Weiyang of the Red Mansion

As soon as Jia Lian left, Lin Lang called Qing Inkstone and Zhu Mo and ordered them to pack their bags and go back to Yangzhou Linfu with him.

Lin Lang's ostentatious behavior in Cuilu Pavilion soon spread to Steward Lin. Steward Lin is one of the elders of the Lin family and Lin Ruhai's confidant. Steward Lin is very clear about the current situation of his master. .

Therefore, as soon as Steward Lin heard the news, he thought that someone else was pretending to be his uncle to add trouble to him.

Just as I was about to send someone to investigate, I heard the report from the people below that the uncle had returned home.

Butler Lin hurriedly came out to greet him. Although he hadn't seen him for three or four years, his outline changed slightly due to his eyebrows and eyes opening, but he could still tell from the outline that this young and handsome boy was his uncle.

"Oh, my uncle, you are willing to go home. The master and wife have been looking forward to the return of the uncle these few years, and they are really eager to see."

Lin Lang smiled slightly, "I'm back, haven't I? How soon will father arrive in Yangzhou?"

Although Qing Yan and the others asked Lin Lang for information, they did so after all. Who knows if it is accurate?

Butler Lin is different. After all, he is his father's confidant, and he must know when his father will arrive in Yangzhou.

"It takes about two or three days to arrive in Yangzhou," Lin Butler replied, suddenly recalling the news he had received earlier, "I heard from a servant in the mansion that a young man who claimed to be the master of the Lin family was making trouble in Cuilu Pavilion. I thought someone else was pretending to be the uncle, could it be that the uncle returned to the mansion at this time..."

The troublemaker in Cuilu Pavilion is really their uncle?

Lin Lang didn't expect the news to spread so quickly, but within a few hours, the news reached Steward Lin's ears.

"That's right, it's indeed me," Lin Lang said, "Those salt merchants are not good people. The sudden death of the previous salt censors has a lot to do with these salt merchants. Seeing that my father is about to arrive in Yangzhou, these An old thief with a rotten heart must have set up a death trap and waited for my father to step in. As a son of man, how can I sit idly by?"

If he was still living in the inn, there is no guarantee that those salt merchants would suspect his intentions. Since he returned to the Lin Mansion as soon as he "caused trouble", these arrogant salt merchants would definitely think that he was afraid, Hide back home.

In this way, these salt merchants will relax their vigilance, and when his father arrives, he will tell his father the account book and the news about the jade statue, and he will not need to intervene too much in other matters. He is clear about his ability, and there is no need for him to add more to it.

After hearing Lin Lang's words, Lin Butler understood why his uncle came to Yangzhou suddenly, and went to find trouble with Cuilu Pavilion. It turned out that he wanted to vent his anger on him.

"My lord, the lord has important business to attend to. This time, he came to Yangzhou for the purpose of these salt merchants. Why are you here to join in the fun? Aren't you trying to startle the snake?" Lin Butler lamented the filial piety of the lord, But still felt that Lin Lang was a little reckless.

Lin Lang understood what Steward Lin was worried about, and said with a smile, "Don't worry, Steward. I'm deliberately looking for faults. Sometimes it's a bad thing to start a snake, and sometimes it's a good thing. It depends on how to deal with it. If you don't believe me, you can still Don't you trust my father?"

Butler Lin laughed, as if his uncle didn't know the seriousness of the matter, and he didn't argue with him, "My uncle traveled for three or four years, and now he's back. I didn't know that my uncle was coming back, and my uncle's place hasn't been cleaned up yet, old slave. So I ordered people to tidy up the yard."

"There's Steward Lau Lin." Lin Lang nodded with a smile, and ordered the two servants to take his things with Steward Lin, while he went to the garden for a while, and then rested in the gazebo in the garden, waiting for Qing Yan to come to find him He said that the courtyard had been tidied up, so he went back to rest in the courtyard.

After two days like this, Lin Lang took Lin Butler and others to the pier to pick them up.

Lin Ruhai standing on the bow saw Lin Lang standing on the pier from a distance. At first, he couldn't see his face clearly, but after the distance gradually shortened, Lin Ruhai recognized the young man standing on the pier. It was him. The eldest son who hadn't seen him for three or four years.

When the boat docked, Lin Ruhai couldn't wait to get off the boat, looking at the young man in Zhilan Yushu, his eyes were slightly hot, "Why are you here, you brat?"

Lin Lang didn't return to Beijing on the first New Year's Eve after leaving Beijing. He only sent gifts back to congratulate him. Lin Ruhai only thought that Lin Lang was hiding from the Beijing Palace, so he refused to return to Beijing. Apart from sighing, he didn't care about it.

Lin Lang still did not return to Beijing on the New Year's Eve of the coming year. Although Lin Ruhai was a little anxious, but because Beijing Wang Shui Zhenchuan often invited him to reminisce about the old days and mentioned Lin Lang who had traveled abroad from time to time, he knew that Shui Zhenchuan had not given up on the marriage of his children. Thoughts, he didn't urge Lin Lang to return to Beijing.

In the third year, Lin Lang still did not return to Beijing. Lin Ruhai saw the letter from Lin Lang again, and the lines were full of joy and happiness. He didn't understand that Lin Lang was not because the Beijing Palace refused to go home, but was playing outside. wild.However, Lin Lang had no fixed place to live, and he didn't leave an address where he could be contacted. Lin Ruhai just wanted to write a letter to urge Lin Lang to return to Beijing, but he didn't have a place to send the letter, so he had to send it to this wild boy to come back by himself.

He thought he would have to wait two or three years to see Lin Lang, but he didn't expect to come to Yangzhou to take up the post, and meeting Lin Lang was really a surprise.

"Of course the son is here to pick up his father, mother and younger siblings," Lin Lang said before he saw his mother leading a four- or five-year-old girl out of the cabin, followed by a nanny holding a two- or three-year-old child.

Jia Min led Daiyu out of the cabin, saw Lin Lang, was stunned for a while, then realized that he hurriedly led Daiyu off the boat, held Lin Lang's hand to ask for warmth, wanted to reprimand Lin Lang, but was worried that it was the pier. He had mixed eyes, and wanted to save some face for the eldest son, so he had to cover his mouth with a handkerchief and look at Lin Lang with red eyes.

What Lin Lang was afraid of was whether his mother would cry or not, so he was too busy coaxing others.

Daiyu, who was holding her mother's hand, stared at Lin Lang for a while, then suddenly asked, "Are you an older brother?"

Hearing the girl's soft voice, Lin Lang froze for a moment. He lowered his head and met Daiyu's bright black eyes. He couldn't help feeling soft, and squatted down to look at Daiyu, "Yu'er is so big, I'm leaving Beijing You couldn't walk when you were there."

"You brat, you're so embarrassed to say it, and you don't even think about how many years you've been away from Beijing? How can you be willing to go home, a heartless little thing?" Hearing what Lin Lang said, Lin Ruhai became angry, and couldn't hold back his yelling in a low voice.

Lin Lang was blushed by Lin Ruhai's words, he was indeed a bit reluctant to go out these few years.

Seeing this, Jia Min was afraid that being overheard would hurt Lin Lang's reputation, so he hurriedly said, "Master, it's windy outside, why don't you go home first?"

The implication is that Lin Lang's matter will be discussed later.

Lin Ruhai didn't want to embarrass Lin Lang outside, so he acquiesced to Jia Min's proposal, and took his wife and children back home in a carriage.

After returning to the mansion, Jia Min asked Lin Lang to follow her into the inner courtyard.

"You child, why don't you even go home? You don't want to marry the county lord, so will the parents still ignore your wishes and insist on appointing you the county lord of the Beijing Palace?"

Even Lin Ruhai thought that Lin Lang refused to return to Beijing because he was avoiding the marriage in the Beijing Palace, let alone Jia Min?

Lin Lang thought that his mother missed him, and brought him to the inner courtyard to say some thoughtful words, but he didn't expect to hear these words from his mother.

He looked at his mother in astonishment, and was sure that his mother really thought so. Lin Lang said dumbfoundedly, "Mother misunderstood, the son didn't come home because he didn't want to marry the magistrate, the child just felt that the world was vast and wanted to travel more. In some places, it is not because of the county owner."

Jia Min didn't believe it, "If it wasn't for the county lord, why didn't you even leave a way to contact you? Aren't you afraid that Prince Jing's son will find you?"

"That's because the baby won't stay in one place for too long. Even if you leave the address, by the time the mother sends a letter, the baby will already be gone." Lin Lang explained helplessly.

He didn't expect his mother to think so all the time.

Having said that, I met Lian's second brother two days ago, and Lian's second brother also thought so. Don't they all think that he is avoiding this marriage?

He did resist at first, because the memory of the girl in his mind made him unable to distinguish reality from dreams.

Sometimes he felt that it was because he thought about it day by day that he dreamed about it at night.

All in all, after traveling for the past few years, he no longer cared so much about this matter. Although he still doubted whether the county lord and the girl in his dream had any past and present connections, he didn't have the intention to pursue it to the end. As far as he was concerned, even if The little county lord is the girl in her dreams who was let down by Lin Shaoqing, and she is just Shui Keyu in this life, not the girl who was let down by Lin Shaoqing.

He distinguished the two clearly. He felt guilty towards the girl in his dream, but this guilt came from Lin Shaoqing's memory. After traveling for three or four years, he became more and more determined that he was Lin Lang and not Lin Shaoqing.

It's just an extra lifetime of memory, does he still have to accept the karma brought to him by this memory?

dream!

"So, if you don't return to Beijing, it has nothing to do with the county master?" Jia Min said hesitantly.

Lin Lang recalled the scene when he delivered the lamp to Shui Keyu in the past, and he couldn't help laughing, "At the beginning, the son said he had to solve it by himself, but it was the father who worked hard to suppress the matter. No matter whether the son knows the meaning of sending the lantern or not, the fact that the son sent the lantern is a fact, no wonder the princess exposed it, when the incident in Yangzhou happens, the boy will be ready to end, no matter whether he passes the exam or not, the son will go to Beijing after the provincial examination next year."

This means, is there an explanation for the Beijing Palace?

Jia Min couldn't help frowning when he remembered what had happened in the capital in the past few years, "Lang'er... there is something, mother must tell you clearly."

"What?" Seeing that Jia Min's expression was wrong, Lin Lang felt a little uneasy.

Jia Min sighed, "Since you left Beijing, the King of Beijing has often invited your father to visit the mansion to reminisce about the old days. On the surface, he was reminiscing about the past, but secretly he was asking your father about your whereabouts and how to resolve the marriage with the county magistrate. I thought you were leaving Beijing on the pretext of traveling to escape the county lord. Your father didn’t respond to King Jingjing’s words. After a long time, King Jingjing stopped mentioning this matter. When your father and I came to Yangzhou, I heard Said that the princess is choosing a suitable husband-in-law for the county head, you..."

Lin Lang was startled, and then smiled, "It would be a good thing if the princess can choose a good man for the county magistrate."

Does his mother mean that when he returns to Beijing next year, he will hear the news of the county lord's engagement, so that he should stop thinking about the county lord?

For some reason, although Lin Lang didn't limit the slightest bit on the surface, he felt a little uncomfortable in his heart. In his mind, the alternation between the county lord and the girl in his dream made him dizzy for a moment.