Early the next morning, Xue Pingchuan moved away from the county seat of Jinnan with more than 30 people.

It's been a busy day.

Early in the morning, Lord Wu sent someone to invite, and in the morning Ying Qingyuan and Ying Yun went to the yamen again.

Ying Ze, Lang Wenqi and Ensheng accompanied Rong'er to collect the property of the Xue family's compensation. Si Sheng brought eight people with him yesterday afternoon. Rong'er put all five people into the pawn shop, gold shop, grain store, antique shop and a porcelain shop that the Xue family lost, and the other three took over other properties.

All the shops run by the Xue family have been replaced with new signboards. The mansion in the south of the city and the two exquisite mansions in the back were withdrawn.

Finally, he went to the south of the city to receive Nanxizhuang and inspected the fields and other courtyards.

The matter of the Xue family has been spread all over the city of Jinnan County, and the original head of Mengzhuang saw that the new master was coming, and took all the villagers to greet him respectfully.

The land rent of the Xue family is divided into 28 cents, and the ground rent is responsible for each other. Lang Wenqi announced the rules of Anping Mansion, and after paying the rent, it was divided into three or seven shares, which was much better than the original conditions. The villagers were joyful and submitted to Anping Mansion.

"In the morning, the people of the Xue family took away all the people in the courtyard and handed me the key to the courtyard."

Mengzhuang was forty years old, dark-skinned, and had a very cheerful personality, and he took his wife and son to Nanxi Ridge to see the courtyard.

Along the way, it is a neat and smooth bluestone carriage road, the shade of trees along the road is beautiful, the birds are singing and the flowers are fragrant, Lang Wenqi can't help but compare: "The scenery of Qiaoyunju is good." The geography of this Nanxi Ridge is not as high as Qiaoyun, but the back is a mountain, the side is a stream, and there is a peach forest, and the scenery here must be poetic and picturesque in spring. ”

The gate is wide outside, a hundred birds shadow wall inside the door looks very imposing, enter three roads through three courtyards, the front courtyard, the two sides are exquisite small courtyards, the pavilion in the middle is a water pavilion, the flowers and trees are dense, every detail is very finely repaired.

The house is full of fine mahogany furniture.

Meng Zhuangtou told everyone with a smile: "Xue Pingchuan originally planned to move in after the Mid-Autumn Festival, but after repairing, I only came to see it a few times, and I haven't had time to live in it yet." ”

"It costs at least 30,000 taels of silver to repair this house." Rough estimate of Ensheng.

Rong'er estimated that it was about the same, but she didn't expect the Xue family to be so rich. It's just that even the Wangpu in Jinnan County is gone, and the loss of the Xue family this time is about 100,000 taels.

"Well deserved. Who called the Xue Changming brothers to be vicious? "I should still be angry when I mention this, gritting my teeth, and hating it very much.

Lang Wenqi said: "But I think the Xue family is seriously injured this time. I heard from the guys that he still has 2,000 acres of land in Zhongxing County, and five or six shops, but they don't add up to make as much money as the gold shop and the pawnshop. Moreover, there are nearly 30 people in the Xue family, not counting the next people. After they moved back to Zhongxing County this time, they had to live an ordinary life. ”

"It's a good thing that we didn't take their lives. There are still ...... in the house, "Ying Ze originally corresponded to Conglan and Congwan to have a certain brotherhood, but after this, because of his hatred for the Xue family, he didn't have a good impression of them."

Ensheng coughed lightly and motioned him not to say more, after all, there was still the Mengzhuang family on the road.

Mengzhuang's first family is very sensible, and they bow their heads and keep silent.

"Third Miss. Look at this courtyard...... "Meng Zhuangtou changed the subject.

"Meng Zhuangtou. Leave it to your family for the time being. Then Wenqi will arrange for someone to take care of it. We are here today mainly to look at the house and the land. ”

"Go to the Tingfeng Pavilion above and see all the fields below." Meng Zhuangtou led everyone from the side road to the pavilion on the high place, pointed to the fields below and said, "The 4,000 acres of land in Nanxi Village are no worse than the land in Anping Mansion Grange. ”

Rong'er nodded, take a rough look today, and just have a number in mind.

The annex is very large, covering an area of more than 30 acres, and when it was built, Xue Pingchuan made plans for future expansion, so the site was well selected and wide. If you have money in the future, you can build a few beautiful courtyards in the future.

After giving Meng Zhuangtou an explanation, Rong'er and the others left the courtyard. At this time, it was the middle of the Shen hour.

"Tofu Brain"

"Crispy Fish"

"Rouge, gouache..."

Nearly the south of the county town of Siqu eight streets, row upon row, the cries of selling are noisy, and the tourists who come and go are like weaving.

The Qingmei brothers and sisters took everyone shopping, tasted some snacks, bought some gadgets, and picked out three new pieces of porcelain from the porcelain shop.

"There is a kind of fabric in Jinnan County that is very beautiful."

The cloth shop is in the middle of the small craft street, and it is actually embroidered carpets, embroidered scarves and other things.

"This embroidery is indeed beautiful." Yuqin picked up a handkerchief and looked at it carefully.

Yuxiang held it with her, and nodded straight, "And it's not expensive." Ordinary ten-piece piece. The best ones are only fifty wen. ”

When the girls saw these things, they were not very interested, so they waited outside the door.

There is a lot of traffic, and the county town in the south is indeed very lively. Ying Ze looked at a puppet stall opposite, and the old man and the young man each took a puppet and played in front of each other.

His gaze unintentionally swept over a stall in front of him, where a young man in a black linen coarse coat posed with some small wooden utensils, and watched the flow of people with a cold gaze.

A few people squatted in front of the stall to take a closer look at the small pieces.

Ying Ze made eye contact with him, and he withdrew his gaze and looked at the guest in front of him, neither selling nor lobbying.

"How much does this cost?" A man in blue brocade in his thirties picked up a wooden Guanyin.

"It's an old fragrant wood. Eighty texts. The stall owner replied lightly.

"The workmanship is good. Finely carved. Did you carve these yourself? The man in blue asked slowly.

The stall owner nodded.

"What else will you carve? Can it be so exquisite? The man in blue's eyes lit up.

"As long as I can draw a picture, I can carve it so finely." He wasn't happy that someone was so interested in his craft.

"Good. Then come with me to work in COSCO County, where we are building a mansion. There are many places inside that require such good wood carving skills. The salary can be given to you twice the market price. The man in blue finally found such a person, and secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

"Too far from home. Don't want to go. The stall owner accidentally saw the sign on his waist and coldly refused.

"You don't want to go?" The man in blue had a sharp voice.

Two men dressed like him rushed out of the crowd, with thick eyebrows and thick eyes. There was a black mark the size of elm money under the left side of his face, which looked a little domineering, and his sleeves were rolled up, revealing his solid muscles, and he said in a rough voice: "Stinky boy." Let you go to do things for the Chengguo Mansion, but I will lift you up! ”

"What's so big about Cheng Guogong?" The stall owner rolled up the felt on the ground, put everything away at once, and put it in the basket behind him, looking like he was about to walk.

"Really?" The other, slightly shorter and with a slightly narrow face, stood in front of him, "You're in business." Even if it's for sale, I want all these things! I also have to order something. There's no reason why you shouldn't do business, right? If you're not in business, what are you going to set up a stall? ”

"You want to buy it? Good! The stall owner re-spread the goods and laid them out on the ground.

The man who came first put ten taels of silver in front of him, "I want all these small things." In addition, you will have to order another batch of carved wood pieces for us. As he spoke, he took out another ten taels of silver and put it on the ground, "This is a deposit!" ”

The stall owner picked up ten taels of silver and sneered: "These goods are all yours." But from today onwards, I have to close my business due to an urgent matter at home! If you want to order, you can bring the list and drawings and talk about it. "Anyway, don't even want a basket and leave.

"Want to go? Come with us to COSCO County, and then talk about it. The two men who followed took him by the arm.

"You're robbing people?" The stall owner shouted indignantly.