After Li Jinzhu figured it out, the first thing he told Li Shikuan was the etiquette of Yinzhu getting married, and she would return home after three dynasties.
Firstly, this is the routine of their Lijiaji and Xiaolizhuang; secondly, it is the busy time for farming, and the farming season cannot be missed; thirdly, the friendship between relatives and in-laws will be with each other for many years, not just this one or two feasts.
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The day after Li Yinzhu returned home, the siblings set off back to Pingjiang City.
The family was busy until midnight before finishing everything. At dawn the next day, Li Jinzhu and Li Yuzhu rushed to the workshop. Li Xuedong went to school. Li Xiaonan slept until daylight before getting up. After breakfast, she moved a table out and stood in the yard, absent-minded.
She was writing and thinking about her business.
Sister Mei ran out of the backyard, took off her apron, and smiled with Li Xiaonan: "Ah, look at the house. I'll buy some eggs. Our hens are going to have a nest!"
"Hmm? Okay."
Li Xiaonan stopped writing and watched Sister Mei pick up the basket, enter the main room, take off the covered bamboo basket hanging on the beam, click carefully, take a bunch of big money, and trot out.
Li Xiaonan stayed for a while before reacting.
Sister Mei went to buy eggs!
Their family has never bought eggs!
Sister Mei bought eggs to hatch chicks for the hens.
Li Xiaonan stood there blankly for a moment, then slapped the pen in her hand on the table, placed her hands on her hips, and laughed twice.
She knows where to start her business!
She should create demand first and then launch her loom rental business.
She has to collect muslin first, put up a sign to collect muslin all year round, and get people interested in weaving muslin, and then she can launch her loom rental business.
To collect linens, you have to go to the door and walk around the streets. She is a little girl. Not only will no one believe her, but she might have to report to the official and call her Li Zheng.
She needs a shopkeeper to support her appearance, and it must be a man, preferably older. Where can she find such a person?
Li Xiaonan was worried.
Let's hire someone secretly. She is a little girl, and she will definitely not be able to suppress the other person, and she will definitely lose control.
This matter cannot be discussed with the eldest sister. She has tried it several times, but the eldest sister does not agree with her to do this whimsical business. Besides, once she discusses it with the eldest sister, she will not be able to keep her private money.
The lobby uncle? That’s not possible. If the lobby uncle knows, the eldest sister will also know.
Third Sister? Third Sister has just been married, so we can’t cause any trouble for her.
My brother is definitely not good, and Sister Mei is even less good. Who else?
Li Xiaonan walked back and forth in the yard with her hands behind her back.
There is only one person left.
Li Xiaonan stopped and sighed.
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Gu Yan was wearing a moon-white muslin gown, tied with a silk ribbon, a pair of half-used ribbed cloth shoes, and the most common wide-brim sunshade straw hat in Jiangnan. He was sitting in a tea shed under several huge camphor trees, drinking tea.
Look at the excitement not far away.
A few feet away, Magistrate Huang of Kunshan County and Magistrate Chen of Wujiang County started arguing again.
Gu Yan sipped her tea and looked at the two people fighting each other like cockfighters.
After a moment, Magistrate Huang looked distressed and clapped his hands together. Magistrate Chen, who was opposite him, leaned back slightly and looked at Magistrate Huang with a suspicious look on his face.
Magistrate Huang reached out and patted Magistrate Chen on the shoulder, continuing to feel heartbroken.
After a while, the two of us nodded and sighed together from time to time.
Gu Yan looked at Magistrate Huang with admiration.
In this meeting between the two counties, the process of quarreling and then making peace, and then making peace and then quarreling, has been repeated three times. Whether it was a quarrel or a peace, it was almost entirely dominated by Huang Xianzhou.
Chen Guanghe was rubbed over and over by Huang Xianzhou.
This time, after sharing the same hatred, the two people did not quarrel again. After talking for a while, the two waved goodbye.
Gu Yan stayed far behind Huang Xianzhou. When Wujiang County Magistrate Chen Guanghe was out of sight, he quickened his pace and caught up with Huang Xianzhou.
Huang Xianzhou looked at Gu Yan and raised his eyebrows.
It's him again.
"We've met before." Gu Yan smiled.
"Your Majesty." Huang Xianzhou faced Gu Yan and bowed his hands respectfully.
"Did you recognize it last time?" Gu Yan motioned Huang Xianzhou to move forward.
"Last time, after the Crown Prince left, I thought about it for a few days and came to some realizations." Huang Xianzhou's respect showed a vague sense of alienation.
"How did you realize this?" Gu Yan felt the alienation on Huang Xianzhou's body and looked at Huang Xianzhou.
"There are not many ordinary people with a character and appearance like the Crown Prince. I'm afraid I can't find one in the entire Pingjiang Mansion. Later, when I heard that the Crown Prince arrived at Pingjiang Mansion, I realized it."
Gu Yan's eyes narrowed slightly after hearing this.
From Huang Xianzhou's words, he heard a hint of sarcasm.
Where did Huang Xianzhou's alienation and sarcasm come from?
"Have we discussed with Wujiang County how to dredge that river?" Gu Yan was weighing Huang Xianzhou's alienation and sarcasm in his heart, but he didn't show it at all on his face.
"Yes. The dredging of that river was originally nothing.
"The autumn of the year before last, the Wang family on this side of the river and the Zhang family on the other side of the river got married. The daughter of the Zhang family married into the Wang family and was treated harshly by her mother-in-law. On New Year's Eve, the daughter of the Zhang family hung herself with a rope.
"The Wang family knew they were in the wrong, so they asked a middle-aged man to come to the house to apologize, and they organized the Zhang family's daughter's funeral in a grand manner. The head of the Zhang family and the clan elders had already raised their hands, but the brothers of the Zhang family's daughter were so angry that they did not attend the funeral.
I smashed it for seven days in a row."
Huang Xianzhou looked at Gu Yan and explained:
"This is a custom in this area. For a daughter-in-law who dies in her husband's family at a young age, during the funeral, her parents' family has eaten. It's human nature to throw bowls and plates. Generally, they just smash them once.
A table with dishes.
"But the Zhang brothers not only smashed all the dishes on the table, but also rushed to the Zhang family's daughter-in-law's house and smashed all the dishes. On the sixth day, they smashed the Zhang family's daughter-in-law's house and sold their fields and cattle.
, on the seventh day, when the Zhang brothers started smashing bowls and plates again, the Wang family stepped forward to stop them, and the two families started fighting, which was very violent and created a grudge."
Huang Xianzhou sighed.
"County Magistrate Chen just took office last fall, and the people's customs are not yet clear. This river dredging matter is actually caused by the feud between the Zhang and Wang families, causing each other to get in trouble, and even to the point of killing each other. It is not a matter of dredging.
, how to solve this festival between the Zhang and Wang families. This is a big deal."
"Have you ever fought with weapons?" Gu Yan frowned slightly and asked.
Huang Xianzhou glanced at Gu Yan in surprise, "Not yet. This is a great blessing among misfortunes."
Outsiders, and even himself, before taking office in Kunshan County, thought that the folk customs in Jiangnan were peaceful and gentle, and there would be no such brutal things as armed fighting. Only after he took office did he realize that the folk customs in Jiangnan were as tough as those in the north.<
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This prince seems to have a good understanding of the people in Jiangnan, which is rare.
"Have you and Chen Guanghe discussed how to resolve the feud between the Zhang and Wang families?" Gu Yan then asked.
"Not yet. This trip was just to explain the origin of river dredging to County Magistrate Chen."
"This matter cannot be delayed. Firstly, the flood season is coming, and secondly, the two families are celebrating the festival. If it delays and kills people, it will become a deadlock." Gu Yan paused and looked at Huang Xianzhou, "This matter is difficult.
How about putting it on your head?"
"I can't ask for it." Huang Xianzhou hurriedly cupped his hands.
"Well, I'll think of a way to bring the dredging of this section of the river to Kunshan County." Gu Yan said with a smile.
"Your Majesty is wise, this is an act of accumulating good fortune and virtue." Huang Xianzhou cupped his hand.
Gu Yan's brows moved slightly when he said "good luck and virtue". He glanced sideways at him and suddenly asked: "I am staying here in Pingjiang Mansion. Will it hinder your government affairs?"
"The prince is just as far away from Xiaguan in Pingjiang Mansion as he is in the capital. You can't feel it here in Xiaguan."
Gu Yan glanced sideways at Huang Xianzhou. Huang Xianzhou immediately lowered his eyes and lowered his head in response to Gu Yan's sideways glance.
