Two days later, I caught up with Chen Yuanheng to take a break, and Chen Wenhui's two elder brothers were also on vacation from school. Chen Yuanheng decided to take his wife and children to the grange they had placed to have a look. I got on the green oil car, walked for most of the day, and arrived at noon. It is only ten miles away from the county seat, surrounded by mountains and rivers. The Bai family bought 200 acres of fertile land, two mountains and forests, and a small courtyard with two entrances and five rooms wide, which were originally owned by a small landlord, but they were all sold because they wanted to vote for distant relatives in case of trouble. The Bai family bought it together, one for a little income, and the other for a country house where they could cool off. When they arrived at the place, the maid and the mother servants cleaned the house and laid out the furnishings. Chen Yuanheng and the Bai family met the head of the tenant, Li Laoshi. Li Laoshi is indeed very practical, he is a good way of growing crops, in his forties, that is, his wife has been sick in bed for many years, and there are five children in the family, three boys and two girls. The wife's illness has tossed all the family funds, and there are many children, so she has to rent the landlord's land, but she still can't make ends meet. This time, Chen Yuanheng and the Bai family came to the countryside to play, and secondly, to bring the tenant Li Laoshi to Chen Cai in the city to send a letter saying that he could not farm for the owner. Chen Yuanheng came to see what was going on.

Li Laoshi came to the hall, very cramped, hurriedly knelt down and saluted, and said: "Master, I'm sorry for the master's trust, my family really can't get by, thinking that I still have an aunt in Shanxi, and I want to go to my relatives." Chen Yuanheng said: "Li Laoshi, you get up first, what's wrong at home." Li Laoshi hurriedly stood up and said: "Master, wife, the illness in my family is getting worse and worse every year, I can't work, I have to be treated, the five children are half old, the amount of food is large, I can't support it, it's not that there is really no way, how can I leave my hometown." Bai said, "Bring all your children to me to see, what is your wife's disease?" Li Laoshi hurriedly turned around and called a teenage boy who came with him: "Second son, go back and call your brothers to come." At the same time, he said to Bai's again: "If I go back to my wife, my wife has stomach pain, and when it is good, she can barely do some work, but if it is not good, she rolls in pain, and she can only take medicine." Bai Shi nodded, and asked Li Laoshi, "How are these crops growing?" Li Laoshi was energetic when he heard the crops, and replied: "Madam, our land here is excellent, the paddy fields are fertile, we are the ancestors of the crops, making crops is the business, most of the 200 acres are planted with rice, 30 acres are early rice, has been harvested, now listen to the housekeeper's words and plant soybeans, the growth is good, this year will be a bumper harvest year." Chen Cai replied at this time: "Madam, I just went to the field to take a look, Li Laoshi's farming is quite good, and the crops are growing well." Bai nodded.

As he was talking, Li Laoshi's five children came, Bai asked five children to come in, three boys and two girls, Bai asked the age, the eldest boy was 16 years old, the second son was 14 years old, the third son was 11 years old, and the two girls were 8 years old and 6 years old. Bai was very happy when he saw his age. said to Chen Yuanheng: "Master, I think these five children are very good, can you buy them." As soon as Chen Yuanheng heard it: "It's good that Mrs. is in charge, and she is also saving his family." Li Laoshi quickly kowtowed when he heard this. Bai said: "Li is honest, Steward Chen said, you are sincere, farming, that is, the burden on the family is big, if you agree, don't leave your hometown, I will buy your family, I have a few little girls in front of me, two daughters will be maids for me, the three boys are very strong, just give us a small servant, stay in the house for 5 days a month to learn the rules, literacy, and the rest will cook the grange for me with you." Your wife and I will invite a doctor in the city to see a doctor, if the illness is cured, I will manage the house of this Zhuangzi, if the doctor is not good, your grandfather will get enough money for six months to take medicine. As for you, be the head of the bank. This Zhuangzi has been sorted out, and I will buy land and buy Zhuangzi in the future and hand it over to you, so that you don't have to leave your hometown. What do you think? "Li Laoshi can still treat his wife when he hears it, his son can still read without leaving his side, and he will be given monthly money, and his daughter can follow Mrs. County Ling, which is a lucky thing. There is a way to go, who wants to flee the famine and become a homeless person. Li Laoshi hurriedly kowtowed a few times and said, "Madam, you are the benefactor of our family, no, you will be the master of our family in the future." I'll definitely get the Zhuangzi done for you. “

Bai Shi told Chen Cai: "You go back and prepare a few wedges to sell your body, and give them a total of 100 taels of silver for their family, so that they can pay off their debts." The five children stayed in the yard first, freshened up first, and taught the rules. Give each one a name. Well, it's called Li Shou, Li Cai, and Li Fu. The two girls are called red carp and golden warblers. Staying in the inner courtyard is my second-class girl. After these orders, he and Chen Yuanheng got up and went back to the backyard, dined with the children first, and rested. I'll leave the rest to Chen Cai. In a few moments, the wedge was already set. Li Laoshi saw that the family had settled, and gave a hundred taels of silver, excited. Busy with his wife and children to kowtow at the gate.

After resting, Chen Yuanheng and Bai led the three children and a group of maids and servants to walk around the grange. Chen Wenhui first came into contact with the ancient countryside. Along the way, it can only be described as picturesque scenery and withering people's livelihood. The scenery of the water town in the south of the Yangtze River is picturesque, but in the picturesque scenery is the dilapidated adobe thatched houses of the villagers, the adobe thatched houses are still good, at least the houses are thick, warm in winter and cool in summer, and more thatched sheds. I really don't know how ancient peasants lived in such dilapidated houses. On the way, I met the villagers, all of whom were tenants of the Chen family, and these people knelt down and saluted from a distance when they saw the Chen family. The villagers were dressed in shabby clothes, all of which were kudzu or linen, and basically had no bright colors, mostly gray and white, and patches were stacked on top of each other. Chen Wenhui felt sad when she saw it, in her previous life, it was difficult to see so many poor people, you must know that this is in the land of fish and rice, a notoriously rich land, but in the mountains, I don't know how poor it is in the north. Chen Wenhui asked Chen Yuanheng in a soft voice: "Daddy, these people are too poor, are the people of my Great Chu Dynasty so poor?" Chen Yuanheng laughed when he heard this: "My Hui'er is really a girl who doesn't understand the world, how can these people be considered poor, they are well fed and clothed, have a house to live in and a field to cultivate, and they are already the people of my Great Chu Dynasty." You must know that in the northwest, southwest, southeast and other places, how can people eat enough, let alone wear clothes, often a family only has one piece of clothing. Chen Wenhui was dumbfounded. Recalling the life of these eunuchs, it is really "Zhumen wine and meat stink, and there are frozen bones on the road".

Chen Yuanheng and Bai did not have these feelings. They walked all the way, admiring the idyllic scenery, and did not look at the people who saluted on the side of the road. Yes, these people of the aristocratic class will not care about the lives of the common people. Chen Wenhui's two elder brothers, Chen Wenjun and Chen Wenlin, also did not pay attention to these people, after all, they were young and paid more attention to the things in the fields, the birds flying in the sky, and the fish swimming in the water. Chen Wenhui secretly thought in her heart that she wanted to change the village, her parents and her brother.

Chen Yuanheng and Bai were very relieved to see that the crops in the field were growing very well, although they were from wealthy families and did not know how to look at the crops, but the neat and strong crops still made them see that the people who planted the land were hard workers. I can't help but express satisfaction with Li Laoshi's work, and I feel that it is a wise move to buy Li Laoshi's family.

Chen Yuanheng asked Chen Cai and Li Laoshi: "These fields are not bad. What happened to the mountains and forests we bought? Li Laoshi hurriedly pointed to the green mountains in the distance and said: "Master, the two mountains over there are yours, sir, overgrown with miscellaneous trees, do you want to take a look, it's a little far, I'm afraid that Mrs. and Miss can't walk so far." "Chen Yuanheng took a look, it was indeed a bit far, and the ladies were afraid that they would not be able to go. If you want to stay for two days, then wait for two days. Thinking about it, he said to Chen Cai: "I'm tired today, so I won't go, you can prepare a sedan chair another day, and then invite the wives to go with you." Chen Cai hurriedly said yes.

The next day, Chen Yuanheng rode a horse with his two sons and shared a sedan chair for Bai and Chen Wenhui. The group went up the mountain. When I got to the bottom of the mountain, I changed the sliding rod that I had prepared. Of course, only Bai's mother and daughter made sliding poles, one for each person, and Chen Yuanheng and his sons were all on foot. Chen Yuanheng and Chen Wenjun, although Chen Wenlin is a literati, the sons of the family have been taught and practiced martial arts by masters when they were young, although kung fu is not very good, but it is still possible to strengthen the body. This is the so-called poor literature and rich martial arts. Chen Wenhui was very envious and wanted to have a healthy body, but the family would not let girls learn martial arts. Chen Wenhui made up her mind that although she couldn't learn martial arts, she had to exercise more. You must know that the body is the capital of the revolution. Chen Wenhui asked his parents to climb the mountain with his brothers, but Chen Yuanheng and his wife couldn't resist it, so they had to let the sliding pole follow, and let Chen Wenhui do it if they couldn't walk. Chen Wenhui was happily held by her two brothers to climb the mountain.

The mountain is a small hill, but the scenery is average. The main reason is that the trees are too mixed, there are no particularly good ancient trees, and there are no rare varieties, there are only paths in the mountains, and everyone feels bored after looking at it for a while, and goes down the mountain. Chen Wenhui climbed high and looked into the distance, and only then did he have the opportunity to see the whole of the Zhuangzi under the mountain, only to see that the neat fields were full of many glittering gem blocks, and he knew in his heart that those were ponds. It is really Jiangnan, which is rich in water resources. Chen Wenhui looked at the hill, and then looked at the beautiful scenery under the mountain, and felt pity in her heart. The trees on this mountain are too cluttered and messy, and there is no planning, if there are flowers and fresh fruits, it would be nice to build a pavilion and watch the beautiful scenery under the mountain. In the previous life, how could it be possible to classify such a mountain as your own, but now that you have the opportunity, you must arrange it well, so that you can have a place to spend your vacation.