Maybe it's the identity of Xu Miaoyi's eldest daughter, maybe it's the male owner Xu Da who shows his pampering of her, or maybe Xu Miaoyi's own "murderous reputation", no one dares to mess with her, in short, a few days after she recognized her ancestors and returned home, she was happy, and no one dared to be a bird looking for trouble.

As Zhu Yuanzhang's hidden residence, Zhan Yuan is quite large-scale, occupying a whole Xufu Street, gathering the scenery of Jiangnan gardens, coupled with the atmosphere of wealthy nobles, Xu Miaoyi traveled with great interest for several days, Fang figured out the door of his house, and communicated with his three sisters.

They are all tiger girls, although the three sisters have different temperaments and are not born to the same aunt, but they are easier to get along with than Xu Miaoyi imagined.

And these three girls have actually practiced martial arts, even the most quiet Xu Miaoqing can ride a horse and shoot arrows on the hippodrome at home, with three shots and two hits. Looking at Xu Miaoyi's surprised gaze, Xu Miaoqing smiled lightly:

"It was my father who specially invited the female dart master to teach us, I don't like to move, when I first practiced riding and shooting, my legs were worn out, and my fingers were cracked, my aunt was distressed, and begged my father to stop riding and archery lessons. My father refused to allow it, and he gave me a box of topical plasters and told me to stick to it. ”

"yes." Xu Miaoxi, who talked the most, said: "My aunt also said that the girl's family can write and embroider, and the one who dances with a knife and a gun is not like a daughter." Daddy said that his mother was assassinated and his eldest sister was lost. Women should learn more about self-defense, so that they can protect themselves in case of something. ”

The youngest Xu Miaojin clapped his hands and said: "Yes, yes, our three younger sisters are thanks to the eldest sister, so we have the opportunity to play on the racecourse. ”

That's why! Xu Miaoyi felt that Xu Da was a father who was interested in raising his children, unlike Deng Yu, the Duke of Weiguo, who was arrogant and arrogant with his sons and daughters, Deng Ling and Deng Ming.

On the ninth day of the first lunar month, it was a good day for the concubine of Zhu Fanna, the king of Qin, the palace of the Weiguo Mansion set up wine, feasted guests, and even the prince Zhu Biao and the princess Chang who had just come out of the confinement went to drink the wedding wine in the morning.

Originally, Duke Wei sent his eldest daughter into the royal family as a side concubine, but the major wealthy families in Jinling secretly despised it, and planned to send not very important people in the family to give gifts and drink wine. However, after hearing that the prince had personally come to the door, the major families immediately realized that Emperor Hongwu attached great importance to the matter of Na Deng as a side concubine, so they added a few valuable items to the gift list and sent the family members to drink the wedding wine instead.

Emperor Hongwu was actually very annoyed by Zhu Fan and Deng Ming's unmarried pregnancy, but after the imperial doctors diagnosed that Deng Ming's fetus was like a stable dìng, and it was likely to be twins, Emperor Hongwu, who cherished his descendants, immediately changed his attitude, and then thought about Deng Yu's various achievements over the years, opened one eye, closed one eye, and passed, and sent the prince to support the Deng family.

The Xu family, as the family friend of the Deng family, is very good at observing the emperor's intentions, of course, the whole family goes to the scene. Xu Miaoyi said to her father: "I have a bad relationship with the Deng family brothers and sisters, and I want to see both of them, so I say that I am sick and will not go to the Weiguo Mansion." ”

Xu Da didn't force his daughter, and said: "I know that the brothers and sisters of the Deng family are embarrassed by you in the Jiming Mountain Palace. Alas, Wei Guogong I is famous, why are his children so unscrupulous? If you don't want to go, forget it, so as not to cause trouble. ”

Xu Miaoyi didn't go, and the second brother Xu Zengshou also took the opportunity to say: "Father, I don't want to go either-I just beat Deng Ling's kid in Layue, this time I went to his house to drink happy wine, and when the enemies saw each other, they were very red-eyed, what if Deng Ling couldn't bear his irritable temperament and looked for a gap to make trouble?" I'll let him go, I lost the face of the Xu family, as if I was afraid of him; I won't let him, there will be trouble at the wedding banquet on the big day, and the face of the Xu family and the Deng family will be lost. ”

Xu Da thought about it, and said, "Okay, you stay with your sister at home." ”

As soon as Xu Da and the others left home, Xu Miaoyi said to Xu Zengshou: "Second brother, take me to visit the bookstore, and I want to meet Song Xiu'er and Ah Fu." ”

If you want to go out once, you must first ask your elders and elder for permission. Xu Miaoyi has just returned home, so she can't be too out of line and leave home without permission.

Xu Zengshou hit it off and said, "Okay, it's too boring at home, go out for a walk and breathe." ”

Xu Miaoyi was wearing Xu Zengshou's clothes and pretending to be a man, Xu Zengshou had the most ghost ideas, and she didn't know where to get a fake Adam's apple that could almost be stuck to her throat.

With a black/mesh scarf on his head, he looks in the mirror, like a handsome and beautiful young man.

The brother and sister rode out of Zhan Yuan on horseback and went all the way from Xufu Street to the East Pai Lou. If it was in the middle of the Ming Dynasty, the Jiangnan Gongyuan with more than 20,000 houses and the Fuxue in the Nanzhili area were all in the east of the East Pailou, close to the Qinhuai River, where scholars gathered, and the streets and alleys were full of various bookstores.

But at this time, it was the early Ming Dynasty, and Emperor Hongwu basically set up institutions such as Guozijian to train scholars at the foot of Jiming Mountain in the north city of Jinling, so there were the most bookstores there.

When he arrived at the door of the bookstore, Xu Zengshou said in a low voice: "Sister, let's talk ugly ahead, you can't buy secular novels such as "Huizhen" and "West Chamber", the little girl is the easiest to move when she sees this...... Well, these are books for bad girls anyway, and if my father knew I brought you in, he would break my legs! ”

Deng Ming hurriedly became the concubine of King Qin, Xu Zengshou and others all had speculations, but because of the face of the Deng family, they didn't pierce this layer of window paper. If someone else's sister has an accident, Xu Zengshou can watch the excitement, but if his sister-in-law has such an accident, he will not be a good person.

Xu Miaoyi said: "What are "Huizhen" and "West Chamber"? I've read books that are ten times more vulgar. Don't guess, I came today to collect some medical books to send to King Zhou, he was imprisoned in the deep palace, and ...... It's going to be sad to be hit hard. I've chosen a medical book, and you can help bring it to him. ”

The matter of Wang Yinnu and Zhou Wang Zhu Hu has been given a gag order by Emperor Hongwu, and no one is allowed to mention it again. After all, Zhu Hu will call Wang Yinnu's second sister-in-law in the future.

Xu Zengshou sighed: "That Miss Wang...... Alas, don't mention it, he was sold by his own brother, and he is also a poor person. Before she got married, she became a ready-made mother. ”

Xu Miaoyi said indignantly: "She is pitiful? What about King Zhou? What about King Yan? What about me? What about the neighbors who were almost convicted by her? Why do you say she's pitiful! ”

Xu Zengshou touched his head and said, "This...... I just sighed that she had nothing to look like she was going to be in love with the country, but she was destined to be alone in an empty marriage, just to regret it. ”

Xu Miaoyi said: "In the final analysis, it's because she is good-looking. If she had been ordinary, you would have said that she deserved it. ”

Xu Zengshou saw that his sister was angry, and hurriedly channeled this anger outward, "It's not that Chang Sen's kid couldn't give up after seeing Miss Wang, and he often whispered in my ear that famous flowers have masters, and now he says that he has a bad face." I was touched by the black of the ink, and he was abducted and broken. ”

Xu Zengshou and Chang Sen have used each other as shields since they were children.

Xu Miaoyi snorted coldly, "You paid for today's book, and I won't blame the past." ”

Xu Zengshou thought secretly, just buy a few medical books, how much money can you get? It's still a little bold, and it's important to win the hearts of the girls. Anyway, in the end, my father will make it up for me.

Who knew that Xu Miaoyi selected all the rare and rare books that were of great value, and she was not limited to medical books, what travelogues, paintings, calligraphy, etc., all of them were bought when she liked them, and she also said that she would take them back and distribute them according to the preferences of her three younger sisters.

Xu Zengshou cried and followed her ass to settle the bill, secretly complaining.

After visiting more than half of the various bookstores, Xu Miaoyi pretended to inadvertently ask the shopkeeper, "I heard that your family has the first edition of "Yang Gong's Paintings", is it real or a fake?" ”

The shopkeeper's face was proud, "Our family has been doing the bookstore business since the Song Dynasty, and there have been seven generations so far. If it is fake, this "Yang Gong's Painting" is the treasure of our town store, and it is not light. ”

Xu Miaoyi said with a smile: "It's a mule or a horse, pull it up and slip around, open the door to do business, how can there be a reason to push the business out." ”

The shopkeeper saw that she was dressed in brocade and ermine, dressed gorgeously, and the brothers around her were also like wealthy sons, so he said: "If the two sons are sincere in selling, follow the little one to the underground warehouse." ”

After a cup of tea, Xu Miaoyi left the bookstore with a half-old copy of "Yang Gong's Paintings" contentedly.

Xu Zengshou patted the empty money bag and said, "Good sister, don't buy it." Brother, I have never been as poor as I am today. ”

In fact, buying other books today is a disguise, and this "Yang Gong's Painting" is the real goal. Everyone knows that Xu Miaoyi is not interested in painting, and if she suddenly wants to sell this book alone, I am afraid that it will arouse suspicion, so she mixed "Yang Gong's Painting" into miscellaneous books and bought it, covering people's eyes and ears.

Xu Miaoyi smiled: "Okay, don't buy it, let's go find Xiu'er and them." ”

The Baihetang of the second brocade workshop has closed down, and the words "Jifang for sale" are posted on the door. Occasionally, a few repeat customers come here with baskets.

"Huh? It's good, why is it closed? ”

"Yes, there are two doctors in this shop, a man and a woman, the man is handsome and kind, the woman is beautiful and spicy, the medical skills are not bad, and the price of medicinal materials is also fair, why is it closed?"

The bun seller on the street explained: "We don't know what's going on. It is said that his family sold medicine and ate people to death, and even the soldiers and horses of the five cities were alarmed, and a whole street was closed, and then it went out of business, and the owner and the doctor were all gone, only two men were guarding the door in the backyard. ”

The repeat customer shook his head regretfully and left, "His rose sauce and hot sauce are delicious." Actually, I don't sell medicine anymore, and it's good to change to sell hot sauce, but unfortunately I can't eat that flavor anymore. ”

The steamed bun seller said: "The chili and spice shop sells them, buy them and grind them into powder and boil them yourself." Other pharmacies and grocery stores have also started selling hot sauce, so please inquire more......"

In the pharmacy with the door closed, Xu Miaoyi heard these conversations through the door, looking at the empty counter, and felt bad in her heart. asked: "Xiu'er, Ah Fu, have you figured it out, are you going to Zhan Yuan with me, or are you looking for a place to open a shop to accommodate you?" ”

Xu Zengshou said: "You can rest assured, in Zhan Yuan, the Xu family will treat each other with courtesy; Open a shop outside, and I'll help you out. ”

Ah Fu's leg injury had just healed, and he said, "If you don't dislike me for being old, I'll go to Zhanyuan as an errand and drive to watch the door." ”

Song Xiuer said in a hesitant voice: "A few days ago, my stepmother and younger brother found me and said that they wanted me to go home. He also said that my uncle was behind the scenes, kidnapped and sold me, and they didn't know about it. ”

Xu Miaoyi hurriedly asked, "You agreed?" ”

Song Xiu'er raised her head, "I pretended not to know them and drove them away." I'm not a three-year-old child, so how can I be so fooled? It's just that he wants to borrow me to climb the high branches of the Wei State Mansion. ”