In the fourth year of Zhengde's reign, in the back garden of a large mansion on Funan Street in Songjiang.

"Hey~, hey..."

In the freezing cold wind, a group of bare-chested coolies, sweating all over their bodies, were desperately trying to pull up a rockery stone weighing several tons. The many wooden simple pulleys on it were making "squeaking" noises.

~' With painful groans, under the desperate dragging of many coolies, the heavy stone finally slowly lifted off the ground.

At this time, the special flatbed cart that had been prepared nearby was immediately pushed under the rockery. Then the coolies slowly relaxed the rope and carefully placed the rockery on the cart. Then the coolies pulled the rope in front of the cart and slowly

of moving outside the garden.

"Be careful, this stone is worth hundreds of taels. If it is broken, not only will you not be able to pay for it, but I will also have to jump into the river!" At this time, a young man wearing a moon-white gown walked in from outside the garden and saw

When the coolie pushing the cart immediately showed a bright smile and said.

It is better to say that the person who came in was a teenager than a young man, because the other person looked to be at least fifteen or sixteen years old, with very handsome eyebrows and starry eyes. However, there was something in this young man's eyebrows that did not belong to his age.

Mature, so when people look at these eyes, they will feel that the other person is older than their actual age.

"Don't worry, Mr. Zhou. These dozen brothers are all very strong and will never damage your things!" Seeing this young man taking the initiative to joke with them so enthusiastically, the foreman who was directing next to him was also cheerful.

smiled.

"Hey, don't call me Young Master anymore. Who in the entire Songjiang Mansion doesn't know that our Zhou family's business has collapsed, and my home has been sold out. Now Zhou is penniless. I don't know how many days will pass, but I will."

I have to ask for a living from my brother!" The young man known as Mr. Zhou laughed again and said.

Upon hearing this, the foreman hurriedly exchanged a few words, but seeing the other person's happy look, he was muttering to himself: Everyone said that Young Master Zhou was a child prodigy in the past, and he was admitted as a scholar at a young age, but now the Zhou family's business is in decline.

and he still owes a lot of debt, but whenever he sees him these days, he always smiles. Could it be because his father is dead and bankrupt, this Young Master Zhou

Is it possible to lose your mind and go crazy?

Regarding the doubts in the minds of the foreman and others, Wang Jie, or should I call him Zhou Zhong now, didn't care at all. He thought he would definitely be drowned when he fell into the sea, but he didn't expect that when he opened his eyes, he actually came to hundreds of people.

In the Ming Dynasty two years ago, he became a rich young master. Unfortunately, he was born without the fate of a young master. He had only been a young master for a few days, but his father's boat out to sea encountered a big storm, and the ship was destroyed and everyone died.

Sad news.

It doesn't matter that his father is dead. Anyway, this brand new Zhou Zhong has no impression of the cheap father. But the key is that there is still a lot of cargo on the ship, and their Zhou family's business has been affected in recent years, and this time they go to sea.

The goods purchased with debt were all gone, and creditors were naturally standing in front of the gate demanding debts.

Zhou Zhong is the legitimate son and only son of the Zhou family, and his mother died early. He has two younger sisters, but they are half-mothers. They are all the children of Zhou Zhong's father's concubines, so now he is the only man in the family.

You can take charge. Faced with this situation, Zhou Zhong had to step forward.

Zhou Zhong's father's name is Zhou Hai. The Zhou family is an outsider in Songjiang Prefecture. They moved here more than ten years ago. Zhou Hai makes a living by doing business and owns many shops under his name. In addition, the imperial court's maritime ban policy has been relaxed in recent years.

They made a lot of money, so the Zhou family secretly went out to sea for smuggling. In fact, not only the Zhou family, but also all the famous rich people in Songjiang Prefecture, their family business would have something to do with smuggling.

Zhou Hai accumulated a lot of wealth by doing business and became the leading rich man in Songjiang Prefecture. However, he did not want his son to make a living in business. After all, in the Ming Dynasty, studying and taking scientific examinations was the right thing to do. So he asked his son Zhou to do it since he was a child.

He focused on studying and invited famous teachers to teach him, and Zhou Zhong lived up to expectations. He was extremely smart since he was a child, and he learned inferences from one instance to another. He soon became known as a child prodigy, and he was admitted as a scholar last year. Zhou Zhong was only fourteen years old at that time.

And just when everyone thought that the Zhou family was going to produce a talented man, and might even become a family of officials in the future, the young Zhou Chong suffered from a serious illness, during which he fainted several times and was about to die. When he woke up for the last time, it turned out that

Zhou Zhong has been replaced by the soul of a young man named Wang Jie from the 21st century.

After Zhou Hai died unexpectedly, the Zhou family suffered such drastic changes. If it were Zhou Zhong, who was known as a child prodigy but was actually a nerd, he probably wouldn't be able to handle it even if he was beaten to death, and he might even be forced to hang himself by his creditors.

But now Zhou Zhong is different. His real name is Wang Jie from later generations. His parents died in a car accident when he was in high school. He relied on the savings left by his parents and his own efforts to work, and finally graduated from the computer department of a second-class undergraduate university.

He originally worked in an IT company in Shanghai, and the salary was not low. He even sold the house in his hometown, paid a down payment in Shanghai, and used the remaining mortgage to finance a small house. Everything looked great.

Unfortunately, Wang Jie later couldn't bear to see his boss molesting female employees in the company, and also discriminated against so-called "outsiders" like him. As a result, his anger accumulated to a certain extent, and he beat his boss on the spot. In the end, he not only lost his job, but also

And he was detained for a while.

After freedom, Wang Jie wanted to find a job again, but God seemed to be playing a joke on him. He couldn't find a job for several months. Later, he didn't have much money in hand, and the bank's mortgage was like a ghost.

In the end, Wang Jie was desperate and was introduced by a friend he met in the detention center. He relied on his several kung fu skills he had practiced since childhood and his agility, so he started to do some gray industries, such as helping people look at places, collecting debts, and smuggling.

Ship escorting and the like, although these jobs don't seem to be very popular, the money comes in very quickly, even higher than when he started working.

It was under this circumstance that Wang Jie changed from an IT migrant worker to a gray person who was neither black nor white, doing some work that was between legal and illegal. In fact, Wang Jie's idea was very simple. He wanted to move the house first

After paying off the money, then save some money, and then quit working. It would be best if you can find a legitimate job. If you can't find it, you can start a small business by yourself, and then find a girlfriend, get married and have children. This is

Wang Jie, an ordinary person’s dream.

Unfortunately, one time when Wang Jie was helping someone smuggle a ship, the buyer and the seller had a disagreement and got into a fight on the spot. In the chaos, Wang Jie was very skilled and cut down seven or eight of the opponent's thugs in a row. Unfortunately, he was kicked in the end.

He kicked into the water, and as a result, he was drowned in the sea without knowing the nature of water. When he woke up again, he had arrived in the Zhengde period of the Ming Dynasty, and his identity also changed into a rich young man known as a child prodigy. Unfortunately, he was the body of the young master.

His life turned into a bankrupt young man in just a few days.

It is precisely because of the experience in the previous life that although Zhou Zhong in this life is not as talented as the original Zhou Zhong, he appears to be extremely organized when dealing with the debts owed by the Zhou family. After all, he had already worked for the bank in his previous life.

After paying off debts for a lifetime, even though I could not pay them off until my death, I also developed a calm attitude. Although the creditors who come to my door now are fierce, they are nothing compared to the banks that are so threatening in later generations.

.

First of all, Zhou Zhong arranged the funeral of the cheap old man, and then made a statistics of the debts they owed and the assets of the Zhou Mansion. As a result, he sadly found that the amount of debt was just more than that of their Zhou Mansion.

His assets are a little more, which means that after he pays off his debts, not only will the Zhou family have nothing left, but they will also owe some foreign debts.

Although this discovery made Zhou Zhong quite depressed, life always had to go on, so he cheered up and sold off the property that needed to be sold, the mortgages that needed to be mortgaged, and even the things in the Zhou family's house began to be sold off, such as

The rockery stones that were just transported from the garden are worth hundreds of taels of silver. In addition, the gold and silver jewelry of the women's family members in the mansion are also in the process of being sold. Aunt Zhao, the mother of Zhou Zhong's younger sister, is responsible for this.

I guess they should all be collected by now.

Thinking of this, Zhou Zhong turned around and walked to the inner house. His cheap father had four concubines. Among them were Aunt Wang who gave birth to his eldest sister Zhuo'er, Aunt Zhao who gave birth to his younger sister Duo'er, and two younger ones.

Aunt Han is a pair of sisters. They are only twenty years old this year and have not had any children yet.

Speaking of which, Aunt Wang came into the house the earliest, so she should be in charge of the affairs of the house. However, Aunt Wang came from a small family and was honest and dull, so she was not suitable for running a household. On the contrary, Aunt Zhao was born into a noble family and had a shrewd temperament.

She is capable, so she has been managing the inner house of Zhou Mansion since she entered the house.

The Zhou family used to be the leading wealthy family in Songjiang Prefecture. The house was built in a very grand style. The inner house and the outer house were separated. It occupied a quite large area. According to Zhou Chong's estimate, it was at least a dozen acres. There were numerous courtyards built in front and back.

The small garden and the interior and exterior decorations of the house are also very luxurious, and can even be called luxurious in some places. However, it is a pity that this luxurious Zhou Mansion is now dilapidated.

All the decorative antiques and vases in the living room and inner house were used to pay off debts. Furniture such as tables and chairs were also sold out. Even the marble-carved animal horns on the roof of the house were sold by Zhou Chong.

It can be said that in the entire Zhou Mansion, except for the courtyard and the people who could not be sold, everything else was sold by Zhou Zhong into silver to pay off his debts.

However, although the Zhou Mansion was sold out, it is a pity that the external debts are still not repaid. Although the remaining debts are not large, it is not clear whether they can be repaid based on the current situation of the Zhou Mansion. In addition, all the shops of the Zhou Mansion are gone.

, the fields have been sold out, it can be said that the Zhou Mansion has no income now.

What's even more ominous is that in his previous life, Zhou Chong was a single man, so he could eat enough for one person and the whole family was not hungry. But now he has four aunts and two younger sisters to feed. Together, these people have six mouths, which is comparable to

It's much harder to support himself.

Adding these troubles together, I am afraid that everyone will feel very distressed. But Zhou Zhong, apart from being a little frustrated at not being able to live as a young master for a few more days, has always been very optimistic afterwards, because for him who was reincarnated, the current

All this belongs to the original Zhou Zhong, and his life was already dead, but now he has taken over someone else's body and come back to life. It is equivalent to God giving him a chance to live again. So now God takes

It is quite normal to take away some things that belong to the original Zhou Zhong.

Besides, God is very kind. For example, it didn't take away all Zhou Zhong's things. At least he still has a big house now, which is countless times better than the small house of tens of square meters that he mortgaged in his previous life.

The land below belongs to him completely, and there is no need to worry about any bullshit seventy years.

In addition, compared to being alone in his previous life, God has left Zhou Chong with several relatives. For example, although Aunt Wang is honest and dull, she cares about him very much and treats him as her own son. She also has two lovely sisters.

One is a four-year-old little loli, and the other is a thirteen-year-old big loli, and they like to cling to his elder brother the most.

Thinking of his previous life, when Zhou Zhong was fifteen years old, his parents died in a car accident. From then on, Zhou Zhong never felt the warmth of his family. Now God not only gave him a chance to be reborn, but also gave him a chance to be reborn.

Giving him a incomplete but very warm family made Zhou Chong feel very satisfied.

Zhou Zhong walked quickly through the several courtyards in front. Except for the biting cold wind, there was no sound. The servants had been dismissed by him long ago, making the whole mansion suddenly lose its popularity. If it was at night, most people would be timid.

People really don’t dare to stay here.
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