Bai Feng glanced at Bai Susu first, and said: "I asked Su Chen, if he wants to marry you, he can do it, but he needs to join the Bai family and marry you, the babies you will give birth to in the future are all the seeds of our Bai family, with the surname of the Bai family, so that not only can you marry a lady like a flower and jade, but also enjoy the wealth of the family, and you don't have to worry about his foreign debts." ”

Bai Susu was stunned for a moment, she didn't expect her grandfather to make such a request, and she planned to promote the marriage between the two, but after thinking about it, she could also understand her grandfather's hard work.

In the final analysis, I still want to keep her in the Bai family for a long time, so that she can stabilize the decline of the Bai family, save the decline, and revive the family business.

He ...... Didn't say yes? Bai Susu, with a woman's intuition, felt that Su Chen would not agree.

"How did you guess?" Old Man Bai asked with some curiosity.

Bai Susu smiled bitterly, he was really rejected by him.

But as for why she guessed so firmly, she couldn't say the reason, she just felt that Su Chen, let her not see through, and definitely wouldn't play cards according to common sense.

"In the current world, the people have a lot of contempt for the identity of the son-in-law, and the court also has regulations that the son-in-law is not allowed to enter the official career as an official, Su Chen and he ...... If he is a gentleman from beginning to end, he may be attracted by the woman's appearance and thousands of family wealth, but since he knows that he has such a talent for writing poetry, I am afraid that he is unwilling to get involved! Bai Susu briefly analyzed, and seemed to have a little more impression of Su Chen's personality in his heart.

However, Su Chen's choice made Bai Susu impressed.

Bai Fengxian nodded: "The analysis makes sense, in fact, the excuse he said is almost the same as your analysis, it seems that he is not dead set on his career, and he doesn't want to bow to the world, his character is not bad, but it's a pity that he doesn't have this fate with you." ”

"Grandpa, I don't want to talk about marriage for the time being, let's talk about it in two years." Bai Susu wants to get rid of this topic, she is just seventeen years old, she is not in a hurry, and the family's business has just been smoothed out, and sixty percent of the business decisions in Runzhou City have been decided by her, and she wants to do these things well in advance.

As for Su Chen, since she didn't agree to join the family, Bai Susu didn't want to force it, but in the past two years, it was still a shield she used to refuse to prevaricate Ding Xue.

However, Bai Susu also wanted to know more about Su Chen in his heart, after all, the future is long, the man is unmarried, the woman is unmarried, maybe there will be other turns.

"Hmph, this kid doesn't know what to do, and when grandpa finds a better Langjun for you, I won't believe it, as long as I let out my mouth, in Runzhou City, I don't know how many young people will line up at our door, begging to be rich."

When Bai Susu heard this, his cheeks were slightly red, and he was also very worried in his heart, and said angrily: "Grandpa, what can such a cartilage man do, Su Su doesn't want it." ”

"Haha, in this way, you have a good impression of Su Chen, who refused to marry?"

Bai Susu was a little unnatural, blushing a little, but quickly recovered, and said with a faint smile: "Grandpa made fun of Su Su again, so I won't marry him." ”

"That'...... How do you plan to deal with this marriage? ”

"We'll talk about it later." Bai Susu said ambiguously, and planned to drag it out, and he would not comment easily until he studied Su Chen thoroughly.

"Well, okay, let it go for now." Old Man Bai also planned to stop and see when Su Chen could jump, after all, five hundred guan was not a small number, maybe in twenty days, he would ask for the door.

In the conversation between the two grandfathers and grandchildren, there were advances and retreats, and there were evidences for advance and retreat, and they did not say it explicitly, but they all seemed to understand the meaning of the other party's words.

They all smiled at each other, and no one said anything more, a little tacitly: wait and see!

………

Fanlou Street is a main street from south to north after entering from Renhe Gate in Runzhou South City, passing through the bustling Dashikou.

Su Chen came back from buying materials from Xicao City, and walked on the relatively prosperous street, with blue bricks and gray tiles on both sides, wooden buildings and painting pavilions, wide streets repaired neatly, square bricks and bluestone paving, passing pedestrians dressed in fine clothes and beads, Luo Qi fragrant, busy traffic, a prosperous scene.

Runzhou City is located at the confluence of rivers and rivers of the special geographical location, the Yangtze River, the main artery of east-west water transport known as the "golden waterway", flows through the north of the city, where it intersects with the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, so that Zhenjiang has formed the location advantage of "cross golden waterway", since ancient times, it is a model of "rejuvenating the city with Hong Kong", known as "the key to the north and south" and "the thoroughfare of nine provinces".

Inside and outside the city, the waterways are vertical and horizontal, and this developed waterway not only brings beautiful scenery, adds to the unique temperament of "Jiangnan Water Town", but also brings the development of commerce. Since the Southern Tang Dynasty lost the thirteen states in Jiangbei, the land south of the Yangtze River, in addition to Jinling City, is the richest in Runzhou, and it is also the north gate of Jinling City and the foreign trade port of the Southern Tang Dynasty.

As Su Chen walked, he couldn't help but feel a lot of emotion in his heart.

This is the picture he saw in the history books, or the epitome of the fragments he saw in film and television dramas, the life scenes of a thousand years ago, and now they are vivid and so real.

At the crossroads of this street, which is also the core area of Dashikou, there is a high-rise building called Fan Building!

This is one of the largest restaurants in Runzhou, divided into two buildings, each with three floors, the outer building is for ordinary diners, and the inner building provides accommodation for guests, a building of seventy or eighty rooms, can accommodate many guests.

This restaurant is run by the Fan family, and it is said that in addition to the business of the restaurant inn, the Fan family also has its own winery as another source of income.

Su Chen stopped outside the restaurant, thinking that he wanted to make wine and sell soap, etc., and he would inevitably deal with this kind of high-end restaurant in the future, so he planned to go first to take a look and inspect it.

"Yo, guest officer, please come in!" Xiao Er, who ran the hall, introduced Su Chen into the courtyard and asked further: "The guest officer plans to stay in the hotel or drink tea and wine?" ”

Su Chen said: "Just have a pot of tea, and when you have to get some wine and go back, you won't order the food." ”

"Okay, lobby please!"

The interior of the restaurant is also quite open, in the lobby on the first floor, there is a wine table in the corridor, there are dozens of tables in the open space, and a stage is set up in the conspicuous place in the north of the lobby, there is a play of singing a small song on it, which is regarded as the Qing people employed by the restaurant, and performs on stage every day, giving the guests who eat wine and dine in the audience a boost.

When Su Chen sat down, the Qing people on the stage sang a song, which turned out to be the words of "Qu Yuguan" he wrote that day.

"Longshou Yunfei, the riverside is on the evening and evening, and the smoke and waves are full of ...... for a long time"

Su Chen was stunned for a moment, thinking to himself that the spread of this word was so fast? It's only been two days since I sold it, and it's starting to be sung in the restaurant.

He didn't know how much of a storm this song caused that day!

When the singing girl had finished singing, she walked off the stage and went back to the background, and then a man came to the table, and then a storyteller came up, about sixty years old, with gray sideburns and beard, and a face with the vicissitudes of time.

"Smack!" After the storyteller stood up, he patted the shocked wood and began his storytelling joke.

At the beginning of the Southern Tang and Song dynasties, often this kind of storyteller began to spontaneously concentrate in Washi, also known as Wazi, which was the concentration of entertainment venues in big cities, which began to take shape, and developed rapidly in the middle of the Northern Song Dynasty, becoming the main performance venue of Song and Yuan opera in the city, equivalent to the theater of later generations.

There are also a few tiles in Runzhou City, but the scale is not large, but some folk artists wander here, spontaneously gather in one place, and temporarily settle down, such as Naide Weng recorded in the "Capital Jisheng": "The tile is the meaning of the wild and easy to disperse."

Some storytellers and singing girls, and some talented artists, often rely on restaurants and tea shops, cooperate with the boss behind the restaurant, sign a short-term contract, and sell art here, the restaurant charges half of the fee, and the rest of the fee goes to the artist. Of course, because of the different degrees of business prosperity of different restaurants, the proportion of money will be more or less, such as four, six, three or seven.

"The last book said that the prince of Xingyang was in the scientific examination, got the official of the imperial court, and wanted to go to Sichuan to take office, Li Wa said goodbye to the water, and said to the prince of Xingyang, restore your original face today, I am also worthy of my heart, you should be a leader, strive to protect the future, and never read it to me again......"

Su Chen found it interesting, drinking tea while listening to the old man's storytelling; The old man is talking about "The Biography of Li Wa" in the Tang legend novel.

The content of the story mainly tells the story of a son of Xingyang who entered Beijing to take the exam, was nostalgic for the Qinglou, obsessed with the famous prostitute Li Wa, scattered for her, and lived on the streets, while Li Wa disappeared. Later, Xingyang Gongzi wandered outside, fainted and died on the street, and was accidentally rescued home by Li Wa, and learned that he was now miserable, and she had nothing to do with it, so he blamed himself very much, began to take care of Xingyang Gongzi, and bought books for him to continue his scientific research. In the end, she got fame, Li Wa planned to retire after success, and she didn't get along with each other in old age and death, but the prince of Xingyang was reluctant, begged each other hard, and asked the emperor to give him a marriage, and finally got a perfect marriage.

This is a legendary novel written by the Tang Dynasty writer Bai Xingjian, fictionalizing a prostitute Li Wa and her beloved Xingyang Gongzi after hardships, and finally successfully combined, showing the author's sympathy for the advocacy of the woman and the praise of character, with a strong idealistic color.

This kind of talented and beautiful woman's words are spoken frequently, and naturally there are few responses, except for a few poor scholars who applauded a few times in the audience and looked excited, the other guests listened to it many times and were not interested.

A seven or eight-year-old boy took a tray and walked past the wine table on the first floor to ask for a reward, but there were not many guests to give a reward, and the copper coins collected added up to a dozen yuan.

finally finished the final paragraph, and the storyteller bowed down the stage in the sparse applause, and today's income is still very thin.

The old man looked lonely, sighed lightly, it seemed that his stories had been told badly, and it was time to pack his bags, terminate the contract and continue to start from the beginning in a different place, so that he could eat enough.

At the wine table in front of the stage, Su Chen looked at the old man's gloomy back, and suddenly thought of a way to make money.