"Make a price."

"It's a blessing for the prince to be able to take a fancy to our girl, oops, we are good families, don't you want these ......"

Zhen Zhiwu rubbed his hands and looked at the man in front of him with a flattering expression.

The man was dressed in a moon-white robe, and his posture was as tall as a pine.

It seems that this realm is too unsightly, and he refuses to even sit down, and is surrounded by the stars and moons of the county order and seven or eight officials wearing supplements, which looks like a crowd of chickens.

"The prince said, let you make a price." The county magistrate on the side glared at Zhen Zhiwu: "Something that has no eyes." ”

"Yes, yes, yes." Zhen Zhiwu snapped his fingers and pretended to be embarrassed: "Seriously, this is my niece in my own family, although my parents are dead, whether I broke my bones and tendons, and the eldest brother of the long house is not here, I can't be the master......"

Syllable!

The broken porcelain piece collapsed on Zhen Zhiwu's instep, causing him to fall to the ground in fright.

"Sell! I sell! He supported the ground with one hand, and spread it out vertically with the other: "According to the market of the tooth line, a little girl of this age, fifty taels of silver, is not too much?" ”

Most of the officials with the complement were not familiar with general affairs and simply remained silent.

Only the lowest-ranking county official understood the situation and glared at him with a slight dissatisfaction.

A rough maid, if it is a death deed, is only four or five taels of silver.

Even if the appearance is better, the thin horse embryo is only twenty taels of silver.

Zhen Zhiwu, the lion, opened his mouth widely, and he really treated the prince as a big wrong.

However, according to his meaning, this is his family's blood relatives who have broken bones and tendons.

Gotta add money.

Over there, Zhen Zhiwu got cheap and behaved: "The eldest brother is strict over there, and I can't explain it here." ”

"It doesn't matter."

……

Yunyang Zhen family.

Zhen Ying rubbed her eyes and looked at the man in front of her in disbelief.

Uncle, the uncle who is doing business abroad is back!

It's strange, it's still late winter and early spring, and it's the time to go to the countryside to sell seeds and harvest surplus grain, how could the uncle let go of such an opportunity to go home?

Zhen Ying hurriedly gestured, wanting to ask her uncle if something had happened, and after a while, she wanted to say that someone sent her last night, and she didn't know why she slept in the firewood room.

Seeing the uncle looking at herself with a puzzled expression, she suddenly realized.

Uncle doesn't know sign language.

When I looked down, the cloak on my body was long gone, just a rag that looked ordinary.

Zhen Ying came back to her senses, she couldn't tell anyone about last night's incident, not even her uncle.

Zhen Zhiwen looked at it for a long time, completely unbelievable, but the Zhen family was indeed true, only Zhen Ying, an orphan girl in the fourth room, was mute.

However, the girl in front of her was in tattered clothes and skinny.

He couldn't connect this girl with the high-spirited fourth brother and the gentle and demure fourth brother and sister.

"Ying'er? How could it be Ying'er? Zhen Zhiwen refused to believe it for a while, and after carefully identifying it for a long time, he said dumbly: "How do you sleep in the firewood room?" What are you doing wrong? Or did you offend someone? ”

As he spoke, he pulled her up: "You are also a master, you have to take out some ......"

Zhen Ying's hand was withdrawn, and she let out a soft cry of pain in her mouth.

Zhen Zhiwen followed her gaze.

A pair of rough hands, red and swollen from chilblains, make them look less thin.

Merchants travel north and south, what have they not seen?

Zhen Zhiwen thought that "eating out of households" would only happen in the countryside where there was no education, but he never expected that his mother, who had always been kind and kind, would do such a thing in his family.

He even remembered that he had decided to go into business, and he had spent the night with his mother, and at the end, his gray-skinned mother shivered and pulled out two layers of gold from the jewelry box.

In this dynasty, agriculture was heavy and merchants were suppressed, and merchants were not allowed to wear gold and silver, and they were not allowed to wear expensive clothes such as Luo and silk.

The Zhen family was originally a landlord, and the fourth room was lifted again, which is considered an official gentry's family, and some gold and silver artifacts can be kept.

But the four rooms are gone, and the big house has to do business, and if you have these things, it will be considered trespassing.

At that time, he was still a little strange, those gold patterns were not old-fashioned, and he thought it was a dowry left by his mother to a few grandchildren.

Zhen Zhiwen woke up suddenly.

He has been a businessman for many years to serve his mother, and he asks himself how upright he is on weekdays, and he has the name of "Confucian businessman", and he can also comfort his ancestors in a dignified manner under Jiuquan.

But......

"Come here."

Sitting in the study, Zhen Zhiwen looked at the girl in front of him.

He couldn't say anything.

The little girl's withered hair was covered with a broad forehead that was skinny and bony because of malnutrition.

Those eyes were dark and dead.

The little girl, unaware of what was happening, entered the room eagerly, and was about to touch the teapot with both hands, but retracted as if electrocuted.

It was a fine Rongtian pot.

Zhen Zhiwen didn't know why, and thought she was going to drink water, so she poured a cup of tea and handed it over.

Zhen Ying didn't take it, she puffed in panic and fell to her knees.

There was an awkward silence in the study.

"Smack."

The teacups exploded like flowers on the wall, staining the two authentic paintings of the famous artists.

No matter which one it is, it is more expensive than Zhen Ying's life.

What's more, a set of purple clay pots for personal use, four cups, and none of them can be used as a complete set without any of them.

Zhen Zhiwen's mind was chaotic, as if there were thousands of gongs that had been exploding.

The sound just now alarmed the rough women who were sweeping in the yard.

When the woman saw the tea all over the ground, and saw Zhen Ying kneeling on the ground, her first reaction was to raise her hand high......

"Enough!" Zhen Zhiwen roared, his hand slapping heavily on Huang Huali's Taishi chair.

The Zhen family has never heard such a crazy look from the always elegant and easy-going family owner: "Get out!" Get the hell out of here! ”

The Zhen family's huge family business, the first principal of his business, and the first batch of goods were covered with the blood and tears of this girl.

Mute women can't speak, and orphans have no relatives.

Zhen Zhiwen, an uncle, has been a businessman for many years, and it is rare to go home.

This girl......

Zhen Zhiwen only remembered that when she was a child, she trembled and followed behind her grandmother, and her hands and feet were smarter than the eldest maid.

The Zhen family in Yunyang was also a prestigious family.

It's just that in recent years, there has not been a capable master or young master.

If you can't be an official, you still have to eat, and the only way to maintain your family business is to run a business in a long house and sit in a partial house.

Zhen Zhiwen pulled Zhen Ying up and pressed her to the second seat.

"It's uncle, I'm sorry for you."

Zhen Ying looked frightened, his face was full of suspicion, pointed at himself, and then pointed outside.

"In the future, you won't have to do these things."

As he spoke, Zhen Zhiwen took off the waist card and stuffed it into her hand: "Tomorrow morning, I will go to the public middle school to get a sum of money, what I want to buy, what I want......"

Halfway through speaking, I remembered that the girl couldn't speak, so she beckoned again, and called the little girl: "Go and ask Mama Shen to pass the word to the eldest lady, just say that the fourth girl is older, and there is no one to serve around, let her pick two good ......"

Zhen Ying looked at the uncle in a daze, and from the helpless sigh, she felt a little bit of family affection.

Zhen Zhiwen has been away all the year round, he hasn't seen his niece for a long time, he was speechless for a while, and at the end, he patted Zhen Ying's back: "You go back to the room first, tomorrow..."

Long night, candles lit in the study, and Zhen Zhiwen thought about the future of the Zhen family behind the desk.

The Zhen family was also a prestigious family.

It's a pity that there have been no scholars for several generations.

The scholar he is talking about here is a scholar who has been selected and can be exempted from paying taxes.

Even if he is a candidate, as long as he has fame, the huge industry in the family can be turned around.

It's a pity.

The second and fifth are not in the climate, and no matter how good the third sister is, it is just a girl's family.

If she hadn't been greedy for her bride price and left the third child behind, the family would not have fallen into such a field.

If you knew this was the case, why bother in the first place?

But who would have expected that the third sister would be able to pass the female officer examination!

married, widowed, and became an official...... It's her husband's family's taxes that are exempt, not her mother's family!

It was easy to confess the fourth brother who was successful, and he thought that he could be exempted from forced labor and taxes, but he died inexplicably on the way to office.

Without relatives who are officials, although the Zhen family is rich, it is not as good as before in many things.

The generation of Hu's father-in-law can still hire a palace maid as a housewife for his son, but when he arrives at the eldest son of the Hu family, he has to find a daughter of a Xiucai family to be the clan wife.

Zhen Zhiwen smiled bitterly, Yunyang Zhen's family is a scholarly family, but the young lady in the family has never even been to the county seat.

The orphan girl in the side branch is not even as good as the maid of a large family.