Following the butler into the study, Lin Xu took a brief look.

The study room is very large and its decoration is antique. The Huanghuali furniture in Yishui'er, especially the Huanghuali book case with a length of more than three meters and a width of at least one and a half meters, is even more eye-catching!

You should know that Daning Country does not produce huanghuali, and this kind of wood can only be imported from Southeast Asia!

Huanghuali is originally a very expensive wood, but the more expensive one is the shipping fee!

It would be better if you were transported by sea, but because the Japanese pirates rampant along the southeast coast, it would be very difficult for such commodities to be transported smoothly by sea!

So, most of the time, you can only go by land!

If you take the land route, because there are many mountains in the southeast, there are no official roads in many places. In such places, it is almost entirely dependent on manpower!

However, the density of Huanghuali is too high, and in order to preserve its value, the whole piece of wood must be transported. It is difficult to carry a piece of wood, not to mention that the mountain road is so steep and difficult to walk!

Therefore, it is conceivable that the freight alone would be a sky-high price to transport Huanghuali from Nanyang to Jiangling by manpower!

Although Lin Xu didn't know how much Huanghuali furniture in this study could be worth, there was one thing he could be 100% sure, that is, he would definitely not be able to afford it with the salary of the magistrate alone!

At this moment, Xu Nianmin was sitting behind the desk reading, looking very devoted, as if he had never heard anyone coming in.

They stood there and waited for a while, but Xu Nianmin had no intention of stopping writing. Then the housekeeper walked up to Xu Nianmin and spoke carefully: "Master, I brought Mr. Lin here."

Hearing his tone, he seemed to be afraid of waking up the sleeping child.

Xu Nianmin wrote a few more words as if he hadn't heard it, then stopped, looked up at Lin Xu, and said in surprise: "Mr. Lin has come?"

"Yes, Master, Mr. Lin is here."

The housekeeper immediately laughed and said.

"What are you doing? Mr. Lin doesn't even say anything to me when he comes!"

Xu Nianmin first scolded the housekeeper, then looked at Lin Xu and said with a smile: "Hello, Mr. Lin."

Of course, Lin Xu could see that Xu Nianmin pretended not to hear the butler just now and continued to write pretendingly, but was actually deliberately leaving himself alone!

However, there is no need for him to write down his discomfort on his face.

Anyway, I came here today, and I didn’t make friends with Xu Nianmin!

So he bowed his hand and said lightly: "Hello, Lord Xu."

Because the information dissemination in this world is very backward, what Xu Nianmin is thinking about every day is just how to give birth to a son and continue the Xu family's fireworks. He has no intention of government affairs at all, and has no intention to cultivate his own information channels.

In addition, Lin Xu went to Hangzhou as a doctor this time. As for him and Liu Mingju, Liang Shijie discussed the strategy of "using Japanese to control Japanese" and he personally led a fleet to cooperate with Liang Shijie to take down Bailu Island and capture Cui Lin alive. Afterwards, Liu Mingju asked him for the position of a fifth-rank guerrilla general and gave him a guard quota, etc., all of which were not public activities!

Apart from some upper-level officials and some soldiers of the Governor's Office and Tian March, outsiders don't know at all!

However, this is not a secret. If some high-level people want to inquire, they can naturally find out.

However, with Xu Nianmin's level and connections, there is no way to find out!

Therefore, when I saw Lin Xu, a scholar like a flat-headed scholar, not kneeling down to him, but just held the scholar's etiquette, I immediately felt angry!

Moreover, this kid didn't even bring a gift for the first time when he visited!

Obviously, he disrespects himself!

However, he couldn't say anything, because the literary style of Daning is prosperous. Regardless of whether he had passed the exam or not, as long as he was a naturalized student in the county, even if he was a disciple of the emperor, he would not kneel down when he saw an official.


Chapter completed!