The splendor of the red mansion

Chapter 26 Jia Min is seriously ill
"Mother..." With tears in her eyes, Daiyu suddenly felt uncomfortable when she heard her mother talking about this matter.But Jia Min didn't seem to see him, and just said: "In the future, you will become a family by yourself, and your father will not be able to take care of you well if you are far away. If you are still as soft-hearted as a family at that time, the only ones who will suffer at that time will be You." After all, not every family is as simple as the Lin family.Jia Min knew early on that according to Daiyu's status, if the emperor wanted to favor him, he might even point it out to the royal clan. At that time, his daughter would suffer a lot.Thinking of the future that he didn't know, Jia Min felt anxious, and couldn't help but let out a series of heart-piercing coughs.Daiyu was so frightened that her face turned pale, and she responded repeatedly: "Mother, don't talk about it, Yu'er knows about it!" For a while, she was flattering Jia Min, and she was busy calling someone to call the doctor.Finally the cough subsided, Jia Min pulled the panicked Daiyu and told the person at the door: "It's nothing, don't call the doctor."

"Mother..." Daiyu looked at her disapprovingly.Jia Min shook her head and said with a smile: "How many times do you not cough every day? You are not afraid of tiring the doctor every time you call him. Sit down and listen to your mother."

Daiyu supported Jia Min to lie down, added another pillow, and said, "Mother, don't talk about it, Yu'er knows it all. I will remember it." Jia Min said: "I should talk about it while I am in good spirits today. Tell me all about it. Just listen carefully." Daiyu could only nod with tears in her eyes.

Outside the door, Lin Ruhai, who heard the news, was listening to the soft-spoken conversation between the mother and daughter outside the door, but after all, he stretched out his hand and entered without pushing the door.He just stood outside the door for a long time, finally let out a long sigh, turned and left.

Ten days later, Jia Min finally passed away.Daiyu fainted from pain on the spot, and the usually peaceful Lin family suddenly became busy.

"Mother..." On the bed, the sleeping man murmured in a low voice, with tears dripping from the corners of his eyes.

"Girl, are you awake?" Hearing Daiyu's voice, Xueyan Wenjing, who was serving her personally, hurried forward.Daiyu slowly opened her eyes, looked at the two girls with red eye circles in a daze, and suddenly remembered what happened before she passed out.

Suddenly got up and grabbed Xueyan and asked: "Xueyan! Mother..." Xueyan and Wen Jing said with tears: "My condolences, my wife has gone." Daiyu felt a pain in her heart, and felt her throat was sweet, and quickly reached out to take it. The veil covered her lips, and when she took it off again, it was already bright red.Xueyan was startled, and hurriedly said: "Miss, you have to be well, if something happens to you, what will the master do?"

Daiyu grabbed Xueyan and said, "How is my father? I... How long have I been asleep?"

When my mother passed away, the saddest person must be my father.

Wen Jing stepped forward to help Daiyu, who was struggling to get out of bed with Xueyan, and said: "Young lady has been asleep for two days. The master is taking care of my wife's funeral in the front yard. Miss, please take a rest, your body..." Daiyu Yu shook his head and insisted on going to the front hall.Xueyan and Xueyan had no choice but to exchange the mourning clothes they had prepared for Daiyu.Then he helped her to the front hall.

The entire Lin Mansion was pale, and the quiet green of the past was covered under layers of white gauze.The mourning hall of Jia Min in the front yard is already bad, and there is an endless stream of people coming and going to pay their respects.Lin Ruhai, exhausted and haggard all over, talked to the people who came and went almost numbly.Everyone could tell, but in just a few days, Lin Ruhai looked ten years older.

"Daddy."

"Yu'er, why did you come out?" Seeing her daughter being helped out by two maids, Lin Ruhai quickly got up and came forward, "How do you two take care of the girl? How can you let her come out?" Daiyu pulled Lin Ruhai Haidao: "Father, don't blame Xueyan and the others. Mother... how can Yu'er not be filial as a human daughter?" Lin Ruhai looked at Daiyu worriedly and said: "Your health is not good, if something happens This matter makes your mother worry even more." Daiyu said: "Daughter will be fine, Dad, I heard that you have neither rested nor eaten properly in the past two days. My daughter is also very worried about you." Lin Ruhai sighed softly and said to Daiyu Yu said: "In this case, let us father and daughter accompany your mother for the last journey together." Daiyu nodded again and again, and said, "Daughter asked Mother Lin to make some porridge, father, you can use some first." Although he has no appetite , but seeing her daughter's persistent eyes, Lin Ruhai nodded.

The population of the Lin family was simple, and Jia Min knew that Daiyu and his daughter would have a hard time after his death, and had told him not to wait for people from the capital to keep things simple.Lin Ruhai also didn't want his wife's funeral to be entertained by dignitaries and rich people from Jiangnan.Therefore, they just held a simple and solemn funeral, and did not wait for the arrival of the Jia family in the capital.Although Yu Li was a bit inconsistent, it was justifiable in order to let his wife go to the ground as soon as possible.

When everything was settled, Jia Min was buried safely.At the moment when the coffin was buried in the mud, Lin Ruhai finally couldn't hold on and fell to the ground.The huge Lin family immediately lost its support, and Daiyu supported the entire Lin family with her weak body.Take care of his father, take care of the chores of the Lin family and take care of the family property.Seeing Daiyu's emaciated face smaller than a palm, all the servants couldn't help feeling distressed.But he also sincerely admired this delicate and weak girl.

Half a month has passed in the blink of an eye, and the Lin family has no longer been as warm and friendly as before since Jia Min passed away. In addition, the head of the family, Lin Ruhai, was sick in bed, leaving only a ten-year-old girl in charge, and the entire Lin family looked cold and solemn. bleak.On this day, Daiyu waited for her father to take the medicine and talked for a while before going to the study to check the account books handed over from below.Before turning a few pages, Lin Chenglai, the housekeeper, reported, "Miss, the second son Lian of the Jia family is here." Daiyu put down the account book. Not unfamiliar either.Since Jia Zhu died suddenly of illness a few years ago, Jia Lian has been an outstanding descendant of the Jia family's generation.In previous years, Jia's and Lin's contacts were mostly made by this person, and Daiyu also met twice.Thinking of her mother and father's evaluation of Jia's family when they chatted, Daiyu frowned slightly and said: "Understood, don't bother Daddy when he's not in good health. I'll just go see Lian's second cousin."

Lin Cheng hesitated and said: "The master once said that the people of the Jia family are not easy to get along with, so the girl went to see her alone..."

(End of this chapter)