Xu Changge said to Li Mai, "Back then, our father led people here and searched for a long time before finding a place suitable for living. It was safe from the threat of floods and a place where we could set up a mountain gate to protect our clan."
Li Mai sat in the carriage, looking at the situation below, and nodded. There seemed to be more than twenty courtyards, and the Xu clan had quite a few people, with an estimated number of at least one hundred.
“There are currently 107 people from the Xu family living here, not including those who have married out,” Xu Changle said to Li Mai, looking down at the small village below.
Li Mai nodded, pondering how she had managed to unite these people.
"Are your people usually easy to manage? Do they ever cause trouble?" Li Mai asked.
"Of course there are. There are also fights between them. If they can handle it themselves, they will handle it. If they can't handle it, they will come to me. See that big courtyard in the middle? That's my family's courtyard."
“My father is almost never around all year round, and Lele has been married for several years now. Don’t be fooled by the size of the courtyard; it’s just me and a dozen or so servants living there. Behind my courtyard, there’s a workshop, which is the incense-making workshop of the Xu family’s main household. It was built when my father moved here with everyone.”
"The people working in the workshop are all from different families. Almost every family has one or two people who earn money to support their large families. As for the Xu family's incense, they no longer have their own shops to buy it. They can only rely on some incense shop owners with whom they had good relationships in the past, as well as the incense they supply to a few temples for daily use, to support the livelihood of these twenty-odd households."
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