Su Mei's resignation is good, it is a big event in Jiangning City, and the news came out in the afternoon and soon spread throughout Jiangning City.

The news was very sudden, but the vassal building quickly confirmed the correctness of the news, Su Mei held a thank-you banquet in the Hekou Fanjia restaurant, and several people invited were all talented and beautiful people in Jiangning City. Hearing the news, there were thousands of people who rushed to the estuary to see the excitement, and everyone was curious: Who did this Qinglian pick up for nearly ten years after becoming famous in Jiangning?

Gu Junxun just prepared a congratulatory gift and asked people to send it. Xiaoman changed into a Confucian shirt, but he looked like a handsome little guy, followed behind Lin Tie, and walked into the Fanjia Restaurant.

Seeing the old man inside, Xiao Man's nondescript salute made everyone in the restaurant look sideways.

In addition to Zeng Lao Guogong, Zhao Shuhan, Chen Mingzhe, Yu Bijiang and others have different political views, different factions, and different career prospects, but they are undoubtedly representatives of Jiangning talents, and even Yuan Jinqiu, the second son of Yongchang Hou, and Yuan Jinsheng, the second son of Yongchang Hou, were also invited.

Although Wang Chao and Fan Zhimei have the name of sons in Jiangning, their behavior is no different from that of local ruffians, but they are not qualified to be invited.

Yu Bijiang was very dissatisfied with Lin Tie in his heart, but he also knew that Wu Dang had to rely on Huaidong at this time, and when he saw Lin Tie coming into the building, he greeted Chen Mingzhen and others according to the number of courtesies. Yuan Jinqiu smiled, walked over, grabbed Lin Lian's shoulder, and said with a smile: "You are hot today, it is difficult for friends in the past to see you ascend to the sky, you can accompany me to drink this wine tonight!" ”

"Brother Jinqiu is joking, how can I drink well with you?" Lin Jian said with a smile, please Mu Guogong in front, and invite Chen Mingzhe, Yu Bijiang, Zhao Shuhan and others to go upstairs together.

When I went upstairs, I saw the female guests invited by Su Mei to the banquet, Chen Qingqing and others, all of whom were Jiangning ladies with Su Mei's name, and all of them were gorgeous and beautiful people who were chosen for a while.

Some people are still in Lejia, such as Chen Qingqing, Zheng Fanrong, and Jiang Miaohua, who were originally called Jiangning Siyan along with Su Mei, while Xu Zhaopei and others have left their nationality and come to celebrate.

Speaking of Xu Zhaopei, she was also a singer who moved Jiangning, and it was not someone else who ransomed her life, it was Liu Yefei, a political enemy who Lin Tie had formed in Shandong. After Liu Yefei stripped him of his official position, he went to Jiangning City to be a public servant, and his savings were also thick, and he took Xu Zhaopei into the house, and he was also happy in Jiangning for the past two years; However, the timing of his comeback should also be soon.

Jiangning Fengyue is like a big dye vat, and it is also a social field, Lin Jian has lived in Jiangning for more than a year, and he is actually separated from Jiangning Fengyue, as if he is seeing flowers in the fog, and he can't see it thoroughly.

Chen Qingqing and others all came over to greet Mu Guogong Zeng Mingxin, Lin Jian and others, and this is naturally a return gift from a humble gentleman, in the spacious house, men and women sit at separate tables.

Su Mei walked over with light makeup, bowed, and said, "Thank you for your faces, and for attending Su Mei's thanksgiving banquet." In the past, Su Mei had something to be contemptuous, and please forgive the little woman's willfulness......"

"If you leave, sister, I can only take pity on myself!" Chen Qingqing said, "I'm afraid that my body and heart will rot in the wind and moon of Jiangning, and I can't find a good family to marry ......."

Su Mei was twenty-three years old at the time, and in the future generations, she was at the age of her prime, but by the age of twenty-three, she had not yet left her nationality and married a famous lady, and there were only a few people such as Chen Qingqing, like Zheng Fanrong and Jiang Miaohua, who were only seventeen or eighteen years old, and they were considered rising stars.

No wonder Chen Qingqing has Gu Ying's sigh of self-pity.

Chen Qingqing is slightly older than Su Mei, but she is only twenty-four years old, who would have thought that she had gone through so many ups and downs?

"It's said that we got out of the country today, and we have arrived, but I don't know which official is setting up this thank-you banquet for Sister Su Mei!" Liu Yefei's concubine Xu Zhaopei called out in a soft voice, and her voice sounded soft in her bones.

Speaking of who will be the flower after Su Mei leaves the country, it is what everyone inside and outside the Yashe is eager to know, and many people directly turn their eyes to Lin Lian.

Su Mei said softly: "Su Mei is an orphan girl, she can parasitize in the world, and she has inherited the virtue of being born in heaven, how dare she expect anything else?" Today, in front of everyone, it is necessary to know your mind, it is rare to be free, and in this life, there are green lanterns, books and guqin to accompany you, it is enough, and you don't want to marry another woman, and then suffer from what fetters! ”

As soon as Su Mei's words came out, everyone was taken aback. Xiao Man grabbed Lin Tie's arm even more incomprehensibly, not knowing why his sister said such a thing in public.

Lin Jian sighed in her heart, Su Mei is a very assertive person, and if she didn't discuss this matter with him, she had already made up her mind.

Mu Guogong also shook his head and sighed bitterly, and said, "You kid, you are very stubborn! ”

Yasheri's words soon spread, and someone shouted loudly: "Su Mei got rid of his nationality and became free, and he is determined not to marry in this life!" "The people inside and outside the restaurant who watched the excitement seemed to be ignited, and it seemed to be boiling water, but they didn't expect to wait for this news.

finally left the banquet next to the people, and the excitement inside and outside the restaurant gradually stopped; Zeng Lao Guogong seemed to understand, and did not stay to ask Su Mei why he expressed his intention not to marry before the banquet, but left first after the banquet.

Xiaoman asked impatiently: "Sister, the first two days were fine, why did you say such ruthless words today?" ”

"Silly girl, where is my heart, you and Xianggong don't know, why bother with this title?" Su Mei took Xiaoman's hand, looked at Lin Lian, and said, "This is the end of the front today, and I will go to Chongzhou with you to settle down." In troubled times, everyone should be self-reliant, work hard, and accept a singer as a concubine, Yu Xianggong's reputation will be greatly harmed, so don't think I will be wronged! ”

Xiaoman knew that his sister was planning to do so, and he directly called Lin Jian to the public, and he was melancholy, but when he thought that he could live together in the future, it was not so difficult to accept.

"Alas!" Lin Jian sighed lightly, took Su Mei's delicate hand, and said, "I have spent most of my time on Prison Island in Jiangning, and I am afraid that the sky will change when I don't leave Jiangning." When I come to Jiangning again, I'm afraid that Prison Island will become a big blur, so you accompany me to Prison Island at night! ”

"Well, Xianggong and my sister go first!" Su Mei said shyly.

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Lin Jian and Xiao Man left the Fanjia Restaurant first and waited on the boat, and Su Mei came later, crossing the river on a moonlit night to Prison Island.

Prison Island is the original foothold of Lin Bin, but also the initial test field of Lin Bin, whether it is Jiyun Wuwei or Prison Island Workshop, all provide an experimental model for Huaidong Foundation, Lin Tie to Chongzhou, there are many detours.

Su Mei has been going closer to see Lin Lian's hard work, but he has been confined to his identity and has not been able to land on Prison Island, but tonight he got his wish.

After the Jinchuan Prison was abolished and another prison city was set up in Chongzhou, the Lin people and the Dongyang Township Party partnered to buy all the land on the prison island.

Due to the geographical location of Prison Island is very important to the estuary, the Lin Clan relieved themselves and took down the entire Prison Island. Today, the Lin family has built a large-scale stack on Prison Island, storing more than 200,000 stones of grain, cultivating more than 2,000 acres of vegetable gardens, and the camp in Dongtan has also been preserved.

The cavalry that followed Lin Lian to the west, except for two outposts stationed on the west bank of the Jinchuan River, were stationed on the island, and the Jinhai and the two escort Jiyun-class warships were also stationed on the Dongtan Wharf on Prison Island.

The moon is slow, the river breeze is blowing, but I don't feel the summer night is hot.

Halfway through, Lin Mengde, Lin Xulu, and Sun Wenbing came to the island, but it was Lin Xuhong who rushed back from Jinhai and asked Lin Jian to say goodbye, and Su Mei and Xiaoman left first.

Huaidong's running a money village is a big deal for the Lin people. After receiving Lin Bin's letter, the eldest prince Lin Xuwen specially asked Lin Xuhong to go to Jiangning on his behalf.

The land in Shanglin is the most important asset of the Lin family, and the Lin family has never thought of selling the land for cash in the most difficult time.

In troubled times, land is the most valuable and the least valuable.

The scourge of war broke out everywhere, and countless people left their homes wherever the war was involved, and large areas of land were abandoned and left uncultivated.

It was very easy for Lin Xuwen to secretly encroach on land in Hejian Mansion, and in just two or three years, nearly 1,000 hectares of grain fields were quietly transferred to his name. Zhou, Sun and other clans all sold land in Hejian Mansion on a large scale to realize and transferred to Chongzhou, which made the price of land in Jinhai plummet, which was really cheap.

At the same time, the price of land in Jiangning and other places is every inch of land.

Even if Lin Xuwen does not have the determination to cut most of his own land rent, he will not be flexible to grasp the field in his hands.

Huaidong runs a money bank, and the Lin family can't help but support it.

Lin Xuwen's meaning, he took 50,000 taels of silver in Jinhai, Lin Tingli and Lin Xulu took 50,000 taels of silver in this house, and Jiangning Lin Ji Warehouse took 50,000 taels of silver for Benzong, a total of 150,000 taels of silver were first invested in the money village as the principal.

Then he took out one-third of the Lin family's grain field in Shanglin and sold it, and put the silver into the money village as the capital contribution of the sect.

The Lin family is now also a big business, although Lin Tingli has set the son of the sixth lady to inherit the family business, but he can't really let all the family business be inherited by a half-old boy, and it is a matter of time before the house is divided.

Divide the house and property in advance, and everyone can continue to work together and support each other, and not make trouble about the family property.

Speaking of which, Lin Xuxi's representative of the sect has the least share, one-third of the land in the forest is taken out, and there are almost 1450,000 taels of silver, plus Lin Ji Warehouse takes out another 100,000 taels of silver this time, and the sect can get a total of about 200,000 taels of silver, in addition, it is the matter of Lin Xuwen and Lin Tingli two rooms.

Compared with the huge family business of the Lin clan at this time, 200,000 taels of silver can only be regarded as a small share, but this is also in line with the rules.

When the Lin family withdrew from Shanglinli, they were almost wiped out and bankrupt, and no matter how big the family business was, it was also saved by the efforts of Lin Lian, Lin Tingli, and Lin Xuwen. Lin Jian has long been independent, and what he earned is the foundation of Huaidong, so naturally he can't be cheeky and get a piece of the Lin family's property, but Lin Tingli and Lin Xuwen can't take up all the part of their efforts to this sect.

Lin Xuwen and Lin Tingli are both strong and powerful, if it weren't for the fact that the sect represented by Lin Xuxi was taken care of by Lin in Chongzhou, and they couldn't share a penny of silver, that would be the most common state of the world.

Listening to Lin Xuhong convey the meaning of the eldest son Lin Xuwen, Lin Jian said: "Several ladies have said that the eldest brother and the second uncle will have an idea, if the second uncle listens to the seventh brother's message tomorrow and has no opinion, then the matter will be settled!" ”

"Huaidong runs a money bank, my father will not support it, these two days are waiting for the eldest brother to come from Jinhai." Lin Xulu said that his family got the most share in such a division of houses and property, how could his father disagree? However, he still said that he was supporting Huaidong to run a money bank, "Shanglin is in a hurry to sell fields, you can take the silver to the money village first, and everything must be Huaidong first." ”

Lin Xulu is Lin Tingli's eldest son, so he can naturally be the master, Lin Jian said: "That's okay, let's settle it like this." ”

The advantage that Huaidong got was that Qian Zhuang could get the principal of 300,000 taels of silver from the Lin clan, which was stronger than anything else. In this way, the Dongyang Township Party, together with Chongzhou and the maritime merchants who moved south, Huaidong Qianzhuang has raised more than two million taels of silver so far.