In the study, Xu Hai said angrily: "Brother, you have to avenge me!" Most of my money was deceived by Zhong Tancai, and he dared to come back? Grandma's, you must not let him go. ”

Xu Song said: "That's you stupid, you don't take it as a warning after being fooled once, and you are calculated one after another." People insist that they are losing money in business, and they are hindered by their younger siblings, what can they do with him? ”

"I, didn't he actually put ??" Xu Hai's voice stopped abruptly, and his heart became empty.

Xu Hao glared at him fiercely, to say that Zhong Tancai was also ruthless, he actually used his wife and daughter to hook up with Xu Hai, and after defrauding a large sum of silver, he immediately turned his face and sold the mother and daughter to others and returned to Jinling alone.

A few years passed, and he thought that Xu Hai was difficult to speak, so he didn't say it, so the Xu family didn't pursue it. Do you really think the Xu family's money is easy to cheat? Xu Hao showed a sneer.

Zhong Tancai's father was originally a rich man, and he tried every possible way to show off his son's talent, but Zhong Tancai's qualifications were mediocre and his studies were unsuccessful, so he was disappointed when he arrived at the examination room.

Later, he spent money to accept the prisoners, and he has been studying in the Guozi Prison, and then until his parents died one after another, Zhong Tan failed to be admitted to Xiucai.

At that time, Zhong Tan traveled widely and spent money generously, but in a few years, he lost all his family property and couldn't get along in Jinling, so he ran to Songjiang Mansion with his wife and children. Because he caught up with the good times, he swaggered and deceived everywhere in the name of the Jinling family, and it was a time of chaos.

But the empty shelf is an empty shelf after all, and if the east wall is demolished to make up the west wall, sooner or later it will be exposed, and he will return to Beijing to encourage Xu Hai to go to Songjiang Mansion to make money, and take the opportunity to use various means to take the Xu family's tens of thousands of taels of silver as his own.

Now that he is older, Zhong Tan is tired of playing outside, and comes back quietly. His temperament also changed greatly, and he became stingy and stingy, and the silver could only enter but not leave. I am no longer greedy for enjoyment, not only do I live very frugally, my family only gives half a bucket of white rice a day, and the two maids only give half a liter, and I don't see one or two meats when I am idle.

On this day, the fog rose to the southeast, and it was about to rain. Xu Hao and his family ate wine in the Water Pavilion, Xu Hai deliberately ignored Zhong Kegu and Wu Yechun, raised his glass and said: "I am shallow in knowledge, I can't compare to my sisters-in-law, this wine is good to be appreciated by both the elegant and the vulgar." ”

Zhong Kegu and Wu Yechun smiled bitterly. Who made Shuangshuang recommend his own white-eyed wolf, but Shuangshuang was hated by her husband.

Xu Hu shouted: "Don't embarrass me, although I studied for many years when I was a child, and I have returned it to my husband all these years, I will still be fined three glasses, and the wine order will not come." ”

Behind him stood the two concubines, and Fu was still guarding the widow outside, and no one knew if Fu would be able to hold on.

Xu Hao didn't dare to face the two younger brothers who were not angry all day long, and said with a smile: "The wine order is as strict as the military order." No one is allowed to obstruct it, why do you dare to make a noise first when the commander has just issued an order? First fine three glasses of wine, if anyone still violates the order. Take a large cup and punish ten cups in a row. ”

Xu Hu stretched out his tongue when he heard this, and he didn't dare to be wordy anymore. Wang Xuanqing asked the two concubines to pour three glasses of punishment wine and put them in front of Xu Hu, without waiting for anyone to speak, the second daughter wanted to flatter the Xu family. took the initiative to force him to drink dry in one go.

Xu Hu was helpless, so he had to pour three glasses of wine into his stomach with a bitter face.

Xu Hai smiled and drank the cup first. said: "I mean, the four words of wind and snow. From the first word, each fly a sentence of Tang and Song poems, and fly to the seventh word, according to the order, not to fly upside down. Each person drinks his own wine, and those who can't say it are fined five glasses, and everyone is given one glass; Please say on behalf of others, say a wrong word penalty a cup, fly to the local scenery or the scene, everyone congratulate a cup. I'm the commander, so I'll fly from me first. ”

After everyone agreed, he said, "I don't believe that Lingzhi is weak. ”

Xu Hao sat in the main seat, and then it was his turn to fly the second word "wind", and said without thinking: "The spring breeze is proud." ”

Wu Yechun immediately praised: "The third brother is a character in the Golden Horse Jade Hall, his export is extraordinary, and everything will be good in the coming year." ”

Everyone agreed, and they all raised their glasses together to congratulate, Xu Hao said helplessly: "This is at home, how can you learn the one outside?" ”

The banquet is to adopt the pattern of male left and female right, followed by Xu Song, Xu Song thought for a while, and flew a sentence: "The spring breeze in February is like scissors." ”

Yuan smiled: "Although it is not very appropriate, it is finally said, oops, it is not good." ”

Immediately, the women laughed, but the men didn't react, and they were all dumbfounded.

Just as he was about to pass the order, Wang Xuanhong suddenly came over and stopped him, saying, "Wait! Then he poured three glasses of wine and put them in front of Xu Hai.

Xu Hai was stunned for a moment and asked, "Why do you want to punish me?" That is, it is wrong, and there is no reason for the magistrate? ”

Wang Xuanhong smiled and said, "The fifth master drank first, and then told you about the reason for the punishment." ”

Xu Hai naturally refused, Wang Xuanhong said: "If what I said is not right, you will be punished twice as much." ”

"Okay." Xu Hai has always been easy-going, and he drank three glasses happily at the moment.

Wang Xuanhong said with satisfaction: "The third master said the second word 'wind', so the third word 'wind' hasn't flown yet, how can he jump to the fourth word 'wind'?" It's okay if the fourth master said that he was wrong, why didn't you report it as an order, and you had to be corrected by others for you, do you want you to make a show of it? ”

Xu Hai realized at this time, and laughed and said: "I should be punished, I should be punished." Hurriedly punished Xu Song with a cup and asked him to say another word.

Xu Song couldn't think of it for a while, so he simply drank five glasses of fine wine in a row, and then held a pot to toast everyone, and his wife Yuan flew a sentence: "I am only worried about the wind and the loss of Hongfang." ”

Yuan sat beside Zhong Kegu, and said casually: "The east wind is drizzling." ”

Wu Yechun and Xiangling were standing side by side outside, whispering, Xu Hai shouted: "You only care about talking, and you can't even care about the wine order." If you intentionally disobey the order, you will be fined ten cups. ”

Wu Yechun didn't agree: "If you want to pass the order, you have to greet the commander earlier, I don't say that the commander is not, why should you punish us for wine?" Isn't that intentional? ”

There are words in this, Xu Hai said: "You are at fault first, and now even your brother and sister-in-law are obeying the order, but you dare to fight back if you know your mistake and do not change it, and you will be fined 20 cups." ”

Wu Yechun became more and more unconvinced, the couple quarreled, and Mu Ningxue said, "Okay, okay, let's punish five cups." ”

At this time, the heavy rain fell, and the dripping eaves were soon strung into a silk rain curtain, Xu Hao looked outside, and inexplicably said: "The fog rises in the southeast, the peasants stop their farming, the travelers lag their clothes, wilt their wives and grass, think of the king and grandson of the Chu country, the light breeze, and look at the goddess of Han Zhuo." Hehe! It's like a spring dream. ”

Wang Xuanqing asked, "What does this mean?" ”

"Nothing." Xu Hao smiled mysteriously.

At the same time, Zhong Tan saw that it was raining heavily, and called the two family members to come out and close the door, and he stretched out his neck to look out of the door.

I saw a small sedan chair parked downstairs at the door, and a fair woman in white clothes stood under the eaves, surrounded by a few young maids, and a simple-looking descendant with a square scarf and also wearing plain clothes, and a few family members standing in the distance to avoid the rain.

The later life saw Zhong Tancai, guessed that it was the master, and hurriedly stepped forward to give a salute and said: "Because of the rain to temporarily disturb the Zun Mansion, I have to do it, and I hope that the staff is not strange." ”

Zhong Tan saw that it was the daughter of a large family, and said politely: "I don't know if you are here, you are not welcomed, please sit inside." Don't know how to be satisfied, honoring the name? ”

Hou Sheng said: "The younger brother's surname is Wang, the name is Qiao, that is the sister-in-law, because of the unfortunate death of the brother-in-law, today is the third anniversary, accompany the sister-in-law to the grave to pay respects, do not want to return to the heavy rain, for a time the road can not go, is discussing to rent an empty house, rest overnight, leave tomorrow morning." I wonder if there is a clean and empty room in the Zun Mansion? ”

Zhong Tan said that renting a few rooms to them can make a little money, that is, if they ask for wine and food, it will not be good, so he said: "There are empty houses, but the kitchen is turned off at night, this." ”

"It doesn't matter." Wang Qiao hurriedly said: "We brought our own wine and food, just ask for the house, and we will start at dawn tomorrow, and we will not trouble your mansion." ”

Zhong Tancai smiled: "Since you don't dislike the grass house, then please come in." ”

Wang Qiao said: "Thank you for leaving. He immediately took out two taels of silver and sent them over with both hands.

Zhong Tancai deliberately said: "How can this be reasonable! Brother Wang is vulgar, take it back quickly. ”

Wang Qiao insisted: "If you don't accept it, the little brother won't dare to disturb the house." ”

"Then it's better to be respectful than to obey." Zhong Tan reluctantly smiled, and when he saw that the woman had already gotten into the sedan chair, he smiled and said, "Please come into the back hall for tea." ”

So when they all arrived in the living room, the two sides inevitably had to see each other again, and a delicate young beauty came out of the sedan chair, and stepped forward to say ten thousand blessings.

Zhong Tan couldn't help but look at the other party when he returned the salute, it can be said that the hibiscus is the face and the willow is the waist, the eyes are extraordinarily delicate, the cloud dress is light, and the white-clothed master descends into the sky. With such a charming beauty in front of him, Zhong Tan was suddenly shocked.

The accompanying family put incense burners and lamps, which is the habit of a rich and noble family. He took out the dishes from the food box and set up two tables. The maid waited for the beauty to clean her face and hands, and she was about to eat with men and women.

Zhong Tan was about to avoid it, Wang Qiao pulled him and didn't let go, and sat down under the pretense of pushing and conceding, and the two of them chatted with each other.

The beauty Wang took a few strokes of the chopsticks and stopped eating, and the maid finished eating in a hurry and scattered the dishes to the family and the palanquin man. Zhong Tan saw that people were not eating, so he hurriedly instructed the girl to clean up the guest room, instructed her to put on a new bedding, and asked Wang to go over and rest.

He and Wang Qiao continued to drink, and after drinking for a long time, Zhong Tan asked, "What did your brother-in-law do when he was alive?" ”

Wang Qiao sighed and said: "Speaking of which, my brother-in-law was a happy person when he was alive, and his ancestors left him thousands of acres of countryside, three generations of single-handed only sons, and he enjoyed endless wealth. After the death of his parents, his brother-in-law felt that he would be thirty years old and had no heirs, who will he lose this wealth to in the future? Therefore, for the sake of future generations, I consulted some Taoist monks and took some elixirs, not wanting to lose my life.

Now that I have left my sister, I am only twenty-five years old this year, how can I stay old for the rest of my life? Even if it is kept, who will inherit the property? It's not the same as cheaper for outsiders. Therefore, at the end of the three-year period, I tried to find a creative husband for her, just to be a loyal man, to give him a beautiful wife and a great family inheritance. (To be continued......)