On this day, Lin Ruhai had just arrived in the yamen, and before he could deal with the official documents, Lin Xing came in with a post.

"Master, the eldest master of the Xie family sent someone to send an invitation, please come to his garden in Suzhou in the evening, and someone said that the eldest master Xie has a very important letter to you."

Lin Ruhai took the invitation and glanced at it, but there was nothing special on the invitation. But if Master Xie asks people to bring it, it will be interesting. An important letter, who wrote it, to whom it was written, and why should it be given to him? Many questions appeared in Lin Ruhai's mind, even though Lin Ruhai knew that there must be something strange in them, he still planned to explore the Xie family in person.

"You reply to the person who came to deliver the post and say I'll be there on time. In addition, I went to send a letter to my wife, saving her from waiting at home in a hurry. ”

Lin Xing got the order and went out to do something, Lin Ruhai put the invitation card in his hand and began to deal with the official documents.

After leaving the government in the evening, Lin Ruhai went to the Xie family's garden in Suzhou as promised. This garden is not as big as the old mansion of the Lin family, but it is elegant and unique, and it is also a good garden in short.

Master Xie picked up Lin Ruhai at the door, and the two greeted each other and entered the flower hall together. Lin Ruhai saw that a banquet had been set up in the flower hall, but he seemed to be the only guest.

"Lord Lin, please take a seat!"

"Master Xie is polite!" Lin Ruhai sat down like a stream.

Master Xie poured Lin Ruhai full of wine, poured himself another glass, and then raised his glass and said to Lin Ruhai: "Today, I have prepared a little wine in the cold house, I just want to talk to Lord Lin, and thank Lord Lin for taking the time to come, and I will do it first as a respect!" After speaking, he raised his neck and drank the glass of wine.

Lin Ruhai poured the wine in the cup on the handkerchief hidden in his sleeve in advance without moving. Lin Ruhai moved extremely fast, and Master Xie couldn't find out at all.

The two of them pushed the glass and changed the glass, and they both drank a lot, but Lin Ruhai poured out the wine every time. Master Xie felt that it was almost over, so he took out a letter from his arms and handed it to Lin Ruhai.

"Lord Lin, please take a look!"

Lin Ruhai didn't take it immediately, but looked at the letter carefully. Judging by the envelope, the letter should not have been written newly, and the ink on the envelope looked like it was many years old. And the handwriting on the envelope was very familiar to him, it was the handwriting of Lin Ruhai's father, the late Mrs. Lin.

"Looking at the handwriting, it seems to be my father's."

"Lord Lin has good eyesight, this is exactly the letter that Mrs. Lin wrote to her father. As you read the contents of the letter, you will understand the purpose of inviting you here today. ”

Lin Ruhai stared at Master Xie for a moment, then reached out to take the letter, opened it and read it.

What Master Xie said is right, this is indeed written by Mrs. Lin to the late old lady of the Xie family. The letter said: Ten years ago, Mrs. Xie's youngest sister's family was hunted down and killed in order to help the Lin family, and in the end, only a five-year-old girl survived. This girl's name is Xiao Qingfang, and Mrs. Lin has no female dependents in her family, so it is inconvenient to take in this girl, so she sent someone to the Xie family to take care of the Xie family, and promised that Lin Ruhai will be responsible for taking care of this girl in the future. After reading the letter, Lin Ruhai knew that this was a trap, and it was a premeditated trap, which seemed to be similar to the Lin Xing who was killed by him.

"What do you mean, Master Xie?" Lin Ruhai put the letter in the envelope and put it on the dining table casually. He raised his eyes to look at Master Xie, waiting for Master Xie's answer.

"Of course, I want Lord Lin to fulfill his promise and be responsible for my cousin!"

"According to Master Xie, how should I be responsible?"

"Huh! What's this...... I also know that Lord Lin has already married a wife and had children, and it is impossible for Lord Lin to divorce his wife and marry again. However, it is still possible to marry a second room. ”

"Is Master Xie joking? My Lin family has ancestral teachings, and the man's thirty-five sons can take concubines, and I already have two sons, and I will never violate the ancestral teachings! ”

"But this letter was written by Mrs. Lin herself, and she also promised in the letter that Lord Lin would be responsible for taking care of her cousin, could it be that Lord Lin would go against Ling Zun's last wishes? My cousin's family died because of your Lin family, so Lord Lin doesn't want to bear the reputation of being ungrateful, right? ”

"Master Xie, I have a few questions for you."

"Lord Lin, please speak."

"First, my father has never mentioned this matter to me in his life, and if this is true, why didn't you come to my door a few years ago, but you took out this letter in this matter?" Lin Ruhai looked at the stunned Master Xie, and spoke again without waiting for him to answer: "Second question, let me think that this letter really came from the hand of the late father, did the late father mention in the letter that he wanted to marry your Xie family?" Third, even if my father really wanted me to marry my cousin, did he send any tokens with the letter? ”

After asking the three questions, Master Xie opened his mouth, and he couldn't answer any of them. He took this letter from his cousin, and the entire Xie family didn't think about whether this letter was true, and they all just deduced from the few words in the letter that Mrs. Lin asked Lin Ruhai to marry her cousin. But as soon as Lin Ruhai's three questions were raised, he really couldn't find any evidence to prove that he was right.

Master Xie regretted that he didn't listen to his mother, Mrs. Xie, at this time, and should wait until Lin Ruhai encountered difficulties or when their Xie family caught Lin Ruhai's handle. Now, Lin Ruhai's few words have made the Xie family very passive, but he still has a back move, and if the soft one doesn't work, he will come to the hard one.

Master Xie came back to his senses and said to Lin Ruhai with a smile: "Lord Lin, please forgive me for missing me for a moment." ”

"Master Xie, please take care of yourself!"

Master Xie got up and left the flower hall. After a while, Lin Ruhai smelled a strange fragrance, followed by a delicate young woman, Lin Ruhai didn't know where she was hiding, she walked straight to Lin Ruhai, raised her hand and shook it in front of Lin Ruhai's eyes, seeing that Lin Ruhai didn't react, she spoke: "You listen to me now, you will do whatever I ask you to do!" I nodded when I understood. ”

Lin Ruhai felt that this woman was a little weird, but in order not to startle the snake, he nodded obediently.

Xiao Qingfang smiled with satisfaction, and then said: "You are sleepy now, you want to sleep, go to the door and tell your two little guys, let them go back first, you stay here tonight!" ”

Lin Ruhai did as Xiao Qingfang said, Xiao Qingfang watched Lin Xing and Lin An leave from the window, walked to Lin Ruhaide's side, and gently patted Lin Ruhai's shoulder with his hand.

"Follow me and I'll take you to bed!"

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