Chapter 684 After my husband passed the imperial examination, I became his second wife (12)
Yue Lingxuan knew that he shouldn't come to find Lin Shichu, because they were just casual acquaintances, not close friends. He shouldn't appear in front of her and bring trouble to her.
After he knew that his family had suffered such a great change, he was extremely sad, and his first reaction was to return to Beijing to seek justice for his family. However, his loyal servants stopped him and would not let him go back to Beijing to commit suicide. Because even though many people knew that his family was wronged, the superiors had already made a conclusion and it was impossible to go back on their word, so he was destined to be unable to seek justice for his family for a period of time.
On the contrary, if he really appeared in the capital like this, he would be walking into a trap and dying in vain.
Yue Lingxuan had no way to go back, and he couldn't even let anyone know that he was still alive. He was in a daze for a while, and when he regained some consciousness, he somehow thought of Lin Shichu, so he came to find her in a daze.
Lin Shichu guessed that he was hiding something from him, but seeing how sad he was, he didn't ask any further questions. Instead, he helped him improve the disguise on his face to make him more distinguishable from his previous appearance.
"You just stay with me for a while, and say that you are a servant I bought from the human market. You only listen to my orders. Is that okay?" Lin Shichu asked.
"Okay." Yue Lingxuan nodded, "From now on, my name will be Xuan Ling."
After discussing Yue Lingxuan's identity, Lin Shichu found a time, got rid of Qingxue and the guards, and brought Xuan Ling back from outside.
"This is my new servant, his name is Xuan Ling." Lin Shichu introduced Yue Lingxuan's new identity in front of everyone, "He will help me manage the business in the future."
Qingxue looked at him curiously and felt that his figure looked familiar, but his face was completely unfamiliar. She had never seen him before, so she thought she was seeing things.
"Xuan Ling, my name is Qingxue, and I'm the young lady's maid." Qingxue introduced herself. Yue Lingxuan nodded to her, and the other guards and servants introduced themselves to each other one by one.
Lin Shichu is not a strict master, and the Lin family is not a family with strict rules, so as long as everyone does their job well, Lin Shichu will not interfere with their private interactions in their spare time.
So Xuan Ling, the new servant, was immediately targeted by the guards. No one knew why Lin Shichu suddenly bought him, so they began to test what his abilities were.
The guards were naturally testing his skills, but surprisingly, although Xuan Ling looked gentle and thin, his skills were better than the guards. The guards could not gain the upper hand against him and were instead beaten black and blue by him.
In this way, Xuan Ling established his position beside Lin Shichu with his fists.
Since Yue Lingxuan was going to be Lin Shichu's servant, he naturally had to do his job properly. Lin Shichu usually ordered him to do things, but the things he did often required him to run outside, so other people didn't quite know what he was supposed to do.
Because she took in this unexpected guest, Lin Shichu did not stay in Lianjiang City for too long. She quickly dealt with some existing problems in the cloth shop and reformed the sales model, such as using commissions to encourage the enthusiasm of the employees...
After her reform, the cloth shop's business immediately took a step forward. Everyone's work enthusiasm increased immediately, and the shop assistants and managers were all full of energy, as if they had been injected with chicken blood.
Lin Shichu then left Lianjiang City contentedly and returned home.
When they returned to the Lin family, Lin's father and mother knew that their precious daughter had bought a servant in Lianjiang City. They did not say much. Although the servant's temperament did not look like that of a slave, they believed their daughter and did not suspect anything.
Lin Shichu returned to her life as a young lady. Apart from looking at the account books and inspecting the business with her father, she usually ate, drank and had fun at home.
As a "male servant", Yue Lingxuan could not appear in the Lin family's backyard except when he was out, so when Lin Shichu was at home, that was usually when he could move freely.
Although he was nominally Lin Shichu's servant, Lin Shichu did not treat him as a servant, so he usually had control over his own time.
Yue Lingxuan was often in a "missing" state. Other servants who were dissatisfied with this even complained to Lin Shichu or Lin's mother, but were fooled by Lin Shichu.
Lin Shichu guessed that he was probably going to inquire about news about his family.
But she herself was not idle either, and began to pay attention to the news from the capital.
About a month later, some news from the capital city really reached the provincial capital where the Lin family was located.
One of the most shocking things was that the entire family of Marquis Anguo was sentenced to confiscation of property and exile because of crimes such as forming a clique for personal gain, colluding with foreign enemies, selling military rations, and corruption and bribery. Of course, several "culprits" were beheaded, and the rest of the family members were exiled, but they all died before they reached the place of exile.
By the way, the Marquis of Anguo was called Yue Zhao, the same surname as Yue Lingxuan. Yue Lingxuan also told Lin Shichu that his entire family had been killed in a disaster not long ago. Isn’t this a coincidence?
Even if Lin Shichu used his heels to think, he knew that Yue Lingxuan was related to the family of the former Marquis of Anguo.
It's so tragic. I don't know whether the Anguohou family deserved the punishment or were wrongly accused. But now it is very likely that they were wrongly accused. After all, Lin Shichu still remembers that the first time he saw Yue Lingxuan, he was being chased and almost died.
At that time, officials from Beijing happened to come to investigate the flood in Jiangnan. Jiangnan was not far from the provincial capital where the Lin family lived. Yue Lingxuan was very likely involved in the investigation of that incident, which was why he was hunted down like that.
I just don’t know why, it seems that people in the capital don’t know that he is still alive, otherwise he wouldn’t have escaped so easily.
The incident involving Marquis Anguo was most likely a counterattack by the person behind the flood in Jiangnan and others. After all, Marquis Anguo also had a great say in the garrisons at the border, and the emperor certainly wanted to take the military power back into his own hands, so the family of Marquis Anguo would be a great eyesore.
Lin Shichu roughly guessed Yue Lingxuan's identity and his family's tragic experience, but she was just an ordinary person now and could not help him. She could only help him conceal his identity.
Yue Lingxuan didn't know that Lin Shichu had almost investigated his past. He was now busy contacting those connections in the Yue family who had not been exposed yet. Of course, he was not asking them to help his family get justice, because that was unrealistic.
After losing his family overnight, Yue Lingxuan matured instantly. He began to scheme hard to redress and avenge his family. He had already abandoned the bright and sunny days of the past, and his mind gradually became unfathomable...
(End of this chapter)
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