Return to the Qing Dynasty(69)

"This daughter of the Lin family, Lin Fanghua, is Lin Ping's eldest daughter. When she gave birth to this girl, Lin Ping was just a little scholar. But even though she was just a girl, not an established man, Lin's mother also

I really liked it... The Lin family even held a banquet for three days for their guests. In the countryside, that was a big deal. Besides, Lin's father had long since disappeared, leaving only a widow. The family supported her son in school and gave him a wife. How could he

It was so happy when I got my first granddaughter. The girl in this family has always been the treasure of the old lady, and she always praised the child as a blessing. Because the second year after having this granddaughter, Lin Ping passed the national examination.

Half a year later, he was directly awarded the Jinshi, became an official, and stayed in the capital. Lin's mother told everyone that her granddaughter brought blessings. Lin Ping was awarded an official and stayed in the capital. Followed by Fang

The old lady also came to Beijing. The old lady is a very sensible old man. First, she pitied her son for the difficulty of getting established when he first arrived in the capital. It was not easy to live in the capital. It cost money to earn money for daily necessities. The old man insisted not to follow his son to the capital and called the family

The three of them have all gone to the city, and she can still tidy up the fields at home..."

"A family of three?" Lin Yutong looked at Dong Xiaowan, "You mean, the daughter of the Lin family followed her parents to the capital?"

Dong Xiaowan nodded, "Yes! I followed him to the capital. But less than half a year later, this girl from the Lin family was sent back to her hometown by her parents. The reason was that Mrs. Fang was pregnant and couldn't be taken care of." As she said that, she sighed, "

The really strange thing is that for some unknown reason, the old lady of the Lin family treats her granddaughter differently than before. She no longer takes her out to visit her, and she doesn't show off in front of others much anymore. When others want to see her, she always makes excuses and says

My mother-in-law told me that ladies from the official family are not easy to meet people. For several years, none of the people next door to their house had seen what the daughter of the Lin family looked like. Later, some people would meet her occasionally.

It was said that the little girl had big feet. She had been busy working in the vegetable field in the backyard at a young age. She looked so skillful, so she must have worked a lot. She lived like this until six years ago, when she was brought to the capital.

"

Lin Yutong frowned, "Are you trying to say that this girl is not the daughter of the Lin family?"

Dong Xiaowan nodded, "I can't explain this now. Anyway, the attitude of the old lady of the Lin family has changed so much. This is unreasonable. Besides, Lin Fanghua's appearance is still very recognizable. Mrs. Fang also said that her eyebrows

There was a rouge-colored beauty mark on her face. I also asked people to ask the Lin family’s neighbors to see who could remember what the Lin family’s daughter looked like when she was one or two years old. I asked them if the child had a mole on her face when she was young.

Didn't it happen before that the results were similar? Didn't it happen before? When I asked people more carefully, some people said that the children were small at that time, and even if they grew up to be so small, they wouldn't be able to see anything. There was also a person who still had moles in middle age.

.I’m not happy that someone else’s child was born later…”

Yes! Children change quickly. Who would have thought that the child would not be the same as before?

With all these past experiences, Dong Xiaowan's tone was filled with a hint of imperceptible sympathy and regret, "... After this girl was brought back, the family hired a nanny to educate her. It was said that the nanny was from the palace, so she could find someone to paint her.

I found the portrait of the nanny, but no trace of this person in the palace was found. Maybe he hasn’t found it yet. I asked people to continue searching. Skip this section and don’t think about it. Just ask the nanny.

From this point of view, the Lin family still wants to educate this girl well."

That's not necessarily true. If you really want to educate her well, you won't ignore her for so many years. Only when your daughter became a 13 or 14-year-old girl did you think of teaching her. Isn't it a little late?

I'm afraid it's not that I want to educate this girl well, but that I finally have a place to use this girl.

Lin Yutong was speechless and just listened to Dong Xiaowan continue to speak.

Dong Xiaowan frowned, "Speaking of this, Fourth Brother is actually quite unjust. I checked in the palace and found that Lin Fanghua was originally a sweeper in Kunning Palace. She spent a lot of money to transfer her out and went directly to Brother's house.

I don’t know how my brother fell in love with Mr. Gao, and he was asked to serve him by his side...until something happened..."

Lin Yutong understood clearly that this girl's goal was very clear, that is, she was going to Hongli. Thinking of Lin Ping's official position as a young man, a question flashed in her heart: why did he get this official position because of him?

No backing? Or this is what he wanted. If his daughter went straight to Hongli, then what about him? Shao Zhanshi is an official of the East Palace, didn't he go to Hongli?

This is hard to say.

Dong Xiaowan had a bit of shame on his face, "A lot of things here are very vague, I...failed to find out clearly."

How else to be clear?

Everything about the three generations has been dug out, which is pretty good.

Lin Yutong patted her shoulder and praised: "Good job." It doesn't matter if the rest can't be found out. If you can't find out the rest, you won't check it out. Since you are sure that there is something wrong with the Lin family, what else should you check? "Bring people here."

Just ask."

Arrests?

Dong Xiaowan asked: "Quietly?"

"No need!" Lin Yutong smiled, "It's time to knock on the mountain and shake the tiger." After speaking, he warned, "Call Hongli quietly..." Before he could finish, he thought for a while and added, "The Fucha family is also here.

And call me over."

I'm afraid Hongli alone won't do it, and other things will be fine. This man's temperament of being confused when meeting women, especially beautiful women, is really unbelievable.

When Dong Xiaowan heard this, his face was slightly embarrassed, "...there is something I didn't have time to tell you..."

Lin Yutong waved his hand, "Hongli has already favored this girl from the Lin family? That's it, right?"

Dong Xiaowan blushed and said, "...I didn't think it was an important matter at first..." The maid next to her belonged to the male master, and it didn't matter whether she was favored or not. Now that she is called Sifujin, this matter is

I told my empress in advance. Who would have thought that as soon as I opened my mouth, before I even said what it was about, my empress would have already guessed it. I couldn’t help but be curious and asked, "How did you think of it?"

No need to think about it at all.

"Fucha's memory of this maid named Honghua is very accurate." Lin Yutong smiled, "Even if it's because of Gao, she certainly can't remember the other maids around Gao so clearly, even their names.

Just ask the nanny or the eldest girl next to you. But at that time, in the hall, in front of so many people, she knew who it was as soon as she said what features she had? Doesn’t this explain the problem? "

Dong Xiaowan seemed to realize that even a maid who served her master was different in the eyes of the mistress. The difference was that she finally entered the mistress's sight and was successfully hated by him.

Therefore, getting married is a terrible thing. A good girl becomes disgusting when she gets married.

With this thought in mind, she turned around and went out to do errands. For a while, she still didn't understand why the mistress wanted to invite Brother Si and his wife.

She didn't even understand, and Hongli and Fucha were even more confused.

Hongli asked Wu Shulai to stuff a red envelope with the eunuch who was delivering the order, and see what he could find out.

But the little eunuch didn't know. He only said that it was an errand ordered by Miss Dong.

This is like saying nothing. Regarding the affairs of Huang Er Niang, either Dong Xiaowan or Zhang Qilin is responsible. There is no one else but them.

Hongli kicked Wu Shulai in the face, and now it is getting more and more useless. He is asking about what these things are.

Mrs. Fucha pulled Hongli and interceded on behalf of Wu Shulai, "Same, sir. The people around Huang's mother are all those who have been treated. If they are not the tight-lipped ones, they cannot be wanted at all. Besides, they are also called

I went there together, I guess it was a family matter. It’s okay!”

This is also true!

Hongli glared at Wu Shulai, "If you don't serve me, what are you doing?"

Wu Shulai quickly agreed, not forgetting to look at Mrs. Fucha gratefully.

It takes half a day to get from the mansion to the garden. When we arrive, it's already late. We must stay here tonight.

Lin Yutong was not polite to them and just asked them to stay for dinner.

The Fourth Master also took the Ninth Master and the Thirteenth Master to the back. Lin Yutong sat down and Fucha was waiting on the side. No one thought it was inappropriate. Hongli held the pot and poured tea and water from time to time, showing respect and disrespect.

It will make people feel like they are trying to flatter you.

Master Jiu glanced at Hongli a few more times, but he didn't say what he wanted to say at the dinner table.

After eating, Master Ninth and Master Thirteen hugged the four little ones and played with them for a while, then followed the Fourth Master to the front.

They still have important things to say.

Master Jiu pointed to the map spread on the table, "... I originally sent these people to travel around to draw maps, just to provide first-hand information to the court, but I didn't expect that there was a kid among them, and all the father and brothers in the family were...

He did it in a gold mine, and he came back and said that the marked places are more likely to be gold mines..."

These maps were very fragmentary. After being pieced together, Fourth Master finally realized that this was a map of the Japanese country. Lao Jiu not only sent people to draw maps of the mountains and rivers here, but looking at it now, it seems that he is still looking for mineral deposits.

Fourth Master tapped his hand on the map, "What do you want to do?"

Master Jiu gritted his teeth, "Fourth brother, when our caravan goes to sea, do you know who the pirates that the navy encounters are?" Before Fourth Master could speak, he cursed, "These are the Japanese people! They are not

What kind of pirates are they? They are just wolves raised by someone... This shows how powerful our navy is, otherwise..." His face became heavy, as if he had a lot of unfinished words.

The fourth master was speechless. He could understand this feeling. He suddenly discovered that this country was actually full of crises, and it was far from what he thought that no one dared to provoke. The feeling in his heart was probably a bit hard to describe. There is an old saying,

How could he allow others to snore next to the bed? He must have felt threatened. He smiled inwardly and asked again, "What do you want to do?"

"It's rude to come and not reciprocate." Master Jiu whispered, then turned to look at Master Thirteen.

Master Thirteen was stunned, "What do you want me to do?"

"Renovate two warships and mix them with the caravan..." Master Jiu chuckled, then looked at Master Fourth, "I wonder if that's okay?"

Okay! Whatever you want!

As long as you don't fight in the house, you can fight as much as you like when you go out. Even if it breaks the sky, I will take care of you.

The three brothers didn't know what to say. From time to time, laughter came from the imperial study. When Lin Yutong took Hongli and his wife out and passed by the door of the house, they could faintly hear it. In fact, they usually go through the side door, so they definitely wouldn't

I met the ministers who were coming and going. I wanted to explain to the fourth master by the way today, but I didn't expect to hear his laughter so heartily. She couldn't help but raise the corners of her mouth, paused in her steps, followed her footsteps without stopping, and looked towards him.

Go out the door.

After coming out of Jiuzhou Qingyan, Hongli looked back and saw Huang Ama smiling like that before.

He was stunned, and Fucha quickly pulled his sleeves to remind him to look forward.

As a result, when I turned around, I saw that Huang's mother had walked away. I quickly chased after her.

After turning seven times and eight times, the couple became confused and arrived at an inconspicuous courtyard. Hongli was still stunned. He had never noticed that there was another layer of heaven behind the rockery.

Dong Xiaowan greeted Lin Yutong at the door of the courtyard, helped Lin Yutong down, and bowed to greet Hongli and Fucha.
To be continued...