It was Jiangning Qingfeng Bank's firm name and wealthy Dong Du Rong who secretly hooked up with the East pirates to rob Su Mei's luxury family in order to rob Su Meixian, and created the Baisha County robbery that shocked Jianghuai.

Although the gang of East pirates then robbed Xiao Taoyuan, the deputy general of Ninghai Town, on Xisha Island on the inner side of the Yangtze River estuary, Lin Jian and Fu Qinghe also went through danger and rescued Su Mei and others on Changshan Island, but thinking that Du Dong himself was a rich man in Jiangdong, and the robbery in Baisha County involved the luxury family of Jin'an, who had just split the land and sealed the marquis, even if Lin Jian rescued Su Mei and Xiaoman, he would never dare to let Du Rong know that he had already seen through the collusion with the luxury family.

Su Mei's return to Jiangning without envy was bound to make Du Rong panic, and when Lin Jian was still in Tinghu County, he discussed with Su Mei that the two sides should be colder when they arrived in Jiangning, so as not to see any flaws in Du Rong's eyeliner.

When Lin Jian arrived in Jiangning, Xiao Man disguised himself as a teenager to greet him, but Su Mei did not dare to meet him in disguise, because he was afraid that if anyone would see through the gossip tomorrow and spread all over the streets and alleys of Jiangning City, it would inevitably arouse Du Rong's stronger suspicion.

Seeing that Du Rong, who was dressed in a silk shirt and looked harmless, was standing in front of the post house with the young man in brocade clothes to greet Gu Wuchen, Lin Jian was startled, and hurriedly grabbed Xiaoman's thin waist and took her off the horse.

Xiaoman was also frightened, where did he think that there was such a coincidental thing in the world?

Lin Tie still put his hands around Xiaoman's waist, with a little force, and whispered to her: "It's nothing, you just walk in as usual," and whispered to Zhou Pu again, "The person who bowed to Gu Wuchen is Du Rong...... You cover Xiaoman, and I'll walk away to attract his attention. ”

Zhou Pu comprehended, took the reins in Lin Lian's hand and led the horse to continue to follow the post man who helped the Gu family pull the suitcase cage to the post house, Zhao Hu and Chen Size each led the horse to move to Zhou Pu's left side, only Liu Yue'er didn't know what was going on, and only watched Lin Tie go outside and separate from them for a few steps.

Lin Jian walked closer, the young man in brocade was standing in front of the post house and greeting Gu Wuchen, Du Rong stood aside humbly, and Gu Siyuan, the son of Gu Wuchen, also stood next to him with a happy face, it seemed that he was very familiar with this young man in brocade.

"Uncle Gu, I thought that you and Brother Siyuan had entered Jiangning City earlier, but I didn't expect to go to Jiangning with you, I'm really happy," the brocade-clothed young man saluted Gu Wuchen, and eagerly held Gu Siyuan's arm, and said, "The merchant ship stopped on the way, and the little nephew thought that Uncle Gu might stop at Chaotianyi, so he got off the boat at the ferry, and waited here for Uncle Gu and Siyuan to come over." I brought my servants from Zhongzhou, and this Mr. Du was very arrogant, and when I met in Zhongzhou, he knew that I was also going to Jiangning, so he invited me to come over on his boat......"

Lin Lian listened to them, he still didn't know who this brocade-clothed young man was, and thought that Du Rong was very good at tying up powerful people, and he deliberately curryed favor with this young man when he met in Zhongzhou, and then he saw that this young man was also very affectionate with Gu Siyuan, and he could probably guess what kind of person he belonged to.

"Jiangning Qingfeng Xing, Du Rong was fortunate to have met Master Gu." Du Rong humbly gave Gu Wuchen a salute registration number.

Lin Jian looked at Gu Wuchen's expression and was slightly stunned, thinking that he had also heard of Du Rong.

Qingfeng Xing itself is a well-known big merchant in Jiangning, and not to mention that the luxury family invited the proposal and finally got the imperial court to seal the Marquis of Jin An, Du Rong was quite active behind the scenes as a big businessman. Gu Wuchen came to serve as the deputy envoy of Jiangdong, if he hadn't heard of Du Rong before, it would be strange.

"Du Caidong is polite," Gu Wuchen asked Du Rong to excuse himself with his hands, and at this time he saw Lin Xian walking closer and called out to him, "Lin Xian's nephew, come, come, come, I will introduce Jinshengxian's nephew to you, you young people should have a good relationship in Jiangning, Jinshengxian's nephew is the young marquis of Yongchang......"

Lin Jian didn't expect that this brocade-clothed young man was actually the grandson of the Yuan family, and he was the son of the hereditary Marquis of Yongchang.

The Dayue Dynasty from Gaozu down, the direct descendants of the royal family were entitled. Each generation of those who are entitled by grace is demoted to the first-class inheritance, and finally descended to the general of the martial state before he is hereditary and no longer demoted. In the more than 200 years since the founding of the Dayue Dynasty, thirteen generations of emperors have been divided into a bunch of princes and dukes. Several generations have descended to the lord, and there are hundreds of people who have descended from the sons and grandsons of the princes to the generals of the Wu Kingdom. Most of these kings and grandsons are estranged from the current saints, so they have the name of kings and grandsons, and they have received very limited favors from the imperial court, and they are even poor and poor.

However, in addition to Enfeng, there are hereditary military merits of the marquis, those are the sons and nephews of the ancestors who have military merits when the country was founded, and the hereditary knighthood will never descend, etc., commonly known as the Golden Rice Bowl Marquis, and the entire Dayue Dynasty has only twelve Golden Rice Bowl Marquises. The ancestor of the Marquis of Yongchang is the younger brother of the ancestor, and he made great contributions at the beginning of the founding of the country, and his descendants have been descending from generation to generation to Yongchang Marquis, and they will not be demoted.

Although these feudal kings and grandsons have fiefdoms under their names, the imperial court, in order to restrict the feudal kings and grandsons from taking power and leaving the places, although there are fiefdoms, they build mansions in the two capitals so that the feudal kings and grandsons can live in them, and it is strictly forbidden for the feudal kings and grandsons to go to their own fiefs to become vassals. In fact, it is also to let these kings and grandsons enjoy glory and wealth, and don't think about anything to usurp power or anything.

The mansion of the Marquis of Yongchang is in the city of Jiangning, and he can be regarded as the real deep-rooted aristocratic prince and grandson of Jiangning.

Lin Lian saluted to the young man in brocade, Yongchang Marquis, Yuan Jinsheng, "Raise the son Lin Lian has seen the young marquis," and then turned to Du Rong and arched his hand, and said with a tense smirk, "Du Caidong probably didn't expect to meet me here, right?" ”

Compared with two months ago in Baisha County, Lin Tie is darker and thinner, and his face lines are as hard as a knife and axe, his eyes are bright under the lights, he is dressed in a green shirt, his posture is straight, and he has a simple and unpretentious saber tied around his waist.

Lin Jian approached, although the temperament and image of the whole person had changed greatly, giving people the feeling of being unsheathed and heroic and resolute, Du Rong still recognized him at a sight. Du Rong thought that he had practiced the calmness of Taishan before the collapse of Mount Tai, but seeing Lin Lian coming over casually, Du Rong still couldn't hide the discoloration in his eyes, he squinted at Lin Lian's face for a few breaths, and then said with emotion: "It turned out to be Lin Gongzi - I haven't slept and eaten tasteless for the past two months, and then I learned that Miss Su returned to Jiangning safely and soundly, so I have hope that Lin Gongzi will survive, thank God......" He wondered in his heart what the relationship between Lin Lian and Gu Wuchen, the deputy envoy of Jiangdong, was concerned.

"I don't know that Du Caidong attaches so much importance to Lin Tie!" Lin Lian sneered coldly, "The words that Du Caidong said in the past are still in Lin Lian's ears, but those words sound like Du Caidong looks down on people very much. ”

Du Rong didn't expect to see Lin Jian again so sharply and undisguised his old grudges, and he didn't know what the relationship between him and Gu Wu was, so he was stunned, and he couldn't answer for a while.

Some officials of the Jiang Ning Envoy Department who crossed the river to greet Gu Wuchen next to them all looked at the young man in green shirt in front of them in surprise, and thought to themselves: Du Rong of Qingfeng Xing offended him fiercely before?

Lin Tie made a gesture at Gu Wuchen and Yongchang Marquis Young Marquis Yuan Jinsheng, and said: "In the past, Lin Tie humiliated this person in Weiyang Mansion, although Lin Tie was poor and destitute, but he was not short-sighted, with this person, forgive Lin Tie for being rude and retired first...... When he said this, he held the saber on his waist with his hand, making people wonder if he would be angry on the spot and pull out the knife to Du Rong.

In this era, officials and Confucian scholars liked to use swords as decoration, and even some people only wore wooden knives decorated with gold and silver around their waists, but Lin Bin's waist was a straight ridge long knife with a slight arc, although the scabbard was simple and unpretentious, only decorated with fragments of leather, but it could make people see at a glance that it was a sharp blade. Du Rong looked at Lin Lian's hand clenching the handle of the knife, and his heart was also frightened, and the two of his guards next to him were also worried and ready to rush over at any time.

Lin Lian glanced at Du Rong, and walked towards the post house with his saber in his hand.

Lin Lian walked away with an indignant face, and everyone looked at Du Rong's eyes with other meanings: What did Du Rong do to make this young man swear to stand still?

Du Rong only thought that Lin Lian had been treated with contempt in Baisha County, but he no longer suspected the scheme behind the robbery in Baisha County and let Lin Lian know. Lin Lian's posture made Du Rong very passive and embarrassed, and he couldn't explain it, after all, he did disrespect Lin Jian in words when he was in Baisha County.

Lin Tie made such a fuss, Gu Wuchen naturally had no impression of Du Rong, and turned his head to his son Gu Siyuan and said, "You accompany Jinsheng to catch up with the old days, I'll go in first......"

Thanks to Gu Wuchen, the post clerk arranged for Lin Tie and them to enter the courtyard with five elegant houses, and after the post house handyman who led them over left, Xiao Man covered his chest and said, "I'm scared to death......"

Lin Jian didn't answer Xiaoman's words, and said to Liu Yue'er first: "Miss Liu, it's not too early, you go back to the room to rest early, and we will go to Jiangning City tomorrow to ......."

Liu Yue'er saw that Lin Jian was going to support herself, so she didn't say anything, she gave a salute, retreated, and went back to the Yashe she prepared for her to rest.

Xiao Man's cute stuck out his tongue, and said in a low voice: "I am really happy to see your majesty in killing Du Rong." ”

"Is it just the prestige to kill him?" Lin Jian asked with a smile.

"What's the use?" Xiaoman asked puzzled.

"We have almost no roots in Jiangning, how can we defeat Du Rongdou in the future?" Lin Jian sat down on the soft futon behind the long case and said, "After the luxury family raised an incident in Jin'an, Du Rong and his Qingfeng firm suddenly rose in Jiangning, only six or seven years, even if there is the support of the luxury family behind it, the Qingfeng firm can be on the scale of today, it is bound to trample on the corpses of others...... Regardless of whether it is open or secret, Du Rong's opponents in Jiangning will not be too few, I am doing this to tell Du Rong's opponents that there is another guy who dares to blow his beard and stare at Du Rong and swear not to stand in Jiangning......" There is another layer of intention He didn't say it clearly, he just tore his face with Du Rong in front of Gu Wuchen and the officials of the Inspectorate and swore not to stand up, Gu Wuchen may only be unwilling to be humiliated, but in the eyes of others, he will dare to swear against Du Rong in front of everyone when he has a strong dependence. Naturally, this information would also reach the ears of Du Rong's opponents, and he would never have thought that he was just a foundationless man in Jiangning.

"Hehe," Xiao Manjiao laughed, "You don't have a beard to stare ......at," she happily walked over to Lin Jian and squatted down, resting her elbows on the case, and said, "After we returned to Jiangning, Du Rong came to Dustpan Lane twice, and he was trying to see if we knew the inside story of the robbery in Baisha County. The young lady was very worried and helpless, and she hoped that you would come a day earlier to get an idea...... Now we don't have to worry about it. ”

Lin Lian smiled, and said to Zhou Pu, who was sitting next to him with a knife: "Master Zhou, maybe Du Rong will let people sneak over to investigate, you have to see, break one of the other party's feet, Du Rong doesn't dare to talk about anything in the post house," and said to Chen Enze, "The person wearing brocade clothes is Yuan Chunsheng, the son of the Marquis of Yongchang today, he has a close relationship with Gu Siyuan, the son of the Gu family, maybe the maid of the Gu family knows something, if you are not in a hurry to rest, you can go to the door to ......inquire about it."

Chen Enze agreed: "Okay! After all, Chen Enze is still at the age when he has just tied his hair, and he is on the official ship all the way, but he gets along well with the maids and mothers-in-law of the Gu family.