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The linen kaftan with a round neck looks like it has just been changed, and the well-fitting body must have been tailor-made at home.

The fair-skinned face looked a little thin and a little haggard, but the sad face could not hide the natural beauty.

The beauty nourished by the rain in the south of the country, although she did not apply powder because she was still in mourning, she still showed a rare smile when she saw her younger brother who had been raised since childhood.

The two pairs of eyes looked at each other, recalling all kinds of things in the family before getting married, and looking at the younger brother who had already become a talent, Wang Ruoxi felt infinite emotion in her heart.

As soon as Wang Xing heard the news of his sister, he hurriedly said goodbye to the two elders, although his steps were quite steady, but it was just a place of partition walls, but his heart seemed to have wings, and he couldn't wait to fly home quickly.

Since she was a child, she has been following this sister around, and everything about Wang Ruoxi in her surviving memories is beautiful, even if she is in her heart now, she will inevitably be moved by it.

"Xiaoping has lost a lot."

"I'm more energetic, too."

My sister's voice is still so good.

It's just that I haven't seen him for two months, Wang Xingping's height has grown a lot taller, and he naturally looks a lot thinner, and his skin has become a little dark in the wind and sun outside, which is even more as he said.

Originally, this time I went to Zunyi Mansion to do business, and the royal father went to Chongqing to visit his daughter, and Wang Ruoxi tried his best to leave Wang Laiting at home for the New Year's Festival, so that the Wang family would go on the road after the New Year.

Every time she thinks that if it weren't for her stubbornness, she would have kept her father and younger brother for one more day, and she wouldn't have had these changes, Wang Ruoxi couldn't help but be sad.

The joy is that the younger brother is fine, and finally left a little blood for the Wang family.

Wang Xingping was also full of emotions, and hurriedly asked: "Mother said a few days ago that my sister and brother-in-law had already gone out, and the letters had arrived for many days, but no one came in the morning and evening, and seeing that Qingming was coming, I was making my younger brother anxious." ”

Wang Ruoxi sighed.

"After crossing Dongxi, the road was damaged by the rain, and the road from Shui Town to Loushanguan was delayed for two days with people and cars."

"When I crossed the Wujiang River, I caught up with the spring flood, and the delay was two days, but there were a lot of difficulties along the way, but I still arrived."

Wang Ruoxi is not a pampered lady, so she sighed, and naturally the situation on the road will only get worse.

Wang Xingping was also relieved: "As long as there is nothing to do, it's fine." ”

But now that it sounds like the word 'nothing', the word 'nothing' has a different taste, and the sisters and brothers can't help but feel sad again.

Wang Ruoxi saw that his younger brother had a look on his face, and hurriedly changed the topic.

"Listen to Xiaoliu, Xiaoping, you went to Uncle Dongfang's house today?"

"Tomorrow is the birthday of my uncle, I am mourned, and it is inconvenient to go to congratulate, so I only sent some etiquette on behalf of my mother."

"That's right." Seeing that his younger brother was sensible, Wang Ruoxi frowned slightly.

Wang Xiaoliu next to him felt that he should not hide it from the eldest sister of his family, so he said everything he heard from the people in the east room under the corridor and what he asked from Wang Xingping.

"Eldest sister doesn't know, there is also a Master Zhang who accompanies the master of the Wang family today, but he is a scholar in this mansion, and he has already recommended the young master to study in Yangming Academy."

"Really?"

Growing up in Guiyang City since childhood, Wang Ruoxi didn't know about the reputation of Yangming Academy, which had been built across from the governor's yamen since the birth of his sister and brother.

How many of the Jinshi in this house over the years are not from the academy? When you enter the academy, even if you have insurance for your studies, not to mention the scientific examination, it is also glorious to walk on the street in the future and mention it to others.

"I ...... Ear ...... Heard, can there be a fake? Stammering to answer Miss Wang's question, Wang Xiaoliu simply let go. Master Zhang not only recommended the young master to go to the academy, but also said that he would recommend Master Ma from the east of the city to be the young master's teacher. ”

Wang Ruoxi's heart moved when she heard this, and she hurriedly asked, "Which master Ma?" ”

"It's the second room of the Ma family, Master Ma Jinshima."

"Huh? Can Xiaoping really worship Ma Jinshi as a teacher? ”

There are very few Jinshi in Guiyang Mansion, in recent years, up and down a province, there has never been one person in each subject, and before the Wanli 20 years before the Jinshi of Ma Wenqing, Guiyang Mansion was not allowed to be promoted for ten years, and it was because of his long-cherished hope in the township It is extraordinary, and even Wang Ruoxi, a woman who has been married to a foreign country for many years, still remembers.

Wang Xingping hurriedly explained, "Sister, don't listen to Xiaoliu's nonsense, the matter of the eight poles is gone." ”

The more this is the case, the more Wang Xiaoliu will say, "The young master is bad, can the words of the old master be false?" ”

As his companion, he was disgusted with this big mouth, and listening to his vigorous publicity, Wang Xingping couldn't help but roll his eyes, and then diverted the topic.

"By the way, why don't you see your brother-in-law?"

Wang Ruoxi said: "Just now he went to greet his mother, and then went out to run errands." ”

Wang Xingping is very sensitive now.

"Is there something going on at home?"

Wang Ruoxi didn't answer, but looked her brother up and down with a smile.

"In the past, I never saw you care about people, but now you are well-behaved."

This time, he still killed a person halfway to speak.

"The eldest sister and my aunt are angry at home, and my uncle also wants to stop by this time to relax."

"Noisy, Little Liu, just talk a lot about you?"

Although Wang Ruoxi has not been at home for many years, the eldest lady's temperament is not less. Murdered Wang Xiaoliu, and then turned his head to the side, the maid Lumei saw the main mother like this, and immediately buried her head, and knew where Wang Xiaoliu's words came from without asking.

This bag of inquiries interjected on the side, and when he received someone, he inquired about some words from the maid of the eldest sister of the Wang family, and when he heard Wang Xingping ask again, he just couldn't help the itchy throat.

Wang Xingping wanted to scold again, but when he saw his sister's appearance, he must have some reason at home, so he quickly became concerned.

happened to be absent from her husband, Wang Ruoxi thought about it for a while, and then said it to Wang Xingping.

"Didn't my father come to Ba County a year ago?"

"Even this time, I was with my father, sister, don't you remember?"

At this time, most of the prefectures and counties are in the same city, and Chongqing Mansion and Ba County are also average, Wang Ruoxi still has some heart, usually to the mother-in-law's side of the Ba County, calling her mother's family is not far from Guiyang Mansion, but never say the word upstart.

"How can you not remember, my father came back this time to see that my brother-in-law and I are true, and it is also true that I have something to do."

"What's the matter?"

Wang Ruoxi hesitated slightly, but still opened her mouth.

"Take out a loan."

"Loans?"

"Yes, when I was in Ba County a few years ago, my father found your brother-in-law and asked him to help raise 5,000 taels of silver to go back to Bozhou to run goods."

"I haven't heard my father talk about this."

"Naturally, my father won't tell you about this kind of thing, and I also heard it from Shouzhi later. Nowadays, there are a lot of arrears in the business, and I won't tell you Xiaoping, and my mother may not know many things. ”

Wang Xingping nodded, this matter was confirmed at Ye Da Cabinet when he inspected the business in the morning, and the total amount of outstanding payments accumulated over the years was nearly 20,000 taels, some of which were implicated by local gentry, and some were officials, and others did not say that they would not pay it back, but not now.

And the number on the book of the business is less than 10,000 taels, although Xiao said that there are more than 3,000 taels in the inner treasury account of the family, but it is saved by the family and ancestors, and it cannot be moved until the last resort.

More than 30 hectares of land in the south of the city are only enough for ordinary use, in the year of disaster, but also to revitalize the tenants, the annual success of the past few years is less and less good, the family is few, the management can not be managed, the land is placed more, the land is insufficient, not much food can be grown, but also to pay the tenants' share, it is also a worrying thing.

Although the royal father has been in business for many years, after all, he is a scholar, he is sincere, and he never fakes important things to others.

Over the years, the business has become more and more difficult to do, originally planned to rely on the identity of the person to find a local office, but since Jiajing, there have been a lot of official donors, and it is difficult to find a useful real job, even if there are some real ones, such as his family is not from the official position and does not have a charter, but to be bullied, and it is not enough to support the façade, and they are all in the township, the family style of the Wang family, and it is not enough to do the work of exploitation in the hometown.

The west room was already thin, and he was reluctant to open his mouth to the east room, and Wang Mingde only thought that the royal father was happy to Tao Zhu's way, and did not take the initiative to ask.

Just listen to a sound outside.

"Uncle is back."

The two sisters and brothers were talking about the serious place, and there was no need to ask, it was Wang Xiaoliu who ran out to interrupt, thinking that since he was talking about his uncle, it would not be wrong to come in and report it.

Following Xiao Liu's footsteps, he heard a refreshing male voice appear in the hall one step ahead.

"As soon as I came back, I heard Xiaoliu say that my brother's front foot is also back."

The man's face was pale, with a few short wisps of beard, and his appearance was gentle.

Although there is no need to mourn, after all, it was his father-in-law who died, and he still symbolically wore a soap-colored straight embellished and a half-gray square scarf on his head.

Wang Xingping stepped forward to greet him, "Brother-in-law, did you go to Shopkeeper Ye?" ”

Jian Shouzhi was shocked, "Brother...... How do you know? ”

Wang Xingping put away the sneer in his heart.

"Sister Fang Cai and younger brother said that in Chongqing a few years ago, my father asked his brother-in-law to raise 5,000 taels of silver."

Jian Shouzhi looked at Wang Ruoxi, found a positive answer from her eyes, and then met Wang Xingping's gaze again.

"Yes...... There is such a thing. Wang Xingping was taken aback, and Jian Shouzhi's words were a little unpleasant.

Wang Xingping put down the thoughts that flashed in his heart and welcomed Jian Shouzhi to the upper seat.

"Actually, there's nothing wrong with it, I know that my brother-in-law is also kind, in the past two years, my father didn't tell my mother about the business situation, most likely because he was afraid that the family would worry."

"I also know the situation in my brother-in-law's family, presumably this silver is also in my father's face, and my father-in-law is willing to take it out."

Jian Shouzhi nodded in acknowledgement.

The fourth ancestor of Jian Shouzhi's family is Hongwu 18 years of Jinshi, after five dynasties, three generations of the military department of the military department of Jian Yi Jian Tianguan, Jian Shouzhi's father Jian Xiaowu is Jian Yi's second son Jian Fang, passed to Jian Shouzhi's generation, is already the eleventh.

Jian Shouzhi is the only talent in the family, but his father dotes on his younger brother Jian Shouhui even more, because his brother-in-law is not having a good time at home.

"I'm afraid that if there is no evidence, I don't know what my father is guaranteeing."

Jian Shouzhi listened to Wang Xingping's sudden question, and he was embarrassed for a while, but he couldn't help but say it.

"At that time, my father-in-law wrote a note for Jiayan, using a Zhuangzi outside the city of Zunyi Mansion and a house in Guiyang City as hostage."

"And the Futai?"

Wang Xingping interrupted his brother-in-law's words at the right time, his expression was as calm as water, and there was no trace of waves, but Wang Ruoxi's face became more and more ugly, it seems that my sister should not know about this matter, and it was originally the same, how could she be embarrassed to say it with such a mean face, but people did do it.

Wang and Jian already have business dealings, and they are the sons and daughters, five thousand taels is said to be a lot less, but in fact, it is not too much to say that the two families are not much, and this money can be easily dealt with in previous years.

This time, if the king came to the court to ask for a loan, if he only took the Zhuangzi of Zunyi and the old mansion of Guiyang Mansion as the hostage, even if he added the land outside the city, he could also say that he was talking about business, and he could not hurt the affection of his relatives.

But just one piece of silver on the Futai cabinet is enough for the five thousand taels, if it weren't for the fact that he didn't have enough money, how could he put down his body and ask for a loan to his in-laws' door, not to mention that if he wanted to trade in advance, how could he need to prepare this lot of silver temporarily? If you want to solve the doubts in your heart, you can only ask your brother-in-law.

"I went with my father to do the goods this time, but I don't know what kind of goods it is, and I urgently need this lot of silver, and I have to listen to my brother-in-law carefully and listen to me in the middle."

Jian Shouzhi's mood calmed down a little, and he said: "I just heard that after you passed by Banzhou when you came, a familiar economy in Zunyi Mansion sent someone to follow Chongqing to bring a message to Yuezhang, saying that some goods were waiting to be sold, and the price was fair." ”

"What cargo?"

"Grain."

"Grain?"

"Yes, 10,000 stone brown rice."

As long as 5,000 taels, it is 10,000 stone of grain, which is very cheap, how can such a business not be done, counting labor, freight and warehousing, there is more than half of the money.

"It's just that most of the way this rice came from is strange." Wang Xingping got a glimpse of it at a glance.

"So the other party only needs to give the silver first."

"It's all cash?"

"Where is there so much cash in a hurry, there are only five hundred taels of cash in silver, and the rest are one hundred taels of silver tickets, and it will take a few more days to redeem them."

Wang Xingping turned to Xiaoliu for help, "I was only playing in the past few days when I came back, and I didn't hear my father talk about any deals, your father should know that he was with his father." ”

Wang Xiaoliu hurriedly shirked it, "Xiaoliu has always followed the young master, how do you know, my old man is the most tight-mouthed, and he never tells me about things on the counter." ”

Wang Xingping thought about it, the price of this grain was too cheap, such a strange thing, the transaction was also improvised, and the more people who knew about it, the fewer people were.

But when I thought about it, if I wanted to borrow money, I always had to explain it to the creditor, so I asked Jian Shouzhi again.

"With such a large grain transaction, there will not be no one in it."

"I know the middleman."

"Who is it?"

"It's Cui Ba, the tooth man who introduced this business at the beginning."

Hearing the name, Wang Xingping suddenly said a sentence in his heart.

"The thing...... Not right......"