24. Chapter 24
Before the lady entered the door, Hong Mu only heard the servant who had been treating him warmly walk forward with an arrow, and said happily: "The eldest lady is here." ”
He turned back to Hong Mu and said, "This strong man from afar, the eldest lady of our family is here." ”
In order to entertain Hong Mu, a person from the capital who came from afar, Lin Ji arranged all domestic servants who could speak official language. In the Lin family, there are not many people who can speak official words, and this one who greets Hong Mu is also a third-class steward of the Lin Mansion, and his ability to act when he sees the opportunity is quite good.
When Aunt Lin entered the door, she bowed her head lightly to the servant and looked at the righteous brother of the sword Xiaolangjun.
Hong Mu listened to the voice and said that she was a woman as cool as a lady in the north, who wanted to see a clear and elegant little lady who walked in like a breeze, her white clothes were better than snow, willow eyebrows, nose and red lips, everywhere were beautiful and fine, just like the people in the painting.
Hong Mu lowered his head after only one glance, took a half step forward with one leg, and immediately knelt down and arched his hand: "The last general, Hong Mu, is the centurion under the commander of the Black Panther Banner Knife of the Sword Army, and the head of the Sword Army, Dao Zangfeng, came to greet Lord Lin of Taishan in the Lin Mansion......
He bowed his head towards the main seat, knelt down on his knees and kowtowed, and then, the man who looked like a crisp knife turned around, maintained his previous half-kneeling posture, bowed his head and said to Mrs. Lin, "The last general, Hong Mu, has seen Mrs. Lin. ”
This is the first time that Aunt Lin has seen the military appearance of the Ren Dynasty, and she was really shocked by the decisive sharpness of Hong Mu, a tall northern man.
She knew that the Dao Xiaolang that her father had ordered for her was the eldest grandson of the Dao family, and he had inherited the greatest honor given to the Dao family by the royal family, that is, each eldest son of the Dao family could form a Dao family army of five hundred people.
The one she ordered was contracted 500 people, and the flag was drawn as a black panther, and now there are 168 people under it.
This is a centurion who can manage a hundred people, and he is probably the biggest official under him.
I sent all the centurions, and I still look like a very powerful centurion, so I have a heart.
Moreover, Aunt Lin now finally knows clearly why the Dao family is so poor, just look at this kind of soldier Su zhì, it is not easy to raise such an elite soldier.
No wonder she always had the illusion that her knife boy was so poor that she only yelled at me every day.
There is a difference between men and women, Aunt Lin is not good to help him, but fortunately, Lin Ji is here, this shrewd and capable steward who is no less than his uncle As soon as he saw the eyes of the eldest lady, he also bent forward half a knee and invited someone to get up, "Strong man, please get up, you are polite." ”
"Please take a seat." Although Aunt Lin wanted to praise the majesty of this strong man, she was afraid of scaring this guest from afar, so she invited someone to sit down, and she sat on the chair that Xiaoya had brought for her.
The chair placed at the top of the long table is not close to the strong man, but not far away, just the distance from the hostess to welcome the guests.
"You sit." In the Lin Mansion, the experienced steward of the Lin Mansion would not snub the distinguished guests, and Lin Ji had already helped Hong Mu up with both hands and invited him to sit in his place.
The distance is really not close to the first place, but it is not far, not too far is just enough to let Hong Mu smell a fragrance of clear wood.
At this time, Xu was white-clothed Shengxue, and he felt that the originally bright guest hall was even brighter.
"Huaigui is here?" Aunt Lin asked Xiaoya again.
The little girl took a closer look at the strong man, found out the size of the clothes he was wearing, and was just in time to go to the needlework room, so she answered: "Slave maid, let's go and see." ”
"Let's go and see, and I'll say that someone from his brother-in-law's house is here." Aunt Lin was not ashamed, and opened her mouth to say.
To tell the truth, she has given Dao Xiaolang two times of silver in the past three years, the amount is quite large, and she has not married so much, although she is willing to give the unlucky Dao Xiaolang an emergency, but in her heart, this Dao Xiaolang is already her person, she has regarded her as his creditor, and she is bound to marry her, otherwise how to chase this debt?
Xiaoya has been following Aunt Lin for so long, she has seen a lot of knowledge, and Aunt Lin said that she didn't think there was anything to be embarrassed about, so she answered and went.
But Aunt Lin's very straightforward sentence scared Hong Mu and thought that something was wrong with her ears.
He knew that the person who was called Huaigui was the current little master of the Lin Mansion and the younger brother of the little general's unmarried wife, but now he was called his brother-in-law......
But after thinking about it, he just called Lord Taishan on behalf of the little general, and now Aunt Lin regards herself as a member of the knife family, so there is really no problem at all to call him so.
Hong Mu was immediately relieved, and felt that their little general was so eager to hear about the evil consumption of the Lin Mansion, and there was a reason why he asked him to come over quickly.
This lady of the Lin Mansion has a strong heart for the little general, he was already moved when he first saw it, and he must have been communicating with this little lady for a long time, and the little general who has a heart-to-heart relationship is even more so.
Suddenly, he felt that this fairy-like little lady was not so unattainable, and he felt a little kind and gentle to this little lord lady like her voice, so he raised his head and looked at this lady of the Lin Mansion.
Seeing that he finally raised his head, Aunt Lin also looked at the person, for fear of scaring people, she smiled gently and reservedly, "My family is so lazy, please don't be surprised." ”
Hong Mu was taken aback by her rather blunt words, he really had never seen such a direct little lady.
After a while, he cleared his throat and said, "Mrs. Lin is polite, and she will be flattered." ”
As he spoke, he lowered his head again.
Aunt Lin looked at her as if she was scared again, and she was also calm, she could fight with her uncle and aunt three hundred times and her face would not change, but this kind of strong man should be handed over to the fat brother to receive.
It just so happened that such a mighty person also let the little fat man come over and get a little masculine.
As for the rest, she is behind it.
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Lin Huaigui is almost here, and Aunt Lin is not worried that he will not be hospitable, and at this point, the fat brother has long been no problem.
What is very problematic for him now is to face the big bad wolf and treat people like big white sheep.
As for him also treating Hong Mu as a big white sheep, he has no scheming about it, he is polite and hospitable, that's okay, Aunt Lin still wants Hong Mu to go back, and report that Dao Xiaolang He has a brother-in-law who is harmless to humans and animals.
Their knife family is a good family, and there is a plaque of "the first good in Jiangnan" at home, even if the little fat man is taught by her to have a black belly that can flow oil, she has to let the world know that he is a fat boy who is soft and chubby and very kind to people.
She also discussed with the fat dad that it was safer for the little fat man to follow the old path of the fat dad in terms of how to spread smoke * fog * bombs to the outside world.
As soon as Lin Huaigui arrived, Aunt Lin said goodbye.
She walked quickly, firstly, after all, she was an unmarried lady, and she couldn't avoid seeing male guests, but it was better to be shorter in time; The second is that she was present, and the little fat man said two words to look at her three times, and those who didn't know thought she was his stepmother; The third is that she was busy reading the letter.
Aunt Lin took out the letter in her sleeve on the way, and it is estimated that the letter was also miserable on the road, and there was a smell.
As soon as the letter was taken out, the smell was also refreshing.
Aunt Lin shook her head with Da Su Xiaoya beside her and said, "This is the ...... from the northernmost part."
Last time it was the most beautiful snow, but it turned out to be a rag.
Now what about this faith, this smell......
It really made her have mixed feelings and didn't know what to say.
Da Su Xiaoya understood the meaning of their lady's words, but they were not good at words, and they couldn't pick up the lady's words like Xiaoya and the two geese, so they had to bow their heads and laugh.
I didn't think that this knife Xiaolang was okay before, but when I thought about it, Aunt Lin was a little anxious, and she read the letter on the way.
In the past three years, because something happened in the Dao Mansion in the first year, she knew about it and could help - if she didn't know about it, she could help, and she couldn't pretend to be deaf and dumb at that time, so she had to help.
At that time, her fat father went to the northeast in order to transfer property for her, and Uncle Wugu often went back and forth to these places, bringing the news that Dao Zangfeng's younger brother had disabled the grandson of the squire of the Ministry of Soldiers and wanted to pay for the silver.
To say that this knife Xiaolang is also unlucky enough, even if the younger brother is unreliable, the uncle is also a dragger, the younger brother's silver has not been compensated, his own uncle burned the very rich Hubu Shangshu family next door because of his temper, and burned most of the Hubu Shangshu family, and burned a few people to death, and then the Li family begged in front of his mother, and the knife lady was so angry that she vomited blood on the spot, and she couldn't get up as soon as she lay on the bed.
Uncle Wu Gu brought these news, and scared Aunt Lin miserably, but in addition to being frightened, he also felt that the genius in the mouth of this fat father was also so pitiful, there were so many pig teammates dragging his feet, and it was really not easy to live, she was just going to move money to the northeast at that time, so she wanted to lend him a little bit first, originally she just wanted to borrow a small 10,000 taels to express sympathy, but her fat father thought she was not atmospheric enough, and used his own money to add 100,000 taels to her.
The 110,000 taels were sent over, and he got another letter.
There were finally two more sentences on the letter, and a page was written to say that he would repay her one day if he had money, and Aunt Lin thought to herself that it was best for her to admit the account yourself, so she quickly wrote a letter to tell him that she knew, recorded it in the account, and waited for him to pay it back.
So between this back and forth, the letter was accidentally written, and it also occupied the resources of their Lin family's spies to go back and forth with the capital and Yizhou, which made Aunt Lin sigh several times that Tianzhong Wizard was a little Langjun who spent her money.
Another time, I heard that this little Langjun is still not a soldier. said that in the northernmost war, the enemy stole the padded jacket, and his soldiers had no clothes to wear, so he asked his family to help him send some over, but the knife family did not cover this matter at all, so that the whole capital knew.
Aunt Lin blushed after hearing this, this one who fights, her own soldiers can't afford to raise it, and she said that it was a family of Jiangmen, which also made her embarrassed at the time and didn't know what to say, that is, her fat father didn't make a sound for a long time after listening to it, and finally the fat slap hit her fat leg, alas, it hurt for a long time, and she sighed while holding her hand, saying that she was sorry for her.
I'm sorry, what's the use, I borrowed so much money, and it was too late to get out of the marriage, so Aunt Lin had to quietly ask Uncle Wugu to send 10,000 taels and some cotton clothes to people for emergency relief.