The drizzle is continuous and endless. The first watch has not yet arrived, and the streets and alleys are already deserted. The continuous rainy weather makes people feel hairy and extremely gloomy.
Wherever the streetlight shines, raindrops shining like silver needles continue to fall, gathering into thin streams on the bumpy stone streets. These thin streams then gather in the ditches on both sides of the streets to form small streams.
.The creeks in the ditches flow into culverts at the end of each street and converge into more turbulent water. Then all the water flows along the culverts into several large rivers in Hangzhou.
Several rivers in the city have swollen due to continuous rain. More than half of the originally exposed stone steps have been submerged. The river water has become turbid, and branches and leaves are swirling on the river surface, making a dull whistling sound.
No one was in the mood to appreciate the rain scene anymore. Even the most literary poets, after experiencing the continuous rainy weather, turned the poetic meaning of rain hitting the banana trees into vicious curses. Not to mention the appreciation. However, at this moment, Lin Jue
I was standing in front of the long window, watching the raindrops falling in the darkness, enjoying the solitude in the rainy night.
This may be the last time he can spend a quiet night peacefully. According to the plan, tomorrow will be the day of Qichen. He and Gao Muqing will go to sea along the Qiantang River to Hai Dongqing's bandit's lair. It will take more than ten days.
, all the preparations for suppressing the bandits have been basically completed. As the preparations progress, everything becomes irreversible. It cannot be said that Lin Jue is not worried about the dangers of this trip. In fact, he is quite conflicted in his heart. This time
Going to Haidongqing's lair is a hundred times more dangerous than the trip to Guishan Island. It is really difficult to guarantee whether I can come back alive.
But Lin Jue had to take the risk, because Hai Dongqing would not let him go, and he had no choice. If Hai Dongqing didn't die, he would die. He would even have to spare Lu Wu, Lin Hu, or the rest of the innocent Lin family.
Therefore, he had to take the initiative. Today's situation was actually doomed when Lin Jue decided to go to Guishan Island to retrieve the birthday gift. Although the trip to Guishan Island was a great success, it also brought about this bigger problem.
The troubles are like chains that are interlocked with each other. Causes lead to consequences. How can you reap what you sow? Lin Jue has no regrets in his heart. He can only meet and face challenges and solve problems. There is no escape for him.
In his last life, Lin Jue had never experienced any of this. In his last life, he was just a turtle hiding in his shell. He chose to escape. Although that brought him a relatively peaceful twelve years, recalling it can make him
The moment when people were excited and felt that life was valuable was lackluster. In the end, he was beheaded for no apparent reason. In this life, in less than a year, Lin Jue encountered more dangers than in the previous life. It seemed that
It seemed that he should regret it, but Lin Jue did not.
In addition to fear and nervousness, there is another emotion in Lin Jue's mind, which is excitement. Lin Jue even enjoys this feeling. Lin Jue knows that he has completely changed. He is no longer the cowardly hiding person in his previous life.
As a person, he will no longer run away from danger. Because running away will never solve the problem, it will only bring more trouble and humiliation. This is how the world is.
For more than ten days, it was an extremely tense and secret preparation process. It was said to be a secret operation, but in fact such a large operation could not be completely guaranteed to be airtight. Although for safety reasons, the entire plan even connected the two Zhejiang roads.
The transshipment made people like Master Song and Hangzhou Magistrate Zhang Yi hide it, but some news inevitably spread secretly.
The main reason is that the recruitment of sea-going ships has caused a lot of rumors. Although the exercise is used to protect merchant ships, there has never been a similar project in previous sea-going training, which also leaves room for suspicion among businessmen.
There is an instinct, that is, a strange sense of smell. For example, Lin Boyong, after the four ships of the Lin family were recruited, Lin Boyong immediately came secretly and asked Lin Jue the reason. Probably because he felt that Lin Jue had been in and out of the palace recently.
There were too many, so Lin Boyong thought that Lin Jue must know something, so he came over to find out the news.
With the lessons learned last time, Lin Jue will never tell Lin Boyong about this now. He no longer believes in Lin Boyong. Because in Lin Boyong's mind, his biological son is his biological son after all. If he turns around, he will tell Lin Boyong
Ke and others, while Lin Jue distrusted Lin Ke and others even more.
Even if there are rumors circulating, now the arrow has to be fired, and Lin Jue can't care about anything else. Gao Muqing has been back to the village for more than ten days. Yesterday, she sent someone to deliver the news. Tomorrow morning, she will bring more than a hundred elite people.
The selected men will be waiting for him at Shili Bridge outside the east gate. He will ask Qichen to meet them early in the morning, and then go directly east along the Qiantang River to the seaside to attend the appointment with Haidong Qing.
The rain kept falling, and the night was already dark. Except for a solitary lamp in Lin Jue's courtyard, everything was pitch black and there was no light. A gust of wind blew, and a few raindrops were blown to fall on Lin Jue's face.
It was already mid-May, but on a summer night after continuous rain, the raindrops brought a slight chill. The wind also seemed to carry a cold breath.
A long coat was slowly placed on Lin Jue's shoulders from behind. Lin Jue turned around and saw Lu Wu's little figure standing behind him, looking petite and pitiful.
"Lvwu, why haven't you slept yet?" Lin Jue asked softly.
"..." Lu Wu was silent, lowering his head and shrugging his shoulders slightly.
Lin Jue reached out and lifted her chin. Under the light, Lu Wu's pretty face was covered with tears, and her eyes were slightly swollen.
"Lvwu...what's wrong with you?" Lin Jue said softly.
"Sir, you are going to fight pirates tomorrow. Lu Wu is very worried and scared." Lu Wu lowered his eyelids, looking pitiful.
"How do you know?" Lin Jue asked in surprise.
"Lu Wu knows everything, it's just that Lu Wu didn't say anything. Last time you didn't go to Chuzhou to visit friends, you went to the bandit village on Guishan Island. Why did the young master hide it from me? If Miss Gao hadn't told
The truth is, Lu Wu was kept in the dark. She also told me what happened this time before leaving..." Lu Wu bit her lip and said.
"What Miss Gao said?...Why did she tell you this?" Lin Jue frowned.
"Miss Gao said, maybe this time... maybe you won't be able to come back, so you should tell me, otherwise it would be unfair to me. Young Master didn't tell me, so Miss Gao told me secretly. Young Master, how could you do such a big thing?"
Hiding it from Green Dance?"
"Hey!" Lin Jue sighed, turned around and sat on the chair, took Lu Wu's hand and said, "I won't tell you because I'm afraid you'll worry about me. The things I do are indeed dangerous, so why should I spare you?
The family is scared."
Lu Wu said softly: "Then what she said is true? Are you really going to fight the pirates? Are your lives really in danger?"
Lin Jue stared at Lu Wu blankly, and said in a deep voice for a long time: "Lv Wu, if I can't come back, you will leave the Lin family. Take all the money at home with you, um... give Xiaohu two hundred taels of silver and let him do it
A small business, and I will marry a good wife in the future. As for you, I hope you can find a good man to marry and live a good life. When you have children, you can teach them to read and write well. You don’t have to be an official to take the imperial examination.
The main thing is to make him sensible and know how to behave."
Tears welled up in Lu Wu's eyes, and she shook her head violently and said, "I don't want to listen, I don't want to listen. Young master, you must come back. If you can't come back, I won't survive."
Lin Jue shook his head and said: "What will happen if you die? You will save your life in vain. I never want to see this result. Why did I go? Isn't it because I want to live well? I want everyone around me to live well.
?On the contrary, it will cost you your life, so what’s the point of my going here?”
Lu Wu cried and said: "I know that the young master went to the pirates to avenge me because I was almost kidnapped last time. The young master is good to Lu Wu, and Lu Wu is very clear in his heart. But...it will be difficult to go there this time.
You're going to die, Lu Wu, please don't go, sir. In the worst case, I'll be growing vegetables in the yard and we won't go out."
"Aren't you going to be a tortoise when you go out? You want me to be a tortoise all my life? I can't get out of the house because of being scared? Silly words. The young master is a man, and a man cannot be a tortoise. There are some things that must be done. This time I spent
It took a lot of energy to convince the prince and the prefect Yan to send troops, so it is imperative. You have to be strong, this matter is confidential, you can't show any trace, otherwise you will harm me."
"But... what if the young master really... really dies? It's just a green dance. It's a worthless life. But if the young master is gone, won't he be dead? The young master hasn't gotten married yet."
"You're talking nonsense again. What's the point of being a heir? Even if it's the third bedroom, isn't there still Lin Quan? Lin Quan will also be the successor for my father."
"But he is him, and you are you. When my wife was alive, she once told me that it would be great if she could have a grandchild one day. She was not talking about the eldest son's child, she was talking about you. You
If he goes without any heirs, Madam will definitely be very disappointed if she knows."
Lin Jue couldn't help but smile, stretched out his hand to caress Lu Wu's face, and said softly: "Lv Wu, I understand your intentions, but what you don't understand is that this matter must be done now. You are the mother-in-law.
In other words, I can’t look back.”
Lu Wu shook his head and said softly: "I'm not using my wife to beg you to turn back. What I mean is that since you have to do this, Lu Wu can't stop you. Lu Wu just wants to make a request."
"Whatever the request is, it's up to you."
"Lu Wu... Lu Wu hopes... hopes..." Lu Wu hesitated, but suddenly the courage came from nowhere. He raised his head and looked directly at Lin Jue and said: "Lu Wu hopes that I can serve the young master tonight. If God has eyes,
Being able to keep a queen for the young master means that Lu Wu is worthy of his wife and the young master. The young master may think that Lu Wu is shameless or that he calls me a bad woman. In short, this is what Lu Wu thinks in his heart. This is the only thing that Lu Wu has.
