In ancient times, the transportation was inconvenient, and the New Year's gifts had to be given in advance.

Every year, there are many entertainments, and Lin Ruhai is the history of the salt patrol, almost every day someone invites to eat and drink, in addition to the officialdom colleagues, there are also Yangzhou salt merchants. If you want to be a good official, especially to do a good job in salt administration, it is most important to blindly be high, and Lin Ruhai has been well versed in it for a few years. In the first month, choose a few to eat and drink, and push away the others, except for the New Year's gift ice charcoal filial piety and do not accept others, Yangzhou officials and salt merchants are very clear, no one is bored anymore.

On the third day of the Lunar New Year, the prefect invited a banquet, and several major salt merchants in Yangzhou City were also seated, and the location was in a private garden by the West Lake. This garden is a gift from a salt merchant, and now it is snow-capped, and the plum blossoms compete with each other to spit out, and it is extremely elegant.

During the banquet, he invited a dancing girl to help him, which was the norm, and Lin Ruhai didn't care about it at first.

After three rounds of wine and five flavors of food, the prefect Fang Zhou suddenly pointed to a young dancer dressed in red and said: "This woman's name is Hongqiang, she is a Qing man, not only dances well, looks good, but also rarely can chant poems and paint, she can be called a talented woman." Lord Lin is a former detective, and his writing is brilliant, but this red rose has admired Lord Lin for a long time. ”

Hongqiang smiled beautifully, walked to Lin Ruhai's seat with a fragrant lotus, held the pot and poured a glass of wine to salute, but the person had already lowered his head, showing infinite shyness: "Hongqiang is fortunate to see the true face of Lord Lin, it is really a blessing for three lives, a glass of thin wine to talk about Hongqiang's admiration, I hope Lord Lin will not refuse." ”

At this time, Lin Ruhai didn't understand anything, this was a specially designed beauty plan. When I first came to Yangzhou, I encountered this kind of thing, both overtly and secretly, and I used all means to enter the mansion and was sent out by Jia Min, but later those people stopped when they saw that he was still indifferent. Later, Jia Minxian died, and some people moved their minds, but they were all blocked by him, and the line was staged again after three or four years.

"Lin is over half a hundred years old, it's not like it was back then, the red girl is kind to Lin, and this wine is just that. Lin was too strong to drink, so he couldn't drink anymore. Lin Ruhai declined to toast, just because he knew that once he accepted one cup, there would be a second and third cups immediately, Fang Zhou knew that he didn't like women, how could he knowingly commit a crime? I'm afraid that there is a backhand.

After a few years of salt administration, Lin Ruhai has developed a cautious temperament, and would rather be suspicious than careless.

After this time, Lin Ruhai paid attention to the looks of everyone at the banquet, pretended to be drunk and got up to say goodbye.

Fang Zhou and the others couldn't keep it, so they personally sent it to the carriage.

Lin Ruhai thought about the recent actions of the prefect and others, and always seemed to be a little disobedient.

It was the beginning of the morning, and there was no one on the street in the cold, and the carriage was not going very fast for fear of the car skidding. As soon as he turned a corner carriage, he heard a neighing of the horse, raised his hooves and stomped twice, and suddenly galloped out like a sharp arrow. I only heard the clanging noise, the speed was too fast, the ground was slippery, the carriage was bumpy and almost fell apart, Lin Ruhai was even more dizzy, he had just eaten wine, and almost vomited. With a click, the carriage finally couldn't bear this speed and disconnected, and the whole thing fell to the ground, and Lin Ruhai's forehead hit the wall of the car, almost fainting.

"Sir! Are you alright, sir? Jiang Ping's face changed in fright, and he opened the destroyed car door and helped Lin Ruhai out.

Lin Ruhai only felt dizzy, and when he raised his hand to touch it, his hands were full of blood.

"Master, you're bleeding!" Jiang Ping panicked even more when he saw this, and the coachman trembled like a sifting chaff, kneeling on the ground and kowtowing endlessly.

"Go back to the house first, go to the doctor immediately, remember, please make a big show, how strict the situation is." Even when Lin Ruhai arrived here, he had calmed down after the initial turmoil, and he guessed many possibilities in his heart. Presumably this is not the driver's mistake, nor is it a simple accident, since those people are planning to calculate, if they fail once, there will always be another time, it is better to calculate it.

At this time, Lin Qingyun was in Daiyu's room, and the two of them were gossiping and waiting for Lin Ruhai to come back from the banquet, but they might as well suddenly hear the news that Lin Ruhai had an accident and asked for a doctor, which frightened the two of them. The two of them didn't care about anything, and immediately wrapped themselves in big fur cloaks and walked towards Lin Ruhai's courtyard in the face of the biting night wind.

As soon as I entered the courtyard, I saw the big girl in Lin Ruhai's house, Qiuqiu, standing at the door of the room, admonishing the few little girls who didn't know the rules and talked nonsense, and at the same time Nian Xia came out with a basin of water, reflecting the bright candle flame, and the clear water in the basin had turned into bloody water, with a bloody atmosphere, which was particularly scary.

"Daddy!" Daiyu was young in the end, and she was too worried, and when she saw this scene, she was so frightened that her face turned pale and her body shook, and she almost fainted.

Lin Qingyun quickly supported her, and at the same time comforted her: "Sister, don't panic!" The father-in-law may have been injured, how can there be no blood when the wound is cleaned? Not necessarily strict zhòng. At this time, the father-in-law was about to quietly wait for the doctor to diagnose the pulse, and the younger sister must not mess up, and the anti-father-in-law was worried. ”

"Yes, that's what my sister said." Daiyu slowed down, tried her best to be calm, and walked to the door very quickly, but there was no sound through the door, and she was worried and didn't dare to break in, so she only asked Qiu: "How is Daddy injured?" Does it matter? Why hasn't the doctor come yet? Is it packed up? I need to go in and see Daddy. ”

"Don't panic, girl, the doctor is here." As soon as Qiu Qiu opened his mouth, he leaked the filling, and his voice was obviously abnormal, as if he was crying.

Daiyu heard it, she was stunned, and her tears couldn't stop rolling down: "Daddy, daddy is ......"

Lin Qingyun was also taken aback, and while comforting Daiyu, she asked Qiuqiu: "Where did the master hurt?" How's this going? You say it carefully. ”

At this moment, there was a mess at the gate of the courtyard, but it was the three aunts who rushed to hear the news, each of whom was followed by a girl's mother-in-law, hulala. These three people are very low-key in the Lin family, knowing that Lin Ruhai accepts them only for the heirs, although the due part has never been short, but if they want to fight for something else, others don't say it, Lin Ruhai is the first to tolerate them, so they all abide by their duties.

At this moment, I saw the two girls standing in front of the door, and when the three of them saw the salute, they stood a few steps away from the steps, and did not dare to come out. They all chanted the Buddha in their hearts, hoping that Lin Ruhai would be safe and secure when he was murdered, because they relied on Lin Ruhai all their lives, and if Lin Ruhai had a case, they couldn't ask for food and clothing.

"The doctor is here!" Someone shouted outside the courtyard gate, and everyone hurriedly separated the path, but when they saw Aunt Xu hurrying over with an old doctor in her fifties, she was already sweating profusely on such a cold day.

Lin Qingyun and Daiyu followed the doctor in, afraid of disturbing the doctor, so they only stood outside and waited. Daiyu was too nervous, her lips were white, and she was holding Qingyun's hand unconsciously very hard, although Qingyun was in pain, she had to endure it silently when she saw her so looked.

I vaguely heard a voice talking inside, the voice was too small, Qingyun didn't hear it clearly, and it took a while to see the doctor come out.

Daiyu took a step forward and asked, "Dare to ask Dr. Zhao, how is my father?" But does it matter? ”

Doctor Zhao paused slightly: "The girl doesn't have to worry too much, don't worry, don't worry." ”

"Amitabha." Daiyu breathed a sigh of relief and hurriedly went in to visit.

Qingyun took a step behind, and watched Aunt Xu send the doctor out, thinking back to the doctor's words and expressions. This Dr. Zhao is commonly used by the Lin family, and he has a good reputation in Yangzhou, and his medical skills are also good.

Entering the inner room, I saw Daiyu lying on the side of the bed sobbing quietly, Lin Ruhai stroked his head, leaned on the bed with a pale face, and a circle of gauze wrapped around his head, which obviously hit his head. Although his complexion was not good, it should be due to excessive blood loss, but the person next to him did not seem to be in serious trouble.

"Sister, don't cry, my father-in-law is injured and I'm afraid I'm tired, so I can finish what I have to say, so that my father-in-law can rest early."

Daiyu wiped away her tears, still choked up: "I just feel sorry for my father, it's easy to recover a little better, but I encountered this kind of thing again." I said that the prefect was uneasy and kind, what kind of guests were invited on such a cold day, but it was not easy to excuse the two families who had already had a disagreement earlier, and let my father suffer this in vain. ”

Daiyu was distressed and angry, but Qingyun was listening but felt that something was wrong.

Lin Ruhai took the two of them into his eyes, and sighed: "The doctor said that it's okay, I'm just doing it for outsiders to see, don't cry." ”

Daiyu was slightly stunned, and after tasting it, she realized that she was even more sad.

"Daddy, this official is too hard, when is it a head? If you don't want to be an official, the family will be safe, even if you have rough clothes and light food. ”

"My sister is on the horns again." Lin Qingyun helped her up and asked Lin Ruhai tentatively: "My father-in-law is making a big show, but what are your plans?" ”

Lin Ruhai didn't hide some things from them, not to mention that he had to cooperate with them this time, so he naturally had to explain it clearly.

"What they have worked so hard to plan is nothing more than the position of this salt patrol imperial history. Previously, the Holy Lord ordered me to serve for another year, and if nothing else, I will be transferred back to Beijing after the expiration of my term, so that I can take advantage of this year to make arrangements so that the successor will not be busy. However, during this time, the prefect and others moved frequently, and they were afraid that they had received some new instructions, after all, they didn't know the plans of the saints, so they were anxious to bring me down so that they could replace their people. Once people are in a hurry, they will have a faint move, and the faint move is also a ruthless move, which is the duty of the father, and as an official of the court, they have some concerns, but you can't stay here. The weakness of the father is only the two of you, if they do it to the two of you, it will be too late to regret it for the father. ”

"My father-in-law wants us to go to Beijing?" Lin Qingyun couldn't help frowning, just because once he went to Beijing, he would go to Jiafu, which was really a headache.

"Daddy, I'm not leaving!" Daiyu became more and more worried when she heard this, and she refused to leave lightly, she had no mother, and she couldn't have a father.

"Yu'er is obedient." Lin Ruhai analyzed the internal and external interests and disadvantages with the two of them one by one, and finally said: "Having said that, it will not let the two of you leave immediately, there must be a justifiable reason." Besides, you are just one step ahead of you when you go to Beijing, and it won't be long before your father returns to Beijing, and then our family of three will naturally reunite. ”

Although Daiyu was still reluctant, she didn't want to be a father and dragged down, so she had to nod with tears.

Lin Qingyun guessed the "reason" that Lin Ruhai said, and when she saw Daiyu compromise, she lost no time in saying, "Don't worry, father-in-law, I will take good care of my sister." If you go to the capital this time, you will clean up our house first, and when your father-in-law arrives in the capital, it will be all right, and you don't have to worry about it. ”

Qingyun is so just because she doesn't live in Jiafu, firstly, she doesn't like Jiafu, and it is really laborious to deal with the crowd, and secondly, she is not a serious relative, and she is always awkward and not free to live. If she cleans up the Lin family's house and lives on weekdays, she can take Daiyu back to live for a few days every ten days and a half months, so that people know that Daiyu is not homeless, and the daughter of a serious third-grade member saves the villain in Jiafu from chewing his tongue.

Lin Ruhai comprehended the meaning of his words, glanced at her, and finally said with a smile: "It's okay, you have always been careful and thoughtful, Yu'er has you look at me and I can rest assured." ”