(A colleague from the unit came to play and was delayed for a while.) My piggyret was thoroughly cleaned by me because of the guests, which was a bonus. Huh)

While admiring the ingenuity of their masters, a group of maids climbed up and down and busily spread blankets and added things to the car, and when they were all cleaned up, Mu San personally set up two horses, and pulled the car to walk around twice in front of the door, which was really light and stable, so he smiled and said, "Okay, I'll catch up with this carriage." ”

And all the people laughed, and went to prepare other things.

The day before departure, the old grandmother's second son Desheng's family finally arrived, Desheng is not tall, fat and dundun, and his appearance is also very honest, his daughter-in-law is handsome, but when she speaks, she blushes, she is very shy, the only son of the two is just eight years old, and the tiger brain is very cute.

The old grandmother came out to look for someone, she has not returned to Houfu for more than a year, she has not seen her grandson for a long time, she misses it very much, and now that she sees it, she will hold on and not let go.

Ruixue divided three into the west chamber of the courtyard for their family to live, and then postponed the departure for three days, so that the old mother could reunite with her children and grandchildren for a few more days.

Everyone in the village didn't know the inside story, the Zhang family, the Gao family, the Yun family, and everyone heard the inquiry, and they all said that Mr. Zhao was going to pick up Zhao Niangzi, mother and son to go to the south for the winter, which aroused the envy of everyone, and they all took some local products from the family to see them off.

The sun rises in the east and sets in the west, flies quickly, three days in a blink of an eye, early in the morning of this day, while the two children are still asleep, they were moved into the cradle, hung in the carriage, Ruixue, Niuniu and the old mother also sat in the carriage, Mu San personally drove the car, the three little maids and the line were all moved on the carriage, by the victory to catch the car, the sword dance and the heart of the qin rode with the side, and the group was in the village people in a "come back early" send-off sound, out of Yunjia Village.

The early morning fog had not yet completely dissipated, and the surrounding fields where the crops had been harvested were bare and mottled, and the occasional bird chirping loudly flew by, making it even more silent and ethereal.

Niuniu has never been out of the house since she arrived at Zhao's house, and she has never even been to Lingfeng City once, this time she suddenly wants to go south with her sister, and she is so excited that she wants to fly to the sky, and she will lie on the left window for a while to see, and then change to the right, the old mother was afraid that she would wake up the two children, so she coaxed her to go to the front of the car and sit with Mu San, which returned a quiet in the carriage.

Rui Xue leaned on the soft couch, held a travelogue in her hand, while eating snacks, while leisurely looking at it, the old lady quietly glanced at her face, and indeed did not see the slightest sad look, which made her feel much more relieved, and felt more and more that it was a good thing for her to advocate Miss South.

Not to mention Ruixue and his entourage went south, rushed to change boats, the wind and rain, only said that Zhao Fengnian left his wife and children that day, the further he went, the more irritable he was, and occasionally saw a passer-by who was traveling with a child, and they all wanted to go back and guard their wives and children immediately.

Bai Zhanpeng couldn't look at him like he looked useless, so he mocked, "Second brother, Gentle Township is a hero's mound, you lost a penny of your pride in fighting the sword rivers and lakes that day, and you completely looked like a peasant man." ”

Zhao Fengnian ignored him, and only said, "When you have a wife and children in the future, you will know what it tastes like, but you can't say big words." ”

Bai Zhanpeng naturally still couldn't listen to it, and laughed, "I won't marry a wife early and make trouble for myself." After speaking, as soon as he lifted the reins of the horse, the horse galloped out, and the autumn wind blew up the long robe, which was extremely arbitrary and chic, which provoked Zhao Fengnian to shake his head, and he also hit the horse to catch up.

The two of them had no trivial ties to tie up, and hurried up, but they arrived in Tongcheng on the tenth day, Zhao Fengnian simply did some tricks and feet on his face, and changed into the clothes of a small servant, and smoothly followed Bai Zhanpeng to a separate courtyard of the Bai family, rested for an afternoon, and arrived in the evening, the wind and rain came back, and when they saw that the master arrived, they were all overjoyed, and they all stepped forward to kowtow.

Bai Zhanpeng ordered his subordinates to send a table of wine and banquets in, so he avoided it under the pretext that there was something wrong in the old mansion.

Zhao Fengnian pulled the wind and rain to get up, asked a few words, and ordered them to hang two red lanterns at the gate of the courtyard, but half an hour, the banquet was just served, and two people jumped into the courtyard, it was the Hou brother and Chen Si, Zhao Fengnian picked up the jade card on his waist and showed it to the two, and the two smiled and saluted.

The three of them entered the house together, sat down with the guests, and Brother Hou said, "I often hear Boss Tie talk about how the daughter is benevolent, righteous and heroic, and now that I see myself, I feel that my reputation is well deserved." ”

Zhao Fengnian filled them with wine glasses with his own hands, and said with a smile, "The two brothers praised it falsely, and it is ashamed to say it, these trivial matters at home have to bother the two brothers to take action, which is really embarrassing." ”

Chen Si said with a smile, "Childe is too careful, there are thousands of families in the world, which one doesn't have a little miscellaneous matter, and Childe doesn't have to worry about it." ”

Brother Hou also said, "That is, our brother went on this errand, but he took advantage of it, not only did he lose a lot of hard-earned money, but he also spent more than half a month drinking, and it really didn't take much effort." ”

The three of them ate and drank, while telling the things of these days clearly and clearly, there was wind and rain outside on the left and right, and they were not afraid of being heard, at the end, Brother Hou took out an oily paper bag from his arms, put it in front of Zhao Fengnian, and said with a smile, "Childe, this is all the deed paper, silver tickets and the pill antidote, our brother is worried that the woman will be suspicious, so he first replaced these things, and now it is handed over to Childe, and our brother will complete the task." ”

Zhao Fengnian took the oil paper bag and put it on the table, got up and bowed deeply, and said gratefully, "Thank you two brothers for your hard work these days, especially this antidote, which is related to the life of my father, the two brothers are very kind, Zhao remembered it, and in the future, if the two brothers are useful to Zhao, just open your mouth." ”

Where did Brother Monkey and Chen Si dare to accept his big gift, hurriedly avoided the side, stretched out his hand to help him up, to be honest, they are two ordinary bankers in the villa, and even because they are good at these things of stealing chickens and dogs and poisoning, they are not less looked down upon, and they are very happy that they have some use for the villa.

Unexpectedly, this famous daughter treated them so politely, making them even happier than winning the thousand taels of silver.

The three of them sat down and exchanged a few polite words, drank a glass of wine, Zhao Fengnian took out a thousand taels from those silver tickets, and gave them the money to go back to the villa, but Brother Monkey and Chen Si refused to accept it, and quickly said goodbye and left, and disappeared into the night with a few jumps.

Zhao Fengnian invited Feng Tiaoyu Shun to come in, and asked in detail about the details of each shop of the Zhao family, Feng Tiao took out a booklet from his arms, which was full of shops under the name of the Zhao family, and said, "Young master, of the eighteen shops here in Tongcheng, ten have changed shopkeepers, and most of the new ones are distant relatives of the eldest lady's mother's family, and the guys in the shop have also changed a lot." Although the remaining eight have not changed their shopkeepers, two of them have taken refuge in the second young master, and six have been waiting and seeing.

As for the seven shopkeepers in the surrounding two counties, the sixteen shops in the three cities in the south and the seven shops in Moyun City in the west, the second young master only went to go once in two or three months, and each city changed a cronie to be the shopkeeper and supervise all the business, those two people were also unclean, and they had already made the shopkeepers angry, if they knew that the young master had returned safely, I am afraid that they would immediately support the young master. ”

Zhao Fengnian nodded, and asked again, "How are the people in the clan?" ”

Yu Shun was in charge of inquiring about this piece, and he hurriedly stepped forward and said, "The second master's Young Master Sun was pulled by the second young master to take charge of a silk village, the second master didn't appreciate it, and scolded the second young master at home all day long for his big eyes and small belly, and the Zhao family would lose in his hands sooner or later."

As for the third and fourth masters, as well as Young Master Cheng and Young Master Xin, although they did not show any dissatisfaction, they only went to the old mansion except for a few shops they were in charge of, and they never came to the door the rest of the time, presumably they did not agree with the second young master as the head of the family. ”

Zhao Fengnian pondered for a moment and said, "I'm going to go to the old mansion tonight, starting tomorrow to go to the three southern cities and Moyun City, and then go to meet the elders of the clan, as for the timing of the launch, it will be set on the day when the head of the family takes office." ”

Feng Tuo calculated and said, "There are still eight days left on the day of the head of the family's inauguration, and I am afraid that I will not be able to catch up with the four cities." ”

Zhao Fengnian shook his head, "It's time to travel day and night, and this matter must be dealt with as soon as possible." ”

Feng Tuo was about to speak, but Yu Shun secretly pulled his sleeve, and the two responded in unison.

Zhao Fengnian changed into a set of night clothes, picked up the oil paper bag, and went straight to the Zhao family's old house.

Feng Tiaoyu picked up the table together, and Feng Tiao asked, "It's too hard to run four cities in eight days, why are you stopping me from persuading the young master?" ”

Yushun rolled his eyes and said, "Why?" Because the young master was worried about the young lady and the little young master, he hurried to finish the matter and go back to Tongcheng earlier, but you don't have an open head and can't see it. ”

On weekdays, he mostly admonished Yu Shun in the wind tone, but today suddenly came a big reversal, where is he willing to suffer, slapped Yu Shun on the head, and argued, "Of course I thought of this, but I just feel sorry for the young master." ”

Yushun rubbed the back of his head and said, "Don't say that the young master is worried, even I want to see what our little young master and little lady look like, I guess they must be more like the young master." ”

"When the young master goes back, let's go and take a look."

"It would be better if the young master could take the young lady's mother and son over."

The two of them talked, cleaned up the house, and prepared the things for their young master to live.

Over there, Zhao Fengnian covered his figure all the way through the shadows, and arrived at the gate of Zhao's house, looking at the two wind lamps swaying in front of the door, and the faint light shone on the plaque on the lintel.

At the beginning, going in and out of this lintel all day long, Zhao Fengnian only felt proud and wanton in his heart, where did he think that one day he would return from a catastrophe, and then look at this lintel, he actually felt so strange, so cold, and couldn't help but think of the three-entry small courtyard in the Yun family, I am afraid that it is not as big as the old house, but it is ten times warmer than here, and it is lively.

It turns out that the size of the house is not important, what matters is the people who live in it...