At the mouth of the Gaoyou Cao Gang at the end of Zihou Alley, Lian Dahe hurriedly walked to Zhengsi, "The surname Cui has returned to Yangzhou?" Fourth brother, is the news true? ”

Wang Si looked puzzled, "I also think it's strange, he just came here, said a few words to Master Liu that didn't hurt or itch, ate a wine, and went back?" He added: "I saw him on the boat with my own eyes, and let people follow him for ten miles by water." ”

Even Dahe frowned, didn't speak for a long time, Wang Si approached him and whispered, "Brother Dahe, you let me carry back the sister I summoned from my private house in the past few days." Now, the big boss and Qi Sanye went to the private cave together, and they haven't come back yet......"

Lian Dahe glanced at him, "You don't know Third Master Qi's temperament?" There was a slight hesitation on his face as he spoke, "I was able to do it accurately a few days ago." These days...... When the big boss and Qi Sanye come back, I'll ask the big ship and give you a letter......"

Wang Si's face was full of joy, and he thanked him repeatedly, and Lian Dahe admonished: "Keep an eye on the various wharves in Caoshang and Gaoyou Lake. The surname Cui is a powerful character, be careful that he kills back the carbine, don't forget how Liu Tanzhu died in front of you. ”

Wang Si's color changed slightly, and he sighed, "I now think about the appearance of Liu Tanzhu being dismantled in his own bed, and I still have nightmares at night. If we don't pay attention to it, we will suffer a big loss......" rubbed his hands, gritted his teeth and said: "It's just that this surnamed Cui has no relatives and no relatives, and Lao Ziniang is a slave in the Governor's Mansion of Zhili, otherwise, just like we deal with the general manager of Taizhou Hebiao, a subordinate surnamed Cui, we will first arrest his good friend and rape him, and hang his bare feet in it"

Lian Dahe covered Wang Si's mouth, lowered his voice and said: "Don't talk nonsense and let the big boss listen, you don't know how to die."

Wang Si was overwhelmed by him for a while, his face flushed and he whimpered, nodding desperately, and finally waited for Lian Dahe to let go, he coughed and glared at Lian Dahe, "What...... What's up...... Don't the big bosses know all these things......"

"Anyway, if you don't mention those who are good or not, you can't be wrong." Even Dahe didn't talk much to him, "Although the surname Cui is gone, the noble man in the city will stay for a few days, you should be careful, don't let him have an accident." As he spoke, his face changed, "The big boss is back...... "Hurriedly greeted the door, and Wang Si hurriedly followed behind him.

"I'll go back to Yangzhou tomorrow." Lian Zhenyun didn't stop, walked to the backyard, Lian Dahe and Lian Dachuan followed behind him, looked at each other, and responded together.

The three-masted ship rode the wind and waves out of Gaoyou. Go to Yangzhou. Jiangsu, Changzhou, Zhejiang, Songjiang, and the two lakes continue to go north. Boat Lian Zhenyun stood at the bow of the boat. Far into the distance. Lian Dahe stepped forward and whispered, "Big boss." It's the Lord of Futai......"

Lian Zhenyun looked sideways. Not far from the river. Forty oars on the official ship of the main hall of Yangzhou Mansion rowed in unison. Rush against the wind. Towards Gaoyou. Dressed in civilian clothes, the lord of the prefecture stood at the bow of the boat. The hem of the robe was blown by the south wind.

"Zhili Tongji Dao Humanities Su Niang. Father's borrowed life. Flooded. There is no abundance in old age. The second daughter Wen Su Niang. He was ten years old. Born on October 12. Born at the right time. He was willing to be sold into slavery with official teeth. If there are mountains and rivers at night. To each his own destiny. The value of the tattoo silver is three taels and two dollars. I am afraid that I will be undocumented. Stand for it. ”

The water of the Cao River walked around Gaoyou City. It flows into the city from three entrances to the city. Qi Su Niang sat in the east wing of the backyard of Gaoyou Fan Lane. Tie the baggage on the side. While asking, "Brother." How did you talk to Lian Da Boss? You said to Master Liu that day......"

Qi Qiang sat at the table and drank tea. frowned and said, "This time I opened my mouth." I didn't mean to be a refusal. But I watched. He hit the ground with a wait-and-see idea. He wasn't unaware of the movements in the capital. ”

Qi Su said happily: "How much is he not following the prince with all his heart? That's a good thing......" I thought to myself. When I first arrived in Yangzhou. Although Chen Yan is also a fellow river teacher. She remembered that Qi Qiang had said in his letter that the Jiangsu Gang was the prince's subordinate. I didn't go to Lian Zhenyun to transport smuggled goods. The result is a mess. There is no money to make. There's no hurry. Now Qi Su Niang suddenly came back to her senses. Smile bitterly in my heart. She had forgotten about it. Now she doesn't have to. She came to this world to do a lot of day work......

"Sister, since you are in Gaoyou, my brother will hand over several businesses in Gaoyou to you. Although my brother can't accompany you in his hometown, he still has to let you have some income, and there is no reason for you to suffer hardship. Qi Qiang put down the tea and took a scroll of text from his arms, "Oh, take it." ”

Qi Su Niang shook her head and smiled: "I brought 10,000 taels of the dowry silver that my brother gave me, and our Qi family also has 100 acres of land, where will I suffer?" I'm afraid that ten more of me will be enough. ”

Qi Qiang looked at her for a while, "It's still so much left for the actors?" In that case, why bother" sighed, "Forget it, whatever you like." Girl, come here. ”

Qi Su Niang stood up from the side of the bed in confusion and walked in front of Qi Qiang. Qi Qiang pulled her to sit beside him, "It's not just for you to make money, Yangzhou Mansion is a big town in Jiangsu, in addition to Gaoyou's hemp duck, dried tea, and cane sugar gardens, you can also watch for your brother in several other places in Yangzhou Mansion." He said in a low voice: "Because of the West Garden case, the three major weaving saints of the Internal Affairs Mansion can't see it, and the emperor's ears and eyes are a little unbearable in the south. Those gentlemen are waiting for this opportunity. Lixin was promoted to the governor of Liangjiang, and it is difficult to say what will happen in the south, and the ninth master wants to send me to do something else, and my brother can't be separated. Although this piece of land is a bit overbearing, it is clean, and it is not as good as the eighth master in the northeast...... You are my brother's sister-in-law, watch for my brother, my brother can rest assured, the ninth master will not say anything. ”

Qi Su Niang was surprised when she heard this, the meaning of Qi Qiang's words was to slowly hand over all the supply business of the seven provinces in the south of the Yangtze River to her, Qi Su Niang looked at Qi Qiang and whispered: "Brother, these are the business of the Ninth Master"

Qi Qiang comforted: "The banner people can't do business, these industries were originally spelled out by my blood and sweat, and they are all recorded in my place name, and I will take care of them." I still dare to swallow the Ninth Master's inheritance. The Qi family only has you and me, two brothers and sisters, I don't entrust it to you, who else can I entrust it to? I understand these things, you don't have to worry. ”

Qi Su Niang knew that the matter was big, and she was about to push it back, but she knew that this was Qi Qiang's foothold in the Ninth Master's Mansion, and she refused to hand it over to others under the Ninth Master's Sect. Qi Su Niang remembered that Qi Qiang had worked hard outside for a whole year to build half of the business in the south of the Yangtze River, but he was called by errands in the Nine Masters' Mansion every day, and it was difficult to find a confidant who could be trusted, so she gritted her teeth and nodded: "My sister will watch for my brother, my brother can rest assured, my sister will work hard."

Qi Qiang glared, "What nonsense are you talking about, although those things are important, it is difficult to do it."

Have we two brothers and sisters in love? If it weren't for me, where would you be with the Nine, and you wouldn't be with the Fourteenth Master. If it weren't for you, I would have entered the Nine Masters' Mansion in the first place, would it be possible that I would have given you up for these now? What a silly girl......"

Qi Su Niang heard that he was deeply affectionate, she was happy in her heart, covered her mouth and smiled, and pulled Qi Qiang's sleeve to be coquettish: "Brother, ......"

Qi Qiang touched Qi Su Niang's head and sighed, "What's going on?" You're only eighteen years old......"

For several days in a row, Qi Qiang stayed at home and delivered the supply of goods from six counties and ten places in Yangzhou Prefecture to Qi Su Niang, and taught her to read the business brochures of twenty-one Qi Ji Tooth Stores in seven provinces in the south of the Yangtze River. Qi Su Niang was secretly stunned, Qi Qiang's direct management of the tooth shop in each province is only one or two, that is, there are only three in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces, all of which are purchased at low prices, and they are directly supplied to Beijing and north of Huanghuai.

These tooth shops have signed supply contracts with 186 merchants in seven provinces in the south of the Yangtze River, and the total number of silkworm gardens in Hangzhou, Jiangsu Province, and thousands of machine weaving workshops employing thousands of workers are all used by Qi Qiang. Zhejiang Quzhou two-ball official paper paper mill, tens of millions of taels per year, six or seven out of ten of the Yamen paper supplied by it, and its purchase rights are also in the hands of Qi Qiang. The merchants of the land of the two lakes, Jia Yuan, Yunnan and Luo, transported the pearl jade back and traded with Qi Qiang at the highest shipping price. The iron, paper, salt, charcoal, mushrooms, and medicinal materials abundant at the junction of the three provinces of Sichuan, Shaanxi and Lake were also discussed by Qi Qiang and the local gentry and Hecao, and they were all in the palm of their hands as soon as they entered the south of the Yangtze River.

Qi Su Niang was dumbfounded and muttered, "Brother, the Ninth Master should really recruit you as a son-in-law......

Qi Qiang laughed, "What are our identities?" It's just someone else's minion, if you do it well, you should do it, and if you don't do it, you have to get out. He took out a piece of Jiangxi rice paper with small characters written on it and put it in Qi Su Niang's hand, "Put it away, these people have been dealing with my brother for more than ten years, and there are no tokens." When the actor comes, let's finish your business. September and October are the big days for purchases, and they all have to come to these twenty-one tooth shops, and my brother will take you for a walk, so that they can recognize your face. ”

Qi Su Niang smiled happily: "Isn't my brother in a hurry to go to Yangzhou, and he has time to walk around with me?" ”

"Even Zhenyun has already met here, and he has to think about it. The salt merchants in Yangzhou are very difficult, if it weren't for the fact that Sichuan Salt was not as profitable as Huai Salt, and those gentlemen were staring at the prince's Yangzhou Mansion, I was really too lazy to deal with them. Qi Qiang watched Qi Su Niang fold the roster carefully into his arms, and said with a smile: "We haven't seen each other for three or four years, what's the matter with you staying in the countryside?" It's better to hang out with your brother. ”

Qi Su Niang was full of joy, full of troubles and sadness, and a lot of sadness was dispersed for a while, and she called Bi'er into the house to dress up again. Bi'er and Zhi'er heard that they were going to travel and play in the seven provinces in the south of the Yangtze River, and they were all happy, although Zhi'er was reading Qixi, but thinking about leaving Bi'er, but they were reluctant to give up.

After lunch, Qi Qiang accompanied the smiling face and wanted to spend the night in a private house.

Qi Su Niang couldn't take him, so she had to tell Fu Ming Haosheng to wait, watching him change into a bright new clothes, and a bunch of bits and pieces hung on the jade belt around his waist, and went triumphantly.

As soon as Qi Qiang went, only women and children were left in the house, the old and weak. Qi Su Niang was sitting in the east wing room carrying the roster, but before she knew it, it was dark in the room, and she was hungry. She put the lamp in her hand and shouted: "Bi'er, uncle won't be back tonight, let's close the front and back doors......" walked to the kitchen, only to see Bi'er watching Zhi'er and Liu Po cooking, Qi Su Niang smiled and said: "Okay, you stay here, I'll close the door." I'm hungry, so hurry up and make the meal. With that, he took a paper lantern from the kitchen door and walked down the stone path to the back door.

Qi Su Niang was about to plug in the door, but she heard the sound of the water waves lapping on the side of the boat in the alley outside the door, and couldn't help but wonder, "The boat will not stop outside on weekdays......" She opened the door, picked out the lantern, and shone into the alley, faintly seeing that on the narrow waterway, there was a small canopy boat squeezed on the side of the dark water, no one in front and behind, and the coarse cloth cabin curtain was tightly drawn. At the end of the water alley, in front of the gate of the Caobang altar in the west of the city, it was illuminated by four red lanterns with the word "Cao".

Qi Su Niang looked at the boat a few times, and felt that it was no different from the small canopy boat in front of Yangzhou Caolian Mansion, so she also gave up, just thought that the boatman stopped for a while, retracted her head, and closed the door tightly.

Qi Su Niang used the meal, and called Bi'er, Zhi'er, Liu Gong and Liu Po to the hall to drink tea and gossip. Liu Po is old, and after drinking a bowl of tea, she has the urge to urinate. She confessed, took the lantern handed over by the branch, and got up to go to the back of the toilet.

It was late autumn in September, and the night wind was very strong. As soon as Liu Po came out of the warm hall, she shivered, looked up at the branches that were blown by the strong wind, grabbed her clothes and hurriedly walked back.

She walked back to her cabin, turned on the light, pulled the toilet out from behind the bed, opened the lid and sat up with her skirt down. She was shivering here, and suddenly heard the sound of gongs outside the back door, shouting one after another, "Don't let that bastard run away, he hurts the house, and seal the surrounding water alleys."

Liu Po was startled, and immediately scared the urine back, hurriedly tied her skirt, and rushed to the back door with a lantern, and put her ears against the crack of the door, and the thick wooden door was suddenly slammed into her ears.

Liu Po was so frightened that her feet were weak, where did she dare to open the door, she rushed to the hall in a trembling manner, she still walked two steps, and shouted in a rough voice outside: "Open the door, don't you want to live when you open the door?" Search for criminals in the Cao Gang"

Liu Po's two little feet were immediately nailed by the word "Cao Gang", to open the door, the uncle is not there, the family is old and weak, to open the door or not to open the door, "look for death, Lao Tzu sees the light at the door and then does not open the door, be careful of your whole family"

Liu Po covered the lantern in her hand with her sleeve, but the light came out early, and the Cao Gang outside the door became more and more noisy. Liu Po was scared in her heart, walked back, shook her hand and pulled out the door, "Master Caoshang...... My host is also ......."

Before she finished speaking, the back door was kicked open, and Liu Po was immediately knocked out, fell to the ground and groaned, seeing four or five big men with red scarves around their waists, with horizontal eyebrows, holding a fire handle and a steel knife to rush into the door, and a shout sounded outside, "Found it, the idea is here, brothers, come quickly"

When the Cao gang heard this, they immediately stopped, turned around and jumped off the boat, "Quick, go over there......"

Liu Po gasped on the ground for a while, felt that the pain on her shoulders was gradually going down, struggled to stand up, did not pick up the lantern at the door, stroked her shoulders and staggered towards the hall, "Grandma...... Grandmother...... Something went wrong......"

Behind her, there was a large back door, and a glimmering lantern on the ground in front of the door...... (To be continued, if you want to know what will happen next.) More chapters, support &&&&& Chinese net&)