At that time, she said that there would be a way, not just a way to borrow, but to sell this thing for money.

Lin Long squinted his eyes and looked at the thing in his hand, "I still have to marry into the Ye family, it's not appropriate to keep this thing or use it as a dowry, Ye Xuyao may not be happy to see the gift from Gao Zhi, and selling it is the right way." ”

She didn't even want to owe Ye Xuyao the money she owed before marriage, let alone leave this handle, and if someone knew about it in the future, she might have to make up something ugly, and she didn't have a strong family background as a backing, so she couldn't be criticized.

Aunt Green thought about Lin Long very thoughtfully, and suddenly felt a kind of joy that my family had a girl who had just grown up. Her eyes fell on the blue and white porcelain of the official kiln in the box on the other side, and she smiled: "What about this." ”

Lin Long squinted, "It's better to keep your makeup, after all, there must always be something that can see people." As my sister said, this is a good thing that you may not be able to buy with money.

At the mention of the word dowry, Aunt Green's original good mood is gone, and now the family situation is a lot better, but it is difficult to come up with a decent dowry, and when she returned to Suzhou from the capital, she failed to leave a decent thing, and this dowry is also the confidence of a woman's life in her husband's family.

She couldn't help but let out a long sigh.

When Lin Long heard this, he looked up and saw Aunt Green with a distressed face, and laughed out loud, "The boat is naturally straight to the bridge, and it is useless for Erniang to be sad now." ”

Aunt Green thinks about it, but it would be a lie to say that she doesn't worry, "You can't use the dowry as a dowry, right?" This is not a joke to provoke the ladies of the Xiangyang Marquis' Mansion. After a pause, "When the Ye family really hires you, even if I make a fuss, I will ask the second master and the third master to take out some of the things that were looted from our house that day, and the girl will leave the pavilion, don't you have something decent to say?" "The more I talked, the more angry I became.

Lin Long thought that most of the furnishings in the house in Jingzhong were her mother's dowry, and later her mother remarried, and she took most of those dowries away. In fact, the Lin family really doesn't have much money, her grandfather is not a corrupt official, and he is also a clean sleeve in office, and the only estimate of favoritism is this rich marriage.

"The second uncle and the third uncle want to stand by and watch, but they are willing to do it." She said, "Fortunately, they took up all the oil and water at that time, and we didn't have a single heirloom or two in our big house, which is not fair." ”

While the two were talking, Lin Nan's voice came from outside the house.

Aunt Green hurriedly went over and opened the door to let Lin Nan in, "Shopkeeper Lin, how is it?" ”

Lin Nan hurriedly paced in and arched his hand towards Lin Long, "Girl, I ran a few places, but I found one with the highest price, about two thousand five hundred taels, I will quickly take it over and appraise it for them now." ”

Lin Long was also in a hurry to put the things in the box, buckle the buttons, pick them up and hand them to Lin Nan, "Uncle Nan, it's not appropriate for you to go alone, so let's do it, the little guy of the Ye family is still here, I'll let him go on a run with you, it's much safer." ”

"Hey." Lin Nan responded, and it was not inappropriate for the Ye family to know about this matter.

Aunt Green had already gone out to summon the bandit stone in.

Bandit Shi, who was about to call a job and come in to say goodbye to Lin Long, heard Aunt Green beckoning to him, and hurriedly ran over, "What do you want from Auntie?" He knows the members of the Lin family well, this aunt has a high status in the Lin family, so there is no need for him to look down on people.

"Our girl called you." Aunt Green laughed.

Bandit Shi didn't dare to slack off, this future master mother was the right way, so he hurriedly went in, and when he heard Lin Long's order, he responded without thinking about it, patted his chest and said: "Miss Lin, don't worry, the little custodian will handle this matter properly." ”

Lin Long naturally said a few words of approval, this bandit stone can value her so much, it is nothing more than because of Ye Xuyao's attitude, not her Lin Long herself, she still understands this truth.

Bandit Shi was flattered, and even vowed in his heart to get a little more money for Miss Lin.

Watching the two men go out, Lin Long sat down and took a sip of water to breathe slowly, it seems that things are developing in a good direction at present.

Gao Zhi's mood was just the opposite, after listening to Lin Long's righteous words, his mood was difficult to get better, first of all, he sent someone to the flower pavilion, changed the original package of Qi Niang to no package, and settled the money of the previous days Even if it was a punishment for this broken mouth Oiran, he was not even in the mood to meet people in person and train him.

With a gloomy face, he rode on a horse and walked around Suzhou City several times without direction, and the intimate pictures of Lin Long and Ye Xuyao came to mind, jealousy made his eyes red, and he who had always been invincible among the flowers fell heavily in Lin Long.

Or lost to Ye Xuyao's unpopular wood, how can you not be angry? When he returned to the door of the house aimlessly, he saw that Qi Niang and her maid were waiting for him at the door.

He dismounted with a bad face, stared coldly at the woman who was already unattractive in his eyes, handed the reins of the horse to the little guy who came up on the side, took a big step onto the steps, and never looked at Qi Niang again.

"Uncle Guo?" Qi Niang hurriedly stepped forward and grabbed his sleeve, her eyes were red, and it seemed that she had been crying for a long time before.

"Let it go." He spat out two words coldly, where was the usual casual smile.

"What did the slave do wrong? Uncle Guo, if you say it, the slave family will definitely change. Qi Niang begged, from heaven to hell is this moment's thing, when she heard the old bustard's cold words, she felt that the sky had fallen, just because she wanted something in her heart, she couldn't do it didn't matter.

Yan'er also said with red eyes: "Uncle Guo, our young lady treats you wholeheartedly, as long as you want, our young lady will try her best to satisfy Uncle Guo's ......"

Gao Zhi glanced coldly at this noisy maid with no rules, and was so frightened that Yan'er quickly shut up with interest.

He grabbed Qi Niang's chin, forced her to look up at him, and said coldly: "Qi Niang, are you so smart that you can't guess what you have done to anger me?" ”

Qi Niang was stunned, her heart was flustered, she always listened to him, he did whatever he asked her to do, but there was only one thing she did in private without his consent, and her eyes widened, "Miss Lin?" ”

As soon as he heard these three words of Miss Lin, Gao Zhi thought of how he looked deflated in front of her, and snorted coldly and shook off Qi Niang's chin, regardless of the possibility that she might fall to the ground, "It's good to know." ”

Yan'er hurriedly supported her young lady, and both the master and servant were unsteady and half fell to the ground.

Gao Zhi didn't look at it again, walked into the mansion, and said to the sharp-beaked monkey-cheeked porter: "Don't wait for the unclean woman to enter the door in the future." ”

"Yes." The porter with the sharp-beaked monkey's cheeks hurriedly responded, and then looked at Qi Niang with contempt and lust, such a beautiful woman, Uncle Guo actually didn't want it, it was really a tyrannical thing.

Yan'er glared at the porter and helped Qi Niang up, "Miss, let's go back......"

Qi Niang pushed her away, turned around and was about to chase into the Gao Mansion, "Uncle Guo, the slave family can explain it, you listen to the slave family......"

The concierge of the sharp-beaked monkey cheeks hurriedly closed the vermilion door and did not let the woman step into the mansion, and the master's words were not a joke.

Qi Niang could only slap with her hands hard, but she couldn't knock on the door of Gaofu anymore.

Yan'er saw that someone had gathered to see the excitement, so she hurriedly stepped forward to put the veil on Qi Niang, "Miss, let's leave quickly, if you stay and be talked about, you really won't have a good life to live in the future......"

This young lady is not a shrewd person after all, she has a faint disdain in her heart, if the news of being dumped by Uncle Gao Guo spreads widely, who will take her in the future, I am afraid that she will be reduced to a second-class prostitute in the building, specializing in the business of peddlers and pawns.

Only then did Qi Niang pull up her veil in a panic and slip away from the crowd.

As soon as she arrived on the street outside and no one was watching, she calmed down a little and wrinkled her beautiful face, "Yan'er, you have a lot of ideas, quickly give me one, miss this opportunity to be good, where will I meet a young person with status and status like Uncle Guo?" ”

Yan'er was also meditating, "In the final analysis, this thing is still with Miss Nalin......"

At the mention of Lin Long, Qi Niang's expression froze, and she smiled bitterly: "She seems to be very unkind to see us, Yan'er, if you go to beg her again, I can't open my mouth......"

Yan'er glanced at her, "Who wants Miss you to beg her again?" Miss Lin said everything she had said, and she wouldn't change her mind lightly, but she didn't know what she said to Uncle Guo, which made Uncle Guo angry...... "This matter has to be investigated."

Qi Niang said: "Isn't it that she plans to monopolize the country alone?" "I can't see that she has such a big appetite, or how can a yellow-haired girl wait for a man to die?

Yan'er glanced at her, "Miss, no matter how proud Miss Lin is, she has to know how there is a girl's family that monopolizes a man?" It doesn't mean that, don't be in a hurry, let's go back and think about it in the long run. ”

Qi Niang nodded hurriedly, in this flower building, only Yan'er is loyal to her, who else can she trust if she doesn't believe it? Thinking of Uncle Gao Guo's ruthlessness, his eyes turned red again.

Once Uncle Gao's mind shifted, even the nine horses couldn't pull it back, he couldn't sit still in the house, and he couldn't lie down, could it be that he really wanted to let go of Ye Xuyao and Lin Long generously? How is this possible? Thinking about Lin Long's stubborn temperament again, would he really be willing to receive the six thousand taels of silver?

Mama Gui saw Uncle Gao Guo walking back and forth, and stepped forward to persuade: "Third master, that girl refuses to forget it, there is no grass at the end of the world, why do you want to love that flower?" Thinking of what Lin Long said without giving her face, it was still difficult to dissipate her anger in her heart, and she no longer cared about Lin Long, and her tone was a little indignant, "The third master also gave her such a valuable three-legged golden toad at that time, she didn't remember it at all......"

Three-legged golden toad?

Gao Zhi suddenly patted his head, he actually forgot that there was such a thing, by the way, she was so sure that she could be even, didn't she still have the opening gift from herself and Ye Xuyao as a backing? "Someone—"

Immediately, a little guy stepped forward to obey the order.

He said: "You go and send a message to all the pawnshops in Suzhou City, just say that if someone comes to be a three-legged golden toad...... I don't know what Ye Xuyao sent at that time? Then he added, "Anyone surnamed Lin will not be given anything as a thing." ”

"Master, there are many people surnamed Lin in this city?" The little guy said with a bitter face.

"I don't care, in short, all the things surnamed Lin are not allowed, hurry up and do it." Gao Zhi said domineeringly, he is procured by the Ministry of Internal Affairs, how can the chamber of commerce in the city not give him face? It's just an order.

Mama Gui saw the little girl running away, with a bitter face, it seems that her grandfather has entered the magic barrier of the Lin girl.

In the mansion where the Ye family temporarily lived, Ye Zhong was looking at the letters sent from Beijing, and suddenly saw the brocade hurriedly coming in, "What's the matter?" ”

Brocade stepped forward and reported the news he heard to Ye Zhong's family, "Madam, I heard that the master transferred six thousand taels of silver to make up for Miss Lin Long's ......."

Ye Zhong's face immediately changed, and his face was cold, "Is this true?" ”

"This is what the slave asked from the person who was waiting beside the master......"

Ye Zhongshi suddenly slapped the table angrily, originally wanted to polish Lin Long's stubborn temperament, but now that people have not entered her Ye family, they have to spend the Ye family's money? This is no worse than Lin Lin and the others, taking a deep breath, his feelings eased, "You go and pass the word to the people in Brother Yao's children's hospital, and let him come to me as soon as he comes back." ”

"Yes, ma'am." The brocade is respectful.

No matter how fast Gao Zhi reacted, he was still a step slower.

Bandit Shi came forward to be the three-legged golden toad with Lin Nan, and after a lotus flower, he was sold for two thousand eight hundred taels of silver, three hundred taels more than when Lin Nan inquired, and for a while, he received Lin Nan's adoring gaze, and his self-confidence was even more inflated.

At the beginning of the lantern, the little guy in Gaofu put the three-legged golden toad in front of Gao Zhi, and said with a bitter face: "Third master, the little one is late, this three-legged golden toad has already been ...... death."

Gao Zhi's anger rose, and with a sweep of his hand, the three-legged golden toad fell to the ground with a "bang", and the gems scattered all over the ground.

After a while, he sneered, "Okay, you're a beautiful woman." ”

At this time, Lin Long took the silver ticket of 2,800 taels, but he was very satisfied, and gave a reward of five taels of silver to the bandit stone, but the bandit stone refused to accept it, and finally accepted the reward under Lin Long's glare.

When Lin Long was planning to plate again, the remaining three thousand taels of silver had been raised, and he was relieved.

"Sister, you're too strong." Lin Qi glanced at him, "This brother-in-law is willing to help you, if you accept it, you will almost be a family, what do you want to share with each other?" ”

"You know what?"

"You know?"

The sisters glared at each other, Lin Qi kicked the stool, and went back to the room with a pout, can this owe Uncle Gao Guo the same as Ye Xuyao? It's hard to have a little money and have to be hollowed out, can she not be angry?

Lin Dong glanced at the eldest sister gently, "Sister, I support you in this matter." ”

Lin Long touched his head, "Did you encounter any trouble in the academy?" ”

Lin Dong was stunned for a moment and covered his eyes, "It's okay, after all, I was personally asked to enter by Governor Zheng's son, and no one in the academy is looking for my fault, sister, you can rest assured." ”

"Hearing you say that, I'm worrying about it for nothing." Lin Long dialed the abacus beads, "It's almost the end of the month, and we have to send silver to Miss Zheng Er and Ah Fei in the first month, so we don't have much savings." ”

"Now that the business is also in use, let's sell more next, and the silver can still be earned." Aunt Green said optimistically.

Lin Long thought about it, so he no longer cared about it.

At night, as soon as Ye Xuyao returned to the house, he first heard what Bandit Shi said about Lin Long being a three-legged golden toad, and after thinking about it, he knew where this gift came from, and immediately smiled faintly on his face, she was finally not so confused this time, very good.

The bandit stone stabbed the bandit, and looked in the direction of his master, as if to say: Look, I'm not wrong, the master is only happy when he hears it.

Bandit Jianre pushed him, looking at this smug look, it was really underwhelming.

The brocade led the little maid over with a lantern, and when she saw the two brothers pushing and shoving under the corridor, her eyebrows wrinkled slightly, "Is the master back?" ”

"The Brocade Girl is here?" Bandit Jian hurriedly stood up straight, "Ye just came back." ”

"Mrs. will talk to me and tell me back, and you will give me a report."

Hearing the words of the brocade, the bandit was not lazy, and hurriedly rushed in to reply to Ye Xuyao.

After a while, Ye Xuyao, who had changed into home clothes, picked up the curtain and appeared, and unexpectedly saw the brocade standing outside the door, and said lightly: "Let's go." ”

Tapestry nodded, dutifully leading the way ahead.

The two of them didn't say anything along the way, and when they were close to Ye Zhong's courtyard, Brocade whispered: "Be careful, Mrs. is for the six thousand taels, which is related to Miss Lin Long." "If you say more, you won't say it anymore.

Ye Xuyao glanced at her and didn't make a sound.

The brocade didn't seem to care.

When he arrived at Ye Zhong's house, Ye Xuyao made a gesture to his mother, and Ye Zhongshi sneered: "What are you doing with so many courtesies?" I can't help it, how can I manage you? ”

"What did my mother say, if you feel uncomfortable, it's better to get straight to the point." Ye Xuyao didn't frown, he had done his best, and it was his mother's business to stand it or not.

Ye Zhongshi glared at him sharply, and put the teacup on the low table, "Let me ask you, did you give Lin Long six thousand taels of silver?" ”

Ye Xuyao was not surprised that his mother knew, and nodded lightly, "It's borrowed." ”

Six thousand taels is a large amount, but for Ye Zhong, who presided over the Xiangyang Hou Mansion, this amount of money is not outrageous, and she is not happy that Lin Long still marries in to make this hand.

Besides, mothers generally don't want their sons to take their daughters-in-law too seriously, which is a very subtle psychology, and Ye Zhongshi is naturally not exempt from vulgarity, and snorted coldly, "It's nice to say, can you pay it back if you borrow it?" Our family hasn't hired her yet? You're good, you're in a hurry to be someone's volcano filial son, what kind of medicine did she give you to take? ”

Ye Xuyao's face was full of displeasure, and his mother said too ugly, "I have nothing to do with her, I have always followed etiquette and religion, and I have not exceeded the rules." ”

Ye Zhongshi knew his son's temperament, and he said that if he didn't, he wouldn't, but at this moment, he was unhappy and had the upper hand, "There is no excess?" How would you help her? She couldn't open her shop and collected it for me, and she didn't really make much money? It's better to stay at home obediently and get married. ”

"There are also a lot of shops under my mother's name, do you have to put them away?" Ye Xuyao looked directly at his mother, "It's good to dare to be affectionate like this, when does my mother plan to put it away, it won't be too late for her to put it away." This conversation was not interesting, so he stood up directly, "Mother, she will return it, one yard to one yard, not six thousand taels, not sixty thousand taels." I still have something to do, so I'll go back first. ”

After speaking, without waiting for his mother to speak, he bowed and bowed, turned around and went out of the house.

Ye Zhong's family was so angry that he was angry, was this son angry with her?

Brocade hurriedly gave Ye Zhong's relief, "Mrs. don't be angry, the master doesn't have the intention to be angry with his wife, Miss Lin Long is afraid that she is really in trouble......"

"When is she out of trouble?" Ye Zhongshi glared at the brocade, "She has difficulties every day. ”

This future daughter-in-law is too low, if it weren't for the old lady, she wouldn't be able to look down on such a family.

Brocade suddenly stopped speaking, took the tea cup in the maid's hand and replaced the old bowl of tea, "Madam, do you want to go to Hanshan Temple tomorrow?" ”

Ye Zhong was angry, but he didn't think about replacing Lin Long, compared to the girls of the Ye family, Lin Long was already the tallest among the short, "You ordered the groom to set up the carriage early in the morning." ”

Brocade hurriedly responded, "The slave knows." ”

Lin Gang's new house, Lin Li sat under the lamp and embroidered after dinner, half of the embroidery, and looked up at the old lady, "Mother, Sister Lin hasn't been out of the house for two days, doesn't Mrs. Hou like her?" ”

Lin Bai was gritting his teeth and calculating expenses, listening to his daughter's question, Lin Lin really didn't get picked up by Ye Zhong's to speak, "I see that eighty percent of this marriage will fall on that girl." ”

"I'd rather cheapen her than have a three-room room." Lin Li smiled coldly, and then began to embroider again, "That's okay, our bamboo basket is empty, and everyone is dead." ”

Lin Bai didn't say anything, thinking of Lin Long's stubbornness, he still felt uncomfortable in his heart.

The courtyard of the third room was full of gloomy clouds, and Lin Lin hurriedly said to her mother: "Mother, I heard that Mrs. Hou is going to take Lin Long's Geng post to let people evaluate it?" We really don't have anything to do? ”

"Lin'er, I see that this matter is about to fall to the dust, let's stop here." Lin Yu's persuaded his daughter that since Ye Zhong's had a choice, it would be a loss of face to fight again.

"I don't." Lin Lin said stubbornly, "Mother, I am not willing to lose to Lin Long, I am better than her, why choose her instead of me?" Biting his nails, "Mother, what did Cao Zhou say?" Didn't you say that Dr. Cao was infatuated with Lin Long? ”

"Her family is still thinking about this marriage." Lin Yu said hesitantly, Cao Zhou's family came yesterday, but Lin Long had a tough attitude, she was just one of her aunts, and she couldn't be Lin Long's master.

Lin Lin stood up and paced around the room, "Mother, you can't just leave it at that, it's imminent now, we can't sit still." She sat down close to her mother and whispered a few words in her ear.

This time, Lin Yushi refused, and shook his head desperately, "Lin'er, you can't do this, in this way, it will hinder your father's future career." ”

Lin Lin said disapprerovingly: "What's the obstacle? Mother, you are really cowardly, no wonder we can't climb the Xiangyang Hou Mansion. ”

"If I say no, I can't, you give me this heart as soon as possible." Lin Yu stood up and said sternly to his daughter, "No matter how bad she is, she is also your cousin." ”

Lin Lin rolled up the handkerchief in her hand and said insincerely: "I know, it's me who wants to fork." ”

Lin Yu looked at his daughter, hoping that she really wanted to understand, but after a long time, he saw that his daughter didn't mention it again, so he gave up. Half an hour later, when she heard someone report that the third master was back, she quickly got up and went back to wait for her husband.

Lin Lin replied casually.

When her mother walked away, she opened the window and looked at Lin Qiong, who was already waiting outside, and beckoned, "Come in." ”

Lin Qiong glanced at the room and saw that there was no one, and then went around to the main entrance and entered, "The mosquitoes outside have bitten me to death...... and complained as soon as he came in.

"Okay, stop complaining, how are things going?"

Lin Qiong said with a smile: "My uncle's side has done everything, as long as we give him fifty taels of silver afterwards to thank him." ”