On the second day, Qi Qiang changed into a new clothes, the moon-white brocade melon skin hat was embedded with fine jade, the white brocade dark pattern arrow sleeve was tied with five-color Luanqi, and the silver heart-piercing gold wrapped tea bag with fragrant tea cakes was hung on the Luanqi, and the brocade purse with incense crumbs was also tied with a red sweat scarf.

Seeing him dressed like this, Qi Su Niang didn't worry about letting him go alone, so Qi Qiang had to let her follow. The two drove the mule cart, went out early in the morning, entered the city around noon, and got off in front of the Wuwei Tower.

The shopkeeper and the guy in the Wuwei Building have changed, and when they saw Qi Qiang entering the door, the shopkeeper hurriedly greeted him, and said with a smile: "Third Master Qi, or the Huihong private room upstairs?" But if you want to go to the left sloping street, please Yushu girl-" The corner of his eyes swept to Qi Su Niang, and he stopped.

Qi Qiang coughed slightly, "If Master Liu of the Zhizhou Mansion comes, please ask him to come upstairs." After that, he looked at Qi Su Niang, led her upstairs, and entered the Huihong private room.

Qi Su Niang looked at this private room sitting north to south, a big table of cypress eight immortals in the window, four long-backed cypress chairs, two pictures of beauties with blue scrolls on a white background hung on the west wall, and two lattice windows on the east side were wide open, half rolled with Xiangfei bamboo curtains. Qi Su Niang heard the noise outside the window, approached the window, and downstairs was the Zhizhou Yamen.

Under the gate of the three houses of the Gaoyou Prefecture, there are two standing cages on the left and right, imprisoning the dying prisoners. Menzi, officials, scribes, and lawyers, who eat yamen meals, sit in front of the door, and the cries of small merchants and hawkers come and go.

Qi Qiang ordered three bowls and six plates of noodles, looked at Qi Su Niang three or four steps away from the window, looked at the scenery outside through the half-rolled bamboo curtain, and couldn't help laughing: "Sister, you put the bamboo curtain up, you can look at it as much as you like, my brother is here, no one dares to gossip." ”

Qi Su Niang glanced back at Qi Qiang, smiled, walked to the window and rolled up the bamboo curtains, leaned against the window to look at the scenery in the street, and occasionally passers-by raised their eyes to see, or lowered their heads to avoid, or stared at them endlessly, guessing which private sister such a presumptuous and unruly woman was.

Qi Su Niang noticed all kinds of eye-catching eyes, knew that the rules in this world had to be followed, sighed slightly, but still put down the bamboo curtain of Concubine Xiang and sat down at the table. Qi Qiang lifted the fine porcelain pot, poured tea for Qi Su Niang with a smile, and pushed two plates of exquisite tea in front of her, "Sister, I heard Uncle Wang say that when I was on Jiangning Road, my mother was thanks to you-" As he was talking, a man's laughter came from the corridor outside the door: "Tao Xin'er, the eyes of the master are correct, why don't you hurry up and come over to see your Uncle Qi, ask for the fragrant tea cake on his waist, let's ......"

Qi Qiang's forehead was sweating, he didn't dare to look at Qi Su Niang's face, he grabbed the door in a few steps and covered it with his backhand. Qi Su Niang heard a burst of laughter outside, sandwiched between the woman's coquettishness, the friction of clothes, and the sound of kissing, and after a while, the voice was far away, and Qi Qiangfang walked in.

I saw that his eyes were dodging, his face was slightly red, and the silver and gold wrapped fragrant tea bags and water red sweat towels on his waist had been removed, but there was an extra Cuiqiao Fangsheng sweat towel, hanging a goldfinch head and ears, obviously exchanging personal things with prostitutes, and making thoughts.

Qi Su Niang sighed secretly, and wanted to persuade her, but she knew that Qi Qiang was not a person who could settle down, seeing that he was embarrassed, she lifted the fine porcelain pot, poured Qi Qiang a cup of tea, and said with a smile: "My brother has seen a lot of the world outside, and my sister doesn't say much, it's just the incense of the Qi family, my brother has to keep it in mind, and my sister is waiting to hug my eldest nephew." ”

Qi Qiang breathed a sigh of relief, laughed hehe, and said in a stacked voice: "My sister is right, my sister will take more care for my brother in this matter, if my sister likes each other, my brother will marry you and be your sister-in-law." ”

Qi Su Niang couldn't cry or laugh, knowing that he didn't care, so she had to throw away this matter, and listened to Qi Qiang say something about Gaoyou, and after a while, she heard someone laughing at the staircase: "Third Master Luo, why did you come to Changzhou?" What are you doing in this door? ”

The two seemed to salute each other, and Luo San smiled and said: "I haven't seen you for a while, Master Liu, please, Qi Sanye is waiting for you, there is something to do next, and we will meet again next time." Then he heard the footsteps go away.

Qi Qiang hurriedly got up, opened the door and invited Master Liu to come in, Master Liu was ordered by Gaoyou Zhizhou to visit Chen's house, and when he saw Qi Su Niang, he hurriedly gave a salute. The two of them were slightly noisy, and they knew that the two were brothers and sisters, and they were even more happy, so they were not taboo, and sat down and said: "I heard that Qi Sanye came back from Beijing, and I haven't seen him in my later life." The last time the old man of Zhizhou was in the hands of the fourth master, it was thanks to the third master of Qi that he was able to reinstate himself in the capital, and he had to come to inquire about it later, I don't know if the things that the third master of Qi gave to the third master of the capital can be sent ......to it."

Qi Qiang replied with a smile, Qi Su Niang listened to the way of running officials and bribes, as if she understood whether she understood or not, and she was worried, but she felt that Qi Qiang was not taking a good path. After a while, Qi Qiang mentioned the matter of buying land.

Master Liu laughed, asked the store for pen and ink, and wrote a note. He turned his head and called a little boy with the horse, and gave a few orders. The little guy went out, but in half an hour, he made a hundred acres of land deed from the Zhizhou Yamen. The little guy came back and said: "The eldest master of Zhizhou said, if you don't work for the third master of Qi to make silver, there are three taels of silver per mu recorded in the account, all in the name of Miss Qi." Qi Qiang did not shirk, thanked Master Liu, and toasted three glasses in a row.

Master Liu is a talented man who has tried and failed, and he has the stinky problem of a literati, and he is so drunk that he is full of interest and stands up to chant poetry. Qi Su Niang listened to it on the side, but felt that he should be praising the waterways on all sides of Gaoyou City, and the prosperity of Cao merchants, while pondering, Qi Qiang closed his eyes and shook his head, and Liu Shiye joined the poem, the two of you come and go, and they have more than ten sentences, Qi Su Niang listened to Qi Qiang's chant neither a beautiful poem, nor a limerick poem, and immediately looked at him.

Master Liu was overjoyed, and saw that Qi Qiang didn't set up a fight, so he hurried to call Qi Qiang a brother and brother, so he didn't have affection. After a dinner and more than half an hour later, he went and whispered: "The new scholar Zuo Bifan Zuo from Yangzhou Mansion knew the name of the elder brother when he participated in the scientific examination in Beijing, and he always wanted to get acquainted with the elder brother, but he hated that no one introduced him. Now that I've gone on a business trip, I don't know where I heard that you were originally from Gaoyou, and I'm so happy, I'll ask my brother, if you have time, I'm going to send a post over, and invite you to come over to talk about it. ”

Qi Qiang said with a smile: "Thank you brother for taking me in front of the Lord Xuedao, you have always known that my brother is not going to the gate of the official family, and I have to ask the elder brother to transfer one or two things in the middle, and I want to come to the Lord Xuedao will also feel safe." In a few days, the younger brother will go back to Cao, and come back to meet the elder brother again. ”

Master Liu said enviously: "The elder brother is really powerful, the messengers who make money on this road are all skilled, not to mention our Gaoyou, Luo Sanye and the elder brother over there in Changzhou are very tight." After that, the two parted ways, and Qi Qiang took Qi Su Niang back to the village without mentioning it.