When they arrived in Jiangling, many people still remembered Ling Qingyu. When they saw her staying in the inn, many people came to give gifts.
Looking at Ling Qingyu who was happily chatting with aunt and aunt in the yard, Ling Yunfei rubbed his head unconsciously. He always thought she was just the daughter of the Ling family. Many sects in Jianghu would cooperate with some merchants, but generally It is the kind of business that is backed by the power of aristocratic families, and some famous factions have already become aristocratic families. Only some small sects or gangs composed of porters and coolies like Longmen will cooperate with some small merchants. The Ling family rose suddenly during last year's flood, and then suddenly fell down. If he hadn't been related to Longmen, he wouldn't have known that such a powerful merchant had appeared in Jiangnan, but he could do his best to challenge him exclusively. Speaking of the disaster relief food in Tongling area, it is indeed admirable. He is also very curious about the head of the Ling family who can make such a decision, but he did not expect that the head of the Ling family is actually a woman!
After seeing off the last batch of aunts and aunts, Ling Qingyu rubbed his shoulders, with a look of sadness on his brows.
The floods in the Jianghan Plain last year were severely damaged. Except for Jiangling, many people died in other places. In some places, even entire villages disappeared. After the disaster, many people were lost due to lack of food. If you don't return to farming for three months, the land will be confiscated into the government like those extinct households. In this way, the good land on the Jianghan Plain will be divided up by the rich again.
"The head of the house?" Seeing Ling Qingyu sitting at the stone table without moving, Ying Shisan brought hot water and licked the tea, and called out.
"Huh?" Ling Qingyu raised his head and responded.
"What's the matter?" Ying Thirteen asked.
"The government here has put up a lot of land for sale, and it's all the land of extinct households and refugees last year." Ling Qingyu sipped his mouth and said.
"The head of the house wants to buy it? I'll just go." Ying Shisan sat down opposite her. In the past, these kind of things were handled by her big shopkeepers. Now there is no one around, and she can't let her come forward.
Ling Qingyu shook his head and said, "We can't take these fields."
"Why?" Ying Thirteen asked puzzled. Didn't it mean that the fields in the Jianghan Plain are very good
"My conscience will be disturbed. In the past, those fields were taken back by the people who lost them and left without farming for three years, but now it is three months, three months, how can they come back after escaping the flood? It's grabbing fields from those who are not rich, hmph, I think they are crazy poor." Ling Qingyu sipped his saliva again, and said in a low voice: "It's strange if you don't act like this."
"The head of the house." Ying Shisan called softly, if such words were heard, it would be troublesome.
"I know." Ling Qingyu smiled at him and said, "It's just a little bit indignant."
After pausing for a while, Ling Qingyu said: "Go and have a look tomorrow. Some scattered fields have been bought. If the people in those fields come back, you can cultivate them first. If there is any surplus production, you can pay us back the money every year. give it back to them."
"Okay." Ying Thirteen nodded.
"Forget it." Ling Qingyu shook his head and smiled wryly: "Forget it, these things will cause a lot of trouble in the end, and we don't have enough manpower." The fields below the third-class households are very scattered, and each family has to check and update It is cumbersome, not only requires manpower, but also strong management talents. The shopkeepers under her are already too busy, and no one can be assigned to do this. If it is not done well, it will be a thankless task.
"I can help with this matter." Ling Yunfei sat next to her, put the big ax aside, and said with a smile: "If the head of the family really has such thoughts, my brothers and I can help."
Ling Qingyu was taken aback, looked at the place where he was standing far away just now, then looked at Ying Shisan's alert look, and asked Ling Yunfei, "Do you know what we are talking about?"
"Your Ling family bought the land with money, and if those refugees come back, they will return the land to them." Ling Yunfei laughed.
"Oh, what about the money I paid for the land? Was it for nothing?" Ling Qingyu asked, holding his cheek.
"Uh, this." Ling Yunfei smashed his eyes and said, "Then how do you want to pay it back?"
"Hehe, that's why I said that it will be a thankless thing to do in the end. We pay the money, even if we don't pay the interest, the capital must be paid? Right, but when there are too many people and their mouths are mixed, those people will not Dare to tell the government, but you can quarrel with us, and in the end we may be blamed for helping people." Ling Qingyu laughed.
"You also said just now that the government is robbing their land, why can't you help?" Ling Yunfei said with a hint of annoyance.
"I helped this year, and I gave you 10,000 taels of silver to help. There will be another catastrophe tomorrow, and everyone will flee again. The government will confiscate the fields again. Should I help again? If I help you again How about doing it again?" Ling Qingyu sighed, "Brother, my money didn't fall from the sky."
"It won't be so miserable, will it? Disasters come every year?" Ling Yunfei said.
"Institutional issues, if the root cause is not resolved, what good is our good intentions?" Seeing Ling Yunfei's expression, Ling Qingyu said to Ying Shisan: "Go and get my purse."
Ying Shisan took a look at Ling Yunfei, responded, went into the house and took out the money bag beside the bed.
Ling Qingyu took out a stack of banknotes from his purse, without counting them, put them in front of Ling Yunfei, and said, "Master Ling, I'm using this money to support your brothers. You decide how to use it."
"That's not what I meant." Ling Yunfei blushed suddenly, and said a little annoyed.
"I know, what I mean is, you can buy the money as you said just now and then return it to the common people, or you can buy new land so that the common people will have a place to stay when they come back. If there is more output If you can earn the money back, you can just return it to me." Ling Qingyu smiled, pushed the bank note closer to him, and said, "I am not giving these to you."
"Do you know who I am?" Ling Yunfei looked at her deeply and asked.
Ling Qingyu shook his head and said with a smile: "I really don't know, and I don't want to know, it's just that meeting is fate, and we are destined to walk this way, and I also regard you as a good friend, that's all."
Ling Yunfei looked at her silently for a while, picked up the banknote, and said with a smile: "The head of the house is indeed not an ordinary person, well, I, Ling Yunfei, will make you my friend!"
Ling Qingyu raised the tea bowl as a signal, and seeing that Ling Yunfei would pick up the tea bowl with satisfaction, he lightly touched his tea bowl and said, "So, Ling Qingyu wishes Hero Ling all his wishes come true."
"For this kind of thing, we should drink alcohol. Drinking tea is so boring." Ling Yunfei laughed.
"I'm sorry, I can't drink alcohol." Ling Qingyu smiled, pondered for a moment, and said: "No matter what Ling Daxia wants to do, it's better not to go to the government."
Ling Yunfei nodded, and said: "I know, with the money from Master Ling, we don't necessarily have to go that way."
Ling Qingyu said with a smile: "So, Ling Daxia should go back as soon as possible. It's better to get things done early. Otherwise, once they are occupied by those wealthy families, they will not be able to get their money back."
Ling Yunfei looked at her meaningfully, and then said in a deep voice: "Master Ling, if there is an assignment in the future, Ling Yunfei will not hesitate to go through fire and water."
"Pfft, that, Hero Ling, I'm a businessman, and I'm generally friendly to others. If Hero Ling has any business to do, we can cooperate." Ling Qingyu spit half of his mouth and said hastily.
"If you're going to Xiangyang, you'd better be careful. In the past two years, there have been rumors in the world that there is a panacea in the Red Chamber that can improve a lot of skills, and there are various martial arts cheats in the forbidden area. They have been looking for it for two years. It was only recently that the forbidden area was near Xiangyang. The decent people went there in the name of holding a martial arts conference, and the gangsters also sent many people there. Master Ling, why don’t you let Ling take you there.” Ling Yunfei said with a serious face.
Ling Qingyu and Ying Shisan looked at each other, and seeing Ying Shisan nodded slightly, he said, "Thank you so much, Ling Daxia."
"I'm going to do something, you wait for me to come back before leaving." After speaking, Ling Yunfei got up and walked out.
After Ling Yunfei disappeared, Ling Qingyu asked: "Is he good at martial arts?"
Ying Shisan kept staring at him as he walked away, saying: "Far beyond me, he has hidden his strength a few days ago."
It's not bad to buy a safe for 50,000 taels, Ling Qingyu shook his head unconsciously, and said: "It seems that the world is really not easy to mess with."
"Master, let's not go to Xiangyang." Ying Shisan frowned and said.
"No, I'm going. I also want to see what Ye Shiyi's sister and her family look like. I'm relieved to see him well. But, it's better to keep a low profile. You put all the holes in our car. Get it down. It's too ostentatious." Ling Qingyu said.
Seeing the smile on Ye Shisan's tense face standing behind Ling Qingyu, Ying Shisan sighed slightly in his heart, and replied, "Okay, I'll deal with it now."
"Fifty thousand taels?" The short and stalwart man nodded his bank note and said in shock, "So much?"
"Brother, why don't we rob it? I'm afraid there are more valuable things in her car." said the man holding a long stick.
"The Ling family is benevolent. They are not the kind of people who are rich and unkind. They have saved more people than us. If we snatch such people, who are we?" A man dressed as a scribe knocked on the man's head with a fan and said. .
"What the second brother said is not only benevolence and righteousness, although the head of Ling's family is a woman, she has a broad mind, but," Ling Yunfei stroked his beard and smiled: "Women are always a little timid."
"Does she know who you are?" asked the scribe.
"I don't know, but she probably guessed something. It's just that she doesn't want to get involved in the Jianghu, or in other words, she doesn't want to fight against the government." Ling Yunfei laughed.
"They have had a bad relationship with the government. They have been swallowed by the government a lot. I heard that the five hundred thousand shi of grain last year completely emptied the Ling family's granary." A young man who had been silent by the side said .
"What did the people from Longmen say?" Ling Yunfei asked.
"Well, I met Zhu Clan Master some time ago. He talked about some things about the Ling family, and he praised their benevolence and righteousness. He said that although they were shady by the government, the Ling family did not pass on the loss to the tenants, but the tenants themselves. Because of this, the business that had been in good momentum has been hit hard, and now their silver buildings have been closed. But, he didn't say that the head of the house is actually a woman." The young man said.
"Hmph, the government can only bully these small merchants, who dares to touch those who have backing?" Ling Yunfei snorted coldly.
"Fifty thousand taels of silver can solve the trouble this time, if you can't fight with the government now, don't fight with it." Scholar said.
"You go back and settle this matter, I will escort her to Xiangyang first." Ling Yunfei said.
"Why did she go to Xiangyang? There is such a mess there now. Although those martial arts decent people may not attack her if they don't see her, in the eyes of those gangsters, she is a fat pig." The short man said.
"It doesn't count. No matter how she looks like that, she is not a wealthy person. If I hadn't seen the inside of her carriage, I wouldn't have been moved." Ling Yunfei said without any shame: "And her two guards Even though he is young, his skills are indeed good, and the general gangsters can't please him."
"Why don't I accompany you, big brother?" the young man said.
Ling Yunfei looked at the sky, and then said: "Forget it, that person is very timid, and he doesn't want to know who I am waiting for at all."
"You've already given your name, but she still doesn't know who you are?" said the man with the stick.
Ling Yunfei sighed, and said: "Looking at her like that, she really doesn't know who I am. It seems that Ling's reputation is still not big enough."
All four looked at him with contempt, and then the short man said: "Brother, you are still unmarried at such an age, why don't you ask that girl if she is married?"
Seeing that Ling Yunfei was really thinking about it, the scribe patted the little man, and said, "Don't make fun of me, brother, he is a serious businessman, how can she get used to our life of licking blood."
"Okay, let's not talk, I'll go back first." After Ling Yunfei finished speaking, he kicked his feet and rushed out.
"Let's go, hurry up, let's get things done." The scribe said.