Lord of the House

Gu Siming lifted the curtain of the car and glanced at Lin Fu, who was riding the horse in front. He vaguely heard his hearty laughter, but couldn't understand what he was talking about. There was a bit of sourness, and it felt strange: My aunt obviously looked down on this sour scholar, why did she treat him so affectionately today?

When the carriages and horses arrived at the Gu Mansion in the north of the Tianhan Bridge, eight or nine of the servants, grooms, maids, and servants who were dispatched by the inspector to be on duty stood outside the mansion, waiting to meet the new master's family, and a few others. The gong and drum players were beating on the side, attracting a group of neighbors to come to watch the new official's residence in the compound, which was very lively. Gu Shi, Gu Siyuan, and Gu Junxun got off the carriage, and gave the old and new servants money in red paper packets. Gu Siming saw that Gu Shi did not mean to introduce him to the servants as a young master. When everyone entered the house, they saw Lin Bie following behind the Gu family and pointing at Zhou Pu and Zhao Hu, two squires helping to lift the suitcase cage off the carriage. My wife came over to help, maybe you can't bear to hide in a golden house, right?"

Lin Fu glanced at Gu Siming, thinking that this kid really doesn't know how to look at people's faces. He can bring anyone to help the Gu family, but he can't bring Liu Yue'er here. This kid has to tell this in front of Gu's face. After that, he replied with a smile: "On behalf of Miss Liu, I would like to thank Master Tang for your concern..."

Gu shi frowned and glanced at Gu Siming, and felt more and more that his face was disgusting, thinking that Lin Fu was really good-tempered, no matter what, Gu Siming was the nephew of the master, and even though Gu shi was unhappy, he did not lose his temper. , and only said to Gu Siming: "You also call Tianqiao, I just have something to tell you two..."

"Yes, Auntie." Gu Siming frantically went to Gu Tianqiao, who was instructing his servants to move the suitcase cage into the house. Gu Siyuan, the son of Gu Wuchen, asked his mother casually: "What's the matter? Shout out together?"

"Last year, your father was released by the imperial court, and the Gu family became one of the eight major tea merchants in Dongyang Mansion. When we were in Dongyang, we heard a few old people in the Gu family complaining that even if they became an official tea merchant again, their own The tea produced in the tea mountains and tea gardens, and the tea received from the tea farmers, cannot be sold to Dongyang, and can only be sold to the Lin family warehouse at a low price..." At this moment, Gu Siming pulled Gu Tianqiao over and respectfully stood under the steps to listen Mrs Gu told Gu Siyuan about the tea merchants, Mrs Gu said to herself, "They have complained in front of your father several times, and I think about it too, and I can't let the Lin family bully the Gu family like this, I am here. Thinking, can't the Gu family sell the tea to other companies, so they have to be tied to the Lin family?"

"There are other companies looking for it," Gu Tianqiao replied honestly while standing under the steps, "I don't know if we have negotiated with the Lin family. Other companies don't accept our tea, and we are unable to ship the tea out of Dongyang for distribution. —This time I came to Jiangning with my uncle and aunt, and I just wanted to find a business in Jiangning that is willing to transport Gujia tea out of Dongyang.”

"I don't think you need to look for it anymore," Mrs Gu said. "Lin Juren has a firm in Jiangning..." Lin Tie inserted a sentence beside him: "Our firm Jiyun Club..." Mrs Gu said "oh" and continued. Taking the tone of command, he said to Gu Siming and Gu Tianqiao: "I think in the future, Gu's tea will be handed over to Jiyun Club. You don't have to worry that Lin Juren will press the price of Gu's family..."

Gu Siming was stunned when he heard what Mr. Gu said. He turned his head to look at Lin Fu, his eyes were puzzled and hostile, and he asked, "Lin Juren only entered the city seven or eight days before us, so why did he have a business name under his name? What is the difference between the Gu family's underwriting tea to you and the Lin family?"

Although Gu Tianqiao was equally surprised, he went to the Dongyang Guild Hall with Yang Pu and Lin Fu a few days ago, and felt that Lin Fu was quite prestigious in Jiangning. Besides, he was very serious by nature. Although he had doubts in his heart, he was unwilling to stand still. Come out and confront Gu.

Gu Siming's **** made the Gu family quite annoyed. She pressed her voice and asked, "Is your nephew Siming worried that I have deceived Lin Juren? Or is he worried that I will help Lin Juren in repaying the kindness of the two generations of Lin Juren to the Gu family?"

Only then did Gu Siming feel the strong dissatisfaction of the Gu family towards him, and he was a little flustered, and hurriedly argued: "Auntie, Siming didn't mean that, it's just that Lin Tie doesn't have a good reputation in Shanglin... The Gu family has its own tea garden. There are more than 2,000 mu, with an annual output of nearly 40,000 catties of dried tea buds, how can Lin Fu have this wallet to sell the tea for the family?"

Gu's family didn't know the economy, and she didn't know how much 40,000 catties of tea was worth. She glanced at Lin Fu suspiciously.

Lin Fu stood on the steps and looked at Gu Siming, smirked and said, "The official price for 40,000 catties of tea is only 2,000 taels. Young Master Tang must have underestimated me, Lin Fu..."

The official price is the guide price for tea merchants and tea farms to purchase tea from tea farmers, and it is also the benchmark price for the government to extract tea tax from it. The market price is much lower.

Gu's mind thought that the He Yi that Lin Fu gave to his family this time was no less than a thousand taels, and the principal of two thousand taels of tea was definitely not under his words, and also thought that Lin Fu would give his family an extra thousand taels of silver every year. The money was almost half of the principal of the tea. I thought that Lin Fu was really generous. Comparing the two, he became more and more unaccustomed to Gu Siming, and said, "Whether it can be done or not, it is up to the master of the Gu family to speak. Don't make noise here." Not wanting to pay attention to Gu Siming, he instructed Gu Tianqiao sideways, "Tianqiao, write a letter to clarify the matter in detail, and ask someone to send it to Shiliang County today, so that the master of the Gu family can make up his mind. "

Gu Siming was like knocking on a basin of cold water on a cold day, and his intuition was piercingly cold; Gu Tianqiao nodded honestly and agreed: "I'll write a letter when this place is cleaned up..."

However, Gu Siyuan knew that his mother was in charge of everything in the family, and he didn't have the right to speak. Although he couldn't get used to Lin Bie, he would not argue with his mother on this matter.

Lin Fu said: "The shopkeeper of Jiyun Club is going back to Shiliang by boat in the afternoon. I see that the letter written by Tianqiao will be brought back to Shiliang County by him..."

"That's fine." Mrs Gu wanted to hold down all the elders of the Gu family and nodded to agree to this matter. Lin Fu directly sent a shopkeeper back to Shiliang County to talk about this matter. It was in her best interest, and she didn't care what the Gu family would think. .

Lin Fu added: "Jiyun Club wants to underwrite Gujiacha, and needs to find someone who understands Gujiacha to help. Brother Tianqiao doesn't feel wronged, can he come to Jiyun Club to help? Others dare not promise anything, little tea The shopkeeper, will you be too wronged by Brother Tianqiao?"

Gu Tianqiao and the others followed to Jiangning. They originally hoped to rely on Gu Wuchen's relationship to find a good job in Jiangning, increase their knowledge and experience, and be able to go to the tea shop to be the shopkeeper. For him, it was a step to the sky, but he did not get carried away. Said: "Everything is still to be said after the elderly at home have made up their minds..."

Lin Fu knew that Gu Siming could follow Jiangning because his family was relatively close to Gu Wuchen's family. Gu Tianqiao could follow him because he was smart and eager to learn. Yunshe lacks the most manpower in Jiangning, so it is better to pull Gu Tianqiao directly over. On the other hand, he was not at all worried that the Gu family would object. The Gu family finally hugged Gu Wuchen's thick thigh, how could he easily let go? Besides, he asked Lin Jingzhong to go directly to Hutang to negotiate with the elders of the Gu family. The price of tea would be considerably higher than that of the Lin family, so he wanted to give the Gu family a step down, so he said, "In this case, why don't you work hard, Brother Tianqiao? , it is better to say it face to face than what is written in the letter, if there is anything unclear about Gu's parents, you can also ask Brother Tianqiao in person."

Gu Tianqiao thought to himself: What do I know about the situation? After listening to Mr. Gu's full mouth, he agreed, "I'll just take a trip, it's not too hard or not."

Gu Siming left it aside and was ignored. He had nameless resentment towards Lin Bing and panic to reprimand Gu, and he didn't know what to say to save the situation.

Gu Junxun stood aside curiously, listening to Lin Fu and the others negotiating the underwriting of Gu's tea in a few words. She stood behind Gu's side, and looked at Lin Fu with a little more courage and looked at his handsome face. Calmly and calmly, when Lin Bie's eyes turned unintentionally, she turned her face to look at others, her heart pounding like a deer and jumping violently.

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Gu Wuchen didn't come back from the yamen until noon, and they had already negotiated the underwriting of Gu's tea by Jiyun Club, and set up a banquet to wait for them to come back.

When Gu Wuchen changed out of the public uniform in the inner house, he heard Gu's talk about the congratulations sent by Jiyun Club and Lin Fu.

"How can you accept such a heavy He Yi?" Gu Wuchen complained, "It's not easy for him to come to Jiangning. He was driven out by the Lin family. After the banquet, it will be returned to him, and a return gift will be added." He In the end, he was thinking of the kindness of the two generations of Lin Fu to the Gu family, and did not want to be greedy for Lin Fu's generous gifts.

"This is also a part of his mind, and he can't be pushed away?" Gu Shi was reluctant to return Lin Fu's congratulatory gift, and said, "Si Yuan likes those two purplish red horses, and he already wants them. You can't ignore your son's feelings at all when you go to the car in the past Will the love fade away?"

Gu Wuchen thought for a moment, then UU Reading www.uukanshu.com stopped arguing with his old wife, changed into casual clothes, walked to the front hall to sit down, called Lin Fu to sit beside him, and said, "You set up a business in Jiangning. It's good, but you can't miss the future..."

"This is natural. It was when the business was first established that Lin Fu took some time to take care of it. When everything was on the right track, of course, Lin Fu still asked for the future." Lin Fu said, not only in Gu Wuchen's heart, but also in this era. In the hearts of all people, being an official means everything. It is often said that "the prefect of the Qing Dynasty, one hundred thousand snowflakes of silver", and there is another saying that "the magistrate of the family will be destroyed, and the magistrate of the family will be destroyed." It's the first class in the world.

"It's good that you know," Gu Wuchen said with relief when he saw that Lin Fu was able to handle it clearly, "I am officially taking up my post in the Yamen, the inspector today, and handing over the duties with the inspector Zhang, I wasted time, let you I have been waiting in the palace for a long time. I have a brief look at the yamen, and there are still some vacancies in the office of the inspector, and the rank is not high, see which one do you prefer?" How many vacancies might the inspector have? However, when Gu Wuchen took office, it was impossible not to install people within his scope of authority. Since Lin Fu didn't want to be a staff officer, but wanted to directly find a half-official position, Gu Wuchen felt that Lin Fu was trustworthy and his talents could be relied on, so he thought of letting him be a subordinate within his jurisdiction, which was indirect. Use his mind as a staff officer.

Gu Wuchen's words made Gu Siming and others around him both envious and jealous. Isn't it because Lin Fu was selected by the fat man in the yamen, the inspector?

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