The sun shines warmly on the green rice seedlings. They grow very well, green and wind blowing, as if the waves are rising and falling.

In the fields, there are farmers busy weeding and killing insects; at the end of the field and on the foot of the mountain, there is a newly built house, which is quite simple. The crisscrossing foundations are like a chessboard carved, outlining unique lines.

There is only the foundation, as well as some polished long bluestone - the stones are all picked from the mountain, very strong and very suitable for building village docks.

The stones on the mountain are sufficiently reserved, but mining them and polishing them into strips requires a lot of manpower and material resources.

To put it bluntly, it requires a lot of money.

Zhou Hezhi had no money at hand.

When Chen Sanlang went to Beijing to take the exam, he left behind a lot of money and asked Lao Zhou to take charge of developing his foundation. This was a money-burning job. He could do everything he could to calculate and be frugal, but the speed of spending money was still flowing like water, and he couldn't stop it.

It has exceeded expectations to be able to persevere until today.

Without money, the construction of the village was only a short while. It is hard for a good cook to cook without rice. Lao Zhou frowned and couldn't break it up these days.

He had no money and still owed a lot of manpower compensation. Although the worker had no complaints, Zhou Hezhi knew clearly that this was because of Chen Sanlang.

Chen Sanlang passed the imperial examination and his reputation was revealed, which was enough to save the scene. Many tenants, relatives and friends of the Chen family, followed him and sought tax exemption protection. It can be said that Chen Sanlang was just a big umbrella that could shelter from wind and rain, so everyone gathered.

This is a very realistic prerequisite.

Gathering people is equal to gathering energy, and gathering people's hearts. How can it be done easily? In addition to unique personal charm, you must also have the ability to support people's wealth. Among the Three Kingdoms, Liu Bei was born in poverty, and the reason why he was able to rise in the early stage was closely related to Zhang Fei's family wealth.

Most of the famous families have reached a scale after several generations of hard work; and Chen Sanlang is just a new juren, and he wants to achieve his career, which is too simple. At that time, Lao Zhou, Mr. Yang and others also advised Chen Sanlang to take a step smaller and slowly take it.

However, Chen Sanlang did not listen and just said vaguely, "I can't wait for time."

Zhou Hezhi didn't think too much, but he felt that the young man was proud, confident, and eager to achieve success. However, since he chose to follow, devote himself to his whole life and die, what's the point of giving this?

The money is used up, and the rice plowing in spring is in its growing period and is far from being harvested. The next period of time is difficult. If you can't see money for too long, the people below will inevitably be fluctuating. The only thing that can suppress people's hearts is hope that the young master will be able to succeed in the imperial examination, and pass the imperial examination and get the Jinshi.

Thinking of the "Jinshi Fides and Fame", his heart felt a little hot: Who doesn't want to be a success in the world? It's a pity that he will never have such a chance in this life...

Thumb!

Suddenly someone rushed over, panting, and shouted from afar: "Mr. Zhou, Mr. Zhou, something big is not good!"

Zhou Hezhi asked: "What happened?"

"Then Lord Lu is here again, and he is also bringing a large group of people..."

Upon hearing this, Zhou Hezhi's frowning frowns deeper: During this period, this county master did not have much good expression on the Chen family. He sent people to pick on them for a few days. Every time he came, he had to spend a lot of money to send people away.

Zhou Hezhi was not worried about this. He once ran to the yamen to ask for a meeting with the other party, and wanted to find out some of his words.

However, Lord Lu did not give him any face to an old scholar, and even scolded him in person and ordered people to drive him out.

Zhou Hezhi was dull and disappointed, and could not understand the trick: I remember that Chen Sanlang greeted the county lord. Since then, the other party turned a blind eye to the development of the Chen family, and also provided a lot of policy support, specially allowed them to reclaim a large amount of wasteland, so that they could develop to such a scale in a short period of time...

Then, the situation has changed completely. The county government has changed from supporting to finding faults, and the situation has taken a sharp turn, but it is not good.

As the saying goes, "The magistrate of the family will be destroyed, and the county magistrate will be destroyed." If the county magistrate really doesn't deal with it and is troublesome, it will be difficult. Although Chen San passed the imperial examination, he was not a Jinshi after all, and the gap was huge.

Zhou Hezhi was not a pedantic person. He knew that there was a governor and a huge figure behind Lord Lu. Can it be inferred that Lord Lu's face changed, which represents the change in Yuan Wenchang's attitude towards Chen Sanlang?

Very likely.

Thinking of this, my heart couldn't help but feel cold.

The person who reported to him saw Zhou Hezhi standing with an ugly expression, couldn't help but urge, "Mr. Zhou, you'd better go over and take a look."

Zhou Hezhi came back to his senses and waved his hand: "Let's go."

When he walked out, he saw a team of yamen run over in a sedan chair. He arrived and stopped. Lord Lu, wearing an official uniform, walked out of the sedan chair.

Zhou Hezhi quickly came up and bowed to him: "The student has seen his parents, but he didn't know that his parents came today. He was wrong to welcome him. Please forgive me."

I was quite frightened. In the past, most yamen runners came to point fingers and pick on things, and they were already exhausted to deal with it. Now that the county magistrate has arrived in person, wouldn’t it mean that the situation is even more out of control?

"Haha, there's no need to be polite."

Lord Lu smiled very well, as if a flower was blooming on his face. Zhou Hezhi was stunned and couldn't figure out what the other party was selling in the gourd, so he welcomed him into the room, invited him to sit down, and served incense tea.

Lord Lu coughed dryly and suddenly asked, "Can the old lady of the Chen family be here?"

Zhou Hezhi replied respectfully: "Here, the student will ask someone to invite the old lady to come."

Since the last accident, Chen Wangshi and Xiao Cui have followed Xiaoyao Fudao's advice and moved from the county town to live in Xiaoyao Temple.

In this matter, Xiaoyao Fu Daoduan was not ambiguous at all. He ran here to open a temple. If he could not protect Chen Sanlang's family, how could he see Chen Sanlang?

Not long after, Chen Wangshi brought Xiao Cui over to see Lord Lu and quickly saluted.

Lord Lu hurriedly helped him up and said with a smile: "Congratulations to the old lady, congratulations to the old lady!"

Mrs. Chen asked: "Sir, are you?"

Lord Lu stopped keeping it and said aloud: "Old Madam, there is a good news to the county government. It is said that your Sanlang Sheden-senior, and he is the top scorer in the high school!"

"What?"

Chen Wangshi staggered, almost unsteady, and her inner excitement was like a stir in the ground, and she was about to boil: her son passed the exam, and she passed the top scorer, this, this...

For a moment, she could not express it in words.

When Zhou Hezhi heard the news, he was shocked on the spot. Then his expression of ecstasy surged on his face: I won, the young master really passed the exam, and he was the top scorer!

No wonder Lord Lu's attitude changed drastically, and he was arrogant at first and respectful at the same time. This was all because of this. The golden list of good news was first transmitted to the county government. Then, in order to sell his favor, Lord Lu asked the good news to rest in the county government government and ran to make a report first.

After a moment, the news of Chen Sanlang's top scorer spread like a trend, making everyone unable to help but cheer. They chose to rely on Chen Sanlang's tree. Now the tree grows and grows and becomes more and more luxuriant. How can they not be happy and excited about it?r1152
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