Xue Jiazi

The grief and indignation in Lin Ruhai's heart!He has grown up so much, he has always felt that his family is well controlled by him, and his official career is also very smooth. He feels that in his whole life, he is the only one who plays with others and no one plays with him, but he did not expect , The world is unpredictable, he is still not good enough, this is the second time something unexpected has happened to him.

Thinking carefully about the experiences of these years, I am really ashamed!How arrogant!The first time, it was the humiliation and embarrassment brought to him by the Yue family, which made him childless for ten years. What does this mean?Sometimes he can't sleep in the middle of the night and thinks about it, he can only say that he doesn't have enough merit!After cultivating such a family of in-laws, and severely reflecting on the years when my IQ plummeted, how could I forget to be prepared just because Jia's family is my father-in-law's family!He clearly knew that whether the Jia family or the Wang family were not of the same level as his family, he couldn't use common sense to infer, so how could he not be more careful!

Fortunately, it was redeemed in time, and it didn't let the Lin family break the lineage, so it was right to be an ancestor, and the Jia family's own intervention made them pay the price, and finally their depression was gone. Go, and helped Jia Lian marry a daughter of a scholarly family in the south of the Yangtze River, arranged for a small official from the Ministry of Industry in the capital, and gained the full trust of the Jia family's big house. It can be said that he directly extended his hand to Jia's house. From then on, he wanted to come to this Yue's house. There won't be any troubles anymore, at least there will be no more people who are holding back.Not long after I felt at ease here, this incident happened again, and it was not a trivial matter.

When Lin Ruhai received Xue Pan's letter, he really didn't think it was a big deal. He just thought that the child had something to ask for his advice. After all these years, this Xue Pan was just like his disciple. Correspondence is very frequent.But as soon as the letter was opened, Lin Ruhai immediately lost his composure. What was said in it made his heart palpitate. The Lin family really couldn't say what the Xue family could find out. The most important thing is that Xue Pan is caring.He made a list for Lin Ruhai, which is a price list, listing all the things that need to be purchased in a family, and writing the normal purchase prices in the world.

It was this list that made Lin Ruhai a little dizzy, because after receiving the letter, he and Jia Min took a look at the account books purchased at home over the years, and immediately found that the price they purchased was the price listed on this list. Five times to ten times.This definitely explains the problem very well, and Jia Min's face is flushed, because now the manager of the purchase is her dowry, isn't this a slap in the face!Does this mean that she is not good at housekeeping?He was somewhat dissatisfied with Xue Pan's meddling, but fortunately, Lin Ruhua took out the list of the old lady of the Lin family when she was in charge of the house, and the few were almost the same as when Jia Min was the housekeeper, which made Jia Min feel better. More, at least it's not her fault alone, it's these servants who have been unclean for generations, how much do they know when the wives of the house don't leave the house, and don't step in the second door!

Without shame, indignation and embarrassment, Jia Min naturally regained the shrewdness of being the mistress of the house, and immediately began to secretly track down the servants in the house, while Lin Ruhai found a few other most loyal and trustworthy people to check on the Lin family. Other industries, whether it is a farm or a shop, at this time he believes all of them, so he has to check them all.

If you want to talk about the managers of the Lin family, they are indeed much better than those of the Xue family. I have already told the tenants below that the Lin family does not have to pay taxes, so they will not be too harsh on the tenants. The rent will be set at [-]%, and the rent will never be increased. It is used to calm people's hearts. That is violating the ancestral precepts, and you can go to the Lin family's ancestral house to file a complaint.

This can be regarded as restricting the rights of those Zhuangtou in a disguised form, or it can be said that Lin Houye had foreseen the possible corruption of ink in the lower management, so there was such a rule, so after all these years, the Zhuangzi of the Lin family did indeed The rent has always been collected at [-]%, and there has never been anything wrong. Naturally, no one has talked to Lin Ruhai about the output or anything.

But the rent remains the same, which doesn’t mean that these village heads can’t find a way to be greedy. So since the five generations of the Lin family, they have used the reasons of reduced production, insufficient land resources, etc., and gradually, the rent paid has become less and less. Up to now, the paddy fields with two crops of rice are under the control of these farmers, and the rent paid is just the same as that of ordinary fields, let alone anything else. In short, until now, the output of these fields is The Lin family and Zhuangtou each get half of the profits.

When Lin Ruhai knew this, he was so angry!Black smoke all over the body!What does this mean?Doesn't this mean that his vision of seeing people is still not good!And is it because the ancestors of the Lin family in their lifetimes all look the same?They were all fooled by the slaves.So humiliating!He will feel ashamed to see people!

Whoever makes me shameless, then I will naturally make them not even have skin left!

Lin Ruhai has been an official for so many years. Naturally, he is decisive in doing things and has a good set of methods. Although these people are not involved in oppressing tenants or raising rent by themselves, they don't need to involve the government. It can be considered that there is no need to embarrass the Lin family in Hangzhou, but he will not make it easy for them. He directly tied them up, ransacked their homes one by one, and finally sold them all. He still specified that they would all be sold to the poorest places. They would like to enjoy what it means to work hard.A bunch of bastards who don't know how to be blessed.

The servants of the Lin family have always had high welfare and high treatment, and they belong to the entire Jiangnan. The most important thing is that they are from the Hou family, a scholarly family. If you have a face, sell these people to the poor valley at once. I think this lesson will be remembered by these people for several lifetimes.

After dealing with the moths in the house, Lin Ruhai also cleaned up some servants. The Five Dynasties Liehou family is not only the continuous increase of the Lin family's family business, but also the number of servants. The servants who came down counted carefully, and there are already three to four hundred people. The Lin family has only four masters in total. There are so many servants who really don’t need it. In addition, there are two rounds in a row to clean up the troubles at home. Lin Ruhai thought it was because the family was becoming bloated, so he simply let out many old people who were good-natured, loyal to their duties, and not very capable. However, I gave the whole family a body deed, and prepared 400 taels of silver for each of the other families, as well as a large yard with a second entry for the family. Work honestly, then the Lin family will arrange everything for you, not only can you return to your freedom, but you can also have a house, a field, and live a good life as a middle-class family.It can also be regarded as a hope for other servants.

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A big stick in one hand and a carrot in the other is the most commonly used method in the officialdom. Lin Ruhai is not skilled in using it, and this hand is indeed very useful. At least all the servants of the Lin family are honest now. Even a fool can see it , On the one hand, it is sold, the house is raided, and the family is torn apart;

After dealing with the family affairs, the next thing Lin Ruhai has to do is to educate the children. He has discovered that compared with Xue Pan, his own children are really not good enough!Thinking about Xue Pan's cleverness when he was six years old, and looking at his daughter's six-year-old appearance now, he really didn't want to admit that his daughter was a little naive, and besides being able to read and write, she didn't know anything about the world. How good, although a daughter and a son must be different, but a daughter will also marry in the future, and she will also become the head of the house, so she can't understand everything!Looking at what Jia Min taught!He was really worried, he couldn't trust Jia's education level!

Ever since, Sister Lin was happy, because her father made her a lot of clothes for little boys, and started to take her out for a walk. For a child, being able to go out to play is definitely a great joy!As for the purpose, it can be ignored gorgeously, right?

"Father, what is this?"

On the outskirts of Hangzhou, Lin Ruhai is taking his eldest daughter for an outing on the edge of a field. It is really an outing. He just wants her to see places other than the house, garden, and street. There is still a way to go out of the temple, and if you enter a temple, there is no chance to go out. Even if you go to another house as a guest, you will come by sedan chair, and you will not see anything. It has also become narrow, so the first step when taking children out is to look at the mountains and rivers and let them open their eyes.But at this time, he felt a little regretful, because his daughter pointed to the thing with small white flowers on the roadside and asked him, but he didn't know!How can this be done? Isn't this ruining his prestige as a father!How can you not know?

Lin Ruhai can be regarded as a person with extensive knowledge, but it is a pity that his extensive knowledge is in reading, and the matter of Nongsang is really unclear, it is not in the book!As for common sense, he is the only son of the Hou family after all, so it would be a strange thing if he had the opportunity to get in touch with farming!Although it was very embarrassing, fortunately his reaction was not too slow. Under Lin Daiyu's slowly asking eyes, he stabilized his mind, and then said very freely:

"Yu'er is good, these fathers don't know very well, can father take you to find someone to ask?"

Although it is a bit embarrassing to say this, Lin Ruhai said to himself in his heart: knowing what you know and what you don't know is not knowing, this is a problem of the quality of a scholar, and I am sticking to morality, not a shame.

With psychological construction, although his face was a little red, fortunately it wasn't too obvious, and his eyes were a little dazed, but his expression was still open. Even Lin Daiyu didn't feel disappointed when she heard it, she just nodded obediently, and then she understood said:

"Daddy doesn't come out often, does he? Yu'er knows that Daddy is always in the Yamen, he doesn't come out, he doesn't see it, so he doesn't know, Yu'er doesn't blame you."

This kid is so caring!No, it's because I stayed in the Yamen all year round and didn't come out very often, so I didn't understand it, that's what happened.

Lin Ruhai had a reason why he didn't understand, and immediately straightened up again, and asked the servants behind him:

"Do any of you know this? Come out and talk about it, and let the master and the girl know."

The servants, especially the servants who were bought, sold themselves as slaves because they could not survive at home, and those whose family conditions were not good were naturally ordinary people. Most of the common people lived on the fields. These people Naturally, he was very clear about these things. As soon as Lin Ruhai finished speaking, a servant called Ping An stepped forward. This is a boy who has only been in the government for five years. Now he is only 16 years old, and he is a child of a farmer in Yangzhou.

"Returning to the master, what the girl pointed to just now is a kind of wild vegetable, which is also a kind of flower, called dandelion. Before it blooms, we call it mother-in-law in the countryside, and eat it as a wild vegetable. This thing also has a name called dandelion. Huanghua Diding, I heard that it is a traditional Chinese medicine. Children in the country use it to treat mumps, even if they sometimes cough or something, this thing can also be used. It is something that country people use in Caotoufang, girl. , you look at this flower, it’s white, like catkins, isn’t it soft and beautiful?”

Following Ping An's fingers, whether it was Lin Ruhai or Lin Daiyu, they all carefully looked at the dandelion flower. Sure enough, the so-called white fluffy flower was as light and soft as catkins. There is a small, humble beauty.

"Indeed, it looks inconspicuous, but it's interesting to look at it carefully."

Lin Ruhai nodded, feeling that this unremarkable flower was a bit extraordinary, while Lin Daiyu looked at the dandelion with appreciative eyes, nodded her head, and said very seriously:

"It's not easy for you. There are so many uses, and you can grow up on the side of the road. It's amazing!"

The servants on the side laughed when they heard Lin Daiyu's words. This child's thinking is different from that of adults, and he actually talked to Yehua and praised Yehua for being amazing.But Ping An on the other side smiled, and said to Lin Daiyu very softly:

"Girl, this is only one kind, and it has something powerful! This white one is not only a flower, but also a seed. As long as the wind blows, the white flower will scatter, and then float with the wind, waiting for you!" After landing, it will continue to take root and sprout, and grow into new wild vegetables, isn't it even more powerful?"

Lin Daiyu looked at Ping An quietly, then nodded,

"It's very powerful, it's just safe, what are wild vegetables?"

Well, there is a new problem, but this problem is no longer a problem for children from farming families, but a survival instinct.

"The girl doesn't know, in ordinary people's homes, they don't have much money to sell vegetables for food. After all, they can't even eat enough. There is such spare money to buy vegetables, and some people don't even have rice. Things to fill their stomachs. Under such circumstances, they also want to live, so they can only think of their own way. Fortunately, God always gives people a way to survive. Even if they have no money, there are still things to eat. The food they eat is wild vegetables. From the beginning of spring to late autumn, in the fields and on the hillsides, as long as there is land, there will be wild vegetables everywhere, that is, wild grasses that can be eaten as vegetables. As long as you work diligently, even a child can eat them in one day. If you dig a basket, even if you don’t have food, you can still eat two meals with wild vegetables, and you won’t be full, but you can always have something in your stomach, so you won’t starve to death.”

What Ping An said was very ordinary, but the eyes of everyone who heard it were a little red. Many servants of the Lin family have worked in the Lin family for generations. Although their status is not good and they are slaves, they don't have to worry about eating Not full, not warm, can always survive.So they have only heard about the difficulty of ordinary poor people, but they have never intuitively thought of their life like this. Even Lin Ruhai frowned when he heard this, but he knows something. Those who sell their sons and daughters understand that starvation is the greatest enemy of the people.It's just that he was a little worried about whether his kind daughter could accept such a world.

And what about Lin Daiyu!But he frowned, thought for a while, then turned around and asked Lin Ruhai:

"Daddy, why don't they have food? As long as the people in the family work, they can get paid and eat? Why don't they work? Is it laziness?"

Lin Daiyu didn't understand. In her eyes, as long as she worked, she could have wages and food. Why would there be people without food?

How would Lin Ruhai answer these questions?He couldn't say it for a while, but he was still safe. He knew that the girl just didn't understand, didn't know the life outside, and didn't mean to say these things, so he explained patiently:

"It's not that they don't work, but they are forced by life. Even if they have the heart to work, there is nothing they can do. If there is a natural disaster, who can hide from it. Girl, it's like my family. My family used to have three acres of land. My grandfather, Grandma, father, mother, second uncle, and me, there are six people. Although the three acres of land are not much, there are people farming in the family. They are renting a few acres of land. The combined harvest can always be used for food. Although They may not be full, but if we add wild vegetables, we can live a good life. It’s just that seven years ago, my grandfather was sick and asked a doctor. In order to treat my grandfather, the family had to sell the field. Who wants money? The flowers were gone, grandpa was not healed, so he left, and grandma cried and went blind again. In this way, life would be impossible. Grandpa’s funeral and grandma’s medical treatment cost money. It took a few days. The family had no future for the fields and no source of income, and it was even more sad. Later, my father and my second uncle could only rent out fields for others as tenants, but the rent paid by tenants was too much No matter how much you cook, you won’t get much food. The whole family can’t afford to eat. Even if my father and second uncle are always working as laborers in the town during the slack season, moving goods for others to earn money, the family still has no food. So in the end, I had to sell me and exchanged money for grandma’s medical treatment. Fortunately, the Lin family is a good family. I can have five taels of silver every year. In the past few years, I haven’t spent a month’s money in peace. Every time I save it, I send it to my family at the end of the year. The family breathed a sigh of relief, but that's it, our family still digs wild vegetables to eat every day, this is the life of ordinary people. You can't get sick, you can't die, a little big thing can ruin a family. "

Speaking later, Ping An's eyes were red, not because they didn't want to live a good life, but in this world, the life of the poor is really hard!No one would want to sell themselves as slaves, but that would put their lives in the hands of others. The Lin family is considered good. For some families, killing their servants is as easy as eating!Who is not afraid!But if you want to eat and feed your family, what can you do!

Lin Ruhai was silent. This was the first time he knew what kind of life his servants were living in. Lin Daiyu remained silent, with tears in her eyes. She never thought that there were such people in the world. In her little heart, being angry with her mother and arguing with her father is already a big deal, but she never thought that there are still such people in this world who are struggling to survive. Suddenly, I felt that I was going too far, and I had always been too much. It was a bit of the meaning in the book that I don’t know the blessing when I am in the blessing, so the kind Lin Daiyu felt guilty, and turned to Lin Ruhai and said:

"Daddy, I'm sorry, Yu'er won't play his temper casually anymore. It's because of Dad's ability that Yu'er can live comfortably. It's because of mother's hard work that she manages the house so well so that Yu'er can have food every day. With clothes to wear, Yu'er can't be too dissatisfied."

Having said that, he said to Ping An:

"Ping An, it's mine. You shouldn't say that. You have all worked hard and worked hard. You are not lazy. Your family's life will get better and better in the future."

Lin Daiyu has always been kind, although she once laughed at Grandma Liu in the original book as a female locust who beats the autumn wind and looked down on her, but it was just that she was ignorant of the outside world, did not understand the hardship of the people's livelihood, and did not know those who rely on the fields. What is the life of the people who live in it? Her world is only in that small Jia's mansion, which is too small and too narrow. , I still remember to bring her something, and wanted to help her. You must know that at that time, even her own life in Jia's mansion was not easy. Under such circumstances, it was very important to still have such a heart Not bad.

But now, on the first day when Lin Ruhai took her out, with this little wild vegetable, her world had an outside brilliance for the first time, and she saw a different world.Thinking about it, her future disposition will also have nothing to do with being stingy, tricky, or noble.

"No, there's no need to do this. Here, where can I make the girl apologize. The girl is still young, and it is common for her not to know the outside world. If you are like this, Ping An can't afford it. Don't worry, the Lin family is here. It will definitely get better and better. The master is a good man, and he helped many people out of the disaster! Who in our area would say that the master is good, and the young ones have heard that many people gave the master a long life Where's the tablet!"

Ping An was a little incoherent. He never thought that a master could tell a slave that he was wrong. In this world, the master should always be superior, and the slave should be humble. Only slaves make mistakes. How can a master make mistakes? Well, even if the master is wrong, that is also right. This is the education he received after entering the mansion, and it is also the norm of the world!So the only thing he can do now is to keep saying good things about the master, for fear that the master will not like it.

Lin Ruhai looked at his blushing face, lowered his head, kept looking at the peace of his face, and took his uneasiness into his eyes, but he didn't say anything, and he didn't want to say anything, just thinking secretly in his heart , shouldn't the housekeeper check the situation of the servants in the family more, if there are people like Ping'an, they are also servants of their own family after all, and they have to help, life is not easy!