Mrs. Shen was stunned again, her face was a little gloomy, and it seemed that her enthusiasm had suddenly faded, and she was sad again.

Yes, she went, so what? Back then, his father died, and his mother, brothers, nephews, and nieces expelled Deng Changnian from the house! She has watched Deng grow up well for many years, but she is closer to the people who expelled him in blood!

All these years, he didn't come to see her, did he also have a grudge against her? Then if she went, was she going to suffer dislike?

Master Shen quickly noticed that the atmosphere in the room was not right, looked up at Mrs. Shen, and immediately frowned, and said unhappily, "Madam, what are you thinking?" ”

Mrs. Shen put down her pen, took out a handkerchief and wiped the wetness in her eyes, and said, "I'm wondering, has he always been very good to me all these years?" Otherwise, why haven't you had a letter after so many years! ”

"What do you think?" Master Shen frowned and said, "When did he miss your New Year's gift or what?" How did it become that I hated you? Madam, it's you who thinks badly! ”

"The people of the Deng Mansion treated him badly back then, what does it have to do with you? You don't have the slightest bit of bad treatment for him! If he can't tell the difference between good and bad, he just won't associate with us anymore, and what will he do with New Year's gifts! Besides, no matter what kind of injustice he suffered back then, the Deng Mansion is gone, and what kind of resentment he has is gone! Except for that stupid brother, he has only one relative left with you now, right? ”

"Isn't he sad to be expelled from his home! Deng Mansion is gone, isn't he sad! You are an elder, no matter how you say it, it should be you who comfort him, not him who comforts you! And you've been patronizing yourself all these years and being sad. And how did he ever control him? ”

"In my opinion, he should be angry with you! When he was the hardest, you didn't care about him! When he's good, you're not happy for him! ”

In the past, although Master Shen was very uncomfortable by Mrs. Shen's always sad appearance, but the children were all older, and she spent most of her time worshipping the Buddha, so he didn't bother to say anything. But this year, Shen Rouning came to ask for peace, talked about things in the capital, and talked about Deng Changnian. This made Master Shen have to think more.

The Shen family was a well-known gentry in this area.

All the time. The local officials were on good terms with the gentry. Even if there are some small contradictions, they give up some property, and those officials will also know how to accept it when they see it. Won't knock to death. Ultimately. It is also a family like theirs that has lasted for many years. Connections are not ordinary.

Regardless of the big ambitions, there are always benefits to networking.

Deng Changnian is a young Hou Ye, and he obviously has a good relationship with the Shen family. Why don't you maintain it, but you have to cut it off! Now that he realized this, he couldn't see Mrs. Shen like this!

Mrs. Shen was stunned by this heavy remark, and she was stunned for a long time.

After a long time, she came back to her senses, wiped her eyes, and asked Master Shen: "Master, you mean that I should go to Changnian to have a good talk?" ”

"You should go and talk to him and explain why you have ignored him all these years." Master Shen said in a deep voice.

……

Shen Rouning didn't know what Master Shen and Mrs. Shen said after she left.

She also had to visit the elders of the clan one by one and present gifts one by one. It is worth mentioning that the second master Shen didn't go out at home, and asked Shen Rouning a lot of things about Nanyang Commercial Bank, and he was quite envious in his words.

“…… We have heard that in fact, the Nanyang area is very large, and almost everywhere there is good land where you can grow food. Second Master Chen sighed: "It's just that a small family like ours with a small background is cautious, and the heirloom relies on the land that can be seen and touched under the eyes, so I really don't dare to take risks." ”

"Ah Ning, I'm afraid you don't know." During the conversation with Shen Rouning, Second Master Chen noticed that Shen Rouning was very knowledgeable, so he unconsciously said more, and said bitterly: "Right now, the grain in Daqing is cheaper, but the price of land has doubled!" At this price, it's still going up! Grain is cheap, and farming has already begun to lose money! Especially now that there are fewer tenants, there are not enough people to farm! When I came back, I saw that there was land abandoned along the way......"

Shen Rou was stunned: "Second uncle, is there really land to abandon?" Are you sure it's not a break? ”

"Ah Ning also knows about Xietian?" Second Master Shen was a little surprised, and when he thought that the girls in the family were all literate and literate, unlike those small families, he didn't think much about it, and explained to Shen Rouning: "Most of the rest of the fields are in winter...... Not plowing in the spring is almost never the case. ”

"I read in the book that I said, didn't you have a break for several years? The land should also be nourished, isn't it? Shen Rouning asked again.

Second Master Shen nodded and said, "That's the case." But Ah Ning, with the lack of land and the high value of grain, many people have no land to plant, who is willing to let the fields be raised for several years? A grain of grain is a grain of grain! Now, land is still very expensive, but food ......," he shook his head.

"If we are unified today, the world is peaceful, and the north and south circulate...... I have heard that most of the grain of the Nanyang Trading Company this year has been shipped to the north. And it's not enough. Shen Rouning didn't think there was anything to worry about in this situation: "Second uncle, as soon as this peaceful year comes, the population will become more and more. If the second uncle has time to go to Nanyang to have a look, he will know that there is not much land in Nanyang, that is, the size of two and three counties. In such a large place, there are three seasons a year, and the production is limited. Food will not continue to decline. ”

She had heard Chen Houyun mention this.

From the last years of the former dynasty, the officials ruled the darkness, experienced several natural disasters and civil chaos, and the beacon fires were everywhere, and then the north and south fought a war for more than ten years, and I don't know how many people were consumed in the middle! It can be said that there is no one in a hundred! Even if the north and the south were relatively peaceful and cultivated for decades, but in the end it was not the time when the world was peaceful, and the population growth was still counted, and part of it was consumed in the unification war in the previous years, where is there anything left!

You must know that although Daqing's losses were limited, the six or seven hundred thousand troops of Beijin were almost wiped out in the end!

At present, there seems to be a lot of food, but it is only in the south of the Yangtze River, and there are still many people in the north who are hungry again! …… And when the population multiplies, after more than ten years, maybe there will be a little natural disaster, and the food may be very tight!

When Second Master Shen heard this, he twisted his eyebrows and thought for a moment, and praised: "Ah Ning, what you said makes sense. It's me who is overthinking. He remembered Shen Rouning's proposal just now, became a little excited, and asked, "Then Ah Ning, listening to your tone, haven't you ever been to Nanyang?" (To be continued.) )