The carriage stopped, and the wind blew open a gap in the curtains. The moonlight was like water, shining in and falling on Gu Ying's smooth and jade-like face. Her heart was in her throat. If anyone discovered her and Lin Lin at this moment,
Fu and Fu were riding in a carriage, and even though there were a hundred people talking, they couldn't explain clearly. The second young master, Lin Xuzong, was so resentful that he would definitely not let her and Lin Fu survive.
Gu Yingxiu fell into Lin Fu's arms, staring at the car door curtain that was fluttering in the night wind, and asked calmly: "Aunt Zhao, who is blocking the road ahead?"
"Aunt, Seventh Madam, is it me?" Lin Jingchang's voice came through the car curtain.
Gu Yingxiu breathed a sigh of relief and turned around to hold on to the soft couch with her hands, trying to change her position, but she caught something like a dead snake. She felt warm when she held it through her pants, so she didn't have to sit in Lin Fu's arms.
One hand was placed on the top of Lin Fu's thigh. Gu Yingxiu was not an innocent girl. Of course she knew what she was holding on to. She got out of the way in a panic, her body was not well balanced, and she bumped into Lin Fu's arms again. Gu Yingxiu
He was in a hurry, holding Lin Fu's chest with his hands, wiping Lin Fu's chin with his smooth jade cheek, and sat aside in a panic, not daring to make any other noise in the carriage.
, and even pretended to be calm when talking to Lin Jingchang in front of the carriage: "Jingchang, what do you want from me?"
Lin Fu was in so much pain that he could not make any unusual noise even though he was grinning. Gu Yingxiu looked at the exaggerated expression on his face and found it funny again: Is it really that painful? She felt shy, so she focused her attention outside the carriage.
Lin Jingchang walked to the carriage. He also knew the etiquette, but he just avoided speaking to others: "If the seventh lady meets a scholar, she must ask him to go as far as possible. The second young master is not so easy to get along with..."
Gu Yingxiu looked at Lin Fu's blurry figure in the darkness and said to Lin Jingchang outside the carriage: "I know, I won't go looking for him now..." At this moment, a carriage came from behind, Gu Yingxiu thought
Lin Tingxun would come out of the ancestral hall later. If he met him, he would have no excuse to stop him from entering his carriage. He would not have time to say anything to Lin Jingchang on the roadside. He would say to Zhao Hu's mother outside, "Aunt Zhao, take me back."
Dazai, I'm a little tired and want to go back and rest early."
Mrs. Zhao naturally knew that the carriage could not be delayed on the road, so she led the horse in the direction of the mansion. Gu Yingxiu's personal maid and two accompanying healthy women could have taken the carriage, but now they could only walk with the carriage.
Lin Jingchang watched the seventh lady leave in a hurry after saying a few perfunctory words. He thought that Lin Fu had caused such a big trouble this time that Mrs. Lin, who had always cared for Lin Fu, also flinched. Lin Jingchang looked at the background of the carriage in the night and sighed.
, secretly thought: Scholar, scholar, just make your own fortune, even the seventh lady can’t help you, and she doesn’t dare to help you.
Lin Fu was thinking about Lin Jingchang. Even if Lin Jingchang was a little timid, he wanted to stay in Shanglindu after all. No one could offend the second young master. Today, he put a knife on the second young master's neck and forced him to kneel down in public. Everyone knew that the second young master
The young master hated himself so much that Jingchang still ran over to see the Seventh Lady and wanted to use the Seventh Lady to remind him. He sighed in his heart and thought to himself: Let's have a chance to be rich together in the future.
"You tell me, how many people should worry about you?" Gu Yingxiu leaned over to whisper to Lin Fu again, worried that people outside the carriage would hear, so she couldn't do anything without whispering. It was just that she fell into her arms just now, holding her hands on her thighs.
This moment is as hidden in my heart as the bright moon in the night sky. I can't suppress the thoughts in my heart, but my bodies have to be close together to discuss countermeasures. Saying such words while biting my ears is just like a whisper between lovers.
, Gu Yingxiu only felt her body was a little hot, and tried to breathe normally, "I really don't know what you went through in Baisha County, and I don't have time to listen carefully to what you said now. I think you should have made up your mind to go to Jiangning.
, you also heard what Xiao Wu said, so there will be no delay. You don’t want to go back to Zhao Hu’s house tonight. Hide outside for the night. I will come to Huyan for a walk tomorrow. Come over and meet me again.
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"Okay, go to the corner ahead and I'll quietly go down." Lin Fu said.
"You really don't care who you saved today?" Gu Yingxiu asked.
"Who?" Lin Fu asked.
Listening to Lin Fu's concise question, Gu Yingxiu wanted to beat him on the chest and said: "My second uncle was re-appointed by the imperial court years ago. He did a period of overhaul at the Hanlin Academy. This time he came to Jiangdong.
He served as the deputy inspector. He had not returned to his hometown for twenty years, so he took a boat to Hongzepu Waterway to go to his post. He just wanted to stop in Shiliang for a few days to worship his ancestors, but he did not expect that there would be people in Jiangdong who would not welcome his arrival. "
"I guess he is Gu Wuchen!" Lin Fu said.
"Then you sneaked away secretly and didn't let my second uncle say thank you?" Gu Yingxiu said angrily, "In the afternoon, my second uncle sent someone to say that he would visit us in two days to say thank you. My second uncle is very polite.
A Taoist person, I never expected that you would be leaving Shanglin on foot tonight."
"He left the capital of Shiliang County for twenty years and did not return. How did he know that I was under your care, Sister Yingxiu?" Lin Fu thought to himself that Gu Wuchen's etiquette was limited. He had been an official in the capital for twenty years and had not returned.
Yingxiu said, "Liang Zuoren had a lot of opinions about the Lin family's children. Before the county discovered the assassin, I had a verbal conflict with them. I didn't think of taking credit or asking for trouble by staying there, so I left."
"I don't know how determined the second young master Lin Xuzong is. If he is really determined, I won't worry if only Zhou Pu and Zhao Hu follow you. Tomorrow I will tell the second uncle to let you go to Jiangning with them to carry out the assassination.
After that, Shiliang County will send troops to escort my second uncle. After you go to Jiangning, you have to be careful."
Lin Fu didn't say that Zhou Pu and Zhao Hu were not the only ones around him, thinking that it would not be too late to tell her these things later. He didn't know the details of Gu Wuchen's reactivation to the court. In short, Gu Wuchen went to Jiangdong to serve as deputy inspector, so he should be able to
In order for Gu Yingxiu not to be bullied by others in the Lin family, Lin Tingxun didn't show any intention to deal with himself in Luoma Market. It turned out that Lin Tingxun also knew that it was Gu Wuchen who was sitting in the tea shop at noon.
"..." Lin Fu almost blurted out and asked Gu Yingxiu who the girl who was disguised as a man was, and accidentally grabbed the girl's chest - well, I didn't expect that she was quite good at her age.
"What are you thinking about?" Gu Yingxiu looked confused as Lin Fu pinched the edge of his left palm and was distracted.
"It's nothing," Lin Fu said, "There are some things. I'll talk to you tomorrow when I see you."
The road from the ancestral hall to the Lin family's mansion was not long, and I couldn't say much. I heard the sound of galloping horses in front of me. In the hazy night, I saw two fast horses rushing towards me. Mrs. Zhao and two strong women hurriedly pulled the carriage.
Gu Yingxiu's maids were so frightened that they rolled into the ditch. They watched the fast horse brush the carriage and missed it. The horses nearby were so frightened that they neighed in fear. The strong woman who was used to being around Gu Yingxiu yelled and cursed.
Gu Yingxiu was also startled, and she felt Lin Fu gently hold her hand and whispered: "I'm going down." Lin Fu got off the carriage while others were not paying attention. Gu Yingxiu still had a hand for him.
Yu Wen held it lightly and thought to himself: How dare you touch my mother's hand! He raised a corner of the car curtain and watched Lin Fu walking away from the shadow of the courtyard wall like a ghost.
Seeing a figure in the distance, Zhao Hu greeted him and saw that it was Lin Fu, and asked, "Have you seen the Seventh Lady?"
"Yes," Lin Fu said, "Where is Mr. Zhou?"
"Are we here?" Zhou Pu and Wu Qi hid in the bushes and saw them leading the horse out. The horse held a thin wooden stick in its mouth and a rope was tied around the horse's neck so that the horse would not neigh.
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"Leaving tonight?" Zhou Pu asked.
"We have to stay for one more day. Do you know who the assassins in Shiliang County are today?" Lin Fu said.
"Who is it?" Zhou Pu asked.
"It's the Gu Wuchen who the assassin said should be so ashamed that he jumped into the river," Lin Fu said. Zhou Pu didn't know the origin of the Gu family, so he told him, "The deputy envoy of Jiangdong Inspector, the censor of Zuo Qiandu of the Metropolitan Inspectorate...
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"It turns out he is a big shot," Zhou Pu asked, "Why did he eat at a teahouse with the magistrate of Shiliang County?"
"This Liang Zuoren was also a man who had no ambition. He passed the imperial examination in the same year as Gu Wuchen and became good friends. However, Liang Zuoren took the Jinshi exam for nine years before he was sent to Shiliang County as a magistrate. Gu Wuchen was on his way to Jiangning to take up his post.
It’s not surprising that he took the water route to Shiliang County to go home to worship his ancestors and meet Liang Zuoren.”
"It's really lively. Who wants to assassinate him and prevent him from taking up his post in Jiangning?" Zhou Pu asked.
"Who knows? The water here will not be shallow." Lin Fu said, "Let's find a place to hide tonight. Tomorrow I will go to the lake to meet Mr. Gu. It will be good for us."
Zhou Pu nodded, knowing Jiangdong's deputy inspector was definitely a good thing.
This dynasty set up prefectures and counties at the local level, and there was no clear concept of the provincial level. Above the state capital, there was a Xuanfu Envoy Department to be in charge of the civil affairs of a place, and a Prosecution Envoy Department to be in charge of the local prisons and to supervise local officials at the same time.
The Admiral's Office is set up to take charge of the military command of a place, and the local power is divided into two departments and one office. Only in certain places, in order to resist foreign aggression, suppress people's uprisings, or quell the rebellion of powerful people, the imperial court will set up the position of governor
The governor was in charge of local military and political power. The governor was not a permanent local authority, and the officials appointed were all envoys sent by the imperial court. They had no fixed term of office. The imperial court could recall the envoys at any time and remove the governor's post after the local situation was peaceful.
The Prosecutor's Office is composed of the Prosecutor's Office and the Deputy Commissioner, with official titles of the third and fourth grades respectively. In addition to being in charge of local prosecutions and prisons, the Office of the Prosecutor is also a supervisory agency assigned to local areas under the Central Metropolitan Procuratorate, responsible for supervising local officials.
According to the responsibilities of the official, the deputy envoy usually holds the title of deputy censor of the capital procuratorate, and the deputy censor of the capital procuratorate usually also holds the title of censor of the capital. The deputy envoy is only a fourth-grade civil servant, and his rank does not seem to be high, because he has the title of supervising local officials.
, the authority of the Shangzhuo Tianting is actually regarded as a local official slightly inferior to that of the Xuanfu envoy, the admiral, and the inspection envoy.
According to Lin Fu's understanding, Gu Wuchen is almost equivalent to the deputy secretary of the Provincial Political and Legal Affairs Commission and a member of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection in later generations. ,!