Along the stone bridge, someone took him and An Ying to their rooms. After carefully admonishing An Ying, Lin Xin walked into his small courtyard.

In the small oval courtyard, there are all kinds of coronas in the rockery stream, and a little girl in a green dress came up and offered to help him remove the sword on his back.

"No need. Lin Xin shook his head, "You go and help me boil the bath water first." ”

"Okay uncle. The little girl answered and went out, she had been taking care of Lin Xinru's girl since she was a child, and she had no shares.

Standing in the yard and looking around, Lin Xin found a stool from the house and put it on the side of the rockery, and sat down.

This place is Lin Xinru's home, but it is not his Lin Xin's home, sitting here, there is a sense of familiarity in his memory, but at this moment there is only strangeness.

He looked at the pool in front of him, a few yellow croakers were shaking their heads and swimming slowly, and there were still a few green fallen leaves floating on the water surface that they didn't know where to fly.

Stretching out his hand, Lin Xin's fingers reached into the water of the pool, which was cold and a little biting, and his fingers stirred up a few circles of ripples on the water surface, spreading out, scaring a few fish to quickly run to a far corner.

Lin Xin shook his head, and heard the sound of guests entering the door in the distance outside, it seemed that the second and third children were accompanying their father Lin Zhiwen to receive guests. There was also the constant singing of promises by the porter, and it was obvious that someone had given a lot of gifts.

"It's too boring to stay like this" Lin Xin got up and went back to the room, took off the long sword he was carrying, and began to slowly practice the Red Pine Sword Technique without sheathing, it would take a lot of time to practice it.

While practicing the sword, Lin Xin's heart was entangled, this time he planned to buy medicinal materials, and see if he could solve the matter of the long-eared tiger. However, the money required for medicinal materials is not a small amount, if it is matched according to the recipe of that Guiyuan Dan, it will take at least a hundred taels of silver to make a pair. The last time the people in the gym repelled the Hengdao Gate, they made a windfall, and they exchanged those knives for money, and they still have more than 20 taels of food and drink. Far from enough.

"If hundreds of taels of silver are converted into prices, it is more than 100,000 yuan" Lin Xin's heart became more and more entangled, even if the family was a large landowner, this money could not be obtained casually.

The gray sky outside gradually darkened, and the little girl in the green dress finally opened the door and came in with a basin of hot water. At the same time, a middle-aged woman with a beautiful face came in.

The "Xinru" woman wore a long red dress and a crested golden hairpin, which showed that she was very beautiful when she was young. It's just that there is a faint sadness between the eyebrows. As if frowning all the time.

Lin Xin had a headache when he saw it, this is his mother. It's not this body, Zhao Yuniang.

"You're thin again," Lin Xinru's mother walked over and gently touched Lin Xin's face.

"You can tell I'm thin

These days, Lin Xin obviously feels that he has gained several pounds

"When you come back this time, don't go up the mountain. Zhao Yuniang said in a low voice, "Recently, the family has not been peaceful, I don't have much energy to take care of you, the mountains and the wilderness are chaotic, I heard that there is a Jiangyang thief nearby recently, killing people without blinking, even the government can't help him, if you encounter it, it will be troublesome." ”

"Jiangyang thief?" Lin Xin immediately thought of his uncle Bo Yunzi, the tricks that this guy taught them were not completely vicious and despicable. If you want to talk about the strongest Jiangyang thief in the neighborhood, maybe it's really this uncle

"Yes, I heard that a few days ago, a small family in the east of the city was wiped out, from the eighty-year-old mother to the three-year-old child, and there was no one left, which is cruel. Zhao Yuniang pulled Lin Xin into the house and sat down, and the little girl wet the towel with hot water, while wiping Lin Xin's cheeks.

"It's okay, we are practicing martial arts, and we don't have any oil and water, so even if the Jiangyang thieves want to rob us, they won't pick us first. There is nothing in the gym. Lin Xin said casually.

Even if there is, with Uncle Bo Yunzi here, the ordinary Jiangyang thieves probably won't dare to come. You must know that in these years, a person dares to run around in the north and south of the river and has nothing to do, that is a person with strong skills and superb martial arts, after all, there are many fierce beasts and bandits in the deep mountains and wilderness, and it can be seen that there is nothing to do on the road alone.

After chatting with the old lady for a while, she asked An Ying directly, looking very enthusiastic, but listening to her tone, it seemed that she was planning to make An Ying a concubine, Lin Xin dealt with it casually, and finally sent her away.

After sunset, Lin Xin took An Ying out to visit the house, and then went to the main courtyard.

Following the somewhat narrow patio, I went directly into the lobby of the main courtyard with the others.

The lobby is filled with red paint in the center, the size of a basketball court, and there are two rows of single tables.

From the oldest to the youngest, from the oldest to the youngest, each sat down separately.

The old man Lin Zhiwen and the second Bolin Zhiwu sat in the middle, and the first person on the left was Lin Xin, who walked over and sat down.

Then there is the second Lin Xinyue, the girl who went to the outer city to be a shopkeeper. When he sat down, he also greeted Lin Xin. Smiling.

The third child has slightly dark skin, a sturdy figure, and wears a gray and black power suit unique to the army, looking heroic.

Lao Silin Xinguang did not squint after sitting down, closed his eyes slightly, and had already learned his temperament before he became the county master.

On the right are the sons and children of the second uncle's family, among which Lin Xinyuan, who had met Lin Xin before, was also among them. Some of these people are married, and some are not.

An Ying and other foreign guests sat in the other rows of seats on the periphery. Sparse Lala looks like there aren't many of them.

The rest of the maids, as well as the young masters and young ladies of each family, are thirty or forty people.

Outside, you can vaguely see a nursing home patrolling and changing guards.

Lin Xin sat on the chair, took a sip of tea, listened to Lin Zhiwen chewing words about the year's summary, asked about the situation of each family, and reported on the big and small things everywhere, and listened to it drowsy.

I don't know how long later, he suddenly heard a burst of singing.

"Lantern Festival inscription, begin. ”

Then I looked up and saw people lined up with lanterns, starting with the fourth at the very end.

Lao Silin Xinguang smiled and took the brush, dipped it in ink, and quickly inscribed a short poem on the lantern.

read it softly, and immediately won everyone's applause.

Then the third place, the third was a soldier, and he actually mentioned a good poem to him, which was also about the Lantern Festival. Apparently prepared in advance.

followed by the second Lin Crescent.

'The moon is full of streamers, and the silver flowers of fire trees. ’

She didn't have an inscription, just two sentences.

When it was Lin Xin's turn, he didn't know any poetry at all, and he wasn't interested, and he already felt very awesome if he could recognize all the words in this place.

Now looking at the inscription, holding the brush, he thought for a long time and looked around. He found that all eyes were focused on him. An Ying also stood up behind him and looked at him on tiptoe with a look of anticipation.

He has a lot of poems about the Lantern Festival in his head, but the crux of the problem is not this, but Lin Xinru's words are very beautiful, but after he came, he hasn't practiced paying attention to this aspect, and now he even feels awkward with a pen. Still barely holding the brush in the way he remembered.

After thinking about it, he just lightly drew a circle on the lantern.

hush

Immediately, there was boos all around.

Lin Zhiwen also shook his head speechlessly. The fourth Lin Xinguang sneered, turned his head, and seemed to be too lazy to look at Lin Xin.

Then a bunch of children ran in, all of them were young masters and young ladies from each room, and they all came to line up to ask for money.

The fourth child smiled and took out some broken silver from the money bag and gave them to the children one by one.

The people on the side sang a promise.

"Fourth Master Lin Xinguang, one or two or five pieces of silver per person!"

"It is worthy of being the fourth master, the future county commander, and his shot is atmospheric. ”

Someone around the big guy laughed and said loudly. The rest of the people laughed beamingly.

The children blushed and thanked them obediently.

Lin Xinguang arched his hand to the surroundings, didn't speak, and sat in the position with a smile after finishing his hair.

Then there is the old Sanlin Xinhu, who raises his hand is a handful of broken silver.

"Third Master Lin Xinhu, one or two pieces of silver per person!" the subordinate who sang the promise shouted with joy.

Then there was the second Lin Xinyue, who also grabbed a large handful of broken silver from the money bag and sent it down with a smile.

It's also one or two or five per person.

Lin Xin was still waiting for the children to run over and ask for money around him, but those children retreated directly, and they actually went to the second child, and the singer also went down, obviously he didn't plan to let him pay the reward at all. After all, among the four children, he has no income and can only rely on his family for relief, which is really not suitable for rewards.

But at this time, he, the boss, was sitting on the chair, and suddenly felt a look around him, and heard someone who didn't understand asking about his situation, Rao was a little embarrassed for a while with his cheekiness.

Lin Xinguang snorted coldly not far away, just glanced at him, then shook his head and chatted with Lin Xinhu, the third child on the side.

"It's the Lantern Festival below, and this stuffing is a red head from the sea in the clouds."

call

Lin Zhiwen didn't finish his words, and suddenly a cold wind blew in from outside the lobby. It was so cold that people couldn't help but snort.

The lanterns hanging on the pillars of the houses on both sides went out in a flash.

Lin Zhiwen frowned, and was about to continue speaking.

"Someone's barging in!!" Suddenly someone shouted outside, but the sound stopped abruptly, as if someone had forcibly choked his throat.

Suddenly, the people in the lobby were in a commotion.

"Dad, I'll go out and have a look. Lin Xinhu stood up and said loudly.

"Well, be careful. Lin Zhiwen was not surprised at all, obviously expecting it. Order someone to relight the lantern.

Lin Xinhu was born as a soldier, and he didn't know where to find a sharp knife, so he walked out of the lobby with it. There are also a few good people in the prime of life behind him.

Lin Xin sat in his position, frowning slightly, he had heard that the Lin family seemed to be in some trouble, but he didn't expect that there would be a problem now. You must know that this is the Lantern Festival, when there are the most people.

Looking back at An Ying, this guy didn't know when he was already standing behind him.

"That guy is amazing. An Ying whispered, her eyes glowing a little.

Lin Xin nodded slightly.

The extinguishing of those lanterns just now was not an accident, it was obviously directly extinguished by someone with a palm wind, and this kind of palm power he had only seen in his uncle Bo Yunzi.