Jia Min, who was lying on the couch, dropped the fan she was playing with in her hand.
The maid who was reading the contents of the book suddenly stopped.
It can be clearly seen that on the cover of the book in the maid's hand, the three words "Kaifeng Mansion" are very conspicuous, which is the new story written by Jia Rong's vest.
Ahem, it is said that many of the wives and ladies of the back houses of powerful people in the capital are "overwhelming" book lovers.
Jia Min is naturally not a fan of books, but she likes "overwhelming" stories, in which many plots can be combined with reality.
After all, he has worked in many places with his husband Lin Ruhai, so he is well-informed and knows a lot of official and local affairs.
In ordinary miscellaneous books, the plots in them were far from reality, and although they were funny, they did not arouse her interest at all.
What a scholar, what a romantic, nothing in the face of reality.
The plots in novels and stories like "Cornucopia" are quite real, and they can also give her an idea of the general situation in Jin Province where her husband took office.
Through novels and stories, I know that the officialdom in Jin Province is not easy to deal with. It sounds mysterious, but it is the fact.
Knowing that her husband's life was not easy when he first took office, this was the main reason why she did not take the initiative to ask to go to Jin Province with him.
Otherwise, if she were in the southern provinces, she would not agree to anything.
In the late Emperor's late period, because he wanted a good posthumous name, the Emperor gradually relaxed his control over officialdom.
As a result, corruption was rampant, the officialdom was turbid, and there were too many bad things, which almost shook the foundation of the Daqian Dynasty.
That is to say, after taking office now, he has taken ruthless measures to deal with officialdom issues. Unfortunately, the atmosphere in officialdom is only a little stronger than that in the later period of the emperor's reign.
It’s not clear what the situation is like in the officialdom in the north, but the atmosphere in the officialdom in the south is really hard to describe.
What was most difficult for Jia Min to accept was that it often happened in the south that subordinate officials presented beauties to superior officials.
Not only did those officials not restrain themselves, but they even boasted that this was an elegant matter.
During Lin Ruhai's tenure in the south, she naturally received many rewards from her superiors and beauties from her subordinates.
There are several aunts in the back house, and that's how they got here.
Because of the issue of heirs before, although I felt very unhappy, but in order for the Lin family to have descendants, I could only hold my nose and admit it.
The situation is different now. Jia Min has given birth to the only two children in the Lin family, and they are both direct descendants. Naturally, she cannot tolerate the expansion of Lin Ruhai's back house.
It’s not like she can’t tolerate others!
If she has a pair of biological children, even if another aunt gives birth to a concubine, it will not have much impact on her and her children.
On the contrary, if the Lin family can have more heirs, it will be very beneficial to the future development of the two children.
Clan society naturally attaches great importance to clans.
Lin Ruhai's lineage has long been separated from the Gusu ancestral lineage, but due to the lack of heirs, the entire clan only has one branch, which is pitifully thin.
Because the clan was not prosperous, Lin Ruhai suffered a lot in this regard.
Some secret matters require the help of an absolutely trustworthy person. Only clan members who can suffer both losses and prosper can be trusted.
As for the so-called trusted servants, they are just servants after all. Who can guarantee their loyalty?
And there are some things that servants must never touch.
Jia Min was worried that her son would encounter such embarrassing things in the future, so she was quite open-minded on the issue of concubine children.
Unfortunately, I don’t know why, but the heirs of the Lin family are in a very difficult situation.
Now Lin Ruhai is almost forty years old, and his body is not considered handsome. Naturally, he is even more unable to care for his children.
But despite this, if the officialdom in the north was the same as that in the south, Lin Ruhai would not be able to refuse the good intentions of his colleagues even if he didn't want to.
If he hadn't known through the story "Cornucano" that the environment in Jin Province was not very good, Jia Min would definitely have followed him.
It is also because "Treasure Bowl" written by the author "Touching Mountains" is quite realistic, so after hearing that he has published a new book, Jia Min usually has a lot of free time, so naturally he doesn't mind using it to pass the time.
Who knew that the content at the beginning of the new book "Kaifeng Mansion" had a darker tone, which made her feel uncomfortable listening to it.
Of course, the plot is the same as the reality of quitting the Internet. It directly uses the behavior of the master and servant of the "down-and-out scholar" to expose the unreliability of those miscellaneous books such as scholar ladies.
When I saw the twist in the plot, I was surprised and amused, and I really wanted to show it to my daughter.
Just as the down-and-out scholar and liar said, most of the plots in miscellaneous books about the chance encounter between the scholar and the lady are the result of a long-planned plan.
Apart from anything else, Daiyu was accompanied by enough maids and wives when she went out, and there were also guards surrounding her. How could the so-called down-and-out scholar get close to her?
Even if they were to offer incense and worship Buddha, the place would be cleared immediately and outsiders would not be allowed to approach at all. Those miscellaneous books were all based on the author's unreliable conjectures.
Not unlike "Overwhelming Mountains", he seems to have a very good understanding of the behavioral rules of official families, making people suspect that he is the son of a down-and-out official.
But what happened next shocked Jia Min.
She is also a person who has read a lot of poetry and books, so she naturally knows that there was indeed such a thing as Wuyou Cave in the Northern Song Dynasty, but Uncle Shi only mentioned it briefly.
But in the "overwhelming" writing, Wuyou Cave is synonymous with the Devil's Cave.
The depth of sin inside will definitely chill people to the bone.
And when the plot turned to the kidnapper who played the role of a monk, Jia Min's face was already very bad.
Because she has encountered such an existence.
Of course, she was not sure whether the pair of monks and Taoists were kidnappers.
After all, although that pair of monks and Taoists have a bad image, they do have some real abilities.
But the problem is that the behavior of the pair of monks is almost exactly the same as that described in the novel, which makes her feel creepy.
Thinking about the words and deeds of the monk and Taoist couple, as well as their true purpose, she couldn't help but feel deep suspicion and a deep chill.
I still remember that when Daiyu was full moon, the pair of monks and Taoists came to visit her, with the intention of driving Daiyu away. How could Lin Ruhai, who had finally given birth to an heir at that time, agree to it?
When the youngest son was born and turned one year old, he came again.
Still with the same purpose, he bluntly stated that his younger son was entangled in karma and would have difficulty growing up in the future.
If you want to get rid of the crisis, the best way is to let your younger son practice cultivation with the monks to accumulate blessings.
I didn't think much about it at the time, I just felt unhappy and drove the person away.
But now, after listening to the maid reciting the plot of "Kaifeng Mansion", Jia Min had to be more suspicious. Could it be that the pair of capable monks were the high-level kidnappers specifically targeted at the officials in the story...