Gu Yingsleeve stared at Lin Tie in surprise, but he didn't expect him to be able to accurately guess what Lin Tingxun was doing, and asked with a slight surprise: "Ah, this is all what you figured out yourself?" Then he said, "You kid has never been stupid, but you have a weaker temperament, and you will cry when you chase the earth dog, but I didn't think I wanted to lie to you—I didn't think there was anything wrong with you?" ”

Lin Jian thought to himself, was his previous self really so useless? Why don't you remember this? At this time, it was not the time to ask if he had chased and bitten the dog and scared him to cry, he said: "The head of the family gave me a beautiful house, and arranged my marriage, I think even if I become this inspector, probably only the head of the house can arrange the manpower in the inspection department - speaking of which, the head of the house only needs me to occupy this position, as this puppet, so that it is convenient to go to Lindu, and the township camp is still firmly controlled by the Lin family." Maybe some people think that there is nothing wrong with being a chess piece," Lin Jian said this, calmed down for a moment, looked at Gu Ying's snowy and tender jade face presumptuously, and looked at her deep and clear eyes with the stars under the night sky, and said, "It's just that I don't want to be someone else's chess piece!" ”

"Ah......" Gu Yingsleeve looked at Lin Tie, who had become a little dark and thin but more heroic after returning from this trip, it was hard to imagine that these words came out of his mouth. I really feel that Lin Lian's return this trip is very different from the past, although she has always thought that it is her responsibility to take care of Lin Lian, but she can't find anything to persuade him to change his mind for a while, and she feels that Lin Lian's words are full of arrogance, very manly, but she has lived a deceitful life in the Lin family over the years, knowing what the reality is about, and said softly, "You can have this ambition, I'm really happy for you, but you don't need to refuse in person, there is no room for maneuver." ”

"One step is soft, one step is softer, the family will use me as a chess piece, as long as I fall into it, am I still qualified to maneuver with the head of the family?" Lin Jian said.

"That's a good thing to say, but you're in Dongyang!" Gu Yingsleeve said that she knew the Lin family's power in Dongyang Mansion, and Lin Jian was originally a child of the Lin family, so instead of trying to break free from Lin Tingxun's control, it was better to wait patiently for a few years and wait for Lin Tingxun to die.

"When this matter is over, I'll go to Jiangning." Lin Jian said.

"Ah," Gu Yingsleeve was slightly stunned, a thought suddenly flashed in her mind, her jade face turned red, and she blurted out and reprimanded, "You still don't change your life, what's so good about that fox spirit, you still want to go to Jiangning for her?" Before the words fell, he felt that it was very inappropriate to say this, as if he was jealous of the courtesan in Jiangning. Although there was a bit of a gaffe, Gu Yingsleeve still felt very angry, and her deep and charming eyes stared at Lin Tie fiercely.

Lin Jian touched his nose, he couldn't tell Gu Yingsleeve about Liumakou and the young man in Chongzhou, Su Mei's matter made him difficult to argue, so he didn't say anything, and it was cold now.

Gu Yingsleeve's voice was a little loud, and Zhao Hu, Lin Jingchang, and Zhao Hu and his mother looked at it from a distance without knowing why. Zhou Pu thought to himself: This beautiful girl is really interested in Lin Bin's affairs, and she will eat Miss Su's flying vinegar at this time.

At this moment, the second sons, Lin Xuzong and Zhao Neng, walked over from the distance of Yongdao, their eyes were also staring at this side, and halfway through, they folded into a courtyard.

"Hmm......" Gu Yingsleeve saw that Lin Jian didn't speak, he couldn't be like a vindictive little girl and stalemate with him in front of the gatehouse, it was too unseemly, so he only said softly: "I have to go back to Huyan in two days, you should also go to Huyan to see ...... when you have time."

Huyan is Gu Yingsleeve's hometown, more than ten miles away from Shanglin.

"Hmm." Lin Jian responded, it is a taboo for men and women to meet privately, he knows that Gu Yingsleeve's private appointment is not because of the love between men and women, but he cares about him and wants to persuade him to change his mind, but he is also surprised by Gu Yingsleeve's pungency and boldness, even if he will be happy in his heart, most of them dare not go to the appointment.

Gu Yingsleeve and the maid Cui'er turned around and walked towards the inner house, Lin Lian, Zhou Pu, Zhao Hu and others, as well as Zhao Hu and his mother, left the Lin family's mansion, they didn't notice that the door of the courtyard that the second son Lin Xuzong had just walked in was open and not closed, and a pair of eyes were hidden outside the door and stared outside.

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Listening to the slight sound of the skirt brushing through the blue brick corridor, Lin Xuzong stood behind the door, his slender eyes narrowed slightly, as if imagining Gu Ying's slender posture walking towards the depths of the house.

"Second son......" Zhao Neng lowered his eyebrows and lowered his hands to the side, but secretly looked at the second son's expression, he could only rely on the second son in the Lin family.

"It's different from before......" Lin Xuzong frowned.

"The soft-footed shrimp came back this time and it was very different from the past." Zhao Neng said in the tone of the second son.

"I mean my dad."

"What's wrong with you, sir? The soft-footed shrimp took the wrong medicine and didn't want that house...... I've been with my lord for a few years, but I've never seen my lord eat this closed-door soup. ”

"If it's really useless soft-footed shrimp, my dad will only use his heart to wrap it once, and he won't be able to escape from the palm of his hand in the future anyway. Think about it, what if the harlot deliberately instigated this closed door behind her back? ”

"......" Zhao Neng was slightly stunned, and then said, "Nothing can escape the eyes of the second son, I said that this soft-footed shrimp is very different from the past when it comes back!" ”

Lin Xuzong's brows furrowed even deeper.

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Lin Tie and the others left the Lin family's mansion, and on the way, Zhao Hu remembered that the Seventh Lady asked him to find his mother in the early morning: "What did the Seventh Lady look for you, you haven't said it yet?" ”

"How many steps are you from home?" Zhao Hu and his mother complained, "Whether this can be done or not depends on Xiucai." ”

"What's the matter with me?" Lin Jian asked, "Seventh Lady has something to tell Aunt Zhao to me, why didn't you say it just now?" ”

"The Seventh Lady said that Xiucai you are in the exam, and you will be the master in the future, you can't be without people around you, although Huzi has a rough temperament, but Xiucai knows that he has a deep heart, and he is also neat in doing things, do you think ......"

"How can this be done," Lin Jian heard what Zhao Hu and his mother meant, and hurriedly shirked it, "I treat Zhao Hu as my brother, how can I spoil Zhao Hu so much?" ”

"Then you don't look down on Huzi?" Zhao Hu asked rhetorically.

Lin Tie gave Zhao Hu and his mother a word to block there, he didn't expect that the Seventh Lady would think so carefully for him, in exchange for the previous him, he only wanted to be rich for a lifetime, and most of them would agree to come down, after all, Zhao Hu lost the errand of the township camp because he was angry for him. There is a difference between the noble and the low in this society, there is not much concept of personal equality, although he and Zhao Hu are friends, it is not difficult to accept the relationship between master and servant, even Zhao Hu himself will not feel much grievance.

Zhao Hu didn't expect that the seventh lady would talk to his mother about this, he was in a hurry, he was not mentally prepared, his mind was complicated, and he didn't know what to say.

Lin Jian patiently persuaded Zhao Hu and his mother: "Auntie, what are you talking about?" You also know that I just made the head of the family unhappy because of the matter of the Nanxi Plateau house, and Zhao Hu may not be good with me - in fact, I am also looking for an opportunity to ask the Seventh Lady to help Zhao Hu speak and let Zhao Hu return to the hometown camp......"

"How big can the Nanxi Mansion be, the master of the Lin family can't take off your fame, right?" Zhao Hu is a very assertive woman, she said, "It's good that Zhao Hu can go back to the township camp, but there is no one to support him in the township camp, and his temperament is rough, if he says something wrong or does something wrong, he doesn't want to kick out the master with a word?" Auntie, I said a word in front of you today, watching you grow up, I know that your heart and eyes are also heavy, and now that you have a fame, Huzi follows you, and the future is better than returning to the hometown camp. Do you say that you have already promised someone else? ”

"It's not ......" Lin Lian felt that he was a little weak to speak, and he really couldn't find a good excuse to refuse Zhao Hu's request.

Lin Jingwen said beside him: "I think this is good, if you go to Yanjing to take the exam, you can't be left alone." If I hadn't been able to resign from the store's account office casually, I would have cheekily asked you to accept me as a companion. Lin Jingwen still thinks that Lin Jian has a backbone in front of the head of the family, and he has made up his mind to go to Yanjing to participate in the meeting and try to make a greater reputation.

Even if he doesn't go to the Jinshi examination, he doesn't go to an official and a half-post, according to the example of this dynasty, he can also accept four followers as domestic slaves like officials and hereditary clans. This is not to say that the officials of this dynasty cannot raise more domestic slaves, when the former Jiangdong Xuanfu envoy Zhu Guochang left office, nearly 3,000 family members left Jiangning in a majestic manner, but the legal quota of domestic slaves was only four. These four people can be exempted from the Ding tax, forced labor, and various additional assignments in addition to the field tax according to the rules (only the Ding tax and forced labor can be exempted from the examination for Xiucai).

At first glance, it is not a big deal to exempt people or officials or hereditary family slaves from ding tax and forced labor, and the key is to exempt all kinds of additional assignments in addition to field tax.

Dongyang Mansion is located in a rich area, and there are few droughts and floods, summer rice and autumn wheat, an acre of ripe land can usually have a three-stone rice and wheat harvest throughout the year, a family can have 20 acres of land, and then go to do odd jobs in their spare time, even if they pay full taxes, exempt money, and field endowments according to the rules, they can live quite comfortably, but the various additions of the government, the exploitation of tax collectors and various apportionments in the township are enough for such a homesteader family to live in embarrassment. If you catch up with the bad year, or encounter a lawsuit, or a bandit, you may be kicked to the brink of bankruptcy at any time.

In this way, it can probably be seen that the benefits of being a slave to the lord of the house are coming, although the tax and forced labor can only be exempted from one person, but it can help the family to avoid all kinds of additional assignments attached to the field, and there is no need to worry about being exploited and troubled by the tax collectors. If you encounter any benefits of rent reduction and donation reduction from the government, you can naturally enjoy it first, and if you encounter a lawsuit, you will also have a dependence.

This is still a situation where Master Lin Tie is not mixed well, if Lin Tie mixes well and gets an official and a half-position in the county, then his entourage will naturally have more benefits.

Lin Jian sighed slightly in his heart, thinking about the behavior of those who rushed to be secretaries and drivers for leaders in later generations, how much is the essential difference between them now?

The only disadvantage is to be a servant, the same as a slave, they are all lowly, but the difference between good and low ordinary villagers who are struggling on the food and clothing line is not very important. The messengers around Lin Tingxun are also domestic slaves, but how many people in Shanglin Village can look down on them? It doesn't matter if Zhao Hu joins the lowly nationality, he can bring a lot of benefits to his family, but Lin Jingchang will not be willing, although he has not been able to get into the meritorious service several times, he may not be dead, and he will not be able to fight for fame if he enters the lowly nationality, but there is no restriction on joining the army or even serving as a low-level officer.

Lin Tie said that he didn't accept Zhao Hu as a follower because he was afraid that he would wronged him and hurt his brotherhood, but in fact, he didn't want to drag Zhao Hu into something more dangerous, whether it was Liumakou, or Chongzhou boys, or Su Mei and Jin'an's luxury family, it was not a danger that ordinary people could bear, but in Zhao Hu's mother's opinion, Lin Tie didn't accept his son as a house slave, which was really called hurting brotherhood.

Zhao Hu didn't care, if Lin Lian agreed to come down, he would still feel that he couldn't get over his face.

Lin Jian could only spread his hands and say that he would go back and discuss this matter, Zhao Hu looked up at the sun, gave these things a fork, it was almost noon, and said: "It's too late to go back to cook, let's go to the ferry, Xiucai will come back on the first day, and we should also set up a table for a dust washing banquet......"

Zhao Hu didn't ask anything, she went back first, she was a woman, and it was inconvenient to follow her to the restaurant on the street; Lin Bin, Zhao Hu, Lin Jingchang, Zhou Pu, Chen Size and others walked in the direction of the ferry.

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