Chapter 230: Small Talk
"Madame said this can be tormented by the forest fish, to be able to get the love of the lady, this is a blessing that can be cultivated in several lifetimes, how can the forest fish blame the lady?" Although he knew that Mrs. Zhao was a naughty joke, Lin Yu still quickly clarified.
"I'm just a naughty joke, seeing that you're nervous, let's go in, lest we all stand at this gate and blow the wind" Mrs. Zhao joked casually.
"Yes," Lin Yu replied hurriedly.
The servant steward in front opened the way, and Lord Zhao and his wife led Lin Yu's sisters and brothers inside, but they didn't send a soft sedan chair to travel like the Guogong Mansion.
I often had contact with Lord Zhao a few years ago, Lin Yu was not surprised, thinking that Lord Zhao liked leisure and tranquility the most, and he was extremely disgusted with all the tedious things, thinking that although he lived here, his temperament must still be like this, so there was no bureaucracy in the house.
Sure enough, all the way along the bluestone road, there are no floating flowers on both sides, they are planted with lush cycad trees, even if there are pavilions, the surrounding plants are also pines and cypresses, green willows are long and weeping, which is very in line with the casual character of Lord Zhao.
The road from the courtyard gate to the inner courtyard is not close, and I walked straight for a while, passing through the zigzag verandah, and passing the hanging flower gatehouse, and then waiting for the living room. Lord Zhao sat in the upper position, Mrs. Zhao sat next to him, Lin Yu sat in the lower hand, and the three of them were Xingzi Linger and Qi'er.
As soon as a few people sat down, a green cloth maid stepped forward to serve tea, and Lord Zhao took the tea cup, and said to Lin Yu with a concerned smile: "It's really time flies, I haven't seen you for a few years, and your sisters and brothers are not the first time I saw them." I have heard that you have hundreds of acres of land and many livestock at home. Life is much better now, isn't it? ”
"Yes, thanks to Lord Tuo and Han Gongzi, now the family has purchased more than 500 acres of land, and also bought the mountain behind my family, and now I have some chickens, ducks, pigs and cows, and my life is not as poor as before," Lin Yu explained with a smile.
"That's good, I think I used to like the days of ploughing and weaving the most. Even if you can do it, you really made a name for yourself," Lord Zhao nodded with satisfaction.
"Speaking of which, thank you so much. A few years ago, when you were the Lord Qincha to deliver disaster relief food, the magistrate in the county town mistakenly thought that you were my backstage, and helped me block a lot of difficulties," Lin Yu said with a smile.
"Oh? Can I help you so much if I go there once? Tell me how they made things difficult for you? Lord Zhao said in surprise. Then he asked curiously.
"I'm afraid that adults and ladies will laugh at it. It's all trivial things, but if you don't borrow the east wind of the adult, the Lin Yu family will probably have to go back to the old days when there was no food" Lin Yu pursed his lips and smiled, and said: "Because the family has not been able to eat enough, I thought that I could have a little bit of my own thin land, then I couldn't stand hunger anymore, so when the ground moved, the adults came to the town to give food." When order was maintained again, all the qiē were on the right track. I thought that the land was cheap at that time, so I bought dozens of acres, and in the second year, I bought more than 100 acres, so the field in my hand suddenly had about 200 acres, and when collecting rent, I used the usual bucket to collect grain, but I didn't know that there was a guild in the town, and there was an unwritten rule, which said that when collecting rent, the need to use a larger bucket to collect grain, and to borrow grain out with a small bucket, but this time it stabbed a hornet's nest. The tenants felt that I was not cheating people by collecting rent here, so they all shouted that they would withdraw the tenant land in their hands and come to tenant our family's field, but the guild felt that I had hurt their interests and wanted to give me a good look, at that time the family was at a loss, and the head of the guild ran to the county magistrate, and wanted to ask the magistrate to give us hardship, but fortunately, there was an adult's name there, and the magistrate knew that you knew me, not only did not embarrass us, but also came to help us out of the siege, It is said that it was found out that the people in the guild actually bribed the steward who collected taxes and grains, and wanted to punish the people in the guild for a year's harvest, and also issued a notice that they would need to collect rent in the future with a normal bucket like me."
"In this way, fortunately, when I was talking to you, Na Zhixian saw it on the side, so you avoided this catastrophe?" Lord Zhao said with a smile, he didn't expect his name to be able to help Lin Yu so much.
"No, so I thank you very much, you don't know, your identity as Lord Qincha can make a lot of trouble, for a long time, the people in the town know that you know me, so they don't dare to come to me for trouble," Lin Yu said gratefully.
"For a long time? Could it be that now my name doesn't work, so the people in the guild are starting to trouble you again? Lord Zhao said with concern.
"That's not it, the name of the adult is naturally still useful, but there are a few people who probably don't like me, so they will run to the mountain at home in the middle of the night and kill a lot of chickens, ducks and cows" Lin Yuyun smiled lightly.
"That's too audacious, isn't it? Who is hurting? Mrs. Zhao said in surprise, and Lord Zhao also nodded in agreement with her words.
"Lord and Mrs. don't have to worry, now that they have all been resolved, what they said was also instructed by the people in the guild, we caught three thieves that night, and the next day we hurriedly sent them to the yamen, and the county magistrate also closed the case in two clicks, and wiped out the gang of thieves, and arrested the person instructed in the guild" Afraid that Lord Zhao and Mrs. Zhao were worried, Lin Yu hurriedly explained.
"That's good, then the magistrate can be regarded as a reasonable person" Lord Zhao finally breathed a sigh of relief, and then asked, "Who are the people in your guild in that town?" How can you be so lawless, spending money to buy people to do these bad things? ”
Lin Yu said so much, and the purpose was to tell Lord Zhao about this, so he hurriedly said: "Those people in the guild are all squires and tyrants in the town, and they don't have any backstage behind them, but they made a fortune early, so their position in the town is very stable, but they are better at doing things and listening to that line, so I guess that it must be the line that signaled them to do this and supported them, so they dared to do this bad thing of buying people and committing murder."
"That's the backstage of those guys? You come and tell me, who is this business, I will also see it" Lord Zhao heard Lin Yu's words, his heart was a little annoyed, the Son of Heaven actually dared to be lawless, this person is not too hard in the background, that is, the brain is funny. (To be continued......)