Zhao Qixuan, who is in the outer sixth room, is actually a strange figure in the Zhao clan.

Only the inner three rooms of the Zhao family are the bloodlines of the same ancestor, and the outer nine rooms are all attached, and some of them are distant relatives who were divided into clans a hundred years ago, but the others can basically only be regarded as people with the same surname.

When the people of the nine houses came, they also invested the land in their hands in the name of the second room of the Zhao family, and with the power of Zhao Laojungong, life was not bad, much stronger than before. It's just that the second room has been in the capital for a long time, and he has seen less, and the affairs of the clan are decided by the clan, so after a long time, the relationship with the second room is not as close as before, and the communication often has to be mediated with the help of the master of the sect, but it has never been against the second room.

The second room infighting, they are not sure which one will win, seeing that Master Yu's position is ambiguous, they are affected, either to do the wall grass or to sit on the wall and watch, Zhang is dissatisfied with their attitude, after the defeat of the small long house, the clansmen have been indifferent. These clansmen began to regret it, and tried every means to step forward and stammer, seeing that Zongfang sent his granddaughter Sister Qing to Zhao Xiu as a companion, Zhao Jing and the Shen family were very blue-eyed by the Zhang family, and thought that there was some cause and effect relationship here, so they were busy sending their sons and daughters over to play with Zhao Xiu, the youngest one was not yet a year old, and it was simply a living toy for Zhao Xiu with the child. Zhao Xiu was impatient, and the Zhang family knew their careful thoughts, so they all politely refused, leaving only Sister Qing, otherwise I don't know what the quarrel would be.

However, the Zhang family paid money to subsidize the children of the clan to study for the imperial examination, and won over the clansmen. The people of the clan now respect and fear her. On the other hand, the people of Xiaochangfang have never returned to their hometown. The reputation is bad, and when he was in power, he liked to put himself on a high shelf. Now that I'm down, I haven't thought about being polite, who else wants to post it? On the territory of the Zhao family, the prestige of Xiao Erfang far exceeds that of Xiao Changfang. The Zhang family can rest assured that they can bring their grandson to Beijing and leave their little granddaughter at home, which is not only to reassure Zhao Jing and his wife, but also to trust the clansmen.

It can be seen that in fact, the Zhao clan's dependence on the small second room is still very strong, and the old county prince has passed away for several years. If it weren't for the presence of the Duchess of the Zhang family, and Zhao Wei had a knighthood, outsiders might not have taken the Zhao clan in their eyes a long time ago. Nowadays, whether the clansmen are studying or being officials, farming or doing business, they are indispensable to the Zhang family, the backer and financier, and the family in the clan is mediocre or even a little poor, and they have to come to the door from time to time to curry favor and have an autumn breeze.

This outer six rooms were not originally among the autumn winds. The previous head of this house was a nimble man, because he couldn't read. Living on land rent, life is rich, but bad luck happened to encounter a disaster year. The losses were heavy, and the old man in the family was seriously ill, and several children had to prepare for marriage. Money is urgently needed. In order to get money in a short time, he gritted his teeth. Withstood the ridicule of others and became a businessman. It's cotton that's sold. The cotton that grows in the fields of the clansmen, but everything that is to be sold is basically wrapped by him. Su Songjia's three mansions, has always been more cotton and less grain, and he does not worry about cotton sales, twenty or thirty years later, he has become one of the top businessmen in Fengxian County.

This head of the family has passed away a few years ago, died earlier than the old county prince, according to generation, he is Zhao Jiong Zhao Zhuo's brother, and his son is Zhao Xiu's cousin. He has four sons, all of whom are from one mother, the eldest son inherited the family business, the second son is the auxiliary, and after the three sons split up, they changed to the business of grain - anyway, in the fields of the Zhao clan, there are also grain growers - all of them are mixed very well, but there is a younger son, that is, Zhao Qixuan, who is a restless goods, who looks down on the honest trading of grain and cotton by his father and brothers, and is determined to become a more high-end and high-grade businessman than his deceased father, and wants to do that highly profitable business.

When his father was alive, he thought that this little son was too ambitious and refused to let him out to cause trouble, but his father died, and his brothers were too busy with their own business and small family to be busy, who still had the strength to care about him? As a result, he was asked to take out the capital of 1,000 taels of silver, and he really started to buy it. He still has eyesight, and he directly fell in love with the medicinal materials outside the Guan, and wanted to take advantage of the reputation of the county grandfather in the army to sell things like ginseng and deer antler velvet to the Guannai.

The county grandfather ignored him, the Liaodong garrison was his direct subordinate, and the medicinal materials were obtained from the periphery of the Qing people's territory, and the money from the sale was subsidized to supplement the military funds, which was originally the default welfare given to the Northeast defenders in the army. And without the support of the county grandfather, of course Zhao Qixuan couldn't do this business, he spent the money on inviting people to eat and hiring people to buy horses and cars, all of which were lost, so he had to sell some local products in the capital and sell them back to the south, so he returned to his roots.

The second time he bought and sold, Zhao Qixuan set his sights on the pawn business again, he partnered with a few friends in Jiading, opened a pawnshop, thought it could be developed, but he didn't expect that Jiading might meet one or two clan nobles at any time, one of the partners offended people, and everyone was affected, so he had to close the shop and return to his hometown again.

The third sale was introduced by Zhao Qixuan as one of the partners when he was a pawnshop, buying and selling antiques, Zhao Qixuan himself did not have the ability to identify, but he was very careful, but unfortunately he did not beware of the servants around him who were regarded as friends, and secretly dropped the real antiques, and as a result, he spent 800 taels of silver to buy a fake, and offended the buyer and went to the official mansion. In the end, it was his brothers, seeing that the situation was not good, and personally intervened to make peace for him, so that he was spared from prison, took back the money, and threw the servants into the prison. However, the brothers did not hand over the money they got back to him, but handed it over to his wife, for fear that he would take the money and waste it again.

Zhao Qixuan has been at home for two years, and he often goes out to socialize on weekdays, eating and drinking with friends, saying that whoever has a good way to make money, which store can be invested, which friend has a good deal in his hand, and so on, his wife is unmoved, not a single money is given to him, and the pocket money handed over to him every month is limited. Zhao Qixuan had no choice but to live in a daze with the newly acquired name of strict wife.

I heard that he felt that he had a good vision for business, but he had less capital and no backer. can't do it, so I strongly support my son's study for the imperial examination. Only on this one thing I agreed with my wife. He stammered very much with the eight-old lady in the third room, because the eighth old lady was the only living talent in the clan. He also taught another talent, and his knowledge is very solid, if the eighth old lady can accept his son as a student, his son will not worry about being unproductive. So he often sends the east and west to the third room, and the Western books are obtained by him from a friend by chance, I thought that the eighth old lady loves books and will be interested in this foreign book, but unfortunately people only love the sage book.

Zhao Xiu's impression of this person ended here, she listened to the Zhang family, the Shen family, and Lu Ma talk about the gossip in the clan. Only then do I know a little bit. I remember that Zhao Qixuan and his wife also followed the clansmen to the door in the past, because their appearance and dress were not outstanding, and the means of pleasing people were not as exaggerated as other clansmen, so her memory was not deep, but she saw his wife more. However, Zhang once said that this Zhao Qixuan has a little eyesight, and he is not stupid, but unfortunately his luck is too bad.

If Zhao Qixuan had to be calm when he was young, he would not be suppressed by his father. When the old county prince was still in the Liaodong Army, he participated in the medicinal materials business and made a fortune a long time ago.

If Zhao Qixuan carefully chooses his partner, and the partner does not offend the nobles of the clan without long eyes. His pawnshop really has a lot of potential for development.

If Zhao Qixuan hadn't chosen the wrong servant, or if he had acted more cautiously, he didn't let the "friend" conspiracy succeed. In fact, the antique business should be able to make a huge profit, and it can also catch a wealthy and powerful backer. If you want to do business in the future, you don't have to worry.

Unfortunately, there are not so many "ifs" in the world. Zhao Qixuan is a loser in the eyes of the clansmen, even his wife and son can look down on him, and his brothers treat him as a burden.

Zhao Xiu was a little hesitant, she didn't have a good impression of Zhao Qixuan, but if he got these foreign language books back, maybe he had a way to find more.

She needed these books, not to gain any useful knowledge from them, but to find a reasonable source for the knowledge in her head that should not be in this era.

When the ship was sunk, she was afraid and angry, and exposed her language ability beyond her age, although afterwards she prevaricated with "Grandfather patted me on the head and opened my mind", grandmother, little brother and Akiba also believed it, and even the then King of Guangping, the current prince did not show a suspicious look, but it was fake after all. If it weren't for Lu Yunpeng's actions when he intercepted the hearse at the city gate, so that the villagers were convinced of Zhao Laojun's appearance, some people would have already talked about her suspicions. Fengxian is not a very developed place at the moment, and the villagers are not more enlightened than the people in the big cities, so it is not so easy to be a prodigy here. In the past five years, every year, relatives, friends, and daughters who don't know the inside story have seen her speak fluently and mature at a young age, showing a look of surprise and privately criticizing.

Zhao Xiu rarely goes out, and he doesn't like to socialize, and he has very few friends, and there is this reason. She hopes to downplay her image as a "prodigy", so as not to make people think that her cleverness is different, or to talk about her encounter with ghosts, and give her an "ominous" name.

Zhao Xiu thought about it again and again, and decided that he still couldn't give up Zhao Qixuan's path, so he tested Sister Qing a little: "Are you very familiar with Sister Yuan?" Hang out with her often? ”

Sister Qing smiled: "The two of us are often in the same place, her mother is also from Songjiang, and her mother is a fellow villager, and she often talks in one place on weekdays." Her mother is very kind, I went to her house to play, and her mother also made me delicious tea noodles. ”

Zhao Xiu heard that the Shen family and Zhao Qixuan's wife were friendly, and he was a little relieved, the Shen family can be close to the other party, presumably the other party's character is still trustworthy, right?

Sister Qing saw that Zhao Xiu was silent, and thought that she was thinking about the evaluation of Zhao Yuan's father in the clan, so she said: "Auntie, don't pay attention to what others say, in fact, Uncle Qixuan is funny, and he knows many interesting things, so it is very interesting for him to speak." He loves his sister the most, and the father and daughter will play together. She thought for a while, "Yesterday, I heard Sister Yuan say that Uncle Qixuan asked a friend to buy a box that can sing songs, which is interesting." I wanted to go over and have a look, but my mother didn't allow it. Good aunt, will you go with me? If you are willing to go, I will go with you, and my mother will not scold me. ”

Zhao Xiu's eyes lit up, and he straightened up: "Okay, what you said is so interesting, I really want to open my eyes!" ”

Great, music box, this Zhao Qixuan must have a channel to get Western goods! (To be continued......)