Chen Hong listened to his nephew's words, and felt uneasy, but seeing that Lou Yun was satisfied, he got up and sent off the guest with a smile, and comforted Chen Wenchang cordially, telling him that the marriage between Chen Ji and the two families had nothing to do with Wang Gangshou, and he didn't need to worry too much.

Chen Wenchang sincerely apologized, saying that because he was accustomed to living a quiet life in the academy, he had the intention of retreating when he encountered troublesome things that required labor, and he really read poetry books in vain.

Seeing them coming and going, polite and polite, Chen Hong was worried in his heart, and was about to send his nephew away and then go back to Lou Yun to discuss the matter of the Ji family's ship, but he didn't expect his Wenchang nephew to walk to the door for a moment, turned his head again, and said with a slight hesitation:

"My lord, there is another matter, and the students don't know if it is related to the state affairs of adults." Although Lou Yun did not hope that this Chen Wenchang could be as scheming and daring as Chen Hong, after these two exchanges, he also understood that he was a smart person with his own opinions, so he asked him to listen to Chen Wenchang even though he said it directly:

"The student heard the master of Foguang Temple mention that this Ji Niangzi's parents died, and she was raised by the old Song monk in the ancient temple, like her parents, so the student thought that in the letter written in the past, he should greet the senior monk one or two, which is the proper number of courtesies, but in the reply letter of the Ji Niangzi, she lamented that the old Song monk's health was deteriorating, and she couldn't even read the letter she wrote to him......"

"--Thank you, Gongzi Wenchang."

Lou Yun's heart moved, and he understood the hint in his words that the female owner and the monk Kongming had a lot of correspondence, and couldn't help but sigh that this Ji clan didn't know if it was too good luck or too bad to bump into such a character as Chen Wenchang.

In his heart, he originally stopped in front of Chen Wenchang's house, but it actually caused the slightest remorse that he was willing to ask for a kiss, and he faded away for a while.

Compared to Wang Shiqiang. Chen Wenchang should be a good husband in any case.

- He can be regarded as having taken and returned.

He sent Chen Wenchang away with a smile, and then glanced at Lou Da, who had heard from beginning to end but was still confused, and sighed:

"Look at the behavior of others, and understand in my heart that there is only a pretense of confusion outside-" Although Chen Wenchang did not attend the state banquet and had been studying behind closed doors in the room, he should have heard the muskets on the ship. I understand that his envoy has been prepared for the danger of this mission. also changed the idea of "a gentleman does not stand under a dangerous wall", and planned to advance and retreat with him.

Anyway, the sky is falling, and there is a cloud on top of him.

And this person's mind is also considerate and delicate enough. is not famous, but he is willing to spend time and effort to care for his wife's room, even if it is not enough for a woman to fall in love at first sight, but his wife's room is after starting a family. I'm afraid that the more I get along, the more I will feel that this marriage is a big luck and I have picked up a living treasure.

"Your Excellency—"

Chen Hong kicked out his nephew. Accompanied Xiao back to the room, Lou Yun looked back at him, and didn't wait for him to speak, but said:

"You don't need to worry about your nephew not being able to control the Ji clan. As long as Ji agrees to marry him, he treats each other with courtesy and cares in everything. She is a stone man and will be warmed by him, you only think she is the daughter-in-law of your Chen family. With her helping you, why worry about not being able to compete with Wang Shiqiang in the East China Sea in the future? ”

Chen Hong didn't value this nephew a lot, so he would take him to the East China Sea to fight for the future of the Chen family, but he didn't dare to be as confident as Lou Yun.

He is not a young offspring like Lou Yun and Chen Wenchang who have never married, never married a wife, and never raised a concubine, but he is very clear:

No matter how adulterous and passionate you are before marriage, how polite and courteous, when you are entangled in a bunch of family affairs, trivial matters and troubles after marriage, looking at the wife at home is a broom star, if the man in charge of the family does not marry a few delicate concubines to comfort and comfort himself, life will simply not go on.

But marrying a concubine is not over, the wife and concubine, the concubine, the concubine and the concubine have not had a peaceful life since then, not to mention that this big family is all pointing at you, so that if you dare to marry and dare to give birth, you have to arrange one for them, two is two, otherwise they all dare to complain about you.

His Wenchang nephew is a rare smart person, what he wants is to live a peaceful and stable life, but if he really wants to marry and give birth to children with that Ji's family, who can say for sure?

The night before this trip to the sea, he was so angry that he was about to vomit blood by the most favored third son, and people were shouting to die or live to go to Foguang Temple to become a monk, and scolded him for being unfilial, and he cried louder than his voice.

Only said that he was not willing to give birth to himself, it was all Lao Tzu Niang in order to pass on the ancestry, he couldn't bear the loneliness and threw him into this world to suffer the sin, he now figured it out, he wanted him to wipe his neck with a knife and return his life to Lao Tzu Niang, he was also afraid of bloody scare, and he wanted to complain about Lao Tzu Niang at home, that is not something he can do, he will go to the temple tomorrow to shave his ......

Compared with this bastard son, Chen Wenchang returned the blind date portrait halfway, but now he still recognizes the reality and continues to ask for marriage, which is simply the most sensible child among the children and grandchildren of the later generation of the Chen family.

If he wants to be able to marry the Ji family, he doesn't mention it himself, the business of Bazhen Zhai can be reopened immediately, and the cousin's room can be revived in the future, and those who gnaw on the wife's dowry in their second room, the eldest son is a wreck, and the eldest daughter-in-law is a gas bag who can't give birth to a son, and other messy things can be solved with one brain.

He can also take the Ji family and quietly be his teacher.

I just hope that the Ji family also understands a little bit of women's virtues, marrying a chicken from a chicken, marrying a dog from a dog, don't toss any bullshit Northern Expedition like Wang Shiqiang, and live this quiet little life with his nephew in Quanzhou City with peace of mind......

"Yes, the lord praised him, but he just mentioned that the old monk was seriously ill, what ......did he mean by that?"

Chen Hong swallowed the bitter tears of the family in his stomach, and he had to accompany Xiao to ask, Lou Yun also knew that it was not easy for him to ask at home, and when he asked, he glanced at Lou Da and said:

"Tell Chen Gangshou about the news from the Quanzhou monks in the Zhuma Temple."

Lou Nature obeyed the order, and talked in detail about what the monks sent by Foguang Temple in the past two years have seen and heard.

In the name of searching for the original Sanskrit Buddhist scriptures, they went to Zhuma Temple two years ago as early as half a year ago, and met the old monk Kongming, and it took some time to learn about the relationship between the Ji family and Kongming.

Over the years, she would go back to the temple every month after going down the mountain, and later for unknown reasons, she was alienated by the old monk, so she wrote to the temple every month to greet her.

-- Presumably, Chen Wenchang also guessed from her reply that she often wrote to the old monk.

Because the old monk has his own personal disciples in the Zhuma Temple, and he is also a monk official in the temple, the traveling monks can't find more news from the old monk's mouth, but they can see the clues from the interaction between his personal disciples and the Na Ji clan:

The old monk supported her to gather the people and work together to build the Tang Fang, and was also happy that she still had this great wish after leaving Buddhism, but he didn't like her to make money with crooked ideas, so he gave her the name of "Huikong".

Na Ji wrote letters every month, except for copying a few pages of Buddhist scriptures for her disciples to pass on, saying that she did not dare to forget the kindness of the old monk, and the rest of the letters were all about her life and business under the mountain.

The Quanzhou monk once saw with his own eyes, just looking at the thick dozen pieces of letter paper every time, locked in the old monk's room and already full of boxes, you can know that the female owner is everything, and she has explained everything to the old monk......

"Since that Master Kongming does not change her loyalty and love to the Great Song Dynasty, then she must also carefully explain and write in the correspondence between her and the Jurchen tribe of the East China Sea." Lou Yun'an took a sip of cold tea on his seat, of course he would not talk to Chen Hong about rebellion and other important court affairs, he had to keep it

Secret, Chen Hong doesn't like to hear it, but there is more than one thing that this female owner suspects.

"The prince of Wenchang must have also heard that the official family summoned the official in the Guanchao Tower in the palace before leaving, and he reminded the official just now."

Of course, Chen Hong also knew that before Lou Yun's envoy, the official repeatedly told him that if necessary, he could summon the elders of Tangfang to the ship and ask about the Jurchens in the East China Sea.

The Jurchens of the East China Sea are the Jurchen tribes along the coast of the East China Sea in Liaodong, Liaodong is the hometown of the Jurchens, and although they are of the same clan as the Jurchens of the Wanyan clan who are in charge of the Jin State, they also claim to be vassals of the Jin State, but they still belong to different tribes.

"Although the official family only knew about Tangfang because of the birthday ceremony in the Empress Dowager's palace, but according to what the official saw, this is also because the staff hall has a secret report back, saying that it is the land of the extreme north of Liaodong, and the port of the Jurchen tribe in the East China Sea has always had some business dealings with Fusang, and the official thinks that it is probably not Fusang who does business with the Jurchens, but Tangfang."

After that, he glanced at Lou Da, who hurriedly added:

"Last year, Wang Gangshou had a batch of 120 war horses, which were drowned in the lower pass of Fusang, and I heard that the horses were not all Goryeo horses, but also 20 Liaodong horses sold in the Jurchen port."

As soon as Chen Hong heard the word "racecourse", he knew that it was not a trivial matter, and he must know that Wang Shiqiang was able to stand out in the Korean government three years ago, relying not only on the connections of the Lou family, but also on Ma Zheng.

He proposed the establishment of a hydraulic hoister on the Yangtze River to transport horses from the Sichuan Basin to the border of Jiangbei by water.

As soon as this proposal came out, it stirred up the government and the opposition.

After all, in the imperial court's Northern Expedition, the first thing to be solved was the horses in the war.

"The matter of Ma Zheng has nothing to do with the official's city department, but since the official asks, how can I not share the worries of the saint? The official wanted to see if there was a better breed of horse to sell in the old home of the Jurchens of the Jin Kingdom - what exactly did this female owner have to do with the Jurchens? ”

Chen Hong heard the last sentence, and he could already see that there was a cold glow hidden in Lou Yun's eyes, and he coveted the twelve rivers of the East China Sea and Tangfang, how could he dare to mention the matter of marrying a Jin State spy to his family at this time?

He finally came back to his senses at this time, and the nerdy nephew Chen Wenchang specially reminded Lou Yun at this time, not necessarily worried about the hidden secrets.

In the future, if it is not good, this family affair will not only make Lou Yun's future unsafe, but also affect the Chen family. (To be continued) R655