The first day of November in the eighth year of Chongzhen

The news that the young proprietor of Jubaozhai returned to Yangzhou City safely under the escort of the officers and soldiers of the Shandong Guard Station spread quickly. In a quiet courtyard of a deep house, a man about 20 years old, wearing a round-necked wide-sleeved skewed shirt with dark green edges, wearing high felt boots, and wearing a square scarf, a standard literati and elegant dress, he is Sun Xiyi, the proprietor of Bao Daxiang. From the perspective of later generations, Sun Xiyi looks very beautiful with a Chinese surname, his eyebrows are very curved, and his mouth is not big, he looks like a handsome son, but it is a pity that the gloomy corners of his eyebrows are revealed from time to time to change this beauty.

A housekeeper about fifty years old, dressed in a green cloth jacket, purple cloth jacket, white cloth pants, blue cloth skirt, white cloth socks, green cloth shoes, and soapcloth towel, was standing in front of Sun Xiyi with a frightened expression and a pale face.

A dark voice came out of Sun Xiyi's mouth: "You mean, Kong Lin and his batch of goods have entered Yangzhou City safely?" ”

"Yes, young master! Yu Konglin also entered the city with a group of officers and soldiers from Shandong, and the dozens of gangsters we sent out were all picked off by those officers and soldiers and became wasters. As for the group of people who were sent to Qingzhou with Kong Lin before, they are still missing, and it is estimated that they have also missed. ”

"Smack!" A loud slap rang out clearly, and the butler's face immediately became red and swollen. Sun Xiyi's originally handsome face had been completely deformed, and he roared and scolded: "Waste! It's all a bunch of waste, and a group of people can't even clean up a few little guys, and they deserve to be picked off. And you, you are also a waste, you can't even do such a trivial thing, what's the use of me raising you! ”

Sun Xiyi roared, saliva splashed on the butler's face from time to time, and the butler just lowered his head and quietly let Sun Xiyi vent his anger. He is familiar with the young master's temper and knows that when the young master roars and scolds you, you must not talk back or try to reason with him, it is completely useless, you just wait until he vents his anger and it will be fine, on the contrary, if the young master does not scold you, but just talks to you calmly, your end will never be good.

After a while, after Sun Xiyi had finished venting his anger, the housekeeper reported in a low voice: "Young master, it's not that the old slave doesn't do his best, but that the Kong family has officers and soldiers escorting them all the way, and the waves of people we sent out don't dare to do it, but those who dare to attack them are now either staying in the official yamen with broken hands and feet or being killed by them,"

Sun Xiyi snorted coldly: "Look, look, who are you looking for, I have already said that those pungent gangsters let them tease the big girl and the little daughter-in-law are all good hands, but if you want to do something serious, you will have nothing to do, and there will be more than enough fucking success." ”

After a pause, Sun Xiyi asked in a low voice, "Did you find out who those officers and soldiers who escorted Kong Lin back?" ”

The housekeeper said with a sad face: "Young master, those officers and soldiers have just entered the city, and now they are all living in the compound of the Kong family, according to a slave of the Kong family who was bought by the old slave, those officers and soldiers are the tun army of the Lingshan Guard in Shandong, and they came to Yangzhou to buy grain, led by a hundred households, whose name is Pang Gang." ”

"Pang Gang!" Sun Xiyi read the name slowly, with a hint of resentment in his eyes, "Hmph, dare to spoil this young master's big thing, this young master remembers you!" ”

At this time, Pang Gang didn't know that there was a person in Yangzhou City who was talking about himself, but it was estimated that he wouldn't care even if he knew, who was afraid of anyone these days! Moreover, at this time, Comrade Pang Gang was sitting in a hall in the Confucian compound, eating and drinking the delicacies placed in front of him.

It is worth mentioning that the Kong family's welcome ceremony to Pang Gang, who sent Kong Lin back safely, was very grand, and at the reception banquet in the evening, not only the current owner of Jubao Zhai, Kong Lin's old father Kong Wen personally accompanied, and the main male relatives of the Kong family also attended this reception banquet. This time, Pang Gang escorted Kong Lin to get back the red goods, which can be said to have pulled back the desperate Jubao Zhai, and it is reasonable for the Kong family to put on such a posture at this time to express their gratitude to Pang Gang.

The floor of the reception hall of the Kong family was also laid with a fire dragon, from the pipe laid in the kitchen to the hall, the hot heating smoked the hall warm like spring, at this time Pang Gang had already taken off his cotton armor and changed into a relatively thin autumn coat and casual clothes.

Kong Wen, the head of the Kong family, is a thin middle-aged man in his forties, who always has a smile on his face, which makes people feel good at first sight, and he looks more like a scribe than a merchant from the outside.

I saw Kong Wen smiling and raising his wine glass and said to Pang Gang: "Huge man, the dog can return safely thanks to the escort of the adults all the way, you are our great benefactor of Jubao Zhai, come!" Adults are invited to drink this cup to their heart's content! ”

"Cheers!"

"Cheers!"

Everyone at the table also took up the wine glass and drank it all, Pang Gang put down the wine glass and said to Kong Wen: "Master Kong, you must also know that this official came here to buy grain this time, and the deadline is also very tight, you are the head snake of Yangzhou City, you need a lot of help!" ”

Kong Wen smiled slightly: "Huge people, please rest assured, just leave the matter of buying grain to the dogs, and it is estimated that it is not a big problem to have a few thousand stones of grain decay." ”

After Pang Gang heard Kong Wen say this, he still had some heart to let go, the Kong family is a local snake rooted in Yangzhou for several generations, and there will definitely be no problem in handing over the matter of buying grain to him.

"Well, that's good, the official will rush back to the guard after purchasing food, so I hope the head of the Kong family can handle it as soon as possible."

Kong Wen laughed, "Don't worry, although my Kong family can't say that it has great powers, it can still be done to help people buy some food." Don't worry, now let's enjoy the song and dance. ”

After speaking, Kong Wen made a color to one of the servants next to him, and the subordinate clapped his hands and made a loud "pop" sound, and then three or four musicians and a team of singers soon came to the hall.

After the musicians finished sitting, bursts of melodious music suddenly sounded, and dozens of singers danced in the center of the hall in the melodious music, waving their long sleeves and bursts of fragrance from time to time into everyone's noses. In addition, these singers are very thinly dressed, revealing a piece of white and greasy skin and fragrant milk and wavy buttocks from time to time in the dancing posture, although Pang Gang has no research on music, but he can still distinguish the beauty and ugliness of women.

Pang Gang observed that these women were all good-looking, and they were all in their twenty-eighth years, it was really embarrassing for the Kong family, I don't know where they were invited, and the quality was really good.

Pang Gang whispered to Kong Lin on the side: "Kong Shaodong, where did you invite these singers, it's really good." ”

Kong Lin smiled, "It's not invited, it's raised by the grass people's families!" ”

"Uh, raise it yourself?"

Now Pang Gang finally has a general understanding of the luxury of the rich in ancient times, in the words of later generations, buying tickets to watch the opera performance of the song and dance troupe and the concept of raising a song and dance troupe in your own home are absolutely different, the former can only show that you like the tune, and the latter is the embodiment of strength. At this time, Pang just remembered that when he used to read "History of the Ming Dynasty", he said that almost every family in the Jiangnan rich in the Ming Dynasty had a group of singers, and when the host entertained guests, he sang and danced on the side, and even slept in bed. In the past, Pang Gang only read it as a story, but he didn't expect to see it with his own eyes now.

"Nima's, can you be a little more [***]!" At this moment, Comrade Pang Gang was full of faces.

Kong Lin smiled slightly, and whispered in Pang Gang's ear: "These singers were raised by our Kong family since childhood, and they have been trained quite well. ”

"Uh, waiter!"

As soon as he heard this, Pang Gang's body began to shake, and a burst of blood directly surged up in his brain, "Sleep!" What a beautiful and exciting word! ”

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