Zhou Pu rode his horse towards a mountain, stretched his fingers into his mouth and whistled through the valley, and then Gu Yingsleeve heard the sound of horses' hooves running behind the jungle at the northern foot of the front, and gradually disappeared into the foothills, nowhere to be found, but he didn't expect that there was a secret whistle hidden in the foothills.

Gu Yingsleeve's eyes looked at the ridge in the distance, and she didn't ask Lin Tie who these foreign horse dealers were, she thought to herself that she just needed to take them in as stateless refugees.

It has become a common practice in various localities to deal with stateless homeless people by local tycoons to allow stateless homeless people to serve as villagers, and it has also formed a trend that the township tyrants will not fall.

Lin Jian and Gu Yingsleeve rode their horses, and when they approached Lin Xi, Zhou Pu chased after them from behind. Following Zhou Pu, it was the crow Wu Qi and other seven people dressed as foreign horse dealers who drove a large group of extraordinary good horses, and Zhao Hu and Chen Enze, who had not been exposed all day yesterday, were also among them.

"As Lin Ye expected, the Lin family really couldn't afford to assassinate the deputy envoy, and the horse thieves raised by the Lin family's children had a total of seventy-one people before and after, and they all withdrew from Dongyang in three batches last night and went to the northwest. I'm afraid that for the time being, I can really only be horse thieves, but I don't know how long they can struggle under the sharp teeth of the anti-theft camp? Wu Qi rode his horse over and told Lin Jian in detail about the withdrawal of the Lin family's private soldiers from Dongyang last night, and then hugged his fist at the Seventh Lady and saluted, saying, "Wu Qi has seen the Seventh Lady, and the Seventh Lady can call me a crow in the future, and I will listen to the Seventh Lady after I wait for the seven people......"

Gu Yingsleeve glanced at Lin Lian, and said to Wu Qi and the others: "Whether it succeeds or not, it's still two things to say - here you can trust Yingsleeve first." ”

Lin Jian looked at the coquettish and gratuitous cheeks of the Seventh Lady, looked at her beautiful eyes, thought that she still didn't have much confidence, and said, "Whether it succeeds or not, let's go back to Shanglin first." But I thought in my heart: Lin Tingxun's sudden stroke at night is really an unexpected good thing.

Even in later generations, stroke is a difficult disease, and at this age, it is only a miracle that an elderly person can recover after losing his mind after a stroke, and at most he will not die for a while.

The second son, Lin Xuzong, has neither the trust of the clansmen, nor the ability to deter the clansmen, and he can't even send the township camp - even if Lin Tingxun dies, he may not be able to become the head of the family, after all, it is unknown whether the second master Lin Tingli will come back to insert a lever. But one thing is for sure, as long as Lin Tingxun is still breathing, there will be more people who don't want Lin Xuzong to take the throne.

"Okay......" Gu Yingsleeve took a deep breath, making her alluring chest look more bulging and straight, and pulled the reins to the horse in the direction of Shanglindu.

Lin Lian took the reins and followed, thinking in his heart that if the Seventh Lady could gain a foothold in Shanglindu, the pressure on him to go to Jiangning would be much less.

Shiliang County, Dongyang Prefecture, is bordered by Huai'an Mansion in the north, Jiangning Mansion in the south, and Weiyang Mansion in the east, which is the junction of the four prefectures, and the Shiliang River has always been an important channel to communicate the two major water systems of Huaishui and Yangzi River. Shanglindu is located in the land of Sifu and the throat of the Shiliang River, to be able to have a foothold in Shanglindu, go north to Huai'an Mansion through Hongzepu, Huaishui to the sea or east to Weiyangfu into the Yangtze River or south to Jiangning into the Yangtze River and then to the sea, it is very convenient.

Lin Lian thought that Gu Yingsleeve had been meddling in the affairs of the Lin family over the years, and behind this was Lin Tingxun's ambition to use her as a pawn to suppress the second son Lin Xuzong, Gu Yingsleeve also knew her own family affairs, and it was natural that she was not confident. After Lin Tingxun suffered a stroke, Gu Yingsleeve was not qualified to fight for anything in the Lin family, except for Lin Xuzong, the second son of Lin Xuzong, who served as the general judge of the government in Dongyang Mansion, and Lin Xuzong, the eldest son who served as a minister in the capital, could become the person in charge of the Lin family, and no matter how you look at it, it will not be Gu Yingsleeve's turn to be a woman.

Everything is not absolute, this qualification is not eternal, Gu Wuchen unexpectedly regained the favor of the imperial court and was awarded the high position of deputy envoy of Jiangdong, which is Gu Yingsleeve's biggest reliance at this time.

There is no one who can be sent, even if Gu Yingsleeve, who is alone, has a big reliance behind him, he can only do it without being bullied, and what he wants to fight for is far from enough.

Lin Jian asked the crow Wu Qi and the other seven to stay in Shanglin, on the one hand, to give Gu Yingsleeve some support, on the other hand, after Gu Yingsleeve gained a firm foothold in Shanglindu, Wu Qi and they also gained a firm foothold in Shanglindu. With a suitable identity, they can use some resources of the Lin family and the Gu family a little, and then help Qin Chengzu, who should go to sea, so that they can be more powerful.

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Lin Tie and they rode all the way to the horseback was not fast, and there were many delays on the way, and when they arrived at Lindu, it was already noon, and Zhao and others also rode up from behind.

When Gu Yingsleeve crossed Linxi, he got into the carriage again, and entered Shanglindu with more than ten people and more than sixty good horses.

I heard that the Seventh Lady appeared in Shanglindu with those foreign horse sellers, and the desperate son Lin Xuzong also came back, and the second son Lin Xuzong, who was sitting in the outer wing waiting for Langzhong's diagnosis, was so anxious that he smashed the cup in his hand, and there was a "clang" sound, and the broken porcelain splashed, and the maids and mothers-in-law who were waiting next to him were startled, and they were so frightened that they didn't care about the atmosphere and gasped.

Lin Xuzong's biological mother, the third lady, came out of the inner wing room and asked Lin Xuzong: "What's the matter?" You're happy if you scare the old man to death! ”

Seeing his mother come out to reprimand, Lin Xuzong only had a cold face and remained silent.

At this moment, I heard the sad voice of the seventh lady Gu Yingsleeve, and it came from afar: "Master, I will leave for a day, you will become like this, if Yingsleeve is bullied by others in the future, who else can call the shots for me!" Everyone looked out of the door together, and saw the seventh lady walking in with a handkerchief covering her face and her eyes red and swollen from crying, ignoring the people waiting in the outer wing, only holding the third lady's hand, and asked in a choked voice, "Sister, how is the master?" He took the third lady and walked directly to the inner wing......

Lin Xuzong's face turned green with anger, his face was gloomy, and he said to Lin Zonghai on the side: "Drive these out of Shanglindu, my father still doesn't know whether he is alive or dead, and this goods will be brought back to show off his martial arts - and that peerless family, tied to the ancestral hall, my father is like this, all thanks to him?" ”

"Humph! The second son is really going to complain, Lin Tie is standing here, if you think that Lin Tie has a negative Lin family, a negative family master, you have to tie it yourself, why bother Brother Zonghai!" Lin Jian held a waist knife in his hand, blocked the door, and looked at Lin Xuzong coldly.

The light in the outer wing room suddenly dimmed, Lin Xuzong, Lin Zonghai, Gu Changshun and the elders of the Lin family were all startled, at this time, the Lin Tie in their minds was no longer the Lin Xiucai who was only willing and timid before, but Lin Juren, who held the knife on the neck of the second son yesterday.

Lin Lian blocked the door, looking out from the window paper, there were several big men standing in the corridor, Lin Zonghai scolded in his stomach: Which beast guarded the door of the house, so that the Seventh Lady and Lin Lian brought in these foreign horse dealers?

Lin Zonghai had read yesterday's secret letter, and knew a little about the situation where the private soldiers raised by the second son were booby-trapped by these outsiders in Huyan, and his forehead was cold and sweating, if the Seventh Lady and Lin Tie joined forces to play the palace, how would they deal with it? He couldn't help but clench his saber, and his palms were sweating.

Lin Jian left a shadow in Lin Xuzong's heart the night before yesterday, if it weren't for this, Lin Xuzong would not have jumped off the wall in a hurry and sent private soldiers to chase and kill Lin Xuxue, looking at Lin Jian holding a knife in his hand, the murderous aura on his body was no worse than the day before yesterday in the mule and horse market, staring at Lin Bin, his eyebrows felt a little itchy, he was a little out of breath for a while, and he didn't want to weaken his momentum in front of everyone, and wanted to say a few cruel words, but he couldn't say it after all.

Those clan elders were also afraid that Lin Jian would play the mule and horse market again, and the old man's heart would have poor endurance, so he thought about what to say to let the young people not be too impulsive.

Lin Jian didn't have time to be with the Lin family, even if he was very weak, he had to show his fangs, his eyes swept over the people in the outer room, he felt that the effect was not bad, and he pretended to be angry and reprimanded Wu Qi and the others on his side: "What are you doing to follow up, you don't understand the rules at all, how to follow the Seventh Lady in the future?" ”

Wu Qi, Zhao Hu, Chen Enze and others immediately withdrew from the Book Garden, leaving Zhou Pu in the corridor, Lin Jian handed over the knife in his hand to Zhou Pu, he walked into the outer wing alone, and said: "I can't speak for the Seventh Lady, you have to think that there is something wrong with me, although I will be tied up and sent to the ancestral hall to ask for family law!" ”

Lin Xuzong looked at Lin Zonghai for help, and Lin Zonghai kicked the ball out: "If you really want to expel the Seventh Lady from the Lin family, I'm afraid that I will have to wait for the head of the family to wake up; Or wait for the second master to come back from Dongyang Mansion, or the clan elders unanimously decide that it should be like this...... Even if Xiucai has any faults, didn't the head of the family have already made a decision the day before yesterday? Although Xiucai was expelled from Shanglin, he was a member of the family after all, and when he heard the head of the family, he hurried back to visit, which should not be wrong. ”

Lin Lian smiled in his heart: Lin Zonghai really didn't wear the same pants as the second son.

Lin Tingxun's life and death were uncertain, and Lin Xuzong failed to become the head of the family, so Lin Zonghai had the greatest influence on the township camp. Of course, the five hundred township warriors in the township camp are the backbone of the young people in the forest, thus ensuring their loyalty to the Lin family and the forest. Lin Zonghai wanted to betray the Lin family, and he didn't think that the five hundred villagers in the township camp would follow him to the death.

Lin Jian looked at the elders in the outer wing again, and those clan elders all said: "Xiucai is kind-hearted, it's not an exaggeration to rush back to see the head of the family!" ”

Lin Jian smiled and said, "Clan Elder Miao praised ......" He knew in his heart that Lin Xuzong's private raising of Kou soldiers would only make the clan uneasy, and he used a trick to expel these soldiers from Dongyang Mansion, and Lin Xuzong was probably the only one in the room who was unhappy.

At this moment, I listened to the seventh lady Gu Yingsleeve asking in the inner wing: "How did the scar on the master's forehead come back, didn't he say that he got up early and saw the old man lying on the bed and was sick?" took care of the master's mother-in-law and maid, did they cause the master to fall and fall into the disease, or did Gu Changshun's dog slave not take good care of him? ”

Lin Zongxu and Gu Changshun looked at each other, and heard a delicate and weak voice in the inner wing room answer Gu Yingsleeve: "Sister Sleeve, last night, the master talked to the second son, and somehow he fell and injured himself, and his forehead broke back, which has nothing to do with the maid, mother-in-law and Changshun!" ”

Lin Jian heard the voice of the sixth lady, and the sixth lady directly pointed the finger of Lin Tingxun's illness at the second son Lin Xuzong, which was also expected, Lin Tingxun's youngest son Lin Xuxi was born to the sixth lady, and he was only ten years old this year, even if she was weak, how could she not know that after the Lin family fell into Lin Xuzong, there would be no good fruit for her mother and son to eat. The sixth lady was born in a Zhuang family, she was unusually beautiful, she was only sixteen years old when she married Lin Tingxun as a concubine, and she was even one year younger than Gu Yingsleeve, her mother's family couldn't give her the slightest support, she also knew that she had to stand with Gu Yingsleeve at this time.

Lin Lian smiled secretly in his heart and asked Lin Zonghai: "Brother Zonghai, what happened last night?" I almost splashed dirty water on my head for the second son! ”

At this time, there was a voice outside the door: "The second master is back!" ”

The second master, Lin Tingli, is Lin Tingxun's younger brother, and at this time he was in Dongyang Mansion to serve as the general judge of Wupin, Lin Tingxun was seriously ill in bed, and he knew that the news would naturally rush back from Fucheng.