After eating this meal, Lin Shuqing still had to think about how to write the remaining poems to deal with a few people from the Xie family.

It wasn't until late at night that the lights in Lin Shuqiao's room went out.

The Xie family in the south of the city is brightly lit and cannot sleep peacefully.

Xie's house, backyard study.

Several young men knelt on the ground in rows, not daring to look up at the people in front of them.

"You can't do anything, a few things that can't be done, and this is what you've been learning for so many years?" The man in the first seat was angry and flipped the scroll on the table.

The inkstone smashed to the ground, and there were many black spots on the gray walls.

"Father, it's not that we can't do it, but those people are all from the capital, they, they must know the test questions before us!" The man kneeling behind him shuddered and exclaimed.

It's the one at the front, who is not shocked.

"Father, this time we are indeed inferior to others. Ask my father to punish ......"

"What's the use of me punishing you? You are all my flesh and blood, and I would rather you fight for some anger than punish you. A group of evil obstacles, can you fight for some anger for your aunt in the palace! ”

"When it comes to my Xie family's boy, I can't write or martial arts, my family is a silver mine, and compared with the one in the west of the city, I don't deserve to carry shoes!" The man roared.

"Father, didn't His Highness come to our house on his southern tour this time? I didn't go to the house in the west of the city! ”

"You know!" As he spoke, a water glass smashed to the ground.

"In front of so many talented people in the south, I was reprimanded by His Highness for not even raising a flower, what use do I need from you!"

"Once the emperor is one day, my father is old, and I can't always support the Xie family for you. Although this silver mine was rewarded by Emperor Zu, there are still so many people staring at my Xie family, and now the saint is becoming more and more suspicious of us. ”

"I'm afraid that my Xie family's family business will be defeated in this generation, so if you have to prepare, you still have to do it early." The old man sighed heavily, his face ashen.

"How to act, the child is dull, and ask the father for advice."

"No matter how good you do, it's not as good as this. His Royal Highness's side can't be counted on, the mother clan is strong, and His Majesty doesn't like it. Only the other princes ......"

"They are short of money, and our Xie family, some of them are just silver mines......"

"Doesn't my father think that the silver mine on the surface is too ostentatious?" The young man kneeling at the front suddenly spoke.

"It's really swaggering, if someone finds out, I'm afraid we won't be able to please us."

"The child has an idea, I wonder if the father would like to hear it?"

"What attention?"

"There is a family selling rice cakes in the city, and I sent the bookkeeper to calculate it, and the daily account can be dozens of taels of silver, counting the monthly one, the income is not small."

"In this way, there is also a source of cash in the accounts."

"Father has taken a fancy to which His Royal Highness, it is better to send them some business first, and then send some money, so that it looks smooth, and it is more appropriate. There is also a recipe for selling oil, even if it is offered together and brought to the saint at that time, it will be a meritorious service to the society. ”

"Then you go and do it, after you are done, you should also go back to the capital."

"Yes, father."

Lin Shuqing was told by the guys in the yard early the next morning that the Xie family's carriage was already waiting outside.

So he hurriedly got up, brushed his teeth and washed his face, took the poem he had written last night, and got into the carriage.

However, after getting off the carriage this time, the place where several maids took Lin Shuqing was not the courtyard of the previous maids, but in the other direction, a very large pavilion.

There were no maids around the pavilion.

Lin Shuqing looked at it, and there was inevitably panic in her heart.

When he was about to turn back, he found a middle-aged man wearing a robe and a beard behind him.

However, looking at his extraordinary bearing, Lin Shuqing didn't think that this was a subordinate in the courtyard, but it was the master.

The old man was smiling and amiable, and Lin Shuqing was not so afraid.

"Miss Lin, disturb the girl......" The middle-aged man came up and arched his hand.

"My surname is Xie, and I am the master of this courtyard, and the women that Miss Lin saw yesterday are all my daughters." The man introduced himself.

Lin Shuqing was also a lot relieved, and saluted: "Thank you, master." ”

"I invited the girl here today to find out one thing."

Lin Shuqing's eyes widened as she listened.

"I read the girl's book of poems, and the writing in it is extraordinary. Such a poetry book, it is not an exaggeration to say that it is a treasure to be eaten, why did the girl give it away? Do you have other intentions? The middle-aged man asked with a smile on his face, and his tone was very friendly.

Lin Shuqing didn't expect this person to be so straight to the point.

In that case, she's not welcome.

"Yes, I sent someone to inquire about Xie Fu's preferences, so I came up with such a method."

The middle-aged man was not annoyed when he heard this, but was a little serious.

"I thought about what could attract your house, and when I thought about it, that's all I could take." Lin Shuqing said calmly.

"What does the girl want?"

"All I want is the blessing of Xie Fu." After Lin Shuqing finished speaking, she bent down and saluted.

"Master Xie, before I come, you should have inquired about my news, know where I came from, and what I did. The other day, there was a fire in my shop, and a few guys died. ”

"Everybody says they were accidentally burned to death, but I know no, they were killed."

"I know that I am being targeted by the Xie family, not your family, but another Xie family. I was an orphan girl, and there was nothing I could do, I was just thinking about earning some money for myself to support my family. ”

"But I didn't expect that they would die, and the death was unknown."

"I'm the one who is the fish on the knife board, and I can't do anything with them. It just so happened that the old lady liked the food in my store, so I wanted to give it a try, and if I could get the protection of the Xie family, it would be worth it. ”

Lin Shuqing smiled and looked up, her eyes a little moist.

She didn't want to do that, and she didn't want to curry favor with others in order to protect her own people. In the previous world, there were laws to protect them, and they could call the police when something happened.

But here, the magnates themselves are kings.

So to protect herself and the people around her, she can only let more powerful people take action.

After hearing these words, the middle-aged man was a little surprised, and his face changed a few times.

"Girl, how many people is this for?"

"It's not a subordinate, it's the work of my shop, they are also people, they can support themselves with their own hands, and they can live properly." Lin Shuqing said with a smile, she knew that this was too deviant here.

"Does the girl just want me to protect your business? Why don't you ask for something else? Ten thousand taels of gold? High house soft pillows? ”

"With all this, why should the girl work hard in business?" The middle-aged man asked tirelessly.