In order to prevent the news from being truncated in the process of transmission, all the messages of the Lin family will be written in a rare secret language designed by Lin Ruo, which is cumbersome and complicated.

Gu Mengyao once learned Braille in college, and the Lin family's secret language is based on this to mark the pronunciation of each word, and then spell it. The shopkeeper of each inn and shop used for messaging in the Lin family will have a comparative translation of the secret language, and in case of an accident, the translation must be destroyed first.

Ah Sui is one of the core people in Bian'an City who is responsible for the collection and transmission of information, and has been dealing with these secret words for many years, and has long been familiar with them, and he understands the content of the note at a glance, and he knows the seriousness of the situation, and he has no time to translate, so he will hand it over to Lin Ruo.

The first piece of news was the news that Uncle Ji had sent back from Daiguo, and the reason why Lin Ruo laughed was because he was relieved that everything was going well. And then the brows were tightly locked, because of the flood in Shangyu.

More than ten days ago, she received news that the tide was suddenly fast, and there were signs of erosion in Shangyu Haitang.

Shangyu is one of the important ports in the south of the Yangtze River by the sea, and the silk, tea and grain in the south of the Yangtze River are mostly transported to Bian'an by Shangyu by water. Spring rain is as expensive as oil, but if it rains too much, it can also be a headache – especially when it comes to people's livelihood. After Lin Ruochu received the news, he specially met with Luo Sheng, the shopkeeper of the grain store, and Fu Hong, the shopkeeper of the cloth village, and ordered them to raise as much grain, grass and mulberry as possible, and to find suitable granaries and mulberry fields. Shopkeeper Luo and Shopkeeper Fu have followed Lin Qian to the north and south for decades, and they are quite skillful, and they have been talking about prices with grain farmers and mulberry farmers in Bian'an City for half a month.

In addition, the Oiran auction, which began in early April, was also based on grain, and the rules were the same as last year, with one grain of rice on the first day and twice as much as the previous day. It's just a change: the rice and grain in the auction will not be returned.

Compared with the starting price of a penny, a grain of rice is almost an affordable price for everyone, so the merchants who gathered in Bian'an City to participate in the Oiran auction are as good as last year.

Today is April 20, which happens to be the twentieth day of the bidding, and the amount of the bidding is 524,288 grains of rice, which is converted into catties and taels, which is about 87 catties and four taels now, which is converted into the unit of measurement of Donglu, which is nearly one stone. In the past 20 days, the Lin family has collected nearly 100,000 stones of grain, and the grain merchants in Bian'an City have taken the opportunity to make a lot of money. Although the amount of this batch of grain is only the amount of grain consumed in Bian'an City in ten days, the speed of gathering grain is indeed multiplied, and thousands or even tens of thousands of stone of grain can be raised every day in the future, which is eye-catching. Coupled with Luo Sheng's recent travel, the Lin family has included most of the grain channels around Bian'an City.

Lin Qian also had to admit that Lin Ruo's evaluation of Luo Sheng was extremely appropriate.

The Shangyu dam burst and the displaced people rioted, which was expected.

Every year, the imperial court would allocate large sums of money to repair, dredge, and strengthen the sea ponds and dikes, but problems arose year after year. It's not that the tide is huge and rare in the world, but that building sea ponds and fixing dikes is a fat difference, but all the officials who sit in this position, which one will not covet a little oil and water and cut corners? Layers of exploitation, and poor supervision, such a project, the quality of the project can not be guaranteed at all. In the spring flood season, as soon as the spring rains continued, the problem was suddenly exposed.

Lin Ruo frowned, but what he was worried about was not about this matter, but he felt as if something had been ignored, and the clue that he desperately wanted to grasp always escaped between the tentacles.

"Second sister, second sister?"

Lin Qi shook his hand in front of Lin Ruo, and finally called her back to her senses.

"Huh? What's wrong? ”

"What are you thinking, so engrossed?"

Lin Ruo smiled lightly: "It's nothing." After thinking about it for a while, he dipped in water and wrote a series of secret words, and instructed: "Pass this news to Shangyu, let people watch carefully, and report it immediately as soon as there is news, and I will be rewarded for my responsibility." ”

Ah Sui nodded: "My subordinates will arrange it immediately." ”

"Also, send a message to the Jinling Wang's family, send some people from the academy and the craftsman's mansion to Shangyu, and those who want to send it to Bian'an can also take this opportunity to come."

"Young Miss is wise."

Lin Ruo saw that Ah Sui Ying didn't leave immediately, and asked again: "Is there anything else?" ”

"Yes, Mr. Ji who came back from the message this time, can the young lady see it?"

Lin Ruo's eyes lit up: "Is Brother Junyang back?" Please! ”

Taking advantage of Ah Xuan's departure, Lin Qi asked the doubts in his heart: "Second sister, who is this Zhangju person?" Also, what is the Seedlings Method? ”

The code words that Lin Ruofang wrote on the table just now were exactly six words: Zhang Juren, Qingmiao Law.

Zhang Juren's name is Zhang Xu, a person from Shangyu, a gentleman in the academy founded by the Wang family, two years ago, Lin Ruo came forward to mention him a few words, and listened to the persuasion to return to his hometown Shangyu and teach in the academy. Zhang Xu is a talented person, well-read and knowledgeable, if he can assist Mingjun, he is a capable minister who governs the world without exception. It's a pity that he is arrogant and arrogant, and the articles he writes are difficult to fit with reality, and he can't figure out the relationship between the prince and King Ye. In the past two years, he has sharpened his edges and corners in the academy and cut off a lot of his edge. This flood in Shangyu is a good opportunity.

Lin Ruo simply told Lin Qi some of Zhang Xu's past, and after a while, a clear man entered the room. The man was about to salute, but Lin Ruo and Lin Qi stepped forward and grabbed him left and right: "Brother Junyang, I haven't seen you for a long time!" ”

"Brother Junyang, it's been hard all the way." Lin Ruo smiled, took Ji Junyang's hand, asked him to sit down, and instructed Ah Yu to prepare some more food.

"Less ......"

"Huh?"

Lin Ruo and Lin Qi raised their eyebrows in unison, and Ji Junyang immediately changed his words: "Ah Ruo, Xiao Qi." The two of them smiled with satisfaction, poured tea for him, and pushed the food in front of him.

"Brother Junyang, what are you and Uncle Ji doing when you go to Daiguo?"

Ji Junyang listened to Lin Qi's question, glanced at Lin Ruo, who was smiling and silent, approached Lin Qi's ear, and whispered, "Build a gold mine." ”

"Making and making gold ......"

Lin Qi was about to call out with a loud voice, but Ji Junyang quickly covered his mouth, and his other hand hurriedly made a silent gesture. Lin Qi understood, lowered his voice and asked, "Why do you want to build a gold mine?" ”

"Because I couldn't find the real thing, I made a fake one."

“……”

Lin Qi pursed his mouth, of course what he wanted to know was not this answer, but wanted to know what he was using to create a fake gold mine. Ji Junyang smiled incomprehensibly and looked away.

Following Ji Junyang's line of sight, Lin Qi looked at Lin Ruo with curiosity, trying to find an answer. Lin Ruo put down the teacup and answered his question in two concise words: "Dowry." ”

Lin Qi was even more puzzled, and wanted to continue to ask, so Ah Qi knocked on the door and came in, Lin Qi could only wait patiently for Ah Fei to arrange the food one by one, exit the guest room, and then couldn't wait to ask, "What dowry?" Whose dowry? Second sister, it won't be yours, right? How am I, how come I don't know anything? ”

Lin Ruo didn't answer yet, but Ji Junyang took out a square brocade box out of nowhere and handed it to Lin Ruo: "I heard not long ago that the emperor pointed out a marriage for you, and I didn't have time to pick a gift, so I will give you this for the time being, and I will make up for it when you get married." ”

Lin Ruoqian smiled and took the brocade box, opened it, and inside was a pair of ice jade puzzles, small and exquisite, warm and smooth: "Thank you, Brother Junyang." ”

Ji Junyang replied with a smile on his face: "It's good if you like it!" ”

Lin Qi hurriedly shook in front of Ji Junyang and stretched out his hand: "Brother Junyang, what about my gift?" ”