Chapter 112
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"You are an interesting person," the princess thought that since Lin Yu could say such words, he must not love Zhao Yanlin, but what reason did he have not to love Zhao Yanlin?
He looks so ordinary, is a country boy, and has no family background. If he were to separate from Zhao Yanlin and live so far away, he might not even be able to go back home.
If we give him a sum of money, it would be even more dangerous for him, a weak boy without family support.
Could it be that he was afraid of death and was just holding on?
Or pretend to be eager to sell Zhao Yanlin, so that she would suspect that Zhao Yanlin is not a good person and give up the idea of buying him?
The eldest princess felt that things were not as they seemed, but she wanted this person. No matter what Lin Yu thought, it would not affect her idea of snatching Zhao Yanlin away.
"Thirty thousand taels." The princess casually said a number. There was nothing special about this number. She just got a new hairpin, which cost thirty thousand taels. Thirty thousand taels to buy a man was a good deal.
"Deal, but I have a condition." Lin Yu felt that Zhao Yanlin was not worth thirty thousand taels at all. If the princess asked him to name a price, he might only want a few hundred taels, enough to buy a house for him to live in. Since the princess had spoken, he couldn't refuse her face.
"What conditions?" The eldest princess was waiting for him to make a big request.
"I want a household registration in the capital, and I want to live independently." Although Lin Yu was timid and trembling in his heart, he had learned to hold on in the past two years. On the surface, he pretended to be neither humble nor arrogant as he looked at the princess, "You are a princess, this should be easy to do."
"So it's for this." The princess thought Lin Yu was a sensible man. If he didn't agree to her conditions, it would be like hitting a rock with an egg and he would lose his life. It would be better to change his life and get a Beijing household registration and a huge sum of 30,000 taels.
"Sure, it's not a difficult task. It's just a matter of a word from me." The eldest princess ordered the maid next to her to do it.
Within half an hour, the maid returned with his capital city household registration and 30,000 taels of silver.
Lin Yu didn't even think about it and directly snatched the banknotes and household registration certificate, "I also want to take my luggage away."
"It's up to you." The eldest princess wouldn't want his junk.
The Zhao family was listening outside the door, and when they heard that Lin Yu agreed, they almost jumped up with joy.
Zhao's father and mother thought that they would become royal relatives in the future, and his eldest brother and sister-in-law also felt that they could walk around the capital city with ease in the future.
But before they could be happy for a while, they saw Zhao Yanlin coming back with a gloomy face.
He opened the door angrily and questioned Lin Yu: "How can you give me to someone else so easily? Don't you like me? Can't you travel all night just to see me? Why can you let go so easily now? Are you so afraid of his threats? Are you so afraid of death? In order to survive, you don't even want me?"
"You deserve better." Lin Yu handed the divorce letter written by the princess to Zhao Yanlin, "I have signed my name, only you are missing."
Zhao Yanlin took the paper with trembling hands and wanted to tear it up, but the princess' maids held down his hands.
"He is smarter than you. If he doesn't sign, he will die. Do you think your family will have an easy life in Beijing in the future?" the eldest princess asked him.
The Zhao family also rushed in to persuade Zhao Yanlin, "Sign it, she's the eldest princess, she's so much better than that country boy."
Zhao's mother also advised him, "You have always blamed your mother for marrying you an ugly husband. The princess is as beautiful as a fairy, and you are still not satisfied?"
The princess's appearance really fits the kind of beauty Zhao Yanlin had in mind. After seeing the eldest princess's appearance, he was indeed shaken in his heart. However, although the eldest princess was beautiful, she was old. If the eldest princess could be younger, he might not be as hesitant as he is now.
Moreover, he had been appointed to an official position recently, which was not a high one. Generally, one has to start from the bottom and work one's way up. Some can be promoted in three to five years, some are fine just staying where they are, and some will be transferred to remote areas to serve as officials, where they will stay for the rest of their lives and will never be able to return to the capital.
Those who passed the exam in the same batch as him but ranked lower than him were given higher-level official titles due to their family background. There will be more and more cases like this in the future.
His superiors all tried to persuade him that he had no background and no matter how much merit he had,
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If your achievements are likely to become a stepping stone for others, it is better to use the eldest princess and become a high-ranking official. Even if he does not have real power, at least it is glamorous. Besides, no matter how high the official position is, it is still not as high as the status of the royal family.
He has seen the prosperity of the capital, so how could he be willing to return to a small county town? Moreover, he has offended the eldest princess. His future fate may very well be to be ostracized and assigned to a poor place to be a minor official, and he will never be able to come back in this life.
Knowing that it is a dead end, then don't go there. As for Lin Yu, when he becomes rich in the future, he can secretly help Lin Yu.
Lin Yu is stubborn now and refuses to give in to him. Who knows, in a year or two, Lin Yu might become unable to make ends meet and come to rely on him. He can buy a house and secretly keep Lin Yu outside.
"Are you going to sign or not? If not, I'm going to hang myself." Zhao's mother said as she was about to find a rope to hang herself on the beam to scare him.
Zhao Yanlin was troubled by the farce and just wanted to end it quickly.
"I'll sign it. I'll sign it, okay?" He took a pen and signed his name on the divorce papers.
Lin Yu almost laughed out loud when he got the divorce letter he had been longing for, but he forced himself to hold it back for fear that something unexpected would happen.
He pretended to be expressionless and went back to his room to pack his luggage. Zhao's mother and sister-in-law were still urging him, "Hurry up and don't use packing as an excuse to delay time and refuse to leave. Don't leave anything behind. None of us wants your junk."
As they were talking, they saw Lin Yu go to the yard and dig out a box under the small tree. Inside the box was five thousand taels of silver notes.
"Okay, so you have been on guard against us all along!" Zhao's mother wanted to hit someone.
Lin Yu looked at his raised hand and said, "I am no longer a member of your family. If you dare to hit me, I will report you to the police."
"Go ahead and report it. We will be royal relatives in the future, and no one will care if you report it to the authorities." Zhao's mother wanted to hit someone, but was stopped by Zhao Yanlin.
"Let him go quickly." Zhao Yanlin persuaded his mother to stay and sent Lin Yu off. "I don't have the ability to protect you now. In the future, if you have any difficulties, come to me and I will do my best to help you."
"No need. I think the best ending for us is that we never see each other again in this life." Lin Yu said, turned around and helped him close the door, locking Zhao Yanlin inside.
He raised his head and glanced at the sky. "The sky outside is so vast."
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After Lin Yu left, the first thing he thought of was to find the shop of Lao Zhao's friend. Before he went to Beijing, Lao Zhao once told him that if he had any difficulties in Beijing, he could go to that shop and ask the owner for help.
The capital city is so big that although he didn't know the way, he dared to ask for directions. He asked several aunts passing by and got the general direction.
But on the way there he was thinking, if he just went there rashly, what kind of help would he expect from the other party? Looking for a shop or a house? But these cannot be done in a day or two, so it is better to find an inn to stay in first.
Now he has 30,000 taels of silver, and he has saved more than ten taels of silver, so he doesn't have to worry about not having enough money no matter where he lives.
He was just thinking about which inn to choose when he heard someone calling him from behind.
"Lin Yu? Why are you here?" Shao Hui had just got off work and was riding a horse back home when he happened to see a familiar figure. It was the crying helper of the Shen family.
At first he thought he was seeing things, but when he saw the person turn around, he realized it was really true.
Shao Hui asked his men to leave first. When they saw their young general talking to a guy, they glanced at each other, thinking that something was wrong with their young general.
Shao Hui sighed, "Don't think too much, we are just acquaintances, you guys go first."
After they left, Shao Hui dismounted and asked Lin Yu, "Why are you here? Are Yuanbao and the others here too?"
"No, it's just me. It's a long story." Lin Yu felt that the other party was a young general, not on the same level as himself. Although they had eaten at the same table before, Shao Hui did it for the sake of Yuan Bao and Cheng Yeran, not for him.
He felt that his affairs were too complicated and boring, and the other party might not like to hear them.
But Shao Hui saw him carrying a bag, walking aimlessly on the street alone, thinking he was looking for relatives, but he didn't find them: "This is not a place to talk, let's find a place to eat and talk."
Before Lin Yu could say anything, he came to his senses and found himself sitting in a restaurant with him eating noodles.
"This is a famous noodle shop in Beijing, but to be honest, it's not as delicious as the noodles at Shen's Noodle Shop." Shao Hui recommended a noodle to him. While waiting for the noodles to arrive, Shao Hui asked him, "Now can you tell me what you are here for?"
"I'm divorced, and now I'm planning to find an inn to live in first, and then buy a house and a shop later." Lin Yu explained briefly without mentioning anything about the eldest princess.
"Aren't you a crybaby? Why didn't you cry even though we got divorced today?" Shao Hui still remembered the last time he cried after being scared by a man. Why did he become strong this time when he encountered such a big thing?
"Good thing, why are you crying? And the other party also gave me some money to let me leave my husband." Lin Yu raised the corners of her mouth happily when she thought about the 30,000 taels of savings she now had, and she couldn't control herself.
"Give you money? Thirty thousand taels? Your husband is the handsome man that the princess has taken a fancy to?" Shao Hui felt sorry for Lin Yu when he saw that he was still smiling. The princess had this matter spread all over the capital, saying that Lin Yu had taken the money and gave up his husband. On the one hand, it would ruin his reputation and make people poke his spine and scold him for being heartless and ungrateful for money. On the other hand, it would let people know that he, a guy with no relatives or friends in the capital, had a huge sum of thirty thousand taels in his pocket and let the bad guys rob him of his money.
"After you finish eating noodles, come with me. I have a house that I want to sell. I'll sell it to you." Shao Hui always loves to stand up for the weak and he can't stand the powerful bullying ordinary people. Even the eldest princess is someone he can afford to offend.
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