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The ancestor of the Zhou family was a businessman, and when he arrived at Zhou Dingxing's father's generation, there were only three or two shops in the family, but the old lady Zhou paid attention to education and cultivated Zhou Dingxing to take the road of the imperial examination. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Compared with the eldest son's intelligence and aura in the imperial examination, Zhou Dingwen is a little dull, since the eldest son has taken the road of the imperial examination, the family's business, Mrs. Zhou handed it over to the second son.

But I don't want Zhou Dingwen to have some way of doing business, the three shops of the Zhou family expanded very quickly in his hands, and later with Zhou Dingxing becoming an official, the Zhou family has a backstage, and Zhou Dingwen will do business more prosperously, and it will become bigger and bigger

And he entered the official career after Zhou Dingwen entered the cabinet. The foundation of the Zhou family was shallow, and Zhou Dingxing's son Zhou Jiangyan was not used at that time, and Zhou Dingxing had no one to help him in the officialdom, which was very difficult. Then he supported Zhou Dingwen to also go to the imperial examination, although he was the same jinshi, but in the end he entered the six departments and arranged them in the household department.

Zhou Dingwen is good at the way of economy, and he is like a fish in water in the household department in charge of money and grain, and he has the ability, coupled with Zhou Dingxing's support, he has achieved the position of a waiter in a few years.

However, over the years, although Zhou Dingwen has slowly delegated the business of the Zhou family to his children and nephews, he still goes to the shop to wait and see when he is resting.

He has been in a mess these days, and it is easy to get a break from the day, and he still inspects several big shops of the Zhou family. Coming out of the Zhou Ji Herb Shop, he turned over and got on his horse and wandered around the street a little aimlessly.

Zhou Ji medicinal herb shop in the south of the city near the city god temple place, but today is just the day of the city god temple fair, the street is bustling, the roadside is full of all kinds of stalls, shouting constantly, there is no lack of customers and merchants from the south to the north to communicate with each other.

Zhou Dingwen was riding on a horse, and unconsciously walked here, seeing that the road ahead was difficult, and was about to turn around, when suddenly a familiar and unfamiliar face broke into his eyes.

His heart skipped a beat, and he stared intently.

I saw that the man in the brocade shirt was in front of a stall selling spices, bargaining with the seller, his side face was facing this side, he looked more than half a hundred years old, but he could recognize the facial features even if they turned to ashes, it was Liu Shuncai, the fugitive slave of the Zhou family!

On the day his strong brother went missing, he was the last Liu Shuncai to follow, and afterwards, Liu Shuncai also disappeared.

Zhou Dingwen's face changed greatly, he jumped off the horse and rushed over, but just when he was still a few steps away from being able to catch Liu Shuncai, Liu Shuncai actually found him, looked stunned for a moment, and then he threw two sachets to stop him, turned around and ran.

Zhou Dingwen chased after him, but there were too many people, and in the end, Liu Shuncai disappeared into the vast sea of people.

Zhou Dingwen's face was ugly, and he hurriedly ordered a few henchmen to go to track down and search, he expected that Liu Shuncai must not have been in the capital all these years, and this time he entered Beijing mostly because he thought that things had passed for so long, and the Zhou family must no longer be looking for him, so he dared to appear in the capital rampantly.

Now that he has been discovered, the Zhou family is powerful, and he is afraid, it must be instinct to flee the capital, so he ordered his henchmen to keep an eye on a few ways out of Beijing, and sure enough, in the early morning of the second day, Liu Shuncai and his little servant were arrested.

Zhou Dingwen got the news and didn't let Liu Shuncai take him to Zhou's house, but met Liu Shuncai in a quiet courtyard in the south of the city.

Liu Shuncai knelt on the ground and shouted for mercy, Zhou Dingwen kicked him away, and asked with red eyes: "Say!" What the hell was going on back then?! Where's Brother Qiang?! ”

"The sin slave doesn't know, the second master spares his life, the sin slave finally followed the little master, the little master wants to eat candy man, the sin slave turns around and gives a copper plate kung fu, the little master is gone, and the sin slave can't be found. I knew that after I returned, I would not be able to live, and the slave of sin would ...... I fled, little master, I really don't know where the slave is. ”

Liu Shuncai's face turned pale with fright, and he kowtowed again and again.

Zhou Dingwen keenly noticed that Liu Shuncai's eyes were evasive, and he was obviously not telling the truth.

He ordered the two henchmen to come forward and punch and kick, and after a period of torture, Liu Shuncai finally couldn't stand it, and finally spat out: "The sin slave really doesn't know...... I don't know, the second master went to ask the eldest master

。 ”

Zhou Dingwen's pupils shrank suddenly, raised his hand to stop the two little guys, suddenly got up, walked closer, picked up Liu Shuncai, and said, "What did you just say?" ”

Liu Shuncai's face was swollen, his expression was slightly panicked, and he said: "The sin slave didn't say anything, what the sin slave means is that the eldest master is now powerful, and the second master should go and beg the eldest master, and the eldest master is willing to let the yamen from all over the country help find people, maybe the little young master will find it, after all, the little young master has a birthmark, and there must not be a second person with such a birthmark." ”

Zhou Dingwen saw that he obviously began to hide it again, threw Liu Shuncai to the ground, and shouted, "Waste one of his legs!" ”

The little guy picked up the long knife and went on, Liu Shuncai was so frightened that he peed his pants and shouted loudly: "It's the big man!" It was the old man who asked the sin slave to take the little young master away from the crowd, and the old man told the sin slave to put the little young master down and not to worry about anything else, the sin slave put the little master down at that time, and sure enough, a man soon left with the little young master in his arms. The sin slave didn't know that he had sent the little master there. ”

When Zhou Dingwen heard such a truth, he immediately swayed back and forth a few times, then took two steps back, and sat down on the chair.

His expression was dejected, and suddenly he let out a strange laugh that mocked and cried.

Sure enough, he was right.

That dead assassin, he is his son Brother Qiang!

The truth about Brother Qiang's loss back then turned out to be like this! turned out to be his good eldest brother, took Brother Qiang away, handed it over to Wu Guogong, trained him to be a dead soldier, and raised them to shed blood and die!

At that time, Brother Qiang was less than four years old, how could he be so vicious!

If Zhou Dingxing's purpose is to do this, it is too easy to think.

He has no son, and the money he earns is willing to pave the way for the career development of his eldest brother, and he doesn't care about the money, who makes him have no successor. Later, he succeeded the son of Changfang, and he was even more grateful to his eldest brother, and he listened to his eldest brother's arrangements for everything over the years.

But when he stepped into his nephew, his nephews were seven or eight years old, and he had a close relationship with his parents, so because of this, for so many years, the Zhou family has not been separated, he has always been the eldest brother's most powerful right-hand man, the eldest brother points to the east, and he will never go west.

Because he and his eldest brother have sons in common! If his strong brother is here, Zhou Dingwen knows that he will never become the eldest brother's money bag like now, selfless, for Zhou Dingxing's use!

But he has already used it like this, why did Zhou Dingxing still drive his son so ruthlessly to be a dead soldier and do such a terrible thing, and finally killed his strong brother without mercy and without hesitation!

The hatred in Zhou Dingwen's heart was like a tide, surging against his heart, his eyes were filled with crazy revenge, his fists were clenched, and three words were squeezed out from between his teeth, "Good big brother!" ”

He raised his hand to cover his hot and damp eyes, got up and turned his head to go into the house, but just ordered the little guy to guard Liu Shuncai and his little guy, and then interrogate Liu Shuncai's whereabouts over the years.

More than ten days later, the little guy verified Liu Shuncai's confession, and reported to Zhou Dingwenyu: "Liu Shuncai fled directly from the capital at that time, thinking that there was no road guide and household registration, so he bought off a troupe that went south and north, and fled all the way to Huzhou. After stealing chickens and dogs for a year, he dared to take out the silver given by the eldest master to start a small business, and later married a wife and concubine, but he probably did too much due to lack of virtue, and God couldn't stand it, so he never had any more children, and it was considered a dead end. This time he came to the capital to buy spices, because there was a spice shop, blocking the financial road of his spice shop, he felt that only by getting more good goods from the capital could he come back to life

。 ”

Zhou Dingwen also suspected that it had been more than 20 years, and there was no news at all.

He also suspected that someone had done a good job and was waiting for him to drill it, but now that he heard the return of the little guy, Zhou Dingwen was sure.

The traces of a person's twenty years of life cannot be easily fabricated and tampered with, it seems that God is indeed helping him, and he can't bear to be kept in the dark.

Zhou Dingwen naturally couldn't think of it, and he couldn't find out the problem, it was because all the information given by the fake Liu Shuncai was the real Liu Shuncai's news, so that there was a truth in the false, and the truth was mixed in the false, plus Zhou Dingwen's own various conjectures, he was not allowed to believe it at all.

Zhou Dingwen has now fallen into the guilt of his son and the resentment of his brother, and his mind is not so sober and calm.

"Second master, although my subordinates haven't found anything wrong, it's such a coincidence...... Second master, do you want to take Liu Shuncai to confront the eldest master? Seeing Zhou Dingwen's face change, the little guy couldn't help but speak.

Zhou Dingwen said: "I know that you think that you just happened to bump into Liu Shuncai who entered Beijing, this matter is too coincidental, but if it was really arranged by someone with a heart, what did Liu Shuncai do at that time and escape?" Later, if it weren't for the fact that Ye had asked you to keep an eye on the official road outside the city, I almost let him run away! What's more, there will never be another person in the world who will have such a peculiar birthmark as my son! ”

Zhou Dingwen was already convinced of this matter, and now he was bent on revenge, so how could he bring Liu Shuncai to confront Zhou Dingxing?

Zhou Dingxing is so ruthless and cruel, and his authority is heavy, and he has a confrontation, not only can he not avenge his son, but he will also send himself into the tiger's mouth!

Squinting his eyes, Zhou Dingwen repeatedly explained that the little guy was not allowed to divulge the matter, which made him retreat and plan how to take revenge.

Honglu Temple, Gu Qingwan's lower abdomen has been slightly convex these days, his waist is thickened twice, and his former clothes have been left in Prince Li's mansion. Zhuang Yuexian bought some winter clothes for Gu Qingwan in advance, but she didn't know that Gu Qingwan was pregnant at the time, so they were all made according to the previous size, but now they can't be worn.

These days, the maidservants of Honglu Temple have been making new clothes for Gu Qingwan, but Dayan is thousands of miles away from Daqin, and there are only a few maidservants brought by the mission, so they are doing it very slowly.

Gu Xianzhen was a little more free this day, so he proposed to take Gu Qingwan and Zhuang Yuexian to the clothes shop to make a few more sets of clothes.

Gu Qingwan was still apprehensive about the last time she met Qin Yu, and after hesitating, she said: "It's still the eldest brother who asked people to send my size to the ready-to-wear shop, so that the embroidery girls can do it at will, and it doesn't have to be so troublesome." ”

Zhuang Yuexian saw that she refused to go, so she also smiled and said: "My clothes are changed to be bigger and I wear them, and I also gave the size to make them slowly, it is not a few days before the New Year, and there are many people everywhere outside, and my sister and I are two pregnant women, so I won't squeeze this excitement." ”

Gu Xianzhen disagreed, and said: "With me protecting you, there will be no accidents, my sister is also very tired of teaching the disguise technique these days, it is always good to go out for a walk and relax, not to mention, the girl of the Shen family arrived in Dayan, but she didn't go out once, even if there is a strange illness, this is not reasonable." It's suspicious. ”

Zhuang Yuexian looked at Gu Qingwan when she heard this, Gu Qingwan also smiled and got up, and said, "Okay, okay, listen to the eldest brother." ”

After two sticks of incense, Gu Qingwan covered up her makeup for herself and Zhuang Yuexian, and each put on a hat and boarded the carriage and went out.

The best clothing shop in the capital of Great Qin is the Golden Thread Building, Gu Qingwan is now the sister of Shen Shen, the general of the Yan Kingdom, if you want to make clothes, you naturally have to go to the Golden Thread Tower, otherwise wouldn't it be strange?

Therefore, even if he knew that the Golden Thread Building was the property of Prince Li's Mansion, the carriage still slowly went to the Golden Thread Building, and there were four days before the New Year, and the streets were full of people who were busy purchasing New Year's goods

The carriage walked slowly, and when they arrived at the Golden Thread Building, the two tidied up each other, and then pushed the car door and walked out.

The decorations on the carriage and the clothes of the subordinates who accompanied him were obviously different from ordinary Great Qin people, and Gu Xianzhen also had a mask on his face, so he had already alarmed the shopkeeper of Jinxiao Building.

He personally greeted him and said with a smile: "Guests from Dayan, please go inside, a private room has been prepared for Miss Shen and Mrs. Shen." ”

Entering the private room, Zhuang Yuexian took off the curtain on her head, but Gu Qingwan still hung it, and the embroidery girls who came in to serve also heard that she had a strange illness, so it was not surprising that they didn't look at her out of respect for the guests.

Gu Qingwan and Zhuang Yuexian selected the fabric, the color and style, and successfully measured their bodies. Gu Xianzhen paid the silver, paid an extra two percent, let him be in a hurry, and sent it to Honglu Temple as soon as possible, and the group went out of the private room.

Who knew that as soon as he came out, he met Prince Li and Duchess Xiao Shi, with Xu Yubing and Xu Yuxue standing at the end of the corridor, it seemed that Prince Li Princess should have just come and wanted to go upstairs, and Xiao Shi was leaving with his daughter, so he happened to meet at the entrance of the corridor and was making greetings.

Gu Xianzhen's gaze fell on Xiao Shi, and he squinted slightly, his eyes were quite cold, so that the aura on his body changed slightly.

When Gu Qingwan saw that Prince and Princess Li were there, she immediately paused, and she couldn't cry or laugh. She found that she really had some fate with Prince Li's Mansion, how could she go out and either bump into Qin Yu or run into Prince Li's Princess.

However, the Golden Thread Building is the property of the palace, and it is not surprising that Prince Li and Princess Li appeared here at this time.

Zhuang Yuexian also saw the two of them, and she was even more keenly aware of Gu Xianzhen's emotional changes, she couldn't help but quietly shake Gu Xianzhen's hand with one hand, and patted Gu Qingwan's arm slightly with the other.

At that time, Xiao Shi was greeting Prince Li and Princess Li, and suddenly felt like a mang on her back, and her whole body was cold, she shivered inexplicably, and turned her head to look here.

Of course, he couldn't go back to the private room now, Gu Xianzhen was already in front of him, walking towards the staircase, which was the direction where the Xiao family and the two were located.

Gu Qingwan and Zhuang Yuexian also stepped forward to follow, and when they got closer, Gu Xianzhen didn't pay attention to the Xiao family, but only nodded slightly at the princess, and the cold temperament was so cold that people who could oppress could not breathe.

Xiao Shi unconsciously took two steps back, and his two women, probably hearing the name of Shen Shenke's wife, turned a little pale, and shrank behind Xiao Shi without daring to raise their heads.

Gu Qingwan followed the princess of Chongli to bless her body, she was going to pass by by mistake, but she didn't want to give a li, but she smiled at Gu Qingwan and said: "I heard that the second girl Shen also came to my Daqin, and today General Shen is accompanying his sister to make clothes, right?" Can you choose the right clothing style? ”

Da Yan and Da Qin have never been brothers, and there is no need for Prince Li to greet Shen Shen's sister politely, but I don't know why the girl in front of her makes her feel a little familiar, probably because her body shape is somewhat similar to Gu Qingwan, so she feels close, Princess Li thought.

Gu Qing's late days were very plump, and now the weather is much colder, she is dressed tightly, and she is wearing a fur cloak, and the princess of Li has never recognized it. But the voice doesn't deceive, Gu Xianzhen's footsteps couldn't help but pause, and even the five fingers of Zhuang Yuexian's arm holding Gu Qingwan couldn't help but press hard, revealing full of nervousness.