The squires thought that Pei Yan was obviously defending Yu's family just now, and when they heard that Pei Yan was going to leave Yu Wen alone to speak, they couldn't help looking at Yu Wen with envy.
As the saying goes, once the emperor, there is a courtier. The same goes for the family and the place. Whoever is in power must always use a few people who he knows, is familiar with or admires. Pei Yan had just taken over as the suzerain of the Pei family. Because he was still in the filial piety period, he didn't even celebrate with great fanfare. In addition, Pei Yan used to be arrogant, and he was not the eldest son. Pei Yan's eldest brother was a man of both ability and virtue. The position of suzerain will fall on Pei Yan's head, and the result is that everyone is not very familiar with Pei Yan, let alone have any friendship. Now everyone is trying their best to strike up a conversation with Pei Yan, seeing Yu Wen suddenly have such an opportunity, who wouldn't be moved
Especially Master Wu. He and the Yu family are neighbors, and this time he consciously helped the Yu family a lot, and he has always been a quick-witted person. Hearing this, he immediately pushed Yu Wen, and said to Yu Wen in a low voice: "Master Wei and I will take Let the children wait for you outside, and let me know if you need anything."
Yu Wen was at a loss.
Before, he wanted to thank Pei Yan over and over again because of Chen's illness, but Pei Yan obviously didn't want to talk to him. Now he thinks that the friendship between gentlemen is as light as water, but Pei Yan is in front of so many people. face left him.
He didn't think that Pei Yan was trying to show his favor to him. He thought that Pei Yan was probably because he had something to tell him about the affairs between the Yu and Li families.
Because it was Yu Tang's idea from the investigation to the recruitment to the hiring of Pei Yan as the middleman, he couldn't help but take a look at Yu Tang.
Yu Tang didn't know what kind of medicine was sold in Pei Yan's gourd, but Pei Yan asked her father to speak in front of so many people, and they couldn't refute Pei Yan's face out of reason.
She had no choice but to whisper to her father: "As long as it doesn't conflict with what happened just now, you can just accept it. Mr. Pei San is very kind to our family."
Among other things, her mother still relies on Mrs. Pei's family to get the Ping An pulse from Yang Dousing's clinic every month!
Yu Wen thought about everything that a gentleman should say to others, and his family had done nothing wrong, so there was nothing he dared to say, and he suddenly felt extremely open-minded. Smiling, he thanked the squires who came to testify, told Yu Tang and Yu Yuan "don't run around", and whispered a few words with Mr. Wei, his father and son, and Mr. Wu, "wait for me to come out". stayed in the lobby.
Pei Yan has been paying attention to the movements of Yu's father and daughter, seeing him leaving Yu Wen to talk and Yu Wen still looking at his daughter, he has a bad premonition in his heart. But his character is like this, as long as it is something he doesn't know, he must figure it out. No matter what Yu's father and daughter have, he will not just let it go.
He simply told Pei Man: "Please invite Master Wu and Master Wei to drink tea in the nearby flower hall, we will finish talking soon."
The last sentence was addressed to Yu Tang and the others.
Master Wu was worrying that he would not be able to attend the Pei banquet. Hearing this was like being offered a pillow when someone was dozing off. I was afraid that Yu Tang, Master Wei and the others would easily give up this opportunity without knowing the seriousness. Master Wei spoke, quickly bowed to Pei Yan, and said with a smile: "Then bother Mr. Pei San."
Pei Yan nodded slightly.
Master Wu pulled Master Wei out of the hall.
But outside the hall, there are small bridges and flowing water, rockery and mountains, and the scenery is everywhere. For a while, people can't tell the difference between southeast and north, let alone where the flower hall that Pei Yan is referring to is.
The young servant leading the way couldn't help but pursed his lips and smiled, but said in a respectful tone, "You two masters, please follow me."
"Oh, oh, oh!" Master Wu responded, straightened his clothes, and felt that no one would notice his embarrassment just now, so he took the lead in walking in front of the crowd, and followed the young man through a crooked red line. Through the painted corridor, we walked through a flower wall, and arrived in front of a flower hall surrounded by colorful glazed doors.
"Oh my God!" Master Wu stared straight at his eyes, "How much silver does this cost?" After finishing speaking, he realized that he had lost his composure, and hurriedly explained to Master Wei, "I have seen this kind of colored glaze before, but it is still In the house of an official in the capital. The last time I came to Pei’s mansion, it seemed that it was still covered with silk gauze, but this time it was replaced with colored glaze. A square foot costs fifty taels of silver, let alone such a big one. It’s a whole piece, and I’m afraid it’s hard to buy it even if you have money, it’s even more impressive than those officials in the capital!”
Master Wei didn't pay attention to Master Wu's incoherent speech, he was still worried about Yu Wen, but he was also stunned by the glazed door he saw in front of him. While looking at those doors, he murmured: "This is really beautiful! The whole Lin'an City is also the first one, right? Look at the painting on it, it's a happy brow, right? It's also inlaid with gold leaf. What's the matter?" Inlaid? Is this craftsmanship from overseas? This is the first time I’ve seen it.”
Yu Tang, Yu Yuan, and Wei Xiaoyuan were also amazed by these glazed doors.
Yu Yuan and Wei Xiaoyuan met each other for the first time, while Yu Tang remembered something from his previous life.
After the Li family became rich in the maritime business, they also replaced the door of the flower hall with colored glaze like this. However, the Li family is not like the flower hall of the Pei family. The flower hall of the Li family is only inlaid with eight doors on the front, but the flower hall of the Pei family is full of doors on all sides, and there are twelve doors on the east and west sides, and twenty doors on the north and south sides. Eight doors... The doors of Li's house are inlaid with plum, orchid, bamboo, and chrysanthemums. The doors of Pei's house are obviously more complicated. In addition to flowers, there are also some birds and beasts. Peacocks and cranes are the most. Those feathers are exquisitely painted. Rich and gorgeous, the light falls on it, shining brightly, like a treasure.
The door of the Li family is obviously an imitation that cannot be imitated.
Even so, Lin once proudly said to the guests at home: "It's all brought back from overseas, and it's more expensive than gold. It's specially made by someone, otherwise you will see all yellow hair The green-eyed foreign woman is ugly as hell."
These doors of the Pei family are also specially customized, and they were brought back from overseas!
Then the Pei family should have started to communicate with those who do maritime business at this time.
At least, Pei's family is not a small customer of those merchants.
Yu Tang was a little surprised.
It was not the first time for the boy leading the way to see such a shocked expression from a guest.
He let the guests look at those doors, and said proudly: "These are brought back by our third master to honor the old man. After the old man left, the third master originally wanted to replace these doors with plain white glass." , but the old man in our family said that the old man liked to receive relatives and friends here the most during his lifetime. If the third master is filial, he should keep the things that the old man likes." Speaking of this, the young man may have thought of the scene at that time , "Pu Chi" laughed before continuing, "The third master said, since the old man likes it so much, he should be buried with the old man. The old man refused, saying that the third master was fighting against the old man. The old man obviously liked it. He boasted in front of relatives and friends that the third master honored him with these doors, and the third master insisted on throwing the old man's face. Later, the second master came forward to make the decision and kept all these doors."
Master Wu chuckled and chatted with the boy: "That is, that is. If I have such a son, someone will come to brag about it. However, the third master is really generous. Such a flower hall costs a lot of money. Shouldn't you work harder?"
"That's not it!" The young man was obviously not the first time entertaining such guests. After inviting them into the flower hall, he immediately pointed to the roof of the flower hall skillfully and said, "Look, the lights are also made of colored glaze. At night, light them up." Candles, that's so simple, even more beautiful than fireworks. Look at the ivory on the ancient shelf over there, which is longer than a human's arms. It's rare, right? It's also from the third master of our family to honor the old man, and the eight treasures of the Vajra on it , It’s not what we saw in the temple, it’s all brought back from overseas.”
Fortunately, Mr. Wei said that Mr. Wu is a businessman, and he immediately smelled something different from it.
He chatted with the young man seemingly unintentionally: "These things are so rare, where did your third master get them?"
The boy puffed out his chest proudly, and said: "Of course it was obtained from the capital. The second senior brother of the third master of our family, but now the elder of the pavilion, the third master of our family is a closed disciple of Zhang Shangshu, and has a relationship with the senior brothers above. It’s all good. Our third master wants to get something rare, so we just need to move our mouths. Those in the capital who are engaged in maritime business are not in a hurry to get in front of our third master!” Speaking of this, He suddenly sighed, and said, "It's no wonder that the third master of our family is not used to it after he comes back. Anyone who is used to the prosperous and prosperous life will feel a little uncomfortable when he returns to a place like Lin'an City. So our old man People always say that the third master of our family is filial, and the old man left all this big mess to the third master before he died. Although the third master said he was unwilling in his heart, he resigned from his official position and came back to be the suzerain."
Isn't it conservative? How did it become a resignation
Master Wu couldn't help but said: "Is the third master of your family no longer recovering?"
The boy laughed and said: "The Pei family has family rules, the suzerain has to keep his business in the ancestral house, and he is not allowed to go out to be an official."
Everyone was taken aback for a moment, feeling that it was both unexpected and logical.
Many big families are like this. When they become the suzerain, they stay in their hometown to keep their business, and they no longer go out to be officials. To everyone's surprise, it's a pity for a young talent like the third master to keep his business at home at such a young age.
Thinking about it this way, those rumors outside are not very reliable.
The suzerain is important, but if he can succeed in his official career and leave his name in history, wouldn't it reflect his value better than being a suzerain who keeps his career
As the suzerain of the Pei family, Pei Yan also made sacrifices, and he may not be willing to do so himself.
On the other hand, Yu Tang felt as if his head had been hit by something, and a lot of thoughts came flooding in, and he couldn't grasp what he was thinking at the moment.
In her previous life, Pei Yan never became an official again, she took it for granted, but looking at it now, she felt a little disobedient no matter how she looked at it.
Mrs. Pei seems to be partial to Pei Yan like this, but it also cut off Pei Yan's official career. On the contrary, the long house seems to have lost the position of the clan house, but the two princes are free to take the imperial examination and become officials freely. There is also the second room, since he is the most incompetent among the brothers according to the rumors, why not let him stay at home and start a business
It seems that the long house and the second house have been treated unfairly, but the one who is really trapped at home is the third house's Pei Yan, and there is a great possibility that the descendants of Pei Yan's family will also be trapped in Lin'an City .
Pei Yan's indifferent and even gloomy face appeared in Yu Tang's mind.
Is it because of this that he is always unhappy
Yu Tang's heart was beating wildly, and he always felt as if he had inadvertently spied on something.