No matter how ugly the funeral day was, when Lin Jiang came out of the funeral, the famous bigwigs in Suzhou came.

The officialdom is dominated by the history of Zhou Thorns, and the folk are headed by the Shang family, all of whom came to send Lin Jiang to the funeral.

In any case, Lin Jiang's prestige during his lifetime was there, and he donated so much family property to the country before he died, and the emperor and the people of Daliang were grateful to each other, and no one dared to be that mallet at this juncture.

Under the observation of everyone, Lin Yubin sprinkled the first handful of soil into the tomb, and the people behind went up to the tomb to fill in the soil, completely sealed the tomb, and fell down the stone door.

Lin Qingwan and Lin Yubin knelt in front of the tomb, and after burning incense and paper money, they kowtowed three times before getting up.

From today on, Lin Jiang's funeral will be over, and from now on, there will only be their aunt and nephew.

Lin Qingwan patted Lin Yubin's hand, turned her head to look at the guests, and curtsied: "Thank you for coming to see you off, it's just that our aunt and nephew are filial piety, and it is inconvenient to entertain them, so please forgive me." ”

Zhou Tingshi hurriedly arched his hand and said: "The county lord is polite, Lin Gong is righteous, we should see us off." ”

He paused, still blushing and apologized: "The last time we received the funeral, we didn't handle it well, and I ask the county lord to forgive me." ”

Lin Qingwan said lightly: "My brother has always been generous and benevolent, he may not care, but I am a small character, and I can't help but feel sorry for him, so Zhou Tingshi will let me be willful." ”

Zhou Tingshi's face turned red, and he didn't know what to say.

Lin Qingwan bowed slightly to everyone, and then took Lin Yubin to say goodbye.

Zhao Sheng walked up to Zhou Tingshi's side and snorted coldly: "In the end, it is a woman, grasp this mistake and not let go, and lose your generosity." ”

Zhou Tingshi frowned, and said coldly: "Second Master Zhao said carefully, this is still in front of Gong Lin's grave." ”

He didn't intend to offend the Lin family, the reason why people built a grass pavilion at that time was because the sun was too hot, but the refreshments were because someone did it first, and he really waited a little longer, he was thirsty and hungry, so he followed the crowd, but he didn't think much about it.

This matter is indeed what they did wrong, Lin Qingwan is really annoying to hold on, but as she said, she is a girl, and she is sad for her brother, can they blame her?

Put yourself in their shoes, if someone mourns his relatives like this, the two families will definitely have a feud.

Lin Qingwan is already good at being cold like this, at least they didn't fight, right?

There were people in the crowd who thought like Zhou Tingshi, and naturally there were people like Zhao Sheng, so there were always a few people who left with anger on their faces.

But the Lin clansmen are still there, and no one dares to speak ill of them, no matter what, the Lin family is still the first in the south of the Yangtze River.

The aunt and nephew returned to the Lin Mansion and began to keep filial piety behind closed doors, and the filial piety was not over, except for things related to the funeral, they could not go out.

Therefore, Lin Qingwan ordered Steward Lin and Steward Zhong to do something.

“…… Auntie, please see, this piece is the amount of Juetian given to you by the imperial court, a total of 20 hectares, and the eldest lady's Juetian is behind these two mountains, there are 10 hectares. Because these two mountains are barren mountains, the angels simply gave the mountains to you. ”

"It's all connected?"

Chief Steward Zhong nodded, "Yes, this piece is all official land, the yamen cultivates some by themselves, and some are tenanted to farmers, and the rest is deserted." ”

"How's the soil?"

The chief steward Zhong sighed, "Yes, there is a big river passing by, and both sides of the river are fertile soil, all of which are cultivated, but the irrigation range of that river is barren, and there are many years, so the geology is ......."

"But these two pieces of land are connected together, and the best thing is that they happen to be in the same place as the Zhuangzi in the west of the city that our family left," said the chief steward Zhong in a low voice, "and half of what you told us to bring back will be placed in that Zhuangzi." ”

Lin Qingwan understood, clicked on the map and said: "In this case, let's start preparing, it's autumn, and you can't plant anything, so let people cut the grass, turn the ground, and decide what to plant in winter." ”

Lin Qingwan thought for a while and said, "Let people walk through the land, draw a map and send it to me, I'll take a look first." ”

"Yes, Grandma, we plant it all?"

Lin Qingwan thought for a while and asked, "How are the tenant farmers who rented land before, but there are still those who want to continue to rent?" ”

"Naturally, they want to continue renting," said the chief steward of Zhong, "I'm afraid that we won't look down on them, so they've been inquiring with me all these days." It's just that although they are honest, they can only rent official land, but there are all kinds of problems. ”

There is no problem with renting the land of the squire and the family, who will rent the official land?

Because the rent of the official land is the same, but they have to pay the taxes themselves, and they are often pulled to do some extra coolies, which is very hard.

Therefore, generally only people who can't rent land will rent official fields.

"Go back and compile their information into a book for me, I'll take a look at it first."

The bell steward should be down.

When the Lin family auctioned the property, in addition to the bookstore and bookstore under its name, there were only two small villages, one in the north of the city, in the Lin family village.

It's not big, only more than two hectares of land, that piece of land is old, it was left by the ancestors, so Lin Jiang didn't sell it, and it has been handed over to tenants and long-term workers at home to cultivate, and a steward was sent to manage it.

That piece of land is very fertile, Lin Qingwan just waits for the income every year, and she doesn't have to worry about it.

There is another piece in the west of the city, which is not very large, only more than five hectares, and contains a small hill.

The mountain is not big, only eight acres, but there is a cold spring on it, the water is clear and cold, and it is particularly sweet.

Lin Zhi accidentally tasted the water, so he bought the mountain and the land at the foot of the mountain and built a house to escape the summer.

Later, it slowly expanded, and bought the surrounding land in the east and west, except for a small part, most of them were connected by him, and it has been more than 500 acres now.

Lin Zhi is a very willful person, he hates the royal family, he has no good face for the emperor, he doesn't like the side branch and doesn't want to go back to the old mansion to live, he doesn't like to socialize and moves from the city to the Zhuangzi.

Therefore, he wasted a lot of thought about that annex, second only to the Lin Mansion in Yangzhou.

The subordinates who stayed in the courtyard were also the most loyal except for those in the old mansion, so most of the things that Lin Qingwan brought back from Yangzhou were placed there.

First, things do not enter the city, but directly enter Zhuangzi, which can avoid the ears and eyes of many people.

Second, there is a farm there, and all the subordinates who are unwilling to leave the Lin family have been temporarily arranged there, she has a lot of people, and her safety is guaranteed.

Now her Juetian, Lin Yubin's Juetian is just connected to this farm, and it is more convenient for her to manage.

As for whether the land is fertilized or not, Lin Qingwan put this matter behind for the time being.

The land in the south of the Yangtze River, no matter how barren it is, how poor can it be?

In this regard, she is still very confident, of course, more importantly, Juetian does not have to pay taxes.

Even if you lose, you won't lose anywhere.

Lin Qingwan began to plan the development of the farm with this idea, and Lin Yubin brought her a bowl of winter melon soup very intimately.

Lin Qingwan looked at the white-flowered winter melon and took it painfully, "Yubin, you can just drink these soups, you don't need to send them to me." ”