It is a three-hall mansion that covers an area of about two acres. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 The info gate is located in the middle of the alley, which is extraordinarily peaceful. Entering from the high gate building, there is a brick screen that blocks the scenery in the courtyard, and the screen is painted with white ash, and the picture of the pine crane prolonging the year is painted on it, but many of the colors have fallen off and appear mottled and uneven.

Bypassing the screen is a small courtyard, and directly opposite the gate are three spacious main rooms, with red tiles and blue bricks, animal head cornices, and red painted columns to top up a wide corridor. These three rooms are a living room and study.

There are several clumps of green bamboos planted on the left side of the courtyard against the wall, and the verdant bamboo leaves are high above the courtyard wall, and the bamboo leaves make a rattling sound when the wind blows from outside.

In the middle of the courtyard there was a huge water tank, in which a few red fish were swimming happily.

The courtyard in the middle is built with a side house, which is where the servants of the family live, and the kitchen and horse sheds are distributed here.

The backyard is the owner's residence, a small two-story building, with seven or eight rooms upstairs, and a small garden at the back of the building, but because no one has taken care of it for many days, the garden has become overgrown with weeds.

That's right, this is Ren Mansion in Sweetwater Hutong, Ren Siqi's home. Since Ren Siqi was imprisoned, the old housekeeper fled with the money, the family was scattered, and the family property was expropriated by the government, part of which was used to compensate Lichun Yuan, although the dead Ah Zi's younger brother did not get a penny, and most of the family property fell into the hands of the government.

Now that Ren Siqi has cleared his name, the mansion was ordered to be returned by the county order Zhou Bangjie.

For two months, although the time is not very long, but without anyone to take care of it, this courtyard has become much more desolate.

Now Ren Siqi and Xiong Er and the others are tidying up, and the soft household items in the house have been swept away, and there is not even a chair and table. The kitchen was a mess, the dishes were shattered, but fortunately, the cauldron was still there, and everyone could still make a meal.

Simply cleaned the house, and asked Ren Xingfan and Ren Dongming to buy some bedding, firewood, rice, oil and salt, Ren Siqi stood at the door of the hall, looking at the green bamboo in the corner of the wall in a daze.

There is no need to tidy up the yard, because Ren Siqi does not plan to live here for a long time, and there are still many things he has to do now.

Although the crime has been cleared and his innocent identity has now been restored, after all, the lost fame has not been returned, and the county commander Zhou Bangjie made it clear that the matter of fame must go to the great grandmaster to decide.

According to Zhou Bangjie, this Wang Yinghua is a Taoist scholar, honest and honest, not bribed, and is a difficult person to deal with.

If you want to restore your fame, I'm afraid it's very troublesome. But in the Ming Dynasty, identity is very important, no identity allows you to have more money, a small official can handle you, and the official gentry regard you as a lamb to the slaughter. When ordinary people travel, they have to issue a road guide certificate issued by the government when they are hundreds of miles away from their hometowns, and the checkpoint inspections along the way will be arbitrarily scraped.

Therefore, although Xiucai is the lowest level of fame, although there is no qualification to be an official, but after all, he is a member of the scholars, with this fame, other officials and gentry will not dare to oppress you at will, with this fame, you can walk the world in the name of study tours, and the checkpoints around the country will not be scraped in the name of collecting taxes.

We must restore the identity of Xiucai as soon as possible! Ren Siqi said to himself.

Another thing to do now is to contact the source of goods going to sea, and if you want to trade overseas, you must have your own purchase channels. Although raw silk tea and the like can be bought in the market, it is not always possible to buy it little by little. It's easy to buy zero, but if you want to buy in large quantities and buy at a lower price, it's a bit troublesome.

Raw silk is found in Ningbo, and in Zhejiang, almost every family has a few acres of mulberry fields, and every family raises silkworms. But this does not mean that raw silk is easy to buy, because ordinary people have signed contracts with large households early, and the silk produced by the silkworms they raise has long been sold. So if you want to buy goods, if you want to buy in large quantities, you can only deal with large households! But with Ren Siqi's current identity, it is useless to find someone, there are not a few scholars in a big family, you have a white ding with no merit to come to the door, and people don't look at you! Therefore, it is imperative to restore the identity of Xiucai as soon as possible in order to make further plans!

Just as Ren Siqi was thinking about it, a sound of footsteps sounded from outside. A few scholars broke in, looking at the person walking in front, the corners of Ren Siqi's mouth twitched, and his face sank.

The man at the front was in his twenties, wearing a royal blue gown, a thin figure, a long face, a high stork bone, a pointed chin, a high nose, and wide lips, but the lips were very thin and looked very mean. He is Gao Liqun, Gao Xiucai, Ren Siqi's rival.

Behind him, there were two other Xiucai, one surnamed Wang and the other surnamed Li, who were not very good with Ren Siqi in the past.

Ren Siqi looked at them coldly and said nothing.

"Hahaha," Gao Liqun laughed before speaking, shook the folding fan in his hand, and made a dashing appearance, "I heard that Brother Ren returned safely and was cleared of murder charges, and the younger brother came to congratulate, but it seems that Brother Ren doesn't seem to welcome me as an uninvited guest?" ”

The corners of Ren Siqi's mouth twitched, and he sneered: "How dare you, senior brother, you can come, the younger brother is deeply honored, but the home is shabby, and I haven't had time to clean it up, I'm afraid I can't entertain you, brothers, please go back, he will wait for the house to be cleaned up, and then invite you to come as guests." ”

Before Gao Liqun could answer, Xiucai, surnamed Wang next to him, suddenly closed the folding fan in his hand and immediately challenged Ren Siqi.

"The surname is Ren, what is your current identity? Brother Gao and you call you brother and brother is just polite, even now you dare to call me a brother? It's really Wang Ba's big face in the mirror! ”

Another Li Xiucai also agreed with him, while Gao Liqun stood aside with a smile. In the past few days, Gao Liqun has been very depressed, somehow, the previous instruction of Wang Cai to kill people was exposed, although in the end Zhou County ordered all the charges on Wang Cai, but the rumors still spread, Yin County secretly spread that he Gao Xiucai borrowed a knife to kill people, which caused a great loss to his reputation, and the Zhang family was much colder to the marriage of the two families.

For Zhang Pujia, since they met a few years ago, Gao Liqun was immediately shocked, but unfortunately she and Ren Siqi already had a marriage contract, which made Gao Liqun helpless. Later, he came up with a conspiracy to frame Ren Siqi, and Ren Siqi was sentenced to death and imprisoned.

Gao Liqun immediately asked his uncle, who was a high-ranking official, to propose marriage for himself, but he didn't expect that the matter had just come to an eyebrow, but Ren Siqi came back, not only came back, but also washed away the past charges. Gao Liqun's heart is now as uncomfortable as eating a dead mouse, so he couldn't wait to gather two friends to come to Ren's house, wanting to give Ren Siqi a dismount and wantonly humiliate Ren Siqi.