With a wave of his hand, the two little servants in the kitchen quickly brought the food plate to an idle square table, and then retreated to the door, only waiting for the two to finish eating before coming in to clean up.

Fan Xuan drank millet porridge slowly and methodically, and said to Fan Ke, "Eating at night, it is not appropriate to eat anointing things, millet porridge is just right, and it is the most nourishing." ”

"What the eldest brother said is extremely true, no wonder you can still run outside the plug all year round." Fan Ke drank the porridge in the bowl a few times, he didn't eat much in the evening, drank a lot of wine, and was already hungry.

Fan Xuan saw Fan Ke gobbling up, and smiled slightly, "No, I'm old after all, and I can't compare to when I was young." ”

"Big brother, why do you say that, you are strong, I think you are stronger than me." Fan Ke lifted another bowl of porridge.

The two brothers were chatting like this, and there was a muttering sound outside the door, as if Chang Sui was scolding the two kitchen boys.

"In the middle of the night, what a noisy and noisy scene!" Fan Xuan was a little displeased, put down the bowl and asked, "What's the matter?" ”

Chang pushed the door in, "Master, the two little guys are restless, and they actually talked about what you and Master Ke were doing in the middle of the night, and I scolded them." ”

"Oh!" Fan Xuan raised his eyebrows, he has never liked people to be restless and ask about things randomly, but tonight is a little different, originally he was going to gather the whole house together to ask, but he didn't do it because he had too many scruples, and now he is idle, he can call these two little guys in and ask.

"Call them both in." Fan Xuan commanded.

"Yes!" The chief replied and went out.

"Big brother, you are..." Fan Ke knew Fan Xuan's temperament, and thought that he was going to punish these two little guys, but looking at his appearance, he was a little different.

Fan Xuan said with a smile, "Sooner or later, you have to ask, since these two little guys are so curious, you might as well tell them and ask them if they know something." ”

The two little guys squirmed, entered the study in a panic, and knelt down with a "poof".

"I've seen the master, I've seen the master."

"Don't panic, I have something to ask you, if you answer well, you will be rewarded, if you answer badly, there will be no punishment, just think about it and answer truthfully." Fan Xuan said with a pleasant face, he knew that he was too powerful, for fear of scaring the two little guys and forgetting any important information.

Fan Ke looked at his cousin with some surprise on the side, and his gloomy face in the past actually showed a kind smile, which was very rare.

Seeing Fan Xuan's expression, the two little servants didn't seem to be punishing them, and gradually settled down, one of them was bolder, and said in a hurry, "I don't know what the master wants to ask, little... If the little ones know, they won't... There will be no concealment. ”

The other didn't speak, just nodded his head like a chicken pecking rice.

"Hmm...," Fan Xuan pondered for a moment, "Since you two are working in the kitchen, you must not have passed the customs with me this year, and have stayed in Zhangjiakou all the time, right?" ”

"Yes, sir." The little guy who was still bold replied, "The two of us are doing chores in the kitchen, and if necessary, we will follow out of the house to help buy vegetables and vegetables." ”

Of course, you also need a man to get out of the customs, loyalty, craftsmanship, and ability and body, all of which are indispensable, and these two guys obviously can't meet the requirements.

"Oh!" Fan Xuan was a little surprised, originally he was worried that these two people were short-sighted and couldn't ask any useful information, since they could go out to buy, they should be able to hear a lot of gossip.

"So since the beginning of the year, have you two heard any news about these local Jiangnan merchants?" Fan Xuan asked.

Although the relationship between the eight grain merchants and these merchants in Jiangnan and the salt merchants in southern Jinnan is not harmonious, it is still harmonious on the surface, at least so far, and the people below may not know it except for the core ones, especially those who have children who are not from a family, and they may still have connections in private.

The little guy who hadn't spoken before was obviously an honest man, and soon after Fan Xuan's voice fell, he only thought about it for a moment, and replied categorically, "Back to the master, the little ones rarely go out of the house except for shopping, and I haven't heard any news from Jiangnan merchants." ”

Fan Xuan nodded and looked at the bolder little guy.

This little guy knelt on the ground and scratched his ears and cheeks, obviously there was something wrong, but for some reason he wanted to stop talking.

"If the master asks you, if you have anything, say it honestly, otherwise, be careful of your skin!" Seeing this, Fan Ke suddenly shouted in a low voice, becoming a wicked person.

The little guy was so frightened that his body trembled, and he hurriedly kowtowed, and stumbled, "Master, the little one has... If there is a mistake, please exempt the master from the small punishment first, and the small one dares to say it. ”

Fan Xuan waved his right hand lightly, "That's it, I'll spare you today." ”

"Thank you, Master." The little guy kowtowed again, "Also, the reward that the master just said still counts, right?" ”

"Bold!" Seeing this, the chief next to him scolded loudly, "The master has spared you, it is already a great gift, and you dare to get an inch." ”

Fan Xuan stretched out his hand, motioned for Chang Sui to be silent, and looked at this little guy fixedly for a while, seeing that although his eyes were a little evasive, he looked very fearless inside, so he smiled and said, "Okay, as long as the information you say is really useful, your reward is indispensable." ”

"That's right, sir." Seeing Fan Xuan nodding, the little guy stopped grinding and said directly, "Little good wine, and I like to make a little money, so I have also met some people, but we never ask each other about the roots." ”

"One night a year ago, when I was supposed to be on duty, someone asked me to drink, so I asked another person to take care of me and sneaked out of the house by myself." Speaking of this, the little guy looked up at Fan Xuan, and seeing that he was not angry, he continued,

"That night, a person drank high, saying that he was the personal servant of the Cheng family's shopkeeper, and then scolded while drinking, saying that he couldn't move his nest after staying in Zhangjiakou, a bitter cold place for so many years, not to mention, he couldn't have a good New Year in Zhangjiakou this year, and he had to follow his shopkeeper on the fourth day of the Lunar New Year to go to a ghost place called Zhuoluji, which I had never heard of..."

I just heard this little guy say that when he met the personal servant of the Cheng family's shopkeeper, Fan Xuan was still indifferent, there are many people with the surname "Chen" or "Cheng" in Zhangjiakou, who knows which one he is talking about, but when he heard the three words "Zhuo Luji", Fan Xuan couldn't sit still, stood up suddenly and asked, "What did you just say?" Zhuolu set? ”

Fan Ke also stood up, isn't the word "Zhuolu" the famous caravan on the grassland that they haven't met, and they were still discussing the name of the trading company that wants to sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight?

"Master Yu, it's Zhuoluji." The little guy replied, "I was also present when the horse caravan pulling the wool entered the customs a few days ago, and I heard that they belonged to the Zhuolu Trading Company, and the name of this trading company was the same as that market. ”

"Then which Cheng family are you talking about?" Fan Xuan asked.

"Who else can there be, it is the Cheng family in Huizhou."