Around Guo lotus, the ripples are excellent, the B&B is connected with the Goufang, and the Yanxie presses the willow wall. The scales are full of households, the cloud forest is dangerous, the thoughtful road is like a stone, and the street is like a star. Tianque flower bridge is everywhere, and Cangmin paintings are heavy. Tong Suo is happy with each other, worthy of all three Wu.

When you first come to Qiantang, the shape is better than the prosperity and more than the old words. There are countless shops, the wine flag is like fog, the peddlers and pawns are even more incalculable, and most of the pedestrians on the road are dressed in emerald hairpins, gold and silver. Traffic, horses, fish and dragons come in and out, and the jade flute and gold are full of buildings. And the most prosperous place of this Qiantang is naturally the east and west cities. Among these two cities, if you want to buy spring listening song and Qinze Huaixiang, it is the east market as the most.

There is a north-south main road in the east market, which is called "Wing Fong Street". The width of the street is more than seven zhang, and the blue bricks with a hundred flowers and painted patterns are paved on the top, and under the symmetry of the red mansions and green willows on both sides, it is more elegant and simple. The southern section of Yongfang Street is mostly ordinary shops selling flowers and tea, weighing meat and tailoring, and the northern section is a brothel of green buildings with warblers singing and dancing.

During the day, the restaurants dedicated to serving prostitutes in these bars are not open, but there are also elegant places for entertaining literati and scholars, playing music and dancing, day and night. And Gu Huanting, one of the four leaders of the four major lines at that time, who was known as "Li Cui in the north and Gu in the south", was in the most prosperous "Yin Curtain Tower" here.

"Mother Xue, Mother Xue, hurry up and go downstairs to take a look......" On the corridor on the second floor of the front hall of the Yin Wei Building, a beautiful girl with hibiscus on her ears, cherry blossom red lips, braided hair, wearing goose yellow, and dancing spoon was leaning on the side of the frame of the door of a loft, and the probe called inward, "It's the son of the Qi family who came to find Sister Gu again, but this time he refused to leave." ”

"It's coming. A helpless and slightly sullen woman's voice came from far and near, and then I saw Xue Ruizhi, the old bustard of Yinweilou, who was called "Mother Xue", walking out of the room with a slightly plump body, wrapped in a wide Xiangfei-colored shirt with a twisted water entwined branches and leaves. After glancing at the girl who had summoned her, he walked to the railing and looked down into the hall, and perhaps saw the patron who gave him a headache, sighed lightly, and then walked downstairs again.

"I just heard Qi Gongzi's Yayin, thinking about which girl was teasing you, and the concubine didn't come down to ......greet you personally," Xue Ruizhi raised the corners of her mouth wantonly, and there was no trace of the previous sorrow in the eyes of the moon who was squeezed into two rounds, "How did you expect that the more you listen to it, the more it tastes, but the girls are not well served......, and your interest is ruined?"

Hearing this, Qi Hanyan bowed to Mother Xue, but his face was displeased: "I have visited your building many times, but I have never been allowed to see it. A few days ago, he said that he was infected with a cold, and today he said that he had something to go out, but he was contemptuous of despicable people and refused to show his face. ”

The Qi family is one of the richest clans in Hangzhou, since Qi Hanyan's grandfather was a cloth and raw silk shop, and now the business is very extensive, cloth shops, teahouses, pawnshops, and wine shops are all involved.

"Qi Gongzi said this, it really tormented the slave family. If a noble person like you can patronize our Yin Wei Tower, that is, to put gold on the slave family, how could Wan Ting not see her son. It's just that a few days ago, Wan Ting was really ill, and she only recovered for three or two days, and she happened to have a personal matter today, so she went out early in the morning. ”

Xue Ruizhi has been immersed in this Goolan teaching workshop since she was a child, and she has already learned to practice human feelings, and in this dusty land, such things cannot be enumerated, she has long been surprised, although she will definitely not dare to have a bad relationship with the Qi family, but she knows that this Qi Hanyan is not an unreasonable and arrogant strongman, and she is not too worried at this time, and Gu Huanting does not mean not to see him. Last month, the weather turned cold, Gu Huanting couldn't add clothes, and she was weak and afraid of cold since she was a child, so she fell ill. However, Xue's mother also understood in her heart that Qi Hanyan was not his father Qi Hengde's son-in-law, but he was born to a maid in a mansion after he was drunk and greedy for pleasure overnight. But then Xu is pitiful, this Qi Hanyan's fortune has undergone earth-shaking changes in the past two years.

Qi Hengde has two wives and concubines, the main room is the daughter of a wealthy businessman in Jiangning, and the side room is Qi Han's derivative mother He. Although Qi Hengde has been prosperous in business for half of his life, he does not have many heirs, and until now he has only two sons and one daughter, and Qi Hanyan's brother and sister are all from the main room. However, just two years ago, Qi Hanyan's brother was unfortunately broken by a gang of bandits and poked his eyes blind, so Qi Hanyan began to contact his own business more at the behest of his father. Even outsiders can see that although this Qi Hanyan is not Qi Hengde's son-in-law, after all, he is also his biological flesh and blood, and it is impossible for the family business to be handed over to his daughter. At the same time, Qi Hengde has no brothers, only four sisters, and his father Qi Mao is already in his last years, and he has long stopped asking about foreign affairs. And he is the real head of the entire Qi family. Now that the eldest son is disabled, the entire Qi family's huge family business can only be entrusted to Qi Hanyan.

It's just that the change came too quickly, a person who was originally not taken seriously, was coldly looked at, and was like an illegitimate child, but he had to quickly learn how to deal with the upper class, and after the initial short-term joy of flying on the branch and becoming a phoenix, he was more at a loss and had an inferiority complex for his mediocre talents.

Although Qi Hanyan also studied in the school, his father and Mrs. Dafang most of the time only regarded him as a subordinate of the house who should not be born, even if Qi Hengde had to accept the He family as a concubine, he did not have a good impression of him, as long as there was a shortage of manpower in the family, he would work at home, and the book would just be read again when he had time.

In the past two years, he has followed the behavior of the literati around him, lest others still regard him as a vulgar person with no ink.

Last year, he heard that Gu Huanting, the new Oiran of Yin Wei Lou, not only has excellent appearance, but also has excellent talent and temperament, and has already made good friends, but he is mediocre in appearance and has no talent, and he is busy with business affairs and does not dare to neglect his father's entrustment, so he has been meeting in the future. It wasn't until last month that I finally made up my mind and came to this Yin Curtain Tower.

Unexpectedly, he visited three times, but he couldn't see it three times, and he couldn't help but think that Gu Huanting had heard rumors about him and despised him, so he avoided it, so he had a seizure here.

"Is that really the case?" Qi Hanyan glanced at Xue Ruizhi and then swept around the second floor, his tone softened slightly.

"But it's not just you, Wanting has been staying at home for more than a month, for fear of losing her honor in front of the guests. Today, I heard you say this, Gongzi, and I wronged my girl. As she spoke, Xue Ruizhi's smile gradually condensed and she let out a long sigh.

Qi Hanyan saw that she was so moved by what she said, and she didn't dare to think about him anymore: "In this way, it is a certain degree of misconduct." Dare to ask when Gu Xingshou will come back?"

Xue Ruizhi frowned, and said slowly: "The girl went out before dawn today, that is, she didn't say why she left, and she didn't say when she would return. Why don't you let the concubine arrange for a few other girls to accompany you?"

"No need, a certain was originally here for Gu Xingshou, since the two of us didn't have a chance to meet, a certain person stayed for a short time and said goodbye. With that, Qi Hanyan bowed and turned around and walked out.

At this time, his face was complicated, as if he was sad and relieved, but he walked slowly thoughtfully, and unconsciously bumped into someone.

"Hey, didn't you wake up and come out, open your eyes wider and walk in the future, if you break Lao Tzu now, you have nowhere to find medicine......" It was a street patrol official who was hit, and he was scolding, and suddenly saw Qi Hanyan's face clearly, and the scolding stopped suddenly, and then sent a sneer, "Unexpectedly...... It's actually Qi Gongzi, has this just finished happily from the Yin Curtain Tower?"

Qi Hanyan ignored him and walked straight past him.

After a while, another slightly younger street patrol officer rushed over when he heard the voice: "Brother Fang, what's wrong?"

Fang Twelve saw that Qi Hanyan had gone away, and spat on the ground: "Grandma's, the salted fish turned over, dare not answer Lao Tzu's words!

Wang Chusan looked at Qi Hanyan with Fang Twelve's eyes, thought for a while, and said, "Isn't that the second brother of the Qi family?"

"Now that the wings are stiff, I don't take Lao Tzu seriously, phew! Lao Tzu will take him sooner or later!"

"Yesterday, I heard Wu Zhisi say that the Qi family had encircled more than 800 acres of land in the countryside in the first two months, although the court did not care, but these villagers must have complaints. The kind of mischief that the boss of his family encountered must have something to do with this, damaging yin and morality......"

In the Song Dynasty, Emperor Taizu Zhao Kuangyin relieved the military power of Shi Shouxin, as compensation, Taizu always allowed these high-ranking officials to invade and annex private land. Second, the imperial court followed the "two-tax system" that had been adopted since the mid-Tang Dynasty, and taxes were levied on land rather than population. Therefore, although the unscrupulous encroachment on private land made most of the land in the hands of a few gentry and high power, it cheapened the imperial court to collect taxes, and even if there were occasional incidents of resentment or even rebellion, successive officials did not want to change this land law.

Just when Fang Twelve was secretly thinking about Wang Chusan's words, a small official rushed over to their side.

I saw him sweating profusely, panting in his mouth, as if he had run for a long time.

"Wait for you to go back quickly, a group of Diao people are making trouble in front of the yamen. With that, the man ran past them and ran forward.

"Didn't you mean that Cao Cao Cao had arrived?" Wang Chusan said in a low voice.

"Hmph, go back and see, what are you talking about here. As he spoke, he hurried in the direction of the county office.