Chapter 140: Returning Home
Sister Ge Qiu's thoughts, Zhen Niang pondered, but she was just curious, and she couldn't figure it out for a while, so she didn't care anymore.
In a blink of an eye, it entered the wax moon. The things were purchased, and all the items were organized.
On the fifth day of the lunar month, the boat at the time of Mao, Zhen Niang got up when she was ugly, and the Taoist woman in the kitchen had already cooked salty porridge, using dried vegetables, mung beans, red beans, red dates, and dried beans, lean meat, etc.
This porridge is the Taoist mother-in-law did not sleep all night, spent all her efforts to boil it out, boiled for more than two hours, very viscous, each person has a big bowl, eat into the stomach for a while.
After everything was ready, Zhen Niang and the others said goodbye to the people who stayed one by one, the ugly woman and the second dog stayed, and Master Ma and Aunt Ma's family also stayed with Li Zhengping. In this way, there is nothing to worry about here in Nanjing.
Everyone cherished each other, and greeted the New Year in advance, so that when the fish belly was white, the Li family and his party went out in a carriage.
There are sparse people outside.
When passing by Yi Housheng Qian Village, I saw Luo Wenqian standing at the door, bowing to the Li family and his party to be careful on the road.
Zhenniang lifted the curtain and asked, "Isn't Brother Luo going back?" ”
"Return, there are still a lot of things on my side, and I will have to delay for a while, and my fifteenth ship will arrive in Huizhou to catch up with Chinese New Year's Eve." Luo Wenqian arched his hand.
"Oh." Zhenniang nodded, and also said that she cherished, but she also understood a little that Huizhou was sad for Luo Wenqian, and the main reason for him to go back was to worship his ancestors. Now I don't even have a home. Therefore. It doesn't have to be so early.
Putting down the curtain, Zhenniang retracted her head, but met her second aunt's smiling face, which was quite warm.
"Second aunt, what's the matter?" Zhenniang asked.
Huang shook his head, nothing, but I was thinking in my heart, a few days ago. Old man Cheng mentioned Luo Wenqian's matter to her, and only said that Luo Wenqian was very compatible with Zhenyu.
Before, Zhen Niang and Luo Wenqian asked and answered, there was a very harmonious tacit understanding, and then thought that Luo Wenqian's parents were missing, and now I think more, this world, most of them are already fierce and auspicious, this Luo Wenqian is a man who has worked hard to get to this day, but he is also a responsible man. It's just that a woman who can know cold and hot is needed.
What's more, everyone knows Luo Wenqian, and they all travel in ink making. Not to mention anything else, at least I can understand Zhen Niang a little better, thinking about it this way, this Luo family son is really a good family who can match Zhen Niang. It's just that this kind of thing has not been told to Zhen Niang and Niangxin and grandparents, so I won't say anything about it at this time, and when I return to Huizhou, we will discuss it, and if it is successful, let Mr. Cheng appear.
In this way, the group got on the boat, and the ship set sail on time.
Along the way, it was also a smooth wind, the boat traveled for 15 days, and arrived in Huizhou, it was Shen Weishi, got off the boat at Yuliang Wharf, and called the carriage, everyone was urgent, and the horseman also whipped up and hurried, and arrived at the city gate after a while.
"Second grandmother, cousin, and old grandmother are at the gate of the city to greet us." Because Hua'er had never been to Huizhou, she greedily looked at the scenery all the way, and sat at the head of the carriage despite the cold, and then saw a bunch of people at the gate of the city from a distance, and the first one was the seventh grandmother. And he cried out cheerfully.
When they heard that the seventh grandmother actually came to the city gate to greet everyone, the Huang family and Zhen Niang were quite flattered.
"Stop." Zhenniang hurriedly rushed to the coachman, but it would be rude not to wait for the carriage to get close before getting off.
The coachman immediately made an emergency stop, everyone got out of the carriage, walked forward, and arrived in front of the seventh grandmother, and then looked at the grandfather, grandmother, mother and other people next to the seventh grandmother, Zhen Niang suddenly had red eyes, and knelt down with a plop: "Seventh grandmother, grandparents, mother, Uncle Jingdong, Uncle Shao, how does this make it, this is to kill Zhen Niang." ”
"Make, make, you have made a great contribution to the Li family." The seventh grandmother smiled, stepped forward and pulled Zhenniang up, held her hand, and patted it vigorously, quite excited.
Zhen Niang won the princess's mansion to make ink, so for her, one is for the birth of ink, and the other is for her own mother to vent her anger, in order to block other people's mouths, so that others have nothing to say to her in charge of Nanjing Ink Workshop.
But Zhen Niang didn't understand the importance of the ink-making offering of a princess's mansion to the Li family, which was tantamount to adding a talisman.
In this era, businessmen have money, but businessmen have no status, and if there is no backer behind them, it is just meat on someone else's board.
Weishenme over the years, each family has hollowed out their minds to fight for the right to pay tribute to ink, in fact, to help the imperial court to make tribute ink, the money earned is very limited, sometimes it is not necessary to take a big risk, but Weishenme everyone is still fighting, hollowing out the contents, only because the risk is the risk, but a tribute ink right means that there will be a court behind the backer.
Now, Zhen Niang is the ink making of the princess's mansion, although in the Ming Dynasty, the princess has no real position in the court, but the status of the princess is there, no matter how low-key it is, it is not ordinary people dare to move.
Now Zhenniang has obtained the ink-making offering of the princess's mansion, just like the title of the gold list of the Li family's children, the old grandmother came out to greet her, in order to show her attention, especially before, Li Jingming returned to Huizhou in one room, although it was brought back by the seventh grandmother, but there are a lot of rumors in the clan, and this kind of rumors and rumors, to be honest, cannot be prevented.
Therefore, the seventh grandmother has today's move to correct Li Zhenniang's name.
Now, Li Zhenniang can be regarded as returning to her hometown.
"Alright, let's go home." However, Old Man Li cleaned up his mood and beckoned everyone to return to the Li family's ancestral house together. Zhen Niang and the others went all the way, and when they returned home, it was already dark, and after a rough etiquette, they had a reunion dinner and rested.
However, although I was tired, it was still early, and I had just come home, and I was still excited, so where could Zhenniang sleep, so I sat in my grandparents' house and talked with everyone.
Zhen Niang told her grandfather everything in Nanjing, from the opening, everyone's unexpected cheers, to the ink incident, zuihou to the princess's mansion of the competition for ink. Especially the matter of Old Man Qi. I talked about them one by one. Zuihou handed over the ingot of Li's Sihe ink left to her by Old Man Qi to her grandfather.
Old man Li took the ingot of Sihe ink, and was also very excited, Li's Sihe ink method has been extinct, and now there is this ink, whether it can restore the ink method of Sihe ink, it depends on it.
"This ink is left to grandpa, while grandpa's old bones can still be used, I will ponder it."
"Hmm." Zhenniang nodded. This is what she thought, Zhen Niang in later generations, the ink method she learned was too miscellaneous, and it was more useful to give it to her grandfather than to keep it for herself.
On the one hand, the Wu family didn't pay attention to Mo or anything, only knowing that Zhen Niang had done something in Nanjing, this was her granddaughter, and she was proud of it, so she kept laughing.
After that, Zhen Niang and the Tian family have reached a settlement, and the three families of Huimo will be in the future. Let's talk about common development.
"Well, that's good. They are all Hui businessmen, it doesn't matter if they fight at home, but when they go outside, if they fight again, none of them can end up well. Old Man Li nodded.
At this time, the Zhao family snorted and said: "If the Tian family does not reconcile, it will not be, and now the Tian family is in a mess." ”
"What's wrong?" Zhenniang asked curiously.
"You don't know, some time ago, when the second child of the Tian family came back, he brought a Qing Qi'er named Xiangzhi back and gave it to Mr. Tian, and the old man Tian was confused, Mrs. Tian made a fuss a few times, and wanted to sell the incense branch several times, but the old man Tian protected it desperately, and even said the words of divorce from his wife, Mrs. Tian vomited blood on the spot, a few days ago, I touched your Aunt Tian, saying that Mrs. Tian is not well, she is very sick, and I don't know if it can be delayed until the New Year."
Zhao said, with an angry face, although Zhao has always hated Mrs. Tian, especially Zhenniang's current marriage is not smooth, in the final analysis, it is caused by Mrs. Tian's withdrawal from her family.
But even so, in this kind of battle between wives and concubines, the Zhao family has to stand on Mrs. Tian's side, after all, no woman will stand on the side of the concubine to speak in this kind of matter.
Listening to the words of her mother-in-law, Zhen Niang realized that when the eldest prince of Weishenme Tian heard that Tian Er ransomed the incense branch and brought it back, he was so angry and ruined.
"Tian Huai'an is old and confused, what is this? This is a sign of a loser. Wu on the side also hummed.
"Okay, don't talk about other people's things." On the other hand, Old Man Tian spoke.
And at this time, Du Shi hugged Hui Guan'er who had just woken up, Zhen Niang looked at this little nephew, only two months old, a small face pink, Xu was full, lying in Du Shi's arms, a look of satisfaction, the black eyes looked around, especially looking at Zhen Niang, obviously a little strange, so he looked curiously.
"Call Auntie." Zhen Niang stepped forward and teased him with a drum in her hand.
"Silly girl, how can you call someone at this time." On the other hand, Zhao said angrily.
Zhen Niang smiled at this, and then turned her face and asked the eldest brother who was sitting on the side silently: "Big brother, how is the inkstone over there?" ”
Speaking of inkstones, Li Dalang's face was a little heavy, but he said with a look of shame: "Sister, I'm sorry, we couldn't keep the inkstone." ”
"What's going on?" Zhen Niang asked in shock.
Li Dalang said it one by one, after all, Wuyuan is not the territory of the Li family after all, although there are Zhao's mother's family watching, but the two mines that Zhen Niang pointed out to her eldest brother are too eye-catching, and this wealth is eye-catching. After the first batch and the second batch of inkstones came out, they attracted the attention of the prince of Wuyuan County and several local wealthy households.
After all, those mines were excavated by the imperial court of the previous dynasty, so the county magistrate found an excuse, saying that the imperial court wanted to take it back. However, in the end, he was afraid of some shili of the Zhao mountain people and the connections of the Li family in Huizhou, so in the end, he did not come hard, but bought back half of the shares by the county government, and everyone operated it together.
And the Li family's eighth room is concerned, Li Dalang has to take care of the oil mill, and the inkstone is the main body of the ninth room and Zhen Niang's brother-in-law is in charge of more, so Mr. Li asked Li Dalang to simply withdraw from the house, and finally let Li Zhengshen and Zhen Niang's brother-in-law keep a little more share, but even so, Li Zhengshen and Zhen Niang's brother-in-law Zuihou only accounted for 20% of the shares, and the other 60% was divided by the county government and several wealthy households.
"Go back, I'm afraid you'll be worried, grandpa said he won't tell you for the time being." After speaking, Li Dalang said.
"It's okay, it's quite haode, and the eldest brother can also concentrate on the affairs of the oil mill." Zhen Niang thought about it and said, there is some loss, but in this era, you can't keep the money without power.
Suddenly, she understood that the seventh grandmother was going to meet her at the gate of the city today, and the position of the princess's mansion was not only very important to Zhen Niang, but also to the entire Li Mo.
Thinking about it, when I return to Nanjing in the coming year, the princess's mansion, that is, Li Fuquan of Fuxian Pavilion, also have to move around more, some things are inevitable after all, as long as you are sincere, it doesn't matter.
Then everyone chatted a few more words, and when the night was late, they went back to their houses to sleep, and in the alleys outside, the sound of firecrackers could be exploded from time to time......
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