Cutting wrists
Early the next morning, Lin Yan took Zhong Ningning to the Lin Mansion.
It was because of Lin Yi cutting his arm yesterday. He was in a very abnormal state last night.
When Lin Yi saw Lin Yan bringing Zhong Ningning to his house, he looked at them with a smile and asked Zhong Ningning, "Is this the little girl you picked up that year?"
As he said that, he took out a piece of jade and handed it to Zhong Ningning, saying, "This is a gift for meeting you."
Zhong Ningning was a little surprised and looked at Lin Yan for help.
"Take it, no need to be polite to him," Lin Yan said with a smile.
After hearing Lin Yan's words, Zhong Ningning took the jade and said, "Thank you..."
Zhong Ningning was a little at a loss, not knowing how to address Lin Yi.
"You are my elder sister's adopted sister, so you are also my sister. Just call me brother," Lin Yi said gently.
"Brother Lin Yi," Zhong Ningning called out nervously.
Zhong Ningning was extremely nervous. Although she knew how miserable Lin Yi's life was in the past, she had heard about some of Lin Yi's thundering methods of solving cases. When she saw him, Zhong Ningning felt a little scared.
"Have you had breakfast?" Lin Yi asked.
"I've eaten." After seeing them greet each other, Lin Yan walked straight over and lifted up Lin Yi's sleeves.
There are countless scars everywhere you look.
Zhong Ningning exclaimed, "Why are there so many scars? Some of them are old, while some look like they were newly added."
Last night, they were far away, and Lin Yi quickly covered himself with his robe. Lin Yan didn't have time to see clearly, and later he forgot to ask. What he saw now was similar to what Lin Yan had guessed.
Lin Yan suppressed the anger in his heart and asked in a cold voice: "Tell me, what happened?"
Lin Yi wanted to pull down his sleeves, but Lin Yan held him down to prevent him from moving. The two of them were in a stalemate for a while, and finally Lin Yi sighed and told the reason.
"After my father passed away, I couldn't sleep every day and blamed myself every night. After a long time, my mind felt hazy."
"One time, I looked at the dagger my father gave me, and I couldn't help but pick it up and cut my arm with it. Seeing the blood flowing out, I felt refreshed. I wondered if this was a way to atone for my sins."
Lin Yan's brows furrowed even deeper, and he was about to say something.
Lin Yi's voice rang out again, "I know this is wrong, but later on, I couldn't help myself from doing this. I don't know why. Sometimes I even do this in my dreams, and when I wake up, I see my arms covered in blood."
"I know his condition. This disease is called 'dream separation'. It is a disease that people suffer from under long-term depression," said Zhong Ningning.
"How to treat it?" Lin Yan asked.
"Brother Lin Yi's illness is a bit serious. He needs to relieve his depression. It would be best if more people could accompany him to find out where the depression lies. Of course, the guidance of his family is more important. Then I will prescribe the right medicine," Zhong Ningning replied.
Of course Lin Yan knew about Lin Yi's frustration, and he had explained it clearly last night.
Lin Yan stared at Lin Yi's arm with a bad look on his face.
If she had gone to look for him even once, Ah Yi wouldn't be like this now. It was all her fault. If her master knew, he would be sad. She felt guilty towards her master.
The atmosphere gradually dropped to freezing point.
Seeing the strange atmosphere, Zhong Ningning coughed, trying to lighten the mood.
At this time, Lin Yi took Lin Yan's hand, pried open her clenched hand, put it on his head, looked at Lin Yan, stared at her self-blaming eyes and said: "Sister, I don't blame you, my illness will get better, everything will be fine, let's put aside everything that happened before, okay."
Lin Yan touched Lin Yi's head, then ruffled his hair like he did when he was a child, and teased: "I know, everything is over. Now you don't look like my younger brother, you look like my older brother."
"I'm not much younger than you," Lin Yi muttered as he tidied up Lin Yan's messy hair.
The atmosphere finally relaxed, and Zhong Ningning also breathed a sigh of relief when she saw this.
But Lin Yi's words made Zhong Ningning's face fall instantly.
"Sister, where do you live in the capital now? Move to my house. My home is your home," Lin Yi said to Lin Yan.
Without waiting for Lin Yan to answer, Zhong Ningning retorted, glaring at Lin Yi and said, "You are such a person. I was still thinking about how to treat you, but you are thinking about stealing my sister."
At this time, Zhong Ningning no longer had the initial reserve, and was only angry at Lin Yi for poaching her.
"How can you talk like that, little girl? My home is my elder sister's home. It's only natural for my elder sister to go home." Lin Yi regained his sharp tongue.
The two of them quarreled constantly. There were only three people in the whole house, but they quarreled as if there were more than a dozen people.
The two argued for a while, and finally turned to look at the dazed Lin Yan, and asked in unison: "Sister, who do you choose?"
Zhong Ningning opened her big watery eyes and said pitifully: "Sister, are you going to abandon me?"
Lin Yi's resentful look was no less, "Sister was just caring about me, how come you forgot about your brother now that you have a younger sister?"
Lin Yan looked at Zhong Ningning and then at Lin Yi, and felt a headache.
Lin Yan was really worried about Lin Yi's illness, but he also had to be wary of Zhong Yuxi on Aning's side, which made Lin Yan difficult to make a decision.
After a while, Lin Yan made the decision: "I will move to the Lin Mansion."
I had agreed to live in the Zhong Mansion before so that I could observe Zhong Yuxi more conveniently. But right now, Lin Yi's matter is more important. It should be difficult for Zhong Yuxi to cause any trouble in the Zhong Mansion. At most, I can just go to the Zhong Mansion more often.
After all, the Zhong Mansion is not his own home, and there are too many restrictions, so it is not convenient for Lin Yan to stay in the Zhong Mansion forever.
Lin Yi wins this round.
Zhong Ningning knew that she couldn't change her elder sister's attention, so she looked at Lin Yi's dilapidated mansion and started to act sarcastic.
"Look, there's nothing in this house. There aren't even any servants. It's not suitable for living. It's so desolate. It's nothing like my home."
Lin Yan looked around and felt that what Zhong Ningning said made sense, so he began to lecture Lin Yi, "Ayi, your house is too deserted. The flowers, plants and trees are almost withered. Is it so easy for you to live here alone?"
"You have quite a lot of shadow guards in your mansion, but few of them can fight," Lin Yan continued to complain, "Are you afraid of death by having so many shadow guards?"
The shadow guard who stood out from the dark after special training: "......"
"By the way, did you make arrangements in advance? These shadow guards actually knew me and didn't stop me last night." Lin Yan suddenly thought of the scene last night.
Hearing Lin Yan say this, Lin Yi's back stiffened, and then he nodded hurriedly.
Lin Yi was afraid that Lin Yan would change his mind and continue to ask about the shadow guard, so he began to change the subject, "Sister, you can go out and buy whatever you want. I will put all the expenses today into my account."
"Then you take good care of the courtyard in the mansion. I'll go out and buy some things to add to it. It doesn't look good at all." Lin Yan also had this idea.
Lin Yan took Zhong Ningning to various stores and bought everything they wanted.
Before leaving, Lin Yi still felt a little guilty towards Zhong Ningning, and said to her: "Buy whatever you want and put it on my account."
Zhong Ningning felt that Lin Yi was just showing off and was not stingy at all in spending Lin Yi's money.
After strolling around for a day, Lin Yan sent Zhong Ningning back to the Zhong Mansion. He took away the things he had left at the Zhong Mansion, said goodbye to Mrs. Zhou, and left.
When Lin Yan was leaving, Madam Zhou tried to persuade him to stay, saying, "You've only been here for a few days and you're leaving already. Just treat the Zhong Mansion as your own and stay a few more days."
"A few years ago, I had a conflict with my younger brother who ran away from home. Now the misunderstanding has been resolved, and my younger brother is ill, so I want to go and take care of him," Lin Yan explained. "My younger brother has a mansion in Beijing, and I happened to move there."
When Mrs. Zhou heard Lin Yan say this, she didn't want to keep him any longer, so she said, "Then I wish Xiao Yan's brother a speedy recovery."
After watching Lin Yan leave, Mrs. Zhou turned to Zhong Ningning and asked, "Why haven't you heard that Miss Lin has a younger brother in the capital?"
There is nothing to hide about Lin Yi's affairs. Mother will know sooner or later. Zhong Ningning told it all in one gulp.
When Lin Yi's identity was mentioned, Mrs. Zhou exclaimed: "What, you said Miss Lin is the sister of the Shaoqing of Dali Temple."
"Yes, what's wrong?" Zhong Ningning was surprised by her mother's reaction.
Mrs. Zhou was of course surprised. Everyone knew what Lin Yi had done in Beijing. He was investigated for impersonation in the imperial examination, and then returned to Beijing to continue taking the examination and won the top spot. If it weren't for that incident, Lin Yi's current status and worth would definitely not be so much.
More importantly, Lin Yi didn't know when he became familiar with the Regent. With the Regent's promotion, his path to promotion was smooth.
Even if Lin Yi was a top scholar, it would be impossible for him to hold his current position in just three years. The Shaoqing of the Dali Temple is a fourth-rank official, but no one in the court dared to object.
Not to mention that Lin Yi has the support of the Regent, he himself has the ability to do so. In addition, the court has been short of people in recent years, so it is reasonable for Lin Yi to be promoted so quickly.
However, some officials were dissatisfied and requested the withdrawal of the decree. However, when Lin Yi found out that they were corrupt, they dared not say anything for fear of getting into trouble.
But you have to shut up. Lin Yi doesn't care about his life when investigating a case. No matter whether the person is a royal family member or a scholar, he will arrest him directly if he commits a crime. He is not afraid of offending anyone at all.
As for whether Lin Yi is not afraid of offending the powerful, of course he is not. Among those he offended, there must be someone who tried to assassinate him. What was the result? No one succeeded, because he had a group of well-trained secret guards around him, and no one dared to touch him.
As a junior official in the Dali Temple, it was certainly impossible for him to train so many secret guards. Anyone with a discerning eye knew that they were all the Regent's men.
Therefore, the reason why the Regent protected Lin Yi so much has become an unsolved mystery in the court. If it is said that the prince values talents, there are many talented people in the capital, and no one can make him do so.
Later, Lin Yi solved many strange cases, and some dissatisfied officials naturally stopped saying anything.
Once, the investigation even led to the Minister of War. After that, more officials who colluded with Prince Jing were found, and evidence of the collusion between the Minister of War and Prince Jing, who had rebelled that year, was found. During that period, everyone in the court was in danger, fearing that they would be the next one.
However, Mrs. Zhou did not know the details. She only knew that the Regent was behind Lin Yi. At that time, she was just amazed that Lin Yi was so powerful at such a young age. Now she did not expect that Lin Yan was actually Lin Yi's elder sister.
After listening to her mother's description of Lin Yi, Zhong Ningning was a little surprised. At first, she only knew how miserable this Shaoqing of the Dali Temple was, but she didn't expect Lin Yi to be so powerful.
Mrs. Zhou looked at Zhong Ningning who was listening to her attentively, and she didn't know whether she should be distressed or happy.
My daughter has such a powerful master in Doctor Zhao, and she also knows Lin Yi, who is feared by countless people in the capital. Although Lin Yi is so powerful, he is just a Shaoqing of the Dali Temple. The problem is that behind Lin Yi is the Regent, which means that Lin Yi is a member of the royal family.
And what about Lin Yan? What exactly is her identity?
Thinking about the current situation of the Marquis' Mansion..., Mrs. Zhou's eyes flashed with worry. Would it be a good thing to be involved with more people from the royal family?
Lin Yan returned to the Lin Mansion and saw the newly renovated mansion and a group of servants who had inexplicably appeared and shouted to him, "Hello, Miss Lin!"
Lin Yan was shocked and asked Lin Yi in confusion: "What's wrong with these people? Why did the mansion change so much in just one day?"
Lin Yi started worrying about how to explain it before Lin Yan came back.
Lin Yi had let the matter of the shadow guard go unsolved, but when Song Yizhou sent these servants over, Lin Yi thought that he couldn't let his sister down, so he didn't refuse.
"The prince sent these people to me because he saw that my mansion was empty. I refused at first. Today, my sister moved in, so I asked the prince for people. Then they messed up the whole mansion like this," Lin Yi lied.
"This prince is very good to you. He gave you this house and servants as a gift." Lin Yan knew that it was the regent who saved Lin Yi, but he always felt that something was wrong, but he couldn't put his finger on it.
Lin Yi was afraid that Lin Yan would ask more questions and she would find out something, so he said, "Sister, your yard has been cleaned up. I'll have someone take you there. It's getting late, I'm going to bed. Good night."
Then he ran away.
Lin Yan frowned as she looked at Lin Yi's fleeing back. This guy must be hiding something from her.
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