However, it was said that Yang Songjiahuan saved a woman halfway through, claiming to be a fugitive slave who had the intention of going to Taiwan to open up wasteland. Jia Huan said: "Now there are bandits everywhere, and this place is not close to Taiwan. Brother Yang, either you take her with you. Send your bodyguard money to pay you back the next year, she sold the food and returned you. ”

Yang Song also felt that it was a bit tricky. He knew that the Taiwan government had sincerely lured these people to go over to open up the wasteland, and it was very hesitant to let him leave this woman no matter what seemed wrong, and it was not a matter to take it with him. Jia Huan said again: "If you really don't want to take her, go to Nanchang and hand her over to Ma Xing." When will the horse dealer have a letter to deliver to her? ”

Zeng said: "Engong doesn't have to be embarrassed. I have walked all these journeys in peace. Jia Huan couldn't help but want to give this woman a thumbs up, the more she said this, the more inconvenient it was for Yang Song to leave her and run away.

Sure enough, Yang Song said: "I originally came from Taiwan to do business, and our Jia Governor is most looking forward to someone going over to open up the wasteland and farm." In that case, it would be better for you to go with me, and the road would be safer. ”

Jia Huan said to Zeng's family: "Taiwan's land is warm, you don't have to wait for spring, if you know how to do farm work, you can grow Western potatoes, it's easier." Besides, since you have been a maid in a large family for many years, do you want to have some skills in needlework? ”

Zeng couldn't help but smile and said: "It's not that the little girl is boasting, but few of the maids and daughters-in-law in the mansion can cover me." ”

Seeing that her eyes lit up, Jia Huan and Yang Song could see that this woman must have real kung fu, Jia Huan said: "In this case, it is better for you to go to the embroidery workshop to find a job." You don't have to farm the land, you can earn money to support yourself by relying on your craft. Nai pointed at Yang Song and said, "Remember to pay back his bodyguard's money in the future." ”

Yang Song said: "Don't mess around, just drop by." ”

Jia Huanyin asked, "Even if you take Miss Zeng with you, do you still go to Nanchang for a walk?" ”

Yang Song thought about it, if he brought a woman back, so that the three relatives and six neighbors would see a lot of gossip, so he said: "If I don't go, I will go back to Taiwan." ”

Zeng Shi hurriedly said: "Don't delay the benefactor's serious business." ”

Jia Huan smiled: "Only when he goes back can he have serious things to do." Yang Song glared.

So they parted hands here. Seeing that Yang Song had disappeared with Zeng's shadow, Jia Huan also led people forward. It didn't take long to meet Yang Erbo sitting on the stone at the fork in the road with a dry tobacco pouch in his mouth and waving, followed by a few people. He hurriedly jumped off his horse and asked with a smile, "This woman is red. Sister Sleeve picked? ”

Yang Erbo smiled and nodded: "Director Chen picked many talents to pick her. ”

Jia Huan then asked Zeng's true origin.

It turned out that she was a maid in the family of Huang Wengang, the governor of Fujian, and she used to serve his wife. Later, because Huang Siye married his daughter-in-law, the fourth grandmother gradually found out the people in the original house and sent them away, and the wife was not happy, so she sent two big maids around her to serve. Although she didn't say it explicitly, everyone knew that she wanted the fourth master to take the house. It's just that Zeng's son is honest, and the other one looks much stronger than her, and those around Huang Siye are all sharp and clawed, and it has never been her turn to close the house. Later, as soon as his wife fell ill and died, the Zeng family had no support and was not liked by the masters, and the wall fell down and everyone pushed it, and it fell into the hands of the old woman. The death of her tuberculosis husband and her desire to run away when she wanted to throw herself into the well were all true.

She begged for food all the way and fled to Taiwan, and when she was looking for someone to inquire about the direction on the way, she happened to meet Wu Xiaoxi to go to Fujian to do business. Xiaoxi glanced at the carriage a few times, guessed that it was a fugitive slave, and ordered someone to give her a dress and two hangings, and asked her to hire a car to go to the dock to find a ferry. She then crossed the sea peacefully, doing some needlework on one wall to plan food and clothing, and on the other wall she found a wasteland, which is being cleared these days. When she followed Mrs. Huang in her early years, Mrs. Huang loved elegance and taught the girls around her to read and write, and she also learned it. After reading the marriage notice in the "Chengtian Half Monthly", she sent a letter to the newspaper.

Red. Seeing that this woman was calm, not greedy or dry, and had seen wealth and experienced hardships, he recommended her. Yang Erbert looked at each other once, and was not satisfied with her poor background and appearance. Red. sleeve said: "A woman with a good background and good appearance will rarely look forward to her husband's warmth and consideration." Marrying Brother Yang is so incomprehensible, it was better at first, but after a long time, I am afraid that my mind will be uncertain. Yang Erbo immediately remembered Yang Heng's biological mother, so he agreed. Later, he said that he gave Zeng a lot of Yang Song's temperament, preferences, and habits, and Zeng was very hungry and thin, so he had a talent.

Jia Huan frowned when he heard this: "Today's set is Cong'er's idea, isn't it?" ”

"Not him?" Yang Erbo said, "Others don't have so many ghost ideas. ”

Jia Huan said: "If this Zeng family is not a very thoughtful person, and he leaks his mouth in the future, won't Brother Yang be unhappy?" ”

Yang Erbo's face sank: "He dares!" It was my old man's idea. ”

Jia Huan said: "I mean, even if this matter goes smoothly and is done, when he knows that this is a pit in the future, will he have a pimple in his heart about Zeng's heart." ”

Yang Erbo knocked the dry tobacco pouch: "It doesn't hurt." That day, I listened to Director Chen discuss with Cong'er, and Cong'er said that not everyone wants any love or love. My old man wants a nephew and daughter-in-law, and the big dog wants to marry a wife who doesn't look disgusted, so that her ears are pure, and this Zeng wants to live a stable life. It doesn't matter what you look like. Besides, when they become parents and raise babies, who cares about this? A husband and wife are still a hundred days. ”

Jia Huan was right when he thought about it, those two didn't ask for affection, just benefit each other. Then he said congratulations to Yang Erbo for a long time, and Yang Erbo led the people back to Taiwan Mansion with joy. Jia Huan went north to Luzhou.

On this day, I entered Luzhou City and saw that there were many business trips, which was quite gratifying. I found a pleasant inn and rented a small courtyard to live in, and went to the Bao Gong Ancestral Hall alone. At noon, I saw an elegant small restaurant next to the Bao Gong Ancestral Hall, so I went up to the secluded place on the second floor and picked a small table by the window to sit alone, ordered a few side dishes and a pot of wine. After a while, the shopkeeper came over to serve wine and food, and Jia Huan claimed that he was a businessman at home, and sent him out to check around, asking the shopkeeper how Luzhou had been in the past two years. The shopkeeper said that Luzhou was exempted from salt classes and sold salt in the old years, attracting many salt merchants, and he became much richer in the blink of an eye. Jia Cong couldn't help but nod and said with relief: "This little king is not bad. The shopkeeper inevitably paid more attention to his tone when he heard this, and secretly looked at him.

This restaurant is not big, and the tables are close to each other. At the next table, there was a wine customer in his fifties who looked like a scholar who was also pouring himself a drink, and when he heard it, he said, "According to this son, you approve of King Lu?" ”

"Naturally." Jia Huandao, "Seeing that Luzhou is prosperous, isn't it?" It can be seen that King Lu's strategy is excellent. ”

The drinker said, "It's just a trick." ”

Jia Huan smiled: "This is not called stealing and cheating, it is called ...... Well, I guess what's going to be called for a while. He thought about it sideways and said, "It is extremely rare to call the second crab eater, which can also be called the queen of daring." ”

The drinker couldn't help but be interested, and said, "If the son doesn't dislike it, how about coming over and sharing a table with the old man?" ”

Jia Huan was originally an easy-going person, and arched his hand: "Then bother." Then he called the shopkeeper to move all his wine and food to the wine table.

The two drank a glass of wine, and the drinker asked, "What did Gongzi just say about eating crabs, the old man has never heard of it, but are you willing to explain it more clearly?" ”

Jia Huan smiled: "It's just a story." I once heard that the ancients saw that crabs looked fierce and had hard shells, so they didn't dare to eat them; Later, there are curious and delicious people who catch and cook it first, and they are surprised by the deliciousness. A gentleman surnamed Zhou in Shaoxing once wrote an article praising the first person to eat crabs as a warrior and daring to be the first in the world. He took a bite of the dish and praised, "Don't look at this shop, the chef's skills are good." ”

The drinker said, "I love their red crispy crucian carp the most, I have already ordered it, and I will try it when I come back." ”

Jia Huan bowed his hand again and again: "Thank you, sir." Then he continued, "The exemption from the salt tax was originally the first in Heian Prefecture, and Lord Gaoli was the 'first person to eat crabs' in this matter." This is unprecedented, and no one knows whether it is good or bad, and there are those who wait and see the jokes. And after the exemption of the salt tax in Ping'an Prefecture, it is becoming more and more prosperous. King Lu is young, and when he sees that others have a good plan, he dares to follow him, and it is very rare for the kid to be brave and strategic, stable and moving. ”

The drinker said: "It's just that in this way, a huge amount of salt tax will be gone." Where can those officials endure the lack of money? It won't be long before you have to raise taxes from elsewhere to make up for it. ”

Jia Huan waved his hand and said, "Old man, it's the opposite." The kid dares to assert that the tax money of this Luzhou official is not less, but must be more. Nai said with a smile, "There are similarities between official tax collection and ordinary businessmen's trading. Gao Li and King Lu were exempted from salt classes, which is really a strategy of small profits and quick turnover. Sir thought about it and understood. ”

The drinker pondered for a moment, then slapped the table suddenly: "I see! I understand. ”

Jia Huan smiled: "But small profits but quick turnover, isn't it?" ”

The drinker immediately frowned and said: "The salt merchants in the north all go to Ping'an Prefecture, and the salt merchants in the south all come to Luzhou, isn't the business elsewhere weak, and will it annoy the prince next to it after a long time?" Luzhou is extremely small. ”

Jia Huan said: "It is inconvenient for the prince next to him to look for the king of Lu because of such a trivial matter, but the king of Lu is young." Besides, the first one is Ping'an Prefecture, and King Lu is just learning from him, and if he wants to move, he must first move Ping'an Prefecture; Ping'an Prefecture is not easy to mess with. These two thought of exempting the salt class, and other princes must have other methods, such as the king of Wu who was near the left, and he was spinning the yarn machine in Daxing. Wouldn't it be good for each family to have their own strengths? If the people are rich, the king will be rich, and if the king is rich, the country will be rich. Although the world is divided, it is still a peaceful and prosperous world, isn't it happy? ”

The drinker thought for a moment and nodded, "Childe is reasonable. In the two years since King Lu came, Luzhou's life has been better than before. ”

Jia Huan said: "That's it. Ordinary people are the most realistic, and the prince who can make everyone live a good life is a good prince, regardless of his age. ”

Coincidentally, this time, the red crispy crucian carp was served. Jia Huan tasted a lot of praise, and even said that there was no other in the world! The two of them stopped talking about serious things, and ate wine and food on one wall and chatted with the other. Until they finished eating, the two of them paid their own bills and left, without reporting their names and surnames. Jia Huante rewarded the cook who made the red crispy crucian carp with ten taels of silver.

The next day, Jia Huan was still wandering around the city. It's not that he wants to understand the people's feelings, but he can't think of a suitable way to ask to see Princess Jian'an, and second, he doesn't know what to say when he meets people. What kind of "my money is in your charge" Jia Yu's old face also hinted in circles, and he became more and more unspeakable as a young man. At noon, I remembered the red crispy crucian carp, so I went to the small restaurant yesterday and ordered another plate. Yesterday, because it was someone else's fish, he was embarrassed to eat more. There is no one to divide it today, and Jia Huan has a good time.

He then went shopping in Luzhou for a few more days. On the fifth day, Jia Huan went to eat fish again, and a gentleman in his thirties came to him with a smile and asked him if he could eat and drink together.

Jia Huan glanced around, and said inexplicably: "It's still early, and there are a lot of empty tables." Why does the gentleman want to share a table with the late students? ”

The gentleman made a gesture: "Mr. Zhao, the one who was at the same table with Mr. Zhao a few days ago is the father of the next." ”

"Oh, the old gentleman." Jia Huan was still inexplicable, "Thank you for recommending the red crispy crucian carp in this store." Then he glanced at him sideways, "I haven't shared my name with Ling Zun, how does Mr. know that my surname is Zhao?" ”

The gentleman made another gesture: "I hope that Mr. will stop being strange and listen to the detailed discussion below." Jia Huan had no choice but to let him sit down.

It turned out that this person's surname was Fan Mingcheng, and he was a staff member of King Lu. That day, his father, Lao Fan, had a meal with Jia Huan, and went back to tell Fan Cheng about it casually. Fan Cheng immediately felt that this son was talented and kind to King Lu, so he came to ask the shopkeeper of this restaurant, and knew that he liked this red crispy crucian carp, so he waited in the store. The next day, when he arrived at Jia Huan, he followed him back to the inn, only to know that his name was Zhao San. In the first few days, he secretly asked people to follow him around Luzhou, thinking that he had the heart to choose the master and come to Luzhou to visit.

Jia Huan was dumbfounded when he heard this, and said with a smile: "I haven't even taken the test yet." ”

Fan Cheng said: "In today's world, who cares if he shows off his talents!" Our prince is a meritocracy. ”

Jia Huan said: "How old is he?" It's just a child. ”

Fan Cheng said: "Although my lord is young, he is very intelligent, and it is his intention to exempt the salt class. ”

"Oh?" Jia Huan couldn't help but feel a little proud, "He actually has this vision?" ”

Fan Cheng was also a little proud: "Sir, don't underestimate my master." At that time, our Zeng adults were still hesitant, but it was the prince who made a decision. Besides," he said in a low voice, "in the old years in Beijing, Jia Huante, one of the three Jiajia of Rongguo Mansion, led our prince to observe the people's situation in Beijing, and it was obvious that he also looked down on him. ”

Jia Huan smiled and said, "I have also heard about this. ”

Fan said sincerely: "Zhao Gongzi, our prince is really a rare master. ”

Jia Huanai arched his hand and said: "Brother Fan, it's really not a secret, the kid is only sixteen years old this year, but when he goes out for a walk, he has no intention of choosing a master." Fan Cheng was a little disappointed. Jia Huan also said, "King Lu is really lucky to have a staff like Mr. Fan, and when he heard about someone who might have the ability, he immediately contacted him for him." ”

Fan Cheng smiled bitterly: "Zhao Gongzi, I, Fan, am mediocre in my studies, and I know it in my heart." There is no way to repay the favor of the prince, so he has the heart to seek talent for the Lord. Presumptuous. Then he stood up and made a gesture to leave.

How could Jia Huan let him go like this? I'm worried that I can't catch up with the Yue family. Hurriedly smiled and said: "Brother Fan is the same as Ling Zun. Since you meet and have a fate, why not drink a glass of wine and have a light meal. How about a late-born treat? It should only be a red crispy crucian carp recommended by the thank you Ling. ”

Fan Cheng suddenly felt that things had taken a turn for the better, and he was overjoyed, and said: "In this case, it is better to be respectful than to obey your fate!" ”

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