Weiyang of the Red Mansion

Jia Lian suddenly mentioned water melting, which made Lin Lang stunned.

Ever since he returned to his hometown to take part in the childbirth examination, he stayed in Suzhou for seven or eight months, during which time Shui Rong never sent him a single letter, and Jia Lian almost forgot about Shui Rong, his little friend, without mentioning it.

"Since we're back in Beijing, we naturally want to treat the prince to a meal." Lin Lang said with a smile.

Jia Lian laughed when he heard the words, moved closer to Lin Lang, and said in a low voice, "Then... Brother Lang invited the prince to dinner, can you bring me with you?"

"You are doing business in partnership with the Prince of Beijing, and you have less time to eat with the prince?" Lin Lang rolled his eyes, "Just now you mentioned that the prince invited you to drink a few days ago, did you lie to me?"

"No, no..." Jia Lian was afraid that Lin Lang would misunderstand, "Although the prince invited me to have a drink together, after all, the status is very different. The prince treats me better than the prince treats you. If you are present, the prince will be much easier to talk to than usual. .”

"I haven't had dinner with the prince a few times. Who gave you the illusion that the prince treats me more kindly?" Lin Lang asked very puzzled.

Jia Lian was at a loss for words, could he say it was his intuition?

And last year, Lin Lang was the only one who was taken to the inner courtyard by the water for the old concubine's birthday in Beijing County's palace. The others did not have such an honor.

But this doesn't seem to be a proof of Shui Rong's closeness to Lin Lang?

Just as Jia Lian was about to defend himself, he heard the coachman's voice outside the carriage, "Master, Master Zhu, Second Master Lian, you're home."

Hearing what the coachman said, Lin Lang didn't wait for Jia Lian's next words, lifted the curtain and jumped out of the carriage.

The Chief Manager of the Lin Mansion stepped forward to pay respects, "Master, Madam and the girl are waiting to see you in the main courtyard."

girl?

Lin Lang suddenly remembered that the gift he had prepared for his sister was yet to come, and after thinking about it, it would be the same to give it later, so he led Jia Zhu and Jia Lian into the Lin Mansion, and walked directly to the main courtyard hall. After entering the main courtyard, I saw my mother waiting in front of the hall with red eyes.

Seeing Lin Lang coming in, he walked towards Lin Lang quickly, and hugged his son who had been away from her for more than half a year, "My son, you are finally back."

Lin Lang was embraced by Jia Min, and his eyes were slightly hot, "Mother, the child is back."

After hugging for a long time, Jia Min let go, looked Lin Lang up and down, choked up and said, "You're taller and thinner, next time I won't let you go back to Suzhou by yourself."

"The son is not thin, but he has grown taller."

You can't give your mother the impression that he is thinner, otherwise he will have a bad life in the future.

"The sun is hot outside, mother, let's go in and talk?" Lin Lang smiled while helping Jia Min.

"Okay, okay," Jia Min noticed that Jia Zhu and Jia Lian were also following, and hurriedly greeted the two natal nephews to enter the room, "Brother Zhu, brother Lian, come in and talk too, don't stand outside."

"Yes, aunt!"

Entering the main room, Lin Lang helped Jia Min to sit down on the upper seat, and then he saw Han Mei, the maid next to his mother, holding a baby who was still in its infancy.

"This is my sister, Daiyu?"

Han Mei hugged Daiyu and handed it in front of Lin Lang, and said with a smile, "When the eldest girl was born, the uncle went south to take part in the childbirth examination. I haven't seen the eldest girl before. Look at how cute our eldest girl is?"

Lin Lang took a closer look, and suddenly frowned, "Why is my sister's face slightly pale?" This was a tactful statement, but he actually wanted to ask if my sister was sick.

Hearing Lin Lang's question, Han Mei froze for a moment, glanced at her wife cautiously, and silently lowered her head to lower her presence.

Jia Min rubbed her forehead and said with a wry smile, "Your mother, I am weak, and Yu'er was born with insufficiency because of my suffering. It has been more than half a year since she was born. If it weren't for the help of the prince The imperial physician is watching, and Yu'er doesn't know if she can live till now."

Hearing these words, Lin Lang turned pale, "Father never mentioned my sister's inadequacy in the letter."

He had managed to get a younger sister, so could it be that he was about to die in infancy?

"Don't blame your father for not telling you, he is also afraid of affecting your participation in the childbirth examination." Jia Min sighed.

Lin Lang stared closely at the infant Daiyu, "I understand father's kindness, what did the imperial doctor say? Can my sister's insufficiency be cured?"

"Since ancient times, where have you heard that deficiency can be cured? This is a congenital deficiency that cannot be cured." Jia Min said sadly.

Lin Lang frowned, "It can only be recuperated?" Lin Lang was a little unwilling.

Lin Lang found out that Daiyu was not in good health. Jia Zhu and Jia Lian saw that Lin Lang was not in a good mood, so they left early and went home, but Jia Min's words of comfort to Lin Lang had no effect.

When Lin Ruhai returned home, he heard that Lin Lang had returned today, so he asked Lin Lang to meet him in the study of the main courtyard, and the father and son inevitably mentioned Daiyu.

"Father, is there really no cure for my sister's insufficiency?"

Lin Ruhai sighed, "Okay, don't worry about this. Fortunately, your sister was born in our family, so she won't be short of her tonic."

The implication is that insufficiency cannot be cured.

Lin Lang frowned. In his "previous life" memory, he had met many foreign doctors. He heard from them that taking too much medicine would lead to resistance. The human body becomes resistant to medicine, and the medicine will not work on people. He didn't want his sister to take medicine and slowly die.

"Father, I heard a doctor passing by in Suzhou say that taking too much medicine is bad for people, and it is three-point poisonous. My sister is still young now, so it's better to take less of these tonics. The deficiency is not tonic, father!" For this younger sister, Lin Lang felt both distressed and sympathetic.

I thought to myself, if my younger sister grows up, he will wait for her to grow up, and pass on the inner strength and mental methods that have the effect of nourishing the body in memory to her younger sister. physique.

Lin Ruhai was startled when he heard the words, "If possible, I don't want Yu'er to take these medicines at a young age, but if I don't give them to her, I'm afraid she..."

Lin Lang was speechless for a moment.

After a long time, he let out a long sigh and stopped talking about it.

But in my heart, I still want to pass on the inner strength of health preservation to my sister when she grows up.

The next day, Lin Ruhai was on duty at the Imperial Academy, so Lin Lang followed his mother and sister to Rongguo Mansion to meet his grandmother.

"Brother Lang is getting older now, and he won a small three yuan at a young age, which is better than your big brother Zhu." Jia Mu always loved Jia Min the most, and Jia Min only had Lin Lang as his son. Daiyu was born, but she was still in her infancy, and she couldn't chat with Jiamu to make fun of it. Naturally, Jiamu's attention was on Lin Lang who had just passed the junior high school entrance examination, and her face flushed when Lin Lang was mentioned.

"Your mother has always been smarter than your two uncles. Back then, the Duke of the State said that your mother gave birth to a girl by mistake. If she was a boy, she would not lose to your father even if she took the imperial examination." Mother Jia mentioned her death. Duke Rong's eyes turned red.

She is in harmony with Rong Guogong and his wife, but it is a pity that Rong Guogong Jia Daishan left early, leaving her with three children. Although they are all married and have children, even Zhu Geer is about to get married, she is also a great-grandmother. , Thinking of Jia Daishan, I still feel uncomfortable.

"Grandmother means that I inherited my intelligence from my mother?" Lin Lang said with a smile.

Jia's mother knocked on Lin Lang's head, "You have inherited your parents' intelligence. Your father only passed the test of Tanhua, but you are the number one scholar."

"No. [-] scholar is praised by outsiders. I just passed the exam. That's all. The screwdriver outside praises me like that. Who knows what to worry about?" Lin Lang didn't take those flattering words seriously, and even felt a little disgusted.

Now that he is being raised so high, if he fails to win the first prize, wouldn't it be embarrassing?

Mother Jia pondered for a moment when she heard the words, "Don't worry about how the hacker outside arranges you, but you can't relax in the slightest. Now that these words have been spread, you have to do your best to do your best, even if the time comes. It doesn't matter if you don't win the first prize, after all, you are still young now, at least you have to take the exam in a few years, and those people will have forgotten about it by then."

Lin Lang knew that Jia Mu was afraid that he would be under great pressure, so he said these words to comfort him, shook Jia Mu's hand, and said, "Grandma is worrying too much, I don't care what those people outside talk about me, it's just that these people are talking about me behind my back. , and spread my reputation so loudly on purpose, I don’t know what the purpose is.”

Jia Min smiled and said, "Where is the purpose? Why are you so thoughtful at such a young age?" As he spoke, he walked over and put his arms around Lin Lang and said, "The others are all fourteen or five years old when they take the middle and third grade exams. Lang'er You are less than ten years old in the junior high school entrance examination. How can this be compared? In addition, your father is a high school student this year and has caught the eyes of His Majesty. Naturally, there must be someone who speaks bitterly behind his back, but you don't think much about it. Do it, it's just that those troublemakers want to attack you and attack your father."

Hearing this, Lin Lang frowned, "Did Dad offend anyone?"

"Children, why do you ask so many questions? Your father is still here, so it's not your turn to come forward."

Jia Min had long discovered that since Lin Lang had a serious illness last year, he had become much more stable. Even Jia Lian, who was five or six years older than him, almost followed Lin Lang's orders, believing what Lin Lang said and Jia Lian.

Otherwise, Lin Lang would not have said that selling soap, Jia Lian would have taken his mother's dowry from his mother, and insisted on doing this business.

Although the business is getting bigger and bigger now, even the palace is using the soap sold by Jia Lian, but it can't hide the fact that Lin Lang is the driving force behind it.

Sometimes Jia Min was also very worried about whether Lin Lang would hurt his body because he was so thoughtful at such a young age, but seeing that Lin Lang had never been ill since he suffered a serious illness last year, he gradually felt relieved. Lin Lang will be sent south alone to take part in the children's examination.

The corner of Lin Lang's mouth twitched, "Mother, my child has already passed the examination of a scholar, even if I go outside, people still have to call me a master. Why do you say I am a child? I am not young anymore."

Jia Min smiled and rubbed Lin Lang's head, "No matter how old you are, in mother's heart, you are still a child."

Lin Lang: "..."

Speechless!

After staying in Rongguo Mansion until noon, Jia Min took his children and said goodbye to Jia Mu and went home.

As soon as he returned to the mansion, he was informed by the chief steward that people from the Beijing Palace had come, saying that the son would invite Lin Lang to drink at Zuixian Tower tomorrow, and Lin Lang must come on time.

Lin Lang nodded, followed his mother back to the main courtyard, and after teasing his sister for a while, went back to the house to rest.

Lin Lang tidied up the next day and went to see Shui Rong in Zuixianlou.

"Young master Lin is willing to come back? I thought you were going to come back after taking the provincial examination in Suzhou?" Lin Langfu heard Shui Rong's emotional voice as soon as he entered the door.

Lin Lang smiled, "Who is this who made the prince unhappy?"

Shui Rong's good upbringing made him unable to roll his eyes, but he couldn't help but glared at Lin Lang, "You left as soon as you said, but you didn't even say goodbye to me. Do you consider me a friend?"