The banks of the Crescent River are the most luxurious areas of Jinling City, with brothels, music houses, gambling houses, and countless restaurants, day and night are no different for that area, and the two markets that run through the road are lively every day.

Chu Yiyao looked at the market from the carriage window, there was the shouting of hawkers everywhere, in Jinling City, there were vendors everywhere, they did business during the day, and went to the vicinity of the Crescent River at night to have fun, and the cycle began like this.

"Miss, it's here." Bao Chan said outside the carriage, Chu Yiyao dressed as a man and stepped out of the carriage, and when he looked up, the sign of Chun Manlou was shining in the evening afterglow, and there were still some women in the open windows on the second and third floors who were constantly greeting and frolicking unscrupulously to the people on the street.

It only took a look at Chu Yiyao to find the second brother's carriage, the little guy Ah Chuan was sitting in the back of the car and was already dozing away towards the sunset, Chu Yiyao walked over and motioned to Bao Chan to wake him up.

Ah Chuan almost fell off the back of the car, wiped the corners of his mouth, opened his eyes and looked at the little young master in front of him, more and more familiar, this face is exactly the same as the eldest lady if he dresses up as a woman.

"Have you seen enough?" There was a scolding voice from the eldest lady in his ears, and Ah Chuan immediately sobered up, "Eldest miss, why are you here again." ”

"Which room is the second young master in?"

"Miss, it's not suitable for you to go in here, the second young master is not here, the second young master has gone to the dock." Ah Chuan said dodgingly, and Bao Chan kindly reminded him on the side, "Ah Chuan, there are several miles of road in the dock." ”

Ah Chuan's expression suddenly fell, and he said wryly under Chu Yiyao's gaze, "The second young master has come to find the mandarin duck girl." ”

Chu Yiyao straightened off her clothes and said lightly, "Lead the way." ”

"Yo, where did this little brother come from, he looks so handsome, but it's a pity that he is younger, little master, I have to wait a few years to come back." When she arrived at the door of Chunmanlou, Chu Yiyao was stopped at the door by a woman who looked like an old mother, and the old mother saw that she was dressed as a man, but who knew what kind of identity this was, the old mother didn't expose it, shouting that she was young and didn't let her in.

"We're looking for someone." Bao Chan took out a piece of silver and put it in the mother's hand, "Where is the second young master of the Chu family, please let my mother lead the way." ”

The old mother glanced at Chu Yiyao several times, could it be that Chu Ershao's enemy came to the door, it doesn't look like it, at such a young age.

"This, you see that we can't break the rules, the one here can't afford to offend us in this spring, so don't embarrass me." The old mother pushed the silver back, and Bao Chan took out another ingot and added it to her hand, the mother hesitated, looked up at the second floor, and now there are few guests in the Chunman Building at this time, instead of waiting for this young lady to come to make trouble at night, it is better to let her go up now.

In her heart, the old mother put away the silver two with peace of mind, called a little maid to come and take them up, and instructed, "Go to Tianbao Pavilion." ”

Chu Yiyao followed the little maid up, Ah Chuan and Bao Chan followed, and when they arrived on the second floor, they bypassed the corridor, and there were elegantly named pavilions on both sides, the little maid took them to a door and stood aside and stood still, Chu Yiyao came a little closer, did not rush to open the door, but listened attentively.

Not long after, without waiting for the knock on the door, Chu Yiyao directly pushed the door open, the music in the room stopped abruptly, and a woman in a purple gauze dress sat by the guqin and looked at them in a daze, "Who are you!" ”

Chu Yiyao didn't look at her and walked in directly, leaning on the soft couch next to the bed opposite the woman, with the same surprised expression, especially when she appeared.

"Yiyao?" One of the men finally recognized her and looked at her incredulously, "How are you dressed like this?" ”

"I'm here to see what makes the second brother nostalgic and doesn't even go home." Chu Yiyao looked at the mandarin duck, the spring man Lou Oiran, it was really a beauty, no wonder she had squeezed the rose girl in the spring man building in just one year from the stage to now.

"What nonsense are you talking about, go back quickly, how can you come here from a girl's house." Chu Duyuan got up and pulled her aside, and his eyes were still looking at the mandarin duck girl, for fear of falling in front of her.

"You go back with me." If she remembers correctly, a month later will be the day of this mandarin duck girl, and she will also usher in her first benefactor, no matter what, she will not let the second brother repeat the mistake of the past and redeem such a woman back.

"Yiyao, don't mess around!" Chu Duanyuan shouted in a low voice, and Wang Jiting, who was still sitting on the couch, also came over, he and Chu Duyuan were only two years apart, the two families were close, and the relationship was not bad.

"Brother Jiting, you came here, does Sister Manqiu know?" Chu Yiyao glanced up at him, and Wang Jiting suddenly stopped.

"Alright, alright, let's go back." No matter how good the interest was, she was gone, and Chu Duyuan was left with a cloud of bad luck in his heart at this moment, and finally the Mandarin Duck girl agreed to talk to him, and it was only half an hour's work that was disturbed.

Seeing Ah Chuan, who was dodging at the door and reducing his sense of existence, Chu Duyuan glared at him, Chu Yiyao pushed him out, and said with a smile, "Second brother, you go out first, I still have something to say to the Mandarin Duck girl." ”

After inserting the latch and locking it inside, Chu Yiyao looked back at the Mandarin Duck girl, and was not polite, "I know that the Mandarin Duck girl is unwilling to stay in this Spring Man Building, but our Chu Mansion is small and can't accommodate you, so I ask you to ask someone else." ”

"Miss Chu said with a smile, which of the sisters here doesn't want to have a stable life." The sound of the piano sounded, and the mandarin duck gently plucked the strings with one hand, looking up at Chu Yiyao with a smile.

"So Miss Mandarin Duck has to look carefully, it is easy to grow old, it is difficult to resist the erosion of time, you and my brother are too old." A sweet smile bloomed on Chu Yiyao's immature little face, and she said sincerely

Leaving Chunmanlou, Chu Duyuan's face was calm, and he got into a carriage with her, and without waiting for him to say anything, Chu Yiyao opened the curtain and told Ah Chuan to go to the dock, and the two brothers and sisters in the car were speechless.

When I arrived at the wharf, there were many ships unloading, and the sky was getting dark, and I could clearly see the flags of each family hanging on it, the Chu family's ship was at the ninth pier, and there were many workers coming and going.

"Second Young Master." Several stewards greeted each other, Chu Duyuan lazily returned, and followed Chu Yiyao inside, the ships inside were all unloaded, and there was an abandoned Chu family merchant ship docked on the innermost side, and the banner of the merchant house on it was already dilapidated.

"Second brother, do you remember this ship?" Chu Yiyao looked up at the tall hull, which was already a few years old, and the hull was covered with moss and moth.

"This is the Chu family's first merchant ship that year." Chu Duyuan didn't care about the affairs in the trading house, and he wouldn't know about the first merchant ship that the Chu family worked hard for, Chu Yiyao reached out and touched the hull, the old one exuded the moldy smell of wood, but it couldn't hide its contribution to the Chu family in the past.

"Second brother, my father and mother are gone, and my eldest brother is also gone, and we are only left with you." Chu Yiyao muttered, and there was still the sound of the sea water lapping on the shore in his ears.

"Second brother, do you remember, when the ship just went to sea, my father and mother took my eldest brother and you on the boat." Chu Yiyao looked back at him, and Chu Duyuan smiled, "You weren't born at that time." ”

"Second brother, now that the eldest brother is gone, do you want to continue to ignore it?" Chu Yiyao looked at the people walking behind him and said softly, "Or do you think that the people here will wait for Ying Zhu to grow up and willingly hand over the business house to him." ”

"Twilight, why are you here?" Before Chu Duyuan could speak, there was a loud shout from behind, and the second uncle Chu Hanqin strode towards here, followed by two stewards.

"Second uncle, my second brother and I will come and see, no matter how you say that this is also your own business, how can you bother with the second uncle." Chu Yiyao walked to Chu Duyuan's side, stood together, stretched out one hand behind him, pinched his waist, and said with a smile, "Second brother is asking you for something." ”

Chu Duyuan frowned, looked down at the warning in his sister's smile, and said, "Second uncle, what kind of goods are we unloading this batch, it seems that we have been going back and forth for several days. ”

"I said, why is this so familiar, Yiyao, don't fool your second uncle, why are you dressed like this." Chu Hanqin was stunned for a moment, and then said with a smile, Chu Yiyao saw him change the topic like this, stepped forward affectionately and grabbed him, and said coquettishly, "It's easy to wear like this, second uncle, now at the beginning of spring, Sister Manqiu said last time that the porcelain in Datong has arrived, why hasn't our family arrived yet?" ”

Chu Hanqin didn't expect her to ask this, the smile on his face almost couldn't be hung up, how could his nephew and niece, who never care about business on weekdays, come to the dock.

"Miss, the porcelain in Datong is too expensive, let's choose another place, and the boat will arrive in a few days." A steward behind Chu Hanqin replied for Chu Hanqin, Chu Yiyao snorted coldly in his heart, and asked suspiciously, "Why, the porcelain in Datong is beautiful, and it doesn't look good elsewhere, no one wants it, second uncle." ”

Chu Hanqin looked at Chu Yiyao, who was constantly coquettish, and was slightly embarrassed, in the past, the Chu family firm did want the same goods as the Qin family, but Datong's porcelain was expensive, and the price of this sale was not much if it was redeemed from it, Qiu Yue's porcelain and Datong's were much cheaper in price, even if it was a few more days of voyage, the profit in it was also more.

But for the trading house, there is also a risk of suddenly changing the goods that are bought and sold, this matter was originally discussed with Chu Duyuan and them, but he did not interfere in the affairs of the trading house, Chu Hanqin made his own decisions, and now that they asked, it was not easy to answer.