When Linglong came to Li's house, she was really shocked by the huge courtyard, and her mood calmed down after living in the Yanyu Building for a few days.

Li Ling also flipped a little proudly. This was originally another courtyard of the Shen family, and the exhibition fell into the hands of the Li family, and it only had its current scale after many repairs.

Linglong is as free and cheerful as a bird that has just escaped from its cage, and she has taken great pains to keep the Yanyu Building in order.

It's a shame to say that although the Li family is a landlord and an old man, Li Ling has not even had a maid by his side for so many years, but the younger brother who is two years younger than him has two maids for dispatch by his side, the reason is to facilitate taking care of his stepmother and father, but the predecessor has not raised any objections to this. There is no way, who let himself be raised by his stepmother?

Linglong, this girl, is not only proficient in various musical instruments, but also familiar with the Four Books and Five Classics, can memorize these books from the beginning, and can skillfully explain the meaning of those words, which makes him, a Xiucai who has read books for more than ten years, have to feel ashamed.

This is the real red sleeve fragrance, Li Ling with her help read through the gist of the text before he began to memorize the book ruthlessly.

As a young man with the soul of a modern person, he really has no way to memorize these jerky words in an unclear situation.

I obviously have the contents of the four books and five classics in my head, and I can't integrate them myself.

In order to avoid the interrogation of others, he has not been to the county school for many days, although this is normal in the eyes of others. Li Daxiucai studied like crazy at home, in order to be able to win something in the township examination, which is a well-known thing.

Yanyulou is self-contained, a few days after Linglong is familiar with the grass and trees here, thinking that in the future to be able to live with her son in this poetic place, not to be bullied by others, she woke up with a smile a few times when she dreamed. Finally forgot all the unhappiness of the past.

Girl's feelings are always poetry, Li Ling is a rough person, he didn't notice these subtle changes, but he knew that the little girl around him was getting more and more cheerful.

Now he has lived the life that a rich son should have, when he has nothing to do, he walks around his own garden, and when he is tired, he reads with the little maid, there is no pressure of life here, and he doesn't have to worry about being unemployed, how comfortable life is.

But this kind of life came to trouble within a few days, but at this time he didn't know that this kind of trouble would become an opportunity for him to move up.

All the shops of the Li family were seized by the government, and Li Ming's uncle was arrested by the officials.

, Li Ling was very surprised, this old guy has always been an old traitor, how could he let the yamen take the handle this time?

After casually instructing Linglong, he followed Xiao Qi to the upper room where his parents lived.

"I said eldest young master, can you hurry up, the lord and the lady are waiting for you in the front yard, if you go late, the lady should scold me again!"

At the age of seventy-seven or eighteen, he is the most frivolous, but he is very shrewd. Seeing that his young master looked absent-minded, he reminded the other party with words. He meant to be a little more wary of Madame.

Li Ling understood his words, but he didn't respond to the other party well.

Xiao Qi and his younger brother are both doing things in the Li family, and they are the slaves of the family, and they have been loyal to the Li family for generations, and they are the most loyal.

The two brothers are both lively, and they originally chose the two of them to follow Li Ling.

They couldn't stand the loneliness of the school when Li Ling entered school, so they replaced Li San as a long-term follower, but they didn't expect that the Li family only cultivated an ungrateful character, and it was a little embarrassing to say. "There is a problem with the accounts in the salt shop, and my uncle is not kind!" The appearance that the eldest young master didn't seem to listen to his words made Xiao Qi even more anxious.

He lowered his voice and told the ins and outs of the matter.

The Li family not only owns a few shops, but also operates a large-scale salt factory, and Li's father alone cannot support the big family's business.

When the emperor was alive, the government/rule was dark, the merchants were oppressed like never before, and the Li family suffered greatly, and slowly the family background withered, the business shrank, and it did not recover for more than ten years.

Father Li, who grew up in this situation, was far from having the enterprising will of his ancestors, and handed over all his own business to others to manage, and the salt farm was handed over to the old housekeeper, who was Xiao Qi's father, and the shops with the most benefits were to let his wife and brother come to Zhang Luo.

I didn't expect that the person I was optimistic about was fooling him, selling salt was a profitable business, but the Li family's shop had not handed over profits to the main family for several months.

People up and down the Li Mansion knew that this was Zhou Tong's goods that embezzled the profits, and everyone only hid it from Li's father, or he also knew it, but he didn't want to believe it.

Xu is Zhou's pillow was blown so hard that he forgot what a huge amount of money the income in the shop was.

This time it was a flying disaster, and when the shop was about to close in the evening, several officials suddenly broke in and took Zhou Tong and a few guys without paying attention.

He was unlucky, and the official put Zhou Tong's account book and the day's trading pair, and found that it was different, so he immediately convicted him of tax evasion and brought these back to the county office.

Knowing the truth of the matter, Li Ling was even more unanxious, the salt tax was paid in the form of salt, as for the commercial tax, did the Ming Dynasty have this name?

The officials painstakingly searched for the Li family's faults, in order to knock on the mountain and shock the tiger, in order to deter him Li Ling.

A few days ago, when he was painting the boat, he lost Ma Wencai's face in front of many people, his father is the second master of the county, how can he not trouble him?

Since it is aimed at themselves, they must not be too embarrassed, the Ma family just wants to let themselves bow their heads.

Father Ma is just a lifter, the county lord does not buy his account, in order to prevent other famous scholars from following Li Ling's example, the Ma family is going to kill chickens and monkeys, and take him as a new talent!

Xiao Qi is right, there is a problem with the accounts! What is Zhou Tong going to do, why is it not recorded truthfully, and a discerning person knows that there is something else in it at a glance. It seems that I need to check it out.

"Master, you must be the master of the concubine, I am such a younger brother, if he has three long and two short, I, I will not live."

When Li Ling took Xiao Qi into the hall, Zhou was crying, this time she was really distressed, over the years she was able to mix in the Li family as a concubine, all thanks to Zhou Tong's help, if he was really convicted, I was afraid that the good days of their mothers would come to an end.

"Hey, in the past few years, my family has only relied on the income from the salt farm, where is the extra money?" Father Li sighed with a bitter face, Ping Suli Zhou Tong refused to hand over the income in the shop, and today he wanted him to take the silver outside, he really didn't know that the material and rice were expensive, and the daily expenses, when did he not need the silver.

The officials of the county government are all jackals who eat people and don't spit out bones, but I am afraid that the Li family will lose their belongings, and even the county lord will not be able to see them and let people swallow them up.

"Father, why don't we sell the ancestral house and exchange some silver taels to go to the yamen to make some money!"

Li Ming saw that his father didn't want to take care of his uncle's affairs, he was a little anxious, usually Zhou Tong served him and the Zhou family comfortably, how could he not help talk at a critical time?

"Yes, yes, as long as this house is sold, everything can be settled!" The son came up with an idea, and the Zhou family suddenly understood, thinking that as long as he was blowing the wind, maybe the old man would sell the house as soon as he gritted his teeth, and when the money arrived, the big things could be suppressed.

The Li family owns a few shops and a salt farm, and after the matter has passed, they can sell the house back when they have enough money.

After listening to Zhou's words, Li's father fell into a deep contradiction, but this house was the ancestral property of their family, and the purchase of this courtyard was precisely the most glorious time for their family, and he couldn't make up his mind for a while.

"Master, human life is a matter of heaven, you don't know what kind of virtue those people in the Yamen are, if you stay there for a long time, you are afraid that you will be stripped of your skin if you don't die, for the sake of us serving you in front of the saddle and behind the horse for so many years, save his uncle!".

Zhou saw that Father Li was in deep thought, and knew that there was a door, so she wanted to add another fire to make Father Li make up his mind quickly.

Father Li was not an assertive person, and his already somewhat wavering heart began to tilt towards the Zhou side.

Zhou unconsciously curled the corners of his mouth, looked at Father Li with a triumphant gaze, and gave his son a reassuring look.

Li Ling shook his head, his father was too easy to fool, fortunately, the Li family had a big business, otherwise he would have been defeated.

"I don't agree, this property was placed by the ancestors, but the Li family has a family motto, as long as you don't starve to death, you can't fight this house, don't you remember?" Seeing that the Zhou family was forcing his father to sell the house step by step, Li Ling couldn't hold back anymore.

"Family motto". Only then did Father Li remember the last words of his ancestor, and only then did he know that he could not touch this property, as long as he sold it, he was afraid that he would have to bear a charge of unfilial piety.

As soon as he thought that the group of old guys in his hometown would come here to teach him a lesson, Father Li shivered, and he hurriedly shook his head at Zhou and rejected her proposal.

Zhou's smile froze instantly, she couldn't have imagined that Li Ling, who had never been in charge of things, would actually open his mouth to persuade his father, could it be that he changed his temper?

It's not good that Li Ling has ruined their good deeds, but the Zhou family doesn't dare to say anything, she is just a concubine of Li's father, a slave-like existence, and she only relies on Li's father's favor to have some influence.

"Then, what about my uncle, don't you care?" After waiting for a long time, Li Ming dared to ask his own questions, he always felt that his brother was like a different person, could it be that he was more majestic after being a showman.

He could only put forward his opinion so euphemistically, according to the "Da Ming Law", the son born to the concubine did not have any inheritance rights at all, if it weren't for Li Ling's mother dying early, I was afraid that the Zhou family would not even have the right to raise his son.

The Zhou family also sighed in his heart, even if Father Li spoiled her again, she was just a humble concubine, but those old bastards in the hateful clan never agreed to raise herself as a wife, just because she was born poor and was not worthy of the lintel of the Li family?

"Tomorrow, I will go to meet the county lord, I hope he can make it convenient and check the affairs of the shopkeeper Zhou!" Li Ling was definitely not thinking about how to rescue Zhou Tong, but wanting to know about the account book, and he wanted to find out what Zhou Tong did to do it.