Lord of the House

Gu Yingxiu stared at Lin Bing in amazement. He didn't expect that he could accurately guess what Lin Tingxun was working on. He asked slightly surprised: "Ah, this is what you want to understand yourself?" Then he said, "You The kid has never been stupid, but he has a weaker temper. If he is chased by a local dog, he will cry in horror, but I didn't think about lying to you - I don't think it's bad for you?"

Lin Bie thought to himself that he was so useless before? Why don't you remember this? At this time, it was not the time to investigate whether the dog was chasing and biting to make me cry. He said, "The owner gave me a beautiful house and arranged for my marriage. I think even if I were to be the inspection, I would probably have to be the owner. Come to arrange the personnel in the inspection department - speaking, the owner only needs me to occupy this seat, to be this puppet, so that Shanglindu and Xiangying can be firmly controlled in the hands of the Lin family. Maybe some people think that even when There's nothing wrong with a chess piece," Lin Fu said here, calmed down a bit, looked at Gu Ying's snow-white and tender jade face, and looked at her deep and clear eyes with stars in the night sky. Said, "It's just, I don't want to be someone else's pawn!"

"Ah..." Gu Yingxiu looked suspiciously at Lin Bie, who had become a little darker and thinner but more heroic after returning from this trip. It was hard to imagine that these words came out of his mouth. I really feel that Lin Fu's return this time is very different from the past. Although she always believed that it was her responsibility to take care of Lin Fu, she couldn't find anything to persuade him to change his mind, and felt that Lin Fu's words were right. She is full of arrogance and has some manly spirit, but she has lived a life of intrigue in the Lin family these years, and she knows what the reality is, and said softly, "I'm really happy for you that you have such ambition, but you don't need it either. Reject in person, leaving no room for maneuver."

"One step is soft and every step is soft. The master uses me as a chess piece. As long as I fall in, do I still have the qualifications to turn around with the master?" Lin Bie said.

"It's good to say that, but you are in Dongyang!" Gu Yingxiu said, she knew the power of the Lin family in Dongyang Mansion, and Lin Fuben was a child of the Lin family. Years, waiting for Lin Tingxun to die.

"I'll go to Jiangning when things are over here," Lin Fu said.

"Ah," Gu Yingxiu was stunned for a moment, a thought suddenly flashed in his mind, her face flushed red, she blurted out and reprimanded, "You still don't change, what's so good about that fox spirit, you still have to do it for you She's going to Jiangning?" Before he finished speaking, he felt that it was inappropriate to say that, as if he was arguing with the singing prostitute in Jiangning. Although it was a little rude, Gu Yingxiu still felt very angry, and her deep and charming eyes stared fiercely at Lin Fu.

Lin Fie touched his nose and couldn't tell Gu Yingxiu about Liuma Kou and Chongzhou teenagers. Su Mei's matter made him difficult to explain, so he didn't say anything, and it became cold now.

Gu Yingxiu's voice was a little louder, Zhao Hu, Lin Jingchang and Zhao Hu's mother looked at him from a distance without knowing it. Zhou Pu thought to himself: This beautiful girl really cares about Lin Fu, and now she is eating Miss Su's jealousy.

At this moment, the second son, Lin Xuzong and Zhao Neng, came from the far side of the corridor, their eyes fixed on this side, and halfway through, they folded into a courtyard.

"Well..." Gu Yingxiu saw that Lin Bie didn't speak, and she couldn't stand still with him in front of the doorman like a vindictive little girl, it was too indecent, she just said softly, "I will go back to Huyan in two days. , you should go to Huyan when you have time..."

Huyan is Gu Yingxiu's hometown, more than ten miles away from Shanglin.

"Yeah." Lin Fie responded. It is a taboo for men and women to meet privately. He knows that Gu Yingxiu's private appointment is not because of the love between men and women. He just cares about him and wants to persuade him to change his mind. The pungent and bold surprise, in the past, even if he would have joy in his heart, most of them would not dare to go to the appointment.

Gu Yingxiu and the maid Cui'er turned and walked towards the inner house. Lin Fu, Zhou Pu, Zhao Hu and others, as well as Zhao Hu's mother, left the Lin family mansion. They didn't notice that the door to the courtyard where the second son, Lin Xuzong had just entered, opened a crack. Without closing it, a pair of eyes hid outside the door and stared outside.

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Hearing the slight sound of the skirt brushing across the blue brick corridor, Lin Xuzong stood behind the door with his hands behind his back. His slender eyes narrowed slightly, as if imagining Gu Yingxiu's slender posture walking towards the depths of the house.

"Second son..." Zhao Neng lowered his eyebrows and lowered his hands to stand aside, but secretly looked at the second son's expression, he could only rely on the second son in the Lin family.

"It's different from before..." Lin Xuzong frowned.

"The return of the soft-footed shrimp is very different from the past." Zhao Neng said following the second son's tone.

"I mean my dad."

"What happened to the master? The soft-footed shrimp took the wrong medicine and don't want that house... I have been with the master for several years, but I have never seen the master eat such a closed door."

"If it's really a useless soft-footed shrimp, my father will only try to win over him once. Anyway, he won't be able to escape from his palm in the future. Think about it, what if that **** was deliberately instigating behind this closed door?"

"..." Zhao Neng was slightly startled, and then said, "Nothing can escape the eyes of Second Young Master. I said, why is this soft-footed shrimp so different from the past!"

Lin Xuzong frowned even deeper.

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Lin Fu and others left the Lin family mansion. On the way, Zhao Hu couldn't forget the matter that the seventh lady asked him to find his mother in the early morning: "What is the seventh lady looking for you, you haven't said it yet?"

"Just because you're impatient, how many steps are there from home?" Zhao Hu his mother complained, "I still need to ask Xiucai if this can be done."

"What's the matter with me?" Lin Fu asked, "What does the seventh lady want Aunt Zhao to tell me, why didn't you tell me just now?"

"The Seventh Madam said that if you succeeded in the examination of Xiucai, you will become a master in the future. You can't help people around you. Although Huzi has a rougher temperament, Xiucai knows that he has a serious mind and is quick to run things. Do you think..."

"How did this happen?" Lin Fu heard what Zhao Hu's mother meant, and quickly shied away, "I treat Zhao Hu as my elder brother, how can I spoil Zhao Hu like this?"

"Then you don't look down on Huzi?" Zhao Hu his mother asked rhetorically.

Lin Fu was blocking Zhao Hu's mother's words. He didn't expect that the seventh lady would think so carefully for him. If he changed to the previous one, he only wanted to be rich in a lifetime, and most likely he would agree. After all, Zhao Hu lost his anger for him. Village errands. In this society, there is a difference between the noble and the low, and there is not much concept of personal equality. Although he and Zhao Hu are good friends, it is not difficult to accept the relationship between master and servant. Even Zhao Hu himself will not feel much wronged.

Zhao Hu didn't expect that the seventh lady was talking to his mother about this. He was a little hasty, and he was not mentally prepared, his mind was complicated, and he didn't know what to say.

Lin Fu patiently persuaded Zhao Hu's mother: "Auntie, what are you talking about? You also know that I just made the owner of the family unhappy because of the incident in the Nanxi Yuan mansion. It may not be good for Zhao Hu to follow me - in fact, I was just looking for an opportunity to ask the seventh lady to help Zhao Hu with a word and let Zhao Hu return to his hometown camp..."

"How big can a mansion in Nanxi Yuan be? Master Lin can't take away your fame, right?" Zhao Hu's mother is quite an assertive woman, she said, "It's good that Zhao Hu can go back to his hometown camp. , but there is always no one to support him in the village camp, and his temperament is rough. If he says something wrong or does something wrong, why don't he just kick it out with a word to the master above? Auntie, I am in Xiucai today. Say something to the old man in front of you, watching you grow up, knowing that your heart is also heavy, and now that you have fame and fame, the tiger will follow you, and the future is better than returning to the hometown camp. Do you mean that you have already promised others? "

"This is not..." Lin Fudu felt that he was a little powerless to speak, and he couldn't find a good excuse to refuse Zhao Hu's mother's request.

Lin Jingwen said next to him, "I think this is not bad. If you go to Yanjing to take the exam, you can't have no one to take care of you. If I couldn't just resign from the warehouse account, I would have the cheek to ask you to accept me as my attendant." Lin Jingwen still thinks that Lin Fu has the backbone in front of the family owner because he made up his mind to go to Yanjing to participate in the meeting and try to gain more fame.

Lin Fu was a leader in the examination, and once he became famous, even if he didn't take the jinshi examination, he didn't take part in an official or half-ranking job. According to the example of this dynasty, he could accept four retinues as domestic slaves just like officials and hereditary honorable families. This is not to say that officials of this dynasty cannot raise more slaves. When Zhu Guochang, the former envoy of Jiangdong Xuanfu, left his post, nearly 3,000 family members and family members left Jiangning with great beauty, but the legal number of slaves was only four. According to the regulations, these four people can be exempted from the Ding tax, corvée, and various extras except for the land tax (only to be exempted from the Ding tax and corvée when they are admitted to scholars).

Zhao Hu's mother is looking at these four legal quotas. At first glance, it is not a big deal to exempt the juren or officials or the slaves of the hereditary honorable family from the Ding tax and corvée. The key is to exempt all kinds of land taxes. Extra party.

Dongyang Mansion is located in a fertile area, with few droughts and floods, summer rice and autumn wheat. One mu of ripe field can usually produce three stones of rice and wheat throughout the year, and a family can have 20 mu of land. Even if he paid full tax, exemption money, and farm fees, he could live a fairly prosperous life in his childhood, but the various additions from the government, the exploitation of tax collectors, and the various apportionments in the village were enough for such a self-cultivation family to live in embarrassment. If it is not good to catch up with Niancheng, or if there is a lawsuit, or a bandit, it may be kicked to the brink of bankruptcy at any time.

In this way, you can probably see the benefits of being a slave to the master. Although only one person can be exempted from the tax and corvée, it can help the family avoid all kinds of extras attached to the property, not to mention worrying about being punished. Exploitation and harassment by tax collectors. If you encounter the benefits of rent reduction and donation reduction from the government, you can naturally enjoy it first. If you encounter a lawsuit, you also have a basis.

This is still the case that Master Lin Fu did not do well. If Lin Fu did well and got a half-official position in the county, then his entourage would naturally have more benefits.

Lin Fu sighed in his heart, thinking about the behavior of those in the future who are scrambling to be the secretary and the driver of the leader, how much difference is there between UU reading www.uukanshu.com and now?

The only downside is that they are servants. Like servants, they are all low-ranking members, but the difference between the good and the lowly of ordinary villagers struggling on the line of food and clothing is not very important. The servants around Lin Tingxun are also family slaves, but how many people in Shanglin Village can look down on them? It doesn't matter if Zhao Hu is a retinue and gets a low-ranking membership, it can bring a lot of benefits to his family, but Lin Jingchang won't be willing. Although he failed to get a name several times, he may not be dead. Going to fight for fame, but there are no restrictions on joining the army or even serving as a low-ranking officer.

Lin Bie said that he would not accept Zhao Hu as a squire because he was afraid of wronging him and hurting his brotherhood. In fact, he didn't want to drag Zhao Hu into more dangerous things, whether it was a rogue bandit, a Chongzhou teenager, or a The affair between Su Mei and Jin An's extravagant family is not a danger that ordinary people can bear, but in Zhao Hu's mother's view, Lin Fu refuses to accept his son as a slave, which is what really hurts the brotherhood.

It doesn't matter to Zhao Hu, if Lin Fu agreed, he would still feel that it would be difficult for him to save face.

Lin Fu could only spread his hands and say go back to discuss this matter, Zhao Hu looked up at the sun, and was confused by these things, it was almost noon, and said, "It's too late to go back to cook, let's go to the ferry, the first day of the talent When I come back, I should also set up a dust-cleaning feast..."

Zhao Hu's mother didn't ask anything, and went back first. She was a woman, so it was inconvenient to follow him to the restaurant on the street; Lin Fu, Zhao Hu, Lin Jingchang, Zhou Pu, Chen Size and others walked towards the ferry.

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