Prince of the Red Chamber and his father

"I heard that Brother Huan really scalded the stone once. Madam Wang gave Aunt Zhao a hard lesson. When Ma Daopo enters the mansion tomorrow, it won't be far from that monk coming out together." Recently, Yinreng was in a good mood, so he ordered his maid to warm a pot of wine, while Ji Huaiyuan had a drink under the moon.

"But your sister's marriage has not been settled yet?" Just go back like this?Ji Huaiyuan felt a little worried.

"Tomorrow is a good and auspicious day. After the chess club opens, I don't believe that there is no brave man with a lot of money." Can the lady of the Duke's Mansion worry about getting married?It's a big deal to prepare more dowry.

The crown prince's propaganda methods are in place, leaflets and notices are posted all over the capital.When they arrived, the Yingchun Chess Club was already crowded with guests, and there was still a large group of people outside, and the servants were busy issuing number plates to the guests in line.

"Girl..." Lin Ran, whose name was misremembered by the crown prince, led Ji Huaiyuan and his party into the private room on the third floor, and choked up at Lin Daiyu.

"Why is Uncle Ran here?" Lin Daiyu was both surprised and delighted. Lin Ran used to be accompanied by her father, and she never treated him as a slave.

"It's a long story. The girl and the second master went to Beijing, and we followed. Xueqing and Xuezhi are in the backyard. If they know that the girl is here, they will be so happy." At the beginning, Yinfeng returned home like an arrow, and many things still remained. Before he finished cooking, he set off on the road, and Lin Ran packed up for a few days before following him.

Xueqing and Xuezhi are also here?Lin Daiyu was about to ask again, when she saw a maidservant in green and yellow clothes come in, wearing exactly the color she had discussed with her uncle, she remembered that today she came for the chess club.

"Shopkeeper Lin, the guests can't wait any longer. When will it start?"

"Look at my confusion, I almost forgot the business after meeting our girl."

Lin Ran said no to Ji Huaiyuan and Yinfeng first, and then spoke in detail.According to the order of the crown prince, the chess club has different decorations on the upper and lower floors, all of which are exquisite.

Because this chess club is not for making money, but for selecting people, so there are many tricks in the upper and lower floors.

The first floor is full of servants and guys hired by Lin Ran, guests can only come first and first to learn chess skills, there are several endgames in the hall, which were designed together with Lin Daiyu and Baye a few days before the Spring Festival, There are two young men standing beside him.The second floor is different, only those who stand out in the previous rounds are eligible to step in.The third floor is the key point, only two kinds of people can be invited in.The first type is the young talents who stand out from the second floor. In addition to playing chess, they also have good character, appearance and family background. The second type is the one who can solve the mess in the lobby on the first floor.

In this way, there are novel ways of playing in the hall to attract guests to tell each other, and there are endgames to attract masters to stop, which can be described as the best of both worlds.Although there are outstanding chess players on the second floor, there are a lot of good and bad people, and clever servants are arranged to linger in it, to observe the words and expressions and inquire about the matching of surnames, and invite suitable ones to the third floor.

After hearing this, Ji Huaiyuan and Yinreng thought that Lin Ran's arrangement was very appropriate, so they ordered the servants to start.Lin Ran ordered the servant girl to go to the first and second floors to take care of her after serving the fruit tea, for fear that something might happen to her.

Seeing that Lin Ran had gone out, Lin Daiyu picked a few stools and sat down. Seeing the people who came out together, the eldest uncle and second elder brother were whispering together, and Brother Cong also leaned in front of them to listen.The fourth girl and the maids she brought were chattering in front of the window, not knowing what to point at, and the second sister was also sitting upright and looking out of the sky.

"Girl, do you want some tea?" It was Xue Yan who poured a cup of tea.

"It's hard to go out once, why don't you go to the window with them and have a look?"

"Girl, we have been out and about a lot with the old man in the past six months, what else is there to see. I heard from the fourth girl that no one will come to the third floor for a while, isn't it just sitting in vain? We might as well go to the backyard, didn’t our steward Lin say that just now? Sister Xueqing and Sister Xuezhi are both here, don’t you miss them? Why didn’t Sister Xuerui come?”

"I know you're thinking about this. I asked Uncle." Lin Daiyu was also full of doubts, Xueyan's words were exactly what she wanted.

After hearing this, Ji Huaiyuan had no objection, and ordered Yinreng to send the three of them, master and servant, to the backyard.

Xueqing and Xuezhi were brought over by Lin Ran to help because of their good writing. They didn't expect to see their own girl, and they were so happy that they didn't know what to do.

"Why are you here? No one told me anything. The uncle and the second brother also kept it from me for nearly a year." Lin Daiyu complained half-truthfully.When my father was alive, I lived in Rongguo Mansion as a guest, and although I was a guest as I wished, I would not easily wrong myself.After the death of my father, I was startled to feel like the wind and rain were falling under the fence. I don’t know if my mood has changed or it’s easy. I always feel that my grandmother and second aunt treat me no more than usual.

As for the second elder brother, Lin Daiyu let out a long sigh, she usually only thought of him as a little eccentric, but she treated her differently.Now it seems that it is different from other sisters and sisters.The world often sighs that there is always a banquet in the world, but what is the point of sisters gathering together in such a nondescript way?Lin Daiyu asked herself that she would never be able to bear the deep sisterhood with Bao's sister and sister Yun in the future.

Xueqing and Xuezhi glanced at each other indiscriminately, and Lin Daiyu saw the eyes, knowing that they were worried about Zijuan beside her.

"Since I went to my grandmother's house, Zijuan has followed me to serve me. You have seen her last time when I went home. She is in my heart, just like you." When I came to my grandmother's house, I only brought Xueyan and Grandma Wang.Thanks to Zijuan, she was familiar with the ups and downs of the Rongguo Mansion. In Daiyu's heart, she relied heavily on her, and she had already become her own.

"Thank you so much, sister Zijuan." Xueqing and Xuezhi thanked Zijuan when they heard the words, and Zijuan hurriedly returned the gift.When I was in Lin's house, I saw that these two big maids were more respectable than the housekeeper's wife. They not only kept Daiyu's room in order, but also helped to take care of everything in the house. When my girl left, she planned to take them with her , but no one was seen afterwards.

Xueqing and Xuezhi accompanied Lin Daiyu to read and write since they were young, and they never left for a moment.After Jia Min passed away, when Jia's mother sent someone to pick up Lin Daiyu, the two of them were supposed to follow, but Lin Ruhai decided to stay behind. One was that the little girl was going to visit her grandfather's house.Secondly, these two people are extremely good-looking, and they are servant girls. If there is any accident in Rongguo Mansion, it will still hurt Daiyu's face.The most important thing is that Lin Ruhai knew that he had no intention of remarrying, and that the property would belong to Daiyu in the future, so he wanted to keep these two confidants of Daiyu, and teach them some ways of managing the house, so that they could help their daughter in the future.

It turned out that when Lin Daiyu came to the funeral last time, Xueqing and Xuezhi thought they were going to go to Jia's house with the girl.Unexpectedly, after the master died, Na Lian's second master would send all the old members of the Lin family back to the clan.Manager Lin went to ask several times, but Second Master Lian just said that there are a lot of maids and wives in his house, and there is no shortage of these two maids, and he refused to let them go back to Beijing.In a hurry, he even accused Sang and scolded Huai to the daughter-in-law in front of him, saying that the old lady did not care for others except her own girl, which made Lin Guanshi very angry.

A few days before leaving, he suddenly changed his mind for some reason, and brought his entire group to the capital, and returned most of the Lin family's property to Steward Lin, but they were not allowed to go to the Rongguo Mansion.

There are many clues, and there are still many things that I don't understand. Now, when she sees her daughter asking about it, Xueqing only said a few words, saying that it is inconvenient for Jia's family to disturb Jia's family, so she bought another house in the capital to settle down. .

Because the chess club has a three-day schedule, Lin Daiyu follows her every day, and sits with Yingchun for a while, then goes to the backyard to chat with her master and servant.Since Mother Jia said those words, she no longer forced Daiyu, hoping that she would slowly think about it, besides, the old lady was also thinking about her son who had gone somewhere, and was busy preparing for the Qingxu Temple. The practice of offering sacrifices, so the niece and daughter hid in the courtyard of the big house every day.

"Sister Lin, hurry up and persuade Second Sister to go." Xuezhi was good at making soup, when Lin Daiyu was drinking, she was interrupted by Xichun's voice, and she coughed a few times, Xueyan hurriedly brought hot tea over.

"You girl, what are you doing when you're surprised? What's wrong with the second sister? Are you going to compete in person? Don't you agree with the uncle?" Ever since the uncle changed his personality, he has been obedient to the second sister. Look at this time You will know the battle for choosing a son-in-law.Not to mention that Yingchun is her own daughter, Lin Daiyu feels that she and Xichun are sometimes treated as daughters by her uncle.

"Second sister has been off the court several times, saying that she is not in a hurry to get married now."

Lin Daiyu listened to Xichun's nonsensical words, and after asking a few words on the road, she finally understood.It turns out that in the past three days, a group of young talents have been screened out. My steward Lin and the old servant next to the uncle have already inquired about their wealth and wealth, and selected three temperaments that match the second sister. , let her see it from behind the screen again.Unexpectedly, the second sister insisted on not being elected, she just said that she didn't want to leave the cabinet and wanted to serve in front of her uncle.

After working so hard for so many days, I didn't expect that Ji Huaiyuan's liver would hurt when he came out like this, but Yingchun just couldn't get in.He only said that he was reluctant to part with his parents, brothers and sisters, and refused to leave the cabinet.

"It's not that I'm going to force you out of the cabinet right away. I haven't even prepared a dowry. I just let you choose one and get married first, so I, as a father, can rest assured." Yingchun has just reached the age of [-], and Ji Huaiyuan naturally wouldn't make such a move. When the young girl gets married, she only wants to make an appointment for her, so she doesn't need to have anything to do with the Sun family in the future.

"But according to father's orders." Yingchun was still the same, gentle and gentle.But Ji Huaiyuan and Yinfeng could still see that she was not obedient, and she didn't want to choose at all.

Wasn't she satisfied with any of the three carefully selected?Yingchun's vision is so high?Ji Huaiyuan and Yinrong were surprised!