When Wang Jing and Wen's house are optimistic, repainted, and newly bought furniture, it has reached the summer level, and it is lukewarm at this time, which is suitable for moving.

The newly bought house of the Wang family is a three-entry quadrangle, Wang Weichuan and his wife live in the second courtyard, and Wang Jing lives in the third courtyard.

Because Haozhou is now moving the city to Xinglong, many local squires have begun to build houses for sale since last year, so the Wang family's house is not only in a good location, but also spacious in the house, and a more than 30-year-old osmanthus tree is planted in the yard.

When Liu Chengfang and his wife moved in at Wang's house, they brought Liu Yongan and Bao Ge'er to come once, and in order to reassure Zhang's family, Liu Yongan specially proposed to leave Shuangxi at Wang's house for Wang Jing's use.

"Big brother needs to study hard, when Sister Wen and Jingjing want to go out, you will follow, if there is a bullying of them who is not long-sighted, no matter who beats me to death first." He confessed to double happiness.

Zhang couldn't laugh or cry when he heard it, pointed at Liu Chengfang, and glared at his son fiercely.

Liu Yongan said confidently: "Jingjing's character, my mother must know better than me, she is not the master who loves to cause trouble, let alone Sister Wen, if someone bullies them, wouldn't they deliberately want our Liu family to lose face?" Such people don't beat them severely, but I'm afraid that people will think that we are afraid of things. ”

Liu Chengfang has a deep understanding of this.

In fact, ordinary people are very well managed, and it is easy to be satisfied with clothes and food. But those squires are different, if you are a little softer, he thinks that you have no authority, if you are a little harder, he will say that you are mean, and if you are a little looser, he will start to be lawless. Not to mention anything else, the Li family alone is the ultimate in lawlessness, fortunately it was his son who helped a lot on the side, otherwise this matter would not have ended in a word. If there is really a ruffian hooligan who doesn't have long eyes to bully Jingjing, he should indeed use his fists and disobey him!

So he didn't care about his son's bastard words today.

Thinking that if Wang Jing didn't spend the Mid-Autumn Festival with them this year, his wife would definitely be a little unaccustomed to it, so he simply said: "This year's harvest is good, the Zhao family, the Yuan family, the Xu family, and the Gu family all found me and said that they wanted to hold the Mid-Autumn Lantern Festival." I also mentioned it to Hou Ye Shen when I saw him last time, and he was more supportive, and told me that when the time came, he would come forward to invite Chuzhou to participate together, Dingyuan, Mingguang, and Huaiyuan...... They also promised to come, and the place was chosen on the river. It will definitely be very lively at that time, and you'd better not go back to Chuzhou in the near future, so as not to run in two places. ”

As soon as Wang Jing heard this, she understood that the squires were testing Liu Chengfang's attitude towards the Li family.

After all, most of the lanterns were made by Li Ji before this, and Li Ji, as a relative of the Liu family, used the name of the Liu family to make a fortune, not to mention, but also united with Su Zhenshan to frame the Liu prefect, and now everyone wants to take the opportunity of the Mid-Autumn Festival to grab the lantern business that the Li family used to be in charge of, and by the way, step on Li Ji to please the prefect. But they still don't know where Liu Chengfang's bottom line is in this matter, and they are still in the stage of throwing stones to ask for directions, if the Liu family sits idly by, then their hands can be stretched longer.

In fact, Liu Chengfang now has a resigned attitude towards the four families, and he doesn't plan to reach out to pull Li Ji, after all, the Li family's approach is too disappointing.

He is also avenging Wang Jing in disguise. Anyway, it's also a baby raised by his parents and eldest brother in his hands, what kind of thing is Li Ji! It's time for them to remember it for a long time.

Besides, such a grand lantern festival is unprecedented, as long as the news is released, I am afraid that many vendors will soon hear the news, and the biggest benefit of this is to promote the development of the local economy.

Wang Jing said: "I don't know how much each of the four families contributed?" ”

Liu Yongan said: "Those are all local rich people, less than five hundred taels are afraid that they will be embarrassed to take it out." ”

I want the horses to be good, and I want the horses not to eat grass, where can I find such a good thing?

Wang Jing said to Wen: "Sister, how much do we have?" ”

Wen said: "We run a small business, naturally we can't compare with the rich man, you and I will pay four hundred taels each." Then he commanded them to come out with a silver ticket.

Overnight, the news that Haozhou was going to hold a large-scale lantern festival spread everywhere like wings.

Liu Chengfang specially posted a notice outside the prefect's yamen to inform everyone of this incident, and recorded the eight hundred taels of silver donated by Wen.

Everyone understands that the prefect is only afraid that he intends to do this on purpose. And the families that were the first to stretch out their heads came out with a thousand taels of silver. In fact, they originally planned to only pay five hundred taels before, but they couldn't help but let the Wen family come out with eight hundred first, if the local bigwigs were not as many as Chuzhou, they would not be able to save face when they were talked about, after all, their ultimate goal was to use this matter to carve up the previous business in Li Ji's hands.

The rest of the families, seeing that they took the money out, naturally also paid out of their pockets, more or less, and each expressed their hearts.

After the eighth day of August, many vendors from nearby counties rushed over.

Fortunately, the Liu family did not sell much of the land to the south of Tongzi Academy, and it was trampled on so that it could not be planted into crops, Liu Chengfang discussed with Tongzhi Shi Fengxian, who had just taken office, "If there are traders from other places, they will all set up stalls on the vacant land south of the academy, so as not to crowd together with local merchants. ”

Shi Fengxian hurriedly said: "The lower official also thinks so, and immediately sent someone over to make arrangements." ”

Since the fall of Su Zhenshan, the squires and subordinates who were still dissatisfied with Liu Chengfang originally did not dare to compete with this prefect anymore. You must know that Su Zhenshan is a famous family in Jinling, and he is a jinshi, and he has been an official for ten years.

Shi Fengxian only took office this spring, and since he witnessed the fall of Su Zhenshan, he was respectful to Liu Chengfang, the top boss, but also a little more afraid and obedient. said that the two discussed, but in fact, Liu Chengfang said his thoughts, and Shi Feng implemented it first.

In fact, Shi Fengxian was still muttering in his heart when he ordered people to do this, and he didn't know if anyone would come, driving a few people to such a large piece of wasteland, let alone doing business, whether it could be opened or not was two different things, waiting to starve to death was almost the same.

Unexpectedly, after the tenth day of the first lunar month, many merchants who came from Jinling began to set up tents and live in that open space, and some of them even rented stoves from local residents to make their own fires.

Shi Fengxian had no choice, so he had to take people out with lime and draw a few lines, so that those merchants lined up, selling cloth, clothes, shoes and hats in one piece, selling handmade products and gadgets in one piece, dried fruits and fruits in one piece, and selling snacks on the outermost edge.

It's not that this one is particularly capable, but he came from the capital, and he has been walking the streets since he was a child, even if he hasn't done it himself, but he's seen others do it.

After he finished doing this, he secretly inquired again, and it turned out that not only Dingyuan, Huaiyuan, Mingguang, and Chuzhou had merchants coming from these nearby places, but also merchants from Lu'an, Xinyang, Jinling, Yangzhou, and Ningbo.

The goods of these merchants were all transported by ship, silk, tea, fine wine, porcelain...... There are also some tropical fruits such as longan, lychee, banana, mango, etc.

Wang Jing and Wen deliberately went to the river to see it once, and there were many big boats moored near and far, and people came and went on the dock, which was very lively.

The exciting Mid-Autumn Festival is just around the corner. (To be continued.) )