78 078 Reunion
◎Excellent. Effective ways to deal with family kidnapping.◎
Poet Li Bai's "Drinking Alone Under the Moon" says: Crab claws are golden liquid, and the wine mound is Penglai. And you must drink good wine, and get drunk on the high platform under the moon.※
It can be seen that the Mid-Autumn Festival is indeed a good time to eat crabs. The plump crabs plus the chrysanthemum banquet of "the whole city is covered with golden armor", relatives and friends sit together, facing the silvery full moon in the sky, eating and drinking, admiring the flowers and the moon, it is really elegant and delicious.
If the host who invited their family to the banquet was not the Jia family, it would really be perfect.
Since this Mid-Autumn Festival was the first major festival after the Lin family moved to the capital, Jia Min had originally considered hosting a banquet or going to the houses of several familiar female relatives to celebrate.
However, the Jia family started to invite her several days in advance, and said that although the invitation was in the name of Ningguo Mansion, the old ladies, wives, girls, and brothers of the neighboring Rongguo Mansion would also participate, which was meant to be a family reunion.
They were very polite, and invited us several days in advance. They were very sincere, and even sold out their pity - Mrs. Jia gave birth to two sons and four daughters in her lifetime. Now, apart from the two sons Jia She and Jia Zheng, only Jia Min, the youngest daughter, is still alive.
Poor Mrs. Jia is so old. She not only lost her husband in her youth, her daughter in her middle age, but also her grandson in her old age. It's too tragic that the elderly have to send off their children. The elderly lady is like this, and Jia Min, as her youngest daughter, is unwilling to bring her husband and children to her home for a reunion dinner? She
is really unworthy of being a son!
...
I was really speechless, but also helpless.
After all, filial piety was very important in this era. It was okay for a father to beat his son to death on the spot, but if a child did not follow his parents' wishes, it would be "disobedience".
This was a serious crime.
Even the emperor did not dare to commit a serious crime, let alone ordinary people.
Can't afford to offend them.
Everyone understood the truth, but no one was happy about this overly obvious "family kidnapping".
Especially Jia Min, after being deeply hurt by the Jia family last time, she already looked down on the Jia family's style.
What about the Duke's Mansion?
To be honest, even those royal palaces or several other Duke's Mansions had invited her, but Jia Min was too lazy to go and thought of a safe excuse to get out of it.
Only the Jia family, those usually useful excuses to evade and refuse, really don't work.
Although they had a very unpleasant situation when they went to the Jia family last time, if they really wanted to embarrass the Jia family so directly, it would be fun now, but they would have to bear a lot of public pressure later.
Especially since Lin Ruhai happened to be promoted again when he returned to Beijing this time - and it was a promotion of six levels in a row, which was too much attention, so he had to be doubly low-key, otherwise he would be madly attacked by those who were jealous of their family.
Hating others for having something and laughing at others for not having something is the same principle in any world, and it is no exception here.
When you are in the world, you have no choice, so you have to humble yourself and adapt to the local customs.
Although Jia Min didn't want to go, after discussing with Lin Ruhai, she accepted the invitation - the reason is simple. Since ancient times, there have been thieves for thousands of years, but no one has been on guard against thieves for thousands of years
. Instead of trying to avoid them, it is better to face the challenge head-on, see what tricks the other party has, and then fight back fiercely in person. Direct defeat is more powerful than blindly avoiding them. Let them take the initiative to avoid you, rather than the other way around. This is the way to be invincible.
Jia Min, Xiao Daiyu and Mo Yu all agreed with this.
Mo Yu even secretly commented on this in his heart.
[Emma, my cheap dad is really a super academic master. How come his views on such trivial matters are different from those of ordinary people? ]
[How did you say that sentence? So cunning! 】
Suddenly hearing his precious son's evaluation of himself, Lin Ruhai suddenly coughed and almost choked on the fragrant tea he had just drunk.
Xiao Daiyu followed Jia Min to rub Lin Ruhai's back, pass him a handkerchief, and change the tea, but she could no longer hide the smile on her lips. Seeing this, Lin Ruhai felt more and more wronged and coughed more violently.
Mo Yu still didn't realize what was going on. Because he was the youngest and had short arms and legs, he couldn't squeeze in even if he wanted to help, so he could only stand outside and greet Lin Ruhai twice, but he continued to complain in his heart.
【My cheap dad is good in everything except his health. It just so happens that the Chinese and Western medicine combined hospital with the inscription by Master Kang has been built. I'll take everyone to have a physical examination tomorrow... Oh, it doesn't seem to be called a physical examination at this time, it's called a pulse check, which also requires a combination of Chinese and Western medicine. 】
【Not only my cheap dad will go, but my cheap mom and Miss Daiyu will also go. Although the plot is the biggest, but our family is weak, so we have to at least fight for a while. 】
【We'll go after the Mid-Autumn Festival. Mo Yu
made up his mind silently. When he raised his head again, he found that Jia Min and Xiao Daiyu had red eyes. Lin Ruhai looked a little sad. The maids and stewards around him didn't dare to say a word. Their expressions were very sad, which was really scary.
Mo Yu didn't understand why, but he always felt that the atmosphere was too depressing, so he decided to sacrifice his image temporarily and "dress up to entertain his family":
"Oh, what's wrong with the master, the madam, and the young lady? But when the master was bitten just now, did you blame me for not coming up to help? Moyu, this room belongs to the master, the madam, and the young lady. I'm sorry."
Mo Yu gestured like a real person, which was more realistic than the performance of the opera troupe.
He was young and cute, and with his deliberate acting, it was hard not to laugh.
Lin Ruhai and Jia Min laughed out loud, and little Daiyu laughed so hard that tears came out of her eyes. She even had a stomachache from laughing, so she hurriedly asked her wet nurse Wang Ma to rub her stomach.
The maids and housekeepers around couldn't stop laughing, and the whole main room was filled with a happy atmosphere.
This made people feel that going to the Jia Mansion for a banquet the next day was not so unbearable.
Apart from anything else, their family is used to pretending to be rich, so at least the food is edible.
What else is there to say? Let's have a good meal first.
Mo Yu made up his mind and had a happy lunch with Lin Ruhai, Jia Min and Xiao Daiyu. Because Lin Ruhai came from Yangzhou, he brought a lot of Yangzhou specialties. Yangzhou is not far from Suzhou, and Lin Ruhai often travels between Suzhou and Yangzhou for work, so he also brought some specialties from his hometown of Suzhou.
There were delicious food, fun things, silk, fans, pens, ink, paper and inkstones. It was really dazzling, and it was obvious that Lin Ruhai was a good man who loved his wife and children. He didn't know what to bring for them.
So he just brought a little bit of everything.
Seeing that he even remembered the snacks that Mo Yu liked to eat, Mo Yu silently gave him a thumbs up in his heart. He is really a good dad of the modern times. It really makes people feel moved.
After Mo Yu sighed, he happily excused himself and left the table. After rinsing his mouth, he went to take a nap.
He is still a baby, of course he needs to take a nap.
Not only does he need to sleep, but he also needs to sleep enough.
After all, he has been very hard recently. Not only did he go to the palace to work as a tutor for others (which he didn't do), but he also had a long-term and long-distance business trip. Basically, he has been away from home for more than half a year. He finally came back, so he should sleep well.
Of course, the whole family had no objection to this.
They even escorted Mo Yu back to his room together and watched him fall asleep before leaving.
But after coming out, it is inevitable to exchange thoughts on Mo Yu's performance.
Lin Ruhai: "Although our Mo brother often thinks about things, he still has filial piety."
Little Daiyu: "That's true, yes, but not much."
Jia Min: "Dayu, what are you talking about? Our old man is right. Your brother is really filial. God has mercy on him. Our Mo brother must grow up safely and healthily." Lin Ruhai
and little Daiyu also agreed with this. They always felt that since their Mo Yu recovered from a serious illness, his temperament has become more lively day by day.
This is a good thing.
I hope he can continue like this.
Anyway, even the emperor has accepted his crazy thoughts, right? So what is there to be afraid of?
Seeing Mo Yu sleeping so soundly, Lin Ruhai, Jia Min and Xiao Daiyu also felt a little sleepy. They all said, since Mo Ge is asleep, why don’t we also go to sleep for a while, just in time to recuperate and go to Jia’s house for a feast tomorrow. So
in the afternoon of the middle of August in the lunar calendar, in the warm autumn sun, the always diligent and self-disciplined Lin family members collectively slept soundly under the "leadership" of Mo Yu. The whole Lin’s house was immersed in a leisurely and relaxing atmosphere, and a healing atmosphere was formed invisibly. It was
not until the evening that they woke up one after another. After washing up, they had a simple dinner and went to bed early. The next morning, they got up and packed up, and took two carriages to Jia’s house.
[Author’s words]
※ Crab claws are golden liquid, and wine hills are Penglai. And you must drink good wine, and get drunk on the high platform under the moon - quoted from Li Bai's "Drinking Alone Under the Moon" No. 4, hehehe, it is an elegant poem about eating crabs, drinking and admiring the moon that Yuyu likes very much.
Suddenly I remembered that I forgot to eat crabs this year, woo woo woo. Try
to get up earlier every day.
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