Chapter 287
The sounds of quarrels and hawking and juggling filled Guangyefang in the east city of Yangzhou. The bitter and sweet springs and sweet river capital were bustling among the people. The north and south canals run through and the east and west salt canals gather. Once we set foot here, the pink walls and black tiles were still there. However, the Yangzhou branch changed its manager, and the Salt Censor's Office in the North City was also incorporated into the Lianghuai Salt Transportation Office.
It's really a bit like "the human face is not known where to go, but the peach blossoms still smile in the spring breeze."
Jia Cong changed into a satin robe and wore a square flat scarf. He accompanied him to look up at the universe. He looked down at the betel nut king and Chen Sanguan, the president of the Yangzhou Chamber of Commerce. The betel nut king caught up with him in the Gaoyou waterway.
After walking in the market, Jia Cong stopped around the horse-head wall, which was about ten steps away from the Yangzhou Branch of Shanhai Bookstore. Chen Sanguan smiled gracefully: "Sir, this place was accepted by the adults who could only be drafted by the people. Nowadays, the more refugees, the more water transportation, the more frequent customers and the more workers they hired, the land and housing prices increased, and the prices of land and housing were getting higher and higher. Not long after the adults left, the eight-legged articles were easy to sell, and they have only been neglected recently."
"I asked the three wives of the adults to get off the road. The grass-roots were escorted in a hurry. Please ask for it." Chen Sanguan seemed to have many words that could not be finished, but he wanted to say it but stopped, so he didn't rush to say it.
"Okay." Jia Cong said concisely: "If you have anything to say tomorrow, I will go out to inspect Gaoyou, Jiangdu at that time."
As he said that, Jia Cong calmly entered the Yangzhou branch. Someone helped to take care of him. In order to please him, he felt relieved of Sanyou, but he had to take a few glances to ensure that they were safe and sound.
Chen Sanguan here greeted the betel nut king. The betel nut king had a slightly dark skin and a stout figure. He was a typical northern man. Chen Sanguan was shorter, but he was fatter and whiter. When he asked about the betel nut king's background, he asked his name. The betel nut king smiled and said, "Someone's surname is Gui, and his name is Bu Yan."
"Okay, it's so expensive." Chen Sanguan said casually: "Looking at Gui Chaofeng is a northerner, it's rare to speak Jianghuai dialect. The Censor is Gui Chaofeng..."
"As the business in the north and south goes far, the Jianghuai dialect and Wu dialect are spoken smoothly, and Gui doesn't know how to speak hometown dialect." Gui Buyan put on airs: "What is Jia Jingshi, an old friend, an old friend..."
As he said that, Gui Buyan mysteriously pulled the Buddhist beads in his hand, which looked like the orchid finger of the Buddha.
"Oh..." Chen Sanguan's thoughts became moving: "It's all people in the business world, so we can talk. In Huai'an, Eunuch Liu punished a betel nut king, so we were worried. As soon as my father-in-law arrived in Weiyang, he started to collect fireworks taxes and collect beauties... Oh, Gui Chaofeng, he was talking, look at my memory, hurry up, go have a drink with Chen."
Gui Buyan's face turned red, but he didn't admit it even if he was beaten to death. He was the betel nut king who had been cured and went upstairs with a smile.
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As soon as they arrived at the backyard patio, Jia Cong was welcomed by You Erjie. You Erjie was fetching water to wash private clothes. When they arrived in the living room, You Shi and You Sanjie also came out. They were better. You Erjie seemed to be easily moved. For a while, the tenderness and sweetness of their eyes could not be concealed.
"Have you sent a letter from your house?" Yu asked, "How do you say it."
"My room has nothing to say." Of course, Jia Cong couldn't tell them the letter of his wife and concubine. "It's just that the family is discussing the relationship between the second sister and the third sister. The second sister has not yet decided. If the third sister says, the master wants to decide on the overseas side of Qianxiang Country, and is still discussing it."
You Shi was silent for a while, "I don't know what they have become."
"I have another thing to do." Jia Cong said: "I am going to give a concubine gift to my second and third sisters. In this way, the officials in Yangzhou, Tongzhou and Zhenjiang will be embarrassed not to give gifts. The bigger the official position, the more gifts I will be able to carry out river management in Gaoyou, Jiangdu. Of course, this is also an explanation for you."
"I am a patrol now. I don't have to tell my family if I have a concubine outside, and you don't have to go back with me. Just here, so as to save a lot of quarrels and disputes."
You Erjie and You Sanjie lowered their heads and smiled, but there was nothing unhappy, but Youshi did not have such treatment. It was not that Jia Cong refused to give her, but that he could not get it, in order not to give people too many handles to catch her.
You Shi held back her tears and smiled and said, "I would like to thank you for the two girls. I will handle it here."
Jia Cong felt a little more guilty. You Erjie and You Sanjie quickly turned their eyes away. Jia Cong said, "I will be with you tonight."
"No." Youshi wanted to say something, but she seemed to be difficult to speak, touched her lower abdomen and said, "I have seen the doctor and said it was a happy pulse..."
"..." Jia Cong stayed there on the spot, thrusting his open mouth.
Happy pulse? So fast?
"You..." You originally thought he would be surprised. After all, Jia Cong had been married for nearly a year, and his family had a wife and concubine, and he had nothing to do. He turned his back to him, but the air was quiet. She turned around uneasy, feeling that her chest was blocked in one breath and could not be smooth: "If you don't like it, I'll prescribe a tiger and wolf medicine."
"Why are you taking tiger and wolf medicine?" Jia Cong was almost angry and rushed to see it. You Shi was shy and refused to let her see it. In the end, she couldn't persuade him. She thought that he had seen it all, so she unlocked it for him. Jia Cong listened happily and worriedly for a while.
What I am happy about is that this flesh and blood must be his. Youshi has done it with him in recent years, so there is no need to worry about who the child belongs to. Although Youshi is not a chaste woman, if there was no such accident and some emotional accumulation, she would definitely not be good to others.
What is worried about is that Youshi is in his thirties, which is very difficult to give birth to. Even if a woman has the ability to give birth to her forty, it is a dangerous stage of childbirth after all. Generally speaking, a woman is in his twenties and will become more and more dangerous after she reaches her thirty.
"I thought, if it really doesn't work at that time, we should be older and not younger..." Jia Cong made the decision.
You leaned into his arms, cried silently for a while, and laughed again: "The descendants are the greatest..."
Jia Cong didn't think so and decided to instruct Wenpo, if it was difficult, it would be big but not small. Fortunately, he was born. You felt relieved and thought, "It must be a boy."
She fell asleep in the fatigue stage for a while.
Jia Cong carried her to the bed and went to the front store. There were a lot of people coming to buy books. He went to the counter to select a book magazine from the eight-legged essays of recent years and decided to take it back to approve it. At this time, he heard a few scholars who came to buy eight-legged essays and talked about: "Have you heard it? As soon as Eunuch Liu arrived in Yangzhou, he collected fireworks tax and searched for beauties, and did not control the river at all..."
"What's the use of eunuchs wanting beautiful women?"
"Maybe it was searched for the emperor. Besides, the daughter of the Admiral of the Jinyiwei is Concubine Kang, maybe it was used to please the emperor. Moreover, I heard that the eunuch also raised women. In the past, there was a weaving eunuch in Jinling, and bought a Yangzhou thin horse for food for 100,000 taels... Legend has it that although people don't have that ability, they still have that kind of idea..."
"Prince Jia should have arrived in Yangzhou too, right? I wonder how he will manage it?"
"This time it's a fireworks tax. Eunuch Liu will change the salt tax tomorrow. The betel nut king in Huai'an and a backstage official from Shanxi. Eunuch Liu dares to punish him..."
"Yangzhou is going to be in chaos too!"
Chapter completed!