There were a few soft sounds, and water droplets splashed everywhere.

As soon as Ji Qingchen took out half a bucket of water from the well and poured it into the wooden basin at his feet, he heard a chaotic and familiar footsteps outside the door of the small courtyard.

She knew who the owners of the footsteps were—she knew them, but they shouldn't have been in front of her house in the long past.

Seeing that the hidden courtyard door was rudely pushed open directly, her thin eyebrows twisted slightly, and her gorgeous apricot eyes revealed a sneer in the sun.

Since the uninvited guest didn't take her as the master in her eyes at all, she was unceremoniously and threw the old hen of Luhua who was about to kill to make soup in her hand to the door.

"Mrs. Ji!"

Huang Qilang, who led the way into the yard, was almost pecked in the eye by the hen that flew in.

He waved his sleeves to open the gray chicken feathers in the sky, looked at the handsome woman in front of the low wooden house with an angry face, and exclaimed:

"Lady Ji, don't toast or eat! As soon as Brother Wang Xian's ship arrived in Fusang (ancient Japan) at noon, he asked me to come to the door to be a big matchmaker, and as soon as he heard the news that you are now lonely and helpless, he didn't care about your first two refusals, but you still don't know what to do! ”

Gray chicken feathers bloom in the light golden sunlight, revealing a trace of transparent veins.

The small courtyard of the Ji family under the sky in July, the mulberry shadow melon vines, the wooden houses are sparse, and every bit is fresh and simple, as if it is an ordinary rural family on the outskirts of Lin'an City in the Great Song Dynasty.

However, the breeze caressed Ji Qingchen's face, with a sticky smell of seawater, this place is already thousands of miles away from the Great Song Dynasty.

"If it weren't for the fact that your Tangfang woman has never intermarried with the Fusang people, and she still has a bit of Middle Earth blood, how would a child of a family like Wang Xiandi from the Siming Wang family be willing to accept you as a concubine?!"

Because of the fright he received just now, Huang Qilang stood in the courtyard with his hands on his hips, and his saliva almost spurted out three feet away.

The roar of the falling sails came from afar, and the snow-white seabirds in the sky spread their wings and flew over the densely packed masts of the sea ships in Tangfang Port, and what she smelled in her nose was the salty sea breeze floating on the purple sea of Fusang Country twenty miles away.

-- It has been 10 years since she came to the Heian period in Japan 1,000 years ago.

In this life, her name is Ji Qingchen.

The Xiangfang Market where she lives is located in the Chikushi Harbor on the west coast of Kyushu Island in Fuso Province.

During the long period from the Han and Tang dynasties to the Great Song Dynasty, this area was inhabited by the remnants of Middle Earth who ventured across the sea to Fusang to take refuge in order to escape the wars in the Central Plains of the past dynasties, known as the Tang Dynasty's Fang

-- Tang Fang.

With a "bang", she raised her wrist and smashed the old kitchen knife in her hand that was ready to slaughter chickens on the wooden wheel of the well, which shocked Huang Qilang's fat face and trembled, and she took half a step back before she slowly stood up from the well.

However, she is in her twenties, she is just right in her youth, with a straight nose, red lips, and a pair of apricot eyes under her slightly raised thin curved eyebrows, which seems to be smiling but not smiling.

"It's been more than a year since Wang Daguan returned to the Great Song Dynasty, and the parents in the hall, as well as the ladies and young masters in the family, are all good?"

She wiped the water droplets on her hands on her belly, and didn't care about Huang Qilang, who was slamming her eyes at her in the yard and persuading her not to suffer the losses in front of her, but her eyes fell behind him.

At this time, Wang Xiandi, who slowly walked into the small courtyard, Wang Shiqiang, a big official, responded with his hand, with a graceful demeanor, and said with a smile:

"Thank you young lady for your concern, they're all good-"

He had a pair of narrow bee eyes, a long figure, and a very shrewd and capable chin that he hastily trimmed before disembarking, and he was a bit of a talent in her unpicky eyes.

What's more, because he was born in the Ming Dynasty of the Great Song Dynasty, he also read a few volumes of poetry and books, and his dress was quite measured.

Compared with Huang Qilang, an upstart who is also a great Song Dynasty maritime businessman, but wears an arrogant and brand-new purple silk long-gauze coat and an eggplant purple Baoxiang flower claw scarf on his head, it is completely different after all.

When things are done, there is some attention to planning and then acting.

"Qing Niang's dress, it turned out that there was a guest at home?"

He immediately saw that although she was far away in Fusang, she cut Shi Xinliu silk satin from Liujia Silk Village, Xixie Street, Wuxing County, Jiangzhejiang Road, Dasong Dynasty this spring, and made six goose tail styles in the season in the No. 2 ready-to-wear shop in Nanwazi, Zhengyi Xiang, Lin'an City, not to mention the double-beaded plum rui glazed pendant under her ears, the water chestnut sachet under the waist, and the pressed skirt jade cicada on the skirt

――They are also the popular jewelry of the Great Song Dynasty season, which is thousands of miles away.

And it's not the old clothes he gave her three years ago.

"Except for the Wang Daguan and the Huang proprietor—"

She didn't seem to care at all about the coercion of them coming to the door to forcibly take concubines, and she still had a gentle smile on her old face when she met her old country and won over important merchants in Tangfang.

"Where else in my shop today are there more distinguished guests than two? It's just that I heard that Wang Daguan has newly won the position of the head of the maritime program this year, and now he is one of the seventeen leaders of the maritime program in the Great Song Dynasty, and I haven't had time to say congratulations——"

The so-called "maritime business leader" is the industry leader of the Ming Dynasty, Quanzhou, and Guangzhou City, which selects local powerful and reputable maritime merchants and entrusts them to manage overseas merchants.

She ignored Huang Qilang's anxious glance at her behind him, and Wang Shiqiang's smile that was not surprising that she was well-informed, she slapped the chicken feathers on her belly casually, and smiled,

"It's just that I don't know if Wang Gangshou came back to Tangfang this time, whether he was traveling with Chen Wenchang, a maritime merchant from Quanzhou, it is said that his ship should be more than a hundred miles away from Tangfang, and I am also ready to go to the port to greet him in two hours."

"It turns out that the young lady is going to greet him in person today—"

When Wang Shiqiang heard the name of Quanzhou maritime merchant Chen Wenchang, his eyes were already cold, "I also heard the news that the Chen family proposed marriage to Tangfang, I thought it was a rumor outside, but I didn't expect it to be true." ”

As he spoke, when he entered the door, the smile that had been on the corner of his mouth disappeared.

"It's just that Qing Niang remembers wrong, although this Chen Gongzi's uncle is a maritime merchant, he himself is the first time to go to sea, he is willing to travel thousands of miles, cross the sea and meet Qing Niang, the sincerity of this marriage is all admirable, no wonder Qing Niang is also moved......

She just didn't see Wang Shiqiang's anger, so she pretended to apologize and said:

"The big officials also know the situation of my family, our three sisters and brothers lost their parents in the early years, and can only rely on each other, fortunately, the villagers are recommended, and work together to build this small place in Tangfang, which is our shelter, and now my second brother Ji Chenlong went out to study, and the third brother Ji Chenhu went to sea and did not return, although I am just a woman, I can only come forward in person and go outside to greet him——"

Her two younger brothers are far away from home, and the information is unknown, so it is no wonder that people think she is weak and break into the house for the third time.

"In my opinion, it's better not to go—"

Wang Shiqiang finally sank his face,

"Although Chen Hong brought his nephew Chen Wenchang to the East China Sea, there are more than 100 ships in the fleet with him, and only five of them are Quanzhou boats, and the remaining 98 are sea ships that are traveling with me and departing from Mingzhou Port, and they will also enter the port immediately.

"Ninety-eight?"

She could hear the threat in his words, and she was secretly surprised by the number of ships he was able to control after he became the head of the maritime program.

Based on her experience in Tangfang in the past ten years, Mingzhou Port is one of the three major seaports of the Great Song Dynasty, and a deep-sea ship in the port that can sail from the Great Song Dynasty to Fusang is not mentioned for the time being, and the number of ships on it is less than 100 and more than 300.

Coupled with the firefighters, ship mates, large and small cargo owners, ship owners and discipline on the ship, most of these people are strong seamen who know how to stick and know some rough fists and feet, and 98 seagoing ships are equivalent to more than 2,000 seafarers entering Tangfang at the same time.

And she has more than 6,000 households and more than 30,000 people in Tangfang, although regardless of men, women and children, there are exercises in the off-season when the monsoon stops and merchant ships do not come, but the total number of people who are really used to protect the workshop is 3,000 people.

"After Wang Gangshou got married three years ago, it was really different from the past, but my Tangfang opened its doors to welcome merchants from all over the world, and it was the rule to come first and come first, they delivered the news first, and sent the famous thorn of Baifang, of course I can't turn a blind eye because he only came with five boats this time——"

She also changed her name by pushing the boat down the river, and smiled and bowed,

"Today, I also ask Wang Gangshou to bear with me, Wang Gangshou also knows that the Chen family is also the head of the Great Song Dynasty in Quanzhou, a maritime merchant family, I am only afraid that this faux pas will offend him, and even if he brings ninety-eight sea ships to my Tangfang next time, I will no longer dare to open the door of the fang, and invite them to enter the fang to do business——"

The old hen hid in the weeds in the corner of the yard and never came out, he saw that she still looked like she didn't get in, and then remembered that he obviously voted for the famous thorn of the worship fang, but she turned a blind eye, forcing him to break into the door to stop her marriage.

His left hand behind his back couldn't help but clench into a fist, sneered again and again, and said:

"Good! Qingniang, it seems that you are cross-minded, regardless of our past feelings, you must marry the Chen family? ”

Huang Qilang on the side saw that his face was not good, and he was about to enter the dead alley when he spoke, so he didn't care about being caught in the middle of the dilemma, turned his heart sideways, stepped forward, and shouted:

"Mrs. Ji! You have been the owner of Tang Fang for all these years, and you usually talk to us about business and how shrewd you know! Why did you get confused today? Brother Wang Xian is so sincere, when he heard the major event of your third brother going to sea and suffering, he hurried all the way to plan a rescue for you, but you ignored the post we handed me to ask to see, do you still want to save your own brother! ”