Although the country women are spicy, they are afraid of official errands, so when they are in Hai'an, the big girls and little daughters-in-law in the town always hide away when they see the big heads of the five big and three thick, only Cuihua is not afraid. Not only is he not afraid, but he also helped Datou wash clothes and sew clothes, and even helped Datou make a few pairs of shoes.

Although the big head shell is not easy to use, it is not that he does not know the good thing, not to mention that he also wants to marry a daughter-in-law, and he likes to go to Cuihua's side when he is in Hai'an. Every time he talked to Ji Daji and them about marrying a daughter-in-law, he always said that if he wanted to marry, he would marry Cuihua.

Cuihua came from Hai'an, he didn't know how happy he was, but he gave Cuihua all the foreign goods that Zhang Guangcheng gave him when he first arrived in Shanghai. Early this morning, I accompanied Cuihua to the street to buy vegetables, and after buying the vegetables, I gave Cuihua a hand in the kitchen, so I circled around Cuihua, and I didn't even do anything serious.

Han Xiufeng sent away Zhou Xingyuan, Liang Liu and other brothers, and when he returned to the study, he found that Ren Yu'er was helping to clean up, looking at her busy appearance, he couldn't help asking: "Yu'er, you must be very tired after a few days on the boat, why don't you sleep for a while." ”

"I'm not tired," Ren Yu'er sorted out the letters, and then turned back and said: "The foreigner's bed is too soft, and I am not used to sleeping, and I can't sleep if I want to." ”

"So you haven't slept all night?"

"I slept for a while in the second half of the night," Ren Yu'er blushed, lowered her head and said embarrassedly: "Later, I slept on the floor and didn't sleep on the bed." ”

"It's good to get used to it." Han Xiufeng smiled, and then changed his words: "Help me write a letter to Dean Gu and report to his old man that he is safe." And then there's the matter of Cuihua, I'll help the big head call the shots. From today onwards, she is no longer a maid, but my Han Xiufeng's younger sibling. ”

Ren Yu'er suddenly became a little envious of Cuihua, and said faintly: "She can also be regarded as guarding the clouds and seeing the moon." ”

"Cuihua is a good woman, it is a blessing for the big head to marry a woman like Cuihua," but with a thought, Han Xiufeng was happy in his heart, sat down at the desk and said with a smile: "Cuihua doesn't her father want a thousand taels of dowry, a thousand taels is a thousand taels, and when someone returns to Taizhou in a few days, I will ask someone to bring back the silver along with the letter." ”

"Fourth brother, you are really good to Datou Qian." Ren Yuer sighed.

"He is a brother who has played with me until he grows up, I not only want to help him marry a daughter-in-law, but also help him build a yard and buy dozens of acres of land when he returns to his hometown in the future." Looking at Ren Yu'er's thoughtful appearance, Han Xiufeng smiled again: "Don't be envious, the big head is my brother, you are my sister-in-law, when you marry in the future, I will also buy you a dowry." ”

"I'm not going to get married."

"When a man is married, a woman should be married, how can a woman not marry. When I met Qiao Futai again, I asked him if there were any talents of the same age who were not married in the same year as his classmates. I, Han Xiufeng, am now the same acquaintance of Zhengwupin and the supervisor of Jiang Customs, and my sister-in-law marrying the son of the Jinshi family is not Gao Pan. ”

"Fourth brother, I really don't want to marry someone......"

"Okay, stop talking stupid, get down to business." Han Xiufeng didn't have the time to talk about those children's affections, and muttered: "Xiao Wuzi heard from the guy in front of him yesterday that there was a boat going to Tianjin the day after tomorrow, and he planned to take that boat to Tianjin, and then take the land from Tianjin back to the capital. I wrote them a letter last night, the one that was on the table just now, you can read it for you, polish it, and transcribe it again. ”

"Okay, I'll take it upstairs and take a look."

……

Sending Ren Yu'er away, Han Xiufeng suddenly felt that there was a lack of a scribe, and was thinking about whether to hire one, Wu Jianzhang, who had not seen him for two days, came back.

Han Xiufeng motioned for Xiao Wuzi to make tea, and asked curiously, "Brother Daopu, what did Lord Xu say, why did you not come back until today?" ”

"I'm not afraid of jokes, brother, I knelt all afternoon after you left that day, and I wasn't summoned until sunset. Lord Xu's words were very serious, not only to investigate the responsibility for my lost land, but also to suspect me of being a bandit, and to say that someone had sued Akdan that they had been blown up by someone I had instructed. ”

"And then?"

The more Wu Jianzhang thought about it, the more aggrieved he became, and said hatefully: "Saying a thousand and 10,000 is not to let me give out the silver, but in the end, let me donate 200,000 taels to make up the salary, and first put my guilt in the camp to self-efficacy." ”

Han Xiufeng asked knowingly, "So this matter is not over yet?" ”

"How can this level be so easy," Wu Jianzhang sighed and looked at Han Xiufeng expectantly: "Whether it's Xu Naizhao or Gilhang'a, they can take my position at most, and they can't kill my head." But the emperor is different, the emperor wants to kill my head is a matter of one sentence, and now I can only rely on Xiang Shuai. ”

"Didn't Mr. Huang come back from the Jiangbei camp, Xiang Shuai already knows about this matter, and he will definitely not sit idly by."

"It's a matter of life and wealth, and I'm still not at ease."

"If you don't worry, then hurry up and do the errand assigned by Xiang Shuai, Zhou Xingyuan has just arrived, and he doesn't know how long he will have to wait when he sets up the Silk Tea Bureau, Xiang Shuai can't afford to wait. You can think of a way to see if you can ask the foreign company in front of you to give Xiang Shuai a batch of foreign guns and gunpowder and other military funds on credit. After receiving two cents of gold for silk tea, Zhou Xingyuan, who purchased the silver for foreign guns, will naturally return it. ”

"Brother Han, don't hide it, I'm here because of this."

"So Brother Pu has already thought of it."

"How dare I not take the things assigned by Xiang Shuai to heart, so I want to ask my brother how many foreign guns to send first?"

"Brother Domp, can you get a foreign gun now?" Han Xiufeng asked subconsciously.

Wu Jianzhang smiled bitterly: "It's a matter of life, even if you can't get it, you have to find a way to get it." ”

"How many can you get, what kind of foreign guns can you get?"

"I can't get a flintlock pistol for a while, I should be able to get a hundred and ten shots for an arquebus, and I can get seven or eight thousand catties of gunpowder if I think I want to find a way."

Han Xiufeng weighed it and muttered: "You can get as much as you can, without further ado, send someone to send it after you get it." However, we must be cautious in doing this, and we must not give authority to others. ”

Wu Jianzhang asked with a sad face: "Master Han, just send one hundred and ten arquebuses and seven or eight thousand catties of gunpowder, isn't it a bit less?" ”

"Although there are few, this is the first batch, and it is urgently needed by Xiang Shuai." Han Xiufeng thought for a while, and then said: "When I help Xiang Shuai order the next batch of goods with foreigners, I bother you to help me order two hundred firebird guns and the corresponding gunpowder and lead, which are the kind packed in paper shells." After the goods arrive, help me send them to Taizhou by the way, purchase shotguns and gunpowder and lead silver two, the current two Huai salt transport envoys and Huai Yan Dao Guo will give it to you, and will never let you paste it upside down. ”

Thinking that the two Huai salt transport envoys could reach the heavens like Xu Naizhao, Wu Jianzhang suddenly realized that now is different from before, and it is really one more friend to have one more way, and hurriedly said: "It is Wu's blessing to be able to help Master Guo run errands, not to mention the trouble." ”

"By the way, there is a tax difference between our Jiang Customs, and Zhou Xingyuan wants to recruit some cents if he wants to start a donation. If the peaceful years were to be put aside, those servants would have a few water and fire sticks and a few iron chains to deter those merchants, and no one would dare to resist taxes and donations. But now it is not peaceful today, and it is not possible to rely on water and fire sticks and machetes alone, so I bother Brother Daopu to order another 100 rods for the tax difference. As for the silver, the Silk Tea Bureau that Youjiang Customs and Zhou Xingyuan are preparing to set up are out. ”

Wu Jianzhang knew very well that Zhou Xingyuan's Silk Tea Bureau would not lose money as soon as it opened, and although Jiang Customs could not learn the tariffs on English and French commercial goods for a while and a half, the tariffs on Citi commercial goods were still levied according to the old practice, and the purchase of foreign guns was also for customs affairs. ”

"Brother Daopu, order now, when will it arrive?"

"It will take three months at the earliest."

"Three months is three months, and I'll help you write a letter to Xiang Shuai to explain."

"That's the old man."

"You and I don't have any friendship, I don't need to see each other like this."

With Wu Jianzhang, a talented person who has an extraordinary relationship with foreigners, he naturally doesn't have to worry about the things assigned by Guo Peilin, but he has a thought, Han Xiufeng's previous mood that was very depressed by Yang Nengge suddenly improved, and when he sent Wu Jianzhang away, he walked to the kitchen door in a ghostly manner, looked at Cuihua who was busy and asked: "Cuihua, it's the first time to go out so far, do you want to go home?" ”

Cuihua was startled, and hurriedly turned around and said, "Fourth Master, why did you come to the kitchen?" ”

"Why can't I come?"

"You are an official master, the big head said that you are now a positive fifth grade, and your status is more noble than before, how can you come to a place like the kitchen!"

"You can't come to the kitchen if you're in the fifth grade, what's the reason?" Han Xiufeng couldn't help laughing, and then changed his words: "Cuihua, don't call me the fourth master in the future." ”

Cuihua was extremely nervous, and asked with a sad face: "Why, fourth master, ...... you You don't think I'm stupid, and you're going to drive me back! ”

"Where do you want to go, I'm asking you to call me fourth brother in the future."

"I'm not Miss Ren, how can I call you fourth brother."

"I said you can," Han Xiufeng looked back at the big head who was standing at the door and was not on duty well, peeking here from time to time, and asked with a forced smile: "Cuihua, the man should marry the big woman and get married, I plan to help your father make the decision and marry you to the big head, are you willing?" ”

Cuihua didn't expect happiness to come so quickly, it felt like a dream, and she was stupid for a while.

"I'm not kidding you, as long as you want, I'll help you on an auspicious day."

"Fourth master, I'...... I ......"

"You don't want to? Don't worry, if you don't want to, I naturally can't force people to make it difficult, after all, the twisted melon is not sweet. ”

Cuihua relieved herself, blushed and said in a mosquito-like voice: "Fourth master, my father said before I came, let me come here and everything will be up to you." ”

Han Xiufeng realized that it was difficult for a strong person to let a big girl say that she was willing, and couldn't help laughing: "Since your father let you listen to me everything, then I will help you be the master." On your father's side, I will also give him an explanation. ”

"Fourth master, I ......"

"Why are you still called the fourth master?"

Cuihua was so excited that she didn't know how to thank her, so she learned the same as Ren Yu'er when she visited those officials, and said awkwardly, "Cuihua meets the fourth brother." ”

"That's right." Han Xiufeng returned the salute with a smile: "I'll get you some money later, and let Datou and Yu'er accompany you on the street." Although this marriage event in Shanghai can only be simple, it can't be too shabby, and all the wedding clothes and jewelry have to be purchased. ”