In a blink of an eye, it was the Chinese New Year. The day I read at midnight happened to be the sixth day of the first lunar month. Fu'er made trouble for the prince to go out for a stroll, so the old man had no choice but to accept his granddaughter. The ground in Lingnan is warm. Although it is the coldest season of the year, there are still a few
Flowers were blooming, and flower sellers could be seen everywhere in the market. A group of country bumpkins from the capital who had never seen the world made a fuss as if Grandma Liu had entered the Grand View Garden. The Governor personally led his relatives and a group of children into the street.
I felt that all the old faces in this life were lost. Only Jia Cong looked a little disappointed. He had visited the Yangcheng Flower Market in his previous life, and the number of flower varieties was much greater than this.
But he saw several people walking towards him, four or five burly men holding a young master in fine clothes. The young master looked handsome, and the servants beside him were very imposing, which made him quite eye-catching.
Wu You hurriedly turned to Jia Cong and whispered: "That's the young master of the Bai family. He is very favored by Bai Ling'en."
Jia Cong had already recognized the person at this moment, turned around and stared at Wu You with a crooked mouth: "Brother Wu You, what did you say? The wind was too strong and I couldn't hear clearly..."
Wu Xiaoxi followed his brother all the time, covered his mouth and said with a smile: "Where did the wind come from? I can hear it clearly. My brother said that he is the young master of the Bai family, who is very favored by General Bai."
Jia Cong glanced at Xiaoxi and grabbed Wu You's arm: "General Wu, have you ever had a fight with someone? Have you accidentally touched someone's arms or legs or something that shouldn't have been touched?
place?"
Wu You said inexplicably: "Why should I fight with him? I didn't even say a word. Besides, our two families are in a partnership. We just met a few times at the Hong Kong dock." He said with a look of pride on his face, "This
Mr. Bai has a rather arrogant temper and likes to pretend to know what she doesn't know. One time when we were installing a pulley, she looked at us and walked away. After a while, she actually sent a servant over to give us advice! It's a pity that she didn't know what to do.
But I don’t know why. For his grandfather’s sake, I didn’t bother to talk to him and just showed him. Who knew he was so petty! Later, one time when we were moored on the pier to maintain the artillery, he sent someone to point it out.
Give me some pointers, but unfortunately I still have only a partial understanding! That little face is so dark, tsk tsk! It’s refreshing to even glance at it from a distance!”
Jia Cong frowned: "It doesn't matter if you have a little quarrel. I just want to ask you, have you ever touched her? Have you ever touched her?"
Wu You said: "No. Every time he comes out, he is always followed by several useful soldiers. I am not close, and even if he touches porcelain, he can't touch my head."
Jia Cong breathed a sigh of relief: "It's fine that I haven't touched her." Looking up at Wu Xiaoxi, she had already bent over with laughter. The brothers who were listening to them all around also laughed.
Xichun was originally the youngest girl in the Jia family. In the past, she was doted on by her elder sister and flattered by her younger brother, but no one cared about her, so her temper was somewhat casual. Now that she is outside, Jia She doesn't care about anything, and Jia Cong
Deliberately indulgent, she has become more and more wanton in recent days. She looked at Wu You and then at the young master of the Bai family opposite, pursed her lips and said with a smile: "I want to ask everyone, how many of you can tell that she is a young master?"
of?"
All the brothers suppressed their laughter and said, "I can't tell~~"
Only Tian Gengzi was honest and looked at the young master carefully for a long time and said: "The clothes he is wearing, even if he is not a young master of the Bai family, they probably belong to a relative."
Everyone snickered more and more, and Shen He sighed seriously: "I always thought that among the smart people in our Lixiangyuan courtyard, only Gengzi was honest. I didn't expect that Wu You was also an honest person! Wu You, I'm sorry
You, I wrongly blamed you!" Everyone laughed again.
At this moment, Wu You realized something was wrong. He looked around, grabbed his sister and asked, "What did the fourth girl mean?"
Wu Xiaoxi smiled and leaned on his shoulder and whispered something. Wu You immediately stared at Mr. Bai with his mouth wide open and his eyes wide open. Everyone laughed. Tourists around him looked at them, and Mr. Bai also turned to look.
Came over.
Jia Cong hurriedly pushed aside the crowd and walked over, hugging her with a fist: "Young master of the Bai family, you are welcome and well."
Mr. Bai also bowed: "I heard that Third Master Cong came to Lingnan, and I was thinking about how we would meet one day. How does Third Master think Lingnan compares with Jingzhong?"
Jia Cong smiled and said: "I'm here for the first time. I'm here to see the world. The scenery of Lingnan is unique. I met you by chance and said hello. It's the Chinese New Year. Let's not talk about important things for the time being. Playing is more important. Mr. Bai, let's say goodbye.
Let’s have fun on our own.”
Mr. Bai nodded, glanced into their crowd, and his eyes widened in an instant! Jia Cong followed her gaze and saw Wu Xiaoxi holding Wu You's arm with a smile, and pulling Wu You's arm with the other hand.
He tugged on the lapel of his clothes and pulled him to bend down and talk in his ear. Wu You was dumbfounded when he heard this. Mr. Bai's pretty face suddenly darkened, and after a long while, he said to Jia Cong: "You guys
Isn't it too unruly for men and women to walk on the street without any restrictions?"
Jia Cong waved his hand and said: "Who needs to behave after we have left Beijing? It's so troublesome. It's easy for no one to care about it, even me. Besides, when you go to the countryside, do as the Romans do. The people in Lingnan are open and open, and ordinary people are like this too?"
Mr. Bai's brows knitted together. He opened his mouth and was about to speak when he was suddenly startled and murmured, "Yes, back in Chang'an you once said you didn't like rules."
Jia Cong nodded repeatedly: "Young Master Bai still remembers me~~ I'm flattered."
She opened her mouth a few more times, but in the end not a single word came out. She shook her head, clasped her fists and said, "Let's just let this go for now. Let's discuss business someday."
Jia Cong also clasped his fists and withdrew back.
After the two groups walked away, the two old men, Jia She, Wang Ziteng, who had just been coaxing Fu'er Meng'er from the front and did not intervene even though they saw their every move, called Jia Cong forward: "Who is that person?"
?”
Jia Cong smiled and called his brothers and sisters to gather around him and said, "He is Beringen's grandson. What do dad and Uncle Wang think of this son?"
Wang Ziteng snorted: "Beringen's grandson is so delicate, he doesn't look like he came from a military general's family." The boys and girls laughed in unison.
Jia She gave Wang Ziteng a look of disdain: "What a look! That's obviously a little girl!"
Wang Ziteng was stunned.
Jia Cong held out a pair of thumbs and said, "My dad is very discerning! Uncle Wang, you didn't notice such an obvious girl?"
Only then did Wang Ziteng realize it. He was somewhat embarrassed and said angrily: "She is dressed like a boy. If it weren't for an old man like your father, who would be able to tell. I am not your father!" He flicked his sleeves and held her hand.
Fu'er walked forward.
Everyone laughed again.
Jia Cong squeezed him to get him to go away. He made a gesture to make everyone stop laughing and said in a low voice: "This girl is not Beringen's granddaughter, but the orphan of Prince Yi Zhong. About Prince Yi Zhong's only
She is the remaining grandchild."
Jia She was shocked: "How bold!" After a moment, he added, "The two brothers of the Bai family are indeed loyal, and they are grateful to Prince Zhong for his kindness."
Jia Cong glanced at Wu You and said, "Those two old men from the Bai family are nothing important...but I think the princess seems to have taken a liking to you."
Before she finished speaking, Wu Xiaoxi jumped up and said: "I think she has fallen in love with you! You can tell by the look in her eyes! She is talking to the Third Major General and her eyes are always on you!"
Wu You looked embarrassed and at a loss: "Don't talk nonsense! I just saw it before."
The brothers all burst into laughter and said one after another, "I can see it too!" "There are so many of us and she has never even glanced at her!" "Brother Wu You is so handsome~~" Wu You blushed even more.
Jia She couldn't help but raise his head and take a few more glances along the direction of the princess. Jia Cong felt something strange in his eyes and hurriedly said: "Dad! You are not thinking of something strange."
Jia She turned around and said, "What a strange thing! I just met the princess once when I was young and recalled her appearance. This girl doesn't look much like her grandmother."
Jia Cong curled his lips and said: "It's fine if it's nothing. I'm afraid you are thinking about some random marriage - don't think that I don't know what you mean by marrying my sister to the Gao family."
Jia She glared at him and said, "Your sister is so old and should have married a long time ago. Isn't the Gao family better than other families?"
Jia Cong snorted: "That's all, I won't expose you. Anyway, no one can have any ideas about the marriage of brothers."
Wu You hurriedly said: "I am the princess, but I am just a commoner. I can't even go with you."
Jia Cong's eyes lit up: "Wow~~Have you fallen in love with her? If you have, let's help you chase her~~"
"Nonsense!" Wu You glared at him, "I can't match you at all." Seeing that all the brothers' eyes were wide open and their gossips were rising into the sky, he couldn't help but let out a long sigh, "What are you thinking? I just said it.
After passing it, we can at least consider it acquaintance."
Jia Cong said "Oh": "What do you mean?"
Liu Feng said from the side: "If it can be a good thing, it would be good to get married by the way. Beringen was originally the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, and his family is extremely powerful in this area."
Jia Cong waved his hands repeatedly: "Brother Wu You fell in love with him and helped him chase him, or maybe a brother who was next to him fell in love with him and helped him chase him. If he didn't, it has nothing to do with us. Marriage is actually extremely unreliable. Hong Kong
, cement, and pirates are all more reliable than marriage."
Xiaoxi said: "If the guarantee is not enough, there will be a falling out one day. Brother, you really don't like her, do you?"
Wu You's mouth twitched, and without saying a word he picked up his feet and chased Wang Ziteng.
They chatted for a long time, and now Zi Teng thought of Wang Zi Teng. Fortunately, Fu'er fell in love with a gadget and pestered Wang Zi Teng to buy it. Wang Zi Teng spent a long time looking for excuses to pretend not to buy it to tease her, and didn't pay attention to them.
On the sixteenth day of the first lunar month after staying in Guangzhou, Jia Lianfang led his entire family to Taiwan to take office. A small number of the Lixiangyuan brothers stayed in Guangzhou to recruit various people; Yaoer also stayed for a few more days in order to find a large building.
After buying some good houses, it would be inconvenient for them to come and stay at Wang Ziteng's house every time.
Although they had already heard that Taiwan was quite poor, this group of people had traveled to many places along the way, and they were still surprised when they saw the empty places. However, the wealth was much better than originally thought, with scholars, farmers, industry and commerce all available.
, but it was worse than Beijing and Guangzhou. When they arrived at Chengtian Mansion, everyone walked around the city first. Then they rode their horses and stood in front of the prefect's Yamen. Jia Lian could not hide his disappointment.
Jia Cong smiled and tugged at him: "Second brother, there is a saying: Don't deceive young people into being poor; to put it bluntly, it can also be said: Don't be afraid of being poor now. At present, many places in Taiwan are still blank. We can make it the most beautiful place in the world.
It is a prosperous city where businessmen and celebrities from all over the world come in droves, even better than Yangzhou! When the time comes, your name, Jia Lian, will naturally go down in history forever."
Jia Lian smiled bitterly and said: "Look, even Chengtian Mansion has such a big idea, how can it compare with Yangzhou! It may take decades of effort."
Jia Cong hummed: "Not necessarily, Shenzhen's speed has changed drastically in three years."
Jia Lian was stunned: "What Shenzhen?"
Jia Cong smiled and said: "Anyway, we are doing business well. It's a good thing that this place is like a blank piece of paper, so we can draw the most beautiful paintings." They then entered the prefect's Yamen. The original prefect had just received the letter and dealt with it long ago.
After finishing all the property, I just waited for Jia Lian to come and hand over the official duties immediately, and left happily two days later.
Jia Lian posted a notice to inform the people that the magistrate had been replaced. He also ordered the county magistrate to come and pay homage to the new Shangguan. He got to know some local celebrities and wealthy households, and was busy for a few days. Wang Xifeng was also busy settling a large family and communicating with the local people.
The female family members gathered together to get acquainted. Jia She had nothing to do and played with his two grandchildren every day. He, the military supervisor, had never been in the military camp for a day.
Jia Cong bought two nearby houses in Chengtian Mansion. Because he was a young master from the government in Beijing and the younger brother of the prefect, two wealthy businessmen heard about it and negotiated to buy them for him at a low price.
One place is temporarily used to accommodate the brothers' daily living, and the other is used as an office.
A few days later, Yao'er came back from Guangzhou. After everyone discussed serious matters several times, each government office started working. The busiest place every day was Jia Tanchun's place, which was crowded with people asking for money.
Although Tanchun is young, she is quite able to control herself, and she can tell clearly whether she is impatient or impatient; she is also a good-natured person, and even though others are a little dissatisfied, they are still unwilling to make love with her. Xichun occasionally passed by and couldn't help laughing and said: "Third sister
You really deserve to be the Minister of Household Affairs!"
Jia Cong heard it from the side and said seriously: "Everyone is not busy at the moment, so it doesn't matter. Just wait, when all the yamen have officially started work, everyone is asking her for money, but she is not so
When you have a lot of money, you have to judge which ones you are really anxious about, which ones are not urgent for the time being, which ones do not need that much money, and when the next account will come in... Only then can Mr. Linlin see this.
It’s not appropriate.”
Tanchun glanced at him when he heard this.
Lin Daiyu was the first to get busy. She and Xichun had been wearing men's clothes since they entered Taiwan. They led the old kiln worker Hu Laoniu and two Western gentlemen brought from Beijing to the countryside every day to find a suitable place.
She was building a cement workshop everywhere, but she came home every day with a disgraced look, so Yao'er led several brothers to help. Neither of her two little girls ever said a word of hard work, and others became more and more helpless. Finally, more than 60 people were found in the north of Chengtian Mansion.
A site was chosen in a wilderness.
They invited villagers from several villages not far away to come and build houses and kilns. The wages were much higher than when they went to Chengtian Mansion to work on weekdays. Many young men soon came. The prefect Jia Lian issued another notice.
Your Majesty is determined to build a road from Jia's Cement Workshop to Chengtian Mansion; people can work in lieu of taxes. As soon as the notice came out, many families with poor industries or abundant labor at home sent their young men to build the road. Jia Lian has been following Jia Lian for a long time.
Cong's idea was to write down details about typhoons and tsunamis, and even write down the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, Mr. Wang Ziteng, to send some relief food, and just wait for the time to pay taxes to the court and send the tax deduction money.
When he was in Guangzhou, Jia Cong wrote a letter to Gong Kun, asking him to quickly explain things in Beijing and come to Taiwan to help. He also brought Jia Yuanchun over and made excuses for himself.