Jia Lian has experienced countless funerals, and even organized several of them personally.
Therefore, Jia Lian led Daiyu to arrange Lin Ruhai's funeral with ease.
The only thing worth mentioning is that although Daiyu doesn't like tedious mundane affairs, she still attaches great importance to her father's funeral. With Jia Lian here, she helps her arrange everything carefully, and she also learned some Confucian classics. road. In addition, during this period, I almost stood and sat with Jia Lian, so I became closer to Jia Lian.
Jia Lian's occasional close behavior is also more acceptable. She couldn't accept it, because after her father's coffin was buried in the ground, she couldn't help but feel sad. She threw herself into Jia Lian's arms and cried for a long time, making Jia Lian's clothes wet.
Lin Ruhai's funeral affairs were finished, and all that was left was to deal with the Lin family's property.
It was only after carefully counting the assets of the Lin family that Jia Lian realized what Lin Ruhai had told him before his death, regretting that he could not be considered honest after serving as an official for half his life.
If all the assets of the Lin family are totaled, including those brought to the capital by Lin Ruhai when he was an official in Beijing the year before last, the total assets of the Lin family are roughly estimated to be in the hundreds of thousands and close to one million!
Of course, there are some accumulations from the four generations of Lin family ancestors, but according to Jia Lian, most of them should be the results of Lin Ruhai's twenty years as an official. Moreover, perhaps it mainly focused on the years when Lin Ruhai was the censor of the Salt Patrol.
Having just seized a large number of officials and businessmen related to the salt policy in Yangzhou, Jia Lian certainly knew that anyone who had anything to do with salt would inevitably become rich.
Therefore, Jia Lian didn't find it too strange that the Lin family had such a large amount of assets.
And Jia Lian suddenly felt that he had changed. Now when he looks at these massive family properties, he is very calm, and it is difficult to even raise much interest.
You know, just two or three years ago, he would be happy for a long time even if the emperor rewarded him with a thousand taels of silver.
It can only be said that the wealth of the salt merchants was so charming that it made him forget about the concept of money. He also forgot that he and Wang Xifeng had been calculating carefully for so many years, but they only had a family fortune of more than a hundred thousand taels!
But now, it is naturally different.
Not to mention anything else, Daiyu's dowry money was enough for him and his wives, concubines, and maids to have no worries about food and drink for the rest of their lives.
Thinking of this, Jia Lian couldn't help but smile. He had really made a profit from his plan to marry Daiyu.
Jia Lian was busy counting and converting the Lin family's assets and returning to the capital with good luck. On this day, Jia Lian received a letter sent from Jinling to Yangzhou and then to Suzhou.
The letter was sent by Jia Yucun. At first, he thought Jia Lian was in Yangzhou. When the messenger arrived in Yangzhou, he learned that Jia Lian had come to Suzhou, so he also sent the letter.
The content of the letter is very simple. In addition to being aggressive towards Jia Lian and flattering the cunning salt merchants for their obedient work, the main purpose is to apologize to Jia Lian.
It was said that after they said goodbye that day, he also mentioned the Zhen family's affairs to his wife. After his wife heard this, she remembered the kindness that Feng, the mother-in-law of the Zhen family, had shown her in the past, and had mixed feelings. After enduring it for a while, she still couldn't bear her emotions and went to Duru Prefecture in person.
A few days ago, I wrote back that I had met Feng, and Feng was so excited when he heard about the whereabouts of his daughter that he immediately decided to follow her back to Jinling City. Now the two of them are already on their way back to Jinling. ….
Jia Yucun was afraid that if Jia Lian tried to find someone based on the address he provided, it would be in vain, so he wrote a letter to inform him and apologize.
Although Jia Yucun's letter kept saying that his wife was too worried about her old master and did not listen to his advice to go to Duru Prefecture, Jia Lian still felt that it was not that simple.
Jia Lian has also heard that Jia Yucun is going to Beijing to take up a post. He is afraid that he still wants to join his four major families this time, so is he seizing the opportunity to make friends?
Jia Lian didn't have anything to say about this. After all, the other party had found someone for him, and because he was afraid that he would be disappointed, he even wrote a letter to inform him, which was comprehensive.
In fact, the reason why Jia Lian only asked for the address at first and refused Jia Yucun's help in finding the person was just because he wanted to take some time to take Daiyu and Xiangling to Daruzhou after settling the matter at hand.
While helping Xiangling find her mother, she also took Daiyu out to relax.
But now it seems that it is really rare for him to spare too much time. The matter in Yangzhou has not been completely settled. After taking care of it, it would be inconvenient for him to stay in Jiangnan for a long time. He would have to return to Beijing as soon as possible to resume his duties.
Therefore, the fact that Jia Yucun and his wife helped him find the person did not delay his plan. It can only be said that the plan could not keep up with the changes.
So after replying a letter to Jia Yucun, Jia Lian came to Daiyu's room in the inner courtyard.
Since Daiyu came out of her father's death, she has spent most of her time sorting out the books left by her father.
Lin Ruhai is a book lover. Although he brought some of them to the capital the year before last, the books stored in this old house are still dazzling and countless. It is no exaggeration to describe them as overwhelming. In this era when books are very expensive, these books alone are worth at least tens of thousands of taels of silver.
It happened that Daiyu also liked books, so Jia Lian left the arrangement of books to her. Let her pack it up and bring it all to the capital in the future.
Therefore, at this moment, Daiyu, leading Zijuan, Xueyan and Xiangling, were busy in the room. When Jia Lian walked in, he saw slight sweat on their busy little faces and couldn't help but smile.
Without helping, he walked to the couch above, leaned on the two pillows, and quietly watched the girls working.
Daiyu looked up at him several times, and finally finished counting. She asked the maids to carry the two boxes of books they had sorted out and put them away, and then let them go down to rest.
"Uncle, have all your books been sorted?"
"We're still far from it. We've only finished half of it. There are still a lot of dusty books in the study. I don't know when they will all be sorted out..."
Daiyu walked to Jia Lian's side and replied with a delicate voice and a soft breath.
Seeing Jia Lian smiling as she spoke, she felt a little embarrassed, "Are you looking down on us, saying that we can't finish a few books, unlike you who have the ability to do so many big things outside?" good?"
"Hehehe."
Jia Lian saw that she looked really cute. He smiled while holding her little hand over and wiped the sweat on her forehead with his sleeve. Then when she was a little shy, he snuggled her into his arms and said with a smile, " Nothing, we are different. You only have Zijuan and the others under you, but I have hundreds or thousands of people at your disposal. It is easier to do things with more people. You don’t have to worry at all, just do it slowly, anyway. I still have a lot of things outside that I haven’t dealt with, and I still have a lot of time.…
After leaving Suzhou this time, we may not have time to come back in the next few years, unless we visit the graves of our aunt and uncle again.
Therefore, everything that needs to be done must be done one by one before talking about it. "
Daiyu couldn't help but be secretly moved after hearing this. She knew that Jia Lian had taken time off from official duties to come back, and now that he was still saying that made her feel warm in her heart, so she didn't resist Jia Lian's move of picking her up and sitting on his lap again.
This kind of thing happened several times, and she was almost used to it.
Coincidentally, she also felt that it felt good to be held in Jia Lian's arms. Moreover, she and Jia Lian had already established their relationship. Now, it was not too out of the ordinary. She felt that it should be like this.
"By the way, second brother, what's wrong with you coming here so late?"
Daiyu finally remembered to ask this question.
"There is indeed one thing. Didn't I tell you before that when we are done with the things at hand, we will take the time to go to Duru Prefecture to help Xiang Ling find her mother. Now it seems that there is no need to go to Duru. State."
"What's wrong?"
Jia Lian will tell Daiyu about receiving the letter from Daiyu's mentor Jia Yucun.
Daiyu felt a little strange after hearing this. She had never thought that there was such a coincidence in the world. The wife who filled in her husband's house was actually the maid of Xiangling's mother? And from what Jia Lian said, her mistress was one of the maids responsible for taking care of Dai Xiangling!
She didn't care too much about this. Seeing that Jia Lian was a little regretful when talking about this matter, Daiyu understood Jia Lian's intention after only a brief thought.
Help Xiang Ling find her mother, maybe just
title. After all, Brother Lian is so busy. For the mother of a maid, why is it worth traveling hundreds of miles to find her? Just send a team of people to pick her up.
The second brother must have thought that his father would be in a bad mood just after he left, so he wanted to take her somewhere else to relax, just like he took him to visit Xuan Tomb Panxiang Temple after her mother left!
"I understand what the second brother said. Xiangling's mother has really been found. This is the best result.
As for going to Daruzhou, I originally thought it was too far and didn’t want to go. I was very tired! Wouldn't it be nice to have the best of both worlds?
So, after we have settled the matter here, let’s take Xiang Ling to Jinling. I really don’t know what Xiangling would look like if she saw her mother. "
Although Daiyu was looking forward to being taken out by Jia Lian for sightseeing, she also knew that Jia Lian still had the emperor's mission.
She was already very happy that Jia Lian had this intention, but she didn't necessarily want Jia Lian to take her out. In fact, what she said was not against her will. Her nature was to think of stillness when she was very active, and when she was still very quiet, she wanted to be active.
If we really ask her to travel a long distance, she will definitely still feel tired. If she couldn't be with her sweetheart, she would never want to travel far away.
Jia Lian held Daiyu and turned sideways, so that her little face faced him.
Just by looking at her expression, Jia Lian knew what she was thinking. He touched her head lovingly, and with a somewhat displeased frown, he sat her down on the couch, stood up and said with a smile, "Since So, it's settled, after we pack up here, we'll go to Aurous Hill. It just so happens that you, a good student, haven't seen your teacher for some years, so it's time to go and see him."
Daiyu raised her eyebrows, sat on the couch and gave Jia Lian a noncommittal look.
Because she was so cute and pretty, with any expression she made, she was so adorable that she wouldn't pay for her life. Jia Lian, who was about to leave, couldn't help but bent down and bowed his head, as if he wanted to kiss her.
Daiyu's expression suddenly became tense, because it was difficult to avoid with her legs rolled up, so she hurriedly closed her eyes in panic.
After waiting for a long time, the imaginary kiss from her second brother did not come. She only felt a slight chill on her forehead and her neck shrank. When she opened her eyes, she saw Jia Lian laughing, turning around and striding away.
Only then did Daiyu realize that her little heart was beating loudly. Her face suddenly turned red. She was overwhelmed with embarrassment and leaned down between the two pillows that Jia Lian had just leaned on. She smelled the smell in her nose. The aura of Jia Lian that still remained made his heart beat faster.
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Peaches and plums are not familiar with the spring breeze
