"You can rest assured about your second brother's affairs. Although your seventh brother is still in Shaoxing Mansion now, he sent Li Heimao back to deliver a letter to me. Let me tell you. Now the prisoners of war are held in the capital. It is said that in this official festival, the prisoners of war should be pulled out and turned around in front of their ancestors, so that the ancestors can also have fun. ”

“……”

Ji Qingchen smiled unexpectedly, "In this way, the prisoners of war must be registered so that the ancestors can take a closer look?" ”

"Exactly. So don't worry. I'll have news in a few days. ”

Wang Qinghe fled back from Western Xia and cared about these political affairs from the bottom of his bones. The words of consolation also went to the point, and said with a smile:

"Goryeo prisoners of war and Kim prisoners of war are not the same. Whether it is Master Xie or Han Zuo, they all want to join Goryeo, so they naturally have to be gentle with Goryeo. ”

However, these words are still not good to say too much in this middle hall.

They exchanged glances with smiles and resumed their drinking.

Of course, a hundred operas were also invited outside the middle hall, and they played puppet shows on the lake outside the hall.

The lake was covered with boats, and the butter candles were lit in piles, illuminated as if it were day, and colorful flames flashed in the sound of the earthquake, and fireworks were set off in Hufu. In the sky, a big colorful longevity character is formed.

Even Ji Qingchen couldn't help but praise two sentences.

Taking advantage of this movement, Lao Siniang came quietly and whispered in her ear, but it was Xie Qi (Miss didn't come to this mansion for a banquet today.

But she found out that Miss Xie Qi lived in the capital of Xie Guoxinggang, and she would definitely go outside the city in April.

It's more of a chance to meet.

She smiled and praised Lao Siniang, and said that she was going to go on a cruise in Moon Lake. Let her arrange for a post.

Lao Siniang hurriedly responded, hesitated to remind, and said, "Big lady." Saburo ...... there"

She knew that Ji Dali did not come to support her tonight, but went to Fanfang, and it must have been San Lang who had a conflict with the Fan.

"San Lang's affairs, he settled it himself. If he can't even subdue the unloading boats in Fanfang, I don't dare to let him stay in the Great Song Dynasty, and it would be safer to go back to Fusang. ”

She sighed softly behind the Tang fan.

"Everyone knows that we have the final say in Tangfang, and Fusang people can't embarrass us as long as they want to make money. But in the Great Song Dynasty, it was different. It must be controlled everywhere. If he still goes straight to the Tang Fang as before. I don't even turn a corner with my fist, but I can't do anything. ”

Outside, the smoke and rain bloomed one after another, and on the stage on the lake, wooden puppets the same size were held by puppets under the water. Dancing on the waves.

Fireworks shone on their carved faces. On the gorgeous crown, fluttering like a fairy.

"Is there a merchant sitting in the outer hall?"

Ji Qingchen didn't see the female dependents of the merchants at the table, but he knew that there might not be none in the outer hall, and saw Lao Siniang nodding, saying that the chief of Fanfang in Mingzhou was on the table outside, but he was the widow of the old Silla.

The news of San Lang's trouble in Fanfang may have reached people's ears.

"Since that's the case, I'm just waiting for someone to reason with me."

Thinking that Fan Chang is an old Silla person. Ji Qingchen breathed a sigh of relief. Although there are many remnants of the old Silla in Myeongju City, they are always better than Izumi

The most wealthy big food merchant in the state is easy to deal with. She sighed:

"Whether San Lang can gain a foothold in Mingzhou Fanfang is still a trivial matter. But if he can learn a lesson in Da Song and can do a few things, I don't have to worry about him in the future. Even if he wants to go back to Fusang to grab land and become the lord of the country, marry seventeen or eighteen Fusang wives, or go to Nanyang to be a pirate, and rob the sea ships in Quanzhou, I don't even know if he changes his surname or something——"

Ji Qingchen asked herself, no matter how worried she was about San Lang's illness, it was impossible to tie him up for the rest of her life.

"But ......"

Seeing Lao Siniang's appearance, she knew that this woman was afraid that San Lang would be successful but would leave, she smiled and whispered comfortingly,

"Without Saburo, it's harder to grab the dock. But at that table in this house, aren't they all the daughters of the boss of the boat gang? ”

As she spoke, she glanced at her back seat.

Of course, Lao Siniang saw the six ladies at that table. are all the female dependents of several boat gang bosses on the Zhedong Canal.

Although Ji Qingchen is not easy to talk about now, it is also because she has to wait for San Lang to get a result in Fanfang before deciding how to act.

"Everyone wants to make money, and it's hard to live without our own brothers, but we can always find someone to work with."

Lao Siniang made up her mind and quietly retreated.

Because Ji Qingchen was thinking about the matter of winning over the Qi Mansion, he naturally wanted to listen more to the eldest lady of the building.

is such a who can't handle things in a measured way, even if she Ji Qingchen has to do some business with her mother's brothers, she will have to fight and pull.

Otherwise, would she Ji Qingchen still want to allow her to get the Qi family to be a concubine in front of Wang Shiqiang?

"Sister, it's the lady of the building, I changed my clothes in the Appreciation Building that day and dressed up as an ordinary person, and your box was also booked in the name of the steward of the Huang Mansion. How could she recognize me at a glance. ”

"You didn't see her dress that day, could it be the dress of the eldest lady of Loufu?"

Wang Qinghe's eyes turned from the fireworks, "I didn't say that you said that she was a regular visitor in the tiles outside the city. ”

Through the veil, layers of colored light rolled on the jade-white ground in the hall.

It's magnificent.

"Their Qi family is a famous family in Longxi. It is a martial arts family in the Longxi Army, and when he fled, he was one or two decades later than the Lou family. When fleeing, the land was useless, and the gold and silver were exhausted along the way. The family members of the seventeen or eighteen rooms are all crowded into the Daming Wang Temple to borrow. He was so poor that he couldn't help but start trading. When Lou's wife, Qi Liufeng, was born, the Qi family was still renting a house in the tiles outside the city. When she was five or six years old, the family bought a house in the city and set it up again. Do you have a comfortable life in the mansion? ”

When Ji Qingchen heard this, he couldn't help laughing.

"No wonder, I saw that the lady went to the tile, and went to the restaurant as if she were going home. More calm than businesses like you and me. You whispered to me at that time that it was the eldest lady of Loufu, and I really couldn't believe it. ”

She thought about it carefully, and sure enough, although the eldest lady of the building was dressed in shabby, she was all like an ordinary businessman and a wealthy person.

As soon as she remembered that the Qi family was born in the Xiang Army in Mingzhou City, she also understood that after their family crossed the river and fled to the south, they were excluded like she Ji Qingchen returned to the Great Song Dynasty.

The uncles of the Qi family must not have been able to make a career in the court, so the nephews and nephews could only go into the local army to accommodate the homeless people to eat, and then slowly began to do business in the army.

She also admired the children of the Qi family for planting their heels and being able to get up again, so she smiled and said:

"Mrs. Lou is not young now, and she dares to come nonsense like this. When she used to be a young lady at home, she must have often secretly come to the tiles outside the city. ”

The tile market outside the city is not as prosperous and lively as the tile in the city. Even the official treasury restaurant is different.

Sanyuan Pavilion is not a meritorious scholar, and he can't enter the door at all. The appreciative building is a small official and a merchant eating.

"That's what I thought, too. Didn't their Qi family live in the tiles outside the city before, so that it was convenient to do business on the Dongdumen Wharf? She grew up here, where did she dare not come? ”

Wang Qinghe smiled, and his eyes glanced at Mrs. Lou on the head seat.

She also alluded to Ji Qingchen at the same table that Mrs. Wang was appeased.

Ji Qingchen had already heard the name of Wang An's envoy, and of course he looked at this four-rank lady.

She is already in her forties, older than Mrs. Lou, and her body is blessed, but the eyebrows and temperament on her fat face are still Su Xiu and reserved from a scholarly family.

Next to her sat a young woman who appeared to be one of her daughters-in-law.

Her three sons have all married, and each of them has come out of the imperial examination, and she can be regarded as an old feudal monarch now.

"She didn't persuade the king to appease the envoy?"

Ji Qingchen couldn't help but ask quietly.

Wang Qinghe lives in Mingzhou City, and he knows more about the favor of the official Xue Tao, so he also lowered his voice and smiled:

"What did she advise? The king pacified the envoy and did not have a concubine in the house. The decree is hers, and her son is hers alone. If she wants to persuade this beauty outside, wouldn't she have to place a more beautiful one for him at home to be able to live in? Can she do it? I remember that the official is now twenty-five, and she has been with this Lord Wang for almost ten years, and in another three or four years, she will be favored again. ”

Ji Qingchen nodded slowly, and had to admit that the appeasement made his wife have his life in his hands, and his sons are beside him, and his opponent is about to grow old.

Wang appeased the envoy to pick up another one even if he finished spoiling one, it was because he didn't take his future seriously.

"Besides, the king's appeasement envoy is not too much on either side."

Wang Qinghe secretly made a gesture, used chopsticks to take a note of Hufu's dragon beard longevity noodles, put it in the bowl, and ordered some Taizhou Fushou snails in Ji Qingchen's bowl.

Ji Qingchen understood that Shou Mian of course referred to Empress Dowager Wu's Deshou Palace.

Taizhou Fushou snail, of course, refers to the Taizhou Xie family who aimed at the queen's position. :

It seems that Wang appeased the envoy and did not get involved in this matter.

"Your seventh brother doesn't care about these things in the palace, he has been with him for a hundred years."

After all, Wang Qinghe and Wang Shiqiang are sisters and brothers of the United Sect, and her husband promised him to save his life, no matter what, they are still close

And he got used to his words,

"You know that the Wang family and the Han Mansion are both from the Queen Mother's line, and Lord Lou is only afraid that he will arch a Queen Xie to protect himself. Sister, since you want to gain a foothold in this Great Song Dynasty, you have to think about it first......"

"Sister, I just want to talk to the saint in the palace, where is my turn to think about this?"

Ji Qingchen also stretched out his hand, scooped a spoonful of red oil shrimp beads, put them in the bowl, and immediately arched the three or four Fushou snails, "You see, I am a little shrimp, and the last thing I can and dare to do is to choose a side." Fortunately, no one noticed. But the king pacified the envoy—"

She ate a few dried shrimps and clicked some conspicuous and delicious Fushou snails with the tips of chopsticks.

"He is the official of Liangzhejiang Road, and the important ministers in the court heard that he is also a famous Confucian in Jiangsu and Zhejiang? Anyone like him who is so eye-catching, either he should choose not to stand up, or let people not catch him-" (To be continued......) R1292