Fourth Lord's Black Moonlight Queen

Chapter 7 I have never seen such an old man

In fact, the Kang family made their fortune by selling salt. The Qing Dynasty had great control over the sale of salt, and it could only be sold by merchants designated by the court in specific locations.

The Kang family was one of the imperial merchants approved by the imperial court. Relying on the huge profits from salt, they developed into a rich man step by step, and then opened pawn shops and grain, oil, tea, horse and wine shops.

Today, His Majesty once subdued himself as a businessman and came to the Kang family to observe the situation. At this time, the head of the Kang family was not at home, so His Majesty lived in the Kang mansion with his entourage.

When the group washed their faces at night, the servant girl of the Kang family brought a pure gold washbasin to His Majesty for everyone to wash.

His Majesty said casually: "The washbasins are not enough. Unexpectedly, the head of the Kang family immediately ordered his servants to bring several pure gold washbasins, so that His Majesty and his entourage will each have one. This move made His Majesty, who is the son of heaven, "open." eyesight".

There is also a legend that in the early years, in order to crush another local pawnshop, the Kang family took out 1 golden arhats to this pawnshop for three consecutive months, and each pawn was [-] taels of silver.

The pawn shop panicked, and asked the pawn why there were so many golden arhats. The man came and said, "My master has [-] golden arhats, and now there are [-] more waiting to be pawned!"

The pawnshop had no choice but to ask the Kang family to redeem the nine hundred golden arhats, and closed the pawnshop by itself and left.

It can be seen that the wealth of the Kang family really lives up to its reputation
Fortunately, both the Kang family and the Cao family of Jiangning Weaving Mansion are the emperor's retainers, otherwise His Majesty would find any reason for this huge family wealth to enter the imperial treasury.

Li Jingui also felt happy from the bottom of his heart as the fourth elder brother swept away the haze of the previous few days with a growing smile in his eyes.As long as the fourth elder brother is well, nothing else matters.

The sun is shining, the years are quiet, and the mood is very comfortable for no reason.

She used a thimble to part the broken bangs in front of her forehead, and she couldn't help singing the lullaby that the fourth elder brother's nurse Xie sang the most when she was a child.

Her singing is melodious, clear and sweet like a lark, which is still fresh in my memory.

Speaking of this nurse, there is also a rumor that after the fourth elder brother was carried from the then concubine De to Empress Xiaoyiren's palace, he kept crying and not thinking about eating.

The imperial doctors were at a loss, but someone came up with a "bad idea" saying that in the south of the capital, find a woman with a jade seal in her hand and a green dragon on her feet to feed the prince. Concubine De took care of it herself.

So Empress Xiao Yiren, who was raising the fourth elder brother at the beginning, and Tong Jia's family behind her hurriedly sent people to the Daxing land boundary south of the capital to search for it.

As a result, the eunuch in charge passed by a field and saw a young woman walking on the ridge of the field, holding a piece of tofu in her hand and preparing to go home, so he took the woman into the palace without any further explanation.

Coincidentally, the woman had just given birth and still had milk, so she fed it to the fourth elder brother, and he stopped crying and nursed with peace of mind.

Empress Xiaoyiren was very curious and asked where to find this person. The eunuch who was looking for him could only say that the jade seal is tofu, and the green dragon is Tianlong.

It's a pity that in order to prevent the fourth elder brother from being thick with the nursing mother, when the fourth elder brother was seven years old, Empress Xiao Yiren drove her out of the palace.

"Excuse me, I want to ask for saliva to quench my thirst, is it convenient?"

In front of him was a ragged old man leaning on a cane. At this moment, he slowly took off the gourd hanging from the cane and handed it to Li Jingui.

Li Jingui couldn't help being curious. Since the Qing Dynasty entered the customs, the iron order of keeping hair but not hair has been implemented for many years. Why is this old man's attire and hair so special?
"The old man is a little hungry, can you...?"

The old man pointed at the pleasingly growing tender cucumber in the yard and smacked his mouth. Seeing that Li Jingui was still there, he had not recovered, so he went to the vegetable field and picked a cucumber and stuffed it into his mouth.

"Sweet! Really sweet! Are these melons and fruits grown by you?"

The old man spoke in a nutshell, but Li Jingui shook his head.

"It's my master, fourth elder brother!"

This old man is very familiar with him. Li Jingui watched him sit down on the low stone bench, and then he picked up the melon seeds on the bank table and knocked them.

"Old man, your teeth are really good!"

"Award, award~"

"Hey, little girl, are you going to make lunch? Old man, I came to the Forbidden City early in the morning to find someone, and I didn't even bother to eat breakfast."

Xiao Suzi, who was standing behind Li Jingui, originally wanted to sneer and let the old man with the nose know how to leave, but he curled his lips when the old man pushed his nose on his face.

Did he really not understand or was he just pretending to be stupid?Don't you know that this is a disguised eviction order?

I have never seen such a traitor who relies on the old and sells the old, and this is so embarrassing!
"Old man, please sit down for a while, I'll pick some fluffy loofahs and stir-fry them for you to try."

"How about a sweet sweet potato porridge for lunch today?"

Li Jingui turned to the fourth elder brother who was still playing chess with Nian Gengyao and others in the courtyard, and after getting confirmation from his eyes, he filled the teacup for the uninvited guest in front of him, and then turned and walked into the small kitchen.

"Sir! You make students easy to find!"

A burst of anxious footsteps stepped into the hall, and in front of him was a middle-aged man about 50 or [-] years old, bowing his head respectfully to the side.

Although he has a bookish look, there is a faint shrewdness and a clear insight into the world in his eyes.

If one had to choose the shortest and most concise word in this world to describe this middle-aged man, then Li Jingui would definitely choose the word Quanchen.

"Grandfather is well!"

grandfather?The parents of the concubine de concubine died early, and the only one who can make the fourth elder brother honorably call her grandfather is the biological father of Concubine Tong Jia, the first-class Duke, the uncle of the country, Tong Guowei!

Li Jingui followed the fourth elder brother to bow to Uncle Tong Guo more respectfully.

Uncle Guo Tong Guowei seldom stepped into the harem, and Li Jingui met Uncle Guo a few times, but he was far away and did not dare to look carefully. No wonder the voice sounded familiar.

"Si elder brother, why should you be so disrespectful, I am ashamed of myself!"

Tong Guowei's heart is very pleased by the humility of the fourth elder brother Yinzhen, and it is not in vain that he has worked so hard to protect him so far.

Now this elder brother is even more favored by his husband, and his future is boundless.

It was only when he stepped into the courtyard that he realized that the fourth elder brother had been living so hard all these years.

He forcibly suppressed the anger in his heart. No wonder His Majesty has been reluctant to appoint a noble concubine as his queen since the death of his eldest daughter, Empress Xiao Yiren!
The second daughter, Suyuan, has stagnated in the position of imperial concubine for many years, and her bearing is still a bit inferior!
If he hadn't discovered it in time!Then the Tong Jia family will lose a crucial hole card.

Foolish views of women!He decided to find some time to have a good chat with this paranoid concubine!
After the three exchanged simple greetings, when Yinzhen personally went out to see off the old man and Uncle Tong Guo and returned to the palace, it was only then that Li Jingui knew that the old man was Kong Jishi, the emperor of the two dynasties.

The Qing Dynasty has also been deeply influenced by Confucianism since it entered the customs, and the masters of Confucianism came from the Kong family.That is, the descendants of the sage Confucius!

(End of this chapter)