Love of Daiyu in the Red Chamber

"My lord, help me!"

Zhong Chu sat on the chair to the left of Lin Ruhai and looked at the file. Zhong Chu himself was a scholar.With Lin Ruhai personally carrying it, he can read some files that are not confidential.At this time, the file he was looking at recorded a case two years ago. The salt ship transported from Suzhou to Huaiyang encountered Japanese pirates in the canal bay, and the whole ship sank into the river. No one on board survived.This matter involved a lot. Yan Yushi, who was in charge of this generation, was executed by Qiuhou Wen, and the others were locked up and exiled.Lin Ruhai entered Gusu only after the vacancy of Houyan censor was vacated.

As soon as Zhong Chu put down the file, a man with patched hair and messy hair came in, knelt on the ground and kowtowed!

Lin Ruhai was fair and strict yet tactful, he slowly put down the brush in his hand.Zhong Chu took a sip of tea, found this interesting, picked up the other files to look at them, and looked at the kneeling man out of the corner of his eyes.

"Brother asked me to save your life, but he didn't tell me why, or how to save you." A stranger broke into the mansion guarded by a dozen people, and managed to kneel in front of him. "I don't know who brought my brother in?"

Lin Ruhai was only asking tentatively, but unexpectedly, the kneeling person kowtowed a few more times, knelt straight and looked at Lin Ruhai, and lowered his head as if frightened again.

"Caomin is Yan Mao from Tongxiang Village, Nanyang County, Gusu. He came to Gusu with his father the day before yesterday and bought a pot of salt back home, but was stopped by the police of the yamen, saying that Caomin was smuggling salt, so he arrested my father without explanation! Seeing that the situation was not good, the grassroots escaped by diving into the water!" The man explained what happened in an orderly manner, but he didn't say a word about how he entered the government office.

"The grass-roots dare not go home, and there are government officials searching for them quickly. The grass-roots have no choice but to break into the lord's mansion, begging the lord for help!"

Lin Ruhai has only been in office for more than three months. Although the past three months have been busy, everything went smoothly. Today, a man broke this seemingly peaceful appearance!

"Why don't you go to the yamen to beat the grievances and ask my master for this matter. The yamen departments perform their duties. My master is the salt censor, who is in charge of salt affairs, and the yamen is in charge of judging cases." Zhong Chu took a look. Lin Ruhai, the other party nodded in agreement before continuing: "Although you have been wronged for selling illegal salt, as long as the amount of salt is within the required range, this matter can be resolved by explaining one or two things."

"My lord, I am wronged. They couldn't help but robbed my salt jar, and even arrested my father. My father is old, so how can he bear such frights!" Yan Mao began to kowtow again, secretly looking at Lin Ruhai's expression , Looking at the other party just looking at him and not speaking, he moved his knees that were a little stiff.

Lin Ruhai was silent for a while before saying: "Since you have found me, I can't ignore this matter. Come on, go to the yamen and call Mr. Chen."

"Ah Chu, you go..." Lin Ruhai motioned Zhong Chu to approach, and whispered something in his ear, Zhong Chu took the order and quietly retreated.

Lin Ruhai is the highest official in Gusu, so it is not difficult to call the local parent officials.After a while, Mr. Chen, who weighed about two hundred kilograms, was surrounded by his subordinates.

"Master Lin, I don't know why you called the lower officials here?" Master Chen is the official of Gusu's parents, and he will be promoted this year without accident.Gusu not only has a lot of talents and beauties, but also has a lot of big families, all of whom he can't afford to offend.On weekdays, Mr. Chen just nestled in the yamen, hugged his wife and teased his son to enjoy life, as long as there were no outrageous incidents that affected his political achievements, he would turn a blind eye to whatever other people liked to do, enjoying himself at leisure.

The yamen servant in front of him added a bowl of tea to Lin Ruhai with discernment. Lin Ruhai picked up the lid of the cup and swiped the extra tea leaves. Watching Mr. Chen drink two bowls of tea in a row, he waited for the person to catch his breath before saying: "Yan Mao, Tell Chen Daren in detail what you just said."

Yan Mao repeated what he just said, and Chen Congming broke out in a cold sweat.The yamen did arrest a few salt dealers who were selling private salt the day before yesterday, and selling salt privately is a killing business.After the head of the previous salt censor was beheaded, Gusu was once empty, and a lot of private salt messed up the market.

Chen Congming wiped the sweat from his forehead with a handkerchief, but Lin Ruhai didn't force him, anyway, he was in charge of this matter, but he couldn't cross the line.

Yan Mao saw that the two adults in the hall did not speak, and his face was a little anxious. He closed his eyes, opened them again, and said, "Caomin and my father just bought salt for the family. They were arrested several times that day. Personally, my father was implicated and wronged, I beg you to see clearly!"

Lin Ruhai didn't believe Yan Mao's one-sided words. Chen Congming sat down and hesitated, trying to say something as if he was worried about something.

"What's your father's name?" Chen Congming held back for a long time before choking out such a sentence, looked at Lin Ruhai and him, scratched the back of his head in embarrassment, and smiled silly.

"Father Yan Dacai."

Lin Ruhai felt a little bored, so he picked up the brush and continued to annotate the dossier, regardless of how Chen Congming winked at him.Chen Mingming couldn't figure out what Lin Ruhai was thinking and didn't dare to make up his own mind, so he sent people to find the master.Today he asked Master to go out to do some errands, but he failed to come up with such an urgent matter!

Yan Mao knelt for half an hour, his knees were already sore and numb, and he was almost unconscious. The two adults were drinking tea and reading a book leisurely, while the other was scratching his head and looking nervous.However, both of them were sitting, and he was the only one kneeling on the icy floor in the twelfth lunar month, with the cold air spreading from his knees to his limbs, if it wasn't for...

"My lord, Mr. Chen, please see me!" Yan Mao was interrupted, and a baby-faced policeman told Lin Ruhai loudly and respectfully that Mr. Chen was outside.

"Oh? Let him in."

Chen Congming breathed a sigh of relief, and slammed his teacup on the table.Lin Ruhai raised his eyes and glanced at him, his eyes were unpredictable.

Master Chen walked in from the outside at a leisurely pace, walked to Yan Mao's side, first saluted Lin Ruhai and then made a gesture to Chen Congming.Lin Ruhai waved his hand to signal him to sit beside Chen Congming, and Chen Congming looked at Master Chen eagerly.The two made eye contact for a while, but Master Chen lowered his eyebrows and remained silent.