win the hairpin

Chapter 169 Last Words
Zhang Rui looked at Li Lin as if he was a junior, full of patience, but in the depths of his eyes, occasionally there was the same coldness as Zhang Xutang.

The more gentle and patient you are, the calmer and colder you will be in your heart.

"I asked you to resign for your own good. Now that King Jin is in the limelight, his actions against me will become more and more frequent. I have to retreat and endure, let alone you, King Jin's methods have not yet been used. , I still have a case waiting for him to overturn, and it is a big case, if you are still there, you will definitely be implicated, so you have to wait for the storm to pass."

Li Lin kept his words in his heart, broke each word and crumbled it into pieces, and after a while, he got up and knelt down, kowtowing to Zhang Rui: "I will remember Xiangye's instruction, so I'm going to apologize to you today. "

Zhang Rui's soft face became softer, he helped him up, and personally sent him out of the Baosha.

Outside is a world of ice and snow, with dark clouds hanging over people's heads, quietly brewing a big snowstorm.

Li Lin plunged into the wind and snow, did not go home, but walked all the way to Xiatuqiao Fangzi in the outer city, knocked on the second door, and a middle-aged man with a dark complexion and a skinny figure came out: " Why is Li Xianggong here?"

"You won't be my husband soon," Li Lin walked in and closed the door, "You're the only one at home?"

The black and thin man nodded: "What's the matter?"

Li Lin didn't answer, and opened the doors of every room with a solemn face, even the latrines. The black and thin man frowned, and wanted to pull him away, but seeing his expression was wrong, he didn't say anything, and let him go Check.

After checking all the corners, Li Lin breathed a sigh of relief, and stood by the water tank to take a sip of water.

This was picked well water, with a piercing chill, which made Li Lin's lips, teeth, throat, and internal organs numb, but his mind was extremely clear.

Throwing away the gourd and ladle, he went to the main room and sat down, looked up at the roof, and remained silent.

He didn't speak, neither did the black and thin man, they sat facing each other, one in silk and satin, the other in coarse linen, separated by a table, as if separated by the Chu River and Han border.

After a full quarter of an hour, Li Lin stretched out his hand to wipe his face from top to bottom, and sighed: "Zhao Li, I really let you say it right, it's a dead dog."

Zhao Li sneered: "You are a dignified deputy envoy of Yantie. You don't even care about the more than [-] lives of people in the factory, and you care about the death of rabbits?"

"It's not me who died, of course I'm not afraid. When my death is imminent, I'm naturally afraid." Li Lin didn't know everything about Zhang Xiangye, but he really knew everything about Zhao Licai.

They were companions, classmates, and they used to be close friends—until Li Lin worked for the Zhang family, and Zhao Li was too upright to gain a foothold in officialdom, so he rented a house in Kyoto to enlighten others.

Li Lin told Zhao Li exactly what Zhang Xiangye said: "Do you think Zhang Xiangye really wants me to quit?"

Zhao Li was silent for a moment, before he said: "You have been a slave for ten years. Mr. Zhang will not abandon you. If he tells you to quit, you will quit for two years. After two years, you will come out again. Why are you panicking? Master Zhang's favorite student, he should know him well."

Li Lin smiled wryly: "It is because of understanding that I feel uneasy."

He knows so much, once he leaves with so many secrets, will he really still be alive?

Thinking of this, he fell silent again.

Zhao Li was also silent, he had already stayed away from the officialdom, and the vicissitudes in the officialdom were beyond his comprehension, so he could only sit with him.

Li Lin slumped on the chair with a crooked body, the snow was dazzling outside, he had to squint his eyes to hide the tears in his eyes.

At last he couldn't hide his eyes even though he squinted. He took off the bunny hat on his head and put it on his face, revealing only the lower half of his face. Under the soap-colored brim, his lips were also colorless.

"Hei Li," his voice was faintly crying, "I know that if I do bad things, I will not be wronged if I die, but I am afraid, I am afraid of death, and I am not reconciled. At that time, I knew why Mr. Lu Hong of Yuelu Academy did not allow his disciples to become officials. After thinking about it, he had to go to the Zhang family and think about gaining a firm foothold, so that he could display his ambitions."

Unexpectedly, power and wealth are like an abyss, once you step into it, you can never get out.

If he wants to avoid being stepped on, he has to do everything, otherwise why should he be in this position.

This selfless confession moved Zhao Li, and he sighed secretly.

The two of them were educated in poor places, and there were only two scholars in the entire ten miles and eight villages.

Even the money for rushing to the exam was put together by the clan's one hundred and two hundred coins.

He was defeated all the way in the officialdom, while Li Lin was advancing bravely. Now sitting together, they are still the poor boys in the past, and they can only cover their faces and cry.

Moved by this point, Zhao Li temporarily forgot Li Lin's way of sharing the anger of man and god, leaned over and patted him on the shoulder: "Okay, just say what you want me to do."

Li Lin was covered with a hat from the beginning to the end, only the corners of his mouth were turned down, Zhao Li patted him, and the corners of his mouth were still turned down: "Good brother, I know you have a good memory, you can read it silently once, now I have something to tell You, you must remember that if something happens to me, you will go to King Jin, who is a good man and will protect you."

Zhao Li looked at him, in a dilemma.

He really didn't want to get involved in official affairs, especially when it involved the battle for the crown prince.

But Li Lin seemed to be explaining the funeral, and he had to help.

Forget it, let's help this once.

"You said."

"In the [-]nd year of Zhangde," Li Lin said slowly, "Brine is wet and evil, less than a catty, and the price is as high as [-] yuan. It is stolen from Xia Guoqing and white salt, and half a catty is equivalent to a catty. Miscellaneous, sell for twenty, steal and sell millions of catties, get a total of [-] taels, and hand it over to the governor of Yanwangfu."

"Qingbaiyan?" Zhao Li stood up awkwardly, "Did you say it wrong or did I hear it wrong?"

Since Xia became emperor, Empress Dowager Pei issued an edict to deprive officials and titles of surnames and stop trading.

Wars broke out between the two countries many times. In recent years, the Xia Kingdom ceased the war because it stopped trading and the treasury was not full.

They even sent silver to Xia Guo.

"You heard it right, and I said it right." Li Lin covered his eyes, his voice calmed down, "At that time, when King Yan came out of the pavilion to become king, there were too many places to spend money, and there were many things that were not visible—— For example, training dead men to kill King Jin."

Zhao Li sat down bitterly, and slammed the table: "You're all fucking crazy!"

"Don't get excited, remember what I said. Since the [-]th year of Zhangde, Huainan salt is very good. It is transported from Tong, Tai, and Chu to Zhenzhou, and from Zhenzhou to Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Jinghu. The thieves stole a total of [-] million jin, sold for [-] jin per jin, and got a total of [-] taels, and entered the palace of Yan Wang."

Zhao Li sneered: "No wonder the Jiang thief is notorious. It turns out that you put all the shit on them."

Li Lin also laughed: "Do you remember?"

"Ah."

"Then I will continue."

(End of this chapter)