After Cheng Jingzong left, Lin Jian returned to the study in the Daiyuan Garden, and silently flipped through the scrolls in his hand alone.

This former reader who was light and breezy in the past was also a little confused at this time, holding a book in his hand, and he didn't turn a page for a long time.

When facing Cheng Jingzong, although he was still strong, his heart was actually turned upside down.

Ancient and modern scholars who have been officials can abide by the teachings of the sages, and there are not a few people with clean sleeves, but these people can not take a cent in the golden cave and silver nest, enough to be called a gentleman, most of them have been recorded in the history books, and have been recited through the ages.

But throughout the ages, there have been very few people who are neither good nor famous.

Lin Jian has been an official for 20 years, and his sleeves may not be clear, but he is definitely a good official who asks for his life for the people, and he has been in the oily and fertile yamen of the household department for nearly ten years, but he has not benefited himself at all.

An official like him, who is not good at money, naturally has a good reputation.

Lin Jian entered the office as a young man, and his reputation has been excellent for more than 20 years, and even the rivers and lakes like Funiu Mountain have thrown themselves to him, the five bodies that Yuan Dagong admires, and he is willing to die for him, which shows his good reputation.

But if the matter of him pretending to be someone else's merit really spreads, not to mention the good reputation he has accumulated over the years, he will lose at least seventy-seven, eighty-eight, and most of the positions he and the prince planned for the prince to supervise the wine of the country will also be lost.

He has no official position now, and once his reputation is ruined, the chance of recovering in the second half of his life will be much smaller, and at least he will have to wait until His Royal Highness the Crown Prince succeeds to the throne before he has the opportunity to return to Chang'an City.

And as far as the human heart is concerned......

Even if Lin Jian took the risk this time was because of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince who was far away in Chang'an City, but once he was really "ruined", even if His Royal Highness the Crown Prince ascended the throne, would he use him, a person with a bad reputation, or ...... Unknown.

In other words, Lin Jian accidentally put his future on this matter, once he doesn't handle it well, his good future may be gone!

Thinking of this, even with Lin Jian's recuperation realm, he couldn't help but feel a little flustered, he had been sitting in the study until evening, and when it was not yet dark, he immediately stretched out his hand to summon a subordinate, and his voice was low: "Go to Sanyuan Bookstore...... Invite Saburo to me. ”

He had a very high status in the Lin family, and his subordinates quickly ran out of Xingwenfang and went to Sanyuan Bookstore to call Lin Zhao, Lin Zhao had just closed the door of the shop at this time, and was about to go home, when he heard Lin Jian's call, he scratched his head a little uncertainly, and then nodded in agreement.

The gap between the people and the officials is huge, and they are not in the same circle at all, so even if Cheng Jingzong had arrived in Yuezhou in the morning to take office, Lin Zhao still knew nothing about it.

After he cleaned up briefly, he followed the Lin family's descendants to the Daiyuan, and when he arrived at the door of the Daiyuan study, Lin Zhao stretched out his hand and knocked on the door, and said, "Seventh Uncle, the nephew is here..."

Soon, the door of the study was opened, and Lin Yuanda, who looked haggard, turned to the side and said to Lin Zhao, "Come in." ”

At this time, most of the days have passed since he met Cheng Jingzong, and in only half a day, Lin Jian's mind has been consumed for most of it, and the state of the whole person is not very good at this time.

After Lin Zhao walked into the study, he looked up at Lin Jian and asked cautiously, "Seventh Uncle, are you in such a hurry to find me, is there something wrong......?"

Lin Jian sat in his place with a calm expression.

"Today, the new Zhizhou has arrived, and he also came to the Lin family to meet me."

Hearing Lin Jian say this, coupled with his somewhat pale face, no matter how stupid Lin Zhao was, he knew that something was wrong, he frowned, and asked, "Seventh Uncle, what's wrong?" ”

"This new governor Cheng Jingzong seems to be ...... Got a little bit of it. ”

Lin Jian frowned, and slowly said the conversation between the two people, Lin Zhao sat down under him, and after listening carefully, he lowered his head and thought.

After thinking for a while, Lin Zhao looked up at Lin Jian and said, "Seventh Uncle, this person is probably cheating on you." ”

Lin Sanlang said in a low voice: "If they really have the so-called evidence, these people are in Chang'an City, and they directly publicize it in Chang'an City, wouldn't the effect be better?" Why do you have to send people to Yuezhou to make such trouble? ”

"Besides, my nephew has not mentioned this matter to outsiders so far, and Uncle Xie and that ...... Except for the nobles of Chang'an, there is no fifth person who knows the details, and since the seventh uncle can trust the nobleman of Chang'an, there is no possibility of leaking this matter. ”

"Even if they really know about it......"

Lin Zhao's voice was low, and he said firmly: "It is impossible for them to have so-called evidence, let alone damage your reputation Seventh Uncle." ”

Lin Jian took a deep breath, he shook his head and said: "This Cheng Jingzong came to see me today, he wanted to blackmail me into falling to them with this thing, if this is the case, they naturally have to send someone to Yuezhou." ”

"They have no evidence, they have no evidence, who can trust them?"

Lin Zhao said in a low voice: "Besides, there will be no evidence for this thing, even when my nephew sold this thing to that Chang'an nobleman and got 10,000 yuan, he didn't leave anything on paper, as long as I stood on the side of Uncle Seven, no matter how much those people bit it, they couldn't hurt Uncle Seven." ”

"People in the world will not believe in you but in them, Uncle Seven."

At the beginning, His Royal Highness Li Xu and Lin Jian went out to eat together, and by the way, they "acquired" the movable type printing technology in Lin Zhao's hands, if according to the rules of later generations, such a large transaction, contracts and the like would have to leave a lot of them, but at that time, Lin Jian was the guarantor, and that Li Gongzi was obviously a member of the royal family, so he would not be in debt, so Lin Zhao simply didn't mention anything, and gave things away.

Hearing Lin Zhao's words, Lin Jian immediately breathed a sigh of relief, he was silent for a while, seriously thought about the ins and outs, and then said in a low voice: "What San Lang said is true." ”

In fact, in terms of wisdom and wisdom, he will never be stupider than Lin Zhao, but because the authorities are fascinated, he was shocked by Cheng Jingzong's sentence "ruined and ruined", and he didn't understand the cause and effect of this incident for a while.

Lin Zhao also frowned slightly, sat opposite Lin Jian and thought for a while, then continued: "Now there are only two flaws in this matter, one is the mansion you gave me Seventh Uncle, this matter has passed through the Yamen, and the new Zhizhou can find out after a check, and the other is the 10,000 yuan left by that Li Gongzi." ”

"This 10,000 yuan is the ticket number of Dacheng Cabinet Workshop, and the government can find out if he goes to check it, as long as he is willing, it is easy to find out the direction of this money."

"It's not difficult to explain the matter of the house, it's just that the nephew helped the uncle get the movable type printing, and the uncle rewarded the nephew, but the money is not very easy to handle."

Lin Zhao lowered his head and was silent for a while, and then he spoke: "It's really not good, Uncle Seven will write me a note, just say that this 10,000 yuan was handed over to me by Uncle Seventh and asked me to do movable type business on behalf of Uncle Seven, and it is not difficult to take out 10,000 yuan as Uncle Seven." ”

Lin Yuanda glanced at Lin Zhao up and down at this time, and then a smile appeared on his face.

"San Lang is thoughtful, far better than being an uncle."

Lin Sanlang still frowned, and said softly: "Seventh Uncle, the key to the problem now is not whether they have evidence, but that they have discovered my ......."

"Most likely they can still find Uncle Xie."

Lin Zhao said in a low voice: "That is to say, this new Zhizhou has noticed that Uncle Xie and me, and my nephew has not been tortured, if this Cheng Zhizhou arrests us and beats us, we may not be able to bear it......"