Chapter XI
As soon as Jia Min heard that Mama Gui had betrayed the master, she was directly sick in bed in fright, but Lin Ruhai quietly ordered the old housekeeper to continue to investigate. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
Sure enough, Lin Ruhai got something deeper. This Mama Gui is ostensibly Jia's mother to Jia Min's dowry grandmother, in order to help Jia Min control the backyard, in fact, her eldest son has already married the eldest girl who has already been released by the second lady of Rongguo Mansion, and the two are Mrs. Wang's horses. Before, Mama Gui was committed to fulfilling Jia's mother's intention, which was to completely control Lin Ruhai's backyard, and Mrs. Wang was also very supportive, so Lin Ruhai had not seen anything unusual for so many years, and even his relatives were so ostracized that they no longer knew about him. Lin Ruhai thought carefully: It seems that the second wife only plans to leave a sick and crooked Daiyu, what does she want to do? What is Rongguo Mansion trying to do?
"Of course, it is to remove your stumbling block and leave Sister Dai with millions of family fortunes to send to Rongguo Mansion!" A young man walked into the small pavilion where Lin Ruhai was sitting, and Lin Ruhai was shocked to realize that he had already asked the question to himself.
This young man was the hunter who saved Lin Ruhai that day, and it was precisely Xia Liansheng who lived in Yangzhou for two months. That day, he tried to join his relatives in the Lin Mansion, and was really kicked out, but he didn't give up for the time being, thinking about taking a look first, so he took Yao Jin to rent a small courtyard in the east of the city that was being rented, there were several small courtyards rented out of the house, he met the neighbors, and felt that the residents were quite reliable, so he also lived, and continued to go to the forest in the east of the city to set two rabbits, until he met a tiger once, he blew the tiger to death with a homemade slingshot and special bullets, but the tattered tiger skin also gave him several days of income, So he set out on a journey to plague the big man's prey. Fortunately, he didn't intend to do this for a long time in his plan, so when Lin Ruhai was assassinated that day, he took the opportunity to step into the Lin Mansion, cough, and saved Lin Huiyu by the way. Later, when Lin Ruhai asked, he told Yao Jin's identity as a relative, and it happened that the old housekeeper arrived, and he also gave him a testimony, so he temporarily lived in Lin's house and lived in a courtyard with Yao Jin.
Hearing his words, thinking that since he had already spoken about it, Lin Ruhai asked again: "What do you mean by stumbling blocks and giving money?"
Xia Liansheng entered the pavilion, Lin Ruhai found that he was still holding Yao Jin in his hand, only to see Xia Liansheng first carry Yao Jin to the cushioned pod in the pavilion and sit down, pour a cup of tea for Yao Jin to drink by himself, then looked up at Lin Ruhai and said: "You don't think that this time the White Lotus Sect did it, to be honest, they have to have so much energy, they have already infiltrated the emperor's harem to change the dynasty." Seeing Lin Ruhai frowning, he quickly changed his head and stopped mentioning sensitive words, "What are you thinking about Rongguo Mansion for?" That's just one word, money! The old housekeeper's grandfather is right, those nouveau riche families have bad rules but they are very big, and even the servants have to wear gold and silver, so how can a family business be tossed up? Of course, you need to fill in the background of your family, your housekeeper has long been in charge of the backyard, I don't think I need to say, most of your shops have foreign surnames. Lin Ruhai couldn't help but secretly think, fortunately, it was only a part of it, and most of the things that his mother didn't give to Jia Min before she left were actually brought to him through the hands of the old housekeeper, and he once again expressed his shame for his laissez-faire.
Xia Liansheng saw that the goal was achieved, and he didn't bother Lin Ruhai, and continued, "Although I want your family's money, the long-term way is normal, just like the past twenty years, but why did the painting style suddenly change?" Of course, it was a previous incident that made people want to get rid of you, and the second wife must have heard rumors similar to getting married, and she couldn't tolerate your family. ”
"You mean...... Is there anyone behind the second wife? She colluded with the White Lotus Sect?" Lin Ruhai felt that his guess was wrong, the elders of the four major families swept away the four seas for the emperor, and it was absolutely impossible for the Rongguo Mansion and the Wang family to collude if they were hated by the White Lotus Sect. "Who the hell is that? Who's going to harm my family?"
"Ahem...... I have a bad idea, would you like to hear it? Xia Liansheng whispered sheepishly.
…… A few days later, Lord Lin. Inner Courtyard. The crooked storytelling was freshly released, and Lin Ruhai quietly sent people to stare at a few storytellers who told the content of the storytelling very close to the facts......
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Mama Gui is really cautious in doing things, although she is on the orders of Mrs. Wang, she is still cautious and does not let people catch the handle. But there is a but, Xia Liansheng gave Lin Ruhai an idea to let Lin Ruhai expose his family ugliness, and find a specific storyteller to tell the story is nine points true and one point false, but if the mastermind behind the scenes wants to know about the backyard surrounded by Lin Ruhai like an iron bucket now, he will definitely send someone to follow these storytellers so as to know the source of their news. And what Lin Ruhai did was the yellow finch in the praying mantis catching cicadas, and there was news not long after.
"The Zhen family?" Lin Ruhai heard an unexpected, but reasonable answer from the mouthkeeper of the big housekeeper.
Lin Ruhai fell into deep thought, the Jiangnan Zhen family was one of the emperor's cronies, and its degree of trust was far above Lin Ruhai. But because the Zhen family has become a figure like an emperor in Jiangnan, they say nothing in Jiangnan, come to Jiangnan to be an official, and don't worship the four major families first, and the Zhen family has become the first talisman. It is also because of this that all kinds of taxes in Jiangnan have been sharply reduced, although the Zhen family cries poverty to the emperor every year, but the emperor still intends to tax salt up, which is the real reason why he can surpass the champion list after winning the flower and be promoted to the fourth rank so quickly.
Lin Ruhai's arrival did make the Zhen family collect a lot of salt tax, Lin Ruhai always thought that the Zhen family would give in in the way of the emperor's wishes, but he didn't expect it to turn light into darkness. Thinking of the Qian family and the White Lotus Sect some time ago, Lin Ruhai was a little flustered, he needed to find someone to rationalize his thoughts: "Invite Mr. Du and Mr. Li...... By the way, please also invite Xia Ye over...... Forget it, I'll call him later when I get back. ”
"Yes." The chief entourage outside the study answered, and then called the little servant to order like this, since Lin Ruhai was in distress, the only agreement reached between Jia Min and the big housekeeper was not to allow Lin Ruhai to stay alone, so this long entourage will definitely stay here all the time.
"You mean...... The Zhen family ...... "Du Jian and Li Wenxuan were surprised when they heard Lin Ruhai's words, if the Zhen family was involved with the White Lotus Sect, then this would be a scandal. If it is said that more than ten years ago, when the emperor favored the crown prince alone and the prince's rights were dominant, which prince didn't want to make some trouble for the prince, it would make sense to use the White Lotus Sect. But now the emperor's favorite prince is definitely the eighth prince born to Concubine Zhen, at this time, if the Zhen family is connected with the White Lotus Sect again, aren't you afraid that the emperor will be disgusted? But if someone else framed the Zhen family, Lin Ruhai might regard the Zhen family as a mortal enemy, but for the Zhen family, Lin Ruhai is a four-grade official, compared with a behemoth like the Zhen family, there is really nothing that they need to make up their minds to kill at the risk of colluding with the thief, even if it. Besides, according to their plan, the Lin family may really be ruined, and the emperor will just send another patrol to the imperial history, wouldn't their plan to make trouble for the Zhen family would be in vain? The three of them were puzzled, and finally came to the conclusion of waiting and seeing.
Coming back from the study, Lin Ruhai felt that he was still puzzled, returned to the backyard, and involuntarily walked towards Yiyuan, where Xia Liansheng and Yao Jin were temporarily arranged.
As soon as I walked to the door, I saw Xia Liansheng "feeding" Yao Jin to eat "breakfast", because of nearly a year of displacement, although Yao Jin is easy to take, but he is still just a child under the age of three, so the concept of getting up in the morning and going to bed early has not been developed for the time being, and Xia Liansheng is not the kind of careful person, and he doesn't know what children want to train from an early age, so he woke up by Yao Jin to eat, eat and play, and sleep again when he was sleepy. It's almost noon today, and I've just woken up. said that Xia Liansheng fed him, but it was just that the girls brought the food prepared by the kitchen for the children, Xia Liansheng selected a part and put it in a small bowl, and then Yao Jin took a small wooden spoon and ate it all over his face.
"Poofhaha~ Why do you have to pose that every time? Can't you just take a wrist turn? Like this, like this......" Xia Liansheng smiled and posed, but unfortunately Yao Jin just learned not to bend his wrist, but instead spilled more of the things in the spoon, looking at his unscrupulous brother, he pouted and wanted to cry aggrievedly.
Lin Ruhai couldn't stand it anymore, and walked in with his legs raised: "Are you bullying him like this?" As he spoke, he picked up Yao Jin's small bowl and spoon, and found that it was an old thing that had been used for a long time, and he couldn't help frowning. Xia Liansheng saw his expression, reached out to retrieve the bowl and spoon, and gave it back to Yao Jin, explaining by the way: "Children must have their own special things, which is helpful for children to develop an independent character, this small bowl and spoon have been used by Yao Jin since he was a child, and he has become accustomed to only eating what I put in the small bowl."
Lin Ruhai rarely listened to Jia Min talk about the parenting scriptures, of course, he didn't seem to understand it, so he didn't notice what Xia Liansheng said about habits that determine character. He just remembered that his daughter, who was almost six years old, was still a nurse feeding the rice into her mouth, not to mention her son, who had to be fed by one person at a time, not to mention eating by himself, whether he could sit up straight was a problem.
Seeing that Lin Ruhai began to reflect on the upbringing of his children, Xia Liansheng was a little big, hoping that Jia Min would not think too much about instigating himself. Hurriedly interrupted: "Lord Lin is coming to me?"