The copper bell at the foot of the eaves rang for I don't know how many times, and the wind outside gave the order, rolling up a plain white layer on the ground, and rushing into the courtyard wall made of red bricks.

The red lantern under the lintel of the forest house has been hung for more than ten days, although this gloomy weather looks brighter than usual, but it seems to be covered with a thick layer of dust, which is very unsightly.

The western part of the city is remote and secluded, so I often don't see a single figure along the avenue in front of the courtyard, but now it is quite strange that two carriages are driving side by side, swaying leisurely in the snow.

There are gold silk tassels hanging on the four corners on the left, and when the wind blows, it swings up, revealing the green jade pendant inside, and the person in the sedan chair does not need to think that it is a golden master.

On the right, there were piles of wooden boxes, stacked on top of each other, and four or five people were supporting them in the back, which should be filled with valuable objects. The black-maned steed held its hooves without a whip, as if it would not take a single step.

The wheels pressed out rows of marks on the long street, extending all the way to the entrance of the Lin Mansion. The leader of the horse pulled the reins, heard a small neigh, and then stretched out a hand from the sedan curtain to swing outside, and the little maid who followed there immediately got the order, hunched his waist and climbed the stairs, and stood under the eaves to buckle the door.

The steward of the Lin Mansion was busy answering the voice in the house, and a person unloaded the raft on the door, put on a black cotton coat and opened the door slightly open a small crack, glanced at the little guy, and raised his gaze downward.

"I wonder who came to visit?"

The little guy obediently stuffed in a piece of silver, which was so cold that it hurt his hands, and smiled slightly: "Lord Luo Yanluo, the secretary of the ministry, came to visit Lord Lin, please give me a word!" ”

The steward was shocked when he saw the silver, and a pair of eyes rolled around, and then he also smiled back, nodded and put the silver into his arms, and said politely: "Please wait for a while, master."

After speaking, he closed the door again, and committed himself into a room in the courtyard. After a few moments, the two large mahogany doors were completely opened. There was a man in his early seventeens who came out while dressing up, his face was like a crown of jade, and the pear vortex on his lips was very good-looking when he smiled, and he could hear some lack of confidence in his gentle voice: "Master Shangshu is a big man, why don't you ask someone to come early to report, Lin Ying is lazy, and please forgive me!" ”

At that time, the wind and snow were howling, Lin Ying stood on the edge of the sedan chair and spoke, and the people inside lifted the curtain on the side of the sedan chair and glanced out. The center of his eyebrows frowned slightly, and then he hurriedly got out of the sedan chair.

Lin Ying stretched out his hand to help, the man casually stuffed the hand warmer stove in his arms into Lin Ying's hand, and when he landed, he neatly untied the fox fur on his body and took it off, and put it on Lin Ying. Didn't you hear that the two Shaoqing adults of Dali Temple had moved to the house, and they couldn't support anything at all? ”

The tone of his voice felt quite familiar.

Although they are old friends, they have been in the same window when they were young. But I haven't seen you for a few years, after all, I still have a lot of points. Luo Yan's action frightened Lin Ying to take a small step back, and he wanted to struggle, but he really couldn't resist Luo Yan's arm, so he followed his wishes.

"Lord Xie is concerned, it is difficult for adults to get a visit, how dare the lower officials slack off. It's just that the two of them are always playful when they go to the early court, and it is common for them not to come back at this hour. And the horses in the house have bad legs and feet, so naturally they are not as fast as the horses of adults! ”

Lin Ying's elbow was supported by him, and when he straightened his waist, he raised his eyes and took the opportunity to take a look, and saw that Luo Yan had faded this big coat, and there was a goose-yellow duck feather horse coat in it, which looked thin and light, but it reflected the whole person was very energetic. I looked down and looked at the green cloth shirt in my big coat, which was still newly sewn by someone at the beginning of the lunar month, and I was very proud of the needlework and embroidery on this dress a few days ago. Now looking at the gold silk embroidery on his body, he sighed silently.

It's just that I can still make a happy face when I look up, and say: "It's cold outside, adults come into the house!" ”

The steward took the reins of the carriage and led it to the stables beside him.

The group followed Lin Ying up the stairs and entered the fish.

Today is the twenty-second winter under the name of Licheng, and the fifteenth year has lost the interest in the wax moon. The street hawkers had already begun to doze off during the day.

In the morning, there was another blizzard, and the city was lively again.

This lively thing has a lot to do with Lin Ying.

At the beginning of the year, the emperor ordered the officials of various prefectures and governments to clear up the case, and a group of officials had to try the case quietly, and they sorted out the folds and handed them over in the morning.

After passing through Dali Temple, Lin Ying flipped through it casually, not thinking about turning it out for himself. The post handed over by Jiangbei had a case signed and detained by Jin Shicai, who was charged with homicide, and then looked at the place and the materials on file, and found that it was the one in Lin Ying's family who was impartial.

Lin Ying knelt outside Changle Gate for more than three days under the bitter winter cold, begging the emperor to allow him to return to his hometown to retry the case.

After all, the kinship is obvious, and the clear-eyed person clearly understands it in his heart, but I'm afraid that even Lin Ying himself feels that there is little hope, but apart from this action, he really doesn't know what else he can do.

After ten years of hard study, I finally reached a high position, but I found that I couldn't even protect the people around me, and I really couldn't find a more sad thing than this.

This feeling of suddenly falling to a low point made him physically and mentally exhausted, and at noon on the fourth day, he fell ill on his body, swung to the ground, and fainted outside the Changle Gate tremblingly, just happened to meet Luo Yan, who was ordered to enter the palace.

Thinking of begging for three days, it is not as useful as Luo Yan's words. By the time he woke up, the Emperor had already nodded.

In the twenty-seventh mile of the lunar month, there is a New Year's flavor everywhere. But he took all the silver taels in the house, bought a horse, and drove him to the countryside at night.

The case was tried until the fifth day of the first lunar month, when he archived the confession of the prefect and the real murderer who had been bribed and framed, and escorted them to Beijing.

There has always been an unwritten rule in the DPRK and China that if it snows within half a month from the date of conclusion of the case, the case must be overturned and retried. Therefore, after rolling in the officialdom for a long time, the officials of the DPRK and China have learned very shrewdly, and all major cases must be tried after the return of spring.

But Lin Ying's case is very different, it is to pull his own people in it, in order to avoid long nights and dreams, yesterday he had to take off the heads of two people at the execution ground in the south of the city.

At present, Zuo Shaoqing in the house also persuaded him to be hired, saying that this winter is about to pass, and after a few days, wait for the spring breeze to blow, and then do more insurance after the last spring rain.

But even these words failed to persuade Lin Ying, the officialdom has been going on for a year, and he has seen a lot of things about the protection of officials and officials, but he is afraid that staying for one more day will become a different situation. What I take now is the mind of a fight.

Which Cheng thought about the late hire, and said that today's snow, God is not long-sighted.

Therefore, Lin Ying led a kind of people into the mansion at this moment, and he could probably guess eight or nine in his heart, Luo Yan came straight to the Lin Mansion this morning, presumably because this snow had made the city explode.

This Manchu Dynasty is civil and military, and there are not a few people who are staring at their own positions, so they will naturally seize this matter and make a big fuss.

The three of them became tigers, and they have been so unreasonable since ancient times. Even if the emperor is afraid of being sage, he will have to be punished on the face, so the Luo Yan in front of him, who vouched for himself, will naturally not be able to escape the involvement.

The group followed into the porch, and turned along the corridor to the main courtyard in the courtyard.

The servants on the side waited outside the courtyard, only Lin Ying's close girl Lilac followed into the house, took off the big coat on Lin Ying's body, dusted off the snow foam on it and hung it up, and repaired the fire twist with scissors, burned a few more red wax in the hall, all the actions were done in one go, and then turned around and asked: "My lord, can I prepare tea?" ”

Lin Ying leaned to the side, raised his hand to cover it, his voice was deliberately low, and his brows furrowed slightly when he spoke, as if he had something on his mind: "You don't need tea today, you go and dig out the aged liquor buried under the osmanthus flowers in that courtyard and scald it, and then take some of the cloud cakes I brought back from Jiangnan the day before yesterday!" ”

Lilac Ling was stunned for a moment before nodding slowly, quite surprised. Lin Ying is very fond of tea, and everyone in the house knows about this. In the past, no matter how big or small it was, people who didn't drink wine and only drank weak tea made an exception today.

She deliberately raised her head and glanced at this Shangshu master, and she didn't have the appearance of being fierce and vicious, with three heads and six arms, so she went out with peace of mind.

Lin Ying saw her turn around after closing the curtain, struggled to dispel the gloomy mist on her face, smiled quite happily, and bent down to sit opposite Luo Yan: "My lord's encounter is a bit sudden, and I can't prepare in a hurry, if I neglect it, I hope your adult will take care of it." ”

In fact, Lin Ying had already thought about going to Shangshu Mansion to ask for guilt, but he was caught off guard at this moment, and he didn't know how to expose it.

Luo Yan's eyes kept staring at him, never moving away, making him feel unspeakably uncomfortable. Then his lips moved, and he coldly spat out two words: "No problem!" ”

After speaking, the air around him seemed to be frozen suddenly. Lin Ying smiled awkwardly on the side, a wrinkle appeared on his face, and his mouth was speechless for a long time.

How could I think that Luo Yan, the master with a cold face, was a straight intestine with something to say, so he shook his head and went straight to the point, saying: "This morning, because of Lord Lin's matter, the emperor fined this official for three months!" ”