The Second Master of the Red Chamber

Chapter 569
Daiyu selected a lot of books from Lin Ruhai's collection that she liked, and after moving them into the house to decorate, her whole house became more and more scholarly and luxurious.

And Daiyu's delicate and gentle appearance, extremely slender and soft body bones also made Jia Lian feel at ease when he saw her, so he really liked to come to see Daiyu, even if it was just to talk and look at her, he would still be happy. Feel good.

After confirming that her cough was better and nothing serious, Jia Lian was about to leave.

Daiyu, who was sitting on the pit, suddenly stopped him and said hesitantly, "Otherwise, I won't go into the garden..."

"why are you not going?"

Jia Lian turned around and saw Daiyu's face was tightly frowned, looking very serious, so he couldn't help going back and touching her head, and said with a smile: "Silly girl, your sister Yingchun and the others have all entered the garden. If you don't move in, you will be alone. Outside, who will play with you?"

Daiyu didn't speak, just looked at Jia Lian.

"Okay, that's it, from now on you will live in the Xiaoxiang Pavilion, and you will come to my place when you leave the garden gate, and it will not be far away from now.

By the way, your sister Feng said that a bathing pool will be built behind the flower hall on the west side, and the water will be diverted from the active spring on the Xiaoxiang Pavilion, so the distance between the two sides is no more than a hundred steps.If you miss me when you are free, you can fold a paper boat and throw it in, and I'll know right away. "

"Bah, who misses you."

Daiyu finally became shy, glared at Jia Lian, and asked softly, "What about the second elder brother Bao?"

"Him? I vaguely heard just now that he seems to be staying in Yihong Courtyard. It's vulgar, too vulgar. It's our sister Lin who has an elegant eye and caught Xiaoxiang Pavilion at a glance!"

Daiyu didn't know what to say.

She naturally wanted to move into the Xiaoxiang Pavilion, she liked the environment there very much, especially the hundreds of green bamboos.

But she was afraid that Jia Baoyu would not be able to move into the garden because of her.After all, she is a guest, and Jia Baoyu is the "righteous host". If that is the case, it would be rather boring to think about it. I don't know why some people don't want to see her even more.

Seeing Daiyu's preoccupied look, Jia Lian thought it was very interesting, and deliberately teased him, thinking about the outside world, so she decided to save it for another time, smiled and left.

Seeing Zijuan and snow geese outside, Jia Lian walked two steps over.

The two maids suddenly tensed up.

"There may be some noise outside tonight. Take care of your girl and don't let her run around by herself."

"I see, Second Master..."

Seeing that Jia Lian finished this sentence, he lifted his legs and left. Zicuckoo and Xueyan each breathed a sigh of relief.

Zijuan saw that although Xueyan was covering her heart with her hands, but her eyes clearly showed disappointment and regret, she couldn't help but amusedly nodded her forehead, turned and went into the back room, leaving Xueyan standing alone at the table Beside him, he blushed.

……

"Thank you Second Mistress, thank you Master for your grace..."

In the compound, hundreds of slaves gathered, and Sister Feng sat on the stage, and gave out more than a dozen boxes of rewards, and handed them out very quickly.

"Lai Da, Lai Da's daughter-in-law."

"The slave is..."

Lai Da and his wife, who were not far from Sister Feng's side, heard the words, straightened their skirts quickly, pretended to be very happy, and knelt down to receive the reward.

Although the two of them have long disregarded this little reward, they will never fail to behave as they should.

Who knows, after kneeling for a while, they didn't hear anything, looked up, only saw Sister Feng smiling at them, the regret and mockery in her eyes made Lai and his wife feel uneasy.

"One of you is the head of the house, and the other is the wife of the head of the inner house. You have made the most contributions and are more respectable than anyone else. If I came to reward you, it would not be enough to pay attention. So when you came out just now, you Lord Hou said, he will give you two rewards in person."

Sister Feng has always been kind and powerful, and her words obviously have something to say, not to mention the Lai family, even the other people who were about to leave after receiving the reward suddenly regained their spirits and stopped to watch one after another.

Although Lai Da usually only cares about the affairs of the outer courtyard and does not have much contact with Sister Feng, he also knows that Sister Feng is very good at talking and being a person, and he is polite when talking to them in leisure time. reason.

He hurriedly looked in the direction where the housekeeper, steward and others gathered together, and suddenly found that Lin Zhixiao was not there.He looked in the direction of the steward's daughter-in-law and others, even Lin Zhixiao's family was not there, Lai Da's heart suddenly thumped, his forehead was slightly sweating, and he tried not to show his timidity.

But his wife is not as good as him, and when she heard Sister Feng's words, she immediately replied embarrassingly: "Look at what Second Mistress said, it is our duty as slaves to be able to do things for the master, so there is no merit to speak of. Besides being respectable, it was all given by the masters. Second Mistress's words really hurt us.

The slaves can't stand second grandma's jokes like this, second grandma don't make fun of us, no matter whether it is the second master or the second grandma giving rewards to the slaves, it is a great honor for the slaves, we can only be grateful for the sake of gratitude, what to talk about If you pay attention or not..."

Sister Feng just laughed, beckoned to ask the time, and then said with a smile: "I'm not joking with you, Lord Hou really said that he would come to give you rewards in person. He hasn't come yet, maybe something has delayed it, you first Wait here."

After Sister Feng finished speaking, she put Xiaohong's hand in her hands and got up, and left directly.

As a result, the entire compound immediately discussed and became suspicious.

Lai Da and her daughter-in-law, one is the manager, so the status goes without saying, and the other is the most favored daughter-in-law in the inner house, who of these two people is usually not currying and flattering?Even the young masters in Lian Mansion were very polite and even smiled when they saw him.

Such a decent person, what is the situation now, is he being punished by the second grandma to kneel?
It's not that Lai and his wife haven't been punished since they became slaves, but it's the first time they've encountered a situation like today's!
However, Sister Feng didn't even speak clearly, so they were not sure what Sister Feng meant.

Facing the pointing and pointing of many "colleagues", they looked embarrassed and blushed.Although Sister Feng didn't tell them to kneel and wait, they could all see that something must have happened to Sister Feng to treat them like this, so how dare they stand up without permission?
"He is in charge, what should we do now?" Everyone Lai asked Lai Da anxiously.

Lai Da also frowned, and finally shook his head and said: "Let's kneel down first, and see what Second Master and Second Grandma mean..."

After finishing speaking, he abandoned the interference from the outside world, hung his head and remained motionless.

The situation in the compound will naturally spread inside quickly.

Mrs. Wang was the first to know the news. She was very surprised and asked, "Could it be that Mr. and Mrs. Lai did something to offend them?"

"I don't know, the second grandma only said that the second master will reward Lai Da and Lai Da's wife in person, and now Lai Da and Lai Da are still kneeling."

Mrs. Wang also frowned involuntarily, thought for a while and asked, "Where's Lian'er?"

"I've heard people say that Second Master Lian seems to have gone to Dongkua Courtyard... Madame, do you want to report this matter to the old lady?"

Zhou Rui's family, as Mrs. Wang's confidantes, is also very clear about the situation in the mansion.Don't look at the Lai family as just slaves, but the one standing behind is Mother Jia. Even the second master Lian and the second grandma Lian, if they are forced to send them for no reason, the old lady probably won't agree.

Mrs. Wang hesitated for a moment, then shook her head and said: "Don't disturb the old lady, you can ask a few more people to go outside and watch what Lian'er and Feng girl are doing again, and come back to me in time if there is any situation."

……

When Jia Lian walked to the compound, the scene suddenly quieted down, and those running figures also took their positions very consciously, each and every one of them was as well-behaved as a well-behaved baby.

Glancing at the couple who were kneeling down, Jia Lian sat down in front of Sister Feng, and then turned around and asked the maid behind, "Where's your second grandma?"

"Second Mistress has gone to change clothes."

Jia Lian nodded, said no more, and turned around with a stern look on his face.

When Lai and Da saw this, they lowered their bodies even lower.

But Jia Lian picked up the roster on the case, looked at it, and read indifferently: "In order to welcome the mother back to the province, the manager Lai Da, the housekeeper and the daughter-in-law Lai everyone, have worked hard. Among them, the manager Lai rewarded ten taels of silver and three thousand dollars." , Lai everyone's reward is six taels of silver, two thousand dollars, and a total of 16 taels of silver, five thousand dollars."

As soon as Jia Lian's voice fell, the woman who was in charge of dividing the money and weighing the money immediately packed the money, but Lai Da and her husband didn't dare to go forward to accept it for a while.

Seeing this, Jia Lian glanced at everyone in the courtyard, and finally looked down at Lai and Da, "My Jia family built its family on military merits, and I believe that meritorious deeds must be rewarded, and those who commit crimes must be punished.

This is what you and your husband deserve, and you have not yet received your thanks. "

Everyone Lai was shocked by such a scene, after all, Lai Da followed Jia Zheng to see many scenes, pulled her up, bent forward and took the two bags of silver.

Then he went back consciously and knelt down again.

Since Jia Lian said, "If you have meritorious service, you must be rewarded, and if you are guilty, you must be punished."This is a reward, and of course there is a punishment.

Seeing that Lai Da was so knowledgeable, Jia Lian also had to admit in his heart that apart from greed and infidelity, this Lai Da was indeed a talent among slaves.This is also the decisive factor for his success, because it is impossible for a mediocre person to gain the trust of Jia Mu, Jia Zheng and others.

He didn't want to talk nonsense with him, and when he knelt down, Jia Lian asked directly: "Da Lai, daughter-in-law Lai, can you two be convicted?"

(End of this chapter)