The Overlord of the Red Mansion

Chapter 186 Borrowing Books
In the afternoon, Lin Daiyu came over quietly to play.

The summer was hot and the days were long and tiring. Not only did the old lady hide at home in her pajamas to rest and take a nap, but even the maids hid in the shade to doze off.

The girls were all hiding at home during the hottest time. Lin Daiyu brought her maids over to play. After leaving Zijuan, Xueyan and other maids in the front yard, she came to the pharmacy herself.

She came once during the Chinese New Year, and Lin Daiyu quickly and gently pushed open the door and walked in.

As soon as I entered the door, I saw a beautiful and quiet girl looking over here.

Yinglian and a little girl in her teens were sitting on low chairs taking a nap. They may have looked over here after hearing the sound of the door being pushed open.

Lin Daiyu walked in with a smile and gently stepped into the threshold.

Yinglian nodded and pointed inside.

Lin Daiyu knew that this meant she could go in, so she smiled and walked in quietly.

Jia Rong hasn't been going to the yard to play for a while, and he doesn't even go there for dinner. He spends most of his time here to escape the summer heat, and only goes out for a walk at night.

Jia Yuanchun and others knew that Jia Rong was busy with work, so they naturally did not dare to come and disturb him.

Only Shi Xiangyun, Sanchun, Xue Baochai, Lin Daiyu and others would come and visit occasionally.

The direction Yinglian pointed to was not where Jia Rong worked, but the corridor of the study where he usually rested.

Lin Daiyu quickly and quietly walked to the door of Jia Rong's inner study.

The ground here is cool. Except for the special ventilation holes, most places are blocked by multiple doors. They are only opened in the summer to keep things cool.

The floor is made of stone that dissipates heat quickly and is polished very smoothly. Every square meter is polished entirely by hand, which consumes a lot of manpower and resources. The stone bricks on the floor of this pharmacy alone are much more expensive than the rockery in the garden outside.

The good thing is that it is easy to cool down if you mop the floor frequently in the summer.

Jia Rong has no shortage of manpower. In fact, the maids in the front yard are more tired and have more work to do than the maids in the young ladies' gardens.

Correspondingly, these maids can stay, but the maids of young ladies are easier to replace.

Jia Rong was taking a nap and did not pay any attention to the noise he heard.

Lin Daiyu walked quietly into the study and looked curiously at the vast number of books classified into different categories.

I've been here once before, but there was someone with me that time, so I didn't have time to see many places.

Lin Daiyu walked to the table, curious about what book Jia Rong would read.

I quickly picked up a book and took a look.

Lin Daiyu read very quickly, and by the time she realized what she meant by what she read, it was already too late.

Lin Daiyu quickly threw the book on the table.

Jia Rong opened his eyes at this time, and smiled when he saw Lin Daiyu.

"What happened to Sister Daiyu?"

Lin Daiyu looked at Jia Rong, then looked away, "I thought you were busy refining elixirs and reading, but I didn't expect you to hide here and read such obscene books!"

Jia Rong didn't care about these accusations. "How can I know if I don't watch? Daiyu, if you don't watch, will you be like dough on your wedding night, allowing me to knead it?"

Lin Daiyu laughed and said, "You are not ashamed anymore. If my father were here, he would definitely scold you!"

Jia Rong smiled and said, "Your father and I often discuss the art of keeping healthy in bed. We are not unaware of each other. At most, I promised to help you and say a few words to me. In fact, I just laughed it off."

"Besides, I don't believe you would tell anyone about this. How can a girl say such a thing out loud?"

Lin Daiyu knew that Jia Rong had decided to take advantage of her, and when she saw him reaching out to tidy up the books on the desk, she went over to help.

While packing, Lin Daiyu complained, "My father would never be like you. When he sent me to Rong Mansion, he said that he would never marry again."

Jia Rong laughed and said, "Have you ever thought about why your father said that in the beginning, and why he remarried later?"

Lin Daiyu frowned and looked at Jia Rong again, "Please give me some advice, Brother Rong."

Jia Rong stood up and pulled Lin Daiyu to sit on the chair where his body temperature still remained.

"Just sit down and listen, I'll do it."

Jia Rong packed his things and started talking about Lin Ruhai again.

"Your father was an official in the Jinling area. Yangzhou is far from Suzhou and Hangzhou, but close to Jinling. If he wanted to do something, he needed the connections of the Jia, Shi, and Wang families."

"As the son-in-law of the Jia family, I could use whatever I wanted. But I was a nobody at the time, and neither were the rest of the family, so naturally I gave the resources to my son-in-law."

"But after your mother died, the relationship ended. Our family didn't have a girl like your father at the time, and Yingchun was less than ten years old. There was no Jia daughter who could be your father's successor. If your father married again, he would no longer be considered a member of the Jia family."

"Later, after I got to know your father, we became half teacher and half friend. Only then could your father get married and have children with peace of mind. However, he did not expect that he was still destined to be childless." Jia Rong destroyed the perfect image of Lin Ruhai in Lin Daiyu's heart.

This was the first time Lin Daiyu heard this. Thinking about it from the perspective of various clues and facts, she soon discovered that what Jia Rong said was the most consistent fact with the original situation.

My father did not love my mother alone, but due to various considerations such as the Jia family and the officialdom, he had no plans to marry for the time being.

After Jia Rong passed away, the Jia family had a new generation of successor, who needed Lin Ruhai's assistance, so he continued to give Lin Ruhai support.

Just with the emperor's appointment, you can become an official, but it is difficult to do anything.

The emperor's appreciation does not mean unlimited support. If you don't produce concrete results, don't even think about getting promoted.

Local support is very important. After Jia Rong arrived there, he directly helped Lin Ruhai to establish connections.

Lin Daiyu frowned and looked at Jia Rong and asked in a low voice: "When I entered the Jia family, was it to marry into the family or for something else?"

Jia Rong smiled and said, "Different times lead to different choices. Don't you feel that the old lady's attitude towards you guys is sometimes good and sometimes bad? Sometimes she loves you very much, and sometimes she doesn't want to care about you."

It was obviously Jia Rong who was causing trouble in the West, but when Jia Rong said this, Lin Daiyu would think of the changes in the old lady's attitude over the years.

Jia Rong was afraid that she thought too highly of the old lady, so he said, "I treated Xichun the best at the beginning, and I will treat you the best after you passed away. Your father was still alive, and you were a person that the emperor valued. I was not very famous at that time, and I could not show off because of Yuanchun's matter."

Lin Daiyu smiled and said, "It's obviously your own business. I heard about your affairs from my parents a long time ago. They both opposed your relationship with Sister Yuanchun. My mother even said that the old lady was confused, and my father also said that you were a useless bastard."

Jia Rong smiled and said, "So there is this. Sure enough, everything becomes much clearer after checking the accounts. I will have to give your father a good talk on his death anniversary."

Lin Daiyu rolled her eyes at him with a smile, not wanting to say anything bad about her father to this frivolous man.

Lin Ruhai's funeral was still handled by Jia Rong, and it was Jia Rong who personally escorted him back and brought him back, and he was busy going back and forth for a long time.

"You'd better read less of this kind of idle books. Aren't you helping the emperor to make medicine?" Lin Daiyu was afraid that Jia Rong would continue to speak ill of her father, so she shifted the focus to Jia Rong's affairs.

After packing up his things, Jia Rong went straight to the side to wash his hands and face, using cold water to sober up from the drowsiness caused by his nap.

"Almost everything the emperor wants is ready. We just need to stay in seclusion for a month at the end of the month. The emperor doesn't need much medicine right now, but it can be used as a reward to enrich the national treasury. I have been making some cooling and anti-itching medicine these days to help the emperor and empress heal the acne scars on their faces. I will go there again in the evening."

"You don't need to worry about refining medicine. As for reading idle books, it's mainly because I'm curious about how people outside treat their own men and women."

Jia Rong walked up to Lin Daiyu and placed his fingers dipped in cold water on her neck unexpectedly.

"Ah!" Lin Daiyu quickly covered her neck and glared at Jia Rong with anger and laughter.

Jia Rong was about to reach out and touch her again, but Lin Daiyu quickly stood up and said, "I'm going to avoid you, a dishonest person who only likes to bully others. I'm leaving now!"

Jia Rong wiped his hands on his clothes casually and asked, "Do you want to take some books home to read?"

"The content of the book may be realistic or imaginary, but you know what? I see that many writers write the same thing when writing about young girls. They write about imaginary things over and over again, which are obviously fake. But when they write about other people's wives, their writing is full of talent and imagination, and the truth is revealed between the lines."

Jia Rong said with a smile: "I have always been the kind of person who likes my own woman and not other people's women. Even Sister Feng seduced me first. How can I not like my own wife and daughter and always be obsessed with other people's women?"

"Just relax and watch. Who in our family can laugh at you? If anything goes wrong, just push it onto me."

Lin Daiyu was too embarrassed to actually take one.

Jia Rong simply picked up one and threw it over.

"It's picked up! And it's hidden!"

Lin Daiyu subconsciously took one and quickly left with a red face.

Jia Rong was in a good mood. He quickly packed up and went to the palace to deliver the medicine.

The painkillers were actually prepared a long time ago, but I just didn't want to hand them over so soon.

This time I gave her an antipruritic medicine that I already had, called Ruby Cooling Paste. It is a red paste-like medicine that will give you a cool and comfortable feeling after applying it.

The specific principle is actually not complicated. It is to create a sterile environment to allow the body's epidermal tissue to replace naturally.

The composition and proportion of the drug are not as important as the sterile environment.

The ointment also needs to be made in an environment that is as sterile and clean as possible, so Jia Rong's laboratory was sealed and a lot of sterilization materials were prepared.

But it is impossible to achieve absolute sterility. Sometimes drugs may cause unexpected problems due to unobservable reasons. Jia Rong himself never takes medicines he makes, and rarely gives immature medicines to his family members.

Whether a drug is relatively safe or not depends on a large number of comparisons of results. Jia Rong thinks that the Queen and the Emperor are both good testing targets.

Only when you encounter a problem can you solve it.

We must go ahead even when there are difficulties; and we must go ahead even when there are no difficulties but by creating them.

A person who doesn’t get sick often must not have very good medical skills!
(End of this chapter)