081 Red Plum Villa Fortune Sutra
Song Qingshu's words made Meng Xiuyuan's face full of black lines.
I haven't seen him for a few days, and my good teacher and nephew have become more and more filial.
Meng Xiuyuan couldn't help but record his words and deeds in a small notebook, thinking that after returning to Wudang Mountain, he must find his senior brother Song Yuanqiao to sue him.
After all, when the two of them returned to the Central Plains and returned to Wushi, nearly three years should have passed since the master's 100th birthday banquet, and the journey of atonement for the Wudang Seven Heroes accompanying Yin Susu would be over.
When the time comes, the eight heroes will gather, and they must have a three-class trial to do ideological work for this good teacher and nephew who has forgotten his teacher.
But that's all for later.
Right now, Meng Xiuyuan's divine skills have been obtained, and there is no reason to delay any longer in this Hongmei Villa, so what he naturally wants to think about is to set off and return to Middle-earth as soon as possible.
And the only obstacle is the Song Qingshu that is full of "Zhen'er, Zhen'er".
It's just that Meng Xiuyuan didn't want to act roughly, but deliberately said to Song Qingshu:
"It's so cold, what are you two hiding here? Just the way you two kiss me and me, which maid in Hongmei Villa doesn't know, is it necessary to sneak around? ”
Song Qingshu was very shy when he heard this, and first glanced at Zhu Jiuzhen beside him in a little panic, and was relieved to see that she was not unusual. I wanted to explain to Meng Xiuyuan again, but I didn't know what to say, so I was fixed there for a while.
On the contrary, Zhu Jiuzhen beside him looked very generous, and said to Meng Xiuyuan gently:
"Meng Shaoxia, where have you been these days?
Since your disappearance, my father and brother Qingshu have been very anxious, and they have been looking for you in the Kunlun Mountains for several days with the people in the village.
Especially my father, these days I don't think about tea and food, and I just say that if your great benefactor also has something wrong when he borrowed from our Hongmei Villa, then it will be difficult for him to forgive himself in this life and this life.
Even today, my father and he went out with someone early in the morning to look for you, and he hasn't come back yet.
Brother Qingshu and I are waiting here, I also want to see my father and his return as soon as possible, and bring back some traces of Meng Shaoxia......"
When Meng Xiuyuan heard this, he was amused by her tea words and tea, and couldn't help but smile:
"Haha, I'm really ashamed to worry about the owner of Zhu Zhuang.
I was practicing in the mountains a few days ago, and I suddenly felt a burst of inspiration, and I couldn't help but be fascinated by martial arts.
I didn't have time to take care of anything else every day, so I only focused on studying martial arts, so I missed the time.
I also asked Miss Zhu to tell the owner of Zhu Zhuang for me, and Meng thanked him for his concern. ”
After speaking, Meng Xiuyuan ignored the two of them and walked straight into Hongmei Villa.
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The reason why Meng Xiuyuan didn't forcibly stop the two was because he felt that there was a better way.
That is to completely debunk the faces of Zhu Changling's father and daughter, and teach Song Qingshu a good lesson.
So in the next few days, Meng Xiuyuan didn't pay attention to Zhu Jiuzhen and Song Qingshu, but after meeting and saying hello to Zhu Changling, he began to secretly search for the past deeds of this Hongmei Villa.
He had been doing the same thing before he inadvertently followed the monkeys to find the Green Valley, and he had some clues.
Sure enough, if you investigate it now, you can find that although this Zhu Changling is very deep in the city and has covered up his true nature very well, after all, he has done a lot of crimes in the past, and it is difficult to cover them all up.
By secretly scrutinizing the account books of his village and asking the tenant villagers around the village, Meng Xiuyuan gradually discovered his horse's feet.
It turned out that the previous owner of Hongmei Villa, that is, Zhu Changling's father, was actually a real famous and decent knight, and he was very kind to the tenants around him during his tenure, not only reducing the rent, but also helping anyone who was sick or sick.
This makes the former owner have a very high reputation in the hearts of the tenants around the villa, but it also makes this Hongmei Villa financially ordinary, although it is also a big family, but it is far less luxurious than it is now.
It was only later that the former owner of the village was sick and reminded of the dark wounds left by the earlier fight with the thieves, and the two were superimposed, and he soon died. This also made Zhu Changling take over the position of the owner of the village at a young age and became the head of the Zhu family.
What people didn't expect was that the chivalrous and benevolent former owner was born a hypocritical and ruthless person.
As soon as Zhu Changling took over the property of Hongmei Villa, he immediately raised the land rent of all tenants by a large margin, forcing them to almost find it difficult to survive.
The tenants, who had enjoyed this reasonable rent all the year round, were naturally unhappy when they suddenly encountered this kind of change, thinking that Zhu Changling was young and careless, so they joined forces to protest against him, and wanted to gather the strength of everyone to postpone the payment of rent together, forcing him not to dare to increase the rent.
Unexpectedly, these hundreds of tenants had only secretly discussed for a few days, and before they could discuss a feasible plan, the leaders all died at home overnight, and even the old and young in the family had no survivors, and they died in vain.
On the contrary, several other tenants were exempted from a lot of rent on the spot because they actively responded to Zhu Changling and paid the land rent of the year in advance, and each took a lamb home from the village.
Seeing this scene, the tenants naturally found it difficult to gather together to force Zhu Changling to reduce the rent, so the matter was stopped.
In the next few years, under the management of Zhu Changling, Hongmei Villa became more and more prosperous.
Not only did the original land rent income increase, but even the fields of many yeoman farmers around were also bought in large quantities by Zhu Changling at a very low price in the year of the catastrophe and famine.
During this period, there were naturally many coercion, temptation, cruelty and ruthless methods, but Zhu Changling has always covered it up very well, and most of the time he did not come forward himself, but did it through the hands of others.
When the matter is finally done, Zhu Changling will superficially punish those subordinates who have scavenged the fields for him, and by the way, he will take out some small favors to appease the tenants, so as to leave a good reputation.
So much so that today's Hongmei Villa can be regarded as a peak since the establishment of Zhu Ziliu.
The reason why Meng Xiuyuan and Song Qingshu first entered this Hongmei Villa saw that everything was extremely luxurious, and even the maids and servants wore gold and silver, and this is exactly how they came.
Most of these things Meng Xiuyuan asked from the mouths of elderly tenants, who had experienced the era when the old owner was in power, so he had a lot of complaints about Zhu Changling in his heart.
However, due to Zhu Changling's consistent majesty, they all spoke very vaguely, and many people didn't even dare to mention it when they were first asked, and it was all because Meng Xiuyuan opened the way with silver that they reluctantly dared to take the risk of saying it.
Although this seemed somewhat one-sided, supplemented by evidence from other places, Meng Xiuyuan was still able to determine that they were not lying.
After all, on the account books of Hongmei Villa over the years, the rapidly increasing land rent income and cultivated land area cannot deceive people after all.
At this point, Meng Xiuyuan knew in his heart, and after collecting the evidence, he would inform Song Qingshu of all this, believing that he would make a correct judgment.
After all, this kid has been exposed to Wudang Seven Heroes and Meng Xiuyuan for so many years, and he is still decent and chivalrous in his nature.
As long as he sees the truth behind the matter, he will definitely not be obsessed with it anymore.
Unexpectedly, Meng Xiuyuan's side was not fully prepared just now, and suddenly there was a change.
Early this morning, a maid suddenly came outside the guest house, knocked on Meng Xiuyuan's door in a panic, and shouted outside the door:
"Meng Shaoxia, it's not good, it's not good, Song Shaoxia has an accident!"
Meng Xiuyuan frowned when he heard this, and hurriedly pushed open the door and asked him:
"What's going on, tell me more carefully."
Just by his question, the maidservant girl who originally had an anxious expression seemed to be choked by the throat, her face was red, and she couldn't speak for a while.
Seeing this, Meng Xiu wondered in his heart. He was about to open his mouth to continue urging, but when he looked closely, he realized that something was wrong.
This is not an ordinary maid in front of her, but it is clearly the personal maid Xiaocui in Zhu Jiuzhen's room.
Seeing this, Meng Xiuyuan subconsciously asked:
"But Qingshu, what happened between him and your young lady?"
Hearing this, Xiao Cui didn't hesitate anymore, blushed and mustered up her courage, and stumbled to Meng Xiuyuan and said:
"Yes...... Yes. Last night, Song Gongzi ...... He stayed in the lady's room, and was discovered by the master early this morning.
The master said that he wanted to invite Meng Gongzi to his study and tell me how to deal with this matter......