In fact, if Fang hadn't mentioned it, Ye Jiao would have forgotten that the wife of the Lu family had told Saburo about her marriage.

After all, neither Liu nor Fang wanted to tie the knot before. since her mother-in-law and sister-in-law were not happy, Ye Jiao felt that she could not become it, and naturally she would not take it to heart.

Now suddenly heard that Ye Jiao also reacted for a while before she came to her senses.

Liu, on the other hand, held the string of beads in his hand, covered his mouth with a veil, tilted his head slightly, and said gently to them, "later, you two remember to speak appropriately, and if you can't say it, you don't have to say it."

Fang answered, and Ye Jiao followed.

Then the little ginseng saw that Liu had changed into a smile and said to the Wu who came over, "Wuniang, you are here, what a coincidence."

"so you were there, San Niang." Wu came forward with a smile, reached out and gently grasped Liu's hand, and looked particularly kind. "Today, I wanted to take my daughter out to worship, but I didn't expect to meet Wuniang again." This is the seven girls, giving birth to really beautiful appearance, San Niang good luck. "

Liu still smiled, while Fang stood behind her with Ye Jiao, muttering in a whisper: "what a coincidence? today is not the right day. If it is a real coincidence, it would be strange."

Fang's words are so small that only Ye Jiao can hear them.

However, after careful calculation, today is really not the right day for incense. There are always many pilgrims here, but it looks a little clean today.

Liu still specially picked a clean day, which can only be done on purpose.

Ye Jiao did not answer, but looked at the Lu Qi girl who was led by Wu.

The Lu Qi girl looked not very happy, but she still looked shy when she went up to Liu, spoke and behaved very well, and looked quite like a lady.

It's just that Lu Qi girl only saluted with Liu, but she didn't give Fang and Ye Jiao a look.

Fang was round, but he was stubborn. People ignored her and did not speak. Ye Jiao followed Liu obediently, and Ye Jiao kept quiet with Fang.

Wu did not find these. She smiled at Liu and said, "Today's encounter is also fate. Why don't we have a sip of tea after incense later?" The spring water in this Qingquan Temple is unique, and the tea brewed is particularly clear and sweet. "

Liu smiled and nodded, and then they went up the mountain from two different mountain roads.

It was only when she was sure that the other person could not hear her own voice that Fang frowned: "is she so sure that we will agree to this marriage?"

Liu appears to be much more peaceful: "the affairs of other people's families have nothing to do with us." But Liu still looked at Ye Jiao. "what do you think, Niang?"

Ye Jiao didn't expect Liu to ask herself. she blinked and replied, "Saburo has to prepare for the local examination, and the husband asked him to write 30 big characters every day. I think he is very busy."

Liu felt that this was a very good reason, that is, he did not understand for a moment why his youngest son wrote 30 big characters every day.

On the other hand, Wu is determined to win this marriage: "they will naturally say yes, this is a very good thing, who would not like it?"

The woman who followed Wu first looked at the seven girls walking behind, and then whispered to Wu, "but I am not very happy to see our girl."

Wu tugged at the corners of his mouth: "Don't worry, she knows the importance." I am now trying to cover for her. If she had said two years ago that she was happy with Wu Dalang, who is on the side of my mother's brother, I would have been happy to do them a good thing, but now that Dalang has married Qian, and my sister-in-law is that fool of Zhang, my daughter has absolutely no reason to be a concubine. "

"but I'm afraid the girl doesn't look down on the Qi family."

Wu blocked the corner of his mouth with a handkerchief: "even though the Qi family was a merchant and came from a family of mud legs, his family's Saburo is still good. He studies well and looks not bad, worthy of my daughter."

The woman bowed her head and lowered her voice even lower: "but last time we caught in the yard …". When I met Miss and Master Wu, the scene. If the Qi family knows about it later, what can we do about the reputation of the Lu family? "

Wu could not help thinking of the bad things of that day, and the thought of her gave me a headache.

But on the face of it, Wu was very calm: "that's why I chose the Qi family." They have a small family, and they can't afford the storm, and if Qi Sanlang wants to enter the official career, he must be helped by someone. Our family has a Beijing official as a backer, and even if the Qi family knows about it, they have to take care of the future and pinch their nose to recognize it. "

The more Wu said this, the more confident she became, and she didn't think the Qi family would refuse from the very beginning.

The reason why they set their sights on the Qi family is that the Lu family is now empty in appearance and clothing, and they have to spend money on food and clothing, but they can't last long with empty books.

Wu was the wife of the Lu family, who lacked strength, but she had no son and only one daughter, and there was no way to make money out of thin air.

Later, the Lu family targeted the Qi family's wine prescription, while the Wu family targeted Qi Sanlang, and the more they thought about it, the more they felt that the Qi family was the most suitable family to take over their daughter.

She even thought that if she married her daughter, Qi Sanlang would have a patron of officialdom, the Lu family could come to the store from the Qi family as a betrothal gift to make up for the deficit, and her daughter could cover up the scandal with Wu Jia Dalang, which was a good thing to kill three birds with one stone.

As for Qi Sanlang's face, Wu never took it to heart.

When the incense was over, the two families bumped into each other at the stone table in the yard.

Ye Jiao looked at the tea set set there long ago and knew that her sister-in-law was right. The mother and daughter of the Lu family had come prepared, otherwise they would not have made such complete preparations.

Lu Qi girl does not know how to cover up like Wu. After all, she is still young, with some arrogance on her face.

However, her tea art is not bad, one comes down, it looks quite pleasing to the eye, and even Liu nodded.

But when she was ready to hand over Mei Ziqing's teacup to Liu, as soon as she was together, her figure flashed slightly.

Ye Jiao quickly reached out to hold her, one hand clenched her hand bowl, the other hand held her arm, helped her stand up, the cup of tea did not spill out.

Lu Qi girl looked at Ye Jiao and slowly thanked her.

Ye Jiao did not return the gift immediately, but frowned slightly on the tip of her brow, and waited until she let go of her hand before she returned the gift and sat down again.

Liu took a sip of the teacup and said some polite words to Wu, mostly flattering each other, as long as the stubble involving Qi Sanlang was blocked by Liu.

However, Ye Jiao appeared a little silent, until her mother-in-law and daughter-in-law returned to the carriage, Ye Jiao did not say much.

Fang couldn't help asking her, "what are you thinking, brother and sister?"

Ye Jiao looked up at Fang, then looked at Liu, but said nothing. She reached out and put a piece of red bean cake into her mouth.

Liu smiled, "I'm afraid I'm hungry." then she pushed the plate to Ye Jiao. "have some, and have a good dinner later."

Ye Jiao nodded and took another piece.

In the Qi family, Qi Yun is counting the things he brought back yesterday in the small room in his yard.

Tiezi is now a very capable person around Qi Yun, especially in the skill of abacus, even the manager of Song Dynasty is not as good as him.

But Rao is so effective that he feels his arms are sore after checking the accounts all afternoon.

But his face was always excited, and when the last stroke was made, Tiezi's cheeks flushed, and his voice was filled with joy: "second young master, how many items have been made this time!"

Qi Yun was not too surprised, or rather, he thought of the caravan's profit early on: "these gouache rouge are not of high quality, but they are more expensive than gold when they are sent out of customs."

Tiezi nodded again and again, but judging from the book, the rouge of five dollars was sold for fifty dollars, and the deal was too easy to make.

Qi Yun's voice was gentle: "ordinary caravans like to bring porcelain tea. Although these are easy to sell, they are also easy to break, and a bump is worthless." These rouge gouache is different, it is packed in a wooden box, it is not easy to bump, and no matter how high the price is set, some people will buy it, which will naturally make a lot of money. "

He kept these words in mind and nodded as he listened.

On the other hand, Qi Yun picked up another roster, the corners of his mouth slightly raised, and just now thousands of silver coins failed to move him, but the roster made Qi Yun smile: "the most rare thing is that this time the caravan went out, only a few people were hurt, and no one lost their lives." from now on, the business will be easy. "

Ordinary caravans fight for their lives when they go out, and when they encounter a ditch, it is easy to be wiped out.

Now that the Qi family caravan has gone and returned, it is safe and sound, especially if he is caught by deserters and can be saved. After that, if he forms a caravan again, there will be much more people who want to join the caravan than now.

There must be an endless stream of benefits.

But when the two were talking about business, one of them got bored.

Xu Bao looked up at Qi Yun and threw away the cloth tiger in his hand.

He has a good temper and is quiet, and he can have fun playing with himself, but if someone next to him still ignores himself, Xubao will be unhappy.

But although Xu Bao is small, he also has a long memory. He knows that his tricks are useful to Ye Jiao, but not to Qi Yun.

So Xubao chose to strive for attention.

He walked under Qi Yun's desk with short legs. In Qi Yun's puzzled eyes, he hugged Qi Yun's calves, and his fleshy little hands tried to grasp Qi Yun's trouser legs.

Then he tried to climb it with both hands and feet.

Unexpectedly, he was so short and chubby that he was motionless after dawdling for a long time.

Qi Yun:.

For a moment, Qi Yun did not know what to do. If he pushed him away, he would be afraid of hurting his fat son's heart, but if he did not care about him, Xu Bao would not be able to climb up.

Just then, there was some movement outside.

Tiezi opened the door and looked at it, then looked back at Qi Yun and said, "second young master, the second young lady is back."

Qi Yun hurriedly got up and picked up Xu Bao, who was standing still, and went out the door.

Ye Jiao had several paper bags in her hand, which she bought when she accompanied Liu Fang to the store. They were all cakes bought from Fengshengzhai. As for other Ye Jiao, they had nothing to look up to.

When she saw Qi Yun coming out with Xu Bao in her arms, Ye Jiao hurriedly took a few steps, opened the door for them, and said, "hurry in, it's cold outside."

On the other hand, Xubao stretched out her hand when she saw Ye Jiao and shouted to her mother in her mouth.

Anyone who listens to this voice is soft-hearted, and Ye Jiao is no exception.

She took Xu Bao and jolted into her arms, but her eyes were looking at Qi Yun.

Qi Yun understood and knew that his wife had something to say, but he was in no hurry. He and Ye Jiao played with Xubao for a while. When Xubao fell asleep, they left the inner room lightly and sat down at the table in the outer room.

The paper bag on the table was still warm. Qi Yun touched it, picked one that was still hot and opened it, and saw that there were round Fried Glutinous Rice Balls with Sesame inside.

Picked the best-looking one and handed it to Ye Jiao, and the little ginseng did not reach out, but took a bite of Qi Yun's hand.

The outside is made of glutinous rice skin, fried crisp, inside is made of sesame sugar shavings stuffing, particularly soft waxy, a bite will feel full of sweetness, especially close to the mouth.

After taking a bite, Ye Jiao stared at the tooth marks on Fried Glutinous Rice Balls with Sesame and smiled and said, "like the moon."

Qi Yun took a bite of Ye Jiao's tooth marks and held up the rest of Fried Glutinous Rice Balls with Sesame and shook: "that's the crescent moon now."

In fact, this kind of little joke is not funny when it comes out of other people's mouths, but even if they just stay together, they find it funny. Now such a not-so-funny joke can make little ginseng bury his face in Qi Yun's arms and squint.

Because he was holding Fried Glutinous Rice Balls with Sesame in his hand, Qi Yun was afraid of soiling Ye Jiao's skirt, so Qi Yun could only raise his hand slightly, stopped Ye Jiao's waist with the other hand, patted it gently, and bowed his head to see what Fried Glutinous Rice Balls with Sesame's lips tasted like.

But before that, Ye Jiao sat up straight, took a sip of tea, diluted the innermost sweetness with the fragrance of tea, and said to Qi Yun, "I have something I want to tell you."

Qi Yun rarely listened to Ye Jiao's words so solemnly, nodded, put Fried Glutinous Rice Balls with Sesame in his hand aside, wiped her hands with a handkerchief and said, "OK, Jiao Niang said, I'll listen carefully."

However, Fried Glutinous Rice Balls with Sesame has too much oil to wipe, so Ye Jiao went to get a soap ball to wash his hands. Only after she had washed her hands did she say, "Xianggong, I went with my mother to serve incense today and saw Miss Lu Qi."

Qi Yun wiped his hands with a cloth towel and said, "the Lu family is in a hurry."

Ye Jiao looked at him and then said, "she also made tea. My mother said it was fine, but."

"what?"

"Mr. Xiang, actually I can feel the pulse."

Qi Yun was not surprised by this. After all, his wife is full of medicinal flowers in the yard. Rubbing a ball can save people. He often goes to the drugstore, and it is not surprising to feel his pulse.

Ye Jiao gently held Qi Yun's hand and whispered, "I touched the pulse of Miss Lu Qi. She seems to be pregnant and has more than a month."

As soon as these words came out, Qi Yun immediately frowned.

Ye Jiao did not immediately tell Liu because the little ginseng did not understand why she had to marry when she was pregnant with a child. She always came back to ask her husband about things she did not understand.

But Qi Yun was different. from the beginning, he thought that the Lu family was uneasy and well-intentioned. Now, after listening to Ye Jiao's words, the previously vague window paper was finally punctured.

When Ye Jiao saw that his expression was different, she couldn't help saying, "whose child is this?"

Qi Yun hugged her and said, "No one's will belong to Saburo, but don't tell anyone about this for the time being. I'm afraid that Lu Qi's parents don't know there is such a child."

If they knew, they would never let the child stay.

This is not a child, but a handle.

Seeing Qi Yun say a word, Ye Jiao fell into silence. Ye Jiao could not help patting him: "should I tell my mother?"

Qi Yun bowed his head to her and smiled softly: "No, don't let my mother worry. We don't have to do anything about this. There are plenty of people in the Lu family who are more anxious than we are."

Ye Jiao really put this matter behind her and didn't think about it any more.

Over the next few days, Ye Jiao was dragged by Qi Yun to learn to look after the accounts. After all, Qi Yun was the one who wanted to buy the mountain, and there were two Zhuangzi on it, which naturally had to be entrusted to Ye Jiao.

On the other hand, Qi Yun quietly sent people out, gathered around the Lu family, and bought a teahouse.

Little ginseng did not inquire about this, but despite taking the ledger seriously, life passed quickly.

It was not until the twelfth lunar month that Ye Jiao learned a general idea. Qi Yun also gave the deed of the mountain manor to his wife and made an appointment to see it together.

When they went out, Ye Jiao found that Fang also took people out of the door.

She couldn't help asking Qi Yun, "Xianggong, where is your sister-in-law going?"

Qi Yun kissed her and said softly, "go to the theatre."

The little ginseng smelled a little curious: "my mother invited me once before, let me follow, but I don't understand, is it good-looking this time?"

Qi Yun pinched Ye Jiao's fingertips and warped the corners of his mouth slightly: "good-looking is good-looking, but most of them will stain the eyes, so it's better not to go."

Ye Jiao watched Fang's carriage leave with some pity, and then went to the mountain with Qi Yun to see the yard.

On the other hand, Fang angrily took the person with him, held back a stomach of anger and had a stomach full of words, and waited until he got on the carriage to bite his back teeth and said to the woman around him, "is the message from Jiro accurate?"

"Yes, the second young master of the nearby teahouse is already under the plate, and someone is staring at it, saying that the Lu Qi girl often goes in and out of a garden not far from the teahouse, and that the Wu family followed him again and again. He had been broken for a while before, but now somehow it started again."

Fang smiled angrily, but in the end he took a deep breath, endured it and whispered, "did we take the post to Lu's house?"

The woman replied, "Yes, she said that Mrs. Lu would come in person, but the girl Lu Qi occasionally felt cold and should not go out."

"that's just right. Doesn't the Wu family of the Lu family like to have relatives with my family? Then I responded to her kindness by inviting her to tea this time. "