Jia Lian sat in the green building in Yangzhou City for a while, and was still in the stage of negotiating the price with the old bustard, so he called the little maid Zhao'er back to the procuratorate. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

The news that Jia Huan was going to pass through Yangzhou, he knew it early on. I had already told the little people who stayed in the procuratorate to keep an eye on it.

Before Jia Lian left Jiafu at the end of June, he asked Jia Huan to help take care of the coal business, and he was worried that Jia Rong was unreliable. Jia Huan told him at that time. I'm going to Jinling in a while. And to Jinling, take the canal, you will inevitably pass Yangzhou. It's common sense.

Jia Huan saw Jia Lian, who had been sitting for a while, in a flower hall in the courtyard on the right side of the courtyard.

Jia Lian was dressed in a brocade robe with a blue background, dressed as a rich son, and his appearance was handsome and chic. Standing up, laughing, stretched out his hand to invite Jia Huan to sit down, "Brother Huan, our brothers see each other again." "The attitude was welcoming.

Jia Huan laughed, everyone likes to be popular, doesn't he? "Sister-in-law Feng asked me to bring winter clothes for Second Brother Lian."

Jia Huan's elder Sui Qian Huai took a package in with a very eye-catching eye and put it on the round table.

Jia Lian glanced at it, his heart was slightly warm, and he felt very good about his wife. Let Chang Sui Wang'er put it away, and said with a smile: "Let Brother Huan see the joke." ”

Jia Huan smiled: "Ruthless may not be a real hero. The love between husband and wife is human nature, what is there to laugh at. ”

Jia Lian laughed, drank tea, and asked about the situation in Jia's mansion in Jia Huan's capital, the coal business, etc., and said, "How many days will Brother Huan stay in Yangzhou City?" I invited the ring brothers to dinner and wine in the evening. Yangzhou thin horse, famous all over the world. Ha ha. ”

Everyone in the world knows that they want to buy a concubine and go to Yangzhou. The Yangzhou thin horses cultivated since childhood, blowing, playing and singing, all of them are fine.

Looking at Jia Lian's expression that you understand, Jia Huan was quite speechless. Although he has several fine beauty lyrics sung in the green building, he is still a child. I have never done anything at all. Immediately, he said, "I'm going to visit Sha Observation in a while." It is expected that after participating in the Mid-Autumn Festival poetry meeting of the Wang family, a big salt merchant, tomorrow night, he will go to Jinling. ”

Jia Lian said in surprise: "Hey, can Brother Huan participate in Wang Heting's Mid-Autumn Festival poetry meeting?" Immediately, he slapped his forehead suddenly. Haha, look at me. ”

There are three major salt merchants in Yangzhou City, namely: Wang Heting, Zheng Yuanjian, and Ma Juntai. Each has a nest of more than 60,000 yuan, and a net worth of at least millions of taels of silver.

Most of the gardens on both sides of the Xiaoqinhuai River were built by salt merchants. Among them, the gardens of the three major salt merchants are the most outstanding. The West Garden of the Wang family, the water and cloud double pavilions of the Zheng family, and the small Linglong Mountain Pavilion of the Ma family are famous in Yangzhou City.

At the Mid-Autumn Festival poetry meeting held in the West Garden, the banquet must be full of officials, scholars, and famous prostitutes. Of course, it's not hard to get in.

Jia Lian had a task on him, but he didn't actually mean to test Jia Huan.

Aunt Lin has been patrolling the salt imperial history for two terms, and I don't know how much net worth he has accumulated, if he doesn't give it to Jiafu, can he still give it to others?

Jia Huan chatted with Jia Lian for a while, and then ended the idle conversation with Jia Lian. He was going to visit Sha Sheng.

…

Lin Ruhai saw Jia Huan in the afternoon, talked for a while, fell asleep tiredly, and woke up leisurely at night. In the drug-filled bedroom, the light is dim.

The little concubine Yurong was crying silently by the bed. In a situation like the master, even if she is a wife and guards a daughter, she will be very sad for the rest of her life. Not to mention that Lin Daiyu is not the daughter of several of their concubines.

Even a concubine like her who has a marriage contract (the main wife is a marriage certificate) is full of uncertainty about her future and future. Will you marry in the future, or will you keep it? The key is that if there is not even a son, the Lin family will be scattered. How do you keep it?

"Yu Rong, what are you crying about?" Lin Ruhai raised his arm with great effort, a sad smile on his face, "I will arrange it." ”

Yu Rong saw Lin Ruhai wake up, and sobbed: "The concubine felt nostalgic for a while, which disturbed the master. "Serve Lin Ruhai and drink some soup and medicinal juice.

Lin Ruhai sighed and asked, "Do you think Jia Ziyu and Jia Lian, who is more appropriate to entrust the future?" ”

Yu Rong was stunned, bowed her head and said, "But according to the master's will." "Actually, one is called by the word and the other is called by the name, do you still need to ask what the master thinks? But she thinks that a young man can't afford such a big event, right?

Lin Ruhai smiled lightly and said weakly: "******** is mostly a scholar. Jia Ziyu is a young prodigy and is famous all over the world. The world says that he is a poet and a genius. Respect the teacher and be of good character. There are a lot of rumors, and they are all beautiful words. I've got to give it a try. ”

Yu Rong looked at her husband lying on the bed in surprise and asked, "How is the master going to try?" Do you want a concubine to cooperate? ”

Lin Ruhai showed a clear expression, "These evaluations are all from the bosses in the officialdom. I just need to verify whether he is or not: poetry is heavenly. You can know if his comments are true or false. ”

If he had time, he could certainly examine Jia Huan's character in detail. But he didn't have time. I can only believe in the virtue, vision, and reputation of those high-ranking officials who evaluate Jia Huan.

Those who "boasted" about Jia Huan include: Sha Sheng Sha Shoudao in Yangzhou City, Yu Shi Qichi, the right capital of the Metropolitan Inspection Yuan, and Fang Wang, the Shangshu of the Nanjing Ministry of Rites.

Yu Rong understood and said in surprise: "So, you let him go to the Wang family's West Garden Poetry Meeting tomorrow night?" ”

Lin Ruhai smiled.

Huan Hai has been in the sea for many years, and finally sat in the position of patrolling the salt imperial history, how could he be a scholar who doesn't know anything?

…

Jia Huan came out of the procuratorate in the old city of Yangzhou, took Qian Huai and gifts in a carriage to the Yamen of the Fenshou Road in the new city.

It will be late, and the yamen will have long since dispersed. Jia Huan handed over the post, and was soon led to a flower hall by a small official. After a while, I saw a middle-aged man coming in from outside the door, with a smile on his face, "At the beginning of August, the mountain grew through Yangzhou, and Zeng Yan Ziyu arrived later." Sure enough. ”

Jia Huan hurriedly got up and said in surprise: "Mr. He! "It was the staff of He who came from the original mountain chief's side. Because he sat in Wendao Academy, Jia Huan has always called him Mr.

Zhang Anbo, the chief of the mountain, went to Jinling to serve as a waiter in the Nanjing Ministry of Rites. It was an idle job, and the staff were all dismissed. only brought the eldest sons Zhang Chengjian, Pang Ze, and Master Tian. I didn't want to observe what staff he met here. It turned out that he was recommended by the mountain chief to Sha Guan as a master.

When the old people meet, it is a narrative.

Master He twisted his beard and smiled: "It's unfortunate that Ziyu came, Dong Weng went to the Zheng family's Shuiyun Shuangxue in the northern suburbs outside the city to attend the banquet. I want to talk to the big salt merchants about the backlog of salt classes over the years. Tonight, I will do the east and taste the style of 'riding a horse leaning on the bridge, full of red sleeves' in Yangzhou City. Ziyu's visit, wait for Dong Weng to come back tomorrow. ”

This is the period of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, the former Shu Prime Minister Wei Zhuang's Bodhisattva: "Now I remember Jiangnan Music, when I was young and thin." Riding a horse leaning on the bridge, full of red sleeves. ”

Jia Huan smiled bitterly and said, "I am a guest and a host." He just pushed Jia Lian's flower wine in the courtyard. Now it's Master He's turn to flower wine. Come to think of it, Master He went to Yangzhou, a place full of fireworks, to be a master, and he received a lot of red envelopes.

Yangzhou salt merchants are rich!

Jia Huan naturally wouldn't pretend to be forced in front of Master He and say: I don't drink flower wine. When he was in the middle of the year last year, together with Senior Brother and Luo Junzi, he didn't know how many times he drank Huajiu. He has basically seen all the famous prostitutes in the capital. Of course, that is, drinking and not doing anything else.

Immediately, Master He took Jia Huan out of the branch office and went to the Xiaoqinhuai River. The joy of the Great Zhou Dynasty, like the Ming Dynasty, took the home route. But in the water town south of the Yangtze River, it is also a great pleasure to take famous prostitutes, board the painting boat, and swim in the water of the Qinhuai River at night.

Master He chatted with Jia Huan as he walked, "I really didn't expect Lin Chayuan to be the uncle of your mansion." It's a pity..."

Jia Huan knew what Master He meant. Obviously, Lin Ruhai's illness is not a secret in Yangzhou City.

In the city of Yangzhou, the water network is dense. Between the new city and the old city is the small Qinhuai River, which leads directly to the Slender West Lake outside the city. In the evening night, the painting boats gathered. The lights are on. Prosperous anomalous.

Master He acted like an old driver, and quickly negotiated with Hu Jiuniang, who was engaged in the service industry, to charter a building boat and take Jia Huan to board the painting boat. Boating in the river.

It is almost the Mid-Autumn Festival, and the bright moon is in the sky. The boat flows and the moon shadow ripples in the river. The beautiful scenery of Rusi made Jia Huan, who has come from hundreds of years, also quite intoxicated.

Jia Huan and Master He were drinking and chatting in the boat. A beautiful woman is playing a guzheng from three meters away. played "Fishing Boat Singing Night".

Master He and Jia Huan drank a glass of wine and sighed: "I have Dong Weng's trust and am in charge of criminal affairs. However, Dong Weng is facing problems with money and food, and I want to do my part. Yangzhou's salt class is a big problem. I'll talk about the situation, and Ziyu will help me come up with an idea. ”

Jia Huan nodded.

He actually wanted to vomit a little in his heart: Anyway, aren't we drinking flower wine now? (To be continued.) )