Thirteen: Xu's steward

There was silence for a long time, and everyone's eyes were fixed on the two celadon tea cups, which were shining with crystal ripples.

"What? Do you want to drink it too? ”

With a smile on his face, Xu Fan looked up at the rest of the people who were looking here, and even the two sons of Xu Xiang and Xu Ji.

"Let's chirp", Xu Ji drank the pear blossom white in the teacup in one gulp, and tasted the aftertaste of the tip of his tongue.

"It's really good, it's much more mellow than those pear blossoms in the house, and the aftertaste is long."

Xu Xiang on the other side also drank the pear blossom white in the teacup in one gulp, although he didn't know why Xu Fan invited the two of them to drink at this time, but he still drank it all in one gulp.

"Daddy!"

The two Xu clan members sitting next to the screen shouted cautiously.

Xu Ji and Xu Xiang put the tea cup on the round table in front of them, very satisfied with Xu Fan's pear blossom white, and looked at the shabby gourd on Xu Fan's waist in unison.

"Brother Fan..."

"Stop, I'm just sending kindness. I won't give it to others if they want it. Xu Fan pretended to cover the shabby gourd, and moved behind him with care.

"Since you drank my wine, you have to do something for me."

"I'll just say, Brother Fan's wine is not that good." Xu Ji stroked the white beard under his chin and said with a smile. "Say, we are the toiling life of our Xu Mansion, as long as we don't die, we will work to death."

"Yes, yes, yes."

Everyone in the outer hall of Pinzhuxuan echoed one after another.

"It's not a big deal, the two grandpas know, I like to drink." As he spoke, Xu Fan untied the worn-out gourd on his waist, shook it in front of everyone, and continued. "I need the orders of the two grandfathers to get me the best wine in Guangling City, such as osmanthus wine, Baiguo wine, apricot blossom wine, peach blossom wine, etc., no matter how much, to get me the Wave Garden."

On the side, Xu Huaiqiu, who had been sitting quietly, raised his eyebrows lightly and said in surprise, "Huh? That's a lot of money. This pear blossom white is the most well-known wine in our Guangling, and osmanthus and apricot blossom are the wines of Lingnan Road and Jiangbei Road. ”

As Xu Ji's youngest son, he was arranged by his brothers to Pinzhuxuan to help the old man sort out the accounts, mainly because he was worried about his father's health.

In the next position, there is also a young man in Chinese costumes, Xu Xiang's third son, who has been studying and learning etiquette since he was a child, and was also called by his father to help.

The two young people are also perennial in the Qinglou, a wine shop in Guangling City, and they are all astonished by the name of the wine Xu Fan.

"I don't have any other hobbies, and I have developed a habit of liking drinking in Xujiazhuang. In the future, this wine will rely on the help of the two grandfathers to buy. Xu Fan said with a smile.

Reborn in this life, he needs to focus all his energy on cultivation, and at present, he mainly has to deal with the Yin Yang Sect disciples hidden in Guangling City.

For this kind of thing, the purchase of alcohol is naturally handed over to the Xu Mansion to deal with, and if he has been in the major wine shops in the city for a long time, it will definitely arouse suspicion.

However, Xu Fan's excuse obviously can't move Xu Ji and Xu Xiang, the two old men, they both hope that Xu Mansion will have a decent family, and naturally they don't want Xu Fan to indulge in eating and drinking all day long and forget the ancestral business of the Xu family.

Xu Xiang glanced at Xu Ji, coughed lightly, and spoke first. "Brother Fan, we still need you to inherit such a big family business in Xu Mansion, and it is impossible to indulge in eating and drinking."

"In the morning, I also discussed with your grandfather Ji to invite a gentleman for you, and it just so happened that there was a Jinshi Rong in Jinling City."

"Want to get yourself to school?"

Xu Fan hurriedly waved his hand to object, and said with a long sigh, "Grandpa Xiang, Grandpa Ji, although the Xu Mansion has always been in charge. But you are also members of the Xu family. As for the property of the Xu Mansion," his gaze fell on the two young men in gorgeous clothes opposite, and continued, "These two clan brothers are also good. ”

"Well, I like to be a gentleman, eating and drinking all day long, it's good."

"Brother Fan, after all, you are the bloodline of our Xu Mansion, how can you be so unmotivated?" Hearing that Xu Fan was going to continue to be a waste of people who ate and waited for death, Xu Ji's face was obviously displeased, and there was a hint of reproach in his voice.

"Grandpa Ji, Grandpa Xiang, don't worry, when I finish drinking the world's fine wine, I will definitely make good progress."

Xu Fan raised the worn-out gourd in his hand again, shook it on the tip of his nose, and another smell of wine overflowed from the mouth of the gourd, filling the entire study with mellow fragrance.

As for Xu Huaiqiu and another young child of the Xu family on the side, when they heard Xu Fan's words, their hearts were all shaken.

Xu Fan is going to hand over the power of the Xu family to their two houses?

Neither of them could believe what they had heard, and the bookkeepers standing next to the long table were also shocked.

In the past, the heads of the Xu family were all descendants. Now Xu Fan is left alone, but he wants to hand over the stewardship to the side lineage.

If outsiders know about it, it will definitely shock the entire Gangnam Province.

Everyone looked at Xu Fan in a daze, and the faces of Xu Ji and Xu Xiang became more and more ugly, and without waiting for them to speak, Xu Fan continued.

"Don't worry, two grandpa, it's not you who occupy the family property of the descendants, I just want to be lazy. I can still trust you as a person. If I really want to occupy the Xu family, it's useless for me to be on guard. Isn't it? ”

Looking at Xu Fan, who always kept smiling, the two old men didn't know how to speak for a while. Both of them are a group of children under their knees, and if you look at Xu Fan, the lineage has always been passed on.

"Okay, let's not talk about this, my wine will have two grandfathers."

"Okay. Play around for another year at most. ”

The two didn't want to tire such a young teenager to the point that they would let him play for a while. When I grow up, I will take on the ancestral business of the Xu family.

After instructing what he needed, Xu Fan got up and left, as for the investigation of various industries in Guangling City, as long as he was still in Guangling City, he was not worried that there would be chaos.

No matter who dares to make trouble, he will never be merciful.

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On the bank of the Guangling River, the green trees are shady, the visitors are weaving, the three most conspicuous of the three five-storey buildings are connected by the ring corridor, the figures of the people are like the tide, the young girls in brocade clothes are all followed by the two or three long and small maids behind them.

In the private room of Baifang Pavilion, a middle-aged man, about thirty years old, with a square face and fine eyes, his eyebrows and eyes are right, his hands are propped up on the platform guardrail, and he is dressed in a silk dress covering the linen clothes below.

As an ordinary child in the third room of the Xu Mansion, Xu Feng became the new shopkeeper of this Baifang Pavilion.

If Steward Wang and his two sons were both taken off, the middle-aged man would not have become the steward of Baifang Pavilion.

As a child of the Xu Mansion, he used to only have to sit and wait for death to live a mess.

Now, he has Baifang Pavilion in his hands, and he can be regarded as having a little power.

But he couldn't be happy at this time, and there were more than a dozen stewards sitting in the private room behind him, all of whom were the stewards of the Xu Mansion in the rest of Guangling City. There are theaters, teahouses, inns, green buildings, salt numbers, grain and rice shops, carriages and horses, and boats.

The room was full, and the private room, which could only seat seven or eight people, was crowded.

"Master Feng, you are also the first to take charge of Baifang Pavilion. You've got to show us a way out. At the round table, a pot-bellied man who drank a small sip of tea coughed lightly and turned his head to look at Xu Feng at the window.

Although his surname is Xu, all the people sitting in the Accord are all stewards promoted by the previous head of the family.

I can't figure out who is behind the people and whose relationship is it, or it involves a big man in the officialdom of Gangnam Province.

Xu Feng raised his hand and rubbed his somewhat hot head, tried his best to calm down his complicated thoughts, turned around and showed a warm smile, and arched his hand towards everyone in the Accord.

"Ladies and gentlemen, I Xu Feng can't be called a master, everyone can call me Xiaofeng."

"How can this be done? Now no one in Guangling City knows that the Xu Mansion is now the third and fourth rooms. ”

"The head of the family left suddenly, and we didn't know who to turn to for a while. Today, everyone gathered in Baifang Pavilion, that is, they wanted to discuss a solution together. ”

"Yes, look at Brother Wang, he still has a sad face. Let me say, although Young Master Fan is serious, he shouldn't really want the lives of Brother Wang and the two virtuous nephews. ”

In the Accord, the stewards were not stopping, they were actually worried, once Xu Fan really did something to the previous steward of Baifang Pavilion and his two sons, what would their group of people do.

"Alright, everyone be quiet."

The man in the big-bellied costume gently knocked on the table, his gaze swept over everyone present, and finally landed on Xu Feng. "Brother Feng, everyone has been working hard for the Xu family all year round, and you have to consider it for us. After all, the young master is still young, and the huge family business of the Xu Mansion can't all fall into the hands of a young man. ”

"Nowadays, there are several uncles in the third and fourth rooms, but they are all staring at it. When we come here, who knows, is it a certain uncle in the third or fourth room who nodded his head? ”

"Since Mrs. Ji and Mrs. Xiang have chosen you to be the steward of Baifang Pavilion, it is clear that they trust you. The accounts of my Blue and White Pavilion are all in my head, if you want it, I can give it to you now. ”

The tone of the man in the big-bellied costume changed abruptly, "If the two masters really want it, if I really give it, once something goes wrong in the future, someone in Jiangnan Province asks, you have to think about the way back." ”

Inside the Accord, the atmosphere changed abruptly. The originally lively atmosphere suddenly dropped to freezing.

The fat on the face of the man in the pot-bellied costume trembled, and the blue and white pavilion was the largest attic of the painting boat in Slender West Lake, and the guests who came in and out during it were all dignitaries.

In order to climb the door of some powerful people in Jinling, the man in the big-bellied costume even privately sent many thin horses to the courtyards of some adults in Jinling.

This time, the head of the Xu family died suddenly, and he was in charge of the child again. Many of the people in charge of the Xufu industry have thoughts in the hearts of men in pot-bellied clothes.

Find another high branch to keep your current power and interests.

"Are you threatening the Xu Mansion?" Xu Fengdeng's face changed, and his expression became more and more solemn.

"How can I be considered a threat? Just to tell you a little bit about it. It's really impossible to say who will be in charge of the Xu Mansion in the future. Salt is the head of the Xu Mansion, but I don't know if I can keep it next year. ”

The man in the big-bellied costume said this, and the rest of the people present, many people's faces also changed, some were surprised, some were surprised, and some were incredulous.

Xu Fu is the head of the salt merchants in Jiangnan Province, could it be that someone wants to move the salt number of Xu Fu?