The Duke Lai Mansion is located in the northeast corner of Buzhengfang. The deep courtyard covers an area of ​​more than 100 acres. The courtyard is surrounded by a small courtyard and a small courtyard is surrounded by a courtyard. The houses are lined up one after another. Standing on a high place, you can see the walls of the imperial city not far away.

Although Du He had the arrogant attribute of a time traveler, he still knelt down the moment he entered the gate.

He must admit that he likes this mansion.

There is nothing to be pretentious about this. Like it, he can deceive others but cannot deceive himself.

Although one acre of land in the Tang Dynasty was only equivalent to 540 square meters in later generations, one hundred acres would be 54,000 square meters.

In the 21st century, the housing prices in Xi'an were speculated to 20,000 per square meter, and 54,000 square meters. If it was to dismantle it into parts and sell it at a premium of 1,000%, then it would not be able to afford a fraction of the house.

Du He stood on the trap inside the gate, thinking about how much public funds the cheap man who had already traveled to the West had embezzled. A middle-aged man in his forties rushed up: "Oh my second young master, where are you going, why did you come back? The eldest young master has been waiting for you for a long time. If he can't find you again, he will send someone to the Imperial College to find someone."

The middle-aged man is called Du Chong, the housekeeper of the Du family. When he was young, he was a scholar with Du Ruhui. He heard that he was still the cousin of Old Du. A few years ago, he followed the old man around and was frightened. Later, as the situation settled, he became a housekeeper in the house, and he was one of the old people in the family.

The little bookkeeper Du An stepped forward and tried to speak, but Du He pulled him behind him: "It's nothing, I just met a monkey-playing person on the way back. He took a few more glances when he was free."

People who play, monkeys... There must be a limit to lying.

Du Chong was full of black lines. If you remember correctly, the monkey-playing person should be in the West City. When did the second young master who entered the Imperial College school go to West City? How big does it take to go around?

But forget it, this kind of thing is not something that he, a servant, should consider. Put down his thoughts of digging down. Du Chong suddenly thought that the eldest son had not done anything yet, and hurriedly said, "Second Young Master, why don't you... go to the eldest son's study first. It seems that there is something urgent to do."

The so-called eldest son refers to Du Gou, the eldest son who inherited the title of Du Ruhui. Because he had no son, he could only be called a son.

Du He knew that since he had traveled through time, Du Gou was the hurdle that he could not escape, and would meet sooner or later, so he simply did not delay and nodded: "Okay, I'll go there first. Duan, you go back first and rest first, and I'll go back by myself later."

"Okay." Du An agreed obediently, watching Du He leave. When he couldn't see anyone, he immediately added fuel to the fire to tell the butler what had happened before. Finally, he was filled with righteous indignation and clenched his fists and said, "Dad, that Han King is really hateful, and there are two bad legs of Wu Yuanqing and Wu Yuanshuang. I don't know how many times have you made things difficult for the second young master in the past six months."

Du Chong reached out to his son's head and rubbed Du An's head, with a serious expression: "Xiao An, Dad knows that you meant that you wanted Dad to ask the master's old friend to help him talk about the title, but... but Dad can't do this."

"Why, the second young master is really pitiful..."

"You are still young and don't understand." Du Chong shook his head and sighed, as if telling Du An, and as if he was talking to himself: "Actually, human favors are no different from money. You can use them less at once. When you use them up, you will never have a chance to turn over again."

Du An blinked his eyes ignorantly. He really couldn't understand why the master had so many friends in the past, and why now there is not even a person who is willing to help speak out for justice.

Du He walked through the mansion, and with the memories left by his ex, he walked for about ten minutes before he arrived at the yard of his elder brother Du Gou. While sighing at the ability of Old Du to make money, he knocked the door of the study.

"In." A calm voice came from the room. Du He pushed the door and entered, but saw that in Xuanchang's study, the cheapest brother was kneeling behind a low table fiddling with some bottles and jars, and the strange fragrance of tea was lingering in the room.

"Brother, you look for me."

"Second brother is back, come and sit down." Du Gou looked up at Du He, his hands kept pouring some oil, salt, sauce and vinegar into the pot on a carbon stove. The strange smell in the room became even stronger.

Du He couldn't help but rub his nose, knowing that Du Gou was in the sausage, but the taste... was really unbearable. Who would put mutton oil in the tea in the future? Isn't this abusive person?

"Brother, I'm so anxious to come over, is there anything wrong?" Du He sat cross-legged across from Du Gou. He endured the strange tea fragrance to ravage his nose and asked patiently.

Du Gu made a gesture of banning voice and continued to fiddle with the messy bottles on the table until the tea was fryed and poured it out to divide a cup for Du He. Then Shi Shi said: "For my brother, I am here today and I will go to Dengzhou to take office soon. Second brother, I will ask you all the things in my family."

"Uh..." Du He reached out to receive tea and paused, his face turned ugly: "Dengzhou? Brother is going to Dengzhou?"

"Yes, this is an official position I got after working for me for a long time, my second brother..."

"No, why are you doing in Dengzhou? Is that a place where people stay?"

Before Du Gou could finish his words, Du He became anxious.

Go to Maodengzhou. In history, you became a lame in less than half a year when you went to Dengzhou, and then you never had the chance to return to Chang'an in your life. The Du family was in a slump. In a few years, they became completely lost in the crowd and were forced to be excluded from the center of power.

This time, the opportunity is in front of you. You still have to go there. What are you going to do? I didn’t die last time, I’ll die again this time. Should I be so persistent?

Du Gou didn't know what Du He was thinking, and just thought he couldn't bear to leave him. While he was a little moved, Wen Yan advised: "Don't be a little girl. Going to Dengzhou is something that I have already thought about for my brother. It takes two to three years to a shorter period of time, and one or two years to a successful return home."

It’s so bad that you return home in glory, you’re obviously going to die if you’re so addicted.

In the spirit of humanitarianism, Du He did not give up the idea of ​​saving Du Gou. He took a deep breath and said earnestly: "Brother, listen to my advice, can you be more realistic? You are not young anymore. Ask yourself what you can do, what you can do, what you can do, what you can eat, what you don't have to eat, what people in Dengzhou have already lived, so don't worry about them anymore."

"puff……"

"Bang..."

Du Gou's mouthful of tea poured out of his nostrils. Mrs. Cui, who was about to enter the room at the door, hit the door frame.

It's heartbreaking, brother.

If you speak like this, you will have no friends.

"What's the second uncle talking? Didn't Dalang do this for this family? He planned to go to Dengzhou for a long time. His father-in-law also supported him when he was alive." Cui took his forehead that was so painful that he sat down, and sat next to Du Gou and gently patted his back to make him feel happy. He also said to Du He.

Cui, born in the five surnames, Qiwang Boling Cui family, has been well-read since childhood. He is a famous talented woman in the world. She married Du Gou for three years. Although she has never had a descendant, she has managed the Du family in an orderly manner. When the old man was alive, he praised her for her family's moral integrity.

Now that the old man is gone, and when the eldest sister-in-law compares her mother, it is reasonable to restrain her younger brother-in-law.

This was the first time Du He saw the woman pushing her husband into the fire pit. He couldn't help but whisper: "Sister-in-law, this is the time when you are alive. To put it very disrespectful, the old man is gone now, and my Du family has lost its prestige back then. What can my brother do if he goes to Dengzhou?

One has no backer, two has no friends, and the unfamiliarity of life, the right place, and the same person, can we really revive the family just by relying on the momentary enthusiasm of the scholarly business? If you ask him to believe it or not?"

Du Gou, who had just recovered, was stabbed again, which was so damn.

Why can't I do it? I've never had any assessments in the Imperial College, and even His Majesty has praised me.

As for you, Du Laoer, who passed the assessment except for eating, drinking, whore and gambling?

Tell me about the enthusiasm of the scholars and tell me that it harms the people?

The more I thought about it, the more angry he became, Du Gou simply made a summary speech: "Don't say too much, the trip to Dengzhou is inevitable, and you will not give up for it. You stay in Chang'an to guard your family business and study for a good life."

Seeing that things were final, Du He was also a little overwhelmed, unwilling to be wasted his previous efforts, and he slapped the table and said, "Brother, you are also a person who has read books. You should know that Huang Zhong followed Liu Bei at the age of 60, Jiang Ziya became the prime minister at the age of 80, Sun Wukong obtained the scriptures at the age of 500, and Bai Suzhen was in the age of 1,000..."

Huang Zhong and Jiang Ziya are quite famous latecomers, but who are the two behind? Can people live to be 500 years old?

Du Gou and his wife were confused and spoke in unison.

"What's the eternal thing in Sun"

"White, what zhen?"

Damn, you two are really a match. Du He waved his hand randomly: "Hey, those are not important. I mean, there are many people who are late to achieve great things. Why are you so young?"

No matter how hard Du He tried, the talks ended in an unhappy end.

Du Gou left in a turbulent manner, and Cui hurriedly persuaded him.

Du He was helpless to go back to his yard. The gods couldn't hold on to the damn ghost. Anyway, he had tried his best, and there was nothing he could do if he couldn't persuade him.

Fortunately, I was expecting this guy to help me. At worst, I could wait for him to become a limp and take him back to Chang'an to make a salted fish.

...

Yongfufang, the residence of King Li Yuanchang of Han.

Li Yuanchang was a little depressed, turned a blind eye to Hu Xuanwu, who was beating the humble girl below, and said to the Wu brothers who were respectful and accompanying the last seat: "I didn't expect that this time, I was deceived by that boy Du He and pretended to be dead. Humph, he could really do it."

Wu Yuanqing, the eldest among the Wu brothers, said: "Your Highness, why don't we stop him tomorrow?"

"It's boring. There are so many people on the streets. What else can I do besides having a good mouth?"

After bullying again and again, Li Yuanchang gradually became less satisfied with taking advantage of his words. He turned his eyes and asked the Wu brothers: "By the way, what's the news that I asked you two to inquire a few days ago? Why is there no movement yet?"

"Your Highness has already come to fruition." Wu Yuanshuang was speaking. He turned around and waved to a subordinate. The man immediately took out a few pieces of paper from his arms and handed it to his hands respectfully.

"Please look at your highness. These are the loan notes signed by the boss of the Du family over the past period of time. It took a lot of effort to collect these."

Several of the loan notes were very thin, but they were marked with Du Gou's name and collar stamps. The amount on them was as large as a thousand guan and as small as more than a hundred guan. The handwriting was clear and there was no way to make any fake.

Li Yuanchang took it in his hand and finally showed a smug smile on his face: "It's very good. From now on, I'm the biggest creditor of the Du family. It's not bad. You two have done this very well. I'll be rewarded afterwards."

The Wu brothers looked at each other and felt secretly happy, but they did not show any expression on their faces: "This is all that should be done, and you should not be praised by Your Highness."

Li Yuanchang nodded lightly, but thought about how to make the few loan notes in his hand play the greatest role.

Since Du Ruhui passed away, the Du family has indeed become much worse than before.

Du Gou, who was the Duke of Lai, actually made a living by raising debts.

How could I let go of such a god-given opportunity?

Humiliation of Du He... Du He is just a second-generation ancestor. What is the point of bullying him? Only by revenge against the heirs of the Du family can one understand his own thoughts.

Li Yuanchang thought about it and saw that the day he vaguely stepped on the Du brothers under his feet. He slapped the loan note on the table because of his interest: "That's it. Tomorrow morning, you two will follow me to collect debts!"
Chapter completed!