There is a private house in the west of the city, not far from Xia Zhu's new house, called Cuizhuyuan; When this spring is cold, the remnants of snow have not disappeared all over the dead branches and leaves, and there is no good place to go in the city; And this green bamboo garden is the industry of a member of the Ministry of Officials, the garden is nothing special, but the bamboo is lush and elegant and lovely, in this lonely winter, it is a scene.

It's just that now the owner of the Cuizhu Garden has long since passed away, and his descendants are not good, and the furniture is gone, and this garden was seized by Xia Zhu, and I don't know that it only cost a few copper plates.

The carriage arrived at the gate of Cuizhuyuan, and a little guy had already stepped forward to greet him, Xia Siling recognized at a glance that the little guy was the little guy Chun Ge'er who used to feed the horses and run errands in the house, and that Chun Ge'er also seemed very surprised, his own young lady had been missing for more than a year, and now she was back alive, which made him happy.

"Little ...... Miss? Brother Chun stammered and stepped forward to salute.

Xia Siling nodded slightly and said, "It turned out to be Brother Chun, who has grown so tall, look at it." ”

The accompanying servants took out the reward money to reward, and Brother Chun hurriedly thanked him: "The master is waiting in the pavilion in the garden, saying that there is a distinguished guest coming, but I didn't expect it to be a young lady." ”

Su Jin smiled and said, "Lead the way." ”

Brother Chun said: "The lord instructed, except for the guests, no one can go in, you walk along the path, and you can see a pavilion in the bamboo forest after turning the rockery, and the lord is in the pavilion." ”

Su Jin nodded, this is a secret meeting, whether it is the content of the conversation or the meeting itself, it can only be a secret, and it must not be known to outsiders, and he also goes out in casual clothes, and the location chosen by Xia Zhu is not in the mansion or the restaurant, just to avoid being noticed.

Su Jin took Xia Siling's little hand and walked inside, and the accompanying servants were also blocked outside, leading them to drink tea and rest, and the two slowly entered along the gravel path, the graceful green bamboo beside the road was very luxuriant, and the little sunlight sprinkled in the cracks of the bamboo poles was like a piece of small sequins embedded in the road, and there was no sound except for the rustling of bamboo leaves and the sound of birdsong.

Su Jin felt that Xia Siling's little hands trembled slightly, knowing that he hadn't seen Xia Zhu for more than a year, Xia Siling was naturally extremely excited, the father-daughter relationship would always be severed, in fact, if he hadn't appeared between their father and daughter, the relationship between Xia Siling and Xia Zhu would be very good, and their father and daughter would have turned against each other, most of the reasons were because of themselves.

Su Jin pinched Xia Siling's palm to show encouragement, Xia Siling glanced at Su Jin gratefully, followed Su Jin's footsteps and walked forward, after a few small turns in the bamboo forest, he saw a craggy rockery, and suddenly there was a dingdong piano sound behind the rockery.

Xia Siling stopped to listen carefully and said softly: "This is my father playing the piano, this is my father's favorite song "Flowing Water", which I often listened to when I was a child. ”

Immediately afterwards, the desolate voice mixed with the sound of the piano and the voice of Man chanted: "Zhenri has no intention of sweeping Dai's eyebrows, and he is worried about seeing his clothes when he leaves." Zun Qian was only afraid of hurting Lang Yi, and he didn't dare to cry with tears in his eyes. Stop the BMW, hold the Yao, and persuade each other to endure and separate? It's better to drink and wait for the slave to get drunk first, and I don't know when Lang goes. ”

Su Jin is the first time to hear Xia Zhu's lyrics, he used to be extremely disdainful of this person's personality, and only thought about how to fight wits and strength with him, but forgot that Xia Zhu is actually a literati, this poem is also very well written, and some small emotions in the middle are also extremely heartfelt, but it is a pity that this person's quality is not good, and the literati's words are extremely appropriate to put on Xia Zhu.

Xia Siling had already burst into tears, let go of Su Jin's hand and walked quickly around the side of the rockery, and shouted from afar: "Daddy! ”

After a pause in the piano, Xia Zhu, who was dressed in black and in a black hat, stood up, saw Xia Siling's figure at a glance, thought that he was dazzled, and quickly wiped his eyes.

"Daddy, the child is not filial, and the child is back." Xia Siling walked a few steps and fell down on the stone steps under the pavilion.

Xia Zhu trotted forward, picked Xia Siling up, carefully looked at the old tears in his arms, and said: "Sure enough, it's Ling'er, Daddy can't stand you, you suffered." ”

Su Jin approached slowly, looked at the two fathers and daughters hugging their heads and crying, and was happy for Xia Siling in his heart, flesh and blood, no matter how much they gave up, now that they can see their father and daughter, they can be regarded as doing a good thing.

"Why are you here? Haven't you been ...... all the time? Xia Zhu wanted to speak and stopped.

Xia Siling's face was slightly red and said, "Yes, my daughter has ...... is already a person who is already Su Gongzi, and the husband specially brought his daughter to see you today. ”

Xia Zhu said with a strange face: "You...... Are you married in private? ”

Xia Siling blushed and was about to speak, Su Jin arched his hand and said: "Lord Xia, Su Jin greets, how dare you marry without your approval for the matter of Ling Aihe, isn't this here to ask you to show me?" You won't object, right? ”

Xia Zhu let go of Xia Siling's arm and returned the salute with a fist, and said indifferently: "Hello Master Su, the old man has no official position, so you don't need to call me Lord." ”

Su Jin said with a smile: "The hundred-legged insect is dead but not stiff, although Lord Xia is idle in the field, but it is no different from being an official in the court, Lord Xia said a word, the court will be shaken, so why be too humble." ”

Xia Zhu snorted, turned his head to look at Xia Siling and said, "Ling'er went to sit in the pavilion, I was boiling tea, helping my father take care of it." ”

Xia Siling knew that there was a secret to say between Xia Zhu and Su Jin, this was an excuse to support herself, she glanced at Su Jin worriedly, and walked into the pavilion to make tea.

Xia Zhu stretched out his hand and said, "Master Su has borrowed to speak." Then he walked slowly along the trail and turned to a clearing to the south of the rockery.

Su Jin smiled slightly and walked over, and before he could speak, he saw Xia Zhu suddenly turn around, and said with a hideous face: "Su Jin, you brought Ling'er here, are you here to humiliate the old man?" ”

Su Jin said lightly: "How do you say this?" I was kind enough to reunite your father and daughter, but you spoke like this, which is really sad. ”

"Hugh has to be pretentious, don't think that the old man doesn't know your intentions, Ling'er's eyebrows are scattered, she is no longer a virgin, you have deceived her body, but you don't dare to marry without my approval, I knew that you had bad intentions, and even brought her to humiliate the old man, and deceived people too much."

Su Jin arched his hand and said: "Lord Xia is angry, Ling'er is indeed committed to me, although I failed to give her the status of the main room, but also gave her the identity of the second lady, I also treat her sincerely, so she willingly followed me, but the adult caused her great harm, and then accused me of coming." ”

Xia Zhu said angrily: "Betraying your father's fornication, this is an unruly move, you are still reasonable." “

Su Jin said: "That's why I brought her here today, first, to let your father and daughter meet, and secondly, to ask Lord Xia to write a marriage letter, the rice has been cooked, and the adult still accepts his fate, and besides, with me Su Jin has not insulted the name of your Xia family." ”

Xia Zhu said: "What if I don't agree? ”

Su Jin smiled and said, "You will agree, otherwise I wouldn't have brought her." ”

Xia Zhu's eyes rolled, and he sighed for a while: "You are ruthless, I didn't expect that my Xia Zhu would be planted in the hands of your kid for half his life." ”

Su Jin said: "You are planted in your own hands, I didn't deliberately deal with you, even if you sent someone to assassinate me that day, and asked for my life again and again, I didn't fall into the well for you, you see, at the moment of your life and death, I also generously came to inform you, so that you can find a way to escape responsibility, I am really good to you." ”

Xia Zhu gritted his teeth and said, "What the hell are you fighting, say!" ”

Su Jin Zhengse said: "I don't want Ling'er to lose my only relative, so I'll tell you the details." ”

Xia Zhu sneered: "You would be so kind? The old man has seen a lot, Hugh used this to fool the old man, you just want to take the opportunity to control the old man. ”

Su Jin honestly admitted: "This is also one of the reasons, because I don't want you to stab you in the back all the time, but most of it is for Ling'er, if it weren't for Ling'er is my wife, I would not hesitate to report all the evidence to the emperor, and then I was very happy to see you beheaded for public display." ”

Xia Zhu stared at Su Jin for a long time, and suddenly sighed and said: "The old man admires your straightforwardness, the old man will never deny what he did, that letter was indeed forged by my maidservant, and I also ordered someone to buy Shi Jie's letters, letterheads, seals and other things to copy and counterfeit in advance, and even the titles and slang of the letters exchanged between him and Fu Bi are also considered to be forged seamlessly, but I didn't expect it to be found out by you; As early as when the emperor ordered you to investigate this case, I thought it was going to be bad, but I always thought that there was no flaw, but I didn't expect that it was still a bad move, and I should have killed that Jin Ge'er a hundred times ago. ”

Su Jin sneered: "Of course you think, you are just afraid of startling the snake, Lord Shi is in prison, and the whole court is paying attention to this matter, at this time, killing Brother Jin is clearly telling others that there is no secret in this matter; You want to kill, but you can't kill, as the saying goes, there is no impermeable wall in the world, no matter how careful and subtle it is, it will inevitably reveal flaws, when you do this, it is destined to be today. ”

Xia Zhu said: "The chess is a bad move, what's the use of talking about this time?" What do you mean by sending me a hand-copied confession and evidence in the morning, and asking me to dispose of it myself? ”

Su Jin said: "It's very simple, I tell you that the truth is already known to me, if you want to live, you need to find a way to excuse yourself." ”

Xia Zhu said: "Don't you want to save Fubi and Shijie?" How can this case be closed? ”

Su Jin said with a smile: "Of course I want to save it, I went back to Beijing to wash away the innocence of the two adults." ”

Xia Zhu said: "You want to let me go, but also wash away their grievances, how can this be?" ”

Su Jin said: "That's your business, I will only give you one day, first, you need to give me evidence to prove the innocence of the two adults, and second, you also have to prove your own innocence, tomorrow night I will enter the palace to see the emperor without strong evidence, because I have done my duty." ”

Xia Zhu said: "How can I do this? ”

Su Jin sneered: "Is there anything else you Lord Xia can't do?" I don't believe it, if I can't do it, I will hurry up and prepare for the future, and you will be confident and decisive. ”

Xia Zhugu glared, and said for a while: "Old man, try it." ”

Su Jin said: "Don't blame me for not reminding you, if you don't have thorough evidence, even I can't mess around, then don't bother." ”

Xia Zhu sighed and said in a dumb voice: "That's it, go to the pavilion and have a cup of tea, and then you can leave quickly, teach people to know that you and I have a secret meeting, I'm afraid it's hard to tell the difference." ”

Su Jin smiled: "That's natural, you still have to write a marriage book, this is one of the purposes of my visit." ”

Xia Zhu was dumbfounded, and when he saw Su Jin's contemptuous look that he didn't care about, he finally lowered his head and said, "That's it!" I write! ”