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Guihezhuang is designed in a northern garden style, with solemnity and rigorous laws.

The masters of southern gardens are mainly Jiangnan gardens, which are elegant in style and pay attention to one scene at a time. Northern gardens were born out of royal gardens, so there are fewer small and interesting places and more serious and neat places.

The car entered the gate, and in front of it was a 100-meter-long trail with plane trees on both sides, lawns on the left and right, and a pond on the east side. From the pond, you could see a person fishing under the rockery.

Walking further inside, there is a courtyard in front, with single-family buildings on both sides, and there seems to be a villa in the back. Chen Sheng parked the car a little further away and said to Chen Ya:

"Come in and follow me. Don't look too much, don't ask too many questions, smile when you see people, and don't wander in at will."

Chen Ya nodded superficially, but didn't pay much attention to it.

He has never been to any of the four major family manors. This time he entered the Lu Family Guihe Village. It would be a waste of time if he didn't wander around, just to see what the living conditions of this family that everyone praised were like.

After walking a few steps forward, Chen Sheng nodded to the person who came up to him and said, "I'll be a housekeeper." After saying that, he tugged on Chen Ya's clothes.

Chen Ya looked at the man and nodded.

The man was lean and had no flesh on his face. He looked to be in his forties. He was dressed in black and did not look like a housekeeper. His eyes glanced at Chen Ya's face, which was quite sharp.

"Is the old man okay?" Chen Sheng asked cautiously.

"Okay, what's wrong? I was fishing in the pond outside today. I told him that there are no fish in the pond at all."

Butler Cheng couldn't hear the ups and downs in his tone, and couldn't understand what he meant.

"Is Grandma okay too?"

"Not good. I just came out of the hospital some time ago and had a heart attack."

"Ah, you have to pay attention," Chen Sheng asked again, "Where is Commissioner Gao?"

"Commissioner Gao is accompanying a distinguished guest and doesn't have time to see you."

Ask Mrs. Lu first, then ask Mrs. Grandma, and finally ask Commissioner Gao. This is the etiquette Lu Ruixiang taught Chen Sheng.

Whenever you enter a manor, you must ask these two questions.

This so-called senior committee member is not from the Lu family, but he is better than the Lu family. He has always been with Mr. Lu. He helped raise the last two of Mr. Lu's three sons, so he has a special status in the Lu family.

Chen Sheng asked again: "The old lady still doesn't see the guests?"

"No," Butler Cheng said coldly. After saying that, he nodded at Chen Ya, "He's very cool."

Chen Sheng quickly apologized and said with a smile: "This is my eldest son, his name is Chen Ya. I came here this time to bring him to recognize him as a relative, and also to bring him to meet the second prince."

"Then you go and see him. The second master is in his own room."

After saying that, the butler left.

Looking at this man's back, Chen Ya smiled.

It seems that people who work for aristocratic families all have this temper.

Lu Yuanlong's secretary Gao was very uncooperative at the beginning and had a very arrogant temper.

It was only later that it was slowly "corrected".

It seems that even if the Lu family's decline is certain, people's character will not change easily.

Chen Sheng then took Chen Ya to the courtyard and knocked on the door of a wing. A hoarse voice came from inside:

"Who is it?"

Chen Sheng stood across the door and said with a smile on his face: "Second Master, it's me. I'm from Lu Ruixiang's family. Chen Sheng, I'm here to see you."

The door opened quickly, and a dry old man appeared at the door. He had rosacea, big ears, triangular eyes, bald hair with only a handful of hair on his ears, and droopy corners of his mouth.

He first looked at the two people at the door with a careful look. Because his triangular eyes were droopy, he looked a little unhappy, but after seeing what Chen Sheng was holding, his smile immediately bloomed like a flower.

"Come here, why are you bringing anything else?"

That's what he said, but he immediately took away the things Chen Sheng was carrying with both hands, as if he was afraid that Chen Sheng would change his mind and not give them away.

With that said, he let the two of them enter the house. After entering the house, Chen Ya looked around.

There were not many things in the room, but the cushions on the sofa were crumpled, and there was a ball of blankets thrown there. It seemed that a servant usually helped clean it up.

The other furnishings are no different from those found in ordinary elderly homes.

It seems that the second grandfather should be living alone, but I don't know if his partner has passed away or something happened.

The second master did not greet the two of them, but entered the back room carrying Chen Sheng's gift. When he opened the door, Chen Ya happened to see that the back room was dark and filled with all kinds of sundries. There was also a box of melatonin lying at the door.

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He couldn't help but grin.

I finally understand why Chen Sheng thought that the second prince could spend fifty thousand yuan.

In the history of Western literature, this person is a typical Eugenie Grandet, a miser, a hoarder, and willing to say anything as long as she has money.

I don’t know if this person was used to poverty when he was a child, but Chen Ya has never seen this characteristic in any of the children of aristocratic families.

After a while, the second master came out of the back room again, this time with a bigger smile on his face.

It seems that he discovered Chen Sheng's "little meaning" in the gift bag.

"Boy, why do you come to see me?" The second master sat on the master's chair and picked up the big teapot in his hand.

Chen Sheng quickly said: "Second Master, this is my eldest son, Chen Ya. From today on, he is a member of my Lu family. I will bring him here to meet you."

Lu Zhankui took a sip of tea, nodded "Yeah", swallowed the water and said slowly: "You have a heart, and you still care about a bad old man like me."

"Looking at what you said, Ruixiang will always be your direct granddaughter."

...The two of them chatted about their daily life. Chen Ya listened for a while, and after analyzing various information, he got a little understanding of his past.

Although Mr. Lu and the second Mr. Lu of the Lu family are brothers, their status gap is as big as heaven and earth.

Mr. Lu is a person who has appeared in history textbooks.

A fighting hero during the liberation period, he participated in the battle to enter Korea and made countless great and small achievements in his life.

After the war, he was demobilized and returned home. Organizationally, he was assigned to work as a leader in a coal mine in Jinzhong, with extremely high salary levels.

The years when he was in the mine were the years when the industrial construction of the Republic was in full swing. It was under his leadership that the iron man Zhang Xishun was born.

Industrialization requires electricity, and power generation requires coal. During those years when he was in charge of the coal mine, he used sweat and wisdom to transform it into dark gold and electricity, supporting the country's large-scale industrialization road.

He risked almost all of the rest of his life in the coal mines, worked under countless workers and technicians, dealt with countless factories and state departments, and had connections all over the world.

After the reform, he retired from the mine. In order to find a way out for the laid-off miners, he took the workers to start a business. His three sons, Lu Yuanlong, Lu Yuanhu, and Lu Yuanbao, also showed their talents and eventually established a business territory.

This is how the Lu family made their fortune.

However, Mr. Lu was a man of great talent and strategy, and his life was magnificent. In comparison, the Second Mr. Lu paled in comparison.

This second grandfather is a farmer and has been a farmer all his life.

The reason is that when Mr. Lu left home to join the army, his mother was still alive, so his younger brother stayed with her to take care of her.

One step at a time, one step at a time, so the gap between the two brothers eventually widened to an infinite extent.

However, even though they have been farming for a lifetime, now, the two brothers have come to the same destination and live together in this big yard.

And compared to Mr. Lu who is now full of worries, the second Mr. Lu actually has more simple and happy happiness.

Because the Lu family is here, no one dares to look down on him, who has been working as a farmer for half his life, and filial sons and grandsons come to visit him from time to time to "show filial piety."

If you think carefully about the fate of the two brothers, you can only lament that fate has played a trick on people.

"Why don't you stay for dinner?" the second master said happily, holding Chen Sheng's hand.

"No, no, no..." Chen Sheng waved his hands repeatedly.

"Come on, two pairs of chopsticks won't be enough for you."

Chen Sheng's eyes flashed with hope: "Will you eat with the old man?"

"How can he, that bad-tempered guy, eat together? I'll just ask the kitchen to bring some dishes to my room, and we can just eat together."

Chen Sheng's eyes suddenly dimmed, and he said with some lack of interest: "That's fine."

He thought that the second master wanted to keep them and eat with the other families in the manor.

This manor is populated by core members of the Lu family. It would be an honor for him, a marginal son-in-law, to bring his son to the table.

Even if he could make those core members remember his and his son's faces, it would be considered a great achievement. Lu Ruixiang didn't know how happy she would be.

Unfortunately, this is just a dream after all.

After agreeing to come down and have dinner together, the second master pulled Chen Sheng and kept talking.

When the old man got older, he had no partner around him. The people in the manor were all high-status people, and no one wanted to listen to the nagging of an old man.

Finally, someone came and was willing to listen to what he had to say. Once the conversation got interesting, he couldn't stop talking.

Chen Yaren was tired of listening, so he excused himself to go out for a walk, and under Chen Sheng's questioning gaze, Shi Shiran walked out of the house.

When they first came over, Chen Sheng told him, "Don't look too much, don't ask too many questions, and don't wander around." He didn't pay attention to a single word.

After going out and walking on the road for a while, he soon lost his way.
To be continued...