Chapter 29: Showing Weakness
In order to ensure that the amount is correct, the Lin Mansion, the Qin Cha and the Assassin Mansion will jointly settle the account books given by Lin Qingwan again, and then load the money into the car.
Lu Zhen only looked at it for a while before turning around to find Lin Jiang.
Lin Jiang was already lying on the bed, his body couldn't support it for long, and he knelt down just now, and he was a little weak at this time.
Lu Zhen brought the imperial doctor, and he was a highly qualified Shi imperial doctor.
Imperial Physician Shi checked the pulse, read the prescription prescribed by Dr. Xu, and finally exited the room and said: "The medicine prescribed by Dr. Xu is very convenient, and there is nothing to add or subtract from the lower officials, Master Lin's illness can only be recuperated, and you must not be tired, and you should not be angry......"
Lin Yubin tightened the handkerchief in his hand and couldn't help biting his lip.
Lin Qingwan stretched out her hand to hold her, nodded to Imperial Physician Shi, and pulled her and said, "Go and see if your father's medicine is cured." ”
The little girl left with red eyes, and found a place where no one was around.
Shang Mingyuan jumped out of nowhere and whispered, "Aunt Lin, the banquet has been prepared, please go and eat." ”
"It's inconvenient for me to go, you beckoning everyone to go," Lin Qingwan paused and said: "A few Qincha adults are going to live in the mansion, and you don't always run out recently, follow a few adults to fight and learn some skills." ”
It is not possible to settle so much money in a moment, so Lu Zhen and some officials of the Ministry of Household Affairs and the Ministry of Rites want to live in the Lin Mansion.
Shang Mingyuan was pleasantly surprised, although he was a noble son, he rarely had the opportunity to show his face in front of officials, especially these Beijing officials, and building a good relationship was particularly beneficial to his future development.
Originally, Lin Qingwan didn't say that he didn't plan to go out in the near future, but now that she said it, he won't go out even more.
Shang Mingyuan happily went to help her greet the officials, if it weren't for his uncle lying inside, I was afraid that the joy on his face would not be able to hide it.
Lu Zhen didn't go with him, but went into the house to talk to Lin Jiang, and the officials who accompanied him expressed their understanding, after all, the two of them used to be classmates.
Lin Qingwan glanced at Lu Zhen and left, without disturbing them to speak.
Lu Zhen watched her leave with deep eyes, Lin Jiang leaned on the head of the bed and saw him silent for a long time, and couldn't help but chuckle, "Why, the sister is so good-looking?" ”
Lu Zhen came back to his senses, looked left and right, and then pulled a chair and sat down, "Your mansion is full of high chairs, I'm really a little unaccustomed to it for a while." ”
"I felt that the high chair was more comfortable to sit on, so I changed it all."
Lu Zhen snorted, "Who doesn't know that you are the one who changed these Hu bed high chairs for your honorable lady?" ”
Lin Jiang's wife was weak after giving birth and couldn't sit for a long time, and her blood would be poor if she knelt for more than two quarters of an hour, so Lin Jiang simply replaced all the low tables in the house with high chairs and beds.
Many people followed suit and changed high chairs, but in other places, more people still followed the habits of the Wei and Jin dynasties, although there were Hu beds, but there were few high chairs.
Lin Jiang didn't care about his sneer, and closed his eyes slightly.
Lu Zhen looked at him for a while, turned his head to look out the window and said: "Sister Ling seems to have changed a lot, although she is only as good as Xuan, she is steady and capable, and her ability is no less than that of Lord Ruying." ”
Lin Jiang's heart tightened, and he opened his eyes quietly and said, "Yes, she has changed a lot in the past twelve years, and Brother Lu has also changed a lot in the past twelve years. ”
Lu Zhen choked and coughed uncomfortably, okay, the last time he saw Lin Qingwan was when she was three years old.
However, Lu Zhen nodded his finger unconsciously, "Although I have been far away in Lingzhou over the years, I have occasionally heard people talk about Sister Ling, I was really surprised to see it this time, I didn't expect Brother Lin to be smart, but Sister Ling is not inferior to Brother Lin." ”
After all, she was only fifteen years old, and he had seen everything from the moment she entered the door to the present, and Lin Qingwan was obviously able to take over the Lin family.
Lin Jiang raised his eyes to look at him directly, and said lightly: "Is Brother Lu praising her, or is he stabbing a knife in my heart?" ”
Lu Zhen was stunned for a moment, and then said angrily: "I'm obviously praising her, why did I stab a knife in your heart?" The appearance of this yin and yang weirdness has not changed at all. ”
Lin Jiang snorted lightly and said, "My sister is innocent and romantic, if it weren't for ...... How could she be so sensible and capable? Are you praising her, obviously saying that I am incompetent, and my Lin family is unable to shelter the two girls, which makes her have to be capable. ”
Lu Zhen thought back to the tone of what he had just spoken, and couldn't help coughing lightly: "I didn't mean that......"
Lin Jiang sneered and didn't speak.
Lu Zhen couldn't help but hold his forehead, he just habitually doubted everything Lin Jiang had done, so his tone didn't change for a while. Who made him a smiling tiger, like a fox, he had suffered a lot at his hands before.
Lu Zhen wanted to go back habitually, but seeing Lin Jiang's weak appearance, he rarely found it in his conscience and endured it.
Lin Jiang didn't mean to give in at all, and coldly chased away the guests, "Lord Lu is tired of traveling and driving, and it's time to go down and rest." Lin is frail and inconvenient, please forgive me. ”
Lu Zhen twitched the corners of his mouth, knowing that he was angry, he shook his head and said, "Forget it, I won't bother you." ”
He got up and said: "Although I have always been disgusted with your hypocrisy, but we are from the same school, if the Lin family has any difficulties in the future, just come to me, and Lu will never shirk what he can do." ”
Lin Jiang was about to habitually ridicule back, but he remembered what Lin Qingwan had said, his face couldn't help but soften, and he was silent for a while before nodding and saying, "Thank you!" ”
Lu Zhen's jaw almost fell to the ground, he looked at Lin Jiang dumbfounded, and only after half a sound did he stumble: "No, no thanks." ”
Seeing him like this, Lin Jiang simply closed his eyes and didn't look at him.
Seeing him like this, Lu Zhen was rarely a little sad, and turned around and left in a trance.
Lin Qingwan saw that he was about to say hello, but saw that he walked directly past her with a serious face.
Lin Qingwan was stunned and turned to look at his back.
Lu Zhen was very embarrassed for a long time, and hurriedly caught up with his master when he told Lin Qingwan that he was thinking about his own master, so he didn't see Lin Qingwan, but outsiders didn't know.
I don't know what the Lin family thinks of his master, he wants to explain, but he is afraid that it will damage the prestige of the master, so he can only follow in a hurry, forget it, let the master wake up and explain.
Lin Qingwan raised her eyebrows and turned to find Lin Jiang, "That Lord Lu is interesting, you have a good relationship with him?" ”
Lin Jiang only said that Lu Zhen's character was credible, but she didn't say what their relationship was, but she just saw that Lu Zhen looked deeply shocked, as if she had a deep relationship with Lin Jiang.
Lin Jiang waved his hand and said with a headache: "When we were young, we studied together in Guozixue, and at that time, Guozijian was Lu Shiyang, he was Lu Zhen's uncle, and he liked to take a few of our students with him to teach, so we were considered to be the same family." ”
Lin Jiang paused and said, "But he has always been subordinate to me, so there are a lot of disputes." Although our relationship is not harmonious, his character is still trustworthy, and if you have something difficult in the future, you can try it with him. ”
To put it bluntly, the two have always been in a competitive relationship, but Lu Zhen's ability is below Lin Jiang whether he was a student or after he joined the office, even if the two are at the same level now, Lin Jiang's power is a little greater than him.
However, although they have been fighting each other, they have always been healthy competition, even if they meet, you scold me, I sarcastically mock you, but there are many people who help each other when they encounter problems.
So Lin Jiang said that he could trust it.
But Lin Jiang has been excellent in front of him all his life, but when he is on the verge of showing weakness to the other party, he can't help but feel uncomfortable.
And Lu Zhen, who was shown weak, felt uncomfortable, he left the Lin family, walked aimlessly on the street, and finally stood on the side of the street and looked at the bustling crowd, and his heart was complicated for a while.
Ping An stepped forward anxiously and reminded: "Master, the hour is not early, we must always show up at the banquet of the Lin family, otherwise if they know that the master will come out of Lord Lin's room, they will go out, I am afraid that they will think too much......"
The relationship between his lord and Lord Lin has always been not harmonious, and at this time, Lord Lin is working with the country, and it will be bad for his lord to spread such gossip.
Lu Zhen stood still, and sighed faintly after half a loud voice: "No matter how smart and capable he is, how many splendid articles he has made, and how many merits he has made to the country and the people, at this time he is just a brother and a father." ”
"Sir?"
Lu Zhen's eyes were slightly hot, "I never thought that he would show weakness to me, I was suspicious of the eldest lady of the Lin family before, I felt that she had grown up too fast, and I wanted to remind him to be careful of the Xie family behind her, but now it seems that he can show weakness to me, so what else is impossible in this world?" ”
"Master, although the eldest lady of the Lin family married into the Xie family, she is also a girl of the Lin family, and she will never calculate the Lin family for the Xie family."
Lu Zhen sighed, "I always felt that she had changed too much, although I had only seen the child once, but the eldest mother and second mother often mentioned her in her words, although she was smart and talented, but in the end, she was young, how could she be as old-fashioned as she is now?" ”
But now it seems that she has suffered three major disasters in a row, and her character may not be tenacious, although ...... "is still too old-fashioned."
Lu Zhen didn't say everything, but Ping'an heard the meaning of the words, and he couldn't help but say: "The eldest mother and the second mother have never seen the eldest lady of the Lin family, they are all hearsay, and there are some omissions." Lord Lin is willing to hand over the family business to her, and the Lin family is united, obviously Aunt Lin is also on the side of the Lin family. ”
Lu Zhen bowed slightly, but he still had some doubts in his heart.
As the saying goes, it's not your friends who know you best, it's your opponents.
Lu Zhen has always regarded Lin Jiang as an opponent, from the age of twelve to now the two have been fighting for more than 20 years, he not only knows Lin Jiang, but also knows Lin Jiang's family.
In his intelligence, Lin Qingwan is a smart but sensitive, gentle but fierce girl. But no matter how good she is, she is just a talented little girl, and Lin Jiang is very fond of her family, how happy her sister and daughter are, not to mention letting them learn to take care of the family business, even the affairs of the back house have not forced them.
Such a person, even if he is tenacious in the face of changes, his ability cannot grow all at once.
With so many properties to be sold, and to arrange where the next people go, they are as sophisticated as people of their age, and they are not at all able to do it by a little girl who has nothing to do.
Therefore, there must be someone behind Lin Qingwan to point out, if that person is not from the Xie family, it is arranged by Lin Jiang.
I don't know if that man is reliable.