A rain comes and goes fast!

After the past, the air was filled with the scent of spring earth mixed with flowers and plants, and the warm sun washed the blue sky as pure as a sea, blue and clean, intoxicating.

According to the old practice, Su Baiyi spent hundreds of copper plates on the street to buy some snacks, and brought some special side dishes from the eldest disciple Sun San, and without anyone to follow, he carried the gift and wandered to the door of the Zhou Mansion.

Because I was really too busy, I didn't come to visit the two bigwigs since I came back from Shandong, and today I finally took time out to take a break in this warm and hot weather.

Zhou Shipu is still the same, he is not very particular about dressing, and the beard on his cheeks seems to be a little whiter, but because of his old friend's presence, his mental state is very good, sitting in the warm pavilion, pinching his beard and frowning and thinking deeply.

Yuan Keli, who was sitting opposite him, also looked energetic, his previously emaciated figure now looked burly and powerful, and his voice was like a bell when he spoke.

"You kid sit by yourself first, wait next to you for a while, the old man has to win?" Zhou Shipu saw Su Baiyi coming, just a glimpse, and his attitude towards him was the same as before.

Yuan Keli said: "Hey, if you win this game, the old man will not play cards from now on, and he will hook up two six!" ”

"Four threes!" Zhou Shipu refused to admit defeat, took out four cards in his right hand and threw them on the stone bench fiercely, his strength was even more spicy than that of the young man in later generations.

"Don't come out!" Hou Guangliang and Zhou Shipu Yibo next to them are farmers, and Yuan Keli opposite is obviously a landlord!

"Four sevens!" Yuan Keli glanced at Su Baiyi triumphantly, his face was full of red: "Hehe, there are two more, do you want to?" Do you want? If you don't want me, I'll go! ”

"Four nines!" Hou Guangliang weakly threw the cards on the table, and at the same time glanced at Zhou Shipu.

Zhou Shipu was suddenly furious and scolded: "Hou family boy, did you deliberately release water, this old guy still has two cards left in his hand, it is obvious that it is a blow-up, can you just let him go?" ”

"A bomb?" Hou Guangliang was slightly stunned.

Yuan Keli laughed, as if he was afraid that Hou Guangliang would regret it, and the two cards were suddenly thrown down: "Wang Bang!" ”

"Oops!"

Hou Guangliang slapped his head fiercely.

Zhou Shi simply put the cards in his hand on the stone table.

"Come on, come on, Su boy, come on, this guy can read, and he is an elm head when he plays cards!" Zhou Shipu very warmly invited Su Baiyi to join the gang.

Su Baiyi just smiled and was not fooled.

What are you kidding, the two old guys are all human spirits, and they have nothing to do at home, either rolling the sheets with the girl or studying how to play cards, and he is not the same as being abused!

Thinking so in his heart, he said with a smile in his mouth: "Old Zhou, you have played this card badly, don't play it today, and I will arrange for someone to send you another pair when I go back." ”

"Send ten pairs!"

"Okay, good, ten pairs are ten pairs!" Su Baiyi was full of smiles and flattery.

Zhou Shipu obviously didn't want to let go of his head, and said: "Okay, it's just that you're here, let's play mahjong!" ”

I'll rub you......

Well, we are civilized people, and we don't explode foul language.

"Old Zhou, my card skills are not good, I'll find you a beautiful woman with good card skills to play with!"

"You kid, you're going to make fun of me!" Zhou Shipu smiled, and immediately stopped mentioning the matter of playing cards.

Yuan Keli stretched out his head and shouted outside: "Old man, make another cup of tea!" As soon as the words fell, Yuan Keli's step-room Liu came over tremblingly from outside.

"You, it's hard now!" Yuan Keli looked at Su Baiyi with a smile, and pointed at him with his big hand: "Pacify the land of Denglai with a snap of your fingers, compared to you, the old man has been in Denglai for all these years." ”

"I was lucky!" Su Baiyi opened his placket and sat on the stone bench, and said with a smile: "The blind cat hit the dead mouse, and I took it, it can't compare to Lord Yuan's step by step, that is the real strength." ”

"It's not luck, it's inseparable from your boldness, in other words, I don't necessarily dare to risk landing and landing in that situation, but you kid dares to do this, and you succeed." Yuan Keli shook his head: "Forget it, don't talk about it, the old man heard that you have a set of yards?" ”

"yes!" Su Baiyi arched his hand and said: "It was the original courtyard of the Mu family, and later Mu Yongjiang was confiscated for his crimes, and the little nephew took it over from the housekeeper." "Let's talk about it, I won't say much about how I got it.

"It's okay!" Zhou Shipu took a sip of tea, pouted and blew his beard, and said, "I have also been to see the courtyard, although it is a little smaller, but it is enough for you." In fact, the old man has long wanted to remind you that his identity and status have changed, and everything around him has to change with him, not that we scholars talk about pomp and circumstance, but because of our status. With your current status, it's not appropriate to live in the Su family's courtyard! ”

Su Baiyi smiled and didn't speak!

In fact, if it weren't for the fact that the Su family's small courtyard was too small and crowded, and he didn't have time to build it now, Su Baiyi really didn't want to move to the big mansion.

That small courtyard is the small courtyard where I have lived since I crossed over, and it feels warm and homely.

But Yuan Keli's words made Su Baiyi suddenly vigilant!

"You are now a second-rank master, and the emperor is the emperor of Pingdongbo!" Yuan Keli said: "The plaque of the Imperial Ciping Dongbo Mansion is hung at the door of a thatched house, if it is known by the imperial history of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, you will not be charged with a crime of disrespect!" ”

I rub!

Is this okay too?

It seems to be true, after all, these imperial historians of the Ming Dynasty can hear about things, like mad dogs everywhere to bite around, this thatched hut is not a big deal, but if someone is really more serious, it is also a trouble, isn't it?

"Thank you two for the reminder!" Su Baiyi looked trembling.

Zhou Shipu and Yuan Keli watched him listen carefully, and their attitudes became kind.

"Actually, there is no need to be nervous, since Your Majesty is so gracious, naturally he will not blame for such a trivial matter!" Zhou Shipu smiled and said: "There are few people in your family, your parents left early and you don't have any brothers and sisters, and now you only have the main house, I'm afraid the yard is very deserted, right?" ”

"Yes!" Su Baiyi said: "So I asked Neiko to go to Renyazi to buy some servants to come over!" ”

"Don't bother!" Zhou Shipu waved his hand and said: "Those who bought it are unreliable, and we can't figure out the details." In this way, there are a lot of people in my family, most of them are born in the family, I will find a few and let Second Brother Zhong send them to you. ”

Su Baiyi was overjoyed, and arched his hand: "That's really thank you Lao Shangshu!" ”

This is much more cost-effective than buying a new one.

Generally speaking, a large family like the Zhou family must have had a lot of domestic slaves at the beginning. Lord Zhou has been an official for decades, and the domestic slaves who follow him have also married wives and had children, and because of the hard rules of the Ming Dynasty, the children born to domestic slaves can only be slaves for generations, so there will be more and more slaves in the Zhou family.

The children born to this kind of slave in the master's house are generally called "domestic children", and they have lived by the master's side since they were young, so they have a natural sense of identity with the master's family, and they are naturally the most loyal people, and this kind of domestic children are generally reliable.

Of course, the long-term man-making movement of the servants will also bring some trouble to the master's family.

Because human fertility is very strong, a young and healthy woman, from marriage to after menopause, conservatively estimated to have five or six is not any problem.

And in the Ming Dynasty there was a rule.

The lower the status, the higher the survival rate of the baby!

Just imagine, at the beginning, there were only four or five servants in the main family, and after being the male head of the main family for decades, the number of servants in the family became twenty or thirty or more!

Who can stand it?

It is conceivable that the servants of the Zhou family should be almost overcrowded.

Su Baiyi suddenly understood another meaning of the royal employment of only eunuchs!

"You're in a bit of a hurry with that railroad!" Yuan Keli took a sip of tea and said lightly: "The old man knows your ability, and naturally has no doubts about the construction of the railway, but you should keep a truth in mind anyway." ”

"Listen up, boy!"

"It's a good thing that Your Majesty is pampering you now, but you should know that the so-called love is deep, and his hatred is extreme!" Yuan Keli's voice was very low: "Yuan Chonghuan's matter is a lesson from the past. ”

In just a few words, it speaks the truth that has remained unchanged through the ages.

When the seat is like Yuan Keli, he naturally won't make his words very clear, and he also believes that as long as he mentions it, the young man in front of him should understand.

Su Baiyi naturally understands!

Before Yuan Dudu went to Liaodong, he also said to the emperor the heroic words of "five years of Pingliao", and also won the emperor's unparalleled trust, in the eyes of outsiders, today's Su Baiyi's situation is similar to Yuan Chonghuan back then.

But these are not things that Su Baiyi should consider now, he thinks that if he really goes to that point, he will never end up like Yuan Chonghuan!

It's a big deal, Lao Tzu used black technology to escape.

"Thank you Da Sima Jinyu for your kind words, Su Baiyi keep it in mind!" Su Baiyi also bowed his hand respectfully to Yuan Keli, and then said a reluctant request with a smile on his face: "There is one more thing, please trouble the two adults to take care of the little one!" ”

"What's the matter?" Zhou Shipu and Yuan Keli turned their heads at the same time and asked.

"Huh!" Su Baiyi showed a bright smile and said, "Isn't there still some railway shares in the kid's hands?" The two adults must have heard about it. In this way, I am going to hold a singing and selling party in Guide Mansion a month later, the two of them have been in the DPRK for many years, and they know a lot of dignitaries and nobles, and the kid implores the two to help spread the news, so that those nobles will come to the auction at that time, if they can sell the shares at a good price, the little one will turn back and set up a monument for the two on the railway! As he spoke, he groped for a pile of paper full of words from his bosom: "This is the propaganda newspaper of the Singing Fair!" ”

Yuan Keli listened to Su Baiyi's words, and didn't care about the monument, but snorted coldly: "You kid is really capable of tossing, this railway is a project approved by His Majesty, and it is an important weapon of the country." It's good that you dare to sing and sell everywhere with the country's heavy weapon, hehe! If the gang of people in the Metropolitan Procuratorate don't dig up your eighteen-generation ancestors and scold them, it's my surname Yuan's nonsense! ”21010