The salt boiled in seawater is not only of good quality, but also produces an astonishing amount of salt, ten times that of other places. A year later, Li Shanren bought a wasteland on the east side of the cross bridge in the town, built a deep courtyard mansion, named it Lijiadiantang, chose an auspicious day of the zodiac, moved to a new house, and still planted an osmanthus tree in the backyard, and buried livelihood silver under the tree.

Take the opportunity to hold a banquet and make friends with local officials and squires in the neighborhood. After that, another school was built, which caused a sensation in Guangfu Town, and praised Li Shanren for doing a great good thing, and people didn't call him Li Shanren, they all called him Li Shanren.

Guangfu has a mother river, called Loushui River, traverses the north and south of Guangfu, flows through the cross bridge, is divided into four rivers in the east, west, north and south, goes west to Taicang and turns to Gusu and connects with the Grand Canal, goes south through the village and passes through the town to Shanghai, joins into the city Fangbang, and reaches the Huangpu River through the three water gates of the east gate, the west gate and the south gate; To the east can reach Wusongkou, to the north is the mouth of the north transportation of grain, and the water transportation is very convenient.

Since ancient times Loushui River

"Thousands of ships, thousands of merchants", is the golden waterway leading to the river and the sea. At the beginning, in order to prevent the Taiping army from attacking Shanghai, Lord Li transported the Huai army from Anqing to Shanghai overnight, and it was this waterway that he walked.

Boss Shen's ancestral home in Guangfu is the richest businessman in Guangfu, not only has a large number of real estate in Guangfu, but also houses by the Loushui River, facing the golden waterway, which can be described as unique.

There is also a Shen mansion on Huayi Street on the edge of Fangbang at the south gate of Shanghai, which is equivalent to guarding the end and end of the golden waterway.

The goods barged from the sea steamer, or the cargo ship from the inland river, can go directly to the city through here, and even arrive at the wharf behind the Shen family's house, or go to the Huangpu River, which is also unimpeded.

After being besieged by the Qing army, the Shen family's ships still shuttled between them, secretly sending a large amount of food and materials to the Xiaodaohui rebels trapped in the city.

After the failure of the Little Knife Society's uprising, the Shen family had it

The suspicion of "bandits" was almost wiped out, and since then it has been in a state of collapse. In the hands of Boss Shen, he poured all his family wealth into funding Kang Liang's new party, but who knew that the new deal failed, Kang Liang absconded, and the Shen family declined again.

Fortunately, Li Shanren arrived in time, and when he saw that Boss Shen was so lonely, he came to his aid and bought his rocking wooden boat at ten times the price to help him make a comeback.

Since then, Boss Shen has not asked about political affairs, occupied a favorable position, and specialized in the sand boat business. At the time of the five-port trade, the population of Shanghai as a treaty port increased sharply, and the city demolished the shacks to build Shikumen for people to rent, which required a large amount of sand and stones, and Boss Shen soon became the king of sand boats.

There are four rivers under the cross bridge, each river passes through two townships, so Guangfu has one town and eight townships, and each township has three bays, nine streets and eighteen lanes, the streets are intricate, the river is dense, and it has been in the Ming Dynasty

"Richer than Lu",

"Hui merchants gathered, trade flourished, and several southerns soared." Shen's house is in Qiaobei Street, Li's shop hall is in Qiaodong Street, Boss Shen regards Li Shanren as a benefactor, Li Shanren regards Boss Shen as a close friend, although one generation is in Guangfu, one is from Huizhou Mansion, but it is a close friend, and now he is a neighbor, and the two families are warm.

On this day, Boss Shen's daughter Shen Qiushui was on her twentieth birthday, and Li Shanren was invited to a banquet, and Li Shanren prepared a generous gift and went to Shen Mansion to celebrate with his wife, son, Zhao Da, Niu Laosi, etc.

Li Shanren entered the house, Boss Shen invited him to take a seat, Li Shanren repeatedly excused himself, gave in politely, and then sat down.

Boss Shen summoned his wife and son Fusheng to the front hall to meet the guests, Fusheng and Xianghai were taught under the same private school teacher, and they were already familiar with Xianghai, and they had something to talk about, and they had already sat together.

Li Shanren saw that Mrs. Shen was dignified and virtuous, and her son was handsome and upright, but he didn't see his daughter, so he quipped: "I came to eat Miss Shen's hooves today, why don't you see Miss Shen?" Boss Shen smiled: "The girl's hoof brother can't be eaten." Li Shanren felt speechless, and hurriedly changed his words and said: "The braised hooves made by Miss Shen can be described as a must-have, and the younger brother can eat it." Boss Shen said: "The girl is busy in the stove room, the great benefactor is coming, and her hooves need to be checked personally." Li Shanren hurriedly said: "Look, you also said that her hooves are not the little brother's words!" Boss Shen found out that he had fallen into Li Shanren's trap, and simply said: "Since my brother is obsessed with the girl's hooves, I will call you to eat it later!" Li Shanren laughed and said, "In this way, it is unacceptable." Happy events to celebrate, hooves to eat, but please come and see, Mrs. to ask her for cooking skills! Boss Shen immediately instructed the family to go to the stove room and call his daughter Miss Shen.

After a while, Miss Shen went to the hall to meet Li Shanren, and met Mrs. Li, Xianghai, Zhao Da, and Niu Laosi one by one, Li Shanren said: "I have heard the name for a long time, you don't have to be polite, today I came to eat the braised hooves you made, have the hooves been burned?" Miss Shen glanced at the table and replied, "It's right away, benefactor wait." As he spoke, the housekeeper had already brought up a pot of sparkling braised hooves with heavy oil red sauce, and the fragrance instantly filled the room, and the color was attractive.

Li Shanren praised: "Sure enough, the name is well deserved, and before I have time to taste it, I have salivated." Is this hoof famous? ”