Zhou Pu said that he still had to trouble Lin Tie if he had something, Gu Yingsleeve glanced at Lin Tie suspiciously, she also wondered in her heart how Lin Tie brought back the life-saving benefactor, could it be that Lin Tie didn't have money to thank him for his life-saving grace in Jiangning, so he brought him back to Dongyang Mansion? Of course, even if Lin Tie returned to Dongyang Mansion, he didn't have any silver, Gu Yingchong thought in his heart to take the pen and silver out, after all, people were a life-saving grace to Lin Tie, and it was appropriate to reward others with a sum of silver.

Lin Jian knew that after Gu Yingsleeve married Lin Tingxun as a concubine, her temperament became strong and spicy, and she did not feel at ease to live in the inner house to enjoy the glory and wealth, and also took over the affairs of the outer house, and she had also established a lot of prestige in the Lin family over the years, and Shiliang County knew more or less the name of the Seventh Lady. Although Lin Lian's identity is different from the past after Lin Lian's promotion, but when Zhou Pu and Chen Enze were naturalized in Shiliang County, Gu Yingsleeve handed over a message in Shiliang County to ask for something more convenient than Lin Lian.

Standing on the street, Lin Lian introduced the cover identities of Zhou Pu and Chen Enze with the words made up in advance: "Seventh Lady, Brother Zhou Pu is a refugee who escaped from northern Hebei, and the family escaped with his nephew Enze." After arriving in Huaibei, Brother Zhou Pu and Enze worked as handymen on the grain ship, drifting, and it was very hard to do handymen on the ship, I got Brother Zhou's life-saving grace this time, and I couldn't repay anything else, so I thought about whether I could help Brother Zhou settle down in Dongyang Mansion or Jiangning Mansion......"

Gu Yingsleeve looked at Zhou Pu carefully, she was no longer the little girl when she first came out of the pavilion, she had more contact with the affairs of the house, and she had a lot of contact with various characters, so she had a bit of eyesight. Chen Enze followed Lin Tie to survive on the island for ten months, wearing coarse cloth clothes, like a child from a poor background, and after all, he was still young, and he couldn't attract much attention from others; Zhou Pu is very different, he is half a head shorter than Lin Lian, but his shoulders are half a palm wider than Lin Lian, Gu Yingsleeve looked at him standing in front of him like a rock, no matter how he looked, he didn't look like an ordinary refugee who fled from northern Hebei.

Gu Yingsleeve knew that it would not be difficult for Lin Lian to guarantee the two outsiders to settle in Shiliang County after he was promoted, but she was worried that the unknown origin of these two foreigners would leave any hidden dangers for Lin Lian's future future, so she hurriedly said: "If Zhou Ye doesn't mind going to the Lin family to be a banker, I can be the main ......" She took the initiative to take care of the matter for Lin Lian's future consideration, and asked Chen Enze kindly, "How old is the little brother this year, you can also go to the clan to study for two years, and you can have more choices in the future." ”

Zhao Hu arched Lin Jingzhong's shoulders and asked him to see the long package that Zhou Pu was carrying diagonally, which obviously contained two sheathed waist knives, but his thoughts were much simpler than Gu Ying's, Zhou Pu had a life-saving grace for Lin Lian, so he didn't care that Zhou Pu's origin was unknown.

Lin Jingxin thought carefully, he listened to the arrangement of the Seventh Lady, and knew that the Seventh Lady had her own arrangement, so he also stood aside and remained silent.

Lin Lian remembered that he was still a cowardly and unworldly nerd in the eyes of his friends and the Seventh Lady, and if Zhou Puruo really wanted to settle in Shiliang County, it would be a good choice for the Lin family to be a banker, but Zhou Pu was responsible for taking over the heavy responsibility, and followed him back to Dongyang just to make up a household and become a naturalized person, and with a reliable identity, he would go to Jiangning to meet the fourth lady Feng Peipei, so that it would be more convenient to act.

"Enze is fifteen years old this year," Lin Lian replied to the words of the Seventh Lady, "Brother Zhou has also been used to wandering in the past two years, and he is not used to doing crop work, and he is only afraid that it is not suitable to be a banker, I want to let Brother Zhou be wronged and be my entourage!" ”

Gu Ying's sleeves narrowed slightly, and she looked at Lin Tie under the early morning sun with a slight surprise, thinking to herself What happened to this kid when he came back, why was it a little different from before? Lin Lian's parents died when he was ten years old, and since then he has been helpless and living independently, after all, his temperament is weaker, he is indecisive in doing things, and he has no commitment, and today he will take things down for him, I didn't expect him to refuse outright.

Gu Yingsleeve was still a little worried, but she didn't think about saying anything more in front of outsiders, she only smiled: "You are a person now, and there should be a few personal envoys around you to take care of you...... Don't be busy talking about these things first, Zhao Hu, Xiao Wu, you send Lin Tie and Zhou Ye back first, and get the house back, the master knows that Lin Tie is back, and he will also care. ”

Gu Yingsleeve took the horse back from Zhao Hu's hand again, and glanced back at Lin Lian, he was thinner than before he went to Jiangning to catch the exam, and his face was tanned, but he had a heroic spirit that he didn't have before, thinking that he had experienced some hardships outside in the past ten months, and he had grown up to be a man, and he could no longer care for him as unscrupulously as before. Reining in the flamboyant posture just now, Gu Yingsleeve turned over on the horse and said to Lin Bin: "Zhao Neng came back and said that you killed the robbers, and the warehouse also sent someone to Baisha County to inquire." Although I want to keep the old mansion for you, I can't break the rules of the clan, your house was occupied by Lin Guisheng's family half a month ago. Since you've come back alive, go straight to the house. I'll go back first, remember to come over and say hello to the master after your affairs are done," and said to Zhao Hu, "You find someone to bring a letter home, I have something to say to your mother......" and spurred the horse away.

Lin Jian watched Gu Yingsleeve ride away, thinking to himself, who could have imagined that she was a delicate girl before she left the cabinet? It's terrible.

Zhao Hu saw Lin Jian staring at the direction in which Gu Yingsleeve was leaving, and asked him with a wicked smile: "Is that fox spirit in Jiangning as beautiful as the Seventh Lady?" ”

"You're not afraid of tearing your mouth for the Seventh Lady to hear?" Lin Jingzhong was respectful and afraid of the Seventh Lady Gu Yingsleeve, and he didn't speak as casually as Zhao Hu.

Lin Lian smiled, knowing that Zhao Neng would not have anything good to say if he came back alive to shirk his responsibility, probably the people in Lin Village knew that they had fascinated Su Mei's beauty, the so-called public mouths were golden, Lin Lian couldn't argue if he wanted to, not to mention that he had been fascinated by Su Mei when he went to Baisha County.

When he came back, he sent Su Mei outside Jiangning City, but Lin Jian didn't follow him into the city, and he didn't know how Su Mei and Xiaoman were doing now? It's only been three or five days apart, and I'm a little missing.

Seriously speaking, when Lin Tie met bandits in Baisha County, Zhao Neng was not responsible at all, after all, Baisha County was also Lin Tie insisted on following, and it was also an accident to encounter robbers. It's not reasonable to say this in these years, when you go out, Lin Jian is the master, Zhao Neng is the servant, the master's family dies in a foreign country, but the servant comes back safely and envy, which is a great sin.

Zhao Hu didn't know what the Seventh Lady was looking for his mother, thinking that it would not be a bad thing, so he found an acquaintance on the street and asked him to bring a message back, and he and Lin Jingzhong accompanied Lin Jian home first.

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The rich and noble households lived at the head of the village, and the poor and lowly households lived 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 village head by the ferry is full of rich and noble families, the most conspicuous nature is the big house of the Lin family, covering an area of nearly 30 acres, and the large courtyard of more than 20 into the blue bricks and gray tiles are stacked on top of each other, row upon row. Although the Lin family is a wealthy family in Dongyang Mansion, but Shanglin Village is prosperous because of the city, the water and land wharf is prosperous, the north and south meet, the township village is in the south of Shanglin Creek, and the five hundred townships Yong provide enough security for the four towns and eight miles, although there is no city wall screen, and there are many merchants who build houses and settle in Shanglin Village, although the big mansion of the Lin family is conspicuous in the buildings behind the ferry, it cannot be regarded as standing out from the crowd.

Zhou Pu got off the boat to see the shop street is just a street in front of the ferry, along Shanglin Creek to the west more than 200 steps, there is a long alley paved with blue bricks to the head of Shanglin Village, both sides of this street are the houses built by rich and noble families, even if it is small, it is also very exquisite. There are houses that are connected to each other, and there are also narrow alleys that separate them.

There are also restaurants and shops in the streets and alleys, and when you walk in, you will really find that the prosperity of this place is really no worse than that of the general county town.

Even if Lin Jian is famous for taking the Xiucai examination, even if he enters the local gentry class, he has no money to buy land and build a house at the head of the village, so he can only live in the old house at the end of the village.

In early autumn, I went to Jiangning to participate in the township test, and now it is the cold season of early winter, and I have been away from Shanglin Village for three months. Lin Tie looked at his yard through the bamboo fence, there were a few weeds swaying in the cold wind of early winter on the eaves, there was not much rain in Shiliang County after autumn, a layer of floating soil was accumulated in the yard, an old plum branch was slanted, and the bare branches were dotted with unbloomed flower bone particles.

"Lin Xiucai is back!" A woman in the courtyard picked up soybeans with a dustpan, watched Lin Tie come over surrounded by Zhao Hu, Lin Jing and others, and walked to the bamboo fence with a bitter face to greet Lin Tie, and didn't say let Lin Tie walk in; Two three or four-year-old boys wore open crotch pants and ran around with bare butts in the cold wind.

Lin Jian knew why the woman had a bitter look on her face when she saw her, and listened to the woman's greeting, and nodded in response: "Aunt Lan is picking up soybeans?" "Since the family was killed by the robbers, and he has no descendants or close relatives to inherit the family property, it is normal for the house to be collected and redistributed to the poor families in the family to live in, but when he comes back alive, no one can stop him from asking for the house back, not to mention that he has now passed the examination.

Although in the upper class society, lifting people is nothing, but ordinary people really dare not occupy the real estate of lifting people.

Four years ago, the seventh lady Gu Yingsleeve made the thatched roof removed, covered with a layer of tiles, and the doors and windows were also repainted with tung oil, which is also a good house at the end of the village.

The woman's family lived happily, only half a month younger, and she was sure that Lin Lian, who had killed the robbers, came back alive by boat, so how could she not be disappointed?

"Aunt Lan, since Lin Jian is back, I want to trouble you to move! Don't worry, when it comes to moving, I'll go to the village to find a few descendants to do, and help you do it before keeping the lunch. Zhao Hu said in his mouth, grabbing the fence door with his hand and going in first.

Lin Jian grabbed Zhao Hu's hand and said, "I remember that your family still has two empty houses, borrow me to live for a while......" turned his head and asked the woman, "When I left, some books were left at home, I don't know if they are still there?" ”

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

The woman pondered that Lin Jian didn't want her family to move away for the time being, and she was not sure in her heart, thinking about why the child's father didn't come back to get an idea, and the joy was about to become empty before half a month, thinking that she wanted to move back to the broken grass house that couldn't block the wind in winter and the rain in summer, the woman was miserable for a while, and when Lin Jian asked where the books in the house were, Ai Ai replied: "I don't know, when we moved in, the house was empty." ”

"I have to go to my family to ask about this," Lin Jingzhong said, "Maybe in the academy, since you come back, the things that have been collected from the clan property will always come back—there should be records in the family......"

"You really don't want to go back to the house?" Seeing Lin Jian turn around to leave, Zhao Hu grabbed his arm and asked in a whisper.

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

"Lin Tie wants to find an official and a half-post in the county, he is an official master, and he should buy a piece of land in the city to build a house," Zhao Hu said, "But this house is still Lin Tie's!" ”

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

How could Zhao Hu and Lin Jingzhong guess Lin Lian's thoughts; Lin Jian thought about going back to Shanglin Village, just wanting Zhou Pu and Chen Enze to settle down in Dongyang Mansion, and then go to Jiangning, without thinking about staying in Shanglin Village for a long time; In addition, after all, he borrowed the corpse to resurrect the soul, and he had no nostalgia for the original old house, looking at the sadness on the woman's face, rather than driving the family out and leaving three empty houses for the wind and rain, it was better to give the family a place to live and work in peace and contentment.

The woman was a little confused, and the neighbors who knew that Lin Jian had come back said to her: "Aunt Wei, you don't want to thank Master Xinjuren, he is going to give the house to your family to live in." ”

"Thank you, Master Xinjuren......" The woman listened to everyone's words in a daze, and thanked Lin Bin.

Lin Jian looked at his neighbors, this era is like this, and this "lifting people" separated him from the people he once knew very far.