The two-hundred-acre Zhuangzi is not big, but it is not small.

Compared with the Chen family's Zhuangzi, the Li family's Zhuangzi is really a bit dwarfed. The Li family's Zhuangzi is a rammed wall, while the Chen family's Zhuangzi wall is all made of blue bricks, the design is exquisite and typical, the art of Jiangnan garden is brought into full play, and the landscape and the unique culture of Jiangnan are compressed into a small space, making people have the illusion of being in a water town in a dream.

For the first time, Li Chuan realized how far apart the Li family was from those real local tyrants.

Such a Zhuangzi is a symbol of wealth.

With only the little land in his hand, even if the Li family struggles for three more generations, they can't afford to live in such a Zhuangzi.

Outside the gate of Zhuangzi, dozens of servants stood in two columns to welcome the arrival of the new owner.

When the Chen family left, they took some of the servants with them, and some of the servants stayed, and all the tenants also stayed, and they lived with the Zhuangzi and Tian Chuan to the Li family, and the population is also a part of the wealth, which cannot but be said to be the sadness of the times.

"Greetings, Master!"

When Li Chuan approached, the servants all knelt on the ground and saluted.

"Get up!"

Li Chuan was not used to being bowed down to, so he waved his hand to let the servants get up, and then entered the Zhuangzi accompanied by Li Changyue.

After walking around the Zhuangzi, Li Changyue asked Li Chuan to give a lecture to the servants.

It is necessary to appease people's hearts, and Li Chuan is as good as flowing.

In the courtyard, dozens of servants stood in two teams, listening to the new owner's lecture.

To be honest, with a new master, the servants are sure that they are panicking, after all, they don't know the new owner's personality, and they are bound to worry about the future, so they are afraid that Xindonghua will not be able to serve them, or it will be difficult to drive them out of Zhuangzi.

"Don't worry, the Li family doesn't have many rules."

Li Chuan looked at the servants and said with a smile: "I don't have many requirements, I am diligent, capable, just don't do bad things, as long as everyone keeps to themselves, the days will get better and better, okay, let the housekeeper explain the rest!" ”

As the master, he doesn't need to say much, just declare his sovereignty.

Most of the things in Zhuangzi are in charge of Li Changyue.

If you talk too much, Li Changyue, the housekeeper, will inevitably sit on wax, so he has to establish his authority.

Li Changyue has been a housekeeper for ten years, he is no longer a fledgling, and he arranges things in an orderly manner, as early as a few days ago, he arranged all the big and small things in the inner courtyard properly, Li Chuan didn't have to worry about it at all, he came over and lived directly in the inner courtyard.

After consulting the young master, Li Changyue arranged a maid to serve Li Chuan.

The maid's name is Xinghua, she is only fourteen years old, and she is still a budding flower bone.

After moving, it is natural to congratulate the housewarming.

Li Chuan sent an invitation post, and handed it all over to Li Changyue to handle.

Three days later, the new Lijiazhuang was set up with flowing water seats, and the guests were full.

Li Chuan not only sent invitations to several agents, but also posted to the scholars who were close to Master Li's group, what he didn't expect was that many big families in Jiangyin came uninvited, and those who didn't come also sent congratulatory gifts.

The Su family also came, and it was Su Bingguang, the son of the Su family.

The Li family's Zhuang family also came, helping the old and the young to come over for dinner.

As for the original Chen family's households, Li Changyue also arranged for someone to send wine and meat.

After a day of trouble, the guests dispersed, and Zhuangzi finally calmed down.

Zhuangzi has a total of three into the house, the inner courtyard is divided into more than a dozen small courtyards, the main courtyard covers an area of two acres, the main house is a standard old man's room, sitting north and facing south, there are two wings on the east and west sides, it is estimated that the second aunt and the third aunt live too much.

The house is all brand new, and everything that should be replaced has been replaced, and Li Changyue personally arranged it.

The main room is a bit big, there are more than 300 square meters, divided into two, the inside is the bedroom, the outside is the reception room, the middle is cut with a large screen, the grand atmosphere is exquisite and elegant, and the heart is high.

In the yard is a pond, the emerald green lotus leaves cover the level, and I goldfish are playing in the water.

Li Chuan was very satisfied with Zhuangzi, but he kept telling himself in his heart that comfort can make people lose their minds, and now is not the peaceful and prosperous era after more than 300 years, the north is full of wars, and in a few years, the Manchu iron cavalry will set foot all over the south of the Yangtze River.

At that time, no matter how beautiful the scenery is, it will be a cannon foam, and it will shatter when you touch it.

The softness of Jiangnan melted the enterprising spirit of the Han people, and if he didn't prepare early, when it really came to that time, even if he was willing to cut off his hair and be a slave to the Manchurians, he might not be able to save the lives of his whole family, and he had to prepare early.

As for the so-called Western goods, he is not allowed to go out again in the near future.

Those goods are too dazzling, and they have already attracted the peeps of the gate valves in Jinling City.

Even the eunuch of Nanjing Town sent someone over, the purpose of which was naturally to share a piece of cake.

Those eunuchs are easy to deal with, and they can't ask for silver, but those gate valves are not easy to deal with, the people who came to the Xu family last time have already hinted at it, and there is a threat in the words, wanting to eat all the Western goods.

"A group of moths is not afraid to die!"

Li Chuan was very unhappy, and became more and more disgusted with these powerful people in the Ming Dynasty.

It's just corruption and corruption, the appearance is still so ugly, relying on the exploits of the ancestors to get drunk and dream of death, clever robbery, no wonder the Ming Dynasty will die, raising such a group of moths, the Ming Dynasty is really unreasonable.

"Young Master!"

Li Changyue hurriedly came over and said, "It has been determined, the Wu family did it last time I robbed the grocery store." ”

Li Chuan asked, "Who did it?" ”

Li Changyue said: "The people of the Wu family did not show up, they were those green skins found by a masked person, but there was a green skin who had seen that person, and privately said that it was Wu Wangcai, the head of a family member of the Wu family. ”

Li Chuan asked, "Who has the Wu family offended?" ”

Li Changyue found out as soon as possible, and listed the things that the Wu family had done over the years.

"Well, go get busy!"

After Li Chuan listened, he waved his hand and asked Li Changyue to go down and paced in the study.

Three days later, at night, Jiangyin West Street.

After the night guard passed, two dark shadows came out of an alley, looked left and right a few times, and when he was sure that there was no one, he immediately walked lightly to a cloth shop, opened a small bucket, and poured the liquid from the bucket through the crack in the door.

With that done, the two shadows took a few steps back.

One of the black shadows took out a handful of tied hay, and then took out a lighter, and the fire rang up, and soon set the hay on fire.

"Let's go!"

The two of them didn't look back, and immediately pulled out their legs and ran.

Rumble!

At the moment when the two of them turned around, there was a muffled sound in the cloth shop, and a sky-high fire burst into flames.

The first to be alarmed was the night guard, but the guard was far away, and it took time to get there.

The first to run out was the guy in the nearby shop, looking at the fire in the cloth shop with blank faces, his face was white like a dead man, and he said angrily: "Damn, who set the fire, why hasn't the night patrol come yet?" ”

"Can't let the fire burn!"

The guys are anxious like ants on a hot pot, although it is not their own shop that is on fire, but the shops are all connected, if the fire really burns, the nearby shops will definitely not be able to escape, and they will inevitably suffer.

"No **, it's too lacking in morality!"

The guys scolded their mothers angrily while scrambling to find something to put out the fire.

The night guard finally arrived, looking at the people who rose to the sky, several soldiers couldn't help but take a breath of cold air, their faces were green, their livers hurt a little, and they were angry and said: "Quick, hurry up and call the water dragon to extinguish the fire." ”

"Order!"

Some of the soldiers hurriedly answered the order, and ran away.

"Quick, hurry up and put out the fire!"

The fire meter of the grain store next to him saw that the fire had burned to his house, and he jumped up in a hurry.

The fire brigade was not slow to come, two water hoses were pushed over, and several servants fiddled with them, and the horizontal wood on the water hose was pressed, and a wooden pipe immediately began to spray water outward, spraying water into the cloth shop.

The fire was quickly extinguished and did not spread to other nearby shops.

The guys in the nearby shops were all relieved, but they didn't dare to sleep anymore.

It's still a night curfew, and you can't run around, so you can only wait for dawn to report to the owner.