Daming: The system rejected my request for salted fish

Chapter 1017

However, Shen Lin was not feeling sentimental about the gentleman's house, but had other thoughts in his mind.

But Shen Lin didn't explain too much. He just responded simply after Lao Bai finished speaking.

"Then let's take a look at how magnificent this gentleman's house is!"

As soon as he finished speaking, Shen Lin walked to the gate and raised his hand to knock on the door of the mansion hard.

boom! boom! boom!

After a few muffled sounds, the door was opened shortly afterwards, and a man dressed as a servant leaned half of his body out.

When the servant first saw Shen Lin in plain clothes, he was about to get angry and curse, but he soon saw the person behind Shen Lin.

Seeing the dozen or so yamen runners behind Shen Lin, the servant immediately swallowed his words and asked in a low voice:

"My dear officers, what brings you here?"

"No need to say anything, just open the door. Also, have your master gather everyone to the front hall."

Shen Lin responded casually, and without waiting for the servant to speak again, he reached out and pushed open the door.

A group of more than a dozen yamen runners immediately followed Shen Lin and went straight to the front hall as soon as they entered the door.

Maybe because they made a little too much noise, Shen Lin's side was smoother than Zhang Hai's.

Not long after they entered the front hall, all the Zhang family members, young and old, came to the front hall and looked at Shen Lin and others with puzzled expressions.

Then a middle-aged man wearing a plain silk shirt and a square scarf on his head came out.

He first glanced at Shen Lin, then glanced at the dozen or so yamen runners, and then slowly said:

"Who are you and why are you bringing these yamen runners to my Zhang family?"

The middle-aged man's tone of voice was obviously different from Gong Honghai's. He had an air of superiority.

But in fact, it is normal for him to have such an attitude. After all, this middle-aged man is the current head of the Zhang family, Zhang Dengyue.

In addition to being the head of the family, Zhang Dengyue also has honors and is a top-ranked Jinshi.

You should know that the imperial examination had not been held for a long time during the Hongwu Dynasty. The last imperial examination was in the fourth year of Hongwu.

That year, a total of 120 people were admitted to the imperial examination nationwide, with three in the first class, seventeen in the second class, and one hundred in the third class.

Zhang Dengyue was one of the top three. His status as a Jinshi was enough to make him proud.

After all, in this era, successful Jinshi were regarded as talents selected by the emperor himself, and were also called disciples of the emperor.

As long as one entered the officialdom, he would either be a sixth-rank official in charge of the six ministries, or a fifth-rank local prefect, or at the very least a seventh-rank censor.

Not to mention the yamen runners in front of him, even Shen Lin, a disciple of the Duke, could not compare with them in status and position.

In Zhang Dengyue's opinion, he had good self-cultivation because he did not get angry and chase them away when Shen Lin and his friends broke into his house.

However, what Zhang Dengyue didn't know was that his status as a Jinshi could suppress others, but he couldn't suppress the ruthless man Shen Lin.

After all, Shen Lin had killed members of the Japanese royal family, and even Ashikaga Yoshimitsu was killed by him personally.

Moreover, his boss is Wei Wu, and he doesn't take Wei Wu, a mere Jinshi, seriously at all!

So when faced with Zhang Dengyue's questioning, Shen Lin simply chose to ignore it. After looking around, he turned to look at Lao Bai.

"Since all the Zhang family members are here, don't waste time and bring the people you need back to the government office."

As soon as Shen Lin finished speaking, the yamen runner beside him immediately walked towards the young descendants of the Zhang family!

Seeing the yamen runners walking towards them, the younger generation of the Zhang family wanted to leave in panic, and the servants and women protected them behind them.

However, these yamen runners ignored all that and rushed over to arrest the person. In an instant, the entire front hall was in chaos.

At this critical moment, Zhang Dengyue's eyes focused, and he shouted loudly with all his strength!