"Young Master Lin Lian," the little guy in Tsing Yi pushed the door into the cabin, he held a bowl of medicinal soup in his hand, "You should drink the medicine, the boatman will boil the porridge in a while, and Miss Su also asked someone to send half a black-bone chicken over to nourish your body, I asked the boatman to put it in the porridge and boil it together, and when you have eaten the porridge, you will have a good rest, and you will no longer sit and stay up all night; I finally escaped, and if you lose weight and go back, the Seventh Lady will definitely blame me for not taking good care of me......"

The windows in the cabin were closed, and the smell of medicine was immediately filled.

Listening to the retinue Zhao Neng's shout, Lin Jian shook the spirit, and thought to himself: Yes, don't think about whether you are Lin Jian or Tan Zong, even if you have great reluctance, you can only live as Lin Jian in this world. He subconsciously took the medicine bowl, drank it into his stomach in one go, and took another sip of tea to rinse the bitterness in his mouth, then glanced at Zhao Neng and said, "I know ......"

The twilight outside was getting thicker, and the door in the cabin was closed, and the light was very dim, Zhao Neng took out the candlestick and muttered in his mouth and lit the fire before leaving.

There was another continuous sound of the piano from the neighboring boat, and there was still some time before the start of tonight's performance, and Su Mei had already begun to tune the piano in the painting boat.

Lin Jian didn't have time to listen, there was a sword hanging in the cabin, usually only for decoration, he took it off and pressed the clip on the scabbard, the sword "stirrup" popped out, reflecting the flickering candle flame, look closely, the sword is just ordinary, the blade is not sharp, and there is no sword groove for bloodletting.

Lin Jian held the sword and did a few chopping and stabbing movements, he had never used a sword, and he was not used to using it, if he really wanted to kill people by force, he felt that it was not as good as a boning knife twenty or thirty centimeters long. In the past few days, he has peeked at Fu Qinghe to teach his two apprentices to practice martial arts at the stern of the painting boat. Fu Qinghe is a famous martial artist in Jiangning, looking at his frame, he also knows that there is no so-called legendary martial arts of a thousand enemies in this world, and the fighting style is similar to the later generations in his memory, in fact, it is not as simple and practical as the later generations, Lin Jian judged that if his physical strength can keep up, even if he is facing Fu Qinghe's two apprentices head-on now, there is no problem.

Lin Jian is not used to using a sword, but he feels that his arms still have some strength, and his physical strength is not bad, not the kind of useless scholar who can't help but be weak.

Although he is a child of the Lin family, a big clan in Dongyang Mansion, Jiangdong County, he is just an ordinary child of a side branch, and his parents died early. Lin Lian's deceased mother was the maid of Gu Yingsleeve's mother, the seventh aunt of Lin Tingxun, the head of the Lin family, and Gu Yingsleeve's nurse. After Gu Yingsleeve married Lin Tingxun as the wife of the seventh aunt, Lin Lian was able to be taken care of by his family because of this relationship, although he didn't need to work as hard as before, he still needed to work hard to make a living - it was only after he was admitted to Xiucai that he was eligible to receive a small amount of monthly silver from the family to concentrate on studying; The accompanying servant Zhao Neng was still the seventh aunt Gu Yingsleeve who came to take care of him when he went to Jianye to take the exam.

Lin Tie thought of the Seventh Lady Gu Yingchou, and a wry smile appeared on the corner of his mouth: Gu Yingchou is only seven years older than him, it can be said that he and Gu Yingchou were both brought up by his mother, if it weren't for Gu Yingchou's family to Lin Tingxun, who was already in his fifties at the time, as a concubine, Lin Tie was afraid that she would still call her Sister Yingchou at this time. Lin Lian's first spring dream was Gu Yingsleeve's dream, which also made Lin Lian, who was cowardly by nature and attached importance to or afraid of etiquette, very afraid to meet Gu Yingsleeve in the future. On the other hand, Gu Yingsleeve was weak and docile before marrying Lin Tingxun, but after marrying Lin Tingxun as a concubine, her temperament became extremely strong, and even surpassed the duties of his wife and concubine to interfere in the affairs of the family, which made Lin Lian, who was cowardly by nature, naturally feel that he couldn't raise his head in front of Gu Yingsleeve.

Although Su Mei is more bright and beautiful than Gu Yingsleeve, there are also three or four similarities, which is probably the reason why Lin Jian fell into infatuation and couldn't extricate himself when he first saw Su Mei.

Lin Lian shook his head slightly and sighed, Tan Zong in his previous life died because of a * who helped the police fish, and Lin Lian in this life is obsessed with a music singer, what the hell is going on? It's better to go home and seduce the young and beautiful Seventh Lady - this can only be happy in my heart, knowing that in this world of extremely strict etiquette, this kind of thing will end even more miserable after it is revealed. But there are no absolutes in everything, didn't Emperor Taizong of this dynasty openly seal his brother and sister-in-law as Jieyu and include them in the harem? I haven't seen anyone dare to risk cutting off their heads to stand up and make irresponsible remarks.

"My young master asked me to thank your girl." At this time, Zhao Neng was talking to others outside.

"If you are grateful, it is better to disappear from your eyes as soon as possible; If you really want to let a lifting master drown, my young lady may drown in other people's spit stars when she returns to Jiangning...... You also have to persuade your young master more. It was a crisp and tender voice, Lin Zongyan heard the feeling of dialing the mobile inquiry desk in his previous life to listen to people, she was Su Mei's personal maid Xiaoman. Xiao Man was extremely disgusted with him, a person who was just lucky enough to pass the examination and had a fairly ordinary family background, and he didn't know what to do with her young lady's stubborn fighting, and he didn't have a good face when he saw it.

Fourteen-year-old little Lori, really didn't give people a cute feeling, Lin Jian shook his head and sighed slightly after listening to Xiaoman's words in the cabin.

"After he passed the exam, his temper rose, how could I, a follower, be able to persuade him?" Zhao Neng said helplessly outside the cabin, but he did not hide his inner dissatisfaction in his tone.

Lin Jian only smiled when he heard this, thinking that Zhao Neng was deliberately telling him this.

Zhao Neng is the son of the Lin family, and he has been a servant of the Lin family for three generations. Due to the strict personal dependence relationship in today's society, the son of the family can be more trusted and reused by the main family, and before Lin Jian was admitted to Xiucai, his status in the Lin family was far inferior to that of Zhao Neng, the son of the family.

Zhao Neng was fourteen or fifteen years old and followed Lin Tingxun, the head of the Lin family, to listen to the call, although he was eighteen years old this year, although he was a little thinner, he was a shrewd governor, so he gave the seventh lady Gu Yingsleeve to come over and serve Lin Tie to catch the exam - Zhao Neng had some complaints about such an arrangement, but he didn't dare to offend the seventh lady, but he didn't want to see Lin Tie along the way.

Zhao Neng didn't expect that Lin Lian ate shit and Yun would go to high school in one fell swoop in this township examination, and he would have the qualifications to be an official in the examination, and with the power of the Lin family, he would definitely be able to ensure that Lin Lian would be a small official in the Yamen of the prefecture and county. Thinking that Lin Lian's status in the Lin family would be different in the future, Zhao Neng's attitude changed slightly, and in the past, he would never open his mouth to call him "Young Master Lin Lian"; Of course, the resentment behind the scenes has not been dissipated much.

Lin Jian made up his mind to leave Baisha County tomorrow, so that Su Mei would become a passing cloud in his memory, thinking that he would be taken care of by her more these days, sending doctors and medicines, and being quite helpful in terms of clothing and food, so he couldn't leave without saying a word, and he couldn't let Zhao Neng, a dog minion, point at Sang and scold Huai's chewing tongue outside. Lin Lian threw the sword on the table, pushed open the hatch and walked out, and saw Su Mei's maid Xiaoman Xiaoman leaning out of her small body against the side of the painting boat to talk to Zhao Neng, and said to her: "Please tell Miss Su, Lin Lian has caused her a lot of trouble these days, and plans to return to Dongyang by boat against the water early tomorrow morning, thank her for caring about her these days......"

"Yikes!" Su Mei's maid Xiaoman was startled by Lin Lian's sudden outcoming, Lin Lian didn't wait for Su Mei's maid to reply to him, turned his head and scolded Zhao Neng in a deep voice, "Chew less tongue, you won't die!" What does it mean that my temper has risen? ”

Along the way, Zhao Neng had never given Lin Tie such a vicious reprimand, and suddenly reprimanded him, a stream of evil qi rushed straight to his head, and he was about to have a seizure, but he saw Lin Tie's cold eyes staring at him in the twilight were very different from the past, and he was stunned, and finally understood in his heart that Lin Tie was the master and he was a servant outside, and Lin Tie was not the same as in the past, and on the day of the release of the township test list, the principal of the Lin family in Jiangning specially sent twenty silver expenses - Zhao Neng forcibly suppressed the evil hatred in his heart and did not attack, But the shame of scolding in front of Su Mei's maid Xiaoman couldn't be erased, and the neck stalks turned red, and he didn't know how to react when he stood there.

Lin Lian's words were enough insinuations, pointing at Sang and scolding Huai, Su Mei's maid Xiaoman's face was also hot, she always knew that she and Zhao Neng were chewing their tongues behind their backs, and thought to herself: When did this useless soft-footed shrimp have the courage to teach people a lesson? I wanted to ridicule him a few words, but where would I find it boring at this time? He only said, "I'll tell my young lady that I know ......."

"Trouble the little man, girl......" Lin Jian handed over his hand, watching Su Mei's maid Xiaoman enter the cabin to return, the little girl looked back before entering the cabin, the little face was as white as jade in the twilight, childish, the black eyes were like shining stars in a secluded place, the skin was white and tender, and the facial features were exquisite, there was nothing wrong with it, it was really a beautiful embryo, no wonder Zhao Neng was happy to chew his tongue with her here? Thinking about it, she also likes to listen to Zhao Neng vent her resentment towards him, this game is as easy to resonate with the same enemy.

Lin Tie waited for a response at the bow of the boat, Zhao Neng was angry and couldn't leave with his hands in his heart, and stood aside with a black face and didn't say a word. After a while, Su Mei's maid Xiaoman went and returned, holding a small bag tied up by a brocade paza in her hand, she leaned on the side of the boat and said to Lin Lian: "It's going to start today, my young lady is still bathing and changing, it is inconvenient to come out and say goodbye to Lin Gongzi, there are some silver bills here for the road, I hope Lin Gongzi will not postpone it......" She said in a delicate voice, there was no expression on her face, as if she was mechanically retelling Su Mei's original path, thinking that she was unwilling to let her young lady fund Lin Lian's return to his hometown.

After Lin Lianxiang tried high school, the shopkeeper of the Lin family's commercial bank in Jiangning sent twenty taels of silver to help the company, and the squandering of nearly a month, even if there was still some leftover, was in Zhao Neng's hands; This wicked servant must teach him a good lesson, and he must not be coerced by him in the payment of money. Lin Lian was not hypocritical and polite, he took the silver, his hand was slightly heavy, and said: "Please tell the little barbarian girl, Lin Lian has thanked Miss Su......" I thought that Su Mei was reluctant to come out to resign, naturally it would not be because she was bathing and changing clothes, probably because she didn't want to continue to be obsessed with her, and the gift of road money was also her generosity to the down-and-out literati - Lin Lian looked at the last touch of red like a girl's fragrant lips in the western sky, and thought to himself that at this time, he was not the most down-and-out literati?

At this moment, the sound of horses' hooves was heard, and more than a dozen tall horses ran over the embankment, and the faces of the riders could not be distinguished in the twilight. In the blink of an eye, more than a dozen horses or green, yellow or flower, crowded on the side of the ferry port, Su Mei's maid Xiaoman's eyes were sharp, and she called in a coquettish voice: "Du Daguan, why is it a moment earlier than in the past?" I immediately called for someone to lower the ladder. ”

"I rode a fast horse on the road for a while, and before I knew it, it was a moment early," the middle-aged man led by him got off the horse, and while answering the Su Mei maid Xiaoman, he handed over the horse to his entourage, and did not wait for the boatman on the painting boat to put down the ladder, and jumped on the bow of the Wupeng boat, he was vigorous, wearing a short green robe, with a short mustache on his lips, and no need for his chin, it was Du Rong, a big businessman in Jiangning and a wealthy man in Qingfengxing, Du Rong jumped on the boat and saw Lin Tie standing at the bow of the boat, and asked in surprise, "Lin Gongzi finally came out to show up today!" Why, do you want to go to the boat to listen to Miss Su's tune? He touched it in his arms, stretched out his hand and said, "There is no broken silver for you, Lin Gongzi has convenient hands and feet, so let's climb to the top of the boat and listen to the music, be careful not to fall into the water again......" Haha laughed and jumped on the painting boat.

Su Mei set up a rule for disaster relief to stop the boat here to perform, and the money on the boat will cost ten taels of silver, and the reward money after that will be arbitrary.

After Lin Jian was admitted to the show, he could only receive six taels of silver per month from the clan, and ten taels of silver was definitely a huge amount of money for ordinary people, like a boatman on a painting boat, who only had an income of three or four taels of silver and three or four thousand yuan a year of hard work.

The small burden of Jinpa in Lin Bin's hand was a little heavy, almost ten taels of silver, no matter how thick-skinned he was, could he use the road money given by Su Mei as a boat money?

Su Mei's maid Xiaoman followed behind Du Rong and said flatteringly: "Du Daguan doesn't know, Lin Gongzi just said that he would leave Baisha County tomorrow morning, and my girl sent him some silver bills as road money......

"What is Miss Su doing with such a piece of waste?"

Du Rong suppressed his voice, and the voice still came clearly into Lin Lian's ears. Su Mei's maid Xiao Man just glanced back at Lin Lian; At this time, Zhao Neng seemed to be relieved by Du Rong, and the corners of his mouth showed a trace of cold eyes and disdain.

Fu Qinghe was leading the two apprentices to instruct the boatmen to light up the lanterns under the eaves of the two walls of the painting boat, Du Rong arched his hand at him, and said: "Fu Ye is busy ......" Fu Qinghe didn't have a good impression of Du Rong, and nodded coldly as a greeting, and he only didn't hear Du Rong's mean words.

Du Rong is usually very arrogant in receiving people and entertaining guests, and he is a well-known wealthy businessman in Jiangning and Weiyang, maybe it is Lin Lian's stubborn beating of Su Mei that makes him disgusted in his heart so that he treats him harshly.

In the past, even if Lin Jian was cowardly by nature and didn't dare to ridicule him, he would feel humiliated and embarrassed, but at this time, he didn't feel anything, just calmly stared at Du Rong's back who jumped on the painting boat, and then looked at Du Rong's entourage who stayed on the shore. More than a dozen men wore short boots, knives or swords at their waists, and all had weapons, some tied their horses to the shore willows, and some discussed with the boatmen near the shore to borrow land on the boat to rest; There was also a man who squatted at the water's edge to hold water to wash his face, Lin Lian suddenly saw his shirt turned up to reveal the corner of the leather armor inside, and he was shocked: The territory of Weiyang Mansion is quite peaceful, even if there are occasional bandits, Du Rong ran over to listen to the song, and the guards don't need to be undressed and waiting, right?

Over the years, bandits have been serious in various places, and although it is contrary to the imperial court system, all localities have turned a blind eye; In some places, the wealthy clans even organized private soldiers under the pretext of banditry, but they didn't see that the imperial court could restrain them - Du Rong was only a businessman after all, and more than a dozen guards were already violating the rules by carrying swords, and then openly piercing armor, it was really arrogant to the extreme.

Du Rong's guard noticed the way Lin Lian looked at him, just turned down the placket of his shirt to cover the leather armor, and turned around and walked into the distance.

Lin Jian thought to himself that most of the rumors outside that Du Rong was originally a pirate, and that he only turned into a silk business after he made a fortune by trafficking illicit salt after coming ashore; He didn't think much of it, the boatman brought the boiled chicken porridge, and he took it into the cabin.

Su Mei, as the leader of the six famous prostitutes in Jiangning, performed in Weiyang Baisha County for disaster relief is still very appealing, Lin Tie heard the sound of horseshoe ruts in the cabin one after another, and stopped at the ferry, and some people came in light sedan chairs; The ladder was lowered to the shore on the side of the boat, so that the wealthy merchants did not have to borrow their feet from the side of the boat to jump over.

It was dark, Lin Jian heard a few men coming on the boat in the cabin, opened the curtain and took a look, Zhao Neng accompanied the three strange men to sit on the bow deck with a smile. Three men came on the boat with food boxes, and were serving small dishes outside, as well as two small jars of wine, when they saw Lin Tie's probe, a man said: "We can't afford to pay for the boat, thank Lin Gongzi for borrowing a place...... Have a drink together? ”

If you can't afford to pay for the boat, and you still want to listen to Su Mei sing and play the piano, it is the most convenient to go on a few light boats next to the painting boat.

Lin Jian only thought that Zhao Neng advocated letting people get on the boat without authorization, and said: "The body is just healing, you can't drink, please ...... the guest yourself."

At this time, there were still people on the shore who wanted to come on the boat, but the man came forward and refused: "Come up, is it better for you to drink wine, or not to drink?" The bow of the boat is too small to fit many people......"

Lin Jian thought to himself: Why did this man act as the master here? Although he was unhappy in his heart, he didn't want to give Zhao Neng the opportunity to take advantage of outsiders, and besides, he saw that other ships seemed to have such guests bringing wine and food on board, so he retreated to the cabin without saying a word, and bolted the hatch with his hand.

At night, the music of the neighboring boat piano came, and Su Mei seemed to let her maid Xiaoman try the childish music for the first time in front of the guests, listening to the soft and soft tune, Lin Jian took a general history book "Spring and Autumn Tongjian", and was also a little distracted and couldn't read it.

Although he can only live as Lin Lian, he still subconsciously regards himself as Tan Zhong in the future generations of his dreams, and thinks about the problem like this: except for the Wuhu Chaohua after the Wei and Jin dynasties, the past six or seven hundred years have not been the history he is familiar with - there are no Northern and Southern Dynasties, there is no Sui and Tang Dynasties, and he is not very familiar with the details of history.

History has been altered in a mess, and Lin Jian can only accept it in its entirety. Today, the Great Chen Dynasty has also been wiped out, the Taizu Yuan Tuo of this dynasty was originally a child of the Yuan family in Shangyang, Huainan, the last years of the previous dynasty were in turmoil, when the official worshiped the Jiangdong Town Fu envoy Taizu Emperor Yuan Tuo took Jiangning Mansion as the base to achieve the imperial industry, and created the Dayue Empire has been two hundred years so far.

When Taizu Yuan Tuo was first called emperor, he built the capital Jiangning; In order to defend against foreign races in the north, Emperor Taizong moved the capital to Yanshan Mansion in Hebei Province, renamed Yanjing, and took Jiangning as the capital to stay in Beijing, which was called Nanjing at the time - which coincided with the Nanjing in the memory of later generations.

Lin Jian flipped through the general history book "Spring and Autumn Tongjian", and he couldn't understand this unfamiliar history for a while, because there was no AD chronology, and the emperor name recorded in the history books was a little complicated, so he could only roughly estimate that this time was almost equivalent to the early years of the Song Dynasty. After three unfamiliar dynasties, the political, economic, and military situation was very different from the early years of the Song Dynasty in his vague memory.

In addition to a few history books at the head of the bed, there are a lot of miscellaneous books, and there are not many poetry books that are always on the desks of literati.

Speaking of which, Lin Jian is only a little cowardly in the Lin family, and he neglects the poems and texts commonly used in scientific research, but his knowledge is not bad, especially good at miscellaneous studies, he prefers to study the art of war, and often fantasizes about being a marshal who expands his territory. But as far as his cowardly nature is concerned, these are only fantasies in his head, and he is even afraid that his words will provoke the ridicule of others.

Thinking about his past and present life, Lin Jian also shook his head and smiled bitterly, two completely different memories, two completely different personalities, what kind of person will he end up being?

I don't know what time it was, but listening to the sound, the guests left the boat one after another, and heard the sound of Du Rong saying goodbye on the shore and leading the crowd to ride away.

The three men who got on the boat to borrow a place to listen to the music were not interested, and continued to invite Zhao Neng and the boatman to drink at the bow of the boat; They also took care of Lin Tie, and their laughter was quite small. Lin Jian is not a person who spoils the interest of others, thinking that tomorrow he will have to order the boatman to go on a long trip, so he undressed and blew out the candle and went to bed first.

Just as he was about to fall asleep, Lin Jian heard some strange noises outside the cabin, sat up vigilantly, and the more he listened, the more wrong he became, and carefully looked out against the crack in the wooden door of the cabin. I was shocked at first glance, and saw two men who had been drinking on the boat standing at the bow of the boat, one of them pressed a knife on Zhao Neng's neck, one used a knife to force the boatman to untie the cable, and the other was nowhere to be found.