, without a decent reputation, you are nothing! Old Lady Lin's voice suddenly rose and lowered, "Is there a third thing...... If I don't ask, do you have the heart to hide it? ”
Lin Jinrong raised his head and looked at him directly, his eyes were clear, and his voice was firm and patting: "What is there in this family that can be hidden from grandfather!" If you want to say who is the most fair and strict in this family, who else can there be besides my grandfather? She had never had this idea, and she wasn't afraid that others would know that she asked Lin Shenzhi to do it!
Old lady Lin's eyes showed a little satisfaction, but it was only a flash: "I will punish you for being grounded for a month, and copying the female commandment a hundred times, until you understand the truth of sisterhood and family unity, can you accept it?" ”
That's the best ending, right? Lin Jinrong lowered his eyes: "Serve." ”
Old lady Lin waved her hand: "Go down." ”
Lin Jinrong bowed silently, got up and retreated.
"Girl!" Seeing Lin Jinrong get out safely, Lychee immediately turned out from under the porch, smiled at her, and handed her his hand: "Let's go back." ”
Lin Jinrong smiled comfortingly at Lychee, and helped Lychee's hand to make a ruyi stack, her heart was full of excitement, look, she can do it too!
"Please wait, four girls!" Fu Quan rushed out from behind and handed over a lantern: "The old lady ordered the four girls to use it on the way!" ”
Lychee was pleasantly surprised, and thanked Chaofu again and again. Fuquan smiled: "The fourth girl carefully stepped. ”
Lin Jinrong nodded kindly at Fuquan: "I'm annoying Uncle Fu." ”
Lin Jinrong walked to the door of Tingtaoju and looked back, but saw the twins walking out of the other side of the room with a panicked face, and stepped into the old lady's study side by side. The corners of her lips couldn't help curling, Old Lady Lin was so easy to take care of the affairs of the inner courtyard, no one wanted to escape!
A bowl of white rice that has been heated several times and four plates of half-meat and half-vegetarian dishes, plus a bowl of chicken soup, is Lin Jinrong's late dinner. She sat down at the table with her eyes down, and took her supper seriously, chewing ten times, no more, no less, and eating carefully and carefully.
As soon as Lin Jinyin, who knew that she was coming back, rushed over immediately, she saw Lin Jinrong's thin back under a dim celadon oil-saving lamp, silently and coldly eating a meal that had been hot many times.
Lin Jinyin's heart was sour, and her eyes were a little blurry, she had heard about Lin Jinrong's punishment results, although she was unhappy in her heart, she also felt lucky, after all, she learned the news, and Lin Jinrong was not the only one who was punished. But seeing my sister like this, the injustice and anger rose again.
"The third girl is here." Mama Gui hurriedly reminded Lin Jinrong, Lin Jinrong hurriedly put down the dishes and chopsticks, and showed a bright smile at Lin Jinyin: "Third sister." ”
Lin Jinyin hurriedly stepped forward and sat down according to Lin Jinrong: "Eat your food, I'm hungry." "She really wanted to get some delicious food for her sister, but she couldn't, isn't that a clear disobedience to the old lady's punishment? As the eldest sister, Lin Jinyin felt a little guilty.
Lin Jinrong didn't care: "I don't want to eat it." Then he instructed Mama Gui: "Clean it up, pick out the good ones and give them to the lychees to eat." ”
Mama Gui knew that the sisters had something to say, so she led Gui Yuan to pack her things, retreated and stood outside the curtain with Loquat and waited.
Lin Jinrong went straight in: "What about my mother? "Tao must have something going on, otherwise he wouldn't have come to see her with Lin Jinyin.
Lin Jinyin's eyes flashed, and he said in a low voice: "Dad took a tea bowl from my grandfather, broke his forehead, and was lying in the house asking someone to serve him, and my mother couldn't leave." ”
Deserve! Lin Jinrong said coldly: "He's making trouble again?" ”
Lin Jinyin shook his head with certainty: "No, there is an uncle and cousin, and my grandfather has just been angry, how dare he?" It's nothing more than a toss in a different way. When she came over, Master Lin San was lying on the high bed with a piece of white silk wrapped around his head, humming and chirping, instructing Tao to hand him tea for a while, and asking Aunt Huang to rub his feet for a while.
Lin Jinrong asked again: "What about the fifth brother and the seventh brother?" ”
Lin Jinyin's eyes showed a hint of a smile, but he only said Lin Shenzhi first: "The seventh brother has already slept, it was Fuquan who sent him over, I heard that someone asked him if he could read during the banquet today, he recognized a few words in front of everyone, and wrote a few words, the old lady was very happy, and decided to choose a day to enlighten him in person in advance, which was the treatment that was only available to the lobby brother who was the grandson of the chief of the long house." Thanks to my mother for teaching my siblings to read and write early, otherwise where would this opportunity come from. Lin Jinrong praised Lin Jinrong's shoulder: "Thanks to you, I was able to come up with that method at that time." ”
can be enlightened and taught by the old lady Lin Shenzhi in person, and she is also staring at it from the side, no longer afraid that Lin Shenzhi will go crooked. Lin Jinrong smiled with crooked eyebrows, it was really worth it to be grounded for a month.
Listening to Lin Jinyin's slight pause, he said lightly: "Your fifth brother, you are being punished to kneel at this time, and those who are kneeling in the ancestral hall will kneel until tomorrow morning." The old lady wanted to punish him for the crime of vain boasting, and second, he wanted to punish him for failing to defend his brothers and sisters, being selfish, and being cowardly and useless. ”
Even if he is already like this, Lin Yizhi still has to be punished, but he only knelt down overnight, and he didn't jump into the lake to get cold, so there must not be the same thing as back then. Lin Jinrong pursed his lips and smiled, and said half-sarcastically: "Then Daddy has no complaints?" ”
Lin Jinyin sneered: "If it weren't for you and his mother, he would not have been punished for kneeling all night!" Who would dare to say half a word more? "So when Master Lin San received a teacup from the old lady on his forehead, he only dared to pretend to be weak and soft, and he didn't dare to say a word about the rest. It's just that Tao confronted the old lady in person, and sooner or later it will come out, and I don't know what will happen to it after Wu and Tao Fengtang leave. But she didn't plan to talk to Lin Jinrong, and it didn't have any effect, it was just that many people were worried.
Regarding the current situation, Lin Jinrong was very satisfied, and lowered his voice and said: "When I came out, I saw that the sixth sister and the seventh sister also entered Tingtaoju, as if they had entered the side room with me to guard. ”
Lin Jinyin said: "I know about this, I went in a quarter of an hour after you." Let's wait, maybe there's news. ”
The two sisters sat down one by one for a while, Lin Jinrong was a little tired, leaned on Lin Jinyin's shoulder, and laughed in a low voice: "I forgot to tell you something." The eldest cousin said, let you take a closer look at the box, don't think it's only one layer! ”
Lin Jinyin was embarrassed, and jumped up to tickle Lin Jinrong's meat: "Tell you to talk nonsense!" ”
Lin Jinrong dodged and laughed: "How does my sister know that I am talking nonsense?" Why don't you go back and see? I know what it is, but I won't tell you! ”
Lin Jinyin couldn't sit still, she wanted to leave but was embarrassed to go, so Lin Jinrong pushed her: "It's not early, go back, let people see that you don't sleep so late, and you have something to say." ”
Lin Jinyin just got up and said goodbye to Lin Jinrong, asked her mother-in-law to pick up the lantern, and went back with the loquat.
Lin Jinrong sat silently under the lamp alone for a while, Fang asked Gui Yuan and others to bring water in to wash, and as soon as he combed his hair, Lychee walked in and said softly: "The sixth girl and the seventh girl came out of Tingtaoju, were grounded for two months, and copied the female commandment two hundred times. At this time, the second master went in. ”
It's too light! Gui Yuan said unevenly: "It's obviously their fault, but they are so tired that our girls will also be punished." ”
Lin Jinrong smiled faintly: "Sleep." "The twins were punished twice as much as hers, and just by looking at this, you can already know who is the most wrong in Mrs. Lin's mind. If only the twins and Lin Yizhi were punished, but not her, and Lin Shenzhi was promoted, he looked at the scenery and raised his eyebrows, but behind his back, it was more eye-catching and hateful. The third master can't count on it, the foundation of the third room is not strong, compared to what she pays, she gets more, and it is very cost-effective for her to be grounded and copy the female commandment.
The female commandment, she can write it down word for word with her eyes closed, is it useful? It's not completely useless, it's accommodating and cleverly used, it's an excellent talisman. Lin Jinrong smiled: "Tomorrow remember to find me a good ink, a stack of good paper, a good pen, girl, I want to take this opportunity to practice calligraphy well...... she glanced at Lychee and said: "You are not worth the night tonight, start early tomorrow, and finish this matter as soon as possible." "Lychee should know a few words.
It's not lychee at night, it's longan at night, but the longan people are all on the couch outside, and they still remember how to euphemistically remind Lin Jinrong to hand over the key to his own affairs, and he can't find a suitable excuse after thinking about it, and he can't help but die of entanglement.