Chapter 36: Saving Lives
As the saying goes, "a gentleman does not stand under a dangerous wall", Lin Jin knows that a lively occasion like the Lantern Festival is a good time for thieves and abductors to be active, so this time when she went out to enjoy the lanterns, she took safety measures and arranged a good number of Ding Ding and guards to follow, especially the protection of Lin Geer, which is the top priority.
When it was dark, with the sound of the husband's change, the lanterns on the side of the street were lit up like a fiery dragon, and the lantern sheds made on both sides of the road were also lit...... The sky is getting darker and darker, and the lights are getting brighter and brighter in the night, which is a bit of a grand scene of "fire trees and silver flowers never sleep".
Lin Ge'er, who saw such a beautiful scenery for the first time, was stunned, and the whole person couldn't come back to his senses when he looked at the lanterns on the whole street in front of him, and he couldn't sit still in the restaurant, and he was making a fuss about going to the street.
Originally, Yang Wan planned to wait for the lights on the street to be lit before going to enjoy the lanterns, but who knew that in the restaurant, not only did she meet Lin Ruhai's colleagues and female dependents, but even some merchants received the news that the Lin family was here, and ran over with the female dependents, so that Lin Ruhai and Yang Wan couldn't get out, so they could only hand Lin Ge'er to Lin Jin and let her take him out to play.
Seeing that Brother Lin, who couldn't hold back his temperament and couldn't wait to run to the street immediately, Lin Jin arranged for the people to follow and took him to the street to enjoy the lanterns.
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"Don't run, you can't run away!"
"Catch that little/guy for me!"
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Under the escort of the family behind her, when Lin Jin saw a figure running towards her, she subconsciously dodged to the side, but because the reaction was a little slower, plus, the figure who ran over saw someone blocking in front of her, and subconsciously ran to the gap next to her, but the two of them went in the same direction, causing the figure who ran over to collide with Lin Jin, so the other party's momentum was too great, Lin Jin fell to the ground with her back facing the sky, and the figure pressed on her body in a stacked Arhat way.
"Oops!" Lin Jin, who was knocked to the ground, couldn't help but exhale in pain.
The long-term followers Wang Zuo and Wang You who followed her, the little servants Zihao, Yanmo, Zhuyan and several other servants all exclaimed in unison: "Master! He gathered around, pulled the girl who was pressing on her away, and hurriedly helped her up.
As adults, Wang Zuo and Wang You looked at her nervously, and asked with concern, "Uncle, are you not injured?" There is a medical hall not far ahead, why don't we go and have a look? ”
Lin Jin shook her head, her eyes fell on the beautiful little girl who was caught by Yan Mo and Zhu Yan, and the little rouge with the size of a grain of rice in the center of her eyebrows stopped for a few seconds, her eyes were slightly condensed, and she secretly said in her heart, she was really not mistaken.
After making sure that he had not admitted his mistake, Lin Jin looked away and fell on the group of people who were standing not far in front of him, because he was chasing this little girl, and instructed Wang Zuo and Wang You: "Which of you two is going to ask, what's going on?" ”
After Wang Zuo went to the front to inquire, he replied that the little girl named "Big Girl" was sold to their apartment by her father, because of the negligence of the guards, the big girl escaped from it, and the people in the apartment chased him out, but he didn't expect to meet Lin Jin.
Although Wang Zuo said vaguely, he only used the word "apartment" to replace the little girl's land that was sold, but how could Lin Jin not know what they were talking about, she frowned when she heard this, and said, "You negotiate with them, and just say that I bought this girl." Three hundred taels, no, five hundred taels of silver, get things done for me. ”
Hearing Lin Jin's generosity, Wang Zuo couldn't help but be speechless, but he had been with Lin Jin for several years, and knew that she was right, since she said so, she had obviously made a decision, and there was no doubt about it, so she obediently agreed.
After handing over the matter to Wang Zuo, Lin Jin didn't stay long, leaving a few servants to do things with Wang Zuo, and the rest followed her to continue to take Lin Ge'er to enjoy the lanterns.
Although Lin Jin's reaction on her face was very flat, her heart was turbulent, and she screamed wildly: There is a rouge mark on her eyebrows, she is twelve or thirteen years old, it should be Zhen Yinglian, right? I didn't expect to meet her here!
In Lin Jin's view, the twelve Jinling hairpins, the twelve hairpins, and the twelve hairpins in the Red Mansion have the worst fate for Zhen Yinglian.
is a good lady, after being abducted by a kidnapper, she was taken by Feng Yuan, and she was obviously about to get out of the sea of suffering, but the kidnapper was not honest, and she sold two daughters, and as a result, Feng Yuan lost her life and fell into the hands of Xue Pan, a bastard.
As the culprit who caused Xue Pan to bear the lawsuit of human life, what good treatment can she have in the Xue family? To be a concubine for Xue Pan, how could Xue Pan be a big fool and cherish her? Besides, Xue Pan didn't marry a wife, she took a concubine first, which completely violated the rules of this society, she was born well, even if it wasn't Xia Jingui's spicy goods who married in, other girls would not be able to tolerate her if they married in, but they wouldn't do things directly on the bright side like Xia Jingui. Therefore, her fate of dying soon after Xue Pan married his wife was already doomed.
It is precisely because her life is the most miserable, so, whether it is reading books or watching dramas, the object of Lin Jin's sympathy is her. After all, although Daiyu also has a hard life, compared to her, at least there is Baoyu and Jia's mother, and Zhen Yinglian really has nothing.
Despite this, Lin Jin, who knew what world she was in, hadn't saved her for so many years, not because she didn't think about it, not because she didn't want to save her, but because she didn't know how to save her.
You must know that when she recovered the memory of her previous life, Yinglian had already been abducted, and no one knew where the abductor had taken her. Although she knew that the kidnapper sold Yinglian in Jinling, it didn't mean that the kidnapper had been living in Jinling with her. In the vast sea of people, how can Lin Jin find it?
Even if she asked the servants of the family to go to Jinling to wait for the rabbit, but Jinling City is so big, there are not many incidents of selling children and daughters every day, if it is not for the occurrence of human lives, in fact, such a thing as Yinglian being sold will not attract attention at all, because it is so common, the world has become accustomed to it. Therefore, even if she ordered someone to guard Jinling, it would not be easy to find a kidnapper with Yinglian.
Moreover, because the timeline of the Red Mansion is not clear, she does not know the specific time when this happened, and it is too difficult for her to let her family stay in Jinling for several years.
Because the Lin family and the Zhen family have no relatives and have nothing to do with each other, and Yinglian was abducted in Gusu and sold in Jinling more than ten years later, what excuse did she use to explain her behavior to her family, and how she was unpredictable?
She would never do such a thing as putting herself in order to save Yinglian. Therefore, she weighed left and right, and after knowing that it was not feasible, the matter of saving Yinglian was put on hold. But when things happen to happen to her, she is willing to lend a hand and leave no stone unturned.
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After finishing his errands, Wang Zuolai replied to Lin Jin.
Hearing that it only cost a hundred taels of silver, Lin Jin asked in disbelief, "So little?" There is no lion over there with a big mouth and a stroke? ”
Wang Zuo looked surprised and said, "Uncle, one hundred taels is already a lot." A little girl of such an age on the market is generally worth about five taels of silver, and the better ones are twenty taels, even if they are sold to the Qinglou Chu Pavilion, fifty taels are also up to the sky.
That girl was just bought by them, and they didn't have much investment, and they wanted to train it out of this untamed appearance, I'm afraid it would take more effort than others, and even accidentally folded it in.
We are worth enough silver, and our family is an official, and we don't dare to ask us for a high price if we lend them a hundred guts, and even if we can climb our Lin family, even if it is worth a thousand gold, even a red man will not hesitate, not to mention a yellow-haired girl who has just been bought and has not been trained. If I didn't have to give money, after knowing the identity of our family, this girl would have been given away in vain. ”
Hearing this, Lin Jin once again realized that in this society, officials are above other classes, transcendent, and high-ranking status, and sighed with a smile: "I thought it would be difficult? I heard that every Qinglou Chu Pavilion has a backer behind it, and I originally thought that they might not sell our family's account, but I didn't expect it to be so easy. ”
Wang Zuo looked at her in surprise and said with a smile: "Uncle, unless you don't want to be famous, otherwise, this official will never be a backer for doing business like them, at most, there are people from their places in the mansions of the officials in Yangzhou City."
Although this 'pillow wind' is powerful, it also depends on whether it is worth blowing this wind? That little girl, although she is a beauty, but the girls they bought back from that place are all good, and in the end, less than one in a hundred. For the sake of a little girl with an uncertain future to face our family, unless they are dizzy, otherwise, they will not have such unwise behavior. ”
After helping Lin Jin solve his confusion, Wang Zuo replied: "By the way, uncle, when I bought that girl according to your instructions, because of that girl's insistence, without your consent, uncle, I made my own decisions and spent fifty taels of silver to buy another girl who ran away with this girl and was arrested." I made my own decision without my uncle's consent......"
"Go back and take those two girls to my grandmother's house, and let them settle down in Tao's house first." Lin Jin didn't care about Wang Zuoduo buying one person, interrupted him, and made arrangements for the two little girls who bought back.
Since the person has been rescued, before she is reunited with her family, this person still has to stay in Yangzhou for a while, but Lin Jin does not plan to leave the person in the mansion, because of the identity of the other party, staying in the mansion will inevitably be treated as a girl.
Out of pity for Zhen Yinglian, she didn't want her to continue to be despised and despised after escaping from the sea of suffering, so she arranged for her to live in Mama Tao's house temporarily.