Thinking of this, Lin Ruhai faintly regretted why he had replied to the ancestor of the Jia family that letter of agreement.
But now it was too late to regret it. After thinking about it, when ordering people to accompany him, Lin Ruhai specially selected four big-bodied and round-waisted housekeepers, and packed them into the group along with Lin Daiyu's wet nurse.
If Lin Daiyu hadn't entered the inner courtyard of Jia's house, which was full of female relatives, Lin Ruhai would have thought of bringing ten or eight of the family's guards with her to protect her daughter from being treated poorly.
It's a pity that there is no point worrying about the current situation. With the arrival of the Xue family, Jia Lian's return trip with Lin Daiyu has been put on the agenda.
Jia Lian didn't care that the Xue family wanted to go with him.
He had had enough fun in Yangzhou, and it was time to return.
The group of people returning to the capital was truly magnificent.
Not only because there are so many people, but also because each family brings a lot of luggage.
In order to prevent her daughter from being wronged, Lin Ruhai could not wait to move her entire family there. Everyday items and daily consumption items were moved boat by boat to the water as if they were free of charge.
This made the Xue family, who claimed to be an imperial merchant, also dumbfounded.
The two little girls were just on a boat alone, but they had no idea what was going on behind them. As women traveling far away for the first time, they were extremely curious about the things around them.
It was precisely because of this mutual companionship that the nearly half-month trip by water was not so boring.
People like Mai Fan have really never experienced the ravages of ancient society before. No matter how huge the boat he made is, the scenery day after day and the constant trembling with the size of the wind and waves are still there.
The hull of the ship caused a lot of trouble for Mai Fan.
When he finally set foot on the pier on the outskirts of Beijing, if it weren't for the help of a helpful servant beside him, he might have weakened his legs and knelt on the roadside first.
Given his quality, it still took him half a quarter of an hour to get his feet used to the hard ground.
Not to mention his mother and younger sister who were accompanying him.
Thinking of this, Mai Fan first asked his family's manager to find someone to pick them up in the capital.
Let the people of the Xue family carry the young lady's sedan chair over first, so that the female family members can ride on it, so as not to be burdened later.
Probably because there was too much movement, there was a bit of commotion at the Jingjiao Pier today.
The porters who usually worked for a living by the water were now being stopped dozens of meters away by the stewards of several houses, waiting for the young master in charge to give them orders before they were allowed to approach.
"First let our own people carry the sedan over. Wait until the people leave the pier, and then we can take care of the rest."
"As for my sister and the Lin family's sister, have anyone from the Jia family reached the shore?"
The person in charge of the Xue family who stayed in the capital was a really shrewd middle-aged man. He showed a look of contempt on his face, and then he put it back: "I haven't arrived yet."
Mai Fan nodded, which was reasonable, and then made the following arrangements: "Will the manager of the Lin family come to take care of it?"
"If they come, just ask them if they want to take them back first, or let their young lady stay with our young lady and stay in our Xue Mansion for the time being."
"We are all relatives of the same family. After the Jia family sends us a message, I will take my sister and the lady from the Lin family to visit the Duke's Mansion."
"At that time, when we send people there, no one will say that our family doesn't understand etiquette."
The steward was convinced. He nodded and pointed to the other team, which was well-behaved and had strict rules, and said to his young master: "The Lin family has been waiting at the pier for a long time."
"I was thinking that there might be no reason why the young lady came to stay at our house temporarily."
Mai Fan looked at the opponent's team and nodded. He just asked a few words to let the Lin family know where the master was, and stopped taking care of it.
This time, the servants were finally needed. After receiving the report, the Lin family quickly found the main ship where Lin Daiyu was.
With the help of the servants from the capital, the young lady on the boat was picked up.
The steward responsible for escorting the farewell this time also made contact with the Lin family's own people.
Now that the real owner has been found, the person in charge of the Lin family has no worries anymore. He notified the stewards of the Xue family and the Jia family, and waved his hand, and a large team of porters, who had gotten up early in the morning and hired them in advance, came with sticks.
Pushing the cart, he surrounded three large ships carrying the Lin family's luggage.
The young lady's soft sedan went first, and Grandma helped her get on the sedan.
Lin Daiyu was a little worried at first, but when she saw the maids beside her standing in a circle around the four corners of the sedan chair and walking away with the sedan bearers, she felt at ease.
She was also reluctant to let go of her little sister Baochai, but her reluctance was diluted a lot when she thought that she could first go to the Lin family's old house that her father mentioned and see the bamboo forest in the yard for him.
Xue Baochai watched Sister Lin go away, and immediately asked her brother what was the reason.
Mai Fan deliberately raised his voice a bit, and looked directly at Jia Lian, who was also puzzled, and gave what he thought was the most correct answer: "Maybe the Jia family is too immersed in the sadness of losing their daughter, so
Forgot, they still have a living relative waiting for them to take them home."
"It's just that Brother Lian, you are the upright young master of the Duke's Palace, the only legitimate son of Uncle Jia, and the most important person in the Jia family who wants to seize the title."
"How come when someone like you returns to Beijing, will your family members be late for some reason?"
"What kind of big event happened in the house that caused the serious young master of the Jia family to be thrown onto the dock?"
Mai Fan shook his head and looked back at his own house and the busy stewards of the Lin family: "The Lin family is just a little master under seven years old, so he can ask the chief steward here to pick him up in person. The first family to come, lest
Let your master be neglected."
"A person of my brother's ability does not receive the same treatment... I am really worthless for my brother, and I feel wronged on his behalf!"
"I don't know which person in charge of the Jia family is the person in charge today. If this person is placed in our Xue family...Xue Yi, tell me, what will happen to him?"
This steward Xue Yi was one of the stewards Xue Jue placed in Kyoto to be in charge of liaison with the palace. When he heard the string and understood the elegant meaning, he pretended to sigh seriously and replied: "If such a steward is placed in
The Xue family must have fought thirty battles and ended up in a distant state of decline."
"I just don't know if the rules of the Jia family are as strict as those of our Xue family."
