Before Xiao Xiantang entered the back office, he heard Mu Chonglan humming an out-of-tune tune.

Xiao Xiantang felt curious, so he listened carefully, it seemed to be a song similar to eighteen touches, which made Xiao Xiantang angry.

"Xiao Xiantang, you're here." When Mu Chonglan saw Xiao Xiantang coming, he immediately greeted him happily.

Xiao Xiantang originally wanted to teach her a lesson, but when he saw her smiling face, he immediately dispelled this idea. "Didn't it make you a little more restrained? Why did you still grab so many things from the yamen? ”

When Mu Chonglan heard Xiao Xiantang's words, she frowned: "It wasn't robbed, they took the initiative to send it, and I wondered about it." ”

When Xiao Xiantang heard this, he raised his eyebrows, Mu Chonglan was convinced that the state capital was robbed.

Although the state capital is actually not afraid of their small Longtong County, but the ruthless is afraid of the horizontal, the horizontal is afraid of being stunned, and the stunned is afraid of dying.

It's just that the state government is so "low and small", and there must be great resentment in his heart, as long as he waits for the minister to leave, and the attitude of the imperial court is relaxed, it will inevitably make trouble for them in Longtong County.

Of course, understanding this, Xiao Xiantang is not afraid, after all, he is not the same as when he first arrived in Yanzhou, and his current ability to fight against a state capital is more than enough.

It's just that if you want to fight against the imperial court, you still owe some fire.

"Although the silver of the toll is like a running account, but after all, there is not much, if you want to make money, it is better to find a few reliable maritime merchants and take the Maritime Silk Road." Xiao Xiantang reminded.

Mu Chonglan nodded: "I know." ”

In fact, Mu Chonglan also appeared, although these "protection fees" seem to come quickly, but she is also principled, not everyone has to search for it, she doesn't rob the poor to make ends meet, just pick some bad reputation of profiteers, but those profiteers are also treacherous, knowing that she will detain one of each convoy, and simply get together to pass through the city gate, once even reached a hundred cars and horses to pass together, so for a while, her business is really not good.

As for the matter of the Maritime Silk Road mentioned by Xiao Xiantang, Mu Chonglan came to Yanzhou as early as the beginning, and knew that there were maritime merchants and focused on them, but most of these maritime merchants were cunning, and some of them were self-contained, and she was not so shrewd, and it was not easy to take those people for her own use, so she had to think of cultivating a group of maritime merchants by herself.

Although the Maritime Silk Road is wide, it is only in vain if there is no way, and Mu Chonglan did not think of simply transferring the experienced Zhen Youcai, but Zhen Youcai had already moved his family to Dadu, and it was not easy to transfer him.

What's more, as soon as the news came out, Zhen Youcai himself didn't react yet, his little ones learned that Mu Chonglan was going to transfer Zhen Youcai to the sea, and immediately cried, made trouble, and hanged himself, thinking that it was a matter of going and not returning, and rolled his eyes angrily at Mu Chonglan.

After that, Mu Chonglan also had the idea of letting Wu Ming go to sea, because Wu Ming was alone, but before she could speak, Chen Sheng came to the door first and said that he was willing to go to sea.

Seeing Chen Sheng again, Mu Chonglan saw that Chen Sheng's eyes were a little different from the full of gloom at the beginning, and he seemed to be a lot more pleasing to the eye, but his cautious demeanor was still the same as before.

Speaking of which, Mu Chonglan still has some understanding of Chen Sheng's ability, she originally threw Zhen Shixian, the nephew of the clan recommended by Zhen Youcai, Chen Sheng, recommended by Wu Ming, and Gu Qiming, recommended by Yan Xingsheng, to be in charge of herself in Qingzhou, and finally looked like a stuffy gourd Chen Sheng unexpectedly accepted the two of them obediently, which shows that there is indeed some ability.

Therefore, when Chen Sheng proposed that he was going to sea, Mu Chonglan trusted him very much in his ability, but he felt that if he left, he would have to find another steward to fill the gap in Qingzhou, and he felt that the gains outweighed the losses.

Chen Sheng was very insistent, saying that even if there was no one on the Qingzhou side, there would be no chaos with Zhen Shixian and Gu Qiming, so after thinking about it again and again, Mu Chonglan finally agreed to Chen Sheng's application, after all, she really needs someone to help her break through the Silk Road on the sea, and it is naturally a good thing to have an experienced experience.

"Speaking of which, on the day Chen Sheng went to sea, his widowed sister-in-law didn't know why she didn't come, I called someone to ask, and now she is spinning cloth at home, and she spun a lot of cloth, and I don't know what she thinks." Mu Chonglan shook his head and said.

Xiao Xiantang glanced at Mu Chonglan: "This is a matter between the two of them, don't worry about it." ”

"I don't want to worry about it, but I want to know if they want to be together." Mu Chonglan pouted and said.

"......" Xiao Xiantang secretly said in his heart, the difference between Chen Sheng and his widowed eldest sister-in-law is clearly that Lang has the intention of being a concubine, but he is commensurate with his uncle and sister-in-law, which is simply self-deception.

However, these two have been to Qingzhou for so long, this Chen Sheng still has to go out, and I don't know if these two people haven't pierced the layer of window paper yet, or these two have already pierced the layer of window paper, but the eldest sister-in-law of the widow and widow kept her duty to be a widow and pretended to be confused, which made Chen Sheng disheartened and thought of leaving.

Mu Chonglan felt that Chen Sheng's widow's eldest sister-in-law didn't see off Chen Sheng when he was leaving, but spun cloth at home, behaving very strangely, but Xiao Xiantang didn't think it was strange, he could even guess that Chen Sheng's widow's eldest sister-in-law didn't refuse to see him off, but didn't dare to come to see him off.

Because, the two of them originally had feelings, once they came, she was afraid that she couldn't help but follow Chen Sheng, the cloth that she spun overnight seemed to be just cloth, but in fact, it was better to say that it was the duty of being a widow, this kind of duty was like a shackle, binding her strongly, she didn't dare to break free because of the world's eyes, and she didn't dare to respond to Chen Sheng's feelings.

If the ten-year-old widow and sister-in-law pass the door, then he and the widow and sister-in-law have known each other for more than 20 years, how many more than 20 years can this life be wasted?

"It's a matter between the two of them, and you'd better mind less." Xiao Xiantang said.

Mu Chonglan's eyes rolled, and she came to Xiao Xiantang and said, "Xiao Xiantang, if you are the eldest sister-in-law, won't you send me too?" ”

"Why am I the eldest sister-in-law?" Xiao Xiantang is a little angry, even if he and Mu Chonglan end up in the field of Chen Sheng and the widow's eldest sister-in-law, he should be Chen Sheng, she is the widow's eldest sister-in-law.