After Jia Lian sat down, Lin Ruhai let everyone use the table, but he put down his chopsticks before taking two bites and looked at Jia Lian.

In this way, others could see that Lin Ruhai must have something to say, and they didn't even stop.

Sure enough, Lin Ruhai waited for a moment of silence at the table, then smiled at Jia Lian and said, "Please come over, I have something important to ask you."

"Uncle, please "Said."

"My family's ancestral home is in Suzhou, and we are here only temporarily, so I have already agreed with the elders of the clan that it would be more appropriate to send your aunt's coffin to the ancestral home of Suzhou for burial.< br />
It has been decided to carry the coffin back in two days.

Because I am short of energy and have government duties, I am afraid that I will not be able to do it, so I would like to ask you to do it for me. I wonder if you would like to take care of external affairs and prevent neglect of relatives and friends at home and abroad?"

Jia Lian could clearly feel that as soon as Lin Ruhai said this, the entire hall became quieter.

Jia Lian himself was surprised.

Although Jia Min is his aunt, after marrying to the husband, Jia Min becomes a member of the Lin family.

Unless there is really no one in the Lin family, outsiders will not be able to handle the funeral.

Obviously, there are clearly ten or twenty Lin family members sitting here, but Lin Ruhai asked outsiders to help with funeral arrangements, which seems a bit unreasonable.

“Uncle, no!”

As expected, Lin Lao in the hall could not sit still and immediately stood up to object.

Because since their family came here from Suzhou, they have almost controlled everything in the Lin family.

These days, they personally experienced the prosperity of Lin Mansion. In order to organize the funeral for Jia Min, the money from Baihuahua was sprinkled out like water. Naturally, they all got some benefits from it.

There is also Lin Ruhai’s lofty status in official circles.

After the funeral and the obituary, there was not a single official from the entire Yangzhou Prefecture who did not come to express their condolences!

The most important thing is that Lin Ruhai has no son!

It is rumored that Lin Ruhai intends to choose someone from the side house as his heir to inherit the family business in the future...

What kind of temptation is this?

That was also the reason why their family had just received the news that Jia Min had died of illness, so they rushed to Yangzhou at night to help the director, just to show off in front of Lin Ruhai.

But the first few days were fine. They all tried their best to show off. Later, as the number of people coming to express their condolences decreased, the number of people who came to pay their respects to the mourners became more and more difficult.The days are getting boring. In addition, being in a prosperous place, and suddenly having a lot of harmful money in his hands, he became more and more unbearable to be lonely, so naturally he had more time to sneak out with his brothers from the same race to have a good time.

"Uncle, cousin Lian came all the way from the capital to pay homage to my aunt. He is already exhausted. Why bother him with such trivial matters now? Let him have a good rest in the house and leave other matters to me. The nephews can just deal with it."

Facing everyone's gaze, Lin Lao smiled.

Several other children of the Lin family who felt they were also competitive immediately nodded in agreement.

Lin Ruhai didn’t speak, and the few people sitting in the hall were no longer calm. The eldest among them considered it and said: "Ruhai is a good nephew, but what are they doing these days? If there is anything that is not thoughtful enough, just tell them and they will correct it."

Lin Ruhai hurriedly handed over his hands: "The Third Master is overly worried. Zhu'er and the others have acted very prudently. These days Thank you for having them help take care of things in the house.

But they are all young after all, and in two days, officials from Yangzhou will probably come to offer sacrifices. After all, Brother Zhu and the others are just white bodies, and they are not welcome. I was afraid of any inconvenience, so I asked Brother Lian to help.

Brother Lian was not only born in the government, but also held a sixth-grade position. I heard that he also handled white affairs when he was in Beijing. If With him helping me take care of everything, I can feel more at ease."

After finishing speaking, Lin Ruhai didn't say much and turned to look at Jia Lian: "I wonder if Lian'er is willing to help?"
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Jia Lian ignored the different looks in the eyes of Lin Fu and others, stood up and said with a smile: "Thanks to my uncle's trust, my nephew will live up to his trust and will do his best to get everything done!"
< br />Although I don’t know why the Lin clan lost Lin Ruhai’s trust, as Jia Min’s natal family, they must be on Lin Ruhai’s side at this time.

If nothing else, he is quite good at handling these common things.

"Sit down quickly."

When Lin Ruhai saw Jia Lian's agreement, a smile appeared on her face, and she ordered the housekeeper and others to listen to Jia Lian on everything. arrange.

Although he did not directly strip away the authority of Lin Fu and others, the housekeeper and others already understood what Lin Ruhai meant. From now on, many external affairs will be handled by Jia Lian.

Although many members of the Lin family were dissatisfied and unwilling to accept this, they did not dare to say anything more.

The Lin family has fallen into decline. Apart from Lin Ruhai, there is no one in the family who can support the family. If it weren't for Lin Ruhai's care these years, some people in the Lin family might not even be as good as ordinary people. Under such circumstances, who would dare to contradict Lin Ruhai?

After finishing the meal with everyone's own thoughts, Lin Ruhai called Jia Lian into the inner hall to talk.

In line with the mentality that family scandals should not be made public, Lin Ruhai did not explain the reasons for his arrangement to Jia Lian. After chatting for a few words, he only said: "I'd like you to worry more about your aunt's funeral."

"I don't dare, my uncle said something serious, this is a matter of duty."

With a simple courtesy, Lin Ruhai tilted his head and ordered the maid: "Call Yu'er, and we'll do it." He said that his second cousin Lian has arrived and asked her to come out and meet him."

When Jia Lian heard this, his heart moved slightly, but he didn't show it on his face.

After a while, I saw a girl being led out of the back hall.

Judging from his age, he is about eighty-nine years old, but judging from his stature, he is extremely delicate.

Ordinary white linen clothes, a philistine thing, look tactful and sad when worn.

When she walked up to him and raised her little face that looked like weeping but not crying, and looking sad but not sad, Jia Lian truly understood what it means to be weak and weak, and what it means to be sick and sick!

This is a person who can make people feel pity for him even if he has a heart of stone.

"I met my father..."

The crisp, soft voice perfectly matched his expression, beautiful and pleasant.

Perhaps he was a little afraid of strangers. After he bowed to Lin Ruhai to greet him, he only glanced at Jia Lian and bowed to Jia Lian, but did not call anyone.

Jia Lian had already stood up and hurriedly returned the gift.

Lin Ruhai knew that her daughter was lonely, so she took the initiative to introduce to Jia Lian: "This is my and your aunt's daughter, whose nickname is Daiyu."

Jia Lian handed over again: "I've met my sister."

Lin Ruhai said to Daiyu again: "This is your second brother Lian, the son of your eldest uncle."

Daiyu said hurriedly : "Daiyu has met the second brother Lian."

After saying that, she was unwilling to face such false courtesy and walked to her father to stand beside him.

Jia Lian naturally didn’t think anything was wrong.

Lin Daiyu was born with a melancholic temperament and had no brothers or sisters. She grew up alone and was inevitably withdrawn.

Her narrow-minded and fun-loving personality was probably developed later in Rongguo Mansion.

It can also be said that the years between being taken to Rongguo Mansion by Jia Mu and before she grew up were the happiest days in Daiyu's life.

As for growing up...

In this era, there is no fatherA woman whose mother is in charge of life-long affairs is inevitably more miserable.

She is such an independent woman, but she meets Jia Baoyu, who specializes in "sexual obscenity". The result can be imagined.

When he saw the Red Mansion in his previous life, Jia Lian was very angry. Even if Jia Baoyu can be a little tougher and not be so afraid of the authority of his elders, even if he throws jade to maintain his relationship with Daiyu like he did when he was a child, I'm afraid the result will be different.

It’s just the fault, it’s destined to be this way.

But in this life, if he can achieve his ambition and establish a career, no matter what, he will protect this immortal who has fallen into the mortal world.

Jia Lian didn’t take it seriously, but Lin Ruhai was afraid that Daiyu would lose etiquette in front of Jia Lian, so she said: “Yu’er, your second cousin Lian came to Yangzhou from Beijing this time. In addition to paying homage to your mother, I came here specially to pick you up.

Your grandmother wrote a letter, saying that she would take you to live in Beijing for a while. When your mother's affairs are finished, you can do whatever you want. Brother, go to the capital. Your grandmother will take care of you there, which is better than being by my side..."

Lin Ruhai said slightly sadly, unconsciously wiping her moist eyes.

He is like this, let alone our sentimental Sister Lin!

After hearing what her father said, Lin Daiyu's two big watery eyes suddenly overflowed, looking pitiful. Just because there were outsiders present, she never said a word, just looked at her father with tears in her eyes, as if she wanted to use her tears to defeat him and make him take his life back.

When Jia Lian saw the father and daughter who were probably crying, he knew that staying there would be an eyesore and would not be conducive to Lin Ruhai's comfort to Daiyu, so he resigned decisively.

Sure enough, as soon as he left, Daiyu couldn't help but cry. She knelt in front of Lin Ruhai and begged: "My daughter is willing to serve her father and serve tea and meals every day. Please Father, please don’t send your daughter to the capital..."