"Second master, don't worry, it's already cleaned up." Changshou stood with his hands down, his body was straight, but his expression was a little relaxed, "And, Second Master, I calculated the footsteps, that is, as soon as the news came back, they immediately found out that it was done by Zhang Ergongzi's side. ”

Shen Rui closed his eyes and pondered the journey for a while, opened his eyes and smiled helplessly, and said, "It's true that I'm in a hurry, and I only suspect their revenge." ”

Changshou also smiled and said again: "The second master just rest assured, it's really clean, I checked carefully with Mr. Gao - Mr. Gao is more afraid of leaking than us, and he was originally a scout, he really earned his life from the battlefield, and he was more careful than ordinary people, but I am afraid that Jinyiwei and Dongchang Fanzi are not as good as him." ”

Shen Ying had been listening before, and nodded at this time: "According to common sense, ordinary people will first think of Jinyiwei or Dongchang when they see such meticulousness." In particular, Wang Yue was also in charge of the East Factory, and had a very good personal relationship with Mu Bin, the commander of Jinyiwei. However, the British government and Wang Yue have a lot of festivals, and they should not have imagined that the British government would make a move. ”

"However," he groaned slightly, and then said, "I think about it, this bureau may really be going to the British Mansion, but it may not be because of Wang Yue's matter, but it is like the actions of the third master of the British Mansion before." ”

Shen Rui sighed: "In the Zhang family's in-laws, they can't move the horses, so let's move Wu Jingbo." ”

Shen Ying touched his short beard and muttered: "Wu Jingbo's light treatment may not be all because of the Holy Family, think about it, this time they are mainly dealing with Lord Lin Hanlin, in the end, Lord Lin is Liu Ge's old man." However, hey, the sacred heart is unpredictable, if he really wants to suppress Lord Lin, he will be thrown directly to Yungui Huguang, how can he be sent to Zhejiang Buzheng Division. There is also Lu Heng of Ying Tianfu, who said that he was demoted, but these two Huai both transferred salt to make Si Ke a fat shortage that many people could not look forward to. ”

Shen Rui nodded, of course Ying Tianfu Yin sounds very good, but there is still a complete set of six institutions in Nanjing City, and as the former imperial capital, how many nobles there are, this Mansion Yin is not good.

Shen Ying stared at Shen Rui and said in a low voice: "The Nanjing Military Department is vacant ...... Shangshu"

Shen Rui was also moved, but shook his head again and said: "Lord Wang has just entered the cabinet, and the teacher's position is not low, and it is impossible to be promoted to a high position again." If he really sits in the position of the secretary of the military department, I am afraid that all the princes of the court and the central government will not be able to sleep well. ”

In that way, not only the bigwigs in the DPRK and China are unstable, but I am afraid that the little emperor will not be stable either.

Shen Ying also laughed self-deprecatingly and said, "I'm also anxious." ”

There was a brief silence in the room, and the shouts and cheers outside became louder.

They chartered a small independent courtyard in the inn and arranged for them to live in one place. Outside, this is the early practice of Wang Stick and the Guardians.

After the matter was discussed, Shen Rui looked at Shen Ying, got up and said with a smile: "Brother Ying, let's go out and loosen our muscles and bones." ”

Shen Ying smiled and waved her hand and said, "Go ahead, my old bones, it's better to practice meditation in the house." ”

Shen Rui laughed, "Big brother said that he was old again!" I'm not afraid to really say that I'm old! ”

Having said that, but he didn't force the scholar Shen Ying to strengthen his body, Shen Rui smiled and confessed, and took Changshou out of the room.

In the open space of the courtyard, the courtyards have been encircled, Shen Rui stood on the steps under the corridor and looked at it, and saw that the two people fighting in the circle were tall and short, fat and thin, black and white, this comparison was quite joyful. However, the two of them fists and feet, whirring and windy, but the kung fu is not ambiguous at all.

The same as the bamboo pole is Wang Stick, and the dark-skinned, short, stocky man opposite him is Tian Feng, whom Lu Sanlang recommended to Shen Rui.

When they were in Songjiang, Shen Rui and Shen Ying also visited the head of the Lu family, Lu Ci, the old man of Lu.

Since the rebellion, the Lu family has stood on the side of the Shen family and tried their best to help in the lawsuit, and then the Lu family was also compensated by the Shen family in the business of Liaodong, Shandong. After that, Tian Liangzi, the father-in-law of Lu Erqilang, a child of the Lu family, saved Shen Rui's fiancée with pills, but he also won the appreciation of nobles, and his future is immeasurable. It can be said that the relationship between the Shen and Lu families is becoming more and more intimate.

Shen Rui's visit to Master Lu was not only based on the etiquette of the two families, but also to talk about the shipbuilding of Songjiang as mentioned by the Dong Governor's Mansion, after all, it was necessary to transfer people from Shandong, and it was still the people of the Lu family who were used. In addition, there are also things such as the joint construction of a farming school, a craftsman school, and a business school.

Master Lu is the head of the Lu family's sect and Lu Sanlang's cousin, and when Shen Rui visited, Lu Sanlang naturally came to accompany him.

Later, around the end of the year, Lu Sanlang asked Shen Rui out for a small gathering alone, and introduced many people with some special identities to him.

Lu Sanlang was also a prodigal when he was young and frivolous, and then he was a small official of the yamen, and he came into contact with more and more people, and he was a long-sleeved and good dancer, so he had a wide range of people, and he had friends in three religions and nine streams.

This time, I introduced some friends to Shen Rui, which was also to prepare for the future expansion of the Shen family weaving factory, as well as the possible future sea trade business.

And this Tian Feng was introduced to Shen Rui's help.

Tian Feng's name is auspicious and pleasing, and the person looks quite pleasing, not to mention how handsome he is, and like Lu Sixteen, he begs for the black and shiny skin boiled out of life on the water, but his cheeks are full, thick eyebrows and round eyes, and he laughs with a mouthful of white teeth, which is full of kindness, which makes people feel comfortable to look at, and it is much more festive than the king of sticks and a pair of skeletons.

And this man is even more articulate and pleasing to speak - he is Nan Zhili's famous "snake letter", that is, he specializes in finding out news, threading needles between various gangs, and even sometimes sending letters and ransoms for kidnappers, etc., this eloquence is not blown.

However, don't look at him when he laughs, he is harmless to humans and animals, he can move his hands, and he can fight with Wang Stick in an intractable way, and he is also a powerful character who can kill and move ruthlessly.

In Lu Sanlang's words, without diamonds, don't do porcelain work, and if you don't have two skills, this "snake letter" has already made people pull out their tongues and sink into the river.

This Tian Fengneng has such a status, not only because of his personal ability, but also because his master is Tian Peng, the number one "military advisor" next to Shi Tianchang, the second leader of the "Giant Shark Gang" in Chongming County, Suzhou Prefecture.

Tian Feng and several other brothers were all orphans picked up by Tian Peng and raised, and they all followed his surname.

What Master brought to Tian Feng was more than just kung fu and connections - although Tian Feng didn't like pirates in his heart and went ashore early, he had to admit that he relied on the reputation of pirates to burn and loot to deter the rivers and lakes, so that he could be a "snake hyacinth" on the shore safely.

Last year, Wang Shouren took office in Nanjing, and pulled up the sailors to exterminate Shi Tianjie and other water bandits. It is rumored in the rivers and lakes that the reason why Shi Tianjie's second brother Shi Tianchang led his wife to surrender was because he listened to Tian Peng's admonition. And Shi Tianjie, who was losing and retreating, was also panicked because of the surrender of his second brother, and he was too busy to surrender.

The entire Giant Shark Gang with the Shi brothers as the core collapsed as a result.

Shi Tiantai, the third elder of the Shi family who was unwilling to surrender and fled, blamed Tian Peng for the crime of the gang's collapse, and after finding someone to kill Tian Peng and his two apprentices in the Sea Shark Gang, he also released his words, who sheltered Tian Feng and a few other brothers who came out of the self-established door and gave them business, they were enemies of him Shi Tiantai.

Shi Tiantai is still holding the banner of the Giant Shark Gang, and has committed several cases in Suzhou Mansion, and even the officers and soldiers dare to cut them, and the Jianghu people are probably unwilling to provoke such a madman, so Tian Feng's "snake letter" business will not be able to continue.

Tian Feng didn't want to go away with his brothers and sisters to start over, so he came to Songjiang Mansion to find Lu Sanlang, who had a good relationship and had a way in both black and white, and wanted to give him a shot, after all, Lu Sanlang has an official body, and the Lu family is also a big family, so he is not afraid of those pirates.

Lu Sanlang knew Tian Feng's ability, so he recommended it to Shen Rui, and only said: "It's all trivial work on my side, if you really let him do it, it's better to let him go with you and help you run errands, which is more effective." Some longevity is inconvenient to do, and if you can't get your hands on it, just let him go. ”

He lowered his voice again and said: "This person also lived on the sea in his early years, and those things on the waterway are also clear, brother, you can always use him." ”

Shen Rui was full of doubts about taking in a thief at the beginning, this person was different from Du Laoba's ruffian, but after listening to Lu Sanlang's words, he was quite tempted to develop in maritime trade in the future.

Lu Sanlang repeatedly said that Tian Feng had no case, and his master was a hero who persuaded Shi Tianchang to surrender, although the official government did not make it public, but these big and small leaders who were recruited also had official identities, and Tian Feng's reputation as a colluding bandit would never be carried on his back.

Shen Rui and Tian Feng chatted openly, seeing that this person is really sharp-tongued, and he has been in contact with people from three religions and nine streams, and his vision is quite broad, Shen Rui said that he can pick up any idea, and he is also a rare person, so he agreed to leave him.

What was given to him was not the deed of the Shen family, but the deed of the employees of the weaving factory, so that they had a degree of freedom for each other.

Tian Feng has found Lu Sanlang, but he still wants to make a living by relying on this three-inch incorruptible tongue, and now he can take refuge in the more powerful Shen family, how can he not do his best. Especially when I heard that this Second Master Shen was a personal disciple of Lord Wang Shouren, I was reborn and respected-Wang Shouren suppressed the Taihu Lake bandits and exterminated the giant shark and pirates in two years, and he was already rumored to be miraculous in the rivers and lakes.

After Tian Feng entered Shen Rui's door, he met Wang Stickzi, the two of them have a general background, but they can talk about it, and Wang Stickzi has also traveled some places because of Du Laoba's external affairs, and some gangs inevitably have acquaintances who both sides know, and they are more and more speculative when they chat.

When I went to Baishan before, Wang Stick took Changshou and the newly selected Zhang Chenglin to go together, which also made Changshou familiar with the number of rivers and lakes.

Since Tian Feng came, and then went to worship the mountain, Changshou did not follow, but Tian Feng followed Wang Stick, the two of them looked scary, the other was clever and coaxing, but they also cooperated tacitly.

And when they encounter a place when they get up in the morning to practice, the two of them will inevitably stretch out their hands to fight twice, because the force is equal, and it is difficult to distinguish the winner from the loser, and they have to make an appointment every day to compare like this.

Here, Shen Rui saw that he was up, and greeted Changshou, and the two also joined the battle group.

This is not the first time that everyone has made a move, Wang Stick and Tian Feng did not shy away, they greeted the two of them respectively and stretched out their hands to take the move.

Shen Rui and Changshou's kung fu are taught by Wang Shouren and Hong Shan Zen masters, which are more orthodox, while Wang Stickzi and Tian Feng's kung fu are purely practiced in the rivers and lakes, which are more practical and more ruthless, and they are still better than Shen Rui and the others in terms of skills.

However, against the lord's family, Wang Stick and Tian Feng naturally couldn't make yin moves, most of them were just feeding sparring partners.

Although their kung fu was greatly reduced, it was different from the same nursing home, and it was closer to actual combat, and Shen Rui practiced quite happily.

The guy over there brought breakfast, greeted him at the gate of the courtyard, and everyone in the courtyard took his hand.

The attendants came over one after another to bring food and came in to set it up, and here Shen Rui and the four of them took the handkerchief and wiped their sweat.

Wang Stick leaned over and asked in a low voice, "Second Master Shen, how many days are we going to stay in Nanjing City?" The little one is thinking about going out to a few post stations outside the city to greet him in the past few days, but there is a letter from us. ”

As early as the early years of Hongwu, the Ming Dynasty set up water horse posts, delivery stations, and express delivery shops in the whole country, and widely opened up post roads, and the post stations were mainly used to undertake political reports, convey military information and official documents, and receive past envoys and officials.

In the past, officials stopped at the post station to rest, but non-military information and official documents could not be transmitted at the post station.

However, most of the ordinary eunuchs who send their families to deliver letters are also to travel along the post road, so Wang Stick has the words of going to the post station to greet the messenger.

Nanjing officialdom is changing, and it is not appropriate to visit around at this time, Shen Rui shook his head and said: "I'm not going to stay, let's leave for Beijing today." It's better for you to check it out so you don't miss the news. ”

Shen Rui was also very helpless about the information transmission during this trip.

It's okay to just get out of Beijing, after all, the road is long, after passing through Shandong and entering Nanzhili, the weather is cold and the road conditions are not good, and the message transmission has become extremely slow.

More than once, he had the idea of establishing his own message delivery channel, but he just surrendered to reality - the journey from the capital to Songjiang was too long, and he didn't know how many intelligence points would have to be set up to maintain high-speed transmission. Aside from spending manpower and material resources, the key is that there are not so many important messages that need to be delivered at high speed, which is a waste.

However, looking at Wang Stick and Tian Feng, another thought suddenly flashed in his mind.

After breakfast, before Wang Stick went out, Shen Rui called him and Tian Feng and Changshou to discuss the matter.

"I heard that the civil engineering project of Xiyuan is finished, just wait for the spring flowers to bloom, and the transplanted trees and flowers will be completed?" Shen Rui asked Wang Stick, "Earlier, I mentioned a carriage and horse business with your eighth master, I don't know how the eighth master is prepared." ”

Wang Stick smiled and said: "But thank you for the second master for giving my brother this idea, my brother is a boast that he has no mouth, I also sent someone to Liaodong to buy horses before I came out, and I also need some cattle, and it is more stable for the ox cart to pull more people." Hey, just wait for the West Garden to be completed, and the people can go in and have a walk! ”

Shen Rui asked again: "Hearing you say this, are you familiar with the matter of carriages and horses?" ”

Wang Gongzi showed a little pride on his face, "I handle my brother's affairs." "Because of the relationship between my aunt and uncle, who broke bones and tendons, Wang Stickzi is indeed the most trusted person in Du Laoba.

Shen Rui smiled and nodded, "Very good, I have something to ask." ”

"Don't mind, second master, if you have something to say, please command, you can't afford to talk like this." Wang Stick hurriedly laughed. It's a pity that no matter how much he wants to lower his posture, this grin is a terrible skeleton.

"You look at the carriages and horses, maybe do long-distance business? between towns and even further. Shen Rui said, "I'm not talking about one person chartering a car, but multiple people in one car." ”

Wang Stick scratched the back of his head, and said with some confusion: "Countrymen go to the city like this, the family gathers a few big bucks, and takes someone's donkey cart to go." But no matter how far away, second master, you see, these people from the south to the north, rich and noble families like you set up their own cars, and some of them will charter cars and boats, and you see how many boatmen in Tongzhou do this for a living. ...... without silver This and this, or walk by two poles, or there is a passing ox cart and donkey cart to give the two of them a ride...... You say this, hey, most of the handlebars in our Green Wolf Gang's carriages and horses are from the capital, and there are not many people who go out, and they don't know the road anymore. ”

Shen Rui nodded and said, "It's this reason." I suddenly thought, if we take a few coachmen who are familiar with running long routes, and set up our own inn on the road according to half a day's foot - your drunken fairy building is not very good, this person and horse rest and chewing are provided by the inn, and you can also put a few horses for transfer. This inn is not too far, first of all, you can come around the capital, to the direction of Liaodong, to the direction of Shandong, set up a few first, try to operate and see, do you think it is feasible? ”

Wang Stick thought about it and thought about it, and said: "You can do it like this, that is, you don't make money." ”

Shen Rui couldn't help laughing, although Wang Stick was a gangster, he had been doing business with Du Laoba for a long time, and he was completely a businessman's mind.

"You may not make money at first. But in the long run. Stick, if you think about the dart game, at the beginning of the journey with a martial artist, it didn't take a lot of work, but when the dart game was set up and the prestige was there, it was a ...... waiting to collect the money."

Before he finished speaking, Wang Stick's eyes widened, and he couldn't help but wonder: "Second master, you are a god, how do you know that my brother is going to start a dart game?" ”

Shen Ruixin said, "Where do I know!" But to make an analogy that I think you Jianghu people can understand! But he had to smile on his face.

And this smile fell in the eyes of Wang Stickzi was a little unfathomable, and he did not hesitate to pour beans from the bamboo tube and said everything: "My brother knows a lot of friends on the road, you see, how many mountains have been worshiped along the way, and those are all friends that my brother knows." The dart game can't be beaten by playing, relying on friends to appreciate the face, so my brother has more friends and wants to open a dart game...... That, later, isn't this a merger with the Gong Gang, and there are too many brothers to lose. ”

His expression darkened significantly, "My third brother, who was originally able to come out to carry the dart game, also folded, and this matter is yellow." ”

After that fire, the Green Wolf Gang gained a foothold in the west of the city, but it was also a big injury, and Du Laoba's own brother was also folded in that scene.

Shen Rui also sighed, and after a little comfort, he turned back to the topic and said: "In the short term, it will definitely be a lot of money, but to make a name, do you think about how many people go south and north in a year?" Our inn is not specially designed for turnover guests, but also for other guests. Moreover, we can not only receive people, but also receive goods, receive letters, and ......."

That's the post office, or even the courier. At this time, although there was a dart bureau, there was no private postal and express delivery system.

"This can also be a long-distance carriage into a number of short distances, each coachman is familiar with the road between the two counties, to the inn we set up, and then change to a driver who is familiar with the road ahead. Changing people and horses, because they are not tired, the foot will only be faster. ”

The inn is like the station in the previous life, as long as the station is set up, and the stations depart from each other every day, then there is no need for a special person to send the letter quickly, as long as the letterhead follows the car every day, it will naturally arrive quickly.

This is the communication channel that Shen Rui wants to operate.

Wang Stick was still thinking, Tian Feng had already said with a smile: "There are still some businesses around, and they can also receive goods, and they can also be matched to help sell them." If you set up an inn along the canal, the business is better, and some small friends understand this. ”

In the end, he was a "snake hyacinth", and the first one was thinking about the business of the Chinese.

He has been coming to Shen Rui's door for a while, and he has not used it yet, and he is also eager to show himself, he smiled, his eyes flickered, and said: "Coastal, maybe you can earn more." ”

But it is said that the pirates are stolen.

In the industrial chain of selling stolen goods, it is the rule of the industry to sit on the ground and eat the majority of the head, and it is normal for a boat to eat tens of thousands of silver.

Tian Feng, the "snake letter", is often such a Chinese person, and he is very familiar.

Shen Rui glanced at him and said lightly: "I've done too much of this kind of thing, so I don't have to worry that the yamen won't come to you." ”

Tian Feng shrunk his neck, he was speechless, and his heart was secretly vigilant, now the owner is a child of an official family, and those things that are easy to cause trouble must not be touched.

Wang Gongzi thought for a while and said: "Little thought, like the second master said, let's try to open a few in the suburbs of Beijing first, after all, there are many people from Tongzhou to Beijing, and if Xiyuan is opened, there will only be more people." Looking at the small days, the business of the Lu family Hongyun Inn is also good, here in Songjiang, can the second master also do it? It is better to partner with the Lu family and let the Hongyun Inn expand outward. ”

Shen Rui nodded and said, "Yes, the Hongyun Inn is already expanding outward. It's just that there are more ships in the south, and the business of the carriage and horse dealers is far less than that in the north. It can be done like a water horse post, and the water and land routes are exchanged, so it is convenient to go what you want. ”

It's just that at that time, I talked with the Lu family about the Hongyun Freight Station, that is, the Songjiang cotton cloth and other Songjiang specialties of the Shen family, the Lu family and other weaving factories.

This is also a measure to deal with those small workshops that use the name of "Shenjia Songjiang cotton cloth".

Those small workshops did not use the name of the cloth "Painting Jintang" produced by the Shen family weaving factory (the painting Jintang is also the name of the cloth village opened by Zhao Tong and Yang Tian), nor did they imitate the unique mark of the Shen family's tribute on the cloth or outer oil paper.

Therefore, only when the products are fully rolled out, and merchants have more understanding channels and purchase channels, they will not be deceived by the confusion of those small workshops.

Of course, it is another matter for merchants to buy those small workshop products for the sake of cheapness.

"As you said, let's try it in the surrounding area first." Shen Rui finally said so.

This road is long and long, there are too many boundaries crossed, and there are many forces involved, so we really have to think about it in the long run. However, you can try it between the capital and Liaodong first.

After all, Liaodong is close, and because of military needs, there are many post stations on the way from the capital to Liaodong, and after some cleaning by Liaodong officialdom, the "friendship" between the Liaodong clan and them is not bad......

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"Don't worry, Mrs., it's all taken care of." A mother-in-law who is more than half a hundred years old stands at the table, although her temples are gray, her hair is combed in a neat bun, and the filial piety clothes on her body are also clean.

However, the young woman sitting on the throne was particularly uneasy, and asked, "Have you seen with your own eyes that the child has really been lost?" ”

The woman affirmed: "Don't worry, Mrs., what the old slave watched with her own eyes fell down, and it has not yet taken shape in three months, but it is just a lump of flesh and blood." ”

Hearing "a ball of flesh and blood", the young woman couldn't help but shake her body, clenched the Buddha beads in her hand more and more, her eyes were half-closed, her lips moved, and she silently chattered Amitabha Buddha a few times before she opened her eyes, but asked again: "What about her?" Really dead? Have you seen it with your own eyes? ”

It's no wonder that this young woman is not at ease, if this piece of meat survives, it may become a handle to nail the Shen family to the unfilial crime of "filial piety".

This woman is Xiao He's step-room, Shen Yuan's step-room, and the mother-in-law opposite is one of her henchmen, Mama Lu.

Lu's mother said: "Mrs., don't worry, she is dead." The old slave saw the human teeth burying the man. The sealing silver has been given, and people have seen a lot of this kind of thing, and they know their duty. And in the field, the old slave didn't show a little bit of our family. ”

Xiao He listened to the person buried, and trembled nervously, and his hand holding the rosary hurt, so he hurriedly recited a few words of Amitabha.

She is not yet thirty years old, but at this time, she is filial, with only two silver hairpins on her head, and a string of big Buddha beads hanging on her hands.

"That'...... What about the people on the side? The little girl who served her, and what about her mother's family? ”

Lu's mother did not have a trace of impatience, but said with relief: "Mrs., don't worry, the little girl who serves Chunhua is only ten years old, and she doesn't understand anything. Chunhua is a girl bought outside, and her mother's family has already sold out three buckets of rice, and she won't find it. And the people who didn't serve the old lady were all called by the old lady to deal with it, and if they found something else, they wouldn't think about it. ”

Xiao He often breathed a sigh of relief, leaned back, and slowly asked, "That...... Can you find out? ”

Mother Lu's face was ashamed, and she said: "The old slave coaxed her to tell the truth and spared her, but she bit to death and said that it was the master's child...... When the old lady was gone, you weren't at home, the house was a little messy, and the old man disposed of a few people, and there was a little guy who ran away with the chaos, and I couldn't find out who could have an affair with her......"

Xiao He finally waved his hand, let go of the topic, and said, "That's it." It's a hundred. Wen Yan said to Lu's mother: "It's hard for you to hurry, go and rest, give you two days off, and go back to see your family." As he spoke, he shouted "Lu Shengchang's family."

A mother-in-law from a distance responded loudly, came in all the way, carried two burdens in her hands, and handed them to Lu's mother with a smile, "The clothes that Mrs. sorted out before were made in Beijing, and many of them were never put on." Mrs. said that Shouxiao can't be worn, and it's a pity to put it in vain, so why don't you give it to your daughter-in-law and magnolia. ”

As he spoke, he squeezed his eyes at Lu's mother, and there was a burden under his eyes.

Lu's mother will realize that she not only has good materials and clothes for her daughter-in-law, but also silver.

She was an old man who was doing errands, so she was busy thanking Xiao He for her reward, and went to the back street house with her things to rest.

Mother Lu watched Mother Lu leave, hurriedly came over to pinch Xiao He's shoulders and legs, and said in a low voice: "Mrs., take a good rest, the old slave asked Lu Shengchang to send a letter to the old lady, so that his old man can rest assured." ”

Xiao He exhaled a long breath, facing her henchmen, she didn't put on any wife's shelf, and said tiredly: "Go and tell my father, that's it, the fourth master has also returned to the ancestral hall, and the house has been cleaned, so that his old man can rest assured." After a pause, he said, "The specialties brought back by Lu Chengdong's family will also be brought back to the family." I also picked out some clothes for my sister-in-law this time. ”

Lu's mother responded one by one, hesitated, and asked: "This New Year's Festival has also passed, and the fourth master has also gone back, if the grandmother wants to play the cards......"

The servant woman of the Zhang family is too much to say, and she is the eldest grandmother in charge of the family.

Xiao He snorted coldly and said, "Give it to her." In the past three years, those who have kept filial piety, and have not invited banquets or gone out to socialize, what is there to manage. She gave it to her if she wanted to, and she couldn't stay in Songjiang for the rest of her life. ”

She paused, sighed again, and said, "I heard that the uncle has been running a school recently, not only teaching people to read, but also teaching people to work and settle accounts. According to me, this is merit...... If there was such a school back then, why would the eldest sister ......?"

Mrs. He Jiu is a side branch of the He family, this family plan is very difficult, and it was almost impossible to open the pot back then, so in order to make ends meet, Mrs. He Jiu chose the eldest daughter as the step-room by the eldest wife of the Shen family's sect, and the eldest daughter was married far away from the sect, which caused the eldest daughter to die early.

The eldest daughter's money for her life did not make the He family's nine rooms better for a few years, because He Pingsheng, the only son of He Jiu's grandfather, wanted to study.

Xiao He's best knows how to spend money if she can't study, and her family is poor, so she has also dragged over and has not decided on her family, and in the end, like the eldest sister, she was sold by the He family's house again, and went to the Shen family to fill the house.

Luckier than my sister, this time the He family clan gave enough dowry.

More unfortunate than her sister, she met such a beast-hearted father-in-law.

Originally, her brother was relieved that she was released from the Jinshi and the magistrate, which can be regarded as reading a book. She also fantasized that her brother would be a high-ranking official, and she would be stiff in the Shen family, so she would not be afraid of anything.

Who knows...... It's a dream.

The He family's clan was completely destroyed, and even with it, her brother He Pingsheng's fame was gone, and he was relegated to the bitter cold land of Liaodong as a small official.

Leaving behind a sister-in-law and a nephew who was waiting to be fed.

"What's the use of reading...... Xiao He couldn't help but mutter. In the future, let the little big brother go to this school to teach people to do things, and really make a living, as long as he can support his family, at least the family will be safe......"

Mother Lu didn't dare to answer, so she massaged silently.

After a while, I heard Xiao He turning the Buddha beads and said, "Uncle has accumulated great merit for this thing, so we have to help him." Whatever happens over there, she should do it. …… should be her. ”

*

Shen Jin, who left the officialdom of the capital and returned to Songjiang, only felt that his whole body was relaxed.

Especially when the filthy things in the house were cleaned up by Xiao He's cooking, and Shen Yuan was also locked back in the ancestral hall, the four rooms were suddenly clear.

Doing knowledge himself is Shen Jin's favorite thing to do, and he deeply feels that the construction of the school is a great good deed for the benefit of the country and the people, so he devotes himself to it.

The cultivation school had already been built by the Shen Ying brothers before, but the craftsman school and the business school were new things, and there was no basic framework just now, and Shen Jin needed to figure out all kinds of regulations from what to teach and how to teach.

He didn't bother at all, and started all over again with more enthusiasm than he had done in the Hanlin Academy.

And Shen Jin also has to take care of Shen in the Shen clan study, because there is not much time left before the county exam in February, Nanzhili has a lot of scholars because of the prosperity of culture and education, and the competition for the children's exam is also extremely fierce. Since Shen Jin responded to the lecture in the clan studies, he hoped to give more guidance to the children of the Shen family in the clan studies, so that they could have more hope and give the Shen family more hope.

As a result, Shen Jin was extremely busy every day, and if he had something to do, he simply stayed in the school and didn't go home at all.

In his own filial piety, he moved out of the main room and placed him in the study, which was busy, and it was common for Zhang Yuxian not to see him for a few days.

Zhang Yuxian arrived in Songjiang a few years ago, and at that time, Xiao He's family had already cleaned the Shen family up and down. Therefore, after she came, she didn't feel how chaotic the Shen family's four rooms were, she only felt that the place was much larger than the Zhuangyuan Mansion, but there were very few servants.

She didn't have the patience to think about these things, the population of the original four rooms was simple, and there were few servants. Moreover, didn't she bring a large number of servants with her, and the few servants in the four rooms just made room for her people.

The father-in-law was locked up in the ancestral hall, and the step-mother-in-law was as soft as dough, and in these four rooms, she still had her say.

She once walked patiently to the clan, and the women in the clan were quite polite, that is, they probably spoke Sunon's soft language, she almost couldn't understand it, since she didn't understand, she didn't have to communicate, anyway, she showed up and counted the courtesy.

Finally, life was much more comfortable than she had imagined.

Even if she is guarding filial piety, she can't walk around, and she didn't even let her go out during the Lantern Festival, it's a pity, I heard that the lanterns like Su in the south are very good-looking, Songjiang Mansion is rich, and several streets of the Lantern Festival are very lively.

Also, that is, I haven't seen Shen Jin for a long time.

At first, she was still a little angry, and she ignored him angrily, thinking that she must not let him enter the room. As a result, when she arrived, she realized that he was already living in the study, and she really didn't set foot in her room.

After a month of anger, she counted the number of times she saw him at the dinner table on one hand, and her heart couldn't help but be empty.

On this day, she received a letter from home, Zhang Yuxian thought about it again and again, and then asked someone to go to the school to send a letter to Shen Jin, asking him to go home early today.

Because of filial piety, there was no meat and no wine on the table, but Zhang Yuxian still tried her best to get a beautiful side dish on the plate.

She is not used to eating Songjiang cuisine, she feels light and tasteless, and she came back this time to bring the chef in the capital, but today's meal, most of the dishes on the table are Songjiang dishes, which are the ones that Shen Jin likes to eat.

This arrangement made Shen Jin's heart suddenly warm as soon as he entered the door.

The maids stepped forward to change Shen Jin's clothes, and then they all retreated with a smile on their lips, leaving only the young couple in the house.

"Look at you, you're so busy that you don't care about your body and bones, and you've all been cleared." Zhang Yuxian's eyes were full of distress, and she couldn't help but pick up vegetables for him.

Shen Jin's heart was soft, he smiled and took two mouthfuls of food, and ate a few mouthfuls of food before saying: "The food in the school is not as good as at home, and I feel hungry these days." He pushed the only two Beijing dishes on the table to her with his backhand, and said, "Don't patronize me, you can eat too." ”

Zhang Yuxian smiled and picked up the dishes and chopsticks.

The rules of the Shen family are not to say anything, but the Hou Mansion of Shouning does not have this rule, and Shen Jin has been studying abroad for many years, and he has not really abided by this rule, and both of them are young, and they used to chat while eating in the Zhuangyuan Mansion, but they were closer.

At this time, it was the same, Zhang Yuxian was rarely gentle, picked up a topic that Shen Jin liked, inquired about the progress of the school, and asked about the results of the children of the Shen family.

Shen Jin saw that she intended to repair it, so she also opened the conversation box and said with her eyebrows fluttering.

And the little wife's delicate appearance when she heard that he was afraid that he would not be able to return home tomorrow made Shen Jin's heart moved, and he reached out to shake his wife's little hand without thinking.

They hadn't been in the same place for almost three months.

looked at his wife blushing, but boldly looked back at him, his eyes were like a pool of water, and his heart was also rippling, and he hugged the person and fragrant it.

It was only during the filial piety period that he hugged his wife for a while, calmed down and put out the fire, and then whispered in her ear: "...... Waiting for the ...... of filial piety"

Zhang Yuxian was as emotional, her eyes were blurred, her face was flushed, and she suddenly left her husband's warm embrace, she moved her body uncomfortably, and responded with some low mood.

Shen Jin didn't dare to touch her again, so she changed the topic with a forced smile and bluntly, only asking her what she had done in the day, but she drew Yunyun again.

He also said that in two days he would spare his time and take her to the streets, where there was a pen and ink shop near the academy in the city, which also sold all kinds of paints.

He also said that when spring came, he asked people to go to the countryside to find if there were kittens and cubs, and brought back two for her to raise. She raised one at home in the capital, and because she was afraid that it would not be easy to take care of it on the road, she sent it back to the Shouning Marquis Mansion and never brought it.

Zhang Yuxian responded with a smile, and her heart was sweet again, as if the previous quarrel and anger had never existed.

She talked about her daily life, her paintings.

In fact, her paintings are also ordinary, but the girls always have a natural love for beauty, and she likes to design her own patterns, of course, not by herself, but by asking the embroiderer to embroider.

And when she mentioned these, she casually mentioned the weaving factory that her sister wrote to urge.

Of course, she doesn't say what the family wants, she only says it's her own interests: "...... I heard that the work started in the first month, and I wanted to go to our weaving factory to see what it looked like. You also know that I love to ponder this, so I will give you advice. ”

Shen Jin didn't care, finished the last two mouthfuls of food, took a sip of tea, and said, "When the work starts, you will go over with the three rooms and the four aunts." Now it's the fourth uncle and the fourth aunt of Lian who are in charge, if you have any good ideas, just tell her. ”

Zhang Yuxian pretended to be angry: "Why do we have to ask the people of the third room to take care of our four-room property!" It's not appropriate. She recognized that the weaving factory did not have Shen Jin's share, and just waited for Shen Jin to say it, so she had the following rebuttal.

Who knew that Shen Jin said: "This weaving factory was originally occupied by the He family, and when my mother divided the production between me and Ruidi, there was no this. Later, it was Rui's second brother who had the ability to get it back. He is benevolent and righteous, and insists on sharing half of my mother's will, but how can I ask for it! ”

Zhang Yuxian's eyes widened, she only said that Shen Rui was cunning and refused to give it, how did she know that it was this honest nerd who refused to ask for it, and the word "stupid" almost blurted out.

Fortunately, Shen Jin said again: "In the end, he didn't earn the second brother Rui, he said that he had to have some peace of mind with me." Because I'm in Beijing, no one at home knows how to run a business, so I only take 20% of the net profit, regardless of business affairs. The property in the clan is taken care of by Uncle Lian, and he is a person that everyone can trust, and the second brother Rui is also in Beijing, so he is fully entrusted to Uncle Lian. ”

Zhang Yuxian was speechless for a while, then thought about it, and frowned again: "Why didn't I see the inventory in the next year?" ”

"It's been a little year since you came back, and the accounts have long been settled. I have seen it with my wife, and I will hand it over to the public high school treasury for the time being. Shen Jin sighed, "That year of the rebellion, the four houses suffered heavy losses, thanks to the dowry subsidy from my wife, so the income from the grange, cloth village, and grain and rice store left to me by my mother in the past two years was temporarily paid to the public high school." ”

"But...... There's not a lot of money in the account. Zhang Yuxian was surprised. She has already taken over the stewardship of the fourth room.

In fact, there are more than 10,000 taels of silver in the account, and there are a lot of four-room families.

But in Zhang Yuxian's opinion, the weaving factory must have made a lot of money as a tribute, although Shen Jin took 20%, how could he have 20,000 or 30,000 silver.

And what about the private property income left by his mother-in-law?

Also, there is no private property in the fourth room itself?!

Thinking of this, she couldn't help but darken her face, and began to suspect that the seemingly soft mother-in-law would be like some of the ladies and grandmothers of some people around her, quietly greedy for the silver in the princess.

Shen Jin glanced at his wife, hesitated, and said, "It's not, I did a family affair last year." "Most of those also became dowry gifts for her.

At that time, when Xiao He's went to Beijing to manage the marriage, he was afraid that the silver would not be enough, so he asked Wufang to borrow some.

The five rooms are righteous, and they borrowed the silver without asking, Xiao He's had to rely on the five rooms for everything, and saw that the five rooms were so cool, and they would not drag, and as soon as the silver of the weaving mill dividend arrived at the end of the year, she immediately went to pay back the five rooms.

When Zhang Yuxian heard the word marriage, she couldn't help but blush, she also heard her mother say that the Shen family is a big family in the end, and the dowry given is not rude. The Hou Mansion also prepared a dowry for her.

Then she became worried, this matter was completely different from what she expected, and the words she had prepared before were useless.

Well, but there is no money in the account, which can also be a rhetoric.

She folded her spirits, and said to Shen Jin with some coquettishness: "I am looking at the account without any silver, and I am in a hurry." I thought, I can't sit and eat empty, that day I heard the sister-in-law of the fifth room say that it is not easy to buy land now, and now the business of the weaving factory is still doing. ”

"You are in Beijing, no matter what the weaving factory is here, it is common sense, but you are back now," she approached Shen Jin, "Let's not say that we will take back all the weaving factories, why don't we open another weaving factory?" The emperor designated the weaving factory of the Shen family as a tribute, and we are also the Shen family. ”

Looking at Shen Jin's somewhat stunned expression, Zhang Yuxian laughed, pushed him, and said: "Don't worry, it doesn't matter if there is no silver in the account, my dowry is still at the bottom of the box, and then ask my maiden sister to borrow some, with our family's connections in Beijing, it will be back in two years at most, and ...... in the future."

Shen Jin suddenly got up and asked in a deep voice, "Are these what you think, or who told you?" ”

Zhang Yuxian was stunned for a moment and didn't answer for a while.

Such an expression had already made Shen Jin's heart clear. This wife, he also figured it out, Houmen's daughter has the arrogant temper, but she doesn't have so many calculations.

And......

"You have been born in the splendid pile since you were a child, when did you put a little silver in your eyes?" Shen Jin stared at his wife's eyes and said seriously, "Who told you this?" ”

Zhang Yuxian was not frightened by him, but rejoiced in her heart, happy that he actually understood her, she really never put Ah Blockage in her eyes.

In fact, she is also impatient to let her calculate these things, but she doesn't like to talk about money, it doesn't mean that others can take her as a big wrong, she thinks it's his things, and she has to get them back.

She pursed her lips and said, "You understand me." It's just that I thought, this is also reasonable, and we should also buy property......"

Shen Jin had the feeling that he couldn't do anything with such a stupid daughter-in-law for a while, he sighed and said, "Sister Xian, doing this is equivalent to my Shen family fighting in the ring with myself and killing each other, and in the end it will only let outsiders take advantage." ”

Zhang Yuxian slowly frowned, and said, "Why are you killing each other, Shen Rui is a weaving factory, and we can't do it?" Why? He is all out of the house, he can't be counted as a four-room person, he can't be regarded as his mother-in-law's son, why did he take the head of the weaving factory? ! Why should we make way for him to be a successor? ”

Born out of Rui Ge'er is also the biological son of his mother-in-law, what is he Shen Jin? It's just a concubine. And why did you accept the things of your mother-in-law? Shen Jin's face suddenly turned red, and then quickly turned pale again.

He has always been unimpressed with his concubine status, and he has done well enough to make people ignore his concubine identity.

But in the end, it was a brand on his body, which may be covered up, but it can never be shaken off.

You can never really fool yourself.

"It's just not allowed not to be a weaving mill." He said unusually stiffly.

"Why not? What are you afraid of? We haven't picked on his Shen Rui's reason, who dares to pick our reason? Zhang Yuxian's good temper also came to an end, and her tone became unkind.

"I said I wouldn't be a weaver!" Shen Jin said sharply.

Zhang Yuxian was shocked by this almost sudden loud voice, and then she roared back in a higher voice: "When did I care about these eighteen thousand taels of silver?!" I'm not planning for you yet! Do you know how much money you have in your account? Don't you hurry up and save up the money, and after three years, what kind of money will you take to go back to the door?! Why don't you let my mother's family pay for you again?! ”

After hearing the last sentence, Shen Jin trembled with anger, and lost his mind for a moment, "Who used the Shouning Marquis Mansion to pay for the silver?!" When will I let your family run for me?! I'm willing to do it if you become an official?! Do you know what those people say about me! You are still complacent, and you are still swaggering to feast! It's a joke out there! ”

"Joke?! I gave up my face and went home to grind hard, forcing my dad to get you a bigger official, it's a joke?! There were many quarrels like this, and Zhang Yuxian was able to enter a state of quarrel in an instant, and immediately yelled back, saying, "You are embarrassed to say that you are not happy!" How many years can you climb on your own?! You don't want you to be this official, why are you still happy! Am I complacent? Am I swaggering? I ......"

She was out of breath for a moment, and the food on the table was even more obtrusive, and suddenly she reached out and swept off the plates and bowls on the table.

Seeing the mess, Shen Jin was also angry, raised his hand and grabbed a rice bowl and smashed it to the ground.

Shen Jin is not Shen Li.

Shen Li was a young man who suffered, and he relied on Sun's help to study, and when he arrived in Beijing, he also relied on his teacher to take in and teach, and married his daughter, so Shen Li was always grateful to the Xie family and the Xie family.

Although Shen Jin was born as a concubine, he has never been despised because of his status, on the contrary, because of Zhang Laoan's fighting with the Sun family, he has always been the most favored child in the family, and the fourth room is also extremely rich under the care of the Sun family, and Shen Jin has never been treated half a point in material or spiritual.

He himself is also angry, he entered school at the age of fourteen, and he took the halo of a prodigy, all the way to Xie Yuan, and the champion, all by his real ability to learn out of the test, without the grace of anyone.

It's just that the marriage didn't go well.

And the marriage of the Marquis of Shouning Mansion is not what he wants to get married.

He used to work so hard and get so many results, but now, it has all become "nepotism".

He became a villain who could only take the throne by picking up the Yue family.

He has long been holding back the anger in his heart, and there is nowhere to vent.

On the one hand, he had to admit that the Yue family had indeed paved a road to heaven for him, which was a height that he had to struggle for twenty or thirty years to reach, such a shortcut, who in the world could resolutely refuse. He's a mortal, and he can't refuse.

On the other hand, he is ashamed to use such means to ascend to the throne, he is still an orthodox reader, he still wants face, or rather, he still wants face, he is afraid of human speech.

Every time Zhang Yuxian said it nakedly, it was relying on the Yue family, as if she had torn off a layer of his skin, making him feel pain into the bone marrow.

This time, Ding Wei made him feel relieved, and coming back from the capital to Songjiang made him feel comfortable and brisk.

dropped a bowl, and Shen Jin seemed to have suddenly vented all his anger.

He touched his body, took out a handkerchief, slowly wiped off the oil stains on his hands, and slowly said to Zhang Yuxian, who was frightened by his throwing bowl: "Those, the ones you go to ask for, are what you want." You want a phoenix crown, you want to marry better than your sisters. Have you ever thought about it, what do I want? ”

Zhang Yuxian's temper was also stopped by the broken bowl, she looked at Shen Jin in a daze, and unconsciously repeated: "What do you want?" ”

Shen Jin smiled miserably, shook his head self-deprecatingly, did not answer, stood up and walked out slowly.

At that moment, Zhang Yuxian remembered that on the way back, they quarreled, she said that she didn't want to go on the road anymore, so he left her and ran away without looking back. Run!

On a long journey, she walked down alone, the initial anger had already slowly faded, and the fear slowly came up, how could that person do so desperately to leave her decisively!

When I arrived in Songjiang, this was his home, and her home was thousands of miles away.

Here she has no relatives.

She's just him.

He came back, he said he was going to take her out to buy paint, he said he was going to hold her kitten, and he obviously held her in his arms and made love.

Why, I have to leave like this without looking back!

Abandon her again!

At that moment, emotion broke through reason, Zhang Yuxian complied with her heart, rushed over and hugged Shen Jin's waist tightly from behind.

Buried her face in his back and began to whimper and cry.

Shen Jin stiffened, this is the first time, after the quarrel, Sister Xian will behave like this.

But he was still angry, but he also hesitated to take her hand away and ignore her immediately.

Just after this hesitation, she sobbed and said, "Then what do you want, you won't say it...... Woowoo...... I'm not a roundworm in your stomach either, how do I know...... Woowoo woo ......"

In that tone, there was endless grievances.

The crying voice was like the kitten she raised, weak and pitiful.

In the end, this is a little girl who has just passed the war.

Shen Jin was speechless and pitiful, and could no longer raise the strength to be angry, so she finally sighed and put her hands on her hands.

What you want. He looked at the patterns on the curtain that were less than 10,000 words. What do you want?

“…… I want to run a good school. Teach a few students well. I want to, this boy's test, the Shen family has a few more students, and the township test in September, a few more people. ”

Finally, his voice can only be heard by himself.

*

In February, the situation of the children of the Shen family in the county test was still good, and when they arrived at the government test, they were a little unsatisfactory, or those who had passed the test two or three times, and the article was hot, and they also had the experience of taking the exam, so they passed it in one fell swoop.

However, there are still two more than last year, which has made Shen Ying satisfied.

Shen Jin couldn't help but be a little stunned.

Soon, the news came from Beijing, but it was Class C led by Shen Zhou of Nancheng Academy who won a big victory this time.

(End of chapter)