Survive in the world of Red Mansions

Lin Hai did not intend to avoid people when he came to Zhenjiang Mansion this time. During his stay in Zhenjiang Mansion for a few days, he learned about the sales of salt in various parts of Zhenjiang Mansion from the conversations of officials from the Capital Transfer Salt Envoy, and then combined with his own experience. After hearing the news from various places, they have almost understood the whole incident.

In the entire Zhenjiang Prefecture, the big salt merchants include the Ma family and the Wang family, and there are several small salt merchants below, but they basically rely on these two to survive.If it is said that before this, these salt merchants dared to drag and hold down the salt in their hands and not sell it, but now that the imperial official who inspects the salt censor has come, as long as they are not thinking of rebelling, it is better to cooperate obediently.They have a backer, but no matter how big the backer is, they are not as big as the emperor. On the surface, they dare not confront the officials sent by the emperor.

It is impossible for Lin Hai himself to stay in Zhenjiang Mansion for a long time. All these salt merchants have their backers, local salt government officials, these big salt merchants really don’t take them too seriously, and besides, there are many salt government officials in these places I have benefited from these big salt merchants on weekdays, and it is obviously unreliable to count on them.But at this time, it is obviously not suitable to make any more big moves. Could it be that they copied these people again?

During Lin Hai's stay in Zhenjiang Mansion, he hardly stopped, visiting local officials and meeting two salt merchants, Ma and Wang.Before recruiting the two major salt merchants, Lin Hai transferred a batch of salt to Zhenjiang Mansion through the hand of the salt merchant surnamed Li who reported to the emperor, and told them clearly that if he had similar problems in the future, he would not Mind letting other salt merchants enter Zhenjiang Prefecture.

Lin Hai dealt with all the matters and arranged the follow-up matters. Finally, he warned these local salt officials and recruited these salt merchants to warn them before he decided to return to Yangzhou.

A group of people rested early in order to set off early tomorrow morning.Lin Hai also refused to let Lin An wait on him. After driving him out, he stayed in the room alone, thinking about this errand all the time.Now that the battle for the heir apparent has reached the most critical time, Lin Hai also doesn't want to make any trouble at the last moment to attract attention and cause trouble for himself.

This time I took this trip myself, one is because I am afraid that if these scumbags that appear now, if you keep ignoring them, they will continue to ferment, and later develop into a situation where there is no way to control it, and I am not to blame; the other is also It was for the emperor, and I didn't want the old emperor to feel that he was sitting in this position, and that he would do nothing if something happened.Lin Hai knew what happened in the Zhenjiang Mansion, and the people in the Zhenjiang Mansion would definitely report it to the old emperor, and it was impossible to hide it.

These days, I always have some bad feelings. I don’t know if something happened. I should go back to Yangzhou’s own territory early to rest assured. Also, I haven’t seen Lin Rui and brother for a while. It’s not as convenient as in modern times. You can make a phone call, but don't worry about it.

Today, after driving for a long time, we didn't come across an inn after walking for so long. The group saw a small river flowing by the side of the road, so they decided to rest for a while and let the horses rest and drink water.

Lin Hai also got off the carriage to exercise his body, and after walking for another hour or two, he would reach the last post on the return journey.After a night's rest, we will be home tomorrow. Thinking of this, the group of people relaxed a lot, talking easily, and the horse was also slowly gnawing on the withered grass by the roadside.

After several days of continuous driving, Lin Hai felt a little tired after doing activities for a while, so he simply squinted his eyes and sat on the sidelines leaning on the carriage.Suddenly, I heard the sound of "cang lang, dang lang" weapons clashing from the side.Lin Hai opened his eyes and woke up. It was indeed the sound of weapons clashing. Lin Hai saw that his guards were already fighting with a group of men in black.

"Assassins, there are assassins!"

"Protect adults!"

"Protect adults!"

"Lord be careful!"

The guard shouted to remind Lin Hai to pay attention to safety, and also reminded other guards to pay attention.

Lin Hai saw one or twenty of them, dressed in black and armed with weapons, rushed into the group of them.

The situation is critical now, otherwise Lin Hai will probably complain about these killers. Could it be that wearing black clothes is the standard for killers? Isn't it more eye-catching to kill in black clothes in broad daylight? Isn't there something wrong?

But in the current situation, Lin Hai didn't think so much, he just kept his eyes on the situation on the field.It was discovered that after the initial chaos caused by the sudden attack, Lin Hai's own guards also started an orderly counterattack.

Lin Hai brought out nearly 40 people this time, except for the servants, the book office and other civil servants, the other [-] were guards, just to protect his safety, including the people sent by the emperor and the fourth prince , these personnel added up, the entire protection force is not weak.

Lin Hai watched carefully from the side, and found that although the battle between the guards and the men in black was dangerous, he could still see some tricks after a long time. He felt that the men in black were getting more and more irritable, desperately trying to move to his side, Obviously, their target is Lin Hai himself.

These men in black were rather fearless, and rushed towards Lin Hai's direction desperately. Several guards standing in front of Lin Hai held weapons and watched the situation on the field nervously.Finally, two men in black rushed to these guards and fought with them.

After the several guards fought with the man in black, they couldn't take care of Lin Hai anymore, so Lin Hai had to retreat while avoiding the man in black's attack.Seeing a guard approaching him, Lin Hai also retreated towards that guard.

After the incident, Lin Hai thanked his premonition countless times, and thanked all the gods and Buddhas in the East and West, for allowing him to avoid that fatal knife.

When Lin Hai retreated about one meter in front of the guard, he turned his head from time to time to confirm the direction, and saw the guard's sullen expression, Lin Hai didn't think about anything else at all, and turned his body to the side completely like a conditioned reflex , Dodged the knife stabbing his heart, and the second knife that followed still did not escape, but fortunately, he was covered by winter clothes, but a long gash was still cut in the abdomen.Lin Hai endured the pain, and while clutching his abdomen, he raised his foot and kicked the guard. The guard had to back up a bit while avoiding it. When he stabbed Lin Hai for the third time, the guard next to him also rushed over. The knife in his hand opened the killer's knife that stabbed Lin Hai for the third time.

At this time, most of the other black-clothed men on the field were dead or injured, and the remaining six or seven people looked at each other and quickly retreated into the weed jungle on both sides of the road.

The abdominal wound kept bleeding outwards, and the pain made Lin Hai's eyes black for bursts, and he couldn't stand still, so he had to lean on the carriage and sit down again.

Seeing the head of the guard Li Gang coming, he persisted in asking about the situation, "How are our people? Are those men in black still alive?"

"My lord, there are four dead and five injured on our side. The men in black who didn't escape and the guards who assassinated you just committed suicide by poisoning themselves. No one survived. Your injuries are very serious, your lord. You need to be treated in time. There is no doctor for the time being. This subordinate will help you with the medicine first, then let’s talk.”

Lin Hai endured the pain and nodded. Now I really want to thank my son for being "troublesome". Lin Rui knew that Lin Hai was going to travel far away, so he asked the housekeeper to find someone to prepare a large amount of wound medicine and daily medicine, saying that it was just in case .It's best if there's nothing wrong, if something really happens, these medicinal materials might be able to save the emergency, so they can't be used now.

Lin An and Li Gang supported Lin Hai to lie down on the carriage. Lin An looked at the blood stains on Lin Hai's clothes and the open wound, his hands were trembling, and he didn't know what to do.

Lin Hai looked at Li Gang, "You should do it!"

Li Gang nodded, cut open Lin Hai's clothes with a dagger, and tore the cloth on the wound lightly and quickly. The moment the wound was torn open, blood rushed out again. The wound was three to four inches long. Li Gui quickly poured the hemostatic powder on the wound, Lin Hai sweated profusely from the pain, and passed out.Li Gui didn't care about Lin Hai's fainting, he just speeded up his hand movements and quickly bandaged the wound.After treating Lin Hai's wound, ask Lin An next to him to carefully wipe off the sweat on Lin Hai's body, and then stand by and take care of him. Let Lin An pay more attention to Lin Hai's body temperature before going down to see the other injured.

A group of people were afraid that the attackers would leave and come back, so after setting up the wounded and the dead, they didn't dare to stay longer, and only wanted to rush to the post station as soon as possible.They had to hurry, and they were afraid of going too fast. Lin Hai and the others' wounds would open, which made the pedestrians suffer a lot.

After arriving at the post station, Li Gang immediately ordered people to invite the doctor. If anything happened to Lin Hai this time, Li Gang and the guards sent by the emperor would definitely not be able to escape the punishment from above.

Because of Lin Hai's injury, he was not used to moving immediately, so Li Gang arranged for people to go to Yan Yushi's mansion to report the news. Although it is less than a hundred miles away from Yangzhou, it is better to send more people here just in case.

Er Zhuzi, the guard sent back to Yangzhou, hurried on the road overnight. When they arrived at Yangzhou City, the city gate was not opened.

After Erzhuzi returned to the mansion, he went directly to the housekeeper and told about Lin Hai's injury in the attack.After hearing what Er Zhuzi had finished, the butler decided to tell the uncle after thinking about it, because the master had explained before going out that if it was difficult to make a decision about what happened in the mansion, the uncle's opinion would be the first.

Lin Rui practiced martial arts with Master Wu for half an hour, and just after washing and changing, he saw the butler trotting in hastily.

"Master, something happened!"

Lin Rui waved the others to go out, and hurriedly asked, "Lin Bo, what's the rush this early in the morning?"

"Master was attacked yesterday afternoon and was injured?"

"What? Father was injured? How is the situation now? Is the injury serious? Who said it?"

"It was Er Zhuzi who came back to report the letter, and he is waiting outside now."

"Let him in!"

"uncle!"

"Don't be too polite, what happened to father? Can you explain the situation clearly?"

"Yes, sir!" Er Zhuzi told the story of the attack yesterday again, "Master's wound is in the abdomen, but fortunately the wound is not deep, but because the wound is relatively large, it is inconvenient to move, afraid of the wound splitting, so Li The guards decided to stay at the station for a few more days, and return to Yangzhou when the master is better."

Lin Rui was fortunate that it was winter, and he was wearing a lot of clothes, so he blocked the knife more or less, otherwise the wound might be more serious.

"Uncle Lin, go to Mr. Li and tell him about the attack on his father, and ask him to arrange the guards in the yamen, plus 30 guards in the mansion, to pick up his father, and ask Doctor Zhang to bring some The best medicinal materials, hemostatic medicine, etc., go with these guards."

"Master, will something happen if there are so many guards missing in the mansion?"

"I would like to go in person, but my father will assign some people to protect me. My sister and I will be fine in the mansion. I have also ordered that from now on, no one in the mansion is allowed to go out except for the buyers. If there is any restlessness, all will be locked up first, Lin Bo, you go out and arrange the arrangement first! Don't tell my sister about this, lest she worry."

Just now Lin Rui stood there straight, calmly arranging the housekeeper to do things, now after they went out, Lin Rui dared to sit down slowly with the help of the table, thinking about what else he could do now?However, apart from staying in the mansion to pray and obediently waiting for his father to come back, there is nothing he can do?It was the first time I felt so powerless after being here for such a long time. My father had an accident and I couldn't do anything?

"Brother, I'm waiting for you to have breakfast. You haven't come over all this time. Are you uncomfortable?" Lin Daiyu led someone in and asked with concern.

"Ah, sister, you're here!" Lin Rui had been stuck in his own thoughts just now, and was suddenly awakened by Lin Daiyu's voice.

Lin Rui stood up and said as he walked, "It's okay, I was just thinking about something just now, and I forgot the time, let's go now."

"Rui'er, are you okay?" Daiyu looked at Lin Rui cautiously.

"Don't worry, what will happen to me? Sister, father is not in the mansion for a while, so you should beat the people below more often, lest these people start to slack off again after a long time!"

"I will pay attention! Rui'er, you are a man, don't put too much thought on the internal affairs, just concentrate on studying literature and martial arts, I will take care of these things."

When Zhou Tao taught Lin Rui in the morning, he saw Lin Rui sitting there absent-minded, and he didn't demand him as strictly as usual.He also knew about Lin Hai's attack and injury. Lin Rui worried that his father was normal, so he knocked on Lin Rui's table and said:

"Rui'er, you look like you don't have the heart to listen to my lecture today, why don't you just stop today's class?"

"I'm sorry, sir, the student was rude!" Lin Rui hurriedly stood up and apologized to Zhou Tao.

"Rui'er, I don't want to blame you, but my husband still hopes that you learn to control your emotions. Master Lin was injured and has not returned, and now there are only your siblings in the house. You have never hidden anything from you. At this time, you should keep calm. Your sister is just a lady in the boudoir, so it is not convenient to tell her that there is something going on in the house now, and you, as the only male of the Lin family, have to shoulder a heavy burden. Besides, I received The news said that Mr. Lin was treated in a timely manner and there will be no danger, so you can rest assured. Since you are not in the mood to listen to my lecture today, please copy this "Taber" five times."

"gentlemen……"

"Any opinion? How about copying it 10 times?"

"..." I dare not say it if I have an opinion. If I say it again, I'm afraid it will be 20 times.