After the meeting, Bai Dicheng immediately changed his appearance, and the guy who recruited customers didn't go out, sitting lazily in front of the hall and chatting with the travelers who had not yet left about some dispensable things, and the scolding woman stopped arguing, and sat down to do some needlework with a friendly person, and the shopkeeper who ran before and after he didn't teach the buddies anymore, smoking hookah on the counter and looking at the ledger. All in all, everything is lovely.

Ke Siming suffered, it was rare to sleep lazy, as soon as the hour arrived, he was woken up by the sound outside, and before Siming got dressed to see what was wrong, the man had pushed the door in, and it was no one else who came in, it was the cousin who suddenly changed - Gu Pan, dressed in a newly made silk clothes, even with shoes and socks, all changed new.

"Brother Qiao, do you think I'm so good-looking?" Gu Pan said as he turned around, ignoring the surprised expressions of the people on the bed.

"Get out!" With a roar, Siming was really fed up with this wayward cousin.

Gu Pan reluctantly walked out of the house, and still shouted into the house, "I'm leaving today, go to Tong'an with my father, will you wait to see me off?" ”

"Go." Vague answers.

After a while, Siming came out of the house, squinting at Gu Pan, who was sitting under the eaves angrily, "I'm wearing new clothes, what are you doing sitting on the ground." ”

When Gu Pan saw Siming come out, he patted the dust on his buttocks, got up and said, "It's not that I have to wear it, it's that Long Ping who has to let me wear it, Brother Qiao, do you really say they just let me go back and worship my ancestors." ”

Siming knew that Gu Pan still couldn't accept this sudden relative for a while, so he naturally wanted to find someone to talk to, so he asked Ah Wu to go to the kitchen to get some things, and went back to the house to freshen up.

Gu Pan found that Siming's anger had subsided, and he also followed into the house, opened the stool, sat on it, propped his right hand on the table, half-leaned, looked back at Siming, and continued, "I was quite happy at first, after all, apart from you and my father, I don't have a third relative. Although Long Ping was also very kind to me, and bought me a lot of things to send me, I always felt weird, and he didn't like Brother Pinyuan. Brother Qiao, do you think I really have to go? ”

"It's all this time, can you still not go?" After washing his face with a towel, Siming wiped the water on his hands again.

Gu Pan's right hand was a little tired, so he simply got up, picked up the cup on the table and drank a cup of warm boiled water, "It's all because you are in a hurry, I only recognized my relatives yesterday morning, and I want someone to go out today, and even Uncle Ma sent silver over." ”

It was still a little cool in the morning, so Siming went to add another vest, "If you want to dislike the silver sent by Uncle Ma, you can give it to me." Your father and daughter have owed me so much money over the years, and it is time to pay it back. ”

"Hmph, I don't want to pay it back, I want to go back to my father." After Gu Pan finished complaining, he saw Ah Wu's breakfast delivered, picked up the chopsticks, picked up the porridge and began to suck it up, in the refreshing morning, there was already a lot of happiness to have porridge to drink.

After three poles in the sun, a convoy suddenly came in front of Bihua Pavilion, and there were about a dozen cars before and after, which frightened Ah Wu and hurriedly went to the backyard to call Siming.

The man at the head was a burly middle-aged man, about the same age as Gu Wende, with a fierce face, and entered the inn, but he said to Shopkeeper Xue quite politely, "May I ask Miss Gu to clean up now?" We're here to pick people up. ”

Gu Pan came out of the backyard, and as soon as he heard about picking up someone, he knew that he was about to set off, and then looked at the big man, who was fierce again, and had already thought about how boring this road was.

Gu Wende, who was upstairs, also went downstairs, carrying a small package on his shoulder, and threw the smaller burden on his hand to Gu Pan, "Take it yourself." ”

When the strong man saw Gu Wende, he said again, "Master Gu, please." ”

Gu Wende was going to go out directly, but he remembered Siming again, and came over and said, "No matter what happens to us, you have to live well yourself." ”

After another half of the ring, Siming had just had lunch and was about to go to the backyard to rest, when a man from the Ma family came over and asked Siming to go to the north of the city, saying that Lu Dong's family in Tongcheng was leaving.

Siming had no choice but to change his clothes to meet the guest, take a carriage, and hurry to the north of the city.

At that time, there were people piled up in front of the horse's house, and Siming didn't need to look to know which people were bringing the people to support the field. Entering from the side door, a group of people were gathering in the west wing, and the one in the middle of the crowd was Lu Fenglu who was leaving, and the people around him were the uncle and uncle who did not appear all year round and would make trouble when they appeared.

The seventh master, led by the leader, was holding Lu Fenglu's hand, with flattery on his face, "Lu Dongjia, if you have any requirements, don't grieve yourself." It's just that I hope you will think about this business again, and the Ma family's old and young family all depend on you. ”

Pinyuan couldn't stand it from the sidelines, and was about to pull it, to glance at Siming, who had seen it, and hurriedly stepped forward and said, "Third brother, you're here, what can I do?" ”

Siming touched his forehead, this group of people really doesn't think it's a big deal, it's not good to make trouble, and they just happened to make trouble with the tea merchants, and they can't be the villains in the family, so they drive the group of troublesome uncles, and even Uncle Ma often hides, preferring to go out by himself, and he is not welcomed.

"How long have they been like this?"

Pin Yuan replied, "Just now, as soon as Lu Dongjia finished saying that he was leaving, he went to the room to pack his luggage, and they came in, and went to the main hall to make trouble for a while. ”

When Siming heard this, he didn't say a word, from under the eaves, bypassed the group of people, pulled Lu Dongjia into the house, closed the door, and clenched his fists and said, "Let Lu Dongjia see the jokes, these are uncles who are far away, anxious for Chashan, and I hope that Lu Dongjia will not take it to heart." ”

Lu Fenglu waved his hand and said, "It's all over, you hurry up and think of a way, my afternoon boat is missing, you just wait for your reputation to be discredited." ”

Siming stopped talking, opened the door and went out, bowed to the crowd, and said, "Uncles, I know that you care about the sale of tea, but if you make such a fuss now, it will only make the tea merchants more alienated from us. ”

The Seventh Master said, "Hmph! Centrifugation, now that business is not done, what else do you say centrifugation. Are we really fooling us, and we have to repeat the appearance of hiding all the tea leaves in the cellar and pretending to be fine? Before the seventh master finished speaking, a roar came from the door of the main hall, "Old Seven! You give me back! ”

Hearing this angry voice, everyone in the courtyard was shocked, and the seventh master was still afraid that he would anger the family and lose no benefit, so he immediately put out the fire and went to the front of the hall to plead guilty, "Big brother, don't just stand, this tea merchant is leaving." ”

Ma Bin didn't look at him, and said in an angry voice, "Go back, don't be embarrassed with me here." Ma Qiye was deflated in front of his eldest brother, and suddenly looked like a frosted eggplant, lost his spirit, and went out of the yard scolding. When the others saw that the leader was gone, it was not good for them to stay any longer, so they dispersed.

Siming went into the house again and said, "Lu Dongjia, it's okay." Where does Lu Fenglu still have a good face, snorted coldly, and went back to the house to clean up.

Walking through the corridor, Siming knocked on Li Ming's door again, but he didn't expect anyone to answer, Li Ming was sitting at the desk reading a book, as if everything outside the house had nothing to do with him, which could not help but doubt Li Ming's whereabouts.

"Li Dongjia, I was disturbed just now."

Li Ming said with a smile, "You are really fortunate to be a tea household, and some people don't cherish good tea." As he spoke, he took another sip of the tea in his hand and went to read a book.

After Siming came out of Li Ming's house, he went directly to the main hall, Ma Bin was still sitting in the top position, and he couldn't see his joy or anger, but Siming knew that it was the eve of the storm.

"You go back first, and then go to the other courtyard to discuss matters later, then Lu Dongjia doesn't have to stay anymore, the twisted melon is not sweet in the end."

Siming knew that Uncle Ma needed a little time to pick up the tea, so he didn't stop anyone, and his trip was in vain, so he told him to go back and go back.

At three o'clock, Siming set foot on the road to the tea mountain again, Ah Wu couldn't stop talking, and still told Siming about what he had seen and heard, including the fact that the Ma family was going to decline after last night's tea party that had spread all over Baidi City. Halfway through, Siming suddenly lifted the curtain and said to Ah Wu, "You go to the counter to get the twenty taels first, and I'll talk to Shopkeeper Xue when I go back." ”

When he arrived at the other courtyard, Pin Yuan was looking at the door, and Siming went up and asked, "How is Uncle Ma?" ”

"What else, it's still the same, I've been standing in the workshop for an afternoon, and I don't see a squeak. When it was halfway through, he said something, but he asked Mingxin to go and see if the cellar was sealed. That Lu Dong's family is really, my Ma family treats him well, he is about to leave after listening to the slander, and this morning he was made known by the whole city by outsiders, third brother, this year my family is really down to blood mold, wave after wave. ”

Siming is still thinking about things here, where can I hear the chatter of Pinyuan. walked all the way to the workshop and saw Ma Bin standing in the middle of the courtyard, with his back bent and a few gray hairs on his head. Siming's heart suddenly felt very uncomfortable, he was originally just an ordinary owner, but because he had taken him in, he was a little different, and now he looked like this, and he was also a little bitter in his heart.

Bent down slightly, as usual, "Uncle Ma? ”

"San'er, do you think my workshop is so bad?" A sentence for no reason is that he is concerned about the excuse of the Lu Dong family.

"Uncle Ma, the person who wants to pick a thorn, no matter what you have or not, you can pick one, then the Lu Dong family doesn't know the goods, and the reputation of living abacus is in vain, and someone is stirred up in a few words, sooner or later he will know about the troubles in the Zhou family."

Ma Bin smiled helplessly, "I asked you about the workshop, what are you doing with this, this year I will use the money from the Xia family to renovate this workshop, don't let people look down on him anymore, let him be a good person to on the head of the Ma family." ”

In the end, Lao Jiang, he still has to hold on in front of outsiders, Ma Bin walked out of the workshop with his hands, went back to the courtyard, and suddenly asked on the way, "Wende is leaving today?" ”

"Well, it's already on the way."

"By land?"

"Well, they're used to overland."