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There was nothing to say all the way, and in the early afternoon, the boat arrived safely at its destination - Zhangjiawan, Tongzhou.

After docking and stabilizing, the three people who had been sitting for most of the day rushed out of the hatch for the first time, and as soon as they went out, Chu Fan was shocked by the scene in front of him, only to see that on both sides of the canal that were several miles long, there were high walls, and countless mountain-like granaries could be seen standing in the wall, and it was impossible to see the end at a glance - this was Taicang.

Rao is Chu Fan is accustomed to seeing all kinds of tall buildings in modern times, and he was also shocked by the magnificent scale of Taicang, how much grain can be stored on such a huge scale?

Muttering in his heart, Chu Fan followed Liu Zhongwen ashore.

It is this dazzling Taicang, which is about to be wiped out in two years - in 1629, Huang Taiji bypassed the Guanningjin defense line, entered the fortress from Longjing Pass, Hongshankou and Da'ankou, and for the first time imprinted the animal footprints of the Tartars on the land of the Central Plains that had been prosperous for more than 200 years.

The Tartars besieged the city of Beijing, and Taicang, which was close at hand, naturally could not escape the scourge of the pond fish, and was burned by a fire.

Imagining the scene of the huge granary in front of him that stretched for several miles with blazing fire and thick smoke blocking the sky, Chu Fan suddenly felt sour in his heart, the huge North China, tens of millions of soldiers and civilians, but let tens of thousands of Tartars come and go, and the decay and decline of the Ming Dynasty is as good as this!

Sighing in his heart, Chu Fan didn't stop at his feet, and the three of them walked along the wall of Taicang for a long time before they walked to the main street of Zhangjiawan, asking as they walked, and soon found the shop of Zunhua Ding's house - Fengrunxiang.

After listening to Chu Fan's explanation, the guy volunteered to go out to find it and asked them to wait in the store.

It didn't take long for Ding Yimo to come back, and as soon as he entered the door, he smiled and said, "Oops! I haven't seen him for a few years, and all my brothers have grown so tall. ”

Chu Fan hurriedly stood up and bowed, "Third brother is good." Immediately introduced Liu Zhongwen and Ge Bi behind him to Ding Yimo.

Ding Yimo raised his eyebrows slightly, and warmly greeted the two people who had met for the first time, and after a while the greetings were over, Ding Yimo led them to the spacious backyard, and after settling Liu Ge and the others, he took Chu Fan to the flower hall and took Zhang's letter from him.

Taking advantage of Ding Yimo's reading of the letter, Chu Fan looked at him carefully.

This is a young man in his early twenties, with thick eyebrows and big eyes, a tiger's back and a bear's waist, and a thin mustache on his lips, revealing a shrewdness and ability peculiar to a businessman.

Checking his memory, Chu Fan quickly found out the background of this third brother. The Ding family is different from the nouveau riche Chu family, it is a family that has been inherited in Zunhua for hundreds of years, and there are not only court dignitaries in the clan, but also side branches that specialize in management; Ding Yimo is the most optimistic junior in the side branch, otherwise he would not have been placed in such an important store in Zhangjiawan - the Feng Runxiang of the Ding family is mainly engaged in extra-oral business, trafficking goods from the south of the Yangtze River to the grassland, and then selling them back to the Central Plains from the grassland.

Chu Fan looked at Ding Yimo's face like an ancient well, but he didn't know that Ding Yimo's heart had already set off a monstrous wave at this moment.

Zhang first said in the letter that Chu An had an accident, and now there is no one alive or dead; Then he said that the family's land and floating wealth had been compensated to Wang Tingqian; Finally, the house has been pledged, and the family has to return to the ancestral house to live in Yunyun.

Ding Yimo took a little stroke, and then understood the secret: Chu An's life and death are unknown, whether he is Chu Fan or Changfu, and he does not wear filial piety; The Chu family is now destitute, and they are even in debt.

Ding Yimo's business of the Chu family probably knows, in fact, it is to try Sun Zhenwu's errands for the royal court, and now that the ship and cargo are lost, the Chu family can still stand on its own, which makes Ding Yimo unbelievable - he knows a lot about the black heart of these officials.

Thinking back carefully about the situation when he first came to Dengzhou to settle his family, Ding Yimo was even more puzzled - the Zhang family was obviously not a person who could deal with these old fritters in the officialdom, so who helped the Chu family get rid of this catastrophe?

Raising his eyes and looking at Chu Fan, who was drinking tea with his head down, Ding Yimo remembered the image of the pedantic little showman three years ago, and then compared with the calm and introverted young man in front of him, Ding Yimo felt a little unaware of each other.

Could it be that he was the one who helped the Chu family get out of the big trouble?

Thinking of this, Ding Yimo decided to test it, "It's good, why is Uncle Shi ...... Alas! The last time I saw Uncle Shi and his old man, it was two years ago, who would have thought that this parting would be forever! ”

Seeing him so emotional, Chu Fan couldn't help but feel sad, and with tears in his eyes, he recounted the story of Chu An's death in detail.

At the end, Ding Yimo wiped his eyes and said, "Uncle Shi's letter said that the royal court tried to collect all your fields and houses, what is going on?" ”

Chu Fan's heart was at ease - the reason why he wanted to write the letter in the name of the Zhang family, instead of dictating it by him, was to use this letter to test the attitude of the Ding family.

Since ancient times, it is easy to add icing on the cake, but it is difficult to send charcoal in the snow. Ding Yimo saw that his family was in trouble, if he planned to repent of his marriage and avoid it, then it would be fine; Now he asks for details, which shows that the Ding family has no intention of regretting the marriage.

So Chu Fan described in detail how Sun Zhenwu came to the door, how he saved people, how he moved, and finally got out of the disaster.

The twists and turns in this made Ding Yimo's heart shake when he heard it, and his eyes gradually filled with praise and appreciation when he looked at Chu Fan - at such a critical juncture, in such a short time, he could quickly find the thread to solve the problem in a mess, and find the key person at the first time, even if he was a veteran who had been working hard in the business world for several years, he might not be able to do so well.

It seems that the luck of this Chu family is not endless!

Ding Yimo knew very well that his father had set up the eldest lady of the Chu family for himself, on the one hand, he and Chu An did have a good relationship, and on the other hand, he did not have any plans to expand his business in Shandong and even the Wa Kingdom, so whether the Chu family is prosperous or not determines whether this marriage can be successful.

Now that the Chu family has suffered a catastrophe, if no one can set up the door of the Chu family, then this marriage will inevitably have no possibility of survival - if Chu Qin is really left behind, only chastity, he will not be able to enter the door of the Ding family!

What can make Ding Yimo happy is that Chu Fan, the original wooden nerd, actually shined this time, and showed the courage and ability to support the portal at a young age, which can make this ironclad marriage make waves again.

Ding's family is far away in Zunhua, and the one who can call the shots in Zhangjiawan is Ding Yimo himself, looking at Chu Fan's bright eyes, Ding Yimo groaned.

What should we do about this matter?