i have queen halo

Chapter 197 Chapter 197, I am afraid that my third brother will feel inferior

"General, young lady, this is a letter from Butler Jin."

Jin An stood in the hall, respectfully presenting a letter.

Jin Meng and Fu Jinzhi looked at each other.

"Present." Jin Meng said with his beard trembling.

Upon hearing this, Jin An responded, stepped forward and handed the letter in the hands of the general.

Then he consciously retreated to his original position.

Jin Meng unfolded the letter and glanced at it, then looked at the woman beside him, "Ma'am, please read!"

Fu Jinzhi took it, glanced at it, and then put the letter aside.

It's not that the husband and wife are perfunctory, it's that there are too few words on the paper.

"Third brother, are you still unwilling to write?" Jin Meng asked Jin An seeing that his wife had also finished reading it.

Jin An: "Back to the general, the third young master has been staying behind closed doors since he received the news."

Jin Meng nodded, and then looked at his wife beside him.

"Madam, let the third brother figure it out now. Once his letter is finished, we can send the letter to Qingzhou."

The corners of Fu Jinzhi's lips turned up, "Husband, I have thought about it, how much ransom do you want?"

"Ma'am, you have the final say on the matter of the ransom." Jin Meng shook his head and said.

Fu Jinzhi: "When I got married in the past, my father gave me a box of 15 taels of silver. I was a concubine, and my third brother was also a concubine. But as we all know, a son is more expensive than a daughter, so the third brother just thinks he is worth [-] taels of silver." .”

When 15 taels of silver came out, everyone present was shocked.

Jin An, who has always been steady, couldn't hold back anymore, his eyelids twitched, and he peeked up in shock.

Then he found that his general was thinking, and he really thought about it again.

Thinking about his responsibilities as the chief steward, Jin An felt that he should remind him.

Therefore, Jin An looked embarrassed, and whispered: "Young Madam, the old general may not be able to come up with 15 taels of silver."

Hearing this, Jin Meng also thought of the difficulties in the past in the Fuchu.

"Ma'am, what Jin An said is reasonable. Father's money has been supporting the Northwest Army before, and I'm afraid he really doesn't have a lot of money in his hands."

However, after hearing this, Fu Jinzhi smiled slightly.

The corners of her lips curled up, and she raised her lips and asked, "Husband, when did you say that father got on his mind?"

Hearing this suddenly, Jin Meng showed confusion.

However, looking at the smile on his wife's face, he quickly realized that this idea referred to treason.

After serious thinking, Jin Meng replied: "It should be after my father was deposed by the court as a general."

"Husband, can you be sure?" Fu Jinzhi continued.

Jin Meng hesitated when he heard this.

Seeing this, Fu Jinzhi raised his eyebrows, "Husband, people's hearts are like a belly, after all, no one is sure except myself, what are other people's thoughts?"

"What do you mean, Ma'am, father already had an idea?" Jin Meng said with a gloomy expression.

Fu Jinzhi stretched out a jade finger, and waved it lightly in front of the man, "No! I just said that people's hearts are in the belly, so what I said is just a hypothesis. But... I don't think my father is short of money."

Fu Jinzhi withdrew his finger and tapped in the northeast direction.

"Husband, you said that King Yong'an is far away in Ningzhou, and he knows how to arrange people to go to the northwest to make money. And such a big benefit is right under my father's nose, especially if the army has money, will my father not be tempted?"

As soon as Jin Meng's pupils changed, he heard his wife continue: "Or, the Jin family has been stationed in the northwest for a hundred years, did the previous ancestors really not think about it?"

"Ma'am?" Jin Meng couldn't help shouting anymore.

And Fu Jinzhi also followed this sound, and said meaningfully on his lips: "Husband, don't forget that without the permission of the Jin family's rulers in the Northwest, it is impossible to do business with the barbarians."

Just like now, just because she refused to allow, there is not a single merchant in the city.

Before that, there were a large number of merchants in the city.

Jin Meng... let out a foul breath.

"Ma'am, I don't think my father has any money anymore."

After hearing the words of the first young lady, Jin An also suddenly realized.

So the difficulty in the mansion before was that the old general was crying poor on the surface, but in fact the old general was very rich in private.

Suddenly, Jin An thought of those wealthy households.

"Young Madam, did you refuse the return of the wealthy households in the city because you were afraid that some of them would be old generals?"

After hearing Jin An's question, Fu Jinzhi raised his eyebrows.

She looked at the man beside her, "What does your husband think?"

"Among them are not only the father, but also the servants of several generations of the Jin family." Jin Meng replied with a soft sigh.

Handing over the property of the master's family to the servants is the most common method used by the aristocratic family.

There was a smile in Fu Jinzhi's eyes, "So when I realized this, I was trying to get the rich people in the city to leave."

As for the servants in the mansion, she is still worried about the people left behind by Old General Jin and the others, let alone those rich households in the city.

If you don't take the opportunity to drive them away, are you still keeping them, working as spies, and making money to provide for old general Jin at the same time?

Of course, letting the wealthy households in the city leave is also a multi-purpose thing.

"Young Madam, what if the old general's people didn't leave?" Jin An secretly clicked his tongue and asked subconsciously.

However, in Fu Jinzhi's ears, she laughed out loud.

Jin An blushed.

He was so dumbfounded.

Those people stayed and told the young lady brightly that they had a problem.

According to the temperament of the young lady, of course they should be arrested and investigated.

Thinking about it, Jin An bowed his head, blushed and said in shame: "Young Madam, it's the servant who was stupid for a while."

"It's nothing." Fu Jinzhi waved his hand grandly: "Only in your current state can you have the vigor of a young man."

There is not much difference between Jin An and Jin Shun, but when they are put together, one feels that Jin An is more than ten years older than Jin Shun.

Now Jin An, who was blushing and ashamed, matched his age.

And Jin An felt embarrassed when he heard the words of the first young lady.

He has always been secretly said to be young and mature, but this is the first time he has been said to his face.

Especially the person who said it was the wife of his own great general.

He just felt very embarrassed.

"Jin An has been by my side all these years, and it has been a lot of hard work." Jin Meng looked at Jin An's appearance and said with emotion.

When Fu Jinzhi thought about it, that was not the case.

It would be much more difficult for an underappreciated concubine young master without a stable and capable servant.

In this way, seeing Jin An blushing, Fu Jinzhi was about to burn.

She also stopped talking about the other party, but talked about the original topic: "Do you still think 15 taels of silver is too much?"

"Ma'am, although my father should have money, but for the sake of my third brother and a bastard, my father may not be willing to give out so much money." Jin Meng thought for a while and said again.

Fu Jinzhi's eyes changed, and he said to himself: "Then try to make father willing to come out."

Hearing this, Jin Meng no longer objected.

Now that his wife has said it, he believes that his wife can do it.

Even if they can't do it in the end, they have no loss.

"The third brother's price has been set, let's talk about the golden steward." Fu Jinzhi stopped asking, and said directly: "The golden steward is just a servant, and it stands to reason that he is not as noble as the third younger brother. But as the saying goes, beating a dog is even more important." Look at the master. As the right arm of our father, Steward Jin is much more valuable to us than the third young master."

Fu Jinzhi paused, and continued: "However, the third younger brother is close to the husband after all, and nothing is worth less than a servant. Therefore, the ransom for the gold steward is fixed, 14 taels of silver."

"It's only a tael of silver?" Jin Meng felt sorry for his third brother's self-esteem.

Fu Jinzhi glanced over, "Don't look at how little a tael of silver is, it is enough to live in an ordinary family for two or three months. The most important thing is that this tael of silver is an affirmation of the third brother."

Jin Meng: "...the third brother may not need such affirmation."

"You're not the third brother, how do you know he doesn't need it?" Fu Jinzhi raised his eyebrows, and said imposingly: "Does your husband think that the steward Jin should be the same as the third brother, with 15 taels of silver?"

Jin Meng: "..." Don't dare to provoke me!

Fu Jinzhi made the decision proudly, "That's the decision. I'm afraid that the third brother will feel inferior for the one or two taels of silver that Butler Jin has."

However, although the ransom has been determined, there is one more important thing.

His eyes quickly turned to the people in the hall, and he called out, "Jin An?"

"The slave is here!" Jin An replied reflexively.

Fu Jinzhi: "Are you in a trance just now?"

Jin An, who was snickering just now, wanted to cry instantly.

……

The moon is dark and the wind is high and the murderous night is high, when jackdaws and devils cry in ancient temples.

Living in the mansion of the great general, of course there is no ancient temple, Jackdaws and Devil May Cry.

But there are scary tricks.

The front yard is in the Jincheng courtyard.

A man walked in with a basket.

Among the two guards guarding the gate, one is young and the other is old.

Seeing the familiar face, the elderly guard immediately lit up and asked happily, "Brother Hao, why are you here?"

"It's getting dark, I'm here to bring you wine to keep out the cold." Lin Hao looked at the room with bright eyes, raised the basket, and replied with a smile: "I've left the basket at the gate, this one belongs to you two .”

When the older guard heard this, he immediately grinned, "Brother Hao, you are so kind to the brothers."

"Although you are allowed to drink, but not too much." Lin Hao said.

Elderly guard: "Brother Hao, don't worry, we know that we are on an errand!"

Lin Hao nodded and handed over the basket in his hand.

The elderly guard who picked up the basket quickly opened the basket and saw that there was not only wine, but also two plates of meat dishes inside, and burst into laughter.

"Brother Hao, you really know my brother very well. I like to eat chicken and fried meat." After speaking, he couldn't wait to open the wine cork.

Immediately, the smell of wine and meat mixed together, which ignited the appetite.

The elder guard squinted his eyes and inhaled the smell into his lungs.

Seeing his appearance, Lin Hao laughed and scolded: "It's not that you like chicken and fried meat, but you don't like meat."

The elder guard laughed when he heard this.

Not only does he like meat, he also likes wine!
Lin Hao looked towards the main room at this time, saw a shadow, and slowly moved to the front of the door.

A light flashed in his eyes.

Then he asked in a low voice: "The one inside, hasn't eaten all day?"

"That's not true." The elder guard replied, also looking at the principal room.

Then he continued in a low voice: "If you want me to say, this young master is really suffering. I can't stand it without eating a single meal now."

As he said that, he still sighed, "When I was a refugee, I often couldn't eat every day. If I hadn't met the young lady with good intentions, the grass on my grave should have grown."

"Knowing that life is good now, you should work hard." Lin Hao patted the other party's shoulder and said.

The elder guard looked serious, "Brother Hao, don't worry, I will definitely do a good job. In the future, I still think about the young lady who will point me to a daughter-in-law too!"

"What? Are you envious of the captain?" Lin Hao asked.

Elderly guard: "I'm already old, how can I not envy the captain?"

Moreover, the captain's daughter-in-law is the most respectable Qiao'er girl in front of the young lady.

Not only is he envious, but there is no one in their escort brothers who is not envious.

Lin Hao nodded understandingly, "Young Madam is kind to us. Sooner or later, you will also be able to marry a wife. But the young master inside is not necessarily so."

When it came to the end, Lin Hao realized that he had made a slip of the tongue, and he brushed his mouth regretfully and closed his mouth.

But it was too late for him to shut up now, the two guards guarding the gate heard clearly.

There was even a slight movement in the room separated by the door.

However, the two guards guarding the gate were all focused on Lin Hao's words and didn't pay attention.

The older guard asked curiously: "Brother Hao, what do you mean by what you said just now? Isn't the person in the room the younger brother of our great general? How can he be worse than us?"

"Pretend you didn't hear what I just said. There are too many things here, so don't talk nonsense." Lin Hao's face was even more remorseful, he looked at the door vigilantly, and said seriously.

The older guard was even more curious when he saw this, "Brother Hao, I understand what you said, the bigger the family, the more troublesome things will happen in the family. A good person like our young lady married into the Jin family on the first day, and the backyard The vicious mistress gave our young lady sterilization drugs. This kind of thing, in the homes of ordinary people, would not even dare to think about it."

The elder guard also looked at the door, "Brother Hao, don't worry, we promise not to say what you just said."

Saying this, the older guard glared at the younger guard who hadn't spoken the whole time.

Although young, the guard nodded hurriedly.

The elder guard smiled with satisfaction, "Look, Brother Hao, the two of us will never speak out."

As he spoke, his voice became softer, "Just tell us what's going on here? It will save us from being ignorant and making a taboo."

Hearing this, Lin Hao showed hesitation on his face.

However, under the longing eyes of the older guards and younger guards.

His expression changed, and he said: "Okay, for the sake of our friendship, I will remind you."

Hearing this, the elder guard laughed and said, "Thank you Brother Hao."

"Come on, since I said it, don't do such nonsense, and just work for the young lady in the future." After Lin Hao finished speaking, he paused, and his tone became more serious when he spoke again, "You all know what's inside The person who is our great general's younger brother."

The two guards nodded.

Lin Hao continued: "Then do you know? When this younger brother left with the general's father that day, our general was left behind and was going to die."

"Ah?" Out of surprise, the two gate guards couldn't help exclaiming.

(End of this chapter)