After thanking her, Lin Daiyu opened her mouth to talk about family matters.
"Sit down first."
Chu Zhen pointed to the sofa, "Just dust off the pillows and put them back. You can pour the tea yourself. Have you finished eating the lychees?"
"There's still some left."
Li Qingzhao was a little embarrassed.
When you are a guest in someone's home, don't eat all the fruits.
Chu Zhen smiled and said, "Do you want to eat first? Don't be polite to me. If you want to eat, just say so. If you don't want to eat, you can just say so. No need for any messy etiquette!"
He emphasized again.
Lin Daiyu listened, hesitated for a moment, and then said: "I have been in poor health since I was a child, and my food is different from other people's. Recently, I have been serving my mother at her bedside, and I am a little tired. I will accept Uncle Chu's kindness another day."
After hearing this, Chu Zhen asked her: "Do you always eat ginseng to recuperate from illness?"
Lin Daiyu shook her head, "I haven't been eating all the time, nor have I been recovering from illness. It's just that I tend to get sick more easily on weekdays, and eating and drinking are quite taboo."
"That's it... Then if you always feel uncomfortable in the future and the doctor can't find any disease, I will try to treat you with Shibi."
Sister Lin in Dream of Red Mansions was born with an insufficiency syndrome and always took ginseng Yangrong pills. Ordinary families could not afford to support Xiaoxiang's concubine Sister Lin.
In addition, in the Dream Book of Red Mansions, the leprous monk actually went to the Lin family very early and met Sister Lin.
But the actual situation was that the Lin family saw the leprous monk for the first time, and Jia Min was saved.
"Thank you, Uncle Chu."
Lin Daiyu stood up and saluted again, with a look of gratitude on her face.
Chu Zhen smiled.
If one day she forgets her etiquette, she will no longer be the daughter of Master Lin Yanzheng.
Oh, now he is Lin Yushijia.
"Sit down... Miss Li, what about you?"
Chu Zhen smiled and asked Li Qingzhao, "I can drink, but it's not appropriate to think about it."
Even if he said there were no taboos here, Li Qingzhao, a sixteen-year-old girl, would never drink at a young man's house casually.
"Uh... I, I don't drink either, no no, I don't eat either."
Li Qingzhao waved his hand to indicate that he did not drink.
The main thing is that Sister Lin will go back later, and she can't stay alone at Chu Langjun's place...
"Okay, I'll order two cups of milk tea for you guys. If you have time, you can take it back and drink it. If you don't, I'll drink it."
Chu Zhen opened the takeout app and asked Lin Daiyu: "Is your mother's illness cured?"
"Thanks to the uncle."
Lin Daiyu showed a smile and started talking about the last time she went back. When she saw the women holding lamps in front of her mother's door, there was still lingering fear on her face:
"I was really scared to death. When I entered the room and saw my mother, she was still conscious, but the doctor had left again. I knew that my mother had regained consciousness, and my father was holding back tears.
I told my father about Uncle Chu, and my father was eager to take people out of the city to look for him. I stayed with my mother until the morning, when my father came back and the master was invited. "
Chu Zhen and Li Qingzhao listened to her talk and heard Lin Ruhai find the leprosy monk, what he said, and quickly gave out the secret recipe.
After taking the medicine, Jia Min took it and her condition immediately eased.
"I woke up at noon and went to visit my mother again. While my mother was sleeping, the maids were waiting on her, so I didn't enter the room...I went to see her again in the evening. My mother's complexion had improved a lot, and she could also drink some porridge. I was very lethargic and slept for several days.”
Lin Daiyu smiled again: "But my mother's illness is getting better day by day. Just at night, I drank two bowls of rice porridge, and she said it was not enough, so I laughed and said I would save it for dinner."
Chu Zhen smiled and said: "That's good. Where is the master?"
He has always had doubts about the mane-headed monk's secret recipe. Is it a coincidence, or is the mane-headed monk somehow miraculous?
Lin Daiyu replied: "After my father saw that the secret recipe was effective, he was overjoyed, with a smile on his face. He was so excited that he burst into tears. In the study, he asked me in detail what happened when I came to Uncle Chu, and he became more respectful to the master.
I wanted to pay him a large medical fee, but the master recited a poem...or maybe sang a song and went out. No one dared to stop him, so my father could only lead me and the girls and women to thank the master again. . "
"What poem?" Li Qingzhao asked curiously. They didn't mention this when they were chatting just now.
"Well, the master sang like this:
Everyone knows that gods are good, but they can never forget their fame!
Where are the generals from ancient to modern times? A pile of grass disappeared in the barren grave.
Everyone knows that gods are good, but gold and silver cannot be forgotten!
In the end, I only regretted that there was not much gathering, and when it was too long, my eyes closed. "
After hearing this, Li Qingzhao smiled and said: "No wonder it's a song, it turns out it's a limerick. Well, it's quite a bit of a warning."
Chu Zhen glanced at her and said to her, "You are a talented woman, you are noble, you are amazing, you look down on "Good Song".
He can't even write a limerick! !
Lin Daiyu herself covered her mouth and laughed, and said: "After hearing this, my father sighed and said that the master is a real free and easy hermit. His fame, gold and silver are all just rubbish. My father also said that he is a layman and can't let me and my mother go. So." He ordered people to repair the ruined temples outside the city, saying that he wanted to rebuild ten temples to repay the master's kindness."
Chu Zhen smiled and said, "The Lin family is indeed rich."
Lin Daiyu blushed, and after hearing the meaning of Chu Zhen's words, she lowered her head and remained silent.
As a daughter, I cannot comment on my father's behavior.
Moreover, she occasionally heard the maids and wives discussing that her father was a good official, and her mother often warned her father not to accept the money sent by those in the officialdom, but only to accept some according to the official customs.
Chu Zhen did not continue this topic. In Dream of Red Mansions, Lin Ruhai wrote to the Jia family to help Jia Yucun recover, and said that all the expenses had been arranged, which showed that Lin Ruhai was at home in the officialdom and was not just an upright official.
but.
According to what Lin Daiyu said, Lin Ruhai was so excited that she shed tears and asked about him in detail. After all, she also knew about Dream of Red Mansions?
"I also told my father the two chapters I read."
The honest sister Lin Daiyu nodded, "Father doesn't care about other things. He said that Chu Xianguan used the history pen, but he didn't look good when he heard Mr. Jia and Leng Zixing discussing the female relatives of Rongguo Mansion behind his back."
After a pause, Lin Daiyu continued: "Because I wanted to report back to the Immortal Official of Chu, my father told me that he would send someone to check to see if Leng Zixing had been to Yangzhou City and whether he had been to Zhitong Temple."
"Jia Yucun still lives in your house?" Chu Zhen asked.
"No?" Li Qingzhao interjected. According to etiquette, Sister Lin will not ask for a teacher again when she reaches such an age.
Sure enough, Lin Daiyu said no. Jia Yucun lived in the city, but she often visited her home.
Of course, at her age, she would never see her former teacher again, and there was no need to.
"What else did your father say?"
Chu Zhen asked again.
Lin Daiyu hesitated for a moment, "Father said, Yang Tuoqi's letter was sent to my uncle two months ago. Mr. Jia once taught me that it is always not good to refuse what you have promised, but if he is really in Zhitong Temple If you talk nonsense to someone, he will write another letter and ask my uncle not to help him too much and just find a county magistrate in front of him."
Chu Zhen nodded.
Originally Lin Ruhai would not tell Lin Daiyu these things in detail, but because he was a historian, Lin Ruhai told her daughter everything.
"The ancient ethics were indeed strict!"
Chu Zhen smiled at them and said, "Jia Yucun could have been strongly recommended by your father, Miss Lin, and would soon become the prefect of Yingtian in Jinling. Now it seems that there is no hope."
Lin Daiyu pursed her lips and didn't say much.
Li Qingzhao's comment was sharp: "He is Sister Lin's teacher. He has a friendship with the Lin family, but he said those things to people behind his back. It shows that he has no kindness in helping Sister Lin's family. In the past, he was all He who is just pretending should stay far away!"
Chu Zhen cried because he wanted to repay Jia Yucun for his kindness, haha.
etc.
If Jia Yucun is no longer the prefect of Yingtian, how will the case of Xue Pan's beating to death be decided?
