It is late autumn, and the river breeze blowing from the sky is cold.

Catching up with the autumn grain market, most of the landlords and farmers in the four towns and eight miles only keep one year's household rice grain, and the rest are transported to the market town nearby to sell, in exchange for money to pay the field tax and various assessments, and exchange for salt, oil, sauce and tea and other necessities of life, many people's pots and pans also have to be taken to the market to find craftsmen to mend a gap, a gap or something, so that they can be used again.

This year, Jiangning autumn grain harvest, although the price of grain is cheap, the surplus is still abundant, gritted his teeth fiercely, pulled a piece of cloth to add a new dress to his family before the New Year, and was willing to buy a bag of fruit food wrapped in lotus leaves for the children who came to the market.

The government also took advantage of this time to prepare for Cao, and the Zhuhe Gang took the official letter from the government and the silver to the suburbs and towns to collect and store grain and load it on ships.

It has been more than a month since the Donghai Kou retreated, and the prefectures and counties along the Taihu Lake have temporarily returned to calm, which has little impact on Qiucao.

After the coastal areas of Hongzepu, especially the Shanglin Dumi City in Dongyang Province, ceased to exist, it had a great impact on Qiucao, and the governments of Dongyang and Haozhou could only transport tax silver to Jiangning for preparation. The rice market in Quyang Town is almost half abandoned, which makes the rice market in Longzangpu in the south of the city and the rice market in Shangyuan County extremely congested and chaotic.

The Xihe Society originally planned only one-third of the boats to go to the mouth of the river to prepare for the water, but Sun Jingxuan saw that the situation was not right, and all the boats of the Xihe Society went to the mouth of the river to prepare for the water; It only took four days to prepare 40,000 stone grains, and more than 200 boats were moored in the calm waves in autumn and winter, waiting for the auspicious day to depart.

Cao Road will be much more congested than in previous years, and the possibility of being blocked in front of it is always smaller.

After Sun Wenwan and Wen Pei arrived at the estuary, they first brought gifts to Lin Jingzhong's house to greet Lin Jingzhong's parents, and then returned to the boat to change into men's clothes and then went ashore to go shopping, so as to buy clothes for their fathers and brothers' trip to autumn this year.

In time for the opening of the grass market at the mouth of the river today, there are many villagers and tourists from the four towns and eight miles and the city, and there are not a few women in the village, but it is always convenient to change into men's clothes, and there is no need to worry about the rude staring or words and deeds of those disciples, and then I will go to the bamboo hall to listen to Zhao Shuhan's lectures, and it is always inconvenient for my daughter to go in.

"Let's go to the warehouse first, there's always something new to buy there." After Wen Pei came ashore, he made his own claim.

"Lin Jingzhong may not be in the warehouse, what are you doing in a hurry?" Sun Wenwan said jokingly.

"Which one wants to see him?" Wen Pei said with a blushing face, pulling Wen Wan and the four accompanying congregants to run towards the Jiyun Society warehouse.

The shops in the estuary are mainly concentrated on the nearly 400-step north-south long street, and the first one is the Jiyunshe Warehouse from the riverbank wharf and storage yard.

Although the door of the warehouse is not large, it is very deep. In order to prevent river thieves, the yard of Jiyunshe warehouse is a high wall of blue bricks, the wall base is more than three feet thick, and the houses and warehouses are integrated, and the warehouses have a sandwich road leading directly to the riverside wharf.

Sun Wenwan and Wen Pei walked to the warehouse, and the store was busy collecting and storing grain, and there were many mule and horse carts parked. They didn't see Lin Jingzhong, but they saw Lin Lian squatting under the eaves in front of the warehouse wearing a green cloth robe without any manners, and the old farmer who looked like a villager was talking, looking at him quite leisurely and idle.

Sun Wenwan was about to pull Wenpei out of the way, but she was seen by the sharp-eyed Xiaoman.

"Wan Niang and Sister Wen Pei are here...... "Xiao Manjiao called out.

When Sun Wenwan saw Lin Lian looking up, she could only stiffen her head and give Lin Lian a nondescript salute: "I've seen Lord Lin." ”

Lin Lian's identity was broken by Sun Wenwan, and the old farmer who was spitting Xingzi with his hand on Lin Lian's shoulder knew that the young man in front of him was an "adult", and immediately stammered and hurriedly apologized, picked up the flat shoulder and hemp rope on the side and ran away.

Lin Lian stood up and dusted off his clothes, nodded with Sun Wenwan and Sun Wenpei, and said, "Jingzhong is on the dock, I'll be back in a while, you can sit for a while, ......" He knew that the Sun sisters didn't have a good impression of him, so he didn't say much to him, so he left the warehouse with Xiaoman first.

Lin Tie left, Sun Wenwan's expression was a little more natural, and she couldn't help but glance at the back of Lin Tie leaving, and she didn't notice that there was an ordinary carriage parked diagonally opposite, the curtain of the carriage was lifted to a corner, and a pair of charming and clear eyes were staring at her, revealing a corner of red lips that was as tempting as a flame.

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"I'm bored to death, I said I was pulled to breathe, but you let the carriage stop at the entrance of someone's shop for a long time, and the muddy ball is gone, should we also go?" Hao Mingyue couldn't help yawning, leaned over to look at the long street outside the car window, and asked, "What are you looking at?" ”

There were more than a dozen mule carts full of rice and grain parked on this side of the long street, and there was a smell of mules and horses, and Hao Mingyue frowned, I don't know what my sister-in-law Song Jiayu is interested in looking at, and it takes more than half an hour to look at it.

Outsiders all know that Lin Jian took advantage of the autumn grain market to collect and store grain at the mouth of the river through Jiyun Society, but he didn't know the scale of the storage. The carriage stopped on the side of the street for a while, and Song Jia saw that almost thousands of bags of rice grain had been moved into the warehouse of the Jiyun Society warehouse. On the surface, it seems that Lin Jian appeared in the warehouse with nothing to do, but in fact, it can be seen that he is very concerned about the storage of rice and grain in the warehouse.

In addition, the Jiyun Society also arranged for people to collect and store rice and grain in Zhufu County along the Taihu Lake, and it is difficult for outsiders to know how much rice grain Jiyun Society has collected and stored during this time, how much rice and grain has been transported to Xisha Island, and how much rice and grain have been hoarded in the estuary warehouse of Jiyun Society.

Song Jia was thinking about these things in her heart, speculating that Lin Jian might have deployed to Xisha Island, and she didn't plan to tell Yu Mingyue about these things, turned around, sat with her delicate back against the wall of the carriage, and said with a smile: "Who wants to see that muddy ball!" If it weren't for your brother's brainlessness, how could this muddy ball be so a headache now? He lifted the curtain and told the driver to run and call back the maid who had come to the garment shop to choose clothes for cover.

Listening to the coachman climb down from the front of the car, but the curtain of the car was lifted from the outside, Song Jia thought that it was a frivolous disciple on the street who touched the carriage, picked up the protective silver makeup knife and stabbed it, and as soon as his wrist tightened, the silver makeup knife fell into the hands of the comer.

Song Jia raised his eyes and saw Lin Jian bowing his head and smiling in, so he gave up struggling and said, "Who should I be, it turned out to be Lord Lin." There are just two of us in the carriage, do you think it's appropriate for Lord Lin to break in? ”

"What's out of place? The estuary is not a Longtan tiger's den, but the young lady and Miss luxury also broke in alone, and I didn't ask if the young lady and Miss luxury were suitable," Lin Jian let go of Song Jia's smooth wrist, took the delicate but sharp silver makeup knife in front of his eyes and looked at it, and said with a smile, "Fortunately, I expected the young lady to have this trick, otherwise I would have broken in and stabbed in vain, which is really worth the ......loss."

Song Jia held her sister-in-law's hand lightly, asking her to calm down, her head was slightly off, her clear and bright eyes stared at Lin Lian, smiled, and said: "The estuary is the Longtan Tiger's Den, and I also know that Lord Lin will never bully us weak women with a rare strange man in the world." Today, Lord Zhao of the Criminal Department is lecturing on prison science in Zhutang, and I and other little women want to come over to see Lord Zhao's demeanor, what is inappropriate? ”

Lin Jian stared at Song Jia's plump and beautiful and fair-skinned face as jade, and said with a smile: "There is nothing inappropriate, I came here to invite the young lady and Miss luxury to Zhutang; I didn't expect it to fit the young lady's mind, so it wouldn't be an abrupt beauty. Besides, the young lady and Miss Hao came to the estuary, what kind of business is it for me to hide? "I thought that this woman, in order to make it easier to peep into the mouth of the river and not to alarm this side, left all the accompanying guards outside the south gate of the fence, and it was really bold; If it weren't for the fact that the carriage had been in front of the warehouse for a long time, it would have been hard to notice.

Song Jia heard the sound of the coachman restraining the outside and struggling, leaned over and lifted the curtain of the car, and saw that the front of the car was Lin Bin's guards, and instructed the coachman who restrained him: "Lord Lin invited us to go to Zhutang to listen to Lord Zhao Shuhan's lecture on prison science, there is no fuss, you follow the past is ......" but scolded Lin Jian in his heart: stinky and shameless, others are in his place, and there is a great contradiction with the luxury family, and he always has to take care of his reputation, he is good, and he got into the carriage directly with a dead face, and coerced them with words.

Lin Jian smelled the faint body fragrance coming from Song Jia's body, opened his head slightly, lifted the curtain, and let Xiaoman also sit in the carriage, so that the guards wrapped themselves in the carriage and went to the bamboo hall together.

Gaozu founded the country, and a large number of remnants of the previous dynasty moved to Eastern Fujian, led by eight families such as luxury and Song. Although the eight families also chose to return to the imperial court, they also began the era of eight surnames ruling Eastern Fujian.

For more than 200 years, although the imperial court set up a royal domain in Eastern Fujian, with Jin'an Mansion as the residence of the king of Fujian, the imperial court guarded against the royal domain of the clan more than foreign surnames, so that the eight surnames of Hao and Song had the opportunity to integrate with the local aborigines and become the backbone of the local forces in Eastern Fujian.

Ten years ago, the king of Fujian was killed and raised an anti-flag, setting off a ten-year-long rebellion against the king, and the other seven surnames were also wrapped in it.

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"Why did Lord Lin suddenly climb into that carriage?" Wen Pei stared at the carriage diagonally across the street suspiciously, and the few men dressed as ordinary people crowded around the carriage and walked towards the back street, they were obviously Lin Bin's guards.

"Maybe I met an acquaintance," Sun Wenwan was also guessing who the carriage would be, thinking that the carriage was going to Zhutang, and wanted to go over to see what was going on, and didn't wait for Lin Jingzhong to come back, so he said to Wen Pei, "Let's go to Zhutang, Lin Jingzhong will probably go to Zhutang for a while, you are not afraid that you won't see him today." ”

"Which one wants to see him?" Wen Pei said without admitting it.

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PS: Ask for a red ticket.