Chapter 155: Invitation
"Lord Lin?" Although the other party was a question sentence, the tone was very affirmative, Lin Qingwan smiled at this time, stood on the wheel and saluted the other party.
In this world, not everyone can command an army, let alone women in this era?
Seeing her attitude, Zhong Ruying raised her eyebrows slightly, simply jumped off the horse and walked to the front of the car, hugged her fists in return, "After passing through Suzhou, I was going to see my sister, but I didn't expect to meet it when I entered the city, but it was fate." ”
Lin Qingwan smiled slightly, "I didn't know that my sister was coming, otherwise I should welcome me out of the city." ”
She glanced down at the coachman, who did not dare to slack off, and hurriedly moved the stool down.
Lin Qingwan got off the station in front of Zhong Ruying, looked at her and said, "If my sister is not in a hurry, why don't you stay in my house?" ”
Zhong Ruying directly crossed her shoulders and met a pair of sparkling eyes in the car, Lin Qingwan turned around and looked over, beckoned to Lin Yubin in the car, and introduced to Zhong Ruying: "This is my niece Yubin." ”
Lin Yubin hurriedly got out of the car and saluted Zhong Ruying, "See the county lord." ”
Zhong Ruying smiled, "I and your aunt are sisters, so you can also call me aunt, otherwise you are the county lord, I don't know if you call your aunt or me." ”
Lin Yubin smiled embarrassedly and called "Aunt Zhong" obediently.
Zhong Ruying looked at it and sighed in her heart, she was really well-behaved, but unfortunately she was not from her family.
"General," the attendant stepped forward and whispered, "the hour is getting late. ”
When Lin Qingwan heard this, she smiled and asked, "Sister wants to stay in my house?" ”
Zhong Ruying thought for a while, and after glancing at the direction of the Assassin's Mansion, she bowed her head and said, "Then disturb my sister." ”
"It's my sister's honor." Lin Qingwan smiled and asked Zhong Ruying to get in the car.
Both of them have heard each other's names for a long time, and Lin Qingwan doesn't know how Zhong Ruying is, but she admires this Zhong Ruying very much, and she makes no secret of her admiration.
Lin Yubin often heard her aunt praise Zhong Ruying, and her eyes were full of admiration when she looked at each other.
Zhong Ruying hadn't been seen with such pure eyes for many years, which made her very happy.
She knows that there are many people who admire her, both men and women, but these people always have other things in their eyes when they admire her, that is, her cronies, and sometimes they are anxious for her, feeling that this is not the way, and they always try to persuade her to remarry, even if it is a big deal.
It's as if she's pitiful without a man.
The ministers of the court, too, always looked at her with a hint of condescending sympathy, as if she was so sad as a widow.
She didn't like that kind of gaze.
Zhong Ruying leaned on the wall of the car relaxedly, took a sip of the tea handed over by Lin Qingwan, and said with a smile: "This tea is brewed well." ”
"Haven't you drunk it?"
"I've drunk it, but they always have a strong bitter taste, so it's better to add ginger and salt to boil it."
Lin Qingwan twitched the corner of her mouth and said, "I'm not used to drinking tea like that, if my sister likes to drink tea, I'll let Bai Mei teach the people around you when I go back." ”
"Then thank you sister." She turned her head to look at Lin Yubin, who was sitting quietly on the side, and sighed, "It's good to have such a well-behaved niece." ”
Lin Qingwan smiled slightly and pushed the snacks on the table to her.
Zhong Ruying "tsk" twice, "Is this showing off to me?" Wait, I'll go back and look for it, and see if I can find a niece or nephew or something. ”
Lin Yubin blinked, and couldn't help but look at her aunt, Zhong Ruying's attitude was so fast that she couldn't adapt to it, didn't it be the first time they met?
"It's difficult," Lin Qingwan said with an unchanged expression, "My niece is comparable to ordinary people?" ”
Lin Yubin's face was slightly red when he heard this, but Zhong Ruying laughed, patted his leg directly and said, "Well said, how can our niece be comparable to ordinary people." ”
Zhong Jiajun, who was following behind the carriage, looked worried, their general had made a ruffian again, but don't scare Lord Lin, they still have to live in someone's house.
The carriage went out of the West City Gate, and soon saw the Lin family's courtyard, and the Zhong family soldiers saw the Qingfeng Teahouse located at the intersection, and their eyes couldn't help but darken, and they looked at the small room on the second floor without speaking.
Yu Zhu, who stayed on the lookout, did not see Jiang Nan's warning, so he lay on it and did not move, and entered the courtyard avenue surrounded by the carriage by the horse team.
The carriage stopped at the gate of the courtyard, Steward Lin greeted the door, and was stunned when he saw the murderous horse team lingering behind him, he lowered his eyes, and when he raised it again, his face had recovered his expression, and he stepped forward to greet Lin Qingwan with a smile.
Lin Qingwan introduced Zhong Ruying, "This is the county lord of Ruying, go and arrange two courtyards for General Zhong's subordinates to prepare food in the kitchen." ”
Steward Lin responded and hurriedly went to greet Zhong Ruying's personal entourage.
There were children who ran over to see the excitement, and when they were swept by these people's eyes, they were so frightened that they cried "wow".
The faces of the relatives froze, and they quickly looked away.
Zhong Ruying's face was slightly pale, and Lin Qingwan explained: "I just came down from the battlefield, and my anger was a little heavy, which scared the child." ”
Lin Qingwan smiled and said: "It doesn't matter, you are fighting for the country, I won't give you dinner because you scared the child." ”
Zhong Ruying smiled when she heard this, and her face finally looked much better.
Mrs. Xie was in the mansion and heard that Zhong Ruying was coming, so she hurriedly brought Mama Yang to see her.
Zhong Ruying didn't expect Lin Qingwan to take her mother-in-law with her, so she was stunned for a moment and stepped forward to support Mrs. Xie and said, "It should be the junior who went to see Mrs., how dare you let Mrs. see me." ”
"The county lord has tormented his concubines, and it is rude not to be able to go out to greet him." Mrs. Xie didn't dare to despise Zhong Ruying, this is a person who can even put her own mother-in-law under house arrest.
Zhong Ruying smiled and was about to be polite, Lin Qingwan said: "Okay, okay, mother and county lord are not outsiders, why be polite, you have been tired all the way, it is better to wash up first, and then have dinner." ”
She could see that Zhong Ruying didn't like politeness, so why bother to say some unnutritious polite words here?
Isn't Mrs. Xie also very awkward?
Mrs. Xie and Zhong Ruying heard Lin Qingwan say that, and at the same time breathed a sigh of relief, and they all smiled and got out of the way.
Zhong Ruying took her two relatives to the guest house to wash and rest.
The squire opened the cage and found her a set of women's clothes, "General, you better dress softly, it's not on the battlefield, there's no need to be so heroic, haven't you looked away from the county lord Lin looking at you?" ”
Zhong Ruying glanced at the clothes in her hand, thought for a while, and said, "It's okay, I'll have to stay for a few more days anyway." ”
Shi Jian was stunned, "Stay a few more days, didn't the general decide to leave for Beijing tomorrow?" ”
Zhong Ruying leaned on the couch relaxed and said: "What are you doing in such a hurry to go back, I don't want to go back to see the faces of those people fighting for merit, so it is better to stay in Suzhou for a few more days." ”
She turned her head and smiled: "Don't you often tell me that this Lord Lin is powerful, I just met her, and it is indeed very interesting, so I plan to stay for a few more days." ”
Shi Jian opened her mouth and stammered, she had said good things about Lord Lin, but she didn't mean to let their generals stay here, the emperor was still waiting for them in the capital.
Stop and go along the way, General Su has passed Yangzhou, and they are still hanging around in Suzhou, so slow is it good to be impeached by the courtiers?
Zhong Ruying didn't take it to heart, she still had a breath in her heart, so she replaced her after capturing the capital, she was so untrustworthy?
The sword wiped his cold sweat and went to find Saohong, "You hurry up and persuade the general, the general has been impeached a lot this year." ”
Sweep Hong didn't care, "Impeachment is impeachment, and the general will not lose a piece of meat, those are inconsequential things, they can scold if they want." ”
"But this time the emperor personally recalled to Beijing, and if the general didn't hurry back, those ministers would say that our general had no father."
"The emperor is just worried about the conflict between the general and the Great Chu army, as long as the general leaves southern Xinjiang, who cares if he returns to Beijing?" Sao Hong went in with a bucket of hot water in one hand, and said to Zhong Ruying, who was lying on the couch with Erlang's legs crossed: "General, wash up, we are guests, and it is not good to make the host's family wait for a long time." ”
Zhong Ruying jumped up and undressed as she walked to the bathroom, "Why does Lord Lin's mother-in-law live with her?" I remember that there are a lot of Xie family members, right? ”
Sao Hong twitched the corner of her eyes and said, "Lord Xie is still alive, Mrs. Xie also has a stepson, do you say that there are many of her families?" ”
The squire also came in to serve, gossiping: "I see that their mother-in-law and daughter-in-law get along well, if it weren't for Mrs. Xie's good personality, then the Lord of Lin County is very powerful." ”
"You don't speculate," Sao Hong glared at her, and explained to Zhong Ruying: "The situation of Lord Lin is different from that of the general, she only married after Xie Erlang's death, so Xie Erlang can be buried in the ancestral grave, I heard that she also sent her wedding dress to accompany the marriage, and her coffin was left inside." ”
Zhong Ruying paused, "It's affectionate." ”
She only knew that she had an extra sister, who was Lin Jiang's sister, because Lin Jiang donated most of the family's property, and then there was the recent bamboo paper and straw paper.
Seeing that she dared to impeach her ministers like this with the DPRK and China, Zhong Ruying was still very happy, she couldn't get used to those ministers who fought for power and profit, and impeached people indiscriminately for their own selfish interests.
But she didn't know much more about it.
Zhong Ruying sat in the water, closed her eyes comfortably and said, "Tell me anything else." ”
The squire also looked at the sweep with a blank eye, usually she is responsible for this kind of thing.
Sweeping Hong also lived up to his trust, and said in a low voice: "General, I think this Lord of Lin County is a bit similar to you. ”
Zhong Ruying raised her eyebrows.
Sao Hong said: "Don't look at her politeness, her methods are also ruthless, last year into winter, a large number of homeless people poured into Suzhou City, someone provoked homeless people to surround the Lin family's courtyard, she personally stood on the wall tower to persuade more than 100 people to retreat, and she killed the remaining 400 people. ”
Zhong Ruying opened her eyes and sat up straight slightly, "Does the Lin family have a government army?" ”
"No, there are only twenty or thirty guards, and they lead the long-term workers of the mansion to do it."
Zhong Ruying lowered her eyes and said, "A long-term worker who has not been on the battlefield can kill more than 400 extremely vicious homeless people? ”
She scoffed and said, "Those long-term workers are trained. ”