Xue Baochai's pale pink lips were slightly open, her breath was as hot as fire, and her cheeks were like a burning cloud suddenly appearing in the clear sky. A pair of beautiful eyes seemed to be dripping with water, and she called urgently: "Brother Rong, listen to me first."

When did this happen? Brother Rong looked at the child in his arms. The vital parts were covered by the spring light. He was plump but not bloated, and his fair skin was flushed with pink. He was about to enter the happiest time, and his body and mind were waiting for bliss. Suddenly he called out.

Isn't it going to kill someone? Brother Rong was in a dilemma, and suddenly he felt the person in his arms trembling slightly.

"Why is Aunt Bao crying?" Brother Rong hurriedly took out his hands and held Baochai's white and rosy face. He gently wiped away the tears from the corners of her eyes, but the tears overflowed from Baochai's bright eyes.

I can't stop it no matter what.

After hearing his words, Xue Baochai started to cry even more. She choked and said, "In Brother Rong's eyes, am I such a casual woman?"

No, absolutely not. Brother Rong swore to the sky and said endless good words: "In my eyes, Aunt Bao is the purest and most innocent beautiful woman. She is the Guanyin of the South China Sea, the Chang'e of the Moon Palace,

She is a goddess who is like a Bodhisattva."

Baochai was really frightened just now, thinking that today she would be eaten clean by Brother Rong. She secretly wiped a handful of tears on her face, pulled up her clothes to cover her shame, and said: "I remember Brother Rong in my heart,

I'm also thinking about Brother Rong. I came here specially to see Rong.

Brother, I'm afraid you'll be hurt in the slightest. But I don't miss you... I recognize you in my heart, and this innocent body will always be yours. Brother Rong took advantage of me, and I didn't say anything else. But it's just a matter of course.

It’s a matter of fact, I will agree to it no matter how hard I die.”

The meaning behind the words is that Brother Rong can take advantage, but he cannot break through the last line of defense, otherwise it will be sexual intercourse. Baochai is a very principled person, and sees everything clearly. She will definitely not agree to sexual intercourse.

, Brother Rong wants to take the last step, so he has to show something.

only……

Brother Rong is very clear in his heart, and it is completely impossible for him to marry Baochai to the matchmaker. It's not that he doesn't want to, but that the court doesn't want to, the Ministry of Rites doesn't want to, and the Xue family is even less willing.

Seeing the embarrassment on his face, Baochai stopped making trouble and said in a low voice, "You forgot what I just told Brother Rong tonight."

What was said?

Forgot something?

Why does this girl always like to play charades? I don’t know that charades are the most likely to cause misunderstandings?

Brother Rong grabbed the sweetheart from Beishang as punishment. Her figure was really good, with a slightly voluptuous feeling. I originally thought that Baochai's plump body would have a small belly, but it turned out... tsk tsk, I just saw it with my own eyes.

Zhizhen is there where it should be, and there is no fat where it should be thin.

"Although I no longer ask Brother Rong how to become a high official, I still want Brother Rong to strive for fame in the court." Baochai faced Brother Rong and said quietly, "Even if I don't care about that, I can't be here.

I gave it to you. It has always been the order of the parents and the words of the matchmaker. Brother Rong was not prepared at all, so how could he know that you were sincere?"

"..."

The orders of their parents, the words of the matchmaker. This thing is too difficult for the two of them! Seeing Brother Rong's frown, Baochai comforted him: "Brother Rong and Grandma Rong are now in charge of the Ningguo Mansion. It only takes a few days."

Grandma Rong went to my mother in person to tell her that the two families had settled, so I accepted it!"

Isn't this back to the starting point?

Although Brother Rong felt helpless, he did not want to feel wronged. He hugged her and said, "One day I will go and talk to my aunt in person."

After hearing this, Baochai felt satisfied. She grabbed Brother Rong's hand again and said, "It's not good to go back too late and be seen by the female family members of the Lin family. I have to go back today and come to see you tomorrow morning.

"

Are you trying to coax a child?

How could Brother Rong be so willing to give up? He suggested, "Let's just hold each other's arms and talk like this today."

Xue Baochai originally came here to care about Jia Rong, and let him take advantage of it in vain, and now he got some promises from him. Naturally, he didn't want to leave any thoughts, so he pulled away Brother Rong's hand, tidied his clothes, and said: "Bai

There are people coming and going outside Rilixuan Building, so what does it mean if everyone sees me coming out of your room?"

"..."

Xue Baochai left resolutely. Once she was out of Jia Rong's arms, she turned back into the sensible woman. Only a faint fragrance was left in the room, proving that she had been here at night.

Brother Rong looked down, shook his head secretly, and sighed again.

Will Aunt Xue be willing? No matter how thick-skinned he is, shamelessly revealing that he has an affair with Baochai, I'm afraid it will backfire. Which mother would want her daughter to follow someone else anonymously, or to lower herself to become an aunt?

Unless... in the end, it's still a matter of title.

The next day, noon.

Everyone in the Lin Mansion had not yet seen Jia Lian return. Lin Ruhai sent several boys out to look for him, but there was no news for several hours.

Jia Rong secretly said: "I hope I wasn't kidnapped by someone who was targeting the Lin family."

Where has Jia Lian gone?

No one knows.

Just because the timing of Jia Lian's leaving the house was so coincidental, it was about to be night time, and even the people who had been watching the Lin Mansion during the day withdrew and left. They didn't know where Jia Lian had gone. The prostitutes on the boat on the river waited for a long time.

Jia Lian was not seen coming either.

The prostitute said: "No wonder I am, he still hasn't appeared at the time agreed yesterday."

The person guarding the brothel cursed secretly, but had no choice but to say: "Why don't you come today? Is there something going on in the Lin Mansion?"

"It seems that some of the guards around King Zhongshun informed the Lin family about the current situation in Yangzhou. The Lin family will not leave the house until the investigation is completed." Someone sighed and said, "The message was always passed down last night.

, Since the things in Lin Ruhai’s hands cannot be destroyed, the thirty chief merchants of Lianghuai and Huaihe don’t care whether we live or die. Then let’s withdraw from Yangzhou and return to Ping’an Prefecture..."

Someone said: "I have been operating in Yangzhou for many years and finally got to where I am today. How can I leave just now?"

"If you don't leave, are you waiting to die?" This person was obviously in charge here and ordered: "Everyone, get ready to evacuate. Things in Yangzhou will be arranged."

"What's the arrangement? Is it to leave part of it and come back at any time?"

The person in charge said coldly: "When the imperial court investigates the illegal salt and carries out the restructuring of the salt class. Even if we come back in the future, what else can we do? The Salt Transportation Department and the general merchants feel that they can survive this disaster safely.

, we don’t care whether we live or die, how can we make it easier for them? Everything the Salt Transport Division and the others do, there are secret records left in the boss. Although they cannot be sent to King Zhongshun, several of the guards around King Zhongshun can be found in Yangzhou.

.”

One person said: "Brother, you are joking. Now the Salt Transportation Department is surrounded, and we were arrested before we even entered the Yamen."

"Isn't there another one in Lin Ruhai's family? Just wait for Jia Lian to come out one day and ask him to take the book back to the Lin Mansion. Do the Salt Transportation Department and the general merchants want to live a good life in the future? It's simply fantastic."

All parties have their own ideas! The top official in the Salt Transportation Department is like an ant on a hot pot.

He saw that both the inside and outside of the yamen were being defended by the Sanhe Battalion soldiers, and he was powerless to do anything he wanted to do. He could only rely on the thirty general merchants from Lianghuai and Huaiyang and the major salt gangs in Huaiyang to work together to solve the crisis at hand.

But what the salt transporter didn't know was that the largest salt gang in Yangzhou was helpless when they saw what had happened. Not only was they preparing to evacuate, they also dropped a book of incriminating evidence about their salt transporter.

"mob!"

Jia Rong closed the book in her hand and said with a smile: "Congratulations, uncle. After five years, I finally sorted out the corruption in the salt transportation between the Huaihe River and Huaihe River. Can I send someone to the Salt Transportation Department to inform the guards?"

Five years, how many five years are there in life? In these five years, Lin Ruhai lived in fear every day. However, inspecting the Lianghuai Salt Industry was the task assigned today, and he had to do it. Otherwise, he would not have sent Lin Daiyu away early.

Entering Shenjing, if I hadn't been seriously injured that day, I would have thought about seeing my daughter alive for the last time.

Lin Ruhai sighed and said: "Five years are not enough to investigate clearly. In addition to the salt transportation department, salt field, official salt general merchant, salt gang dealers, etc., there are also many officials involved in the water transportation ministry, the prefects of Huaiyang and Yangzhou, and the prefecture.

Inside, even the Liangjiang Jiedushi envoys received a lot of filial piety. I don’t know whether this move brought blessing or disaster."

Brother Rong laughed and said: "So what about the Liangjiang Jiedushi? The Governor of Water Transport is at the same level as him, and the Governor of Water Transport will also suffer. If he is really unclean, he may not be able to escape. My uncle's move is for the country and the people, which is what today's

I won’t let any more accidents happen to the Lin family.”

Lin Ruhai was not afraid, but the only daughter was worried.

Jia Rong was secretly frightened, but luckily he came over. Under such circumstances, the Lin family was sure to have an accident. Damn, the Salt Transportation Department is so shady, embezzling hundreds of thousands of taels of silver a year. What's even more shocking is that

They are the general agents of major household departments. Each one takes over one hundred thousand taels, and thirty companies get three million taels.

It is one million taels more than the money sent to the national treasury during the Huaihuai salt class every year.

Of course, he also knew that not all of the hundreds of thousands taels of silver that each family embezzled went into their pockets, but that they were used to pay homage to the higher and lower levels. For example, the hundreds of thousands of taels in the Salt Transportation Department were allocated from the general merchant to the various states and governments.

If the yamen were further divided, not many people would actually pocket it.

The real money-making project for these people is reselling private salt. In major salt fields, general merchants collude with salt gangs to resell official salt from salt fields to other provinces. First, they don’t have to pay taxes, and second, they don’t have to buy salt. They can earn as much as they can by reselling.

How many.

According to the book compiled by Lin Ruhai, it can be seen that all the large and small yamen of the Huai, Yang, Su, Chang and other prefectures were involved. It can be said that countless officials were affected, not counting the thousands of officials in the Salt Transportation Department responsible for the Lianghuai Salt Division, and the three responsible for water transportation.

Ten thousand caoding, thousands of salt gang dealers.

This time, the interests of tens of thousands of people were hit.

Brother Rong really doesn't dare to leave the Lin Mansion casually this time. As long as there are a few people who don't care about their lives in so many yamen, they will be here for the rest of their lives.

Lin Ruhai sighed: "I'm afraid I will implicate you. Brother Rong is the most promising of the Jia family in the past two generations, so he has been implicated. How can I explain to your aunt? It's just that I couldn't reveal these things to the outside world at that time. Alas

…”

In fact, Jia Rong was also worried. Second Uncle Lian did not return to the Lin Mansion for two nights. I wonder if there was an accident. Although this second uncle was like a little teddy, he wanted to make out with the woman when he saw her, but also because of Wang Xifeng

The reason is that Brother Rong doesn’t like him very much either.

But I don’t want anything to happen to Jia Lian. Because the relationship between Jia Rong, Wang Xifeng, and Jia Lian is a family matter, and they can make trouble as much as they want behind closed doors. But outside, they all represent the Jia family.

Brother Rong said to Lin Ruhai: "Now that my uncle has sorted out the book, my grandnephew will find someone to inform the guards and they are coming."
To be continued...