Chapter 6: Speculation
"If only your mother were okay......" Lin Guangcheng sighed inaudibly.
I don't know why, hearing this, Lin Yuan's eyes instantly moistened again. She took a deep breath and said word by word, "Dad, my mother was killed by someone." ”
Lin Guangcheng lost his mind for a moment, and only replied after a moment, "Don't think nonsense. ”
Lin Yuan was stunned. Lin Guangcheng loves his wife so much, how could he react like this?
Lin Yuan said in an accentuated tone, "Really, I saw it with my own eyes!" It's just that she only has a clip of Mrs. Lin being pushed down the well in her mind.
Hearing this, Lin Guangcheng nervously hugged Lin Yuan's shoulders.
"What do you see? Why didn't you come to sue your father at that time? He asked eagerly.
Lin Yuan lowered her head.
"I only saw my mother being pushed into the well, and the rest ...... I don't even remember. She didn't understand what was going on, so she didn't call someone to save Mrs. Lin.
"Then can you see who pushed your mother?" Lin Guangcheng asked nervously.
"The night was too deep for me to see...... I only saw two people......" Lin Yuan blamed herself a little.
Lin Guangcheng frowned and did not reply again.
The room was quiet for a while, and you could hear the pins falling.
"Dad, I really don't even remember." Lin Yuan cherished her father, who loved her in front of her, and she carefully explained, "After I was rescued from the well, I only remember you and my mother." ”
"However, I really remember that my mother was killed." She occupies the magpie's nest, so naturally she has to do something for the deity.
"Good, you're fine, don't think nonsense." Lin Guangcheng reached out and touched Lin Yuan's head, and admonished, "Don't tell others these words, my father knows it." ”
Second Mrs. Lin died strangely, how could Lin Guangcheng not have doubts? Even if Lin Yuan didn't say it, he would have sent someone to investigate it secretly. It's just that...... Little gain. Now according to what Lin Yuan said, she saw it with her own eyes, and Lin Guangcheng was afraid that Lin Yuan would be killed, so he warned him. As for why Lin Yuan didn't call someone to save his mother at that time, Lin Guangcheng also had a conclusion in his heart, and blamed him for focusing on the funeral of his deceased wife and ignoring his daughter. Lin Yuan has been asleep in bed since Mrs. Lin's accident until the day of the funeral, and the doctor diagnosed that she was overly sad. So he even suspected that Lin Yuan's subsequent fall into the well was also caused by persecution.
Lin Yuan knew in his heart, he was afraid that Lin Guangcheng had already noticed something, otherwise he would not have warned himself, so he didn't say anything more, and nodded obediently.
"Okay, I'll go and see why the doctor hasn't come yet." Saying that, Lin Guangcheng went out a little eagerly.
After a while, the voice of Lin Guang's generation of Xianghe Xiangyue came from outside the house.
"Never leave the young lady!"
Xianghe Xiangyue responded, and the fish entered the house and saluted Lin Yuan.
Xianghe still had worry on her face, but Xiangyue looked happy.
Lin Yuan didn't appease Xianghe, but spoke up to Xiangyue, "Xiangyue, I'm hungry, help me get some food, well, I want to eat Songhua egg and meat porridge." ”
This one is less than half an hour.
Xiangyue naturally gladly accepted the order.
After Xiangyue left, Lin Yuan looked at Xianghe.
"Last time, Xiangyue told me about the house, so you can tell me about the house again."
Xianghe's face was even more melancholy.
"Miss, do you really remember anything? Why don't you wait for the doctor to come and see. ”
Lin Yuan slandered in her heart, she was not a deity, how could she remember? If it weren't for the love of her parents, I'm afraid she wouldn't even have this memory.
"I haven't remembered it for so many days, I'm afraid I can't remember it." Lin Yuan shook his head and replied, "Don't think about it, forget it if you can't remember, I'm still young." ”
Xianghe thought about it and relaxed, and when she saw Lin Yuan's tired face, she persuaded, "Miss, let's lie down and rest while listening to the slave." ”
Then, in Xianghe's soft voice, Lin Yuan had a deeper understanding of the huge Lin Mansion.
"Are you saying that all the business in the house is in my father's hands now?"
Lin Yuan's delicate eyebrows were twisted together, and it was hard for her to imagine that Lin Mansion's business was all controlled by Lin Guangcheng.
The age gap between the generations in the Lin Mansion is somewhat large. The old lady Lin Youliang is already in the age of the sixtieth year, and the eldest master Lin Guangfu is also forty and six, because Lin Yuan's father Lin Guangcheng originally had a brother who died early, Lin Guangcheng is forty this year. And the third old man Lin Guangwen has an older sister Lin Caixia, as the youngest of Lin Yuan's parents, Lin Guangwen is not yet thirty this year.
As for Lin Yuan's generation, Lin Guangfu's big house has no men, only three married young ladies, and the third room has Lin Tianyou, the only male grandson of the Lin Mansion, and two young ladies. Lin Yuan is fourteen years younger than Lin Guangcheng because of Second Mrs. Lin, and she is even one year younger than Lin Tianyou.
The only people in the Lin Mansion who can take care of the business in the mansion are the three of Lin Yuan's fathers.
"Uncle is not in good health and needs to recuperate, why doesn't the third uncle take care of the business in the house since he has given up the imperial examination?"
"The third master is afraid of delaying the future of the eldest young master." Xianghe pursed the corners of her lips with some disdain.
"Didn't you say that the merchants of this dynasty couldn't help but take the imperial examination?" Lin Yuan was puzzled.
From Xianghe Xiangyue's words, she has some understanding of this unwarranted dynasty, the Great Shang Dynasty, but not the Yin Shang in her memory, but because the founding emperor of this dynasty was born as a merchant to take this name, so in the early days of the founding of the country, the status of merchants was unprecedentedly improved, but slowly lost the previous status, but with the law set at the founding of the country, the merchants of this dynasty could not help but take the imperial examination.
"Isn't it true that some poor scholars are not used to seeing merchants wearing gold and silver and being richer than them? It is said that some businessman-born officials will always be suppressed. Xianghe muttered, "The third master always says that there is a smell of copper in the house." ”
Lin Yuan became more and more puzzled, "In this way, it's not that my father has to control the family's business, but that there is no one to share his worries?" ”
"That's right, the master was so busy all day that his feet didn't touch the ground, and he asked the third master to help him several times, but the third master pushed him off." Xianghe whispered. In her opinion, the biggest reason why Lin Guangcheng has no men in this room is that Lin Guangcheng is too busy.
Hearing Xianghe say this, Lin Yuan felt a slight drop in her heart, she was originally worried that her relatives would turn against each other because of her family property, so it seems that such a possibility is not possible before the separation. Lin Guangfu is weak, Lin Guangwen is strong and unintentional, before separating, they still have to rely on Lin Guangcheng to earn more family property.
"Then what is the relationship between our second room and the big room and the third room? And the aunt who got married can often go back to the house? ”
"The wife had a good relationship with the eldest wife and the aunt before her death, although the aunt married far away, she occasionally wrote letters to the wife, and the wife and the third wife did not have any disputes, but the slave and maid did not seem to be as affectionate as the eldest wife."
"Do you know what unhappiness my mother had with the third wife or others?" Lin Yuan asked. She was eighty percent sure that Second Mrs. Lin was killed by the people in the house. After all, Second Mrs. Lin is a woman, and it is impossible for her to go out often, and it is even less likely that she will have a bad relationship with outsiders to the point of killing her as soon as possible.
Xianghe was stunned by the question, and was shocked in her heart, and replied a little timidly, "The slave and maid don't know if the wife and the third wife have any unhappiness, but the slave and maid know that the relationship between the wife and the old lady is very bad......"