Chapter 322: After Confession
Li You sent the chief back to the county office, and Aunt Jin was mentally prepared for this, and did not hesitate after hearing her husband's words, got into a sedan chair and went to the golden mansion under the escort of several officials.
In the lobby of the front yard of the Jin family, Li You was leisurely, while the Jin Million couple was a little unquiet, looking out frequently, and no one had the heart to eat after noon.
I don't know how long I waited, but I saw a small sedan chair carried into the instrument door and stopped in front of the hall. Aunt Jin appeared from the sedan chair and walked up the steps with the support of the maidservant Xiaozhu.
When she walked to the door, the golden million couple saw her beautiful face clearly, and the slightest doubt they had disappeared. The age, birth, and name are all correct, and the appearance is vaguely similar to that of the Jin family's wife, if it is not a lost daughter, it will definitely not be reasonable.
When Jin Million was thinking about what to say in the first sentence, the lady next to her lost her temper first, and she suddenly rushed over and hugged Jin Bao'er, just crying.
Mrs. Jin couldn't say words or sentences in her mouth, and she also had a Huizhou accent, and Li You, who was vague, couldn't hear what she said. Seeing his wife like this, Jin Yuanwai had no choice but to step forward and sigh beside the mother and daughter.
Kimbell's fair face flushed with two patches of pink, and I don't know if it was because she was excited or because she was hugged too tightly. She looked up blankly at a loss, until she saw her husband nodding and encouraging her, and then she seemed to have taken a reassuring pill and came back to her senses.
The big drama of recognizing relatives was touching and tear-jerking, and Xiaozhu, the maid standing not far away, couldn't help but shed a few tears with her, lifted her sleeve and wiped her eyes. As a personal maid who has nothing to say, she knows best that Sister Jin's surname is gentle and supple, never complains about the sadness of the spring and autumn, and never causes trouble, she is a contented and happy lady who is the most favored by her husband, but Sister Jin still has some sadness in her heart.
Now that everything is complete, it is so touching that Xiaozhu wants to lift his sleeves to wipe his tears. But someone touched her on the side, and then a fragrant Par was handed to her.
Xiaozhu took it and wiped away her tears, and turned her head to find that the old man had moved to her side at some point.
"Master, I saw that your face was sweaty when you left, so I wiped your sweat towel with you, what did you do to wipe away your tears? Keep crying, you need to be sensational in the background, especially your big shiny eyes. Master Li, who was in a good mood, muttered in a low voice.
Xiaozhu laughed out loud, but remembered a sensitive question, "Such a fragrant sweat towel must be a personal and private thing in my daughter's house, and it is not given to people casually, where did the master get it?" ”
Li You pointed to the back, "I just asked her to borrow it, and I grabbed it." ”
Xiaozhu looked over the old man's shoulder, and saw a maid of the Jin family standing in the distance, her face was red and hot, and she was at a loss, and she glanced at the old man shyly and timidly, and couldn't help muttering: "The master does not forget to harm people everywhere, she will definitely lose sleep tonight." ”
"You do that all the time?" Li You teased.
Xiaozhu approached the master, threw a wink that had been secretly practicing for a long time, and whispered: "The slave family is already taller than Sister Jin..."
Li You said very sincerely: "This style is not suitable for you, the master suggests that you learn a thing or two from Aunt Cheng." ”
The confession drama will not be finished for a while and a half, and some words are estimated to be unfinished for a while and a half.
Thinking of this, Li You regained the majesty of the main hall official, stepped forward, and said to Jin Million in a slightly reserved tone: "There are several important cases in the yamen that need to be tried, and this official has resigned." After dinner, send someone to pick up Sister Bao'er, don't treat her slowly. ”
Joy is joy, but in the face of a sudden and impactful son-in-law, Jin Million also needs time to adapt... In the afternoon, Jin Million took out ten boxes of silver from the cellar and wanted to prepare for the reunion banquet with a few days of effort.
The news spread quickly, and Mr. Li's aesthetic fatigue once again became the protagonist of Yangzhou City news. I have to say that this incident is quite legendary, and there are already a number of idle writers who are ready to adapt this matter into an opera.
The next time, the rich people who are also salt merchants flocked to the Jin family, and for a while, the guests in the gold million house were like clouds and friends, as if it had become a salt chamber of commerce.
On one side is one of the seven largest merchants in the salt industry, and on the other side is the most powerful county in Yangzhou City for decades, so the salt merchants can't help but pay no attention.
In fact, the county government is not strong, but it is always against the salt merchants, which makes the salt merchants have a headache.
As the saying goes, the county officials are not as good as the current management, for the salt merchants, the salt transportation department must be curryed favor with the current management, and Jiangdu County is just a small county official. But from Master Li, they also experienced the power of the county officials. Although some government officials came forward to fight against the county government, for some reason, everyone did not have much confidence in Luo Zhifu.
At this moment, Lord Li took the initiative to confess his relatives and suddenly became the son-in-law of the salt merchant, what does this mean?
Salt merchants are not short of money, what they lack is something other than money, so they are all envious of the luck of the golden million. No matter how tired or hated of Master Li, I have to admit that Li You is indeed a very glamorous and dazzling figure, a famous talented official in the world. How can it not be enviable that Jin Million got such a cheap son-in-law overnight.
"Brother Jin is so blessed! My daughter has been separated for many years, and once she recognized her relatives, she was able to bring back such a good son-in-law! ”
"I don't want Brother Jin to become the county of Taishang, and from now on, the county will rely more on Brother Jin!"
Words like these filled the hall, so that the only thing left for Jin Yuan to be "happy".
Suddenly, the door came to report, and a county official asked to see him, and everyone laughed and said: "This must be the son-in-law who came to greet the old man." ”
The official entered the hall of the Jin family, and found that his eyes were full of local bigwigs, and he found the master Jin Million, and reluctantly stepped forward and said: "On the order of the county honor, I will ask the master of the Jin family for the salt class owed in the past three years, totaling 7,410 taels." As for the previous one, the old man erased it all when he said it. ”
The originally lively hall suddenly fell silent, as if things didn't quite fit everyone's beautiful imagination.
"Also on the orders of the county honor, the former canon Shi Meng Gongming was involved in the case of assault and death, and he must be bound to the county government to await trial. Don't you know that this person is here outside the gold clerk? ”
Everyone continued to be amazed and silent, and Master Li clearly deliberately came to make things difficult for the golden million, which was a bit unscientific.
Hearing this, Jin Million was annoyed and angry, and reprimanded the servant: "Get out! ”
Why did you come back to this set? He is not short of a few thousand taels of silver, and if he spends tens of thousands of taels of silver for his son-in-law's political achievements, it is really nothing. But what he wants is face, and he pays attention to face! Li You is sweeping his face!
Everyone persuaded one after another: "Brother Jin doesn't have to care, this must be Li Xianzun's sour anger, deliberately trying to put on a high shelf..."
After the guests dispersed, Jin Million was still sitting alone in the hall and sulking angrily, scolding in his mouth: "These officials are all tasteless!" Don't talk about family affection? ”
At this time, a maid from the inner house came to pass the word, saying that the lady had been invited, and Jin Yuanwai left the front hall.
Mrs. Jin Million Zhengfang, that is, Jin Bao'er's biological mother's surname Xie, and Jin Million can be regarded as a couple in distress. Mrs. Xie saw her husband and said: "I have treated Bao'er badly all these years, and the sky is pitiful, and we will finally get together." But how can the daughter of my Jin family be a concubine? It's good to think of a way. ”
Jin Million frowned, this is indeed a heart disease, but these two days he was only happy and didn't have time to think about it.
(To be continued)