Shenjing Xicheng, Ningguo Mansion.

East Road Courtyard, bedroom.

The whole room was illuminated by a large white candle as thick as a baby's arm. However, the candlelight emitted in this room by burning a large candle, which was enough for an ordinary person to chew for a month, looked very white.

On the wall of the bedroom is "Begonia Sleeping in Spring" painted by Tang Bohu, and on both sides is a couplet written by Qin Taixu, a scholar of the Song Dynasty. The couplet goes: The tender cold locks dreams because of the cold spring, and the fragrance envelops people like the fragrance of wine.

On the table is the precious mirror that Wu Zetian had set up in the mirror room at that time. On one side is a golden plate with flying swallows standing and dancing. In the plate is a papaya that An Lushan threw and injured Taizhen.

On it is the couch where Princess Shouchang lies on His Royal Highness Hanzhang, and hanging on it is a couplet made by Princess Tongchang.

It was originally a secret scene of a wealthy and fragrant boudoir, but under the illumination of the deep white candlelight, it seemed to be cast in a strange light.

In the quiet room, no noise could be heard, it was eerily quiet.

However, there was a "person" lying on the couch.

One of them was only in his twenties, but at this moment his hair was already gray, his cheeks were thin and sunken, and his eyes were protruding and seemed unwilling to close even when he fell asleep.

This picture...

Horrible!

"Squeak...ah!"

The door to the outer room opened, and soon after, the felt curtain was raised, and a woman with a white body and a charming figure walked slowly inside, carrying a copper basin.

If it’s not the Qin family, then who is it?

However, today's Qin family has long lost the dignity of Grandma Rong before.

The two girls around her, Baozhu and Ruizhu, were transferred away by the You family on some pretext, and the Qin family was solely responsible for Jia Rong's eating, drinking, and diarrhea.

The Qin family is originally a small family, not to mention that the Qin family was originally adopted from the Yangsheng Hall.

After Jia Zhen's death, rumors began to circulate privately that the father of the Qin family, Qin Yesheng, fell ill due to anger, and that his younger brother Qin Zhong could not even enter the east gate.

The mother clan is not strong, so now it can only be bullied.

"Uncle, just wash your face."

Mrs. Qin's eyes were faint, as if she could express endless emotions. Although her face was not painted with makeup, she still looked like the person in the painting.

Compared with Jia Rong who looks like a ghost on the bed, it is like a picture of a beautiful Shura.

However, looking at this most beautiful wife in the world, there was no trace of love in Jia Rong's protruding eyes, only the deepest resentment and hatred, which was shocking.

When Mrs. Qin saw this, she was about to cry and said: "Uncle, wash your face, take medicine, and have a rest early."

Jia Rong looked at her with a ferocious face and squeezed out two words: "Come here."

Upon hearing this, Mrs. Qin's face turned pale, but she didn't dare to disobey. She stepped forward little by little. As soon as she got closer, Jia Rong suddenly stretched out her hand, grabbed Mrs. Qin's neck, and then used force!

Mrs. Qin's tears immediately flowed down, and her desire to survive made her struggle back.

Jia Rong's lumbar spine was broken. Although her arms still had some strength, they were no better than normal people, so Qin was able to break free.

This result made Jia Rong even more furious. He used the most vicious and filthy words to scold Ms. Qin until she was completely covered with blood, humiliating her even worse than a bitch.

He placed all the sins on the Qin family, as if it was all the Qin family's fault.

In this rare and luxurious bedroom, only Jia Rong's sad words echoed in the end:

"Why do not you go to hell?"

"Why do not you go to hell?"

"Why do not you go to hell?!"

…

Bu Zheng Fang, Lin Mansion.

Because the servants of the Lin family are all elderly people brought from Yangzhou Prefecture, and the furnishings in the study rooms, front halls, side halls, living rooms, and main halls of Yanyuan Yamen are all registered and stored clearly.

So it is very cheap to rearrange it.

When Jia Qiang escorted the Lin family's father and daughter back, although the exterior looked quite different, the interior layout was actually 70% similar to the Yanyuan Yamen.

"It just lacks a lot of bamboo."

Jia Qiang smiled and said, "When the spring comes and the flowers bloom, my uncle will plant some more?"

After entering the second gate, he walked forward along the cobblestone corridor for a while and went up to the Chaoshou Veranda. Seeing Aunt Mei rushing to greet her, Lin Ruhai laughed, nodded and said, "Let's wait until spring."

Jia Qiang got out of the way, and Aunt Mei and Daiyu supported Lin Ruhai together. Jia Qiang smiled and said, "I'm afraid my great-uncle and father-in-law will be too busy to care about this when the spring comes."

After walking for half a tea, I entered the hanging flower door. There are hand-painted verandahs on both sides, and in the middle is the entrance hall. There is a rockery as a large screen, and there are three pavilions. Behind the hall is the main house at the back and five upper rooms in front of the courtyard.

, all with carved beams and painted pillars, with verandahs and wing rooms running through mountains on both sides.

In the main room, the plaque of Zhonglin Hall has been hung up again.

This is the nickname of the Lin family, and you must carry it with you wherever you go.

Entering the main hall, the scenery and furnishings are almost the same as those of Yangzhou Yanyuan Yamen, and there are heaters heating up the place. Although no one has been there for a long time, there is no chilly atmosphere.

Lin Ruhai was very satisfied and everyone sat down. When Aunt Mei and her maid Xiuzhu brought tea, Lin Ruhai took a sip and said with a smile on her face: "I thought that after entering Beijing, there are always a lot of things that I don't feel comfortable with.

It seems like everything is fine now?"

Aunt Mei smiled and said: "Thanks to Brother Qiang, everything else is easy to say. If it weren't for the boiler heater he created, I would have suffered a lot."

Lin Ruhai smiled and nodded, but didn't praise him much. There was no need.

He looked at Jia Qiang for a while, then sighed and said, "I didn't expect that the relationship between you and the Jia family would get to this point."

Jia Qiang shook her head and said: "My great-uncle, and Aunt Lin, don't need to take care of me. To put it bluntly, the old lady's love for Aunt Lin is not fake, and she is also good to my great-uncle. I have never

We believe in repaying kindness with kindness and revenge with hatred. Therefore, which way my uncle and Aunt Lin should be close to, naturally they should be closer to that. But there is one thing I think I still want to say."

Lin Ruhai smiled and said, "That's what you say."

Daiyu also looked at Jia Qiang with bright eyes.

Jia Qiang looked a little solemn and said: "I shouldn't speculate on things in the palace. I just heard about the dangers in the palace and didn't go to court. Why did the emperor give Jia's daughter a title? His purpose was to get rid of those fools in the West Palace.

Except for those who don’t understand, everyone else is well aware of it.

The palace is closely related to the outer dynasty. If the Jia family really has outstanding talents and can inherit the ancestral influence and buck the trend and make a career, then the eldest aunt in the palace may be able to live longer...

But the situation of the Jia family, my uncle and uncle have also seen, is not even moderate. When the shadow of the late Duke Rong is exhausted and the Jia family is defeated, the fate of the people in the palace will definitely not be much better.

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When the building is about to collapse, whoever dares to enter will be buried with him.

There is no need for me to comment on these situations, my great-uncle must understand. I am just worried that my great-uncle will be dragged into the pit of fire by the Jia family because he will remember the kindness of Xian Rongguo."

These words made Aunt Mei and Daiyu turn pale. Although they were confused as to how the Jia family could reach this point, Jia Qiang's words were really shocking.

They didn't understand, but Lin Ruhai understood.

His face was solemn, his brows were furrowed, and his eyes fell on the square carved tiles on the ground.

The emperor has wanted to take control of the military for a long time, but the Yuanping heroes are too powerful and the Supreme Emperor is still here. He cannot, and does not dare, personally attack the Yuanping heroes.

The only way is to find the heroes of the founding line and use their strength to capture some of the Yuanping heroes, thus gaining some military power.

Only the founding lineage of the country, the Four Kings and Eight Dukes, are now mostly ineffective. Only the Duke of Rongguo, who produced the amazingly talented Jia Daishan in the previous generation, can carve out a place in the army dominated by the heroes of Yuanping.

A considerable number of Jia Daishan's old troops still occupy important positions in the army.

It's a pity that Jia Daishan died too early, otherwise Emperor Long'an wouldn't be so uneasy.

And just as Jia Qiang said, if Rongfu really has talents that can be used, taking advantage of the emperor's support and following the example of Rongguo, he can stand alongside the heroes of Yuanping on his own.

On the contrary, the Jia family will become richer and richer, and Yuanchun will become more stable in the palace.

Unfortunately, there is really no talent among the adult men in the Jia family.

Therefore, Emperor Long'an would most likely only borrow the power of the Jia family, such as Wang Ziteng and his ilk, to eliminate the fire and eliminate a group of Yuanping heroes, leaving the seats vacant for the emperor's confidants.

Given the current situation of the Jia family, if you get involved in something like this, you are bound to end up dead without a burial place.

However, to the emperor, the life and death of the Jia family was insignificant and insignificant.

In order to stabilize the imperial power, not to mention the concubine's kinship, it is the descendant's kin, it is the emperor's mother's kin, and you can give up whatever you should give up.

This is the general trend, so as long as the emperor's mind remains unchanged, the outcome of the Jia family has actually been doomed from the beginning.

The more prosperous the past two years have been, the more severe the collapse will be in the future.

Being exposed to such changes of power, it is difficult to end well, not to mention that the Jia family currently has no successor.

Lin Ruhai could understand all of this.

However, the late Duke Jia Daishan was very kind to him. In the early years when he first entered the officialdom, he was able to go smoothly without being attacked by villains, all because of Jia Daishan's protection in the court.

It was not until Jia Daishan died of illness that he had the tragedy that his legitimate son fell into the water and died young, and his wife died of depression.

With such a connection, how could Lin Ruhai sit back and watch the Jia family fall into a certain death situation without doing anything?

"Actually, it's not like there's no way to save the Jia family."
To be continued...