After just two days of playing, Zhu Rui's chief guard came over and muttered to Zhu Rui in the study for a while, and Zhu Rui's face was a little ugly when he came out. hugged Lin Zimo's shoulder: "I'm sorry Zimo, I just came to report from the long road, there was a small-scale civil uprising on the southern coast because of bandits, and the saint asked me to go over and take a look." ”

The military situation was urgent, Lin Zimo comforted him: "It's okay, you hurry up and arrange the road, you don't have to worry about me here, if there is nothing wrong, I plan to go back to Linjia Village, and wait for my father and them to come back together in October." "It takes a few months for Zhu Rui to go back and forth, and everything in the capital is almost arranged, except for Mr. Chen and Liu Langzhong, there are no familiar people here, so it is better to go home for a few months.

Zhu Rui touched his tender little face and nodded: "It's okay, I'll transfer four guards for you, follow the Ouyang family's caravan back, don't go on your own road." "It's okay for Zimo to go back, he is not in Beijing, and he is the only one in the Lin family, with the arrogance of some high-ranking officials and nobles in Beijing, I don't feel at ease when I think about it.

The military situation could not be delayed, but helplessly, he hugged Lin Zimo and kissed him deeply, leaving four guards, and Zhu Rui got on the horse and left. Looking at the cloud of smoke and dust in the distance, Lin Zimo felt that his heart was empty.

The arrangement was very fast, Zhu Rui left, and Lin Zimo also became like an arrow, and it happened that the Ouyang family had a few truckloads of goods to be transported back, so Lin Zimo followed him back to Linjia Village.

It's been more than July, and the road is full of people busy preparing for the autumn harvest. Golden millet, javelin-like corn, red sorghum, ripe crackling beans, and sweet potatoes that have been promoted nationwide this year. Coupled with the good weather this year, these bode well for a good harvest.

More than ten days later, I arrived in Qingshui County. Bidding farewell to the people of the Ouyang caravan, the group returned to Linjia Village. Sitting on the swaying carriage, rubbing the painful buttocks, Lin Zimo smiled bitterly, the car was backward, not only wasted too much time, the road was not smooth, but also suffered too many sins.

Alas! What does that steam engine really look like? He misses trains and planes so much!

This time, Lin Zimo came back and did not notify his family, and when their group approached, the subordinates at the gate found them. Immediately, someone came up to greet him, and someone ran inside and shouted, "The third young master is back." ”

Lin Zimo got out of the carriage, Lin Yu ran in front, and there were old ladies and Zhou supported by maids behind him. It's nothing if he didn't see his relatives, but as soon as he saw these relatives, Lin Zimo felt that his eyes were immediately wet. Every time he went out for an exam before, he followed his brothers and didn't feel anything, but this was the first time he went out alone, and he suddenly felt a little sad.

hurriedly took two steps, picked up his clothes and knelt down: "Grandma, mother, I'm back." The old lady hugged Lin Zimo and wiped the ground with tears: "My son, I have lost a lot of weight, and I am suffering outside, right?" Lin Zimo hurriedly coaxed her: "There is no grandmother, I have gained several pounds." Zhou came over and pulled the two of them up together: "Come in and rest, come on, sue the kitchen to kill chickens and ducks, and wash the dust for my son." "It's a bit imposing.

Lin Zimo smiled "poof": "Mother, you are still quite like that." Zhou slapped him lightly and said with a smile: "Naughty, how can you say such a mother." ”

When he just sat down, Lin Huaide came in, and Lin Zihao, who was following behind, startled Lin Zimo, stood up and said, "Big brother will come back?" Lin Huaide smiled and patted his son's shoulder: "Your eldest brother has just arrived home for two days, and you two brothers are really smart, and they are back with their front and back feet." Lin Zimo stepped forward with a smile and saluted: "Big brother, is the college in the south fun?" Didn't the second brother come back together? Lin Zihao knocked on his head: "I'm here to study, not to play, your second brother will come back a few months later, and then he will go directly to the capital, ready to try next year's exam with me." ”

In the evening, a large family gathered in the living room to sit, talking and laughing, Lin Yu fiddled with a bead fork that the third brother bought for her in her hand, and gave her eldest brother a white look: "The third brother will buy me gifts when he goes out, and the eldest brother and the second brother will never." Lin Zihao blushed, it was indeed so. Lin Zimo hurriedly said: "The eldest brother and the second brother are worried about studying all day long, and your third brother has nothing to do." Lin Yu snorted and stopped talking.

In the past few years, Lin Yu has also studied at home, and the Lin family specially invited a female master and handed her piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, and even female redness, rules, etc., as soon as she went out, she was no different from the aristocratic ladies in the capital. However, Lin Zimo knows that his family still lacks heritage, at least, if Lin Yu is married to a big family, he will not be able to preside over housework.

When he was in Beijing, Lin Zimo said to Zhu Rui that when they entered Beijing, they would send an experienced grandmother to Lin Yu from the palace to teach him this knowledge.

Suddenly, he remembered something and asked Lin Huaide: "Dad, our family will enter Beijing in three months, and it is likely that we will not come back for a while and a half, and do you have any arrangements for the family?" Lin Huaide was inexplicable: "What arrangement?" There is nothing to do with the head of the village in the Zhuangzi, and there is nothing to do with the two workshops? Just settle the accounts regularly. ”

Lin Zimo said with a smile: "It's not those, our family is famous and advantageous now, and my father will immediately enter Beijing as an official, so why do I have to do something for the clan, and my father is also an official, and I can't say it for outsiders." "With fame and fortune, if you don't pull out a dime, it is easy to push your family to the opposite side of the clan, and in this era, you are very particular about family concepts. Don't say that you don't pay for it, you just pay for it, and sometimes there are a few people who don't like you.

In his previous life, Lin Zimo was far away from home, and he had ghosts in his heart, so he went home less. I once heard his uncle's cousins say that their grandfather has a strong family concept, as long as they have the ability, the people in the village will definitely help when they find them, and in that era when materials are in short supply, even if they are lacking, they must meet the people in the village. However, when the grandfather returns to the roots after a hundred years, these juniors go back to the grave every year, although most people are grateful for the kindness of their grandfather, and greet them warmly every time, but there are also some people who hate the rich and have a strict mentality, and the cars driven by the cousins will be secretly scratched a few times, nothing serious, but very annoying.

This is still a little good for those people, it's not that Lin Zimo has the heart of a villain, but thousands of years of experience tell us that the people who pit you the most are often the people you don't pay attention to or don't care.

Lin Huaide suddenly said: "Look at my brain, Zimo has reminded me that I still forget the same thing now." I don't have any regulations in my heart, Zimo, what do you think? Lin Zihao also turned his head to look at his younger brother and listened attentively, he found that he still lacked experience in this area, he had been out for two years, and he thought he understood a lot, but the contacts between people and officialdom were almost the same, and they were still not as clear as the younger brother.

Lin Zimo said: "It's the farm many miles away, and our family has bought a lot of land in the village in the past few years, right?" Lin Huaide said: "I bought less than 400 acres piecemeal, as long as it is not unbearable, everyone will not sell the land." Lin Zimo nodded: "These lands do not include the more than eighty acres of fruit groves." "Not included."

"Well, donate all the less than 400 acres of land to the clan, as the clan field, and produce the rest for the school-age children in the clan to go to school in addition to the annual ancestral hall offerings." After thinking about it, he said: "Let's tell the sù clan again, as long as the two workshops in our family are open, we will give one hundred taels of silver to the clan every year, in addition to repairing the ancestral hall and the road in the village, there is a surplus, and at the end of each year, it can be distributed to the old people in the clan for the year's gift." ”

Lin Zihao clapped his hands: "Okay, in this way, all the people in the clan can be stained, and they must be grateful to the people of our family, which can not only drive the wealth and strength of the clan and become the help of my family, but also enable the people in the village to take care of my family's land and workshop spontaneously, so as not to make people make trouble, so that we are worried thousands of miles away." ”

After the father and son had discussed, the women of the family followed the tradition and did not say much, but listened quietly. Lin Huaide hesitated, and then said: "Your eldest aunt wants to go to Beijing with us, saying that it is for your brother in the lobby." Lin Zihao and Lin Zimo frowned together, and Lin Zimo asked, "Is this the idea of the eldest uncle, or is it the doctrine of the whole family?" What does the lobby sister-in-law say? ”

In the past few years, the business of the uncle's family has been very good, I heard that there have been two shops in the city, and the sister-in-law in the lobby gave birth to a son and a daughter, and it is very effective to speak in his house. Lin Huaide said: "Your cousin and sister-in-law are not in a hurry to follow now, it seems that your cousin-in-law wants to wait for your cousin to see if he is on the test, or if he can't pass the test, what should he do."

As long as you don't mess around, as long as you can do your part, even if Brother Lobby can't pass the exam in a few years, the family will also have a foothold in the capital, and I don't mind helping his family.

The days of living at home are very pleasant, although I miss Zhu Rui a little, but it is in the early days of August, the crops everywhere are gradually ripening, the orchards are full of fruits, strings of golden silk jujubes, biting a bite of sweet teeth, red apples, sweet relishing pears, let Lin Zimo linger.

Sitting in the gazebo, looking at the lotus flowers that have not yet bloomed, the farmers in the surrounding fields are very leisurely. As for the hard-working Lin Zihao, he didn't have this good luck, lying on the desk all day long, looking at the test questions and drawing circles with his eyes.