The man looked at him in his twenties, already crowned, dressed in brocade clothes, with beautiful jade hanging around his waist, his toes were high, and his eyes were almost on his head, and he looked like a proud man.

The woman was dressed in a peach-colored long dress, slightly powdered, and her head was dotted with a few beaded hairpins, from between her eyebrows and eyes, she could vaguely see a little bit of Shengwei's appearance, but her face was somewhat similar to Li's, it was a goose egg face, her eyebrows were clear, her appearance was very beautiful, and she was holding a peach-colored handkerchief in her hand, and she couldn't see what was embroidered on it.

"Big sister, big brother-in-law!" Changsong and the others walked to the side of the carriage and greeted the man and woman.

This man and woman are not outsiders, they are the eldest girl of the Sheng family's big house, Shulan, and her husband Sun Xiucai.

"Big sister!" Changbai also said hello, when he was in Yangzhou before, Changbai did not go back to Youyang, but after going to Tokyo, the road was far away, and Changbai had to be busy studying and preparing for the scientific examination, so he went back less.

"Bai Ge'er!" Shulan saluted Changbai Fu, and then introduced the man: "This is the eldest son of my second uncle, younger than the second brother and older than the third brother!"

"Bai Ge'er hasn't seen it yet! This is my husband, surnamed Sun!" Shulan introduced to everyone.

"Brother-in-law!" Changbai bowed his hand to Sun Xiucai.

"Hmm!" Sun Xiucai still had the appearance of nostrils facing the sky and swaggering, and only hummed in response.

When the Changsong brothers and sisters saw this, their faces were not very good-looking.

Pinlan stepped forward to hold Shulan's hand, and said happily: "Big sister, you must not have seen it yet, this is the sixth sister of the second uncle's family, that is the future husband of the sixth sister, and it is our future brother-in-law!"

Minglan saluted Shulan and said, "I have seen the eldest sister, and when I was at home, I often heard my father say that the eldest sister of the eldest uncle's family, Shuwen is in good quality, and Hui Zhilan is in her heart, but unfortunately I have never seen it, and today I finally fulfilled my sister's wish."

Naturally, everyone likes to listen to beautiful words.

"Under the king's weight, the grass is thick, and I've seen a big girl!" Wang Zhong bowed.

"It turned out to be the sixth sister and the sixth brother-in-law, Shulan is polite!" Shulan's blessed body salute is naturally chong wangzhong, Minglan is her sister, how can there be a reason for a sister to salute when she sees her sister.

"Big sister, our sixth brother-in-law is amazing!" When Pinlan said this, her eyes involuntarily glanced at the face of her brother-in-law Sun Xiucai next to her, and deliberately said loudly: "People are Xie Yuan of Huainan East Road in the third year of Jiayou, and when Jiayou took the palace examination in the fourth year, he was also appointed as the champion by the current official family!" And he was only eighteen years old when he was the champion!"

Shulan glanced at Pinlan helplessly, she naturally knew about Minglan's marriage, and now Pinlan said this in front of her husband, how could Shulan not know what she meant, but it was not easy to expose it, so her husband would have no face.

When even chimed in, "It's really amazing!"

"It's just a fluke!" Wang Zhong arched his hand.

Sun Zhigao next to him, who had long lost his arrogance, looked at Wang Chong dumbfounded, and his mind was already blank.

"Champion Lang?"

"Where are you going?" Shulan was afraid that Pinlan would be entangled, so she hurriedly opened the topic.

"Grandmother and uncle and grandmother are talking in the back garden, I'm afraid that we will be too bored to let us follow, let's take Brother Changbai, Sister Minglan and our future brother-in-law out for a walk and take a look around!" Pinlan explained quickly.

"It's hard to go back to Youyang, it's really time to have a good time!" Shulan said, "Then I won't bother you, I'll go and say hello to my grandmother and uncle first!"

If her husband Sun Zhigao is not there, Shulan will naturally be happy to stay with her brothers and sisters for a while, but Sun Zhigao's temper is too stinky, his temperament is too arrogant, and his nostrils are facing the sky, and he can't look down on the Sheng family's big house in business, and every time he goes to the Sheng family, he doesn't have a good face.

This time, Shulan didn't want to bring Sun Zhigao back together, but as soon as Sun Zhigao heard that someone from the second room of the Sheng family came, he took the initiative to come with him, Shulan was not stupid, how could she not guess Sun Zhigao's intentions, it was nothing more than knowing that the head of the second room of the Sheng family was an official in Tokyo, and wanted to climb the relationship, but the two were husband and wife in the end, and the relationship was quite harmonious, Shulan Zi

However, it is not good to refuse.

Sun Zhigao, who was still arrogant just now, and then stunned, was pale-faced at the moment, his head was lowered, he stood in place and refused to move, his face was cloudy.

wanted to open his mouth to keep Wang Zhong and the others who left, but they couldn't let go, so they could only spread their anger on Shulan.

"Official, let's go in quickly!" Shulan saw that Sun Zhigao didn't move, so she couldn't help but remind her aloud.

"Did you already know that Wang Zhong was the champion and the first?" Sun Zhigao still didn't move, and only asked Shulan with a cold face.

Shulan chuckled in her heart, but she didn't dare to deceive Sun Zhigao: "I've heard my father mention it, but I've never seen it, and when my mother sent someone over this time, she only said that my uncle and grandmother came over with my cousin, and I didn't mention Wang Zihou."

Sun Zhigao flicked his sleeves and snorted coldly: "Go back and settle accounts with you!"

Shulan's face was full of helplessness and grievances, and the personal envoy next to her was about to open her mouth to argue for Shulan, but was stopped by Shulan.

Sun Zhigao didn't wait for Shulan, and strode into the Sheng family, the porter had already seen the majesty of this eldest aunt, where did he dare to stop him.

"Sister Pinlan, this eldest brother-in-law is very magnificent!" Wang Chong and Changbai didn't say anything, Minglan was a child, so naturally she had fewer scruples.

"What's magnificent!" Pin Lan said with a disgusted face: "It's just a showman, although he was a showman at the age of twelve, but after so many years of exams, he didn't even get into the exam, and he was still arrogant all day long, with his nostrils facing the sky, no one looked down on him!" Every time I come to the house, I put ·······."

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Before Pinlan finished speaking, she was interrupted by Changsong's dry cough twice: "Pinlan!"

The king nodded and said, "It's a bit arrogant!"

Changbai's eyes flickered, and he glanced back, but did not speak.

"It's more than arrogance!" The more Pinlan thought about it, the more angry she became, and she kept her mouth shut: "This guy is simply crazy, he is crazy when he sees the sky, saying what will happen to him after high school, and his old lady, when he sees people, he will say that his son is amazing, he is the prime minister·····

"Pinlan!" Chang Song's face was stiff, and his tone was a little serious: "How can you talk about others behind your back."

Pinlan gave up and didn't continue, but her pretty and bright face was full of indignation.

However, all the people present were the children of the Sheng family, Wang Chong was also Minglan's future husband, the future son-in-law of the Sheng family, who had already been married, and was also half of the Sheng family.

Shulan is eighteen years old this year, she is Sun Zhigao, who married the year before last, and the family affairs have been decided a long time ago.

The Sun family is from a peasant family, and there are more than a dozen acres of land at home, which are leased to the Sun clan to cultivate, and only some of them are left, plus the money earned by the grandmother to wash and sew the pulp, and reluctantly give Sun Zhigao a confession, and he was selected for Xiucai at the age of twelve, such a genius person, after Sheng Wei knew, he had the idea of getting married, and let people inquire, all said that Sun Zhigao studied hard and worked hard, and his talent was extremely high, and his grandmother was diligent and thrifty.

When Shulan first got married, this Sun Zhigao behaved very well, and his grandmother was also very considerate, and she was very caring for Shulan, and the Sheng family was also very satisfied with this family business.

didn't think about it for a long time, Sun Zhigao slowly changed, lingering in the Qinlou Chu Pavilion all day long, eating wine and prostitutes with a group of so-called literati, chanting poems against each other, and living a good life, Shulan always persuaded him to study hard and concentrate on preparing for the exam, at first Sun Zhigao would be perfunctory and perfunctory, but after a long time, going to the banquet became a reprimand.

More than a year later, Shulan's stomach has not moved, and her grandmother's attitude has changed, and she began to be arrogant, making things difficult for Shulan everywhere, and the mother and son live in the Sheng family's house, spending the Sheng family's money, but in turn harshly reprimanding the Sheng family's daughter.

Even the Sheng family was treated as their own home by Sun Zhigao's mother and son, they came when they wanted, left when they wanted, and they looked like they were commanding to Sheng Wei and the Li family, even in front of the old lady, they didn't know how to restrain themselves.

Wang Chong said: "It is difficult for this Sun Zhigao to act like this

Dao just let Miss Shulan be delayed by him for the rest of her life?"

"Hey!" Chang Song sighed and said helplessly, "Who told the eldest sister that she didn't give birth to an heir for the Sun family and continue the incense!"

There are three unfilial pieties, and no queen is the greatest, and this one alone blocks Shulan's retreat.

Changwu also looked helpless, only Pinlan gritted her teeth, as if she was going to swallow the mother and son of the Sun family alive.

"How did Sister Shulan get such a husband?" Minglan also said very regretfully.

Changbai's face is also not very good-looking.

Pinlan snorted and said angrily, "What's the solution, who told us that we were all deceived by that guy in the first place!" Cheng Tian said that the prime minister had a good future in the future, and he also said that he would wait for him to go to high school, but he was just a person, and he took the exam several times, and he failed every time."

Changwu also said with an unkind face: "Where did he go to Jinling for the exam, it was obvious that he was looking for an excuse to sleep in the flowers and willows in the past, this time it was even more excessive, before going to the eldest sister Guan asked for a few hundred taels of silver, not to mention, after arriving in Jinling, he lived directly on the flower boat of the Qinhuai River, and he was a prostitute who ate wine and drank when he saw the sky, and the silver in his pocket was spent!"

"If it weren't for the eldest sister's good way of running the family and the help of the family, the eldest sister's dowry would be lost by him sooner or later!" Nagamatsu was also helpless.

And that's where the conversation comes to an abrupt end.

It's just that after such a period of twists and turns, everyone is no longer in the mood to hang out, and they go back to Sheng's house after a turn.

I didn't expect that as soon as I arrived at the door, I ran into Sun Zhigao again, but this time Sun Zhigao was alone, but I didn't see Shulan and Shulan's female envoy.

"Big brother-in-law!"

Although they don't like it, but now outside the Sheng family's house, the Changsong and Changwu brothers and sisters still have to take care of the etiquette, so they can only suppress the dissatisfaction in their hearts and bow to Sun Zhigao together.

But Sun Zhigao glanced at everyone, snorted heavily, flicked his sleeves and shook his hands, and walked away quickly, without even saying hello.

This time Pinlan was so angry that she almost didn't hold back, so she caught up and kicked Sun Zhigao, and called a few powerful people to clean up Sun Zhigao.

But the next moment, a smile appeared on Pinlan's face again: "Don't guess, this guy must have been deflated by his uncle and grandmother."

"Why my grandmother?" Minglan asked curiously.

"This guy usually comes to my house, he is arrogant and commanding, his father, mother and grandmother don't pay attention to him, how can he be deflated, and now the family can make this hateful guy deflated, isn't it my uncle and grandmother!"

Pinlan, this girl seems to be very aggressive, but she is not a stupid girl who has no scheming at all.

Changsong analyzed: "I guess I know that my uncle and grandmother are here, and I want to come over to build a relationship and find a second uncle to do something."

"What does he have to do with his second uncle!" Changwu said disdainfully.

Changsong said helplessly, "What else can it be!"

"For the imperial examination?" Changwu is a clever man, "Wouldn't it?"

Changsong glanced at Changwu and didn't say any more.

This topic is naturally not good to continue, everyone returned home and asked, it turned out that when Sun Zhigao visited Mrs. Sheng just now, he said that he would let Mrs. Sheng help introduce Sheng Hong, and Mrs. Sheng covered her left and right just and did not answer, Sun Zhigao was not stupid, why couldn't he see what Mrs. Sheng meant, he was immediately angry, and even Shulan didn't care, and went straight away.

Early the next morning, Sheng Hong opened the ancestral hall and summoned all the Sheng family members in Youyang, including the owners of the three rooms of the Sheng family, who had lost all their family wealth and now relied on Sheng Wei's house, to record Wei Shuyi, Minglan and Changdong on the family tree.

On the evening of the third day, Wang Chong found Sheng Wei and offered his farewell.

"Zihou finally came to Youyang, why don't you stay for a few more days?" Sheng Wei still wants to keep it.

Wang Chong said: "Uncle, don't blame, the younger generation still has to go to Quanzhou to take up his post, it's really not good to delay!"

Sheng Wei said: "This is going to Quanzhou, the mountains are high and the rivers are far away, the people of Zhejiang and Fujian are fierce, I have a few stewards and guards from Zhejiang and Fujian, or I will let them be a guide for Zihou?"

"Then I won't be polite to my uncle!" Wang Zhong smiled and arched his hand.

"My own family, what is so polite!" Sheng Wei said.

Wang Zhong suddenly asked: "This time, in addition to Quanzhou, in fact, Uncle Sheng prefers Dengzhou, which is located on Jingdong Road, Uncle can know, why didn't I choose Dengzhou, but chose Quanzhou?"

Sheng Wei asked puzzledly: "Quanzhou is remote, Dengzhou is prosperous, why is this?"

Although the imperial court encouraged the people to trade, and the land south of the Yangtze River was a granary, the economic center of the entire Great Song Dynasty was still in the north, especially in the north, especially in the Tokyo Bianliang was transferred, the canal was used to communicate the north, the south, the east and west, and the Western Xia, Khitan and other countries opened on the border of the mutual market, not to mention the annual income brought to the imperial court, just those who poured into the territory of the Great Song Dynasty, cattle and sheep do not know how much.

The places south of the Yangtze River, that is, the Yangtze River basin are relatively prosperous, and the Fujian Road and Guangnan Road to the south are all sparsely populated remote places.

However, in recent years, it has been much better than before, Emperor Jiayou has been in power for many years, so that the people can cultivate their lives and recuperate, lightly pay for their meager endowments, and encourage business.

During the Zhenzong period, two more cities were added in Mingzhou and Hangzhou, and the overseas trade industry became more and more prosperous, and many villagers in the coastal areas spontaneously went to sea by boat to seek huge profits.

"Uncle has been a businessman for many years, what do you think of maritime trade?"

Sheng Wei said: "The income is high, the risk is also high, the sea is stormy, if the wind and waves are calm, the road is smooth, you can naturally make a lot of money, but if you are a little careless, in the face of strong winds and waves, it will be the ship destroyed at every turn."

Although Sheng Wei has never gone to sea to trade, he has traveled south and north for many years, so he has naturally heard of it.

"That's one of the reasons why I chose Quanzhou!" Wang Chongdao: "Although Fujian Road is mountainous and hilly, farmland is scarce, and the land is sparsely populated, Quanzhou is different, Quanzhou is close to the sea, and the geographical location is excellent, just in the middle of Guangzhou, Mingzhou and Hangzhou, if it can be used, it will be an excellent political achievement."

"And before I left Beijing this time, I got a secret order from the official family to add a salt field in Quanzhou!"

"Salt Farm!"

"Port!"

Sheng Wei finally changed color.

Wang Zhong smiled and said, "Whether it is a salt field or a port, it requires a lot of manpower and material resources, can my uncle be interested in bringing the trade to Quanzhou?"

Sheng Wei's eyes flickered, looking at Wang Chong, and his expression became serious: "Do the business to Quanzhou? This ······."

"Uncle doesn't have to rush to reply to me, not to mention that I'm just a little Quanzhou general judge, that is, Quanzhou Zhizhou, after arriving in Quanzhou, you also need to understand the local situation in Quanzhou first, even if you want to do something, it is not something that can be done in a moment, uncle can think about it slowly, focus on Quanzhou, and wait for the good news of uncle."

"No need to think about it!" Sheng Wei smiled and said, "Such a good opportunity, how can you miss it."

"Hahaha!" Wang Chong laughed and said, "Then tomorrow Chong will take the first step, and when everything is ready, someone will inform his uncle."

Sheng Wei asked, "Then what do I need to prepare in advance?"

"It's nothing more than capital and manpower!" Wang Chong said, "If there is a craftsman who can build a ship, or a skilled blacksmith or something, I have to ask my uncle to help recruit him."

"None of this is difficult, as long as you have money, you don't have to worry about finding a shipbuilder! It's just a blacksmith, I don't know what Zihou wants?"

If you just want to make agricultural tools or kitchen knives and other blacksmiths, you can find them everywhere, but if you have other special requirements, it is more difficult, because many skilled blacksmiths are in the army, and it is not easy to find armor blades for the imperial court.

Wang Zhong said: "Naturally, the more exquisite the skill, the better!"

Sheng Wei nodded, and didn't ask Wang what the important blacksmith was doing.

The two talked about many details, and the time passed minute by minute, and the night became deeper and deeper.

While chatting, Wang Chong's voice suddenly changed and asked, "Uncle, about Sister Shulan, I have also heard from Brother Changsong and Sister Pinlan in the past few days

There are a lot of things that I shouldn't have said as a junior, but my uncle has taken care of me over the years, and I hold some words in my heart and don't vomit or feel unhappy."

Sheng Wei's face changed, the smile on his face gradually disappeared, and his eyebrows gradually revealed a little helplessness: "Zihou has something to say, but it doesn't hurt to say it!"

Wang Chongdao: "Although I and Sister Shulan's husband have only met once, I have heard Brother Changwu talk about a lot of his past behavior, not to mention anything else, but that day he asked the old lady for help to introduce his uncle to the uncle, so he ignored the etiquette and walked away.

"Hey!" Sheng Wei sighed sadly, and his voice was full of helplessness: "I asked myself, when I was doing business outside in the past, I never made a mistake when I saw people, but I didn't expect to look away at Shu'er's life's events, and I didn't see Sun Zhigao's true face.

It's my father-in-law, and he doesn't pay attention to me, thinking that I am a businessman and looks down on me, and her mother····· As he spoke, Sheng Hong sighed again helplessly.

"Uncle!" Wang Chong arched his hand and said, "As the saying goes, a long pain is better than a short pain! When the interruption continues, it will be chaotic!"

"I don't want to, it's just that Sun Zhigao is a scholar in the end, and he is famous, and the Sun family is also a big family in the local area······ Sheng Wei was very helpless.

If Sun Zhigao's mother and son are lonely, it would be easy to deal with, but the Sun family has deep roots in Youyang, and now Sheng Hong is an official in Tokyo, Sheng Hong will also run the family industry quite prosperously, but in the face of the Sun family, a local family with big roots and deep roots, if you ignore your reputation, it will naturally be easy to do, but the Sheng family wants to be faced, and it can't be said to be a bully, so it will naturally be difficult to deal with.

Wang Zhong said, "Uncle might as well ask the old lady what she means!"

"Uncle?" Sheng Wei frowned slightly and looked at Wang Zhong suspiciously.

Early in the morning of the next day, Wang Zhong bid farewell to Mrs. Sheng and others, and rushed to Jinling with Yu Chuer on a fast horse, and met Wang Erxi and others, who had been waiting in Jinling for a long time, and went straight to Quanzhou.

What Wang Chong didn't know was that as soon as he left on the front foot, Sun Zhigao sent someone to urge Shulan to go back to Sun's house, saying that his grandmother had no one to serve her at home, and she didn't even eat well.

The reason is also very simple, when Sun Zhigao came to the door that day and visited the two old ladies with Shulan, he did not put up the score in front of Mrs. Sheng, but was deflated, annoyed and angry, and immediately brushed his sleeves away.

He didn't want to think about it, he was a little talent, he wasn't even a lifter, he didn't have a serious reputation, he got the reputation of a scholar, and he couldn't be an official if he wanted to, but how could he succeed in front of a person like Mrs. Sheng, who was of noble birth and was accustomed to seeing the world.

However, Shulan has married Sun Zhigao, and now the Sun family has sent someone to urge, although Shulan is reluctant to let her family go, she can only rush back to the Sun family.

Pinlan angrily smashed several bottles and dishes, Li's face was pale, she felt sorry for Shulan, but she was helpless, she could only quietly wipe her tears, lamenting her daughter's hard life, and at the same time regretting that this family affair was decided too early, she and Sheng Wei, four pairs of eyes, did not see Sun Zhigao and his grandmother's personality clearly.

Now the house where the Sun family lives, the servants used are all from the Sheng family, what kind of life Shulan lived in the Sun family, the Sheng family naturally knows everything about it, but it is really because of the fact that the Sheng family is even more angry.