Zhu Daolin was busy with the construction of Shangyuanmen Wharf and Manor day and night, and the shopkeeper Ying was not idle for a day, and the affairs he handled and the mileage he traveled every day were far more than Zhu Daolin's several times, but he was very full in his heart and had a great sense of accomplishment.

The father's increasing praise and respect, the compliments and attachments of the various family lines, the summons of Wei Guogong and the Marquis of Longping for three days, the unconcealable admiration and jealousy of business peers, the rapidly increasing wealth and prestige, and the steadily rising authority and status, etc., all made Ying Changpei raise his eyebrows and have mixed feelings.

Only Ying Changpei himself knows how hard-won today's achievements are, and how lucky and hard they are.

As the concubine of the Ying family, a century-old family in Jiangnan, Ying Changpei has never been treated fairly by his father and the entire family since he was sensible, in front of the two elder brothers, Ying Changpei will always be a low-status concubine, and he should be a stepping stone for his sons by nature, even if Ying Changpei's learning ability and talent in all aspects are far above the two elder brothers, but he still can't get rid of the fate of making sacrifices for the two elder brothers again and again.

In the end, in order to ensure the glorious future of the two elder brothers, so that the two elder brothers of the long house are more sure to obtain the scarce Jinshi qualification, Ying Changpei, who is six years younger than the eldest brother of the eldest son, four years younger than the second brother of the eldest brother but who obtained the qualification of the lifter earlier than the two of them, irresistibly became a victim again, and cried for two days and two nights in the "ardent expectation" of his father and the whole family. Sanniang, who was deeply sorry, kowtowed to her biological mother who held back her tears, and then silently followed the family business shopkeepers who had been waiting in the hall to go out of the house and began to devote themselves to the copper-smelling cheap business.

"Eight years, eight years! How many eight years in a lifetime......"

Ying Changpei on the recliner sighed with his eyes slightly closed, and the light of the three candlesticks and nine candles around him shook slightly, reflecting his tired face very clearly.

The sigh did not fall, the beautiful maid who beat her feet for Ying Changpei stopped moving, the dignified wife and the charming and fair-skinned concubine sitting next to Ying Changpei also stopped discussing the tea ceremony, the dignified wife offered a cup of fragrant tea to her husband, and the empathetic concubine massaged her husband's head, the two behaved very naturally, and the cooperation was also very tacit, obviously the usual days are like this.

Seeing that her husband drank two sips of tea, he turned his body slightly and raised his head, and the clever concubine hurriedly took the satin square pillow on the side and carefully padded the back of her husband's head: "If you are too tired, rest early, just don't talk to your sister and sister." ”

Ying Changpei motioned to the little maid not to beat her feet, and gently held his wife's slender and warm little hand, but his eyes looked at the concubine who was deliberately seen through by himself: "Are you used to listening to me tell me some interesting things outside these days, and if you don't listen to it for one night, you won't be able to sleep well?" ”

A wife and a concubine chuckled in unison, and asked her husband again to tell her about what strange things she had brought back from Xiao Zhu Daochang today.

Ying Changpei deliberately pinched it, and it wasn't until the two wives and concubines were so anxious that they leaned up and begged that he said with satisfaction:

"Okay, it's okay to tell you, early in the morning I took sixteen big carriages full of cloth clothes, cloth shoes and quilts to the Shogunate Mountain, and immediately loaded hundreds of heavy thick cardboard boxes back to the city after unloading, and then rushed to the bottom of the Shogunate Mountain after unloading, and hired eight more carts to go together, so four trips back and forth, before moving all the two thousand heavy thick cardboard boxes back to the warehouse in the backyard of the headquarters, before parting, and Zhu Xiandi went to his messy dock to inspect for a long time, and saw that the time was not too early to rush back, it was really tiring."

"Oh sir, don't hang our appetite, tell me what's in the carton?" The curious concubine began to be coquettish again.

Ying Changpei laughed and asked unhurriedly: "You have all seen that kind of boxy yellow thick cardboard box, it is estimated that there are still a few empty ones in the front yard wing, do you still need to ask what is inside?" ”

"Embroidered like a script?" The concubine cried out in surprise.

The wife, who had always been gentle and kind, was also stunned: "Oh my God...... 2,000 thick cardboard boxes! How many sets of embroidery scripts do you need? ”

Ying Changpei proudly stretched out two fingers: "Twenty thousand!" A full 20,000 sets of satin hardcover embroidered scripts compiled and printed by Tianshu Pavilion, 10,000 sets of "Golden Vase Plum", and 10,000 sets of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", originally planned to limit the number of booksellers around the country to buy, as much as possible by our Mo Lin Zhai, in this way, Mo Lin Zhai's other businesses will be better, but Zhu Xiandi suggested that I try to sell to booksellers all over the world, the faster the better, let the profitable booksellers resell, it is best to sell to the capital, so that Mo Lin Zhai can be famous, more and more big. If you think about it carefully, it's really like this, it seems that I'm really a little bit of a little childish as Brother Zhu Xian said, haha! ”

"The concubine also thinks that Xiao Zhu Daochang's idea is good, the two embroidered scripts on sale in our Mo Lin Zhai are very popular, and the painting skills are unprecedentedly exquisite, the appearance is gorgeous, the handwriting is clear, far from the current flower book is comparable, I dare not say that there is no one to come, at least it can be called unprecedented."

"Such treasures are not worried about selling even if they are ten times the profit, but if you want to operate for a long time and achieve the scale and reputation of the industry, in addition to taking the road of making profits and quick sales, you must continue to replenish new products." Ying Changpei's concubine showed her shrewd side at this time and was quite business-talented.

Ying Changpei was greatly appreciative, and couldn't help pinching the white face of his concubine: "Insightful, not bad!" Zhu Xiandi has made a promise, after the Spring Festival before the Lantern Festival, and then 50,000 sets of new books, including popular books and embroidered books, the title of the book he said again, there are romance books "Dream of Red Mansions", ghost mythology books "Liao Zhai Zhi Wei" and "The Legend of the White Snake", it seems that there is a ghost in love, what is called "A Chinese Ghost Story", there are two versions of popular words and embroidered books, except for "Dream of Red Mansions" is a set of ten volumes, most of the others are separate volumes, which is the favorite type of women from today's reading and large families, It is estimated that the sales volume will not be small. ”

The two wives and concubines were overjoyed to hear this, and they were eager to see it immediately, and immediately asked their husbands to bring home the new books when they arrived.

Seeing the anxious appearance of the two wives and concubines, Ying Changpei was so happy that he was very useful in his heart, and he was happy to talk about the troubles of his good brother Zhu Daolin: "Do you remember the stupid appearance of Brother Zhu Xian when he came to be a guest last time?" ”

The two wives and concubines recalled for a moment, and successively covered their mouths and laughed, Ying Changpei's wife was deeply impressed by Zhu Daolin's process of hurriedly fleeing when she saw the maid going to bed that night, and asked her husband in a low voice under curiosity: "Is there a maid waiting for Daochang Zhu next to him?" ”

"He's single, what's the maid around?"

Ying Changpei began to get energetic: "Several times I said that I would send him a few maids, but he refused without thinking about it, but I see that he can kill a cow with one punch, and he doesn't seem to be a person who likes rabbits. Lou Lao. The bustard was carefully selected and handed over to a famous teacher to teach him piano, chess, calligraphy and painting and how to serve men, but as soon as I opened my mouth, I was ridiculed by him, and almost didn't make me angry, if I didn't beat him, I had to beat him on the spot and couldn't take care of himself, hum! ”

The two wives and concubines giggled, and the more they laughed, the more they felt that their husbands learned this sentence from Zhu Daochang from a young child, "beating him and not being able to take care of himself" was extremely interesting.

"Don't laugh, I'm still angry." Ying Changpei was quite depressed in the face of his smiling wife and concubine.

The two wives and concubines finally stopped, and immediately asked Xiao Zhu what Daochang said at that time to make her husband so angry?

Ying Changpei complained angrily: "You don't know how angry I was at that time, that guy actually said that I was aesthetically deformed and psychopathic, and it took me a lot of effort to understand that his so-called 'aesthetics' is his view of beauty and ugliness, and 'deformity' is something wrong and abnormal." ”

"For example, just like the dwarfs who are common in monkey tricks on the street, or the kind that looks strange and scary, the word 'perverted' is more insidious and vicious, I am embarrassed to say it, anyway, the meaning of these words together, that is, I don't know the beauty and ugliness of the madness, after figuring out these awkward new words, I couldn't help but be full of anger and asked him what more clever aesthetics he had? And guess what he said? ”

Speaking of this, Ying Changpei, who was full of resentment, took a deep breath: "He shamelessly pointed to a group of peasant women who were moving bricks not far away, and then pointed to a few half-grown girls with children on the other side, and said to me eloquently: Do you see? Such a woman is a normal person, she does not wrap her little feet and does not twist and pinch, she is really healthy and healthy, so that it is in line with the way of heaven! ”

Then he sarcastically sarcastically ridiculed my Da Ming people in the next generation, saying that the Ming scholars are the most incompetent, shameless, and perverted freaks in the past three thousand years, Wen can't be safe, and Wu can't set the country, but he always likes to comment on the world's major events, and he doesn't always like to pretend to be a great man who directs the country, and the officials don't care about the life and death of the people in the world, and they are insatiable and rotten, and the so-called romantic celebrities are all a group of dead perverts, and they like to hold women's three-inch stinky shoes and drink wine when they have nothing to do. took a woman's footcloth that had not been washed for several years and hung it around his neck to chant poetry, and after speaking, he deliberately stared at me with that kind of eyes and smiled, so angry that I almost fainted at that time, thief bird! ”

"I'm afraid to think about it, if his vicious remarks get out, not to mention that he will be in great trouble immediately, and even I am afraid that I will have to let the spit of the world's scholars drown, alas! Now I can see clearly, he Zhu Daolin is the real aesthetic deformity, by the way, I have to add a psychopath! ”

Ying Changpei's wife was also frightened, and when she came back to her senses, she immediately begged her husband to persuade Xiao Zhu Daochang no matter what, and she must not let Xiao Zhu Daochang say such shocking remarks again, otherwise she will definitely be criticized by people who come to the world to read, and her reputation will be ruined.

However, Ying Changpei's concubine was different, she was silent for a long time after being shocked, and after speaking her mouth again, she immediately resolved the deep worries of Ying Changpei and the eldest woman:

"I'm afraid that Daoist Xiao Zhu is out of tune with yin and yang, listening to his words in front of him, it seems that he doesn't like women who bind his feet, but likes Tianzu, but now how many beautiful women are Tianzu? That's why he repeatedly rejected his husband's kindness, and he would have cynical words. ”

"Huh? Reasonable...... I'm afraid that's true! Ying Changpei immediately came to his senses.

His wife quietly glanced at the concubine who quietly winked at her, and after a moment of hesitation, she took her husband's hand and suggested very decently:

"In that case, why don't you just give Xiaoying's girl to Daoist Xiaozhu? After her husband bought her back from the Teaching Department three years ago, she no longer binds her feet, and now her feet are ...... It's no different from the Tianzu that Xiao Zhu Daochang likes, and Xiaoying is from the official eunuch's house, she has a tutor since she was a child, she can write and be familiar with the rhythm, Zhu Xiao blows very well, and she has become more and more beautiful in the past two years. ”

Seeing her husband's hesitant appearance, the concubine and the eldest woman glanced at each other tacitly, twisted their waists and wrapped their arms around their husbands: "Husband, what my sister said is indeed a good thing to have the best of both worlds, not to mention that after the Spring Festival, Xiaoying will be sixteen to seventeen, and her husband has always been reluctant to take her into the room. ”

"According to the concubine's body, Xiao Zhu Daochang is very good, not only heroic and extraordinary, but also deeply rhymed the way of doing business, and his husband is a brother with a good relationship, if this can be accomplished, not only can deepen the love between each other, maybe it will become a good story!"

There was nothing abnormal on Ying Changpei's face, but he was very reluctant in his heart.

At a banquet three years ago, he occasionally heard his friend who was in charge of the teaching workshop department sighing quite unbearably that the only daughter of Xia Jincheng, a eunuch cadre who had just been executed by decree and the former Nanjing Hubu Langzhong Xia Jincheng, was not yet thirteen years old, and was about to be publicly sold with the wives and daughters of more than 80 eunuch ministers. It's really pitiful!

Out of curiosity, Ying Changpei drank wine and went to see his friends, but he didn't expect to be shocked after seeing it, and immediately fell in love with Xiaoying, who looked indifferent and moving, turned around and begged his friends for help, and secretly spent five hundred taels of silver, and took Xiaoying home the next day, and took care of Xiaoying in every way for more than three years, but he has not won the heart of this girl who is becoming more and more slender and beautiful but has never smiled, and he planned to wait for another two years to slowly melt the ice in Xiaoying's heart, but he didn't expect his wife and concubine to unanimously ask him to send Xiaoying out.

Ying Changpei didn't know what his wife and concubine were thinking, and he didn't want a dignified, virtuous, hard-working wife and a charming, intelligent and charming concubine who always had a thorn in his heart, but he just couldn't let it go and was reluctant.

At this moment, facing the two wives and concubines around him, Ying Changpei hesitated for a long time and weighed them repeatedly, but in the end it was difficult to make a choice.