It reminded him of several conversations with Chen Yichen. This kid was as "disobedient" as he is today and never willing to listen to his elders' words.

Since that's the case, let him say anything nonsense.

After Duke Cheng had spoken, Lin naturally did not dare to continue talking. He patted Chen Yichen's arm and finally added: "Yichen, if you like a girl, I will help you propose marriage with your husband."

"Now you are alone in the capital. Although you have not yet entered the genealogy, you can also treat me as your legitimate mother. The family does not need to be polite."

If other maids who had been neglected since childhood heard this, they would probably be moved and crying.

Especially Chen Yichen, who was wandering alone when he was in a teenager and was in a strange and isolated environment, had someone caring like a mother, and helped him consider major events in life and regarded him as a family.

I'm afraid I'm even more moved. I'm recognizing this legitimate mother from the bottom of my heart?

It’s just a pity that Lin’s performance of the film queen can only be evaluated as a negative score for Shen Yichen…

"Thank you Mrs. Zhu."

He thanked Chen Yichen with no pain and a false smile appeared on his face.

Chen Yichen is still not very satisfied with the sincerity of this smile. His acting skills seem to need to be tempered at present and are not thoughtful enough.

After all, before you have enough self-protection ability, you must continue to be with Lin's wife.

Watching Duke Cheng's carriage go away, Chen Yichen was about to move into the mansion, but he found several figures in the corner, looking sneaky.

When I looked closely, I found that there were actually several "acquaintances", the miners who followed Ye Zongliu.

Didn’t this group of miners return to Fujian? Why did they appear in the capital? Could it be that something was wrong with smuggling?

With this doubt, Chen Yichen did not choose to enter the mansion and turned around and walked towards the corner.

As soon as they walked into the remote place, the few people knelt down and said, "The villain is paying homage to Duke Yuan."

Although Juren did not have an official position before he was awarded an official position, in the eyes of ordinary civilians, they were not much different from the official, let alone Chen Yichen was still in Jieyuan.

Just talking about the official body, they cannot get such great gifts from the miners. After all, what they want to do is to kill officials and rebel. The reason for such a heavy courtesy is that Chen Yichen pointed out a way for them to live, and in disguise, he naturally has to be grateful.

"You are welcome, I can't take it as a public name, so you can get up quickly."

Generally speaking, Jie Yuan is called Jie Yuanlang at most, and only the top scholar is qualified to be called "public". However, the common people of the people do not have so many rules. Jie Yuan and the top scholar are both unattainable people in their eyes.

After all, these people have done rebellious business, but they still do not have the mentality of being afraid of officials like tigers like ordinary civilians. After giving great gifts, they all stood up one after another, with a look of excitement on their faces.

"Young Master Chen, do you still remember me? My name is Canghuotou. We have seen it on the boat."

The other person immediately interrupted: "What is Mr. Chen? If you want to call Chen Jieyuan, you don't understand the rules at all."

"Chen Jieyuan, my name is Zheng Xiang."

"I admire Mr. Chen in Zhenjiang that day. I will definitely achieve great things in the future. Now I have passed the Jie Yuan exam."

"By the way, my name is Wang Neng."

Several strong miners introduced themselves while boasting.

In fact, even if he doesn't introduce it, Chen Yichen has an impression of the names of several people, after all, memory is his strength.

"I am happy to see you again after many days, but why are you here?"

Chen Yichen asked curiously, what are these people doing when they hide in the corner of the Duke Mansion? If they are discovered by the guards of the Duke Mansion, they will be in trouble.

"It's not that concierge who looks down on people!"

When Cang Huotou said this, his face was full of anger, and then continued to add: "After we entered the city, we learned that Mr. Chen, you are Jie Yuan in high school, and we also found out that we lived in Duke Cheng's Mansion, so we planned to visit us."

"As a result, the concierge didn't let us in at all, and refused to send us the news, so we had to wait here to see if we could meet Mr. Chen coming out."

Hearing this, Chen Yichen laughed a little. But it was normal to think about it. At the time, he was a literary figure and the concierge was too lazy to pay attention to it. It would be strange if these people were clothed in coarse cloth and linen.

"Then what's the matter with you coming to me today?"

"It's nothing big, I just give you something to Mr. Chen."

After saying that, the strong man named Wang Neng took off the bag on his back and untied it. He thought it was a white silver ingot.

"Mr. Chen, my brothers followed your advice that day and immediately returned to Fujian to find smuggling maritime merchants, and discussed business with the Japanese through them as intermediaries."

"It's true that as Mr. Chen said, these Japanese slaves are stupid and have a lot of money. They not only need all goods, but even copper coins can be exchanged for them."

"We have not gone out to sea yet, and we have made hundreds of taels of silver in trading on the island outside Ningbo. Apart from some of the mining taxes paid to the government and everyone's living needs, Boss Ye asked us brothers to take the sea to bring the rest."

Looking at the bag of silver ingots, Chen Yichen replied with a smile: "Is this going to give it to me?"

Hearing Chen Yichen's question, Cang Huo opened his eyes and replied with a natural expression: "Absolutely, if Mr. Chen hadn't pointed out a way to survive, it might be possible for me and my brother to carry a head. I hope this money will be less."

After saying that, he stuffed the silver ingot into Chen Yichen's hand.

Looking at the silver ingots in his hand, Chen Yichen was a little amused. This group of miners had a few hundred people doing smuggling transactions, and in a few months he had a net profit of about a hundred taels of silver.

And judging from their expressions and behaviors, they seem to be quite satisfied?

To describe it in a sentence from later generations, isn’t this profitable money from selling cabbage and risking selling free fen?

Of course, Chen Yichen couldn't say this directly, otherwise the other party would have misunderstood that he was thinking that he was short of money.

So he turned around and said, "You have worked hard and hard. Why don't you find an inn to hold a welcome banquet and then let you have a good rest."

Although these people did not know how to sneak into the capital, they were still wanted by the government in name. Just bringing them into the government is full of people, which may cause trouble, so it is best to find an inn to let them stay first.

"We brothers traveled day and night on the road, and were not familiar with the capital, so we were bothering Mr. Shen."

"You have also been very kind to you, so you don't need to be polite."

In this way, Chen Yichen took several miners to a relatively remote inn and asked the waiter to serve a table of good dishes.

Looking at Cang Huotou and the others swallowed their voraciously, and finally slowed down after adding a few bowls of rice. Chen Yichen then spoke up to ask some questions.

He really didn't understand that in the late Ming Dynasty orthodox dynasty, he had smuggled trade with Japan, saying that making money was low-key, and it was not an exaggeration to call it robbing money.
Chapter completed!