Red House Shoufu

Chapter 56
It turned out that early this morning, Lin Shu had arranged for Fuquan to go outside to collect the latest news about the examination. When Fuquan came back, he suddenly found many strangers near the Lin residence.

Some of this group of people pretended to be shopkeepers, and some pretended to be beggars. They didn't wander around the Lin's residence. No matter what time they were, their eyes were fixed on the door of the Lin's house all the time.

Fuquan sensed something was wrong, but he didn't startle the snake, and even bought a small thing at the stall pretending to be a salesman.

After Lin Shu heard Fuquan's description, his heart arose.Could it be that those salt merchants in the south of the Yangtze River reached out to the capital?
Impossible, at the foot of the emperor, the embroidered guards can be said to be all-pervasive, and those salt merchants would not be able to attack him in the capital after eating the bear heart and leopard courage.

"When it's almost curfew, you take someone to follow up quietly and see who sent these people!"

Lin Shu warned: "Go to Yu'er and ask for a badge of the county lord's guard to wear. If the imperial guards patrolling the city ask, they will say that Yu'er suddenly wants to eat snacks and send you out to buy them."

Fuquan was ordered to retreat, and Lin Shu couldn't even read the book now.The identities of this group of people were not clearly checked, which really made him feel uneasy.

……

Throughout the afternoon, Lin Shu waited anxiously for news from Fuquan.

After Haishi passed, Fuquan returned to the Lin Mansion with a chill in his body, and went straight to the study as soon as he entered the door.

"Master, we found it! This group of people wandered around the capital, as if they were extremely vigilant. This subordinate followed one of them all the way to a house in Yinanfang."

Yinanfang?It is a place with a mixed population, located in the southwest of the capital, and most of the residents are small traders and craftsmen.

Lin Shu asked, "Have you found out who that house belongs to?"

"Back to the uncle, my subordinates inquired quietly. The owner of that house is a fan merchant from the Qianxiang Kingdom. He bought the yard only two years after Zhide."

Fuquan has always handled affairs in a safe manner, and asked several people to inquire about the situation of that courtyard.

It's a pity that the time is too short. For the time being, we only found out that this fan merchant came from the Qianxiang country, and usually sells spices for a living.

Lin Shu frowned, the location of Qianxiang Kingdom was roughly the Thailand and Cambodia areas in his previous life.

Now the relationship with Great Chu is quite tense, and there are many frictions on the border between the two countries, but it does not affect the exchanges of businessmen.

"Master, my subordinates feel that this Fanshang is the real behind-the-scenes person, and put it on the bright side. When I came back, my subordinates arranged for a few brothers to rent nearby, and news will come back in the next two days or so." .”

When Lin Shu heard Fuquan's arrangement, he nodded with satisfaction: "You have done a good job, a fan merchant, it is impossible to follow us for no reason, there must be hidden secrets behind him."

Seeing Fuquan's tired face, he let him go down to rest.After thinking about it, someone invited Madam Zhang.

After Zhang Nanny came over, Lin Shu talked about this matter, and told Zhang Nanny to guard the back house recently, and make the next arrangement after checking the specific situation.

……

It's a pity that the other party seemed to have noticed that people from the Lin family were following them. On the third day, the fan merchant died in a brothel.

Judging from the inquired news, Fan Shang's death seemed to be an ordinary passionate murder caused by jealousy.

The murderer was a concubine son of Nan'an County King, Shuntian Mansion fined 1000 taels of silver according to the law to settle the case.As for why murder is only fined with silver, that is because in the "Chu Law Shuyi", there are regulations on the death of Fan people caused by Chu people's negligence: with a hundred sticks, Xun's relatives can be fined with silver to make atonement.

Although Lin Shu was very supportive of this regulation in "Chu Lu Shu Yi", he was still troubled by the interruption of the clues.

However, Fuquan finally found out some information. The former owner of this yard was Jia Lian's wife Wang Xifeng, and the person who introduced this fan merchant to buy the yard was Wang Xifeng's brother Wang Ren.

Lin Shu had no choice but to meet Jia Lian, and learned from Jia Lian that a few years ago, Wang Xifeng was in charge of the matchmaking of the Rongguo Mansion. Because the mansion was short of money, he secretly used dowry to fill the money gap.

This courtyard was one of Wang Xifeng's dowry, introduced by her brother-in-law Wang Ren, and sold to the fan merchant.

At this point in the matter, Lin Shu's eyes were fixed on Wang Ren.It's a pity that the test was approaching, and the person staring at Lin's mansion disappeared again, Lin Shu had no choice but to let the guards in the mansion and Daiyu's county lord's personal soldiers guard the door, and wait until after his palace test.

……

The time soon came to the ninth day of February in the eighth year of Zhide, and the Lin Mansion was brightly lit at the beginning of Maoshi.

The head of the family went to the test today, and all the servants put on new clothes and stood guard at the door of the house.

Daiyu woke up early and made breakfast for Lin Shu and Wang Huan. Although the taste was very ordinary, both of them couldn't stop praising her craftsmanship.

When the two arrived at the door, everyone in Lin's residence shouted in unison: "I wish Patriarch and Uncle Huan the titles on the gold list..."

When they arrived at the Gongyuan, the candidates who participated in the examination had already gathered at the entrance of the Gongyuan.Lin Shu and Wang Huan carried the test basket and went in after a simple search.

Shuntianfu Gongyuan was built in the Yongle Year of the previous Ming Dynasty. After so many years of wind and rain, although the imperial court has maintained it irregularly, there is still an unpleasant smell coming from the examination shed.

Fortunately, Daiyu had already prepared sachets for the two of them, and even a thick blanket for each of them.

Lin Shu took out a rag, asked the patrolling guards for a basin of clean water, and carefully cleaned the tables and stools.

From the ninth day of February to the seventeenth of February, the contents of the three exams were four scriptures, five-character eight-rhyme poems, five scriptures, and policy questions.

Lin Shu answered the questions very quickly in the first two rounds, but it was the policy question in the last round that made him want to laugh.

The policy asks five questions, and each question is inseparable from two words: ancestral system and filial piety.

Just looking at the topic, one can tell that it must have been drawn up by the Supreme Emperor of the Dragon Head Palace. I don't know what the emperor thought when he saw this topic, anyway, Lin Shu felt wronged for the emperor.

Putting aside his distracting thoughts, Lin Shu picked up his pen and began to write.In less than half a day, the colorful strategies and theories were displayed on the white paper.

Seeing that it was still early, Lin Shu directly dried the ink on the paper, cleaned up the table and leaned against the wall to fall asleep.

……

On February [-]th, the examination finally ended. Lin Shu and Wang Huan, who had been suffering for many days in the Gong Yuan, hurried back to the mansion to take a bath and change clothes.In Wang Huan's words, he felt that he was about to go rotten, and even a few catties of spices would not be able to restore his true self of Mr. Pianpian.

The results of the examination are usually released more than ten days later, so the fellow villagers of the Nanzhili Guild Hall once again made an appointment with Lin Shu and Wang Huan.

Regardless of whether they are in the middle or not, the candidates can be regarded as having a relaxing time.It happened that the Dabaoen Temple had a grand temple fair on February 25, so everyone planned to hold a poetry fair in the peach blossom forest of the Dabaoen Temple.

Although Lin Shu was not very interested in the Shihui Wenhui, his fellow countrymen would be his future political resources, and he nodded immediately after receiving the invitation.

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