"I asked you last night. Don't forget."

After that, Hu Qinglian didn't speak much, he was afraid that what he said would be wrong, so Xu Muzhou basically asked and he answered.

To Hu Qinglian's surprise, this Second Young Master Xu was very talkative, and his words made people feel like a spring breeze, as if he was not here to enter the bridal chamber, but to make friends.

For example, just now, when Xu Muzhou asked him where his native place was, Hu Qinglian was a little elusive about this person, and dared not answer easily. After thinking carefully about the forged identity document that the eldest son gave him, and after confirming that there would be no mistakes, he slowly replied: "Native place is Yunshui Town in southern Hunan."

Xu Muzhou nodded very naturally, and it was impossible to tell whether he was thinking or not.

He just praised Yunshui Town in southern Hunan as a good place, and said that the "five delicacies of crab and fish" there is famous all over the country, and asked Hu Qinglian if he could try it when he was free.

Although Hu Qinglian's hometown is fake, "Five Treasures of Crab and Fish" is a famous dish in southern Hunan. It is indeed famous all over the country, and there are not a few people who can cook it.

And Hu Qinglian has been in charge of the family since he was a child, and he is very confident in his cooking skills. Besides, when the head of the family opened his mouth, he, a concubine, naturally had no reason to say no, so he agreed.

Seeing that the moon is reaching the mid-heaven, it's time to go to bed.

Hu Qinglian tried her best to put on a coquettish posture, trying to serve Xu Muzhou to bed.

But it's strange to say that even though Xu Muzhou didn't explicitly reject him, and secondly, he didn't deliberately alienate him, but Hu Qinglian's various gestures of showing kindness and consideration to this person were subtly resolved by him.

There was no use in circling the fingers, Xu Muzhou's defense line did not retreat a step, but Hu Qinglian was led away by the nose unknowingly.

When he came back to his senses, the two had already closed their clothes and slept together. Although they were sleeping peacefully on the same bed, they were covered with two quilts respectively.

Xu Muzhou closed his eyes and rested his mind for a while, and when it was about Haishi, he got up from the bed, put on his robe, and pushed the door out.

The begonias in the courtyard were covered with a layer of silver light by the moonlight, and the night wind was a bit cool, but it felt comfortable on the face.

Walking through the corridor, I saw a huddled figure at the end of the corridor.

Xu Muzhou knew that it was Zhuang Bai, so he walked over unhurriedly, "Didn't I take care of you, don't you come over?"

Hearing it was Xu Muzhou's voice, Zhuang Bai turned around joyfully, but when he saw Xu Muzhou's wedding dress, the corners of his mouth collapsed again, that dress was really dazzling.

"Hmph, you sleep on the same bed with someone else, how can I sleep! If I don't come and wait outside your door, where do you want me to go?"

Zhuang Bai muttered sullenly.

Xu Muzhou sighed softly, did not follow Zhuang Bai's words, but sat on the stone bench under the porch, pointed to his coat: "There are no other clothes in the room, I can only wear this to keep out the wind."

Zhuang Bai thought about this sentence carefully, and couldn't help but burst into a smile on his face.

Xu Muzhou is such a bad person, he can read people's hearts and see the details, if someone is in a bad mood, he can always see the reason immediately, and he can easily make that person laugh.

as long as he wants to.

Zhuang Bai likes this kind of Xu Muzhou who is calm and a little bit teasing.

He chose a stone bench next to Xu Muzhou and sat down. Zhuang Bai leaned over, stuck his chin with one hand, and blinked twice, "The crops in the field are necrotic. Tomorrow is the agreed loss day. Zong Bai Uncle let me remind you."

Zhuang Bai's eyes are very beautiful, typical fox eyes, surrounded by thick silkworms.

When he picked him up, Xu Muzhou looked at Zhuang Bai's face, and thought "this man must be very cunning" in his heart.

It's no wonder that Xu Muzhou judges people by appearance. If Zhuang Bai's face is said to be "good-looking" ten points, then the natural cunning takes up five points.

But when he smiled, he was extraordinarily sweet.

In Xu Muzhou's words, it was a greedy fox.

"Then tell Uncle Zong for me, just like what you said before, take out the silver from the inventory, and make sure that every farmer's losses are fully compensated." Xu Muzhou said slowly.

Under the watery moonlight, his detachment and calmness seemed to be magnified several times.

Zhuang Bai curled his lips and turned his face to the side: "I won't go."

Xu Muzhou sighed softly, waved his hands again, and made a gesture to stand up, "Okay, then I will go by myself."

"Hey, hey, I'll go!" Zhuang Bai jumped up and leaned in front of Xu Muzhou, "Hmph, you always have a way to cure me."

Xu Muzhou knew that he was still losing his temper over the matter of taking a concubine. Although Zhuang Bai didn't seem to have an awkward position about it, Xu Muzhou didn't bother to study it carefully.

"Then you have to make it up to me." Zhuang Bai was so unforgiving.

Xu Muzhou: "What compensation?"

".. Well, I can't think of it for a while..." The greedy fox showed a sly and sweet smile, and a shallow dimple at the corner of his mouth on the right side, "Put it on the account first. Don't renege on the account."

Zhuang Bai was about to leave, but Xu Muzhou stopped him again, "If something unexpected happens tomorrow, I will ask you to take care of the matters in this yard first."

Xu Muzhou had a bad feeling.

In other words, Xu Muzhou accidentally became "Xu Muzhou" four years ago.The original second son of the Xu family was a delicate and frail sick man. All the doctors who saw him said that he could not live past the age of 16.

In addition, this child was born by his father Xu Huan after drinking with a servant girl Yunyu, his status was not honorable, and his health was not good, so the family sent him from the capital to Xialiang County.

It is said that there are too many people in the capital and it is not suitable for children to recuperate from illness. Xialiang County is a good place to maintain health due to its beautiful mountains and clear waters and simple folk customs.

But anyone with a discerning eye can see that this is because the Xu family thinks that the bastard born by the laundry maid is a burden, and they are looking for a good place for him to fend for himself.

Only the old man of the Xu family still had a good conscience, and bought a big house and several fields for his child in Xialiang County.

Xu Muzhou was 16 years old when the book traveler crossed over, and for some reason, this young man broke the prophecy of the doctors and lived a good life—otherwise, he would die soon after passing through, and it can be called a history book. The saddest book piercer.

It's just that Xu Zhai's life is miserable. There is only one schoolboy and a teacher who looks like a butler in the whole house. There is no servant in the rest. You have to do laundry, rice cleaning, window cleaning and floor cleaning by yourself.

In his previous life, he was a business genius and overlord. He couldn't bear to see such a waste of money. How could the owner of the land be so poor?

So he called on many nearby farmers to contract out their fields and set up an "outsourcing system", allowing farmers to farm from their own fields.Everyone makes money together.

Soon, this business model attracted more farmers and merchants, and Xu Zhai's business grew bigger and bigger. While the bank was abundant, more and more land was owned under his name.

Today, almost 80% of the fields in Xialiang County belong to Xu Muzhou.

Not only that, the year before last, there were floods and floods in the south, and countless villagers moved north to escape. Naturally, a large number of refugees flooded into Xialiang County.

This includes countless southern embroiderers with superb embroidery skills.

On the one hand, Xu Muzhou spread porridge sheds to help the victims, and on the other hand, he sincerely invited embroiderers to join his business. He started the textile industry in Xialiang County, and the results were very gratifying.

It is not an exaggeration to say that Xu Muzhou single-handedly created the commercial map and affluent life of men farming and women weaving in Xialiang County.

Xu Zhai can finally afford servants, and because of the generosity of the owner, everyone likes to work here.

Originally, everything was developing smoothly, but a bad thing happened recently.

The autumn harvest is approaching, but for some unknown reason, more than [-]% of the thousand hectares of fields under Xu's name have suffered from soil deterioration and crop necrosis.

The crops carefully cultivated throughout the year are the painstaking efforts of the farmers, and they are also a lifeline for survival throughout the coming year.

When this happens, the farmers are naturally crying and wanting to ask Xu Muzhou for an explanation and compensation. As the leader of Xialiang County's land industry, Xu Muzhou must also bear this responsibility.

So he planned to take money from his own treasury, and he would compensate each farmer as much silver as he lost.

Fortunately, I have earned enough money in the past four years, and it is not a problem to just buy the deficit of the farmers in the past year.

The point is, this is so good, how could the soil in the farmland suddenly deteriorate?

Xu Muzhou used his little finger to think that the reason for this must not be simple, but how complicated it will be and who is related to it is currently impossible to guess out of thin air.

We can only respond to changes with the same.

The ominous premonition in my heart was born because of this.In short, Xu Muzhou couldn't say why, he always felt that besides the farmers coming to claim compensation tomorrow, something else would happen.

A prophecy.

Early the next morning, at the appointed time, people gathered in Wuyang Wuyang outside the gate of Xu's house. Everyone took the contract signed and various ticket stubs and lined up to collect debts.

Uncle Zong has already brought enough banknotes from the warehouse, and with a few servants, he compensated the farmers one by one.

Perhaps because of Xu Zhai's good attitude towards compensation, everyone gradually got rid of their anger and fear. Thinking about it carefully, although this happened this year, they still wanted to work with Xu Muzhou next year.

After all, such a good owner is hard to find even with a lantern.

There was a deep alley in front of Xu's house, and it was full of people at the moment, and the rustling of the farmers, even if they didn't intend to make a loud noise, it sounded noisy.

Suddenly, the noise stopped abruptly and was replaced by footsteps.Outside the gate of Xu's house, several officials dressed in yamen uniforms walked in. The leader asked Xu Muzhou to go with them by name.

This incident happened so suddenly that everyone present was silent, whether it was the villagers who came to claim compensation or the helpers in Xu's house.

Only Xu Muzhou walked out of the study calmly as if he had expected it a long time ago, with a smile on his face, as if the officials came to pick him up for an outing in the Yamen.

"I'll go with you."

When your son goes out, he always has to bring a servant with him, and the yamen servants will not stop him, they are only responsible for bringing the person the magistrate is looking for.

Xu Muzhou brought A Yuan with him, that bookboy who followed him all the way from the capital to Xialiang County since he was a child.

It stands to reason that the fact that the head of the family was taken to the government office is no small matter, and it will not be long before it will be spread all over the streets and alleys, and there will be a lot of discussions, and it will become a topic of conversation after dinner.

As the "head of the family", Xu Muzhou always had to explain something to the whole family before he left, but when he walked in front of Zhuang Bai, he turned sideways and said: "I asked you last night. Mo To forget."

After saying these words, Xu Muzhou followed the yamen out the door. His back was slender, and his steps were solemn and relaxed. Looking from a distance, it would give people the illusion of growing lotuses every step of the way.

Let's talk about Xu's house, everyone held up to distribute the bank notes for compensation to all the farmers, and when the last farmer turned around and left, the people in the house couldn't hold on anymore.

They were all born and raised in this small place in Xialiang County, and they had never encountered any arrests by officials. At this moment, a cloud of fear and hesitation enveloped everyone.

It seems that their Xu house is about to fall apart.

Even Uncle Zong, the old housekeeper who was recruited in, looked disheveled, and he didn't know what to do as soon as the bank notes were issued.

"Don't be so sad, make it look like Xu Muzhou will never come back." Zhuang Bai went to move the tables and chairs in front of the door. In order to compensate the villagers, they were all moved out of the warehouse. For temporary storage.

Now Zhuang Bai wants to put them all back together.

"By the way, Uncle Zong, from now on, you send two people to keep an eye on the west wing." Zhuang Bai shook his head again, "Forget it, I'll go."

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