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On February 12, as soon as the morning dawned, the Dou family's boat set sail, there was no wind, and the speed was amazing by relying on the oars, and it disappeared from the field of vision of the Nian family's boatmen without much effort.

When Xia Xiaoman got the news, he thought that the free breakfast was gone, who knew that when he arrived at Nian Liang, there was a table of food on the table as usual, and he knew that it was the filial piety of the Dou family again.

"The Dou family is really particular about people...... Xia Xiaoman cleaned his hands and sat down, took the ebony silver chopsticks from the fennel floor, ordered a sauce glaze and a steaming red date longan corn soup in the white plum bowl, and sighed: "Didn't you say that people left early in the morning, this is a ...... to send people"

"Yesterday, I sent someone to order it in Weixuan's Mansion." Nian Liang said, "It is indeed a person who pays attention to people. I just don't know what I want to do. It is tribute porcelain, and it should be loosened. ”

Xia Xiaoman shook his head and didn't answer.

Yesterday, she and Aunt Han tested each other from time to time, and Aunt Han seemed to want to know Nian Liang's attitude towards the Dou family rather than her attitude towards business, and she didn't get involved in porcelain. Xia Xiaoman's classmate Tai Chi pushed his hand and didn't play it, so he followed her around and led it to the porcelain, but he came and went, but the problem of the wheelchair was almost clear, and the carpenter didn't study the drawings. As for porcelain, Aunt Han really didn't know what was going on, which meant that she didn't know that there was still a porcelain business before she got on the ship.

Aunt Han is a person who shows off with a sentence in five sentences, in Xia Xiaoman's opinion, she is by no means the kind of smart person who pretends to be leaky, Xia Xiaoman has been observing Aunt Han's face while speaking, and seeing that her expression does not seem to be fake, and she probably believes in porcelain She doesn't know.

Back on the boat, Xia Xiaoman said this in the same year. The two of them discussed, but they were confused, if Aunt Han was not at the level of enough to not know, but she not only knew about the wheelchair, but also knew that there were no drawings or not; If she is of sufficient rank, then the matter of porcelain should not be unknown at all; If you say that the porcelain business is more secret. But how can it be announced on the ship?

Last night, the Dou family had a farewell banquet on the boat, and the brothers and sisters of the Ji family were all lazy to socialize with the laity, so they didn't go, but they forgave Xia Xiaoman and passed. There was no one over there, only Dou Xuyuan and the two Meizhou caught Dong Lei and Liu Gan. Dou Xuyuan didn't say a word about porcelain, but he was close to Nian Liang, praising Nian Liang's brother-in-law Hu Yuanshen as the pillar of the official and honest country, and then said that his brother-in-law was fair and fair, and then touted how effective Dong Lei and Liu Gan were under the hands of the prefect. These two catch fast and don't have the temperament of a martial artist, rich and noble, not obscene, mighty and unyielding. There were too many people at the table that day, and they didn't have much to talk about in the same year, and now they have become a special session for the two of them, so they began to sing "double" with Dou Xuyuan, and they saw that the audience was full of flowers. \\\.\\\

After eating a banquet, there was nothing porcelain from beginning to end, but it was like a commendation meeting, a good verbal praise.

Dou Xu didn't mention porcelain far away, and Nian Yu naturally didn't mention it, just listened and smiled. Perfunctory, respectful, and speculating in his heart, but he couldn't guess his intentions---- if it wasn't for business, there was really no need for the Dou family to show favor to the Nian family.

"That's fine." Nian Liang shook his head after collecting his thoughts, scooped the porridge with a spoon, and sent a letter to his brother-in-law to ask for help in finding the master, so I should save some effort at this time. The left and right Dou family is just a merchant's ear, and they can move him for anything.

On this day, the ship traveled slowly for a long time, and it was about a long distance away from the Dou family, and then it began to accelerate---- and it caught up after a while. Doesn't it make it clear that the first two days were deliberately slowed down, and there are some things that everyone knows by heart, and they still have to get by on the surface, and they can't do everything perfectly.

The wind and waves are calm, and when the lights are held at night, it is already in the territory of Zhanzhou.

Zhanzhou, like Meizhou, is a rich land in the lower reaches of the Meridian River. Land. It is also famous for its handicrafts. Lacquerware, bambooware, gold and silverware, regardless of pattern or craftsmanship. are excellent, for hundreds of years have been leading the forbidden tribute errands, father and son, gradually developed into a family model, when several famous weapons are from the hands of those families. And Zhanzhou can be regarded as a large number of talents, and the general family develops to the end, which naturally forms a monopoly, while Zhanzhou is full of small workshops, each with its own characteristics, and has not been swallowed up by the big family.

The Dingwu River flows through the east of the capital of Zhanzhou, only a few miles away from the ferry to the city, when the boat stopped, Nian Liang also had a good interest, to get off the boat to go shopping, even Ji Songshu was also said to move, so a large family of people entered the city.

The city of Zhanzhou Mansion is really not small, when it was in Weixuan Mansion, Xia Xiaoman and they stopped and stopped for less than an hour to finish the more decent commercial street, and Zhanzhou Mansion only walked from the city gate to the nearest big commercial street, it took nearly three quarters of an hour, and to the street, the shops are lined up one after another, there is no end in sight, there is no festival before and after, the street is still crowded, the shops are doing prosperous business, roughly speaking, if a family goes down, I am afraid that it will be dark and not complete. Rao picked the largest store to enter, and only visited three or five stores, that is, the sun was west, and he found a big restaurant on the spot for dinner, and then everyone turned back to the boat.

This time, Ji Lingshu is picky, everything is good, and everything is loved. Ji Zheng's did not restrict her in terms of money, it was all bought by her temperament---- otherwise how would she make up the zoo? She is the one who can buy three parrots at once when she looks at her favorite parrots. **Zi.**So this trip she bought a lot of bags, and the price of silver flowed out.

Xia Xiaoman looked at it coldly beside him, chirp, this girl, she will really find a rich person to marry in the future, otherwise this kind of shopaholic's character is really not something that ordinary people can afford.

And today Xia Xiaoman also has a harvest, but it is a pair of white hostas, the jade is transparent, the carving is fine, there are occasional inlaid gold wires to pinch the edges, and it does not seem too pure, it is rare that the pattern is novel, the hairpin head is semicircular, one is carved peony, one is carved butterfly, like the kind of couple jewelry in later generations, the two hairpins are just a round to one place, a butterfly love flower pattern.

At that time, she didn't want to buy it, but when she saw this pair of hairpins, her first reaction was to think that in ancient times. This kind of thing is not for the kind of couple who are reunited, or an important prop for the twin brothers to reunite after being separated for many years, thinking that the two actors threw their arms and ran and ran together, crying bitterly, she couldn't help but laugh in a low voice.

Ji Lingshu, who was asking to pick things on the side, saw it, and when she liked it, she hurriedly took it over and took a closer look. Sure enough, it was very good, and I loved it very much in my heart, but I asked only one set, because I thought that Xia Xiaoman liked it first, and it was not good to win people's love, so I let it go. Who knew that Xia Xiaoman actually put his hand away when he saw it, and went to look at something else.

Ji Lingshu couldn't help but ask her why she didn't buy it. Xia Xiaoman rolled his eyes in his heart, you should be as rich as you, baby. What do you buy, sister! This time, because she came out with the leader, there were a few taels of broken silver around her, not to mention that she didn't want to buy this hairpin, even if she really wanted to buy it, she couldn't afford it.

In front of the store, where can I fold face for this person and say that I can't afford it, and I can't find fault with the goods in front of the store, Xia Xiaoman had to euphemistically say that it is not suitable for himself. Ji Lingshu took the hairpin very seriously and measured it, and then came to the conclusion very certainly, the sister-in-law looks good when she wears it. Xia Xiaoman could only roll his eyes, and he couldn't say anything about it. Ji Lingshu looked at it for a long time. After rubbing for a long time, he finally looked at Xia Xiaoman with a pair of clear big eyes and extremely sincerely, and carefully expressed "You look so good when you wear it, believe me yes, if you want to buy it, I will give you this hairpin or not".

Xia Xiaoman is happy, girls have the mentality of liking to dress up dolls, and sometimes they consciously or unconsciously treat others as dolls. She smiled and patted Ji Lingshu on the shoulder. It's just that things are too expensive to accept her. Ji Lingshu is a strong guarantee, absolutely good-looking, and then Xia Xiaoman has been guilty of it for several days. Reciting the mantra again, the poems and songs gave the sage cloud to reload......

This time, Xia Xiaoman's self-help was unsuccessful, and she couldn't simply knock down Ji Lingshu in front of outsiders. It was Comrade Nian Liang who rescued her this time,---- Comrade Nian Liang didn't say a word, and paid directly.

Xia Xiaoman began to feel pain when she took the pair of hairpins, and every time she was like this, she could think of all the words. There is only the word "discount".

I don't know what this pair of hairpins can do? Let's make a joint code in the future. Like what...... Holding up the hosta and shouting, "You are the wind, I am the sand." You are a butterfly, I am a flower" ......? Xia Xiaoman shook off the black line on his forehead, and he also shivered. When I entered Zhanzhou, the weather was hot, and I took off my thick clothes, it seems that I took off early, why is it so cold......

On this day, the Ji family spent a lot of money because of Ji Lingshu; The Nian family's expenses are not small, and the half-empty boat behind it is almost full, and it can be regarded as all the gifts that are ready to go to Meizhou to give gifts door-to-door, and there is no need to go ashore to buy them again. This way is very fast to Meizhou.

Meizhou is located on the east coast of Daqin, and the Dingwu River flows into the sea from Meizhou. The state capital is just on the bank of the Dingwu River, and it is only a dozen miles away from the seashore. Meizhou has developed commerce and trade, divided into internal and external wharves, unloading from the wharf, you can also load a boat and take the canal to the inner city of Meizhou Prefecture, which is very convenient.

Nian Liang and his entourage arrived in Meizhou on February 15.

The stewards of Yashanzhuang and Nianshoutang were all there, and they were all standing at the riverside wharf, along with the two housekeepers sent by the Hu family. As soon as Nian Liang was pushed off the boat here, a row of people came up to greet him, and there were people who were about to kneel on the spot with their clothes, and Nian Liang was busy calling for relief.

Xia Xiaoman was dumbfounded, at this moment she didn't expect the emperor to bow down to the hundreds of officials, she only thought of ...... Why is it such an underworld......

Regardless of his own housekeeper, Nian Liang first received two housekeepers of the Hu family, one of which was sent by the Nian family to accompany Lu Xie, Nian Liang had seen him when he was a child, and he had only grown old in the past ten years, and his appearance had not changed much, so Nian Liang still recognized him at this time. Lu Xie came over to say hello, but was pulled by Nian Liang and said with a smile: "What is Uncle Lu doing!" Hurry up, please. ”

Lu Xie already saw tears in his eyes, and said with a forced smile: "The sixth master still remembers the old slave!" Nian Liang smiled: "Where can I forget Uncle Lu, I still keep Uncle Lu and I in the cage!" Look at your body is still so tough. Always good? ”

Lu Xie said: "Thanks to the master's blessing, the old slave is quite tough. Sixth Master...... He didn't take off the appearance of his childhood...... "He wanted to talk about the problem of body bones, and looked at Nian Liang who came out in a wheelchair---- he had seen this thing at Wu Xuan, and knew that it was used because of his bad legs, so he swallowed the words of greeting his physical condition, and turned to mention business, and only said: "The eldest grandmother asked the old slave to come over to welcome the sixth master, and the eldest grandmother said that she should have come to visit her aunt, but she also stumbled because of some things today, and then she said that her aunt was tired of carriage and horses, and she should rest for a day, and she would not come to bother today, Come back tomorrow. ”

Nian Liang nodded yes. If he came to the land by himself, then he should go to visit his sister and brother-in-law, but there is Ji Zheng's family in the same place, no matter how Ji Zheng's family is also an elder, the eldest lady should come to visit her.

Lu Xie said again: "The eldest grandmother also asked the old slave to see what is still lacking on the sixth master's side, if it is a person, there are a few more on the grandmother's side, which were brought over by our family, but the sixth master uses it first." ”

Nian Liang smiled: "I also brought some people here, I want to come enough, not enough to have Zhuang Shangland." Thank you eldest sister for your trouble, if it's useful, I'll look for her again. ”

After saying this, Yin Xun and Wu Xuan hurriedly said: "I am already the one who has prepared a call for the sixth master, why don't the sixth master go back to the house first to take a look, if you don't use it, let's find a better one with the sixth master." Lu Xie is just these things, seeing that Nian Liang doesn't need him for anything, he will leave, so that Nian Liang can go back to the house to rest. Nian forgive didn't leave him much, and knew that he would go to Hufu in two days.

After sending Lu Xie away, these housekeepers came over to ask for forgiveness and Ji's family to get on the boat and go to the city along the inland river.

Xia Xiaoman looked at the scenery on both sides of the river, and wanted to find a little feeling of the water town in the south of the Yangtze River, but this is completely different from the scenery of the water town in her world.

Meishi is prosperous, more than Zan Zhou, almost comparable to Fuze, and the folk customs are more open than both places, and it is not uncommon for well-dressed women from good families to walk slowly without taking a carriage on the street, entering and exiting the shops, laughing as usual.

The boat traveled for a while, stopped in the position closer to the city, only to see a big mansion on the shore, the gate, the four walls are newly painted, the trees in the courtyard sprout new shoots, a tender green color, it seems that the house is more and more fresh, the ebony plaque on the door is still empty, but the hanging red lantern is the big ink "year" word.

All the housekeepers carried Nian Liang ashore, and they all laughed and said, "Can you still make this house?" ……”

Nian Liang smiled and nodded, motioning to go in and see.

Xia Xiaoman stood at the door, paying full attention to what they said. The spring wind was not cool at all, the sun shone warmly on her body, but the sun at two o'clock in the afternoon was a little dazzling, she squinted her eyes, took a deep breath, and exhaled slowly.

It's time to Meizhou. Finally. A new life begins in this moment.