The Lin family in Fuzhi Town, Pingzhou, has not been peaceful in the past two years, the old man of the Lin family is a famous birthday star in the town, eighty years old and healthy, with two sons and a daughter, children and grandchildren around the knee four generations in the same house.

The Lin family was originally a mud leg in the countryside, farming for a living and relying on the sky to eat, after war and famine, a village is as poor as every family, about ten years ago, the Lin family suddenly became rich, bought many farmlands in the village, hired long-term workers to work, a large family moved to the town, and also set up two shops, one sells oil, salt, rice and noodles four seasons groceries, one is a weaving and dyeing workshop, into the good silk thread, hire the young and dexterous little girl in the town to come, weaving, dyeing, printing and embroidery, made finished cloth or sold to the people in the town, or sold to customers elsewhere, In short, the Lin family has become one of the richest families in Fuzhi Town.

It's not that no one has ever wondered where their money comes from, they only say that there is a rich relative, who was separated from them in the early years and cut off contact, and now they have found it, and when they are developed outside, they come to take care of their own family.

People in the neighborhood have indeed seen that every once in a while, there will be an old man in silk clothes who goes to their house for two days, and that is their family's rich relative.

After the Lin family moved to the town, several children in the family are also going to school, the Lin family has two rooms, the third generation of children and grandchildren is very prosperous, the big house has three sons and a daughter, the second room has two sons and two daughters, so many children they also raised, no matter boys and girls, all sent to the town school to study, among which the last pair of children born in the big house is a pair of dragon and phoenix fetuses.

But just a year ago, the children of the Lin family went to the nearby river to play in the water after school, this pair of dragon and phoenix twin sisters and brothers were washed down the river by the water, the Lin family has developed in recent years, and bought a few people, the servants of the family went to pick up the little masters from school, saw the sisters and brothers were washed down the river, jumped into the river to rescue, at that time it was clear that the boy was closer to the shore, but the servant crossed him to save the girl, and several older children on the shore also shouted: "Save my sister!" ”

At that time, there were people on the shore watching the excitement, and they felt weird when they saw this scene, most people are patriarchal, after all, men can inherit the incense, there are more enlightened people, at most, they treat their children equally, it is already the limit, there are even people who value women over men, not to mention that this dragon and phoenix fetus is a rare auspicious omen, how can the dragon fetus be more valuable than the phoenix fetus.

In the end, the girl was rescued by the servant ashore, the boy drowned, the Lin family did not mourn for several days, until the old man in silk clothes came and took the boy's body away, soon after the Lin family had an accident, the weather was dry and dry, the weaving and dyeing shop caught fire at night, the silk thread and cloth in it were flammable, and when people found out, there was not even slag left, the Lin family's weaving and dyeing shop signed a sales contract with the buyer, received the buyer's deposit, and could not deliver on time, and wanted to compensate ten times, The money could not be lost by selling the grocery store and the fields in the countryside, and finally the Lin family's big house in the town was sold, and the family went back to the countryside to make mud legs, but the countryside was no longer their fields.

When they were prosperous, they didn't help the villagers, but they took advantage of the fire to rob, took advantage of the poverty of other people's families, bought other people's fields, and made their families become long-term workers of their families, and lived by helping them farm and get some meager money and grain, and their lives were more miserable than before.

Now their family is down, to sell the field, most of the people who helped them work in the past bought back their own fields, and even the original fields of the Lin family were bought by others, from thrift to luxury, from luxury to thrift, the Lin family has lived ten years of rich life, the family is used to being the master, and now they have returned to the countryside and then carried the hoe and sickle to feel extremely difficult, their family has no field, can only go to the mountains to open up wasteland to plant sweet potatoes, the wealth of the past few years has become a mirror, they have returned to the past, even worse than before.

The old man of the Lin family is old, poor and rich, seeing that the family has become like this, the heart is depressed and unbearable, and he is sick within a few days of returning to his hometown, and the little masters of the Lin family, who are still in school at the age of fifteen or sixteen, are now back in the countryside, and they can't carry their shoulders and can't lift them, and they are waiting to be fed at home every day, completely ignoring the hardships of their parents, but also blaming them for their incompetence and can no longer provide them with a good life.

In order to feed the family's mouths, the two brothers of the Lin family went to the construction site to move bricks and unload, the eldest was hit in the back by a car of green bricks rolled down the slope, and it was gone on the spot, the second child carried his brother's body back home, the big house family had no pillars, like the sky fell, the second room itself was also quite burdened, and it was impossible to support the children of the big house, the daughter-in-law of the big house remarried, and took away her young daughter, two sons, one fifteen and one thirteen, with hands and feet and reading, as long as they can put down their bodies, they will not starve to death.

I heard that the woman married very badly, the other party is a drunkard gambler, drunk to beat his wife and children, finally the family paid for him to buy a woman, and with a drag oil bottle, he once lost money in the casino, thinking that there is a ten-year-old stepdaughter at home, although she is still a yellow-haired girl, but she used to be raised by a young lady, and the fine skin and tender meat are not comparable to those rough girls in the countryside, so she bet fifty taels of silver and sold it to the casino. Later, the fifty taels were really gambled, and the girl of the Lin family was taken away by the people in the casino, and I heard that she was sold to a brothel in the town, I don't know what the end was, the woman lost her daughter, and stabbed him to death with scissors when she was drunk and asleep one night, and wiped her neck herself.

The once glorious Lin family, just like this, the family is ruined, the second room is better than the big house, but the life in the countryside is hard, at least everyone is there, live a down-to-earth life, and you can always live it.

These are all things that the spies of Dali Temple went to Pingzhou to find out, and they took the portrait of Steward Lin to Fuzhi Town to ask the neighbors of the Lin family in the past, have you seen this person? The neighbors all nodded, this is the rich relative of the Lin family.

At this point, many things are clear, the Lin family is the family of the Lin steward, the Lin steward has only one daughter in the Zhenguo Mansion, but he originally had a son, who was born and died, in fact, he was sent to the Pingzhou Lin family, let the cousin raise it on his behalf, and filled it into the name of the big house, and the dragon and phoenix fetus on the youngest girl's household registration, in order to let his son live a good life, the Lin steward put some property in the name of the Lin family's big house, hoping that they could treat his son well, and these things will be divided into half to his son in the future. The rest is left to the Lin family.

Steward Lin thinks that he is not thin on the Lin family, just let them remember their names, their son's food and clothing do not have to worry about half a point, and even raise them a large family, but the Lin family is not greedy enough, Su Rili treats his son coldly, a few years ago, the child is still young and ignorant, and he can't speak clearly, Steward Lin will come to see him every other day, and the father and son gradually get closer, and then the child is older, and he knows that he is complaining, saying that his uncles, aunts and brothers and sisters are not good to him, always bullying him and robbing him of things, and Steward Lin beat the Lin family, also bought two subordinates for his son, so that they could protect his son in the Lin family's old mansion.

Steward Lin's son is called Lin Cong, after all, he is still a child, that is, he has two subordinates, he doesn't know how to control it, as soon as Steward Lin leaves, these two subordinates are sent by the Lin family to do rough work, not to serve Lin Cong personally at all, Lin Cong's biological parents are not around, and he can't be the master, thinking that next time his father comes again, he must follow his father and don't live here.

But he didn't go back, he followed his brother and sister to play in the water, and my sister slipped and fell into the river, and pulled him down, and he wanted to climb ashore, but one of the men jumped down and pushed him away, and went to save his sister. That subordinate was bought by the Lin family, and the subordinate bought by his father was locked up in the Lin family to do chores, if they were there, they would definitely save him first.

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