Qi Su Niang sent Chen Yan away from home, and went back to the room to find out his private money. In her small makeup box, there are seventeen small gold taels of three taels, and some gold melon seeds, whole silver, broken silver, one tael of gold is worth about ten taels of silver, adding up to one thousand one hundred and twenty taels of silver, which can buy nearly 400 acres of medium fertile land.

Qi Su Niang shook her head secretly, this money is enough for her own retirement, if you want to buy the ownerless land in Chen, Qi, Wang, and Song villages, and you have to fill the hole that will only get bigger and bigger on Chen Yan's side, but it is far from enough.

The matter has come to an end, she can only try her best, she packed up some jade, jewelry as a return gift, and sealed two hundred taels of silver as a gift, took Chen Yan's name sticker in Qinghe County, stamped the private seal left by Chen Yan to her, together with Qi Qiang, sent to Baoyingzhi County Government, sure enough, Baoyingzhi County discounted the price of the field by half, and spent four hundred taels of silver to buy two hundred acres of land in four villages. She spent another fifty taels of silver to buy thousands of catties of cottonseeds, and rushed back from Baoying County.

Because she was going to see the official, Qi Su Niang changed her bright clothes, and Qi Qiang cleaned up more and more neatly. Qi Qiang and Qi Su Niang were both sitting in a rented mule cart, and Wang Tianwang was entrusted to catch the car outside.

After Qi Su Niang left Chen Yan, she thought about opening her mouth to Qi Qiang countless times, but finally hesitated, thought about it for a while in the car, made up her mind, looked up at Qi Qiang, but saw Qi Qiang looking at her carefully.

Qi Su Niang was stunned for a moment and said with a smile: "Brother, what's wrong?" ”

Qi Qiang smiled: "Sister, the actor married you, it's really a blessing." His man, ******** all thrown on the river, may not understand other things, he doesn't pay attention to them, he is a fool. If it weren't for you, how long would he be cured? Even the four surnames Qi and Chen can't get any light, and when you get married, I have to put my brother-in-law's money on a good show, and I can't give him a good daughter-in-law in vain. ”

Qi Su Niang laughed out loud and said, "Brother, how can you boast of being a girl like this?" If I didn't have Brother Chen's official robe, where would I be able to do these things well? ”

Qi Qiang shook his head and said, "If you don't marry him, with me, you can manage your life." This official road is not a good road, it is shallow, and it will be squeezed out in a blink of an eye, and it will be deep, and I don't know when it will be flooded. ”

Qi Su Niang was stunned when she heard this, nodded slowly, and smiled again in a blink of an eye: "I remember my brother's words, but there is still a matter, I want to ask my brother to help me." ”

Qi Qiang was a little surprised, nodded and said, "Our own family, you say." ”

Qi Su Niang pondered and said: "Although I bought land, it is also two or three hundred acres, and in a year, the maximum amount of income is two or three hundred taels." It is also necessary to have smooth wind and rain, and there is no disease and no disaster. If it's just to get by, it's fine. But the things in the officialdom are really difficult to say, don't prepare more, for fear that something will happen. Swallowing his saliva, he said carefully: "My sister heard that Gaoyou's boat will go north to transport grain next month." The girl still has a few hundred taels of silver in her hand, and she wants to buy some southern goods and take them to the north to sell and buy them, make some money, and beg her brother to find a proper person. ”

Qi Qiang looked at Qi Su Niang for a long time, nodded and smiled: "Although Uncle Wang told me, it turns out that I still underestimated my sister, and you actually planned to take it all for him?" It's okay, there is no result in governing the river for more than ten years, he is unwilling to be greedy for ink, the mountain is high and the emperor is far away, if there is no money to support, make up some shortfalls, those who have been blocked by the financial road, naturally can not allow him to reign for a long time, just think about it. ”

Qi Su Niang heard Qi Qiang speak like this, and was very familiar with the officialdom, remembering that Cao Yun was originally a joint venture between the government and the people, he had eaten Cao Yun's bowl of rice, and he naturally knew the disadvantages inside, so he was also relieved.

Qi Qiang lowered his head and pondered for a while, then raised his head and said, "Sister, how much money do you have?" ”

Seeing that he agreed, Qi Su Niang was overjoyed in her heart, and hurriedly said: "Gaoyou still has to buy hundreds of acres of land, and there is also gift money, so-"

Qi Qiang interrupted: "You don't need to count the gift money in Gaoyou City, my brother will find a way for you." ”

Qi Su Niang was stunned for a moment, and then said: "If this is the case, there are still eight hundred taels." ”

Qi Qiang was stunned for a moment, and laughed loudly: "It's a real person who doesn't show up, I'm afraid you don't know about the money?" As he spoke, the laughter became louder and louder, "Su Niang, my brother is relieved now, no matter what the actor will do in the future, he will be a first-class member, and no one will be able to snatch the position of the wife of the main room." After that, he looked at Qi Su Niang with a smile, "My brother is a rough man, although his words are straighter, but you need to remember that even the emperor Laozi also has to eat food and silver to live, he wants no food and no silver, and he can't sit still in this world!" As long as you hold on to the actor's money, he can't leave you. ”

Qi Su Niang was startled when she heard him speak wildly, hurriedly covered his mouth, looked at Wang Tianwang, who was driving the car outside, seemed to be not moving, was a little relieved, and complained: "Brother, it's okay to talk about these words in the house, where can you say them here?" You are the only son of the Qi family, and my sister still points to you to inherit the Qi family------"

Qi Qiang suddenly showed a headache on his face, fell on the carriage, and wailed: "I said sister, you can catch up with my mother......"

At this point, both of them fell silent, staring at each other, unable to speak for a long time.

Qi Qiang and Qi Su Niang were not brothers and sisters, they had never been under the same roof, and their temperament was only heard from others. Unexpectedly, after a trip to Baoying County, the two gradually became familiar with each other, and they also looked like brothers and sisters.

Qi Qiang loves to be lively, in the past, he was afraid of startling Qi Su Niang, and the sailors of the Caohe River were secretly contacting, but now it seems to have passed the bright road, every day if the gate is called, friends and friends, gambling and drinking, it is very lively, and everyone who comes must show off his own sister.

Qi Su couldn't cry or laugh, it turned out that Qi Qiang was so sneaky, but she thought that she was a weak girl, and she couldn't see that group of rough men, Fang knew that the more the brother and sister respected each other on weekdays, the more unfamiliar they became, and there were so many misunderstandings, which made her and the fourth elder brother suspicious. Although he feels that it is inappropriate now, he knows that Qi Qiang is close to her, so as long as he doesn't kill people and set fires, he will naturally go with him.

She was not originally a weak character in the boudoir, and she was also frank in her previous life, and when she got along with these rough men, she was always outspoken, she glared and scolded, and laughed when she liked it, if someone had said or done, she immediately went to Qi Qiang to complain, stood aside proudly, and watched Qi Qiang beat those people up.

In the first month, the Cao River was frozen, and there was nothing to do, and most of the sailors were poor men with no property and no land, gathering in the self-built hall on the riverbank, and they were bored for a long time. In the past, when I came to find Qi Qiang, I had to hide and hide, but now I was open, the charcoal fire was burning, and the porridge boiled with corn was so attractive that I was glared at by the little girl and scolded a few words, where is it the same thing. Within a few days, the half-pulled sailors in the Gaoyou Gang and the Changzhou Gang all met with Qi Su Niang and knew that Qi Qiang had a hot girl.

After a night of nonsense, Qi Qiang sat in the Chen family hall early in the morning, with a red face, a mouthful of wine, and shouted intermittently: "Luo Laosan, who is not long-eyed, drank too much yesterday, and actually told me that if he is willing to marry you to him, he will open next month, and the back-and-forth smuggling goods of the Sangang Cao boat under him will be a dowry." I ignored him, and he still pulled me, only saying that if it was too little, I would wait for another boat in September, and I could double it. With that, he slapped the table with a smile.