The Pastoral Life of a Reborn Farmer

Chapter 123

Mu Hongyuan was imprisoned again. This time even Mu Wu couldn't send a message for him. He just informed Shen Ling when he came to see Shen Ling off. At home, no outsiders are allowed.

"Where is the third son?" Shen Ling looked at Mu Wu and asked.

Mu Wu's usually indifferent face suddenly turned a little blush. Shen Ling looked at it in surprise. In fact, he was very supportive of Mu Wu's instigating Mu Hongjin to elope. It was better than Mu Wu's attempt to bring down the Mu family. The family is bound to collapse, but it cannot be in the hands of Mu Wu.

Mu Wu didn't answer Shen Ling's words, although Shen Ling had already seen something, and his face turned red, he must have done something that shouldn't be done!Shen Ling smiled like a fox, Mu Wu pretended not to notice it, and forcibly changed the subject, "The second young master seemed to be beaten because he said something he shouldn't have said to the adult, which made him angry. Originally, My lord didn't intend to beat him, after all, he is still the second son whom my lord loves very much."

Shen Ling nodded, "I understand, I understand. The eldest son is the most important, the second son is the most beloved, and the third son is the most doted on, right? But doting on the third son is fine. Mu Hongjin is a twin, or If you want to get married, it doesn't matter if you spoil him a little, but Mu Hongyuan, he is a man!" What's the matter with love, let Mu Hongyuan make contributions.

Shen Ling once felt that it was because of the problems of the Mu family's family education that the head of the Mu family was cruel and ruthless, the second child was a naive dandy, and the third child was innocent and ignorant.

Mu Wu didn't say anything more, "Forget it, take care all the way."

"You too." Shen Ling cupped his hands, "Goodbye."

"Goodbye." Mu Wu stood in the Ten Mile Pavilion, watching Shen Ling's carriage leave with his hands behind his back. Shen Ling looked back from the window. Mu Wu's robe was swept up by the strong wind, but he stood firmly, like a green pine Ling suddenly sighed softly, "When I come to Huaizhou again in the future, I'm afraid the Mu family will change."

Han Shi looked at Shen Ling worriedly, Shen Ling noticed Han Shi's gaze, smiled softly and said, "Don't worry, they will be fine."

Han Shi just nodded.

Shen Ling took Han Shi toiled all the way, and when he got home, he asked his servants to clean up the house again before letting Han Shi get off the carriage and go back to his room to rest.Shen Ling didn't stay at home for long, so he went to Lizheng's house, told him about registering Zhaofu's household registration when he came back, and wentssip with him before he was able to go home.

Shen Ling hadn't stayed at home for long, when she saw Shen Gouzi dressed in fine cotton clothes and bringing in a man who looked like an accountant. When he saw Shen Ling, he cupped his hands and smiled, "Boss, can you come back?" I miss you so much, I heard that you even have a son, so I have to meet my younger brother!"

"I'm tired, I'm going to sleep, next time!" Shen Ling smiled.

Shen Gouzi quickly responded, and without daring to force him, he pointed to the person behind him and said, "This is Mr. Accountant. I brought the account book. Boss, can you take a look at it? During this period of time, according to the instructions in your letter, I bought There are a lot of land, and a lot of fruit trees are planted. When the peach blossoms bloom this year, the flowers are pulled out by carts and carts. How much wine must be brewed! It’s a pity that the fruit trees are still small, otherwise there would be so many peach blossoms.”

"Are there any peach blossoms left?"

"Keep it, keep it, every tree has some, and it can grow fruit! Don't worry, it's the first year of planting, most of the fruit saplings are not big, and the only ones that have already grown up, because they just moved, they can't grow. It doesn't look very good, so in terms of income..."

"Don't worry, take your time. Trees don't grow in a day." Shen Ling flipped through the ledger and handed it to Mr. Accountant, "Mr. Please reconcile the accounts with me!"

"It should be, it should be." The accountant nodded repeatedly, looking at the shy man.

Working as an accountant in the countryside must be hopeless in the imperial examination and he is not good at speaking. Seeing his performance, Shen Ling was not surprised. Anyone with some eloquence had already gone to the city to find a job, why did he stay in the country.

After Shen Ling checked the account book, Shen Gouzi put down the teacup in his hand, and when Shen Ling was free, he said, "Did the boss come back to marry my sister?"

Shen Ling was taken aback, "Didn't you just get engaged?"

"That's right! I'm rushing out too!" Shen Gouzi smiled, seemingly with deep meaning.

Shen Ling frowned, "Say, don't play charades."

Shen Gouzi nodded quickly, "I'm just planning to talk about it! Boss, you are not at home all year round, so you don't know the situation. I will rush to report all kinds of news to you when you come back. Don't worry!"

Shen Ling took a sip of tea, looked at Shen Gouzi, Shen Gouzi said: "Your house is very lively recently, the news spread the day before yesterday that Shen San got second in the exam, you came back late, your house is not Beat the gongs and drums, feast the guests, and put on the posture of a flowing water banquet! Then your brother-in-law also came to the door, and asked for a daughter-in-law by the way! Your family agreed."

"that's it?"

"It's said so, but I heard some private things, I don't know if it's true or not. I heard that my third uncle didn't seem to have enough money to go to Beijing for the exam, so the family paid a lot of money to agree."

Shen Ling's face was a little ugly. Most women in this era were engaged in marriage in the fifteenth or sixteenth year, but most of them didn't get married until the sixteenth or seventeenth. After all, it was too dangerous to have a child at the age of 15, and the ancients were not so stupid. He will hurry fifteen to marry his daughter, not to mention that his cheap girl doesn't seem to be fifteen yet. Now that she is married, what if she gets pregnant and hurts her body? Shen Ling sees that it is not too late to get married at eighteen.

"My father's family has no money?" Shen Ling asked.

"I heard that's the case, but who knows for sure." Shen Gouzi spread his hands.

Shen Ling said: "Do you know where my family's money comes from? I don't do business, I don't work as an official, and I don't work hard. How can I get so much money?"

"I heard from the older generation that someone was saved, and the nobleman gave it to you. Boss, haven't you heard your father say that?"

"Do you know what kind of nobleman? When did you save someone? I haven't seen any nobleman come to visit since I was a child. Could it be that the favor of saving lives is only settled with money, and there is no other intersection? Have you ever heard of any letter?"

"I don't know this, but I guess no one in the village knows, otherwise I can't have heard of it at all." Shen Gouzi said doubtfully: "Boss, don't say it. If you mention it like this, I will I don’t think it’s right, but it’s a life-saving grace! It’s a nobleman, so I didn’t rely on him back then? And it hasn’t been revealed for so many years, so no one knows who he saved?!”

Shen Ling frowned, "Don't mention this matter again."

If it's not for saving people, suddenly giving out so much money can only be harming people. After all, it's his father. If he commits a crime, he might be so involved that he can't take the imperial examination. It's good to delve into it.

Shen Gouzi also knew that people of the same clan would entangle each other, so he didn't dare to mention this matter again. Fortunately, this accountant was also a member of the same clan, so he wouldn't say it out and hurt everyone.

After Shen Gouzi left, Shen Ling also went to the Shen family's old house. The Shen family's old house was packing up. Suddenly seeing Shen Ling coming, the sister-in-law of the Shen family straightened up. Under the rough skin, she could vaguely see the beauty of the past, with her messy hair , with a coarse apron around his waist.

"Shen Er?" It's been a long time since we saw each other, Zhao Shuitao no longer recognizes Shen Ling, and Shen Ling has indeed changed a lot, from temperament to clothes, he can't see the shadow of the past at all.

"Sister-in-law." Shen Ling cupped his hands, "Does sister-in-law work alone?"

Zhao Shuitao's expression was filled with resentment, "How dare I let my sister-in-law who is about to get married work with my mother-in-law, my family doesn't know where to hide and is lazy, and I don't know how to help."

"Sister-in-law is diligent." Shen Ling nodded and said nothing more.

Zhao Shuitao looked at Shen Ling's clothes in a daze for a moment, Shen Ling was about to pass Zhao Shuitao into the house, Zhao Shuitao suddenly said: "Second brother, you are... getting rich! These are good clothes." Zhao Shuitao looked at the jade pendant on Shen Ling's waist.

Shen Ling didn't intend to hide anything when he came back this time. Not returning home with wealth is tantamount to walking in the night. He doesn't care about walking in the night, but there is no need to hide it. Only when he has money can he do things in the village. When you have more right to speak, others will pay more attention to you, and he doesn't feel that he will be counted. The money he gives is only what he is willing to give, and no one can take it away by robbery.

"Fortunately, I have a small business. Where's my sister? I heard that she is getting married. I'll add makeup to her."

"In the back room, you have to give her something nice, your sister is suffering!" Zhao Shuitao instructed.

Shen Ling nodded, lazily paying attention to what Zhao Shuitao was thinking, and walked directly to the back room. Shen San and the others were not at home, not even Shen's father and Shen's mother. They probably went to some kind of banquet. After all, Shen San was selected as a scholar Well, presumably some wealthy gentry wanted to invite Shen San to visit, Shen's father and Shen's mother liked to show the limelight, so they probably followed.

Shen Mei was the fifth child in the Shen family, and also the youngest. Shen Ling vaguely remembered that she was only about 13 years old.

"Sister." Shen Ling knocked on the door, and thinking that his sister-in-law would not recognize his behavior, she added, "I'm your second brother."

"Second brother?" Shen Mei opened the door and came out in a daze, with two small bags tied on her head, tied with cloth strips, she looked cute and cute.

"I'll put on your makeup." Shen Ling said.

"Second brother, please come in." Shen Mei walked back into the house and sat in front of the embroidery frame. Seeing that what Shen Ling was embroidering on the embroidery frame seemed to be wedding clothes, Shen Mei didn't reject her upcoming marriage very much, so she didn't Say more.

Shen Ling stood still and didn't intend to sit down, and said directly: "My sister is married, and I, as a brother, almost don't even know Xin'er, which is also funny. Since I was lucky and came back in time, I just happened to give you a gift Makeup, you hide it yourself, don't be taken away by others."

Shen Ling took out the taels of silver from his bosom, and handed over ten taels of silver, "Dad gave me ten taels of silver back then, and now I'll give you the money, and more." Shen Ling took out another jade pendant carved from emerald jade, "This The jade pendant is for your self-defense, and you can pass it on to your heirs, it is worth about 200 taels of silver, so you can hide it yourself."

"Second brother!" Shen Mei looked at the jade pendant in Shen Ling's hand in surprise.

"It's for you, and I can't help you with anything. You have to live a good life in the future."

"Thank you, Second Brother." Shen Mei took Shen Ling's things, put the jade around her neck, stuffed it into her clothes, and put it next to her body.