Weiyang of the Red Mansion

Coming out of the old house of the Lin family, Lin Xuan and the two bid farewell to the chief steward who sent them out of the mansion and boarded the carriage.

"Brother, what are you thinking?" Lin Ji couldn't help asking when he saw his elder brother's expression of thought as soon as he sat down.

Lin Xuan came back to her senses and pondered, "I haven't seen you in half a year, do you feel that Brother Lang has changed a lot?"

"Isn't it normal for Langdi to have some changes as he gets older?" Lin Ji didn't care.

Lin Xuan opened her mouth to say something, but swallowed the words again, and smiled, "That's right."

The two brothers returned home, before they had time to sit down and have a cup of tea, the entourage of their father Lin Hong came to invite them to the study in the main courtyard.

"Didn't I tell you to pick up Brother Lang? Where is Brother Lang now?"

Hearing his father's inquiry as soon as he entered the door, the two brothers Lin Xuan panicked. The two brothers looked at each other and lowered their heads.

Lin Xuan took a step forward and said, "We have picked up Langdi, but Langdi seems to be seasick and looks uncomfortable, so we sent Langdi back to the old house."

"Nonsense!" Lin Hong slapped the desk and frowned and shouted, "Your clan uncle wrote to me earlier, asking me to take care of Brother Gu Lang, and asking you two to pick him up today is to ask you to come and live in our mansion. How did you send people back to the old house? Ruhai’s old house only has some old servants who have accumulated a lot of life. What kind of accident, who of you can afford it?"

Lin Xuan didn't dare to argue. When he saw Lin Lang at that time, he was surprised by Lin Lang's change, and he didn't regard Lin Lang as a child who needed to be taken care of. A negligence sent him back to the old Lin family's house, and Lin Lang didn't care about it. The meaning of living in their house was that he brought his younger brother back, but he forgot that his father was still at home waiting for him to bring him back.

Lin Ji is three or four years younger than Lin Xuan, and her temperament is not as stable as Lin Xuan's. Hearing his father's questioning, he couldn't help but argue, "It's not that Brother Lang doesn't have a home in Suzhou, so why should he take us to live with us? Our old house is at most one street away from our house, if the master wants to see Brother Lang, he can send someone to the old house over there and tell him whether Brother Lang will come or not?"

Standing aside, Lin Xuan wanted to cover her face.

Such an impulsive idiot is really his brother?

"Now it's the chilly spring season. Brother Lang fell ill in Beijing last year. He's still young. He's less than ten years old this year. How can he be asked to live in the old house alone? Where have you read all your books?" ?”

Lin Hong was upset at first, but his son refuted a few words, and he burst into anger, blowing his beard and staring as if he was going to hit someone.

Seeing that his father was furious, Lin Ji didn't dare to defend himself any longer, and bowed his head in silence.

"You two are also brothers, why are you so ignorant?"

Six years ago, Lin Ruhai's father, Lin Ji, died of illness. Lin Ruhai took his wife and children back to his hometown to observe mourning.

His father, Lin Jiao, and Lin Ruhai's father were cousins. Before Lin Ji died of illness, his father, Lin Jiao, had just been seriously ill. He will take care of it.

Lin Ruhai's family is weak, and they have only had one son, Lin Lang, after many years of marriage.

When he met Lin Lang for the first time, Lin Lang was only five years old. Although he was a bit smart, he was still young, so he couldn't tell much. Lin Ruhai stayed in Suzhou for several years, and Lin Lang gradually grew up. , when Lin Ruhai and his wife returned to Beijing, they were already eight or nine years old, and they had already memorized the Four Books and Five Classics, but they still couldn't understand the true meaning of them. You can pass the exam.

Therefore, when Lin Ruhai wrote to him, asking him to take care of Lin Lang, he was a little angry.

After all, Lin Lang is still young, and a man who has grown up and even reached the crown can't hold on, let alone the immature Lin Lang?

After calming down, he felt that something was wrong. In Lin Hong's impression, Lin Ruhai and his wife both loved their children, probably because of the thinness of their knees. Although Lin Ruhai and his wife can't talk about doting on their only son, they still attach great importance to it. It is impossible to disregard Lin Lang's health and let Lin Lang go back to his hometown to participate in the child birth test. Even if he wants his son to become a dragon, he will not be so eager for quick success.

He has seen Ruhai's love for his son all these years, and he never believes that Lin Ruhai is a cruel person who cares nothing about his only son. Even if Lin Ruhai is willing to be cruel, a woman who loves her son like Jia's will never ask Lin Lang to go back to his hometown for an exam. .

He couldn't figure it out, why did Lin Ruhai let Lin Lang go back to his hometown to take part in the childbirth test?

It doesn't make sense in terms of emotion and reason.

After thinking about it, he felt something was wrong, so Lin Hong asked his two sons to pick him up at the pier. First, he took Lin Lang to their home to ask the ins and outs.

Unexpectedly, his two sons failed to achieve success and revealed more than failure, so they sent Lin Lang directly back to the old house.

Faced with their father's reprimand, the two Lin Xuan brothers dared not take up the quarrel at all.

After scolding Lin Xuan and the other two severely, he ordered, "Hurry up and fetch Brother Lang!"

After exiting the study, Lin Xuan couldn't help but rubbed her forehead and let out a long sigh.

"Brother, are we really going?" Lin Ji didn't really want to go...

It's not that they have any prejudice against Lin Lang, but that they just sent Lin Lang back, but now they go to pick him up...

Lin Xuan paused slightly, remembering the scene when she saw Lin Lang today.

Although Lin Lang, who just got off the boat, was pale, his expression was clear and his speech was clear.

I haven't seen him for a year and a half, and it seems that he has grown by more than a star and a half compared to before returning to Beijing.

He knew what his father was worried about, but after seeing Lin Lang, he felt that... his father wanted to persuade Lin Lang to give up the idea of ​​taking the child's examination, but he might have made the wrong idea, because it was not Lin Ruhai's order for Lin Lang to return to his hometown to take the child's examination , He watched it with his eyes, afraid that Lin Lang made the decision himself.

"If you don't go, how are you going to explain it to the master?"

Lin Ji was stopped by the elder brother's questioning, she was at a loss for words, and grinned, "Brother Lang is probably already asleep right now..."

Although it was still early, but Lin Lang got seasick, he must have washed up and rested after returning home, it was really annoying for them to go there now.

"No matter what, we still have to go." As for whether Lin Lang slept or not, that's not what they're thinking about now.

The two brothers didn't ask people to prepare a carriage, but walked directly to the old residence of the Lin Mansion.

At this moment, in the old house of the Lin Mansion, Lin Lang did not take a rest immediately, so Liang Dong, the chief manager of the old house, called all the big and small stewards of the old house to the front hall to ask questions, and learned something about the family of three after they left Suzhou. What happened, he dismissed these stewards, and was about to ask Yunxiu and Bichun to prepare water for him to freshen up, when someone reported that his two clan brothers who had just left had returned.

Lin Lang looked at Liang Dong, the chief manager who came to report the letter, with some doubts, "Brother Xuan, why are they back?" Although it was a question, Lin Lang didn't want Liang Dong to answer him. He picked up the tea in his hand and muttered , "Please come in." He said and drank the tea in the cup.

"Yes, I'm going to invite Uncle Xuan and Second Master Ji right now." Then he bowed and retreated.

When Liang Dong went out, Lin Lang raised his eyelids and looked at the empty doorway, and suddenly smiled, "As expected of the person in front of my grandfather, he is really smart."

He had just summoned the big and small stewards of the old house, during which Lin Lang picked two Canadian stewards to beat him up. He believed that Liang Dong, an old man who followed his grandfather Wen Yuanhou Lin Ji, had already understood his intentions.

Liang Dong is a servant of the Lin family. His grandparents have served the lineage of the Marquis of Wenyuan for several generations, and Liang Dong has served Lin Lang's grandfather since he was a child. He was still Lin Ji's most trusted servant until Lin Ji died of illness. Well, even his father Lin Ruhai has to give the chief executive some face.

Lin Lang's guess was indeed correct. Liang Dong understood Lin Lang's thoughts from the moment Lin Lang beat the two stewards.

This is because he doesn't want to see the old people of the Lin family who have accumulated a lot of life in front of him and sell their old age, riding on his head and being his master.

When Lin Lang returned to the capital with Lin Ruhai, Liang Dong saw that this little master was still a little immature, but now he saw that his behavior was no worse than Lin Ruhai's, but after a year and a half, he had made such great progress , it really surprised Liang Dong, even accident.

However, this is a very good thing for the Lin family's first lineage.

The Lin family has a successor!

Liang Dong invited the two brothers Lin Xuan in, and ordered his servants to serve tea, and after the tea was served, he led them back out.

"I don't know why the two elder brothers left and returned?"

Thinking of what her father said, Lin Xuan's mouth twitched, explaining why he came.

Lin Ji, who was sitting next to him, buried his head in drinking tea, trying his best to reduce the sense of presence.

Lin Lang was astonished when he heard the intention of the two brothers.

Want to pick him up to live in that mansion?

Lin Lang looked at the two clan brothers puzzled, "The two elder brothers were joking, my brother came to Suzhou with a servant boy, and there are old people who have accumulated generations to serve in the old house in Suzhou, so there is no need to go to your house live."

It's not like he's mentally ill to send someone else to live with him even if he has a family of his own.

Lin Xuan laughed dryly, and felt that asking Lin Lang to move to their house a street away was unnecessary.

Seeing the distressed expressions on the faces of the two clan brothers, Lin Lang understood something, and said, "I am very tired after traveling all the way, I will visit the clan uncle some other day, and I hope the two elder brothers will convey it for me."

Speaking of this, Lin Xuan couldn't force Lin Lang to go back with them, so she got up and said goodbye with a smile.

Naturally, the two brothers would inevitably be reprimanded by their father when they returned to the mansion, but Lin Lang refused to move in, so he naturally could not force him. After all, he and Lin Ruhai were not biological brothers, nor was Lin Lang his biological nephew. Lang lived in their house.

Lin Lang rested for a night, and the next day he asked Liang Dong to prepare a gift and visit the clan uncle who was acquainted with his father.

"Brother Lang decided to take part in this year's children's examination?"

After seeing Lin Lang, Lin Hong knew that he had fallen out with each other, but he had no idea that Lin Lang himself was going to take part in this year's children's examination.

Lin Lang didn't explain too much, but knowing that Lin Hong misunderstood his father forcing him to participate in the child birth test, Lin Lang naturally explained it well, so that the clan uncle would not misunderstand his father's unkindness.

Lin Hong persuaded him a few words, but seeing that Lin Lang was determined to do so, he stopped persuading him. After all, he wasn't his biological son, and he couldn't care too much about Lin Lang, so he could at most persuade him a few words.

Even if he felt that he cared about Lin Lang, he couldn't make the decision to lock Lin Lang up and prevent Lin Lang from participating in the Tongsheng Examination. Didn't Lin Lang's father stop Lin Lang from participating in the Tongsheng Examination?Where does his uncle have the qualifications to manage so much?