At the end of summer and early autumn, located in the courtyard of the Dong family house in Jinling Mansion, Ningzhou, the gray-haired steward of the Dong Mansion, Liu Sanzhong, walked slowly to a separate courtyard, and raised his eyes to see a slender young man in the courtyard, sitting on the stone bench with Erlang's legs crossed, playing with a small porcelain cup in his hand, and a plate of small and delicate porcelain utensils was placed on the stone table beside him.

"Young boy, could this set of utensils be the new tea set you ordered someone to burn?" Steward Liu stepped forward and said with a smile.

When the young man heard this, he turned his face and showed an angular face, but his long and narrow eyebrows were not heroic, but they were wise and profound, like an old fox who had become a fine spirit.

The young man glanced at the old man, then put his eyes on the teacup again, and said in an indifferent tone: "Well, but the workmanship is a little worse." ”

"Is this still bad?" Steward Liu suddenly sweated on his forehead, and said secretly: "This is the masterpiece of the Imperial Porcelain Workshop!" ”

The Imperial Porcelain Workshop is a workshop dedicated to the palace for southern porcelain, and its technical workmanship is the best in the world, and it is indeed the case in the eyes of Liu Sanzhong, but it is very general in the eyes of young people, and it is no wonder that the willow steward is embarrassed, then again, the young man's taste suddenly becomes unattainable, so that it is difficult for the willow steward to adapt!

The young man picked up a porcelain that looked like a pot but not a pot, carefully looked at the workmanship, and said casually: "What's the matter?" ”

Steward Liu came back to his senses at this time, and said with a smile: "Meng Gongzi ordered someone to send an invitation to invite the young man to visit the golden incense boat tonight for a few days. After that, Steward Liu handed out the invitation and said, "Did you refuse like before?" ”

The young man took the invitation, opened it with one hand, glanced at it, then closed it and threw it on the stone table, saying, "No, I just want to go out to breathe." ”

Steward Liu couldn't help but be stunned for a while when he heard this, he couldn't remember how long it was when the young man last went out?

This son of the Dong family has a single name, since he recovered from his illness last year, not only his heart has changed greatly, but he also wants to change his personality and temperament, he used to be nostalgic for the willows in Fireworks Lane, not only his temperament has disappeared without a trace, but even the invitations of his friends have been pushed away, so that the Liu steward has to think that his young son has become a Qing cultivator who is far away from the red dust.

However, the fact is that Liu Sanzhong could never have imagined that the young son in front of him at this moment was not the son of the Dong family he watched grow up at all!

The person is still this person, but no matter the behavior, temperament, or tone, he is no longer the former Dong Ce, but a businessman who lived in the postmodern era in his previous life.

Dong Ce knew what everyone in the Dong family thought of him, but he didn't deliberately cater to the other party's thoughts, he was a person with his own self, even if he changed his body, he was still himself.

Since last year, Dong Ce seems to wake up, and when he opens his eyes, he comes to a world that is both familiar and unfamiliar, the history in his memory is Xia, Shang, Zhou, Han, Tang, Song, Yuanming, and the time and space he is in now is there, but there is no Tang, Song, Yuanming.

He flipped through the book and checked it in his spare time, and it was ridiculous to learn that it was all because Ran Min listened to the words of Dong Yan and Zhang Wen, and retreated when the Qianyan army approached.

This victory is terrible, Ran Wei swept the north, occupied eighty percent of the territory in the north, and the Eastern Jin Dynasty stalemate for many years, until Ran Min died of illness, Ran Wei civil strife endlessly, after which the Eastern Jin Dynasty Liu Yu rose, not only pacified the Eastern Jin Dynasty civil strife to establish the Song Dynasty, but also took advantage of the civil strife of Ran Wei to cross the river and the Northern Expedition to dominate the world.

This has to make Dong Ce sigh, on the importance of choice!

If the overlord didn't put up the Hongmen banquet in vain, he wouldn't have to end up killing himself.

And Ran Min endured the impulse for a while, and chose to retire temporarily, which completely changed the history that Dong Ce knew in his previous life.

However, the rise of Liu Song was less than a hundred years before repeating the mistakes of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, with continuous civil strife, and then divided and merged several times, and it reached the current Daning Dynasty!

Daning was founded for more than 30 years, and it can be regarded as more than 30 years of peace, and the Dong family rose during this period.

Dong Ce's grandfather relied on a pair of legs and a lot of courage to do a dangerous road that all businessmen were not optimistic about at that time, the Western Regions business!

At the beginning of the founding of Daning, the Western Regions were not yet peaceful, many warlords seized one side, and horse thieves plundered everywhere, but Daning in order to restore its vitality, how could it be allowed to be rampant, and it took two years to pacify the Western Regions, and Dong Ce's grandfather just hit this opportunity, and he went to the Western Regions with a cart of Jiangnan specialties without hesitation, and then he was out of control, and established the largest business association in Jinling Mansion today, and the business was also carried out from the dry road to the sea road, and this money naturally earned more and more, but because of this, the son inherited his father's business, and Dong Ce's father neglected the family for the sake of business. Even his wife died of illness half a year before he came back to mourn, let alone this son!

So a gentleman was born, but unfortunately, this gentleman was not free for a few years and suddenly became ill, and then passed away quietly without anyone knowing.

To the north of Jinling Mansion, on the bank of the Great River, Jinling Wharf is crowded with people, and it is very lively.

On weekdays, in addition to the hard labor of moving goods, there are only some boat travelers here, and it is far less lively than today's grand occasion.

I saw that at this time, everyone focused on a huge wooden boat in the river, this boat is about 30 zhang long, more than 10 zhang high, and the ship building is as many as five floors.

But in the eyes of some old people, what kind of flower boat is this, it is clearly an invincible warship that crisscrossed the river basin more than 30 years ago, the Humen warship!

However, no matter how glorious it once was, how it crushed the enemy ships across the water, now, it is indeed a golden flower boat full of warblers and swallows, full of fragrance!

Dong Ce wore a jade crown with his hair tied on his head, a white robe as a base, and a knee-long black gauze coat, which supported his slender body to the fullest, he stood in front of a small boat with his hands in his hands, looking at the golden fragrant flower boat that was getting closer and closer, the corner of his mouth showed a slight smile, and said: "The owner of this ship is extraordinary to be able to transform the battleship into a kiln!" ”

"Young boy, you haven't heard anything outside the window recently, so naturally you don't know, this ship is the masterpiece of Gong Qing Gong's big boss!" Behind Dong Ce, a fifteen or sixteen-year-old Tsing Yi family Ding laughed.

Dong Ce turned around and glanced at his little follower Liu Fu, nodded and said, "It turned out to be the rich second generation!" ”

Although Dong Ce has no memory of this life, it is not difficult to find out the interpersonal relationship of his predecessor by knocking on the side, but at present, most of them only know his name but do not know his person.

"It's not good for the little one to accompany the young man up, this is your luggage, the young man has taken it." Liu Fu took out a burden and said.

There are maidservants on the Jin Xiang boat, and there are guards to ensure safety, so there is no need for domestic servants to follow him, and Dong Ce is not cruel enough to let Liu Fu look at him and hug him left and right, and spend all day drinking.

The boat went to the front of the flower boat, and at this moment the flower boat has lowered a bridge plate like a moat suspension bridge in front of the flower boat, which leads directly to the cabin, which is a bright gold light, and the bewitching beauties are lined up to greet you, which is really a good place to be fascinated.

Stepping on the bridge, Dong Ce could clearly feel that if this was put on the battlefield, it would be a bridge for the soldiers in the cabin to rush ashore, and the volume of this ship could accommodate thousands of people.

But this is only the past, its glory passed away with the flames of war, and it became the plaything of the rich.

In the blink of an eye, the river is quiet and abnormal, only a lantern tower on the river is singing and dancing in the boat, laughter and laughter, the mahogany lacquer in the boat, light silk curtains, wine and delicacies are placed on the table, a flute sound is melodious, the sound of the piano is pleasant, don't say that the beauties who accompany the guests, even the little maid who serves tea and water are like delicate flowers with buds waiting to be released, with delicate red faces, swaying bodies, all born with a good face.

The three merry men sat around a table and drank and talked happily, and each of them sat beside a delicate or bewitching beautiful woman.

"Alas, I said Brother Dong, I thought you still wouldn't come out, but I didn't think you would come, I knew it was so, we should have personally **** invited!" A young man dressed as a scholar smiled at Dong Ce.

This person Dong Ce has long known, when he was reincarnated and reincarnated and lay in bed to recuperate, this scholar often came to visit him in the house, this person's name is Meng Feng, the family is doing the business of the four treasures of the study, and there are several paper-making workshops in Jinling Mansion.

"It's extreme, it's been a long time since Brother Dong came out to get together with his brothers, and you still forgot about us." On the other side, a fat man laughed.

This fat man Dong Ce also knows, his name is Zhou Cong, nicknamed Baby, it's a pity to say, his milk name was originally Dabao, but it was a twin, but Xiaobao died pitifully, so Zhou Cong's mother called him a baby, which means small and big double treasures, in order to reduce thoughts, but in Dong Ce's opinion, his father can have a son to survive is already thankful!

Because the Zhou family is one of the largest gambling houses in Jinling Mansion, there is a banner on the surface that the comer will get rich overnight, but in fact, if others win a little more, his family will play yin and stumble behind their backs, and spit out all the capital and profits that others have eaten, damaging yin and virtue!

"Of course, you have to recuperate more when you get better." Dong Ce stayed at home during this time, in fact, just to get familiar with the world.

"Brother Dong has been paying more and more attention to his body since he got sick, so I don't know tonight...... Hey! Zhou Cong said, a pair of thief eyes also glanced at the delicate girl beside Dong Ce, how ambiguous and ambiguous the eyes were, and the girl was creepy!

Dong Ce smiled leisurely, approached the delicate girl's jade neck and sniffed deeply, and said with an intoxicated face: "Yes, the so-called flowers can be broken and straightened, don't wait for no flowers and empty branches!" ”

Meng Feng and Zhou Cong were both stunned, they didn't expect Dong Ce to be able to recite poetry!

"Eh, I can't think of it, I can't think of it, you still have such a talent!" As the sneer came, Dong Ce and everyone turned their eyes to look, and saw several sons standing behind them, looking at each other with a light smile, the leader of the handsome sons held a slender black seven-feather fan, smiled at Dong Ce and continued: "The flowers can be broken straight and must be broken, don't wait for no flowers and empty branches, oops, it's so comfortable, where did you buy it?" ”

Dong Ce's narrow eyes narrowed slightly, and said, "We know each other?" ”

Hearing this, the young man was stunned, then shook his head and smiled: "It's only been a long time since I saw me, and you forgot me, it's really chilling!" ”

"I only remember the people I saw when I was recuperating!" Dong Ce's rhetorical question seems sarcastic, but it is actually the truth!

But he can be sure that the person in front of him is obviously not the same as them, otherwise he will definitely come to visit the patient like Meng Feng and Zhou Cong, so he naturally won't give the other party a good face.

Sure enough, the son's face turned dark after hearing this, and he snorted coldly: "I don't know each other, and I don't want to see one day, a cousin suddenly appeared, and Tian shamelessly asked my son to take him in!" After that, this person sneered meaningfully at Dong Ce, shook the feather fan and walked away with a group of people in a dashing manner.

"Phew, what is it, isn't it just relying on his father to be a councilor, what's bullish, Brother Dong is right, none of us know such people!" Zhou Cong took a sip and said slightly angrily.

"What? Did you have any conflicts during the time I was sick? Dong Ce was obviously concerned and secretly inquired.

"Hell if there is no conflict, in the past half a year, we have ...... with this kid" Zhou Cong took a sip of wine, and said slowly, so that Dong Ce quickly understood the relationship between the two parties.

Not to mention the small bump between Zhou Cong and the other party, in terms of identity, he is Dong Ce's cousin Dong Ziquan!

mentioned Dong Ziquan, Dong Ce fully understood, after all, he was not in vain this year, he had already learned the general situation of the Dong family from the mouth of the servant maid, in fact, he and Dong Ziquan used to be a family, but because of Old Man Dong's words before his death, they completely became two families!

Dong Ziquan's father Dong Yantao is full of courage to start a business, and he has the style of an old man, but the old man let his second son, that is, Dong Ce's father Dong Yuanchang, inherit the proprietor on his deathbed, but except for the money in the business turnover at that time, all the rest of the belongings were inherited by Dong Yantao, but Dong Yantao's pursuit was not money at all, but the position of the proprietor.

Dong Yantao passed the first seven silently, and then did not ask for half a point, so he moved out of the Dong family and started anew.

Now, Dong Yantao's vein is also stable in Jinling, but the family business is far less than Dong Ce's family, and it is no wonder that Dong Ziquan looks at him unpleasantly, he should have half of what Dong Ce owns, or even more, but it backfired, who let his father not want it!

In fact, Dong Ce is very clear about the old man's choice, and he is very likely to do so, as the so-called country is easy to beat, the foundation is difficult to keep, the old man has exhausted his life's work to build the country, it is difficult to break through, unless he reaches out to small and medium-sized businessmen, but in this way, people will inevitably fight back, so let the steady and modest Dong Yuanchang be the master, supplemented by Dong Yantao, it is indeed a wise move to stick to the family business!

Everyone understands the truth, but whether it is acceptable or not is another matter.

Dong Ziquan's meaningful sneer before leaving, although Dong Ce was a little puzzled, but he was actually an outsider, so he naturally didn't bother to pay attention to it, and got up and walked outside the building with a sentence of "go to the thatched house", and even Meng Feng reminded him that the thatched house was not outside, he didn't pay attention to it.

The night breeze is gentle, the water surface of the stern of the flower boat is sparkling, and at the tip of the stern, a unique wooden pavilion has been built, and the quiet atmosphere contrasts with the liveliness of the building.

At this time, there is a person sitting quietly on a small chair in this pavilion, this person is better than snow in white clothes, and his hair is better than white clothes.

From a distance, it seems to be a white-haired old woman over eighty years old, but when I look closer, I find that her face is like white jade, and her people are like ice sculptures, and she is incredibly beautiful.

This is a beautiful woman with a white head when she was young!

"White lady, everything is ready." A maidservant girl entered the pavilion with a wooden box, came to the inside of the table, took out the four treasures of the study room from the wooden box in her arms, spread them on the desk one by one, and began to grind the ink.

"It's a very quiet place, and I love it." Snow Moth picked up the brush and said softly.

"Well, Gong Dadong's family knew that the White Lady didn't like to be noisy, so he specially built this pavilion for the White Lady, as long as the White Lady is here, the boatmen and guards will not come to disturb her." The maidservant replied.

Bai Xue Moth nodded, just as a cool breeze hit, she stroked a strand of silver-white hair that was blown by the wind with her bare hands, smiled at the maidservant and said: "The wind is gradually blowing and getting cooler in the autumn night, or you should go back to the room to rest first." ”

"It's not cold, the little maid should wait for the white lady to rest first." How dare the servant girl leave without permission?

Bai Xue Moth didn't insist, took out the bamboo tube from behind him, poured out some dark green powder into the cup, and twisted the copper kettle on the small charcoal stove next to him to pour boiling water into the cup, and suddenly, the fragrance of tea was permeated.

Picking up the fragrant teacup, Bai Xuemoth handed it to the maidservant and said, "Drink a cup of hot tea to warm up." ”

"Ah, this ......" The maid was about to refuse, but when she saw that the white lady had handed the teacup to her, she could only take it immediately and take a sip with a red face.

Strange to say, the fragrance of this tea smells refreshing, but when the fragrance is entered, the maid gradually feels sleepy, and after a while she can't resist the sleepiness, leans on the pavilion railing and slowly slides down, and finally falls into a deep sleep.

Bai Xue Moth didn't pay attention, picked up the pen and wrote something at will, and I don't know how long it took, suddenly saw a black shadow flashing outside the pavilion, and a masked man in black came to the pavilion as if he appeared out of thin air by taking advantage of the night, kneeling down on one knee and clasping his fist at the white lady in the pavilion and said: "One hundred and twenty people are ready on the black boat in the rear, and the helmsman sent his subordinates to come first to ask when the saint will start?" ”

"When you wait, start immediately, and if there is an emergency, the lights will go out to warn." The white lady didn't raise her head.

"Subordinates take orders!"

The man in black answered, and then jumped up with an arrow and landed outside the fence, and after a while, the sound of falling water came up.

The stern of the boat should have fallen into silence, but after the sound of falling into the water, a series of water sounds suddenly sounded, this sound was like a pot pouring tea, although it was slight, but in this quiet stern it was extremely harsh!