The caravan lined up into the city, the carriages jolted again, and the stone road was not as smooth as the concrete road.

Although Xia Jiang felt sorry for the money spent, the contrast between walking on the cement road and then walking on the stone road was not too obvious.

A construction site not far from the city gate attracted the attention of the team entering the city.

The first thing to notice was the Xia family caravan that entered the city first.

"Dad, you see that the original wasteland is gone, and now this busy scene, it is hard to imagine that it was still a wasteland for the first two months."

Xia Qingshan looked at the busy construction site, and couldn't hide a smile on his tired face, "Some houses have already been built over there, and I don't know where the shop your aunt left for our family is?" ”

"If Dad wants to know, I'll ask my second aunt when I go back."

Xia Jiang flicked his leather whip in the air, and you can imagine how excited he was.

I think that when the family first arrived in Lingnan in the early summer, they couldn't buy a big yard for the whole family to live in, and they were excluded and embarrassed by the Lingnan family everywhere.

Later, if it weren't for King Qian copying the Lou family and giving them a five-entry mansion for the Xia family, their Xia family might not have found a suitable house now, and they could only settle somewhere.

The Chen family caravan, which then entered the city, also noticed the construction in the north of the city.

Chen Yongtian was even more surprised to look at the houses and shops rising from the ground in the north of the city, as well as the construction site that was still under construction.

He remembered that the last time he came to Lingnan, this area was still a thatched wasteland.

"Am I entering the wrong gate?"

Chen Yongtian turned around and looked up at the tall city gate, there was a blue brick missing from the top battlement, yes, this is the north city gate!

The Xia family caravan had already gone far in front of him, and it was not good for him to ride a horse in the city and ask questions, he looked left and right, and saw a little second standing in front of a teahouse.

He beckoned to Xiao Er.

Xiao Er pointed at himself with his finger, and when he saw the other party nodding, he trotted over, "Hello master, do you have something to tell you about the little one?" ”

Chen Yongtian threw him a small piece of silver, pointed to the construction site in the north of the city, and asked, "If I remember correctly, the last time I came to this area was a wasteland, why has it changed so much not long ago?" ”

Xiao Er skillfully stretched out his hand to catch the silver thrown in the air, and after a little swipe in his hand, he bowed with a smile, "The lord doesn't know, this wasteland in the north of the city was bought by the princess, and not long ago the construction of the north of the city started, and a grand opening ceremony was held."

Xiao Er said the sales after the opening, and finally said regrettably: "If the lord had come more than a month earlier to catch up with this grand occasion, don't you know, the price of real estate in this area is especially suitable for us middle-income people, like Boss Li of Li Ji Snack Bar, who has been frugal for half his life, and he doesn't have much money in his hands, so he actually bought a shop this time." ”

Chen Yongtian was surprised, "This piece of shop is very cheap? ”

He knew the shopkeeper Li of Li Ji Snack Bar, his snack bar was next door to Xia Ji Salt Shop, he was fortunate to eat there once, it tasted good, but the business was really average, if it wasn't for the salt shop to help him bring some traffic there, his business would not know how bleak it would be.

Such a small shop can earn back the silver of a shop, and he didn't believe it, but just now Xiao Er said that Shopkeeper Li bought a shop, which can only mean that the price of the shop is as low as the price of cabbage.

But the shop with the price of cabbage, Princess Qian, who dominates all this, has money to make?

Or is Princess Qian the reincarnation of Guanyin Bodhisattva and came to Lingnan to specialize in charity?

Xiao Er raised his eyelids and shook his head, "How is it possible!" In order for the princess to be able to afford the shops and houses for the people who had some savings, she made an installment payment, and when the shops were completed, she would use the rent of the shops to repay. ”

Chen Yongtian listened to his words, and it took a while to digest it, hide the shock in his heart, and open his mouth to ask again: "With such installments, the princess is not tantamount to doing good deeds, she is simply giving away the people's shops." ”

Paying one or two percent of the silver to buy a shop, and then using the rent to pay the final payment, is equivalent to the people owning a shop with very little money, which is not the same as giving away the shop!

"Hey, hey!"

Xiao Er smirked for a while, looked around left and right, and then came to Chen Yongtian's side and whispered: "Don't hide it from my lord, our brothers also scraped together some silver to buy a shop, listening to my father's analysis, he said that the princess did this to resist the monopoly of the Lingnan gentry." ”

Chen Yongtian didn't know much about the situation in Lingnan, and he heard a faint "oh" here.

When Xiao Er said this, he was interested, and continued: "Master, you are not from Lingnan, you may not know that in Fucheng, eighty or ninety percent of the shops are in the hands of the gentry, and the shops that are really in the hands of the common people are dilapidated and small. ”

Needless to say, the dilapidated and small shops will not fall into the eyes of the gentry of the world, and will fall into the hands of the people.

Chen Yongtian is no better than these squires in Lingnan, and his vision will not be as high as theirs.

The business of the Chen family in Changsha County is oriented to ordinary people, so he listened to Xiao Er's words and paid more attention to the people with small assets, so it shows that in the future, this part of the north of the city will be people with a certain level of consumption.

With such a large group of consumers, it would be a big loss if the Chen family did not have a shop in the north of the city.

"You are in the teahouse to welcome the send-off, do you know who bought the shop in the north of the city and is ready to sell?" As he spoke, he saw that Xiao Er wanted to shake his head, so he added: "I can buy it at a high price, and of course the hard money for you will not be less." ”

When Xiao Er heard this, his eyes lit up, "Is this true?" ”

Seeing that there was hope, Chen Yongtian smiled and nodded: "Seriously!" ”

"Okay, you leave a contact address, I'll help you inquire, and I'll look for you if there's news." Xiao Er will not be perfunctory even for the reward, and will definitely inquire carefully.

Chen Yongtian was satisfied with the address of the inn where he usually lived, and then looked at the busy construction site, and went to catch up with his caravan.

Yi Gui Yuan.

Xia Jing was listening to Ding's shopkeeper Ding Daqiang's report on the progress of the infrastructure, and Zeng Yan personally walked in with Xia Qingshan and Xia Dashu.

When the three of them came in, they saluted Xia Jing, "I've seen the princess." ”

Although they are Xia Jing's brothers, they don't want to lose their manners in the palace, and they still have to abide by the etiquette that they should abide by according to their status.

Xia Jing was very happy to see them, "Big brother, big tree, when did you come back?" ”

Xia Qingshan replied with a smile: "I just came back two days ago, and I came to see you with my second brother after I was busy at home." ”

In the past, they were in their hometown in Yanzhou, and the younger sister married into the capital, and they rarely interacted for more than ten years, but now everyone is in Lingnan, which is convenient to move around.

"Then come and sit, red plum tea!"

Zeng Yan beckoned to the little servant outside the door to carry the box in, "Princess, this is a gift from your uncle." ”

Hearing this, Xia Jing looked at Xia Qingshan.

Xia Qingshan explained with a smile: "I went to Jingzhou this time to get a batch of good tea, and I came to see that you just brought some to you, there are a lot of them here, so I will trouble you to divide them with the rest of the palace." ”

Xia Jing shook her head, "They are juniors, how fortunate they are to be able to drink the tea you gave them." ”

Xia Qingshan took a sip of the tea brought by Hongmei and smiled: "It's good for you to say this here, besides, they are princes of the palace after all, and we are just merchants." ”

Xia Jing raised her eyebrows, she didn't answer this, the deep-rooted class concept of the ancients was not something she could change in a few words.

First arranged for Bai Mei to take the maids to send the tea to several rooms, and she asked about the details of their trip to Jingzhou this time as soon as she changed the topic.

Xia Qingshan and Xia Dashu talked about their trip to Jingzhou this time.

It's over, Xia Dashu said about a situation he learned, "The rain in Lingnan this year is quite stable, Jingzhou has a drought in the first half of the year, and the rain in the second half of the year is a bit much, especially during the rice earing period, the rain has caused the rice in many places in Jingzhou to have black blight, it is foreseeable that this year's yield reduction is ironclad, but I don't know if the people at the bottom can survive this disaster after suffering from pests and diseases after successive droughts?" ”

The so-called black blight was later called sheath blight or rice blast. In later generations, insecticide could be controlled, but in ancient times, it could only be resigned to fate, and the reduction of production was doomed.

When Xia Jing heard the news, her heart was a little solemn, but she still continued to greet them quietly.

After refilling the water twice, Bai Mei had not returned to send tea to each room, but King Qian came with Anu.

As soon as King Qian entered the door, he laughed enthusiastically and said: "Haha, my uncle is here, why don't you inform this king, my uncle is here to slack off when he comes to the palace." ”

After speaking, he didn't forget to glance at Xia Jing with disgust.

Xia Jing was trembling at this glance, and quickly looked away, staring at the tall and handsome Ye Fei outside the door.

And Ye Fei outside the door was stared at by the princess so straightly, thinking that the princess wanted him to do something, and was signaling him with his eyes, so that he looked back for a long time and didn't figure out what it meant?

Xia Qingshan didn't notice the lawsuit between their husband and wife, and stood up to salute King Qian, "The prince is busy, and we don't have any major events when we come to the door, so it's not good to disturb the prince, I'm afraid of delaying your big business." ”

"Uncle brother still has time to receive you, besides, there are princesses helping the king in many things in the palace, and the king has plenty of time."

Xia Qingshan and Xia Dashu listened to his kind words, smiled and didn't know how to get along with King Qian, mainly because although they had been relatives for almost twenty years, the number of times they had really been in contact could be counted in a slap.

In the end, the gap in status makes them a little unable to let go.

After listening to their words, Xia Jing turned around and asked King Qian, "Why do you have time to come to me today?" ”

When the Xia brothers heard this, they all looked at King Qian, and it was not difficult to see that they all had dissatisfaction with King Qian in their eyes.

Sure enough, the rumors are true, this King Qian is a big radish with a heart of flowers, romantic nature, and a big straw bag!

I didn't come to the second sister (second sister) for a long time, it's unreasonable!

This is not to take his wife as a person, so he dares to belittle her!

"Huh." King Qian smiled, just about to answer Xia Jing's question, and didn't want to look up at the dissatisfied eyes of the two uncles, which made him a little inexplicable for a while!

What's going on?

Did he do anything wrong?

Or can't you answer the princess's words?

"That's a hard question for me to answer?" Xia Jing saw that King Qian had been silent for a long time, so she asked again.

When the Xia brothers heard this, you see, the second sister (second sister) was not small, which shows how many grievances she usually suffers!

King Qian received the reproachful glances of the two uncles again, and scratched his head, it was really inexplicable, "That."

This question was not easy to answer, so he looked at Xia Jing and answered her question, "This king heard that his uncle was coming in the front yard, so he came to meet him, and thought about having two drinks with his two uncles at noon." ”

Xia Jing's face darkened when she heard this, and these words reminded her of the last time King Qian drank wine and pretended to be drunk and didn't leave.

The Xia brothers didn't know the inside story, and seeing Xia Jing's bad face, they knew that King Qian had bullied her hard, otherwise, it would be impossible for Xia Jing not to give King Qian a face in front of them.

King Qian noticed that the faces of the three brothers and sisters were not very good, and his tone weakened, "Why don't you have a drink?" ”

Xia Jing rolled her eyes in her heart, is this a matter of two cups of glasses?

However, today the eldest brother and younger brother came, and for their sake, Xia Jing waved to Hongmei to prepare lunch.

The Xia brothers looked at Xia Jing's face and acted, and when they saw that her face eased and asked the maid to prepare, they also eased their faces and chatted with King Qian again.

Anu, who had been standing behind King Qian, watched the chat between his master and the Xia brothers, wiped the sweat on his forehead, and sighed in his heart, he was really wronged by his master, he grew up with brocade clothes and jade food, when did he live so aggrieved?

It seems that the only one who makes him make an exception is the princess.

Since he met the princess, the prince has been suppressed by the princess, and later became married and eased for more than ten years.

The last time the princess came back to life, her temperament regained the temperament she had when she first met, which made the prince often angry with her and helpless to her.

The second child of the Chengbei teahouse is called Chang Chong, and when he returned home from the teahouse that day, he told his mother about Chen Yongtian's desire to buy a shop in the north of the city.

"Mother, have you been asking more about who wants to sell the shop these days, or release the news that someone is willing to buy at a high price, and see if anyone is willing to transfer?"

Chang Chongniang is also a shrewd and capable woman, otherwise she would not be able to lead the family to make money to buy shops.

She listened to her son's words, and her eyes flashed, "Rich businessmen from other places are so optimistic about the shops in the north of the city, does that mean that the shops in the north of the city will appreciate in the future?" ”

When Chang Chong heard this, he also reacted, and almost jumped up happily, "Mother, mother, does this mean that the north of the city will become prosperous, and our shops can also open their own stores to do business in the future?" ”

It would be great if you could open your own small shop without having to work for others.

It's exciting to think about!

Chang Chongniang thought so, "It's okay for me to make food, or in the future, our shop won't be rented out, and we will directly open a small restaurant by ourselves?" ”

"This can be there." After Chang Chong was excited, he told his mother, "Mother, after this matter is put aside for the time being, we will make a sum of money now, you remember to help me inquire about it, and notify me immediately if there is news!" ”

"Don't worry, I'll ask now!" Chang Chongniang is a vigorous and resolute acute child, and after understanding the situation, she doesn't want to wait for a moment.

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