Chapter 1281 Moving Old Servant Takes In
In the blink of an eye, spring goes and autumn comes, year after year.

In the year 77, thunder roared across the earth and everything came back to life.

In the summer, Mr. Deng began to take charge of the work and carried out rehabilitation activities in various places.

Su Mingzhe took the opportunity, used some connections, and asked the street office to return the Su family ancestral home that was stolen by the soldiers to him.

After getting the title deed, Su Mingzhe made some minor renovations to the old house, then took out his savings of 80,000 yuan and went to Friendship Store and other places to buy antiques, calligraphy and paintings, and old furniture handed down from the Ming and Qing dynasties to decorate the old house.

Eighty thousand yuan may sound like a lot, but in fact, you can’t buy much.

The old furniture, collectibles, calligraphy and paintings that I bought were barely enough to fill up several rooms in the backyard, so the middle yard could only be decorated with new furniture and modern masterpieces.

"Chunming, be careful, that's blue and white porcelain!"

Han Chunyan, who has been married to Su Mingzhe for almost two years, has been influenced by the man day and night and has also learned a little about cultural relics, calligraphy and paintings. She was shocked when she saw her brother casually placing an imperial blue and white porcelain from the Qianlong period on a high table beside her.

If you fall from above, you will lose dozens of dollars.

"Don't worry, Second Sister, my hands are steady!"

Han Chunming was filled with envy and jealousy when he saw the antiques, calligraphy and paintings that Su Mingzhe had spent huge amounts of money to buy.

Unfortunately, he had no money in his pocket, so he could only do small things.

So far, he has only collected more than a hundred small gadgets, which is nothing compared to Su Mingzhe's lavish spending.

Han Chunming casually put the blue and white porcelain away, and reached out to hang a painting of "Shrimp Playing" by Mr. Qi in the main hall.

When Han Chunyan saw this, she hugged her son nervously and stomped her feet back and forth.

This painting of "Shrimp Playing" is more valuable than the blue and white porcelain. When she went to negotiate the price with the man, the other party started with three hundred yuan.

After much negotiation with the man, he finally lowered the price to one hundred and eighty yuan.

In another room, Su Mingzhe collected and put away some valuable things that were not convenient to show to others, and then returned to the main hall.

Seeing the cautious look of the siblings, Su Mingzhe suddenly found it funny:

"Just leave it there for a few days, and after the housewarming celebration tomorrow, I'll take it down!"

The good things were collected by Su Mingzhe and placed in the backyard, while the things of average value were placed in the middle yard.

The most valuable ones are the painting "Shrimp Playing" and two imperial blue and white porcelains from the Qianlong period.

Most of the other stuff are furniture that is not easy to break, and some imitation antiques from the Republic of China period.

With Su Mingzhe's command, Han Chunming's movements became much faster.

When the three of them were almost done, they suddenly heard a dog barking in the front yard.

"It might be someone from Zhengyang Restaurant!"

Su Mingzhe scanned with his spiritual sense and found seven people at the door. He thought they were people from the restaurant moving things in.

In order to celebrate the joy of moving to a new house, Su Mingzhe specially sent invitations to relatives and friends, on the one hand to congratulate himself on the joy of moving to a new house, and on the other hand to hold a hundred-day banquet for his son.

The guests invited by Su Mingzhe included Su Meng's family of four, more than a dozen people from the old Han family, former colleagues from the dumpling restaurant, leaders from the street office, some leaders from magazines and publishing houses, leaders from the machinery processing plant, some neighbors in the factory staff compound, friends from the educated youth back then, and relatives from the older generation of the Su family.

Su Mingzhe sent out more than eighty invitations alone and prepared sixteen tables for the banquet.

The restaurant that hosted the banquet was Zhengyang Restaurant.

Han Chunyan and Han Chunming tidied their clothes and followed Su Mingzhe to the front yard gate.

There were seven people standing at the door, an old man and three middle-aged pairs.

The old man with white hair saw Su Mingzhe coming out and knelt down happily and said:
"Yes, Master. I am Fakui, and I pay my respects to you, Master!"

Seeing this, Su Mingzhe quickly took two steps and stopped the old man:

"Grandpa Kui, this is a new society, we can't do this anymore!"

This old man, Wei Fakui, was a servant of the Su family. He was also the servant of Su Mingzhe's original grandfather and the steward of the Su family for the past thirty years.

The three middle-aged men standing next to Wei Fakui were the eldest brother Wei Xingyuan, Wei Xingshan, and Wei Xinghe.

The three brothers also grew up in the Su Mansion and worked with Wei Fakui in the Su Mansion. The women next to the three brothers were their wives, who were originally maids in the Su Mansion.

After Su Mingzhe's parents passed away, the Wei family still lived in the Su Mansion.

But twelve years ago, after the Su Mansion was seized by soldiers, the Wei family returned to their hometown in the countryside.

A few days ago, when Su Mingzhe sent out invitations, he also sent an invitation to the Wei family.

His original intention was just to invite Wei Fakui to come over, but who would have expected that Wei Fakui would come over a day earlier with his entire family.

After Su Mingzhe helped the Wei family members up, he introduced their identities to Han Chunyan and her siblings.

Wei Fakui knew that if he knelt down, Su Mingzhe would definitely continue to stop him, so he asked his sons and daughters-in-law to kneel down and greet Han Chunyan.

These three couples all grew up in the old society and had served the Su family for decades. Therefore, it was very natural for them to kneel down and pay their respects to Han Chunyan, the mistress of the Su mansion.

However, Han Chunyan was frightened by the Wei family's actions and hurried forward to support them.

Han Chunming stood aside and watched coldly, rolling his eyes:

"It's really a feudal legacy!"

The greetings are over.

Su Mingzhe invited the Wei family to take a seat in the middle courtyard.

Wei Fakui shook his head repeatedly, unwilling to enter. He just stood at the door and said earnestly:
"Young Master, what status do my family have? How can we sit at the Su Mansion's banquet?"

“I came here this time because I knew that the young master had taken back the ancestral home, so I wanted to ask the young master to take our family in and let us continue to work in the Su Mansion.”

"Young Master, I don't ask for a salary from you, as long as I have something to eat."

The Wei family lived a very hard life after returning to the countryside.

They wear tattered clothes and eat bland food.

The whole family, young and old, could only have a few full meals from the beginning of the year to the end of the year.

All the poultry raised on a daily basis are used to lay eggs and sell for money to support the schooling of more than a dozen children.

It can be said that during the twelve years in the countryside, the more than a dozen people in the Wei family looked forward to returning to the Su Mansion to work one day.

A few days ago, Su Mingzhe sent someone to deliver an invitation to the Wei family. After Wei Fakui learned about it, he immediately began to prepare for today.

At this moment, as Wei Fakui finished speaking, his three sons and daughters-in-law knelt down again.

Su Mingzhe glanced at the seven people from the Wei family and found that they were indeed sincere, so he nodded and smiled:

"Grandpa Kui, I'm naturally happy that you guys are willing to come back and live here. However, you should also know that in this era, the old names are no longer popular. If you stay, when people outside ask about it, you can only say that we are relatives and are staying here temporarily, understand?"

"understand!"

When Wei Fakui's family saw that Su Mingzhe was willing to take them in, they were overjoyed and quickly asked their son and daughter-in-law to kowtow to thank the host for taking them in.

This time, Su Mingzhe did not refuse their greetings, but asked them to change their address to "Mr." and call Han Chunyan "Mrs."

After everyone re-established their master-servant relationship, Su Mingzhe brought the seven members of the Wei family to the east wing of the front yard and sat down:

"Grandpa Kui, we are still the same as we were twelve years ago. Your family will live in the front yard. You will get 60 yuan a month, Uncle Yuan, Uncle Shan, and Uncle He will get 50 yuan a month, and the three aunts will get 30 yuan a month."

"Everything depends on sir."

Wei Fakui was naturally extremely satisfied with the treatment offered by Su Mingzhe and expressed his gratitude repeatedly.

The three brothers of the Wei family and their wives came forward and kowtowed to express their gratitude.

After Su Mingzhe decided on the salary, he explained the rules again.

Naturally, all seven members of the Wei family agreed.

Seeing that everything was settled, Su Mingzhe took out a thousand yuan from his pocket, as well as a stack of food coupons, oil coupons, cloth coupons, sugar coupons, wine coupons, etc., and handed them to Wei Fakui:

"Grandpa Kui, you are the old housekeeper of the Su Mansion. Take these first, and make two sets of decent clothes for my uncle and aunt, and then buy some rice, flour, grain and oil... Tomorrow's housewarming banquet will be left to you..."

(End of this chapter)