Baiwei Xiang Food Shop, private room on the second floor.

There were only two people at the table, but there were dishes and bowls, and a table was filled.

Although Mei Xiucai politely said "enough", she smiled on her face, obviously satisfied with Lao Jin's knowledge. It's just that...... He looked around, remembering that this was Gui Wu's shop, and he felt a little disgusted in his heart, but he felt that it was not as good as the famous restaurants in the town. But the guest is as he pleases, and in the end he eats for nothing.

Because it was a meal, before the two of them went upstairs, Mei Xiucai glanced at it, and the seats in the lobby were ninety percent full. Even the upstairs boxes, there are more than half of the guys at the door.

The business of this restaurant is hot. In the end, Gui Wu has been a child son-in-law in a businessman's house for more than ten years, but he has become a businessman.

Mei Xiucai didn't know whether to despise or jealousy, in short, she was uncomfortable.

Mei Xiucai saw it, and Lao Jin naturally saw it. In his opinion, this small food shop is better than a big restaurant, it is not obvious, but the flow of customers is here, and it is a three-place shop, and the old profit of a month is not small, so you can take it out.

Gui Wu is a country boy who doesn't get in the way, and the Jiang family doesn't have any scruples, but the iron monk is the most scoundrel, and he has to think of a proper way.

Don't worry, now you have to take ten acres of Zhuangzi and the Mei family.

Lao Jin smiled, glanced at Mei Xiucai, and said, "According to me, I really admire Mei Xianggong's courage!" ”

Mei Xiucai was confused: "What do you say?" ”

Lao Jin said "haha" twice: "Since Lao Meng left Xiji Town, it has been a few days, and I haven't seen Mei Xiucai in a hurry, so I say I admire Mei Xianggong's courage." ”

When Mei Xiucai heard this, her face changed.

That "Lao Meng" was none other than the gambler who had lent money to Mei Xiucai before, on the condition that he would facilitate the sale of the Du family's eighteen acres of land.

But when the two of them said this, no one else was present.

Mei Xiucai looked at Lao Jin's eyes with vigilance, and her face turned cold.

You must know that Du Li is sending someone to inquire in the town before, and the old Meng seems to have fallen from himself, rented a house and said that he was also a traveling businessman, but he didn't make any deals, so as soon as the person left, there was no clue, but I didn't expect to send one to the door.

Lao Jin actually doesn't understand those crooked roads in the capital, where is the need for his master to place a benefactor and relatives?

The small people in the mountains and wilderness, Pingsuli can't even touch the Qipin County Order, and when they hear the Hou Mansion, they are blinded, and buying land is not a matter of greeting.

However, Lao Jin became a slave of the Hou Mansion, and he felt that he was three points superior, even if he said hello, he didn't bother to go directly to find a mud leg to talk, so he came over to talk to Mei Xiucai.

But he got straight to the point, and said two things without concealing it: "The ten acres of land, right next to our Zhuangzi, are still my old Jinti, but the people in the capital have to make twists and turns over a trivial matter that is obviously a sentence, for fear that they can't show that they can?" It's a non-responsible one, and it's not happy to hide your head and hide your tail when you encounter something! The grandmother of the Liang family, who has a five-grade fate, the eldest young master of the Liang family is seventeen, a talent in the middle of last year, and now she is studying in the county; The eldest lady is thirteen, and it's time to say goodbye. Hou Ye sent someone to spread the word and asked him to find someone for the eldest lady nearby. Those ten hectares of land were planned to be bought for the eldest lady as a dowry. ”

When Mei Xiucai heard this, her eyes couldn't help but widen.

Ten hectares of land, now the price of one hectare of land is nine hundred taels of silver, and ten hectares is nine thousand taels of silver.

There is also that Miss Liang, although her father is dead, but in the end, she is a serious daughter, and there is a Hou Mansion as a backer, and this father's death is not in vain.

Mei Xiucai couldn't help but be warm, he knew his own weight, a Xiucai was a fluke, or because of the lack of scholars in the north, he didn't dare to think about it, but if he really wanted to marry a noble wife, it would be different with a nobleman.

Mei Xiucai's reaction fell in Lao Jin's eyes.

Lao Jin only thought that he was moved, so he was naturally satisfied, and said, "Is it that Mei Xianggong also thinks that it is difficult to find a young lady like the Liang family?" What do you see? Such a young lady with a rich dowry and a decent appearance, these Sanhe counties are among the best, but she is still worthy of your nephew who is descended from the 'Wenqu Star'? ”

Mei Xiucai listened to the slightly reserved nod in front of her, but when she heard the last sentence, it was like a basin of ice water poured on her head, and she immediately came to her senses, her expression was a little stiff, and she was faintly angry.

Everyone only sees Mei Sheng?! Why don't you remember that his uncle is also a young talent?

I don't want to think about it, I have a wife and children, and the other party picks a son-in-law instead of a beautiful young man, and it is not normal to find him.

Lao Jin didn't know that he had said the wrong thing, and continued: "Hou Ye said that he would take his benefactor's daughter as his daughter, and he couldn't take care of it far away all these years, so he couldn't move the capital away, and he would be able to move around more in the future, not only to marry Zhuangzi, but also to marry the shop!" Other gold and silver are fine and soft, and they are indispensable. ”

The Mei family is nominally a "scholarly family", but they have only been studying for two generations, and they are not much better than ordinary farmers, so Lao Jin directly "lures them to profit".

Mei Xiucai was even more irritable when she listened, no matter how much she was Mei Sheng's little cub, what did she do? And if Mei Sheng really wants to climb the Hou Mansion, then it will not be something that a little Mei family can control in the future.

Thinking of this, Mei Xiucai lowered her face and looked at Lao Jin unkindly: "Brother Jin is not teasing me?" I thought you were talking about a puppy, and naturally I meant to find him a decent family affair, but you fancy my nephew? At the end of last month, he had already made a marriage, could it be that my brother wanted my Mei family to regret his marriage? Although our Mei family is small, it is also a scholarly heirloom and has its own backbone, and will not be treacherous in order to climb the high gate! ”

A seat of words, said loudly.

Even Lao Jin, who looked down on Mei Xiucai in his heart, also gave a thumbs up: "In the end, it is Xiucaigong, change to someone else, such an opportunity, but it is a good thing that has been encountered in several lifetimes!" That's not an ordinary Hou Mansion, it's a serious royal relative, the Hou Ye and the Sixth Master are both the sons-in-law of the emperor's grandfather! If this becomes the son-in-law of the Hou Ye, even if it is a godson-in-law, it will be very decent."

Mei Xiucai only felt distressed and wanted to vomit blood, and she couldn't wait to take back her words immediately and promote this family business; But thinking about it, he would have to rely on people to snort in the future, and he relied on his nephew, so he didn't speak.

Lao Jin only admired it in his mouth, and his eyes glanced at Mei Xiucai's purse.

If he hadn't deliberately made concessions, Mei Xiu would have been able to win sixty taels of silver? With this sweetness, Mei Xiu was able to leave the gamble.

Now he is not afraid of hard talking, and there is still plenty of time, there will always be a time for him to ask for help.

*

In the private room next door, because Mei Xiucai finally refused with righteous words, Lao Jin was not small in the last sentence for the sake of momentum, and a few guests next door heard it really.

Several of them were dressed as Confucian students, two of them had vaguely similar appearances, one year long and steady, one young and elegant, they should be brothers, and the third person was more handsome.

The slightly older guest frowned and pondered, but the younger one laughed out loud and said, "It's like the truth, it's also the emperor's relatives, which liar is this?" Whose daughter's daughter of the Hou Mansion is still worried about getting married, and she doesn't look for the right relatives, and finds this poor country? ”

The older guest shook his head and said: "Not necessarily, it is the third child of the Jin family who mentions the emperor's relatives, and now he is the head of the Zhuangzi, and the Zhuangzi heard that it was placed by the nobles in the capital." ”

These three people are none other than Zhong Xiaoyan, Zhong Er's brothers and Gui Wu.

Because when he bought land and transferred his ownership in Gui Chongyang before, Zhong Xiaoyan showed his face in front of the new county honor, and two days ago, there was a vacancy in the household housekeeper, and Zhang Liang directly named Zhong Xiaoyi as the warden among the household officials.

Although he is still an official and has no formal rank, in the county yamen, only by going this far can he be qualified to continue to climb up.

The three masters of the county yamen, the county lord, the county lord and the second lord, and the lord Bo three lords, are all nominally officials who accept their fate, but in fact, only the county magistrate is a three-year running water official, and the eighth county and the ninth grade master are all local scholars or officials who are promoted.

Zhong Xiaoyi's career goal is also the main Bo and the county.

Not to mention anything else, this is directly a small head, and it is more decent than being a small minion before.

It's just that Gui Chongyang is a child, or Mujia Village, Zhong Dian's heart is not good to go over to thank him with great fanfare, and today happened to be a county school holiday, so he called his younger brother to be a companion, and invited Gui Wu first.

Gui Wu asked the reason for the invitation, but he refused to accept this thanks, so he arranged the banquet in Barilla "anti-guest-oriented", which was regarded as his and Zhong Er's promotion.

Zhong Dianzhi has just won the favor and promotion of the new county order, and naturally looks forward to the stability of this young county order. But in this territory, there are people in the Hou Mansion, so he has to be alerted.

If the other party keeps to himself, if he does something wrong, who knows if he will be implicated in the magistrate.

After the two brothers finished speaking, they couldn't help but be curious when they saw Gui Wu's thoughtful appearance.

"Xiao Wu, you don't really think that we have a goddaughter of the Hou Mansion in Sanhe County to marry and find a son-in-law, right?" Speaking of this, Zhong Er smiled and said, "I just don't know if it's really my daughter, or '' my daughter?" ”

It's not that Zhong Erping thinks crookedly, because the common people of the Ming Dynasty forbade slaves, and the common people also limited the acceptance of concubines, so the rich families took advantage of the tricks and kept slaves and maids in the name of adopted sons and daughters.

Therefore, the adopted daughters of the Hou Mansion, one is a real adopted daughter, and the other is a concubine to be married.

The three of them only heard the last two sentences of dialogue, and they didn't know the previous situation, so Zhong Er said this.

Gui Wu replied and asked: "I see, it's really a lot of trouble, but it's also a snake hitting seven inches, this Mei family is really not a family with a backbone!" ”

It turned out that he still remembered that the Du family's steward was bribed and Mei Xiucai was lured into gambling, but he couldn't figure it out, but after listening to today's words, he was right.

Zhang Fu fled a few days ago, it was Gui Wu who was watched, and he found out about the Xining Hou Mansion at that time, when Gui Wu and Gui Chongyang mentioned this matter, both uncles and nephews were puzzled by the Song family's intentions, and felt that the Song family was only to buy land, and it was not appropriate to be so bothered. Now it seems that if it involves family affairs, it can be explained.

The Zhong family brothers were puzzled, and Gui Wu had already asked: "Brother Zhong, there are still two princesses in the capital besides the Xining Hou Mansion, but there are other families?" ”

The princess marries is a big deal in the eyes of the powerful, but the common people only know that the princess is the emperor's daughter, who remembers which one this girl married.

Besides, when it comes to the royal family, the common people have a natural fear, and they are not the object of ordinary talk. Therefore, in addition to the Song family that was found before, Gui Wu didn't know which family the other Heavenly Family's daughters had descended from.

Zhong Dian's official is different, in the end, he eats public food, and it is convenient to read the newspaper of the imperial court on weekdays, but he remembers it clearly, shook his head and said: "There is no one else's house anymore." From Emperor Taizu to the present, the heavenly family has descended more than a dozen princesses, most of them are princes who have made meritorious contributions to the founding of the country, and the family accounts for two princesses in the Xining Hou Song family, and the current Hou Ye and his sixth brother, the third princess and the fourth princess from the first queen...... "Speaking of this, his eyes widened

Zhong Er also put away his smile, and the three of them looked at each other, and their faces became heavy.

If it is really a family affair of a righteous daughter and an adopted daughter, it will not be so vague to find relatives, and it is still a remote Tongzhou; But if it's not a righteous daughter, an adopted daughter, or a concubine or something like that, then something big will happen.

The "concubine" took a concubine, but he was "unchaste" to the princess and slapped the royal in the face.