Chapter 19 Mutual Utilization
After seeing off Daiyu at the dock, Lin Jin stood at the pier with a stunned face, even if the boat Daiyu was riding disappeared from sight, he still stopped for a long time.
Lin Jin, who came back to her senses, turned over and did not go home, but went to a private school in the east of the city to enlighten children. On the surface, this private school seems to be no different from other private schools in Yangzhou City, except that the teacher is a disabled person with a great reputation.
Standing outside and listening to the voices of the students inside reciting the three-character scripture, Lin Jin felt that her irritability had calmed down a little. Seeing that class was about to end inside, she turned around and went to the backyard.
When Mr. Wu, who was sitting in a wheelchair, came to the backyard, he saw that the bluegrass he had carefully raised had been torn off a lot of leaves by Lin Jin, and he was distressed and said, "What troubles are you encountering again, so that you came to me to harm things?" Pity my bluegrass, it has been poisoned by you more than once, so let it go. ”
Lin Jin looked at the bluegrass in front of her that had been torn off a small half-leaf, and sneered: "I'm sorry, Mr. Wu, I'm upset, thinking about things, my hands will involuntarily pull things, and I'll compensate you for a pot of good bluegrass when I turn around." ”
Mr. Wu was not polite to her, "Then I'll wait, if the quality is not as good as the pot in my hand, I won't follow." ”
He looked Lin Jin up and down and said, "If I'm not mistaken, the major salt merchants are moving around for the new year's salt introduction. As the eldest prince of the salt patrol imperial history, you are the object of the major salt merchants, and you can't wait to dig doors and steal holes to please you. Although it can't be said that you are calling for wind and rain, but it is also when you are proud, why did you suddenly get upset? ”
Lin Jin glanced at him and said angrily: "Why am I upset, others don't know, you don't know, why do you knowingly ask here?" ”
Mr. Wu smiled when he heard this: "If you don't want to say it, I didn't force you to say it, so why are you fooling me here." You set your goal three years ago, and you haven't wavered in the meantime, and now that things have seen the light of day, it's a time of hope, and I don't believe you're upset by that. ”
Sighing, Lin Jin said: "The letter from the Jia family in the capital wants to pick up my sister, but my sister is unwilling, but for various reasons, one of the main reasons is that the eldest daughter who lost her mother belongs to one of the 'five non-marrying', so even if the people in my family are reluctant, I still have to send her away in the end."
Let her have a child, leave a familiar family, go to a strange place, deal with a group of strangers and live, and know that she is not doing well, but I can only helplessly send her away, I feel very sorry for her. ”
Because of Lin Jin, Mr. Wu understood the family composition of the Lin family, and was silent for a moment: "Since the other party has written several times to receive it, it can be seen that it is sincere, and it is her grandmother's house, how can you treat her badly, will you think too much?" ”
Lin Jin shook her head and said: "I wish I thought too much, but the situation in Rongning and Ningfu, you don't know about it in Jiangnan, but in the capital, it is very famous, but it is not a good reputation."
Besides, if you really want to talk about it, although the two uncles of Rongguo Mansion are my sister's relatives, most of the affairs of the back house are decided by women, and unfortunately, the second uncle who holds the housekeeping power in the house has some disagreements with my mother back then.
Therefore, my sister can only rely on Lao Taijun in the back house. But the old lady is not only my sister's grandmother, but also the old lady of the Jia family, the mother and grandmother of the children and grandchildren of the Jia family, so there are some things that she has to consider from the perspective of the Jia family, so that she will inevitably be wronged by my sister.
Besides, when you go out as a guest, and you live in a foreign country, how can it be convenient to be at home. ”
Mr. Wu poured a cup of tea for Lin Jin and suggested: "In this case, if you feel sorry for her, send someone to see her." "Changing the subject," to tell you the good news, Luzon has been taken by us. ”
"Really?" Lin Jin, who was still a little sluggish, was shocked when she heard this, and after confirming it, she stroked her palms and laughed, "Great, after three years of struggle, I finally see hope." ”
Three years ago, Lin Jin started reading, and inadvertently triggered her golden finger, and the library in the third-tier small city where she lived followed her to this world for unknown reasons. She was puzzled at the time, wondering how she could bring this thing here, and after thinking about it, she remembered that it seemed that when she was crossing, she happened to pass by this library, and it was probably because of this that it followed her into this world.
It's just that even if he has a library, Lin Jin doesn't know how to use it, because the collection of books in this library is relatively popular, and the earliest collection is from the Republic of China. For several years in a row, because of the lack of money allocated from above to purchase books, the director used textbooks and teaching aids for elementary and junior high schools, as well as various newspapers and magazines, to do the purchase task of that year. Therefore, it did not help Lin Jin's imperial examination in any way.
Originally, Lin Jin thought that this library was useless. Who knew that she later met Mr. Wu.
Mr. Wu's famous pavilion, the word Jiugong, was originally the son of a salt merchant, talented and intelligent, never forgetful, three years old can poetry, seven years old can endow, outstanding literary talent, the family in order not to let him because of the business and cut off the road to the imperial examination, he will be passed to a farmer of the same clan as a son, hoping that he can be admitted to the Jinshi, to help the family change the court.
Mr. Wu lived up to expectations at the beginning, won the show very smoothly, and after the township test, he obtained the title of Xie Yuan. Just when his future was bright and the future was promising, the township examination he participated in was exposed to fraud in the imperial examination.
knew that the salt merchant was rich and knew his true background, and in order to dig up money from his father who was a salt merchant, even if the officials investigating the case found out that Mr. Wu did not cheat, they still detained him. When the money was enough, these people were afraid that he would succeed in the imperial examination and seek revenge from them in the future, so they sent someone to secretly break his legs and cut off his imperial examination Qingyun Road, and then released him.
In order to save him, Mr. Wu's biological father went around and almost scattered all his family wealth, and because he was almost all focused on saving his son, he failed to get the salt of the year.
Although he was cleared of the name of fraud in the imperial examination, Mr. Wu, who is disabled, not only can no longer take the imperial examination, but also has the qualifications to be an official.
Mr. Wu was not angry about what happened to him, and at first he wanted to seek justice for himself, but he repeatedly ran into a wall. Feeling the darkness of officialdom and the protection of officials, he drilled the tip of the bull's horns, planned to connect the salt merchants and the Cao Gang, hooked up the entire Jiangnan officialdom, and then overturned the case for himself.
It's just that he wanted to screw the salt merchant and the Cao gang together, and it was definitely not something he did with such a powerless and powerless cripple, so he came to the Lin family to find a staff position, and then pull the banner, make tiger skins, and carry out his own plans.
Lin Ruhai thought that although his family is no longer a salt merchant, he still knows the tricks here, and as a salt patrol, he needs the help of someone who understands the tricks, pities his experience, and knows that he is talented, so he accepts him.
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When Wu Jiugong arrived at Lin's house, Lin Jin happened to find the library she was carrying. At that time, she didn't realize that this "golden finger" was lame, so her head was full of relying on this golden finger to reach the peak of her life, calling for wind and rain.
As a result, he was coincidentally heard by Wu Jiugong, which made him look sideways.
Seeing Lin Jin, Wu Jiugong had another plan in his mind.
He knew that although he was hired by Lin Ruhai as a staff member, it was only when Lin Ruhai was serving as the salt inspector, and once Lin Ruhai was transferred or promoted, he would be dismissed.
Even if he had already pinched the salt merchant and Cao Yun in his hands at that time, without Lin Ruhai's tiger skin, it would be much more difficult for him to act. It's not that he can't be a lifelong staff member, but compared to a life as a staff member, with others as the main and him as a supplement, he wants to "coerce the Son of Heaven to order the princes" and oppose the guest.
The candidate for this "Son of Heaven", he chose Lin Jin.
Lin Jin is not a real child, and when Mr. Wu "brainwashed" her, she realized Mr. Wu's "anti-social" heart and felt that she could use Mr. Wu to change the world in turn.
Living in modern times, Lin Jin complained about high housing prices, poor air quality, and the inhumane work system,...... There are a lot of things that make people feel dissatisfied. But in this world, even if she lives as a man, she still wants to scold people every day, and then looks at all the unsatisfactory things in the past, and only feels that compared with the present, it is nothing at all.
She has no ambitions, and she doesn't mean to keep the country on par with the West that has begun to implement industrialization and go to the world, but just wants to change the situation of women in this society a little, at least she doesn't have to hide in the back house all day long, and she can go out to shop blatantly, without being called "bad morals".
To improve the status of women, Lin Jin believes that the most important point is to improve the economic status of women in the family. You don't see, Wang Xifeng is precisely because of her dowry, Jia Lian made her money, and she is short-handed, so she is not tough when she speaks in front of her. In the homes of ordinary people, although the dowry of women cannot be compared with Sister Feng, if the money they earn dominates the family economy, their status will inevitably change significantly.
It's just that if you want to achieve your goal, you must have enough capital in your hands to act, Lin Jin felt that Wu Jiugong's plan to unite the salt merchants and the Cao Gang was good, so she took out the salt drying method as the capital to accumulate capital.