After Jia Min repeatedly promised that he would obediently raise a baby at home, Lin Ruhai was extremely reluctant to board the ship to Yangzhou.

After Lin Ruhai left, Jia Min ordered the Hui County Lord's Mansion to close the door, and An An raised a baby at home. She will go to Beijing in two months, Jia Min is ready to recuperate before then, and it is still very hard to go to the capital, she is now pregnant, so she must be extremely careful. So Jia Min handed over the affairs of his dowry shop and Zhuangzi to Yao Huang to deal with, just to listen to Yao Huang's report in three or five days. Lin Dayong is in charge of the affairs of the county lord's mansion in the outer courtyard, and Wan Mo and Hongmei are in the inner courtyard to help watch it, and Jia Min doesn't need to worry about it at all. Jia Min once again sighed at the wisdom of the ancestors of the Lin family, the people trained by the Shifu Academy are loyal and useful, there is such a group of subordinates, and the master only needs to grasp the overall situation, and he doesn't need to do everything himself.

After entering February, Jia Min's body was almost up, and Dark Er checked her pulse, saying that she could get out of bed and move. Jia Min began to practice in the backyard with his two sons every morning. It's just that Jia Min still practices soothing Tai Chi, and he only practices for half an hour every day, so he won't get tired. After dinner, the mother and son would go for a walk in the garden together, and they would go back to rest in half an hour. In this way, with the medicinal diet prepared for Jia Min by Wan Mo every day, Jia Min's complexion is getting better and better day by day, and he looks a lot plumper.

Lin Lang and Lin Yao, the two brothers, also didn't go out much, and stayed in the Huijun Lord's Mansion all day to accompany Jia Min. Before leaving, Lin Ruhai specially explained to the two brothers, telling them to take care of their mothers, and not to let their mothers worry about them willfully. Fortunately, the two sons are sensible and filial good children, and after experiencing the things that happened in the Zhen family, the two brothers are much more stable than before. Especially Lin Lang, who has been hovering on the edge of life and death, has made him not as detached as before, he sees the problem more deeply than before, and he is more cautious in doing things! Although Lin Yao is a cold character, he is very concerned about his family. Jia Min and Lin Lang fell in front of his eyes, and the impact on his heart was still great. Even Zaohui is still a six or seven-year-old child after all, and she will still be scared after experiencing those things, so in the past month, Lin Yao has developed the habit of going to see Jia Min and Lin Lang first when she wakes up every day, and only after confirming that they are all good can she rest assured that she can do other things.

Before Lin Ruhai left Jinling, he assigned a lot of homework to Lin Lang and Lin Yao. Both children are very smart and have strong learning ability, and they have always studied at home with Lin Ruhai. Now Lin Ruhai can't always be by their side to guide them, Jia Min and his wife have some different arrangements for their two sons, so they are not in a hurry to find a master to teach them in the Huijun Lord's Mansion, and the task of teaching them homework falls on Jia Min. Fortunately, Jia Min followed her teacher and also read the Four Books and Five Classics, and after a lifetime of tempering, her open-mindedness and insight are naturally beyond the ability of ordinary women, and it is not difficult to teach her two sons. The mother and son practiced together, read, eat, and walked together every day...... Life is not comfortable.

At this time, Lin Ruhai, who was in Yangzhou City, was fighting wits and courage with those cunning and treacherous salt merchants.

The Fang family did not receive a reply from Zhen Yingjia until the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, and the old lady Fang knew that Zhen Yingjia was planning to abandon them completely. In addition to being angry, Mrs. Fang's grandfather was glad that Zhen Yingjia did not insist on continuing to follow the old path, but gave them a chance to wash their hands.

The Fang family united with the salt merchants who had been following Zhen Yingjia, and planned to propose to Lin Ruhai to increase this year's salt introduction. In order to increase their bargaining chips, the Fang family also found the old lady of the Liu family, trying to persuade him to follow them to put pressure on Lin Ruhai, so that Lin Ruhai had to agree to increase the number of salt leads.

Liu Jinbao was very disdainful of people like the other family, and the goal of the Liu family was not to take more salt and make more money. They wanted to break away from the merchant and become a nobleman. For this reason, the Liu family is very united, just to be able to offer Liu Guanjie a fame. Not to mention that their Liu family is now asking for Lin Ruhai and obeying Lin Ruhai's orders, even if Lin Ruhai does not accept Liu Guanjie as an apprentice in the end, the Liu family will not come together with the Fang family. The so-called Tao is not the same, Liu Jinbao didn't give Old Lady Fang a chance to speak at all, so he sent people away.

No matter how angry Old Lady Fang is, there is no way, although the salt that the Liu family has obtained over the years is not as much as the Fang family, and the Liu family has also sold illicit salt like them, but the Liu family has a deep foundation in Yangzhou, and it is not something that the Fang family can easily shake.

Old Lady Fang didn't find a strong helper, and only relied on him to play against Lin Ruhai. He had no chance of winning. And he still has his own selfishness, and he doesn't want to really offend Lin Ruhai. When he was worried, Master Fang gave him an idea.

"Father! Have you forgotten Mr. Hua? ”

"Do you mean to follow Mr. Hua's path and let him convince Lord Lin?" Old Lady Fang asked.

"Now it's not easy for us to go against Lord Lin, Master Zhen has obviously abandoned us, and we can only be friendly with Lord Lin in this stall, and we must not do anything with him. What's more, it's to put pressure on Lord Lin to force him to agree to our request? Therefore, let's first tell Mr. Lin through Mr. Hua, and say that the salt produced in this year's salt farm is somewhat different from the output reported last year! ”

"I don't believe it, do you think Lord Lin will believe it?"

"Father, whether Lord Lin believes it or not, we have to pass this to him, otherwise what will happen to the extra salt in the salt farm? Who now dares to risk killing their heads to sell smuggled salt? I learned from Mr. Hua's words and words that Lord Lin is not a pedantic person who does not know how to be flexible, as long as we don't stumble on him, he will not trouble us for no reason! ”

Old Lady Fang frowned and pondered, as a last resort, he didn't want to confront Lin Ruhai, but the current situation made him instinctively want to force Lin Ruhai to agree to increase the amount of salt distribution as before. Master Fang's words made him calm down and think carefully, he felt that Lin Ruhai's temperament should be more stubborn and strong, which could be seen from his previous style. If they really match Lin Ruhai, I am afraid that it will be very unfavorable to their Fang family in the future.

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