Jinyi Music

Seeing that these words became more and more out of tune, Mrs. Liu coughed lightly and said,

"Seeing that your father is not here today, let's play nonsense, be careful when he comes back to punish you!"

After finishing speaking, he turned his head and ordered,

"Let's eat!"

Then everyone sat down to eat. During the dinner, Mrs. Liu said,

"Your elder sister's marriage was supposed to follow Erlang's, but I didn't expect that the eighth one would be ahead of me, so the marriage was moved to next month. The mansion will be busy again, so you guys have nothing to do. I don't have time to deal with you if there is trouble outside, if there is anything, I will report it to your father!"

The sons and daughters are afraid of Mou Bin, as long as they move out of Mou Bin to keep them all honest and kitten-like, they all nodded and congratulated the eldest sister, Mou Xiumei blushed and lowered her head, and ran away after hastily eating , leaving everyone laughing for a while, and then dispersed.

After the meal, Mou Biao took Si Lian's hand back to Qingjingyuan as usual, and asked on the way,

"Tomorrow, I will go back to the door three times. I will ask Mama Wang to prepare the things. You can take a look when you go back?"

Silian nodded,

"I was thinking about going back tonight to prepare, but I didn't expect you to be ready!"

After the two returned, they went to the warehouse of Qingjingyuan. Mou Biao smiled and pointed to the pile of things placed in the middle, saying,

"I prepared all these things before we got married, except for the seasonal fruits and vegetables and pastries!"

Si Lian was both funny and moved when she heard it.

"Are you so sure that I will marry you?"

Mou Biao nodded proudly and said,
"That's natural..."

After a pause, he rolled up his sleeves and said with a smile,
"I came here today, so I came to have a look at my collection. In the past, the yard was small, and there were many things that were kept under it, but now that the yard is bigger, these things can only be displayed. Come and see... "

Mou Biao's treasury is not full of valuable treasures. There are many things he used since he was a child, such as small bows, small swords, daggers, etc. Of course, there are also jade ponies, rattles made of precious stones, and wood. Make a pony that can walk by itself,
"This is made by the carpenter Zhang. He is an old craftsman in the palace. He retired from his old age and returned to his hometown two years ago. Now he doesn't know what happened..."

Mou Biao put the wooden pony on the ground and pushed it lightly. The red-painted pony with cat eyes inlaid started to walk around the room by itself.

"The one who is in the palace now is his big apprentice, but his craftsmanship is not as good as his. This kind of wooden pony has become a masterpiece now. If it is put outside, it will be worth a hundred and eighty taels of silver!"

Si Lian nodded, this pony is worth a lot of money not to mention the craftsmanship, but the pair of cat's eyes.

Mou Biao dug out the contents of another box and showed it to Si Lian.

"It's all good things from overseas..."

He pointed to a pearl that was the size of a child's fist and said,

"Look... This is a serious roulette bead, such a big roulette bead, and such a fineness, you can't see it outside... This is a tribute, it is a treasure in the palace, it was given to my father by His Majesty, and my father put it in In the study, once I saw it, I wanted to come over..."

After finishing speaking, put the bead into Silian's palm,
"You can put a crown on it, but make a string of chains, it will look good on you..."

Jia Silian looked at the big bead dumbfounded,

"Such a big bead, it's so ostentatious to wear it, but I don't have the cheek to wear it..."

But Mou Biao ignored it, and found another box. When he opened it, there was a red coral tree inside.
"It looks good, take it to the study and put it..."

The coral tree was only about a foot high, but because of its age, it had already turned into jade. When I held it in my hand and shone it under the light, the room was full of red light. Jia Silian was amazed and asked,
"Did all these things come from the southern sea? Is there a country in the southern sea?"

She hasn't even been out of the capital a few times in this life. She was in a small village outside Hangzhou in her previous life, but she has heard some overseas stories. It is said that there are many foreign fleets by the sea. He will bring treasures from the sea to trade. Speaking of those distant countries, there are many anecdotes and strange things. For example, the people there have fair skin, but they are not very clean, and for example, the peasants there do not cover their clothes, and the nobles are just The head of the village in the countryside has lice in his hair, and like monks there, even the emperor can be appointed or dismissed,

Mou Biao laughed and said,

"I'll go to my father's study later and get his map to show you... It was given to my father by a businessman from overseas many years ago, and many overseas countries are marked on it, but they are all small countries. , I heard that the people there can't even wear clothes, and only eat a kind of black steamed buns that look like stones..."

"It's like a stone, how can you eat it?"

Si Lian became curious. When she was in Hangzhou, she heard people talking about overseas customs, and she was always curious. She only lived in that small village and could not see it until she died. She did not expect to see overseas people in the capital. Mou Biao thought for a while, then found a buckskin bag from the box, and handed it to Si Lian. Si Lian opened it, but saw that it was full of gems of various colors, and she gasped.
"so much?"

Mou Biao casually threw such a valuable thing at the bottom of the box?
Mou Biao seemed to have read her thoughts, and said with a smile,

"These were given to my father by a businessman from overseas. When my father was on a business trip to the south coast, he met a merchant ship bound for Tianzhu. Because of a storm on the sea, it somehow came to our place. The businessman The merchant ship was damaged and ran aground on the beach. It was my father who asked someone to unload the cargo on the merchant ship. He saved the loss and gave my father a whole box of gems. The man told my father, It’s this kind of thing, there are a lot of it overseas, and it’s not worth much!”

"Oh I got it!"

After hearing this, Jia Silian became more and more curious about overseas scenery.

"I don't know if I can go and see it in the future?"

Mou Biao laughed and said,

"It's not difficult. Because the Taizu established the country and issued a ban on the sea, those merchants from outside the region did not dare to dock when they came to our Central Plains. So some merchants from our Central Plains sent large ships to open seas to trade with them. In the future, there will be opportunities. , I'll take you to have a look!"

The sea ban was established by Taizu, but the dead bones of Taizu's old man were all slag, and the descendants of later generations will not be so obedient. The debates about banning the sea and opening the sea in the court are also noisy from time to time, but the court How noisy in the hall is the business of the officials. The businessmen below who want to make money have their own countermeasures, not to mention that foreign businessmen are not allowed to enter the waters of Daqing, then they quietly sent boats to open seas to trade with people in the middle of the night .

Although it is said that if they are caught by the Daqing navy patrolling the sea, they will be killed, but doing business with merchants from other regions is too profitable, just like the gems in Silien's hands, which are crystal clear and of good quality, such rough gems How many people are scrambling to sell one hundred taels of silver in the Central Plains? After polishing and processing, the price will increase several times. It is not uncommon for thousands of taels of silver to be made into gemstone heads.

But such gems are only low-grade gems in Dad's box of gems, but they were just given to him by Dad for playing when he was young. Dad once said that such gems piled up like hills on the merchant's boat, and the merchant didn't know how to do it. He was in a hurry to go to Tianzhu and did not dare to stay in Daqing for a long time. He sold gems by boxes. My father hated that he was only a small household in Jinyiwei at that time. The businessman gave me another box, and these three boxes of gems were brought back to the capital, only half of the box was sold and he married a wife, and the remaining half of the box was bought for the big house in the Mou Mansion.

It can be seen that there are huge profits!
It is said that if Mou Baihu had resolutely abandoned the army and started business at that time, he would have become a wealthy man by now!
Mou Biao told Si Lian what his father had told him about the past, and Si Lian's eyes lit up when he heard it.
"I don't know where the businessman came from, and I don't know if there will be a chance to visit those overseas countries..."

Mu Biao smiled and took her hand,

"There will definitely be a chance. I will definitely take you on a tour. First, you will go all over the Central Plains, and then go overseas to see Qi Qi!"

"it is good!"

……

The young couple got up early the next morning, loaded all the prepared things into the carriage, Mou Biao rode the horse, and guarded Silian's carriage, and the two went back to Jia's house. Once it was Mrs. Zhu who led Wulian and Liulian to a homecoming banquet. It is said that when the daughter returns home after her wedding, her natal family will invite all her relatives to have a drink. The Jia family had no relatives, and the Zhu family was a stepmother, and had only one brother. Jia Jincheng was not invited to see him, so he simply didn't call anyone, and the whole family had a meal behind closed doors.

However, there was no Jia Youchuan in this family. Jia Youchuan rushed back to the Jingwei camp on the day Silian got married. Ben, after finishing the wine that night, he rushed back overnight.

During the banquet, Jia Jincheng wanted to mention his appointment several times, but he didn't have the guts to ask, but Mou Biao spoke first.

"Father-in-law, I said earlier that I would go to Shunyi to do the work of classics and history. My father has already talked to someone from the Ministry of Officials. I think there will be a letter issued in the past few days. Father-in-law will hand over the errands in the yamen in the next few days... "

Jia Jincheng was overjoyed. He had been feeling uneasy for a few days, wondering maliciously whether Mou Biao would renege on his promise. In his capacity, besides his daughter's refusal to fulfill his promise, he had to live under the hands of his father and son. I really dare not blow up with my son-in-law!
But now it seems that the four sons-in-law still do what they say, and they responded happily,

"I do have an errand in my hands, and I have to hand it over to my colleagues in the yamen..."

Mou Biao nodded, looked around and said,

"The property in the yamen in this yard, if the father-in-law wants to leave, he will naturally have to hand it back, but don't worry, the Shunyi county yamen will arrange a residence. Your old man will go and have a look first. If you don't like it, you can find it outside. Just live in a house!"

Jia Jincheng nodded, and Mou Biao looked at the two sisters-in-law again,

"Wulian and Liulian, have the shops on Chaotian Street been tidied up?"