"Golden Arch Tower" is the largest restaurant in Yanggu County, located in the most prosperous street in the west of Sunshine County, six rooms and two storey high restaurants, the style is very magnificent, in this small place in Yanggu County, it is also regarded as a first-class place.

Like most of the high-grade transactions in Yanggu County, the Golden Arch Building is also the property of the Ximen family. It was opened by a senior in the Simon family who had been walking the rivers and lakes for half his life and liked to eat, drink and cook. The scene of this restaurant is large, magnificent, and the taste of authentic Kaifeng dishes, the price is fair, and the diners who come and go every day are endless, full of seats, and the business is very prosperous.

The Fan officials of the Fan family in Yanggu are also frequent visitors to the Golden Arch Tower. After he was awarded the title of Jiupin General Shilang, he no longer lived in Fanjia Town in the countryside of Yanggu County, but lived in Yanggu County with a concubine who was originally a famous trick in Yunzhou, and set up a mansion next to the Golden Arch Tower.

Don't look at him, he is just a general from Jiupin Shilang who has not been sent, but he also has 12 official salaries per month, and 144 taels a year. Fan Daguan also found a position as a county school teacher in Yanggu County, and the teacher's monthly income plus the filial piety of the students can also have an income of hundreds of yuan a year. Combined, there are about 250 taels a year. This amount of money is not enough to spend in Kaifeng Prefecture, but it is not a small amount of money in Yanggu County, where prices are low.

In addition, the concubine of Fan Daguan also has a private house of two or three thousand yuan, which is invested in a Ximen family's children to open a library (pawnshop), and she also has an interest of four hundred yuan a year to eat.

Therefore, the small life of Fan Daguan and his wife is quite comfortable and comfortable. There are servants in the house, and the daily meals are either to go down to the restaurant, or to let the servants go to the restaurant to order food to take home. Every once in a while, the couple can go to Yunzhou City to have fun together, which is really a fairy day.

Therefore, Fan Daguan also got the nickname of "Fan Xiaoyao" in Yanggu County. To be more honest, although the Ximen Crane of the Ximen family has tens of thousands of family properties, and when he was young, he also had a lot of concubines and concubines, and he was always in business, surrounded by friends on the rivers and lakes, and it seemed to be infinitely beautiful, but it could not be called the word "leisurely". Now that I'm getting older, my body has been damaged by hard work and indulgence, and I'm trapped by a lot of mundane chores, and I have an unconscious heroine's granddaughter, so my life is even more carefree......

"Fan Xiaoyao" had already left the mansion of the Ximen family at this time, and called Fan Zhijin and Fan's mother to go to the Golden Arch Tower together, and discussed the tragic experience of Ximen Qing Ximen Woman while eating supper.

"Alas, I really didn't expect that a girl as good as Sister Ximen would be ruined by a thief like this!"

Fan's mother, Liu, was still sighing again and again, obviously reluctant to become such a good girl's concubine.

"This Ximen family is useless, why are you afraid of a rich merchant in Kaifeng?" Fan Daguan sighed, "What's so great about this kind of person being Jiangmen's house slave?" Just a businessman. ”

Fan Daguan, who has taken the Rite Department Contest, has some social experience, and knows that the prostitute who can make the Ximen family willingly sacrifice Sister Ximen is definitely not an ordinary prostitute. It is impossible to make a doorman, so the old man of Ximen doesn't have to talk about it, then he is probably a slave of the noble family.

Fan Zhijin said disdainfully: "The Ximen family is a people at the end of the industrial and commercial industry, and no one has been able to get an official for two or three generations, so naturally they can't afford to provoke the generals. But what is this kind of slave to my Yanggu Fan family?

If the Simon family really opened their mouths, would my family still sit idly by? ”

"You can't generalize," Fan Daguan shook his head and looked at his nephew who was a little arrogant, "If you are a high school jinshi, you naturally don't have to be afraid of these generals." But you're just a kid now...... Although ordinary slaves are not afraid, it is enough to choke when they really meet the kind of slaves in the noble family who are just red. ”

"Even if it's popular, you don't dare to provoke my Yanggu Fan family!" Fan Zhijin snorted, "No matter how noble the slave is, he is also a slave, but my family is a scholar!" My dynasty is a world with scholars, and if a slave dares to bully my family, it is an enemy of the world's doctors and scholars! ”

"That's right...... too," Fan nodded.

If it is a noble child, it is a different matter, but the slave is an inferior person after all, even if he gets rich in business and has a million family properties, he still cannot be compared with a scholar.

If there is a conflict between the two, then Kaifeng Shilin will not watch the scholar being bullied by the slaves, not to mention the servants of the Xungui family, even the nobles of the royal family, and they will still be scared to death by the imperial history who wants to make a name for himself.

A merchant slave...... Hmph, if you really want to be bitten by the imperial historians, the bankruptcy is light, and you have to give your life if you don't know it.

"yes!" Mother Fan echoed, "Sister Ximen was bullied by a thief, and she should beg my family to take the lead!" How can you give Sister Simon away? And Sister Simon is the first thing my family looks at, how can I let someone who is like a subordinate rob a good thing? And he also called Sister Ximen a concubine, which is really too deceitful, is there no one in Yanggu County? ”

Fan Zhijin gritted his teeth, "You can't be like this...... In this world, there is always justice! I want to see what kind of holiness this whore is! ”

Fan Daguan seemed to be moved by his nephew's enthusiasm, nodded and said, "Yes!" There are always our scholars who can make a living for the people! ”

The spirit of the three members of the Fan family is difficult to understand in the eyes of later generations, but in the Song Dynasty...... They are people who study and become scholars, and they have a share of the task in the world!

Their scholars share the world with the Son of Heaven, so they just have to take care of the injustices in the world!

Even if the Son of Heaven did something wrong, there are still people who dare to make a direct admonition!

As for a wealthy businessman like Wu Haogu, he is really not in the eyes of a rural scholar like the Fan family. If you really want to get up, it must be Wu Haogu who suffers - this kind of thing is unimaginable in later generations, but it is natural in the Song Dynasty.

Because of the words of sharing the world with the doctors...... The vast majority of people take it seriously!

Therefore, no matter how rich Wu Haogu is, he is not one of the many small masters in the world...... Unless he holds back a jinshi!

And although the Yanggu Fan family doesn't have much money, they are a bunch of old farmers who are studying, but they have their share in the world!

This is probably the difference between a master and a slave......

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"Big brother, tomorrow I will go to Kaifeng Mansion with Brother Chai...... I have to talk to the military officials about the value of the eldest sister. ”

At the same time, Ximen Matchmaker was discussing Ximen Qing's "pricing" with Ximen Crane and Chai Lao Yuanwai, oh, Ximen Qing himself was also present.

Because of her pregnancy, her figure is much plump and mature - she is not the kind of slender woman in the first place, but because of long-term exercise and diet control, she has been able to maintain her figure. Now that she is pregnant with a child, she naturally can't dance a knife, pull a gun, pull a bow and ride a horse, and she eats a lot, and she has gained one or twenty pounds after returning to Yanggu County...... The front chest is even more bulging out, and it has become two peaks!

"Seventh aunt, what are you talking about?" Ximen Qing has also let go now, and no longer takes the matter of her unmarried pregnancy to heart, and when she heard the words of Ximen matchmaker, she said angrily, "You treat me as a red horn trick?" Want to sell to Wu Dalang? ”

"What do you know, girl?" Granny Ximen glared at Ximen Qing, "Do you know that in the law of the Great Song Dynasty, concubines are also divided into three, six, nine and so on?" ”

Are concubines still ranked? Ximen Qing was stunned, she really hadn't studied it.

Granny Simon asked again, "How many concubines do you think you can be?" ”

Ximen Qing straightened his big chest, "I'm first-class!" ”

"Phew!" Ximen's mother-in-law took a sip of Ximen Qing, "Think beautiful!" The most superior of the concubines is Teng Erwei's concubine. ”

"Hurt to be a concubine?" Ximen Qing didn't know why.

Ximen's mother-in-law said: "From marrying to Teng, in ancient times, it was a sister with the same surname who married to Teng." However, there is no rule in our dynasty that Teng, the daughter of a concubine, is a concubine of a commoner, a daughter of a eunuch. Concubine Teng's status is second-class as a wife, and she can be corrected to fill the house. If Wu Dalang's unmarried wife is generous enough, you will be her servant, then my family will not buy concubines. ”

It turned out that this was the case, Ximen Qing pondered: Is it just that Sister Pan is willing to "hurt" me?

"After Teng is a concubine, he will buy and become a concubine." Granny Simon continued.

Ximen Qing asked unashamedly: "Isn't there still a concubine?" ”

"What's the run? That was the rule of old times. Ximen's mother-in-law said, "There is no such rule now, you and Wu Dalang are **, according to the law of the Great Song Dynasty, they will be sentenced to one and a half years in prison!" ”

"Prison sentence?" Ximen Qing snorted a few times, not caring.

In fact, the location of Wu Haogu and her ** is Xijin Mansion in Liao State, and this crime should be under the jurisdiction of the Nanjing Provincial Police Patrol Hospital, not the Qingtian of the Great Song Dynasty...... And the current Nanjing Provincial Police Patrol Ma Zhi is still connecting Wu Haogu with her, how can he be an accomplice, right?

Mother-in-law Ximen continued: "If you can't win Teng Er's concubine, you can only retreat and sell Qing'er to Wu Dalang." There are also rules for buying concubines, you need to find a tooth, write a good turtle book, conclude a deed of sale, determine that the seller is voluntary, the way is legal, the buyer agrees, and then the price is discussed. ”

"Bargaining?" Ximen Qing frowned, "Then how much should I talk about?" ”

"You, you are beautiful and have martial arts, and you won't be cheap." Granny Ximen looked at Ximen Qing with a look at livestock, "Three or four thousand is almost enough!" ”

"What? Just...... Three or four thousand? Ximen Qing was not happy when he heard this price, "It's too cheap, right?" ”

"Cheap?" Granny Simon snorted, "What do you think the price of a concubine is?" Three or four thousand yuan is already a sky-high price, unless it is the head of the red line of Kaifeng Mansion, otherwise it is impossible to have a higher price...... However, how much money is sold is not a good thing for my family, and now it is Teng Er's concubine who has to fight. ”