Chapter 34: The Tea House
In the Agarwood Pavilion of Princess Xinyang's Mansion, Princess Xinyang is holding a white jade chess piece and is thinking hard about how to crack the Zhenlong chess game.
A grandmother walked into the Agarwood Pavilion quickly, and when she saw Her Royal Highness the princess playing chess, she relaxed her steps and stood aside and waited.
"Say it." Princess Xinyang never raised her eyelids, always staring at the chessboard.
Mama took two steps forward and said cautiously, "The county lord's plan has not worked. ”
Princess Xinyang's beautiful eyes froze: "Did she give up?" ”
"Not really, I'm still figuring out a way."
Princess Xinyang smiled slightly: "This is like her character." ”
Mama hesitated and said, "Your Highness, in fact, if you want to know the answer, the slave can go to Dr. Zhong, or ask the people in the second room of the Hou Mansion directly." ”
"No, this matter can only be done by the county lord, and it can only be detoured, and it can't make people suspect the head of the palace."
"You can remind the county lord that it is better to find Lin Zhenzhen than to find Yu Wanwan."
"Yes, slave and maid will go."
"Don't be too deliberate."
"Yes, the slave will pay attention."
After Mama left, Princess Xinyang's hand fell, and the predicament was solved, and a plausible smile rose on her lips.
I didn't expect Lin Yanyan's life to be really big, and he couldn't die after being like this, but Lin Yanyan had to die, not only Lin Yanyan had to die, but all the Lin family's houses had to die.
Lin Yanyan returned to Moyuan Pavilion, and Li's mother brought someone to meet her.
"Miss, this is Mr. Liu, sent by the eldest uncle, and Mr. Liu is taking care of the business in the capital."
Lin Yanyan ran slightly: "Mr. Liu, please sit, Jinxin, watch tea." ”
"Mr. Liu, my uncle asked you to come over ......"
"Miss, there are two things in this time, one is that I learned that the second lady of the Hou Mansion, Yao, put in the money through her brother Yao Muzhou, the amount is as much as one million taels, and it will expire in May next year, Uncle Shen said that he will find a way to make this money not come back, and the Shen family will eat this money."
Lin Yanyan was surprised, one million is not a small amount, does grandmother know? According to Yao's style of acting, I am afraid that he is secretly earning himself from his grandmother. And where did the Yao family get so much money? The Yao family is a scholarly family, with a lot of books, but not much money, so there is only one possibility, embezzlement of funds from the public school.
Lin Yanyan has counted, and now that the third aunt is in charge of the property in the house, it seems that the third aunt has to check the accounts.
"What about the second thing?"
"The second thing, Uncle Shen said that the eldest lady wants to open the Tongyuan Building, maybe there is a lack of a steward."
"Uncle would like you to help me?" Lin Yanyan was overjoyed, this was really a send-off. She is trying to recruit a steward, after all, she is the eldest lady of the Hou Mansion, it is impossible to take care of the business in person, Mr. Liu is the uncle's person, trustworthy, and Mr. Liu has been taking care of the business in Beijing all the year round, and he has the ability to have connections, so he is really the best candidate.
"If the eldest lady doesn't dislike it, I'll listen to the eldest lady's orders below." Mr. Liu said.
"Why don't you dislike it, I can't ask for it, please ask Mr. Liu for the affairs of Tongyuan Building."
Seeing Mr. Liu away, Lin Jingyuan came over: "Sister, who was that person just now?" ”
"Uncle gave it to us."
"What is Uncle busy with? Sister, you made the county lord of Kangping, and the uncle didn't show up. ”
What is Uncle busy with? Naturally, they were looking for trouble with the Yao family, and the Shen family was not bullied.
Let's leave this matter aside: "You went to see Cai Saijiu today, what was the result?" ”
"It's been said that I can enroll in school tomorrow."
"I'll send you tomorrow."
"No need, I'm not a child, besides, I've already informed Brother Zhou that he will come to pick me up tomorrow morning."
"Okay, work hard when you enter the country, don't lose the face of our Hou Mansion's long room."
"Sister, don't worry, my homework hasn't fallen behind in the past few years." Lin Jingyuan is full of confidence.
The next day, Lin Yanyan still secretly followed behind Lin Jingyuan and Zhou Datong, watching the two enter the Guozijian, feeling like an old mother sending her son to the future, looking forward to it and worrying.
"Miss, shall we go back now?" Tan Yun asked.
"Go to the Tongyuan Building."
Lin Yanyan went to Tongyuan Building for a turn, and the progress of the renovation was faster than expected, so there was nothing to worry about.
So Lin Yanyan found a teahouse to drink tea.
The teahouse is a gathering place and a place for the spread of all kinds of news, which is not necessarily useful, and it is not bad to pass the time.
As soon as he sat down, Lin Yanyan was attracted by the conversation next door.
"Have you heard? The pottery house is haunted. ”
"Pottery House? Which pottery house? ”
"It's the house of the former Tai Hospital, Tao Taiyi, the day before yesterday, two thieves sneaked in to steal things, and saw a female ghost, the female ghost has no feet, and her head is left with a layer of skin hanging on her neck, and her face is full of blood......
Lin Yanyan: Uh......
Is her image like this? She just crooked her neck, how could she be rumored to have only a layer of skin left? That's a little scary.
"Really?"
"Of course it's true, and I'm telling you, what's even more terrifying...... The female ghost kept chasing the two thieves and asked them if they saw her head? The scared urine of the two thieves came out. ”
"You said that Imperial Doctor Tao remembered that on the day the Tao family was beheaded, the good day suddenly became gloomy, and then it snowed heavily, and the snow fell for three days and three nights, and everyone said that the Tao family was wronged."
"Yes, yes, I also remembered that the heavy snow is rare in a hundred years, maybe the female ghost in the Tao house is the reason why the Tao family's soul is not gone."
One lowered his voice and said mysteriously: "I'll tell you something, you have to keep it secret, a relative of mine who is on an errand in the palace told me that Imperial Doctor Tao is a scapegoat." ”
The crowd was amazed: "Scapegoat? For whom? ”
"Then I don't know, Imperial Doctor Tao's medical skills are among the best in Tai Hospital, misdiagnosis, it's unlikely!"
"What if you are wronged? So many years have passed, and the Tao family is dead, who else can avenge the Tao family? Someone sighed.
Lin Yanyan drank tea silently, and she knew that it had fallen after the Tao family's heads fell to the ground, and she also knew that the scapegoat was said.
It's just that the credibility of these gossip is debatable, and we still have to find a way to reach the people in the palace.
However, Lin Yanyan felt that the haunting was a bit problematic.
It is a big crime to sneak into the sealed mansion and steal, how can the two thieves tell others that they have seen a ghost in the pottery house? Scared of your brain?
If it's not a bad brain, then the haunting seems to have been deliberately put out.
The question is...... Who would put such news? Could it be that there was a fourth person in the Tao Mansion the night before?
Thinking of this, Lin Yanyan was shocked and broke out in a cold sweat.
Will she be discovered?
"Help, help, save my child......"
There was a miserable cry from downstairs.
Lin Yanyan came back to his senses, walked to the window and looked at the probe, only to see a woman sitting on the side of the road, holding a four or five-year-old child in her arms, the child seemed to have fainted, her face was bruised, and she was holding a string of sugar gourds in her hand, and the woman was crying helplessly.
Oops, the kid was choking and blocking his trachea.
Lin Yanyan hurriedly turned around and walked downstairs.
"Miss, where are you going?" Tan Yun hurriedly took out a few copper coins and put them on the table to chase the young lady.