Three days ago, after the typhoon, and in the typhoon, their five Fujian ships "accidentally" separated from the fleet of Jiangsu, Zhejiang and maritime merchants, Chen Wenchang after the fleet rendezvous, actually did not say a word to Chen Hongti, and came to see him with this portrait, only saying that although the beauty was good, if he wanted to ask for his life, he did not dare to do it.

It seems that he also understands that this marriage is not only related to his uncle's intentions, but also to the inextricable interests of the East China Sea.

He also plans to let Chen Hong persuade his nephew, after all, he is not going to make a fortune in Tangfang, but the heroine of Tangfang is married to Quanzhou, and after these risks in front of him, he can also marry a good look, good at managing the family, and can satisfy the Chen family.

In this way, he can teach in the Quannan Academy outside Quanzhou with peace of mind, and no family will dislike him for not doing business, not going to the sea, and not making money, nor will he be forced to take the imperial examination again, and replace the fame he has already obtained in the township examination with a better Jinshi fame.

"My lord, the villain's bastard nephew thinks that since Wang Gangshou is so in love with that woman, and Mrs. Lou never prevents her husband from taking concubines, why should a gentleman take advantage of others......"

Chen Hong quietly came to tell him just now, with a flattering face, of course, it was not for the sake of Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Zhejiang maritime merchants to deal with the trivial matters of the ship's vice-president, but he said these things in a hurry, and he had to add a sentence,

"What's more, this risk will also affect the safety of the envoy......"

Only then did he come back to his senses, a little ridiculous, and after understanding that this nerd Chen Wenchang had sent him a portrait, he turned his head and said that his uncle had moved.

"Although he is not in business, he is indeed the most outstanding son of their Chen family-"

Lou Yun shook his head to himself, ignoring Jun Mo, just frowning and pacing in front of the portrait. ，

Wang Shiqiang may not know about the separation at sea this time, and he has long been prepared for the rejection of the maritime merchants in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Zhejiang in the East China Sea, although he will inevitably be frightened, but after all, he will not worry about his life.

Otherwise, why did he order five Fujian sea ships to be his seat ship?

This is the person he can control.

But if Chen Wenchang gave up the marriage between the Chen family and the Ji family because he was unwilling to take risks, he really couldn't think of a way to force him.

"Childe, is this painting taken down?"

Jun Mo was just a thirteen or fourteen-year-old boy, with a short aqua blue shirt and knee pants, and his hair tied in a round bun, pointing to the one hanging by the desk

The portrait asked, Lou Yun paused, and looked sideways at the portrait of the Ji woman.

"Leave her alone."

Even though he said this, he couldn't let go of it in his heart.

Bo Juan's already unclear face was even more hazy, and he remembered that she was now twenty years old.

After Wang Shiqiang got married three years ago, she has never married again.

"Put these three together."

He frowned slightly, and turned his eyes away from the portrait hanging in front of his desk to look at the three scrolls of ink jade handle paintings on the table.

This is the blind date portrait that Chen Hong quietly took just now, and it is outside of Chen Wenchang, among the children of his Chen family, he can choose to come out and propose to the Ji family.

After all, Chen Hong has vision, in order for his Chen family's Bazhenzhai goods business to return to the East China Sea, he must marry Tang Fang, but his nephew Chen Wenchang is not a junior who can let him command at will.

The other children are far less outstanding than Chen Wenchang.

"It's just a matter of improvisation."

This is his reply to Chen Hong just now, "Although your nephew is careful, I am only afraid that the woman of the Ji clan is more cautious." ”

He already knew that this time the Fujian maritime merchants returned to the East China Sea, and only used marriage as a means to make a temporary compromise that the Fujian Eighth Outline was eager to achieve, although he was optimistic about its success, he was not optimistic.

There is no reason for the Ji woman to get married.

What's more, he has found out that even if Wang Shiqiang's repentant marriage in the past three years, Tangfang Tong Guò Huang's store's financial support for Prime Minister Han's mansion has not wavered in the slightest.

"It's a tricky girl......"

He muttered to himself.

He didn't understand that she was far away in Fusang, and she was so concerned about the Northern Expedition of the Great Song Dynasty, was it really loyal to the official family and the Great Song Dynasty?

Or still miss Wang Shiqiang.

"Mingzhou-Lou family has any news?"

He asked with a deep groan.

Jun Mo was waiting by his side when he went to work and studying, knowing that he had a good relationship with the Lou family, he glanced at him cautiously, and replied with a three-axis ink jade scroll:

"Childe, the eldest lady of the Lou family - Mrs. Wang Gangshou has no news from the Wang family, neither sent someone back to her parents' house to send a letter to the Lou family, nor did she send someone to send a message to your lord to ask for help, and you also instructed that the envoy is not allowed to mention it to the Lou family when it is related to state affairs."

"That's right."

He nodded, turned around and walked to the bed, opened the letter box in the porcelain pillow, and saw the letters that his sister Lou Luanpei had written to him over the years.

Since he was thirteen or fourteen years old and lived in the Lou family for a year and two months, by chance, he and the ten-year-old daughter of the long house got acquainted, and they are now brother and sister.

So three years ago, she wrote a letter and calmly talked about the situation at home, and then talked about the choice of husband she chose after repeated consideration, although he sighed that she actually chose Wang Shiqiang, the merchant concubine, he still reached out to help her once.

Because she inquired, although Wang Shiqiang was not engaged, but because he went to the sea and met an overseas girl, the two were happy, and planned to marry her, although she carefully designed and quietly let him see her once in front of Putuo Temple, but she was worried that he might not be willing to change his mind because of her appearance and family situation.

She also inquired, the overseas Yi girl is of Middle Earth descent, and her appearance is also quite outstanding, and she is proficient in Sinology, although her family is only the foundation of the merchant outbreak, but after all, she is the most difficult maritime merchant to offend in the East China Sea.

He knew that she wrote to ask for help, and it was the first time he received a letter from her when he left Lou's house for more than ten years.

Since the woman's Tang Fang was on the four islands of Fusang, he simply found a Fusang monk and tried to see if Wang Shiqiang knew what barbarians were, whether he understood the gap between the Great Song Dynasty and overseas Yi Island, and whether he understood the boasting of the scholarly family.

As a result, the marriage of the clan sister went very smoothly.

As for him, Lou Yun closed the pillow box, turned his head, slowly stepped forward to lift the thin silk, and stared at the woman of the Ji family, although he only found out later that half of the gold sand funded by the Siming Wang clan to the Han Mansion was from Tang Fang, and he was determined to start from Tang Fang and cut off the financial resources of Han Mansion.

But he let the Fujian maritime merchants return to the East China Sea and ask the Ji clan of Tangfang to marry, not only to sabotage the alliance between the Siming Wang clan and the Tang Fang clan, and to change the situation that the maritime merchants of Jiangsu and Zhejiang monopolized the Haili of the East China Sea.

He also felt that Chen Wenchang should be a good husband who did not lose to Wang Shiqiang for her.

- Wang Shiqiang repented of marrying too quickly, and the clan sister Luan Pei must have her own means.

"Childe, Miss Lou is a powerful person, why should you worry about her? Although Wang Gangshou has a concubine and a concubine, isn't it all honestly sent in her name and let her raise it? ”

Jun Mo put the scroll into the bookcase, and couldn't help but persuade a few words, "If you are concerned, you don't need to ask her, you just need to knock a few words to Wang Gangshou, you are also a member of the Lou family, and you are the nephew of the Lou boss, why not ask a few words?" ”

"You have also met Wang Gangshou, according to this official, this person is not only an extremely shrewd person, but also too hard-"

Lou Yun shook his head.

He also lived in Mingzhou City for a year and two months, named Lou Lao orally claimed the same surname, in the Lou family is just a small errand boy, often outside the second door for the inner and outer houses to pass all kinds of things, messages, in order to mix food, so is not unfamiliar with all kinds of private in everyone's house.

He also knew that Lou Luanpei was not there because of her biological mother, her stepmother was virtuous on the surface, and she was well versed in this way in order to protect herself after being bullied......

Maybe three years ago, Wang Shiqiang has obviously found some clues.

"That's it, the person she chooses, take it yourself."

He shook his head and sighed, no longer bothered with his sister's housework, and waved his hand to let Junmo approach, "Deputy Envoy Qin didn't come again?" ”

He didn't wait for Junmo to honestly admit that he had been rejected three times, and smiled confidently:

"If you go to Wang Gang's first boat to invite him again, you will say that the officials and officials brought by this official from Quanzhou have already separately invited the subordinate officials of Quanzhou and Mingzhou who accompanied them to enjoy the paintings together, and they will only wait for the banquet to invite the Fusang envoy after the painting appreciation meeting, which is a matter of state affairs, and I ask him to come to my ship to enjoy the paintings, so that I can discuss in advance——"

"Yes, sir."

Jun Mo knew that after the deputy envoy of Qin Congyun and Qin got off the ship at the head of Wang Gang, he stayed on the Wang family's boat to get sick and seasick, and refused to come to Lou Yun's Fujian ship, but his son-in-law had to invite him over.

Otherwise, why would Gongzi provoke Wang Gangshou off the boat? .

In this way, Deputy Envoy Qin actually dared to shirk again and again.

The sound of the scholar's footsteps was far away, and he sat down at the desk, propped his head sideways, and looked at the portrait of the Yi girl that had not been taken off.

It was precisely because he couldn't figure out the movements of Tang Fang for the time being, after the fleet met three days ago, Wang Shiqiang and the heads of the Jiangsu and Zhejiang Gangs came to ask for guilt, so he didn't mention the tricks of the Jiangsu, Zhejiang and maritime merchants, but the sky changed from time to time, and it was difficult for manpower to do anything, but he turned a blind eye to the tension between Chen Hong and Wang Shiqiang.

"Chen Gangshou, you just need to take out the matter of the separation of the fleet three days ago and continue to quarrel with the maritime merchants of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, so that they don't beware of the pirates I am holding on the ship."

That's what he told Chen Hong.

Since it was a coincidence that he captured a pirate Ji Chenhu in these three days, how could it be unreasonable?

He walked slowly to the hatch and saw the huge fleet of cabins, the blue waves of the East China Sea undulating.

At a glance, dense snow-bright steel forks flashed on the tip of the waves from time to time, stained with blood by the setting sun, and after the pirate Ji Chenhu was caught, the two hundred and fifty board boats and five or six hundred fangding of the Tang Fang who followed him did not dare to attack, but they had been following his ship and refused to leave.

Since they have lost the owner's own brother, they must not dare to go back.

"Someone!"

He instructed him to summon the leader of his henchmen and generals, "Call Lou Da to come." ”

The woman who answered outside was not a maid, her charming voice was like a warbler out of the valley, and she laughed softly: "My lord, you asked the slaves and maids to invite the ministers to come and enjoy the paintings, they are now waiting for the adults in the public hall cabin, but you don't see anyone......

"Is it a thief?"

He couldn't help laughing, knowing that the person who came was Lin Thief, the head of the official trick line who came from Quanzhou on the same boat, he walked back from the cabin window, and put down the thin silk on the portrait with his backhand.

"Come in."

The waves hit the deck outside the window of the Louyun cabin, and the waves surged one after another, surging to the sea surface of Tangfang fifty miles away, and poured into Tangfang along the canal under the hanging high water gate, beating the stone edge of the street in Fangzhong.

Ji Qingchen walked on Zhongfang Street, and the green silk skirt was dragging between the stone slabs, like sea water hitting sand, soft and soft.

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