Lord of the House

Chapter 23

At noon, Liang Zuoren, the magistrate of Shiliang County, came on a fast horse. The county magistrate, the office of the criminal office, and Xian Zuo inspected the entrance to the village/the place of battle and the bodies of the robbers, and asked Lin Bie for details as usual. Those foreign horse traders who carry hard bows and ride fast horses are supposed to be the target of severe suppression by the government, but it is already a cancer that the court cannot remove from local strongholds who support private soldiers. Dig deeper.

The armor, weapons, and unique markings on the horses of the rogue corpses were all recorded in detail, as important clues to track down the real culprit behind the assassination of the deputy envoy. Liang Zuoyi sent the scribe Xingwen Dongyang House to report the matter in detail, and arranged it. The search for Assassin's comrades in Shiliang County.

As for Gu Yingxiu's murder of a vicious servant, Liang Zuoren closed the case on the spot and imposed a fine of 22 silver coins, which was handed over to the county treasury within three days. Gu Yingxiu ordered three health servants to take the dead body back to the forest in a carriage. She only left her personal maid and Zhao Shi, saying that it was her aunt who kept her and she wanted to stay at Huyan for one night and then go back tomorrow.

Although the case has been closed in the county, the real situation will soon be reported back to Shanglinli, Gu Yingxiu still asked the servants and the wives to go back and say that the deceased was killed by his fellow assassins to save Lin Bing. Ask them to send a letter to Lin Tingxun to distribute pensions to the family of the deceased.

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Lin Xuzong was in the Wangxianglou garden on the south bank of Shanglinxi, only to know that the net thrown out in the early morning had torn a big hole for Lin Fu through the horse dealers from other places. In addition to Shanglindu, Fenglindu at the south of Shiliang River is also the place where Lin Fu is most likely to escape from Shiliang County. He sent someone to guard there last night. In the early morning, four horse traders from other towns made trouble on Shanglindu, injuring the six people he sent to guard there. Naturally, Lin Xuzong didn't bother to report to the government, and only dispatched his manpower to Fenglindu to chase after him, but he escaped with the help of horses and legs. Before noon, I heard that a group of people found Lin Bing's trace at the northern foot of Tiemu Mountain. Except for one person who came back to report, the group of people who chased out had not heard back until afternoon.

Lin Xuzong felt that something was not right. At this time, the old mansion sent someone over and told him that the master asked him to go to the north bank immediately.

"What happened?" Lin Xuzong asked the family members who were sent to report.

"Seventh Madam encountered assassins when she was looking back at her home. I heard that those assassins were chasing and killing Lin Xiucai. Lin Zhong was killed by the assassins when he rescued Lin Xiucai. The body was parked in the ancestral hall. Master is waiting for you at the ancestral hall to pass by right away?" Reply to the servant who was sent to report.

"Is Lin Xiucai dead, and the seventh lady?" Lin Xuzong only cares about this.

"It seems to be all right," the servant who reported the letter didn't know the details. "Those maids and wives are all fine, and I also sent a letter saying that the seventh lady will stay at Huyan for the night for the aunt of the Gu family, and will come back tomorrow. , but didn't say how Lin Xiucai..."

Lin Xuzong didn't know why Lin Fu fled to Gu's house in Huyan, thinking that the team that chased and killed Lin Fu had not heard back yet. I'm afraid it was just a matter of luck, and it was always a fact that Lin Fu colluded with foreigners. Lin Xuzong didn't know how strong and how many horse traders from other towns had sneaked into Shiliang County. In short, it wasn't the only three people who appeared at the mule and horse market yesterday. The sedan chair went to the north bank of Shanglinxi to discuss with his father.

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The cold wind swirled the dead leaves on the ground, and there was some floating soil.

Gu Yingxiu replied that the deceased was killed to save the children of the Lin family. According to the old practice, the body should be parked in the ancestral hall before being buried. Those followers, maids, and mother-in-law who came back to report will all be locked up in a small courtyard for Lin Tingxun. Do not make contact with outsiders.

Lin Xuzong came over in a sedan chair, and before passing by everyone's mansion, someone trotted out to give him a message: "Third Uncle just sent someone to come back from the county on a fast horse, and then left, maybe something big happened in the county?"

Lin Xuzong didn't understand what was going on in the county, so he was carried to the ancestral hall.

Someone was guarding outside the ancestral hall, and he asked him to go to the East Side Hall to see the master, and the entourage stayed outside and waited.

Yesterday's **** buttocks had no scabs and no firmness. Lin Xuzong walked in a hurry and fidgeted on the sedan chair. Without a word, he stepped over the high threshold, walked into the courtyard and walked towards the east side hall.

Lin Tingxun sat in front of the coffin with his crutches on his face, and watched Lin Xuzong walk in. He gasped sharply in his chest, and reprimanded: "You son of a bitch, it's too late for me to die, what do you want to do?"

"That's a peculiar family who hooks up with foreigners and doesn't consider himself a member of the Lin family at all. What can I do?" Lin Xuzong saw that only the township commander Lin Zonghai and the family's son Gu Changshun were with his father in the east side hall, so he spoke without any scruples. Looking at the corpse parked in the middle of the room, he frowned and said, "This wicked servant even gave his life to save that desperate householder. What's the pity?"

"You sent someone to kill him, do you want him to tie his hands and kill you?" Lin Tingxun was so angry that he vomited blood, his skinny body jumped up like a spring, picked up his crutches and stepped forward to beat Lin Xuzong, "What are you doing? Don't you have a brain? Your anger has swept away your sanity. You are playing with someone you usually despise without knowing it. What qualifications do you have to inherit the Lin family's business?"

Lin Xuzong tilted his head and gave him a cane on his shoulder. He also hated in his heart. He grabbed the cane and violently grabbed it from his father. He hated: "Why am I not qualified..." He said this. Lin Tingxun was not careful that this kid dared to fight back, he was taken out, his head fell to the ground, his head slammed on the green brick ground, and there was a thud, so scared that Lin Zonghai and Gu Changshun, who were waiting by the side, hurried to help he. Lin Xuzong was also startled, but he didn't dare to lose face, and stood up there with a cold face.

Lin Tingxun only felt a burning pain on his forehead when he touched it, and it rubbed his skin. This fall made his eyes glow with gold stars. Seeing Lin Xuzong standing there with his arms folded, he still didn't come to help him, and he was so angry that he rushed to the back of his head. Feeling numb, he pointed at Lin Xuzong and cursed: "Niezi, you kneel down..." The words were so short of breath that his eyes darkened.

Lin Xuzong knew that he was too reckless just now, and he bent his knees and knelt aside for training.

Lin Tingxun asked his son, Gu Changshun, to help him sit down. He took two breaths before he hated him and said, "You only care about your shame in the Mule Market last night. Do you know that a big event happened in Shiliang County yesterday?"

Lin Xuzong looked up at his father blankly.

"You, you, since you don't know about this, why didn't you have the patience to listen to me yesterday? Cough, cough..." Lin Tingxun coughed with thick phlegm in his throat for a long time, "Yesterday when Gu Wuchen and Liang Zuoren met in the city, The assassin was assassinating, and Lin Fu was there at the time. It was he and the foreigner who came back with him who saw through the assassin and rescued Gu Wuchen... Lin Fu was kind to the Gu family in the previous generation, and it was like this yesterday. Such resentment, you have to endure it for a while! You are good, and I can't wait to send someone to chase and kill him today, for fear that others will not know the prestige of the second son of the Lin family. The seven people in the gang poured the dirty water of the 'assassin's gang', how do you wash it off?" A letter was placed on the corner table, Lin Tingxun picked it up and threw it on the ground, "Pick it up and see!"

"..." Lin Xuzong was stunned. The Lin family was used to being in Dongyang Mansion, but he knew in his heart that the crime of assassinating the deputy envoy was not something the Lin family could bear. Shabai, he was always a proud soldier, but at any time it could become a hornet's nest that would destroy the Lin family.

"Those people you raised privately, let me get out of Dongyang Mansion far away. Before the assassination case is over, you are not allowed to go back to Dongyang. Those marked swords and armors are all thrown into the Shiliang River. Don't leave anything behind..." Lin Tingxun was still calm, knowing that Lin Fu had the intention to frame the blame, but after all, Dongyang Mansion and Shiliang County hadn't set their sights on the Lin family, and it was too late to wipe their buttocks clean.

Lin Xuzong felt heartache for a while. He spent so much effort to raise seventy or eighty people, but he had to leave Dongyang Mansion because of this incident. He was even more worried that these people would not be under his control if they were outside for a long time, and most of the hard work of these years would be wasted. But these people can't leave. If the government traces the traces of pearls and horses and leads the disaster to the Lin family, thinking about the ruin of the Gu family over the years, you will know what the future of the Lin family will be.

"I must slaughter that scumbag!" Lin Xuzong never imagined that Lin Xuzong would be so vicious.

"You just swallow this breath, when I die, you can toss as much as you want, and I won't climb out of the coffin to block it, but as long as I'm still alive, you will give it to me. Honestly..." Lin Tingxun was in a hurry after talking for a while and couldn't catch up, he waved his hands weakly, "What matters, what decisions, you have to discuss with Zong Hai now, the Lin family is now handed over to you, I don't worry ..." He stood up but felt top-heavy, grabbed the hand of Gu Changshun, the son next to him, "Changshun, help me go back."

Lin Xuzong also wanted to ask why Lin Fu and Qi Yiniang both went to Huyan Gu's house at the same time, and saw Lin Zonghai winking at him to imply that he should stop asking these sensitive questions to irritate his father. When Lin Tingxun left, Lin Xuzong learned from Lin Zonghai that the servant who was lying in the side hall of the ancestral hall was because of disobedience and refusing to save Lin Bie and killed the seventh lady with a knife in public.

While Lin Xuzong felt a chill in his heart, he had to calm down first and sit down with his clan brother Lin Zonghai to sit at Wangxianglou Garden in the south of Shanglinxi to discuss how to resolve the immediate crisis. Lin Xuzong decided to let Zhao Neng, who was loyal to him, leave Dongyang Mansion with his No. 6 or 70 Kou Bing. He now trusts Zhao Neng, and there must be a few trustworthy people to control these six or seven at the same time. Only the tenth person can reassure him.

After a night of panic and busyness, Lin Xuzong only changed the medicine once, and he was sure that everyone left Dongyang Mansion. When he was relieved to go back to his room to rest, Lin Tingxun's waiter and family son Gu Changshun rushed into the garden in a panic, running profusely sweating in the cold winter, out of breath and said to him: " Second Young Master, Master, he…”

"What about my father?"

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