Jia Min's Counterattack

On this day, Lin Ruhai had just arrived at the yamen, before he had time to deal with official documents, Lin Xing came in with a post.

"Master, Master Xie's family sent someone to send an invitation card, please come to his garden in Suzhou to gather at night, someone said that Master Xie has a very important letter for you."

Lin Ruhai took the invitation and glanced at it, but there was nothing special about it.But it would be interesting if Mr. Xie asked someone to bring it.An important letter, who wrote it, to whom, and why should it be sent to him?Many questions appeared in Lin Ruhai's mind. Even though Lin Ruhai knew that there must be something wrong with it, he still planned to find out the bottom line of Xie's family in person.

"You reply to the person who sent the post, and say that I will be there on time. In addition, go and send a letter to your wife, so that she will not be anxious at home."

Lin Xing got the order and went out to handle errands. Lin Ruhai put the invitation card away and started to deal with the official documents.

After leaving the Yamen in the evening, Lin Ruhai arrived at Xie's garden in Suzhou as scheduled.This garden is not as big as the old house of the Lin family, but it is elegant and unique. In short, it is also a very good garden.

Elder Xie picked Lin Ruhai up at the door and the two exchanged pleasantries and entered the flower hall together.Lin Ruhai saw that the banquet had been set up in the flower hall, but he seemed to be the only guest.

"Master Lin, please sit up!"

"Thank you, sir, for being polite!" Lin Ruhai sat down obediently.

Mr. Xie filled Lin Ruhai with wine, poured another glass for himself, then raised his glass and said to Lin Ruhai: "Today I am preparing a little wine in the humble house, I just want to share with Mr. Lin, and I would like to thank Mr. Lin for taking the time to come. , I will do it first as a respect!" After speaking, he lifted his neck and drank the wine in the glass.

Lin Ruhai poured the wine in the glass onto the handkerchief hidden in his sleeve in advance without moving.Lin Ruhai moved so fast that Mr. Xie couldn't even notice.

The two exchanged glasses and drank a lot, but Lin Ruhai poured out the wine every time.Master Xie felt that it was almost done, so he took out a letter from his pocket and handed it to Lin Ruhai.

"Master Lin, please take a look!"

Lin Ruhai didn't take it right away, but looked at the letter carefully first.Judging from the envelope, the letter should not be new, and the ink on the envelope looks like it has been there for many years.And the handwriting on the envelope was very familiar to him, it was the handwriting of Lin Ruhai's father, the late Lin Taifu.

"Looking at the handwriting, it seems to belong to my late father."

"Master Lin has good eyesight. This is the letter written by Mrs. Lin to my father. After reading the contents of the letter, you will understand the purpose of inviting you here today."

Lin Ruhai stared at Mr. Xie for a moment, then reached out to take the letter, opened it and read it.

Mr. Xie is right, this is indeed written by Mrs. Lin to the late Mrs. Xie's family.The letter said: Ten years ago, Mrs. Xie's youngest sister's family was hunted down to help the Lin family. In the end, only a five-year-old girl survived.The girl's name is Xiao Qingfang. Mrs. Lin's family has no female relatives, so it is inconvenient to take in this girl, so she sent someone to Xie's family to take care of her, and promised that Lin Ruhai would take care of the girl in the future.After reading the letter, Lin Ruhai knew that this was a trap, and it was a premeditated trap. It seemed to be similar to Lin Xing who was killed by him.

"What do you mean by Mr. Xie?" Lin Ruhai put the letter in the envelope, and put it on the dining table casually.He looked up at Mr. Xie, waiting for Mr. Xie's answer.

"Of course I want Master Lin to fulfill his promise and be responsible to my cousin!"

"According to Master Xie, how should I be responsible?"

"Hehe! Well... I also know that Mr. Lin has already married a wife and had children. It is impossible for Mr. Lin to divorce his wife and remarry. However, it is still possible to marry a second wife."

"Master Xie, are you joking? My Lin family has the ancestral precepts. A man of 35 years old can take concubines. I already have two sons. I will definitely not violate the ancestral precepts!"

"But this letter was written by Mrs. Lin himself, and he also promised in the letter that Mr. Lin would take care of his cousin. Is Mr. Lin going to violate your father's last wish? My cousin's family died because of your Lin family. Mr. Lin will not Do you want to bear the reputation of being ungrateful?"

"Thank you sir, I have a few questions to ask you."

"Master Lin, please tell me."

"First, my father has never mentioned this matter to me in this world. If this matter is true, why didn't you come to find me a few years ago, but why did you show me this letter because of this matter?" Lin Ruhai looked at the stunned Mr. Xie, without waiting for his answer, he opened his mouth again: "Second question, let me first think that this letter is really from my late father. Did my late father mention half a sentence in the letter that I want to share with you?" What does the Xie family mean? Thirdly, even if my late father really wanted me to marry my cousin Ling, did he send any tokens along with the letter?"

After asking the three questions, Mr. Xie was speechless, unable to answer any of them.He got this letter from his cousin, and the entire Xie family didn't think about whether the letter was true, and they all only inferred from the few words in the letter that Mrs. Lin asked Lin Ruhai to marry his cousin.But when Lin Ruhai raised the three questions, he couldn't find any evidence to prove that he was right.

Mr. Xie regretted not listening to his mother Mrs. Xie at this time, and he should wait for Lin Ruhai to encounter difficulties or when their Xie family caught Lin Ruhai's handle before taking out this letter.Now, just a few words from Lin Ruhai made Xie's family very passive, but he still has a trick, if he can't be soft, he can be tough.

Master Xie came back to his senses, smiled and said to Lin Ruhai: "Master Lin, please forgive me for a moment."

"Thank you, my lord, please help yourself!"

Mr. Xie got up and left the flower hall.After a while, Lin Ruhai smelled a strange fragrance, followed by a handsome young woman, Lin Ruhai didn't know where she was hiding, she went straight to Lin Ruhai, raised her hand in front of Lin Ruhai's eyes After a while, seeing that Lin Ruhai didn't respond, he said, "Listen to me now, do whatever I ask you to do! Nod your head when you understand."

Lin Ruhai felt that this woman was a little weird, but in order not to startle her, she nodded her head obediently.

Xiao Qingfang smiled with satisfaction, and then said: "You are sleepy now, and you want to sleep, go to the door and tell your two servants to go back first, you will stay here tonight!"

Lin Ruhai did everything according to Xiao Qingfang's words. Xiao Qingfang watched Lin Xing and Lin An leave from the window, then walked to Lin Ruhai's side, and lightly patted Lin Ruhai's shoulder with his hand.

"Follow me, I'll take you to sleep!"