"This is said on the point, and you can't believe a word of what an official says! It's a shame that your uncle is still in the yamen for such a year, and he can't figure out this truth. Guan Zhutou thought so, thought about it and asked, "Four babies, you haven't said why you went to the capital yet." ”

Whether he can make up for the shortage, Han Xiufeng is not sure, but he has a plan for how to go to the capital, and said with a smile: "Yunnan has to send Yunnan copper to the household department and the Ministry of Industry every year, and every time the copper is transported, it has to pass through our Ba County. The waterway in this section of our Ba County is not easy to walk, and the boat capsizes almost every year. The copper was shipped to the capital to mint money, and if the boat capsized in our Ba County, the eldest master was going to ask the porter of the Sichuan Gang to help them fish up the copper ingots from the river. Uncle Guan, you have done a lot of errands to ask people to fish for copper over the years. ”

Guan Zhutou's eyes lit up, and he couldn't help laughing: "Talk to the master who transports copper, take their boat!" ”

"You don't have to pay for the car and boat, and you can pay the insurance along the way, if you can serve the old men who sent Yunnan copper well, maybe you can still open your mouth, and you can take a hitchhiker to the capital without spending a penny."

"This is a solution, but the official who sent Yunnan Copper can let you get on the ship?"

"This is for Uncle Guan's help, he can not let me get on the boat, but he dares to guarantee that the ship transporting copper will not capsize in our Ba County waterway?"

Guan Zhutou muttered: "When the copper will be shipped and when it will arrive in the capital, there is a time limit. The yamen along the road only guaranteed that the copper would not be robbed in their respective boundaries, but there was no guarantee in the event of a natural disaster such as a capsizing. In short, if the copper does not arrive on time, the life of the transporter will not be easy. As long as the boat capsizes on the waterway in our Ba County, whether it can be fished up or not, and when it can be fished, is not up to us. ”

"That's what I thought." Han Xiufeng grinned, revealing his white teeth.

"Fourth brother, it's naturally good if you can take the ship carrying copper into Beijing, but what can you do when you get to the capital?" The pillar asked again.

"I can only take one step at a time," Han Xiufeng thought about it and raised his arm and pointed in the direction of Tongxing pawnshop: "Isn't the second child of the Pan family going with me, he is the young owner of Tongxingdang in Zouma, but on the road, he is my subordinate, how can there be a master in the world who starves to death but has a reason to eat." Besides, if I starve to death, who will he ask for the more than 3,000 taels of silver? ”

Guan Zhutou was happy, and laughed: "So it's not a bad thing to say that his turtle son will follow." ”

It is the ancestral "craft" of the Zhuzi family, but the pillar doesn't want to eat this bowl of dead man's rice that everyone is unlucky and is not welcomed anywhere, and he really wants to go to the capital with Han Xiufeng to see the world. But thinking that the capital is so far away, one more person will cost more, so I didn't dare to open this mouth and didn't squeak anymore, squatting under the tree and sullen.

Growing up together, how could Han Xiufeng not know his thoughts, and turned around and said: "Zhuzi, my aunt and sister are from a woman's family, my father and my three brothers are all honest people, Uncle Guan is usually busy, you have to help me take care of this family more after I leave." ”

This is a serious matter and a big matter, and he hurriedly stood up under the pillar: "Fourth brother, you put a hundred hearts, no one dares to bully them with me." ”

Seeing that he was about to stop talking after playing the guarantee, Han Xiufeng put down the tea bowl and walked to him, patting him on the arm: "Zhuzi, I know that you like my sister, I can see that my sister also likes you, you two can be said to be childhood sweethearts." But your grandfather is a servant, your father is a servant, and your son is also a servant to inherit his father's business, but he is still an apprentice. If my uncle was alive, he would never have promised you his sister. ”

"Fourth brother, don't say it, I'm ...... I'm not going to bother my sister! The pillar's face flushed.

This is the Han family's business, and it's hard to say anything about Guan Zhutou, but I really want to know what Han Xiufeng means.

"Let me finish," Han Xiufeng walked to the front of the hall, looked at Han Yucai's spiritual position, and said solemnly: "I talked to my aunt for a while in the morning, and my aunt was really disheartened by this big change in my family. In the days to come, we do not want to be rich and rich, but only to seek peace and security. What's wrong with being a servant, if my sister marries you, at least she will have something to eat, and her mother and son will at least not be bullied. ”

"Fourth brother, did my aunt nod?" The pillar asked eagerly.

"Nodding, but if you want to marry your sister, you have to wait a few years, my uncle just left, she has to keep her filial piety."

"I know, I'm not in a hurry!" It's so hard to find a mother-in-law, it feels like a dream, and I'm so excited that I don't know what to say.

Guan Zhutou was also very happy, but after thinking about it, he couldn't help but remind: "Four babies, the pillar and the younger sister's childhood sweethearts, this is indeed a good family business, but will your uncle's spirit in the sky be ...... Will it be ......"

"Uncle Guan, do you want to ask if my uncle will die in this sect?" Han Xiufeng sighed and said helplessly: "You can't know the affairs of my family very well, my uncle has always wanted to pass me over and continue the incense in this room." My dad agreed, and I would, but I couldn't! If my aunt makes me my heir, I will keep my filial piety, and I can't go to Beijing to confess within three years, so how can I pass the level of shopkeeper Pan? ”

"That's right," Guan Zhutou nodded, looked at the pillar and said: "Don't think so much, a cheap job is a cheap job, and being able to support the whole family is the ability." Your uncle and my ancestors have been working in the yamen for three generations, and our Guan family has been in charge of the cheap business for so many years, but who dares to look down on me Guan Da when I go out? ”

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The shopkeeper Pan, who had just arrived at home, asked his eldest son Pan Changxi to collect the re-established IOU and the Han family's house deed, Pan Changxi looked at the IOU that had not dried the ink, and asked puzzledly: "Dad, Han Yucai borrowed two thousand taels, and now he is dead again, this account cannot be delayed, why do you say that grace is forgiveness?" ”

"What if you don't have a grace?" The shopkeeper Pan held the purple clay pot and explained the ins and outs, the more he talked, the more regretful he became, and sighed helplessly: "Han Yucai is a ghost, why don't we look back?" If you hadn't listened to his nonsense at that time, how could there be so many things today. Eat a trench and grow a wisdom, and you can't do it if you encounter such a deal in the future. ”

"But...... But it's too cheap for them! ”

"Didn't you just say that this is no way." Shopkeeper Pan put down the purple clay pot and said with a dark face: "The people don't fight with officials, although Han Si is not an official, he is not easy to mess with." He went to the yamen with Han Yucai's short-lived ghost at the age of eight to beg for a living, what had he never experienced? You didn't go, and if you went with us, you would know how difficult he was. ”

Pan Changsheng closed the folding fan, sat down and said, "Big brother, it's really helpless for my father to agree to the grace. If we do offend the black-hearted servants, the devil knows if they will come and frame us for the thieves in the cabinet, and we will not be able to wash them away by jumping into the Yellow River. ”

Pan Changxi put down the IOU, turned around and said, "Grace is grace, you don't need to go to the capital with him." The capital is so far away, and you are not familiar with the place, can we rest assured that you go alone? ”

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