The old man took a look at the weekend, and from his dress, and decent temperament, with many years of experience in the docks, he felt that he should be a big man, and no matter how bad he was, he was also a rich man.

The old man immediately stood up, beckoned the weekend to sit down, and said enthusiastically, "This lord, drink a cup of tea and rest first, it is not wise to go to sea now, the sea has just been stable, I don't know what moths will come out, this merchant ship is a rich family left to the younger generations, their lord died suddenly, the son of the family has experienced three failures in going to sea to do business, even the workers' money is delayed again and again, if it fails again this time, this ship is afraid that it will also be reached." ”

Then he replied to the weekend, "It seems that this ship is going in the direction of Dongying, since Dongying often sent envoys to trade with our Tang Dynasty, many merchant ships are willing to carry goods there." ”

On the weekend, I was in a good mood, took a sip of the tea handed over by the old man, took out half a copper coin, threw it to him, and said, "This is the tea money for you, let the owner of the merchant ship come over, I have business to talk to him." ”

The old man comforted, "This master, that son has a bad temper and has not yet made money, why do you want to take his boat?" Besides, it is not safe to go to sea these days, and no one knows whether the storm has dissipated. ”

Xu went to firmly support the weekend's opinion, and the little storm was not a matter at all for the old shopkeeper, a land fairy, and at this time, he said on the side, "My shopkeeper told you to go, you will go!" ”

The old man saw that Zhou Zhou and Xu Qu were so resolute, and he no longer persuaded him, so he summoned a child who was playing near the pergola, gave him a penny, and asked him to invite the owner of the merchant ship over.

Not long after, on the weekend, I saw a middle-aged man with a vicissitudes of life, who was held by the child from a distance and walked towards the pergola.

After he waited for the man to approach, he said straight to the point, "We're going to take your boat to Dongying, let's make an offer!" ”

The middle-aged man was stunned for a long time, this was the first person willing to pay for a ride on his boat.

People who wanted to go to sea with him to do business in the past, when they heard that every time he did business, he lost money and did not go well, they thought that there was some strange curse on him.

Until now, when others heard about the time of his departure, they would not even come to the pier, for fear that they would get into some bad luck and affect their fortune.

Years of business experience made him come back to his senses in time, and first introduced himself to the weekend, "I don't know what this master is called?" The contemptible king is very happy. ”

"Weekend." Weekend replied as he motioned for him to sit down and talk.

The middle-aged man understood, sat down opposite him on the weekend, looked at him a little, and said embarrassedly, "This master, do you know my rumors?" Even so, would you like to sail with me? I'm a disgrace to the seamen! ”

Wang Daxing knew that his deeds were widely rumored, so he didn't think about hiding them.

At the same time, when he was not optimistic about everyone, he took people to the sea alone to do business, and when he encountered problems at sea, he had to rely on his own improvisation, and he must have a lot of experience in going to sea.

Moreover, it just so happened that he had a merchant ship going to Dongying this time, and in a short period of time at this wharf, he should not be able to find a more suitable choice than him.

After thinking about it over the weekend, it was still the same sentence, "You better make an offer!" ”

Then he explained, "There are a total of four people on my side, and I plan to take a boat to go to Dongying for a long time, and I don't have much luggage with me, so I won't do business at sea, and of course I won't be afraid of those rumors." ”

Wang Daxing was relieved, and hurriedly said, "In this case, Zhou Gongzi, you can watch it, the four of you will not have much impact on me, maybe this time I come back, this ship will not belong to me." ”

I want to help this poor man on the weekend, but he doesn't have any good way, he can't give him the money directly, and now the broken silver and gold on their bodies are only about 1,000 taels of silver, which is not enough to buy such a big merchant ship as Wang Daxing.

He took out a heavy gold ingot and a tael, put it on the table, and said to Wang Daxing, "This is the deposit paid in advance, our things are still in the inn in the town behind, I don't know when Captain Wang will leave?" ”

Wang Daxing didn't expect to give a gold ingot directly on the weekend, he had not seen gold for a long time since he was behind from his family, and if it wasn't for doing business at sea, he might not even see silver.

He was surprised by the generous shooting on the weekend, but he didn't think much about it, just when the weekend was a boy from the city, looking for a boat to go to sea to take the female family to play, it is no wonder that the two girls in the back look very handsome and full of noble lady temperament.

Perhaps, this son-in-law is not an ordinary son-in-law, it may be from the big family in the capital, a family surnamed Zhou has almost no descendants in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and furthermore, look at the imprint on the gold, it is Chang'an, Chang'an is at the feet of the Son of Heaven.

Out of this consideration, although he gave this ingot of gold on the weekend, he didn't dare to take it, and hurriedly pushed it back into the hand of the weekend, and said honestly, "This son, I still don't want your money, it's my honor for you to get on my boat." ”

The so-called people don't fight with the officials, and now his family is down, if the matter of the gold ingot that he has given him is spread out after the weekend, and the magistrate here knows about it in the future, he will definitely find him trouble, it is better to take a ride for free and leave a personal favor.

On the weekend, in fact, because he had to go back to the inn to pick up things, he deliberately took the gold to test Wang Daxing, if he came back, Wang Daxing ran away with the gold, it would be fine, he should spend money to see a person's face, it is better than getting on a thief ship.

But on the weekend, he didn't expect that Wang Daxing didn't dare to take his gold.

It seems that there may be some wealthy merchants in the Tang Dynasty who dare to trade with silver, but those who are willing to trade with gold should only be the officials who have been rewarded in the court, otherwise, it would not have made him so afraid.

Thinking of this, I won't force it anymore on the weekend, and it's not too late to find a way to make up for him after I get on the boat.

Besides, Wang Daxing misunderstood his identity, which is a good thing, at least he will be afraid, so he will not dare to mess around, which can be used first.

Put away the gold on the weekend, patted Wang Daxing on the shoulder, and instructed in an undeniable tone, "Then we will go back to the inn to get our things immediately, you hurry up and arrange your ship, we will go to sea this afternoon, is there a problem?" ”

Wang Daxing looked at the sudden change of attitude on the weekend, and was more sure of the conjecture in his heart, and hurriedly agreed, "No problem, no problem, this son, please rest assured, when you come back, you will definitely be ready, and the son will set off when he says it!" ”

Zhou Zhou nodded, stood up and took the second daughter and Xu back to the inn.

Yuhuan and Su Yuan were on the side just now, watching the weekend deliberately scare Wang Daxing with the attitude of the official, and almost laughed out loud, and on the way back, they really thought it was funny, and the two of them got together to evaluate this matter, and the more they talked, the more interesting they felt, and they were very happy along the way.

Although their origins are indeed very big, but now that Brother Zhou is being watched by Tang Xuanzong, he must not be exposed.

At the same time, Yuhuan once again admired the scheming of the weekend, she had been in the palace for more than 20 years, and she knew how difficult it was to calculate people's psychology, thanks to the teaching of classes on the weekend before.

And what Su Yuan admires is that she has the strength to destroy all conspiracies on the weekend, but she has to pretend to be an ordinary person to deal with it.

So when the second daughter arrived at the inn and dismounted, they quietly kissed him on the face on the weekend, which made him a little confused.