Approaching the end of the year, Zhu Shun, who had been busy for a year, saw the new house that had been completed for the first time.

Zhu Shun walked out of the blue silk Hunan embroidered sedan chair, stepped on the snow, and looked over.

The new house covered with a layer of snow is very magnificently built.

The overhanging gable-style roof is covered with brand new black tiles, and the black tiles on the edge of the eaves are carved with some brick patterns, which makes this new house a little more ancient.

There are two town house lions placed in front of the door, and Zhu Shun has heard from the third uncle that it was originally a stone lion.

When the son of Xing'an Bo and the son of Xinning came to warm the house, one of them gave a white marble lion, which happened to form a pair.

The white marble lion is divided between male and female, the female lion steps on a small lion, and the male lion steps on a hydrangea.

Today, there is goose feather snow in the sky, and the light is relatively dim, which is more beautiful if it is a sunny day, this pair of white marble lions is more beautiful.

Pushing open the door and walking in, there was actually a porter in the house, who was sitting at the door of the room to make a fire.

The porter saw a noble man walk in, he was stunned at first, and then his face was full of smiles: "The young master is back." ”

Zhu Shun knew this porter, who used to be one of the few people in Huang Village who didn't have much life, but it was a pity that the whole family was hacked to death by the Jurchen Tartars, and now he is a gatekeeper for the Zhu family, which is really impermanent.

On the right side of the gate is a separate wing room where one person lives in the gatehouse, and on the left is a row of inverted seats, where the people who live with them live.

All lined up with the gates.

Not far away is the hanging flower door, the door beam is pasted with gold color paintings, and walking into this hanging flower door is the inner courtyard where the master lives.

In the spacious courtyard, there is a pair of large mud-glazed water tanks with lotus flowers.

It is said that it was sent by the prince of Huaiyuan.

The prince of Fuwang was the most heroic, and directly sent a complete set of Huanghuali furniture, including bookcases, official hats and chairs, eight immortal tables, beds, etc.

Dad was half-lying on the Huanghuali official hat chair in the lobby of the main house, with a brazier in front of him, and a Mongolian dog lying beside him, drinking Jiannan Roasted Spring beautifully.

Hearing that his son was back, Zhu Zhongren, an outsider, stood up from the official hat chair and led the Mongolian dog to prepare to go out.

As soon as I pushed open the openwork wooden door of Huanghuali, I saw a housekeeper holding an oil-paper umbrella for his son and walked over.

Zhu Zhongren kicked the Mongolian dog, and the hound ran to Zhu Shun's side smartly, wagging his tail constantly.

Zhu Shun rubbed the head of the Mongolian thin dog and smiled easily: "Dad, where has my mother gone?" ”

Zhu Zhongren, an outsider, made a 'shhh

The porcelain cups and bowls at home were all sent by the Song family, otherwise, Zhu Zhongren would be reluctant to use high-grade fine porcelain for five coins of silver.

After drinking the wine in the white porcelain wine pot of the official kiln, Zhu Zhongren, an outsider, burped and said with a red face: "Your mother is settling accounts in the ear room, calculating how much silver is left in our family this year." ”

"It's just right that you're here, don't rush back to the house first, go to your second uncle's house on the left to say hello, and then go to your third uncle's house on the right to say hello."

"I'm finally back, I can't say hello to your second uncle, second aunt, third uncle and third aunt."

The three new houses of the three brothers of the Zhu family are next to each other, and the voice of the gatehouse is relatively loud, without Zhu Shun going over, the second uncle who is used to wearing cotton armor and the third uncle who is wearing a silk satin dress come over to find his father to drink.

Several of Zhu Shun's brothers also followed.

The next day, the Chinese New Year's Eve ancestor feast is about to begin.

The three brothers Zhu Zhongren rushed back from outside, and everyone was drunk.

There was no way, the squires near Huangcun didn't know what was wrong this year, so they took the initiative to invite Zhu Zhongren and the three of them to drink.

Since the twenty-fifth day of the Lunar New Year, he has not been idle until today, he went to this outsider's house to drink today, and tomorrow he went to the dam official's house to drink, all of them are very famous and high-status squires near Huangcun.

Before Zhu Zhongren started drinking, he was already top-heavy, when did the sparsely populated Zhu family brothers receive such treatment.

After the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, Zhu Jin, the third brother carrying a bird cage, suddenly found Zhu Shun, saying that after the New Year, he wanted to set up a drama class.

Zhu Shun sat on the Huanghuali official hat chair in the study, looking at the cramped and restless third brother, knowing that this kid knew all day long about catching chickens and fighting dogs that were not doing his job.

didn't reprimand him, but still said those words: "The third child, if you want to play, you can play to the extreme, you can play well, and it is a good thing to want to run a drama troupe." ”

Zhu Jin was much more relaxed when he heard that his eldest brother agreed to this matter, took out some millet from the Su embroidery sachet and fed it to the thrush in the cage.

Zhu Shun thought about it, wrote a list and handed it to the third brother Zhu Jin: "There is a list here, as long as a few of them are convinced, the matter of the drama troupe should be done." ”

"As for how to convince, it depends on your ability, which can be regarded as a test for your brother."

sent away the third brother Zhu Jin, Zhu Shun opened two letters, one was written by the second brother Zhu Sihai, saying that he was going to eat a small shipbuilding workshop.

When Zhu Shun saw the letter from the second brother, he hesitated to what the second brother said.

The network of relationships between bureaucrats and gentry is like an iron prison that cannot stretch their hands and feet, restraining all the lower-class people of the Ming Dynasty.

If Zhu Shun hadn't relied on the invention of a new type of firearm and was appreciated by Chongzhen, he would have been eaten by the bureaucrats and squires long ago, and there would be no bones left, where would he have developed to this day.

If it were Zhu Shun himself, he didn't dare to say that he could break the blockade of the bureaucrats and gentry in Songjiang Mansion and eat a small shipbuilding workshop.

So there is a certain hesitation for the second brother Zhu Sihai, but there is also a trace of expectation.

The second letter was written by the sixth brother Zhu Tie, saying that he wanted a batch of Type 300 rifled guns and was preparing to form a sniper brigade to try to go to the other side of the Daling River and snipe the Jurchen generals.

This matter is easy to do, Zhu Shun also wrote a letter, called a sedan chair driver, and asked him to hand over the letter to his younger brother Zhu Yu.

Arrange for a batch of Type 300 rifled guns to be sent over as soon as possible, and at least 300 conical bullets per month.

After dealing with these things, Zhu Shun lay on the warm Huanghuali bed and fell asleep, and before he could sleep for long, he heard a noise from the new house of the third uncle's house next door.

The third uncle is rich, and it is inevitable that he will accept two concubines, because of this matter, the third aunt is not less angry, and there is no way to be angry.

Who made the third uncle able to earn a lot of money now, and he has also become a very useful outsider in the township.

Fortunately, the third aunt gave birth to five sons, and with these five sons, even if the third uncle accepts a hundred concubines, it will not affect her status as the eldest lady of the main house.

Zhu Shun's father and second uncle didn't have this mind.

Zhu Shun's father also heard the noise, put on a satin winter jacket, walked over and scolded a few times, and the noise gradually stopped.

In this way, five years have passed since Chongzhen.

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