Li Duan's side was in a hurry.

For the sake of this map, he and Lin Jue didn't go out much during this time, it was the family's New Year's ceremony, which was also arranged by the Lin family, but there were a few families who had to be respected by him, the eldest son, but the painting was not going well.

They finally found out that there was a Master Qian in Hangzhou, who knew that Master Qian had already moved away and did not know where to go. He asked his father for help, and invited a master from Rizhao to come over, I don't know if this master's craftsmanship was not good or their luck was bad, the painting was in the hands of this master, and it was indeed divided into three parts, but the map in the middle was destroyed a little bit when it was separated.

If it's other maps, it's fine, but this is a map, a small section, in the actual navigation is likely to be a fraction of a centimeter, a thousand miles wrong, there is no way to ensure safety.

Seeing that the Spring Festival was coming, the Peng family sent someone to send a New Year's gift.

Although the person who came was just a small steward of the Peng family, he was also quiet when he came, and the things he sent were very ordinary, but he still heard the meaning of urging from the words of the little steward. Thinking about it deeply, he even expressed the meaning of "If your Li family can't do it, more people want to rush to help the Peng family with this".

It's no wonder that the Peng family is impatient.

It has been more than half a year since their family took the initiative to take over this matter.

After the Spring Festival, they had to send the painting to Peng's house anyway.

Before that, if they couldn't send Yutu to Peng's family, their family's ability would be questioned.

They had to find another skilled master to repair the damaged part, not to mention, they also had to restore the painting and send it to Peng's house.

Who to find to fix it has become a big problem.

Lin Jue never left, seeing that the Chinese New Year was coming, and if it dragged on, he would not have time to rush back to Fujian before the Spring Festival, and the matter of Yutu was much more complicated than he imagined, and he couldn't help but start to be a little impetuous.

"Why don't you send this painting to Peng's house as a New Year's gift?" He gave Li Duan an idea, "Anyway, we got the painting according to their wishes, as for the point where it was broken...... The fleet belongs to the Peng family, maybe there is a way for them to know how to go? Can't we still build a fleet? Since the bulk of the business belongs to the Peng family, no matter how much they lose, they will lose a lot. ”

That's a bummer.

And in this way, the Li family is not so important in the eyes of the Peng family.

To do things with tigers and wolves, you have to be more ruthless than them in order to stand on your feet and gain the respect of these people.

Li Duan's brows furrowed into the word "Sichuan".

Lin Jue said: "Why don't you go and send the New Year's gift first?" Staring like this every day, I can't stare at a single flower. Just go and relax. ”

That's all there is to it.

Li Duan originally wanted to go to Pei's house first, but thinking of Pei Yan's attitude towards their family, his heart was half cold, and he decided to go to Tang Zhifu first.

After all, Tang Zhifu is a parent official and an outsider, so it is not wrong to respect the outside first and then respect the inside.

Li Duan pondered in his heart for a while and went to Governor Tang's mansion.

Tang Zhifu was whispering in the study with his confidant master: "Can you see clearly, is it really from the Huzhou martial arts?" ”

"It's really a member of the Huzhou martial arts." When the master mentioned the martial family, his voice was a little quieter, "And it's still the eldest master of the martial family, who is a family member." ”

Tang Zhifu scratched his head.

The prefect of Huzhou was the same year as him. The two are not far from the place where they are officials, and they are of the same rank, they have more common language than others, and they have close contacts. Others don't know, but he heard the prefect of Huzhou say that the ancestors of the Wu family said that they were born in Caoyun, and it was really since the girl of the Wu family married into the Jiang family to raise their family, the Wu family was a lake bandit in the past, and it has only been three generations since the whitewashing, and it is still common to kill people now. As far as the prefect of Huzhou is concerned, they have wiped their butts several times.

The martial artist is a big killer.

How could they have a relationship with Pei Yan?

He asked the master: "You say, should I go to Pei's house to pay tribute to Pei Yaoguang's early years?" ”

Tang Zhifu didn't like Pei Yan very much, and felt that compared to the old lady Pei who drove the crane west, Pei Yan simply didn't take him as the prefect in his eyes, and always shouted "Pei Yan" and "Pei Laosan" behind his back. But now that he knows that he actually has dealings with the Huzhou martial arts, he doesn't even dare to shout "Pei Yan" and "Pei Laosan".

Since he is a confidant, he is the person who knows the Tang Governor's Mansion best. The master hurriedly said: "You must go and pay a visit to Master Pei San for his early years!" In the past, when Lord Zuo was an official in Zhejiang, he once said that if you want to be a good parent official, you must have a good relationship with the local squire family. How powerful a person Zuo is saying such things, ordinary officials like us naturally have to follow suit. ”

Governor Tang heard what he wanted to hear, nodded with satisfaction, and said, "Then without further ado, go over as soon as possible, lest Pei Yaoguang think that I am arrogant." Actually, I'm the most people-friendly! ”

It's just that as soon as his words fell, a little servant came in and said that Li Duan had come to give him a New Year's gift, although he was a little impatient that Li Duan disrupted his arrangement, but the Li family's New Year's gift has always been not thin, and he was still quite happy to see Li Duan.

Tang Zhifu and Li Duan exchanged a few words of greeting, and then served tea to the guests, Li Duan felt that Tang Zhifu was not as enthusiastic as he usually treated.

He couldn't help but be a little strange, and when he came out of the yamen, he let the sedan chair stop at the corner of the yamen, and waited for a while with the sedan curtain, and then saw Tang Zhifu take the master to Xiaomei Lane.

Li Duan's heart was hot and uncomfortable).

Speaking of which, Pei Yan is only three or four years older than him, but there seems to be a moat between the two, and others will not compare them at all, and even always regard him as Pei Yan's junior. Speaking of which, it's just that the Pei family is bigger than the Li family.

This time, he had to find a way to board the big ship of the Peng family.

Li Duan sent someone to keep an eye on Governor Tang's mansion.

An hour later, he knew that Governor Tang had a closed door at Pei's house - Pei Yan did not see Governor Tang, but sent Pei Man to accompany Governor Tang to drink a cup of tea and send Governor Tang away.

Li Duan looked at the still green square bamboo in front of his study, and his heart was full of flavors, and he didn't know what it was like.

Pei Yan didn't mean not to see the Tang Governor's Mansion, but it was a bit unfortunate that the Tang Governor's Mansion came.

The lacquerware shop of the Yu family opened on the 12th, and the Yu family came to send a post to the Pei family.

Of course, Yu Bo and Yu Yuan didn't dare to think that Pei Yan would pay attention to such a thing, and they didn't dare to think that this post would be sent to Pei Yan's desk, they only hoped that the Pei family would send a small servant to send a congratulatory note for the opening of the shop, and their house could be placed in the most conspicuous place of the shop, and the merchants who came and went knew that the shop had the protection of the Pei family. Who knew that Yu Bo and Yu Yuan had just sent the post to the steward who was in charge of their neighbors, and they ran into Hu Xing when they went out.

Hu Xing is really proud these days.

The people who came to give New Year's gifts to the Pei family were all wealthy families in the south of the Yangtze River, and the people who came to give gifts were all those who were in charge of the family or in power, and the majority of the New Year's gifts were given to the third master himself, and the small head was given to the Pei family.

Doesn't this mean that these people can give New Year's gifts to the Pei family, all in the face of the third master, all because they have a personal relationship with the third master!

He didn't listen to the words of the original chief manager, and he didn't question the old lady's decision, which was really the right choice.

Therefore, when he saw Yu Bo and his son, he immediately thought of Yu Wen's father and daughter, as well as the bronze knocker that he accidentally saw on the bookshelf that the third master put on the bookshelf when he went to ask the third master to show him today.

Hu Xing observed carefully and carefully during this period of time, and felt that the third master was a little quirky. For example, the newly made clothes, the third master obviously likes them very much, and they will only be taken out for ten days and a half months to wear, and some will even be put in the next season. Something like this appeared in his study a few days after it was delivered, and it was a place where he could easily get it, which shows how satisfied the third master was with the gift given by the Yu family.

He is the one who serves the third master, and since the Yu family has won the favor of the third master, he naturally has to respect the Yu family and value the Yu family.

"Ouch, isn't this the eldest master of the Yu family?" He stepped forward with a smile and saluted, and said with concern and affection, "What are you doing here?" Why don't you let the little guy go and tell me? You're so much of an outlier! ”

Yu Bo and Yu Yuan were both a little dumbfounded.

The manager of the Pei family, Mr. Hu, often accompanies Imperial Doctor Yang to check the pulse of the Chen family, if you want to say that Mr. Hu has a relationship with the Yu family, it is also a friendship with Yu Wen, when did they become so familiar with Hu Xing? Especially Yu Bo, who had just come back, didn't know what had happened, he had something to do with the Pei family in the past, but he had to find a way to get to those stewards. Not to mention a manager like Hu Xing.

He glanced at Yu Yuan.

Yu Yuan also wondered, but he knew more than his father, so he guessed the reason.

He reminded his father in a whisper, "It's uncle", and then stepped forward to return the salute to Hu Xing with a smile, explained his intention, and politely said casually to let Hu Xing also go over to have a good time.

Hu Xing immediately responded, talked to the Yu father and son, asked them to wait for a while, and said: "I'll help you ask the third master for a word before you go, so that you don't have to run in vain." ”

Yu Bo and Yu Yuan were surprised when they heard this.

Hu Xing didn't pay attention to them, smiled and went to the ceremonial room, asked for the invitation of the Yu family, and went to Pei Yan again, his eyes smiled into a slit to Pei Yan, who was practicing calligraphy, and handed the invitation to Pei Yan, and then said respectfully: "The lacquerware shop of the Yu family is about to open, Master Yu and Young Master Yu are coming to send you an invitation, look, do you have anything to order?" ”

Yu family?

Pei Yan's mind jumped out of Miss Yu's face of scaring Lu Xin with a serious pull on the banner of the Pei family, and then he thought of the bronze door beast ring worth two taels of silver.

He said coldly: "Do you want me to tell you how to do this kind of thing?" Of course, how is the convention? ”

The practice of the Pei family is to send the steward in charge of this matter to give a red seal for two taels of silver.

But Mrs. Pei's convention, distant relatives are not as good as close neighbors, since the Pei family has settled in Lin'an City, they have to deal with these squires and neighbors, in addition to sealing red, he will also ask a few words when those people come to him to send him a post to show his concern, if he can get the attention of his old man, he will personally come to congratulate him.

The Yu family is obviously the practice of Old Lady Pei!

If he hadn't called out to the Yu family and his son, how could the Yu family know about Pei Yan's decision in the first place?

Hu Xing secretly applauded his wit in his heart.

"Okay! I'm going to talk to Master Yu. "He walked away.

Pei Yan felt that his mood was a little wrong, but the little guy said that Tao Qing had rushed over from Guangzhou, so he didn't think much about it for a while and went to see Tao Qing.