Aunt Dai called, and the room was quiet.

Just near the door, Xu Xun stopped, but didn't immediately turn around: "Aunt Dai probably didn't inquire about my surname?" I've never been someone to be coerced! I think that when I was in Nanjing, I was able to donate all the fields left by my father to the Gonggong Institute and the construction of water conservancy, and I was by no means cheap Zhao Qin, a hypocrite, and now that my father has inherited the title, do you think I will be subject to your careful thinking? ”

As he spoke, he turned around and saw that Aunt Dai on the bed had an extremely unsightly face, so he smiled and said: "To be honest, I don't like to rush to unrelated people if I have nothing to do, and my aunt doesn't have to worry about what will happen to Ling Qianjin, after all, she is also my cousin." If the deed is destroyed, it will be destroyed, and there are archives in Xuntian Palace, so it's a big deal for me to ask the master of ceremonies and the eunuch Xiao Gonggong to find a way, as for other private fields, go to the yamen to check the old files, and I can always find more than half of them. It doesn't matter if you lose some, and you don't care if you send some out in order to get up and down, and our father and son are poor and white, so it's a big deal not to put on these pomp and circumstance of Xing'anbo Mansion in the past. ”

"You...... You ......"

Aunt Dai had also heard a thing or two about Xu Xun from Xu Yi. But when she heard that she really saw this kind of determination at this time, she only had a kind of horror and despair that she couldn't resist. If she is Mrs. Xing'anbo, a serious top command, she may be able to hold it down if she is an elder, but now the result of her death to the end is very likely to be a chicken and egg beating. So, she crumpled the sheets under her head into a ball, and it took a long time for her to hold back a sentence.

"What do you want?"

"Auntie, is that wrong? I don't blame you for stabbing our father and son in the back before, but you didn't have anything to do with the poison on the first day we moved in, and now you want to ask us what we want? Xu Xun raised his voice suddenly, and his tone suddenly became even colder, "If you follow the rules, you are not Mrs. Xing'anbo, no matter who takes the title, there is no reason to support you!" There are those who support the concubines of the previous generation of masters, and there are also those who send people to the temple for a lifetime, and there are even those who directly sell people to the picture of a hundred! ”

Seeing that Aunt Dai's face was pale, he slowed down his tone and said, "For the sake of the fact that you gave birth to a daughter to my late uncle, you take out the land deed and I will give you a piece of land for retirement." This is the last chance, otherwise I would rather go to the yamen to toss around than set foot in here again, and you will be left to fend for yourself! ”

The reason why Aunt Dai was willing to follow Xu Yi to plan the title, that is, to take advantage of the other party's offer, at this moment, when she heard that Xu Xun actually proposed this method, she suddenly seemed to grasp a life-saving straw, and hurriedly said: "Okay, I promise, I promise you!" But if you take something, you will regret it......"

"If I were more ruthless and turned your fake poison into real poisoning, do you think you still have a life?"

Dealing with such a mean and selfish woman, Xu Xun was already very impatient, and immediately put down such a sentence. Sure enough, Aunt Dai on the bed was so frightened that her face turned even paler, and it took a long time for her to finally reach out and grope in her arms, but after a while, she said curtly: "I sew everything on my body, can you ...... it?"

Hearing this, Xu Xun immediately went out without looking back, and when he got down the steps in front of the door, he couldn't help but be angry and funny. He knew that this kind of greedy and short-sighted woman categorically did not dare to hand over things to others, even if it was her own daughter and son-in-law, and she couldn't leave the house casually, most of them just hid things close to her, and he didn't want to think that if he was really ruthless, wouldn't it be convenient to do anything when people died?

Xu Xun stood outside for a while, the courtyard was always empty, and there was no movement in the wings, as if there was no one, let alone those who dared to come up to offer their respects. It wasn't until he stood and stood that he gradually became a little impatient, and the sound of the door curtain opening came from behind, and then Zhu Ying stepped forward with a stack of crumpled things in both hands.

"Young master, this is found from my aunt's clothes, the slave maid and Cui's mother have counted together, and there are 800 acres of Wuqing Zhuangtian, 600 acres of Tongzhou Zhuangtian, and 800 acres of Miyunzhuang ......"

Listening to Zhu Ying's report the number, Xu Xun secretly calculated in his heart, and found that the total number of acres of land exceeded 8,000 mu, which was very different from the miserable situation of the remaining silver on the books of Bofu, and he couldn't help but smack his tongue.

No wonder even if the nobles of the Ming Dynasty later only received their positions and sat on empty mountains one by one, their families could still be so rich, and there were so many things. In addition to, there are many fields near Xuanfu Datong, which is obviously left behind by Xu Heng when he was the chief military officer. After listening to Zhu Ying's reading, he took these pieces of paper and swept them casually, and saw that in addition to this Xing'an Bo Mansion, there were also a total of twelve shops in the West Fourth Archway and Dengshikou Hutong, and he rolled them together.

In addition, my aunt and grandmother still held a title deed in their hands, and they refused to take it out, so the slave maid and Cui's mother glanced at it on the side, and it was about a land deed of 500 acres, not near Gyeonggi, but Jurong. My aunt said that if the young master spoke first, she would transfer the land to her. ”

Zhu Ying couldn't help but pouted quietly as she spoke, secretly thinking that this Aunt Dai was really stupid, handing over the big head and wanting to keep the small head, but now it is already fish on the chopping board, where is it so easy. However, what she didn't expect was that Xu Xun smiled and said lightly: "If she wants to keep it, let her keep it." And tell her that if she wants to transfer these lands to her own name as soon as possible, she should clean up the remaining poison as soon as possible. When she can go to the ground, I will naturally send someone to clean this stubble and send her out to recuperate! ”

After Xu Xun said this, he walked straight out, naturally he didn't see Zhu Ying standing there with a stunned face - of course, even if he saw it, he wouldn't take it to heart. A mere Aunt Dai, if he takes something and leaves, he doesn't mind not being guilty of the past, at least he can publicize and promote his father and son's benevolence and righteousness outside, but if he plays any more moths, even if he transfers these hundreds of acres of land, he also has a way to make people fly and eggs.

After leaving the courtyard, he went straight to the main house, which is now renamed Cuizhuyuan. As soon as he entered the room, he saw that there was no one in the bright room, so he had to go straight into the east room, but as soon as he opened the curtain and entered, he saw Xu Liang sitting at the desk and writing intently, and the two girls were standing next to him. When he saw this, he laughed, waved his hand back, and then tiptoed forward.

After looking around to Xu Liang's side for a while, and seeing that his father didn't notice it at all, he coughed dryly: "Dad is so interested!" ”

Xu Liang's hand shook, and a drop of ink immediately dripped on the paper, and it was blurred all of a sudden. He turned his head and glanced at Xu Xun angrily, but his old face was slightly red, and he put down his pen and complained: "What kind of interest, this is not just in case, if you really want to go to the yamen, there must be a time to write." I haven't touched a pen for many years, and if I really want to catch ducks on the shelves, I can't make people laugh at them, so I have to practice those common ones first. ”

The so-called common one is Xu Liang's own honorific name. Xu Xun looked at the upright words Xu Liang on the small note, and laughed again for a while. Xu Liang casually crumpled the small piece of paper into a ball and threw it into the paper basket next to him, and then glared at Xu Xun with some annoyance and anger: "Okay, don't you laugh, don't you know that your father is better than holding a pen over the years!" It's you, it's not okay to just read books and not practice calligraphy, go back and buy a knife or two of paper to practice and meditate. ”

"Okay, okay, I'll listen to my father!"

Xu Xun stopped laughing, and then spread out the things in his hand and put them on the desk: "Dad, this is what I got back from Aunt Dai." In the past, I only thought that other people's families were rich, but now when I look at my own family, I have become a nouveau riche without paying attention. ”

Xu Liang saw a large stack of title deeds on the table, and then he knew that Xu Xun actually asked for things back from Aunt Dai, and after being stunned for a while, he said with a smile: "Okay, sure enough, you are strong, and you let her take out these things lightly and skillfully." After he read them one by one, he pinched his fingers and counted them, and frowned at the end.

"That's not right, it's too bad."

I thought that the number of 8,000 mu was scary enough, so although Xu Xun also thought that he would have to check it again when the time came, but Xu Liang's sentence was too much, which still surprised him. Xu Liang casually counted the land deeds in front of him, and it didn't take long to divide them into several piles, and then he glanced at them one by one, and then shook his head and said: "These should be the fields of the past dynasties, even if she doesn't hand them over, she can find them back by consulting the old files." What is lacking should be those private fields in Xing'anbo. In the early years of the imperial court, the imperial court encouraged the nobles to reclaim the famine, and my grandfather went out of the town many times, as far as I know, the fields that Xing'an Bofu recruited people to reclaim are never less than 600 hectares, that is, 60,000 acres! Although you are smart, you don't understand the fame of these families, let alone Aunt Dai, a woman in the house. ”

60,000 acres! This is the capital of the Ming Dynasty that the nobles of the Ming Dynasty can still be happy even though they don't care about things?

Xu Xun couldn't help but gasp: "There are so many?" What do you mean, daddy......"

"Not much, you know, in order to subsidize those general soldiers who go out of the town, the imperial court will give them one hundred and fifty acres of land to collect rent, and it is public land, after all, those general soldiers rarely let Xungui be a noble. But in the early years, when your great-grandfather was preparing for the border, it was almost strange that the military households and tenants were allowed to reclaim the land. He repeatedly went out to fight out of the town in those years, and my father had no other talents, but he had a hand in managing the accounts, and this number was counted. However, these fields were rented by the stewards of the house, and they knew better than the owners where they were. Aunt Dai couldn't take it out, which shows that when my eldest brother died suddenly, she didn't have time to explain it. In short, you don't have to worry about this, I can't help the rest of the father, but I have more ideas than you in this matter! ”

Xu Xun didn't have much experience with this kind of housework, his father was willing to go out, he was naturally happy, and immediately smiled: "That's good, Dad, you are out of the horse, a top two, not to mention a monk?" However, the money on the books is too small, and the next thing is to dismiss those other women, whether it is to buy things, even if my new official takes office, I need money, how to make money, and I have to worry about you to think of a way, otherwise I will be a good woman who has no rice. ”

"Stinky boy, you actually squeezed me!" Although Xu Liang scolded fiercely, he immediately laughed heartily. If you really let your son charge forward in everything, won't he be too useless as a father?

(To be continued)