The Possession of My Beloved

    Listening to Mama Li, this little lady is fierce on weekdays. There was a dispute with the craftsman who cut corners when repairing the shop. She supported it alone, and scolded the three big men without blinking.

    Why did you come to him, so many clothes? About the last time she cried and begged for divorce with tears in her eyes, she found that he was good at talking under the offensive of tears, so she repeated the old trick?

    So Cui Xingzhou deliberately dragged a long voice and said: "It's still not possible, it's too troublesome..."

    Miantang didn't mention it anymore, her eyes quickly filled with tears, but she tried her best to hold back her appearance, and only squeezed his leg obediently and sensible, but when she lowered her head, the tears fell If you can't drop it, it's annoying to wander around.

      I'll ask Mo Ru to bring back two boxes of clothes, so it's convenient to change here..."

    His words immediately made the weeping little lady burst into tears, and pinched his shoulders diligently for him, and then asked: "I can prepare some specialties for your neighbors, but it's for my husband. What should my teacher prepare? Would you like me to accompany my husband to the chess hall to give gifts in person?"

    Cui Xingzhou has become more and more familiar with lying these days, but it is not ridiculous enough to build a chess hall for the sake of lying.

    So listening to Miantang intentionally followed, he said without blinking: "My teacher is jealous, she usually doesn't allow my teacher to talk to other women, you go, but it's not beautiful... That chessboard you bought Yes, let's make a gift for the teacher."

    The chessboard that Cui Xingzhou was talking about was the beautiful suet jade chessboard that Miantang spent three taels of silver to buy.

    Listening to what he said, Miantang was stunned for a moment, and hesitantly said: "But...that's what I bought for your husband..."

    Cui Xingzhou knew, where did you buy it? It was clearly given to her by the thief Lu Wen. If she knew this, she should make a clean break with the rebels. If she left this chessboard, wouldn't she be the handle to break up with Lu Wen in the future? At that time, how should he be lenient and let her go?

    Seeing that Miantang was unwilling, he said warmly: "If this is the case, then there is no need to pay the teacher, other things are too vulgar..."

    Miantang felt that her husband's words were reasonable. The other gifts that I prepared were indeed not very good. Since I was my husband's mentor, I had a very high vision, and it was suitable to give this chessboard.

    And this chessboard is made of fake jade material, which is not worthy of her husband. Now that she has made money, she wants to buy a better one for her husband.

    But she liked the chessboard again and wanted to see how her husband twisted the white jade pieces. So he pulled his shoes down to the ground, held the chessboard on the small table, and said to Cui Jiu, "Since it is going to be given to the teacher, husband might as well use it once to see if the teacher will use it smoothly?"

    Cui Xingzhou smiled: "You can play chess?"

    Miantang remembered the last time she watched the game at the chess table at the entrance of the academy, and blinked: "I didn't know much at my parents' house before, but it seems to be a little bit later, I don't remember very well..."

    Since she knew how to play, Cui Xing felt bored, but he was happy to accompany this woman to kill time.

    To tell you the truth, the white jade chessboard is really beautiful, and the jade wrists on which Miantang lays the pieces are gleaming white, and the fingertips glow slightly.

    The King of Huaiyang was not blind, so naturally he could not turn a blind eye to the beauty of the jade in front of him, so he placed chess pieces one by one.

    In the end, it didn't take a cup of tea, Miantang hesitated: "Husband, look, did I win?"

    Huaiyang King looked at him intently, was silent, and nodded after a while. Liu Miantang had indeed won the chess game within a few steps.

    Seeing her husband nodding, Miantang burst out laughing, and said shyly, "Why did my husband let me? Let me improve my skills in the next game!"

    But the husband seemed to have no intention of laughing, the corners of his mouth pursed slightly, and he silently packed up his pieces, ready to start another game.

    This time, it was Cui Jiu who made the first move, arranging traps, as if arranging troops.

    Mian Tang made his moves based on intuition, but every time he made a move, he felt that the surroundings were dangerous, so he had to think carefully. When he looked at the expressionless husband who was staring at the chessboard, his admiration grew even stronger. Sheng.

    Her husband is really a master of chess!

    This game took a long time, Miantang missed a move and lost to her husband. But she still felt happy. Husband is a master of chess, and he can't play it by himself, isn't it normal?

    Now that I have been with Cui Jiu for a long time, Miantang can naturally recognize when Cui Jiu is smiling and when is a polite smile.

    So while she put away the chess pieces and packed the chessboard, she asked, "Is your husband unhappy?"

    Cui Jiu hooked the corners of his mouth: "No, I'm just thinking that you are so delicate, I don't know who to learn from?"

    Liu Miantang's chess game is in the same line as that of the self-proclaimed Ziyu rebel. So it's not hard to imagine that when this woman was on the mountain, she played chess and beat her legs with the rebels like this, killing the situation...

    This is very different from the reckless treatment of weak girls by bandits he thought.

    The husband Cui Jiu seemed to be in a bad mood that day. When he went out, Miantang could only tell her husband diligently.

    When Cui Xingzhou walked out of North Street and returned to the barracks, his mood calmed down a little.

    In the past few days, he has transferred troops to Qingzhou, under the name of assistance, but in fact he has set up Qingzhou for defense, but he has learned a lot of hidden things that he didn't know before.

    For example, behind the rebels in Yangshan, there are many gentry secretly supporting them.

    Long live the young man ascended the throne, and the major affairs of the court are controlled by the former concubine Xi - today's Empress Dowager Wan'an.

    The Queen of Zhou was abolished, the prince Liu Dan died, and the former powerful Zhou family fell down overnight. Concubine Xi's father's family, the Yang family, took its place, and had power over the government.

    The Yang family pursued the way of greed and changed the national policy of recuperating and recuperating the emperor. Over the years, the exorbitant taxation and miscellaneous taxes have been continuously raised. Recently, some land re-cutting method has emerged. .

    Land reclamation elsewhere has long been in place. However, due to the famine in the Zhenzhou generation, bandits were rampant, and the rebel force was growing stronger and stronger, and several high-ranking officials of the court who came to implement land reorganization were all beheaded on the pipeline.

    So the change here was put on hold and no one mentioned it again.

    Now that I think about it, the reason why those rebels who are disturbing the local area are long-lasting, has nothing to do with those gentry who do not want tax reform!

    It's just that Lu Wen has been beaten to pieces now, and he wants to recruit the thighs of the general bouldering soldiers. I wonder what name those gentry want to set up to resist the tax reform of the imperial Yang family?

    The Yang family couldn't collect the tax money from Zhenzhou, but they found another way long ago.

    A distant relative of the Yang family opened a very large silver shop - Tongli Money Store.

    Tongli money shops are all over the Dayan counties, and the Yang family is actually the biggest backer of this money shop.

    Generally, the tax collected by the county government in various places is not only stored in the government bank's treasury, but also a part of it is deposited in the money bank for the face of the Yang family. That money makes money in a proper way, and if you deposit it in his house, there is indeed a lot of interest. It is very prosperous to trade with money.

    In order to ease the relationship between Zhenzhou and the imperial Yang family. Cui Xingzhou is also like a local official, depositing a large amount of money in the Tongli Money Bank every year.

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    But he thought about it, then paused.

    Even an ignorant little woman like Liu Niangzi knows that eggs cannot be put in one basket. Now the relationship between Zhenzhou and the small court is delicate. Once the face is turned over, the money is likely to be detained and unable to be retrieved.

    Thinking of this, he pondered for a while, learned Liu Miantang's method, left the local expenses for the year, and most of the rest were escorted to Zhenzhou, which had been vacant for a long time. Go to the silver vault. As for the tax silver in previous years, it should also be withdrawn in monthly installments.

    As for the excuses, they are all ready-made: he is about to get married with his cousin Lian Lilan, and there are more places for the prince to spend money on the wedding! It is only reasonable to use extravagant excuses to transfer large sums of money.

    For a time, the two "husbands and wives" in North Street were worried about money.

    But what Miantang has to worry about is actually quite simple. After the porcelain plates filled by Mr. Chen were sold, the store had ample running accounts, and the whole store also exuded a calm and elegant atmosphere.

    Miantang hired craftsmen to repair the door curtain with silver, and there was a separate private room in the shop. The rich peonies and celadon vases are placed in such a way that the distinguished guests can drink tea and eat fruits calmly on the group chairs wrapped in silk brocade, and appreciate the top-quality porcelain of their jade-fired porcelain workshop.

    Miantang has entered a lot of representative porcelain in Lingquan Town in the past few days, and the grade of the shop has suddenly increased.

    It was also when the shop entered a step, and she realized that there was a porcelain chamber of commerce in the town. The only ones who can join the club are the famous porcelain shops in the town.

    And most of the shops opened by outsiders like the Jade Burning Porcelain Workshop closed down after more than a month, and naturally they could not reach the threshold of the chamber of commerce.

    And now, seeing the jade-fired porcelain paving, the gilded invitation card was naturally delivered to Miantang's counter.

    The guy in the shop, Guisheng, has worked in other porcelain workshops before, and he is half an old man. He naturally understands the gold content of this invitation. Stand firm.

    Miantang was also happy, and naturally took this matter of joining the Chamber of Commerce seriously. On the day when the Yuetou Chamber of Commerce burned incense, Miantang got up early and asked Li's mother to boil water to bathe and change. She changed into a newly-made satin and silk skirt, and gave her the box of incense powder that her husband gave her. After tidying up his head and feet, he went out solemnly.

    The Chamber of Commerce in Lingquan Town is provided by Hejia, the number one old shop in Lingquan.

    As a veteran of the royal family, the He family is rich and powerful, and no other porcelain shop in Lingquan Town can match it.

    Miantang, as a new company, the first thing she did when she joined the chamber of commerce was to meet the second master of the He family.

    He Erye was forty-seven this year, and when he was in his prime, it was said that when Concubine Xi entered the porcelain workshop, he was the one who was supposed to receive it.

    He Erye heard that the Jade Burning Porcelain Shop came to pay homage to the President, so he raised his eyes and looked, but he did not expect that the head of the Jade Burning Porcelain Shop was a young woman in her twenties.

    Beauty is beautiful, but asking a woman to come... It's too much to take the Chamber of Commerce seriously!