Although before the age of forty, Li Chengliang only had Mrs. Su, a wife with a wife, and later accepted the Wang family as a side room, but now he has been the general army of Liaodong for five years, with great military achievements and authority, and of course there are many concubines in him. However, since these Yingying Yanyan have no children by their side, they don't have much status, and in Mrs. Su's hall, except for the wife of Mrs. Ru's Wang, that is, the wives of the eldest sons of Li Rusong and Li Rubai, the rest of the people are not even qualified to set foot here. But because Mrs. Su's majesty is too heavy, her daughter-in-law doesn't dare to stay in front of her more than morning and dusk on weekdays, but the Wang family comes the most and stays the longest.

After all, the Wang family was personally ordered by Mrs. Su to find and send to Li Chengliang to serve, in addition to her beautiful appearance, she was even more in awe of the housemother to the bones, and she was the only one who gave birth to a son to Li Chengliang except Mrs. Su. According to Li Chengliang's current posture of great achievements, according to what Mrs. Su said to her in private, in a few years, the imperial court may give her another edict in addition to the title of Mrs. Yuanpei, which also makes her from a private family more grateful to Mrs. Su.

Because of this, she has seen Xiaobei a lot at Mrs. Su's place, and she found that Mrs. Su was a little more tolerant of Xiaobei than her daughter Li Rumin, so she naturally adjusted her attitude.

Therefore, when Xiaobei came over on this day and said that she wanted to go to Fushun Pass with her husband Wang Fulin, hoping to have a guide who was proficient in the Jianzhou Jurchen dialect, she saw that Mrs. Su seemed a little surprised, so she hurriedly asked: "How do you think of going to a place like Fushun?" Although the marshal broke through Gule Village, it was not very peaceful over there, and if the Jianzhou Jurchens wanted to commit a border, they would bear the brunt there. ”

"My aunt reminded me, but my family has always been idle, and when I arrived in Liaodong, I wanted to measure all the places on my two legs. It's the same as in Thistletown. In the past, when he was in Huizhou, people of the same age as him studied hard at home, only he ran out all day long, and in the end he even fell asleep and touched the pillow, and came back from the Jinshi exam. If you want to send it back to Huizhou, I don't know how many people will be dumbfounded. Xiaobei first made a foreshadowing, and then repeated what Wang Fulin said to Li Rusong, and finally said with a bitter face, "He also mentioned it to Brother Li before, but Brother Li should be too busy to take care of it for a while." ”

Mrs. Su's good impression of Xiaobei comes more from her straightforward temperament and her calmness in talking and laughing in front of her. Then he looked at Mrs. Wang and said, "Yinghua, you have followed the master to Liaoyang the most, but there is a candidate?" ”

Wang didn't expect Mrs. Su to recommend someone by herself, and after being stunned for a while, she immediately thought about it. After a while, she said apologetically: "I usually just serve the master, and I don't pay much attention to external affairs." But one of my distant cousins came to me, and thanks to the mercy of the old lady, he raised horses under the door. I heard that he is proficient in various languages, not only the Haixi Jurchen and Jianzhou Jurchen. Even Mongolian can be spoken. But I'm just hearsay, and it's really not clear if that's the case, after all, I don't remember if there really is such a relative, let alone ever seen him. ”

Mrs. Su saw Mrs. Wang say such a personal choice. The corners of his mouth smiled slightly, and then he looked at Xiaobei and said: "The Li family and the Su family are both military households that have lived in Tielingwei for generations, Chahan'er in the north, Tainingwei in the west, and Jianzhou Jurchen and Haixi Jurchen in the east and northeast. Whether it is the dialect of Jianzhou Jurchen or Haixi Jurchen, they can speak one or two, and most of them are proficient in Mongolian, so they don't need any translation when dealing with Mongolians and Jurchens, so Da Lang forgot about what your family minister said before, not to snub the guests, but to forget it for a while. ”

Xiaobei saw that the Wang family also suddenly realized, and his eyes widened: "Isn't Madame also able to speak Mongolian and Jurchen languages?" ”

"It's not a big deal, it's also a little skill that most of the soldiers and civilians closest to the border wall in Liaodong have to learn. Otherwise, not everyone is a businessman who has to make a living from the horse market, so why learn the language? In the past years, if you had been kidnapped to Mongolia or the Jurchens, if you didn't understand the language, you were likely to be beaten to death because of a trivial matter, and if you were in a hurry, you could say a few words and fool the past, maybe you could escape from the soldiers and horses who had entered the army, if not, who would want to learn? Mrs. Su said it lightly, but there was a deep sadness in her words.

Although Wang is a native of Liaodong, her hometown is closer to the Guangning area, and although the captives are not light, the Jurchen entry into the Kou is obviously much less, so she can speak some simple Mongolian language, and the Jurchen dialect cannot be talked about. Knowing that the now prominent Liaodong Li family was embarrassed for a while, she was afraid that Mrs. Su would be too hurt, so she quickly diverted the topic and said: "It is said that civil officials are not greedy for money, military attaches are not afraid of death, and the country can be peaceful. Having said that, Wang Xiaoguan is young and a jinshi, why is he so interested in making money? ”

Xiaobei knew that Wang Fulin's excuse for Li Rusong was good, but it would inevitably be criticized, the problem was that he was asked before, but he always said that it didn't matter, at this time, she could only rely on her own answer to someone: "My father-in-law often says a sentence on his lips, saying that people die for money, and birds die for food, but more importantly, a gentleman loves money and takes it in a good way." It is only a small skill for a person to make money, but if it can drive everyone to common prosperity, that is the real ability. ”

She took out Wang Fulin's opening of a righteous shop in She County, raising the price of grain to benefit the peasants at the time of harvest, classifying idle trading into the dart bureau in Hangzhou, and placing machine tyrants and idle mechanics in Zhenjiang, etc., as for the little things in Nanjing and the veterans of the Zhejiang army, she hid them, and finally said: "The prime minister said that if a person has money, if he just eats, drinks and enjoys himself, he is just a rich man; Take it out and do good deeds, and it is not too indiscriminate to be kind; If you can take out a part of your wealth and drive others to make money together, then there will be more rich people and more money to spend, and what kind of production will be stimulated by the money spent......"

Speaking of this, Xiaobei finally got stuck, and had to say with a bitter face: "He has a lot of strange theories, and he likes a hammer in the east and a mallet in the west, and that's all I remember." ”

Mrs. Su and Wang both felt quite fresh when they heard it. Wang Fulin is the nephew of Wang Daokun, the current squire of the Ministry of War, and has lived in the Liaodong General Military Mansion for a while. They had also met once or twice, and he was a very pleasant young man, and once he jokingly mentioned that when Tan Lun, the secretary of the military department, asked him if he was interested in taking up the post of Jiliao, he politely refused the reason. Since they don't plan to be officials in Liaodong, there is no entanglement and conflict of interests with the Li family, but if you look at Tan Lun and Wang Daokun's face. Tie a little incense, maybe it will be useful on a different day. Therefore, they don't care if Xiaobei is exaggerating at this time.

It's just to recommend a small character who is proficient in the language!

When Xiaobei said goodbye from Mrs. Su and returned to the guest house not long after, there was a knock on the door outside, and after Bizhu went out to answer the door, he immediately turned around and said, "Miss, you said that you mentioned to Madame before, that you need to be proficient in the language of the guide." Now that the person has come, but the uncle has not come back yet, should he go back first or the young lady will see him? ”

If this were someone else, there was a chance that people would go back at this moment, but Xiaobei has never been idle. Today, because Wang Fulin went to the city to surrender because of the invitation of Zhang Xueyan, the governor of Liaodong, she is not good to be the same as Li Rusong casually mentioned last time, and it is natural for her to follow her, where will she delay until Wang Fulin comes back at this time. After all. This matter was specially explained by Wang Fulin. She just thought about it, so she simply asked Bizhu to go out and bring people into the yard. She waited until there was a sound in the courtyard before she left the house.

At a glance, she found that the cousin of Li Chengliangru's wife Wang was actually kneeling there honestly. At first glance, this person did not look like Wang's younger brother at all, and his hair was interspersed with obvious silver threads. The appearance also looks a little old, with a square face, a wide forehead and a deep horizontal stripe, some people believe that it is Wang's brother or father. After all, as far as she heard. Wang is only twenty-four years old now, and her cousin should be even younger.

"Get up, don't talk on your knees. Listen to my aunt, you are proficient in Fan, you can speak the dialects of Jianzhou Jurchen and Haizhou Jurchen, and you can also speak Mongolian? ”

The young man who was kneeling on the ground got up according to his words, but he still looked a little nervous, and when he answered, he stammered a little: "Yes, the small, the small one can speak, all these can be said." ”

"What's your name? Where are the people? ”

"The little one is called Fan Dou. It's a Shenyang people's clan. ”

Xiaobei was stunned for a moment, although it was called Fan Dou and not Fan Tong or something, as long as there were people around him who made jokes, they would definitely make fun of his name. But this is not something to care about, she thought about it and asked, "You are related to your aunt, how can you raise horses?" ”

This question seemed to touch the hidden pain in Fan Dou's heart, and it took a while before he said: "The little ones don't know how to read, and the martial arts of riding and archery are also rare, and being proficient in Fan language is not considered a talent in Liaodong...... Moreover, the villain was offended by his own family before he went to Guangning to join his relatives, if it weren't for the mercy of the handsome, he wouldn't even be able to find this job of raising horses, and he would have been sent to those forts on the side wall long ago. ”

Hearing the other party's confession, Xiaobei asked a few more words, and felt that people were really honest, and whether they were proficient in the language or not, as long as they waited for Wang Fulin to bring back that Xiao Qi and Ah Ha together, they could be verified, so she nodded and said: "My aunt recommended you, that's you." After you settle the original matter, take your luggage and ride to the next yard to find Li Erlong, and he will arrange your accommodation. ”

The lady gave orders, and the little one had already delivered the errand, but the little one ...... There are no mounts, and the small ones can't afford them. ”

Hearing such an answer, Xiaobei couldn't help but laugh: "Okay, just come over, pack your bags, maybe when you have to go on the road, the mount will naturally be prepared for you, as long as you don't say you can't ride a horse." ”

"The little one can ride a horse, he can ride!"

Fan Dousheng was afraid that people would not want him, so when he heard a smile from above, he quickly raised his head and emphasized it twice, and when he saw that Xiaobei had turned back to the room, the girl who had seen him before pursed his lips and smiled, he hurriedly lowered his head again, but he thought in his heart that since he went to Fushun and passed by Shenyang, he could see her. But when he thought that he was just a groom, and he was driven out by the patriarch, and his fiancée must have been robbed by that person, he couldn't help but feel gloomy for a while.

Although the Fan family is not from Liaodong, it has been more than 200 years since they moved to Shenyang, and the ancestors said that after Fan Zhongyan, a famous minister in the Song Dynasty, there was also a high-ranking official twenty years ago, and it was also a big family in Shenyang, but it had little to do with the marginal people like him. If it weren't for the fact that his mother and Li Chengliang's side room Wang had a distant relationship, he might have lost his life a long time ago.

Unscrupulous blood relatives with the same surname are worse than enemies!

PS: Speechless, there was a double monthly pass from the end of the month to the seventh of next month, it's really embarrassing, ask for a double monthly pass, anyway, I've had enough oolong this month...... Recently, I have been in a state of confusion, and today is the third time I have gone to the funeral home this year, and I am about to collapse! Let's come to an old saying, life must be happy, don't make the gold bottle empty to the moon...... (To be continued.) )