The poor people who received the bags and grains couldn't help but look at each other when they heard the high madman making such a noise.

Not to mention that the Xie family is a well-known local benevolent person, and they have to give alms routinely every year, and the Xie family is still a famous family in this county for hundreds of years. Even when the county magistrate took office, he had to make a special trip to Jinxiba to visit Mrs. Xie! How could the Xie family allow a beggar to spread wild here? The poor people who were waiting to receive the bags and poop couldn't help but worry about the fate of the high madman.

Suddenly, there was a "squeak" sound, and the main gate of the Xie family was pushed open. Those poor people who were worried about the high madman followed the sound and looked over, only to see a group of people coming out of the main gate of Xie's house. An old man walking in the front, about sixty years old, medium height, with a ruddy face with long gray cheeks and beards, blowing in the wind, even more majestic, it turned out to be the old lady of the Xie family, Xie Jizu came out.

Everyone saw that Xie Jizu was wearing a black satin leather robe, a yellow brocade coat on the outside, a fox fur hat on his head, and an iron blade about the thickness of a wine glass that had not left his hand all the year round, walking with a steady step and a smile on his face.

Xie Jizu stood majestically on the steps, staring at the crowd in front of the door.

Leaning slightly, he Xie Jizu shouted in a loud voice: "Where did you come from?" Hurry up and invite him into the house and have a 'Chinese New Year's Eve dinner'! ”

Everyone heard Xie Jizu's domineering voice in his politeness, and they all fell silent all of a sudden. It's just that the high madman looked at Xie Jizu fearlessly, still looking like a hippie face.

A few family members who followed Xie Jizu out heard Xie Jizu's orders, and hurriedly stood at the gate with an "open flame gun", making a respectful appearance of greeting the guests.

Ma Renli, the butler with eagle-nosed harrier eyes, kept rubbing two steel balls in the palm of one hand, and stretched out his other hand to the tall madman, and said sharply: "Distinguished guest, please come in!" ”

The poor people who were standing in the cold wind waiting for alms, the members of the Xie family who were standing at the gate just now, and the children of the Xie family who were distributing bread and rice cakes to the poor, were all stunned when they heard Ma Renli's shout.

Everyone knows that the main gate of the Xie Mansion is not something that anyone can enter and exit casually!

The Xie family's mansion is close to the Qinling Mountains in the north, facing Sichuan in the south, and is built by the mountains, with a magnificent momentum, especially the gate of the house is built with extraordinary style. Two zhang in front of the door erected two zhang four feet high, one foot six inches thick stone masts, two stone masts respectively hung with only one missing a corner of the stone bucket, meaning "gold inlaid jade seal", is the former dynasty prefect to the Xie family two generations of "into the middle of the lift" of the praise. The main gate of the house faces a wide stone street in front of the door, and the gate is in the shape of a figure-eight, with a pair of walls on both sides. On one side of the wall is a picture of fat and strong, with different expressions, "Eight Horses", symbolizing the prosperity of the family business and a bright future. On one side, a cluster of blooming peony flowers is carved on the wall, and a lively red carp swims in the water under the flower, which means "more than rich". The patterns on both sides of the wall are gorgeous and lifelike. The two gates in the middle of the house are each painted with the majestic Qin Qiong and Wei Chigong. Hanging above the door frame is a plaque of "Xie Zhai" written by the current prefect.

It has been more than 30 years since the completion of the construction of this mansion, and only the dignitaries and nobles respected by the Xie family, or when the Xie family holds a wedding celebration, the bride and groom of the Xie family are eligible to enter and exit from it. On weekdays, even the people up and down the Xie family and their relatives and friends only enter and exit through the side door. Where did anyone think that today it was actually Xie Jizu, the old lady of the Xie family, who came out to greet an unreasonable begging man.

This is also Xie Jizu's hard work and shrewdness.

As early as the early years of the Ming Dynasty, the Xie family built a luxurious mansion, in which many antiques collected by the past dynasties are priceless. On the Chinese New Year's Eve of the year when Xie Jizu's father, Xie Enxian, returned to his hometown, when the whole family was preparing to eat the "Chinese New Year's Eve Dinner", suddenly a Yunyou Taoist priest Huazhai came.

The Taoist priest was not polite, and when he was full of wine and food, he pretended to say to Xie Enxian mysteriously: "It is rare for a good person to have a good heart, and the poor Tao cannot be repaid, and I will send you a proverb, I don't know if the good man is willing to laugh and accept it?" ”

Xie Enxian replied respectfully, "Master, please speak." ”

The Taoist priest immediately said a four-character proverb: "This house is ominous!" ”

Xie En didn't know what to do, and asked puzzledly, "How do you say this?" ”

"Unprecedented!" The Taoist priest replied word by word.

Xie Enxian retorted unconvinced: "My family's house is second to none in Jinxiba, and it is unique!" ”

"It's second to none and unique, that's why it's unprecedented!" After the Taoist priest finished speaking, he drifted away.

The words of the Taoist priest are saying that Xie Enxian's heart is sick, he has been fighting abroad all the year round, and he has no time to take care of family affairs, and he has no children under his knees. He didn't think much of it at first, but when he heard the Taoist priest's words, he became uneasy. He was worried that he would fulfill the words of the Taoist priest, and after he died, he buried the family business created by his ancestors in vain. At that time, the housekeeper was Ma Zhenjun, the father of the current housekeeper Ma Renli, and Ma Zhenjun invited a few "half-immortals" to ask for hexagrams in order to please Xie Enxian, but they were all ambiguous.

In the end, it was Ma Zhenjun who helped him make up his mind: "If you believe the words of the bull's nose, you will believe it, and if you don't believe it, you will not believe it." For all purposes, the Xie family is not short of those few silvers, so it is better to simply build another set of houses, maybe they can carry forward the ancestral business of the Xie family, and it is not a good thing? ”

Ma Zhenjun once saved Xie Enxian's life, Xie Enxian has always trusted him very much, Xie Enxian listened to Ma Zhenjun's words, and did not think much about it, so he asked Ma Zhenjun to invite a feng shui master who is proficient in the art of Kanyu to survey the terrain, after several twists and turns, and finally chose to rebuild the current luxurious mansion on the east side of Jinxi Dam. When moving to the new mansion, Xie Enxian listened to Ma Zhenjun's strategy, and in order to be clean with the original murderous mansion, he didn't even bring a single piece of furniture from the old mansion.

Sure enough, the sky has eyes, and since Xie Enxian moved to the new house, the family has had a lot of good things. First, his wife gave birth to a son named Xie Jizu, which means that there is a successor to the ancestral family business. Later, the Xie family changed the river and purchased the land, making the family business bigger and bigger. By the time Xie Jizu was in charge of the family business, the Xie family's family property had far surpassed that of the Ma family, which was richer than them in the past. In the past few years, the personnel changes in the Qing court have been ordinary, and there have been some "Boxers" and "Revolutionary Party" everywhere, and some local lawbreakers have colluded with some market hooligans to stir up chaos, and Xie Jizu has to be cautious for the safety of his family business.

Today, Xie Jizu was sitting in the study, and when he heard that there was a beggar outside who was making trouble at the door of his house, he hurriedly walked out to see what was going on.