When Father Lin arrived home, he came back with Zhou Ximei, and when he saw the eldest daughter returning home, the fourth daughter also stopped crying, and she was very happy. ”

Father Lin snorted with his nose, twitched the corner of his mouth, and said secretly in his heart: Isn't it, it took a full three hundred taels of silver, this is still the end of the year, and because the pastry shop business is booming, don't let Lin Mei know about this matter, otherwise I'm afraid that she will feel uncomfortable.

Listening to this, it was like when the two of them went to the Taoist temple together, but Lin Mei believed it, in her opinion, it was natural for her husband to accompany his wife to go out to run errands, and she didn't have a trace of suspicion.

Mama Wu saw that her wife came back, but she didn't see Bai Cui, and she wondered a little in her heart, could it be that Bai Cui was still in the Taoist temple? I thought that since the old man was also going with him, he must know where to go, so he kept silent.

On the twenty-eighth day of the lunar month, Lin Shan took Xiaobao and Xingwang, Xingde and Diao to return to the Lin family in Sweet Water Lane.

On the fifth day of the first lunar month, the people of the Tang Dynasty who were still immersed in the joy of the Spring Festival ushered in the first bad news of the new year, when the Turkic Tatars bypassed Lingzhou and raised troops to capture Liangzhou, and approached Shanzhou, trying to cross Gansu and attack Chang'an.

What's even more absurd is that the emperor listened to the slander and sent the 50,000 Tian family army that was originally preparing to encircle and suppress the Qin King and judge the thieves, and the old general Shitian of Hedong Jiedu was the general, and went west from Daizhou to assist the father and son who stayed behind in Shanzhou Ningyuan to stop the Tartars.

You must know that from Daizhou to Shanzhou, it will take ten days to travel quickly, but the Shazhou Zuo Yulin Army, which is two days away from Shanzhou, will not move, which makes the entire court full of weirdness.

Soon after this holy decree was issued, the Turkic envoys sued for peace, and if they could marry the princess, the battle would not be fought, and the emperor actually responded, and the matter was announced to the world, causing an uproar.

There are many discussions among the diners in the red apricot building.

"Faint, Jane is really mediocre and incompetent, this battle hasn't been fought yet, marriage? Isn't this tantamount to surrendering and admitting defeat? There is no such mediocre king in this world. ”

"If you want me to see, it is better to give up a princess than to lose the lives of the soldiers in vain."

"Hmph, I want to be a dignified Tang Dynasty, strong soldiers, and it's not a shame to let a little girl be cannon fodder."

"The army is still strong and strong, do you know that last year there was a great drought in the north, grain production decreased, and how many people could not eat, I see that there is nothing wrong with this marriage and peace."

Lin Mei happened to be passing by, and happened to listen to a few words, and suddenly remembered the county lord of Jiaoyue, and couldn't help but shake her head, she was just a county lord, and it was not her turn to marry her.

As soon as Tong Da found out the news, he came back from the street in a hurry, and when he saw Lin Mei in the lobby of the restaurant, he whispered: "Master, the big thing is not good, Lin Hai has an accident." ”

Lin Mei was stunned, the governor was very important, and hurriedly walked to the hall.

"Haizi? Didn't he take a vacation to go to the Taoist temple to incense today? Lin Mei saw that there was no one around, and immediately asked.

Tong Dacai sighed and said, "The little lady of the Du family didn't want to marry into the Zheng family, so she hanged herself last night." ”

"Ahh What does this have to do with the sea? Lin Mei asked in surprise.

However, he was found by his family in time, and although he was rescued, he disappeared this morning. Someone saw that it was Lin Hai who took the little lady of the Du family away. ”

"How would Lin Mei know where the Du family is? Where are they now? What happened? Lin Mei was puzzled.

Tong Dacai also felt breathless: "As soon as they left the city, they were arrested by the Zheng family, and now they were sent to the government by the Zheng family, saying that they would sue him for abducting the future daughter-in-law of the Zheng family." ”

Lin Mei only felt dizzy for a while, and it took a long time before she calmed down: "Haizi is afraid that he has fallen into someone else's way." Now the plan, I will go to the Du family first, you go to the government to do something, don't let Haizi suffer, I will let Qi Niang follow you, and find a way to get them out of prison first. ”

Without further ado, Lin Mei hurriedly went home, took Lin Hai's birthday, and hurriedly found Ye Matchmaker to go to Du's house together.

"Mrs. Du, we've met before, I'm Lin Hai's cousin Lin Mei, do you still have an impression?" Lin Mei was anxious, and directly aggressive: "I took the liberty to come today, I will go straight to the point, the Du Lin family is talking about marriage, but the Du family has not replied for a long time, presumably it is to climb the high branch of the Zheng family, I am afraid that I can't look down on our Lin family's daughter and a hundred families, this is also a common thing, but the good daughter of your Du family, since you don't look down on our Lin family, why do you want to seduce my cousin to have a private meeting with it, Mrs. Du is really a good tutor." ”

This remark choked Mrs. Du for a long time.

Mrs. Ye didn't know about this before she came, and when she saw that this was wrong, she hurriedly persuaded: "Little lady of the Lin family, I'm afraid there is some misunderstanding, the two Du Lin families have just finished reading each other, and Mrs. Du also praised the Lin family for being a good person, and she likes it very much, she thought that it was unlucky for Layue to be engaged, so she didn't reply for a long time, why did she drill out of the Zheng family?" ”

Mrs. Du knows that she is at a loss, but what can she do, "Then the Zheng family threatens my son's future, if I don't marry my daughter into the Zheng family, it will ruin my son's future for the rest of my life, on the contrary, if the Du and Zheng families become in-laws, they will vigorously help each other, promising to take care of my son's top and bottom and find an official and a half-job in the future." ”

Mrs. Ye was furious when she heard this, "Such a big matter, why don't you talk to me?" Our two families are still related to each other, and you have hidden it from me until now, so that I have been thinking about the family affairs of my eldest niece in my heart, you, you ......"

In the end, Mrs. Ye was already so confused that she didn't know how to scold people.

Lin Mei didn't have the time to talk about this, and asked directly: "Let me ask you, do you know where Little Lady Du is now?" ”

Mrs. Du obviously knew about her daughter's elopement, but she didn't expect the Lin family to come to the door so quickly, her old face turned red, and she said, "...... The letter said that he was going to hide in the countryside for a while. ”

"So, you know about it? It seems that your Du family is really a nest of snakes and rats, since your little lady is unwilling to marry into the Zheng family, why didn't she come to the door to make it clear, but asked my cousin to escort her to the countryside? Could it be that my cousin is honest and easy to bully? In front of Mrs. Ye, Lin Mei directly changed the elopement to an escort, as long as Mrs. Du also admitted that it was an escort, so that it would be a trouble to the government, and Mrs. Ye could testify, and she could also play a side game, and then spend some money to fish people out.

Mrs. Du obviously didn't want to make a big deal out of it, so she nodded vaguely and said: "Rulan is a weak woman, going to the countryside alone, I don't worry, I happened to meet the Lin family on the street, and the descendants of the Lin family wanted to go to the Taoist temple in the suburbs to pray for the blessing of the family, thinking that he was so strong and strong, and there was a care on the road, so he entrusted people to him." ”

Lin Mei sneered in her heart: I said how did Lin Hai know where the Du family lived, hmph, what did you encounter, Bacheng deliberately came to block people.

"See what you're doing? Now they were arrested by the Zheng family and sent to the government. I'll put the words down today, if my cousin has a good one, my Lin family is not such a good master, even if you rely on the Zheng family, I, Lin Mei, am not afraid, don't you care about your son's future the most, I will let him cut off the road to the imperial examination for the rest of his life, I don't believe we can wait and see. Lin Mei's face was majestic, and a murderous aura suddenly poured out of her eyes, making Mrs. Du tremble.

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