The Road Back to Beijing (X) (Part I)

In the evening, on the boat to the capital, Jin Jiu received a letter from Qianhua brought by the guys from the Jinjia Liquor Shop in Luojia Town, asking him to check the background of Tang Xinjie's fiancée. Jin Jiu pulled his lips sarcastically, threw the letter in the river, and at the same time ordered the boat to go east in Lin Jiadu and not enter Beijing for the time being.

At noon, when he received a report from the shopkeeper of Luojia Town, he decided to turn his horse's head and go straight to the next pier in Luojia Town, from where he boarded the ship and entered Beijing. Although the Jin family has a Jin Guifei of the Nanyue Kingdom, it does not mean that his Jin family must wait for these boring princesses. He can't be provoked, he can hide. If you enter Beijing and talk about entering Beijing, when you arrive in Beijing, the Jin family is not covering the sky with one hand, and it is natural that you can't do anything.

Like Jin Jiu, there are also Xinjie and Lian'er on the boat in the north. Qianhua's eyes made him feel diaphragm all over his body. Anyway, he'd already greeted them, and he didn't want to see them again. But I have to guard against a thousand flowers. And Long Shan also told him that if the other party wants to prevent him from being in Luojia Town for two days, he must let him wait to see someone, so it is very likely that he is the princess of Nanyue. In this case, he had to guard against it, so he repaired two letters, one for the queen mother in the palace and the other for the crown prince, he believed that neither of them would want him to become the son-in-law of the king of Nanyue, and they naturally understood his intentions. No matter who Long Shan was instructed by before, with these two people taking precautions, it would be very difficult for the other party to do it. After the letter was sent, he ordered the boat to go to the northeast of the Mengjiang River in Lin Jiadu, and he wanted to take Lian'er to Mengshan, which he liked, and left a message to the Tang family and others to go to the Baihuatang in Mengshan.

Three days later, the princess of Nanyue entered Beijing with the prince of Nanyue, and after settling down in the post house, Ruan Qianye took her sister into the palace to do a courtesy visit, and came to the Tang family's mansion in the capital with gifts under the urging of Qianhua, but the reply was that the third prince had not yet entered Beijing, and the return date was undecided.

There is a Fuxi River that gathers from the clear stream of the mountain spring at the middle foot of the mountain, and the Fuxi River merges with the Qiuyu River and the Mengya River from the western foot of the Mengshan Mountain at the exit of the mountain pass to form the Mengjiang River. The Meng River joins the waterway to Linjiadu and to Kingkey. Since the boat turned to the Mengjiang waterway, the water quality has undergone earth-shaking changes, although the water flow is not urgent, but it is clear to the bottom, the aquatic plants and rocks at the bottom of the river are clearly visible, and the scenery is pleasant. After most of the day's journey, the boat docked at the confluence of the Mengjiang River and the Fuxi River. The Fuxi River has a shallow draft, and this kind of three-story boat can't get in, so the subordinates of Aoki Society have prepared a painting boat early and are waiting here.

Standing on top of the painting boat, the bamboo on both sides of the river is verdant, and it seems to be within reach of the boat. The hibiscus flowers of a tree in the shadow of the bamboo are lush in the cold spring cold, and there is a world of difference between the gray and white of the cold air in early spring on both sides of the Kyokei waterway.

"Mengshan is a small Jiangnan in Gyeonggi Province, and this Fuxi River area is a fairyland in the south of the small Jiangnan of Mengxi, which is surrounded by mountains on three sides, and comes in here from the mouth of the Fuxi River, and the surrounding area is relatively closed, because there are hot springs, so the outside of the mountain is higher. It can be said that the four seasons are like spring. Xinjie stood on the deck and looked at the charming eyes around him that lit up because of the beautiful scenery: "In autumn, the hibiscus flowers are in full bloom here. At that time, both sides of the Kyokei waterway were already depressed and decayed, and this place was particularly gorgeous and colorful. I'll take you to see the hibiscus flowers in the fall. ”

"I don't know which master thought so thoughtfully, and planted hibiscus flowers on both sides of the river."

"It was said to be your grandmother's and my grandmother's idea." Xinjie replied with a slight smile. "It was my grandmother who planted the flowers. This is the largest medicine garden and flower garden of Baihuatang in Mengshan. ”

"Don't tell me that both sides of the strait are the property of the Tang family."

"It can be said that most of the people here are surnamed Tang, but this Tang on this shore is different from the Tang in Baihuatang on the mountain." Xinjie replied slyly.

Lian'er looked at him suspiciously.

"See the courtyard with the pier? Behind the first pier is the annex of Yumen, the second is the Chen family, and the third is the Tang family's lord here, "The main house, is there another courtyard in such a small place?" Lian'er was thinking, and listened to Xinjie continue: "The fourth is the Jin family, that is, the Jin family of the Jin Ji Wine Workshop, followed by the Yan Garden built by my father for my mother, the locals simply called the Tang Family Courtyard because they don't know the word Yan, and then the Zhou family's courtyard in Mengshan back then, and now it should be filed in the imperial court, and then behind it is the flower garden and medicine garden of Baihuatang, and the back mountain of the Jin Family Courtyard has the largest and most beautiful pear blossom of this generation, and there is a wine shop at the bottom of the mountain, which is the source of the pear blossom drunk in the Jin Family Wine Workshop." ”

Baihuatang's industrial Lian'er here had already known from Baihuatang's records, but she didn't expect it to be connected to several other courtyards, and she remembered again: "You said that this Tang is different from that Tang, do you mean that the Tang family's mansion is different from Baihuatang?" ”

"No, it's the two banks of the Fuxi River that we saw along the way. Although hibiscus flowers were planted here on the idea of several old ladies, this place originally belonged to the view of the clouds on the top of the mountain. It's just that the Taoist temple is too biased, and there are no new apprentices, so the old Taoist priest gave me the assets in this temple, and the only requirement is that I send someone to take care of the Taoist temple, even if there is no Taoist priest now, it can't be wasted, maybe someone will go there to cultivate the Tao in the future. The tea garden from the shore here to the side of the Guanyun Temple has been unattended, Later, by chance, I made some tea with the method seen in the book, and found that these tea trees are slowly soaked because they intersect with the bamboo forest, hibiscus and pear blossoms, and the tea leaves have the fragrance of the bamboo forest, and there is the fragrance of pear blossoms before the Ming Dynasty, and there is a light sweetness similar to hibiscus after autumn. As a result, I have the first new tea under my name, Fuxi Sweet Tea and Pear Yuming. So this piece is now also surnamed Tang. It is one of the foundations of our Aoki Society. ”

Lian'er looked at the man and said easily, she dispensed her own medicine and occasionally made tea, knowing that there was actually a lot of work to be paid here, and it was not by chance. It is necessary to spend a lot of energy and time to study the characteristics of various teas, various tea-making techniques, and choose various combinations. Of course, it is more important to have taste, and will choose from a variety of combinations that most people like.

Everyone knew that Tang Gongzi would make money, and it seemed that the gold and silver would come in when they talked and laughed, and they didn't see this person who left home at a young age, and his experience in human affairs and sophistication, and his careful and hard work in learning all kinds of knowledge. Thinking of this, Lian'er felt a little heartache, this man has gone through many experiences that his peers have never experienced to become strong today. Although he became an orphan because of the Zhou family's bloody case, he has always been loved by the Queen Mother, and he has been cared for by Mrs. Tang over the years, and he spends most of his time alone outside to face everything. Let's just say that this view of the clouds, such a beautiful place, the small Jiangnan of Gyeonggi Province, how many people have made up their minds, but Lao Dao gave it to him, although he said it easily, but she knew that there must be an unusual story in it.

"What's wrong? Do you think your father-in-law is good-looking or what's wrong? Stare at me like this. Feeling that her mood was a little abnormal, he quipped: "Of course your father-in-law has to be good-looking to match my family's beautiful lady, isn't it, not to mention a lady who is worth a lot of money." When you enter Beijing, cross the bright road with the Queen Mother, and take back the Zhou family's property, if I don't earn more money, I won't dare to propose marriage, lest others think that you have found a little white face who eats soft rice. ”

She felt that she couldn't laugh, two lines of tears rolled down, and hugged him tightly: "I'd rather you eat mine and drink mine, as long as you are well, don't work too hard." ”

"What's wrong with you?" After a long time, Xinjie heard a woman say that she wanted to raise him for the first time, his heart was sour, and he felt very happy, there is a woman who values him so much, not for his identity, not for his gold and silver, but for him: "Silly girl, we will all be fine." It is a man's responsibility to give my woman a stable and prosperous life. We have to be good together, and in the future I will teach our children how to be men, how to do business, how to take care of his mother. But before I give birth to them, I want to take you all over the world. ”

Just as the two of them were snuggling up on the boat to watch the scenery, a light boat came from the direction of the entrance, because it was light and small, and soon overtook the boat, and the boatmen greeted each other, and the people in the cabin also came out to greet them.

Lian'er was a little surprised to see that it was Jin Jiu, the two sides did not speak, just nodded lightly, Jin Jiu's boat passed quickly, and finally stopped at the small pier at the door of Jin's house.

"You don't seem surprised to see Jin Jiu." Lian'er looked sideways at Xinjie.

"Not unexpected." Xinjie smiled faintly: "Pear blossom drunk is the top grade of the Jinjia Distillery, and it is normal for the owner to come and see it from time to time." And......"He paused, glanced at the woman, and smiled a little deeply: "At this time, it is estimated that he does not have the heart to enter Beijing to see Qianhua's headache character." ”

"I'm afraid no one wants to see her." Lian'er smiled indifferently, Xinjie had already explained to her the identities of Ruan Qianye and Qianhua in the Jin family, although she didn't say much, but many things can be imagined without being explicitly said.

"It's just that this golden shopkeeper may be bothered by more than a thousand flowers."

"He does have a lot of troubles. The Jin family had a great crisis a few years ago, and Jin Jiu has paid a lot of price to get to where it is today. Even so, whether he can go well in the future depends on whether he can carry it on his own. The Jin family's descendants have always been unprosperous, and the side branches have been eyeing the Jin family's business over the years. These people don't think about how to do things to make a living, and they only think about crooked methods. Although Jin Jiu's aunt is a concubine of Nanyue Jin, she can help very limited, but she has found a lot of things for him. At that time, my aunt and Mrs. Jin Jiu had a close relationship, Jin Jiu was young, and my aunt dealt with a lot of trouble for them. But the business is always the Kim family, we can help for a while, but we can't help for a lifetime. In the end, it depends on Jin Jiu himself. ”

"No wonder every time I see Jin Jiu, he has an indescribable heaviness and depression."

Xinjie wanted to say something, but hesitated for a moment, and swallowed back.