The daily life of a charming girl who made a fortune in ancient times

Chapter 302 True and False Zheng Changming

The thirteenth day of the twelfth lunar month is suitable for praying and offering sacrifices.

Lin Ruyu and her younger sister Lin Rumei accompanied their grandmother to the Guanyin Temple in the city to offer incense, praying to the Bodhisattva to bless the family and make everything go well.

The wintersweet plums in Guanyin Temple have already bloomed, and the snow that has not yet melted constitutes a vibrant picture of plum and snow contending for spring.Lin Ruyu saw that her grandmother was full of elegance, so she helped her enjoy the plum blossoms in the backyard of the Guanyin Temple. Lin Rumei even asked the monks in the temple for a pair of scissors to cut some beautiful plum blossoms and bring them back to the mansion for her mother and aunt to enjoy.

Mrs. Fang didn't want to detain her granddaughter, so she walked around and went to the hut to rest, leaving the two little sisters to pick plum branches in the yard.Lin Ruyu sent her grandfather back to her room, and happily returned to Meilin with a pair of scissors, but she didn't see her second sister. After asking, she found out that her second uncle had also come to Guanyin Temple, and her second sister ran to the front hall.

Lin Ruyu asked, "Are there any guards following?"

"There are two."

Hearing that someone was following, Lin Ruyu didn't ask any more questions, and raised her head with the scissors to pick out the budding plum branches.This plum grove was carefully cultivated by the monks in the temple. There are three colors of plum blossoms in yellow, white and red, which are so beautiful.Lin Ruyu picked two branches of various colors, then handed the scissors to Yunjuan, holding the plum blossoms and sniffing lightly.

The fragrance of plum blossoms is called "dark fragrance", which seems to be absent, elusive but refreshing from time to time, and has always been praised by literati.I hope that Shen Ge can catch He Jiongming as soon as possible and return to Xuanzhou for the New Year, so that they can enjoy the plum blossoms together.Lin Ruyu closed her eyes and sniffed the fragrance of plum lightly, listening to the distant noise from the front hall from time to time, the corners of her mouth slightly turned up, and she smiled knowingly.

"Sister!" Lin Rumei ran over cheerfully holding plum blossoms, "Sister, look at these two red plum blossoms, aren't they pretty?"

The plum blossom chosen by my sister is as enthusiastic as her personality, like a fire in the snow, Lin Ruyu smiled and nodded, "Beautiful, who did the second uncle come with?"

"Follow General Zheng." Lin Rumei handed the plum blossoms to the maid, and took her sister's hand to walk towards the plum tree she thought was the most beautiful, "Let's go over there, there is a branch that blooms just right."

"Put off the last branch." They had already cut a lot today, and the monks in the temple should be in a hurry. Lin Ruyu followed her sister and asked casually, "Is it only Second Uncle and General Zheng?"

Lin Rumei put all her thoughts on the plum blossoms, and replied casually, "I only see the two of them, I don't know if there are others."

He does not mean that.Lin Ruyu glanced at Xianyin, who immediately understood and sent someone to the front yard.When the little sisters returned to the hut where Mrs. Fang was resting, Xianyin brought the news back.

"In addition to Erye and General Zheng, there is also Zhu Erye. Zhu Erye came here with General Zheng. Erye met them on the road and came together."

Lin Ruyu nodded and said, "Send someone to protect Second Uncle, don't let him go out of the city with General Zheng."

"Yes." Xianyin responded and walked out quickly.

Mrs. Fang asked, "What does Jiaojiao think is wrong?"

Lin Ruyu said in a low voice, "General Zheng's father and uncle are in prison, and his mother, wife and children are still in Hezhou Dongshan. It stands to reason that he should not be in the mood to hang out and burn incense at the moment, but to hang out and eat wine." .”

Mrs. Fang felt that there was nothing wrong, "He is running around in Xuanzhou now, one is for his father, and the other is for his own future. If his father is sentenced to beheaded, as the son of a treasonous minister, he will No matter how many military exploits he has made, he will only be a lieutenant general of the fifth or sixth rank in the army. If his father can be exempted from punishment at the last moment because of his "wake up" and "deserving meritorious deeds", his official career will be much smoother. Whether it is you The second uncle, or Zhu Taishou's grandson, is a help to him."

Lin Ruyu shook her head, "If he wants to intercede for his father, he will definitely intercede with the prefect directly, instead of turning to my second uncle or Mr. Zhu's family to help him speak well."

Mrs. Fang smiled, "You are talking about Zheng Changming, the son of Lingchuan county magistrate, and now this is Zheng Changming, who has experienced ups and downs in life and returned from crimes and meritorious deeds. The two are not the same."

"Grandmother is right." Lin Ruyu felt that what her grandparents said was reasonable, but she still felt something was wrong.She wanted to meet Zheng Changming.

But when they came out of the Guanyin Temple, the second uncle and Zheng Changming had already left the temple to have a drink. Lin Ruyu didn't fit in with the past, so she accompanied her grandfather back home.After the second uncle came back, Lin Ruyu ran to the front yard and asked where the second uncle had gone and who he was drinking with.

Although he didn't know why his niece cared about these things, Second Uncle Lin, who had been drinking a little, started counting, "In the elegant and secluded residence, with Zheng Changming, Zhu Xuewen, Du Peiling..."

The people that my second uncle mentioned were all good friends with Zheng Changming in the past. Qingya Youju is a high-end restaurant with a quiet environment. Both of these are true, but Lin Ruyu is still worried, "Second uncle thinks that Zheng Changming is very different from before. Is it?"

Second Uncle Lin leaned back on the chair and sighed, "After so many things, how could it not be too big? Second Uncle thinks he always has the strength to force his face and smile now."

Lin Ruyu continued to ask, "Is it because of his father's business that he invited you and others to drink?"

Second Uncle Lin paused, then sighed, "Yes. Everyone has difficulties. It is not easy for him to get to the present. We all want to help if we can, but to be honest about this matter, the few of us who really help No."

Lin Ruyu raised her eyes and asked earnestly, "Then... has Second Uncle ever thought about putting him in front of my father and asking my father to give him advice?"

This... Second Uncle Lin scratched his head, "I have this idea, but I feel that it is not suitable for our family to intervene in this matter. But regardless of him, I feel... eh... What a wrong step, the Zheng family The two brothers went the wrong way, and their children and grandchildren had to beg for help in order to survive."

Father has many eyes and many connections, and now that the Lin family is married to the Marquis of Wu'an, if Zheng Changming is desperate and comes to the Lin family to ask his father for help, his father will definitely meet him.

Lin Ruyu nodded, "I understand what Second Uncle means, but our family is a merchant and not an official, so we can't control the government affairs. Second Uncle has done everything that Second Uncle should do, and we can't do anything about the rest."

"Brother must have said the same thing." Second Uncle Lin sighed again.

After Lin Ruyu returned to her own Rongxin Courtyard, she immediately called Xianyin and Luo Xian over, and said seriously, "I suspect that Zheng Changming was pretended by He Jiongming."

Both Xianyin and Luo Xian were taken aback. Isn't He Jiongming in the rebel camp in Raozhou? Why did he become Zheng Changming again?
"Miss, what do you mean is that He Jiongming put on a mask to pretend to be Zheng Changming?" Luo Xian reminded, "Miss, when Zheng Changming entered the city, the guards checked his identity carefully and wiped his chin. He didn't have a human skin mask on."

Xianyin also said, "I remember the young master said that the Marshal has sent people to interrogate all the people in Prince An's Mansion. There is only one craftsman who can make human skin masks in Prince An's Mansion, and this person has died of illness at the end of last year. He Jiongming There is no way to make a new human-skin mask, so I can't pretend to be General Zheng."

(End of this chapter)