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Thirty miles west of the city, Lin Dong and Yun Lan stopped. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

In the line of sight, there is a huge manor house with a wooden fence in a large circle.

Inside, there are endless rice fields. The green ears of rice are constantly swaying in the breeze, like groups of students, shaking their heads and reciting poems.

In the gaps of the rice fields, small wooden houses are like tireless warriors, guarding this attractive field.

Seeing that there was smoke rising from the wooden house, and there was no one guarding nearby, Lin Dong looked up at the plaques hanging above the two giant wooden gates of the manor, and beckoned Yun Lan to walk straight in.

Along the gravel road in the middle of the rice field, the two walked all the way, and after a short time, they came to a large mansion covering an area of no less than four or five thousand square meters.

The gate of the front yard was not closed, and the two family members were sitting in the shade of the tree chatting idly, and when they saw someone coming to the door, they immediately got up.

"Who are you looking for?"

"We are friends of Master Ren in Southwest County, and we came to catch up on the past." Lin Dong explained.

"My lord is not here, you ......" One of the older family members hesitated a little, and came all the way over, and there was no village in front of the village and no shop nearby, so it was a little unreasonable for people to leave. But the master's friend, this is not necessarily true, who knows if it is a liar.

"Can you let us in and wait?" Lin Dong asked.

"This ...... Ang Li, you go and ask Old Dog Li to see if you can let people enter the door and wait. The elder commanded.

The family member named Li An immediately nodded and walked quickly to the inner house.

Half an hour later, Ang Lee trotted back.

"How is it, what did Li Laogou say?" The elder asked.

Li An hesitated for a moment, and said truthfully: "It is said that the master will not come back in a month or two, and there is no guest room here, so let's go to the account room to receive 200 yuan, and send away 100 yuan per person." ”

"Can you ask, who is Old Dog Li?" Lin Dong suddenly felt funny, the dignified shopkeeper of Lin Ji Inn was actually regarded as a poor relative and came to ask for help.

Having said that, one hundred yuan, relying on two to walk from the southwest city to the capital, not to mention food and housing, just ten yuan for a pair of shoes, ten pairs may not be enough to wear.

The two looked at Lin Dong and Yun Lan, the male temperament was extraordinary, and the female had an indescribable fairy spirit, so she didn't look like a person who made a small report.

The elder family couldn't help but explain: "Li Laogou is the second housekeeper of our Qingsong Villa, and he is in charge of everything in the village, big and small, and he is mean and insidious. If it weren't for the high wages of the villa, and the good luck of Master Ren and the housekeeper, we would have stopped doing it a long time ago. ”

Lin Dong understood, thought about it, and said helplessly: "Since it will take more than ten days, then I will come back every ten days!" After Master Ren came back, please help me say hello. ”

"Brother Ma, why don't I go find the big butler?" Ang Lee asked.

"Your butler is here?" Lin Dong was a little surprised, he thought that Yang Laiting had always been by Ren Qingsong's side, and the family was the first to repay the second housekeeper, so he didn't ask much about it.

"Here, Liu An, you go and find it." The elder housekeeper explained: "The big housekeeper likes to be lively, and he usually stays with the villagers, and only comes back in the evening. The affairs of the village are all decided by Li Laogou. ”

"Then we're out of the way here, right?" Lin Dong asked.

"Don't get in the way, don't wait here on a hot day, there's shade inside." The elder family Ding had a good mind, and immediately beckoned Lin Dong and the others to enter, and he still had this permission.

Lin Dong nodded with a smile, took out two ingots and five taels of silver from the mobile counter, and stuffed them into the hands of the elder family with a smile: "Big brother take it, have a glass of wine with the little brother just now." ”

"How embarrassing is this, how embarrassing is this......" Although the elder family was polite, his hand involuntarily stuffed the silver into the placket of his clothes. Five taels of silver was enough for him to pay for one month's wages, and before that, it was worth two months' wages.

People are not good, and they get silver, and the older family members naturally become more and more polite, moving stools, pouring tea, and holding fans...... After being busy, although they were alone, they were no longer worried that Lin Dong and the others would take the opportunity to sneak into the house. After all, it was ten taels of silver as soon as he made a move, and he had never met such a generous liar. Even if he did meet today, he would admit it. Just make up your mind to leave Qingsong Villa, and by the way, you can also give Li Laogou a charge of improper employment, maybe drag him out of the villa together.

This was more than an hour, and seeing that the hot sun was close to the center of the sky, a figure trotted over outside the courtyard gate in the distance.

Lin Dong stood up, although he was separated by a lot of distance, he could see clearly that this figure was Yang Laiting.

Sweating all the way into the yard, Yang Laiting was panting like a cow and couldn't even say half a word.

"Uncle Yang, I haven't seen you for more than half a year, but you have changed a lot." Lin Dong couldn't help but be speechless, dressed in a coarse cloth short coat, with bare legs and a dark face. This image completely subverted Yang Laiting in Lin Dong's memory before.

After taking the tea handed over by the elder family and pouring a few sips, Yang Laiting finally relieved himself and said with a smile: "Don't mention it, I'm idle, and I work as a coolie for a few villagers." Lie said that when it was empty, the skin was about to be sunburned. ”

"Uncle Yang is not with Dean Ren?" Lin Dong was slightly surprised, these two were small master-servant relationships. And they are all homeless, and now, they are more like brothers when they say they are masters and servants.

"No idlers are allowed to go to that place." Yang Laiting said helplessly: "There is no way, the dean can only buy a manor here to settle me." ”

"If you don't do a good landlord's old money, what kind of coolie do you do?" Lin Dong said with a smile: "It's not that Uncle Yang did something wrong and was punished, right?" ”

"You don't know that I've been bored in the Southwest City for more than forty years. It's been lively for a few years, and I'm going to be idle again, how can I stand it. Yang Laiting shook his head, and suddenly patted his head: "Look at me, just worry about the past." Shopkeeper Lin, Miss Yun, please. ”

"Dean Ren really won't come back for more than a month, I'd better come back next time!" Lin Dong shook his head, he knew that Yang Laiting was here, and it was impossible for Ren Qingsong to come back every one or two months. Although the plantation of Tianwei Pavilion is a forbidden land, it is not a secret, and Ren Qingsong's second-in-command, how can he not even be restricted from accessing.

Saying this, Lin Dongyi wanted to know the exact time. Second, by the way, he believed that Yang Laiting should not know the character of the second housekeeper, otherwise, he would have been driven out earlier.

Anyway, they are also old friends, and Yang Laiting has never practiced martial arts, so it is difficult to guarantee that there will be no day when he will be calculated by this second housekeeper.

"I will come back every three or five days, calculate it, it stands to reason that I will come back before this evening, I have already asked Liu An to go to Xiangyanshan and wait. That Li Chongshang is simply unreasonable, even the shopkeeper Lin dares to deceive. Yang Laiting was stunned.

"Do you know this man's character?" Lin Dong was surprised.

Yang Laiting shook his head: "Liu An found me just now, and as soon as I heard it, I knew that it was Shopkeeper Lin who came, and I heard that I didn't invite you in to sit, so I got angry at him." As a result, Liu An told me everything about Li Chongshang. deceived the superiors and subordinates, and said that it also made Shopkeeper Lin see the joke, if I hadn't stayed outside all day, I wouldn't have made such a fuss. ”

Lin Dong smiled: "I'll just see Uncle Yang make a big show later." ”

"Let's go, I heard Liu An say that he is feasting guests at this moment, I will also take a look, he doesn't care about the distinguished guests, which guest is the banquet." Yang Laiting said hatefully.

"It's a big injury, how is Dean Ren in Tianwei Pavilion?" Lin Dong smiled and diverted the topic.

"The dean has just arrived, and he can't get in touch with those high-level auxiliary cultivation spiritual materials at all." Yang Laiting shook his head and said: "Moreover, the owner of the Lingcai Building is very old, and he has not managed the affairs of the Lingcai Building very much in recent years, and I believe that he will have to resign for retirement in another year or two." Except for the dean, who was newly promoted, the other three stewards are now trying their best to suppress their opponents, hoping to take over the position of the owner of the Lingcai Building. If you want to take over as the landlord, the most important thing is to see who has the most credit. In the Spiritual Material Building, it is the greatest credit to be able to ensure that there will be no mistakes in the maintenance of those high-level auxiliary cultivation spiritual materials. If you want this merit, you naturally have to tightly grasp the spiritual materials that manage high-level auxiliary cultivation in your hands. Therefore, the dean could not intervene at all. ”

"In the Spirit Material Building, the greatest credit should be to find a new high-level spiritual material, right?" Lin Dong retorted, Ren Qingsong had only been in office for more than half a year, and he guessed that it was impossible to come into contact with high-level auxiliary cultivation spiritual materials so quickly. Today's intention is just to ask for details, and then see if I can help him.

Lin Ji Inn has several high-level auxiliary cultivation spiritual materials.

"Easier said than done!" Yang Laiting shook his head again and again, a steward of the Lingcai Building has a lot of people who can be mobilized, and there are two strong people in the heart reversal period. But when people send out, let alone find high-level spiritual materials, after half a year, they can't even find a low-level spiritual material that the plantation doesn't have.

"Why bother looking for it, I have a few on hand." Lin Dong understated.

"You have?" Yang Laiting paused, and then looked at Lin Dong in ecstasy.

"There are several high-level spiritual materials to assist in cultivation, but I can't raise the suitable environment and nutrients for each of these spiritual materials." Lin Dong nodded.

"That ......"

Yang Laiting was puzzled, but was interrupted by Lin Dong shaking his head: "Let's talk about this matter when Dean Ren comes!" Lest you say it again. Uncle Yang, this manor is quite big, how much silver did it cost? ”

Yang Laiting nodded and said with a smile: "The dean is the steward of the Lingcai Building, the second grade of the official residence, if you want to buy some family business, why do you need to do it yourself." Just write a list of what you can do with money, write down the requirements clearly, and then hand it over to the Internal Affairs Building. ”

"That's a good perk!" Lin Dong was amazed.

While talking and talking, the three of them came to the hall.

The hall is two or three hundred square meters, and the decoration is not luxurious, but in this rural wilderness, it is definitely a first-class existence. Picture scrolls, antiques, and furniture are all valuable treasures.

On the two Taishi chairs facing the gate, there were spirit animal skins as white as snow, and on the spirit animal skins sat two middle-aged men in their early forties.

On the main seat, watching Yang Laiting's mud-stained feet step on the ancient yellow carpet that covered the entire hall, Li Chongshang frowned.

(To be continued)