Need for money

Hearing the maid's message, Lin Jingzhi guessed who was coming after a little thought. He didn't ask the guest's name, so he asked Chai Fang to wait at the gate, while he and Aunt Yu quickened their pace and walked towards the hall.

Passing through several circular arches and corridors between pavilions, stepping on the smooth floor under their feet, the two of them came to the front of the hall without much effort. Before stepping into the hall door, they heard a familiar voice coming from the hall voice.

"Brother Zheng, Brother Jia, how are the two elder brothers?" Lin Jingzhi walked a few steps, crossed the threshold of the hall, and greeted with a smile.

"Haha, yes, of course." Zheng Jianqiu stood up from his seat with a smile, and bowed his hands back.

Originally, the land reclamation did not suffer from Zheng's residence, but with Lin Jingzhi's words, Jia's family found Zheng's residence. In one winter, they could earn several 10 taels of money out of thin air. How could Zheng Jianqiu be unhappy? For this reason, his father also specially praised him a few words, saying that it was a blessing in disguise for him to know Lin Jingzhi, a good friend worth making.

Zheng Sheng has always been very strict with his heirs, and rarely praises any of them on weekdays. For this reason, Zheng Jianqiu seemed very excited.

The Zheng mansion is no different than the Lin family, its internal relations are intricate and complex, and Zheng Sheng's affirmation is of great significance to Zheng Jianqiu, who was originally relatively weak in the mansion.

Seeing Lin Jingzhi arriving, Jia Lin strode up to meet Lin Jingzhi with a smile, took his hand and said, "I'm fine too, you have a good idea, brother, I made a big face in front of my father yesterday, look !” While talking, Jia Lin took out a stack of bank notes from his bosom, and said again: “Brother, I can now withdraw bank notes at my shop, haha, as long as it’s less than 2000 taels, those shopkeepers don’t have to report it to My father knew."

"This is an order from my father himself. Tell me, how can I thank you for my brother, or I will invite you..."

"Don't, stop!" Lin Jingzhi knew that Jia Lin was going to turn the topic to Liuyan Pavilion, eating flower wine, or the affairs of courtesans after listening to half of the words. He was not only busy opening up wasteland and digging canals Lin Lizhi must be found as soon as possible, otherwise Mrs. Lin may suffer from a minor illness, and she will not have the time and mood to waste in Liuyan Pavilion.

"Hmph, what a disappointment!" Jia Lin originally thought of taking Zheng Jianqiu to Liuyan Pavilion to have fun together, so as to deepen the friendship, but when Lin Jingzhi refused again, he gave him an annoyed look and let go hand, and sat back again.

Lin Jingzhi looked at Jia Lin who was still a child, couldn't help being amused, turned his head, and looked at Zheng Jianqiu, he didn't play sloppy, and went straight to the point, "Brother Zheng, the official document for buying wasteland has been completed? "

"Of course!" Zheng Jianqiu responded with a big laugh, and said again: "If you don't make an early move on such a good deal, if someone snatches it up, the Zheng and Jia families will suffer a lot!"

It turned out that after Lin Jingzhi gave Jia Lin an idea yesterday, Jia Lin knew that the matter was urgent, so he hurried back home. After discussing with his father, the two led dozens of domestic slaves to Jiancheng on tall horses. , when the two ran to Jiancheng, it was not completely dark and the city gate was still open, otherwise everyone in the Zheng residence would have to rest outside the city for the night.

When he arrived in Jiancheng, Jia Nanshan was afraid that the good news would be taken first, thinking that Zheng Jianqiu had been a guest in Jia's mansion and was familiar with him, so he directly visited Zheng Jianqiu with a famous edict. It happened that Zheng Jianqiu was in the mansion. The servants introduced him to his small courtyard.

Later, when he understood the purpose of the Jia family's visit, Zheng Jianqiu didn't even discuss with Zheng Sheng, so he agreed without saying a word.

The current situation is not stable recently, Zheng Sheng will live in the barracks every now and then, and he will return home in the middle of the night that day. Before dawn in the morning, the gatekeepers were asked to open the city gate, and they went straight to Luo City with the members of the Zheng family.

It was naturally easier to come to Los Angeles. Zheng Jianqiu made clear his identity, and directly bought that piece of Nuoda wasteland with 20 taels of silver.

Now the official document has been successfully obtained.

In fact, after careful calculation, the Zheng and Jia families did not earn much less money than the Lin family, because the Lin family recruited refugees to dig the canal in the early stage, and they didn't need to spend a penny. The canal was dug to the door of their own wasteland, saving a lot of money Money to buy food for refugees.

And when the refugees dug the canal to the door of their two families, it was impossible for Lin Jingzhi to let go of the Zheng family's face.

But generally speaking, as long as he can bring the Zheng family over to form a partner, Lin Jingzhi will be satisfied, and with the Zheng family as his backer, he no longer needs to be afraid of Wang Meng and others. If Lin Lizhi is really robbed by Wang Meng After leaving, he will definitely want Wang Meng to pay a certain price!

After hearing what had happened, Lin Jingzhi praised Zheng Jianqiu for being fast enough, Zheng Jia and Zheng Jia lingered at Lin's house for a while, had some wine and food, and then left together.

When the two of them walked forward, Lin Jingzhi and Aunt Yu stepped back on their mounts. When Lin Jingzhi and Zheng Jia were eating, Aunt Yu also retreated to eat, so the two led dozens of guards and Chai Fang went straight to the other courtyard in the west of the city.

The Lin family is a well-known aristocratic family in Los Angeles. They bought a lot of fertile land outside the city, and there are more than a dozen other courtyards, which are used to escape the heat in summer. However, since Lin Jingzhi's parents died of illness a few years ago, the new Lin family Patriarch Lin Jingzhi has been very busy since he succeeded to the throne, and has been ill for many years. These individual courtyards have almost become decorations.

In the past, Lin Jingzhi often came to the other courtyard in the west of the city to escape the summer heat when he was a child, so he was very familiar with this place. He rushed here, jumped off the horse and stepped into the gate. The woman rushed forward, knelt down in front of him with a plop, and wailed loudly, "Second Lord, please, please, please get Lizhi back. The maidservant is only such a son, if he comes out What happened, the concubines can't live anymore."

The person came with disheveled hair, disheveled clothes, and tears all over his face. Lin Jingzhi recognized this person from his voice. It was Lin Lizhi's biological mother, Aunt Zhen.

He hurriedly stepped forward, supported Aunt Zhen up, and persuaded: "Don't cry, don't worry, I will do my best to rescue the third brother as soon as possible."

"Wuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu" Auntie Zhen leaned limply on Lin Jingzhi's body, crying non-stop, seemed to think of something, raised her head suddenly, and said again: "Second Master, you said those villains would not do anything to Li Zhizhi. ?”

At this time, Aunt Yu took a step forward and took Aunt Zhen into her hands. Although Lin Jingzhi and Aunt Zhen were not in the same generation, it was still indecent to be so close to each other.

Whoever's son is kidnapped will think wildly. Lin Jingzhi doesn't want to worry about the past unpleasantness with Aunt Zhen at this time. letter, not allowing us to report to the officials, I think these villains are just asking for money, and will not hurt Li Zhi's life."

Aunt Zhen can also read a few big characters, and after reading it in her hand, she felt relieved, "Second Master, Li Zhi used to make you angry, but please be sure to ask him this time, he is also your younger brother ah."

Thinking of the past, Aunt Zhen regretted it all. She was afraid that Lin Jingzhiguang would say no, so her knees softened and she knelt down again.

"Get up, get up quickly, how could I care about the little things in the past, and the old lady was also hit because of this matter, if I can't find Li Zhi back sooner, it will be too unfilial."

Aunt Zhen knew how Mrs. Lin treated Lin Lizhi. Aunt Zhen nodded her head and stood up, not daring to disturb Lin Jingzhi's investigation of clues.

Together with his servants, he helped Aunt Zhen to sit in the hall, and Lin Jingzhi turned around and told Chai Fang, "Go, call all the people in the other courtyard to the courtyard in front of the hall, and no one will be left behind!"

"Yes!" Chai Fang spread his legs and ran faster than the rabbit in order to be punished lightly afterwards.

"Yu'er, I thought that even if those people are not weak, it is impossible for them not to leave a trace, why don't we go and check around first?" Lin Jingzhi is no longer as anxious as before, and started to do things , I have an idea.

Aunt Yu nodded, deeply agreeing, "Second Master is absolutely right, let's go out and search around to see if we can find any clues."

The west courtyard covers a large area, covering more than 1000 mu. The walls around the courtyard are the same as those of the Lin Mansion, nearly two feet high. Because it is for the master to come and have fun, the inside is dominated by gardens and lotus ponds. On the contrary, there are fewer, only fifty or sixty rooms.

If calculated according to the market price, such a courtyard alone is worth at least 5000 taels of silver.

However, even though the other courtyard is very large, with an acquaintance like Lin Jingzhi leading the way, and Aunt Yu who has been in the Jianghu for more than two years and has extremely rich experience in murder and arson, within half an hour, the gangsters were found. On the wall of the courtyard.

Aunt Yu stood on the top of the wall, inspected it carefully, then jumped lightly, landed on the grass in the courtyard, and explained to Lin Jingzhi, who was covering his heart, "Second Master, I learned from the marks on the wall. Judging, there are three villains who came in from the outside, although their skills are not weak, they are still a little tender, but look at this grassland, after being trampled, it is in a mess, there are at least four or five people."

Lin Jingzhi lowered his head and carefully looked at the trampled grass for a while, then nodded. From this, it can be seen that there are indeed people in the other courtyard who are internally responding to the villains.

But what he said was a big surprise to Aunt Yu, "Yu'er, can you be more careful when you jump over the wall next time, if you break it, don't I have to take care of you for the rest of your life? But it would be a big loss!"

"Whoever asks you to take care of me, you can throw me out of the house." Aunt Yu heard Lin Jingzhi said that she had suffered a big loss, her haughty temper was frustrated, and she replied unconvinced.

It's rare for Aunt Yu to show her little daughter's look. Lin Jingzhi smiled when he saw this, took her little hand, and said shyly, "If you don't throw it away, I won't throw it away. I will take care of you for the rest of your life!"

Aunt Yu's pretty face hidden under the veil blushed, she shook her hand, but she couldn't break free, so she let her little hand be pinched by Lin Jingzhi.

Which girl doesn't like to listen to love words?Although this sentence was a bit childish, it still made Aunt Yu, who was gradually fond of Lin Jingzhi, feel a little sweet.

At the same time, seeing that Lin Jingzhi was still playing tricks at this time, she knew that he had completely calmed down, and was no longer as anxious and angry as he was when he was interrogating Chai Fang.

"Let's go, let's go and get that traitor out!" Tightening the tender catkin in his hand, Lin Jingzhi said firmly, Aunt Yu responded softly, and the two held hands and went straight to the hall of the other courtyard.

When the two came to the courtyard in front of the hall, Chai Fang was walking back and forth in front of a group of male and female servants, looking very anxious. When he saw the two, he hurried up to greet them and reported, "Second Lord , It’s not good, the servant counted the number of people just now, and there are two less.”

"What!" Lin Jingzhi's expression changed, and he asked loudly, "Who is missing? What are the two of them responsible for in the mansion?"

With a plop, Chai Fang was frightened and knelt down on the ground. Seeing this, the servants also knelt down one after another. Chai Fang replied with a bitter face: "Second master, those two servants were the ones who were sent to the other courtyard when the third master moved to another courtyard." The servant did not know much about the two male servants brought here, but someone heard them complain that they moved here with the third master from the Linfu compound, and there would be no bright future in the future. At that time, the servant After hearing this, I was annoyed that they said something they shouldn't have said, and even sent someone to beat them up."

"In the morning, I found that after the third master was robbed by the gangsters, they are still there."

"Hmph! You can't even look down on the two servants, what use is the Lin family wanting you!" Lin Jingyi shook his sleeves, cursed softly, then looked at the kneeling servants and asked, "Did any of you see them?" Where did the two go?"

When the servants heard the words, some lowered their heads deeply, while others turned their heads and swayed from side to side, but no one stood up to speak.

"Third Master is usually served by you. Now that he is gone, none of you can escape the responsibility. It will be fine if you can find Third Master intact in the future, but if something really happens outside, You can't eat all of them and walk around, hum! You don't know the old matriarch's methods!"

Lin Jingzhi glanced coldly at the servants in front of him. He was afraid that these people would be lucky and thought that he, who was usually kind to others, would not do anything to them, so he directly moved Mrs. Lin out.

As soon as they heard Mrs. Lin's name, these servants really panicked. A seventeen or eighteen-year-old male servant couldn't hold his breath, knelt on the ground, crawled a few steps on his knees, bent down and said, "Back to the second master!" , The servant also followed from the Linfu compound, although I don't know where the two of them went, but I saw them talking with a strange man at the back door a few days ago, and I don't know what they are talking about!"

"Oh? Isn't there a guard guarding the back door?" Lin Jingzhi asked.

"No, they should have been dismissed with an excuse by those two guys." The servant said again.

Lin Jingzhi was furious when he heard the words, it turned out that these two people had been in contact with people outside, and it was only because of the negligence of the guards that they could communicate with each other and rob Lin Lizhi in one fell swoop.

He glared fiercely at the dozen or so guards who were staying in the other courtyard. He was about to yell and curse, and the words were on the verge of his mouth, but he suddenly remembered that he should not be too excited, or he would easily make mistakes. I asked another question, but I didn't expect to find out the murderer.

"Since you also followed from the Linfu compound, you must be familiar with the two who escaped? Then let me ask you, have you ever seen that strange man before? Has that man been with the escaped man for a long time?" Are the two acquainted?"

"I haven't seen it, the villain has never seen that strange man, but, but the villain happened to see that strange man wearing official tolerance boots through the branches that day!"

Tolerance, official!As expected!Lin Jingzhi clenched his fists and pointed the finger at Wang Meng!