Qing He sneered, but there was a little disdain in his heart, but he still held back his lips, and led Huang Dalang into the door and sent him to Su Niangniang's boudoir, but when he retreated, no one heard the broken thoughts in Qing He's heart: "Hmph! Marrying the righteous daughter of Taiwei, and getting married by the official family, is a stupid pig, and it is not easy to get three yuan in a row? ”

Huang Dalang naturally couldn't hear her heart, he walked to Su Niang's door and stood still, after a call, Su Niang opened the door to greet her, and congratulated Huang Dalang with a happy face for taking the first exam, Huang Dalang said to her: "Twenty Niang, now it has been set to hold a thank-you banquet on the eighth day of the second month of February, when my uncle will ask the official to make the marriage of you and me known to everyone, you still need to have a preparation." ”

Su Lianniang also nodded and said, "Take care of yourself, I don't know if the date can be set?" ”

Huang Dalang also shook his head: "But not yet, if you want to go through the three media and six ceremonies, it will have to be extended for at least a few months, and besides, Yan Nu is pregnant now, I don't know what the charter is!" ”

Hearing Huang Dalang mention Zhou Yannu, although Su Lianniang's face was not different, no one knew what was going on in her heart, so she said: "It's been more than a month since I came to Huangzhou, but I haven't seen Sister Yannu and Sister Chunnu, I wanted to be close to my sisters, but I just ......"

Huang Dalang smiled and said: "The house of Penghao, there are many rules. If you want to see it, just go and see it, today is a happy day, and you can call Yu'er as soon as you call it. ”

When Su Lianniang heard this, she should have refused, but the ghost sent her to chase Huang Dalang away, and went to the backyard of Yao's house with Huang Dalang to call Yao Yu and went to Huang's house.

At this time, the Huang family, the whole house is naturally lively, although Kong Bo and Kong Yun are not there, but Granny Jia and Aunt Qi are commanding several servants in the family to jump up and down, these people are added after Su Niangniang came, three miscellaneous envoys, two cooks, and four women who sprinkle and sweep, so that the Huang family finally has the appearance of a big family.

When I arrived at the main hall, I saw that Lao Qi and Erniang had already set up the offering table for worshipping the ancestors, and the tribute they used was still the one that sent Huang Dalang out to take the exam in the morning. It stands to reason that this big family should have a special hall to worship their ancestors, and there must be cumbersome regulations, and they can be as grand as they can be. But the Huang family is not a big family with a real inheritance, as mentioned earlier, this ancestor is only ranked by the father and grandfather of the old man, and then a "position of the ancestors" is used to fill the number, how can there be so many exquisiteness.

There is also the fact that the concubines of this big family are not qualified to worship their ancestors, but in the morning, the old man still let Wan Chunnu and Zhou Yannu worship with Huang Dalang, this is because in his opinion, although Wan Chunnu is nominally a concubine, but he marries into the family according to his wife's etiquette, and although Zhou Yannu is a prostitute, but now she is pregnant with the heir of the Huang family, she is also qualified.

In the past, when the old Huang family lived at home, they just set up a case to set up a meal during the New Year's Festival, burned incense and candles, and kowtowed a few times, even if they sacrificed their ancestors.

Anyway, in a word, the ancestors of the Huang family were refugees who fled here from Weizhou, and how could people who left their hometowns have many stinky rules.

Seeing that Huang Dalang brought Su Lianniang and Yao Yu here, the old man also knew that Huang Dalang still had a large table of people to entertain in Mingxiu Building, so he asked Yao Erniang to burn incense and candles, and then personally reported to the ancestors and ancestors that Huang Dalang had taken the first place in the county examination today.

After he finished explaining, he asked Huang Dalang to lead Su Niang, Yao Yu, Wan Chunnu and Zhou Yannu to kowtow to pay tribute, Huang Dalang naturally knelt first, but the four girls were stumped. Seeing that Su Lianniang and Yao Yu were there, Wan Chunnu was still bolder, and said to the old man: "Boss, if you salute, I'm afraid that it will not be in accordance with the rules." ”

In the Northern dialect of the Song Dynasty, the father could be called an adult, and the daughter-in-law could also call the father-in-law the elder, and the people called the person who was an official even with a surname and called an adult, which also meant praising him as an official of his parents.

Just listening to Wan Chunnu speak like this, Huang Dalang was a little impatient, so he said: "In my family, my father's meaning is the rules, let you wait for a sacrifice, just salute!" ”

Wan Chunnu's eyes were red when she was said, but fortunately, Zhou Yannu was clever enough to come and bow to her, and Su Niang and Yao Yu on the side didn't know what to do, or Huang Dalang relieved the siege and said: "Twenty Niang and Yu'er haven't passed the door yet, just watch the ceremony from the sidelines!" ”

Then the three of them paid tribute, and came to worship the old man and Erniang, which caused the two to laugh with tears, and the joy and sorrow were inseparable. The old man saw that Huang Dalang could easily subdue all the four daughters, and he was still a stable husband, and he even glanced at Yao Erniang, and Lao Huaida was relieved.

After that, Huang Dalang had to go to the family banquet quickly, and after a simple accompaniment, he resigned and went to the banquet in Mingxiu Building.

All the heroes have only eaten the first seat at this time, and they all know that Huang Dalang has taken the first place in the county examination like this, but it is a big deal, and everything in the family is complicated, who will blame him for not accompanying him, so he will happily reopen the second seat.

It just so happened that Lu's second father and son, as well as Kong Bo and Kong Yun, also arranged everything and brought Ye Dalong and them to the banquet, but they could be regarded as gathering together, so they also drank freely.

During the banquet, Lu Er took the time to tell Huang Dalang about the trip down the river, and this time he brought a total of 10,000 catties of snow salt and 500 catties of snow sugar to Hangzhou. After more than a month of inquiry in Hangzhou, I found that the private salt market in Hangzhou was not good, and the price of snow sugar could be estimated, but I was afraid that it would be difficult to take care of it, and it would be a disaster if it was remembered. During this period, he happened to meet Cao Cheng, who sold smuggled salt to Hangzhou, and this Cao Cheng had also done a few private salt business with Lu Er in the past, and he was also familiar with each other.

At this time, Sun Xin rushed up with Yang Zongbao and others, and as soon as everyone summed up, they listened to Cao Cheng's suggestion and went straight to Quanzhou. After arriving in Quanzhou, Cao Cheng hurriedly ran and found many Hu merchants, and sure enough, they all gave high prices, among which the price of snow sugar was the highest.

After all, the saturation crystallization method adopted by Huang Dalang is considered a cross-era black technology at this time, and the white sugar and white salt as white as snow let Hu Shang see it, and the only way they thought of it was to take it back and sell it to religious people to commit fraud, so it is not surprising that the price of white sugar is thirty yuan a catty, after all, scarcity is expensive, and white salt also made them raise the price to 1,200 wen a catty.

Some people here may wonder why they can still sell for such a high price when there is no green salt from Western Xia and a relatively white color solution salt during this period?

This is because the white salt made by Huang Dalang does not have the fishy smell of sea salt; Second, there is no earthy smell and fireworks smell of salt hydrolysis in the well salt pool; The third is that the color is white enough, and the fourth is that the crystals are very fine (after three grinding).

Therefore, according to the Hu merchants, the snow salt produced by the Huang family is even purer than the famous Venetian snow salt in the Western Regions, and the snow sugar is even more unheard of, unseen peerless good things, if such good things are not shipped back to the West and sold at high prices to priests, priests, imams, and imams of various religions, so that they can sacrifice to God, Allah, and Jesus Christ, this sin will be great!