Chapter 182 The Journey of Zhuangzi

   "Mother! Is this really our home?" Wen Yuanzhen muttered, her eyes dull.

  Wen Yuanjing clutched his heart and swallowed hard, "With so many rooms, are you finished?"

   She said what Wen Yuanzhen felt, and Wen Yuanzhen sighed: "Don't talk about it, just cleaning is enough!"

   Mrs. Ding said respectfully, "Miss, don't worry, the servants can clean up immediately with the red gauze and Hongling. Where do you think you need to clean first?"

  Wen Yuanzhen came back to her senses and looked at Chen Ningya, "Mother, where do we live?"

Wen Yuanliang came over from behind and said unhurriedly: "Dad and the others lived in the left and right wing of the main courtyard before. I just checked and the ash inside is almost a foot thick. I guess Daddy won't live here this year. I don't even know where they live here."

When Chen Ningya thought of the two villages in Fucheng, she probably knew that she didn't want Wen Yuanliang to keep entangled with this issue, so she said, "Let's live in the courtyard closest to the main courtyard next to the second courtyard, you sisters can also choose one for yourself. Clean up the yard you like, and it will be your room in the future."

   The two looked at each other, jumped up in surprise, and looked at Wen Yuanliang, "Brother, where do you live?"

Wen Yuanhao looked at the two younger sisters with a smile, and said truthfully, "I used to live in Mr. Ji's place. First, it's convenient to study, and there are no idle people in Mr. Ji's place. It's clean, and secondly, this house is too big. It's not very comfortable to live here, and now Dad and the others don't live here, you can choose which yard you want."

   In the end, both sisters chose the second courtyard, Chen Ningya lived in the east wing of the main courtyard, and Wen Yuanliang lived in the second courtyard like the two younger sisters.

   The two girls were very excited to have their own small courtyard. They even rolled up their sleeves to help with the cleaning.

   It took most of the group a long time to clean up the room they were staying in. Mrs. Ding looked at the sky and hurried to cook. After traveling for several days, everyone was exhausted. After eating and washing, they just lay down.

  The next day, Wen Yuanliang went to Mr. Ji's place early, and Chen Ningya brought her two daughters to let the coachman set up the carriage to go to Zhuangzi in the suburbs.

  Zhuangzi's steward was promoted from the county seat, and his name was Changgui.

Let him be this steward because this person is kind, prudent, tight-lipped, flexible, and can take care of Zhuangzi. Of course, the most important point is loyalty. Their family's sales contracts are all in the Wen family, so Changgui and his wife He came to Fucheng to take care of Zhuangzi, and his children all stayed in the county town and the country.

  Changgui hurried over when the carriage entered Zhuangzi. When he saw that it was the host's carriage, he was shocked. The master had just set off with the motorcade, and it was impossible for him to come back. Could it be the eldest young master?

   After contemplating, Chen Ningya got off the carriage, stood still, and looked at Changgui, "Long time no see, Changgui!"

   "Madam!" Changgui was so shocked that his jaw almost dropped, he couldn't turn his head around for a while, and he actually knelt down with a plop.

  The two sisters Wen Yuanzhen, who got off the carriage, exclaimed, "Hey! Aren't you the servant of our family? Could it be that my father is here?"

  Wen Yuanzhen's eyes lit up and looked around, and found that it was similar to the countryside over there. There were mountains, farmland, and many farmhouses. The most conspicuous one was probably that house, which was in the architectural style of the Fucheng side.

  Changgui hurriedly greeted him, "I have seen the eldest and the second, the master has already set off with the caravan, he is not here."

   "Then what is this place? Didn't you follow my father's caravan?" Wen Yuanjing asked suspiciously.

  Changgui didn't know about it, and replied honestly: "This is the Zhuangzi bought by the master. This year, the master came to Fucheng and lived here."

  Wen Yuanzhen was shocked, "Mother! We still have Zhuangzi in Fucheng? All of this?"

  Chen Ningya glanced at it and said hesitantly, "It should be, okay, stop kneeling, get up and answer."

  Changgui then got up, patted the soil on his body, and explained, "Miss, this Zhuangzi has 200 acres in total. What you see are all from Zhuangzi."

   Wen Yuanzhen and Wen Yuanjing had lost the strength to marvel, and more of them were frightened. They didn't understand when their parents did these beatings, even their eldest brother didn't know about it, so the sisters started brain supplementation.

  Chen Ningya asked, "Why didn't the master come here this time to live in a house in the city, but live here, knowing that it is inconvenient to live here for delivery."

Changgui looked at the two young ladies, and said in a dignified whisper, "It's because something happened to the prefect at the end of the year. It is said that it was corruption and bribery. A number of imperial envoys came, and they slapped the prefect's Wusha hat on the spot, and the whole family was escorted to Beijing for investigation.

Corruption and bribery are naturally impossible to catch only one family, pull out the radish and bring out the mud, and many officials and wealthy businessmen in the city have been affected. I heard that a total of more than a dozen companies have been copied. This is still a big fish. , at least half of the rich will suffer.

At the time of the New Year, everyone was afraid to go out. It was not until Niangen gradually recovered. After the Spring Festival, ordinary people had to go out and set up stalls to make a living. After they found that everything was fine, those shops also opened one after another. gradually recovered.

It's just that some of the merchants we cooperated with still had an accident. The master brought more goods, so we had to look for other cooperative merchants. Fortunately, everything went smoothly. The caravan stayed in Fucheng for more than ten days and then left. , I guess I will come back here in the summer. "

Chen Ningya nodded slightly and lowered her voice, "It's a big matter, I'm afraid it won't pass so quickly, but ordinary people won't be affected. It's enough to sell all the goods, but it's better to keep a low profile, it seems that this Zhuangzi bought at the right time."

   There is a Zhuangzi in the outskirts. Afterwards, the caravans do not need to enter the city. They directly put the goods here and deliver them to the city in batches, so that they will not cause any trouble.

Chang Gui nodded again and again, hehe said with a smile: "It's still Mr. and Mrs. who have foresight. Not only is this place convenient for transit, but it is also comfortable for people to live in. The people in the caravan are big gentlemen, and they are not used to living in houses. There is a row of houses at the foot of the mountain, dedicated to the people of the caravan, so that they can live here if they want to go up the mountain or down the river, and they are more comfortable."

The house on Zhuangzi is on a higher terrain, some distance from the farmland, and the surrounding area is full of fruit trees. When they come here, they rarely encounter ripe fruit, so they can only stare at the fruit trees. Strangely tiring.

   (end of this chapter)