Lord of the House

Zhou Pu said that he had to trouble Lin Fu if he had something to do. Gu Yingxiu gave Lin Fu a puzzled look. She wondered how Lin Fu had brought back the savior. Could it be that Lin Fu didn't have money to reward him for saving his life in Jiangning? , brought him back to Dongyang Mansion? Of course, Lin Fu didn't have any money even if he returned to Dongyang Mansion. Gu Yingxiu thought about taking out the money. After all, Lin Fu was a life-saving grace, and it should be rewarding him for a sum of money.

Lin Fu knew that after Gu Yingxiu married Lin Tingxun as his concubine, his temperament became strong and fiery. Shiliang County knows the name of the Seventh Lady. Although Lin Fuzhong's identity was different from before, but Zhou Pu and Chen Enze were naturalized in Shiliang County, it was more convenient for Gu Yingxiu to ask for help in Shiliang County than for Lin Fu.

Standing on the street, Lin Fuan introduced Zhou Pu and Chen Enze's cover identities with his pre-edited words: "Seventh Madam, brother Zhou Pu is a refugee who escaped from northern Hebei, and he and his nephew Enze escaped as a family. After Huaibei, Brother Zhou Pu and Enze worked as handymen on the grain boat. They were unsteady, and it was very hard to be a handyman on the boat. This time I got the grace of Brother Zhou for saving my life. Settle down in Dongyang Mansion or Jiangning Mansion..."

Only then did Gu Yingxiu take a closer look at Zhou Pu. She was no longer the little girl she was when she first came out of the cabinet. She had more contact with the affairs of the outer house and had more contact with various characters, so she had a bit of eyesight. Chen Enze lived with Lin Fu on the island for ten months, dressed in coarse clothes, like a child from a poor background, and after all, he was still young, so he could not attract much attention from others; Zhou Pu was quite different, he was more than Lin Fu. He was half a head shorter, but his shoulders were half a palm wider than Lin Fie's. Gu Yingxiu looked at him like a rock, and he didn't look like an ordinary refugee who escaped from northern Hebei.

Gu Yingxiu knew that it was not difficult for the two foreigners to settle down in Shiliang County after Lin Fu was elected in the examination. Said: "If Master Zhou doesn't mind being a guest in the Lin family, I can be the master..." She took the initiative to take matters into consideration for Lin Fu's future, and asked Chen Enze kindly, "Little brother this year When you are old, you can study for two years at the Clan Zhongyi School, and you will have more options in the future."

Zhao Hu arched Lin Jingzhong's shoulders and showed him the long package that Zhou Pu was carrying on his back, which clearly contained two sheathed waist knives, but his thoughts were much simpler than Gu Yingxiu. For saving his life, he doesn't care that Zhou Pu's origin is unknown.

Lin Jingzhong thought more carefully. He listened to the seventh lady's arrangement and knew that the seventh lady had her own arrangement, so he stood by and said nothing.

Lin Fu remembered that in the eyes of his friends and the Seventh Madam, he was still a cowardly and ignorant nerd. Zhou Puruo really wanted to settle in Shiliang County, so it would be a good choice to be a guest of the Lin family, but Zhou Pu was in charge of it. It is an important task. Follow him back to Dongyang for the purpose of registering a household. With a reliable identity, it will be more convenient to go to Jiangning to meet up with Feng Peipei, the fourth lady.

"Enze is fifteen years old this year," Lin Fu replied to Mrs. Seven's words, "Big Brother Zhou is used to wandering for the past two years, and he is not used to the farm work. I am afraid that it is not suitable to be a farmer. I want to make Big Brother Zhou feel wronged. , be my attendant!"

Gu Yingxiu narrowed her eyes slightly, and looked at Lin Bie in the early morning sun in surprise, thinking to herself what happened to this kid after he came back, why is it different from before? Lin Fu lost his parents when he was ten years old. Since then, he has lived independently and without support. After all, his temperament is weaker. will outright refuse.

Gu Yingxiu was still a little worried, but she didn't think about saying anything in front of outsiders, she just smiled: "You are raising people now, and there should be a few personal emissaries around to take care of them... Let's not be busy talking about this, Zhao Hu, Xiao Wu, you should send Lin Fu and Zhou Ye back first, and get the house back, the master will also care when he knows Lin Fu is back."

Gu Yingxiu took the horse back from Zhao Hu's hand again, and looked back at Lin Fu again. He was thinner than before going to Jiangning for the exam, and his face was tanned, but he had a heroic spirit that he didn't have before. He has gone through some hardships outside, and he has grown up to be a man, and he can no longer care for him as unscrupulously as before. Restraining the flamboyant attitude just now, Gu Yingxiu got on his horse and said to Lin Fu, "Zhao Neng came back and said that you killed the robber, and the warehouse also sent someone to Baisha County to inquire. Although I want to keep the old man for you. The house, but you can't break the rules of the clan. Your house was occupied by Lin Guisheng's family half a month ago. Since you came back alive, you can go back to the house directly. I'll go back first, your business is on your side After you're done, remember to come over and say goodbye to the master," and said to Zhao Hu, "You first find someone to bring a letter home, I have something to say to your mother..." Then he urged Ma Yuan to go.

Lin Bie watched Gu Yingxiu drive away, thinking who could imagine that she was a delicate girl before leaving the cabinet? It's deadly.

Zhao Hu saw Lin Fu staring at the direction where Gu Yingxiu was leaving, and asked him with a smirk, "Is that vixen in Jiangning as beautiful as the Seventh Lady?"

"Aren't you afraid that the Seventh Madam will hear the ripped mouth?" Lin Jingzhong respected and feared the Seventh Madam Gu Yingxiu, not speaking as casually as Zhao Hu.

Lin Fu smiled, knowing that Zhao Neng had to shirk his responsibilities when he came back to survive, there would be no good words to say, probably everyone in Shanglin Village knew that they were fascinated by Su Mei's beauty. It's unreasonable, not to mention that when he followed to Baisha County, he stole Su Mei's heart.

When he came back, he sent Su Mei outside Jiangning City. Lin Fu didn't follow him into the city, and he didn't know how Su Mei and Xiao Man were doing now. It’s only been three or five days since I was separated, so I miss them a bit.

Seriously, Zhao Neng was not at all responsible for Lin Bie's encounter with robbers in Baisha County. After all, Baisha County was also what Lin Bie insisted on following, and encountering robbers was also an accident. It's not reasonable to say this in this year. Lin Fu is the master and Zhao Neng is the servant when he is away from home. The master's guest died in a foreign country, but the servant came back safe and sound, which is a huge sin.

Zhao Hu didn't know what the Seventh Madam had done with his mother. He thought that it wouldn't be a bad thing. He found an acquaintance on the street and asked him to bring a message back. He and Lin Jingzhong accompany Lin Fu home first.

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The rich and noble families lived at the head of the village, and the poor and the poor at the end of the village, which seemed to be the practice of rural society at this time.

The same is true of Shanglin Village. The head of the village by the ferry is full of wealthy families. The most conspicuous is naturally the big mansion of the Lin family. It covers an area of ​​nearly 30 acres and has more than 20 large courtyards with layers of blue bricks and gray tiles. , row upon row. Although the Lin family is a wealthy family in Dongyang Prefecture, Shanglin Village is prosperous because of the city, the water and land docks are prosperous, and the north and south meet. Although there is no city wall to protect, there are many merchants who buy land and build houses in Shanglin Village. Although the big mansion of Lin's main house is conspicuous in the building group behind the ferry, it is not a standout.

The shop street that Zhou Pu saw when he got off the boat was just an entrance street in front of the ferry. Walking more than 200 steps westward along Shanglin Stream, there was another long alley paved with green bricks extending to the head of Shanglin Village. On the side are the houses built by wealthy people, even if they are small, they are very delicate. The houses are connected with each other, and they are also separated by narrow alleys.

There are also restaurants and shops in the streets and lanes. When you walk in, you will really find that the prosperity of this place is really no worse than that of ordinary county towns.

Even if Lin Fu was admitted as a scholar, he was famous, even if he entered the local gentry class, but he had no money to buy land and build a house at the beginning of the village, so he could only live in the old house at the end of the village.

I went to Jiangning in early autumn to participate in the township examination. It is now the cold season of early winter, and it has been three months since I left Shanglin Village. Lin Bie looked at his yard across the bamboo fence. There were a few weeds on the eaves swaying in the cold wind of early winter. It didn't rain much in Shiliang County after the autumn. There was a layer of floating soil in the yard, and an old plum tree The branches are sloping horizontally, and the bare branches are decorated with unblooming flower bones.

"Lin Xiucai is back!" A woman in the yard picked up soybeans with a dustpan and watched Lin Bie approached by Zhao Hu, Lin Jingzhong and others, and walked over to the bamboo fence to greet Lin Bie with a bitter look. Not to mention letting Lin Fu come in; two three- or four-year-old boys in open-crotch pants ran around naked in the cold wind.

Lin Fu knew why the woman had a bitter face when she saw him, and after listening to the woman's greeting, he nodded and replied, "Aunt Lan is picking up soybeans?" Since the family thought he was killed by the robber, he has no future It is normal for people or close relatives to inherit the family property, and the house is re-distributed to the poor households in the family, but if he comes back alive, no one can stop him from taking the house back, not to mention that he has passed the exam now.

Although in the upper class society, juren is nothing, but ordinary people really dare not occupy the property of juren.

These three rooms and a yard were left by Lin Fu's parents. Four years ago, the seventh wife, Gu Yingxiu, had the thatched roof removed, covered with a layer of tiles, and the doors and windows were repainted with tung oil. a nice house.

This woman and her family happily moved in. It was only half a month old. She was convinced that Lin Bie, who was killed by the robbers, came back alive by boat. How could she not be disappointed?

"Aunt Lan, since Lin Fu is back, I want to trouble you to move! Don't worry, I will find a few young people in the village to do the moving, and help you do a good job of it before taking care of the lunch." Zhao Hu said Saying that, he grabbed the fence gate with his hand and was about to go in first.

Lin Bie grabbed Zhao Hu's hand and said, "I remember that there are two vacant houses in your house. Lend me to live for a while..." Turning to ask the woman, "When I left, some books were left at home. Do you know if he's still there?"

"What are you doing, don't come back to the house now?" Zhao Hu didn't understand what Lin Bie meant.

The woman was thinking that Lin Fu didn't want her family to move away for the time being, and she was not sure in her heart. She wondered why the child's father didn't come back to make an idea. Huanxi would be empty in half a month, and she wanted to move back. The shabby grass house that couldn't keep out the wind in winter and the rain in summer felt a lot of misery in the woman's heart. Seeing Lin Fu asking about the whereabouts of the books in the original house, Ai Ai replied, "I don't know either, we moved When I came in, the house was empty."

"I'm going to ask my family about this," Lin Jingzhong said. "Maybe it's in the academy. Since you come back~www.wuxiaspot.com~ you can always get back the things that were collected from the family-there should be records in the family..."

"You really don't want to go back to the house?" Zhao Hu asked in a low voice, watching Lin Bie turn around to leave.

"Lin Fu wants to come back to live, and he also has to buy land and build a new house at the head of the village. How can he live at the end of the village?" Lin Jingzhong said, thinking that these three dilapidated houses no longer fit Lin Fu's current status as a leader.

"Lin Fu wants to find a half-official position in the county, which is the official master. He should buy a piece of land and build a house in the city," Zhao Hu said, "but this house belongs to Lin Fu!"

Lin Fu ignored Zhao Hu and Lin Jingzhong's guesses, and said to the woman in the bamboo fence, "I won't live in Shanglin Village for a few days, just borrow a house from Zhao Hu. You can ask Uncle Gui Sheng to come to Zhao Hu when he comes back. Come to me at home, I will write a document for you, you can live in this house with peace of mind in the future..."

How could Zhao Hu and Lin Jingzhong guess Lin Fu's mind; Lin Fu thought about going back to Shanglin Village, but just wanted Zhou Pu and Chen Enze to settle in Dongyang Mansion, and then went to Jiangning, not thinking about staying in Shanglin Village for a long time. Live here; besides, after all, he was reviving his soul from a corpse, and he had no nostalgia for the original old house. Seeing the sorrow on the woman's face, it would be better to give the family away than to leave three empty houses for the wind and rain. The family has a place to live and work.

The woman was a little confused. The neighbors who knew that Lin Fu came back and rushed over all said to her, "Aunt Wei, you are not too quick to thank Master Xinjuren, he is going to give the house to you."

"Thank you, Master Xinjuren..." The woman thanked Lin Fu after listening to everyone's words in a daze.

Lin Fu looked at his neighbors. This is the case in this era. This "Master Juren" separated him from the people he used to know. My QT room is open! More vulgar official QT room number [9167] Click to enter