The carriage stopped, the curtain of the car blew a gap in the wind, the moonlight was like water, spilling in and falling on Gu Ying's beautiful face that was as moist as jade, and a heart was in her throat.

Gu Yingsleeve sat in Lin Lian's arms, her eyes fixed on the curtain of the car door that was blowing in the night breeze, and asked calmly: "Aunt Zhao, who is in the way ahead?" ”

"Auntie, Seventh Lady, is it?" Lin Jingchang's voice came through the curtain of the car.

Gu Yingsleeve breathed a sigh of relief, turned around sideways and supported the soft couch to change his posture, but he caught a dead snake-like thing, and felt warm through his pants, so he saved himself from sitting in Lin Lian's arms, and supported Lin Lian's thigh with one hand. Gu Yingsleeve is not an innocent girl, of course she knows what her subordinates are holding onto, her hands dodged in a panic, her body was not balanced, and she crashed into Lin Lian's arms again, Gu Yingsleeve was in a hurry, her hands were supporting Lin Lian's chest, her cheeks were as smooth as fat jade, and she rubbed Lin Lian's slightly stinging chin, and sat aside in a panic, she didn't dare to make any other movement in the carriage, and she had to pretend to be calm and talk to Lin Jingchang in front of the carriage: "Jingchang, what are you looking for me?" ”

Lin Lian was in so much pain that he couldn't make a single abnormal sound when he grinned his teeth, Gu Yingsleeve looked at the exaggerated expression on his face, and felt funny: Is it really that painful? Feeling shy, he still kept his attention out of the carriage.

Lin Jingchang walked to the carriage, he also knew the etiquette, but he avoided talking to others: "If the seventh lady meets Xiucai, he must go as far as he goes, the second son is not so easy to get along with......"

Gu Yingsleeve looked at Lin Ting's vague figure in the dark, and said to Lin Jingchang outside the carriage: "I know, I won't look for him like this now......" At this time, a carriage came from behind, Gu Yingsleeve thought that Lin Tingxun would come out of the ancestral hall later, if he met him, there would be no excuse to block him from entering his carriage, and he didn't have time to say anything to Lin Jingchang on the side of the road, and said to Zhao Hu and his mother outside, "Aunt Zhao, send me back to the mansion, I'm a little tired, I want to go back to rest early." ”

Zhao naturally knew that the carriage could not be delayed on the road, so he led the horse in front of him in the direction of the mansion, Gu Yingsleeve's personal maid and two accompanying healthy women, who could have taken the carriage, but now they can only follow the carriage.

Lin Jingchang looked at the seventh lady and left in a hurry after a perfunctory sentence, thinking that Lin Lian's disaster this time was too great for Mrs. Lin, who had always taken care of Lin Lian, to retreat, Lin Jingchang looked at the background of the carriage in the night, sighed, and said secretly: Xiucai, Xiucai, you can get more blessings for yourself, even the seventh lady can't help you, and I don't dare to help you.

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Lin Lian was thinking about Lin Jingchang's affairs, even if Lin Jingchang was a little timid, after all, if he wanted to stay in Shanglindu, no one could offend the second son, today he put a knife on the neck of the second son and forced him to kneel in public, everyone knows that the second son hates himself to the core, Jingchang still ran over to find the seventh lady and wanted to use the seventh lady to remind himself, sighed in his heart, and said secretly: There will be a chance to be rich and prosperous in the future.

"You say you, how many people should worry about you?" Gu Yingsleeve leaned over and whispered to Lin Lian, worried that the people outside the carriage would hear it, not whispering, but just now the ambiguity of falling into his arms and holding the root of his thighs with his hands was ambiguous, this moment in his heart was like the bright moon in the night sky, and he couldn't suppress the thoughts in his heart, but his body had to be next to each other to discuss countermeasures, biting his ears and saying such things, just like the whispering between lovers, Gu Yingsleeve only felt that his body was a little hot, and tried to make his breathing normal, "I really don't know what you have experienced in Baisha County, It's too late to hear what you're talking about. I think you should have made up your mind to go to Jiangning, Xiao Wu's words, you also heard it, so there will be no delay. You don't want to go back to Zhao Hu's house tonight, hide outside for the night, I will come to Huyan tomorrow, and you can come and meet me again. ”

"Okay, go around the corner in front of you, and I'll go down quietly." Lin Jian said.

"You really don't care who you saved today?" Gu Yingsleeve asked.

"Who?" Lin Jian asked.

Listening to Lin Lian's concise question, Gu Yingsleeve couldn't wait to beat him on the chest and said, "My second uncle was reactivated by the imperial court a few years ago, and he did a period of overhaul in the Hanlin Academy, and this time he came to Jiangdong to serve as the deputy envoy of the patrol. He hadn't been back to his hometown for 20 years, and he deliberately took a boat to take the Hongzepu Waterway to take up his post, so he wanted to stop in Shiliang for a few days to worship his ancestors, but he didn't expect that there would be people in Jiangdong who would not welcome him. ”

"I guess he's Gu Wuchen!" Lin Jian said.

"Then you still sneaked away and didn't let my second uncle say thank you?" Gu Yingsleeve said angrily, "In the afternoon, the second uncle sent someone to say that he would visit the door in two days to thank him, my second uncle is a very polite person, but he didn't expect you to walk away from Shanglin tonight." ”

"He has not returned from Shiliang County for 20 years, how do you know that I am under the care of you, Sister Yingsleeve?" Lin Lian thought that Gu Wuchen's preaching was also limited, and he had not returned to the capital as an official for twenty years, and said to Gu Yingsleeve, "Liang Zuoren is full of opinions about the children of the Lin family, before I knew the assassins in the county, I had a verbal conflict with them, I didn't expect to ask for credit, and I didn't think to stay there to find myself unhappy, so I left." ”

"I don't know how determined the second young master Lin Xuzong is, if he is really determined, only Zhou Pu and Zhao Hu will follow you, I don't worry; Tomorrow I will tell my second uncle to let you go to Jiangning with them - after the assassination, Shiliang County will send troops to escort my second uncle. After going to Jiangning, you have to be careful in everything. ”

Lin Jian didn't say that there were not only Zhou Pu and Zhao Hu around him, and he thought that it would not be too late to tell her about these things in the future. He didn't know the details of Gu Wuchen's reactivation of the imperial court, in short, Gu Wuchen went to Jiangdong to serve as the deputy envoy of the inspection, which should allow Gu Yingchong to be bullied by others in the Lin family, and it is no wonder that Lin Tingxun did not show any intention to clean himself up in the mule and horse city, it turned out that Lin Tingxun also knew that it was Gu Wuchen who was sitting in the tea hotel at noon.

"......" Lin Jian almost blurted out to ask Gu Yingsleeve who the girl dressed as a man was, and inadvertently grabbed the girl's chest - well, I didn't expect that she was not very old, but she was quite expected.

"What are you thinking?" Gu Yingsleeve looked at Lin Jian suspiciously, pinching the edge of his left palm and distracted.

"It's nothing," Lin Jian said, "There are some things, I'll see you tomorrow." ”

The road from the ancestral hall to the Lin family's mansion is not long, and I can't say too much, at this time I heard the sound of horses' hooves galloping in front, and in the hazy night, I saw two fast horses rushing straight over, Zhao and the two healthy women hurriedly pulled the carriage to avoid it, and Gu Ying's maids were scared into the ditch. Seeing the fast horse rubbing the carriage and missing it, the horse here was so frightened that the horse screamed in horror, and the majestic woman who usually followed Gu Yingsleeve's side scolded loudly.

Gu Yingsleeve was also startled, and felt Lin Lian gently shake her hand and whispered, "I'm going down." Lin Jian took advantage of the fact that others didn't care and got out of the carriage. Gu Yingsleeve still had the afterglow of his hand to give him a light grip, and thought to himself: It's so bold, even the old lady's hand dares to touch it! Lifted the curtain of the car to a corner, and watched Lin Jian walk into the distance like a ghost against the shadow of the courtyard wall.

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Seeing a figure from a distance, Zhao Hu greeted him, saw that it was Lin Lian, and asked, "Have you seen the Seventh Lady?" ”

"See," Lin Jian said, "What about Master Zhou?" ”

"Where are we?" Zhou Pu and Wu Qi hid in the bushes, and saw them leading their horses out, with a thin wooden stick in their mouths and a rope around their necks, so that the horses would not neigh.

"Leaving tonight?" Zhou Pu asked.

"One more day, do you know who those assassins in Shiliang County are today?" Lin Jian said.

"Who is it?" Zhou Pu asked.

"It's Gu Wuchen who should be ashamed to jump into the river as the assassin said," Lin Jian said, Zhou Pu didn't know the origin of the Gu family, and said to him, "Jiangdong is the deputy envoy of the Imperial Palace, and the left of the Imperial Court of the Imperial Court ......."

"It turned out to be a big man," Zhou Pu asked, "how did he eat with the magistrate of Shiliang County at the tea hotel?" ”

"This Liang Zuoren is also a person who has never had ambitions, and he was promoted in the same year as Gu Wuchen and became friends, but Liang Zuoren took the Jinshi exam for nine years, and then he was sent to Shiliang County to be a magistrate. Gu Wuchen was on his way to Jiangning to take office, and deliberately took the waterway to Shiliang County to go home to worship his ancestors, and it was not surprising to meet Liang Zuoren. ”

"It's hilarious. Who wanted to assassinate him and prevent him from going to Jiangning? Zhou Pu asked.

"Who knows? The water is not shallow. Lin Jian said, "Let's find a place to hide for the night tonight, and tomorrow I will go to Huyan to meet this Lord Gu, which will be good for us." ”

Zhou Pu nodded, it is definitely a good thing to know the deputy envoy of Jiangdong.

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In this dynasty, there were prefectures and counties at the local level, and there was no clear concept at the provincial level. Above the state capital, there is a Xuanfu Envoy Department in charge of the civil affairs of a place, a Prosecutor's Envoy Department in charge of a prison and supervision of local officials at the same time, a Governor's Office in charge of the military command of the town army in the jurisdiction, and the local power is divided into two divisions and one government. Only in a few places, or in order to resist foreign invasion, or suppress people's rebellion, or put down the rebellion of powerful people, the imperial court will set up a governor to lead the local military and political power. The governor is not a permanent governor, and the appointed officials are all envoys sent by the imperial court, and there is no fixed term, and the imperial court can recall the envoys at any time after the local affairs are appeased, and remove the governor.

According to the Department of Inspectors, there are envoys and deputy envoys, who are respectively the rank of the third and fourth grades. In addition to being in charge of local prison prosecutions, the Department of Inspectorates also serves as a supervisory body assigned to the localities by the Central Metropolitan Procuratorate, and undertakes the responsibility of supervising local officials. Because he has the authority to supervise local officials and listen to the heavens, he is actually regarded as a local official who is only slightly inferior to the Xuanfu envoy, the admiral, and the procurator.

According to Lin Bin's understanding, Gu Wuchen is almost equivalent to the deputy secretary of the Provincial Political and Legal Committee and a member of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection in later generations.