Daming female local tyrant

Sure enough, as the old manager Yan said, around Shen time (four o'clock in the afternoon), the boat that Shen Wan and the others took arrived at the Suzhou wharf.

The two young servants who accompanied him helped to unload the dozen or so bundles on the boat and put them on the two hired carriages. Shen Wan, master and servant Jinglan Cuizhu sat in another carriage.

A group of people went to Jinhe Town in three carriages.

By the time we arrived at Jinhe Town, the sun had already set and dusk was falling.

Jinhe Town is a small town. There are only two to three hundred households in the town. There is one main street running east-west, and the rest are small alleys running north-south.

The Shen family's old house is at the southernmost part of the town, and further south is the [-]-acre school field and righteous field owned by the Shen family.

When the three carriages stopped in front of the Shen family's old house, Shen Wan got out of the carriage with Jing Lan and Cui Zhu, and when she saw the nearly century-old Shen family's old house, there was only one feeling in her heart, that this house has really gone through vicissitudes.

Jing Lan borrowed a word that was popular before time travel to describe her own feeling, that is "wow cool wow cool".

An old house is an old house, worthy of the name.

The door is mottled, there is no white ash on the walls, and the green brick walls are exposed, and a lot of weeds grow on the roof tiles. Compared with the Shen house in Jinling, it is extremely shabby.

The old steward Yan ordered the boy who was traveling with him to go up and knock on the door, and it took a while for someone to open the door.

The person who opened the door was a man in his thirties who was blind in one eye. As soon as he saw Old Steward Yan, he came forward and bowed his waist to salute him.

Old steward Yan asked him to stand up, then turned to Shen Wan and said, "Girl, this man is Qiu Liu, a servant of the Shen family, and he and his wife Zhao Siniang are here to guard the old house for the Shen family."

Then Old Steward Yan said to Qiu Liu: "Come over and salute the eldest lady of the Shen family's clan house. She will live in the Shen family's old house in the future and manage the Shen family's school field and Yitian in Suzhou along the way."

Qiu Liu had already seen Shen Wan standing not far behind Old Steward Yan, and he was still wondering which beautiful young mistress this was, and how could she follow Old Steward Yan here?

It wasn't until Old Manager Yan introduced that this was the eldest lady of the clan of the Shen family that he realized who the person in front of him was.

It's just that the eldest daughter of the Shen family's family is married to the eldest grandson of the Xiao family. Why did old steward Yan just say that she will live in the Shen family's old house in the future?

As if thinking of what Qiu Liu was thinking, the old steward Yan simply told Qiu Liu that Shen Wan had reconciled with Xiao Yulang, and the old lady had gone because of Shen Wan and Xiao Yulang's reconciliation, so the old lady punished Shen Wan to go to Shen's old house Come and reflect.

Of course, the old manager Yan didn't tell Qiu Liu about the situation in too much detail. In the eyes of the old manager Yan, Qiu Liu didn't have the right to let him waste too much saliva.

Anyway, Qiu Liu understood that Shen Wan's coming here was the old lady Li's intention.

If Shen Wan was a master like Shen Wan, Qiu Liu would probably never see him in his lifetime. He was actually the lowest servant of the Shen family. He was in the underground and the other was in the sky with the eldest daughter of the Shen family's family. There was a difference in rank too big.

Therefore, after Qiu Liu understood Shen Wan's identity, he was shocked at first, and then came back to his senses. Even though he knew that Shen Wan was punished by Old Madam Li for coming here, he still didn't dare to neglect Shen Wan at all.

So he hurriedly went forward to salute Shen Wan, and said respectfully: "Little man Qiu Liu has seen the girl."

Shen Wan raised her hand, motioning for him to get up.

After Qiu Liu stood up, he hurriedly bowed to invite Shen Wan and the others to enter.

The Shen family's old house has three entrances in total, and the entrance hall leads to three courtyards with patios.

Qiu Liu and his wife Zhao Siniang lived in the first entrance, and the two rear entrances were locked all the year round.

Zhao Siniang was cooking in the kitchen at that time, when she heard someone talking outside and the sound of footsteps, it sounded like a lot of people had come in, so she came out to see what was going on.

Normally, there were only the husband and wife in the Shen family's old house, and it was rare for someone to come, so of course she would feel curious.

Qiu Liu led the way, saw his wife coming out of the kitchen, and hurriedly called her over, asking her to come and see Shen Wan.

Zhao Siniang came over with a limp. It turned out that she had a lame leg.

One of the two couples was blind in one eye, and the other was lame in one leg. Jing Lan complained in her heart when she saw this, it was a good match.The fact that the Shen family let such two people guard the old house of the Shen family shows the status of the old house in the hearts of the Shen family.

Zhao Siniang was like her man, when she saw Shen Wan, it was like seeing a fairy descended from the sky, she saluted Shen Wan respectfully and wished blessings.

Shen Wan also asked her to get up and talk.

At this time, the old manager Yan took out a piece of silver and handed it to Zhao Siniang, asking her to go to the small restaurant that was not closed in the town to get some food, so that she could entertain the eldest lady and her party for dinner in the evening.

Zhao Siniang took the money, limped back to the kitchen to put out the fire in the kitchen, and then went out to buy food.

Qiu Liu took out the key he was carrying and opened the two doors behind the house.

As soon as the door was opened, the smell of damp and mildew came to the nostrils, and the broken doors and windows hit everyone's eyes, as well as knee-deep grass growing all over the yard.

Qiu Liu asked Shen Wan whether to live in the second or third entrance, because all the rooms in the Shen family's old house were vacant, so she could live anywhere she wanted.

Shen Wan frowned and said, "Look at the back."

Generally, the last entrance of the house is for the female family members to live in, that is to say, there will be an embroidery building. Of course, she hopes to live in the embroidery building.

Qiu Liu led the way again and opened the door of the third room.

Sure enough, as Shen Wan expected, there was an embroidered building in the third entrance of the Shen family's old house, but the damage of the house was similar to that of the second entrance in the front, without a single good door and window, the roof and the yard were covered with grass, and from time to time there was an embroidered building. Mice slipped through the grass.

Walking into the house and looking, you can see that the house is covered with dust and spider silk, and there are ants crawling on the ground from time to time, and there are also insects such as centipedes.

The only thing that is better is that there are some furniture such as beds, tables and chairs in this room, and depending on the style, they are all for women.

These furniture have not decayed after several decades. It can only be said that the Shen family, who was the land tycoon of Jinhe Town, used high-quality wood when building furniture, and painted layers of earth paint.It is only because these furniture have been preserved to this day that Shen Wan and the others don't have to sleep on the floor when they arrive here.

Shen Wan went upstairs again to have a look, and finally decided to live downstairs temporarily, because she went upstairs and saw that the roof tiles were damaged, and she was afraid that the house would leak.If you live downstairs, at least there is a floor to block it, so you won't be so badly drenched.

The old steward Yan who came with Shen Wan was a kind-hearted person. He was sent by Mrs. Li to send Shen Wan to the Shen family's old house in Suzhou. punish her severely.

At that time, old manager Yan nodded and agreed, but when he really sent Shen Wan to Suzhou, he didn't follow Shen Xian's request.

Old steward Yan thought that although Shen Wan was punished by Mrs. Li, her father was still the current patriarch of the Shen family.Although the old lady said that Shen Wan would return to Jinling unless she went to see the old lady, but the old lady is old, who knows how many years she will live.If the old lady went to see the old man in a few years, when Shen Wan returned to the Shen family, she would not be the eldest lady of the clan, and she would be rich and prosperous.If Shen Wan offended by what Shen Xian said, then he would be in bad luck.

Now that he saw the poor condition of the Shen family's old house, he secretly frowned, so he immediately ordered the servants with him to fetch water and clean up the five downstairs rooms of the women's building.

Of course Jing Lan and Cui Zhu couldn't be idle, they rolled up their sleeves and went to clean the house.

While they were cleaning the house, Zhao Siniang went to buy food with a tael of silver from old manager Yan, and brought it back in a food box.

Old steward Yan invited Shen Wan to have dinner at the residence of Qiu Liu and Zhao Siniang. As for the two servants who were still cleaning the house and Jing Lan and the others, they would leave a meal for them, and it would not be too late for them to eat after cleaning.

Shen Wan nodded, glanced at Jing Lan who was still scrubbing the furniture, and followed Old Manager Yan out.

The room where Qiu Liu and Zhao Siniang lived had tables and chairs, which was much cleaner than the house that Jing Lan and the others were cleaning.

Zhao Siniang put the specially bought meals for Shen Wan on the table, while she and her man Qiu Liu went to the kitchen to eat.

Shen Wan asked old steward Yan to sit down and eat together, but old steward Yan refused, and took the bowl to stand beside him to eat.

In the eyes of old steward Yan, even though Shen Wan is a sinner of the Shen family, she is still young, but she is still a serious master. He, who is employed by the Shen family and manages the housework for the Shen family, is regarded as a servant. Can't eat at the same table with Shen Wan.

Seeing that Old Steward Yan wouldn't be persuaded, Shen Wan had no choice but to eat in silence.

The food in the small restaurant in Jinhe Town is of course rough, for a young lady like Shen Wan who is used to delicate food, the taste is really bad.

However, she got on the boat from Jinling this morning, so far she only ate two pieces of cakes on the boat, and she is indeed hungry.

When you are hungry, you don't pay much attention to the taste, but just want to be full.

After barely eating a bowl of rough rice, Shen Wan put down her chopsticks and stopped eating.

After Mr. Yan ate a bowl, he also put down the bowl and chopsticks. He didn't think the food in the small restaurant in Jinhe Town was so unpalatable, but because he was over fifty, and his stomach would hurt if he ate too much. Comfortable.

The reason why Mrs. Li sent old steward Yan to send Shen Wan to Suzhou was because old steward Yan would go to Suzhou every year to collect the rice from the [-]-acre field in Suzhou and transport it back to Shen's family in Jinling by grain ship. storage.Therefore, whether he is good to the Shen family's old house, or the head of the village entrusted by the Shen family to manage the [-] mu of land, he is more familiar with the general Shen family stewards.

Usually after eating, Shen Wan is used to drinking a cup of tea, but there is no tea here, she can only pick up a porcelain pot on the table, pour some cold boiled water into the rice bowl, and drink half of the bowl.

The old steward Yan then poured some water into the rice bowl he was holding and drank it.

Afterwards, he told Shen Wan about his arrangement. Tomorrow he would ask someone to call the two heads of the Shen family's Suzhou Xuetian and Yitian, and ask them to pay a visit to Shen Wan. From now on, the Suzhou Xuetian and Yitian Let Shen Wan be in charge of collecting grain.He reminded Shen Wan that the Shen family collects [-] catties of grain per mu every year, which is also the amount of grain produced in the farmland reported by the two village chiefs.

But in fact, as far as he knew, the Shen family's [-] mu of land was good land, and in a year with good weather and weather, it would probably be able to produce more than [-] catties of grain per mu.Excluding the wages paid to the farm laborers, the farmers earn a lot.Of course, there are also disaster years, and the output of the field is less than [-] catties.However, in Suzhou, in ten years, there will only be one or two years of disasters.According to the rules of the Shen family, if there is a disaster year, the grain handed in will be halved, that is to say, one hundred catties per mu.

Old Manager Yan didn't say anything later, but Shen Wan was very clear about what he meant.

The old lady asked her to manage the [-] mu of land, and the money needed for her daily life had to come from these [-] mu of land. Only when the farmers paid more grain could she have enough money to eat and spend.And the Zhuangtou, who was used to taking advantage of the Shen family's [-] mu of land, would spit out the benefits he had already eaten so easily?

The author has something to say: This book is about two local tyrants.It's just that Jing Lan is relatively young and wants to compete for the first place.I say that, do you understand?