173 173 Flower Show
◎Admiring flowers! The key is to see who you play with!◎
Jia Min also had illusions about the Jia family at first, thinking that she should be different from her sisters and be truly loved by her family.
At least her biological mother Jia Mu loved her very much, otherwise she would not have chosen such a good marriage partner as Lin Ruhai for her.
Compared with her sisters who married into other powerful families or were directly sent to the palace to be princesses, Jia Min felt that it was already very good for her to marry Lin Ruhai as a legitimate wife.
Her three elder sisters were a few years older than her, but they all died young, and some even left no offspring. It can be seen that the royal family, whether it is aristocratic family or aristocratic family, is not a good place to get along with. It is better for her to marry far away and live in a corner of the south of the Yangtze River, which is a bit quiet and peaceful.
After being repeatedly disgusted by the Jia family's actions and repeatedly brainwashed by Mo Yu's inner voice, Jia Min finally woke up.
If Jia Min was originally unable to cut off her original family emotionally, so she always wanted to socialize with her natal family to comfort her desire for family affection, after these two years, she has almost completely "let go".
Now when she thinks back to the past, even she herself is a little embarrassed.
Fortunately, the remaining few people in the Lin family are both businessmen, and no one laughs at her. She has completely let it go, and has become more indifferent to the Jia family.
However, things in this world are so speechless. Jia Min has let it go of the Jia family, but the Jia family can't let her go.
Whether it was the warm welcome at the beginning, or the repeated invitations to invite Jia Min and Lin Ruhai to bring their children to the house for dinner, the Jia family has always wanted to get along with the Lin family.
This is especially represented by Jia's mother.
It must be said that this old lady is worthy of being a fighter from decades of experience in house fighting, and she is really good at playing with people's hearts.
If she wants to CPU someone, it is really hard to guard against.
This is also the reason why Jia Min had been wavering for about two years before she finally broke off all ties with the Jia family.
Logically, Jia Min's IQ and EQ have always been online, but when it comes to the Jia family, her mind tends to be confused.
This symptom is quite similar to that of Master Kang, both of whom are irrational because of their emotions.
They can be regarded as "the same people who are lost in the world".
It just so happens that both of them came to him, the "little god", to solve their doubts. Jia Min is easy to deal with, as she has figured it out early on, but Master Kang is much more troublesome.
However, Master Kang's mood problems were not originally under Mo Yu's control. The concubines in the harem and the civil and military officials in the court took care of it. At least with Lin Ruhai, he didn't have to worry too much.
Mo Yu looked at Jia Min's obviously happy and relaxed expression, thinking that if she was still as close to the Jia family as in the original novel, she would definitely be entangled, and it would be impossible for her to be as relaxed as she is now.
After all, the Jia family is now a ship that is about to sink, and whoever gets involved will be in trouble - they have fallen to the point where they have relied on their daughters' marriages to maintain their dignity for two generations in a row. This kind of aristocratic family is really speechless.
Now Yuanchun has left the palace and followed her husband to the fiefdom. Jia Min is the only girl left of the older generation. Even if they want to cling to Jia Min and suck her blood, they have to see if the Lin family is willing.
Originally, Lin Ruhai, Mo Yu, and even Xiao Daiyu had made up their minds that if the Jia family went too far, they would definitely rescue Jia Min.
Fortunately, Jia Min pulled back and kept a certain safe distance from their family, otherwise, it would be hard to say how the outcome would be.
While everyone was sitting in the flower hall drinking tea and chatting after dinner, Mo Yu leaned back in his chair and was in a daze. He accidentally flipped through the various gossips provided to him by System 006.
After all, the Jia family has been silent for a long time, which is a bit unlike their style. It always feels like they are secretly holding back a big one... They can only maintain a superficial brilliance, but they always want to make trouble. Why is that?
Is this the legendary "the weaker the person, the stronger the addiction"?
Mo Yu could guess with his toes that the Jia family would definitely not give up the big tree of the Lin family.
What's even more sad is that they will definitely go to Master Kang to complain. What if Master Kang is soft-hearted again and lets the Jia family off for the sake of the Lin family? Wouldn't that be even worse?
I hope it won't be like that.
Mo Yu was thinking about all these things in his mind, and he fell asleep without realizing it.
When he woke up again, it was already night.
At this time, he had already been carried to the bed. The two maids who served him on weekdays were watching over him. When they saw him wake up, they all smiled and said, "Brother, you must be very tired after this journey. You actually slept until this time. The old man and the mistress were scared. They even invited the imperial physician to see the brother."
Mo Yu felt a little embarrassed when he heard this.
He had a good sleep, but he didn't expect to cause so much trouble to Lin Ruhai and Jia Min.
Mo Yu was just thinking about getting out of bed to tell Lin Ruhai and Jia Min that he was fine, just a little sleepy, but unexpectedly, they had already received the news and ran directly to his room to see him.
Seeing that they came so quickly, it was known that they had not left far at all, and were probably just waiting in the suite outside.
Moreover, the people who came this time were quite complete, not only Lin Ruhai and Jia Min, but also Xiao Daiyu. Feng Shi and Zhen Yinglian did not come, but they also sent people to inquire, making it seem as if Mo Yu really had some serious illness.
The most embarrassing thing is that Zhang Youshi also stood aside with a medicine box on his back. Although he didn't say anything, he kept twirling his beard and smiling, looking like "I didn't expect you to be such a Xiaolin-sama."
Mo Yu became more and more embarrassed. After explaining that he was just sleepy, everyone relaxed.
Lin Ruhai said, "Thank you, Doctor Zhang, for taking care of my son until so late today. I am sorry for troubling you. I was in a hurry just now and I offended you a lot. I hope you don't mind."
Zhang Youshi smiled and said, "Master Lin, you are too polite. I know that you and your wife are just being concerned and not intentionally making things difficult for me. Besides, I just waited here for an afternoon and was served with good tea and snacks. It can be regarded as stealing half a day of leisure from my busy life. There is nothing to mind."
After hearing what he said, Lin Ruhai felt that this man was a wonderful person.
Mo Yu also stood up and bowed to express his gratitude, and Jia Min asked him to stay for dinner.
Zhang Youshi declined again and again, saying that his family had already prepared it and he had bothered him for a long time today, so he would not bother him anymore.
He refused firmly, so Jia Min and Lin Ruhai did not try to keep him.
The family saw him out, then came back to sit down and have dinner together.
Dinner was still eaten together by the whole family as usual.
Mrs. Feng and Zhen Yinglian also sat at the table. They were also shocked by what happened at noon. Now they knew that Mo Yu was fine and just fell asleep, so they were relieved. They talked and laughed and ate a meal without saying anything.
The next morning, Lin Ruhai went to the palace to see the emperor.
Mo Yu was "sick" the day before, and he invited the imperial physician, which caused quite a stir. Naturally, the news had already been heard in the palace. Master Kang was very concerned about Mo Yu's health. Not only did he ask Zhang Youshi to treat Mo Yu, he also sent someone to tell her that since she was tired, she should take a rest and not have to work in the palace tomorrow. So Mo Yu happily got a day off.
Lin Ruhai naturally had no objection. Jia Min and Xiao Daiyu were very happy. After all, they hadn't spent a whole day of leisure time with Mo Yu for a long time.
Since entering the capital, their family has been less together than together, so this opportunity is even more rare.
It happened that the peonies in the backyard of the Lin family were in bloom, and Xiao Daiyu was inspired and proposed to hold a "Peony Flower Festival".
It was called a flower show, but in fact, it was just the four women and a half-grown child like Mo Yu, a total of five people, sitting together to admire the flowers and drink tea. They
could also compose poems, write inscriptions, and draw some pictures. As for playing the piano, singing songs, or even dancing, that would be even better.
In short, since it was their Lin Mansion's flower show, even if it was only on such a small scale, it could not be sloppy. It had to present an elegant and leisurely atmosphere.
Jia Min naturally had no objection to Xiao Daiyu's suggestion.
Rather, she even liked it.
In fact, in the afternoon, before Mo Yu fell asleep, Jia Min inevitably fell into the memories of the Jia Mansion for a short time - there was no way, when she mentioned the Jia Mansion, she couldn't stop.
After all, that was her mother's home, and no matter how hard she tried, she couldn't easily cut off all ties.
Even if she thought she had successfully cut off ties and no longer wanted to care about the Jia family's affairs, she would always be reminded of the past at some inadvertent moment.
Although she was very angry at her own indecision, both her husband Lin Ruhai and her daughter Xiao Daiyu comforted her, saying that this was also human nature.
Only her son Lin Moyu was always so blunt and didn't leave any room for leeway.
Of course, he usually "said" by expressing his inner voice, which was considered to save her some face.
However, Jia Min also knew that this kind of outward voice of her heart could not only be heard by her, but also by everyone present except Mo Ge'er herself...
So, she was socially dead, but not completely socially dead.
After all, it was good that the child did not say it in public.
Who said she was really "incorrigible"? If she was not warned from time to time, it would be terrible if she softened her heart again at the critical moment.
Jia Min silently gave herself another shot of prevention, and then continued to put the matter behind her, and began to prepare for the "Peony Flower Festival" with Xiao Daiyu.
Originally, she wanted to take this opportunity to cultivate her relationship with Madam Feng and Xiao Yinglian.
Speaking of which, both Mrs. Feng and Xiao Yinglian were pitiful women.
Xiao Yinglian, needless to say, was abducted by a trafficker at a young age, and after being resold to several hands, she was taken to Yangzhou to be raised for a few years, and was prepared to be trained into a "Yangzhou skinny horse".
If it weren't for her father Lin Ruhai's trip to Jiangnan to solve a major case and catch the gang of traffickers, Xiao Yinglian's fate would not have been so miserable.
Thinking of what her son said in his heart, that this girl was tragically "sold twice" and was also involved in a murder case, Jia Min felt a wave of fear in her heart.
Thinking about the fact that the villain her son said who robbed Xiao Yinglian and killed another buyer Feng Yuan was actually the legitimate son of her second sister-in-law's younger sister, Jia Min felt worse.
Oh, no, that kid is no longer the legitimate son of the Xue family.
Although I don't know what happened in the middle, this kid is now the adopted son of Mr. Jing of Ningguo Mansion.
So, the bastard who blocked the door and insisted that their family marry Xiao Yinglian to him was this kid.
No wonder...
Jia Min became more and more angry and disappointed with the Jia family. At the same time, she secretly thought of a good plan in her heart, just wait for them to come to her house again, and then attack them together.
Putting aside Jia Min's complicated mental state, let's just talk about other people, who are all very happy.
First of all, little Daiyu, she is very energetic in organizing this "Peony Flower Festival" today.
In the first few years, when she was still young, Daiyu was the image of a well-behaved and smart little girl. Now she has grown up, and many things are different from when she was a child, and she is more and more like a "lady from a noble family."
This does not mean that her style of behavior has begun to become awkward, on the contrary, her words and deeds have become more and more generous.
The good family education of the Lin family, coupled with a happy childhood with parents and brothers, made little Daiyu's growth smoother and her personality more lively and outgoing.
The specific manifestation is that she began to like organizing these gatherings.
The "Peony Flower Party" was not her first event. She had successfully organized the "Plum Blossom Party", "Osmanthus Party", "Lotus Party" and "Winter Flower Party" before. In addition to these flower-viewing parties, there were also "Kite Party", "Outing Party", "Garden Party" and "Incense Party". In short, she could come up with any name that could be used for a gathering.
In the capital, the powerful and wealthy families all had to mix in circles.
Not only did the men have to socialize when they were out in the government, but the women had to move around more.
"Ladies' diplomacy" has always occupied an important position since ancient times. In addition to the "ladies' diplomacy" of the mistresses and grandmothers, young girls like Xiao Daiyu who have not yet left the house also need to socialize.
This kind of interaction since childhood has laid a solid foundation for their friendship after they grow up and marry and become grandmothers, wives or even old ladies.
Many future relationships were established through a few words exchanged at a gathering when they were young.
Therefore, for every official family in the capital, the social life of the female family members was very important.
Lin Ruhai actually didn’t care whether his female relatives were experts in social circles or not. His ability allowed him to easily handle all the big and small things without relying on the female relatives’ socializing, and he could even give back to the female relatives.
A typical case is that he relied on his rocket-like promotion path to win an imperial decree for Jia Min, and asked Master Kang to give his daughter Daiyu a title of a sixth-rank princess. This is completely the kind of old man that others envy, okay?
In addition to his ability being so amazing that he didn’t need the female relatives in the family to go out to socialize, collect information, and do things, his work was really too busy, and he really didn’t pay attention to whether the female relatives were dating or not, and how they were dating.
But it didn’t matter, because the female relatives in the family didn’t need him to worry about it at all.
They would do it themselves.
It goes without saying that Jia Min had great influence in the circle of noble ladies.
When she was in Jiangnan before, her health was not very good, and there were a lot of things to worry about at home, but she still arranged everything properly and provided Lin Ruhai with a lot of useful information.
Now she is back in the capital, which was originally the place where she grew up. Many of her girlfriends and close friends when she was a girl have become high-ranking grandmothers, wives, and even princesses.
This is simply like a fish in water, and it is hard to say how popular she is.
So, money always flows to where there is no shortage of money, and so does love.
Jia Min was warmly welcomed by the entire circle of noble ladies in the capital, even to the point of being sought after.
Everyone envied her for marrying a good husband and giving birth to a pair of good children. She was simply a winner in life.
Jia Min also agreed with this, but she had a very high emotional intelligence and was always very humble and low-key, which made those noble ladies like her even more.
Jia Min was so amazing, but Xiao Daiyu was even better than her father.
Mo Yu originally thought that his little sister was an introvert.
This was actually because of a stereotype he had when watching movies and TV series.
He always thought that Sister Lin was a sentimental little girl who cried for no reason and got angry easily. She was the type he couldn't deal with at all. It wasn't
until he traveled into the book and met the real Sister Lin... oh, now she is his biological sister, that he realized that all his previous understandings of her were based on misunderstandings.
The real Xiao Daiyu is not the sentimental type.
She is smart, lively, cute, and eloquent, with a sharp and sharp feeling.
Compared with the original stereotype of Daiyu in his mind, she is even more like Xiangyun...or a smart version of Xiangyun.
She is a combination of Daiyu and Xiangyun .
This is basically perfect.
Oh, and she has high emotional intelligence and is good at socializing, and combines some of the advantages of Baochai. This is basically on the road to becoming a perfect goddess.
Fortunately, such a perfect goddess is his sister. It is his brother-in-law who will have a headache in the future. After all, such a good wife can easily be envied by others.
Mo Yu was thinking about all these things, when he saw little Daiyu running over with Zhen Yinglian in high spirits.
It turned out that the "Peony Flower Festival" was already prepared.
I have to say that just for the efficiency, we have to give a big thumbs up to Xiao Daiyu's organizational and planning ability.
Especially when Mo Yu learned that Xiao Daiyu was the one who organized the flower show, he was even more shocked.
Jia Min was very accustomed to this, and even laughed and mocked Mo Yu: "Mo brother, what's that expression on your face, don't you believe that your sister can do these things by herself?"
Mo Yu quickly shook his head to deny it, but he was a little bit grumbling in his heart.
Unexpectedly, Xiao Daiyu smiled and said, "Madam, please don't talk about him. Our brother Mo is a busy man. How can he have time to pay attention to what his sister is like at home?"
After hearing this, Mo Yu felt that this little sister's mouth was getting more and more powerful. Once she opened her mouth, he was really helpless.
Seeing Mo Yu begging for mercy, Xiao Daiyu couldn't help but laugh first.
So this matter passed like this. It was just a funny interlude in the summer. It was not worth paying attention to.
Xiao Daiyu arranged it very well. The main thing was that she, Zhen Yinglian and Mo Yu appreciated flowers and wrote poems, or painted, or sang songs. In short, everyone just had to show a talent.
As for Jia Min and Mrs. Feng, they were judges and held a tea party by the way.
Simple and clear, it was nothing more than a gathering in the name of a "flower party" to kill time.
Anyway, it was boring at home, so who wouldn't come to support such an interesting and elegant event?
So everything went on in an orderly manner according to Xiao Daiyu's arrangement.
Jia Min and Mrs. Feng were doing needlework nearby, while Mo Yu accompanied the two young ladies to recite poems and paint beside the peony flowers. Mo
Yu was reciting poems, and Xiao Daiyu was painting. As for Zhen Yinglian, she could only play the piano and sing a song to liven up the atmosphere.
Fortunately, their little competition was mainly for entertainment, and there was no intention of competing at all.
In the end, Xiao Daiyu took the top spot because she was good at poetry, painting and music. Zhen Yinglian tied for first place because she was the best at singing and could even sing and play the guitar by herself. She also managed to paint a picture. Yangzhou Skinny Horse still needs to learn talents. Although those pasts are painful memories, Zhen Yinglian has obviously walked out of the shadows, which is probably also Xiao Daiyu's credit.
Although Mo Yu did not ask, he could probably guess it by looking at the two of them.
To heal the pain of the heart, the best way is to face it directly, and even let it become an experience to enrich your life, rather than comfort, cover up, or avoid it.
Xiao Daiyu has obviously learned this method without a teacher.
And looking at Zhen Yinglian's condition, the effect of her method is still very good.
Zhen Yinglian did not shrink back and say that she knew nothing. This state was very familiar to Mo Yu, because when he first met this girl, she was in this state.
After all, no matter who it was, being abducted and sold away from home and relatives, being beaten and bullied every day, being hungry and locked up in a small dark room was the norm. If people did not have problems after a few years of this, it would be strange.
Therefore, when Mo Yu first met Zhen Yinglian, she was in that typical state of shrinking and fear, like a wounded little animal.
After arriving at the Lin family, Xiao Daiyu took over her. The two lived and ate together for more than half a year. It was probably at that time that Xiao Daiyu cured this poor sister.
I have to say that my sister is quite capable.
Mo Yu said that it was really great to be her brother.
And now Zhen Yinglian can calmly use the talents he learned in Yangzhou, and can even tease his "unlearned" brother with Xiao Daiyu. Obviously, he has completely walked out of the shadow of the past.
This is really good.
Mo Yu became a foundation because he only wrote one poem, which was not even as good as the worst one written by Xiao Daiyu.
He was arranged by Xiao Daiyu to pick flowers and put them in their hair.
Mo Yu personally picked out the most beautiful peonies and gave one to each of the four women. Everyone laughed for a while before the party ended. After
working for half a day, everyone was a little tired, but they were in a good mood, so they walked and talked, and just when they were having fun, someone suddenly came to report that someone from the Ningguo Mansion had arrived.
[Author's words]
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