Section 145 Trip to Foshan (11)

Speaking of this Lin Baihu, he was born a talent, but he has a disease of widowhood. Since he inherited the family heirloom of the test hundred households, there is a tendency to expand the team of concubines in the family, and has been committed to searching for beautiful women, if it were not for the official reputation and limited financial resources, he would probably have prepared twelve or thirteen concubines a long time ago. Even so, by the time of marrying a wife, the concubines and girls in the family already have the four King Kongs. married another Mrs. Lin, Lin Ming said proudly: "This is called Wufu Longevity." ”

At this time, Lin Baihu was sitting upright on the seat of the head of the family next to his wife, and the four concubines were lined up in a half-moon shape at the back, looking like the stars holding the moon. Lin Ming looked left and right, very proud.

was watching the play, and suddenly a maid came to report: "Miss Li is here." ”

Lin Ming frowned: "Which Miss Li family?" ”

"The daughter of Master Li of the 100 households in Jiangning......" said and handed over the note written by Li Yongxun.

"Oh, it's her." Lin Ming was strange: Li Yongxun is his wife's cousin, and since his wife married to Foshan, because of the long distance, the two families have not had much contact. Why didn't you write a letter in advance, so you came to the door in a hurry?

"Who sent her?"

"According to Miss, it's a two-drug-dealer-"

"Nonsense!" Lin Ming scolded in a low voice.

"Why are you angry?" Mrs. Lin turned her head.

"Your sister from the Li family is here." Lin Ming handed over Li Yongxun's note, "A fifteen-year-old person, doing things so ridiculously!" ”

"It's all here, it's useless to be angry." Mrs. Lin was also indifferent, "I'll pick her up." Saying that, Yanran smiled, and this smile brought out the two deep dimples on his cheeks, and Lin Baihu immediately felt numb.

"Okay."

"There are also merchants who send Qianqian, and they also have to set up a table and banquet. After all, it was a long way to go, and it was delivered safely. ”

Lin Ming thought for a while: "It's okay, anyway, everything in the kitchen is ready-made." ”

Mrs. Lin went out with two maids. Asked the steward who delivered the message: "Where is Miss Cousin now?" ”

"It's in the flower hall."

"Take her to my room."

When the sisters meet, they naturally have something to say about reuniting after a long absence. Not long after, Li Yongxun said: "Sister, I'm dying of heat." Let me wash and change my clothes first! ”

"Okay, okay." Mrs. Lin took care of the maid: "Go and bring a few buckets of hot water, and then ask Mama Zhang to buy a new bath bucket on the back street." ”

In a matter of moments, hot and cold water and a tub were fully stocked. Mrs. Lin first closed the door, closed the window, and lowered the bamboo curtains, and the room suddenly became gloomy. Mrs. Lin came up, plucked the hairpin for her, untied her belt, took off her coat, and bypassed the strips of cloth wrapped around her breasts layer by layer, revealing her belly pocket. Mrs. Lin's fingers moved slightly, and she took off the silver chain hanging from her belly pocket, and the soft and slippery soft satin belly pocket slid down.

Li Yongxun turned her back shyly, but Mrs. Lin held her waist with both hands and whispered in her ear: "Qianqian, your waist is a lot thinner." ”

"Sister is so bad-" Li Yongxun twisted his waist, "Could it be that I used to be a bucket waist." ”

"No, it used to be a small waist, but," Mrs. Lin's hands held up the two small buds on Qianqian's chest, "It's a lot bigger here......"

"Sister, you hate it to death, -mess-touch-!" Li Yongxun was touched by her hands, only to feel a tingling in her chest, and quickly pushed her hand away, "I'm going to take a bath, my sister just call a maid to serve me." ”

"The maid is rough." Through the glimmer of light in the bamboo curtain, Mrs. Lin saw a slender figure, with fine skin and white flesh, black hair hanging down on her shoulders, her legs tightened, and a belly pocket barely covered her chest. Laughed; "When you came to your sister's house when you were a child, you forgot about your sister bathing you?" As he spoke, he walked over, took her hand, and whispered:

"Come on, sister will help you take a bath."

Li Yongxun's nose floated with a burst of aromatherapy temperature on his sister's body, like a musk and orchid, straight through the heart and spleen, and couldn't help but follow.

After taking a pleasant bath, Mrs. Lin asked the maid to get a brand new dressing box, help her redress and dress up, and took her own clean clothes to change into, before opening the door and coming out to see Lin Ming.

Lin Ming is indispensable for a sister-in-law, since his wife is willing to take him in, let his wife bother. Besides, with such a pleasing and lively sister-in-law, life is more fun. When asked about the situation along the way, Li Yongxun was naturally one part of the truth and nine points of falsehood. It's all the truth without adding water, and it's about the way to Foshan on the boat outside Guangzhou. Naturally, she stole the waist card, pretended to be a prostitute-woman, and played "Bliss".

Lin Ming nodded and said, "It seems that these merchants are all square gentlemen. That's a good way to thank them. ”

"Also, at least we should prepare a post, so that it seems that we are not at a loss."

"That's what Madame said." Lin Ming can be said to be obedient to this wife, and immediately asked someone to prepare a post and send it to the inn.

How to thank it? He is never happy to give money, although it is good to be a hundred households, but the top needs to be honored, passing colleagues have to be entertained, and he has a wife and four concubines to be clothed and fed, plus a bunch of small servants and maids and old mothers to support, and the expenses are very large. The imperial court has limited money, especially in departments like Jinyiwei, where there are many officials like cattle-hair, and there are more than 80,000 people who eat financial meals of all kinds. Salaries are never on time. Fortunately, he is a hundred households in the local area, and he is very oily and watery, otherwise he really doesn't know how to mix up these days.

If you only have a banquet once, the number of etiquette is too weak, and relatives and friends will inevitably discuss it when they know about it. The committee was decided, and Mrs. Lin came up with an idea: "Anyway, you have to invite them tomorrow." Since they have come to Foshan Town to do business, why don't they invite a few local businessmen to accompany them? Do them a small favor. ”

"Madame's words are very true." Lin Ming thought that this was also a gesture, it was effortless and effortless, and it was okay to get by. "Just whop?"

Qianqian said: Master Liu is a doctor, and Master Yang is the shopkeeper of the pharmacy, why don't you ask Yang Run, the shopkeeper of the hall, to accompany him? He is a leader in this industry in Foshan. ”

"Yes, Madame has thought it through."

"Please invite another Master Li Luoyouli, he just arrived in Foshan a few days ago. I also gave a birthday gift today. His family was originally engaged in business outside the customs, and the business was very large, and the concubine heard that many precious medicinal materials were obtained from outside the customs. Although this Master Li has been living in the customs for many years, maybe he still has inventory on hand......

Li Luo was naturally recognized by Lin Ming, not only did he recognize it, but today he also smiled at the "generous gifts" other than the birthday gift, and talked about a matter. He smiled: "Madame, you are thinking too much. It's up to them to do the business themselves. To be a husband is to invite people to get together, and as for whether they can talk about anything, that's their business. ”

"Yes, yes." Mrs. Lin smiled slightly, "Qianqian is here tonight, our sisters have some private things to talk about, let's stay in Qingyun today." ”

"You have private conversations with your sisters all day long." Lin Ming said, "Do you sleep more with Qingyun and Bibo every month, or do you ...... for your husband?"

"Okay, don't worry about it." Mrs. Lin's eyes flowed, extremely charming and moving, "But you have never asked the husband to stay alone in the empty room?" Besides, this is the cousin of the concubine, and she is also half of her mother's family, so she must always take care of it. ”

Lin Ming seemed to have any opinions on this, and Mrs. Lin whispered: "Tomorrow night, the concubine and Bibo will serve the prime minister together......"

Li Luoyou went to Foshan a few days ago, accompanied by two foreigners, one is John.quark, an Englishman who has been doing business in Macao for many years - Li Luoyou and other Chinese who knew him jokingly named him Quark. Poor; One was the Jesuit missionary Ma Yangchun, a German.

Since the end of the Apocalypse, when he was ordered by his father to Guangzhou to take over the family's foreign business, Li Luoyou has come to Foshan almost every two or three months to order porcelain, silk and medicinal materials. By quark. Poor channel exports.

The Li family is a generation of wealthy businessmen, and is at the foot of the word in the north of the north of the people, the style is inevitably a little "official", the group set off from Guangzhou, with three big boats, the mighty - dang - swing - along the river. As soon as it docks, it goes straight to the semicolon of the "Liaohai Line" of Foshan Datong Street. In order to receive the owner, the semicolon Cheng shopkeeper prepared everything ten days ago: as soon as the sedan chair arrived, Li Luoyou, his guests, and his wife and nephew named Gu Baocheng were brought back from the chaos in the retreat of Guangning that year, and they were also the only blood of the wife's family. Another assistant pen and ink master was connected to the living room, and the four clever little maids specially prepared poured water and tea, and were busy. Li Luoyou enjoyed the service of the little guys while inquiring about various local news-

After a while, they sat down. Li Luoyou ordered someone to send the two red-hair-guest guests to the guest room to rest first, so that they could be served.

Sweeping Leaves, one of the personal servants he brought with him, held a hookah to fill cigarettes for him, and whispered at the same time: "Aunt Jiang has settled down, ask when will the master go in?" ”

"Are you here to play with her in Foshan?" In the words, he thought that Aunt Jiang was too ignorant, "Tell her to kneel and reflect, and wait for me to come in."

As soon as he opened his mouth, he was punished, and there was no pity for the jade. The crowd stared with bated breath, not daring to answer.

"Yes." Sweeping Ye didn't dare to say much, so he had to go in to convey the order, secretly feeling too sorry for this unlucky Aunt Jiang. This kind of ruthless family method has intensified since Li Luo ran back to Guannai from nine deaths.

"Master," the shopkeeper of the semicolon Cheng came to ask: "How to arrange dinner?" Do you want to use the cook brought by the master to make a dish? "Because the Li family has been dealing with Western businessmen all the year round, they always have a chef and a variety of condiments and kitchenware ingredients at home, and they brought them together this time. In addition to entertaining two foreign guests, I also plan to invite a few customers to open foreign meat.