Chapter 648 Eager Love

Finally, after Miss Jin spat out the last mouthful of water, Lin Mengya personally confirmed that she had been successfully rescued.

Suddenly, the Jin family erupted in jubilation.

Madam Jin cried with joy. Under such circumstances, she didn’t know what to do.

But now, she was grateful to Lin Mengya. When she looked at Lin Mengya, her face showed complicated emotions.

“Madam, don’t think too much. Since the misunderstandings between us have been cleared up and your daughter and son are awake, let’s wiped out the past.”

Lin Mengya was not intending to take advantage of the Jin family. But if Long Tianyu got to know that they had wanted to harm her, then the Jin family might suffer a lot.

Lin Mengya felt it was better to make friends than enemies. Many misunderstandings could be removed if the two parties could talk frankly.

“Your Highness, thank you for your magnanimity. Maids! Come here and help Princess Yu to the back hall to rest.”

In fact, Lin Mengya could tell that although Jin Jue had always been respectful to her on the outside, he had also been a little bit angry with her on the inside. Now, the anger was removed, and she had turned hostility into friendship.

Lin Mengya smiled and nodded, while the other servants began to tidy up the mourning hall in a hurry.

After settling his family affairs, Jin Jue finally had the time to entertain the guests.

After being invited out from the inner courtyard, Lin Mengya was led to a drawing-room.

Long Tianyu and Jin Jue were both enjoying themselves there. No one would have thought that half an hour ago, this mansion had been full of sorrow. Lin Mengya walked slowly to Long Tianyu. After nodding at him, she sat down next to him.

“My son was ignorant, and he offended Your Highness just now. Thank you for your magnanimity and for not fussing with that boor. And I would also like to thank you for your help today.”

The twist from great sadness to great joy made all sorts of feelings well up in Jin Jue’s mind. Lin Mengya smiled politely and gently as if she had already forgotten about the offense before.

Jin Jue couldn’t help but feel more guilty. It seemed that compared to the tolerant daughter of the Lin family, the children in his own family were a little narrow-minded.

He couldn’t help but admire Lin Muzhi, his old rival for many years. He thought that if the descendants of the Lin family were numerous, the Jin family would be no match for the Lin family in the future.

Therefore, his attitude towards Lin Mengya and Long Tianyu became more polite subconsciously.

“It is Prince Yu that asked me to help you. General Jin, you don’t need to thank me.”

Being self-effacement just right, Lin Mengya gave all the credit to Long Tianyu.

It was the stage of the men now. She had made a buzz already just now, so it was time to hand over the business to Long Tianyu.

“This…oh…it really makes me feel ashamed. Your Highness Prince Yu, please allow me to kowtow to you!”

After speaking, Jin Jue was about to get up from the chair to kneel.

But how could Long Tianyu accept this? He immediately stood up and held Jin Jue’s arms with both hands, and smiled gently, not showing the slightest arrogance or coldness of the royal family.

“Please don’t do that! General Jin, you are always loyal to the country, and I have long admired you. I came today just to visit you. If you do this to me, you will overwhelm me with more than what I deserve.”

After a short stalemate, Jin Jue was finally helped up by Long Tianyu. Lin Mengya was holding a tea bowl, and a touch of triumph flashed across her eyes.

In the beginning, the main reason why the Jin family had been defeated in the fight was that the children of the Jin family were too arrogant. They had angered the Emperor, so Jin Jue had been degraded to such a sinecure.

Unexpectedly, after just a few years, Jin Jue’s hostility had been reduced a lot. If this person was used well, he must be a trenchant edge.

Lin Mengya thought about it, and she had a plan soon.

“Thank you, Your Highness. Compared with you two, I am a boor. It seems as if I have lived for so long in vain.”

Jin Jue sat in his seat, but there was always a trace of guilt on his face. Long Tianyu also sat back in his chair. He had learned a lot from Lin Mengya, so he talked with Jin Jue in a friendly and natural tone.

“General Jin, you don’t have to be like this. By the way, why the people of your mansion made such a big mistake? The young lady and master were almost mistakenly confirmed to be dead.”

Long Tianyu pretended to be just chattering to induce the old general into telling the truth.

It turned out when Jin Jue had just returned home from the court, he heard his daughter had fallen into the lake accidentally.

They had told him that she had no breath when being salvaged from the water. His youngest son had been eating chestnuts when hearing the news, and he had been choked on chestnut in shock. And he had almost lost his life.

When Lin Mengya listened to the story, she found that there were too many strange things about this matter.

However, she didn’t ask any questions. The Jin family was not stupid. The reason why they hadn’t noticed those abnormalities at the beginning was that their thoughts had been disturbed by the accidents.

So, as long as they noticed the abnormalities, those who had secretly played dirty tricks would get into trouble.

“So, that is how it is. I think you must have many important things to deal with, then we don’t want to disturb you anymore. We’d like to leave now.”

Long Tianyu and Lin Mengya deserved to be called a perfect match. They didn’t need to communicate about this kind of thing at all, and they could make the same decision by tacit understanding.

They got up and said goodbye. Lin Kui had already handed over all the gifts they had brought to the servants of the Jin family.

Although the matter could not be announced to the world, it could be regarded as a great thing. They hadn’t expected after the sudden decision of visiting the Jin family, they would bump into such a thing. Their good luck was one in a million.

Jin Jue invited them for dinner, but Long Tianyu knew that the Jin family still had a lot of things to deal with. He thought it was the best timing for them to leave now.

Jin Jue was very grateful to Prince and Princess Yu for their help, so he personally saw them off to the gate. After seeing the carriage going away, he went back into the mansion with the servants.

Lin Mengya gently lifted the curtain of the carriage with her fair hand. After a glance at the direction of the Jin family, a sneer appeared on the corners of her lips.

“I didn’t expect us to bump into such a thing. It seems it is fate that brought the Jin family and us together.”

Lin Mengya did not think this was an accident. Actually, since the moment she had heard about Miss Jin’s accident, doubts had filled her mind.

It was said that after being tricked by her, Miss Jin had become a little timid and weak. Although it was nothing serious, it was not suitable for her to go out after all. She had lived safely for so long. Why did she fall into the water today?

Perhaps, the real accident was the sudden visit of Lin Mengya and Long Tianyu. In the script written by the plotter, Miss Jin was already dead by now.

“The information was leaked.”

Long Tianyu also returned to his usual indifference, with a fit of rare anger in his tone. Since the matter of Baili Wuchen, Long Tianyu had already purged Prince Yu’s Mansion.

But this kind of thing had happened again today. How could Long Tianyu not get angry?

“It doesn’t necessarily have anything to do with the people in your mansion. My brother is already at the age to get married. After the death of Yue Ting, many families are already eager to take action. If it weren’t for that Lin Mengwu and Shangguan Qing had been grounded by my father for a long time, I’m afraid there would have been many people visiting my family. Moreover, I think this matter must have something to do with one person.”

Lin Mengya’s eyes flashed, and a person’s name appeared in her mind. That person was extremely intelligent, but she was very infatuated with her brother.

If she had planned the whole thing, Lin Mengya would not feel surprised.

“You mean, Shangguan Hui?”

Long Tianyu immediately guessed the name. In this selection, Shangguan Hui was actually classified as one of the first choices, the same as Miss Jin. If she had plotted it, then there were only two possibilities.

First one, she had discovered the current situation by herself, so she schemed this plot.

As for the second one, it was a possibility Lin Mengya didn’t want to see.

“Well, apart from her, no one is so eager to kill Miss Jin. But if it were her, I also know that she is unable to conduct such a scheme. However, she is a smart person. Maybe she used some method.”

Love could make people blind.

Shangguan Hui was very smart, and her methods were also powerful. From the fact that she could get rid of the control of the Empress, Lin Mengya could see her capability.

In fact, she had wanted Shangguan Hui to marry her brother just to destroy Empress’s plan. And Shangguan Hui was indeed smart enough to save the Lin family from the mess. But she had miscalculated Shangguan Hui’s eagerness of marrying his brother and forgotten that the people of the Shangguan family had always been unscrupulous and vicious as long as they wanted to achieve the goal.

To be honest, if Miss Jin could be half as capable as Shangguan Hui, Lin Mengya would do whatever it took to get her married to her brother. If both of these women could marry her brother, things would be double insured, though it sounded somewhat unfair.

“Huh, the women of the Shangguan family are all the same.”

Speaking of the Shangguan family, Long Tianyu felt the same as Lin Mengya. He had no good impressions of them.

“No, the people from the Shangguan family are not all the same. At least, Shangguan Hui can be used by us. Lin Kui, when we get back, you personally go to the Shangguan family to send Shangguan Hui my invitation card.”

Probably Shangguan Hui hadn’t thought about the troublesome consequences she would bring to Lin Mengya by taking action ahead of her. Even if Lin Mengya still had to act according to the original plan, she must give her some warnings.

Sending the invitation card to her openly was tantamount to exposing the relationship between them to the Empress.

By then, Shangguan Hui would understand how serious the consequences would be if she didn’t act upon the plan.