Red House Shoufu

Chapter 268 Visit
Since Lin Shu occasionally felt the wind and cold, which aroused the hidden disease hidden in her body, Daiyu was frightened by the imperial doctor's words.

When Lin Shu was still awake, he decided to sue the cabinet, the East Palace, and the Hanlin Academy.In fact, several generations of the Lin family died young in middle age due to illness, and Daiyu has already had a psychological shadow on the illness of her relatives.

In addition to going to the Tai Hospital early in the morning to invite Royal Physician Le, almost everyone related to the Lin family knew about Lin Shu's illness.

The emperor also specially sent Xia Shouzhong to visit and bestowed many precious medicinal materials.Immediately afterwards, the crown prince Gao Wancheng and the fifth prince Gao Wanxuan came to the door in person, which made Beijing Wenwu lament the royal family's favor to Lin Shu.

Everyone who carried the bridal sedan chair was a member of the officialdom, and everyone was good at watching.Not only people who are close to the Lin family have visited, even people who don't have much contact with each other have sent condolences.

The end of the new year is approaching, and the various yamen have already arranged their official duties for the next 20 days.After Lin Shu asked Feng Yuan, he learned that the cabinet had not arranged anything for him, so he took this opportunity to rest at home.

The snowfall in the past few days has finally stopped, and when the winter sun melts the snow, the temperature is usually colder than usual.

Lin Shu was wrapped up like a bear by Daiyu, and settled down on the rocking chair by the fire, swaying for a while, full of sleepiness.

The charcoal fire was burning very vigorously, and the copper pot on the stove was sizzling with steam. Daiyu closed the ledger in her hand, picked up the sleeping cat by the stove, and placed it on Lin Shu's chest.

Confused, Lin Shu felt that a heavy stone was pressing on his chest, and something inexplicable was moving at the tip of his nose. When he opened his eyes, he saw a white cat with different pupils meeting his eyes.

Meow……

"Bai Jingjing, if you move closer to the stove, you will become Hei Jingjing!"

Lin Shu sat up straight, lifted Bai Jingjing up, and showed Daiyu the scorched fur of Bai Jingjing two days ago.

"This idiot always thinks that the warmer the place, the better. Last time his tail was lit, and he slept around the stove."

Daiyu reproachfully took Bai Jingjing, held her in her arms and rubbed her hands.Bai Jingjing left the big devil's palm, feeling very happy, flicking her burnt and bald tail, the originally fluffy and soft white hair on her body was obviously missing a few pieces.

"Every family's annual ceremony is almost ready, except for a few old fathers and my elder brother's same year, I have already asked Uncle Lu to send them over. The elders of the pavilion and Mr. Qian's house, when does my brother plan to go?"

Because the Lin family was not in the capital in previous years, and because they were on filial piety in the past two years, the annual gifts were sent by Lin Lu, the steward of the capital.This year is different, Lin Shu has to maintain the human relationships that have been managed by several generations of the Lin family.

In particular, he had to personally send the four academicians of the cabinet, the tutor Qian Qianli's mansion, colleagues from the Imperial Academy, and friends from the same department in the same year.Going down this circle, there is no delivery that can't be finished in five or six days.

Lin Shu counted the days and found that today is the nineteenth day of the twelfth lunar month, and the remaining time is really tense.

"Let's start tomorrow, and try to finish it in three to five days. This year is our first year in the capital, so we have to go there in person. It won't be such a trouble next year, and it will be easier when the cousins ​​from the clan come. .”

Daiyu was still a little worried about Lin Shu's health, but she also knew the importance of connections to the Lin family, so she didn't try to persuade her anymore, but she was already planning to wrap her brother in an extra layer of thick clothes when she went out tomorrow.

When the brothers and sisters were discussing the annual ceremony, the doorman at the gate sent a message that Jia Lian and his wife had come.

Sure enough, before the two of them came out to greet them, Wang Xifeng's crisp voice came in from outside the second door.

"This girl didn't even know to tell me earlier. If the second master hadn't returned home and told me, I wouldn't have known that Cousin Lin was sick..."

Daiyu looked in the direction of the sound, Wang Xifeng was dressed in a light pink floral coat and a silver cloak, and hurriedly walked around the screen wall and came in.

……

The weather was cold and they were all in-laws, so Lin Shu invited Jia Lian and his wife directly to the study.

Lin Shu nestled in the chair and chatted with Jia Lian. Wang Xifeng, who was on the side, saw Lin Shu wrapped up in a bear shape, and whispered to Daiyu amusedly, "Why do you dress Cousin Lin like this?"

"The imperial doctor said that my brother has a cold syndrome, and he can't bear the cold most. It's cold and snowy these days, so I don't need to wear more clothes, so I wrapped up two more..."

Daiyu pulled Wang Xifeng aside and whispered, complaining that Lin Shu was afraid of suffering and refused to take the medicine, so she had to work hard every day to coax the medicine down.

Wang Xifeng really didn't expect Lin Shu, a mature and prudent Liu Yuanlang, to have the temperament of a child, and was so teased by Daiyu's complaint that he covered his mouth and laughed.

"Brother seldom gets sick, but this time the illness came quickly and dangerously, but it terrified me. The imperial doctor said that it was the yin and cold accumulated in Henan before, and I thought that it was not just a simple illness... ..."

Daiyu turned her head and looked at Lin Shu quietly, seeing that he was not paying attention, she whispered to Wang Xifeng: "Although the sage said, it's strange to say nothing, but my brother led the army to kill many rebels. I was thinking, the evil Could the invasion have anything to do with these things. Sister Feng, do you want to go to the temple to worship the Bodhisattva?"

It is related to Lin Shu's health to go to the doctor in a hurry, and even Daiyu, who is familiar with the words of the sage, believes in ghosts and gods.

When Wang Xifeng heard Daiyu talk about Henan, he looked at Jia Lian's missing half ear, and his heart skipped a beat.

Lin Shu is the pillar of the Lin family, so why isn't Jia Lian her pillar?

"My sister said so, and I also think it's time to go to the temple to worship. It's almost the end of the year. Let's choose a day to go to Dabaoen Temple and Qingxu Temple to worship. No matter what kind of gods and Buddhas it is, as long as it can bless the family Peace, everyone has to go burn incense sticks!"

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Lin Shu and Jia Lian were still chatting about what had happened in the past few days, especially the Miyun Mountain bandits that Jia Lian participated in. These two days have made great progress.

Huanglingwei directly dispatched 2000 people, plus Miyun County guards and spies from Xiuyiwei, gradually reducing the bandit's activity space in Miyun Mountain.

The mountain was blocked by heavy snow. Compared with the officers and soldiers who had sufficient food and grass, the bandits who lacked clothing and food had a miserable life in Miyun Mountain.

Officers and soldiers have found many frozen bandits on the road of sweeping. According to rough speculation, the bandits in the mountains are gradually moving north.

The Huangling Guard sent people to guard the mountain pass going north, shrinking the blockade leisurely, but not in a hurry to tighten it, just dragging time like this, consuming the remaining vitality and fighting spirit of the bandits.

"I've already got the news that this bandit is probably related to Wang Zisheng. To be honest, I wish I could drag Wang Jiarong out, but this Wang Zisheng is also your sister-in-law's third uncle."

Jia Lian said to Lin Shu mysteriously: "And whether this matter has something to do with Wang Ziteng, whether it will implicate my useless brother-in-law, I really don't know what to do."

(End of this chapter)