Lin Jian walked to the backyard, reached out to hold up a chin with eyeliner, looked at the bleeding from the corner of his mouth, stared at his eyes and asked, "I only offended Du Rong of Qingfengxing in Jiangning, were you sent by Qingfengxing?" ”

These two eyeliners were indeed sent by Du Rong to monitor Su Mei's apartment in Dustpan Lane, Bai Yuan, and saw that someone moved in to live in the house behind Bai Yuan today, so they came over to take a look, and they didn't mean anything else, so they grabbed Zhou Pu from behind, and they couldn't get out. What they didn't expect was that this family happened to have a holiday with Qingfeng Xing and the big shopkeeper Du Rong, and they couldn't defend themselves, so they dragged them to the backyard and were beaten up.

"Son, you have wronged the villain! The little one really has no evil intentions, I saw that the prince asked Qian Xiaowu to take the silver to the East Market to help buy things, so I was greedy for a few rewards, so I came over to see if there was any other work to do, to have a little bad intentions, the sky hit five thunders, and the natural son had no farts \/......eyes" These two men were still hard when they were just dragged in, and they beat Zhou Pu and Zhao Hu in the yard, and they were much more honest, at this time, I was afraid that Lin Tie would really break their legs and send them to the government, and it was nothing to send them to the government, and if they broke their legs, they would be wasted in this life, They swore a poisonous oath in a panic to prove their innocence, and they really didn't know what the family was about, the three evil servants were as fierce as tigers and wolves regardless of their age, and they just wanted to get out quickly, even if they were sent to the government mansion, it was better than being trapped here, and they pleaded with a wail, "If you don't have any help, the prince will let the villain go, I knew this, the little one didn't go to the door to look at it, the little one knew it was wrong, the little one really didn't know Qingfeng Xing, and I don't know what the ......old man had with Qingfeng Xing."

"You're so foolish with me?" Lin Jian said coldly, "If you don't want to say it, forget it, I will meet Du Rong in the future," and instructed Zhou Pudao, "Beat them and throw them out, and next time I see these two sneaky people in the alley, don't show mercy when you break your legs......" After speaking, he walked away.

said that he was going to break his leg, but he was only verbally threatening these two people.

Although he tore his face with Du Rong and swore to be incompatible, Lin Jian would not immediately escalate the struggle to the point of bloody confrontation. Qingfeng Xing is a famous business name in Jiangning City, and there is the support of luxury families behind it, Du Rong's latent forces controlled in Jiangning will not be too weak, the last time I saw Du Rong's entourage in Baisha County, all of them are strong and strong, these people usually spread out to serve as escorts for Qingfeng Xing's caravans and fleets, and they are an elite force that cannot be underestimated. It is undoubtedly an egg to hit a stone with a bloody confrontation with Du Rong now, so it is necessary to skillfully control the intensity of the confrontation, not only to constantly provoke this guy, but also to avoid excessive provocation so that Du Rong's dog jumps off the wall in a hurry.

Zhou Pu beat the two eyeliners and threw them into the alley, and Lin Jian stood in front of the house and watched them limp away. It was already dark, and most of the houses in the alley hung lanterns in front of them, and the dim light floated in the alley, and some people came out to see. Zhou Pu was measured, and these two eyeliners were not seriously injured, but they couldn't help but feel pain and wail like a dog when they were beaten, and other people's families could hear them.

Liu Yue'er poked her head out from behind the weeping flower door at this time and asked, "You didn't really discount other people's feet, did you?" She lightly covered her hand on her bulging chest, under the soft red light of the lantern, her face was radiant with a healthy luster, her skin was as light as snow, slightly flushed, but she also had a worry that could not be concealed, even if she asked this sentence, her eyes were a little afraid to look at Lin Lian, and her long eyelashes jumped under the light. She knew very little about Lin Lian, and she had no objection to Gu Shi shoehorning her into Lin Bin, first, she didn't want to offend Gu Shi to stay in the Gu family, and she didn't want to be a concubine for Gu Wuchen, a half-hundred-year-old man, and secondly, she had long heard that Lin Jian was a cowardly person, maybe it would be safer. At the moment, the rumors are very unreliable. At this time, she was not so much worried that those two people would break their legs, but that she was worried that Lin Jian was a cruel and ruthless person. As a domestic helper for others, I am afraid of encountering such a master, and Liu Yue'er also knows that her face is really a source of trouble.

"No, how can I say that I am also a scholar, why do I break people's legs at every turn? It was a scaring ...... just now" Lin Jian smiled, asked Zhao Hu to close the door of the house, and asked Liu Yue'er, "Is dinner ready, I'm almost hungry." ”

"Scared me, why didn't you see you pretending just now?" Liu Yue'er breathed a sigh of relief, her heart fell back to its original place, and she felt that Lin Bin's smile was quite bright under the lantern light, and she didn't look like a cruel person, and said, "There are a few cooked foods, but they can be eaten, I'll go cook some soup again......" turned around to leave, and suddenly remembered one more thing, "The idle man who asked me to buy something hasn't come back yet?" ”

Listening to the words of the two eyeliners, the young man's name was Qian Xiaowu, Lin Jian pouted, and said, "Maybe it's too late to go, it's not easy to buy things," and laughed at Zhou Pu and Zhao Hu, "The reputation of this evil servant will come out, and it will take a few days, don't be anxious." ”

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After dinner, Liu Yue'er packed up the dishes and returned to the backyard, and the fourth lady came over.

The fourth lady didn't go to the door of the house, but came directly through the ridge of the wall.

After dinner, Lin Jian told Zhou Pu that he wanted to give the house an elegant name, just like Su Mei's apartment garden has a Wenbai tree that has grown for hundreds of years, so it was named Baiyuan, Jiangning almost everyone knows it, take the pen and ink, Lin Tie wrote the words "Jiyunju" on the light white silk rice paper, and handed it to Zhao Hu: "I have time to find someone to make a gilded flat forehead to hang on the door of the house - what to do, you have to have a name, Du Rong is the wealth of Qingfeng Xing, we have to fight him, the momentum can't be weak......"

Listening to the strange noise in the yard, Zhou Pu and Zhao Hu went to open the door vigilantly, and saw the fourth lady jumping down from the ridge of the wall wearing a flower jacket.

There is also a family separated from Baiyuan here, and the four ladies walked over from the ridge of the wall, as light as a cat.

"Miss Su Mei wants to see Lin Gongzi, she is in the back garden, and the miscellaneous people have been dismissed......"

"Okay, I'll walk with you over the ridge." Lin Jian also wanted to see Su Mei earlier, and he missed it a little, but he wanted to do something in the future and make a plan as soon as possible.

"Can you do it?" Zhao Hu knew that the fourth lady was a small worker, and he himself could not walk lightly and silently on the wall, and there was still a family separated from Bai Yuan, so it would not be good if Lin Jian was clumsy and alarmed this family.

Zhou Pu went out to inquire before dark, and the house in front of him was the house left by the former Hailing Mansion General Judgment, and the old General Judgment had passed away, and the eldest son did not have much interest, so he guarded hundreds of acres of land in the countryside and worked as a public servant in this house. The house is much bigger than here, dilapidated inside, the couple has a son, in addition to the old man who guards the door, there is also a middle-aged couple as servants, looking a little embarrassed, there is a lantern hanging under the corridor, the sky is a little cloudy, there is no light on the wall.

Lin Tie knew that his fighting and hand-to-hand combat would take some time to return to the original level, after all, his excellent physical fitness could not be achieved overnight, and he walked silently across the ridge of the wall, for the current Lin Tie, there was not much difficulty, he lifted the robe and tied it around his waist, stepped on the flower bed, put his hand on the ridge of the wall, turned over and squatted on the ridge of the wall, short like a cat, turned back to the four ladies under the wall and said, "Let's go over......

The fourth lady was a little surprised, didn't say anything, followed the ridge of the wall, and walked in the direction of Baiyuan.

Su Mei and Xiaoman listened to the movement of the wall as if a cat had stepped on it in the garden, picked a lantern and walked over, and shouted in a low voice: "Lin Gongzi? ”

"It's me." Lin Tie jumped down from the wall, Su Mei had already walked to the foot of the wall, Xiao Man followed behind with a lantern, not beware of the two sticking so close, what entered Lin Tie's eyes was the kind of beautiful face that gave the firelight to shine crystal clear, like the eyes inlaid with stars exuding a deep and blurred look, I felt that this face was beautiful, these eyes were unusually charming, and there was a faint fragrance in the nose.

At first glance, when he saw Su Mei, Lin Jian was slightly stunned, as if he was suddenly charmed, and forgot to say anything more; Su Mei was also looking forward to Lin Jian day and night, watching him jump down from the wall, watching him look at himself so fascinated, his heart fluttered, he didn't watch out for the two of them being so close, and his snort hit his forehead, and he was a little confused.

"Poof...... Stunned again! Xiao Man stood behind Su Mei with a lantern and saw the expression on Lin Lian's face very clearly, and couldn't help laughing.

"Oh," Lin Jian came to his senses before pretending to be serious and asked Su Mei, "How are these days?" ”

"Hmm." Su Mei only felt that her face was slightly hot, and she replied softly.

"You discuss things, I'll go to the gate of the moon and watch ......" The fourth lady said under the wall, she took the lantern from Xiaoman's hand, and let Lin Jian and Su Mei talk in a whisper in the dark, even if others inadvertently bumped into the garden, they would not be discovered.

Lin Jian adapted to the dark light, and when he saw Su Mei wearing an embroidered skirt and a goose yellow waist, she looked over with her, walked to the pavilion with her, and told Su Mei in detail what happened during his return to Shiliang County.

"What are your plans?" Su Mei asked.

"If you want to help Changshan Island, you must have cover in Jiangning; With Du Rongdou, our current strength is still very weak, and we need to accumulate strength," Lin Jian thought about it and still didn't ask what happened ten years ago, what was the relationship between her and Qin Chengzu, he said his initial plan, "I plan to build a business in Jiangning first, build a business, and then have the name to gather manpower, and after the crows and they have whitewashed their identities in Shiliang County after a while, they will buy merchant ships and trade by waterway from Chongzhou to Jiangning, as long as there is this, it will be convenient to have any goods or people to travel from Chongzhou to Changshan Island...... I've thought about the name of the firm, 'Jiyun Society', what do you think? ”

"Well, there's no flattering word, it's not tacky, I like it too," Su Mei said, "You still said that you want to get a career in Jiangning, what are your plans?" ”

"Seeking a half-official position is just a cover, and after Gu Wuchen enters the city, I will beg him with a thick face to see if there are any idle functions in the inspection department." Lin Jian said.

"Alas," Su Mei sighed slightly, "delaying your past, Su Mei is uneasy......

"Miss Su, you don't have to say that," Lin Jian said, "Everyone says, 'Read the books of sages and sell them to the emperor's family', in my opinion, it's good to be able to get an official position, but it's not a smart person to only drill into the camp career?" ”

"Why?" Su Mei asked suspiciously.

"Brother Lin, Miss said that you are full of talent, and only your career can be used to benefit the people......" Xiao Man, who had been sitting quietly on the side, interjected softly.

Although Su Mei felt a little embarrassed that Xiaoman said what she said in private, she did not deny it out loud.

"The so-called poor are good alone, and the best can help the world - I am a scholar, and I have no ambition to benefit the people at this time," Lin Jian said, "I was born a lonely leaf, and all I want to do now is to find some support between heaven and earth, and I will not stand idly by and watch the matter between you and Xiaoman." ”

"Ahh Su Mei only thought that Lin Lian's words were showing affection, and her heart shook when she heard it, and she wanted to open her mouth to refuse, but she was afraid of breaking his heart, and she heard that Lin Lian regarded her and Xiaoman as the support to be found in the world, and she was also indescribably moved in her heart, stunned, I didn't know what to say, my face was also a little hot, and my ears were red when I thought about it, but fortunately, I was in the dark, and I didn't worry that Lin Lian would see it.

Xiaoman exclaimed: "How can you say such things in front of me, it's really embarrassing?" Miss is your support, Xiaoman is just an insignificant maid. ”

"Uh," Lin Jian knew that Su Mei had misunderstood Xiao Man, he really felt it when he said that, he came from a thousand years later, and there was always a vague sense of this time and space through the veil, only Su Mei, Xiao Man, and maybe the Seventh Lady gave him a real feeling of living in this time and space, at this time, this sense of reality was more important than anything else, and few people wanted to be trapped by their dreams. Lin Jian didn't explain what he said just now, and the more he explained, the more unclear he became, he said: "Whether you can enter the office or not, I have thought about it." It has been thirteen generations and more than two hundred years since the founding of the Da Yue Dynasty, I don't know what others think, in my eyes, the Da Yue Dynasty has accumulated a lot of twilight, like a skin that has leaked through the bottom, it is difficult to repair. It is this officialdom, but also tired, deep drawbacks, not to mention the display of talent to benefit the people, save the people from fire and water, I am afraid, I am afraid, no one can extricate himself from the deep head......"

"......" Su Mei looked at Lin Lian's somewhat blurry side face through the faint night light, wanting to get closer to see more clearly, so he gave up, and said after a while, "I have also saved some silver privately in the past two years, in addition to Xiaoman's ransom silver, there are still three thousand taels of silver left, you can take them all ......"

"It's not ...... right"

"You don't have to be too busy refusing ...... I want to get out of the country, these three thousand taels of silver is not enough, I went back to Jiangning to inquire, three thousand taels of silver is only enough to buy two five-masted sand ships, you want to run Jiyun Society, these two ships will be counted as I will send them to Jiyun Club to you to operate," Su Mei said, "In addition, it is not a long-term solution for Xiaoman to stay by my side, I have redeemed her in the past two days, you help me take care of her......"

"Xiaoman, don't leave Miss." Xiaoman said.

"Silly girl, even if you are not by my side, how far can you be apart?" Su Mei said with a smile.

Su Mei was an assertive woman, so Lin Jian didn't say anything more. Su Mei is a happy member, although it is a cheap nationality, but all the workers and craftsmen are lowly status, and the social discrimination suffered is not as serious as imagined, like Zhao Hu and his mother can be more relaxed in order to make a living, and even took the initiative to ask Zhao Hu to join the lowly nationality to Lin Lian as an entourage, but Xiaoman is a prostitute with the lowest social status, and it is better to leave the country early, if she grows up and stays in the prostitution door, she can't even say that her body is innocent.

Deeper leakage, said something, Lin Lian wanted to turn back from the ridge of the wall, Su Mei sent him to the foot of the wall, raised the lantern to him to shine on the wall, Lin Lian smiled: "I will be careful, there is a light will make people see." ”

"Oh," Su Mei took back the lantern and blew it out, only to see Lin Jian bending over and squatting on the wall like a cat, holding the wall on all fours and quickly disappearing into the night, looking at the empty space, there was some reluctance in his heart.

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Sneaking back to the courtyard from the ridge of the wall, when Lin Jian was just about to go down the wall, he saw Liu Yue'er in the corridor of the atrium of the main courtyard leaning into the window of his room and looking in, Lin Lian's suspicions rose sharply, and he quietly slid down the wall, sneaked behind Liu Yue'er, and asked in a voice, "What are you looking for me?" ”

"Ahh Where would Liu Yue'er think that someone suddenly came out from behind, screaming in fright, the person subconsciously dodged to the side, turned her head and saw that it was Lin Bin, but her feet stepped on the edge of the steps, and her body lost her center of gravity and was about to fall to the brick floor in the yard. Lin Lian hurriedly grabbed her hand and held her by the waist, but Liu Yue'er was overly frightened, grabbed Lin Lian's hands and stuck them to her chest like grasping life-saving straws, and said in fright: "I'm scared to death, where are you hiding?" Wheezing and calming, he instantly realized that it was Lin Bin's hand that was grabbed and attached to his chest, his face suddenly froze there, and he screamed again, hurriedly threw Lin Bin's hand away, turned around and was about to flee in the backyard, just took two steps, there was a sharp pain in her ankle as if it was broken, she couldn't stand and was about to fall, Lin Jian looked at her as if she had broken her foot, and held her up.

At this moment, someone outside knocked on the door and shouted, "Miss Liu, what's going on?" What happened to Miss Liu? ”

Liu Yue'er struggled to support the pillars of the corridor and stand, her face was flushed, and her eyes didn't dare to look at Lin Lian, and said: "In the afternoon, the idle man bought things and sent them, Zhou Ye, they don't know where they went, I can't open the door to let people in, and I shouted Lin Gongzi for a long time to see you hear back...... You go open the door and let things in. ”

"Uh, you sit for a while, don't move your feet......" Lin Jian realized that he had misunderstood Liu Yue'er, and he didn't know how to explain it, so he unconsciously glanced at Liu Yue'er's bulging chest, although he was through the cold clothes, he could still feel the straightness and fullness inside, and when his hand copied her waist, he could also feel that it was full of tenacity and elasticity.

Liu Yue'er lowered her head and didn't dare to look at Lin Lian, she seemed to be sensitive and seemed to be able to feel his eyes on her chest, and subconsciously raised her hand to block it, thinking that this was cheap for no reason, she was ashamed and anxious, and the young man who was helping outside knocked on the door and was anxious, and said hurriedly: "You go and open the door, otherwise others will think something is happening?" ”

Lin Lian walked to the front yard and opened the door of the house, only to see the young man who asked to help the idle young man in the afternoon to help a young woman standing at the door, the young man's face was swollen, the corners of his eyes were cracked, and there were blood streaks seeping out, the young woman was thin and weak, her face was yellow, Lin Lian remembered that the young man said in the afternoon that he would pull someone to run errands again, and he didn't see anyone else, and asked him: "What's going on on your face?" ”

The young woman wanted to say something, but the young man tore the corner of the woman's garment and wouldn't let her speak.

"It's okay," the young man looked inside twice, and asked Lin Jian suspiciously, "I heard someone screaming inside just now, is there something going on in Gongzi's mansion?" ”

"Miss Liu just broke her foot," Lin Lian asked them to help carry everything to the living room in the front yard, "What about the list, I'll pay you for it." ”

"I've been waiting for a long ......time," the young man said resignedly, "The list was lost halfway, but fortunately, the little brain can still remember, Childe, take a look, is there anything missing?" If you still lack something, the small one will buy it for you immediately, and if there is no shortage of things, I will report it to you. ”

It was all bits and pieces, and Lin Jian couldn't remember it clearly, so the young man sat down to report the account. The young man's memory is really good, dozens of things, reported to the account, the score is not bad, Lin Jian accepted the balance of the silver money, counted forty copper to him: "Your foot strength money." ”

"No, no, only twenty dollars," the young man returned twenty dollars in panic, "I was going to pull another person to run errands with me, but I didn't find anyone, I was the only one who ran down, and I could only collect twenty dollars......"

Lin Jian saw that the woman who came to help the young man had red and swollen eyes and tears, and then looked at the copper coins on the table and asked, "What happened?" ”

"You just tell this son, you can't bully people all day long!" The woman covered her face and began to cry.

"You can help me do things today, it's also fate, if you have any difficulties, come and listen, I won't watch if you can help." Lin Jian said

The young man blamed the woman for being tongue-in-cheek, pulling the woman to leave and refusing to say more, but the woman was stubborn, crying and telling Lin Jian about the cause and effect.

The young man's family was poor, his wife was sick in bed, he owed debts to others, and he could not make a living else, so he learned from others to be an idler. In the afternoon, he took a piece of silver from Lin Tie to find someone to go to the East Market to pick up things, but he didn't expect to meet a creditor in the East Market, the creditor was a scoundrel in the neighborhood, and snatched the silver ingot, and the woman cried while talking: "...... My little five borrowed 800 yuan from him to buy medicine for my illness, and he insisted that the ingot of silver was just enough to cover the principal and interest. My little five thought that this silver belonged to the son, not to mention that he was robbed of it, even if he couldn't deduct 800 yuan, he wanted to snatch the silver back, and give them this appearance on the street because of the strength of the crowd. When I got home, I was so painful that I was going to die, and I was even more worried about how to tell my son about it, my little five would never be greedy for other people's silver, which was worse than killing him, he was a useless goods, and he actually thought about jumping into the well, but I don't know how, the scoundrel actually returned the silver at night - the scoundrel came to pay back the silver, and he couldn't tell the prince what happened in the afternoon, my little five was worried about the things that the prince wanted him to buy things, and asked me to take him to the east market to buy all the things and send them to the prince......"

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PS: I'm just lazy and didn't split the six thousand words into two chapters, but the brothers can't blame me for missing the update!

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