The Red Chamber: The Rise of the Lin Mansion

After returning to his residence from the front yard, Lin Yun reached out to push the door, but failed to do so.

He shouted into the room: "Xiao Mo, are you in the room?"

As soon as the words fell, Xiao Mo ran out from the next room, "Master, where am I?"

Lin Yun said in surprise: "You are not in the room, so who closed the door?"

Xiao Mo asked confusedly: "Is the door of your room closed?"

Lin Yun pushed hard again, but the door was still motionless.

Xiao Mo also came over and pushed, but still didn't push it away, "That's weird, I didn't see anyone coming over."

Lin Yun walked to the window, glanced inside, and said, "Xiao Mo, you climb in from here and open the door first."

"Ok."

Xiao Mo quickly got into the window and ran to open the door.

After Lin Yun entered the house, he immediately looked around for suspicious signs.Soon, he found a large envelope placed on the desk. "

He hurried over and reached for the envelope.

Xiao Mo hurriedly stopped and said, "Third Master, be careful there is poison on it."

Lin Yun was startled by his words, but he quickly came to his senses. Xiao Mo had heard him tell martial arts stories and must have believed the contents in them.

He said angrily: "You really think there is a poison that can poison people to death if you touch it."

"Isn't that what you said?"

"Everything I told was just a story, and it should not be taken seriously."

After Lin Yun finished speaking, he sat down beside the case, picked up the envelope above, and opened it to look at it.

After reading for a long time, he was stunned by the contents inside the envelope. These were clues and evidence that the Bai family had bribed officials and sold illegal salt over the years. If it could be verified to be true, the Bai family would probably not be able to escape and be executed. end.

Seeing Lin Yun's surprised expression, Xiao Mo asked worriedly: "Third Master, are you okay?"

Lin Yunchong ordered Xiaomo: "You go to the old housekeeper quickly, invite my uncle over, and tell him that I have something urgent to report to him."

"Ok."

Xiao Mo responded and quickly ran out the door.

Lin Yun looked at the materials in his hand again, and couldn't help but panic. He was able to investigate the secrets of the Bai family so clearly. It can be seen that there is a black hand behind this scene, who wants to use Lin Ruhai's knife to wipe out the Bai family. Lose.

"Who the hell is this person? To be able to easily enter the two Huaihuai inspectors' offices without being noticed by the inner guards, this person's kung fu is really powerful."

Thinking of this, Lin Yun raised his hand and touched his neck, thinking to himself, "If this person wants to harm him, he can kill him in minutes. No, he has to call Zhong Yi back as soon as possible to save his life. important."

Lin Yun was thinking wildly when he saw Lin Ruhai hurriedly walked in and asked him, "Brother Yun, what happened?"

Lin Yun stood up, handed the materials in his hand to Lin Ruhai and said, "Uncle, someone secretly placed this in my room. It is evidence and clues about the Bai family's secret sale of illicit salt."

"what?"

Lin Ruhai was shocked when he heard the words, he quickly took the materials in Lin Yun's hand, sat down and read them carefully.

After he finished reading, his face was flushed with excitement and he said: "Great, with these materials, the salt class in Lianghuai can be easily solved."

Lin Yun hurriedly said: "Uncle, why do you think someone secretly gave these materials to me?"

Lin Ruhai immediately calmed down when he heard this. He thought for a while and said, "Someone must want to use my hand to get rid of the Bai family."

"If uncle wants to be cruel to the Bai family, I'm worried that you will offend the big backer behind you."

Lin Ruhai smiled and said: "As long as the evidence is conclusive, I have nothing to fear. The worst I can do is lose my job and go back to Suzhou to farm."

Lin Yun felt speechless for a while. He was still counting on Lin Ruhai to advance step by step. If he went home to farm, what would he do?

He hurriedly said, "Uncle, can we just check for private salt and ignore other things for now."

Lin Ruhai said angrily: "Childish, you won't die when you hit a snake, but you will be injured by a snake instead. Don't you understand this truth?"

"Well, that seems to be true."

Lin Ruhai stood up and said, "Don't meddle in this matter, just study at home and prepare to take this year's provincial examination."

Lin Yun said hurriedly: "Uncle, my nephew has a small request."

"You said."

"When my nephew is willing to ask his uncle to take action against the Bai family, he will send Hu Xiangyi to lead troops to inspect Green Willow Villa and give him a chance to make meritorious deeds."

"Okay, I will take care of him."

After Lin Ruhai finished speaking, he walked away quickly.

Lin Yun was secretly excited in his heart. Since the Green Willow Villa is a private salt hoarding place, there must be a lot of money stored in it. If he can take advantage of the opportunity of the inspection to make a fortune, his hard work will not be in vain.

However, thinking that someone could enter his residence silently, Lin Yun felt worried again. It's not a good feeling to be stared at by someone.

"Who the hell is it? Is it an enemy or a friend? Why do you want to help him?"

After thinking about it for a long time, he couldn't figure it out, so he simply gave up thinking about it, let's love someone, and when he has money in the future, he can hire more bodyguards.

...

East of Yangzhou City, Baifu.

A luxury carriage drove into the east corner gate of the White House in the evening. After the carriage stopped, Lu Zhuoyuan stepped out of the carriage, smiled at the scar-faced man who came up to him and said, "Brother Bai, have you rested?"

The man with the scar face replied: "The old man is practicing calligraphy in the study, let me lead you there."

"Thank you!"

Lu Zhuoyuan thanked him, and followed the scar-faced man to the inner house of the White Mansion.

Walking through corridors and courtyards along the way, it took a long time to come to an exquisite house.

The scar-faced man walked to a room and knocked on the door a few times, saying: "Master, Chairman Lu is here."

An old voice sounded from inside the house, "Let him in."

"Yes."

The scar-faced man stretched out his hand and pushed open the door, then motioned to Lu Zhuoyuan to let him in.

Lu Zhuoyuan raised his hand and straightened his clothes, then walked into the room slowly.

When I went in, I saw an old man with white hair standing behind the desk, writing with a brush.

Beside the old man, there was also a beautiful young woman standing.

Lu Zhuoyuan took a few steps forward, cupped his hands and said, "Old Master, Hui Niang agreed to take over this job, but she will add 10 taels of remuneration, a deposit of [-] taels will be paid first, and the rest will be paid later."

The old man laughed and said, "It's a big tone, and I'm not afraid of being strangled to death."

"Shall I reject her?"

"Promise her."

The old man put down the brush in his hand, raised his head and asked Lu Zhuoyuan, "Are all the salt merchants from other places here?"

Lu Zhuoyuan: "Most of the salt merchants have arrived, but there are still a few who are far away."

"You don't have to wait any longer, take advantage of the golden opportunity of the Spring Festival, and quickly release all the salt."

"Yes."

After a pause, the old man said again: "Can Dong Xiong be pulled over?"

Lu Zhuoyuan: "I have come into contact with this person. Although he is greedy for money, he still wants to go up. It is a bit difficult to pull him over."

The old man sneered and said, "It's just a question of how much money is there. If you give him a few thousand taels of silver, I'm afraid he won't go into the water."

"The old man said so."

"Go, hurry up and get all the salt out, lest you have long nights and dreams."

"Yes."

Lu Zhuoyuan answered yes with a bow, and then walked out the door slowly.

Chapter 124: Check the Green Willow Villa

Lin Ruhai has been in Yangzhou for more than a year, but he still can't find the salt merchant's flaws, and he was also aggrieved.

Now that they have evidence of the Bai family bribing officials and selling illegal salt, they naturally don't want to wait any longer, so they set the date for arresting the officials involved in the case on the third day of the lunar month.

...

In this operation, Hu Xiangyi was responsible for leading troops out of the city to inspect Green Willow Villa.

In order to prevent the soldiers from divulging the secrets of the operation in advance, Hu Xiangyi pulled all the soldiers out of the barracks to practice for a whole day on the second day of the Lunar New Year.The soldiers kept complaining and full of resentment.

Fortunately, Hu Xiangyi managed the army well. He suppressed the dissatisfaction of the soldiers after severely treating a few thorns.

On the morning of the third day of junior high school, under the pretext of continuing to run and practice, Hu Xiangyi took the soldiers to Zhuyuwan Wharf and joined Lin Yun and the others.

Seeing a few merchant ships docked outside the pier, the soldiers realized that their guerrilla was going to take them to arrest private salt dealers.

It is useless to think about it now, everyone is gathered together, and no one who wants to inform the salt merchant has a chance.

...

In the open space on the left side of the pier, after Lin Yun and Hu Xiangyi met, they asked the other party to gather five hundred soldiers, and asked Feng Ziying and Xiao Mo to carry out a mahogany box and open it in public, revealing the silver flowers inside.

Hu Xiangyi puffed out his belly and shouted loudly: "You must have guessed that we are going to capture a group of salt owl today. In this box is 3000 taels of silver as a bounty for this operation. Each soldier who participated will be given one tael first. The reward is 20 taels of silver for every illegal salt dealer captured during the operation, and [-] taels of silver for every salt owl captured alive. The reward will be cashed on the spot without any delay."

When the soldiers heard that there was a bounty, their eyes lit up immediately, and they threw all the resentment they had accumulated yesterday into the sky.

Hu Xiangyi: "Now listen to my order. Form a team of a hundred people. After receiving the money, follow the hundreds of households and board the ship immediately. The target is Green Willow Villa."

The soldiers didn't care about green willows and red willows. They only knew that there was a bounty for this operation. They all lined up to receive the silver, and then ran to the ship excitedly, for fear that they would be late and the private salt dealers would get away again.

Lin Yun and others followed Hu Xiangyi to board the command ship, and then the fleet pulled anchor and set sail, heading south towards Zhenjiang.

...

After boarding the ship, Lin Yun opened a long wooden box that he carried with him, took out a short-handled flintlock gun from it, and wiped it carefully.

Seeing this, Feng Ziying immediately widened her eyes and said, "Brother Lin, why is your firecracker so short? You don't have a matchlock yet."

Lin Yun said proudly: "This is called a flintlock gun, and it uses flint to start fire, not a match."