If he couldn't marry himself, he would never give it to Jia Baoyu or any other man.

Otherwise, what's the difference between you and Turtle Gong?

After thinking about it for a while, I simply planted a nail in Jia Baoyu's heart.

Looking at the anxious Jia Baoyu, he said, "Since I am engaged to the second girl of the Jia family, I can be regarded as Miss Lin's cousin-in-law. If I can help, I will not stand idly by as a brother."

Jia Baoyu couldn't help but be overjoyed when he heard this, and bowed his hands to Shi Zhongkui repeatedly.

"However, Brother Bao knows that you and Miss Lin are actually destined to have no connection."

Jia Baoyu was stunned after hearing this.

Although he never really thought about marrying Lin Daiyu because he was still young, having Jia Baoyu and Lin Daiyu separated would be as uncomfortable as cutting his flesh with a knife.

Shi Zhongkui hurriedly drank, "Why are you panicking?"

Probably because he drank the medicinal wine from before, Jia Baoyu did not become stupid this time.

He hurriedly asked, "What does brother-in-law mean by this?"

Shi Zhongkui then felt relieved and said, "Sister Lin is born with a certain deficiency and her lifespan cannot be guaranteed to be short.

If I were your mother, in order for you to avoid being like Mr. Pardon and Brother Zhen, who lost his wife in middle age and lost his life due to great sorrow, I would not agree to your marrying Miss Lin.

Even if I cure Miss Lin, who can guarantee that Miss Lin will not be injured due to long-term illness, causing difficulties for her heirs?

There are three kinds of unfilial piety. The greatest is not having an heir. When the time comes when the first wife has no heirs, the family home will inevitably be unrest.

Even the old lady will definitely have many worries in her heart, let alone if you have no heirs, how will your father, mother and old lady face your Jia family ancestors?"

Jia Baoyu opened his mouth to refute, but he hesitated for a long time and didn't know how to refute.

In ancient times, even being exiled for three thousand miles was a very serious crime. The reason was due to the concept of clan.

Foreigners cannot understand why being exiled from one city to another is comparable to life and death for Chinese people.

After death, one cannot enter the ancestral graves and have no face to see the ancestors. For the ancients, it was better to kill them.

Jia Baoyu said angrily, "If I can't stay with Sister Lin forever, I might as well become a monk."

Shi Zhongkui saw that this boy was sincere in what he said, and said with a smile, "Do you know where the money for your family's Grand View Garden came from?"

"This,," Jia Baoyu often looks stupid, but he is actually very smart.

And when Shi Zhongkui said it now, it was impossible not to arouse his thoughts.

Some didn't dare to look at Shi Zhongkui and glanced at him. Seeing the expression of contempt on his face, he suddenly became flustered.

Finally, he asked without giving up, "What do you mean, brother-in-law?"

Shi Zhongkui did not answer directly, but said with a smile, "Take Concubine Wu's house as an example. Just building the support pillars for the provincial residence requires 200,000 taels of silver.

In addition to the white marble, glazed tiles, rockery lakes, pavilions and pavilions of the imperial concubine's specifications, we can't even finish the project without one and a half million taels of silver, or even two million taels of silver."

After hearing this, Jia Baoyu's face slowly turned pale.

Even if the Jia family built a yard and used the gardens and backyards of Ning and Rong, no matter how much they saved, it would still be an unimaginably huge expense.

In the past, Jia Baoyu didn't care at all and was even tired of hearing these words.

But according to Shi Zhongkui, the inheritance of the Lin family was actually used to build his yard.

And he didn't even say anything to Lin Daiyu. This is different from Ming Zhan.

How can I have the nerve to be next to Sister Lin again in the future?

Seeing Jia Baoyu's face ashen, Shi Zhongkui smiled slightly and said, "If I recognize Miss Lin as my sister, how are you going to thank me?"

Jia Baoyu realized after a moment's thought that in three or five years, when he and Sister Lin grew up, the second brother-in-law in front of him might already be a fourth-grade or even third-grade official.

In addition, because he is a civil servant, he must be more powerful than his uncle from the Wang family.

With him as Sister Lin's backer, who can bully Sister Lin?

He might even be able to decide Sister Lin's marriage.

Unfortunately, what Jia Baoyu didn't know was that Shi Zhongkui was worried that he would have no reason to come into contact with Lin Daiyu.

Take Xue Baochai and Jia Yingchun as an example. They are already his fiancées, but they don't even have a chance to meet each other.

If you want to see Lin Daiyu, unless Shi Zhongkui turns into a 6-year-old naughty boy.

Moreover, recognizing Lin Daiyu as her god-sister can also increase her knowledge.

When you come into contact with other foreign men, when you look at Jia Baoyu, you may think that he is just a idiot.

Moreover, Shi Zhongkui has absolute confidence that he is more than one level higher than Jia Baoyu in terms of poetry and conduct.

Not to mention that with modern thinking, when he pursues girls, he is definitely more shameless than Jia Baoyu.

There are also countless ideas for picking up girls that may seem commonplace to modern people, but for ancient boudoir girls, they were enough to make them excited.

At this time, Jia Baoyu was imagining that Lin Daiyu recognized Shi Zhongkui as her brother, and maybe Shi Zhongkui would make the final decision on their marriage in the future.

But after a while, I thought that not only did I have no money, but I also had no power, and I didn’t even have the qualifications to make the decision. How could I thank Shi Zhongkui?

Suddenly I became discouraged again.

When I was scratching my head anxiously and not knowing how to repay him, I suddenly thought of the lost gem.

"Brother-in-law, although I have lost my piece of jade, if I find it tonight, I will give it to you to ask for the elixir."

Shi Zhongkui almost laughed after hearing this.

I don't know if this kid is really stupid or just pretending to be stupid.

Most people really can't do it in return for something that has been lost.

But with Jia Baoyu's words, Shi Zhongkui even felt that the connection between the psychic Baoyu and himself deepened.

But it is a pity that in order to hide the fact that the psychic jade is the Sky Mending Stone, Shi Zhongkui even kicked the night wandering god out of the study and turned on the shielding spell in the study.

Otherwise, he might be able to know that the lame Taoist not only came to visit him, but was also scared away by the God of Travel and the Yinsi soldiers.

At that time, Shi Zhongkui would never think of using medicinal wine to divert the minds of everyone in the Jia family.

As for why Jia Baoyu had such thoughts, it was simply that he really didn't care much about that piece of jade.

Otherwise, there would not be jade falling one after another.

In the book, Jia Baoyu's attitude towards the psychic jade has always been just treating it as a plaything.

Even after losing it, not only was he not anxious, but he was worried that the maid in his room would be punished for it, so he lied and said that he had lost it.

But that was because no one was competing with him, so he didn't care.

Otherwise, once it is really lost, it will be difficult to keep Jia Baoyu.

As for Jia's mother, Jia Zheng and others really cared about this jade when Jia Baoyu and Wang Xifeng were stricken by Ma Daopo. They searched for Taoist priests, goddesses and doctors to no avail.

It wasn't until the leper-headed monk and Taoist Pozu came to the door and opened a crack in the magic of sealing the psychic jade that they used this jade to suppress the five evil ghosts of Ma Daopo.

And it took a full 33 days to actually save Jia Baoyu and Wang Xifeng.

As Jia Baoyu and Wang Xifeng slowly recovered and became convinced that this piece of jade was indeed extraordinary, everyone in the Jia family really paid attention to it.

But at this time, Jia Baoyu and Wang Xifeng were not plotted by Ma Daopo, which meant that no one knew the true condition of this jade.

No matter how much Jia Mu and Mrs. Wang paid attention to it, they would definitely not take a closer look at the piece of fake jade worn by Jia Baoyu when faced with medicinal wine that could nourish their health.

"Let's wait until you find your piece of jade and I cure Miss Lin again."

Jia Baoyu's face was slightly red. Even though he didn't care about the psychic jade, it was just a piece of wood that someone had worn on his body for 12 years. When he really wanted to lose it, it was just as Shi Zhongkui thought and he couldn't let it go.

Seeing that Shi Zhongkui did not agree directly, Jia Baoyu breathed a sigh of relief.

But that’s how people are. If you give up once, the bottom line will definitely be lower when you give up the second time.

Even when using it to exchange for other people's things, if you feel that you have taken advantage of it, you will never hesitate at all.

It's a pity that Shi Zhongkui's plan is almost ready, and he doesn't really want the fake jade.

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When curfew was approaching, Yu Shun hurriedly knocked on the study door.

"Master, Second Master Lian came to pick up Second Master Bao and Master Lan in person."

Shi Zhongkui smiled and deliberately said to Jia Baoyu, "Baoyu should go home early, so as not to worry the old lady and your mother."

As soon as these words came out, Jia Baoyu really became rebellious.

But he only dared to mutter a few words of complaint, but did not dare to say that he would not go back.

Of course Shi Zhongkui would not let him go, and said with a smile, "Okay, you follow Shun'er to the room prepared for you. I told Brother Lian that you have already fallen asleep."

Jia Baoyu nodded quickly and followed Shun'er.

But as soon as he reached the study door, he quickly turned around and said, "Brother-in-law, little brother, little brother,,."

Shi Zhongkui knew at a glance that he wanted the medicinal wine.

Picking up the purple-gold-red gourd that had been sitting on the desk and not attracting Jia Baoyu's attention at all, he poured about half a catty of medicinal wine into a small jade bottle with a bottle cap that was of good quality and used for decoration.
To be continued...