Chapter 162

"Yes, but the three masters are busy running ships overseas, and they rarely show up in Yangzhou City, and the little ones don't know about it." Xiao Er's knowledge of the Tao is the most common news, and he can say one or two when he goes to Yangzhou City, but he pointed out a clear way, "If the two guest officers want to know the Tao, you can ask our shopkeeper, she knows everything in Yangzhou City, but she must compare with our shopkeeper and ask for news to collect money." ”

Even if it is the news of collecting money, it must not be something that can be heard casually on the road.

It is very common to buy and sell news on the dockside, and nine times out of ten, inns and restaurants here are doing it.

Chu Dingjiang threw a certain amount of silver to Xiao Er again, "I'm tired of introducing you." ”

Xiao Er has seen a lot of people who go south and north in this green and exquisite, and it is the first time he has met such a generous reward, and he was very happy to collect the cash at first, but the princes and nobles did not make such a bold move...... Thinking about it like this, he felt a little hot when he held the silver, but then he thought about it, he was about to throw this potato to his shopkeeper, and someone was responsible for something, so he didn't care about a little errand!

"The two guest officers come with the little one." Xiao Er came alive again, thinking that the money he would receive was enough to marry his daughter-in-law.

The two took their things and followed Xiao Er to the first floor.

Walk through a long corridor and enter the inner courtyard.

The whole inner courtyard is built in the middle of a small lake, the lotus flowers cover the green willows hanging down, the green tiles and white walls, the carved eaves and arches, revealing an indescribable momentum in the graceful south of the Yangtze River.

Xiao Er asked Chu Dingjiang and An Jiu to wait in the small pavilion at the door, and ran into the building by himself, "Shopkeeper, there is business." ”

As soon as the words fell, the door opened, and a woman in a green smoke Luo skirt hired Tingting to stand there, the woman glanced at this side, and said a word to the little er. Back inside the house.

After a while, the woman came out with a young woman in a plain skirt and a bun.

This woman is slightly fat, with a fleshy double chin, willow eyebrows and fine eyes, and every facial feature is still delicate, and she looks two sizes smaller on that face, which is not good-looking when combined, but fortunately, the skin is white and tender, and it is not ugly.

An Jiu thinks she looks very ancient, like a Tang Dynasty beauty.

The woman walked to the pavilion, folded her hands over her waist, and bowed slightly.

Chu Dingjiang and An Jiu stood up and bowed back.

This woman is inconspicuous. An Jiu didn't expect her skill to be of the eighth order.

"Slave Zhu Pianjiao, I don't know what the two of you want to inquire about?" Zhu Qiqi stretched out his hand to invite the two of them to sit down, and said, "The business here is not priced, but it is a slave family, and there is no second price." ”

It means that you have to give as much as you want, isn't this the same as robbery? Zhu Qiqi looks gentle and gentle, and he is very domineering, just like ...... The architecture here feels the same.

Zhu cheats money? An Jiu, who had been looking serious, couldn't help but look at her twice.

"As long as the shopkeeper answers to our satisfaction. Despite the bargain. "Chu Dingjiang is full of money, and he is worried that there is nowhere to spend it.

An Jiu has never been able to manage money, in this regard, she can drink a pot with Chu Dingjiang, both of them are half-catty and eighty-tael losers, she doesn't think there is anything wrong with Chu Dingjiang spending money so much.

Zhu Qiqi stroked his palm. suddenly smiled, with a deep pear vortex on the side of her mouth, which suddenly added a lot to her, "Since the two of you are so refreshing." To be sure is to know everything and say everything. ”

She tilted her head slightly and commanded, "Serve tea." ”

The beautiful maid stepped aside. After a while, I brought a few little girls to serve refreshments, and then they all retreated far away.

"We want to know the Feng family who does the shipping business in Yangzhou." Chu Dingjiang Road.

"It's simple, three hundred taels." Zhu Qiqi quoted the price first, and felt that the other party was not frightened, so he poured tea and sent it to the two in person, and talked about the news, "Feng's ...... The two of them are the right people, others don't know, but I know, and now Feng's surname is almost changed. ”

"Qin?" Chu Dingjiang Road.

Zhu Qi smiled and nodded, "Yes, in recent years, the government-run wharf has a large amount of food, and there are many new boat runners, Feng's is no longer able to monopolize the rivers and waterways as it was back then, and now it mainly relies on the original wharf to collect the funds of merchants next to the dock to stop ships and unload goods, and that little money can't support Feng's big façade." ”

"So Feng is now relying on Qin Zheng to make money to fill it?" Chu Dingjiang asked.

"yes." Zhu Qiqi kept smiling when she spoke, her smile was very sweet and kind, although everyone had never met, but it would not make people feel strange and restrained at all, gossip was commonplace, "Qin Zheng is forty-four years old this year, and he was originally a scholar. As far as the slave family knows, he took the children's test, and when he became an adult, he saw a township test, and I heard that because of his sharp words, he was not liked by the examiner, and he failed to pass. After falling off the list, his wife was sick in bed, and his family couldn't afford to study, so he simply gave up writing and started business. This person has a lot of temperament, at first he hit a wall everywhere, but he has a vicious vision, very far-sighted, and he has developed for a while when he was in the silk business, but he is too straightforward, and he has no scruples in his actions, which offended many people, and finally he was completely collapsed by people who should be inside and outside. ”

She took a sip of tea and continued, "When Qin Zheng's business failed, his wife died of illness, and he was alone with his eight-year-old son to beg for a living, at that time he was almost penniless, and he lived in the temple. At that time, the old lady of the Feng family happened to be passing by, and the old lady also knew a little about Qin Zheng's name, so he provided him with medical advice. It's a pity that his son is too young, and his natural health is not very good, so he can't bear the serious injury and high fever, so he poured a dose of medicine, and burned to death before the medicine could take effect. ”

An Jiu's mouth pursed into a line, thinking that when Qin Zheng was desperate, he must have regretted doing so desperately in the first place.

"In less than three months, he went from a wealthy merchant to a lonely family." Zhu Qi sighed, "But when his son died, he still fulfilled his promise and became a slave of the Zhu family." Old lady Feng didn't humiliate him, seeing that he had a talent for business, he took him with him to train, Qin Zheng has been in the Qin family for seventeen years, he is really a cow and a horse, and he has never started a family again. If Qin Zheng was a white-eyed wolf, the Feng clan would be the Qin clan now. ”

This is a little different from what Xiao Er said, Chu Dingjiang asked, "Didn't you say that Feng Da and the Second Master are very capable?" ”

"The ability is there, but it is far worse than Qin Zheng. Qin Zheng is very good at business at a young age and without anyone to teach him, if he didn't know how to be a human being, he wouldn't have fallen so badly. Later, after experiencing the pain of losing his wife and child, those sharp edges and corners have to be smoothed out somewhat, coupled with the teaching of the old lady Feng, if you talk about business acumen, it can be said that no one in Yangzhou City can match him. Zhu Qiqi was full of praise for Qin Zheng, and his evaluation of the two main owners of the Feng family was mediocre, "Of course, the Feng family can survive to this day, and the Feng family and the second master have made great contributions, but the big boss blindly loves to do superficial work, today is giving porridge, Ming'er donates the road, and the latter casts a golden body for the Bodhisattva, and the second master spends extravagantly in the gold cave. ”

The two are really worthy of being brothers, they both have excellent faces, but in different ways.

"That's the basic situation, I'll ask you to give all the news of the Feng family to the two later." Zhu said.

Chu Dingjiang took out a piece of three hundred taels of officials and put it on the table, and then asked, "Does Shopkeeper Zhu know the news outside Yangzhou?" ”

Zhu Qiqi was not in a hurry to collect the money, "If you know everything about Yangzhou, you know that the world is divided into three parts, what do you want to inquire about?" If the slave family knows, there is no reason not to buy and sell. ”

Yangzhou has convenient water and land transportation, and the information collection and distribution are better than Bianjing, and Zhu Qiqi is modest.

"If I want to hire a killer in Yangzhou, I don't know where I'm going?" Chu Dingjiang Road.

"Killer?" Zhu Pian raised his eyes, "The best killers in the Great Song Dynasty are all in the Ethereal Villa." ”

"How do I get in touch?" Chu Dingjiang asked.

Zhu Pian said, "Two thousand taels." ”

"Why is it so expensive?" Chu Dingjiang was not dissatisfied, but it was very strange that such a piece of news was more expensive than inquiring about the entire Feng family. You must know that Lu Dao, a Zaifu is less than 10,000 taels a year.

Zhu Pianjiao said, "Ethereal Mountain Villa is also the biggest news seller, I released a way to contact them, in case something happens, they find me, I also have to take some risks, right?" (To be continued......)