Two days later, the prince Zhu Biao officially went on a tour of Jiangsu and Zhejiang. This time he no longer visited privately in a private tour, but instead went on a tour on behalf of his father. Two days ago, Zhu Yuanzhang's decree had been issued, ordering the prefectures of Jiangsu and Zhejiang to do a good job of spring farming and to fully receive the prince's tour.

Although Li Weizheng was Zhu Biao's personal aide, Zhu Yuanzhang had a strict scrutiny of the people around the prince, fearing that he would mistake the bandits. So before Zhu Yuanzhang's official approval, Li Weizheng could only pretend to be a guard and accompany the prince. However, Zhu Biao was kind to his subordinates and knew that he had a weak girl, so he gave him a heavy currency and ordered him to go south alone. If there was anything, he could contact him at any time. In this way, Li Weizheng had a rich bag and traveled to the south of the Yangtze River with a small boat.

On this day, Li Weizheng's boat slowly docked on the Fengqiao Wharf in Suzhou. Suzhou is an important commercial city along the Grand Canal. Handicrafts and agriculture are very developed. Therefore, because of Zhang Shicheng, Zhu Yuanzhang has always imposed heavy taxes on Suzhou. Therefore, Suzhou is also an important financial center of the imperial court. The water transportation is extremely developed. On the Fengqiao Wharf, large amounts of materials such as grain, cloth, and tea are piled up like mountains. Tens of thousands of dock workers make a living here, with people coming and going, bustling and extremely lively.

"Brother, look!" Mute girl, no! Now she can't be called Mute girl anymore. She took a boat south all the way. In ten days, her speaking ability has recovered a lot. Although she speaks very slowly, she no longer stutters like she did some time ago. Some short sentences are no longer a problem. Her surname is Guo, her name is Qianqian. She is registered as Guo Qianqian in her official household registration. From now on, we will call her Guo Qianqian! Her nickname is Mute girl.

Guo Qianqian pointed to a temple hidden in the bamboo forest in the distance, and jumped up excitedly: "Is there Hanshan Temple?"

Li Weizheng seemed not to hear her scream. He seemed to be in a dream, "I don't know that I am like a guest in my dream." Is this his hometown? The small bridge, flowing water, pink walls and black tiles, and the clean bluestone road. Everything seems to be no different from six hundred years later. Fengqiao is moored at night by Hanshan Temple, and there is also Tieling Pass in the distance. He remembers that it is a memorial hall for Suzhou people to resist Japanese pirates, and now it is a toll station for ships to enter Fengqiao Wharf.

"Brother, what's wrong with you?" Guo Qianqian pulled his clothes and pulled him back from his memories of his previous life. Li Wei was smiling bitterly, "It's nothing, I'm wondering where my uncle lives?"

Li Weizheng's biological mother was originally a wealthy family in Suzhou. In the early years of Hongwu, she was forcibly moved to Fengyang with her family and married Li Yuanwai there. In order to protect the shops in Suzhou, the Gu family left behind a young son, Li Weizheng's uncle. Every year, because the government did not approve the road, Li Weizheng's grandfather and uncle pretended to be beggars and returned to their hometown to worship their ancestors. At that time, Suzhou City was full of beggars in Fengyang, which became a unique scene. Therefore, later generations rumored: "Since Zhu Yuanzhang came out, there were nine years of desolation in ten years," which was published here, because only in the desolation period, beggars would leave their hometown, and large-scale beggars flowed south every year. If outsiders didn't know about it, they would naturally think that Fengyang had nine years of desolation in ten years.

Li Weizheng scratched his head and smiled, "For many years, I have forgotten where I am?"

He heard from his father that Li Weizheng had a very good relationship with his uncle. Every spring, his uncle would bring the cakes from the shop to Fengyang to worship his deceased grandfather. The cakes used for sacrifices finally got into his stomach. A few years ago, he quarreled with his stepmother and often yelled to go to join his uncle. He also came to Suzhou twice. Of course, these are Li Weizheng in the past, but now Li Weizheng is here for the first time, so of course he doesn't know where his uncle's shop is.

"Brother, does your wife not give you an address?" A sentence reminded Li Weizheng that before he left, Yang Ying gave his uncle the address.

Li Wei was hurriedly finding the note from his bag: King Zhuangyuan Lane of Changmen, of course he knew about the King Zhuangyuan Lane, but he had never heard of Wang Zhuangyuan Lane before, and he was stunned for a moment.

"Brother, you're so weird today." Guo Qianqian looked at him in surprise, as if he had become a different person.

"Well, nothing." Li Wei blushed and quickly called a carriage, "Mummy girl, let's go!"

The two got on the carriage, and Li Wei was telling the place name to the coachman. The coachman smiled and urged the horse to move quickly. The carriage was galloping in the narrow street. Li Wei was silently looking at the street scene. Although passers-by were different, Suzhou in later generations still maintained the taste of the Ming Dynasty. Everything was so familiar. Before he knew it, tears burst into his eyes.

Guo Qianqian didn't say anything, she seemed to feel the sadness in Li Weizheng, just like she returned to the capital that night. She just held her elder brother's hand and silently passed on her care to him.

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Changmen was one of the most prosperous commercial centers in Suzhou during the Ming and Qing dynasties. A picture of the prosperous era vividly outlined the prosperity of Suzhou back then. Although it is now the early Ming Dynasty that suppressed business and emphasized agriculture, the area around Changmen has shown that there are few prosperous scenes in the Ming Dynasty. Nearly a thousand shops are everywhere, with various commodities, and various signs hanging at the door of the store, shouting and hawking sounds one after another.

It was noon at this time, and there were crowds of pedestrians on the street, steaming hot, and there were carriages coming to deliver goods everywhere. The carriage Li Wei was sitting in was walking slowly among the crowd. When he walked to the middle of the street, the coachman pointed to a narrow alley and said, "This is Wang Zhuangyuan Lane. If the carriage cannot be entered, you can go by yourself!"

"Thank you!" Li Wei gave him a handful of copper coins and walked quickly to the entrance of the alley with Guo Qianqian. The alley was deep and there were countless families hidden, but he had no specific address. At this time, he saw a middle-aged man walking into the alley, so he hurriedly ran up and asked, "Uncle, is there a family named Gu here?"

The middle-aged man turned his head in surprise and looked at Li Weizheng. He suddenly grabbed Li Weizheng's arm and shouted excitedly: "Darang, is it you?"

Li Weizheng reacted a little, but he couldn't confirm it yet, "You are..."

The middle-aged man punched him on the shoulder hard and scolded, "You little brat, I am your second uncle! You haven't even known me in just a few years?"

Li Wei was touching his shoulders and smiled bitterly, "I was dazzled for a moment, please don't blame me, uncle?"

"You boy, don't you recognize me when I see that I don't have cakes in my hand?"

Li Weizheng's second uncle was Gu Li, who inherited the Gu family's ancestral property in Suzhou: a cake shop. When he saw his nephew arrive, he was really happy and pulled him away. Suddenly, he saw a beautiful little girl following her nephew, so he blinked at him and smiled: "Have you kidnapped his daughter and fled to Suzhou?"

"What did my uncle say? This is my pampered sister, mute... that, Qian'er."

Li Weizheng turned around and said to Guo Qianqian: "This is my second uncle."

Guo Qianqian gave a gift, and her voice was lower than a mosquito screaming, "Second uncle."

"You little brat!" Gu Li casually slapped Li Weizheng's back and cursed with a smile: "Everyone calls me my second uncle, and he still said he didn't come here."

"Dad, how did you calculate the calculation yesterday? She obviously lost 800 people, but she insisted on making money, which made us happy." At some point, a young woman ran out of the alley, about sixteen or seventeen years old. Her first impression of Li Weizheng was that her legs were straight and slender, her lips were firm, her nose was high, and her slender eyes were extremely sharp and smart.

"Is that true?" Gu Li scratched the back of his head and suddenly realized, "By the way, I forgot to count the candy money, alas! I said, how can I make a profit after losing seven or eight years?"

He laughed dryly, suddenly remembered his nephew again, and hurriedly pulled Li Weizheng over and said with a smile: "Ying'er, look who is here."

Li Weizheng heard from his father that his uncle had a pair of twin siblings, his sister was Gu Ying and his younger brother was Gu Jun. He came to Linhuai County two years ago and lived in their house for more than two months. This person must be her cousin Gu Ying. He quickly smiled and said, "I haven't seen him for a few years, and my cousin has become more and more handsome."

Unexpectedly, Gu Ying ignored him, walked behind him, smiled affectionately at Guo Qianqian and said, "Girl, what's your name?"

Li Wei was froze there, looking extremely embarrassed. Gu Lixin next to him knew it. He laughed and patted his nephew's shoulder and said, "Don't you like eating cakes from my uncle's shop the most? Let's go! Let's have enough of it today."

After saying that, he pulled Li Weizheng away. The Gu family's shop was on the street, but their family was also a workshop in the alley, but it was very close to the entrance of the alley. After walking about twenty steps, he came to a dark door. This was, Li Weizheng couldn't help but glance back and saw two girls talking and laughing behind, with an extremely intimate expression. The mute girl was with a woman of the same age, and it seemed that she was talking smoother than when she was with him.

"Dalang, it's the two years ago when you fight, she still holds grudges!" Gu Li whispered to him: "You follow her a little bit and wait until she calms down."

"When did I fight with her?" Li Weijing smiled bitterly and walked into the yard with his uncle.

The yard is not big, and a shed is built on the left and right side of the yard wall. Under the shed is a stove, and cakes are steaming on the stove. The huge steamer is sizzling with white air, "Jun'er, who are you here?"

A young man stood up in front of the stove, who was fifteen or sixteen years old, with a sturdy figure and a honest and honest face. This is Li Weizheng's cousin Gu Jun, who looks nothing like his sister. He grabbed the back of his head and smiled embarrassedly: "Cousin, when did you arrive?"

Li Weizheng immediately fell in love with this cousin. He took out a lot of money in his arms and couldn't find anything. He took out a piece of silver and stuffed it to him and said, "My cousin came in a hurry and didn't buy anything. You can buy some clothes for this little money."

"No! No! No!" Gu Jun turned around and ran away in fear, refusing to take his cousin's money.

"Hey! They are all their own family, Dalang, don't do this." Gu Li quickly stopped him and said, "The child is still young, and giving him money will spoil him."

Li Weizheng had no choice but to take back the money. He looked up at the house and saw that the house was very old and the eaves were a little broken. It was obvious that the situation of his second uncle's house was not good. Li Weizheng asked with a smile: "Where is my aunt? Why didn't you see me?"

"She is looking at the store, Dalang will follow me into the house first!"

Li Wei was just entering the house and sitting down. At this time, an old man came out of the small room next to him. He was about sixty years old, gray hair, wrinkles on his face, and a little hunched back. He said to Gu Li in a hoarse voice: "Shopkeeper, can you give me some more money?"

"Have my sister-in-law been sick again?"

The old man sighed and lowered his head. Gu Li shook his head and took out a small cloth bag from his arms. He opened it layer by layer. There was a roll of treasure money inside. In the end, there were only a dozen stakes. He took out two pieces and handed them to the old man and said, "I haven't paid the candy money this month yet! I can only give you two stakes. I'm really sorry."

The old family took the money and turned around silently into the hut. Li Wei was so sad that he quickly took out a hundred coins of money from his skin and forced it to Gu Li, saying, "Since it's a family, don't be polite to me."

"This... how can you be so embarrassed?" Gu Li felt sad. His family was indeed extremely embarrassed. He only had fifteen stagnant coins left, but he still owed the noodle shop for nearly three months and had not paid the flour money!

He looked at the hundred coins of money in his hand and couldn't help but sigh: "I'm incompetent! The Gu family's ancestral property is so hard that it is about to go bankrupt."

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Chapter completed!