When he left the suburbs and walked to the street, Lin Yan suddenly heard someone calling him in the bookstore next to him.
This man has no white face and elegant temperament. He is wearing a blue shirt and holding two new books in his arms. He looks like a scholar. If it weren't Xia Siye Xia Anzhi, who is it?
Lin Yan has always had a good impression of Xia Anzhi. Xia Anzhi is one of the few people he really cares about when he was a chore in Xia Mansion. He has always been grateful for this, and Xia Anzhi's honest nature has also made him
Don't worry, I hand over the troubled remedy for the fifth lady to the other party.
"Hello, Fourth Master." Lin Yan greeted Xia Anzhi politely, and the two of them walked to the corner of the wall.
Xia Anzhi was obviously surprised to meet Lin Yan here and kept smiling, but there was a hint of unnaturalness in his smile, so Lin Yan could see it easily.
Lin Yan knew that this must be related to Xia Tianlong and Xia Ping's death. After all, these two people are Xia Anzhi's relatives.
"Lin Yan, I thought you had left Xiaoshui City long ago, but I didn't expect to meet you here."
Before Lin Yan answered, Xia Anzhi immediately said: "I have handled all the matters in Xia's mansion. The grievances between you and the fifth lady have been washed away. Now everyone in the Xia's mansion knows that Xia Ping did that dirty thing. Fortunately, you
He escaped safely and helped the head of the family to restore the truth. The head of the family made a wrong judgment and caused the fifth wife to drown. He blamed himself afterwards and took poison to commit suicide not long ago one afternoon."
Lin Yan has already heard the trick from Xia Anzhi's words. Although the grievances between him and the fifth wife have been washed away, it is obvious that Xia Anzhi still does not want to make a big mistake in the family, so he has made great changes to the issue of Xia Tianlong.
, in fact, he portrayed Xia Tianlong, who was originally the murderer, into a righteous and emotional good person. He established the innocent image of Xia Tianlong by "taking poison to commit suicide", which must have won sympathy from all over the Xia family.
Lin Yan felt a little unhappy because of this, and said a few words without being cold or hot: "What about?"
Xia Anzhi also knew that things were not handled according to Lin Yan's original wishes, and his face became even more unnatural, but he could only bite the bullet and talk down.
"Then we did a ritual for the fifth lady to make her live a peaceful life in the underworld. At the same time, the truth has been passed to the fifth lady's home. Now the fifth lady has entered the family genealogy and can be buried in the family cemetery."
Lin Yan felt a little more uncomfortable. At least the fifth lady would not have to suffer any unjust injustice.
"What did Xia Shihu and the other five teachers do? You must have not told the truth, right?" Since Xia Tianlong is already a victim, the six people who were assigned by Xia Tianlong to chase him naturally could not be with
Summer Dragon has anything to do with it.
Lin Yan was also curious and wanted to see how Xia Anzhi dealt with it. In the past, he thought Xia Anzhi was a stubborn person. Now it seems that in order to preserve the image of the Xia family, Xia Anzhi changed the mind of a scholar and chose to do some tricks.
To cover up some of the truth.
Knowing that Lin Yan would ask such a question, Xia Anzhi would tell the truth.
"I know that the eldest brother sent the third brother and five teachers to chase you was secretly done, and the others were not clear about it, so I took advantage of this. I just said that the six of them suddenly disappeared, and the whole mansion was not aware of it.
Now I am sending people to find them. Anyway, my third brother has formed some enemies as a warrior, and it is reasonable to say that they are not sure where they are going. Besides, a boss and twenty warriors at Xiaoshuicheng Wharf a while ago died inexplicably?
It is easy to think that the world has not been peaceful recently and will not associate their death with you."
"Second Master Xia will make a turn when doing things. In this way, not only will the injustice of my fifth wife and I be gone, but the face of Xia's mansion also be preserved as much as possible. I think you will also attribute Xia Ping's death to me, right?
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From Xia Anzhi's standpoint, Lin Yan felt that Xia Anzhi's handling was actually the most correct way, but as Lin Yan himself, he was not very satisfied with the result, so he still spoke lukewarmly.
Xia Anzhi smiled awkwardly and said, "Xia Ping should be damned if he did such a serious crime. Lin Yan, you killed him, is to eliminate the harm."
"Lin Yan, I know you must be very dissatisfied with me doing this, and the exact same piece of evidence in your hand is enough to reveal all the truth again and ruin the Xia family. But I ask you not to do this.
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Xia Anzhi said respectfully, if it weren't for being on the street, I would have been kneeling down to Lin Yan at this moment.
"Xia Mansion is really bad to you. You have ten thousand reasons to shame my elder brother, and you are not wrong in doing this, because it is indeed Xia Mansion, Xia Tianlong, I'm sorry to you! But I still chose to
This part of the truth is covered up because I don’t want the century-old summer palace to be destroyed. Lin Yan, please forgive me for playing with some tricks. I am also helpless."
After saying that, Xia Anyi put his arms around the thread-clothing new book, covered his face with his wide sleeves with one hand, sighed, as if he was ashamed of doing so.
Lin Yan suddenly realized that Xia Anzhi was reading the books of sages and receiving the teachings of sages.
After all, in order to protect the face of Xia Mansion, Xia Anzhi, a pure scholar, came up with this series of thoughts that were very inconsistent with nature and made a series of actions against his will. For Xia Anzhi himself,
It's indeed a kind of helplessness.
"It's hard for you." Lin Yan looked at Xia Anzhi and said slowly.
"Don't you blame me?" Xia Anzhi said in a tone that he couldn't believe it himself.
"You have your difficulties, too." Lin Yan said.
Xia Anzhi looked even more lonely: "But I still did something a scholar should never do. I do this, but I am actually ashamed of the teachings I received on weekdays. I am no longer worthy of being a scholar."
"In fact, you are no longer a scholar, Master Xia." After forgiven Xia Anzhi, Lin Yan simply decided to remind the other party a few more words, "Mr. Xia should be the new head of the Xia family now, right?"
Xia Anzhi nodded.
"That's right. From the perspective of a head of the family, you are not wrong in doing this. And in the future, you will no longer be able to deal with many things according to the nature of a scholar, because some things are very complicated and you must use some flexibility.
The way to deal with it is just like you deal with my affairs with the fifth lady.”
Xia Anzhi looked at Lin Yan incredibly, as if he couldn't understand why a servant from the Xia Mansion could actually say such incisive words.
"Don't look at me like this, I'm forced to learn this principle. Master Xia Si, I respect you, so I said this. However, justice should still be possessed, and integrity should be persisted, otherwise, it will become
If you become a person like Xia Tianlong, you will be no different from the evil ones."
"Lin Yan, don't worry, I will be an upright and good head of the family." Xia Anzhi said solemnly.
Lin Yan didn't say anything more. Today he forgave Xia Anzhi and said something to Xia Anzhi. However, he respected Xia Anzhi before and felt that he should remind the other party not to use the standards of a scholar's saint to deal with things.
As for Xia Anzhi's swearing that he would be a good head of the family, Lin Yan doesn't care whether he believes it or not. The environment can easily change a person, no one can tell what Xia Anzhi will eventually become, but that's all for the future, and he
It's completely irrelevant.
But Xia Anzhi still wanted to trouble him.
"Lin Yan, I also know that you are famous in Xiaoshui City now. You are very strong and you are no longer the same as before... So, I want to ask you to help me solve something."
"You are polite, Mr. Xia, I was scolded as a 'bad, waste firewood' in Xia Mansion. Every time you hear it, you will scold those people. I still remember that one year on New Year's Eve, I didn't chop firewood because my hand was frostbite.
Even the only bowl of noodles for supper was poured onto the snow by the housekeeper and Xia Shihu. In the end, you brought me a bowl of rice and meat from the kitchen, allowing me to finish that cold New Year's Eve.
I always remember it in my heart. I am happy to be able to do something for you now."
Lin Yan spoke a little emotionally.
In the ten years of being in Xia Mansion, except for the old accountant, only Xia Anzhi was really caring about him, making him feel that ten years of life in errands actually had some warm memories.
Xia Anzhi felt completely differently.
Xia Anzhi felt very lucky.
If it weren't for treating Lin Yan fairly before, if it wasn't for Lin Yan's gratitude and remembering the insignificant trivial things he had done, then once Lin Yan exposes Xia Tianlong's true face, the Xia family will definitely lose all face.
, it is impossible to continue, and at present, Lin Yan cannot ask him to solve a problem for himself.
At this moment, Xia Anzhi said, "This is the thing. The five teachers who disappeared with Xia Shihu have a certain relationship behind them. We had already made compensation to them according to the regulations of the government, but they relied on the situation.
With some skills, the five families joined forces to cheat us. I gave in several times, just wanting to spend money to eliminate disasters and buy peace. But they are getting worse. Recently, they are making trouble again and shouting that we will pay. I am all
I asked the government to come forward, but the government feared their identity as a warrior and was unwilling to take care of it too much. I really had no choice."
"So you thought of using some clever little tricks to let me come forward?" Lin Yan smiled.
"I think Lin Yan, you are right. I have guided me, Xia Anzhi, and I have benefited a lot." Xia Anzhi also enjoyed her.
"You are learning and selling now is pretty fast." Lin Yan quipped.
"It's Lin Yan that you have given good guidance." Xia Anyi said seriously.
"Go and go and have a look."
Xia Anzhi hired a carriage, and the two of them rode all the way to Qingyang Town.
The coachman knew Xia Anzhi, and at this moment, he saw that the head of the Xia Mansion was so polite to a young man, as if he regarded this person as a guest of honor, and could not help but look at Lin Yan with admiration.
If the coachman knew that Lin Yan was still a servant in the Xia Mansion half a year ago, but now he is enjoying such treatment, he would be surprised to fall off his eyes.
Lin Yan actually wanted to see how the people in the Xia family would think of him, especially the butler who relied on his power.