The tea hotel is really ordinary, there are a few tables in the hall, there are two cubicles separated by cloth curtains near the kitchen in the northeast corner, and the cloth curtains only cover the upper half of the doorway, and a middle-aged man in a long shirt and two Tsing Yi guards walked into one of them. The curtain was lifted, and the people sitting inside looked out.

Liang Zuoren, the magistrate of Shiliang County, was in the age of not being confused, with a white face and a slight beard, wearing a regimental collar civilian clothes, he was wondering who was making trouble outside, and when he saw Lin Tie walking in, he was slightly stunned, and it was too late to turn his face back, Lin Tie stood outside the cloth curtain and bowed his hand: "I also barked as two watchdogs, I didn't expect that the county magistrate was really here, and the students were polite." ”

Lin Jian said bitterly, Liang Zuoren was embarrassed, and even if he was angry, he couldn't give it up.

When Lin Tie handed over the post at the county office, Liang Zuoren was inviting his friends for many years to come here for dinner. This newcomer who came back from the death in the Baisha County robbery, Liang Zuoren knows his details, and his article is average, but he has a little more luck than others, even if he is a child of the Lin family, he is only submissive, and he is not valued by the Lin family, so he naturally can't afford to see Lin in his heart. Afraid of delaying the reunion with his friends, Liang Zuoren casually found an excuse to refuse Lin Lian's request to see, where did he think that he would meet here again, and the guards who favored friends blocked them out of the door and collided?

"Well......" Liang Zuoren replied with a gloomy face and said, "No need to be polite, you guys should also go to dinner." ”

Lin Jian still wanted to see who was still sitting in the private room, and the curtain had already been lowered from inside.

Lin Tie and the others found a square table in the corner and sat down, Zhao Hu was familiar with this place, stood there and greeted the young and beautiful lady of the Xiao family and said, "Lady of the Xiao family, do you remember the dishes I ate in the store?" Add another cold-cut beef and bring it to us. The soft and glutinous voice of the lady of the Xiao family was very good, and she responded clearly: "Remember, do you still want to warm a pot of Linghu Huang?" ”

Zhao Hu sat down, put his head to Lin Bin's ear, and whispered: "Your return this time is very different from the past." ”

"Liang Zuoren is the parent official of Shiliang County, shouldn't I provoke him?" Lin Jian asked.

Zhao Hu felt that Lin Tie was very different from the past, although he felt very happy just now, but he thought that if the cautious Lin Jingchang was present, he would probably be panicked, and he didn't know if Lin Tie should be or not.

Lin Jian laughed and said in a low voice: "'If you are lowly, you will be cautious, and if you are in power, you will be arrogant', this is a mediocre mentality. I was able to return to Baisha County this time, and I realized a truth, if you want to 'not be bullied when you are poor, and not be envied when you are prosperous', you must have a mediocre mentality. Liang Zuoren, I don't collapse his face, he looks down on me after all; This time, he was able to take advantage of his face, he was holding a grudge, and he knew that I was not a character to mess with easily...... It doesn't matter if you are humble and want to show your fangs, which is not different from causing trouble. ”

"Okay, Mr. Qin can't tell you this......" Zhou Pu's voice was lowered, but his left hand made an exaggerated action of slamming the table, the corners of his mouth grinned, and he felt more and more that Lin Lian had a taste for himself: decisive, responsible, not dragging his feet, he seemed to act boldly and recklessly, but he had a plan in his heart that others could not match.

Zhao Hu couldn't understand what Lin Tie said for a while, and he thought in his heart that Lin Tie had lived and died in Baisha County for two years, which was different from the past, and he shouldn't have looked at him with old eyes.

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In the private room separated by the cloth curtain, the middle-aged man in a long shirt and the two Tsing Yi guards who appeared at the door of the store just now were standing aside and waiting, they were all guards. Sitting opposite Liang Zuoren was a handsome young man in his early twenties, blocked by a cloth curtain, he couldn't see Lin Jian and the others, and asked Liang Zuoren: "Lord Liang, who was that person just now, and he was so arrogant and domineering in front of you, the parent official?" ”

"It's a child of the Lin family......" Liang Zuoren said with a frown.

The young man was listening to Liang Zuoren complaining about the Lin family's dominance of the world's wealthy family, and at this time, he heard Liang Zuoren say that such a person was a child of the Lin family, and he said with a face full of indignation: "This is too arrogant!" Why did Lord Liang tolerate such a rampant villain? dragged to the county government to kill thirty boards, so that he knew what it meant to be disrespectful. ”

Liang Zuoren shook his head and smiled, showing a somewhat helpless smile, did not answer the young man's words, turned his face to a middle-aged scribe sitting on his left hand and said, "You have also seen my situation today, even if it is a side branch of the Lin family, you don't take me, a little magistrate, in your eyes." Liang Zuoren said this in his mouth, but he was a little strange in his heart: It is said that this Lin Tie is only a promise, but the edge is very strong just now?

"The local wealthy clan is strong, and there is always a hidden danger that cannot be removed......" The middle-aged scribe who had been sitting next to him silently sighed softly at this time, "When I met Li Du this time, I would like to ask him, why do you have to be soft-hearted towards the luxury family, so that the powerful people everywhere have delusions?" ”

Liang Zuoren has lived in the place for a long time, he does not know the trend of the court, and he does not dare to discuss the surrender of the luxury family, and from the mouth of his old friend, he knows that he is very dissatisfied with the imperial court's acceptance of the surrender of the luxury family.

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Lin Jian and the others sat around the table, waiting for the food to come up, and occasionally paid attention to the private room behind the curtain of the cloth, and the unpleasantness at the door of the store just now was dispelled by the aroma of the steaming meal.

There were four vulgar men sitting around the table next to them, that is, the four people who entered the tea hotel in front of Lin Tie and them, wearing patched robes, tied with straw rope as a belt around their waists, wearing square corners of the melon hat on their heads, and four long-haired bamboo poles on the wall, looking like porters who went into the city to collect work, and their bodies and bones were too strong. The four porters looked at the little lady of the Xiao family who was busy shuttling through the hall with unscrupulous eyes, and drank and laughed there: "There are two widows in Shiliang County who are the most famous, and one is the lady of the Xiao family. The Xiao family has a silk cloth Zhuangzi in the west of the city, which is a rare wealthy family in Shiliang County, but unfortunately the son is a sick man, and he is terminally ill. Within ten days, the short-lived son of the Xiao family died in vain, and the Xiao family complained that the little lady of the Xiao family was forced to kill his son and rushed out. The little lady of the Xiao family took over the operation of this tea hotel from her parents, and she can also live. This little lady of the Xiao family is very good-looking, and the big girls and daughters-in-law in the city are not as beautiful as her; But that's not what she's known for. ”

"Where is the little lady of the Xiao family most famous?" A person next to him interjected obscenely.

"Think about it, the sick tuberculosis didn't carry it for ten days after marriage, and he died without it, presumably after marriage, there is no inhumanity, everyone is wondering if the little lady of the Xiao family is not lost in the red pill......" This person seems to be deliberately teasing the little lady of the Xiao family, the sound of the head to ear can be heard by half of the diners in the hall, and the others are just smiling with ill intentions, the little lady of the Xiao family is flushed, and there is some resentment in the bright and connoisseur eyes, but he can't drive the guests out, and he adds more and more attractive temperament. Lin Jian and Zhao Hu were also listening and laughing beside them, but they didn't have any extra sense of justice to stand up and fight grievances, just verbally teasing the little widow, for the people in the market, it really can't be regarded as a big deal.

"Who is the other famous widow in Shiliang County, is it also because the red pill is not lost?" Another interjected.

"This red pill is missing, I don't know," the man became more and more proud, and his voice was louder, "I don't know if you have heard of the Seventh Lady in Shiliang County?" ”

"The Seventh Lady of Shanglindu? Ah, this Lin family head Lin Tingxun is still alive, why did the Seventh Lady become a widow again? ”

"Don't look at the whole Dongyang Mansion, there are few people who can be more majestic than Lin Tingxun, but if you have seen him, you will know if the Seventh Lady is a widow - Lin Tingxun was still alive and well ten years ago, but in the cold winter ten years ago, four big ships from the water village of Hongzepu came to rob Shanglindu, Lin Tingxun personally led the township camp to chase and suppress the bandits, and accidentally fell into the ice water during the water battle, although the person came back to life, I heard that the play was wasted......"

"Didn't the lord of the Lin family marry the daughter of the Gu family as the seventh lady after that, if his playfulness is abolished, what will he do with the concubine?" There was a questioning question.

"If everyone else suspects you of being useless, you can't find something to cover it up? Lin Tingxun also married a lady before falling into the water, gave birth to a little son, and married the seventh lady, can you see what has happened in the belly of the seventh lady in the past few years? Seeing that someone questioned him, the man's voice became louder and louder, "Besides, the six ladies of the Lin family are honestly staying in the inner house, only these seven ladies show up to meddle in the affairs of the Lin family, if it weren't for Lin Tingxun's ghost in his heart, how could he indulge the seventh lady so much?" Speaking of which, the Seventh Lady is really pitiful, ten years ago, the Gu family was also a family of eunuchs, and the Seventh Lady was also a daughter, but the uncle of the Seventh Lady who was an official in Beijing and the second eldest of the Gu family, Gu Wuchen, didn't know what kind of madness she had committed, and she wanted to reconsider the case of the traitor Su Hu, and almost cut off her head, and the parents of the Seventh Lady were also involved and sentenced to die on the way. The Gu family has declined since then, but in order to save her uncle, the seventh lady also married Lin Tingxun aggrieved. You say that the second child of the Gu family, if you know that your niece will marry a wilted person for him, will you be guilty and jump into the river? The Seventh Lady has been a widow for ten years, and it is strange to say, I saw the Seventh Lady's face from a distance last time, not like she had been absent for a long time, and then looked at the men of the Lin family who seemed to be willing to drive her, and it was not difficult to figure out the reason......"

Zhao Hu's family benefited from the seventh lady Gu Yingsleeve took care of a lot, and Zhao Hu also respected the seventh lady very much. Lin Jian grabbed his wrist, shook his head slightly and motioned for him to sit down, and glanced at Zhou Pu with a slight frown, not knowing if he saw anything abnormal.

In this era, the government was as fierce as a tiger in the eyes of ordinary people, and it was the norm for the people to be afraid of officials. Just now he came in and exposed his identity to Liang Zuo Ren Shili, many of the diners in the restaurant hurriedly ate and left, but the four porters next door were not affected at all, and when the magistrate did not exist, he said these nonsense more and more unscrupulously, and it was nonsense to arrange the strong Hao Lin family in Dongyang Mansion; It's really arrogant. Although the four porters also observed their side while talking, Lin Jian could tell that these four people should not be coming towards them, could it be that they said these nonsense to the people in the private room?

Lin Jian thought to himself, except for Liang Zuoren, the county magistrate, who else was in the private room? What is the relationship with the Seventh Lady and the Gu family?

Zhou Pu kicked Lin Jian lightly on the table, asked him to look at the four / Mao Zhu flat poles leaning against the wall, and signaled that there was something wrong with the four / Mao Zhu flat poles.

"Enough, chew your tongue and come out of you crazy things!" At this moment, the curtain was suddenly lifted from the inside, and a tall young man rushed to the next table with an angry face and reprimanded loudly.