Mr. Shen complained: "You haven't been able to decide, right? How come you can be sure again today?"
Lin Daguan replied: "I am a good family man, and what I pay attention to is that a bowl of water should be balanced.
No matter who of my two sons, the Fan family and the Huang family, marries the granddaughter of your chief minister's family, the other one must be unbalanced, so he cannot decide easily.
Now I have reached an agreement with Taishi Xu's family next door, and they are also the chief assistant of the family.
It just so happens that there is a chief assistant on each side of the two houses, so no one suffers, and there is no imbalance!
For the sake of our long-term friendship, I allow you to choose one of my two sons!"
Second Master Shen was thinking about it, and suddenly he started to get entangled, and he didn't reply for a long time.
"What's wrong?" Lin Daguan asked.
Second Master Shen let out a long sigh and said helplessly: "It's so hard to choose! Your bowl of water is so flat, it's so abominable!"
If Lin Tailai was biased, he would have chosen the one Lin Tailai was more partial to.
But now both houses are very powerful. One controls fish, salt, water transportation, smuggling, and in the future, sea trade;
The other is to control many entrances, customs, rivers, and the future golden waterway of the Wusong River.
Second Master Shen thought it was good to look at this side, and it was good to look at the other side. He was deeply stuck in the difficulty of choosing.
"How about I give birth to two daughters and take them all?" Second Master Shen asked tentatively.
Official Lin flatly rejected Second Master Shen's unreasonable idea, "It's impossible! The other one wants to marry the daughter of Taishi Xu's family!"
Then he said: "If you can't decide, I'll let the two families decide on their own! Let's see who among them is willing to marry a daughter of the Shen family!"
"Okay! Okay! I can do it!" Mr. Shen, who couldn't make a decision, could only say.
After returning home, Officer Lin told the matter to his wife, Wang Shiwu.
Wang Shiwu smiled and said: "My husband is so generous. The two concubines have arranged in-laws like the Prime Minister's Court."
So what are your future plans for our double happiness?"
Faced with this subjective question, Lin Daguan replied wittily: "The wife our Shuangxi will marry in the future must be the prime minister's wife, or the prime minister's mother!"
The time for rest and recreation always passes quickly, and in a flash it’s the end of the real twelfth lunar month.
There are only a few days left in the seventeenth year of Wanli, and the party and banquet held before the year has also reached a climax.
Official Lin's first year-end banquet was held at Shuixuan in Canglang Pavilion, and all officials or relatives and friends in the official circle were invited.
The attendees included Governor Zhou, Prince Wang, County Prince Yuan Hongdao, Second Son Shen Erye, the second son of the chief minister, Liu Tongpan, the governor of the government who had made great contributions, Guo Tuiguan, and some family members of Suzhou officials abroad.
From the perspective of the power field, this is the most high-end party in Suzhou City.
This year has been good, everyone is very relaxed, and after three drinks, we started chatting.
Governor Zhou asked Lin Tailai: "When will Jiuyuanjun's vacation end?"
Official Lin replied: "The court is not a good place to go now. You can stay in your hometown as long as you can!"
This is Lin Daguan's sincere words. The catastrophe of the country is so fierce, who wants to go to the imperial court to overcome the tribulation? Isn't it comfortable to be a domineering local bully in your hometown?
How does a line in the opera come to be sung? Emperor Wanli sits in the capital, and I am the second court in Suzhou.
At this time, suddenly a servant of the Shen Mansion came in and gave a letter from the Feng family to Second Master Shen.
This is normal. After all, it is the end of the year and it is also the peak period for receiving letters from home.
After reading the letter from home, Mr. Shen raised his head and said to Lin Tai: "My father asked me to tell you that our fellow Suzhou native, Xu Xianqing, the Minister of Rites, failed to withstand the criticism and was dismissed from office!"
"It's none of my business?" Lin Tailai said doubtfully.
Everyone here is a true member of our family, and Mr. Shen did not shy away from anything, and said: "What my father means is that the current situation is tight, and I want you to return to the capital as soon as possible!"
Everyone: ""
Suddenly, I saw another servant of the Wang family, who also stuffed a family letter to the royal family, Wang Zhiyou.
After Wang Fuzun read it, he also raised his head and said to Lin Tai: "Brother-in-law! My second brother Situ said that Sun Qin from the Qingliu force was promoted by the court to be the left minister of the household department, and he couldn't stop him!
From now on, there will be constraints on the affairs of the Ministry of Revenue. After the New Year, you should return to the capital as soon as possible to stabilize the situation!"
Everyone: ""
After a moment of silence in the hall, I heard Mr. Lin let out a long sigh.
"Why can't this court do without me, Lin Tailai? I've only been away for half a year, and the situation has already started to deteriorate like this!"
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Chapter completed!