Lu Lingjun took Xia Mei back to his house.
After going back, give her to Shuanghong first, take a bath, change clothes, and assign her to a room.
Lu Lingjun asked Shuanghong to take her to live first.
There are three eldest girls in her courtyard. The eldest girls all share a room with two people. Shuanghong used to live with Zhiran, but now that Zhiran is out, she asks Xia Mei to live with Shuanghong.
Xia Mei was young, so Lu Lingjun asked her to follow him closely and do the lightest things.
After settling Xia Mei, Lu Lingjun had some free time again.
The head of the Qin family, except for the fact that his servants were a little greedy in the accounts and money, did not dare to fool around with anything else.
Now that Lu Lingjun has taken over, she has done a good job of building a wall last time as a warning to others, and her subsequent bills have been reduced a lot.
She is now in the Hou Mansion. Aunt An has already occupied the position of the chief minister. Cui Dacai's errands are also handled by Xiaowei. On the surface, she already has considerable influence in the Hou Mansion. .
Of course, Lu Lingjun knew that looking at the Hou Mansion as a whole, she currently had less than one-tenth of the power.
She still needs to train some confidants in key positions.
She rested on the soft chair boredly, and a stewardess announced her entrance.
"Madam, there is a lawsuit against our house."
"litigation?"
Lu Lingyun became energetic.
The big families in the Hou family are powerful and well-connected, and many things can be settled with just one sentence.
Under such circumstances, when some small households encounter injustice, they will seek help from the homes of big households.
For example, most farmers in small places would go to the squire to seek justice. In larger places, they would go to local prominent families.
Ningyang Houfu is not considered the top power in Kyoto, but its strength is enough to attract many people seeking help through connections.
When Lu Lingjun was in Jiangnan, she had seen and handled many such lawsuits.
"He is also the nephew of an old man in our house," the steward said. "Their family opened an inn in the west of the city. It will be spring next year. There are many people coming to Beijing at this time. The business of their inn is very prosperous. There was a fatal incident in their inn, and the shopkeeper was arrested, so the family begged our house to ask the young lady to fish him out."
Lu Lingjun frowned slightly, "What kind of life?"
"It was probably a quarrel between several people, and finally they got involved. The handrail on the second floor happened to be rotten and in disrepair, so the unlucky shopkeeper was caught."
After hearing this, Lu Lingjun said, "It sounds like he is not unlucky. As the head of the shop, he did not repair the furniture in time to make a living, and he deserves to go to jail."
When the steward heard this, she said, "That's what he said, but in the end it wasn't his intention. Madam, the housekeeper's surname is Zhao. His uncle is the former old man's chief housekeeper. The first housekeeper Zhao took a knife from the late old man. It was that knife that wiped out all his descendants. He had no children in his life and only had a nephew to support him in his old age. He is now in his late seventies and eighty years old. Now he comes to our house with gray hair and wants us to come forward to save him. No matter how much money he pays! "
After hearing this, Lu Lingjun raised his waist and asked, "Then the old housekeeper is still outside?"
"Yes, still kneeling."
"You tell him to go back first. I'll go take a look tomorrow."
"Okay!" The stewardess went out excitedly.
Lu Lingjun took note of this and called Xia Mei over, "Xia Mei, did you live in the west of the city before?"
"Yes, young lady."
After entering the house, the discerning Xia Mei quickly changed her tune.
"Have you ever heard of the case of the accident at Chengxi Inn?"
Xia Mei nodded repeatedly, "Three days ago, a murder occurred in an inn over there. I heard that several people quarreled, and one of them fell from the second floor!"
Lu Lingjun heard the same reason as the grandma in charge, and felt sure that the old housekeeper and the grandma in charge had not fooled her.
"You go out later and ask your brother to find out the detailed reason and how many people were involved."
"Yes, young lady!"
Lu Lingjun was determined to help, but first she had to figure things out.
The second day.
Lu Lingjun went to Yaoguang Pavilion to see Cheng Yunshuo first as usual.
Cheng Yunshuo's health is getting better and better, and his energy and energy are slowly recovering. It seems that he will be well in three or two days.
After coming out of Yaoguang Pavilion, she went straight to Zhao Ji Inn in the west of the city.
After a death occurred in the inn, the door was sealed. Many guests chose to go to other inns. Only some people were still living in the inn, and they all used the back door to enter and exit.
"Miss!"
As soon as she arrived, Dongsheng walked out of the crowd.
"I'll take you to the inn."
"Okay." Lu Lingjun put on a bamboo hat and followed Dongsheng into the inn from the back door.
As soon as I entered the inn, I saw things piled up in a mess.
Pots and pans, clothes hanging out to dry, bacon, salted fish, dried radishes and vegetables, and some unpleasant smells.
"Miss, no one is in charge of the inn now. Their shopkeeper has been arrested and all the workers have gone back. You have to take care of the food and accommodation in the inn yourself. This place is really dirty."
"It doesn't matter."
Lu Lingjun found a place to stay among a pile of messy things and followed Dongsheng into the inn.
The inside of the inn was even messier. There was a large dried blood stain on the first floor, and there were leftover plates on several tables. Fortunately, the weather was getting colder now, so there weren't so many flies, but it was still dirty enough.
Lu Lingjun carefully observed the area around the blood stain, "Was there anything here before?"
"Yes, there was a flowerpot here before, and the unlucky guy hit the flowerpot and died on the spot." Dongsheng said.
As soon as he finished speaking, he heard an upright and angry voice, "Who do you think is the unlucky one!"
When Lu Lingjun looked up, he saw a young man wearing coarse cloth with two patches on his shoulder and cuffs standing on the stairs, looking at the two of them angrily.
"Excuse me, who are you?" Dongsheng asked.
The man walked down from the second floor and said righteously, "I am Liu Shuhui!"
Liu Shuhui?
For a moment, Lu Lingyun was stunned when he heard the name.
Liu Shuhui, the most beautiful girl in the previous life? !
When Dongsheng next to him heard this name, he said to Lu Lingyun with great headache, "Miss, that's him. He's the fellow countryman who died. He refused to accept the compensation and asked the shopkeeper to pay for his life. He also said that under the emperor's feet The law of heaven is clear, if Dali Temple doesn't kill the man to pay for his fellow countrymen's lives, he will file a lawsuit!"
Lu Lingjun: "......"
Sure enough, it was Liu Shuhui who was single-minded.
This person is so impressive to her as a wife.
This was Liu Shuhui, who had been fighting against Li Wenxun all his life in his previous life, and later became the governor of Jiangnan Water Transport.
This person is stubborn and will fight against injustice. This kind of person is not suitable for officialdom, but he is so talented that he cannot be buried. And the current emperor is still very discerning. A wise king who was good at using people put him in the position of governor of water transportation and suppressed a group of people.
It can be said that Li Wenxun's first-grade official relied on Lu Lingjun to pave the way, and Liu Shuhui's water transportation governor was all created by himself.
This is a top-notch capable person and a top-notch strong-willed species.
