The waves were flowing, the night was as cool as water, unknown insects were chirping in the leaves and grass on the shore, it was not early, the people on the boat had already gone to bed, the windows on the second floor of the painting boat were showing a little warm yellow, and the two women had returned to their rooms, and were talking before going to bed.

"So, brother-in-law, that's what he does...... Break through those names? ”

"Specific...... That's it...... It's just a few poems, and he can't shirk it, and if others want to say that he is the first genius in Jiangning, he is a little unimpressed...... Heh, he's got a weird temperament......"

"Since ancient times, only extraordinary people can do extraordinary things...... However, is the brother-in-law really not interested in the imperial examination? ”

"He's saying no, but I don't want to ask too much about these things......

"How did my sister and brother-in-law meet?"

"We didn't know each other until we got married."

"How could it be ......?"

The lights are not too bright, the trivial sentences, the time is not early, and Su Tan'er and Lou Shuwan's voices are also soft, talking about these things about Ning Yi.

During the banquet in the painting boat tonight, it is impossible to say that no one has an impression of the name Ning Liheng at all. Even though the information is not developed, but the whole country belongs to the circle of literati is so big, a few poems can be passed in the mouths of a group of women in the Qinglou, Ning Liheng's three words, how much will be in the ears of everyone once or twice, at this time, the reader, pay attention to erudition and strong memory, after Ning Yi introduced himself a little, some people will inevitably feel a little familiar.

It's just that the preconceived impression is also very strong, with Lin Tingzhi and Lou Shuwan as a reference, since they are also a wealthy couple, it is naturally easy for people to have various associations. On the other hand, Lin Tingzhi wanted to show off, so he couldn't help but point out Lou Shuwan's family background to everyone, implying that the other party was a married young woman with status and temperament, and now she was impressed by my poetry and had a good impression of me. And Miss Lou's friend is also like this, if you want to express yourself, you can naturally offer your hospitality to her. In this way, the group focused on Su Tan'er's body, and subconsciously filtered out her husband Ning Yi.

Most of the time, the status of the son-in-law is low, and this is not just a verbal statement. The vast majority of the wealthy people, even if the woman is really openly inappropriate, the man is afraid to be angry but dare not speak, the identity of these men is like a long-term worker such as a domestic slave, occasionally some bloody, forced to enter the family, encounter such a thing, if you can't swallow it, kill the news of the wife and father-in-law's family, it's not nothing.

This kind of thing is very rare, the Wu Dynasty is always talking about three obedience and four virtues in this era, but it was originally an unequal foundation, and when everyone around felt that the two were unequal, the relationship between the husband and wife naturally could not develop too well. If the woman also has the intention of looking down on the man at the beginning, the man is not angry, and over time, dissatisfaction will increase.

Like Lou Shuwan, with such family conditions, it is not strange that she has something to do with some scholars and talents. She is young, beautiful, rich, and temperament is not bad, which scholar can be with her, but also just take advantage of it, do not suffer, in this era, the matter of high-ranking families giving concubines to each other can be called elegant, hooking up with a married man, a pass in a small circle, it is just a romantic affair that proves the charm, Jiangnan is romantic, since ancient times, it is not bad to praise such things as obscene words and songs.

In this way, after the first introduction, there were only one or two people who were suspicious, and everyone was not interested in taking care of the people who were involved, so they did not ask at that time. After Ning Yi and Su Tan'er left, the formal dinner party was also dispersed, and someone asked Lin Tingzhi about the origin of the couple, or asked Su Wending and Su Wenfang about the details of the family in Jiangning, and then someone said: "Fang Cai Ning Liheng seems to have the same name as the author of "Water Tune Song Head". ”

The Qing'er girl on the painting boat also smiled: "The Fang Cai slave family is also thinking about it, and they are all from Jiangning, what a coincidence." She made a living from this, and she was more sensitive to these things, but she didn't think that the merchant's son-in-law would be a big word, so she only asked the two people of the Su family: "Prince Wending, Prince Wenfang, the two of you are in Jiangning, have you ever seen Prince Naning?" ”,

Su Wending said: "Isn't it my brother-in-law?" ”

"Oh, it's Ning Gongzi who wrote "Water Tune Song Head" and "Qingyu Case". Some time ago, Qing'er sang those songs every day, and I wanted to see what kind of romantic character the author was, although I can't see it now, if Wending Gongzi and Wenfang Gongzi meet, it's good to talk to Qing'er. ”

Su Wending and Su Wenfang looked blank: "Well, that's it...... My brother-in-law. ”

For a while, everyone in the room had their own wonderful expressions, most of them were dumbfounded, and then whispered, and there were also people like Lou Shuwan who didn't pay much attention at first, and only came to ask questions after realizing something. In fact, Su Wending Su Wenfang was somewhat ill-intentioned, originally thought that so many scholars, his brother-in-law would shout for a long time when he reported his name, and he was also honored here, but who knew that the gang of people in Lu Dao did not react at all, and at this time, they finally waited, and after seeing that they were satisfied, they said goodbye with a pure face. Go home and show off to my sister and brother-in-law.

As for Lou Shuwan and Lin Tingzhi, Ziye came back soon after. Lin Tingzhi looked at Ning Yi and asked too many questions, but Lou Shuwan was different. She herself is not very interested in poetry and sentences, what really attracts her should be the atmosphere of the coexistence of literature and ink and hustle and bustle after the words and sentences of poetry, such as the annual literary meeting in Suzhou and Hangzhou, which is praised by everyone, and the literati chant poems and are endowed with poetry, and everyone applauds when they pay attention......

She is a wise woman, and with a little study, she can distinguish the good from the bad of the poems. But unlike Su Tan'er, Su Tan'er is more looking forward to integrating into the text itself in addition to business, not only to be able to distinguish the good from the bad, but also to hope that she can be like those literati, even if she can't do it, at least she can dissolve into the artistic conception of poetry, so that she can also become an elegant person, but she is entangled in everything, and she is a woman's position, and her talent in this area is not enough, sometimes she feels that she is full of copper smell and has no elegant atmosphere, so she admires those literati.

Lou Shuwan is more looking forward to the appearance brought by poetry, it doesn't matter if she is not elegant in essence, it is enough for others to think that she is elegant or elegant. She doesn't know how powerful Jiangning's first genius is, but hearing this title naturally reminds her of the title of Hangzhou's first genius or Suzhou-Hangzhou's first genius, people who can usually be called like this, whether rich or poor, are the center of others' talk about outside, or participate in a certain literary meeting to win the first place, or on such and such an occasion by Confucianism, big officials are respected or valued, some of them have imperial examination high schools, and they have become officials in a short time, even if the examination room is not smooth, in Suzhou and Hangzhou, it is always the center of attention.

Lou Shuwan can only fantasize about what Jiang Ning's number one talent is based on this impression, but she can't be connected with Ning Yi's identity as a son-in-law no matter what. I was puzzled all the way, but after I came back, it was not good to ask directly, but fortunately, she also knew the art of talking, and only after chatting for a while did she talk about it, her tone was calm and indifferent.

It's just that Ning Yi doesn't have much intention to communicate about this matter, and his writing is also fake. Ning Yi has no qualms about this, if in front of his wife and family, including Su Tan'er, including Xiaochan, including Nie Yunzhu, pretending to be a great writer to make them laugh and make them proud, it is natural and casual, but if he wants to show off too much in front of outsiders such as Lou Shuwan and other women, with his current state of mind, there is really no need, just say that his literary talent is not high, and others praise him, and so on.

So Lou Shuwan had no choice but to think that it was too rude to this brother-in-law two days ago, so the other party was a little angry, so she had to stay until late at night before talking to Su Tan'er.

It's just that after the half-night conversation, when Su Tan'er fell asleep, she still had some doubts in her heart. I don't understand why such a talented person would marry Su Tan'er, and I don't understand why Ning Yi has such a temperament. When he got up the next morning, he saw Ning Yi practicing boxing on the deck, and he had to think that this was an uninhibited talent who really knew the six arts and admired the chivalrous style, and when Lin Tingzhi saw Ning Yi practicing martial arts again, the expression on his face was also complicated and indescribable.

The painting boat set off again in the early morning of this day, the waterway from Jiaxing to Hangzhou is still nearly 200 miles, but in the case of smooth wind and water, even if the boat is not too fast, in the afternoon of this day, the waterway has become more and more busy, the villages on both sides of the canal, passers-by began to increase significantly, and occasionally there is a garden and village courtyard hidden in the nearby tea mountains and forests, which proves that Hangzhou is coming.

Although Hangzhou was not yet the capital of the country at this time, as one end of the Grand Canal, Hangzhou has been a very prosperous metropolis since ancient times, and in the evening, the city's buildings will be overlapping in front of you, and in the distance is the busy freight terminal, even compared to Jiangning, there is not the slightest inferior. On the other hand, she strongly invited Ning Yi and his wife to live temporarily at Lou's house, after all, the group came from afar, and probably did not find a specific place to live. However, although the future business may still rely on the Lou family, Su Tan'er still shook her head and refused. In fact, Sufu has a certain industry in Hangzhou, although it is just two small shops that are opened at random, but when it comes to residence, from the time she was preparing to go south, she arranged for someone to come and rent a small courtyard, and the house she really plans to live in the future is ready to look for it while playing in the past few days.

With so many people coming over from the Su family, they naturally also have the idea of expanding their business, and it is not necessarily a good sign to live in someone else's house all of a sudden. Lou Shuwan opened her mouth slightly, and she didn't say more, she was curious about Ning Yi, but naturally she was only curious. The next day, Ning Yi and Su Tan'er went to visit the Lou Mansion, had a meal, and also saw the current main building of the Lou family approaching.

This person is slightly older than Su Boyong, he should be in his early fifties, his beard and hair are all black and white, but he is in good spirits, his appearance is dignified and heroic, extremely energetic, and when he stabilizes, he is imposing. Judging from his appearance and conversation, this person is a real shopping mall hero. The Lou family is thicker than the Su family's family background, although it is still a business, but it has precipitated a truly stable family style, this building must have been pampered since childhood, but he is not mediocre, talented and skillful, and has experienced a really fierce shopping mall hard work, in order to cultivate this kind of extravagant and compelling sense of oppression.

For Su Tan'er, he obviously treated him with a cordial attitude towards his juniors, and his attitude was relatively kind. But for Ning Yi, the head of the Lou family was more or less suspicious and hostile, and when he was eating, he asked a few relatively sharp questions, and then squinted his eyes and looked at him with a smile, feeling a little like a lion staring at his prey.

His hostility, Ning Yi probably knew where the Dao came from, from the conversation during the visit, Lou Shuwan had obviously told his father what happened along the way, this Lou Lin listened to his daughter's statement, presumably felt that his daughter let Ning Yi and his wife pretend to be pigs and eat tigers for a pastime, he may not have too many tentative thoughts about Su Tan'er, but after hearing Ning Yi's identity, he subconsciously wanted to touch his bottom.

Different from Lou Jinlin, in the previous life, Ning Yi started from scratch, all the way up, to a certain extent, and he had also seen many shopping mall tycoons with real family backgrounds, and when these people looked at the juniors with a vigilant or test attitude, they were often like this. It's not that young people will be really scared when they see this kind of gaze, but under such a gaze and momentum, ordinary people will inevitably be confused, some people take into account the power of the other party, subconsciously show weakness, some people are strong and strong, or simply put on a slightly arrogant attitude, in fact, it is also messing up their own rules, in the eyes of experienced people, it is easy to see the depth of this person. This is not knowledge that can be learned, but an experience that can be cultivated by knowing people for a long time.

Being stared at like this by Lou Jinlin, Ning Yi couldn't help laughing in his heart, almost feeling a little nostalgic. In those years, people who saw him like this were surpassed by him one by one, among which there were opponents and partners, but he started from scratch and fought all the way, although he later precipitated and converged, but if he got serious, the momentum still seemed sharp. The same was true of Tang Mingyuan's words at the beginning, but he was just emotional and tired in his bones, and he couldn't cultivate that kind of lion-like laziness.

At this time, Lou Jinlin naturally couldn't make him feel much pressure, he smiled and looked at Lou Jinlin's expression a few times, and then just made a simple gesture of chatting, answering as usual, and his expression was not half a point of modification, as for how Lou Jinlin would judge after the matter, it was none of his business.

However, Su Tan'er noticed the attitude of approaching the building, and on the way home after the visit, she looked a little angry: "This family, I went to visit with kindness, and I actually worshiped that kind face, Xianggong, you ...... Don't feel anything? ”

Su Tan'er looked at Ning Yi and asked with some hesitation, during the conversation just now, Lou Jinlin asked about Ning Yi's background and the like, there were a few questions that were relatively sharp, and the other party's expression was also very stressful, but Ning Yi answered casually while eating, and there were two questions that were probably related to the relationship between the husband and wife and did not want to answer, so they casually turned into rhetorical questions. In that case, he didn't necessarily have the feeling of being so natural, he actually went directly to the old man's strong home advantage, and then stuffed the home field back. , Ning Yi just shook his head and had a calm attitude: "His daughter is a bit like being put on the table, it's not surprising that he has this reaction." This Shibo is still very powerful, if it is not necessary, try not to erect such an enemy. ”

Tan'er nodded: "I know it." "She is good at shopping malls and interpersonal relationships, and she is not necessarily inferior to Ning Yi - at least with today's contact, it is difficult to see these superiors, after all, she is also a very talented and highly qualified businessman - but listening to Ning Yi's casual words like a warning, she didn't have much rejection in her heart, just nodded obediently and was at ease.

Even so, no one will think that she is lower than Ning Yi, at this time, the sun is setting, in the carriage, the light is only like a young and tacit couple with a husband and wife, Ning Yi thought about it, and laughed, and then, she also laughed.

The carriage drove through the beautiful and unfamiliar streets for them, and now, it was already a street market in Hangzhou......

This visit only met Lou Jinlin, Lou Shuwan and her husband, while Lou Shuwan's two brothers were not at home. It is a polite visit, without too much purpose, and they may not be able to leave a deep impression on each other, although Lou Shuwan's husband is also a scholarly talent, but his status is also extremely low-key in the Lou family. Of course, people of that age, in front of the head of the house, are only low-key.

The day after the visit, it rained in the sky, Lou Shuwan came to the small courtyard where the Su family lived temporarily, she originally planned to lead everyone to play in Hangzhou as a landlord, but she also gave up because of the heavy rain. Another day, the heavy rain did not stop, Lou Shuwan went to deal with the business affairs at home, so she stayed until it was sunny, and did not come again, but just sent a member of the family to lead Su Tan'er and others to see some courtyard facades, etc., only to say that the young lady is in a hurry now, and if she does not come, please take care of it.

At this time, everyone settled in Hangzhou, the Su family originally had a few properties here, and the Wu family also ceded a few façade real estate, which was originally too far away, and it was quite troublesome to officially receive and sort out at this time. Su Tan'er remembered that she originally came to play with her husband, but all kinds of trivial things were mixed together, and in Ning Yi's opinion, these days were quite interesting.

After a few days, they officially took a fancy to a courtyard in the city, bought it directly, and then began to plan and decorate it. This is a mansion located near Taiping Lane, although it is expensive, it is Ning Yi who buys it mainly. According to his calculations, if the capital moves south in the future, the Jiuli Imperial City will be built not far away, and when the time comes, whether this place is to be sold or to live in his own house, it will be an inch of land.

The streets near this house are quite prosperous, and doing business is simple, but the adjacent one is a residence, suitable for living, but there is a small martial arts hall at the corner of the street, hey hey halu ha all day long, but Ning Yi has lived in the metropolis for a long time, so naturally he will not feel noisy, but feel interesting. Then I thought about it, I had nothing to do anyway, so I might as well join this martial arts gym and find some actual combat.

He likes mysterious things like internal force, and he is somewhat yearning for martial arts, but it is just an exploration of magical things that he doesn't understand, and he is actually not keen on actual combat, and he doesn't think that he really wants to become a Jianghu man who licks blood from the knife edge in the future. It's just that I've experienced a few things, and then I'm idle, and I think it's good to practice.

Of course, after opening his mouth a little, he was resolutely opposed by the wives and maids who had always been obedient in the family......