Yang Hao asked, but before anyone next to him answered, he heard a shout and scolding from the courtyard: "You old immortal, you have gone to Dongying, our family can't tolerate this ghost woman, if we don't drive her away, this family will never have a peaceful day." ”

Then I heard the voice of the pig: "Ouch, master, don't fight, you dissipate your anger." ”

Yang Hao didn't know what was going on, his heart was tight, and he quickly separated the crowd and broke in, and when he arrived in the courtyard, he saw a woman kneeling on the ground, her forehead was close to the palm, her waist was about to be bent, her plump buttocks were raised high, and she was in a bowing and worshipping shape.

At that time, the kimono was still different from the modern kimono, and it was divided into two kinds, the kimono made of silk brocade was called the kimono, and the kimono style originated from the Tang Dynasty and was worn by the Japanese nobles, and the kimono originated from the Eastern Wu during the Three Kingdoms, and now it is mostly worn by ordinary people. Although the woman's dress was well-cut, it was very shabby, the white base had been washed and yellowed, and the hem of the dress had been worn off.

Yang Hao looked to the side again, and saw a beautiful woman in her thirties, half-aged and charming, with apricot eyes wide open, her face crimson, and she was scolding herself, and she was sweating profusely to stop her from rushing to the woman kneeling on the ground. Standing on the side was Zhang Xinglong, the helmsman of the Bianhe Gang, with a big beard and an embarrassed face. Next to him, there was a scribe in his forties, with a wry smile on his face, and further back, under the eaves stood the three-room concubine room of the little sleeve girl and Zhang Xinglong, all of whom looked like they were standing by.

"What's going on?" Yang Hao flashed out and asked in surprise.

Yang Hao is the envoy of the Southern Yayuan, but he is a very powerful official in Bianliang City, both a "county official" and an active official, Zhang Xinglong has always been very respectful to him, although he is a wealthy man in the rivers and lakes, he has done so many years of running boat business, and he also knows the truth that "the people do not fight with the officials", plus Yang Hao is the brother of Zhen Zhuer, so Zhang Xinglong is quite familiar with him, as soon as he arrived, he was like seeing a savior, and hurriedly said: "Lord Yang, you came just in time, you came to evaluate this reason, my mother-in-law, is too fierce." ”

Yang Hao saw that there were many stewards and gang leaders of the Bianhe Gang who were smiling at the gate of the courtyard, so he said: "The big boss is the hero of the Bianhe River, and it is so noisy in the courtyard, there is no need to make people laugh, what is there to discuss in the family, let's go to the room and sit down and talk slowly." Aunt Zhang, you also dissipate your anger, come on, let's go into the living room. ”

Yang Hao persuaded Aunt Zhang, Zhang Xinglong and others who were still angry to go to the hall, and when he turned around, he saw that the woman in Taifu was still kneeling on the ground, and he hurriedly stepped forward and persuaded him: "Girl, you should get up too." ”

Aunt Zhang, who had just walked under the eaves, turned around and roared as a lion: "Let that ghost woman kneel!" ”

The woman raised her head, looking at the age of only ten **, a gentle and soft face, tears in her eyelashes, Chu Chu pitiful, she raised her head, cast a grateful glance at Yang Hao, paused slightly, and then knelt down again. Yang Hao shook his head, and had to turn around and enter the living room.

"Big boss, what the hell is going on?"

Everyone sat down, Yang Hao just asked, Aunt Zhang said angrily: "Lord Yang still need to ask, you also saw it, he went out to run the boat, everywhere, he actually married a little wife in Dongying, only kept the old lady in the dark, today Dongying's little wife came to the door, tomorrow Luzon, Goryeo, Java's little wife will also come to the door, oops, our Zhang family can open a Wanguotang." ”

The word wife, at that time has become popular among the people, a few decades later, a big Song Dynasty horse Wang Jinqing also wrote the word wife into the poem, Yang Hao naturally understood what his wife meant, and he understood it at the time: the big man who dared to take advantage of the opportunity to run the boat and accepted the outer room abroad, and now the second wife came to the door.

Yang Hao was angry and funny, Zhang Xinglong blushed and jumped up with a thick neck, and shouted: "I said it all, there is only this one, how can there be so many women?" ”

Aunt Zhang jumped up and said angrily: "You still want to lie to me? ”

"You, when did I lie to you?"

"You don't lie to me, where did that ghost woman come from?"

"I ......"

Don't look at Zhang Xinglong as he is a big man, but he has no majesty in front of his wife. Science was advocated at the end of the Southern Song Dynasty, and it was not carried forward until the Ming and Qing dynasties, when "men are inferior to women", "three from four virtues", "men and women are not kissed, laugh without leaking teeth, the door is not out, the two doors are not stepping, starvation is small, the festival is big, and everyone is wrapped with small feet" and other things have not been popular, there is not much market, and women's personalities are very public. Aunt Zhang and Zhang Xinglong are a husband and wife in distress, and they have always been respected by him, Zhang Xinglong blew his beard angrily and glared, and he didn't dare to do anything to her.

Yang Hao and Zhen Zhu'er are a good persuasion, because Yang Hao saw that the little sleeve girl likes pigs, and he also likes this handsome and hearty girl, hoping that the pig can open her heart knot and form a good relationship with her, so she often helps her promote opportunities, although the two sides did not say it explicitly, but they understand it, Xiao Sleeve is very grateful to Yang Hao, and when he saw him to make peace, he finally stood up to persuade his mother and pulled her into the inner room, Yang Hao listened to Zhang Xinglong explain the experience.

Zhang Xinglong was originally a mixed waterway, in order to make money in the early years, he often ran to overseas, in recent years, he operated the Bianhe River, although there are fewer opportunities to run sea boats, but the nearest Goryeo and Japan still have to go over often. In the Song Dynasty, many merchants went to Japan to do business, far away from their homeland and their wives and children, so they often found a second wife over there, even if it was a very ordinary sailor, they were quite rich over there, and the locals worshipped the characters of Middle-earth, and it was very easy to find a young and pretty girl, so this situation was very common at that time.

However, when they got older, most of them stopped going overseas, and this outer room was left to fend for itself. In the past two years, Zhang Xinglong's business on the Bianhe River has become bigger and bigger, and he has focused on this, and he no longer goes to Dongying. Now that there was a famine over there, and although Zhang Xinglong had left a lot of money to this outer room, it was not enough in the famine where rice was like gold, and the little wife he married there, Sayuri Fukuda, begged a maritime merchant of the Song Kingdom to take his ship to the Great Song Dynasty to find a husband.

In fact, many of these outer chambers, once abandoned, can only find their own survival, there is no way to find their Song husband, but Zhang Xinglong is different, he is too famous, and the owner of the ship also knows him, otherwise he would not have taken the risk of bringing this girl over. However, when the ship arrived at the port in Shandong, it was found out by local officials.

At that time, the Great Song Dynasty had not yet set up a city shipping department, and the shipping was handled by the transshipment envoy. Luo Kecheng, the deputy transshipment envoy of the southeast province, was an official specializing in the management of shipping and shipping, and investigated whether there was smuggling, entrainment, human trafficking, and the collection of customs duties, etc., and found out the woman who was hiding in the compartment, but after listening to her explanation, he still felt compassion, so he spared the owner of the ship, and took the opportunity to return to Beijing to send her. As a result, as soon as Aunt Zhang heard the light, the scene in front of her happened.

"Luo Kecheng?" Yang Hao's heart couldn't help but move when he heard this name, and hurriedly asked: "I don't know if the third envoy Luo Gong, Lord Luo can recognize it?" ”

Luo Kecheng hurriedly stood up and replied respectfully: "It's my father, does Dean Yang recognize my father?" ”

Yang Hao also got up and said: "I have taken on the important task of migrating the people of the Northern Han Dynasty with Brother Ling, and we are very good friends with each other. ”

Luo Kecheng was also embarrassed when he heard him talk about his dead brother, the two of them had a cold noise, and saw that Zhang Xinglong was still standing there with a bitter face, so he asked: "The big boss, I see that you have also accepted a few concubines, it seems that the eldest mother is not such a jealous person, why is she so angry this time?" ”

Zhang Xinglong smiled helplessly, speaking carefully, it turned out that one of the main reasons why Aunt Zhang was angry was that Zhang Xinglong was hiding from her in the outer room of Fusang, she realized that she and Zhang Xinglong were a husband and wife in distress, and they worked hard together to build this family business, and her husband actually had something to hide from her, so she was furious. Moreover, Zhang Xinglong is a different family in Fusang, and he didn't think that she would come here, but he made her his wife there, and now that she is here, how should she be settled? What is the status of the family? The last reason is that Aunt Zhang looks down on Fanyi women, to put it simply, she has a bit of racial discrimination in her bones.

Yang Hao scratched his head when he asked the reason, he himself was also a love debt, and he couldn't help but feel sympathy when he looked at Zhang Xinglong. Besides, it is really not easy for that woman, she wants someone else, and abandons someone, it is really unreasonable, now she has come to the door, look at this Zhang Xinglong has a heart of pity and cherishing the jade, and it seems that he doesn't want to drive her out, Yang Hao thought about it, and said: "The big boss, I'll go and talk to the eldest mother, if the eldest lady changes her mind, that's the best." If not...... Do you have to find another way? ”

"Okay, it's best if Lord Yang is willing to come forward," Zhang Xinglong said with a wry smile: "In front of my tough mother-in-law, being an outsider is more effective than me, not to mention that the mother-in-law has always respected Lord Yang, please, please." ”

Luo Kecheng looked at Aunt Zhang's fierce wife, and also felt sad for Zhang Xinglong, who was also a man, and was also agitated at the moment, Yang Hao laughed dryly, and then walked into the room hard.

After a while, Zhang Huaisleeve walked out with Zhang Xinglong's three-room concubine, Zhang Xinglong hurriedly stepped up and said with a smile: "Good daughter, your mother's anger can be eliminated?" ”

Zhang Huaisleeve glanced at him, ignored him, Zhang Xinglong touched his nose and laughed twice.

The girl with little sleeves stood beside Zhen Zhu'er, and saw that he was looking at the inner room worriedly, and suddenly pinched him on the arm. ”

Xiao Sleeve said angrily: "Hmph, I'm warning you, don't learn from my father." ”

Zhen Zhu'er rolled her eyes and said in a humble voice: "Senior sister, you are too wide, even if I learn from the master, what is in your way?" ”

"You?" Xiao Sleeve was ashamed and annoyed, and it was not easy to say it too clearly in front of his father, so he couldn't help but pinch his arm again.

"Ouch, what are you doing again?"

Xiao Sleeve rolled his eyes playfully, raised his chin and said, "This girl is willing, what's the matter?" ”

In the inner room, Yang Hao was persuading Aunt Zhang, first praising her for her good governance of the family, very womanly, husband and children, and then her tone eased, and said: "Auntie, you see, the big boss has accepted a three-room beautiful concubine, but the most respected and loved is you, can this woman from Fusang still threaten your status?"

As for her identity, in fact, you don't have to worry, she follows the customs when she enters the country, and of course she is a concubine when she comes. I won't tell you, this official still knows a little about the customs of Dongying, the women over there are different than our Middle Earth, they are all tame like sheep, you see that she can't fight back, scold and don't fight back, and she should learn some, she is a weak woman who has come all the way to a foreign land, and she still has the ability to fight against you? ”

Aunt Zhang's anger gradually subsided, and she couldn't help but groan, Yang Hao looked at the door, and whispered: "Auntie, I and Zhu'er are brothers, and Zhu'er will join your family as your son-in-law sooner or later, we are a family, do you think I can help outsiders talk?" Let me tell you, that Lord Luo was out there just now, but he helped the big boss come up with a bad idea. ”

Aunt Zhang immediately glared at her apricot eyes and said, "What idea did he give me as the master?" ”

Yang Hao hurried closer and said in a low voice: "I said to listen to you, you can calm down and don't say it, otherwise, I will be an official in the same hall as Lord Luo, and it will be difficult to be a person in the future." ”

Aunt Zhang patted her chest and said: "Look at what you said, although I, Cheng Duoduo, am a female streamer, I am also a man without a headscarf, where can I do such a dirty thing?" Though you speak, you can get out of your mouth and into your ears, but you will never say it to others. ”

"Okay, then I will tell the eldest lady to know," Yang Hao looked at the door again, and said in a low voice: "Lord Luo said that the big boss is rich and powerful, and he controls the water transportation of the Bianhe River, and if he serves the imperial court, he can find an official." ”

Aunt Zhang said curiously: "This is a good thing, isn't it good to be an official?" ”

Yang Hao slapped his thigh and said sadly: "Auntie, you are confused!" ”

"Huh?" Aunt Zhang's emotions had been completely guided by him, she blinked, and said blankly: "Where am I confused?" ”

Yang Hao said: "If you don't be an official, the big boss is still powerful and powerful, what's the matter?" However, don't you know, once you become an official, you are qualified to marry one lord and two flats and three wives, but at home regardless of size, if you still refuse to agree to let the Fusang woman pass through the door, the big boss initiates to get an official to do, then you don't need to agree to the main wife, the big boss marries another wife, you can't control him, and you are on an equal footing when you enter the door, aunt, think about it, which one is more and which is less? ”

"He dares to marry another wife? I gelded him for being a conscienceless bastard! ”

When Aunt Zhang heard this, she jumped up with a "bluff", Yang Hao hurriedly grabbed it, and hurriedly persuaded: "Auntie, don't worry, Lord Luo, it's such an idea, but the big boss didn't agree, he said, the eldest mother and his childhood sweetheart, the two little ones have no guesses, and they have laid this family business together through thick and thin, and will never do that kind of unconscionable thing." ”

Aunt Zhang turned her anger into joy when she heard this, and said with some emotion: "This old immortal still has some conscience. ”

Yang Hao took the opportunity to say again: "The big boss also said that he is the big boss of Bianhe, so many subordinates are watching, if even a weak woman who comes all the way to him is sorry, and he wants to drive people out of the door, he will not have the face to be this righteous big brother in the future, just wait for the eldest mother to drive her away, and then shave the ordination and clear the ancient Buddha to atone for his sins." ”

"He dares!" Aunt Zhang's eyes narrowed, and after thinking about it, she was a little relieved, afraid that the old bastard would really abandon his family and become a monk, and there would be no place to cry when the time came, so she couldn't help muttering: "Am I really going too far?" Or...... Why don't I give in and tell her to stay? ”

Yang Haoxi said: "That's right, the eldest lady is more generous, the big boss is ashamed of you, and will only guard this family, you and the little sleeve girl more dutifully." Oh...... You see, there is still a statue of Guanyin here, the eldest lady believes in Buddhism, compassionate heart, so she can't bear to let her wander, there is no place to stay? Auntie, this is not a big master, you are kind! ”

"Hmm!" Aunt Zhang thought so, nodded and said: "It's still Dean Yang, who is an official, who has insight, as soon as you say that, my heart is much brighter, Cheng, just ask her to stay." ......"

Aunt Zhang hesitated for a moment, and said embarrassedly: "Look at it, the house is restless, the chickens are flying and the dogs are jumping, and now you want me to go out and promise to let her stay, it's embarrassing, just ...... I'm annoyed that the dean told the dead ghost what I mean, and I'm ...... I'm not going out now. ”

Yang Hao said with a smile: "The eldest mother should not rush to see her, but as long as the little Sayuri enters the door, she still has to go to see the eldest mother, and serve tea and ceremonies. ”

"Hmph, who is rare about the tea offered by the Yi mother!" Aunt Zhang said, and couldn't help but laugh "poof".

※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※ "She agreed?" Really agreed? Oops, hey, hey......" Zhang Xinglong rubbed his hands again and again, as if he was happy, and then grabbed Yang Hao's hand and said gratefully: "Dean Yang, you can relieve me of the big siege." didn't say it, if Dean Yang needs Zhang's service in the future, you just need to give an order, and Zhang will not disappoint the adults even if his head is arched. ”

"Hehe, the big boss is polite." Yang Hao grabbed his wrist, pulled him aside, and briefly repeated what he said to Aunt Zhang, saving him from turning his head and wearing the bang, Zhang Xinglong laughed when he heard it, and raised his big finger and said: "Dean Yang, high, really high!" ”

At that moment, Zhang Da was in high spirits, so that Yahuan's mother helped Futian Sayuri down, and took care of a residence for her in the side yard, and he wanted to invite Yang Hao and Luo Kecheng to eat and drink, Luo Kecheng had just returned to Beijing, and was ready to send this girl over to go back to the house to see his father.

Seeing that he insisted on leaving, Zhang Xinglong had no choice but to send him away. After Futian Sayuri was taken down, Aunt Zhang came out, although she still had a straight face, her anger was gone, Zhang Xinglong flattered his beloved wife, and was going to send the guests out with her, who knew that Aunt Zhang snorted coldly, glared at Luo Kecheng fiercely and disdainfully, and then raised her head and walked away.

Luo Kecheng was full of wonders: "When did I offend this tough woman?" Didn't you treat me well? ”

Luo Kecheng boarded the bow of the ship, still confused. The boat paddled and left the dock, and far away, another big boat docked on the shore also set sail, and a person in the bow of the boat helped the bamboo hat, and the face under the bamboo hat was the idle man who had been in and out of the Li family's incense shop.