"Since Wang Gangshou is so knowledgeable and clear, then I have to ask a rhetorical question-"

She also laughed, her eyes rolled on his close face, and without finishing her words, she suddenly lifted her skirt and turned around and walked towards the Ji family's courtyard.

Although Wang Shiqiang didn't understand her intentions, seeing that she was not in a hurry to see Wang Shiliang, nor was she in a hurry to meet Lou Yun, it was still a good thing after all.

He pressed his joy and walked steadily back to the small courtyard, and saw her footsteps in the courtyard and stopped under the porch.

She was originally taking off her clogs and entering the house, but the paper door had been opened, and Xiao Ruiniang, who had been squatting in the room in a hurry to eavesdrop on the movement but couldn't hear anything, had jumped out, holding a bunch of painting bolts in her arms, standing on the porch, looking at her with a smile.

"Big lady, your painting-"

Although Ji Qingchen was surprised, when he saw the scroll painting she handed out, he was also relieved to know that this child was really clever.

She took the scroll, stood on the edge of the porch, and gently pulled the silk thread on the scroll, and the long shaft rolled down.

Wang Shiqiang looked at it intently, and the picture was painted with a white background and blue edges, and in the center was an official wearing a crimson official robe, sitting on the chair, which was a popular official-style character painting in the Great Song Dynasty.

"Can Wang Gangshou recognize this adult-?"

Wang Shiqiang looked at the person in the painting, less than thirty years old, with a good appearance, long eyebrows and handsome eyes, and a calm temperament.

"Qing Niang asked me to show his portrait? I naturally recognize him as Lou Yun—"

He frowned slightly, and although he didn't know what he meant, he still held his composure.

It's just that he glanced at the pile of ink jade scrolls in Xiao Ruiniang's hand, and he knew that these paintings were all blind date portraits sent by the Great Song Dynasty maritime merchants over the years since the opening of Tang Fang, and they asked her for marriage like the children of maritime merchants like Chen Wenchang.

Of course, he also knew that it was impossible for Lou Yun to come to her to ask for marriage, and such an official portrait was the exclusive use of the officials of Quanzhou, Guangzhou, and Mingzhou.

In order to do business, the Great Song Dynasty maritime merchants in the three places almost had a roll in their hands, so as not to be unable to recognize the nobles at the end of the day and delay the business.

It's no surprise that she has one on her hand.

When Huang Qilang saw this portrait, he didn't know what their situation was now, and he also took a few steps closer, and the boatmen and the servants were scattered around the courtyard wall, only Ji Hong stood outside the door honestly, not daring to come in without waiting for her to summon him.

"Qing Niang took out his portrait, what should I see?"

This official portrait reminded him of the fact that her portrait also fell into Lou Yun's hands, and his face couldn't help but look ugly, if it weren't for the fact that there was no reason or opportunity now, he would have been afraid that he would have been able to question directly.

"It turns out that he is really Lou Yun? Is it the cowardly lord and the generation in the mouth of Wang Gangshou? ”

She also smiled lightly, but her face turned cold, she put the painting on the corridor with her backhand, took a scroll of paintings from Ji Ruiniang's arms, and opened the scroll with a pull of the silk rope, Wang Shiqiang saw at a glance that it was still a portrait of Lou Yun.

However, this one, after all, is a little different.

Lou Yun in the painting is not wearing an official uniform, he hooks his lips and smiles, his eyes are dark and deep in the sun, he is wearing a plain white light shirt embroidered with orchid patterns, and he stands in front of the semi-circular carved window by the desk with one hand.

The golden broken sun dotted through the lacquer-green carved window, and a few bright red flower stems could be seen, and the flowers outside the window were obliquely shadowed.

He has a book in his hand, a sword hanging on the wall, full of sunshine, it looks like just an ordinary idle scholar usually looks at home, especially beside him, the four beautiful maids who are waiting in the study, respectively, holding incense and holding the piano, inkstone and ink paving paper, although only the silhouette is charming, the figure is graceful, but the ribbon around the waist, the gold ring under the ear, all have infinite style......

Of course, Wang Shiqiang also saw the ancient characters of "Red Sleeves and Fragrance Pictures" on the gold clay seal on the painting, as well as the private seal of Xie Guoyun, the thirteenth son of the Xie family in Taizhou, and knew that Lou Yun's leisure painting in the study of the rear office was made by Xie Guoyun.

Xie Guoyun has an aunt who is from Quanzhou, and when she occasionally goes to Quanzhou to visit relatives, of course she will go to the city to meet Lou Yun and make some friendships, but I don't know that he can actually enter the Houya study, and it seems that he has a personal relationship with Lou Yun.

Just like this, people in Tangfang are also good friends with Ji Chenlong, the second lang of the Ji family, often in and out of the Ji family's courtyard, of course, Ji Qingchen is also common, Tang Fang is far overseas, and the three sisters and brothers of the Ji family are more polite than ordinary people, but in terms of background, they are just nouveau riche like Huang Qilang, of course, they are not as good as the Great Song Dynasty and the merchant family live together, and they often pay attention to some etiquette.

As for the scholarly family born in the imperial examination for generations like his wife's family Mingzhou Kuo, the Ji family is far inferior.

So in addition to the upright half-length blind date portrait of her, she Ji Qingchen also has a portrait of idleness "Burrow Cooking Tea" painted by Xie Guoyun, and now it has fallen into the hands of Lou Yun.

Thinking of this, he secretly hated in his heart.

Taizhou Xie's family was afraid that his Siming Wang family would be too powerful on Liangzhejiang Road, and they couldn't wait to pull him back.

The sea breeze blew the paper painting of "Red Sleeves and Fragrance" in her hand, the rustling waves sounded, a hundred miles outside the Tang Fang, outside the waves under the sun, the man in the painting, Lou Yun, the envoy of the Great Song Dynasty, also sat on the wide couch in the cabin, with the swaying of the waves, he stared at the portrait of the woman hanging on the cabin wall "Burrow Cooking Tea".

The painting is painted on the hedge of the humble house, and the tea is boiled in the red furnace.

In the painting, a woman kneels in the corridor of the small courtyard and makes tea, and after the mist of the water, the scene of her smiling hospitality is outlined with a few strokes of ink.

Looking closely, her side eyebrows are somewhat similar to Ji Qingchen.

This is the "Burrow Cooking Tea Picture" painted by the heroine of Tangfang painted by Xie Shisangongzi.

Her dark eyes under the afternoon porch curtains, the slender fingertips half-stretched out of Xueluo's sleeves, the pearlescent light under her ears, and her light green ayako skirt, the sun-drenched white sand courtyard......

Lou Yun asked himself, even a man like him who has seen a lot of beauties from all over the world from southwest to Shandong, from Lin'an to Quanzhou, has to admire:

Xie Thirteen Gongzi's beauty painting is really a must.

Although the painting had been hanging in his room for three days, after he had expelled Wang Shiqiang off the ship today, he had time to take a closer look at it, and he couldn't help but see God.

He unconsciously stood up, walked to the side of the painting, and looked up at the first corner of the painting, where there were indeed several lines of small inscriptions in thin gold font of hundreds of words.

He had some friendship with Xie Guoyun, and knew that the inscription recorded the life and interesting stories of the characters in the painting, which were all written down by the painter Xie Guoyun in order to have fun for himself.

"Tangfang Ji's, when I first saw it, I didn't know its beauty, but I knew that it had an interesting number. Water owls also.

And I was shocked when I saw it, the mother in the water has such beauty? Don't go around, and then don't dare to see the female owl as an ugly thing, guard the swamp outside the square, watch the water owl rise and fall and prey, in order to declare my love for beauty.

When I saw his face, I brought a few baskets of live snakes to go, just to fight the beauty with a smile, the water owl outside the fang to snake meat for a living, I know also, thought that it must love snake meat, there is this interesting number, but the beauty is furious, grab the snake basket and throw it on my face, drive me out.

Woohoo, the beauty doesn't know my heart, only I know the heart of the beauty......"

(Vernacular translation: Miss Ji in Tangfang, I didn't know she was a beauty, I only knew that she had a strange nickname called Water Owl.)

So when I first met her, I was taken aback and felt that the nickname was not realistic. Since then, I have been running to the edge of the swamp outside Tangfang every day to observe and record the activities of the water owls.

When I met Miss Ji for the second time, I specially brought a few baskets of live snakes as gifts, and I thought she would definitely like it, because according to my field observations, the water owl likes to eat snake meat the most, and Miss Ji must have gotten such a strange nickname because she is a foodie.

But Su, Miss Ji actually got angry, smashed the snake basket in my face, and kicked me out of Ji's house. Oh my God, it's so painful to be misunderstood by a beautiful woman! But beauty, I am still willing to be your bosom friend, I know that you are a foodie! ）

Lou Yun chuckled when he saw it.

He knew that the so-called fun names such as "water owls" may not have been heard by Xie Guoyun in the market, maybe he chose them for her. He took this nickname mostly just for his own amusement, so that he could find an explanation for his own grotesque and reckless gifts.

It is no wonder that she provoked the anger of the hostess and was kicked out of the house.

It's just that this Ji woman must not be an ordinary person, so he can be given such an interesting name.

The sound of footsteps outside the door sounded softly, and he knew that a maid was approaching, so he raised his hand and put down the snow-white thin silk curtain on the painting, and covered the "Burrow House Cooking Tea Picture" by the heroine of Tangfang.

After all, it is the portrait of the woman who the Chen family wants to marry Chen Wenchang, the second son of the third room, although it was borrowed for the purpose of designing Wang Shiqiang and dividing the relationship between the Siming Wang family and Tang Fang, it should be returned today.

The silk horn was flying, Ji Qingchen handed the painting to Xiao Ruiniang's hand and lifted it, she gently pulled her sleeves, raised her hand slightly, pointed to Lou Yun in the painting, looked at Wang Shiqiang coldly, and said with a smile:

"Wang Gangshou, I originally only thought that there were more people with the same surname in the world, and I didn't care, but Xie Gongzi's small record in the painting clearly wrote that although this Lou was born in the southwest and was against you everywhere, he is the son of the Lou family named on the Mingzhou Lou family tree, and he is Wang Gangshou, your wife's brother-in-law—"

The corner of the painting pointed to by her fingertips was indeed also written in thin gold font with a few lines of notes.

"Lou Yun, the people of the southwest mountains, when he was young, he promised to be the Han Dynasty, and he did not hesitate to go thousands of miles out of the mountains to find relatives, isn't it strange? Then he lived in Mingzhou Lou's house for a year and two months, and was able to be named in the family tree and exist in the eunuch family, isn't it strange?

It is strange and strange, so what is the way for its army to contribute to lurking in Shandong, connecting with the righteous army, and escorting angels to reward the righteous head?

Then, once he left his post, abandoned martial arts and literature, studied hard for six years to become famous on the gold list, traveled across the streets, and explored the flowers and Du Garden, what is it enough to say?

It is strange and strange, its official residence is in the market, the business expands the sea, and the gold source is exhausted, why should I write it?

I don't remember it for others, I know that it's just a person. ”

(Vernacular translation: I know the details of Lou Yun's person, he was originally a barbarian in the deep mountains in the southwest of the Great Song Dynasty, but his self-consciousness has been very clear since he was a child, and he doesn't listen to what others say, but he feels that he is a Han.) In order to prove this, he actually walked out of the mountains alone and ran to Mingzhou Lou's house thousands of miles away to recognize his relatives, I thought I was weird enough, he was weirder than me!

He was thick-skinned, and he lived in the Lou family for a year and two months, forcing the Lou family to have no choice, and actually wrote his name in the family tree, so this barbarian turned into a clansman from the Jiangnan scholarly family, hey, the Lou family, your temperament!

Well, now that everyone has understood his strange attributes, he later joined the army, infiltrated the territory of Shandong Jinguo, contacted the Shandong Righteous Army, and protected the imperial envoys to reward the leaders of the Righteous Army, which is not worth mentioning.

Then he died again, his military merits were gone, he resigned and studied, and six years later, this Shenjing Bing was also in the middle of the three lists, and he became the official family again!

I don't mention this, lest others say that I am jealous of him, after all, he is now in Quanzhou as the city's boss, and I still have to rely on him to make money, so he is really a good leader, loyal to the court in office, wholeheartedly for the people, and is a prosperous business and a sea route, busy with money, and living a more nourishing life than me.

These are actually normal people's things, there is nothing to write about, the reason why I endured the impatience to write them down one by one is to remind everyone, don't look at him handsome and chic, both civil and military, and both ability and political integrity, but his essence is a strange barbarian, and he may continue to die at any time.

PS: I'm really not jealous of him! ）

After she recited this note softly, she lowered her face, looked directly at Wang Shiqiang, who was frowning, and said:

"Xie Thirteen Gongzi is a strange person, and his words can be trusted for up to three points, so I have also sent people to inquire in Mingzhou twice and three times, his name is on the Lou family's family tree, this is not a rumor."

Huang Qilang had already waved his hand, so that the boatmen all retreated outside the door, Xiao Ruiniang's eyes rolled, and she held her arms high as usual to support the long scroll, carefully hiding her body behind the scroll.

Ji Qingchen took a step forward, looked at Wang Shiqiang, and said:

"Wang Gangshou asked me if I remember my promise to support your Northern Expedition, I have to ask, Wang Gangshou said that Lou Yun was cowardly and fearful, and asked me not to make friends with him, and at the same time, he married the Lou family and married his sister——"

She withdrew her hand and motioned to the reluctant Xiao Ruiniang to take the painting back to the house, before turning her head to look at Wang Shiqiang and said:

"I'm just afraid that Wang Gangshou's mind is not in the Northern Expedition, but in the official position, the weight of a once, if this is indeed the case, according to the Zhao Guanjia sent to the city of the Bo Division, regardless of Chinese and foreign businessmen, if you do a tax of more than 3,000 yuan after doing a large overseas business, you can be rewarded with the false title of the nine products of the Chengshilang, you are already an official, not to mention that now you have married the Knowles as a wife, their family has been in the imperial examination from generation to generation, and the connections are widely distributed throughout the court, you are extraordinary, even if you do not participate in the imperial examination and go to participate in the general election of the imperial court to try to enter the court as an official, This is also a matter of course. ”

She raised her hand to stop Wang Shiqiang from what he was about to say, and continued bluntly, "The Northern Expedition is not important to you, why are you in such a hurry, come back to my Tangfang twice or three times, and ask me whether I support it or not?" ”

"That's right! Brother Wang Xian, you also talk about this paragraph with the eldest sister, isn't she just about to listen? ”

Huang Qilang hurriedly jumped out and motioned to Wang Shiqiang to take advantage of her willingness to listen, and quickly explain the original story of his marriage to the Lou family three years ago.