Chapter 1
Lingquan Town is a famous porcelain production place of the Great Yan Dynasty, and there are constant merchants who purchase goods from all over the world every day.
The price of local house land deeds has also risen, but it still cannot stop the foreigners who make a living from here to settle down.
Look, in the spring breeze of February with the grass growing and the birds flying, another carriage drove up on the stone road on North Street of Lingquan Town.
In the neighborhoods of Lingquan Town, women gathered in a leisurely manner, looking around, curious about the green tiled house that had been idle on the North Street for a long time, and the family had been moved to another house.
The carriage stopped in front of the old house door. A thin black-faced woman moved a small plum blossom stool from the back of the carriage, then reached out from the curtain to help a woman who looked eighteen-young and in a light smoke-colored silk shirt.
For some reason, the woman was still leaning on a bamboo stick for climbing a mountain. With the help of the old lady, she slowly got off the carriage.
After the woman got off the bus, she naturally glanced at the streets and alleys around her and let people see her eyebrows and eyes as if she was distant.
Seeing this, people can't help but scream in secret! There is such a beautiful woman in the world!
Lingquan Town is located in the south of the Yangtze River and has been rich in beauties since ancient times. However, this woman's beauty is different from the gentleness and softness contained in the water towns in the south of the Yangtze River. It is thin waist and long legs, tall and bright, especially the black hair bun makes her eyebrows and eyes bright.
But judging from the style of the bun, I should have married a woman.
Beautiful people are beautiful, but they cannot feel close to each other when they see them. I just feel that the beauty is so charming. I should be kept in the deep palace of the sun, the jade palace and the golden house, how could it be so trampled into such a market place?
After looking at the female master Yin for a long time, when the woman led the two female masters and the coachman into the yard, she was still unsatisfied and couldn't help but whisper to the female masters sitting beside her: "My good dear, I've lived so crazy for so long, and I've seen such a beautiful first time. The official of this woman didn't know what she was doing, but she was able to marry such a beauty!"
The Zhang family's wife spoke disdainfully and said, "What else can I do? Nine out of ten people who come to buy houses here in the countryside are merchants selling porcelain. Ordinary craftsmen can't afford the whole house on the street."
After hearing what she said, the brain-wrenching one immediately narrowed his eyes and started to talk: "If that official is a businessman, he is also short-sighted. After earning some money, he would not know that he would be so arrogant. He would dare to marry such a beautiful woman. If he often did business, he would leave a beautiful lady at home. He had a short wall and a short door, but... how could he keep it!"
Her words were allusions. There were many merchants on Lingquan North Street. Most of the men traveled far and wide to pursue profits. Most of the merchants liked to marry fireworks women as concubines. When doing business, most of them were not good wives in the family.
This family is hard to guarantee that there will be one who cannot stand loneliness after becoming a good person and is very energetic.
So I immediately saw this wall right away, and opened the doors and windows at night, and had private meetings with local rogues.
These storms hidden under the night can hardly escape the eyes of the long-tongued women in the alley. They gathered in a leisurely place during the day, and communicated with each other between threads and threads, and talked about the family and ambiguous personal relationships that came from the house next to their home.
As time goes by, the old women's eyes become more and more tricky, so they are always right to look at people!
The new beauty today is nowhere to be said. It looks like that, it is also the root of trouble, and it causes trouble for men. Let’s just look at which rogue young man in Lingquan Town can knock on the back door of the green tiled house on the North Street...
For a time, these local wives began to sigh again, denounced the foreign merchants' families to ruin the atmosphere of North Street, and praised their chastity, and were all glad that their men knew people with keen eyes and married virtuous wives as themselves, and for a while they were having a lot of chats.
Not to mention the rap women in front of the neighborhood, looking at the newly built green tiled house, the beautiful woman frowned after entering the house.
This courtyard seems to have only the exterior walls and mottled gates that have not been repaired. When I entered the courtyard, there is a small pond flower bed and sandalwood furniture, all of which are exquisite.
Liu Miantang couldn't help but look up at the green tiled house in the single-door courtyard, frowned slightly, and hesitated: "Didn't the official lose a lot of business and move out of the capital? Why did he buy such a good house here again? He..."
Before Mian Tang finished speaking, the black-faced woman standing beside her interrupted slightly stiffly: "The boss is a wealthy family of several generations. The lean camel is bigger than a horse. It is still affordable for such a small house. Madam, you are too worried."
Miantang didn't say anything, but just gently stroked the cane he was leaning on with his slender long fingers.
This mother Li has been quarreling with her many times. She didn't know how she took charge of the family before she got sick, but she always felt that she couldn't tolerate this.
However, a serious illness not only extinguished her body, but also burned the memories in her mind.
She didn't remember many things carefully enough. She only remembered that her name was Liu Miantang, the youngest daughter of the Liu family, a former prominent clan in Peishan. She lost her mother at the age of ten and had an older brother five years older than her. Because the Liu family spent several generations and the money was empty, her father booked her a marriage for making money. She married the Cui family, a merchant in the capital, and received a sky-high bride price.
I still remember how unwilling she was when she got married, and she just felt that she had been sold by her father.
Now it is far away, but I can't remember what happened after getting married. That memory is like a thick cocoon wrapped in layers of dense cocoons, I don't know where to hide it.
Fortunately, her husband was not very kind, and he did not dislike her because of the panic attack when she woke up. Instead, he invited a doctor to treat her. The precious mountain ginseng and medicinal herbs did not stop. He sacrificed most of his wealth. Finally, he rescued her life in front of the gates of hell.
But she was ill for a long time and spent money on money. After so many years, her husband's family's financial resources were much worse than before.
Her husband, who was traveling far away, asked someone to bring her a message, saying that the shop in the capital had already paid the bill to others, and that her family's business has now moved to Jiangnan, so she had to pack up and settle in Lingquan Town.
Since I became sick and lost my memory, one year has been enough for Liu Miantang to calm down after losing my memory.
My husband said that the Liu family was implicated in the Daishan Academy case three years ago. His father was guilty and beheaded. His brother was wrongly imprisoned and sent to Lingnan.
She was surprised to hear the bad news, but she was not surprised deep down.
The decay of the Liu family has long been revealed before she got married. Although her father ignored her, he was blindly indulging in love with his brother and donating money to buy officials, which laid hidden dangers for the Liu family's disaster.
Although it was three years ago, she still suffered a heavy blow to lose her memory over the past few years. After hearing about her father's tragic death and her brother's experience, she felt so uncomfortable that she couldn't eat for several days.
Later, my husband forced her to squeeze her chin and poured her half a bowl of soup, and then said coldly: "What happened a long time ago, you just lost your memory and were sad. The dead are gone, how can the living people die with you? The families of the scholars who were killed by your Liu family father and son did not seek death. Do you starve yourself to apologize for your father?"
This was said like a sharp knife, which made her a little unbearable, but it also pulled her out of her uncontrollable sorrow as if she was enlightened.
The Liu family, the prominent clan, no longer exists. Those who are alive will have to survive.
My husband is not good at speaking. He doesn't talk much when he sees her, but he is a man who can rely on. He does not dislike her because her parents' family is in disgrace.
Since this is the case, she can't make excuses of getting sick and dragging her husband to distract him.
Especially after hearing Li's face telling her that in order to cure her illness, she distracted her husband and lost a lot of money in the store, Liu Miantang felt even more guilty and wanted to be his good wife so that his husband could manage his husband with peace of mind and not lose all his belongings.
Now, she finally settled in Lingquan Town, which is her future home. But this mother Li always seems to treat her badly, as if she had been sorry for her husband.
Although the old slave was tricky, Liu Miantang did not have an attack. The Cui family is not as good as before, and all they are willing to leave behind are loyal old servants. She was a new arrival, and it was difficult for her to take the mistress's style and put her mother on her side, which made her heart cold. But she always had to touch her indirectly afterwards.
If it really doesn't work, it's okay to send Li's mother to her husband's shop to do things.
Thinking of this, her mood relaxed. The days ahead may be like the spring breeze of this Lingquan in February. After the chilly and cold air, there will be endless warmth.
Although Liu Miantang had just arrived here, the clothes were all delivered in the morning. However, the clothes and quilts were a little unruly and were thrown into the wardrobe in a mess.
Liu Miantang called Li's mother into the house to organize the boxes, but Li's mother's voice came from the kitchen not far away: "The boss is coming soon, and I have to prepare some wine and food first, so that clothes will be cleaned tomorrow!"
Mother Li retorted again, but this was reasonable. She couldn't ask her husband to come back and wait for food.
Liu Miantang has only two mothers beside him, one is Li's mother and the other is a mute who is a rough man. Now both mothers are chopping firewood and cooking under the kitchen, so she has to do the things in the room by herself.
After she got sick, her legs and feet were not durable, so she simply moved a chair and sat under the window, folding her clothes one by one.
These dresses were a little old when washed. Most of them were ordered by my husband to pull cloths for her a year ago, and since then, they have never added new clothes.
However, my husband is difficult to do business now, so she just needs clothes to wear, so she is not picky about these things.
But... the clothes in this box of cages are all hers, and there is no wisp of her husband Cui Jiu's clothes.
Has your husband's luggage been brought over yet? Miantang couldn't help but have some questions.
Just as she was walking, the sound of a carriage crushing the stone slabs came from the front of the door of the house, and the sound of the door opening came from the sound of the door opening.
Liu Miantang was sitting by the window and looked over. He saw that a tall man walked around the screen wall in front of the house and stepped in.
Chapter completed!