If the four extra words before could be interpreted as Mrs. Li being nervous when she saw Wang Jia for the first time, now it is obvious from this conversation that Mrs. Li is not new to the world, so the meaning in it is interesting. up.
Flirting in public
For a moment, everyone forgot about the important matter of asking for money, and their eyes slid back and forth ambiguously towards the top. The King of Chu is full of romance in the imperial capital. These people are closely connected with the imperial capital, how could they not know? Legend has it that this prince likes flowers, streets and willow alleys, and he likes to eat both men and women. As long as it is a beautiful woman, he will not refuse it. Seeing this, he has changed his taste again? Turned to good women
There are also some well-informed people who have vaguely heard of the only young master of the Li family. It seems that they are not good at that? Could it be that Mrs. Li, who was born in a wealthy family in the imperial capital, had an affair with the King of Chu before, and now she is lonely in her empty boudoir, and she is reuniting with His Highness
It is human nature to gossip, and for a while, the eyebrows and eyes are full of lawsuits, and the eyes full of interest are flying all over the sky [Lack of ending punctuation]
Feng Zhi smiled and lowered his head to drink, without looking at Ning Yi, but Ning Yi also looked normal, held his cup and listened carefully, and said with a smile: "Madam Li deeply understands righteousness, she should be a model of Jianghuai gentry."
What he said was still the same as before, he couldn't see the specific meaning, he would pick up what was thrown, and put it aside, no one could figure out a definite number from his words, Feng Zhiwei admired again It's actually so high to deal with women with the language city government that has been trained in the royal family.
However, Qiu Yuluo seemed very satisfied with Ning Yi's words. He drank the wine in his glass in high spirits, and sat down with a blush on his face. It was the Liu family, the richest man in Jianghuai and the largest salt merchant. Hearing this sentence, he felt a little anxious and thought about it for a while. Said: "His Royal Highness and Lord Wei open their mouths, how dare we refuse to follow, but we have more than enough energy, Your Highness and Wei Hou, don't listen to those ignorant people talking about how rich the salt merchants are, in fact, they are suffering from themselves. I just realized that paying the salt tax to the salt transport envoy’s yamen every year, and receiving salt quotations is a huge fortune for the boss. It’s easy to pay more than half of the profit for a year to admit the quotations, but they can’t stand the backs of private salt dealers. , There are many refugees here, swarming under those private salt dealers, and they all start this lucrative business. In this way, no matter how big the family is, they can’t stand the money—His Highness’s lesson! My lord’s lesson!”
"Yes." Immediately someone answered, but it was the master of the Chen family who claimed to go to the grassland to sell rice. The Chen family monopolizes soybeans, tung oil, tea and rice in the south of the Yangtze River, and transports them to the south and north of the mountain in exchange for salt, iron, wheat, cotton, wood, dry tobacco, and then resells them on the grassland. He is frowning at this time, stroking his goatee, with a sly light shining in his bean-sized triangular eyes, and sighed, "Your Highness, my lord, look at us outside. It’s glamorous, but in fact it’s all empty-handed! There are many taxes and customs on the way to travel north and south in the business, and what really falls into the hands of the back and forth is only a small number. The whole family and the people below chew and eat flowers, and they only maintain a small amount every year. It's not that we don't care about the affairs of the court, but we can't afford to reach out every year. Last year when the southern flood hit, didn't we also donate rice? The year before the northern snow disaster, we also pledged 10,000 taels. The year before last..." He counted one by one with his fingers, and sighed at the end, "I'm not afraid to say something embarrassing, I've already emptied it. My Chen family, young and old, can only eat one piece of meat every three days. No, I haven't eaten meat for two days, if you don't believe me, open my stomach and have a look!" He said with a giggle.
Feng Zhi glanced at him slightly. This old man of the Chen family is not a high ranking member of the famous Jianghuai family, but he is the most vicious and stingy. No one paid any attention to it. Not long ago, there was a pleading paper, accusing this girl of kidnapping and causing her death. It's just that the Chen family has a big business. , Qianglong has always been afraid of local snakes. Although the previous chief ministers may not care about the Chen family, they are afraid of those desperate green heads. There is no guarantee that whenever you go to the theater or go out, someone will come with a knife to give you a chill. Well, that day was a bit too worrying, so no one dared to touch the Chen family's rampant Jianghuai for many years.
As soon as the old guy opened his mouth, a swarm of bees exploded behind him, and every sound was crying and complaining.
"His Royal Highness, it is hard for me to live in my stall. Nowadays, the roads in the south are blocked due to the war, and the price of freight is soaring. Dozens of our shops are closed... The third girl went out, and the dowry was only thirty-six. She was laughed at by her sister-in-law for no reason... "
"Nong, mulberry, salt, iron and fishing, all officials and yamen, all have to reach out everywhere... I was the head of Zhuojing a while ago... Local taxes are heavy..."
"Old Chen said one meat every three days, but my family has one meat every seven days!"
"My big family has to kill sixteen fat pigs every day that are not enough to fit between the teeth! Soybean, pork and rice noodles on the market have skyrocketed... I can't afford it..."
Most of these giant businessmen have the habit of pretending to be poor on weekdays, and when they talk excitedly, the awe-inspiring hearts that were originally born because of this occasion have been forgotten at this moment. They shake their heads, frown, stroke their beards, pat the table and shake their heads, and a series of pain slips out. After listening to it, people thought it was a disaster relief meeting for the poor.
The Patriarch of the Chen family who was the first to cry poorly, squinted his triangular eyes, licked his teeth while shaking his legs, looked at Ning Yi and Feng Zhiwei above with a bit of contempt in his eyes, they were just two brats! Since you, Wei Zhi, have inquired about our details clearly, you should know that the old man can't touch my tiger head!
He thought, if he embarrasses the chief minister today, he can't force him too much, just give some benefits afterwards, ten thousand taels or twenty thousand taels? It can't be more than 30,000!
The host Ning Yi and Feng Zhiwei were drinking tea slowly at the same time, both of them were a little strange today, except that they had to use wine in the toast at the beginning, after that they didn't touch the wine on the table, they all drank tea instead.
At this moment, Feng Zhiwei seemed to be drinking tea intently, but the corner of her eyes was gliding towards Ning Yi, the seat of honor. Ning Yi paused as he looked down at the tea, and nodded almost imperceptibly.
Although the two had too much entanglement with each other, they always had a tacit understanding when they were outside. Feng Zhiwei caught this look, smiled slightly and turned away, and suddenly felt something strange, as if something was tightly glued to her back. Turning his head around, looking around as usual, Feng Zhiwei remained motionless, then lowered his head to drink tea, tipped the tea quietly, and saw that it was Qiu Yuluo who was looking at him from an angle of the horizontal plane.