Lord of the House

Lin Fu, Zhou Pu and others walked to Zhao Hu's house at the west end of the village.

Zhao Hu is the eldest at home, and there are three younger brothers and sisters below, all of whom have grown up one after another. The old house only has three grass houses with a dormitory and a barn, which is not enough for a family. Fortunately, he has been in the village camp for two years. After saving some money, his family built a new yard next to the old house. The three rooms are all blue-brick buildings, with freshly pasted window paper, and the purlin beams of the doors and windows still smell of tung oil. There is a drying field in front of the room, and in the corner of the yard there is a vegetable border, a chicken and duck house, and a kennel. The local dog raised by Zhao Hu sniffed the smell of strangers, rushed out of the kennel in the corner of the yard, barked at Zhou Pu and Chen Enze, kicked Zhao Hu, and grimaced and pressed his **** against Zhao Hu. feet please.

The whole yard is half an acre in size. Although it can't be compared with those wealthy families in the east of the village, the new yard is quite impressive in the west of the village. When the yard was first built, Lin Fu and Lin Jingzhong also joked with Zhao Hu that they could get a good wife with just this house.

"Brother Huzi is in charge of Hongying, the daughter of old Guo's family in Xialin Village. You go to Jiangning to take the exam, and my aunt will ask someone to say kiss. That's what it means over there, but Brother Huzi drove over to the village camp a month ago. I don't regret it anymore." Lin Jingzhong talked about Zhao Hu's sadness.

Zhao Hu didn't care, and said, "What do you mean I'm in a relationship? It's all my mother's worries, not to mention pulling down. I also think his daughter has pockmarks on her face."

Lin Jingzhong said about this girl, which Lin Fu had seen before. There were a few white pockmarks on her face, but they were not obvious, or she looked more playful. Also a pretty girl.

Knowing that Zhao Hu had a hard mouth, Lin Fu lightly tapped him on the shoulder and said, "Is the girl interested in you? Do you want me to ask Mrs. Seven to help you find the old man Guo's family again?"

Lin Jingzhong also felt that Lin Fu's return this time was a little different from before. In the past, Lin Fu would never take the initiative to take Zhao Hu's affairs to himself. , timid and afraid of things, he is afraid to ask others for his own affairs, how can he take other people's affairs to himself? Just now, Lin Bie refused the kindness of the Seventh Madam to arrange Zhou Pu's uncle and nephew on the street, which would never have happened before. Lin Jing thought in the center: Maybe it was because he was admitted to Juren, Lin Fu also felt that his status was very different from before, and there was no need to be afraid of the head and tail, fear the east and the west when doing things; maybe it was the encounter with the bandits in the past ten months, Let him see the world.

Zhao Hu couldn't think of it so carefully. Hearing that Lin Fu was going to ask the seventh lady to tell him about his marriage, he was a little shy, and said, "What do you do? Settle down first, and find a place to drink." In the new exam, the lifter gave Lin Tie the east wing to live alone, "If you sleep here, you will trouble Big Brother Zhou or the little guy to squeeze the west wing with me," he shouted toward the yard of the old house next door, "Plum, Meizi, you Xiucai brother is back, stay with me temporarily, come and help clean up..."

Lin Fu said that he, Zhou Pu and Chen Enze could squeeze the west wing, how could they occupy the magpie's nest.

Chen Hu insisted: "You will be the master of the people in the future. No matter how familiar we are, we can't break the rules."

Lin Fu sighed slightly in his heart, and he didn't know whether to persevere or not.

Zhao Hu's younger sister Chunmei was a well-behaved girl with dark skin. She looked from the half-height courtyard wall with embroidered cloth in her hand. She saw Lin Bie and the others standing in the courtyard and said happily, "It's true. Brother Xiucai is back! My brother just sent a letter to my mother to see the seventh lady, saying that you are back, but I still don't believe it... You want to live in my house first? You wait, I will come to help you clean up the house."

At this moment, someone outside the courtyard shouted, "Zhao Hu, Zhao Hu, is Lin Xiucai here?"

Lin Fu and Zhao Hu walked to the front of the courtyard wall, and saw a young man in a long green jacket walking from the head of Tian Qi with a deep foot and a shallow foot. He saw Lin Fu and Zhao Hu stick their heads out, far away. He said, "Xiusai, I have found you. Master heard that you came back. Please come over. I chased from the end of the village to the west end of the village. I knew I was going to go this way and led a horse out..."

This young man's name is Gu Changshun, and he is a close confidant of Lin Tingxun, the head of the Lin family.

"You follow Changshun to see the master first," Zhao Hu said. "We will clean up the room, and Big Brother Zhou will also be entertained by us." Lin Jingzhong said, Lin Fu's return alive is a big event for Shanglin Village and the Lin family. No wonder the head of the family hurried over to summon him to meet him when he heard the news.

"Don't tidy up the room. When I came out to report, the master didn't know that Lin Xiucai decided to give the house to Lin Guisheng to live in, but the master said that the scholar has passed the exam and can no longer live in the broken kiln house at the end of the village. Nanxi There is an empty house in Yuanzi, and the master has already sent someone to clean it up," Gu Changshun said, and patted his mouth again, "Look at me, I still call you a scholar, a scholar, if you should be called a master," he said in his mouth. Saying that, he bowed his hands to Zhou Pu again and said, "This is Master Zhou who helped Lin Xiucai? My master also asked Master Zhou to come over and thank him in person. If you have any luggage, please Zhao Hu and Xiao Wu directly. Send Nanxi Yuanzi, Gui Niang is there to help clean up."

Although Lin Jingzhong is also a child of the Lin family, after all, he is a side branch, and he has not been able to get a title. He only works as an accountant in the warehouse. His status in the Lin family cannot be compared with that of Lin Tingxun's cronies. Gu Changshun is also very smooth to call him; Although there is some dissatisfaction, it will not show.

In the past, Lin Fu would have been flattered and overjoyed, and he would immediately get carried away and follow Gu Changshun to the mansion and run to Lin Tingxun to thank him.

In Shiliang County, there are many villagers who do not know Liang Zuoren, the magistrate, but very few do not know Lin Tingxun, the head of the Lin family. In the past two decades, Lin Tingxun has been the unequivocal owner of this land. Every time a new Shiliang County magistrate takes office, the first thing he does is not to ask about people's livelihood, but to send a message to Lin's house to pay his respects. As soon as Lin Fu came back, Lin Tingxun was going to see him and let him move into the house at the head of the village. It was such a great honor to be in Shiliang County, in Shanglin Village, and in the Lin family.

Lin Jingzhong didn't care about the fact that Gu Changshun sent him to fight, and he and Zhao Hu were happy for Lin Fu: "Look, as soon as you come back, something good will come to you - the house in Nanxi Yuanzi is really exquisite and beautiful. The second son took a concubine and planned to place it there. As a result, the woman drove the second young lady out of Shanglin Village, and the house was always empty. I didn’t expect my family to let you live in it—this family will definitely value you more in the future. ."

Lin Fu knew that Nanxi Yuanzi's house was not big, but the garden was very delicate. He had passed by there before, and he had imagined when he could live in such a house without regrets in his life. However, when Lin Tingxun handed over the house to his eyes, Lin Fu didn't feel anything special at all. He calmly looked at Gu Changshun, who was twenty-seven or eight-year-old, with a thin body, but his face was shrewd and respectful. Standing there, no one thought that before he went to Jiangning to take the township exam, Gu Changshun's attitude towards him was no more polite than he was towards Lin Jingzhong.

"Don't be so troublesome, it's good for me to stay at Zhao Hu's house, and Zhao Hu doesn't mind adding three more sets of tableware. You wait for us for a while. After finishing these things, I'll go see the master with you." Lin Bie said lightly.

Gu Changshun, Lin Jingzhong, and Zhao Hu changed their expressions when they heard the words; Zhou Pu smiled and took Chen Enze to pack the package. He couldn't get involved in this kind of thing.

Gu Changshun's face became ugly. He didn't expect Lin Fu to reject the master's kindness, and he didn't know what to say; Lin Jingzhong and Zhao Hu didn't know what medicine Lin Fu took wrong.

In front of Gu Changshun, Lin Jingzhong tried his best to win Lin Fu's eyes, Zhao Hu directly pulled Lin Fu aside and suppressed his voice: "You didn't take the wrong medicine, how can my doghouse be compared to Nanxi Yuanzi? The house? Are you worried that Jingzhong and I will be greedy and uncomfortable, don't worry, we will only be happy for you!"

"I have my own plans to come back this time," Lin Fu comforted Zhao Hu and Lin Jingzhong, not wanting to let Lin Tingxun's cronie Gu Changshun hear anything, so he lowered his voice and said, "I'll take Big Brother Zhou to see the owner first, and I'll come back later and tell you in detail. …”

Zhao Hu and Lin Jingzhong didn't know what Lin Fu had in mind. They never thought that Lin Fu could have any opinion. Seeing Lin Fu's firm attitude, they were very anxious. They took his hand and wanted to go into the house and discuss the matter with him. Make it clear, lest he say the wrong thing when he goes to see the owner of the house, and a good thing turns into a bad thing.

To change other people's impression of yourself is not something that can happen overnight. Zhao Hu and Lin Jingzhong are also kind, and Lin Fu can only helplessly smile and say to Gu Changshun, "Please wait in the yard for a while..." Enter Zhao Hu and Lin Jingzhong first. house.

Entering the room, seeing Zhao Hu and Lin Jingzhong eagerly trying to persuade themselves not to do stupid things, Lin Fu said with a smile, "How could Lin Tingxun be nice to me for no reason? It's just to see that I am a good candidate for the exam, and it has some use, so give me some The benefits, I hope I will honestly be a chess piece in the hands of my family in the future..."

"Do you know how many people are eager to be pawns for the family?" Lin Jingzhong said anxiously, UU reading www. uukanshu.com "Brother Huzi was driven out of the village camp, don't look at Brother Huzi's indifference on his face, and feel somewhat regretful in your heart - isn't the entire village camp a chess piece in the hands of the family? Even if you win, you can go to the county Looking for an official and a half position, but without the relationship of the family to help you move around, even if your quota is reported, you will have to wait until the year of the monkey and the month of the horse before it is your turn? I have been working in the warehouse for the past two years. Yes, I accepted my fate! You said that you are usually soft-hearted, how can you be arrogant when you come back from this trip?" He thought of one thing, his eyes lit up, he grabbed Lin Bing's shoulder excitedly, and asked , "Do you want to enter Yanjing to participate in the examination?"

Although the juren has the qualifications to be an official in the examination, they have to report to the yamen, the Xuanfu envoy, and wait for the vacancy to be filled. After a few years of luck, the actual vacancy is filled, and it is usually only a small official in the local area. The promotion channel for officials who came from Juren is very narrow. To be able to become a seventh-rank magistrate before getting old is already considered a blue smoke on the ancestral grave. There are also many juren who have been mixed for half their lives and can't get into official or half positions, but with fame, they are also a family of gentry in the local area. Not only do they have classmates, but also the contacts who were influential in the officialdom in the same year. Juren themselves have political, cultural and economic connections in this dynasty. Many privileges, with the help of contacts and these privileges, can also be mixed for half a lifetime. However, no matter whether he is an official or not, Juren has to hang out in the local area. It is impossible to fight against the local nobles. Most of them will even take the initiative to shelter the local nobles and collude with each other.

Lin Fu was originally from the Lin family. Even if he had suffered from the cold eyes of his family before, shouldn't everything look forward? Lin Jingzhong has been more pragmatic in the past two years. He knows that even if Lin Fu is successful in the examination, if he wants to gain a foothold in Shiliang County, he still depends on the face of his family, unless Lin Fu is determined to go to Yanjing to participate in the general examination. My QT room is open! More vulgar official QT room number [9167] Click to enter