After having a drink at the restaurant in Shanglindu, Lin Fu and others went to Zhao Hu's house. Lin Fu was just a nerd. Apart from the Lin family and the villagers of Lin Village, he had almost no connections in Shiliang County. Zhou Pu
, Chen Enze needs Lin Jingchang and Zhao Hu to help with the errands for Chen Enze's settlement and naturalization.
Zhao Hu worked as a small leader in the township camp for two years, which opened his eyes. He and Lin Jingchang were not timid mountain villagers who did not know the world. The township camp controlled by the Lin family also often recruited some outsiders to settle down and naturalize.
Zhao Hu knew a thing or two about it. Lin Jingchang failed to get the honors and went to work as a cashier in the Lin family warehouse. He was holding back a lot of energy. Although he was not taken seriously by the family, he spent 120% of his thought and energy in it, gaining knowledge and thoughts.
Much more profound than Zhao Hu, while having a drink in a restaurant, Lin Jingchang told Lin Fu in detail how to settle down and register, who to find, how to send money to the disciples, and so on: "The Chen Shu of the household in the county will do it for me."
We know each other, but Brother Zhou left Northern Hebei and wandered for several years before he remembered that it would be difficult to settle down and become a naturalized citizen. You should probably find Chen Xian Cheng. I will go to the county the day after tomorrow to help you... Zhao Hu has nothing particularly important.
Things, why don't you let Zhao Hu take Xiucai to visit a few key people's homes first?"
Lin Fu, Zhou Pu, Zhao Hu, Lin Jingchang and others returned to Zhao Hu's house from the restaurant. Someone had been waiting for him at Zhao Hu's house for a long time, but it was Lu Dongyang, the magistrate of Shiliang County, and Chen Ling, the county registrar.
Accompanied by a famous government official, he came to visit Zhao Hu's house. The head of Shanglinli was also at Zhao Hu's house.
Although Lin Fu studied at Lin Jiayi School, he passed the scholar examination in the year when Lu Dongyang came to Shiliang County to teach, and he was nominally considered a disciple of Lu Dongyang.
Seeing Lu Dongyang waiting at Zhao Hu's house, Lin Fu bowed and said, "Why is my mentor here?"
"...We are coming to find you," Lu Dongyang looked at Lin Fu intently for a moment, and then mentioned the reason why he and the county registrar Chen Ling came here, "After the robbery in Baisha County, the Xuanfu Envoy was alarmed. The case has not yet been solved.
In the end, we could only get the testimony of Zhao Neng, a servant of the Lin family, and Baisha County. The Xuanfu Commissioner was convinced that you were killed in the robbery. Before noon, we went to Linli and summoned the county office, saying that you would return by boat today. This matter cannot be taken carelessly. County Magistrate Liang
Chief Secretary Chen Ling and I have been specially sent here to verify. Please explain to Mr. Chen one by one what happened to you when you escaped from the robbers. The county needs to report this matter to the Xuanfu Envoy, and I am here to be a witness...
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"Of course, my teacher and Master Chen are not here, so I plan to go to the county to report the matter in detail tomorrow." Lin Fu replied, inviting Lu Dongyang, Chen Ling and others to come in and repeat the carefully crafted lie.
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It is said that Su Mei's influence is far greater than that of him, who has just passed the imperial examination, but the part of the Baisha County robbery involving Su Mei only requires Baisha County to inform the Jiangning Prefecture department. However, the robbery involves a newly elected official.
, it was necessary to alert the Jiangdong Xuanfu Envoy, but it was just an alarm. Now that Lu Dongyang and the county chief secretary personally came to verify Lin Fu's return to Shanglin Village, it was not surprising. After all, the Xuanfu Envoy was alarmed.
If something goes wrong, Shiliang County will not be able to survive.
Perhaps the county was more afraid that the Lin family would introduce an imposter as "Lin Fu", so they asked Lu Dongyang, the county school professor who had met Lin Fu several times, to come and verify it in person.
After Lu Dongyang and the county registrar Chen Ling confirmed that Lin Fu was himself, he was not particularly concerned about Lin Fu's experiences in the past ten months. He made some notes and asked Lin Fu to write down a statement by himself, and signed it.
I hurried back to the county. Regarding Zhou Pu's helping hand to save people, Lu Dongyang and Chen Ling both said that the county would reward them. As for Zhou Pu and Chen Enze's nephew and uncle, they wanted to settle down and naturalize in Shiliang County.
With Lin Fu's guarantee and the person who served as Lin Fu's retinue was from a lowly position, there was no problem.
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I didn't go to the restaurant for dinner at night, so I set up a table of wine, pork cheeks, roast chicken, braised fish and a few vegetables in the main room of Zhao Hu's new house. I bought two jars of wine from the restaurant, which was a bit sour. This dynasty wine, tea and salt
Iron is exclusively owned by the government. The government collects too much alcohol tax, making good wine extremely expensive. It is a luxury for the villagers to drink even bad wine.
Zhao Hu's father is an honest man who can't be beaten with a stick. He only knows how to do farm work. He didn't say a few words at the wine table. He just pinched the edge of the wine bowl with his fingers and pursed his lips, reluctant to swallow.
There were guests, and Zhao Hu and his three younger brothers and sisters were not qualified to sit at the table, so they all rushed to the old house to eat. All the meat was served to Lin Fu, and they could only choose a few vegetables to eat.
Half a bowl of meat and half a chicken were torn and sent to them. It was really sad to see them eagerly devouring it.
Zhao Hu's mother has been working as a maid in the big house for these years, helping the Seventh Lady with things. She has seen a lot of the world, and she is more like the head of the family in the Zhao family. Zhao Hu's mother makes the decision on everything in the Zhao family. According to the rules
, there was a banquet at home, and women and children were not allowed to attend. Zhao was also a womanly family who abided by the rules. She stood at the wine table and chased after him and mentioned that Zhao Hu was serving as Lin Fu's bodyguard. In her opinion, this was
Don't give up a good opportunity easily.
"This is the matter. I will go to Jiangning and will not stay in Dongyang..." Lin Fu said, knowing that Zhao Hu should have discussed with his family about being a guard for such a long time, thinking that he should be in the way.
Face was unwilling to ask for help from him, but even so, Lin Fu still wanted to plan their thoughts.
"..." Zhao was stunned. She didn't ask Lin Fu what he was doing if he didn't stay in Dongyang and go to Jiangning. After hesitating for a while, she couldn't decide whether to let Zhao Hu follow him to Jiangning. This was different from what she had originally thought.
no the same.
At this moment, the dogs in the yard began to bark, and a woman's voice was faintly heard shouting from the other side of the old house: "Is nephew Zhao Hu here? Is the scholar here?"
Lin Fu didn't know who was coming to him. After a while, he heard Zhao Hu and his sister Mei Zi calling to the visitor at the old house: "It turns out to be Aunt Lan and Uncle Guisheng. You are here to see my brother and Xiu Cai."
What are you doing? They are in the yard next door, I will take you there."
The local dog in the yard barked non-stop, got kicked by someone unknown, let out a mournful cry, and followed the visitor into the main room with a whimper.
Lin Fu saw that it was Lin Guisheng and his wife who had occupied his old house. Lin Guisheng had a gauze (a long bag with an opening in the middle and two sides for carrying things) put on his shoulders. The gauze chain looked bulging and heavy, and he didn't know what it contained.
Lin Fu pulled the stool out and asked Lin Guisheng to sit down: "Uncle Guisheng, come sit down and have a bowl of wine first. I will write a document to you later. Zhao Hu and Xiao Wu will both come as witnesses.
You can feel free to live in the old house from now on..."
Lin Guisheng had not eaten meat for half a year. When he saw that there was still half a bowl of meat on the table, his eyes were glowing green. He was originally a timid person, but he moved forward involuntarily and was pulled hard by his wife from behind.
Then, he stopped his feet as if he had woken up, and smiled sarcastically: "You're welcome, scholar, you are now the master of the people's education, how can I have the right to sit next to you? There are no rules at all..." He held the heavy robe on his shoulders in his hands.
He was about to hand it forward, and said cautiously, "I don't know how much the old house is worth, so I just collected these for the time being. Xiucai, please give me an accurate estimate. I will send it to you in two days when I have enough money. I hope you can
Can you tolerate my family for two days..."
"..." Lin Fu was stunned for a moment, thinking that he should have made his words clear in the morning, and said with a smile, "I have been eating at Uncle Guisheng's house since I was a child. Uncle Guisheng, are you kidding me?"
"How dare I joke with you, scholar? I knocked on the doors of seventeen or eighty houses today, and that's really all I borrowed. If I hid even one copper, I wouldn't be a human being. Can you tell me the exact number, how much is missing? I'll definitely do it in two days
I'll give you the money to make up for it; otherwise, will you take back the old house?" Lin Guisheng almost begged with a sad face, and the wrinkles on his face looked like the roots of an old elm tree.
Lin Fu suddenly felt that something was blocking his heart, and his heart felt extremely heavy. He stood up and took the money bag from Lin Guisheng's hand. It was very heavy and weighed almost a hundred kilograms.
Silver is rarely used in the countryside, and only copper is used. The government stipulates that one thousand penny can be exchanged for one tael of silver. In fact, silver is expensive and copper is cheap. One tael of silver can usually be exchanged for 1,200 to 1,400 taels.
This money bag contains hundreds of kilograms of copper coins, which is only seven or eight taels of silver. But for the Lin Guisheng family, which was originally a poor family, it is a huge fortune. It is hard to imagine how many good things he said that day.
, just borrowed the money.
Normally, the three old houses at the end of the village plus the land were not worth seven or eight taels of silver, but Lin Guisheng stood there cautiously and did not dare to finish his words; they couldn't believe that Lin Fu wanted to give up the house for nothing.
Let them give it to them. They even thought that they had offended Lin Fu by occupying the old house at the end of the village, so they let Lin Fu say such things.
Lin Fu put the bulging money bag on the corner of the table. He knew that giving the old house to Lin Guisheng's family for nothing might not allow them to live in it with peace of mind. He took out the thin hemp rope from the money bag.
He brought two slings of copper coins strung together and said to Lin Jingchang: "Xiaowu, please go and get some paper and pen. Please also ask two clan elders to come over and be witnesses. I am willing to transfer the old house at the end of the village for two thousand yuan."
I made a death pact to Lin Guisheng and his family that I will never break..."
"Okay!" Lin Jingchang stood up and left. Zhao Hu's house didn't have paper, pen, and inkstone, so he had to go home to get it.
"What should we do, what should we do..." Lin Guisheng and his wife saw that Lin Fu said it clearly and neatly, and asked Jingchang to ask the clan elders to testify, and then they believed it was true. They knew that the old house at the end of the village was far away for two ounces of money.
More than that, I wanted to let Lin Fu earn all these coppers, but most of these coppers were borrowed and may not be repaid in ten years. I was so agitated inside and didn't know how to express it in words that I couldn't mutter a complete sentence.
Come, with tears in your eyes.
Zhao Hu brought a bowl and poured a bowl of wine for Lin Guisheng. After waiting for a while, Lin Jingchang got paper, pen and inkstone and invited two respected clan elders to testify. The two clan elders heard Lin Jingchang explain the reason on the road. As soon as they entered the house
When he came, he praised Lin Fu for being kind and not forgetting his roots, and said to Lin Guisheng and his wife: "That house is a lucky house. After a scholar came out, he became a master. Needless to say, there were people rushing to buy it for two ounces of money, or even twenty ounces of money. It's so kind to the judges."
, you should keep this in mind..." Lin Fu immediately wrote the deed to sell the house and the land, asked the elders of the clan to sign it as witnesses, and asked Lin Guisheng and his wife to take the deed and the extra copper coins away.
Interrupted by this matter, it was almost midnight when Lin Guisheng, his wife and the clan elders were sent off, and Zhao Hu's sister Meizi had packed up the leftovers. Lin Fu wanted to go to bed after Zhao Hu's parents went to the old house.
Zhao Hu's mother seemed to have made a big decision. Before leaving, she said: "If you go to Jiangning, Zhao Hu will naturally go to Jiangning with you----" That means that no matter where Lin Fu goes, she has made up her mind.