In the early morning, the orange-red sun shone on the pedestrians on the road, Jiang Mo took a break from the office, carried a large bag of things sent by his parents from his hometown to his sister, and walked out of the Yamen Office, and walked to the street to buy a meatloaf at the stall where he often bought breakfast.

The meatloaf is wrapped in yellow straw paper, soaked in a layer of oily oil, the skin is crispy and the meat is tender, the teeth are broken, the crispy skin is fragrant, and the hot juice gushes into the mouth, and the tip of the tongue is numb.

After eating one, it became hot from the inside out, Jiang Mo took out a handkerchief and wiped the grease on his hands, wiped his mouth and put it in his arms, thinking that he would wash the handkerchief again tonight.

There is a sake brewing shop in front of it, and the sake garden is full of boiled pots, and the air has not yet warmed up in the morning, and the milky white water vapor is rolling.

Jiang Mo had just eaten a meatloaf and happened to be thirsty, so he walked over and asked for a bowl, and when he drank the soup, he was still pressing the big burden next to him with one hand.

At this time, a person came out of the small alley moving in front of him, and he was about to pass over, and when he saw Jiang Moyu who was sitting in the stall eating, he hurriedly took a few steps back.

"Brother Jiang." The man walked over and said hello arrogantly, turned to the stall owner and his wife over there, and said, "Bring me a bowl of wine-stuffed balls, I want the flavor of osmanthus." ”

Jiang Mo saw this person and smiled: "Again? You're still in the capital, didn't you say you wanted to go back to your hometown? Why don't you talk to me these days? ”

Li Wei followed the wine-stuffed dumplings sent by the woman with both hands, and insisted on eating them with a hot mouth that appeared in the pot, and said vaguely: "I was going to leave, but I heard that my friend was going to sell a batch of goods from the capital to Jiangnan, so I wanted to follow in and make some money to go home for the New Year." It's been busy these days. Brother Jiang, what about you, how are you doing in the Ministry of Industry? ”

Jiang Mo laughed and said: "It's okay, it's just that people are floating and passing the time." ”

"What are you going to do here?" Li Wei asked, "Want to move?" Do you need my help? ”

"What do I move, so that I don't starve if I live in the Yamen Office." Jiang Mo wiped his mouth after eating, and patted the burden on his hand, "My father and mother asked my uncle who came to Beijing to bring it to my sister." ”

Li Wei thought for a while, and said in a suppressed voice: "Your sister is the Jiang Fang Fujin from the Fourth Master's Mansion, right?" ”

Jiang Mo sighed in vain: "It's really that people are afraid of being famous, pigs are afraid of being strong, you are already the thirty-tenth to ask me like this in a month." ”

Li Wei pulled the last glutinous rice ball and said with a smile: "It means that people ask you this every day, right?" ”

Jiang Mo nodded tiredly, looked at Li Wei and said, "Do you have anything to do next?" ”

Li Wei shook his head and joked, "What, you plan to introduce me to the fourth master?" Brother, if that's the case, I'll give you a big red envelope this year. ”

Li Wei is equivalent to directly pleasing people, Jiang Mo is not disgusted, it is much better to be able to say it clearly than to make twists and turns behind his back, and officialdom is a personal love field, and nothing can be done by holding those big truths in the sage book.

Jiang Mo laughed and said: "What kind of beautiful thing do you want, you see that I seem to be the person who can ask the fourth master out." ”

Li Wei wiped his mouth with a grin and said, "Although he is the fourth master, he is also your brother-in-law." ”

Jiang Moyu: "If it is the fourth master of an ordinary family, I will also go up to recognize this brother-in-law," Zhengse said, "Get back to the point, after sending this thing to my sister-in-law, I plan to go to the Chen family's Zhuangzi outside the city to relax, I heard that they opened a Tingxue Pavilion, and also invited a cook from Jiangnan, who made a good squirrel mandarin fish." My parents didn't give me much money, and I had to drink wind this month after eating this meal by myself, so if you want to go, we'll share the cost equally. ”

Li Wei said: "I made an appointment with that Gao Min to meet at the same time, but I may not be able to go." In this way, I will ask him if he is going, and if he does, we will go to Chenzhuang to find you. ”

Jiang Mo raised his baggage, "Okay, I'll go first, where do you meet, I'll wait for you nearby." ”

"Hi, Brother Li."

As he was talking, a big fat man walked by the side of the road, and when he saw Li Wei sitting at a stall, he walked over with a smile.

Li Wei laughed and said, "Isn't this a coincidence? Min Zheng, my brother is going to Chenzhuang outside the city for leisure in a while, I'll go make up with him, let's talk about things first. ”

As soon as Gao Minzheng saw Jiang Moyu's character, he was also willing to make friends, and waved his big hand and said: "What's this, let's go directly to Chenzhuang to talk about things, I will cover all the expenses." ”

Jiang Mo waved his hand in vain: "That's not necessary, we have one for each person, one for each person." ”

With that, he ran away.

Gao Min was sitting opposite Li Wei: "What's the matter, seeing that brother of yours seems to be a scholar, he is not happy to make friends with a copper-smelling person like me?" ”

Li Wei said with a smile: "Brother Jiang is not such a person, he is just not familiar with it, why do you take advantage of you for nothing, tell me, what goods you plan to transport to the south, I will give you a staff officer." ”

"Boss, let's have a bowl of balls." Gao Min raised his hand to order food, and then put one arm on the table and said: "I know a man who works in Qintianjian, I heard that this year is colder than last year, and the heavy snow can fall to the south, I plan to harvest a batch of cotton in the north and use the big ship to transport it to the south." What do you think? ”

Li Wei thought for a while and said: "Okay, yes, but if it can't get cold this day, this batch of cotton will be smashed into his hands, and now the gang in charge of Caoyun is greedy, and he can't make a route without a few hundred taels." ”

Gao Minzheng smiled and said: "Brother, you are so timid, I have a way to be the second housekeeper in the Ming Minister's Mansion, give him one hundred taels of silver to cover us to walk on the Cao Yun Line for three months, is it expensive?" ”

Li Wei smacked his mouth and said with a smile: "There is no need to worry about this." Can this weather really be cold? ”

Although it has only snowed heavily, it is not cold compared to last year.

Gao Min said: "I have an old family member who also understands the weather, and he said that he will be able to cool down his ears this year, Jiangnan has never been frozen, and people can't stand it if it's a little cold." ”

Li Wei thought about his experience since he was a child, and only remembered that when he was five years old, there was a heavy snowfall in Jiangsu, and many people froze to death on the road, and even the price of food soared.

"Okay, it's done." Li Wei was about to say his suggestion, his eyelids inadvertently raised, and he saw the three people walking in the distance, looked at it carefully, and suddenly sighed, and hurriedly stood up.

Gao Min was snorting and eating hot wine-stuffed balls and asked, "What are you doing?" ”

Li Wei kicked him and said in a low voice: "Don't blame my brother for not reminding you, pay attention to what you talk later." ”

Jiang Mo is also very helpless, this sister's temperament is afraid that it will not be indulged by the fourth master again, just now the fourth master asked him what the arrangements were for a while, he didn't think about telling the truth without thinking about nonsense, and then she heard that she was going out to eat squirrel mandarin fish for a private champion outside the city, and this girl would definitely go together.

He said that it was inconvenient to make an appointment with a friend to take her, and the girl immediately turned red, looked at the fourth master and said that she also wanted to go, why couldn't she go out.

At that time, he was worried about this girl, but he didn't expect the fourth master to smile helplessly, and turned his head and asked his subordinates to prepare a set of men's robes and winter hats for her.

This girl accepted it before she saw it, and she was particularly dissatisfied and said: "The man's clothes are so ugly, I don't wear them, and besides, it's embarrassing for me to dress like this and go out?" ”

Jiang Moyu wanted to exercise the power of the eldest brother at that time and slap the table on the spot to reprimand the girl, but the fourth master was still not angry at all, and only smiled and said to the girl: "There are no restrictions on women walking on the street, but only singing and dancing girls can sit at a table with a few men and eat wine." ”

So the girl reluctantly changed into a royal blue robe that Su Peisheng ran out to get back.

Later, the fourth master took advantage of his inattention and pulled the girl to paint her eyebrows, so that her white appearance did not look too feminine.

Walking on the bustling street at this time, the sister next to him wanted a sugar gourd for a while and stopped to watch the monkey for a while, Jiang Mo only had two words for the fourth master: gratitude.

Thank you for tolerating such a noisy side fortune.

Dad, I'm afraid you have to be promoted to a very high level to keep your sister, sometimes you are too ignorant of her.

But thinking about it the other way, if there was no connivance from the fourth master, his sister would not be so comfortable in front of him, Jiang Mo gave the fourth master a grateful look again.

The fourth master is ashamed, because only he knows that he is good to the baby and wants to rub other people's tablets, and the first purpose is not simple.

Jiang Mo saw Li Wei, who had already stood up and walked over, and asked the fourth master again: "It doesn't matter if you have my friends?" ”

The fourth master said with a smile: "It's okay, didn't we just want to see the people when we came out?" In the past, I didn't have the opportunity to meet ordinary friends, and I would like to thank my uncle for taking it. ”

Jiang Mo sighed with emotion, the fourth master is really a good person, he doesn't have any royal brother's shelf, and he is too moved by his attitude towards the eldest brother who is really a folk son-in-law.

Fourth Master: "......"

Jiang Mo and this soul from modern times are really like a brother and sister.