The famous book tour starting from the Red House

Chapter 90 Father and Daughter Reunion

As soon as Lin Ruhai came out of the palace, he saw Lin Quan standing in front of two carriages, talking to a middle-aged man.That person looked familiar to him, but he couldn't remember where he had seen it before.

Seeing him walk out of the palace gate, Lin Quan and the man came over to salute together.

"I have seen the master."

"I met my aunt."

Lin Ruhai excused the two of them, and heard the man call him aunt, and then he remembered that this man was the servant who followed his father-in-law back then, and seemed to be the son of the butler Lai of the Rongguo Mansion at that time.So he asked, "Are you the son of Housekeeper Lai?"

Lai Da was taken aback when he heard this, and thought that he was Housekeeper Lai.Immediately after realizing it, my aunt said it was my father, and quickly replied with a smile, "My aunt has a good memory, the younger one is Lai Da, but the villain's father went with the old man, and now the villain is Lai's housekeeper. "

Lin Ruhai smiled and said, "It's not bad that the son inherited his father's business." Then he asked, "This is where you come?"

Lai Da leaned back and replied, "My aunt, let me tell you, the old lady in the mansion sent me to pick you up to Rongguo Mansion. The old lady said that my aunt's mansion in the capital city has not been lived in for many years, and now I am afraid it needs to be repaired to let my aunt Let’s go to Rong Mansion for a short stay first.”

Lin Ruhai didn't reply, but looked at Lin Quan first, and Lin Quan replied, "Master, our mansion in Beijing was taken care of by the servants of the prince's mansion. But after all, it has not been lived in for many years, so it needs to be aired out again, okay?" Now that it’s summer, it must be a few days before people can live in it.”

Lin Ruhai thought for a while, and still turned to Lai Dao, "Then thank mother-in-law for your kindness." Then he told Lin Quan, "You will send the gift I prepared to Rongguo Mansion later."

Lin Quan pointed to the carriageway behind, "I guess the master will go to his wife's natal house first, so he brought it here on his own initiative."

Lin Ruhai praised with satisfaction, "You have always done things so properly, then I will go to Rong Mansion to stay for a few days, and you can take care of the mansion, especially Yu'er's yard." Lin Quan nodded and said, "Master, don't worry, Miss stayed in the house before. Yangzhou's beloved things, all brought back to Beijing this time, must be arranged in the same way as Yangzhou."

Lin Ruhai nodded, and then turned to Lai Dao, "In this way, the housekeeper Lao Lai will lead the way. I haven't been back to Beijing for many years, and I can't even remember the road in Beijing." Lai Dalian dared not, and then helped Lin Quan together Ruhai got into the carriage in front, then got on a horse by himself, and led the carriage towards Ningrong Street.

When we arrived at Rongguo Mansion, we saw the side door was wide open. Jia Amnesty and Jia Zheng brothers were already waiting at the door, followed by Jia Zhen, father and son, and Jia Baoyu.Lin Ruhai got off the carriage, exchanged greetings with Jia She brothers and Jia Zhen, and led them into Rongguo Mansion.

Everyone came to Rongxi Hall to sit down, and Jia Zheng naturally asked Jia Baoyu and Jia Rong to pay a visit first.Lin Ruhai looked at Jia Baoyu calmly, seeing that he was cowering and shrinking, and he had no demeanor of a big family son, and he was even more dissatisfied with Jia's mother in his heart.He thought to himself, can someone like this be worthy of my Yu'er?

However, he remained calm on his face, instead he encouraged the two of them a few words, and even asked the accompanying boy to present a meeting gift.After that, he briefly quizzed the two of them, but Jia Rong was completely clueless, and Jia Baoyu also stammered and answered irrelevant questions.The situation suddenly became awkward, Lin Ruhai had no choice but to say against his will, "It seems that my nephew and grandnephew are seeing me for the first time, and they are a little nervous..."

He hadn't finished speaking when he heard Jia Amnesty sneer, Jia Zheng's face was already flushed and he angrily reprimanded Jia Baoyu.

Seeing this, Lin Ruhai had no choice but to go forward to persuade him.Not wanting Jia Amnesty to be next to him, he said, "Okay, you don't need to teach Baoyu in front of your brother-in-law, right? Besides, Baoyu has always been like this, so why should you deceive yourself, brother-in-law? Anyway, my brother-in-law is not an outsider. Afraid that he won't succeed after seeing the joke?"

As soon as he said this, Jia Zheng was so choked that he couldn't speak.Lin Ruhai had no choice but to say, "Brother, please don't say a few words."

Jia She snorted, "Forget it, for my brother-in-law's sake, I'll just shut up, lest someone turn around and bring out the old lady to oppress me."

Jia Zheng trembled with anger when he heard this, his eyes widened, and he glared angrily at Jia Baoyu who had made him feel ashamed.Jia Baoyu was so frightened that his face turned pale, and tears appeared in his eyes.

Seeing Jia Baoyu like this, Lin Ruhai's evaluation of him was even lower.However, he still persuaded Jia Zheng, "Second brother-in-law, why is he so strict? There are some children who are playful, just teach them slowly."

Jia Zheng blushed and replied, "I don't know my brother-in-law. This scoundrel was spoiled by the old lady in the past. In recent months, he has suddenly become progressive. He goes to ethnology every day. I think he has improved. So today I also want my brother-in-law to teach him, but who knows that he is not as good as before, so it can be seen that he must be fooling people when he went to ethnology."

But Jia Zheng didn't know that Jia Baoyu went to ethnology every day, although it was to play with Qin Zhong.But strictly speaking, he is actually a bit crooked. Today, Lin Ruhai's exam is not difficult, and he can pass it.

But the bad thing is that today, when Jia Zheng was present, when Jia Baoyu saw him, he was like a mouse seeing a cat.The second is because of Lin Ruhai, and because Lin Daiyu didn't pay much attention to him in the past few months, Jia Baoyu wanted to surround Wei and save Zhao, and impress her by pleasing her father.

When he thought about it, his father would not be an ordinary person if Sister Lin was so refined. Unexpectedly, he was very disappointed when he saw it. He not only gave him the four treasures of the study as a meeting gift, but also tested his sour literati's things.Adding up these reasons, Jia Baoyu's mind suddenly went blank, and he forgot all the little knowledge of the Four Books and Five Classics.

Lin Ruhai was speechless after hearing Jia Zheng's words. He thought to himself, you are incompetent enough to fool your son for a few months.He also doesn't understand at the moment, why he thought that the second brother-in-law was so good at the beginning, but now it seems that he is not as good as the first brother-in-law.

Fortunately, at this time, Jiamu sent someone to invite Lin Ruhai to meet, which finally eased the embarrassing atmosphere in Rongxi Hall.Lin Ruhai heaved a sigh of relief, and hurriedly went down the donkey to say goodbye to several people, and then followed to invite his little girl to see Jiamu.

As soon as he entered the Rongqing hall, Lin Ruhai's eyes were attracted by his daughter. He saw Daiyu sitting next to Jia Mu, looking at him with tears in his eyes, and he nodded towards Daiyu.Daiyu couldn't bear it any longer, she hurried over and threw herself into his arms.

Lin Ruhai hurriedly hugged her daughter, stroked her hair, and joked with a smile, "What's wrong with Yu'er, didn't father come to see you as soon as he came to Beijing?"

Only then did Daiyu realize that she lost her composure, and hastily let go of her father. She was about to kneel down and salute immediately, but Lin Ruhai held her back and said, "It's not too late. It's not too late for us father and daughter to talk later." Then he let Daiyu go. Yu, when I came to Jiamu, a girl had already put the mat on the ground. Lin Ruhai knelt on the mat and saluted Jiamu, "Ruhai pays homage to mother-in-law, may your old pines and cypresses be evergreen."

Mother Jia stood up with tears in her eyes, helped him up, and said with a sob, "Okay, it's fine for you to go back to Beijing now, but it's a pity..."

Lin Ruhai naturally knew that she wanted to talk about Jia Min, so he felt a pain in his heart, and blamed himself, "I failed the high expectations of my father-in-law and mother-in-law, and didn't take good care of Min'er."

Looking at her son-in-law's gray temples, Jia's mother sighed, "Forget it, what are you doing, as long as you can be safe." Then she asked him to sit down.

Lin Ruhai waited for Jia's mother to sit down before taking his seat. Only then did he have time to look at the people in the room.Naturally, he ignored the maids and women in the room. There were two middle-aged women standing beside Jia Mu. He only recognized Jia Wang's family, but not the other one.Behind them were two young daughters-in-law, one was dressed plainly and the other was brightly dressed, he guessed in his heart that the former was Jia Zhu's widow Li Shi, and the latter should be Jia Lian's wife Xiao Wang.In addition, there are two girls who are dressed the same in the room, one is slightly older than Daiyu, and the other looks about the same age.

Seeing that Lin Ruhai was seated, Jia Mu hurriedly introduced everyone in the room to him. He first said hello to Mrs. Xing and Mrs. Wang.Mrs. Xing was very enthusiastic, but Mrs. Wang was indifferent, and he didn't care.Afterwards, Li Wan, Wang Xifeng and other juniors paid a visit one by one.

Lin Ruhai also gave a meeting gift to each other. When it came to Yingchun and Tanchun, he couldn't help being a little surprised. Didn't he mean three people, so he asked Jia Mu.Jia Mu explained with a smile, "You are talking about the fourth girl. She lives in Dongfu most of the time now. Since Rong's daughter-in-law became the princess, she will take her aunt back. I simply let them go. Now the four The girl only lived in the West Mansion for less than half the time, but today is unlucky."

Lin Ruhai nodded, and then ordered the mother-in-law who was carrying the gifts to prepare the meeting gifts for Jia Huan, Jia Cong, Jia Lan, Qiaojie and other juniors, either to their mothers or to the servants.Then he presented the gift prepared for Jiamu by himself.

Mother Jia ordered Yuanyang to catch her, seeing her son-in-law who was so thoughtful, she felt even more regretful that her daughter left so early.

(End of this chapter)