I don't know if I got an important task so I held back my energy, or if I went outside for a while to play and didn't return, and when the sun set, Xu Xun sorted out all the words and paper in the cabinet, and I didn't see the person from Rayson come back. At this time, it was already dinner time, and Jin Liu's sister-in-law brought the food with a food box, and it was two dishes, one soup and a big bowl of rice as a few days ago, but the expression on her face was much better than the perfunctory one before. It was set on the table, and she even stood next to it, watching Xu Xun eat two bites.

"Young Master, is it still to taste?"

"Hmm." Xu Xun nodded against his will, and asked without raising his head, "Your family has been out of the house for the past few days, and you are in charge of the door of the house?" ”

"I still have so many things to do, how can I keep guarding the door." Sister-in-law Jin didn't know what she meant, and immediately smiled, "Our family has always had few people coming, and there is nothing to steal, just keep the door open." I'm pricking up my ears and listening, I'm sure I'll know if someone comes in, so don't worry, young master. ”

Listening to this tone, Xu Xun knew that the little girl in the men's clothes of the female companion in the front came in and out, and Jin Liu's sister-in-law didn't know it at all. At the moment, he didn't bother to say anything, only said to turn around and let him clean up again, and waved his hand to send the woman out of the door. Next, he didn't care what was good or bad, he finished the meal after dividing it by two, left the dishes there, and went straight into the east house.

Sitting on the Luohan bed facing north and south, he still held the stack of notebooks he had just found from the bottom of the cabinet, which contained three title deeds and the current house deed.

The three land deeds are a total of 300 acres of paddy fields, even if he is not familiar with the current land price, he also knows that this is not a small amount for Nanzhili, who has less land and more people, and it is worth a lot. Not to mention the deed, if he didn't have it, he would have to live on the streets. And such an important real estate document, Xu Xun in the past actually put things together with a pile of dusty notebooks.

At this moment, he stepped forward and sat down on the Luohan bed, pinching the thin pieces of paper, his brows furrowed, unfolded and frowned, until there was a sound of small footsteps outside, and he raised his head.

"Young master, I have taken away all the dishes, if you are hungry at night and want supper, just give the order! If there is not enough oil for the lamp, and my head of the house is not there, you can just call me. ”

"Got it, go ahead!" Xu Xun, who was stuffing things, responded casually, and after a while, the movement outside was gone.

The title deed left little impression on his entire memory, and it was a matter of complete luck that he was able to find it just now. With this lesson, he naturally did not dare to rely entirely on those memories that did not belong to him in the first place.

At this moment, he lit the oil lamp, and he put the thin pieces of paper together with the notebooks and stuffed them into the cabinet, and then removed the sets of tome books from the scattered shelves. This time, instead of just looking at the title page, he flipped through it from beginning to end, until he was sure that there was nothing in these books, and he only felt tired with a sigh of relief, so he sat on the Luohan bed.

"Young Master, Young Master!"

With this burst of shouting, Xu Xun didn't need to look up to know who the person who rushed in was in the rage. Sure enough, as the curtain of the door that was knocked open brought a strong wind, the visitor finally stopped two or three steps in front of him, but he did not speak immediately. When he looked up, he saw that Latham was holding his knees and gasping for breath, and his whole body was sweating profusely.

It wasn't until he had enough breath that Latham straightened his waist suddenly, wiped his forehead and chin with his sleeve, and hurriedly said, "Young Master, it's not good!" When I just came back, I bumped into Aunt Su at the corner of the street, she told me privately that she went to the eldest master of the long house to do an errand of sewing and mending, and overheard that the eldest master invited several clan elders, and was ready to wait for the happy event of the sixth master's high promotion to congratulate you, and then opened the ancestral hall to try you, saying that this time you must be expelled from the Xu family to finish! ”

Unlike the expected panic and anger, Rayson saw Xu Xun sitting on the bed in front of him without even blinking his eyelids, and looked at him calmly as usual. In this unexpected situation, he gradually stumbled when he spoke: "Young Master, you...... Are you alright? This...... Such a big thing......"

"Okay, okay, the slightest thing is in a hurry like this, and I stutter when I speak! I've known this for a long time. Xu Xun smiled and waved his hand, pointed to the stool over there and said, "Move a stool to sit and talk, I ran for a day, you are not tired, I am tired when I look at you!" Also, have you eaten any meals? If not, go eat first and then talk. ”

"I'm not hungry after eating two big pancakes." Ruisheng replied, after all, he was stunned and went to bring a stool over, and as soon as he sat down to speak, he was grabbed by Xu Xun again: "What about letting you go out to do business?" But have you heard about it? ”

"I heard." Although he didn't understand why the young master didn't care about the big things and only paid attention to such trivial matters, Latham still said honestly, "There are all kinds of Songjiang cloth on the market, both expensive and low. The most common standard cloth, that is, the big cloth, is about 1780 yuan a horse. The small cloth is smoother and thicker, although the façade is not so wide, but the price is higher, about two hundred and twenty or thirty cents a horse. As for the muslin cloth, it is more expensive, about 300 wen. The most expensive are the green cloth and the blue cloth, because of the dense and wide length, the green cloth costs more than 500 yuan, and the blue cloth costs more than 400 yuan, which is more than double the price of an ordinary standard cloth. As for those who claim to be on the top, the most expensive ones are 100 taels, which are more expensive than most Hangzhou silks, and those cloth shops don't show me at all. ”

Xu Xun originally just used this excuse to ask Ruisheng to inquire about the current price, but in fact, he didn't expect him to really inquire about the price so carefully, and at this time, he couldn't help but look at this dead-eyed kid with admiration. It's just that he didn't plan or have the capital to do this cloth business, so he just secretly wrote it down in his heart, and asked again: "What about the price of rice and noodles today?" ”

"Now one or two pieces of silver, that is, the usual money, can only buy three stone rice, and it is said that the current price has risen by two or three percent compared with the beginning of the year." Speaking of this, Ruisheng looked left and right for a moment, and then leaned close to Xu Xun's ear and muttered in a low voice, "Young master, if Brother Jin Sixth comes to ask you for more money, don't pay attention to him, I have turned around several grain stores in Taipingli, saying that when Brother Jin Liu was cheap at the beginning of the year, he bought eight stone rice in one go, which is enough for us to eat for ** month." ”

"You have a heart!"

Xu Xun smiled dumbly when he heard this, shook his head and casually asked about something else. With such a question and answer, Ruisheng gradually forgot about the Xu family clan affairs that he had been entangled with at the beginning, and he also had a smile on his face, and his eyebrows danced extremely energetically, and it could be seen that he rarely went out. The master and servant were talking vigorously when a sudden cry came from outside the door.

"Can the young master sleep? If I haven't slept yet, I'll be in! ”

"Come in!"

Xu Xun commanded, and saw Rayson bounce up from the stool all of a sudden. After a while, a person lifted the curtain and entered the house, it was Jin Liu. Compared to the sweaty scene when Latham just came back, the shape of Jin Liu is not calm. His shoes were dusty, there were even mud spots on the hems of his trousers, and his hat was even more invisible. As soon as he came in and saw that Ruison was there, he was stunned for a moment, then smiled and bowed.

"What made you inquire about something?"

Jin Liu didn't answer this question, sat down along Xu Xun's finger and hurriedly said, "There are eyebrows." However, young master, I will talk about this matter later, and the important thing is another matter. Today, the third master and the fourth master were all invited to the house by the eldest master, it is said that it is for your business, and your future Yue family's Master Shen......"

"If the elders of the Xu family want to open an ancestral hall to try me, and the Shen family wants to withdraw from the marriage, I already know."

Jin Liu instinctively turned his head to look at Latham. Who knew that Rayson didn't say a word, until he was impatient to see it, and then muttered softly: "It's okay to sell anything, I know it earlier than you, and the young master knows it before I know!" ”

At this moment, Jin Liufang was really surprised. He didn't care what Rayson said, the kid should have just inquired about it. In order to learn the details, he ran outside all afternoon, and even almost violated the night ban, but the mother-in-law said that Xu Xun had never been out at all today, how could he know...... Or is someone kindly reminded because of the second master's affection? I have heard that the second master was the most capable among his peers, and many people have been favored, which is very likely!

At this moment, thinking of the previous entanglement and hesitation, he was immediately very happy, and said with a smile: "It's good that the young master knows." There are a lot of joints, so please allow me to explain the explanation. ”

This time, Xu Xun didn't divert the conversation like he had interrupted Ruisheng before, but looked at Jin Liu for a moment before nodding and saying, "Say it." ”

"The four rooms of the Xu family were handed down by a high ancestor five generations ago, and that ancestor had served as a county magistrate for two terms during the Xuande period. Therefore, although the young master calls the eldest uncle the eldest uncle, he is actually only a clan member within the five suits. This second room was passed on to the young master, only you are such a single seedling, and there is no foreign family to rely on, the dividends of the family property plus the Zhuangtian real estate of the second room, etc., so there are many people in the clan who covet it. ”

Speaking of this, Jin Liu stole a glance at Xu Xun, and saw that he did not show a disgusted expression, and became more and more convinced that this young master had suddenly undergone a big change and opened his mind, so he swallowed his saliva to moisten his throat, and continued: "The Shen family, which our master set for you at the beginning, is a well-known rich family in Taiping, although it is not as rich as Shen Wansan when Hong Wuye, but not to mention that there is also Wanguan's family wealth, who in the clan is not red-eyed?" If they can use this incident to get you out of the house, they can choose another person to enter the second house, inherit the family business, and maybe have a chance to ......"

"So, I went astray before, indulged in profligacy, and almost lost my life, so there's something else wrong with this, right?"

Xu Xun answered casually, seeing that Jin Liu looked at him as if he had seen a ghost, he knew that this thief's shrewd Jin Liu was afraid of what he knew, so he smiled more and more lightly, but did not explain more.

Under Xu Xun's smiling gaze, Jin Liu could only nod and smile, but a cold sweat broke out on his back. This master has either suddenly opened his mind, or he was originally wise and foolish, so from this point of view, isn't his showmanship extremely ridiculous?