Gui Yuan was quick to do things, and after a while, he walked in happily holding the money box, and said with a smile: "Girl, it's done, the gold is twenty-four taels in total, and the silver is sixty-five taels." ”

It's so little, I'm really poor, too, I'm not very old, and all the expenses in my family are from the public, even if it's a private jewelry, not to mention gold and silver? Besides, now it is only 30 yuan per bucket of rice, and it is not bad to have this inventory. Even though he thought so, Lin Jinrong was still frustrated, lowered his eyes and silently locked the money box, and handed it to Gui Yuan listlessly: "Take it back and put it away." ”

Seeing that her high mood suddenly dropped, Lychee and Guiyuan glanced at each other inexplicably, but they didn't dare to ask the reason.

But I saw the little girl Dou'er who was in charge of sprinkling and sweeping in the yard hurriedly came over, stood under the curtain and said, "Fourth girl, the old lady has sent someone to come, please go to Tingtaoju immediately." ”

"What about people? Who's coming? Lychee and Gui Yuan's faces changed at the same time, the old lady had never taken the initiative to call any granddaughter to his Tingtao residence, that is, on weekdays, the girls saluted his old man respectfully, and he also half-drooped his eyelids from his nose "Uh-huh", cold and majestic terrifying.

He suddenly asked Lin Jinrong to go at this time, most of which was related to today's gnats incident! I don't know what the old lady's attitude is? If he also listens to and believes partially, and wants to punish Lin Jinrong, then Lin Jinrong has no possibility of turning over at all, how can the third room be good in the future?

Their emotions were quickly transmitted to Dou'er, who looked left and right, and said uneasily: "It's Maizi, he just passed the message at the door and left." ”

Lychee was suddenly disappointed, but it was impossible to inquire about the situation. Maizi is a small guy who has to be used by the old lady's side, but he is only a big horn, seven or eight years old, because he is clever and diligent, he listens to Taoju for the old lady on weekdays or something, although he can still run to the second gate, but he does not dare to come in casually outside the girl's yard.

This is expected, since Lin Shenzhi entered the building, she has been waiting for the summons of the old lady. Lin Jinrong cheered up: "Bring your shoes here, and then bring the pair of green jade pressure skirts sent by the second wife in the morning to tie them for me, you, who will go with me?" ”

Gui Yuan was silent and went to turn over the green jade pressure skirt, and there was a shadow in his heart. If the girl is to be punished this time, the first unlucky thing is that they are the girls who serve closely, the old lady is so fierce, a few years ago, he ordered to dispose of a girl next to the eldest young master, and the girl went to the middle of the night after wailing...... Gui Yuan shuddered, and the movements of his hands slowed down.

Lychee squatted down to put on Lin Jinrong's shoes, and said in a low voice: "Girl, the slave and maid will go with you." ”

Lin Jinrong smiled slightly: "Okay." She doesn't know if it's a curse or a blessing today, but Lychee, one day, she will do her best to repay Lychee. The so-called loyal servant and righteous lord are not obtained easily, nor can they be accomplished in one thing or two sentences.

At this time, Gui Yuan took out the green jade pressure skirt, and took a silver-white brocade waist seal for Lin Jinrong to match, and pretended to say: "Girl, let's go together." ”

Lin Jinrong said kindly: "No need, there must be one person left in this house, so that when the old lady or Mrs. someone comes to look for me, Dou'er can't say clearly." "Why bother? The human heart is not comparable to gold and silver, that is, the flower in the mirror, the moon in the water, it is the most difficult thing in the world to find, and she does not force it. Longan, forget it.

Gui Yuan was a little embarrassed, hung his head with a red face, and whispered: "The slave must be optimistic about the house." ”

Lin Jinrong nodded and went outside.

Seeing that she and Lychee were walking away, Gui Yuanfang "belched" and ran to the door in a few steps - after the girl locked the money box just now, she forgot to give the key to herself for safekeeping! But if she wanted to ask Lin Jinrong to ask at this time, she didn't dare. Gui Yuan stood tangled for a long time before biting his handkerchief and entering the house.

Old lady Lin hated waiting for others very much, so Lin Jinrong walked a little hurriedly, bypassing a few houses, and crossing two or three small bridges of wood or stone, she slowed down and calmed down as she walked.

When she arrived at Tingtaoju, where pine trees were planted all over the place, she stood still, lowered her eyes and stepped forward from the lychee to greet the little girl who listened to the doorkeeper of Taoju: "The four girls came to listen to the old lady's teachings. ”

The little guy didn't dare to look at Lin Jinrong, lowered his eyelids and sang a promise, went inside to reply, and Shao leaned back and lowered his hand and said: "There are guests in the old lady's room, please wait for the fourth girl in the side room." ”

Lin Jinrong lowered her eyes, led by the little guy, and went to the side room, and the moment she entered the door, she heard Old Lady Lin laughing: "In this way, this year is really smooth and rainy, and a bumper harvest!" God bless me! ”

I heard an unfamiliar male voice laugh and said: "Yes, God bless me, God bless me!" The uncle, the nephew's few acres of land......"

This tremblingly called Mrs. Lin the eldest uncle, who is such a flattering person? There are uncles and brothers in the family, she also has a number, and Mrs. Lin can help if she can, and she will definitely not let people beg so much. Lin Jinrong was curious, but it was inconvenient to pause, so he could only go straight inside, and closed the door of the side room tightly by the little guy's "squeak", and this sitting was nearly an hour.

During this period, no one brought water or tea, nor did they ask, only heard footsteps coming and going from the door, but none of them stopped at the door of the side room. It was as if everyone had forgotten that their master and servant were still waiting for the old lady to summon them. Seeing that the window paper, which was still golden, gradually dimmed, and a loud sound of breaking porcelain came from next door, Lychee couldn't stand still: "Girl, go and ask?" ”

"If it's convenient, by the way, who is the person who asked the old lady just now?" Lin Jinrong sat upright on the six-sided round pier of the Ruyi pattern, his back straight. Mrs. Lin is deliberately drying her. If she couldn't bear it, she wouldn't have been able to bear it, but she, in her past and present lives, had long been accustomed to loneliness and loneliness.

Lychee didn't ask much, silently opened the door and went out, leaning back less, with a little sadness on his face: "The first guest has already gone, and it is the third master who is in it at this time, listening to the voice, it is not very good." ”

Lin Jinrong curled the corners of her lips, and the uneasiness in her heart suddenly disappeared, in her previous life, she was not close to the old lady, and she knew more or less that the old lady had some temperament, it must be that her third master Lin was trained again, the old lady was going to be trained first, and then to train her to be small, when it was her turn, the old lady's anger was almost dispersed. And what to do next, she has already calculated carefully. Seeing that Lychee was so worried, he simply diverted Lychee's attention: "Tell me about the guest just now, why can't I hear which elder in the clan it is?" ”

Lychee didn't forget to inquire about it, and whispered: "That's a master of his own family who came to his relatives last year, and everyone called him Lin Changye, as if it was said that when he was two generations ago, which old lady went to the south to study, and stayed there to buy the family business." A few years ago, I offended people over there, and I couldn't go on before I came back to join my relatives. The eldest man came forward to help buy land and build a house, no, the autumn harvest is over, and he has to pay taxes, but his family has no reputation, and there are many people who eat, so he wants to hang the acres of real estate in our family's name...... Take advantage of the old lady's birthday, come to give gifts, and take the opportunity to open your mouth. ”

This kind of thing Lin Jinrong knows, this is called "false name blackmail", when she was still in the Lu family, someone also asked the Lu family for protection. In order to evade taxes, some small and medium-sized landlords' families pretended to be tenants of official households such as the Lin family, so as not to be included in the tax register. According to Mrs. Lin's temperament, although she is full of family and country, she will definitely help this person evade taxes in order to make a name for herself in the family. Wait, autumn harvest, taxes...... Lin Jinrong lowered her eyes and thought about it for a while, suddenly remembered a very distant thing, and thought about it silently, her eyes suddenly lit up, if she could succeed, then next year's private money would not be only this pitiful little bit.

The master and servant waited quietly for a long time, the sky was completely dark, the lantern under the porch also rose, and the footsteps passed a few more times, before hearing Fuquan whisper at the door: "The old lady invites the fourth girl over." ”

Lychee let out a sigh of relief, Lin Jinrong stood up, carefully smoothed the folds on her skirt, and cut her sideburns, before she walked out steadily, Lychee just followed her a few steps, and was stopped by Fuquan reaching out: "The old lady only invites the fourth girl alone." ”

Lin Jinrong turned around, but saw that Lychee's face was pale under the red lantern, and his eyes were full of panic. Lin Jinrong shook his head at her lightly, and said calmly: "That's the case, Lychee, you just wait for me outside." Then he stepped into Mrs. Lin's study steadily, and blessed the ground without raising his head: "Granddaughter greets grandfather, grandfather is blessed." ”

After a long time, Fang heard Old Lady Lin's slightly tired voice sound: "Get up." ”

"Yes." Lin Jinrong stood still, raised his eyes and looked ahead.

Old lady Lin sat behind the long and wide rosewood bookcase, the whole person was hidden in the shadow of the lamp, her back was straight, and a pair of old but not dizzy eyes looked at Lin Jinrong lightly, and her voice was flat, cold and majestic: "You picked up today's incident?" ”

Why do people in this world, knowing the truth, always like to play this kind of guessing game, and never get tired of it? Since she dared to do it, she dared to do it, Lin Jinrong curled the corners of her lips at him with some amusement: "I don't know which one my grandfather asked?" ”

Old lady Lin's eyebrows raised slightly, not angry: "What are the cases you are talking about?" ”

Lin Jinrong's voice was calm and crisp: "There are three piles." The first one is that the fifth brother led the cousins of the Wu and Lu families to see the grandfather's favorite Lingbi stone, the Lingbi stone base was unstable and fell into the lake, the fifth brother was afraid of being punished and jumped into the water, it was the stone that I stopped and asked my mother to send someone to hang it; The second incident was that Fifth Brother Lu gave the seventh brother a gnat, which caused the sixth sister, seventh sister, and seventh brother to have a dispute because of this, and it was I who reprimanded the sixth sister and the seventh sister and threatened them to apologize to the seventh brother, which caused the seventh sister to lose her temper and lose face; In the third case, the sixth and seventh sisters went to cry in front of their grandmother, because I was afraid of implicating my mother and younger brother, so I instigated the seventh brother to take Shou Tao to seek protection from my grandfather. ”

You can bow your head, but you can never collapse your waist. Lin Jinrong knelt on the blue brick ground upright, straightened his back, pressed the cold green brick with his forehead, and his voice was quite hard like Dow-style metal: "Grandfather wants to punish his granddaughter, and granddaughter will admit it." Please grandfather to punish him. ”

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