The big bandit in the Red Mansion robbed Lin Daiyu at the beginning

"I hope Lord Lin can consider our old relatives and speak up for the Xue family! I will be grateful to you!"

As he spoke, he took out a letter from his sleeve and handed it over.

Lin Ruhai took it and saw that it was a letter from the Wang family of Jinling.

With a light sigh, Lin Ruhai did not open the letter. He knew what was written in the letter without reading it.

But what made him frown was when did Li Qingfeng make such a big fuss and capture all the legitimate sons of the Jinling Xue family?

If we say that Li Qingfeng's previous actions in Yangzhou, although they seemed powerful and powerful,

But for the bigwigs behind the salt merchants, they were just following the trend and getting involved in some trivial matters, without touching the root cause.

Maybe someone is waiting for Qingfeng Village to grow fat and then take advantage of it, or maybe they have other plans.

Nowadays they are just salt merchants, and few people care about them.

This point has been made since my secret letter arrived in Beijing.

The fact that the imperial court has not issued any official decree so far is enough to indicate this.

Yangzhou is thousands of miles away from the capital. Unless you send an urgent secret letter of 800 miles, it would take at least ten days or half a month to arrive there by normal walking.

Now that the imperial court has not issued an urgent decree, we can only say that this matter is still under negotiation among all parties.

Otherwise, the express delivery of 800 miles would have arrived long ago.

But now, Qingfeng Li has kidnapped the eldest son of the Xue family, one of the four major families in Jinling, and brought him back to the mountain.

Once this matter reaches the capital, no matter what the calculations of all parties are, they will inevitably rise up in rebellion.

Put aside all disputes and send troops to suppress the bandits as soon as possible.

By then, I'm afraid that what Li Qingfeng will face will definitely be a more severe and heavy encirclement than the original plan.

In his heart, he cursed Qingfeng Li for being stupid.

However, he remained calm and said to Xue's mother,

"What is going on here? Please be patient and explain the whole story to me."

"Yes!"

Then Xue's mother told the whole story in detail from beginning to end.

After listening to this, Lin Ruhai frowned tightly.

Has Qingfeng Li taken the wrong medicine recently?

Anyone would know that Qingfeng Village has almost reached its end. After emerging in the court, the next step will be to face the court's encirclement and suppression.

Now, not only is it not trying to make it work, but it has extended its hands to the four major families in Jinling.

Is this because they are worried that Qingfeng Village will not be destroyed fast enough?

Jinling is the ancient capital of the previous dynasty, and in the present Daqian,

It was also an important city at the level of a secondary capital, otherwise there wouldn't be twenty-four imperial guards stationed there.

How can it be compared with the place of Yangzhou?

Originally, Lin Ruhai did not want to get involved in this matter.

On the one hand, it is the imperial court, and on the other hand, he is a very likely future son-in-law.

He only needed to fulfill his duties as the Imperial Inspector of Salt and send all the tax silver to the capital.

Then no matter what the outcome is, their Lin family will be safe and sound in this storm.

But looking at the handwritten letter from Wang Ziteng, the head of the Wang family,

If there is no appropriate reason, it is not easy to erase this layer.

After thinking about it, he looked at Xue's mother with tears in her eyes and sighed softly,

"Alas! I'm not afraid of being laughed at by my younger brothers and sisters-in-law. You don't know much."

"Some time ago, my daughter was unfortunately kidnapped by the bandits from Qingfeng Village."

"I ordered the salt officials from the government office and borrowed from other government offices to gather a thousand men to attack Qingfeng Village, but..."

Under Xue's mother's nervous and doubtful gaze, he sighed helplessly,

"Alas! I am ashamed!"

"I didn't expect that before we were even halfway through our mission, we were all captured by the bandits!"

"what?!"

Xue's mother was shocked when she heard this.

Lin Ruhai laughed at himself.

"We are all my family, so I am not afraid of being laughed at by my younger siblings."

"As a fourth-rank imperial salt inspector, if I were to retain this useful position and pay last year's salt tax for the court, I'm afraid..."

As he spoke, he closed his eyes, covered his face, and shook his head, as if he was truly ready to die and was full of righteousness.

Mother Xue said hurriedly, "Lord Lin is a man of high moral character, wholeheartedly serving his country, and enduring humiliation. He is truly a model official."