Li Guolou's brother Li Guoyun, sister Li Guomei and brother-in-law Tan Guoxi are from Shanghai Shiliupu Wharf to Tianjin Port South Port Wharf by boat and then take a carriage to Beijing Division, Li Guolou sent Wei Xiaoqi to Tianjin Port South Port Wharf to receive Li Guoyun and a group of six people, and then went back to Beijing directly, at this time they were a group of three carriages braved the wind and snow to enter the East Gate Mingyang Gate, Li Guolou wrote a letter to Wei Xiaoqi to hand over to the eldest brother Li Guoyun, his life and work in Beijing is very detailed, so Li Guoyun, Li Guomei and her brother-in-law Tan Guoxi already know what is happening in Li Guolou.

Li Guoyun is in his early thirties, with a rectangular face with two small beards, about 1.75 meters tall, his left foot is lame, and he habitually holds a cane in his left hand, and he still holds the cane in his hand when he sits in a carriage.

Tan Guoxi is thirty years old, with a round face and a slightly chubby figure, wearing a pair of gold-rimmed eyes, less than 1.7 meters tall, and two small beards.

At this time, the social atmosphere is no longer to grow a beard for beauty, but like to keep a variety of mustaches, Oriental people are to have a mustache for beauty, especially soldiers, businessmen have a lot of people with this kind of mustache, civil officials in order to show their prestige or to keep three strands of beard.

Li Guomei is less than thirty years old, with a high bun, a white face with moth eyebrows, a slightly bulging belly, and she is more than four months pregnant, with a beautiful face looking sideways at the street outside the car window.

Li Guomei didn't turn her head and said: "Big brother, don't worry, since Xiaolou likes to eat soft rice, you let him go, but he is really unwilling to spend so much silver, and then you ask him to take the exam, a man can't waste his career!" ”

Tan Guoxi, who sat next to him, said: "Xiaomei, I don't think it's better to ask Xiaolou to take the exam, he is still too young to be qualified, how can he sit still now, are you embarrassed for him, or let him start a family first and then let him take the exam, and then go to the south to be an official, and there is no future in the north!" ”

A person sitting alone in the front row Li Guoyun leaned sideways, looked at the back and said: "It's already like this, first make the family business bigger, it doesn't matter if you want a fig leaf, anyway, Xiaolou is a fake foreign devil, but I am afraid that it will not work to go back to my hometown to hold a wedding, and when I get married, let him return to visit relatives, and let his ancestors hold a wedding in his hometown!" ”

"Hey, I thought about it well, let you two brothers get married together, and now it's better to have that one." Li Guomei sighed helplessly.

Li Guoyun shook his head and sighed: "Anyway, that one chased here, and was already ready to be a concubine, Xiaolou just gave her a name, I really don't understand that Xiaolou is a good little girl, and he found three widows and a drag oil bottle, and said that the names of the three wives were so decided, and he couldn't figure it out!" ”

"Xiaolou, you will die early." Tan Guoxi sighed, his eyes glanced at Li Guomei next to him, his heart blossomed, he promised Li Guomei that he would not marry a little wife without raising a son and a half daughter, but now his wish has come true, and when he returns to Shanghai, he will start to prepare, marry a singer and go home to raise.

"Hey, Jingshi is still the same, it hasn't changed at all, it's still good in Shanghai." Li Guomei looked out the window and felt something.

The carriage was warm as spring, and it was still a little hot, a charcoal stove was burning at Li Guomei's feet, and the streets were full of cowering poor people walking in the wind and snow.

"Yes, if you are used to living in a bungalow and then living in a courtyard room, you will feel very cold, I'm afraid that Xiaomei will not be used to it." Tan Guoxi put one hand around Li Guomei's waist, and the two looked at each other and smiled.

Li Guoyun sighed: "Let's see where we live, if the place is small, we still live in the hometown hall, if the small building is looking for a wife's house to live in big enough, anyway, I don't have to spend any money, I have a tight life this year!" ”

Tan Guoxi sighed: "Now the textile industry has plummeted, and the silk export business has been put on a knife by Hu Xueyan, we can only rely on the support of shops, and the eldest brother will have to find a way to turn around next year. ”

Li Guoyun gritted his teeth and said: "Little Japan is too bad, hurting others and not benefiting themselves, they want to use this trick to drag down our textile industry in the Qing Dynasty, let us close down many factories, I don't believe in this evil, and small Japan bet to the end, the country is happy that the silk business has no future, people say that if you don't wear silk clothes, you won't wear them, but the future of the cloth business is bright, the European powers are developing heavy industry and their workers are too expensive, this kind of cheap labor concentration industry we Oriental people have obvious competitive advantages, small Japan and we are at the same level, If we cower and dare not gamble with small Japan, after the development of the industry, we can't even touch the doorway, I will give up my life anyway, people will retreat and I will follow up, and wait until the small Japan is soft to negotiate with us, the price war will eventually end, if you withdraw the shares, I will turn your face with you, you weigh it yourself! ”

Tan Guoxi lamented: "Big brother, I am also a fortune under the Li family's door, don't be so desperate, there is something to discuss!" ”

"You are not allowed to mention unhappy things during the New Year." Li Guomei hurriedly persuaded them, and if she continued to argue, she promised to quarrel again.

There was silence in the carriage for a while, Li Guoyun looked at the street outside, a golden silk nanmu signboard was shining, and the words "Hu Qingyutang" came into view.

"Hu Xueyan opened Hu Qingyutang to Beijing, the scenery, even the Queen Mother knows this great good man's good deeds, he earns money and gets a good reputation, we as Qing people also have to worry about the country, don't meet a little bump in the road and want to keep a little bit of their own family, business has been unable to fight small Japan, and then lose their fist industry, what other industries can we stand in the forest of the world." Li Guoyun elevates business competition to the dignity of the country, and is a demagogue, and Li Guolou's words and deeds are to learn from his brother.

"Okay, okay, I can't talk about you, don't talk about the textile factory in the future, you don't show me the account book again, out of sight is clean, and when there is an improvement, you will show me credit, we talk about making money Jinfeng Yinlou, and the export business is not to be discussed, Hu Xueyan will die in our hands one day." Tan Guoxi is patriotic, and he has a bitter hatred.

Li Guoyun smiled brightly and said: "That's right, if it doesn't work, we will bet Jinfeng Yinlou to Citibank, you have to believe my vision!" ”

"I didn't hear anything." Tan Guoxi covered his ears and refused to listen to Li Guoyun.

"Don't talk about it, let's talk about my brother, if this kid refuses to be admitted to the Jinshi, I think it's better to let him move back to Shanghai, don't let people be monkeys anymore, our family can't afford to lose this person." Li Guomei's proposition remains the same, she is an assertive woman, her husband's business investment is to listen to her, interests first She spent tens of thousands of taels of silver for her younger brother Li Guolou, but in exchange for a hat, no wonder she is full of resentment.

"Let's listen to what Xiaolou has to say first, you don't have to worry." The eldest brother Li Guoyun remained quiet and maintained the consistent style of a big businessman.

Li Guomei took out the letter written by Li Guolou and read it carefully, trying to find some clues from it, Li Guolou also has that kind of demeanor, and the family is a master of conspiracy and trickery.

"The three widows look okay, and they look pretty clean in the photos, but they will compile a family tree in the future, and whether their names can be included in the family tree, I really don't have a genealogy in my heart." Li Guomei looked at the photo of Li Guolou and the three lovers, her face was radiant, and she also had capital to eat soft rice, and her younger brother Li Guolou did not lose his ancestral face.

Li Guoyun sighed: "The foreign girl is exempt, the widow with the oil bottle always wants her to go, the age of the oil bottle is changed to a few years younger, even if it is raised in a small building, the second child will give her a surname Li Xie is worthy of her." After speaking, I took the photo and looked at it, it was to look at the photo of the child Zheng Lingling, which made Li Guoyun feel a little better, combing two pigtails Zheng Lingling, her eyes were wide, and she was extremely innocent and cute.

Tan Guoxi said: "I like girls very much, Xiaomei's first birth is also very good, let my sister do it with children in the future!" ”

The three-person carriage was circulated with a pile of photos, with a look of approval on their faces, Lu Bu was a red rabbit among the horses, Li Guolou was quite discerning, eating soft rice was not a loss, and he was both wealthy and wealthy to write a legend for the heirs of the Li family.

It was almost noon, as soon as Li Guolou stepped into the Baozhi room, the lobby was already full of people, and the person who came did not waste their deposit, Li Guolou hurriedly stepped forward to greet the acquaintance, his heart was a little trembling, and his admirer sat in the lobby.

"Brother Xiaolou." Under the public of the female drama Ziyue, she ran to Li Guolou's side, ignoring Yelia next to her, Chen Xiangfang stood at the door of the kitchen, and resolutely refused to hook Li Guolou's arm.

Everyone was stunned that the violation of the standing council had happened, this was the Qing Empire, men and women could not hug each other in public, even if the foreign woman Yelia did not dare to hook a man's arm casually.

Li Guolou was so anxious that he wanted to break free, he didn't want one hand to be held by Yue Jiexian, as if he was holding hands, so that everyone could see clearly what the relationship between the two of them was.

"Brother Xiaolou, introduce me to your girlfriend." The female drama Ziyue picked up the fairy and spoke loudly in the lobby, as if the relationship between the two had developed to the point of seeing her in-laws later.

Losing face can't be lost here, Li Guolou glanced at him, and asked Chen Xiangfang and Yelia to follow him to the backyard to talk empty.

The shameless Extreme Moon Picking Immortal refused to let go of Li Guolou's hand, blowing like an orchid, and said in his ear: "Brother Xiaolou, you can't escape this time, it was you who ran to my field to seduce me, you can't rely on it!" ”

In the corridor of the open space in the backyard, while the snow drifted into the four people, Li Guolou said: "Moon Picking Immortal, what do you mean by coming here, I haven't even looked at you." He also said: "Xiaofang, Yelia, you all saw that I didn't mess with flowers and grass outside, this woman is a drama and can act, so she came to me if she had nothing to do, I already told her that it was impossible, she still came to this hand today, I am the third brother, there are famous people in the rivers and lakes!" ”

Without waiting for Chen Xiangfang to speak, the moon picks the fairy as a blessing, and said respectfully: "Big grandma, third grandma, the moon picks the fairy to you to say goodbye, I will serve you two in the future, my life was almost ruined by the opium ghost It was Brother Xiaolou who saved me, I only have to repay the favor, the eldest grandmother, the third grandmother, I am a magician, not a non-three-way play, now I am the top card on the flyover, I invite you to watch the play during the Spring Festival!" ”

Chen Xiangfang said with a straight face: "Yue Picking Immortal, Xiaolou told me about you, are you a nymphomaniac, staring at here, do you want to be ashamed!" ”

Yue Jiexian began to cry bitterly, wiping her tears and crying in the backyard, as if she had any grievances.

Yelia learned the cause and effect of the incident from Li Guolou, shook his hand and said: "I don't care, you solve it yourself, I will accompany the Pravda reporter first, and you can tell me the solution later!" ”

Chen Xiangfang looked at Li Guolou's expression, knew the answer in her heart, and sighed: "Xiaolou, you can solve it yourself, anyway, we are not coming in the right way, and the retribution for you is not to think about being a big official, your reputation is stinking to death!" ”

Li Guolou saw that there was no one around, took out a handkerchief and handed it to Yue Jiexian, and said: "Okay, don't pretend to be grandma, you look good at Yuejiexian, if you really like me, wait for me for a year, don't tell me that you are like a jade for me, I won't believe it, as long as you dump your old lover, don't be in a drama with him again, I won't mind you going over, don't fight if you want to cheat me out of money and elope with him again, how did Yipintang Xiancheng Li die, you saw it with your own eyes!" ”

"You, you, why are you like this, I really like you, if you get rid of it, I won't cheat you out of money." Yue Jiexian excitedly threw herself into Li Guolou's arms, and wiped her tears and snot on Li Guolou's handkerchief.

Li Guolou lamented in his heart, why should he be soft-hearted, this kind of female drama has to marry into the door, the family is unfortunate, the Li family is going to be corrupted, and the hot lips are pasted up, Li Guolou is willing to be calculated by the female actor,