Chapter 53: Restless House (3)
Shang Mingyuan was six years old when his father died, and his father died not very honorably at that time, and the Shang family was afraid that the emperor would not let go of the title under the pretext that Shang Mingyuan was young, or take back the title, so he let Shang Mingyuan's second uncle Shang Ping take the title.
Among them, Shang Mingyuan is still young and can't support the Shang family, in short, under various factors, his second uncle was demoted to two levels of knighthood, leaving only the last county baron for the next generation.
Shang Ping swore in front of Shang Xing's spirit and in front of the ancestor's tablet that he would return the title to his nephew when Shang Mingyuan grew up.
In the first two years, Shang Mingyuan's life was the same as before, he was still the eldest young master of the Shang family, but in the third year, it was a little different.
He began to be unlucky, the second uncle and the second aunt still cared for him, better than Shang Mingjie, who was just more than a year old, but he still rode a horse and wrestled, climbed the mountain and rolled down the hillside, the wind was cold in spring, the heat in summer, the epidemic in autumn, and in winter, it happened that his aunt came back to celebrate the old lady's birthday, seeing that he was thin and out of shape, the whole person exuded death, and everyone said that he could not survive the winter.
Then his aunt took him back to Yangzhou on the grounds that he was not adapted to the climate in Suzhou.
At that time, Lin Qingwan was just three and a half years old, and she was already shaking her head and reading the "Three Character Classic".
He spent a winter recuperating from his illness, and then began to go to the study to read with her.
It was Shang Mingyuan's nightmare, he was six years older than her, at that time he even finished reading "Thousand Character Text", and was about to contact "Analects", but three years later, Lin Qingwan's words caught up with him, and the books he read began to be on par with him, obviously a very cute girl, but that eyelid could make people feel majestic.
He didn't like to read in the first place, no one cared about him when he was in the Shang family, and when he arrived at the Lin family, it was like falling into hell, and under the pressure of his uncle, he barely went to school for half a day every day, and there was a good student Lin Qingwan compared to him, he didn't like to read even more.
In addition, Lin Qingwan when he was a child was really unpleasant, he was younger than him next year, but he always told him to study hard as an elder.
God knows that at that time, he wanted to vomit when he heard about reading, and he just wanted to go out and walk the dog.
So as soon as the Shang family sent someone to pick him up, thinking about the comfortable life he had lived in the Shang family before, he couldn't wait to come back.
His sister ridiculed him for being stupid a lot, and although he had been healthy and unlucky since he came home, there was no one like his uncle and aunt who pressed him to study and taught him all kinds of skills.
Even now Aunt Lin praises him for his ability to manage general affairs, which was also taught to him secretly by Uncle Liu, who was given to him by his uncle.
Shang Mingyuan wiped his tears for his uncle, who cared for him.
Xiao Fang's family was dumbfounded when he heard this, and after coming back to his senses, he pinched him and asked: "Then you still go to Yangzhou, and also, still want to take over the Lin family's estate, you, aren't you ...... ungrateful?"
Shang Mingyuan covered his shoulders and said, "The old lady asked me to go, why don't I go?" Besides, what's wrong with handing over the property to the Shang family, it's not better to give it to the old lady than to give it to the Lin clan when the cousin gets married? The relatives of the Lin family are not as good as us, but in the end, no one is left, and my uncle donated it all. ”
Shang Mingyuan said that it was a pity to say this, what about so many industries, why is my uncle so courageous?
If it were him, he would not give it even if he brought it to the ground.
Xiao Fang's was speechless for a while, and finally lay on his back and twisted his waist and gritted his teeth: "What my sister-in-law said is right, you are a fool." Do you really don't know or not, if this property is handed over to the Shang family, won't it fall into the hands of the second room in the end? Your cousin Lin is going to marry Erlang......"
"Hey, you're going to screw me to death, of course I know that these properties belong to Erlang in the end, so isn't Erlang going to marry his cousin?" Shang Mingyuan said secretly: If he marries his cousin, then the dowry is his! It's a pity to look at the dominatrix next to him, and he didn't dare to say this.
just stiffened his neck and said his reasons: "Isn't that Erlang's cousin's?" And isn't it better if the second room is rich, he is so rich, he is embarrassed not to share more with me when he separates in the future? I don't dare to say the second uncle and second aunt, but the second brother is still quite friendly and fraternal, as long as I mention it, he will definitely give it to ......"
"Make your spring and autumn dreams, when will your brother be the master of the Shang family?"
The battle between the husband and wife quickly changed, Shang Mingyuan hummed while hugging his wife: "It doesn't matter what the old lady and the second aunt had before, anyway, no one is left behind now, and Aunt Lin is smart, she wants to snatch meat from her, hum!" ”
Zhao Sheng wanted to snatch the meat from Lin Qingwan now, and asked the manager Zhao who ran errands for him, "How is the price negotiated?" ”
Steward Zhao bowed his head and said: "Back to the second master, the price has been lowered, and you only need to pay to transfer the account to the yamen." ”
Zhao Sheng frowned, "Your uncle hasn't taken out the silver yet?" ”
Steward Zhao smiled awkwardly, shouldn't you mention this matter to him?
He is a subordinate, or a subordinate of the Shang family, how dare he mention this to Shang Mingyuan?
He pondered: "The amount of money that the uncle can withdraw from the account room at one time is also limited, so I'm afraid that it will take some time." ”
Zhao Sheng was unhappy in his heart, but he thought that he couldn't get the money now, and he could only take it from Shangfu, so he suppressed his emotions and said, "That's good, as long as your uncle doesn't forget." ”
He still wants to take care of the fields after the winter.
The land he wants to buy happens to be with Lin Qingwan's, the other party has so much land, and at the foot of Qingfeng Mountain, there are only more than 300 acres, so he must not take care of it, and when she remembers it, he has already invaded it.
Quietly move the boundary stone back, and let her make trouble with the Suzhou Thorn Mansion when the time comes, if she wants to make trouble.
Zhao Sheng didn't like the more than 300 acres of land very much, but he was uncomfortable with a heart attack and couldn't get out of his breath.
For the first time in his life, he suffered such a big loss, and Lin Jiang was just fine, what happened to Lin Qingwan?
A talented little girl can make him suffer, and he is not calculating this time for self-interest, but for the sake of harming others.
Zhao Sheng thought she was doing it secretly, but she didn't know that Lin Qingwan had already mentioned it, so after winter, the first thing she dealt with was the land at the foot of Qingfeng Mountain.
"Grandma, although there is also water conservancy over there, but the land has been barren for several years, it is all raw land, and I am afraid that growing food will not be high-yielding, so it is better to stay here to cultivate fertile land than to spend manpower over there."
Now that there are few people in the land, they will certainly not be able to cultivate it completely in the first year, and they will have to come to the good land.
Lin Qingwan didn't want to waste manpower because of Zhao Sheng, but he would lead him by the nose, which may not hurt others, but it must be detrimental to himself.
But it's not good to leave the land over there.
Lin Qingwan thought for a while and said: "Grain must be cultivated intensively, it is indeed not suitable, so let's plant trees." ”
Chief Steward Zhong glared, "Plant, plant trees?" ”
Lin Qingwan nodded, "Peach trees, pear trees, apricot trees, plum trees, planned, divided into pieces of planting, when the time comes, we can both eat the fruit and sell it, and this tree will not be harvested for two or three years, just to free up time for us." ”
Chief Steward Zhong breathed a sigh of relief, it turned out to be a fruit tree.
"The little one is going to contact the seedlings now."
Lin Qingwan nodded, "Contact more, and then Zhuangzi will also plant a little here." ”
"Plant so many fruit trees, I'm afraid that it won't be easy to sell after harvesting," Zhong Da steward is used to taking one step and seeing three steps, so he raised his eyebrows and said: "More than 300 acres on the side of the small Qingfeng Mountain is enough, and you can plant mulberry trees here, and when the time comes, you can spin and weave cloth, and you will earn more." ”
If it weren't for the limited manpower, and the energy required to plant mulberry is more, he would have wanted to plant mulberry hemp on the land on the other side of Qingfeng Mountain, after all, compared with silk and cloth, the fruit income is limited.
Lin Qingwan thought of the current purchasing power and the number of people, as well as the shelf life of the fruit, and said, "It's okay, plant the ones over there first." ”
Wait until she finds a market, anyway, she doesn't have much now, just a lot of land.
Because there is a lot of land, there are a lot of things that need to be prepared before the beginning of spring, and it was only in winter that Lin Qingwan began to get busy.
There was less attention to Shang Mingyuan's side, so he didn't know that the Shang family was surging in the dark tide, and when everyone didn't know, Shang Mingyuan had a fight with the second lady Shang.
Shang Mingyuan never went to the account to withdraw money, Zhao Sheng finally couldn't wait to come to the door, and the second lady Shang could only find Shang Mingyuan to go over and knock.
Shang Mingyuan was reluctant to fall in love with Suzhou as if he didn't understand, and he was unwilling to go to the Ministry of Rites to fill the vacancy, so naturally, there was no money.
Second Mrs. Shang was so angry that she hesitated for a long time before withdrawing money from her account to Zhao Sheng, and by the way, she took back a few shops managed by Shang Mingyuan.
Shang Mingyuan simply mentioned Zhao Sheng's borrowing of money when he asked the old lady to say goodbye, and he smiled: "I don't have much money, it's just more than three thousand taels, and I want to say that Uncle Zhao is too polite, and if you talk to the second aunt, you even came to me." ”
The old lady's face sank, and Shang Mingyuan smiled again: "Old lady, the second aunt took pity on me, and handed over the restaurants on the front street to Steward Zhao, let me rest more, why don't you hand over a few Zhuangzi to Steward Wu, so that your grandson will also be light and light, don't you want to hug your great-grandson, grandson and granddaughter-in-law will give birth to one next year." ”
Steward Wu is an old lady's person.
The old lady was angry in her heart, but when she heard it, she laughed, nodded at his forehead and said meaningfully: "You will be lazy, your second aunt loves you, and you also have to be filial to your second aunt, how can she let you be light, you are really lazy?" You're young, and it's time to work more. At the end of the year, when the stewards return the accounts, you will help your second aunt to be right, and you will also learn to manage the housekeeper next year. ”
This tube is no longer a few shops, a few Zhuangzi, but the entire Shang family's industry.
The old lady was very angry, her in-laws borrowed money, not to mention thousands of taels, even tens of thousands of taels she could borrow, she was angry that the second family hid from her, and she didn't report such a big thing when the money was given, this is thinking that she can be in charge of the house, and she doesn't take her to heart?