Zhu Hongsan happily went back to find Zhao Goudan, and as soon as he entered the woods, he saw Goudan dozing off on the edge of a small tree. Zhu Hongsan sighed: "It's so happy, I want to be as good as you, I eat, sleep and sleep every day, maybe there won't be so many troubles." ”

stepped forward and pushed Zhao Goudan to wake him up. Zhao Goudan rubbed his eyes and asked, "It's over?" Ma girl, it's not difficult for you? ”

"No, let's go home."

On the way back to the city, the two brothers chatted, and Zhu Hongsan asked, "Dog, what do you want to do when you grow up?" ”

Zhao Goudan lowered his head and thought for a while: "Strike iron, find a good mother-in-law." Eat meat every day. ”

"Your ideals are not low, now I can't eat meat every day." Zhu Hongsan thought about it. "Why do you like to strike iron?"

"I don't know, I like to watch the hammer that strikes iron."

"Then what kind of mother-in-law do you want to find?"

"Well, big butt and can work."

Zhu Hongsan was really speechless and asked, "You don't want to find a good-looking one?" ”

"Isn't a big ass just good-looking?"

It seems that it is impossible to communicate, it turns out that the aesthetic point of view is different. Zhu Hongsan didn't want to continue to dwell on the question of whether his ass was big or not, and said, "What do you think of the Ma family's girl?" ”

Zhao Goudan shook his head and said, "It's not good-looking, it's too tall, the waist is too thin, the butt is not big, and the mouth is too small." ”

Seeing that the girl of the Ma family was belittled as useless by her cousin, Zhu Hongsan shook his head and stopped talking.

Zhao Goudan said at this time: "Sanwazi, do you like the girl of the Ma family?" ”

Well? Zhao Dogan is not stupid. Zhu Hongsan asked, "How do you know?" ”

"Oh, it's my aunt who said it before leaving, let me look at you and not let you go to the Ma girl, saying that she is a broom star, let you stay away from him."

Zhu Hongsan thought: I didn't expect the old lady to have the potential to dance gods. "Then why did you come with me just now?" ”

"I think you are so smart, you are so smart, it's right to listen to you, and my father also said that everything should make me listen to you."

Zhu Hongsan smiled and said, "Dog, you are a smart person." ”

The little brothers laughed and returned home together, saw the door open, and knew that the old lady was back. Pushing open the door, I saw the old lady packing some big bags and small wraps in the yard.

Zhu Hongsan said: "Mother, you're back." What's in these bags? ”

Zhao Chunhua said with a smile: "This is what my mother bought in Wuchang Mansion, there are two new pieces of cloth, make a new dress for your little brothers, and buy new shoes for you, and buy some delicious food, in the small bag on the side, you two eat." ”

Zhao Tiedan shouted, opened the small package and saw that there were two packets of fried chestnuts with sugar, two packs of melon seeds, and two packets of preserved fruits. Sure enough, it was delicious. Zhu Hongsan ate again and again while watching his mother put things together. asked, "Mother, did you give the sugar to the second uncle?" ”

"Let him go, tell him okay, give us twelve taels, and he will keep three taels. After seeing the goods, your second uncle agreed, saying that such a white snow candy can be sold for twenty taels, and we will go to get the money in a month. ”

"Mother, you didn't say it."

"No, I did what you taught me. Your uncle still asked, where did such a good white sugar come from? ”

Zhu Hongsan thought about it and said: "Mother, I think we will sell it this time, I don't feel right." ”

Zhao Chunhua put down the work in her hand and said, "What's wrong?" Is there anything wrong? ”

"A hundred pounds is a bit much, and our mother and mother are now dependent on each other, which is not good for people to target."

Zhao Chunhua nodded and said, "Yes, Bao'er, my mother listens to you." ”

Zhu Hongsan said: "Okay, mother, whoever wants to ask you in the future will say that it was sold to us by a Francophone man." ”

Zhao Chunhua nodded.

Zhu Hongsan continued: "Mother, if you want to be rich, won't we change to a big house?" ”

"What are you doing in a big house? Isn't there enough for the three of us? ”

"No, the son wants to hire a few servants for his mother when he sees his mother so tired, and he will let his mother live the life of a wife in the future."

Zhao Chunhua said with a smile: "Flim tongue, don't you want to live in a big house?" But that's okay with that. However, our clan must have a customized room for changing houses, and we can't find a suitable one for a while, so I'll wait for my mother to find someone to ask tomorrow. ”

Zhu Hongsan Si Ai Ai said: "Mother, there is one more thing. ”

"Say, why is he still outside? Do you want a little girl? I know that you little bastard has a lot of eyes, son, you are still young, and your body has not grown, and now I know that the affairs of men and women are not good for you, and the affairs of the little girl are not to be discussed. ”

Zhu Hongsan heard what the old lady said, this is all that and that, he is very anxious, but he has to wait until his body grows, after all, his body is his own. Zhu Hongsan hurriedly interrupted the old lady's words: "No, mother, I want a big house to do my new experiments, and the emperor taught me a lot of things at that time, and I want to make them all." ”

The old lady said, "Oh, that's fine." ”

"And can you give me some money, just a hundred taels."

Zhao Chunhua glared at her son: "What do you want so much money for?" No, what do you need to tell your mother, and your mother will sell it to you. ”

Zhu Hongsan looked up at the sky, and said with tears in his heart: "God, why haven't I grown up, the child is really helpless." ”

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Jinshazhou in Wuchang Prefecture was originally just a naturally formed sandbar outside Wuchang City. Due to the three years of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Zhen, the sixth son of Zhu Yuanzhang, was awarded the title of King of Chu and was assigned to Wuchang.

Coupled with more than 200 years of descendants and reproduction, now there is one vassal king in Wuchang City, two county kings, and countless other generals, lieutenants, county lords, and county lords, plus Wuchang Mansion is the seat of governance of Huguang Province in the Ming Dynasty, plus various military institutions and cultural institutions such as Fuxue and County Studies, there are nearly 100 large and small yamen in the city, and Wuchang City is every inch of land.

Therefore, various shop wharves have been built on the Yangtze River outside the city. Wuchang is in the middle of the Yangtze River shipping, and there is also the reputation of the thoroughfare of nine provinces, and the merchant ships and passenger ships that come and go to Chengdu and Nanzhili every day are endless, bringing a large number of floating population to Wuchang City.

On the commercial street on Jinshazhou, Zhao Mingming's tea house is located here. The big shopkeeper Zhao Mingliang is in a very good mood today, yesterday his sister came to see him, saying that there is something to sell on his behalf, it is a hundred catties of snow candy shipped from the Franc machine country, he has already seen the goods, it is really as white as snow.

It's not a little better than the snow sugar shipped from Leizhou, Guangdong. My sister wants twelve taels of silver and a tael, which is not bad, after all, the snow sugar in Leizhou still needs twelve taels and one tael. I can buy twenty taels by myself, there are so many officials and nobles in Wuchang Mansion, I am not afraid of no market.

Zhao Mingliang asked the guy to open the bag at the door of the snow candy room and leak the goods, waiting for the God of Wealth to come to the door. The God of Wealth didn't wait, the inspection department arrived, and the young man came into the house and said that the Jiang inspection of the inspection department was coming. Zhao Mingliang still thought: What is he doing here? Didn't you pay the money? Just thinking about it, Inspector Jiang came into the house and said, "Shopkeeper Zhao, who told you to sell illicit salt from selling tea?" ”

Zhao Mingliang was confused: "Private salt? Jiang Patrol, the villain did not sell illicit salt, how can he say that. ”

Inspector Jiang sneered: "Shopkeeper Zhao, you are talking nonsense with your eyes open, what is in the bag at the door?" Selling illicit salt still dares to sell it in broad daylight, you really don't know how to write dead words. ”

"A bag at the door? Oh, Jiang Inspection, that's not private salt, that's the snow candy I came in from the Francophone Country. After speaking, he said to the young man standing behind him: "Load half a catty for the Jiang patrol?" ”

Inspector Jiang said curiously: "There is such a white snow candy? I've actually seen it. ”

As he was talking, the young man came into the house with a bag of snow candy, Zhao Mingliang opened the paper bag and said to Jiang Xunjian: "Adults try it." ”

Jiang Inspector grabbed a little and put it in his mouth, his eyes lit up and said, "It's so sweet, there is no bitterness of brown sugar and brown sugar, it's really a good thing." After speaking, he looked at the half catty of snow candy and said, "Lao Zhao, this thing is not cheap." ”

Zhao Mingliang smiled: "It's okay, twenty taels of silver a tael." ”

"What." Inspector Jiang's eyes widened and said, "This bag of snow candy doesn't cost a hundred taels?" It's too precious, it's really hard to collect. ”

Zhao Mingliang said politely: "Why do my brothers still talk about foreign words, Zhao has been running this tea house in Wuchang for almost ten years, and he has been taken care of by Brother Jiang, and this is to honor the old lady and sister-in-law." ”

"Haha, Lao Zhao, if you say that, then I will thank you for bothering you."

"Where, where, Master Jiang walks slowly."

After sending off Jiang Patrol, Zhao Mingliang came to the door and saw a lot of idlers standing watching the excitement. Zhao Mingliang arched his hand and said: "Ladies and gentlemen, what Lao Zhao sells is not private salt, this is the snow sugar that came from the Francophone country, everyone take a look, it is really pure white as snow, now twenty taels of silver is a tael, everyone is welcome to buy." ”

Of course, these ordinary people don't have the money to buy this snow candy, after all, twenty taels of silver can provide a family with a year's life. However, the snow sugar sold by Zhaojia Tea House is white and sweet, and it is famous. In the afternoon, someone bought one or two to taste, and it was really sweet, and there was no bitter taste.

The next day, after the Chu Wangfu learned the news, he sent a steward eunuch to inform Zhao Mingliang that the 100 catties of snow sugar were all for the Chu Wangfu, and he paid the bill directly. Zhao Mingliang invited the steward eunuch to the house, and the steward eunuch said, "Your snow candy is a little expensive for twenty taels of silver." ”

Zhao Mingliang said with a smile: "The manager doesn't know, this kind of snow sugar is much sweeter than the snow sugar in Leizhou, and the distance is long, so it is naturally expensive." ”

The chief eunuch said: "Yes, the king of Chu is a thousand years old with golden branches and jade leaves, and he can only eat the best." This is a 20,000 taels of bills of exchange, you see, right? ”

Zhao Mingliang took the silver ticket and counted it, only 18,000 taels, and knew in his heart that it was these yin and yang people who made it bad. Hurriedly took out another one thousand taels in the silver ticket and sent it to the steward eunuch: "Chief, the silver ticket has one thousand taels more, and I will return it to you." ”

The steward eunuch nodded and said, "Shopkeeper Zhao, no wonder you are an outsider in Wuchang City, and your family has received your wishes." The king of Chu said, don't buy your snow candy on the market, how many palaces you want, shopkeeper Zhao, wait to get rich. ”

After sending this yin and yang man away, Zhao Mingliang scolded: "These eunuchs know how to scrape the ground." ”

But looking at the silver ticket in his hand, he was happy: "17,000 taels, yes, just give 12,000 to the second sister." In a few days, I will go back to my hometown to see, if my sister's sales can stabilize, it will be a big business. ”