Childhood Sweethearts of a Family: The Delicate Girl

Chapter 18

The excitement of the New Year's Eve passed quickly, and Lin Xuan's marriage was in March. After the New Year's Eve, this matter became more and more on the agenda.

Lin Hai has only one younger brother, Lin Hao, who is now the magistrate of the county in the south.Because of the long distance and the separation of families, they have not been together for this New Year's Eve for many years.

Let's talk about family separation, it's another old story.When the old lady of the Lin family was here, the two sons were not allowed to separate, so this matter is impossible.As soon as Mrs. Lin left, the second wife of the Lin family urged Lin Hao to separate from her brother.

This matter had been going on for quite a while, but Lin Hao was pinned down by his wife.At the end of the tossing, Lin Hai finally invited the elders of the clan to sit and witness, and divided the family.

Lin Hai originally had a good relationship with his younger brother. After all, they are brothers, and they are willing to support and help each other.But ever since Lin Hao got married and started a family, the relationship has been getting worse every year.Whenever Lin Hao spends more time with his elder brother and sister-in-law, Second Madam Lin will make trouble with him.

That is to say, Lin Hao really liked Mrs. Lin Er, and he decided to marry her at the beginning, and then he was manipulated later, all because he was reluctant and couldn't bear it.People like Lin Hao are also rare.

The separation of the family was going to be done sooner or later, and Lin Hai was not very happy about it, but he didn't want to make things difficult for his younger brother, and besides, the two brothers couldn't live together on weekdays.

For so many years, except for some letters, Lin Hai hasn't seen his younger brother for a long time, but he still knows the situation of Lin Hao's family.

Lin Hao and Mrs. Lin's second wife Jiang have two sons and a daughter. The eldest son is named Lin Qi, who is 17 years old this year, and the second son is named Lin Jing, who is 13 years old this year. There is a daughter named Lin Yu, who is 15 years old this year. .

Last August, Lin Yuan's second brother, Lin Ye, went back to his ancestral home for the test. It happened that his cousin Lin Qi also went back to his ancestral home for the test.The test results of both of them were good, they both won the exam, and both of them were qualified to take the examination in March this year.

To participate in Chunwei, you must come to the capital, and because Lin Xuan got married in March, Lin Hao would not be able to leave because of his official duties, so only Mrs. Lin brought her eldest son Lin Qi and daughter Lin Yu to the capital.

Mrs. Lin, who had received the news in advance, ordered her servants to clean up a courtyard with three entrances, and prepared it for her younger siblings, nephews and nieces to live in.She is a sister-in-law and an aunt, so naturally there is no reason to ignore them.

At the beginning of February, when it was still cold and cold, Mrs. Lin's second wife, Mrs. Jiang, brought Lin Qi and Lin Yu to the capital.It was noon when they arrived, Lin Hai and Lin Xuan had not returned from the Yamen, and only Mrs. Lin with her two sons and one daughter were in the mansion.

When the servant guarding the gate of the mansion came in to announce that he had seen the carriage, because Lin Yuan had the habit of taking a nap every day, before she woke up, Mrs. Lin brought her two sons to the gate of the mansion to pick up the three of Jiang. .

The three carriages stopped slowly at the gate of Lin's residence. The first carriage got off the maids and women, and they hurried to the second carriage to wait for Jiang's three to get off the carriage.

Lin Qi was the first to get out of the carriage. He was 17 years old, he was a handsome young man, and he looked as handsome as the three Lin Xuan brothers.

After he got down, he just stood beside the carriage, and helped a beautiful and graceful girl to get down from the carriage. This is Lin Yu.

After Lin Yu got off the carriage, she also stood beside the carriage like her elder brother Lin Qi, and then the two of them helped their mother Lin Er, Mrs. Jiang, get down from the carriage.

Jiang wore a pine-colored ermine coat with a double-breasted top, a green gown with folded branches and begonias on her upper body, and a horse-face pleated skirt with a bat-patterned sapphire-blue border on her lower body. She smiled happily, looking very rich and graceful.

Seeing her sister-in-law and two nephews, Mrs. Jiang hurriedly led her son and daughter over there, and when she reached Mrs. Lin, she held her hand and smiled, "It's so cold that my sister-in-law is here. Waiting at the gate of the mansion, I feel really sorry."

Mrs. Lin smiled and said it's okay, patted the back of Jiang's hand, and took out her own.Mrs. Jiang didn't care much, and looked at Lin Ye and Lin Yi who were standing behind Mrs. Lin, and raised her willow eyebrows and asked, "But Brother Ye and Brother Yi?" The smiles were kind.

Lin Ye and Lin Yi bowed to her, straightened their bodies and said in unison, "I met Auntie." Jiang said with a smile again, "I haven't seen you for many years, the two brothers who were only so young at the beginning They have grown into such majestic appearances, how time flies."

These words were actually very polite, Madam Lin only said, "Brother Qi is too, he is so tall and handsome, he looks like a good boy." Madam Lin looked at Lin Concubine, and smiled more gently, "Sister Concubine The son is really a beautiful beauty, I am very happy to see it."

Lin Qi and Lin Yu smiled politely and came forward to say hello to their aunt. Mrs. Lin said that it was very cold outside, and beckoned them to enter the house.As for the salutes of the three of Jiang's family, their own mothers-in-law and maidservants will arrange them.

When the group walked to the main hall, Lin Yuanqia, who had taken a nap, was also brought to the main hall by the mother-in-law.Lin Yuan had been told before that today her aunt, a cousin, and a cousin would come to the capital and live in Lin's mansion for a while.

Therefore, when Lin Yuan saw a woman, a young man and a girl walking towards the main hall together with her mother and two brothers, she knew that they were her aunt, cousin and cousin.

She just woke up from a nap, and this is the time when she is full of energy, her little face is rosy and shiny, and she looks more and more cute.After seeing her mother, Xiao Linyuan walked towards Mrs. Lin with her short legs.She walked in a hurry, there was a light snowfall the night before, and even though the snow on the road had been swept away, Mrs. Lin, who was still worried that Lin Yuan would fall, hurriedly told her to slow down.

Fortunately, Lin Yuan didn't fall down. She walked up to her mother, called her mother first, and then said hello to her three aunts.This is the first time for Jiang Shi to use Lin Yuan, so naturally she wants to give Lin Yuan a good compliment.Lin Yuan just listened with a smile, and didn't take the initiative to say anything. It was Mrs. Lin who answered the conversation.

After such a delay for a while, they finally arrived at the main hall of the Lin Mansion and sat down.The maids who got the order brought hot tea up, and the steam was steaming, accompanied by the clear fragrance of tea in the warm room.

The two nephews and nieces haven't seen each other for many years, so the aunt naturally had to give some greeting gifts.What Mrs. Lin prepared for Lin Qi was a bean-green sand rhinoceros moon-watching clay inkstone, and for Lin Yu a pair of gem-green glass-type mandarin duck and jadeite bracelets.

Chengni inkstone is praised by the world as "beautiful jade in luster, like a bell when struck, easy to emit ink, does not hurt the pen, does not freeze in winter, does not dry in summer, and does not get eaten by insects when writing and painting". It is the top grade among stone inkstones.The mandarin duck jadeite bracelet is the most rare, no matter what style it is made of, it is the best.

Mrs. Lin is very generous in making a move, but she also has this family fortune that she can afford without feeling distressed.In contrast, Mrs. Jiang, who gritted her teeth and prepared bamboo-style pen holders with bean-green glaze, pastel pine, bamboo and plum patterns, jasper open-carved bamboo brook Liuyi picture pen holders, and sapphire-carved mountain stone pen holders for her two nephews and nieces, felt that she was suddenly inferior up.

In fact, what Jiang prepared was not bad, but also very good.What's more, no matter Lin Ye, Lin Yi or Lin Yuan didn't mind what she was preparing, what she cared more about was the intention.However, Mrs. Jiang couldn't pass her own test.

When she was still sitting in the main hall talking about the old days with Madam Lin, she couldn't help but look at the few presents, wishing she could take them back and prepare three better ones, but there was no such possibility at all.

Mrs. Lin noticed her wandering eyes, but she didn't care much about her thoughts.After chatting for a while, Mrs. Lin thought that the journey must be tiring, and urged Mrs. Jiang, Lin Qi, and Lin Concubine to go to the rest meeting to freshen up first, and then have time to catch up on the old days.

Mrs. Jiang was taken by the maid to the residence prepared by her sister-in-law. Seeing that it was a three-entry courtyard, she felt even more uncomfortable.In front of the servant girl, she didn't show anything, she was always smiling.

After freshening up, Mrs. Jiang waved away the servant girl, leaving only her daughter, Lin Yu, to accompany her.Without the presence of outsiders, Jiang immediately suppressed her smile and changed her face.She lost her temper right now, with a displeased look on her face.

Seeing the surprise, Lin Yu smiled and said to Jiang, "Mother, what's the matter with you? Auntie is so generous, let's make money, okay?" Looking at the clothes on Jiang's body, she continued, "Why do you say so? What? It's simply not something our family can afford to wear such rich clothes."

She still had a word in her heart, but she didn't say it, she said that she was afraid that her mother would beat her in anger.In Lin Yu's eyes, the eldest uncle is a Beijing official with a bright future; the eldest aunt is the second daughter of Yingwuhou's mansion, with a noble status; this family must be much richer than theirs, and no matter how much my mother thinks about it, she can't compare of.

Fortunately, Lin Yu didn't speak out what was in her heart. Just a few words from her made Jiang Shi so angry that she almost beat her.

Jiang Shi, who couldn't get out of his chest with a tight breath, couldn't help lowering his voice when he heard her daughter's words, and cursed, "What do you know? I'm not afraid that your aunts will underestimate us and think that Did we come here to rub against them because we saw that they are rich and powerful? It’s fine if you don’t understand me, but you still make sarcastic remarks there, are you still my daughter?”

Seeing that Mrs. Jiang was angry, Lin Yu quickly apologized, "Mother, I was wrong, please calm down. If I am not your daughter, who can I be? How could I be so beautiful without you, right?"

Hearing Lin Yu's last words, Mrs. Jiang finally felt a little comforted, and her mood eased a little.

Her daughter looks like her but is better than her, she is very beautiful, and now she is 15 years old, it should be kissed.Her eldest son has won the exam now, and he will be a Jinshi after the general examination. If the daughter can get a good marriage again, is there any need to talk about the future of their second wife?

The small calculation in Jiang's heart was crackling.

The meeting gift Lin Yuan got from her aunt was a sapphire carved mountain stone pen stand. She stared at the pen stand for a long time, and finally asked her second brother Lin Ye timidly, "Second brother, can I exchange something with you?"

Lin Ye, who was named, pursed his lips, and asked his younger sister Lin Yuan with a patient smile, "What's the matter? Does my sister not like the gift from my aunt?"

Lin Yuan shook her head, raised her small face, and smiled a little weakly, "It's not that I don't like...Auntie's gift, it's very good." She stretched out her hand and clenched it into a small fist and said excitedly, "The pen washer in the second brother's study room is good. Looks great!"

The brush washer in Lin Ye's study, which was coveted by Lin Yuan, is a peacock green glazed lotus leaf wash. The whole brush wash is in the shape of a lotus leaf, with a lotus flower and a lotus pod on the edge. The color of the whole brush wash Emerald green and translucent like peacock feathers, very delicate and beautiful.

"If my younger sister likes something from Second Brother, just ask, why do you need to exchange it?" Lin Ye smiled, "Later, Second Brother will send a little maid to send the wash to my sister. As for the gift from my aunt The gift for my younger sister, my younger sister should take it easy, after all, it is a gift for the first meeting, right?"

Lin Yuan, who got her wish, nodded happily, and said happily, "Second brother is so kind!"

The third elder brother Lin Yi next to him was suddenly unwilling, and he also said to Lin Yuan, "Sister, in my study, which one do you like, go and get it yourself, just tell me to let me know. You like it Which, third brother will definitely give it to you without complaint, okay?"

Lin Yuan looked at her third brother with a happy grin, and kept nodding, "You are so kind, third brother!"

Madam Lin, who was sitting by the side, sipped her tea both funny and helpless, completely speechless to her two sons.

(End of this chapter)