[Red Mansion] The third master of jade-like stone treasures

In the teahouse in Yangzhou, Bao Cong knelt on the ground, sweat dripping from his face.

In front of him stood a middle-aged man in his thirties, holding a copper token with the word "imperial envoy" written on it, and the word "imperial gift" in the lower right corner.

Although Bao Cong had never seen an imperial envoy's token, he also knew that imitating an imperial envoy's token was a serious crime, and no one would do it in his spare time.

Naturally, the person holding this token will not be an ordinary person.

The man shook the token, put it away slowly, sat down, and said, "My name is Fan and my name is Yi. I am an imperial envoy handpicked by the Holy Majesty. Because the things to be done are secret, I didn't make much fanfare. I hope you come out." After you pass through this door, don’t tell anyone about it.”

Bao Cong hurriedly bowed and said, "I'm sure you won't tell anyone!" Then he asked suspiciously, "I don't know why Mr. Fan came to find Xiaomin?"

He was only in his teens, and he had no fame. How could the imperial envoy come to him for no reason?

To talk about the most recent major event, that is, Lin Ruhai passed away.But most of Lin Ruhai's family property is handled by Jia Lian, and Jia Lian said that Lin Ruhai didn't leave any memorials, and he didn't play a memorial to the court before, so the imperial envoy came for that...

Fan Yi obviously saw Bao Cong's question, he took out a letter from his arms, handed it to Bao Cong, and motioned him to read it.

Bao Cong took it respectfully, quickly opened the letter, and read it quickly.After reading it, he became more and more frightened.

It turned out that this was a secret letter from Lin Ruhai to the emperor!

Although the details in the letter were not detailed, Lin Ruhai also mentioned that he would dedicate part of the family property to the court in exchange for the emperor's gift to Lin Daiyu, allowing her to inherit the dowry of the mistresses of the past and part of the Lin family property.

This imperial envoy should be the one secretly sent by the emperor to take over Lin Ruhai's family property!

Thinking of Jia Lian's plan, Bao Cong panicked.Jia Lian didn't act according to Lin Ruhai's last words at all, and even secretly swallowed up a lot of money!

"Master Fan, this, this matter...Second brother Lian has always been considerate in his work. He must have planned to send Uncle Lin back to Suzhou for burial, and then return to Beijing to ask Master She and Master Zheng to make decisions and write a book for Ming Sheng. !" Bao Cong tensed his body, gritted his teeth and explained, and said, "If your lord doesn't believe it, you can ask Lian's second brother in person."

Bao Cong knew that he and Jia's family were in the same boat. Even if Jia Lian did something wrong, he could only try to explain it away with words first, and he must not allow the imperial envoy to arbitrarily convict Jia Lian.

Jia Lian is also white, and the people in the Jia family who can write memorials are Jia Amnesty and Jia Zheng.It makes sense for Bao Cong to explain it this way.

Fan Yi nodded, and asked with a straight face: "I heard that before Lin Ruhai passed away, you were by his side. Did you hear him say that he wanted to dedicate the Lin family property to the Holy One? What last words does Lin Ruhai have?"

Fan Yi looked calm, but in fact, there was already a lot of cursing in his stomach!

He was almost 40 years old before he entrusted his relationship and was promoted to the position of first-class bodyguard in front of the imperial court.He thought that he would be able to face many saints, and he would be able to soar into the sky in the future, but who knew that the first mission he received from the emperor was such a difficult mission that traveled thousands of miles away!

Regarding the matter of Lin Ruhai's offering of family property, he only mentioned a few sentences in the secret letter, and there was no memorial, and it was not clear and detailed at all.

Now that the emperor's private treasury and the imperial treasury are both short of money, Lin Ruhai has no explicit memorial, so the emperor wants to put the family property he donated into his private treasury first.That's why he was sent as an imperial envoy to secretly come to Yangzhou to handle this matter.

The emperor wanted money, so naturally the more the better.But Lin Ruhai didn't write it clearly at all in the letter, and Fan Yi didn't know how much money he had to bring back to make the emperor satisfied.

And the most serious thing is that after he arrived in Yangzhou day and night with a few confidantes, he found that Jia Lian and Jia Baocong, both of whom were in the competition, were selling off the Lin family's property!

Regardless of whether Jia Lian or Jia Baocong was responsible for the part, the Lin family's properties were more or less sold off.The property of the Lin family was sold at a low price, which meant that less money could be dedicated to the emperor.If the Holy Majesty knew that it would be unfavorable for him to do things like this, he didn't know how unlucky he would be!

Bao Cong is young, and the selling price of the Lin family's property is only [-] to [-]% lower than the market price.

So, Fan Yi went to Bao Cong, intending to scare him and get the money from him first.

Bao Cong knew the pros and cons, so he immediately described the situation on the day of Lin Ruhai's death in full detail, and vowed: "Uncle Lin said that the dowry and [-]% of the Lin family's property will be given to Sister Lin as a dowry. [-]% belonged to the Lin clan who purchased the land for sacrifice and established the Lin family school. The other [-]% property, my uncle said it would be dedicated to the imperial court. I can swear by the ancestors of the Jia family that I have never concealed a single word."

Seeing that Bao Cong was quite honest, Fan Yi nodded, stroked his beard and said, "Well, you still know how powerful you are. Since you know that [-]% of Lin Ruhai's family property is dedicated to the imperial court, then you can give me all the money you get. .Although the property was sold cheaply by you, it is only [-] to [-]% less than the market price. When I return, I will intercede for you."

But Bao Cong straightened up on his knees, stared at Fan Yi for a while, and said suspiciously: "Master Fan, if you want money from the Lin family, you should go to Second Brother Lian." He also kindly said: " If the adults don't want to leak the news, the boy can pass the message to Lian's second brother on behalf of the adults after he returns."

Fan Yi frowned, and said, "Of course I'm going to find Jia Lian! It's a big mistake for him to discount the Lin family's property by [-]% and sell it cheap!" He looked at Bao Cong again with a burning gaze, "It's natural for me to look for you first. I have my plan, you are young and do not know what to do, but this time it is okay. It's just..."

He paused, and said sternly: "You are young, don't learn from those corrupt officials in the officialdom, greedy for money that you shouldn't touch!"

Bao Cong understood that it turned out that Fan Yi chose him, the little persimmon, first.It's just, does he know...

"Master Fan, what I sold before was all the things on the dowry list of the mistresses of the Lin family, and all the money I got was kept by Sister Lin." Bao Cong lowered his head and said with a serious look, "If Master Fan wants the money , the boy can only go to Sister Lin, tell her that the Holy Majesty wants her dowry silver, and ask her to take it out again."

After hearing this, Fan Yi blushed with anger.It's because Qi himself didn't find out clearly, and it's because Qi Baocong satirized him like this!

"Ahem..." He suppressed his anger, cleared his throat, and said, "Since it's Miss Lin's dowry, she naturally kept it herself. I'm talking about other properties of the Lin family. You really didn't sell them." Pass one?"

Bao Cong said, "No, it's Lian's second brother who is handling it."

Fan Yi wanted to say something more, but Bao Cong hurriedly said: "Master Fan, don't be impatient. The boy will go back and tell Lian's second elder brother to go to Suzhou to bury his uncle as soon as possible, and then write to ask the two masters to play Ming Shengshang as soon as possible!"

"No, no, no need!" Fan Yi quickly waved his hand, and said: "The Holy Majesty means that I want my official to secretly transport the Lin family's property to Beijing. You Jia's mansion doesn't need to play the Holy Majesty with great fanfare!"

If the person who was dragged to Jia's mansion wrote the memorial, wouldn't it be clear that he didn't handle the errand this time?Fan Yi looked at Bao Cong's innocent face, and the more he looked at it, the more angry he became.

He had no choice but to say: "Go back and ask Jia Lian to quickly count the money and give it to me!"

Bao Cong still shook his head, and said, "Uncle Lin has not been buried yet, and the Lin family's property in Suzhou has not been disposed of. Besides, [-]% of my uncle's last words belonged to the Lin clan and were used to buy land for sacrifices and build clan studies. It’s still not clear!”

"It's better for Mr. Fan to go to Suzhou with us. After Lian's second brother has dealt with it, we can take the money with him." He still doesn't know what's going on with Jia Lian, so he can only delay it for him.

"That's the only way to go!" Fan Yi said angrily.

He didn't want to make a big fuss and leak the news, so he and a few confidants disguised themselves as Lin Ruhai's old friends, and went back to Lin's mansion with Bao Cong.

Seeing Fan Yi and others, Jia Lian was naturally startled.He greeted him with an enthusiastic smile on his face, but his heart was already filled with shock. As soon as he turned around, he was already thinking about how to deal with this imperial envoy.

However, the most important thing is to bury Lin Ruhai.

One month has passed, and after a few days of delay, Jia Lian saw that everything had been packed, so he invited a team of bodyguards to escort him, took the servants of Jia's family, and Lin Daiyu Baocong to transport Lin Ruhai's coffin back to Suzhou.

Although he stopped and stopped along the way, Yangzhou is not far from Suzhou, but within ten and a half months, just outside Suzhou city, he saw people from the Lin clan who came to greet him.

Although the members of the Lin clan don't have much contact with Lin Ruhai, Lin Ruhai's lineage has the most status in the Lin clan.After he passed away, the Lin clan still attached great importance to it.

The old patriarch also knew that Lin Ruhai was the son-in-law of the Rongguo Mansion in the capital, so he was extremely respectful when he met Jia Lian.

So, with Jia Lian as the leader, everyone negotiated to build Lin Ruhai another 49 [-]-day dojo in Suzhou, chose an auspicious day, and finally buried him in the ancestral grave.

After the funeral, under Fan Yi's urging, Jia Lian mentioned Lin Ruhai's property in Suzhou again.

Naturally, the old house cannot be sold. Although Lin Daiyu may never come back to live in it again, she still has to keep a few house slaves to look after her.

Except for old houses, farm shops, large antiques, etc. cannot be taken away, but can only be sold.

This time, with Fan Yi watching, Jia Lian had no choice but to honestly count, choose a buyer honestly, and record all the money in the account.

He secretly resented the appearance of Fan Yi, who prevented him from embezzling money, but the members of the Lin clan jumped out to make trouble first!

"Master Lin doesn't have a biological son. He wanted to adopt my grandson before he was alive, but he didn't have time to do it." Sitting in the lobby, the old patriarch of the Lin family tremblingly said to Jia Lian: "Although I didn't do it, I still want to be Lin's son. The master is a close relative, and the orphan he left behind, the old man will naturally take it home and raise it well."

"Although the old man's family is not rich and powerful, my sons and daughters-in-law are all good people, and they will definitely raise Miss Lin well. Second Master Lian doesn't have to worry."

Bao Cong was leading Lin Daiyu to go in. When Lin Daiyu heard this, she was startled and frightened. She immediately held Bao Cong and said with tears in her eyes, "Brother Bao Cong, I, I won't go..."