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This story starts from the 40s of the last century, before and after the reform and opening up, the Lin family was quite famous in the Bashu area, and sat in Wengqimen to run the pharmaceutical business, forming the largest gang in the Bashu area at that time - the medicinal material gang!

And go back further, the ancestors of the Lin family were not born in medicine, in the late Qing Dynasty, the situation was chaotic, and they made money by means of speculation, hoarding, etc., although they were not very upright and bright, and they were despised, but with the Lin family's surprising business acumen not only survived in the troubled times, but the business also became bigger and bigger, and later the New Deal. The government also had close contacts, and it became a powerful person in the early Republic of China.

In order to wash away the unbearable black history, the Lin family began to make friends with some serious and famous families at that time to clear their family history.

For this reason, the descendants of the Lin family began to change their way of doing business and gradually turned their business on the right path.

At that time, the Lin family got acquainted with a businessman named Du Simao, who was proficient in the medicinal herb business, and did well in the old alleys of Rongcheng, but only in the streets and alleys, and the scale was not large.

The Lin family immediately moved their minds to Du Simao, and used Du Simao's proficiency in medicinal materials to begin to expand business channels.

With the rise of the Lin family and the Du family, differences gradually occurred in later generations, and the Lin family was bent on swallowing the Du family, and the descendants of the Du family seemed to have an innate understanding of medicinal materials, so they also wanted to get rid of the Lin family.

In this way, by the end of the 30s, the medicinal herb gang in the Wengqi Gate was divided into two, and it became the medicinal herb gang and the mountain goods gang at that time.

The Mountain Goods Gang is also a branch of the Du family, and every generation of the Du family since Du Simao's generation will produce a genius who is proficient in medicinal materials.

It's a pity that one mountain can't tolerate two tigers, the Du family always thought that this business was started by the Du family, but let the Lin family become bigger, and they couldn't swallow that breath, and in the early 40s, the Du family secretly sent a person to the Lin family.

This person was Lin Liyan, who was only 14 years old at the time!

She lived in the Lin Mansion in the name of a comprador maid, and at that time she had a nickname Bai Hibiscus.

The year Bai Jin entered the mansion was the year when Lin Xitan, the eldest young master of the Lin family, married his wife, and the Lin family had an unwritten family rule.

On the day of Lin Xitan's wedding, it caused a sensation in the entire Rongcheng, not only the people of the Thirteen Gangs congratulated together, but all the people who had heads and faces at that time sent congratulatory gifts to the Lin family, and the congratulatory gifts carried into the Lin family were carried for three whole days!

The person Lin Xitan married was the largest scholarly family in Rongcheng at that time, Shen Rutang, the daughter of the Shen family, Shen Rutang was proficient in poetry and poetry since she was a child, and she looked even more symbolic, and the big family who had just turned 16 years old and proposed to marry had flattened the threshold of the Shen family, but this Shen Rutang had been a girl with ideas since she was a child, and she was dragged until she was 18 years old.

In this way, I knew that she had already liked Lin Xitan of the Lin family, and it became a family affair to drag the matchmaker to match, and it was also a good match, and the two families were happy.

On the night of their wedding, Bai Hibiscus had just been working at the Lin family for three months, and because of his cleverness, he could observe words and looks, and he didn't talk much, which was very appreciated by the Lin family's steward.

As early as the day before, the Du family had secretly contacted Bai Hibiscus and asked her to take advantage of Lin Xitan's wedding chaos to sneak into his study and find the sales route and receiving location of the medicinal herbs to help him sell the goods in recent batches.

Bai Hibiscus specially waited until the guests were half drunk, and then took advantage of the darkness to touch Lin Xitan's study, she has an extraordinary memory since she was a child, although the Lin Mansion is large, it only took her less than a month to find out the residence of each aunt, aunt, young lady, young master, and housekeeper.

At that time, it should have been Lin Xitan and Shen Rutang's cave room, everyone's focus was on the newcomer's cave room, although there were red lanterns hanging at the end of the study, which was brightly illuminated, it also looked deserted, and there was no one.

Bai Hibiscus cautiously looked around, then pried open the lock of Lin Xitan's study, and sneaked in unconsciously!

The study was blind with a black light, she lit the candle she brought with her and began to rummage around, I don't know how long it took, Bai Hibiscus suddenly heard movement outside, she stretched out her head to see, no, someone is coming!

Immediately blew out the candle and hid under the table behind the screen, Bai Hibiscus was petite, and the whole person got into the hole in the table and didn't dare to make a sound, suddenly, I heard the door of the study... Pushed away.

She didn't dare to gasp and cover her mouth and nose, Lin Xitan smelled the smell of burning candles as soon as she entered the study, and immediately lowered her head, when he followed the wax dripping from the candle to the back of the screen, his footsteps stopped abruptly, Bai Hibiscus was so frightened that his whole body was trembling, in the past, once a big family caught someone and made a mistake, they all had to be hit by the board, just when Bai Hibiscus was so anxious that she was sweating, a pair of leather shoes suddenly appeared in front of her, and then a man's voice shouted coldly: "Come out!" ”

When Bai Hibiscus crawled out from under the table tremblingly, what he saw was Lin Xitan holding a copper lock in his hand!

When it was supposed to be Lin Xitan's cave room, Bai Hibiscus didn't know why he suddenly came to the study, so he knelt on the ground and begged for mercy in fright: "Young Master, I didn't steal anything!" ”

At this time, Lin Xitan had already faded from his red wedding dress, wearing a black and blue robe, holding the copper lock in his hand, and said coldly: "I didn't say that you stole things, and ordinary thieves can't open my lock, say!" What are you doing here? ”

Of course, Bai Hibiscus was killed, not to mention that she had been kneeling on the ground with her head down, Lin Xitan saw the expression of death on her pale little face, so he slapped the copper lock on the table, and he obviously saw Bai Hibiscus's thin body shaking for a while, but his back was straighter than just now.

As a result, that night, Lin Xitan was checking the account books in front of the desk, and Bai Hibiscus kept kneeling on the cold ground, and spent until the early hours of the morning, Bai Hibiscus couldn't hold on, her legs were numb and she began to nap, Lin Xitan just watched the little girl fall asleep on her knees in front of her, and let out a slight snoring sound, which stunned him.

The next day, Bai Hibiscus woke up in a wing not far from Lin Xitan's study, and ate two more steamed buns in the morning to prepare for the board.

As a result, until the afternoon, the housekeeper didn't look for her to be beaten to the board, and she did what she had to do.

Until the evening the housekeeper hurriedly came to look for her, Bai Hibiscus knew that what should come was coming after all, but the housekeeper took her to the warehouse to get new clothes for her to wear first, saying that the eldest young master did not like sloppy people, and asked her mother-in-law to measure her, and to make her a few more clothes when she went back.

She didn't understand why she came to ask the housekeeper why he made clothes for her, and the housekeeper told her that the eldest young master personally asked him to question him in the afternoon, and after inquiring about Bai Hibiscus's origin, he asked the housekeeper to transfer Bai Hibiscus to her side as a personal maid without saying anything.

This news exploded in the Lin Mansion, the Lin family never asked about these trivial matters, the big girls around them were carefully arranged by the old lady, but suddenly transferred a girl to their side, and some people even passed it on, seeing that Lin Xitan did not stay in the wedding room on the night of his wedding, but stayed in the study with this maid for one night.

As soon as the news spread, the Lin Mansion went up to the old lady and down to the maid and mother-in-law all knew that this girl was afraid that this girl would be taken over by the Lin family, and she would become an aunt's wife, only Bai Hibiscus herself knew that Lin Xitan had begun to doubt her identity, and she didn't know what the purpose was for putting her by her side!

It's just that this incident made Shen Rutang, the new young grandmother in the house, eat a big turtle and become a joke!

Shen Rutang was careful and arrogant, and he was not good at stubble, when Bai Hibiscus was just transferred to Lin Xitan's side, Lin Xitan rushed to Nanjing because he received a telegram and had an urgent matter.

The newlywed husband left himself and recruited an innocent maid to put in the room, Shen Rutang was naturally not happy, with the support of his mother's family to fight Bai Hibiscus, no one in the Lin family's house dared to do much, the matter reached the old lady, and the old lady Lin just held the teapot and said lightly: "It's just a subordinate, let her toss, Qin Er has just been married and left home for many days, she is somewhat unhappy, look at it, don't make trouble." ”

A month later, Lin Xitan returned to Lin Mansion and brought back good news, this time the application for land was approved, they could choose land around Rongcheng to cultivate and plant medicinal materials, and then use Rongcheng's convenient water transportation to sell medicinal materials to more provinces.

Lin Xitan and the old lady talked for a long time, Shen Rutang heard that Lin Xitan came back and ran to the old lady excitedly, the old lady scolded her grandson in front of Shen Rutang, saying that he now has a wife, and he wants the Gu family to no longer go out without saying a word as before, Shen Rutang's eyes were red with grievances, Lin Xitan patted her and said a few good words to the old lady, and returned to the residence with Shen Rutang after dinner.

That night, Lin Xitan also felt a little guilty about his wife, but looking at Shen Rutang, who was weak and crying, he couldn't help but feel irritable.

Shen Rutang has read poetry and books since he was a child, and there is a bookish breath in his bones, and the furnishings in the natural room also have the atmosphere of literati and elegant governance, lit with a faint incense, which makes Lin Xitan, who has been mingling with those medicinal herb gangsters at the old dock since he was a child, feel very uncomfortable.

Before going to bed, he was so tightened by the aromatherapy that his chest was tightened and Shen Rutang said that he would take a breath, and he would return after a while, and Shen Rutang could only whisper and wait for him.

As a result, as soon as he walked out of the yard, a petite figure jumped out of nowhere and knelt in front of him!