When Lin Ruhai arrived in Yangzhou, it was almost the first month. The former Salt Inspector had already moved out of the official residence, waiting for him to hand him over. The official residence is just a three-entry house, but in the end it is wider than ordinary people's homes. The front yard is Lin Ruhai's outer study and the side room of the main hall flower hall for hospitality. There are two side courtyards on the left and right, which are reserved for guest courtyards, and one is placed in Jia Lian and the other is reserved for Huang Jiyun to live in when he comes. Inside the weeping flower gate is the main courtyard where Jia Min and Lin Ruhai live, there are also partial courtyards on the left and right, Daiyu lives in the east, and two aunts live in the west. There's a little garden at the back. The previous salt patrol imperial history seemed to be an elegant person, although the garden was small, the flower garden and the pavilion were very exquisitely arranged, but there was no need for Daiyu to work hard. Even the roses and weeping willows that were originally planted also made people keep the same, only a few osmanthus, gardenias, jasmine and other fragrant flowers were planted in various places in the main courtyard, so that the yard will be filled with a faint fragrance all year round. In the garden, fruit trees such as oranges, apricots, and pears are also planted, and the four sides of the cloister are interspersed. Even if it doesn't bear fruit, it will look lush and lush, not to mention the flowers, which are also very beautiful. A grape trellis was also erected on the west side of the garden, so that there was no lotus pond and lotus pond in the garden in summer, and it would look cool and pleasant. In addition, three small thatched huts were built on the stone mountain of Taihu Lake in the middle of the garden, and a few plantains were planted next to the thatched huts. Although the hut is not compatible with the garden, it has to be said that the scenery above is unique. The garden goes out to the back door is the cover of the RV and the carriage and the road, which used to go from the road to both sides, and you can go straight to the front yard and the main courtyard without passing through the garden.

In the past few days, Daiyu and Jia Min have basically put the official residence in place. The curtains, curtains, curtains and curtains that should have been replaced have been replaced, and the vases and antique ornaments that should have been placed have been placed one by one. When I came to Yangzhou, I didn't bring furniture, and I used the original ones in the official residence, but after Daiyu's guidance, I put cushions here, brocade mats there, embroidery screens here, and bonsai there...... Daiyu strictly follows the concept of light decoration and heavy decoration in the previous life, and the official residence looks warm and bright without losing decency.

After Jia Min and Daiyu were busy, the house had time to send some soup, soup, water and nourishing items to the front yard, but Jia Min found that Jia Lian had not seen Jia Lian for a few days, and his eyes were blood-red and his cheeks were sunken. But Jia Min was frightened. It turns out that the official affairs of Yanzheng are really complicated, and the accounts are even more chaotic, either here or there are a few pages missing, just reconciling Lin Ruhai is already busy, especially the old bookkeeping method used in the yamen. Lin Ruhai and a few staff members were already busy with their feet on the ground, but the official affairs of the yamen were complicated, how could it be an account problem? So he arrested Jia Lian's strong man.

Jia Lian's task was very simple, to organize all the account books into a new credit and debit ledger using the method taught by Daiyu. However, the old ledger does not say that there is a lack of east and west, even if the account is in and out, it is also a mess. Jia Lian wants to start from scratch to make a new loan income, even though this method has been used for more than a year and a half, but there is not much progress. Coincidentally, Jia Min saw Jia Lian who was unkempt buried in the pile of account books. Seeing him so embarrassed and thinking that this was the only one in his mother's family who could make a difference now, he couldn't help but complain about Lin Ruhai.

Daiyu didn't do it when she heard it, and no matter how close her cousin was, she didn't have a father. So he pouted and looked at Jia Min with angry eyes and said: "Mother, this is wronged Daddy, as the saying goes, what you have learned is put into practice, and Cousin Lian is no matter how well he reads books, it is not as good as some practical experience." In the future, Cousin Lian will become an official, no matter what position he achieves, it is still very important to manage the accounts in his hands clearly and understand the income and expenditure, especially when the accounts are handed over to others. Now it is not only a favor for my father, but also a rare opportunity, and under the guidance of my father, I can understand the dark side of this officialdom, and I will be more cautious in the future, right? ”

Look at what he said, Jia Mincheng is not a good person. Jia Lian was afraid that the fire would spread, so he quickly stood up and bowed down to Jia Min and said, "My cousin said very well, this is my uncle's cultivation of my nephew. The nephew was stupid, and Aunt Lao was worried. "Jia Lian is very good at talking, my uncle cultivated me, and my aunt cares about me, but I am stupid and so embarrassed. As soon as these words came out, Daiyu was satisfied. Lin Ruhai also had a smile in his eyes. Only Jia Min was angry, as if he was not pleasing inside and out, and became nosy.

Daiyu saw that Jia Lian was very good, so she took the initiative to let people move the account books to the side hall compartment, and Zhixuan was waiting in it with a smile, Daiyu read the data while flipping through the account books, Jia Lian just needed to "dictate" outside. Zhixuan smiled and was afraid that Daiyu would be tired, so she kept sending tea, snacks and fruits inside, which made Daiyu want to roll her eyes, if it wasn't for the image problem, how could it be more than a white eye? With Daiyu's help, Jia Lian's speed is soaring. But Daiyu can't always be here to help Jia Lian sort out the account books! So patiently taught Jia Lian how to classify, how to record, etc., Jia Lian is also very smart, anyway, he just needs to sort out the records, and there is no need to reconcile accounts or anything, those who have Lin Ruhai and his staff are doing it.

So the next day, Jia Lian began to relax, dressed in a lake-blue brocade cotton robe, covered with a moon-colored robe with white fox fur, sitting on a round chair with Erlang's legs crossed, looking like a handsome boy. In addition, he has clear eyebrows and a natural smile at the corner of his mouth, where is there still a little bit of yesterday's embarrassment? Serving a bowl of tea and turning over the account book from time to time, Zhao'er, his personal servant, sat opposite, recording the numbers reported by Jia Lian without raising his head. That's the case, every day Li Jialian also reads it with a dry mouth, and he has to copy the directory first at night. It took more than ten days to sort out all the accounts.

However, in the past 20 days, Jia Min is not too easy, when he first arrived in Yangzhou City, there were officials of all sizes who sent greetings, and salt merchants of all sizes sent all kinds of valuable gifts, from calligraphy and painting ancient books to treasured ornaments, from jewelry to beautiful Ji Yanniang, and even more directly sent silver tickets, shops and other things. All of them were bribes in the name of congratulations. The official residence was not properly cleaned up before, and no one came to visit uninvited. Jia Min is also very good at being a person, and when he went to Yangzhou for a short rest, he took Daiyu to visit the governor, the governor, the envoy and other wives. He replied one by one to the wives of the other officials, the wives of the salt merchants, and set up a banquet on March 3 to entertain everyone, but everyone understood that the Lin family had just arrived here, and showed enough tolerance not to disturb much.

But Jia Min and Lin Ruhai knew about the chaos of Yangzhou officialdom from this, which was even worse than they imagined! For these "gifts", I don't know what to do for a while. When Daiyu learned about it, she asked Lin Ruhai, "Does Daddy like these gifts in his heart?" Lin Ruhai glared at Daiyu at that time, and said with a snort: "My Lin family has been inherited for a hundred years, and what kind of wealth has been accumulated?" How can a father covet such an idea, and it is not to be looked down upon. Daiyu thought about it and asked, "Then why didn't Daddy go back?" Lin Ruhai sighed as if he was a few years older in an instant: "How can you go back, isn't that a slap in the face?" As a father, the foundation is unstable when he first arrives here, how can he offend the entire Yangzhou officialdom? After saying that, he sighed again. I didn't want Daiyu to smile, opened the door to look at Lin Ping and Lin An outside the study, and then quietly said to Lin Ruhai: "Daddy's position is originally delicate now, and Yu'er feels that Daddy is not suitable to deal with it by herself." The amount of this so-called gift is so huge, how can it be that the above does not know at all? If it is less than 1,000 taels, we can accept it with peace of mind, and return the gift according to the value of the gift. This kind of person has no intention of clinging, or it is impossible to say that they can make friends with one or two. After all, when the water is clear, there are no fish, and those individuals also need to stand in Yangzhou City, just like today's father, right? It's just that Daddy's position is more subtle and critical. Those who are worth more than 1,000 taels, don't deal with it yourself, if you don't get it right, it's corruption and bribery, and we can't afford such a reputation! Besides, even if the father doesn't have the heart to do so, what if people ask for it in the future? Needless to say, our family is not short of these. Lin Ruhai heard this and smiled bitterly: "How can Yu'er not know what Daddy said? But these things and belongings have been delivered to our house, what can Daddy do? Daiyu smiled: "Why does Daddy have to be so embarrassed? All the finances that were sent, including those beautiful girls, were made into a directory and sent to the heavens. Calligraphy and painting ancient books, treasured ornaments encounter good ones directly counted as silver two our own collection, in the future put out those individuals will not think much about it. The converted silver corresponds to the original one by one, and a separate book is registered, and then there are yellow and white things, pearls, hairpins, jade, and silver ticket shops, etc., which are also registered and recorded separately. I wrote an excerpt and sent it to the Imperial Front. Even those who we don't look down on, we also make a list for the saint, whether it is sold at a discount, or how to arrange it, all waiting for the will of the saint. Anyway, what the Holy God arranges for us to do, we just have nothing to hide. At the same time, this also shows all the bulls, ghosts, snakes and gods that we are clear royalists and only listen to saints. In this way, we will naturally move closer to us, and Yu'er doesn't believe that there is no one loyal to the saint in the huge Yangzhou City. Besides, if we do it clearly, we can also ask the Holy One for more favors, right? Even those who sent Meiji's concubines also made a booklet and handed it in, and they bought another house in Yangzhou to settle it, and sent someone to guard it. If these concubines have no will, it is feasible for our family to make their own arrangements when they want to come to the Holy Lord, and if these beautiful concubines have no will, it is feasible for our family to make their own arrangements when they go back. Lin Ruhai couldn't help nodding, his eyes were full of satisfaction and relief, and now in the face of Daiyu, who was almost demonic, he was numb in addition to being satisfied and relieved, and it was very easy to accept Daiyu's suggestion.

After counting all kinds of materials and registering them separately, Lin Ruhai only selected calligraphy and paintings from them and converted them into silver, but the rest of the things were sealed and stored in the warehouse. Lin Ruhai is also an old fox, he only chooses calligraphy and painting and nothing else, not only showing that he is not in the same stream but also does not appear to be lonely and pretentious, and shows himself clearly in front of the saint neither hypocritically or deliberately concealed. Everything is ready, with the new account book annotation fold and the list of account books, people are sent to the front of the palace quickly, even those beautiful Ji Yan Niang have clearly recorded it, who sent how many years and how many beautiful Ji Yan Niang of the people there and so on. As for how the Holy Admiral dealt with it, Lin Ruhai couldn't control it, anyway, all the things had been sealed, and those who sent them had already let their subordinates secretly enter the house with a second seat for people to take care of. You may ask, isn't it for you to buy a house? So if you haven't bought a house, how can you buy it if you want to? Especially the second-hand house that wants to hide people's eyes. How satisfied the saint was with Lin Ruhai's performance will not be mentioned at this time.

It's just that other people's families are easy to deal with, but the Zhen family is not so simple. Not to mention the pearl agate they sent, the hairpin ring jade pendant, nor the silk Luo Gong satin, with brocade. Only someone came to bring Zhen Yingjia's message and asked to see Aunt Zhuang, which made Lin Ruhai and Jia Min have a headache. Lin Ruhai couldn't discuss this matter with Daiyu, even if he knew it, he didn't want Daiyu to know, and he felt that he had polluted his precious daughter's ears. But in the end, Daiyu still has some rumors, but there is nothing to be done. I also think that since Lin Ruhai deliberately conceals himself, he just pretends not to know, so what's the matter? Daiyu heard a lot of this word in her previous life, but she really didn't experience it, even those soap operas in the house and palace fighting Daiyu also despised it in her previous life, and she was too busy with work and study, how could she have the heart to watch it? At this time, in the face of this matter, Daiyu felt very powerless.

In the end, it was Aunt Luo who came out of the palace who paid attention to Jia Min, only saying that Jia Min didn't know the identity of Aunt Zhuang, and took the opportunity to send someone out when Lin Ruhai was away, and then sent someone to find out after knowing his identity, but there was no news. It is expected that with the relationship between the Jia family and the Zhen family, the old lady of the Zhen family will not be torn because of Jia Min's ignorance, this Aunt Zhuang is the daughter of the old lady's outer room after all, and the old lady will not be seen much. Jia Minfu said to Lin Ruhai to listen, Lin Ruhai sighed: "After all, it came out of the palace!" This man's heart is fully calculated. The next day, according to his words, although the Zhen family was dissatisfied, they never turned their faces, which was a dangerous solution to this crisis that was not a crisis.

Seeing off the Zhen family, the people just wanted to take a breath, but they didn't expect the king of Wujun to go to Beijing to pay a New Year's greeting and take the princess back to the station through Yangzhou. When the governor of Yangzhou took the officials of a place to the dock to greet the king of Wujun and his wife, the princess of Wujun heard that Lin Ruhai and his wife were serving here, so she told the king of Wujun about the Hanshan Temple back then. When the prince learned of this, he went to Mo Xuan to inquire, that is, Mo Xuan was going to visit as soon as he heard that Lin Ruhai and Jia Min's mother and daughter were here, it turned out that Mo Xuan had been in Beijing for two years, and this time he followed him to Princess Wujun. Daiyu had not recovered when she left, and Mo Xuan had always been haunted by the fact that he was thinking about going to Gusu City next time to meet him, so he thought he would meet Jia Min and Daiyu here? Seeing that Mo Xuan insisted on this, Princess Wujun had to ask King Wujun to accompany her with a son and a daughter and Mo Xuan.

King Wujun and his family came to the official residence of Lin Ruhai, the imperial history of Yanyan, and for a while, the entire Yangzhou officialdom was boiling, and all guessed how Lin Ruhai and King Wujun were involved. No matter what others guessed in their hearts, the gate of the Lin Mansion was opened at the beginning of this day, and the big housekeeper Lin Zhong personally watched the little guy wash the door rails and stairs. Jia Min got up early and prepared a brand-new silver-white embroidered Fuzi dark pattern robe and dark green wide-sleeved overshirt for Lin Ruhai to entertain guests, and remembered what Daiyu had said about the family, and also changed to a silver-white embroidered Fuzi dark pattern gown with a dark green embroidered golden chrysanthemum skirt of the same color as Lin Ruhai, thinking that these clothes were all newly made by Daiyu for his wife this year, and he was in a good mood to pick a red chain inlaid with jade cloisonné in the makeup, and a pair of jade drop ear pendants, which looked very elegant and pleasant. Qiluo also helped pick a gold-inlaid jade pendant bead and inserted it diagonally on the Changyun bun, and the back has been fixed by Huasheng. It looks more dignified and noble. Jia Min also specially asked someone to inform Daiyu and Jia Lian to wear a silver-white shirt embroidered with the dark pattern of the word Fu. Don't be surprised, of course, you have to inform Jia Lian, after all, you live in a mansion, and there is no reason to push Jia Lian out again, so Daiyu will not lose Jia Lian's share of any clothes, which is also one of the reasons why Jia Lian is affectionately attached to the Lin family. Daiyu Jia Lian doesn't mention how to prepare. Here, Lin Ruhaichen led Jia Lian and the big housekeeper Lin Zhong to the door at the end of the day, waiting for the arrival of King Wujun. Although the post said that he had just visited, Lin Ruhai did not dare to slack off.

Sure enough, just after the hour of time, I saw King Wujun beside me, followed by two boys riding high-headed horses. There was also a carriage marked by the palace behind him, which was supposed to be the princess's car. Lin Ruhai took Jia Lian and quickly stepped forward and bowed to say hello. King Wujun dismounted and threw the reins to his entourage, and hurriedly called. Although Jia Lian had also seen princes and nobles in Beijing, he had little contact with his clan relatives, and now he was a little restrained, only following Lin Ruhai with his head down, and he didn't dare to talk nonsense. King Wujun saw that Jia Lian was wearing a silver-white embroidered moire gown, with a dark green waist seal tied around his waist, and he was wearing dark green beads to wipe his forehead with Lin Ruhai wearing a series, and he didn't realize that his heart was secretly moving, and he saw that Jia Lian was born with a white face, red lips, and a tall and handsome posture, so he nodded and smiled at him gently, Lin Ruhai saw this and hurriedly stepped forward and introduced: "This is the son of the uncle of Xiaguan, whose name is Jia Lian." Now he lives in the house of Xia Guan, studying, waiting for the end. Jia Lian also bowed down again and said, "Jia Lian, the grass people, has seen the prince. Hearing this, King Wujun laughed heartily, pointed at Mo Xuan and said, "This is also my eldest brother's child, named Mo Xuan, I think you have seen it." Brother Xuan didn't hurry up to give Lord Lin a salute. As soon as he finished speaking, he saw that Mo Xuan had already stood up, bowed to Lin Ruhai and said deeply: "After a year or two, Lord Lin's demeanor is better than in the past. I don't know if it's okay to go to the house? Lin Ruhai knew that what he was referring to was back then, and said with a smile: "Everything is fine, there is no need to worry so much about Brother Lao Xuan." After speaking, I heard King Wujun point to a fourteen or fifteen-year-old boy wearing a azure robe and a royal blue silk squirrel fur edge cloak and said, "This is my eldest son Hongjin, who is not a weapon." Lin Ruhai knew that King Wujun asked for the title a few years ago, and knew that this was the prince, so he said with a smile: "The prince is handsome and handsome. After speaking, the prince smiled and said, "Lord Lin, isn't he going to invite us in?" When Lin Ruhai heard this, he hurriedly waved his hand to the side and said, "The lower official has been refreshed, please be in the prince." As he spoke, he led the three of Wujun Wang to the main hall.

A few people sat down separately, chatted a few words, and then listened to King Wujun say to Jia Lian: "The virtuous nephew led them to play by themselves, and this king is here to talk with Lord Lin for two games." It turned out that King Wujun was also a good chess player, and Lin Ruhai also said to Jia Lian when he saw this: "Go, a good student asks the prince for some knowledge." Don't neglect your guests. After speaking, he led King Wujun to the flower hall. Whether the two of them were playing chess or something else in the flower hall was unknown to everyone, and it will not be mentioned here.