Seeing that the children were all going out, Ma Shiying asked in a low voice, "Yun Chang, do you have anything to do with coming to Nanjing this time?" ”

Gu Congxin, as the commander of the Guizhou Guard, was as big as the commander of the provincial military region in later generations, so he was naturally busy with affairs, and he had spare time to visit his sister who had not seen him for many years here in Nanjing.

Gu Congxin heard Ma Shiying say this and smiled: "Actually, it's nothing, except to meet my sister, I also sent two boys to Nanjing to study here, I want to ask my brother-in-law for help, it is best to enter the country to study." ”

Gu Congxin is a hereditary commander, that is, his lineage is immortal, and the position of Guizhou Wei commander is his family. But there is only one position, but Gu Congxin has several sons. The commanders of the previous generations have arranged other sons to serve as errands in various guard stations, but now that Gu Congxin's brother-in-law Ma Shiying is the first assistant, he has some ideas and wants to find a way out for his son in the officialdom.

Ma Shiying nodded and agreed when Gu Congxin said this, according to Ma Shiying's identity, it is not a problem to get those two bears into the country to study, and it is not difficult to wait for a year and a half to come out after the election of officials to become a petty official of eight or nine grades.

Gu Congxin was very happy to hear Ma Shiying's promise, and then said: "There is another little thing that the younger brother wants to ask his brother-in-law, four months ago, our caravan transported a batch of white sugar from Nanzhili, the condition is very good, the toast in Shuixi likes it very much, and the younger brother also made a lot of silver by taking the opportunity, so this time the younger brother came to want to transport back some more sugar." ”

Yungui is far away from the inland of the Central Plains, and daily necessities such as salt and sugar need to be transported from the inland by caravans. In the past, salt and other items were transported from neighboring Sichuan, but now Sichuan is occupied by Zhang Xianzhong, and the trade route is cut off, and salt can only be transported from Nanzhili through the Yangtze River waterway.

Salt is a bulk cargo, and it is still profitable to transport it from Sichuan, but it is not beneficial to ship it from Nanzhili, which is thousands of miles away, in order to maintain the daily expenses of the Gu family, Gu Congxin has to find some high value-added goods to replace salt.

At this time, Ma Cheng made white sugar, and at first Ma Cheng only wanted to test it, so he asked the caravan at home to get a hundred catties and transport it to Yungui. But I didn't expect this snow-like white sugar to sell well in Yungui. Yungui's rich people who have been toasts for hundreds of years live very corrupt, coupled with the abundance of various minerals in Yungui, the toast does not have a few iron mines, silver mines, and gold mines in his hands, and when these good white sugar are transported to Yungui, they are immediately discovered by these rich people, and the highest time is fried to the price of five taels of gold per catty of sugar.

Although Gu Congxin looks like a bear but is very economical, this is also a fact that there is no way, as the head of the family, he is responsible for the life of hundreds of Gu families in Guiyang, so when he learned from the leader of the caravan that this kind of white sugar was produced by his brother-in-law's workshop, he immediately decided to come to Nanjing in person to discuss the supply problem with his brother-in-law.

Ma Shiying frowned when she heard Gu Congxin's words, and looked at her wife Gu, Ma Shiying has always cared about the family industry, it is Gu's who takes care of it.

Gu Shi was also very happy to hear that his own sugar made money, and hurriedly said: "Master, this white sugar is produced in our workshop, at that time, Cheng'er asked for a thousand taels of silver from me and said what kind of white sugar he wanted to make, but I didn't expect this kid to really come out!" ”

Gu Congxin was overjoyed when he heard that it was his future uncle who made the white sugar, Gu Congxin was not Ma Shiying who didn't care about family affairs, he knew how much money he could get from this sugar, thinking of this, Gu Congxin rolled his eyes and said: "Brother-in-law, eldest sister, your niece Miaoyin is already fourteen years old, let's see if Ma Cheng and Miaoyin get married?" ”

Gu Congxin thinks long-term, in the past, Ma Shiying's stinky family no one married him, but now it is different. Ma Shiying has become the first assistant of the imperial court, and he has great power in his hands, Ma Cheng is still Ma Shiying's sister-in-law, and it is estimated that the door-to-door marriage will break the threshold. After adding Ma Cheng to make such an egg-laying rooster as white sugar, Gu Congxin naturally didn't want such a perfect uncle to become someone else's. Although the Ma and Gu families were engaged when their children were young, Gu Congxin knew that literati were all black-hearted and rotten people, what if Ma Shiying divorced his daughter for marriage?

Gu Congxin thought that Ma Shiying was unbearable, and he was indeed wronged a little, although Ma Shiying's character was not good, he still had a moral bottom line. Therefore, Ma Shiying listened to Gu Congxin's words and looked at Gu Shi noncommittally.

Gu knew what his younger brother was thinking, but he was just afraid that his family would regret his marriage. The Gu family originally agreed to Ma Cheng's marriage, but now when he heard his younger brother say this, he smiled and said, "Second brother, are you willing to marry Miaoyin?" ”

Gu Congxin has a lot of sons, but the daughter is just like this, and she is still a daughter, naturally the baby is very good, and now when she heard her sister say this, she sighed and replied: "This is also no way, the child is old after all, and it will become a revenge to stay here!" ”

Gu Shi smiled: "Brother don't worry, after Miaoyin enters, my sister will hand over the sugar workshop to her to manage, now you can rest assured!" ”

Gu Congxin wanted this sentence, and when he heard his sister say this, he hurriedly said: "Since my sister and brother-in-law allow it, then the younger brother will not go home first, and the younger brother will send a letter to the family, so that Miaoyin will get married in Nandu, and the younger brother will return to Guiyang after Miaoyin gets married!" ”

Ma Cheng didn't know that his marriage was decided in a few words, and at this time Ma Cheng was wandering around Nanjing with his two cousins.

Gu Chun and Gu Pu brothers came to Nanjing to study this time and brought their families, wives and concubines, a lot of people, Ma Luan, as the eldest son, had to arrange a place to live for the two cousins' families.

After Ma Luan left, the remaining three people stared at each other, and Ma Cheng smiled and said, "Two cousins, it's okay to do it now, can the younger brother take you to the city to have a look?" ”

Gu Chun heard Ma Cheng say this, and hurriedly arched his hand: "This is very good, then it will bother my cousin!" "Reading the book nest

Ma Cheng looked at Gu Chun's bear-like figure and had to pretend to be polite, Ma Cheng smiled: "Two elder brothers, there are no outsiders here, and the younger brother is also a person who doesn't study, and he has never liked to be pretty, so the two elder brothers don't pretend, isn't it okay to do whatever you want?" ”

Gu Pu was young, and when he heard Ma Cheng say this, he quickly stretched his body and said: "It's good that my cousin said this earlier, my brother pretended to be very uncomfortable!" ”

Gu Chun glared at him at his younger brother and said, "Third brother, what did my father tell you just now?" Have you forgotten everything? ”

When Gu Pu heard his brother say this, he quickly pretended to be his original appearance again, looking like a decent man and a gentleman. Ma Cheng smiled when he saw this: "Don't pretend to be the two elder brothers, who are you pretending to show when the eldest brother is not in front of you now?" Brother, I like to drink and play with women, I originally wanted to take you to see the flower world of Nandu, in this case, you should study at home! ”

After Ma Cheng finished speaking, he was about to leave, Gu Pu hurriedly grabbed Ma Cheng and said, "Second cousin, go slowly, my second brother was scared by my father, he won't go to me!" ”

Gu Chun originally wanted to see the world of flowers in Nanjing, but now he hesitated when he heard Ma Cheng say this, and then said: "Okay, brother, I'll go out with you to have a look!" ”

The three of them are essentially the same alcoholics, so they naturally have a lot of common language, and the relationship between the three of them immediately became a lot after Ma Cheng told two yellow jokes.

Ma Fu is in Chaotian Palace, not far from here is the more lively Confucius Temple, Ma Cheng took his two cousins to various scenic spots to play around. At this time, because the snow had just ended, the city of Nanjing was covered in plain clothes, and there was a different kind of fun.

Gu Pu saw the flower boat on the Qinhuai River and praised: "Cousin, the people of this southern capital really know how to play, get a boat to ripple on the Qinhuai River, and the prostitutes go up and go with the flow, which is not interesting!" ”

Seeing the envious eyes of the two turtles, Ma Cheng smiled and said: "The boat lady in Nandu is not the best, the boat girl in West Lake is a good place for Nanzhili to be famous, and I will have the opportunity to take the two brothers to try it." ”

Gu Chun is now familiar with Ma Cheng, and after hearing Ma Cheng's words, his eyes lit up and asked: "Cousin, we have heard of Yangzhou Slender Horse, Datong Aunt Datong, Taishan Sister-in-law and West Lake Boat Niang in Guiyang, I don't know if there are similar Fengyue places here in Nandu?" ”

Gu Chun's question really stopped Ma Cheng, although Ma Cheng is not a good thing, but after crossing over to the Ming Dynasty, he really hasn't been to a brothel, and when Ma Cheng was embarrassed, he happened to hear someone on the side calling him.

"Second brother, second brother! What are you doing here? ”

Ma Cheng looked back and saw that it was his cheap second brother-in-law Zhang Erpei, and there was a young man of twenty-seven or eighteen years old standing next to Zhang Erpei, with a medium figure wearing a dark blue cotton gown.

Ma Cheng saw that it was the second brother-in-law and hurriedly stepped forward and saluted: "It turned out to be the second brother-in-law, the two cousins of the uncle's family came to Nandu, and it just so happened that the younger brother was fine today, so he took the two cousins out for a walk." ”

After Ma Cheng finished speaking, he introduced Gu Chun and Gu Pu to Zhang Erpei, Ma Cheng's second sister was born to Aunt Zhao, not his wife Gu, but according to the etiquette of the Ming Dynasty, Gu was her mother, so it is not wrong to say that Gu Congxin is Zhang Erpei's uncle.

Zhang Erpei originally wanted to tie up the Ma family, but now that he heard that Gu's nephew was coming, he hurriedly stepped forward to give a salute, and after ordering the chronology with each other, the Gu family brothers became Zhang Erpei's brother-in-law.

The person beside Zhang Erpei smiled when he saw Ma Cheng: "Brother Elixir, this is the Zhonghe Virtuous Brother you said?" ”

Zhang Erpei only then remembered the person beside him: "Second brother, two cousins, this is a good friend of the foolish brother, Cao Taiwang, the prisoner of the Guozijian!" ”

Ma Cheng's eyes lit up when he heard Zhang Erpei say this, Cao Taiwang? Isn't it the fiancé of Ruan Dacheng's baby daughter Ruan Lizhen?

Ma Cheng has been busy with the affairs of the new army in the past few months, and he has already forgotten about Ruan Lizhen's affairs, and now when he sees Cao Taiwang, he remembers that there is still such a grudge that has not been resolved.

Ma Cheng smiled and said: "Brother Cao, junior brother heard from my brother-in-law that your literary talent is flying, and I want to make friends for a long time!" It's just that the younger brother has been busy with military affairs in the past few months, and he has no time! ”