The rain outside the window kept falling.

The rain fell before dawn and continued until noon, from heavy to moderate rain, the rain had lightened two hours earlier, and had become heavier again twenty minutes earlier, pounding on the eaves and windows, and falling on the green hills that were close at hand, and making people upset.

The bleak autumn mood has soaked every part of Kyushu City, and the interior of Tiangong Mansion is also full of autumn.

"I can't help it..."

"No, I don't know what."

"Please, how can this be..."

In the bedroom on the second floor of No. 3 Tiangong Mansion, Lin Shuimo got up from the bed lazily, looked out the window in a daze, and said words that even she couldn't understand.

She had some slight hypoglycemia, and she couldn't tell whether it was a dream or reality when she just woke up, and this condition would be even worse if she didn't rest well, and now she was sitting on the bed, muttering to herself incessantly, incoherently, and looking like a psychopath.

"Ink, what did you say? Did you have a nightmare?"

Inside and outside the bedroom, a soft knock sounded, Lin Danqing's voice came from outside the bedroom to inside, I asked several times and didn't hear my sister's answer, Lin Danqing directly opened the door and walked in, seeing Lin Shuimo who looked a little sluggish on the bed, she frowned slightly, walked over and sat beside her, reached out and touched Lin Shuimo's forehead, and said softly: "You have a nightmare again? You seem to have a fever, Shui Mo, what's wrong with you? Your face is very bad now." ”

"Hmm..."

Lin Shuimo blinked subconsciously, and was stunned for half a minute before he completely came to his senses: "Ah, sister, why did you come in?"

"I came to ask you to come downstairs for dinner, and as soon as I got to the door, I heard you talking inside, and I ignored me after calling you a few times, and you forgot to lock the door last night, so I pushed the door and came in. ”

Lin Danqing said, took out a piece of candy from the lady's leather bag that Lin Shuimo put aside, stuffed it into the other party's mouth, and said, "After eating and brushing your teeth, it's time to start eating." ”

"Yes. ”

Lin Shuimo nodded, with sugar in his mouth, but after he came to his senses, the whole world seemed to have a strong bitter taste.

It was very late when she came back from the God of War Mansion last night, and her family had already rested, although Lin Xiaocao was no longer responsible for protecting Lin Shuimo, but since the people of the Lin family in Kyushu City saw the strength of the several female bodyguards arranged by Lin Xiaocao for Lin Shuimo, no one was worried about her safety.

So Lin Shuimo, who was depressed, went back to the room directly after coming back, without alarming anyone, but after taking a shower and lying on the bed, he couldn't sleep no matter what, tossing and turning until it was almost dawn, and then he fell asleep in a daze in the sound of rain.

Looking at the slender back of his sister walking out of the room, Lin Shuimo sighed softly, looked at his watch, it was already 11:25 noon, he got dressed and got out of bed, chewed the fruit hard candy in his mouth, staggered to the bathroom, washed his face with cold water, looked at the figure in the mirror, Lin Shuimo was subconsciously stunned.

It was an unusually haggard face, pale, dull eyes, with obvious dark circles, a wet face that looked unusually embarrassed, a long hair that was loose and messy together, and the figure in the mirror actually had a sense of decadence that Lin Shuimo himself was extremely unfamiliar with.

Is this still yourself?

She subconsciously stretched out her hand and touched her face, thinking in a daze why she became the way she is.

It's because of last night.

It's because of Lin Xuanyuan.

It's because of my cousin, to be exact.

Is it also because you feel hopeless about your family's situation?

Lin Shuimo, who already knew Lin Xuanyuan's identity, knew very well that no matter what the circumstances, it was impossible for Lin Xuanyuan to help the Lin family in Kyushu City because of that little blood relationship, on the contrary, it was precisely because of the blood relationship, after being mixed with some grievances in the early years, it became the reason for Lin Xuanyuan to step on the Lin family in Kyushu City at a critical moment.

That's right, that's wrong, Lin Shuimo, as an adult, doesn't want to think about these anymore, everyone has their own ideas, even if the Lin family in Kyushu City had countless reasons to do that back then, but as a party on the other side, Lin Xuanyuan only needs one reason to ignore the life and death of the Lin family in Kyushu City.

More than three years ago, why did Chen Hualou, who had not long become a giant at that time, nominate his father, who was not very ambitious in his career, to be the governor of Wu Yue Province without everyone's expectations?

And why didn't he continue to extend an olive branch after his father took office?

At that time, it seemed to be not long after the God of War assassinated the Emperor in the dark world.

Chen Hualou's promotion of his father is equivalent to indirectly and vaguely courting Lin Xuanyuan, is he courting Lin Xuanyuan?

In those years, although his father did not hold real power in Wu Yue, he finally left the whirlpool that could easily swallow him in, at least in those two years, the life of his father and the Kyushu Chenglin family was relatively stable, and the series of businesses carried out by the family business in Wu Yue were also smooth.

At that time, although the family was down, it was still very relaxed on the whole.

And this year, before Lin Xuanyuan entered Beijing, Deputy Head Ye Nianlun proposed that his father serve as the Minister of Imperial Officials, and finally became the first deputy director of the Imperial Development Commission, which should also have something to do with Lin Xuanyuan, right?

This is tantamount to indirectly taking care of Lin Xuanyuan's mother.

It's just that neither Chen Hualou nor Ye Nianlun probably didn't expect that Lin Xuanyuan's resistance to the Lin family in Kyushu City would be so strong, so after Lin Xuanyuan expressed his attitude, the Wang family suddenly fell silent.

The father, who was originally favored by many people, also fell into an extremely embarrassing situation.

It is no exaggeration to say that because of blood relations and some grievances in the past, the fate of the Lin family in Kyushu City today is completely in Lin Xuanyuan's thoughts.

After knowing Lin Xuanyuan's life experience, Lin Shuimo no longer expected her father to be elected as a state councilor at this year's plenary session, and she didn't even consider the possibility of her father's rectification in the Imperial Development Commission, she only hoped that her father could keep his current position.

But when he thought of the words that Lin Xuanyuan said last night when he was at his most emotional, Lin Shuimo's heart was immediately cold.

"He wants the position of director of the development committee? I dream! I won't give it to him! If he is transferred, he must be transferred, and he is not worthy of the position of deputy director! If he leaves, he will go to the Central Working Committee? or the CPPCC? Doesn't he always want to join the cabinet? How about giving him a researcher with the rank of governor? I promise, with me Lin Xuanyuan in one day, he Lin will not want to get ahead in politics!"

These words, not only were loud and sound, but in Lin Shuimo's ears, it was like thunder.

She spent the night imagining what would happen if the family really got to where it was.

She is a girl who is less than twenty-four years old, after all, she is afraid, and all her previous strengths are shattered under the pressure of the iron and blood that the God of War King will fall at any time, and all her vulnerabilities are exposed, but she can't find any solution to the problem.

What makes Lin Shuimo's mood even more complicated is that a disaster that is like a catastrophe for the Lin family in Kyushu City is close at hand, but his grandfather and father are still looking for opportunities every day, they don't notice the arrival of the disaster, and as for the cause of the disaster, they don't know anything.

Lin Shuimo didn't tell Lin Huaiyu about Lin Xuanyuan's life experience, nor did she tell Lin Congzheng, once she said it, she couldn't tell the Lin family in Kyushu City in an instant, and she didn't know how to speak at all.

After hesitating until now, she did not make a final decision.

More than half of the water in the marble basin.

Lin Shuimo lowered his head suddenly, stuck his head into the basin, and didn't raise his head until he couldn't breathe, gasping for breath.

In the mirror, the haggard face was covered with water droplets, looking hazy and desolate.

……

Twelve o'clock in the afternoon.

Lin Shuimo, who was simply dressed up, appeared in the restaurant on the first floor, her face still looked a little haggard, but she didn't have the embarrassment just now, on the contrary, the slightest haggard added some soft beauty to her.

Greeting everyone in the family with an expressionless face, the Lin family in Kyushu City is now much more lively than at the beginning of the year, in addition to Lin Huaiyu's lineage, Lin Huaiqing, who was originally far away in Nanyun Province, and Lin Huaiyuan, who was in Beihu Province, are also here now.

Their sons were once high-ranking officials at the level of deputy governors, who fell a few months ago, and the case was officially closed not long ago, and each of them was sentenced to 20 years in prison.

In addition, although the relationship with Lin Congzheng has not thawed, Lin Danqing, who has come back more often because he knows that his family is in a bad situation during this time, has almost been filled, and it is lively.

Lin Shuimo sat beside Lin Danqing with a cold expression, looking at a table of sumptuous dishes, not knowing what he was thinking.

"Do you still have a fever?"

Lin Danqing's palm fell on Lin Shuimo's forehead and touched it, then frowned and said, "It's still a little hot, have you taken your temperature?" Do you want to go to the hospital?"

Lin Shuimo, who still looked a little pale, shook his head slightly, and said with a reluctant smile: "I have a low-grade fever, I have already taken medicine, and it is not in the way." ”

Lin Danqing nodded and said no more.

"The girl's body is still a little weaker, ink, it just so happens that your cousin is coming back from Beihu Province recently, I heard that you and your friends have partnered to make an advertising company and are doing well, otherwise this way, you have had a good rest for a while recently, and when your cousin comes to Kyushu City, I will let him go to your company to help, family, don't be so polite." ”

At the dinner table, Lin Huaiyuan smiled intentionally or unintentionally, he also has a grandson named Lin Yuetang, if you don't count Lin Shushu, he should be the only male in the Lin family's generation.

The Nanyun branch and the Beihu branch that spread out of the Lin family in Kyushu City many years ago have now begun to be reintegrated, and some businesses have also been merged into the Lin Group, of course, these are not given away for free, but transferred at a low price, Lin Huaiyuan and Lin Huaiqing have both obtained a sum of money, as well as the shares of several branches, but these two old guys are obviously not satisfied now, after spending the initial period of trembling, the two directly locked their eyes on Lin Yuetang.

Intentionally or unintentionally, Lin Huaiyu said something within the family that Lin Yuetang was the only male in the family, and the burden would be very heavy in the future, Lin Huaiyu never expressed his position, and now it seems that the two old guys seem to be a little anxious, and they regard Lin Shuimo as the starting point, and now they directly start to probe.

The advertising company established by Lin Shuimo and Bai Yang was purely playful at the beginning, but now it has caught up with Chen Qingyu's line, and with Lin Congzheng transferred to the Development Committee, the business of this advertising company is becoming more and more smooth, and it is expected that by next year, it will become a large company of tens of millions.

It's not tens of millions.

It's tens of millions of profits!

With such a company, it is no wonder that Lin Huaiyuan and Lin Huaiqing want their heirs to get a piece of the pie in the past, and starting from a small company will also be conducive to Lin Yuetang taking charge of the entire Lin family in the future.

So the two old guys have always felt that it is a clever move to take away the things in Lin Shuimo's hands first.

"No need, the company's affairs, I can survive for the time being, and even without me, Xiaobai can support the overall situation, my cousin has a lot of things, so there is no need to trouble him. ”

Lin Shuimo said lightly, for these two old guys, she basically has no good feelings in her heart, and it is not an exaggeration to even describe them as wolf ambitions, just a few months after the merger, she planned to let her grandson usurp the throne, Lin Shuimo has never figured out the meaning of grandfather and father leaving them at home.

"Xiaobai, it's Baiyang, the girl of the Bai family, I've seen it, it's a pretty girl, I heard that she's still single, I think she is a good match for your cousin Yuetang, in this case, ink, your cousin probably has to go to your company to help you, maybe the two young people will spark, ink, it's so decided, you take a break for a while, let your cousin go to your company to adapt to it, haha, girl, you can't stop people from getting married." ”

Lin Huaiyuan laughed.

Blocking marriage?

Lin Shuimo sneered in his heart, he had never heard of giving up his career in order not to block the marriage, what kind of reason is this?

She took a mouthful of food and put it into the bowl in front of her, and said lightly: "Bai Yang likes Lin Xuanyuan, several businesses of our company are even directly given to our company from the God of War Palace, of course, Cousin Yuetang is also very attractive, he can compete with Lin Xuanyuan." ”

Lin Huaiyuan's smile suddenly stopped, and his expression was extremely embarrassed.

Fighting with Lin Xuanyuan for a woman?

Unless you are impatient to live, who dares to fight?

Lin Huaiyuan's face was red, his face was hot, and he couldn't say anything for a long time.

In the Lin family in Kyushu City, Lin Xuanyuan's three words are like a mountain, powerful and desperate.

"Okay, let's not talk about this, I have something important to do in the afternoon, let's eat first. ”

Lin Huaiyu said flatly.

"Eat. ”

Lin Congzheng's words were more concise.

Lin Shuimo didn't care about the two whimsical old guys, she lowered her head to eat, she naturally knew what was important in her grandfather's mouth.

In a few hours, the Emperor's plane will arrive at Kyushu Castle International Airport.

At that time, many big names will go to pick up the plane, and when the Kyushu Chenglin family is almost completely rejected or even suppressed by the God of War Palace, the emperor's visit to Beijing is undoubtedly another opportunity for the Kyushu Chenglin family.

As long as it is approved by the emperor, it is not too late.

And the reason why grandpa is so optimistic that the Kyushu Chenglin family can be recognized by the emperor is related to his father's several promotions in recent years.

From to Wu Yue Province, and then to the Imperial Development Commission.

They were nominated by the two giants of the Wang family, but these two giants did not express their preference for Lin Congzheng too much.

In Grandpa's opinion, there may be only one point, that is, his father has received the emperor's personal attention, so there will be two giants to nominate Lin for politics.

Lin Shuimo even thought about this idea.

But now that she knows the truth, she can't say anything.

Got the emperor's personal attention?

Lin Shuimo smiled bitterly, such an idea is simply ridiculous!