"The meat buns that have just come out of the pot are two pennies a piece, they are big and fragrant, and you can only work when you are full."

"Ouch, Brother Zhao, are you back, we have been waiting for your goods for more than half a month, what kind of treasure did you buy from the Westerners this time?"

"Eh, over there, be careful to carry it, this box is porcelain from the previous dynasty, you can't afford to pay for it."

The rain that has been falling for half a month has finally stopped, no, the sky is slightly bright, and the streets of Sifang City can't wait to be lively.

Merchants from the north and south were selling their goods along the streets, the dock workers were as busy as ever, and the big merchants brought their shopkeepers to inspect the goods that had just arrived.

The Su family is a big family with a head and face in Sifang City, and most of the ships docked by the dock are surnamed Su.

The Su family took people to the south to buy goods this time, and they should have come back a few days earlier, but this damn rain kept falling, so they could only stop and go in order to be safe, and finally returned to Sifang City on April 18.

As soon as the boat docked, the second master Su threw down a sentence "Do what I just said, if there is anything to report to the house later", he hurriedly left, leaving a few shopkeepers to look at me, I look at you, and reluctantly began to command the men to count and unload.

The shopkeeper who didn't know the reason was curious, and he pulled the shopkeeper Liu, who knew about it, and asked:

"Shopkeeper Liu, what's wrong with the second master? On the road, he looked in a hurry, and insisted on hurrying just because of the wind and rain. ”

"It's nothing, it's just that the eldest lady of the owner is out of the cabinet today."

"Yo, this is a big happy event, the second master doesn't say anything, my old Hu also wants to ask for a cup of happy wine to try."

"Like wine? Forget it, I don't know if it's a good thing, don't make a fool of yourself. ”

"How?" The shopkeeper heard that something was wrong, "The son of a family of the eldest lady Xu?" ”

"The man is the eldest son of our prefect," everyone heard it even more strange, the merchant family can climb to the prefect is already a high marriage, how can it not be a good thing?

I only heard Steward Liu continue: "Although the court is good, it's a pity that I am a concubine." ”

Everyone suddenly felt sorry for Miss Su again.

However, this is the family matter of the proprietor, and those of them who are the shopkeepers can't say anything, so they stop after a few discussions, and go about their own business.

Shopkeeper Liu has followed the Su family for many years, from a primary school apprentice to the current shopkeeper, no one in the streets and alleys of Sifang City knows that he is the shopkeeper of Liu, which is given by the Su family, but because of this, he is worried about the Su family.

As the richest man in Sifang City, the scenery of the Su family is not casually said, not far from the south is the rich Jiangnan, surrounded by many waterways and wharves, official roads, many businessmen come and go, and there are many overseas merchants from Fanbang who come across the sea with rare treasures, and the richest man in Sifang City is not far from the richest man in the world.

However, what Shopkeeper Liu couldn't understand was that at this point, no matter how much the imperial court wanted to curb the development of commerce, it had to give face to the Su family, the richest man in Sifang City, and the filial piety on weekdays was just that, so why did he have to lick his face to curry favor with those insatiable officials who were traitorous inside?

In addition, there is another thing closely related to him that makes Shopkeeper Liu even more restless.

Although the Su family has three masters, they do not have many heirs, regardless of the concubines, there are only three sons, and the rest are girls.

That's it, but the old ladies of the Su family can work hard to find academies for the three sons, worship famous teachers, and hope that they can enter the career, so what about the huge family business of the Su family?

Could it be that the eldest master really wants to let the second lady inherit a female doll? Thinking that in recent years, the eldest master always takes the second miss with him when he goes out to run errands, and recently he even directly asked the second lady to take care of a few shops.

Although the second lady is smart and clever, and she does a good job, Shopkeeper Liu still can't help but worry about the future of the Su family and his own future.

Let's talk about Sufu, the second old man hurried back to the house, and finally caught up with the bride to say goodbye to his parents, the second old man looked at the red silk happy words in the house, and then looked at the girl in a pink wedding dress, how to look awkward, I don't know whether to be happy or sad.

The eldest girl was helped by the bride to say goodbye to the old lady and her parents, choked up and couldn't make a sound, tears always came out of the mouth without fighting, and she couldn't stop it.

Everyone coaxed and persuaded them, and finally finished the ceremony, and the sedan chair had arrived at the door.

The second son, Wen Han, is the elder brother of the eldest girl's in-laws, he carried the thin eldest girl on his back step by step on the sedan chair, the eldest son and the second son followed as their mother's family to see off their relatives, and the rest of the people in Su Mansion stood at the gate and watched the sedan chair go away before they dispersed.

The second young lady Su Xi and the fifth young lady Su Yun carried their mother Pei Shi back to Hefeng Courtyard on the left and right.

Pei Shi is a straightforward person, it is already uncomfortable to say anything outside, and as soon as he came back and took Su Xi's hand, he couldn't wait to complain: "What the prefect of Wu said is to marry a flat wife, and the wedding is treated as a wife, but you look at the people who came to greet them, what kind of wife's gift is this, what kind of wife is it, what is not good to make it difficult for the wife, slightly reduce the scale, and fool who." ”

Think about the team to welcome relatives, but more than ten people, come and go in a hurry, a few of them seem to have not eaten, the voice is small, I am afraid that others will know that it is the prefect's family to do a happy event.

Thinking of the scene just now, Su Xi and Su Yun's faces were not very good-looking, the girls in the same mansion, if such a thing was spread, they would have to be belittled, making people think that the girls in Su Mansion were easy to bully.

"What do the second uncle and aunt think, the daughter of the in-law, how can she bear to be so bad, and it is so good to climb to the prefect." Su Xi was also angry.

"I was in the hall just now, when I heard that the sedan chair had arrived, my big sister's face turned white, I looked at her and wanted to say something, but she couldn't say it, it was really uncomfortable."

Su Yun is the daughter of the concubine of the big house, and she abides by her duties on weekdays, listens more and talks less, and respects Pei's mother-in-law, so although Pei's is not as good as her own daughter Su Xi, she also has a little bit of care.

Today, Su Yun was really shocked by the eldest sister's matter, thinking that she was a concubine, even worse than the eldest sister, and she couldn't help but feel a little sad in her heart.

"It's got to this day, it's useless to say anything, your second aunt, I can't figure it out, I don't even bother to talk about her.

"You don't know, this marriage was begged for by your second aunt with all her might, in order to make Lord Wu agree to give a flat wife's seat, you can paste more than 100,000 taels of silver into it.

"If it's me, I'm willing to pay more than 100,000 yuan, so I can spend more than 100,000 yuan and use the money to let them vacate the position of the main wife."

When Su Xi and Su Yun heard Pei Shi say this, their faces were full of shock, it was really unimaginable that there was such a thing.

In fact, they don't know the second aunt's thoughts.

The second aunt's maiden family is surnamed Wang, is a famous big family, there are many talents in the clan, and there are many officials, whether it is in the capital or in various places, there is always the Wang family in office, although the second aunt's family is only a weaker branch of the Wang family, it is also a famous local squire.

Most of the sisters of the second aunt are also married to officials or squires, but the second aunt took a fancy to the businessman of the second master of the Su family, and after a lot of entanglement, she still chose to marry the second master of Su, but this also became the knot in the second aunt's heart.

Everyone in the Su Mansion knew that the second lady didn't like to deal with the merchant's wife, and only liked to drill into the official's wife, even if it was to paste silver, she had to rush to it.

As long as the official wife has a banquet, the second lady Su will definitely bring her two daughters over, thinking that she can let her daughter marry into the official family, which has become the favorite conversation of many ladies in Sifang City after tea and dinner.

Not to mention her son, in order to send the second son of Su to the best academy and worship the best master, the second lady did not put much effort into it.

Why bother?