Chapter 139: A New Test
Lin Jia's fleet was moored at the canal wharf.
After getting off the boat surrounded by the generals, Lin Jia glanced at Li Fu, who was kneeling on the ground to ask for peace, and instructed Li Rui and Ah Lan: "You escort the female dependents back to the house!"
Li Rui and Ah Lan replied "yes", ordered fifty personal soldiers, and sent the carriage of Yu Yu and other female dependents back to Yanqing Fanglin Mansion.
Li Fu ran into a wall here in Lin Jia, but his face did not change, and he rode a horse and followed with a few family members brought from Qingzhou.
Lin Jia took Lan Zhen, Qiu Yusheng and other seven generals, and went into the palace with the officials sent by Emperor Yongtai to greet him.
The carriage of Yu Yu and his party drove into the gate of the Lin Mansion and drove along the east road to the outside of the Moon Gate before stopping.
Mother Xia took Dongmei and Aimei to wait in front of the moon gate, and when she saw the carriage stop, she greeted her with a smile.
When Yu Yu was helped out of the carriage by the cold forest, Mother Xia took Dongmei and Aimei forward and saluted: "Say hello to Aunt Yu!"
Yu Yu's eyes were rolling, and she glanced at Xia's mother with a smile, and saw that there was a girl with big eyes and a sweet face standing behind Xia's mother, who was Yu Aimei.
She knew that it was no longer what it used to be, and her and Yu Aimei's positions were already different, so she smiled and said, "Get up!"
Yu Aimei's balm-smeared lips pursed and lowered her eyes.
Mother Xia smiled kindly: "Aunt Yu, the old lady and the princess are now living in the dark incense courtyard in the back garden, do you want to go to see the old lady and the princess now, or will you go later?"
Yu Yu smiled and said: "Mom, I came thousands of miles from Yunzhou with the adults, all the way to the dust, it is disrespectful to go to see the old lady and the princess, it is better to go back to the Songyuan to wash up, change clothes and then go to the old lady and the princess to say goodbye, it is appropriate!"
Mother Xia thought that Yu Yu would fart and urinate the old lady, and she would go to ask for peace as soon as she returned home, but she didn't expect Yu Yu to refuse without being humble or arrogant.
She smiled and said, "What my aunt said is reasonable, I'll go back to the old lady and the princess!"
Yu Yu smiled kindly: "Thank you Mother Xia!"
was about to enter the Moon Gate, Yu Yu glanced back at Li Rui: "Li Rui should follow too!"
Mother Xia didn't smile: "Aunt Yu, it's not appropriate to let a man enter the inner house, right?"
Yu Yan smiled, leaned into Xia's mother's ear, and said in a very low voice: "Mom, Li Rui is a eunuch in the palace, and he was sent by His Majesty to summon him in the inner house!"
Mother Xia's expression was stunned, and she soon smiled again: "I see, it's me who is too talkative!"
Li Rui followed Han Lin and Jin'er into the Tingsong Courtyard with an expressionless face.
After entering the Tingsong Courtyard, Yu Yu saw Jin'er close the door, so he saluted Li Rui in a dignified manner, and pleaded: "Li Rui, wait a minute, you will accompany me to the dark incense courtyard in the back garden to see the old lady and the princess, okay?"
Although according to the logic of a normal person, she would not be killed openly, but Yu Yu knew that the princess was very fierce and no one could stop her when she was crazy, so she asked Li Rui to follow her in.
Li Rui lowered his eyes and replied "yes".
Yu Yu breathed a sigh of relief and smiled brightly: "Li Rui, thank you!"
When Yu Yu turned around and walked forward, Li Rui stared at Yu Yu's back, and a trace of pain appeared in his eyes.
Back in the bright room, Yu Yu sat down on the Luohan bed and instructed Jin'er: "I want to wash my face, you go and prepare toiletries!"
When Jin'er went out, Yu Yu instructed Han Lin again: "Go find some plain clothes and jewelry."
Han Lin replied "yes", and seeing Yu Yu's nervous expression, which had never been seen before, he asked softly: "Auntie, are the old lady and the princess very powerful?"
Yu Yu lay on the small kang table of Huanghua rosewood, and said in a low voice: "They killed me, just like killing a little ant, and there is no burden in my heart!"
With that, she sighed.
When Han Lin heard this, he was very worried about Yu Yu, so he said: "Auntie, when we go over, take Li Rui with you, Li Rui is so powerful, I haven't seen anyone fight alone and be his opponent!"
Seeing Hanlin comforting herself, Yu Yu couldn't help but smile and said, "You should be careful, let's act when the opportunity arises!"
Han Lin agreed thoughtfully.
Yu Yu reached out and patted Han Lin's hand gently: "You go and prepare clothes and jewelry!"
Han Lin agreed and went to prepare.
It's the Mid-Autumn Festival now, it's still a little hot outside, but it's cool and shady inside.
Yu Yu sat there leaning on the small kang table and thinking about his thoughts.
There is a thin bamboo silk curtain hanging on the door of the bright room, and the fragrance of osmanthus flowers in the courtyard enters the bright room through the fine bamboo silk curtain, which smells very good.
Yu Yu's original cowardice gradually disappeared, replaced by firmness and fearlessness - if she couldn't even protect herself, how could she protect Lin Jia?
Two quarters of an hour later, Yu Yu, who was dressed up in a refreshing and elegant manner, asked Jin'er to look at the door, and then took Li Rui and Hanlin to the dark incense courtyard in the back garden.
The bright room in the main room of the dark incense temple is very lively, and the female gentleman who invited the storyteller from the outside is talking lively.
The old lady sat on the Luohan bed and leaned on the pillow to listen to the book, and the eldest girl Chunhua sat there diagonally and pressed her legs for the old lady.
Princess Li sat on the circle chair placed against the east wall, and next to her sat the eldest girl Lin Lixiang.
The second girl, Lin Guixi, and the third girl, Lin Lanzi, sat on the circle chairs placed against the west wall, eating melon seeds and listening to a book.
When the lady said what was funny, everyone in the room laughed.
At this moment, the blue cicada wing veil on the door was lifted from the outside, and Mother Xia walked in with Aimei and Dongmei and curtsy on her knees.
The old lady held a plum in her hand and said with a smile: "Where is Aunt Yu?"
Mother Xia said with a smile: "Old lady Qiyu, Aunt Yu said that she would wash and change her clothes first, and then come to see you and the princess!"
The old lady put the grain into her mouth and slowly took it in her mouth.
Princess Li sneered and said, "It's just an aunt, any lady and aunt, they are just concubines, what Laoshizi, and they still regard themselves as characters!"
The third girl, Lin Lanzi, was born by Mrs. Xu, and after listening to Princess Li's words, she lowered her eyes and didn't make a sound.
The old lady glanced at Princess Li, and in the face of several granddaughters, she didn't go back directly.
Yu Yu took Li Rui and Han Lin into the back garden, and walked towards the Dark Fragrance Courtyard in the brilliant autumn sun.
When she arrived at the front of the main house, Yu Yu saw the old lady's personal maids Dongmei and Aimei standing outside the curtain, and the princess's personal maid Sydney was also there, so she knew that Princess Li was also in the bright room.
She took a deep breath and walked forward with her back straight.
Dongmei hated Yu Yu the most for occupying the second son Lin Jia, so when she saw Yu Yu coming over, she deliberately pretended not to see it.
Seeing Dongmei like this, Aimei hesitated for a moment, and then greeted her: "Aunt Yu, you wait for a while, and the slave will go in and report!"
Yu Yu smiled and said, "Thank you!"
After a while, Aimei lifted the curtain and came out and said, "Auntie, please come in!"
She lifted the curtain of cicada-wing gauze and invited Yu Yu in.
Yu Yu asked Li Ruihou to stay outside, and he took Hanlin in.
As soon as Yu Yu entered, he saw a noble lady sitting on the rosewood arhat bed in front of him, with a ruddy face and strict makeup, about fifty years old, it was Lin Jia's grandmother Old Concubine Li, and Princess Li was sitting against the east wall, so she stepped forward and saluted: "I've seen the old lady, I've seen the princess!" I've seen all the girls! ”
The old lady smiled warmly: "It's Aunt Yu, right?" Get up! You've worked hard to serve Ajia! ”
Only then did Yu Yu get up and stand there shyly.
A smile appeared on the old lady's carefully decorated face, and she said softly: "Aunt Yu, come and let me take a look!"
Yu Yu replied softly "yes", walked to the old lady's side, and stood there for the old lady to see.
The old lady had seen Yu Yu in the Qingzhou County Mansion before, but she had long forgotten it, holding Yu Yu's warm and soft hand, and looked at it carefully at this time.
Yu Yu is about sixteen or seventeen years old, tall, with snow-white and pink skin, delicate and picturesque eyebrows, a pair of big eyes full of water, wearing a light green Luo robe, tied with a plain white satin skirt, more and more slender and graceful, looking like a blooming snow-white gardenia, beautiful, delicate and elegant.
The old lady said with a smile: "It's not bad, and it can be regarded as worthy of Ajia's appearance!"
The eldest girl Lin Lixiang is the daughter of Princess Li, she is just sixteen years old this year, she is very similar to Princess Li, with big eyes and pointed chin, small cherry mouth, and she is very beautiful.
She said lightly: "Yes, the second brother was born really well, and even the most famous little drama in the capital is not as good as the second brother!"
The old lady pretended not to hear, took Yu Yu's hand, and asked Lin Jia about the situation in Qingzhou.
The second girl, Lin Guixi, is also the descendant of Princess Li, who is fourteen years old this year, with slightly dark skin, and is a little like her father Lin Tao.
She listened to the words of the eldest sister Lin Lixiang, and immediately covered her mouth and laughed: "The eldest sister is really, what nonsense is telling the truth!"
Yu Yu originally wanted to pretend not to hear it, but when she heard Lin Guixi say this, she immediately smiled slightly and said: "The two girls are right, the second son is born well, listen to what Gonggong Ding said, the emperor said, the son was born handsome and noble, and few noble sons in the capital can catch up with him!"
At this time, she "was under the low eaves and had to bow her head", but when she said this, it seemed that Lin Lixiang and Lin Guixi's original intention was to praise Lin Jiasheng for being extremely handsome.
The two sisters snorted in unison, because Yuyu mentioned Emperor Yongtai, they couldn't refute it anymore, otherwise it would be like being against Emperor Yongtai, and they couldn't really ask Emperor Yongtai if he had said such a thing.
The old lady smiled and pulled out a red gold gourd hairpin from her bun and inserted it into Yu Yu's cloud bun, and said with a smile: "Who is waiting in Songyuan now?"
As soon as Yu Yu heard this, she guessed that the old lady was trying to find an excuse to listen to the Song Courtyard, so she smiled respectfully, thanked the old lady for her reward, and then said: "Qi Qi old lady, the second son has always loved quiet, and he thinks that there are many people waiting for him, so in addition to the concubine, the Song Yuan is Hanlin and Jin'er, two maids!"
When the old lady stuffed people into her children's and grandchildren's rooms, she was never allowed to refuse, so she didn't seem to hear Yu Yu's words, and said to herself: "Ajia is also a high-ranking official from Sanpin now, and now it's time to talk about family affairs, and a few people have to be put in the room!"
She said with a smile: "Chunhua, Dongmei, Aimei, the three of you go and pack your luggage, and wait a while to listen to Songyuan with Aunt Yu!"
Chunhua, Dongmei, and Aimei replied "yes", and kowtowed to the old lady before retreating.
Princess Li looked at all this with a smile and was very happy in her heart.
She wanted to stuff people into Lin Jia's room several times, but she failed, but she didn't expect the old lady to succeed, it seems that Jiang is still old and spicy!
Yu Yu talked with the old lady for a while, and then she retired with a smile, and took the three newly acquired maids Chunhua, Dongmei and Aimei back to the Songyuan.
Lin Jia took the seven generals under his command and followed Gonggong Ding into the palace.
When they arrived at the Jade Hall Hall, Lan Zhen and the others were waiting outside, and Lin Jia followed Gonggong Ding into the Jade Hall Hall.
Emperor Yongtai sat on the royal collapse, thinner than before, a little blue under his eyes, and seemed to be in a bad state, a pair of phoenix eyes that were exactly the same as Lin Jia stared at Lin Jia quietly.
Lin Jia was wearing a navy blue cloak, showing more and more thin figures, he bowed and looked up at Emperor Yongtai, and found that Emperor Yongtai had lost a lot of weight, and his eyes were wet at the moment: "Uncle Huang, you ...... What's wrong with you? ”
Emperor Yongtai saw Lin Jia's true feelings, and his heart was also sour, and he said, "Come here, come to the emperor's uncle!"
Lin Jia walked over and sat down next to Emperor Yongtai on the imperial couch.
Emperor Yongtai's eyes moistened, and he looked at Lin Jia carefully, and saw that although he was still thin, his complexion was much better than before he went to Yunzhou, so he laughed and said, "How is it in Yunzhou?"
When Lin Jia heard this, he got up and knelt in front of Emperor Yongtai, and his voice was hoarse: "Uncle Huang, you don't know...... I don't know how bloody the Regenies are...... The nephew saw them with machetes, and in a mad madness, they rushed into the crowd and slashed and slaughtered, even women and young children...... There was blood everywhere ......."
He hugged Emperor Yongtai's legs, called "Uncle Huang", buried his face in Emperor Yongtai's lap and cried silently.
Emperor Yongtai knew that Lin Jia had been timid since he was a child, and he was faint in blood, and when he thought of Lin Jia in Yunzhou to suppress the rebellion and see so many bloody scenes, he didn't know how much he was frightened, and his heart was sour.
Emperor Yongtai stroked Lin Jia's thin back, his heart was full of sorrow, and tears flowed down his nose - can such a weak, kind and timid Lin Jia take over the world full of holes in Da Zhou?
Lin Jia looked up at Emperor Yongtai with tears in her eyes, and her voice was choked: "Uncle Huang, my nephew has lived up to your expectations and annihilated a total of 220,000 rebellious Christians, I believe that the Returning Religion will have a rare respite in twenty years!"
Emperor Yongtai looked at Lin Jia and smiled with tears in his eyes: "Ah Jia really deserves to be me...... Well done, nephew! ”
Lin Jia looked at Emperor Yongtai with teary eyes, her thin eyelids were red, and her face was full of tears, as if she had suddenly become a child who had suffered countless grievances, and finally saw her own adult, and said with a crying voice: "Uncle Huang, many people in the court are not used to seeing you love your nephew, you must protect your nephew!"
Emperor Yongtai's heart was extremely sour, he held Lin Jia's face with one hand, and held a handkerchief with the other, wiping away all the tears on Lin Jia's face, and then said: "Ajia, don't worry, I will make decisions for you!"
Lin Jia smiled with tears in her eyes.
Emperor Yongtai took the new handkerchief handed over by Gonggong Ding, and threw it to Lin Jia with a smile: "What a child!" Wipe your nose yourself! ”
Lin Jia covered her nose with a handkerchief and smiled embarrassedly.
After meeting with Lan Zhen and the others, Emperor Yongtai talked with Lin Jia for a while, and then Lin Jia retreated with the generals under his command.
After Lin Jia left, Emperor Yongtai pondered quietly.
According to those officials, Lin Jia is a murderous demon king; But no matter how Emperor Yongtai looks at it, he doesn't believe that his Ajia is a murderer!
How kind, sensible, and gentle as jade is his Ajia!
Such a well-behaved and sensible Ajia, as an elder, can love Ajia a lot.
Ding Gonggong saw Emperor Yongtai sitting there pondering, and did not dare to disturb, so he stood quietly to one side.
Emperor Yongtai thought for a moment and instructed Gonggong Ding: "Ajia will start performing his duties in a few days, you go and prepare an official uniform and jade belt for him!" Didn't he have a favorite concubine, and he gave him more silk and satin jewelry! ”
Father-in-law Ding replied "yes" and went to prepare.
It was getting late, and Yu Yu sat on the Luohan bed in the bright room of Tingsong Courtyard, and said to Chunhua, Dongmei and Aimei who were standing in front: "The rules of adults are very big, you should know when you are in the county king's mansion, if the people waiting for them violate the rules of adults, they will be slapped in the face at least and punished with a cane, but it is not easy to hide!"
Chunhua and Aimei stood there with their eyebrows down, and they both replied, "Got it."
However, Dongmei thought that she was rewarded by the old lady, and an aunt couldn't help herself, so she deliberately moved out of Lin Jia to scare herself, so she stood there with a sneer on the corner of her mouth, and did not speak.
Yu Yu didn't care about her, and just instructed Han Lin to read Lin Jia's family rules again, she heard Jin'er report outside: "Auntie, the adult is back!"
Dongmei was overjoyed when she heard this, and involuntarily turned her head to look over.
Yu Yuquan saw it in his eyes, smiled and got up and said, "You go with me to greet the adults!"
As soon as they came out of the main hall, they met Lin Jia head-on.
Lin Jia was wearing a plain white brocade robe, with a black jade belt around her waist, and strode over, the whole person was handsome and cold as if she had walked out of the moonlight, Dongmei couldn't help but feel a flutter when she saw it, and her eyes seemed to be glued to Lin Jia's face.