Good son-in-law of the Ming Dynasty

There is an injury on the head, and the road is far away. It is tiring to travel this way.

After walking for a long time, my body was covered with sweat, so I went to the river to wash my face, and tied my messy hair on top of my head.

A slightly childish face was imprinted in the water waves, but it was quite handsome with sword eyebrows and star eyes.

Su Mu unconsciously nodded, this appearance is not bad, at least three points more handsome than the previous me.

After entering Baoding City, it was already three or four o'clock in the afternoon, and the sun illuminated the walls of Baoding Old City.The ancients were late for lunch, and it was the time when the fire was on fire. There was smoke rising from the kitchen, forming a single piece in the sky, like a master in a classical ink painting, but he was the person in the painting.

Both Qingyuan County and Baoding Mansion were governed in Baoding Old City, with a population of over one hundred thousand, which was quite remarkable in the Ming Dynasty.Strictly speaking, Baoding should be the largest city in Beizhili in this time and space, a sub-provincial city.

Baoding Prefecture connects to Shuntian in the north, controls Zhending and Hejian in the south, connects the north and the south, and communicates with Hebei and Shanxi. land.

At this time, Shijiazhuang had not yet appeared, Tianjin was just a military fortress, and Baoding, as a commercial center, occupied an important position in Beizhili.

At the beginning of the founding of the later generations, the central government once thought of making Baoding the capital of Hebei Province.However, considering that Shijiazhuang is located at the hub of the Beijing-Hanzhou Railway, this makes Shimen the capital of Hebei Province.It is also because of this that Baoding has gradually declined, and in modern society, it has been reduced to a third-tier city.

After walking on the street for a long time based on memory, I came to a quiet alley, and at the end was a large courtyard, which was the old house of the Su family.

The ancestors of the Su family had two county magistrates, the family of officials and eunuchs, and six generations of poets and rites. The whole house has been expanded several times. There are six courtyards and 34 rooms. It becomes a scene in Baoding city.

In the generation of Su Mu's grandfather, no one has ever won the title of Jinshi and has an official position.Most of the Su family are scholars, and they don't do production, so the family fortune gradually declines.But a lean camel is bigger than a horse, and the clan still has six or seven shops in the city, and there are two hundred acres of paddy fields outside the city, which can afford food and clothing for more than a hundred members of the clan.

On the surface, the Su family is still the largest family in Qingyuan, and it is still glamorous.

However, this big house has nothing to do with Su Mu.

He lives in a small corner farthest from the house. The place is not big, just a small courtyard of seventy square meters, with three small rooms inside.

The one to the north is owned by Su Mu, the one to the west is the study room, and the other one lives in Xiaodie, the maid who serves him.

In the early years, the big house of the Su family lived in the largest house in the beautiful courtyard, and there were a few women, maidservants and servants. Later, when the big house fell, Su Mu was driven to this place where no shit, and the servants were all thrown away. Three rooms and four rooms are divided.

Probably because he felt that the dignified young master of the Su family had a bad reputation from his servants who had no one to command him, so the family sent Xiaodie over to clean up, wash clothes and so on.

There is an acacia tree planted in the middle of the yard. It is spring, and it is green and elegant.

In my memory, Su Mu didn’t seem to have entered the study room since his father’s death, but when he opened the door, the inside looked very clean. There were hundreds of books neatly placed on the bookshelf. There are also several sets of Zhu Xi's annotations, which are the necessary number for the desks of scholars who are interested in imperial examinations in this era.

This is a rare book that can only be kept in the rare books department of the library, but now it is placed like this.

In his previous life, Su Mu was originally a liberal arts student, and he had a strong hobby for literature and history, and his heart jumped wildly.

I read it for a long time, but smiled, now it is the Ming Dynasty, and this kind of book is everywhere, with dozens of copies, which is not surprising.

Putting my hand on the book, the scene when my father taught me to read suddenly appeared in my mind, and the strong information immediately circled in my mind, like a huge hammer.

The huge impact made Su Mu stagger and almost fell to the ground.

He suddenly realized that this was a memory he kept in his mind when he was a child studying with his father.In the past, Su Mu had no interest in reading and imperial examinations because he was a little dull. When his father passed away, he was ignorant all day long and never turned a page of the book.Now, this body has changed into a soul, and those memories popped up immediately, trying to merge with the new owner.

Memory is such a magical thing, some things you think you have forgotten, but in fact it has been hidden there all along, and will suddenly appear when the right opportunity arises.

Flipping through the book quickly, combined with his father's explanations, slowly absorbing, this situation is very strange, but extremely fresh, in a trance, Su Mu seems to have returned to the classroom in college, and was instructed by the instructor.

This feeling is really hearty.

After flipping through a few books, Su Mu saw a land deed from a copy of "The Great Learning" annotated by Zhu Xi, which was exactly [-] mu of paddy fields under the name of Dafang. capital.

"The [-] acres of paddy fields are worth a few dollars. With this foundation, maybe we can start a career..."

Su Mu let out a breath, but there was a rumble in his stomach, and he smiled unconsciously.After walking so far before, I was already hungry.

Just as he was about to go to the kitchen in the outer courtyard to see if he could find something to eat, he heard a rush of footsteps, and he put the Tian Qi into his arms, and went out to see that it was a fourteen or fifteen-year-old boy. girl.

This little guy is still immature, but his facial features are straight and bright, he looks like a beauty, but he is a little thin, although his buttocks are round, they look small, and his waist is surprisingly thin.

This person was Xiaodie, the maid sent by the family to take care of her.

Xiaodie was sweating as she walked, but her face was anxious and miserable: "Master, something happened, something happened?"

This little girl, Su Mu, knew that she was very reluctant when she was sent to the big house to be a girl.

There are dozens of people in the Su family, and they stay in a large courtyard all day long. It is simply a small society.

When there are too many people, it is inevitable that there will be comparisons, even if the servants are the same.For example, if you follow a good master, your own identity and status will rise accordingly. If you follow the wrong person, you will naturally be bullied by other people in the house.

The little girl, who is such an idiot as Su Mu, is also quite depressed in the mansion on weekdays, and complains repeatedly in front of Su Mu.

But she took care of Su Mu meticulously, this girl has a sharp mouth and a bean curd heart.

Thinking of the days spent alone with her all these years, Su Mu's heart felt warm.

"Xiaodie, don't worry, talk in the room if you have something to say." Smiling, he led Uncle Fu into the study, and handed over a folding fan on the table: "Sit down and talk."

"Master, what time is it, can you still sit still?" Xiaodie raised her eyebrows, took the fan and slapped it on the table without sitting down, and kept stamping her feet.

Su Muyue looked at this little guy, and felt more interesting in his heart: "Don't worry, talk slowly if you have something to say, the sky won't fall down."

Su Mu's calm expression probably infected Xiaodie, and the little girl was not as flustered as she was when she came here, so she sat down and took a few breaths: "Master, although you were a little dull before, you still know something, that is, reading No. But this time you accidentally broke your head, and you handed in a blank paper at the poetry meeting. By now, the whole Baoding City knows that you have become a complete fool, young master, isn't that so?"

While talking, Xiaodie looked at Su Mu's face worriedly.

"So, I really deserve the title of being a fool?" Su Mu smiled wryly, touched his chin, and asked, "Xiaodie, do you think I look like a fool?"

Xiaodie looked at Su Mu up and down for a long time, then she breathed a sigh of relief and showed a smile: "So the young master is not stupid, I will repay the third and fourth masters."

After speaking, he was about to run outside.

Su Mu: "Wait, what exactly is the disaster you just mentioned?"

It's okay if he didn't ask, but when he asked, Xiaodie yelled angrily: "Master, you fell so hard, why are you going to participate in a poetry meeting? After the third master and the fourth master heard that you are completely stupid, young master, they said yes There is no one in the big house, and they plan to adopt Su Ruisheng, the second young master of the third master's family, under the name of the big master, so as not to cut off the incense in the big house. The third and fourth masters have notified that the ancestral hall will be opened at noon tomorrow, and they will discuss this matter with the elders of the clan "

"Su Ruisheng came to the Dafang because there is no one in the Dafang?" Su Mu felt incredible when he thought that Su Ruisheng was going to be his own younger brother. Besides, I, Su Mu, had all my hands and feet, and there were many parts. How can the incense be cut off, it doesn't work, it doesn't work.

"Master, why don't you understand that the adoption is false, and it is true that it is plotting against the sixty acres of paddy fields in your hand. Our Su family seems to be prosperous on the surface, but it is actually very difficult. Both the third master and the fourth master are short of money." Money. Besides, who would think that they are too rich. At that time, as long as Master Aisheng passes through the house, he will use you as an excuse to take the land, and then divide the three rooms, four rooms, two rooms, and one addition into five parts. It's fine now, since you haven't become completely stupid, young master, I'll go back to the third master."

"Come back, what are you going to say, is it useful? Once the ancestral hall opened, I, Su Mu, was a junior, and now I have a bad reputation, and I can't help others if I want to flatten and round it." Su Mu frowned, and called Xiaodie to stop.

If things are true as Xiaodie said, it is estimated that the third and fourth uncles have been coveting the paddy fields in their hands for a while, so why would they stop because of a word from a little maid.

This matter is a bit troublesome.The ancients had a strong sense of clan, and the clan had great control over the children of the clan.This kind of matter is originally the Su family's housework, so if you report it to the official, no one will take care of it.

Su Mu is nominally the young master of the Su family, but he doesn't have a penny of monthly money. All these years, he has lived on the rent of the [-] mu of land, which is the basis for his survival. If he just handed it over like this, wouldn't he Short and hungry?

The two uncles of my Su family really managed to kill me!

Su Mu was an orphan in his previous life. He lived alone since he was a child. He has never experienced any kind of hard life.Although I was annoyed when I heard the news, I was not afraid.

Seeing Su Mu like this, Xiaodie was taken aback, and suddenly remembered that her young master was an idiot.Although he was completely thrown into a fool, an idiot is not much better than a fool.

With a rush in my heart, tears fell down: "Master, you have to think of a way quickly, if they take the land away... you, you, how will you live in the future?"

"It's just [-] mu of paddy fields, and it's not worth a few taels of silver every year." Su Mu replied lightly.

It is true that the 100 mu of paddy fields are worth [-] taels of silver, but the tenants have to share half of it during the autumn harvest, and then they have to pay the imperial grain and national tax.In the end, it fell into his own hands, and the food was only ten taels of silver.These ten taels of silver can only allow him to maintain his basic life, so that he will not starve to death.

If the land is sold and used as capital to invest in other industries, I am afraid that it will not take a few years to recoup the capital. Sometimes the land complex of the ancients is indeed incomprehensible.

If I could have possessed this nerd Su a few years earlier, bought the land, and made other livelihoods, there would have been rumors already.

Well, no, I have to find a way to solve this matter properly.Although I, Su Mu, don't care about the sixty acres of paddy fields, but this is my eldest family's private property, so how can it be taken away for nothing?

It feels very bad to be bullied. If you don't fight back to this place, your thoughts will be unreasonable!

"Cough, master, what... what to do!" Xiaodie was still wiping away her tears: "It's hard for an upright official to decide on housework. If you know each other well, you can't tell the truth. After all, the third master and the fourth master are the young master you Elders, or else, go and ask them tonight, maybe for the sake of uncle and nephew, for the sake of the deceased master, the two masters will not be so cruel."

"It's hard for an honest official to decide on housework." Su Mu's eyes lit up, and he suddenly had an idea.

After all, my two uncles are the elders, and they have the right to speak in the Su family, and they are determined to seize the property of the big house. It will definitely not work if they ask for mercy, and they will be insulted in vain.But if you want to be ethical with them, one level of seniority crushes people to death, and the ancestral hall is really opened, how can there be room for yourself to speak.If you want to get through this hurdle safely, you have to take advantage of the situation.

Time was running out, and at the moment, Su Mu didn't talk nonsense, and immediately stood up: "Xiaodie thank you for bringing me the letter, I have other important things to go out."

"Master, where are you going? I can't wait to see you, Master..."

"Go to the county government office."

"Young master, it's useless to report this matter to the officials. If the younger generation sues the elders, it won't work at all!"

"Who said I'm going to report to the police? Can't I go find someone?" Su Mu smiled slightly, and suddenly asked: "Xiaodie, it's been hard work for you to take care of me these years. Good. Thank you!"

Xiaodie was stunned, and wanted to cry again, but saw Su Mu smiling calmly, with the look on his brows vaguely like when the master was alive.

Today's young master is so strange, compared to the past, he seems to be a different person.Could it be that he got smart after falling down?

For a while, Xiaodie fell into a trance, but she didn't know when Su Mu left.