After coming out of Luzon, Lin Jin first went to Liangguang for a walk, and met his father's same year, Zhou Zongping, the prefect of Guangzhou, and then went to Fuzhou. She didn't go to Fuzhou simply to play, but because her family had a Zhuangzi and a shop here, which were the dowry of her great-grandparents.

Although no one in the Lin family knows how to farm, the output of Zhuangzi, as long as it does not suffer disasters, can be estimated in terms of income, so even if the head of the village is greedy, he is not greedy. After going around Zhuangzi and looking at the account book handed over by Zhuangtou, Lin Jin was both satisfied and dissatisfied.

Satisfied is that the head of the village is more honest, so whether it is rent collection or management, they all honestly follow the rules, so the Lin family has a good reputation among the villagers; What she is not satisfied with is that, in her opinion, this Zhuangzi is not developed enough, and the climate here in Fuzhou is similar to that of Luzon, and there are ports, and there are sea ships coming and going every day, so planting cash crops in the field is much more profitable than planting crops.

Lin Jin wanted to change, but he didn't do it immediately, but planned to rectify it together after seeing all the Zhuangzi of the Lin family in the south.

Because the shop is in Fuzhou, the sky is high and the emperor is far away, and the Lin family is thin and has no manpower, so they just rent out the house and only charge rent every year. Lin Jin looked at it, although the location where the shop is located is not a prime location, it is also a good location, and it is really not cost-effective to collect the rent of three melons and two dates every year.

She wanted to take back the shop and do some business, even if she didn't do business, she didn't want to rent it to the current tenant, because this tenant was very inauthentic, and seeing her young age, she thought she was so foolish, and even wanted to coax her to sell the shop to his family.

In fact, if Lin Jin took out Lin Ruhai's post to meet the Fuzhou officials, she could immediately borrow their hands to take back the shop, but she didn't do it. First, she wanted to try if she could successfully take back the shop without the help of her background and her ability alone; The second is that she and the tenant have been going back and forth in the past few days, like a child suddenly finding an interesting toy, which aroused her interest and wanted to play with the tenant again, so what should have been done quickly made her delay for several days, and it was not over.

On this day, after a long day of verbal fighting with the tenant, Lin Jin returned to the inn, and from a distance, the inn's junior second greeted him: "Lin Gongzi, you are back, there is a letter from your home." ”

"Letters?" Lin Jin was a little strange. Before, she wrote back to her family, saying that she was going to study outside, and by the way, she would check the family's properties in various places. The family knew about this, and there was no objection in the reply letter written. It stands to reason that the family should not write to her again, because her whereabouts are uncertain and it is easy to miss them on the way.

came to the inn in three steps and two steps, and saw the person who delivered the letter, Lin Jin didn't know it. After taking the letter, without waiting to finish it, she got up in a bluff and ordered her attendants: "Pack up your things immediately, and leave for home in a quarter of an hour." ”

The attendants glanced at each other when they heard this, and they didn't know what was going on, making Lin Jin so anxious to go home. Wang Zuo thought of Tanle's halfway spread, took a step forward, and wanted to say something, but was pulled by his brother Wang You, and said in a low voice: "Listen to the uncle's orders, hurry up and pack your luggage." "Lin Jin is by no means an indiscriminate person, and now she is doing this, obviously something happened at home.

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"Uncle is back, Uncle is back." As soon as Lin Jin and his entourage appeared at the door of the house, half of the family members guarding the door were divided, and while opening the door for them, half of them immediately ran into the house to report.

Lin Jin turned over and dismounted, strode home, and from a distance, he saw Yang Wan with someone to greet him. Without waiting for her to talk to Yang Wan, the people waiting around Lin Ruhai rushed over and took her to the front yard where Lin Ruhai was.

When I came to Lin Ruhai's study in the front yard, I saw that outside the study, the officials of the Yangzhou Salt Farm, the inspector, the deputy envoy, the library ambassador and other officials of the yamen were waiting outside, looking at them holding official documents in their hands, it seemed that Lin Ruhai had brought official business home.

Lin Jin looked at the door of the study and asked the little guy guarding the door, "Is my father inside?" ”

The little guy said: "If the uncle wants to see the master, please wait a while, just now Yanyun lifted the king to go in, saying that he wanted to discuss official business with the master." When Lord Wang entered, he did not disturb him. ”

Something isn't right. Lin Jin looked at these officials waiting outside the study, and muttered to herself: Lin Ruhai is the kind of person who separates official affairs and family affairs very clearly, so he never brought official business home to deal with it before, even if he saw the officials in the yamen, there were not so many people at first sight.

I thought of what she wrote in the letter she received in Fuzhou: "For her father's life is dying, let her return home quickly." At that point, she looked at the study again, although she couldn't see Lin Ruhai in the room, but Lin Jin knew that he was talking to his colleagues at the moment. Since he can still see people, handle official business, and everything seems to be fine at home, what is the matter with this dying life?

When Lord Wang came out of the study, Lin Jin rushed ahead of those officials and walked to the study. She stood at the door of the study, knocked on the door, and shouted, "Father, father,......" but there was no sound in the room for a long time.

Lin Jin glanced at the doorkeeper who was standing aside and bowed his head silently, and said, "I'm in." After saying that, he took two steps forward and tried to push the door, but the door creaked open. From the door, you can clearly see Lin Hai standing with his back to the door, looking out the window.