Tong Jia anecdote

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It was a good welcome banquet, but in the end Tong Jiu drank a lot of wine, and the two broke up unhappy.

"You fell asleep." Hong Xiao put down the bed curtain for Tong Jiu and whispered.

"Where are you going?" Tong Jiu was drunk, looked at Hong Xiao energetically, and said, "Don't go!"

"I'm going to see Xiaohua. I've only cared about you for half a day, and I haven't had time to see her. You sleep for a while, and I'll come back naturally when I wake up." Hong Xiao stroked her forehead and ears a few times .

"Yeah." Tong Jiu finally couldn't resist the drunkenness, turned over and fell asleep.

In the cross courtyard here, Fu Chaqin rubbed ointment on the prickly heat on Ji Lan's face, and said, "With this prickly heat on Ji Lan's face, why don't you know what to avoid? It's okay to eat wine, and eat mutton, now Let's see who suffers!"

After finishing speaking, he angrily reprimanded Fuchami, his younger sister who was holding the medicine by her side, "Stand aside, I don't need you to serve her, and let you follow her all day, just patronize yourself and have fun with your mouth? You have forgotten your duty." It's clean."

Fuchami stuck out his tongue secretly, and met Ji Lan's eyes, Ji Lan also pouted, but didn't reply.

"Second Lord, my servant Hong Xiao is asking to see you." At this moment, Hong Xiao's voice came from outside the door.

"Ah, it's really here." Fuchami hurriedly took the fake beard on the table and put it on for Ji Lan. Ji Lan straightened her clothes, and while walking into the back room, she whispered to the two of them, "You go out." , send her in to speak."

Fu Chaqin looked at the half-applied ointment in his hand, but he couldn't persuade Ji Lan, so he packed his things hastily, opened the door and went out.

"Oh, Sister Hong, our second master invites you to talk inside." Fuchami made a "please" gesture, and after Hongxiao entered, he came out by himself and closed the door.

Seeing that there was no one in the outer room, Hongxiao clenched her hands in her sleeves and walked to the inner room.

Ji Lan was leaning against the head of the bed, pretending to be careless and rubbing her head with one hand, while Hong Xiao saluted at the door.Ji Lan didn't see a word for a long time, so she said, "Second master, it's not easy for our brother to do some business, as long as the second master is willing to help her, Hongxiao is willing to do whatever she wants."

"Come here and talk." Ji Lan patted the bed next to his legs.

Hong Xiao walked over and sat next to Ji Lan, although she tried her best to bear it, she couldn't hide her stiffness.

Ji Lan raised his hands, showing his hands from the wide sleeves, leaned his head over to Hong Xiao who was sitting beside her, and stretched out his hands to unbutton her collar.Hong Xiao instinctively pushed Ji Lan's face in disgust.

Although this push was not strong, it happened to be pushed on Ji Lan's fake beard.Just now she had applied ointment on her face, and Fuchami was sticky and in a hurry.So, with such a push by Hong Xiao, it happened to stick the fake beard on Ji Lan's face to her hand and replace it.

"Second Master, you—!" Hong Xiao looked at the white and beardless Second Master Fu in front of her, opened her mouth unexpectedly, and saw that her face was covered with red prickly heat, and hurriedly said, "Did you have prickly heat?"

"Oh, this man, he really did his own crimes." Seeing that he had been exposed, Ji Lan was a little embarrassed, and called out the door, "Xiaomi."

Fuchami opened the door and came in, walked quickly to the back room, saw the scene in front of him, couldn't help but said with a smile, "Miss, you lost the battle so soon?" Then he turned to Hongxiao politely and said, "Hongxiao Elder sister, our young lady saw that you are so beautiful, and she became lustful for a moment—" As he spoke, he laughed again, almost out of joy.

At this time, Fu Chaqin came in, took Hong Xiao's hand and said, "Good girl, our master and sister have always been playful, don't keep today's matter in mind."

Hong Xiao frowned, and stood there silently.

Ji Lan cleared her throat, and said, "Although I'm not the second master of Fu, I'm Fucha Ji Lan. Miss Hong Huixinlan must also know that your master's business is inseparable." Me. So, when I go back, Miss Hong should know better than me what to say and what not to say."

"Master——" Fu Chaqin tugged at Ji Lan, but seeing that he couldn't persuade her, he smiled and said to Hong Xiao, "Yes, yes, Master thinks that Miss Hong is kind-hearted and intends to make friends with her. I'm sorry for the offense just now." Don't mind Miss Hong."

Hong Xiao didn't even look at Ji Lan, and said in a deep voice to Fu Chaqin in front of her, "Our lives as servants are as worthless. We can't talk about offending or not offending, and friendship is even more unattainable. It's just one thing, our Brother Jiu Since I was a child, I was considerate of servants, listened to others' advice, and never used my own wealth to pester me blindly. Being a servant to serve such a master, even if I die, my face will be glorious."

After speaking, he saluted Ji Lan, turned around and left.Fuchaqin followed and sent out, leaving Fuchami to watch his master's face fluctuate and change a few times.

Just as Hong Xiao went out, she saw Hua Jingfu leaning against the gate of the courtyard with her arms folded. Seeing her come out, she turned around and walked away leisurely.

"Did you go?" Hong Xiao walked out of the courtyard, and Tong Jiu stood there at the entrance of the corridor, looking straight at her, and said sternly.

"Why did you wake up?" Hong Xiao walked over, smiled at her, pulled her back, and said nonchalantly, "I just came back from Xiao Hua."

"Don't fool me!" Tong Jiu shook off Hong Xiao's hand, "I asked you if you went to the one with the surname Fu, what did he do to you?"

"No, no, brother!" Hong Xiao raised her voice, and quickly grabbed Tong Jiu, who was about to leave, panting heavily, and said, "Sister, don't you believe it?"

Tong Jiu looked up and down and looked at Hongxiao hesitantly, but she did not see any difference, so she did it.

Followed Hong Xiao to the main room, entered the main room and stood still for a long time before saying, "The Tong family, we are the only ones left. Apart from you, I have no relatives."

"Say stupid things again." Hongxiao knocked her head down and made tea for her. "I was originally a servant. Thanks to you for not giving up, I have today. Everyone in this yard and shop, as long as you take They have become their own family, and they will treat you like a relative like me."

Tong Jiu buried her head in drinking tea, covered her eyebrows with the lid of the cup, and said in a nasal voice, "From now on, you will manage the house's internal affairs in the back house. I'm in front, so you don't need to manage it!"

Hong Xiao smoothed the loose hair around Tong Jiu's ears, looked at her with smiling eyes, and said dotingly, "Drink slowly, it's hot."

Ji Lan was only joking here, but he never neglected the business.

Regarding the Zhang family's matter, she had already been well-informed when she was in the capital.As long as the case is settled in less than a month, Zhang Minghe can be released from prison privately and fly away with his family if he thinks of any way.Baotou Fushan is high and the emperor is far away. There is no one in the cell, so no one will intervene.

Naturally, Ji Lan's visit wasn't all for Tong Jiu's business. She knew that Tong Jiu built a camel caravan.Seeing that it was the season to collect medicinal materials outside the customs, it was time for her to start arranging for her own people to open bins outside the customs.

The next morning, "Boss, that Second Master Fu left without saying goodbye early in the morning. When I was tidying up the room, I saw that he left you a letter." The little boy handed over the letter.

Tong Jiu opened the letter, and there were only a few lines of words on it, to the effect that the Zhang family's affairs would come to fruition at the end of the month, so let him rest easy.I went to collect medicinal materials from Changbai Mountain in Xing'an Mountains by myself, and the date of return has not yet been determined.

A few days later, when Tong Jiu was opening a stall in Dazhengchang, he saw that the Yanzhipu pawn shop across the street had closed its doors at some point and even took off its signboard.What's even more strange is that a group of people who looked like craftsmen were smashing into the wall between the two stores.

"Yo, this is going to demolish the house." The shopkeeper saw that the owner had been watching the excitement at the door for a long time, and when he had some free time, he also came over to watch and chat with him.

Tong Jiu peeled the dried fruit in his hand and said, "This Second Master Fu went to Changbai Mountain to collect medicines. According to the contract signed by our two families earlier, we have to be responsible for transporting the medicinal materials he collected back to various places in their pass for classification."

"I know about this." The shopkeeper nodded, "What's the master's plan?"

"The previously borrowed silver taels have not been touched. Now it's time to go to the pastures to collect livestock and fur goods. You go and recruit some strong labor, and pack the tea bricks and silk rice noodles we brought from Jiangnan. I will go north from Horqin to Longjiang Mansion. " Tong Jiu chewed the walnuts.

"Boss, from the opening of the stall to the present, the business of our Baotou Mansion is booming. Except for the expenses for the camel merchants and the sales last month, the inventory we brought from Jiangnan is not much. You have to take it away again, Baotou Mansion The business with Suiyuan City is probably out of stock." The shopkeeper asked the clerk to bring the inventory book.

"Go to repair the books. If there is anything missing, let the Shunde Mansion in Guanli and Chengde Mansion be shipped over to make up for it." Tong Jiu flipped through the inventory book and walked to the shop, thinking about how to get the goods from Jiangnan to Guanwai. All business lines have been fully dispatched. If Baotou Mansion takes goods from Shunde Mansion, how will it be recorded and written off between the batches.

Tong Jiu thought hard and meditated for a few days, but she couldn't figure it out, she didn't have a clue.Looking up again, I saw that the store that had smashed the wall before had already built a gatehouse with a unique shop in the south of the Yangtze River, and the sign of Yangzhengtang was hung upright on it.

"Huh? When did this happen?" Tong Jiu turned around and greeted the shopkeeper who was busy with the transfer of goods.

"Boss, who should I tell you is so rich and powerful? They took over half of the shop across the street and merged it into one stall. No, Yangzhengtang." The shopkeeper drank tea and wiped the sweat from his face.

Tong Jiu raised her head, looked at the sun covered by the gate of Yangzhengtang, and said nothing.

That morning, when Ji Lan left Dazhengchang, the sun had just risen.Ji Lan was standing at the door of Dazhengchang, which was exactly where Tong Jiu was standing at the moment. With his hands behind his back, he paced to the door of the opposite rouge shop, turned around and looked at Dazhengchang.

He said to the attendants beside him, "Just build me a gatehouse here. As long as he reaches Zhengchang, our Yangzhengtang will block him for a day and crush him!" After finishing speaking, he got on the carriage.

Fu Chaqin who was behind her shook her head helplessly, wondering what kind of rivalry the master was having and what kind of family he lost.

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