Let's say that Zhou Xu'an received a folding fan made by Chunyu himself, and he loved it very much, and he couldn't wait to hang it on his body every day.

So after seeing Zhu Zhan, it attracted his strong attention. This fan is also compared with the most ordinary look of the fan shop in the capital, he just doesn't understand why this is already a friend of the first emperor merchant in the sky, why he cherishes it so much.

"This is what my future lady did herself." Zhou Xu'an replied like this, which aroused Zhu Zhan's curiosity, and asked how his future siblings were...... Zhou Xu'an just smiled and didn't speak, which made Zhu Zhan want to know more and more.

But this is just a focus on friends, and there is no other idea. Although he is the king of the county, his status is not high, and there are hidden dangers of high energy. In the early years, in addition to wanting to do business with Zhou Xu'an and maintaining the expenses of his Anyang Palace, he also took a fancy to the Zhou family's deep rhyme network.

The Zhou family actually has a big background, which is unknown to outsiders. At the beginning, the ancestors of the Zhou family did a lot of business, but they were still ordinary businessmen, and later inadvertently took the chief steward of the Yan Palace, and began to have business dealings with the palace. His imperial grandfather, Zhu Di, who was still the king of Yan at the time, had already begun to prepare for the Jingyan Incident, and urgently needed a large amount of money to secretly recruit troops. The chief steward who was familiar with the Zhou family inadvertently revealed that King Yan needed silver, a large amount of silver. The ancestor of the Zhou family is also an extremely smart person, and after a little deduction, he can understand the turbulent undercurrent. It is also a reason to recognize a wealth and danger, so he took the opportunity to offer most of the family's property to King Yan, and this kind of courage is unparalleled. And King Yan thanked him for his contribution, so he accepted the daughter of the Zhou family as a concubine, and later gave birth to a small county lord for him. It's a pity that the daughter of the Zhou family died soon after, and the poor little county lord who was less than a few months old had just lost his mother, and his father had no time to take care of her for big things, and he didn't even name her. Fortunately, another concubine of the Yan family, who was good with the daughter of the Zhou family, raised her temporarily, Liu's maiden family was originally from the Song Dynasty to the aristocratic family of Hedong Liu, and later the Song Dynasty died and then changed in the early Ming Dynasty, the former Hedong Liu family gradually declined, although Taizu did not vigorously rectify these nobles after taking the throne, and also retained their titles, but it is a little unworthy of the name. After the decline, the Liu family moved to Miyun, Danzhou, and it was there that the Liu family met King Yan and entered the Yan Palace. In the ninth year of Hongwu, Taizu gave marriage to King Yan, and promised the eldest daughter of Xu Dachang, the founder of the country, as Princess Yan, that is, the future Queen Xu, and the Liu family was very adjusted, so he became good friends with the later Zhou family. Later, when Zhou died, she got the consent of Queen Xu, and she raised the little county lord in her own yard, and carefully cared for the little county lord to grow up healthily. And the Zhou family was grateful to the Liu family and wanted to be friendly with them, so they married another daughter into the Liu family. After the two families got married, they had a very good relationship. It's just that it wasn't until the little county lord was ten years old that Liu fell seriously ill. The little county lord was raised by Queen Xu to her name, and her eldest daughter Zhu Yuying, who was eleven years old at the time, was companion, and named her Zhu Yuxiang. At this time, King Yan staged a coup d'état and seized the throne, inherited the unification and became the ancestor of Ming Chengzu. And Concubine Xu was promoted to queen, Zhu Yuying was named Princess Yong'an, and Zhu Yuxiang was named Princess Yongping.

The Zhou family was also rising at this time and was named a first-class imperial merchant by Chengzu, but the granddaughter of Princess Yongping was unrecognizable, because she was already the granddaughter of Xu Guogong. However, this is only on the surface, and the secret blood relationship still makes Princess Yongping, who later knew the truth, very good to the Zhou family. It's a pity that she later married Li Rang, the guest of honor of the Yan King's Mansion who ruined his family for the sake of King Yan's great achievements, but unfortunately Li Rang died not long after his happy life. And when Renzong ascended the throne, Princess Yongping and her son Li Maofang were framed for treason and demoted. Later, Li Maofang and Princess Yongping died before and after, and it was not until the first year of Tianshun that the edict was given to Li Maofang's son Earl Li Yu, and after Li Yu's death, in the Chenghua period, Li Qin, the son of Li Yu, was awarded as the commander of Changlingwei...... But this is all for later, in short, Princess Yongping's life can be described as extremely desolate, and her sister Princess Yongan is completely incomparable.

However, this did not affect the Zhou family, Zhou Baida was only an imperial businessman who was ordered to do business at the beginning, and he did not have the thoughts and courage of the ancestors, and the borrowing power of the ancestors was completely useless. But when he came to Zhou Xu'an, it was very different, he couldn't help but be very business-minded, and he actively encircled the connections created by the ancestors of the Zhou family. And the better thing is that Zhou Xu'an's maternal uncle Liu Zheng has returned from the frontier and has changed from a small soldier to a general. The Liu family, which had already declined, still stayed in Miyun in a low-key manner and did not move to the capital, but the status of the Liu family has undergone subtle changes. These others don't know, but they can't be covered up in the aristocratic circle in the capital, so Zhou Xu'an can eat well in the capital also has this factor......

And this time Zhou Xu'an wanted to move the Zhou family to the capital for a reason, in the early years, the ancestors of the Zhou family were in Beijing, and later during the Jingjing period, the capital was turbulent, so he went to Moshan. It belongs to the Yanshan branch and the Miyun border, so now it can be regarded as returning to the homeland.

And Zhou Xu'an had already placed a four-entry mansion at Guangqumen, the most prosperous Dongcheng in the outer city of Beijing, in order to accommodate the Zhou family. Although these four courtyards are indeed a little inferior to the magnificent mansion of Zhou Mansion in Moshan, it is very rare in this capital with thousands of dollars. There are also a lot of rockeries, fish ponds, gardens, and lake pavilions in the yard, but they are just a little more streamlined. And here is adjacent to the inner city, out of the door is not a few steps into the inner city of Zhengyang Gate, is very convenient. But if you want to live in the inner city, it is not easy, after all, the inner city is the residence of the royal family and nobles and ministers of the court, even some other ordinary people are also some old people of Yanwangfu or original city residents. Zhou Xu'an's uncle Liu Zheng has a mansion in the city, and he is still late in getting married, so he has only one son, and Liu Ya is only ten years old. After Zhou Mengya came to the capital first, she was also taken by her uncle Guo Liu to appear in the aristocratic circle of the capital, wanting her to integrate into this circle faster. It's a pity that the women here have more complicated thoughts, and Zhou Mengya doesn't like them very much, and she misses chatting with Chunyu when she was in Moshan. Thinking of this, Zhou Mengya also can't wait for her eldest brother to marry Chunyu back as a sister-in-law now, so that she can have a good companion. Of course, Zhou Xu'an was also trying to make Chunyu feel at ease to accept him earlier, and followed him to the capital. He knew he was a little selfish like this, but he wouldn't let her go anyway.

Of course, she didn't know about this qiē spring rain, she was now lying on the grapevines in the yard, and her fourth uncle made a recliner according to what she said, holding a fan and gently shaking it, and drinking the cool and sweet mung bean soup, it was really a pleasant time.