Along the snow-covered path, the convoy drove into the village of Gudao with some difficulty.

At this time, it was almost noon, and although the whole village was covered in ice and snow, smoke rose from time to time, and it seemed that many villagers had begun to make fires for cooking.

Some children, wearing some shabby cotton jackets, laughing and chasing in the snow and having snowball fights, when they saw the convoy of Lin Xi and others, they ran towards home with a look of fear on their faces, shouting while running.

"The people of the Hou Mansion in Zhenbei have come to grab grain again!"

"The bad guys are here again!"

"There are a lot of wagons here this time, and this is to rob us of all our food!"

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Looking at the children who were running and shouting, Lin Xi glanced at Lin Ruo beside him a little speechlessly, "It seems that the people here are a little unwelcome to us!"

Lin Ruo was also a little embarrassed, although the Zhenbei Hou Mansion was only her home in the previous life, but after all, she had the memory of the previous life, and she still had some feelings for this family, and now she saw that the Zhenbei Hou Mansion had become a jackal, tiger and leopard here, which made her somewhat uncomfortable, and she felt that she was embarrassed in front of her brother.

At this moment, I saw that from time to time from the village, people rushed out with hoes, shovels and other farm tools, and in just a few minutes, hundreds of people gathered, and the entire convoy was surrounded by water, and the hateful eyes swept through the entire convoy from time to time.

"Lao Li, what are you doing here?"

The old butler took off the cotton hat he was wearing on his head, stood up from the carriage, looked at a middle-aged man not far from him, and shouted with some dissatisfaction, "This year is the first time that the young master has come here to visit everyone, and you welcome us so much?"

"It turned out to be Steward Wang!"

The man known as Lao Li took a closer look at the housekeeper, and then hurriedly shouted at the villagers behind him, "Everyone quickly put down the weapons in their hands, this is not from the Zhenbei Hou Mansion, he is the chief housekeeper of the Lin Mansion, and he is from the Lin Mansion, everyone hurry up and get out of the way and let the old men of the Lin Mansion come in." ”

Looking at the villagers who were still a little hesitant, but without the tension before, Lao Li hurriedly stepped forward and bowed to Steward Wang, "Lord Steward, I'm sorry for you, we thought it was those miscellaneous people from the Hou Mansion in Zhenbei who came to grab food again, so there was a misunderstanding, please hurry, please inside!"

The old butler didn't pay attention to him, but turned to look behind him, "Young master, do you think we are still going to the village?"

"It's not too early, so we don't have to go to the village to bother. Lin Xi and Lin Ruo walked out of the carriage, and after glancing at everyone, they smiled lightly, "The weather is not too good, we have to drive more than twenty miles back to go back, so don't delay the time, butler, you arrange someone to distribute the items we brought." ”

"Okay, Lao Li, hurry up and arrange for the tenants of the Lin Mansion to come and receive the winter items, including quilts, rice noodles, and some meat, which my young master specially prepared for you. The old butler hurriedly greeted.

"Thank you, young master!"

"Thank you, young master!"

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Some of the tenants of the Lin family, one by one, were overjoyed, and some knelt directly on the ground and kowtowed, before their grain was snatched away by the people of the Hou Mansion in Zhenbei, and now these grains are really life-saving straws, saving a little, enough for the people in the village to survive this winter.

There was no need for Lin Xi to make any arrangements, under the arrangement of the housekeeper and Lao Li, the sturdy young men in the village had already begun to carry quilts, rice noodles, meat and other items from the carriage, and found a few ox carts to transport them to the village one by one.

"Young Master Lin, do you have any other land in the Lin Mansion? We also want to rent seeds, we really can't afford to plant the land in the Beihou Mansion and the Champion Hou Mansion in that town, not only do we extract ninety percent of the rent, but also the families of the Beihou Mansion in that town often come here to grab grain, and it is useless to sue the officials, no one wants to take care of it at all. Some villagers who were not tenants of the Lin family asked with anticipation.

"How much land is there in this Gudao Village?" Lin Xi turned his head to look at the housekeeper.

"Young Master Hui, this Gudao Village can be regarded as a large grain-producing village in the surrounding towns, there are thousands of households in the village, and the whole village has nearly 2,000 acres of fertile land, but most of them belong to the Zhenbei Hou and the Champion Hou's Mansion. ”

"Well, wait until you go back, you go to these two Hou Mansions, and get the land deeds of this Gudao Village in your hands, they can sell it if they want to spend money to buy it, it doesn't matter how much, if you don't want to sell, then you can find a way, in short, I just want the result!" Lin Xi instructed lightly.

"Young master, please rest assured, Xiao Lao'er will definitely do it for you!" The housekeeper patted his chest with confidence, with the strength of his martial saint peak, this thing is really not difficult, with the young master supporting him, he will not worry even if he pokes the sky out of the basket.

"Well, you have also heard, the land here will be bought by my Lin family when you turn around, and you can rent it with confidence in the future, as for the rent, by the way, housekeeper, how much is the rent we set before?"

"It's seventy percent rent, although it sounds very high, but they are tenants, renting land, so in addition to handing over the rent to the master's family, the state does not need to pay all kinds of taxes, so the remaining thirty percent of the rent can already live very comfortably. The old butler replied.

"The housekeeper is right, our land here belongs to fertile land, and I won't hide it from you, young master, in fact, as long as you can have two percent of the food left, you can live without pressure for the whole family, but the rent of those two families is too high, not only that, but they often indulge people to come to grab surplus food, if it weren't for the fact that most people really can't survive, otherwise, how dare we go against the Hou Mansion?" Lao Li said very frankly.

"I see. Lin Xi nodded, with some emotion in his heart, "There is only thirty percent of the grain left, in the eyes of these tenants, they are the best people in the world, in this era, these peasants with their faces facing the loess and their backs to the sky are really the best group of people to manage, their requirements are really few, as long as they can eat and live, they don't need to worry about riots or rebellion at all." ”

"Butler, we are not short of money, in the future, this rent will be reduced by another two percent, and it will be okay to charge five achievements!" Lin Xi made a decision casually.

"Young Master Xie!"

"Young Master is benevolent!"

"Long live the young master!"

A group of honest farmers would not say any nice words of praise, but knelt on the ground one by one, constantly kowtowing to Lin Xi, for them, only kowtowing can express their gratitude.