Social stability, the country is rich and the people are strong, there are frequent transactions between the north and the south, and even more people go out to travel.

The most obvious is that there is an endless stream of horse-drawn carriages coming and going from the south to the north on the official road, and the post stations on the roadside are full of people coming and going, resting, eating, and changing horses noisily, so it is not lively.

"Uncle Zhao, please hurry up, if it's too late, it will be miserable."

In a luxurious carriage, Liu Yuan poked his head out from time to time and urged the uncle who was driving the horse, holding tightly in his hand a jewelry box made of fine mahogany.

After the jewelry is completed, you have to hurry up and send it from Yangzhou to Qinghe, Beizhou, and before the old lady Cui's birthday, she sent her carefully built "Songhe Longevity" to Cui Mengyao's hands, which is considered to be the completion of the transaction, which is also Liu Yuan in order to let Cui Mengyao give up that work

The promise made for the "Butterfly Love Flower" jewelry of Caitou is to hurry up and get ahead of time.

From Yangzhou to Beizhou, there are more than 2,000 miles away, there were no airplanes and trains in the old days, and the main means of transportation was horse-drawn carriages.

Fortunately, Liu Yuan and Qin Lang, the son of the big salt merchant, formed a friendship in the poetry meeting, in order to make himself comfortable, Liu Yuan opened his mouth to ask the "rich and handsome" Qin Lang for help, fortunately, Qin Lang generously borrowed a luxury car for Liu Yuan to use, in addition, to return the Qin Mansion to a familiar

The coachman of the road condition lent Liu Yuan, the horse is a horse, the car is a luxury car, and even the driver who drove the car was also a very experienced coachman, under his drive, the carriage went fast and steadily, but Liu Yuan was not satisfied, and urged the coachman surnamed Zhao from time to time.

Uncle Zhao "snapped", skillfully shook the whip, let the horse run a little faster, and said with a smile while rushing: "Liu Gongzi, you just put your heart back in your stomach, I have been to this Beizhou more than ten times, I am familiar with it, I will definitely miss your big event, I estimate."

After a while, we will walk two or three miles to the post station, this horse is a little tired, then we will change to a good horse, and we will definitely be able to run dozens of miles more before dark. ”

"That's hard for you, Uncle Zhao."

"Don't don't, you're a friend of the eldest young master, before going out, the eldest young master told me again and again, I must serve you well, son, you have to walk at least a few days, you can take a rest." Uncle Zhao said with concern.

"Oh, okay, then Uncle Zhao, be careful."

Liu Yuan retracted his head and half lay in it, if he wanted to sleep, the carriage was too shaky, and he couldn't sleep at all, this so-called official road, that is, a smoother dirt road, and the carriage had no shock-absorbing equipment, and it swayed as soon as it ran, almost shaking his body apart,

After two days, Liu Yuan's bones all over his body hurt.

I thought it would not be far, I could scatter my mind all the way, and by the way, I would see how prominent the world-famous Qinghe Cui clan was, Liu Yuan was impulsive, so he promised to send it to the door in person after doing it, but now that I think about it, I really asked for my own hardship.

Liu Yuan lifted the curtains, looked at the scenery flying outside the carriage, and secretly prayed in his heart: You must arrive in time, otherwise, not to mention the problem of liquidated damages, there is also a great opportunity to break the jewelry of the Jinyu family into the top upper class......

Qinghe Cui was one of the ministers of Qi in the Spring and Autumn Period, and lived in Qinghe County (now Qinghe County, Hebei) in the Western Han Dynasty. During the Northern and Southern Dynasties, the scholars paid attention to the clan lineage, and in the north, the Later Wei listed the Cui clan as a first-class

The surname is Wang Cui Lu Li Zheng, and he is a famous family.

Among the seven clans and five surnames, the Cui family is the first of the Shi clan.

In Qinghe City, Beizhou, the surname Cui accounts for most of the people, the ancients have the habit of returning to their hometowns, as the head of the scholar family, the Cui family has a large number of talents, in Qinghe City, those wealthy mansions, nine times out of ten are the Cui family, so that everyone when it comes to Qinghe, one

I must think of the Cui family, Qinghe Cui family, it is a very good stepping stone, Qinghe City under the development of the Cui family, the economy is stable, the market is prosperous, and there is a thriving scene everywhere.

Today is the 28th day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar, the whole Qinghe City is full of lights, gongs and drums are noisy, singing, changing tricks for ten miles long, everyone not only has a free big drama to watch, in the southeast and northwest of Qinghe City, there are soup kitchens at the four gates of the city, for the poor people to fill

Full stomach.

Without him, today is the sixty-ninth birthday of Cui Wang, the old lady of the Qinghe Cui family.

In ancient times, there was a saying that "thirty and stand, forty and not confused, fifty and know the destiny of heaven, sixty and obedient, seventy and do what you want, do not exceed the rules", after the age of fifty, every ten years can be regarded as a big birthday, and children and grandchildren must vigorously operate to show filial piety, but women in ancient times

The status is not high, in order to show respect for her husband, she will choose to do it a year in advance, and the old lady Cui Wang is exactly sixty and nine this year, so the entire Cui family is shaken.

The old lady Cui Wang, born in a famous family, is the lady of the Taiyuan Wang family, beautiful and dignified, knowledgeable and courteous, after marrying into the Cui family, she is dedicated to her husband and children, and she guards the way of women, her character, even the eldest grandson queen is also praised, and is deeply respected by her children and grandchildren, this is not, the old lady

's sixty-ninth birthday has not yet arrived, and the Cui family has rushed back to Qinghe one after another, not only that, but even the Boling Cui family has sent people early to help organize the old lady's birthday banquet.

Cui's contemporary patriarch name, the word Siyuan, is the eldest son of Cui Wang's knees, his mansion is located in the east of Qinghe City, covering an area of nearly 100 acres, high-walled mansion, inside Qiongtai pavilion, carved beams and paintings, very magnificent, in addition, rockery, corridor, garden, lotus pond

and so on, showing the demeanor of everyone in Cui's family.

As early as half a month ago, Cui's Mansion began to put up lights, clean, and began to prepare for the old lady's birthday, and on July 28, Cui's Mansion was crowded with people, in addition to the descendants of the clan, like the other six clans of the same breath, they also sent weighty people to send generous gifts.

The royal family, princes and ministers, etc., either came to the door in person to congratulate, or sent people to send generous gifts, from the morning, the people who came to the door were endless, and the Cui Mansion's family Ding Yahuan, virtuous sons and grandsons were busy like spinning tops, and the account books that recorded congratulatory gifts were changed one after another.

The congratulatory gifts were sent to the five large houses that had been specially vacated and were almost unfitted.

This is the prominence of the wealthy family, not to mention anything else, even Cui Xiong, Cui Tingshi, and the four members who rushed back early in the morning can only sit in the most remote corner of the main hall to accompany the guests to greet them.

"Little sister, the old lady usually hurts you the most, this time the old lady is too old, what gift have you prepared?"

"yes, didn't you say that this gift must have surprised us."

"Yes, yes, where is the gift, let my sister take a look first."

"Little sister, I want to see it too"

In the backyard of Cui's mansion, several women with delicate faces and gorgeous clothes were quipping around a beautiful woman who looked forward to Shenfei.

This woman is Cui Mengyao.

In this room, they are all women of the younger generation of the Cui family, all cousins, cousins and so on, because the status of women is not high, and they are all waiting for the boudoir, it is not appropriate to show up at this time, and they all gather in the room to chat and relieve boredom.

Cui Mengyao said with a smile: "That, hehe, keep it secret, you will know the Tao by then." ”

"So secret? No, I have to take a look~~" An older woman shouted: "Sisters, come, let's search the body of the little sister, I guess, she must be hiding in her clothes." ”

"Okay, the eldest sister is right."

"Search, I'll let you sell Guanzi~~"

"Ah, don't, don't, I'm afraid of Zhen, hehe, don't, it's not on me~~"

Soon, several women scolded together, for a while, the room was full of spring, if any man saw it, he would definitely shout that there was a blessing, but unfortunately this was Cui's Mansion, and no one dared to run to the backyard of Cui's Mansion to spread wild.

Cui Mengyao was playing with her sisters on the surface, but she was secretly anxious in her heart: The guy named Liu Yuan received a deposit of three hundred taels from himself, and swore to me that he would personally deliver it to the door before his birthday, and he would definitely surprise himself, now."

"Shocked" when received, "happy"?

When is it, and you haven't come yet, if you dare to lie to me, you really don't want to live, hum......

PS: I've been hit, who will appease me, woo woo ~ ~