The winter rain in Fushun does not stop. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

The water on the bluestone pavement of the first night was not dry, and the sound of the rain gradually sounded the next morning. The servants of the lower class of the Li Mansion were the first to wake up, and the servants in brown clothes were busy sweeping away the stagnant water in the courtyard, and twisted the handkerchief to wipe the watery railing, and the small servants climbed the long ladder up the roof with oilcloth and carefully checked for broken tiles, so as not to wet the house with rain. The stupid mother-in-law and the low-level maids performed their duties, and although people came and went, they spoke in a low voice and were not noisy at all.

Li Yongzhong's breakfast was just a bowl of white porridge and a few small dishes, and when he was eating, the chief steward Li Sanzhong stood on the side and whispered to him about the affairs of the village outside the city.

"Have you used it in the morning?" The young man swallowed his bite of food and turned his head to ask the steward, Li Sanzhong was stunned for a moment - this was what Li Qi did when he was alive, and the people he used to be used were always close. Since Li Qi was seriously ill, this treatment has been much less.

Li Yongzhong didn't wait for him to answer, so he ordered the little guy next to him: "Bring another pair of dishes and chopsticks." ”

Li Sanzhong excused himself with some contempt: "Host, I came here with breakfast." ”

"You used it too early in the morning, and now you don't need it, and you are the one who suffers." Li Yongzhong took a bite of food to himself, and then continued: "You are an old man who has been used by my father for decades, I am young now, and there is no one in charge of the family now, so I have to rely on you for a few years." Speaking of this, he smiled: "I originally went to find the eldest brother, hoping that the sister-in-law could preside over the feed, but the eldest brother was still too shy, and resigned to the sister-in-law, saying that the sister-in-law is not in good health now, and my nephew is also young, so I should recuperate with peace of mind." ”

He said it easily, but unfortunately the few people standing in the room couldn't wait to reach out and cover their ears, but they didn't hear it. The two brothers of the Li family do not seem to be separated, but they are not much different from this. A few days ago, Li Yongbo found a plasterer to separate the road connecting his yard from the house, and closed the door to live his own small life, but he should have taken a lot of money, and by the way, he confidently put all the expenses in his yard on the account of the public middle school.

Li Sanzhong swallowed his saliva, he only dared to sit on a half-pulled stool, which was really harder than standing. Li Yongzhong glanced at him, turned his head and said to the personal servant Wutong behind him: "Go, sit down for your family's big steward." He was comfortable to sit on, and I was still uncomfortable. ”

Wutong smiled and replied loudly, walked over in two steps and dragged the ground to let Li Sanzhong sit on the chair, Li Yongzhong watched from above, Li Sanzhong didn't dare to struggle, and finally couldn't help but stare at his eyes and scolded in a whisper: "Little rabbit cub, there are no rules!" ”

The young family watched the show for a long time, and then slowly spoke: "What kind of rules is this?" This is to fool people, thinking that those who are standing, kneeling, and retreating are the rules, and they are not right. The next person has you as the master's family in his heart, even if he sits and walks with you, it is also full of humility and humility, on the contrary, if he does not have a rule in his heart, there is no constitution, even if he kowtows ninety-nine rings in front of the master's family, he still does not blink when he betrays the master. ”

The chief steward was sweating densely afterwards, Li Yongzhong had previously sent a message to ask him to sit down, but he didn't dare to stand up, so he had to hold his knees with his hands and bow slightly, and said in a low voice: "The master is reasonable." ”

"I'm still young," Li Yongzhong smiled, tilted his head and looked at the steward who had served the Li family for decades, he was sixteen or seventeen years old, and he didn't look like a treacherous businessman when he smiled, but he was very kind of a poet and a book's son, "It's just right for my father to be called a master at that age, and I'm a little earlier at my age." ”

"That's what Zhong Guan'er said." Li Sanzhong immediately changed his name, his mouth was bitter, and his heart was flustered. After the funeral, the chief steward looked at the former second young master a little more afraid - he claimed to be the hero Li Qi's man, and he was more than polite to the two young masters, but not enough respect. What was prudence now seems to have turned to arrogance. Li Sanzhong is not yet fifty, and he doesn't want to be sent by the young head of the family to Zhuangzi outside the city to retire.

Thinking of this, he felt more and more that the distance between him and the head of the family was really far, and he just wanted to use some excuses to get close to Li Yongzhong. He didn't dare to think that he would get along with Li Qi like a master and servant in the past, but he had to become Li Yongzhong's support.

"Today, I went with Master Wang to see Master Liu." Li Yongzhong casually ordered, "You take care of the affairs of the family, you have been chaotic these days, and you have to pick up the rules after today, don't mess up yourself." ”

Li Sanzhong stood up and respectfully responded yes. After thinking about it, he was a little embarrassed, and glanced at the head of the house who was arranging his robe by the little servant, and the chief steward said tentatively: "It's just that there is a fact that is embarrassing." ”

"Speak."

"Yes...... The matter of the eldest young master. ”

Li Yongzhong turned his head and joked with Wutong: "I thought it was a big deal." ”

Wutong was clever, replied unhurriedly, patted Li Yongzhong on the back, and helped the chief steward to relieve the siege by the way: "Of course Yu Zhongguan'er is a trivial matter, and Brother Er is your brother, as the saying goes, if you break it, you will still have tendons, and the second young master can take care of things with a raised hand." It's just that the eldest young master gives Zhong Guan'er face, but the chief steward can't take care of it. ”

This sentence was really smart, and it made Li Yongzhong laugh twice.

Li Sanzhong took the opportunity to say: "The day before yesterday, the eldest young master was separated by the alley, Zhong Guan'er told not to pay attention to it, but that road is really commonly used, and now it is blocked, and the inner and outer courtyards have to be trafficked from the left compartment, in case there is something, the inside will be trapped to death, Zhong Guan'er, look ......"

"Call the plasterer to wall up the other roads in the eldest brother's yard, especially the little gate in the southeast corner. Remember, the dog holes are blocked. Li Yongzhong said slowly: "The eldest brother has always been cautious, after all, the family still has to keep filial piety, and it is true that you must be careful at the door." Seeing that it was almost cleaned up, Li Yongzhong raised his feet to leave, and said by the way: "There are fewer chaotic people coming in." ”

Li Sanzhong didn't dare to raise his head, bowed down deeply, and answered a sentence.

Wang Huanzhi had been waiting in the study room in the outer courtyard for a while, and Li Yongzhong had just opened the curtain and came in, and when he saw the master standing up to greet him, he hurriedly said, "Uncle Wang is too outside." ”

The master insisted on having to bow to Li Yongzhong before sitting down. He has his own saying: "In the past, Zhongguan'er was grown up under my watch, and he had his own feelings, so it was okay to be a little lax in etiquette. But now that you are the head of the Li family and my owner, what you should do is still to be done, so that you and I can deal with ourselves. ”

Only then did the two sit down. Wang Huanzhi brought the account book, Li Yongzhong looked at the account, and told Wang Huanzhi about the three minutes of Inoue. The master mentioned that the newly opened well was not very smooth, and there were intermittent times, and asked if he wanted to find a craftsman to take a look, Li Yongzhong ran on the salt well at what age he was, and he knew everything about the well, and this situation was not uncommon, and he muttered slightly: "Maybe the fire has not burned out, don't do it, call the craftsman tomorrow." Master nodded and made a note of this.

The two of them calculated the vegetable and wage of the water porter next month, Li Yongzhong decided to change the rules of eating, from one meat in five days to one meal in three days, Wang Huanzhi hesitated: "This is another expense." ”

"It's winter now, and it's cold." Li Yongzhong waved his hand and said: "Water porters are all living with dead strength, and if you can't eat enough, where is the strength on your body." It's about the salt well, we discussed it last time, and then I thought about it again alone, and we still didn't open much. He lowered his voice and said to Wang Huan: "It's not good now, a few days ago, Chen Dachuan came back with news and met the displaced people from Shaanxi in Chengdu, I always thought that this taste is not right." ”

Wang Huan was stunned, he leaned towards Li Yongzhong, and he couldn't wait to lie on the table with his upper body, and his voice was so low that he whispered: "Zhong Guan'er said this, can you say it to people?" ”

"No, I didn't." Li Yongzhong said in a low voice: "This kind of thing, who dares to talk nonsense?" ”

The master nodded, breathed a sigh of relief, returned to his chair, and said with relief: "I knew that Zhong Guan'er was always careful. This kind of news will not be passed on to Liu'er," he pointed to himself and Li Yongzhong, "Zhong Guan'er just tell me about it, and don't tell anyone else." ”

Their eyes touched in the air, and each of them bowed their heads in tacit understanding, and took a sip of tea. The room fell silent for a moment.

The world is already showing signs of collapse. Li Yongzhong rubbed the smooth surface of the porcelain, and thought a little distractedly, starting from the battle of Sarhu in the 47th year of Wanli, Liaodong gradually became incapacitated, and in the year of the Apocalypse, it was even more difficult to lose and win less. And he knows that from the seventh year of the Apocalypse, natural and man-made disasters will completely drag down Shaanxi, and the Ming Dynasty will not stop bleeding, and people who are living in peace now will not know that Guozuo will only have 16 years.

Thinking of this, the young new head of the Li family suddenly smiled, what does the world have to do with him, a salt merchant in eastern Sichuan? Four hundred years later, he had read those impassioned novels, and he had fantasized that he would once cross over, worship the king, and even lead 100,000 soldiers to set foot in Kyushu and restore Qingping in China, but the cold reality soon gave him a blow to the head. Li Yongzhong once heard the nurse scare the child with the toast that was in trouble a few years ago, and he also knew that it was not the complete story, the siege of Guiyang ended up eating human flesh to survive, one tael of silver and four catties!

He thinks that he has no talent to go through the heavens and the earth, let alone the mind to help the world and save people. He has seen the guards in Yibin drilling, the clothes are not covered, and the waist is measured by hand, which is simply blown down by the wind, which is worse than his family's water porters! Later, due to fate, I also saw the famous white pole soldiers, as well as the legendary fierce and fierce Tusi soldiers, but every time I saw it, the disappointment was deeper, although he was not a history expert, but he also knew that at the end of the Ming Dynasty it was the large-scale development of firearms, which began to replace the era of cold weapons, but the weapons he saw that could be called firearms were just two artillery pieces that did not know the age on the city wall of Chengdu Mansion!

Retracting his gaze from the window and putting it on the ledger written in Suzhou yards on the table, Li Yongzhong smiled to himself, what is the use of thinking so much? This small town in eastern Sichuan is destined to experience catastrophe in the future, and he is destined to see the world fall into decline in his two lives. All I have done today is the luxury of hoping to leave the chaos as soon as possible and live in peace.

Zhengqiang suppressed the turmoil in his heart, and suddenly heard Wang Huanzhi say: "Brother, ......"

Li Yongzhong curled the corners of his mouth, and his mood got better inexplicably. He stood up and stretched lazily in the disapproving gaze of the master, sat down again, smiled, and then said: "The eldest brother guards the door, and has a deep relationship with his father and son, and now he is filial piety to his father, and it is easy not to go out of the door half a step." ”

Wang Huanzhi looked at him suspiciously, he wanted to tell Li Yongzhong that he still needed to be polite to Li Yongbo, but looking at Brother Zhong'er's current look, it was obvious that Li Yongbo had done something again. Let's go, the master said secretly, he is finally worthy of the master's ten years of favor, and finally reminded himself that there are some things not to overdo his duty, the two of them talked for a while, and the scene was dispersed at noon.