In fact, Li You guessed the most accurate this time, but when he came to the gate of the mansion, he suddenly felt that the wind was gusting around him (yīn).

The reason is that the two white lanterns hanging on the door, with the word "lay" written on them, reflect this (yīn) heavy town even more terrifyingly.

"Why hasn't there been any movement?"

When the man heard Li You's words, he hurriedly said, "Madam and Master are probably already resting, let's try to go in as lightly as possible, so as not to disturb their rest." ”

When Li You heard this, he was a little unhappy in his heart, and his heart was really this family, so why did he lie down first?

When he finished speaking, he walked up to the door in two steps and tapped the knocker lightly.

While waiting for the door, Li You looked back at his uncle and found that he didn't have too many qíng, but he was in a daze, and then turned back to talk to another family.

After hearing this, the family also nodded again and again, and then the door was divided to the left and right, and an old man with an oil lamp stepped out.

Lao Rao is dressed much better than these two family members, and he may be a housekeeper or something like that.

The vicissitudes of life, the wrinkles are piled up, under the light of the oil lamp (shè), it is a little weird and weird, and the rest is nothing special.

Although the old man's face was kind, Li You always felt that the old man had a face that seemed to be smiling but not smiling, and he looked awkward, so Suo (xìng) didn't look at him, walked up to his uncle, and asked him what he had done with that family.

"My master and nephew are hungry, so let them wake up the cook and make some food."

The two of them smiled heartily, and then hurriedly put away their smiling faces and prepared to enter the house. But the old man always stood in front of the door, blocking their way.

The old man squinted his eyes and looked at him and his uncle carefully for a long time before he said to the family:

"I'm back, Da Mao, quickly lead the masters in, the master is in a hurry."

"Hasn't you slept yet?" Seeing that the old man nodded, he hurriedly replied (shēn): "Two masters, please come with me." ”

The tall man led the way in front, and Uncle Shi turned back to Li You: "You just wait for me at the door, and after we finish talking, we will go to dinner." ”

"Got it, Uncle Shi."

Li You couldn't wait outside, this was not a happy event, maybe he had to go to see the corpse of an old man. It's the middle of the night, and then I'm scared out of the problem.

Standing at the door and waiting for a while, the man walked out of the house, and when he closed the door, he glanced at Li You.

"Master, let's go and sit in the wing room for a while."

Li You hurriedly said: "No need, I'll just stay here." ”

As for why he doesn't want to be with a tall man, it's entirely because he is too good at talking in the vernacular, and he is upset to listen to it.

Seeing that he insisted on staying where he was, the man didn't say anything more, and walked silently towards the east wing.

As soon as Liu Jiji entered the house, he saw the old man stomping on the spot, and after seeing him, he hurriedly ordered the man to go out, and he personally greeted him.

"Eh, Liu Banxian'er, you're finally here."

"Master Hu, the clouds outside cover the moon, and there are only two oil lamps in our view, so ...... I've kept you waiting, I'm ashamed, I'm ashamed. ”

When Liu Jiji spoke, he deliberately made a kind of poor table (qíng), and when the old man saw this, he was a little puzzled:

"Last month's female marriage, you admired your face and went to the mansion, I didn't ask Uncle Zhong to give you 500 yuan, why are you still so poor?"

"You don't know this, when Hu Zhong gave me money, but when I met a poor old man in the return map, I gave him half of it. When I returned to the view, I divided half of it to buy rice and oil for my senior brother. You know, we're still renovating the temple, and we're very nervous. ”

Liu Jiji poured his bitter water out in a hefty voice, and Master Hu was stunned.

Li You, who was outside the door, overheard his words, and immediately felt that his ability was put into modern times, and he was afraid that he would be accused of fraud.

"Hmph, I went to the kiln yesterday, and now I'm crying poor?" Li You muttered in his heart.

It's not that he is so tall, it's just that he feels so deceitful that he can't help it.

There was still a conversation inside, and Li You also listened to a couple of sentences from time to time, and just as they were getting down to business, the old man who was carrying the oil lamp just now stood behind him at some point.

"Master?"

"Ahh Scared me. As soon as Li You turned around, he saw the kind of face like a dead tree, flickering under the oil lamp, and suddenly half of his blood was cold.

When the old man saw that he was rude, he also hurriedly made amends: "People are unintentional, please forgive me." ”

Li Yu touched his (xiōng) breast, adjusted his breathing, and asked him what was the matter. The old man has arranged the meals properly, and if he finishes talking about business, he can go directly to the backyard to eat.

After seeing Li You nodding, the old man walked towards the back courtyard with satisfaction.

Before Li You, who was in a state of panic, could recover from his recovery, the door behind (shēn) suddenly opened, and Li You's newly calmed heart almost jumped out of his throat.

"Okay, Master Hu, you rest early, and leave the rest to Poor Dao."

After Uncle Shi finished speaking, he closed the door of the hall and turned his head to ask Li Youfan if he was okay.

"Well, I was almost scared to death by the old man just now."

When Uncle Shi heard him call Lao Rao, he was a little dissatisfied, and said loudly: "Don't be rude, the Hu family is very kind to us (qíng), and we must be polite in everything we say and do." ”

Courteous? If he hadn't been doing serious business now, Li You would have beaten the old man just now.

"Also, that old man is the housekeeper of Hu Mansion for four generations, I have to call Uncle Zhong, you still call the old man?"

"Got it."

Li You knew that Uncle Shi's words were not just for himself, but also for the master in the house. Otherwise, how could he still be at ease to get oil from the Hu family?

Of course, these were also when his uncle gave him a look, and he reacted.

It is not an exaggeration to ask for the grandeur of this ancient people's residence.

After all, at the time of this dynasty, the population was not much, and the per capita area was much larger.

Moreover, during the Northern Song Dynasty, the people were still wealthy, and as a rich and powerful family, they naturally wanted to make the mansion more magnificent.

Since Li You entered the mansion, he felt that this mansion was much more luxurious than the compound of Li You's No. 3 family in the Han Dynasty. In contrast, the two are simply not different.

The middle courtyard alone is more than twice as large as his house, with carved beams and painted buildings, which is unique.

On the way to the backyard, there are all kinds of precious plants and flowers, and there are countless of them.

Listening to Uncle Shi's introduction, the ancestors of the Hu family all made a living by renting land, and their rich lives were also in (qíng) Li Zhizheng

The ancients' idea of valuing agriculture over commerce led the people to think that having land meant being rich. It was not until the following dynasties that the status of merchants and scholars was improved.

In the current generation of the Hu family, the old man of the Hu family is even more intelligent, and he used all the belongings left by his ancestors to buy a lot of grain shops in Jiangling Mansion.

A few years ago, when the war was in full swing and the grain depot was tight, Master Hu took the initiative to hand over more than twice as much grain and grass, and was also called into the palace to accept the award.

Since then, the Hu family's business has become bigger and bigger, steaming (rì). Their family has naturally become a well-known rich family in ten miles and eight towns.

It is really not false at all to want this poor ** to have a rich conscience. Master Hu, who has money, also often gives porridge and rice to help the poor.

In the eyes of the common people, Master Hu is not only a rich man, but also a good person.

"Uncle Shi, how did you and Master Hu meet?"

When I came to the door of the back yard, the other family who came back with him, Da Mao, had already yawned. Seeing that the two of them were finally here, they hurriedly served tea and water.

"You don't know this", after Uncle Shi sat down, he first picked up the wine glass, then drank it all, and continued: "I think that at the beginning, when I didn't take three meals with my senior brother, wandered around, and had no fixed place, if it wasn't for Master Hu to take him in, I'm afraid I would have died of hunger." ”

Li You went to the table, but he saw the meat, shook off his cheeks, and opened his molars after opening them, but he didn't hear a word of Uncle Shi's words.

Seeing that he was embarrassed to eat, Uncle Shi was quick-eyed, snatched his chopsticks and said, "You better listen to me before eating." ”

"Oh." Although Li You agreed, his attention was still on the roast chicken (shēn) lying on the plate.

"Ahem."

Uncle Shi coughed twice deliberately, and Li You hurriedly cooperated: "Oh, so that's the case, give me the chopsticks." ”

"Alas, you, you, okay, you just eat slowly, wait for me to take my time."