After the New Year, the weather was warm day by day, and the salt merchants paid the salt tax in a timely manner in order to curry favor with Gansui before the year. After the New Year, all affairs were willing, and a banquet was specially held to thank the major salt merchants. It is completely a harmonious coexistence of officials and businessmen.

After the banquet, everyone was a little drunk, and the group made an appointment to go to the garden. This is a good place to go, and there are only ways to play here that you can't imagine, and there are no people in it who can't do it. However, the amount of money spent is also relatively high.

Yuanyuan has risen in recent years, and the Yangzhou thin horses trained in it have always been the most advanced. It is rumored that the owner behind the garden is the grandson of the young owner of the Salt Gang. But everyone doesn't think it's like it, the people of the Salt Gang are just a group of broken feet, where do they have those exquisite thoughts. But just listen to the rumors, the main thing here is a woman, who used to be the top brand in Yangzhou. This was really in the limelight when he was young, and he was later ransomed by an unknown person, but I heard that he was unladylike, and later he began to engage in this Fengyue business again.

Maybe it's because I was sad before, I have always been unsmiling, but I have a sense of inviolable goddess, although I am already a, but the charm still exists, and there are many people who admire her just to see her. However, I was soon fascinated by the variety of fresh colors in the garden. After all, there are no infatuated people here, but they are just greedy and lustful.

A group of salt merchants entered the door, and these people had the most money to sprinkle, and all kinds of warblers and Yanyan immediately greeted them. Sweet words don't want money to say out, the eyes are like missing millions of years of grievances, this group of people are seen as weak. President Liu went through the matter, let them step down first, discuss things first, and then start having fun.

They closed the door and began to speak loudly.

"I think this prefect is a scared person, so he doesn't dare to collect money, nor dare to offend us, seeing that the peak season of salt is coming, let's sell it in advance, mention this year's salt tax, so that he can explain, and we will be better."

"Wouldn't it be too eye-catching to mention it directly, in case he starts to check ......?"

"It's just right at this time, if he dares to investigate, we will just stop doing it, so that he can't turn over directly."

"I have to ask that person about this, don't worry, don't worry, don't worry, everyone is indispensable to get rich. Let's play first, I'll go ask for advice. ”

"President Liu has worked hard, we will leave Ting'er to you." A crowd laughed.

Chairman Liu smiled back, and then walked towards the inner courtyard.

The inner courtyard is not noisier than the front hall, quiet and quiet, five steps, one post, ten steps and one sentry, extremely strict. Liu Youcai felt very depressed every time he came in. "President Liu, please." The little guy who led the way kept his head down, and his voice was a little hoarse. It was even more gloomy in the dark night, and Liu Youcai followed him even more, going around and around, to the innermost.

"Childe is waiting for you inside."

"Thank you."

Liu Youcai walked in, and a burst of medicinal fragrance hit inside. This son is a medicine jar, and every time he comes, he is through the screen. Liu Youcai actually didn't want to come to him, and he always felt very unlucky. But...... Liu Youcai looked at the table. If he can bring silver, even if it is a powerful ghost, he dares to greet him.

"Childe is feeling better?" Liu Youcai had the usual smile of a businessman.

"There are always some repetitions in the spring, and President Lao Liu asked...... cough cough cough ......" a series of coughing sounds, and it felt like people were about to lose their breath.

Chairman Liu had the urge to cover his mouth and nose.

"Chairman Liu......"

"Hmm!"

"On the table is a deposit sent by Qucheng, and this year it will cost 250,000 stone ...... over there alone."

"II...... Twenty-five...... Wan Shi, that's really ......"

"I've already brought the salt and it's on the table, but I heard that President Liu hasn't taken down the new prefect yet...... Ahem...... This is not optimistic! With such a big list at the moment, if someone inserts a lever, it will be ......"

"No, no, absolutely not, don't worry. I've already discussed with the people below that we're going to pay an extra 30% of the salt tax this year. We are still preparing the salt of the official family, and when the time comes, the person surnamed Gan will have an explanation in the imperial court, so naturally he will not be embarrassed. ”

"You must not underestimate this prefect, but in five years, it has changed from a cloth cloth to the current Yangzhou prefect, and it is absolutely impossible to do it without skill and courage."

"All on guard, and some people are sent to keep an eye on it, you can rest assured that you will never miss your business."

"You didn't mistake me...... It's yourselves. President Liu, you need to make it clear that these things are all for yourselves. When you make money, you have hollowed out your mind, and if something really happens, you have to use means. It's a terrible business, I remember your little grandson is just a full moon, right? ”

"Yes, it was a full moon a year ago."

"Then be careful, don't run out of roots."

"Yes, we'll be very careful."

When Chairman Liu walked out of the door, he felt that his vest was soaked with cold sweat. Walking outside, I only felt that those Yingge Yan were shouting like evil ghosts, and I no longer had the heart to laugh, and stumbled home with the things in my arms.

In April, the peach blossoms outside the city bloomed well, Mrs. Han Tongzhi went to the Niangniang Temple outside the city to burn incense in the middle of the summer, and took a look at the peach blossoms in the temple, saying that the peach blossom cake made by the Taoist inside was a must. Banxia agreed to the appointment, and the two of them rushed to the temple in a carriage.

"The prefect has been very busy recently, it's all like this, now it's the peak season of salt, all forces have to coordinate, and it's good to be busy for a while."

"I don't care, but Han Tongzhi wants to be busy with his husband, I'm afraid that Sister Meng will be left alone."

"Oh, I wish he had been busy. He's not busy, he's going to drill into those fox rooms. When I'm busy, at least I'm out of sight and out of mind. ”

Dealing with this Tongzhi lady for more than half a year, Banxia also knew that she was straightforward, "Sister Meng's words are bad, I see that Lord Tongzhi is also very attentive to you." ”

"It's an old husband and wife, how can it compare to those bright colors. You think everyone is like Lord Gan, guarding you alone. I've heard that President Liu changed his way to give your Lord Gan a beauty, but Lord Gan was stunned and didn't ask for it. How my sister is a husband, and also taught me two tricks, and I can clean him up when I go back. ”

Banxia is not clear, probably because modern teaching monogamy is deep-rooted, or Gan Sui himself has a good character. "I didn't do anything in particular......"

"That's how people are more popular than people. If you look at what you're thinking in your heart, no matter how much temptation there is outside, you can hold it down. I don't have this in my heart, but as long as I have a beautiful hook hand, this soul is gone. Forget it, don't mention these bad things, does my sister know what is the most effective thing in this Niangniang Temple? ”

"Send the son Guanyin." Banxia heard the maid in the house say it.

"Not only that, but also marriage, which is also very accurate. I don't have much hope in my life, I want to go and calculate it for my daughter. ”

"Yuzhu is a good girl, she is still beautiful, and her marriage must be no different."

"That's true, but I still want to do the math. If the daughter's family marries the wrong person, it will be a lifetime of bitter water, which can only be swallowed in the stomach. Two days ago Mrs. Weaver and her daughter had a quarrel. ”

"Really?" Banxia's heart turned, "But it's no wonder that children always have their own ideas, and sometimes it's normal to be angry." ”

"This is not a simple frustration, I heard that this weaver lady has put her daughter under house arrest."

"No, what's so serious?"

"I also listened to what our little maid said, and I don't know if it's accurate. She had a cousin who was on an errand at the weaver's house, and she heard it that day when she went to deliver something. said that the weaver's daughter had a crush on someone, and she didn't want the marriage in the capital, and she was clamoring to withdraw from the marriage. Isn't this nonsense. This person who is the fancy of the parents can still harm the girl. This kind of little girl doesn't go out of the door, and she may be targeted by the wolf-hearted person at some point, and she will be coaxed with clever words. If you are really responsible, it is better to show your own skills than to let the girl's family and her own family resist. ”

"On the day of the ceremony, I saw that young lady was quite dignified and skillful, I don't want to be such a woman."

"My daughter's family always has to suffer some losses, I have a little girl from a distant relative's family, who has been spoiled since she was a child, and finally was fascinated by a little girl who eloped away, and then came back with a big belly, and the whole person almost went crazy. If you want me to say that these little girls just don't see too much......"

Banxia inexplicably thought of the string of ruby earrings, the daughter of the weaver, the eldest young master of the Salt Gang, may be more interesting than he imagined.

The temple was built halfway up the mountain, and there was foot strength at the foot of the mountain to go up the mountain, but Banxia and Mrs. Tongzhi both felt that the spring was very good to take a walk. The sun is warm in spring, the breeze is mixed with the fragrance of flowers, and there are birdsong in your ears, and you are inexplicably relaxing in the mountains.

The two of them went up, and the maid behind them followed.

"I heard that my sister used to stay in Liangzhou, and the scenery of that place is different from here."

"It's a bit more dry, but there aren't so many mountains over there, and you can see it at a glance."

"When I was younger, I spent some time on the prairie with my father, and I felt open at that time. At that time, I was still thinking that when I got married in the future, I would add a big hero who could shoot the bow and the eagle, who knew that I would marry such a ...... later."

"Sister is regretting?"

"No, I'm actually doing well now. My family and I also had that time when we were blending oil in honey, but then there were more people in the house, and the two of us became more and more farther apart. But I'm my age now, and I don't care about that anymore. All I think about now is my children. If my daughter were like the daughter of the weaver, I would be so sad that I would die. ”

"In the pure land of Buddhism, you can't say these things."

Mrs. Tongzhi hurriedly closed her mouth, and began to change to other topics, and the two walked for half an hour before arriving at the temple.

Mrs. Tongzhi wanted to ask for a signature, but Banxia was not interested, so she wanted to go to the back mountain first to see the peach blossoms that were blooming.

Banxia said hello to Mrs. Tongzhi, and then walked to the back mountain with Xiangyu.

The incense in the front yard is flourishing, but the backyard is very deserted, Banxia is walking, and suddenly saw a man and a woman in front of him talking something in the peach forest, and looked at it, and instantly pulled Xiangyu to hide behind the door.