Delicate Flower Chapter 77: Secret

The mother and son turned around and saw a handsome man wearing a purple-red gilt silver floral brocade walking in with a smile.

"Ah Jue!" Ms. Lin shouted happily, holding on to the hand of the maid next to her and about to stand up, "When did you come here? Why didn't you say hello in advance so that I could let your cousin pick you up?" ."

The person who came was none other than Lin Jue, the nephew of the Lin family.

He is the eldest son of Lin's brother. He has been handsome and well-spoken since he was a child. He is Lin's favorite nephew.

Lin Jue quickly stepped forward before she could stand up, and helped Lin before the little maid reached out.

"Aunt!" He called Mrs. Lin affectionately and said with a smile, "You are not in another place. Didn't I want to give you a surprise? I didn't expect the surprise to turn into a shock!" As he spoke, he glanced at Li Duan thoughtfully and continued to say to Mrs. Lin: "I didn't scare you, did I? If I had known this, I should have asked the servant to come and report it in advance."

There was a strong sense of regret in his tone, which made Mrs. Lin feel heartbroken. She hurriedly said: "Is your aunt such a timid person? Besides, I don't dare to boast about anything else. This housekeeper's Your aunt is one of the best at what she does. Who can come to my house without making a sound? Who else could she be if it wasn’t you guys who come and go often?"

Lin Jue does not deny this.

After greeting Li Duan, the two cousins ​​helped Lin sit down at the round table in the outer room.

The maid served tea.

Mr. Lin asked Lin Jue: "Are you just passing through this time or are you planning to stay for a few days? How are things going in Huai'an? Is the business at home okay? Is your father's health okay?"

Lin Jue said with a smile: "My father is in good health. My uncle has helped us with our family business over the years, and everything has gone smoothly. I came here this time because the business in Huai'an has been settled. First, I came here Let me tell my aunt so that you don’t worry. Secondly, I want to thank you. If it hadn’t been for my uncle’s help, I would have lost all my money this time. Speaking of which, there must be a scholar in this family!”

Mrs. Lin kept nodding her head and said, "So I urge your two cousins ​​to study hard."

Li Yi is now just a fourth-grade prefect and has already brought the Lin family's business to a higher level. If it were like the Pei family, wouldn't it mean that money was pouring into the family like running water? !

Mrs. Lin thought of Lin Jue's newly born eldest son and said, "Although your daughter-in-law's natal family is rich, its background is not so good. In the future, when your eldest cousin gets married, he will bring the child here. Education. Not to mention being a scholar, you have to be a scholar anyway. Look at the big families in Hangzhou, who are doing top business, eight or nine out of ten are from scholarly backgrounds. Only in this way can we compete with those wealthy families. If something goes wrong, someone will be able to protect you if you talk to the officials."

Lin Jue was convinced, nodded repeatedly, and thanked Lin and Li Duan in advance. Then he said something about it: "It happens that I have nothing to do during this period, so I came to accompany you and talk to my cousin. It would be better if I could meet the third master of the Pei family."

The last sentence is the important one, right?

Mrs. Lin was thinking about it, but her nephew said it beautifully, and she was still very happy: "Okay! You can stay here for a few more days. Lin'an City is not as good as other places, but the scenery is quite elegant. You will enjoy it every time you come here." I am in a hurry, so I will stay here for a few more days and let your cousin show me around. If you are bored, you can take a boat to Hangzhou and go back and forth in the same day."

Lin Jue immediately stood up and thanked her, and chatted with Mrs. Lin for a while. Seeing that Mr. Lin looked a little tired, he left with Li Duan, and Li Duan accompanied him to the guest room where he rested.

However, as soon as Lin Jue entered the door, he kicked out the servants who were organizing the boxes and boxes around him and the servants sent by the Li family to clean the house. He closed the door, took out a scroll from a box and box he had with him and handed it to Li with a smile. Duan: "How about it? I said your method won't work, right? In the end, you have to look at me. Here, Lu Xin's 'relic', see if it is the map your family is looking for."

Li Duan smiled sarcastically and said, "Have you already got it?"

Ever since they heard the news that Lu Xin still had a relic, they started to think about it. I just didn't expect Lin Jue's idea to progress so smoothly.

Li Duan couldn't help but defend himself: "The main reason is that Ah Jun fell in love with a girl from the Yu family. Killing two birds with one stone, I just agreed."

Although things in the Lu family are going smoothly, if someone wants to check, it will be easy to find out whose hands this painting falls into. The profits from maritime business are so huge that killing people and genocide is nothing in comparison. The Li family's foundation is still too weak to withstand the hardships. What's more, there is still the Pei family weighing on top of his head.

If the Pei family is allowed to take a share of the pie, then their family will always be able to act based on the Pei family's eyes. Then what future does the Li family have? What's the point of his life's struggle?

Lin Jue felt proud, but he did not want to offend Li Duan, his cousin who might bring unlimited benefits to the Lin family in the future. Not only did he not argue with Li Duan about winning or losing, he also followed Li Duan's words and said: "If it were me, I would I'm willing too. But I didn't expect that the Yu family would be so stubborn. However, at least we got this painting. We have to hurry up. By the time the Pei family finds out, the painting has already been in the hands of the Peng family. No matter how powerful the Pei family is, they can still Can you go to the Peng family if you are more powerful?"

Fu'an Pengjia is the first one in Fujian.

Not only have there been two pavilion elders in the family, but the current seventh master of the Peng family, Peng Yu, is also a close official of the emperor, the censor of the right capital of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and is responsible for inspecting all officials. He is Pei Yan’s second senior brother, the minister of the Ministry of Industry, and the Dong Jiang Hua, the great scholar of the imperial court, did not dare to be presumptuous in front of Peng Yu.

The one who wants to get this painting is the Peng family.

As for Li Yi, he has been wanting to be transferred to the capital in the past few years. The Pei family is too old-fashioned and moves too slowly. He finally caught up with the Peng family, and the Peng family was willing to help him. Naturally, their family would reciprocate the favor and help. The Peng family received this painting as a certificate of submission.

It’s just that the foundation of the Li family is in Lin’an. Before forming a closely tied interest relationship with the Peng family, the Li family is not willing to offend the Pei family, nor can it offend the Pei family. Otherwise, they will drop ten guilds. Now The Li family can't bear it, so why cause so many troubles?

Li Duan smiled and said nothing.

The Peng family doesn’t have to have this painting but the Li family, but the Li family has to have the Peng family. It's useless to say anything now. It's true that Lin Jue got the painting.

There is no paper in the world that can cover the fire, and Li Duan did not want to hide it from the Pei family forever, but no matter what, he had to let the Li family stand in front of the Peng family before he could let the Pei family know.

He asked Lin Jue: "You didn't come forward in person, did you?"

"How could I be so stupid?" Lin Jue felt that his eldest cousin was a bit stupid for studying. He glanced at Li Duan and said, "Of course I asked others to help! This is the person beside me. I contacted my confidant and manager. He just said that this is an ancient painting. I have a way to sell it to someone who likes this painting. If you get it to the **** shop, you can only **** it for four or five hundred taels of silver, but it passed through my hands. , but it could be sold for thousands of taels of silver. The man was fooled. He spent 400 taels of painting to buy it, and sold it to me for another 500 taels of silver. Although it was a bit much, I thought it was just money to buy a break. I didn’t lower the price too much for him.”

I know that this painting can be sold for thousands of taels, but I bought it for 400 taels and sold it for 500 taels. This is a real person.

Li Duan pretended to take a breath and said with a smile: "This person is not greedy."

"So, it depends on who you are doing business with." Lin Jue was a little proud of this and said, "Look at me, I followed my father all over the world, and I never had any problems because of my partners. So I He said that the Peng family is capable of great things, so it would be a good idea to follow their family."

Li Duan was noncommittal.

On this point, he and Lin Jue had opposite views.

He thinks the Peng family is greedy.

Of the nine fleets in Fujian, the Peng family's fleet is the largest and owns most of the ships in Fujian. But when their family accidentally found out that Mr. Zuo had hidden a navigation map in this painting, they were afraid that someone else would get it, so why didn't they try their best to get it?

However, this is also human nature.

Who wants to have a tiger next to his bed?

Li Duan and Lin Jue talked about this painting: "Should we just send it to Peng's house like this? Or should we first see if this painting is right?"

He didn't think that the Yu family could discover the secret in the painting, but he was afraid that just like Lu Xin had confessed, even he didn't know the secret in the painting, and they got the wrong thing.

Lin Jue said shrewdly: "Of course we have to find a way to see the map in this painting. What if the Peng family regrets it?"

In addition to inspecting the goods, they had better get a handle on the Peng family and make a copy of the map to prevent the Peng family from turning their backs and denying their account.

After all, they are not on the same level as the Peng family. It is easy for the Peng family to deal with them, but it is not easy for them to resist the Peng family. Especially since there is a Pei family in the middle - if this matter hadn't happened, they could still ask the Pei family for help. Once their deal with the Peng family was exposed, it would be good if the Pei family didn't deal with them. Don't expect the Pei family to return the favor. Can protect them.

When the cousins ​​said this, they exchanged looks that they could understand each other.

Li Duandao: "Leave this matter to me."

The purpose of Lin Jue's plan to stay here for a while is just for this matter.

He has to see the map with his own eyes before he can feel relieved!

He will also personally take this map back to Fujian and deliver it to Peng's family.

This was also discussed with the Li family from the beginning.

Brothers fighting the tiger~IndoMTL.com~Father and son go into battle. Both the Lin family and the Li family are too weak now. Only by hugging each other tightly can they build up the family business.

The two discussed who to find to remount the painting.

The news that Yu Tang had been waiting for finally got an answer.

The person behind the Lu family is indeed Lin Jue.

She thought a lot about this painting. I feel that it would be impossible for the Li family to do maritime business without the help of the Lin family, so the Lin family must be aware of this matter. In the previous life, the person who had the closest contact with the Lin family was Lin Jue.

He comes far more frequently than a relative who is thousands of miles away.

Yu Tang found a way to draw a portrait of Lin Jue and showed it to Ah Liu, a pear seller in Xiaomei Lane, and asked him to stare at the door of Li's house. He told Ah Liu as soon as he came to the door. He then showed the portrait to the two brothers of the Qu family and asked them to keep an eye on the person who traded with the Lu family to see if the painting ended up in Lin Jue's hands.

Fortunately, there were those things in her previous life. She stared at people backwards and waited for the results she wanted.

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