Jiapingguan Chronicle

Mrs. Ning had not seen Shen Haolin and Shen Cha for several days. She knew they were busy and was too embarrassed to disturb them.

However, seeing the two of them walking in tiredly, the old lady couldn't help but frown, and quickly asked Ning Cheng to pour tea and fruits for them, and also put cushions on the chairs to make them comfortable. a little.

"Thank you, Madam!" Shen Haolin and Shen Cha thanked Madam Ning, then looked at Ning Cheng and nodded, "You are in good spirits."

"What Mr. Guo said is that a stone that was weighing on my heart has been lifted, and the whole person feels a lot more relaxed. Not only me, but my mother and sister are also the same. They are in much better spirits than before. And the Wuding Marquis Mansion The environment is very good. I eat well and sleep well. During this time, I slept until I woke up naturally."

"That's not bad!" Shen Cha nodded, "If you need anything, just let us know, okay?"

"Okay!" Ning Cheng nodded, walked over and poured tea for the two of them, and smiled, "Then you guys talk, I'll avoid it for now."

"There's no need to avoid it. We just have a casual chat and it's not a confidential matter. It just so happens that I also have something I want to ask you about!"

"You want to ask me?" Ning Cheng moved a round stool and sat down slightly behind Mrs. Ning's left hand. "What's the matter? General, please tell me."

"Do you know any businessmen from the Western Regions?"

"Yes, I know a few of them." Ning Cheng nodded, "General, do you want to find them?"

"There is something I want to ask them, but if you knew, I could save myself this trouble."

"You speak first, and I'll listen."

"Have you ever heard those merchants from the Western Regions mention our Daxia people who came from the south of the Yangtze River to do business?"

"A businessman from Jiangnan?" Ning Cheng looked at Mrs. Ning, "Is this the one with the surname Luan you are talking about?" Seeing a few people nodding, he thought for a while, "It seems... I have an impression, suddenly such a Mention, I really can't remember." He raised his head and looked at the roof, thinking seriously, "Hmm... I don't know if that's true, because there are quite a few of us going to the Western Regions to do business. However, There are not many people who can make Hu people interested in talking about it. Just let me think about it, don't worry."

"Okay, actually you don't need to tell us who it is, just tell us what the businessmen from the Western Regions are talking about with you. As you said, there are not many people who can interest them in things other than making money. Bar?"

"Let me think about it, if it's something other than making money, it might be very simple."

"Simple?"

"Businessmen from the Western Region are interested in two things." Ning Cheng held out two fingers, "The first is making money, and the second is love. If there is any emotional entanglement between men and women around them, they still I'm very happy to hear it." "How could they..." Shen Cha didn't understand, "How could they be so curious about this kind of thing?"

"General, you rarely have contact with them. They are willing to inquire about other people's family affairs. It is called knowing oneself and the enemy. They say that when choosing a person to cooperate, you must check the situation at his family. If the family is very Harmony, not so much mess, they are still willing to cooperate. If the person is very capable and the family is not harmonious, but it does not affect the person's ability to make money, then they are willing to cooperate. But if the person has average ability to make money, the family If it’s not very harmonious and it affects the person’s mood, they won’t cooperate.”

"You're just trying to pry into other people's family affairs under the guise of being able to cooperate, right?"

"Yes!" Ning Cheng nodded, "I know a few stories, all of which are related to Daxia merchants. Why don't I tell them all? You can decide for yourself whether you two want to know."

"Okay, tell me!"

"The first story, I don't know if this Daxia businessman is from Jiangnan, but he is engaged in tea and silk business. The business is quite good. After all, silk and tea are still necessities in the Western Regions. That businessman established a business in the Western Regions He is famous, so many girls from the Western Regions like him very much. Of course, this businessman is indeed good-looking, but girls from the Western Regions are also very practical. They do like this person, but they like his money more. . However, this businessman is quite powerful and refuses all comers, but leaves no one behind. What is even more surprising to these Western Region businessmen is that these girls went and returned empty-handed, and did not take advantage of anything."

"You mean..." Shen Cha shook his head helplessly, "These girls didn't get a single copper?"

"That's right!" Ning Cheng nodded and smiled helplessly, "What shocked everyone later was that this businessman married the housekeeper who had been helping him with his business, and even proposed to marry him several times, but he was rejected every time. He refused. The reason was that he had been too dissolute before, and the housekeeper did not want to have anything to do with him. He also left the businessman because he was too tightly entangled. After the housekeeper left, the businessman also ran away, and the two I have been entangled for almost three or four years, and I don’t know what the businessman did to actually get the housekeeper to agree. The two people got married. It became a good story for a while, and even those who had gone to express their love to the businessman one after another Girls who love each other also think that these two are a perfect match. Now these two are living very well in the Western Region. If there is nothing special, they will not come back to Daxia. "

"Although he is not the person we are looking for, this story still sounds very interesting!" Shen Cha nodded, looked at Ning Cheng and said, "Now we can continue with the second story."

"Oh, he is also a Daxia merchant. The difference from the previous one is that this merchant was not a merchant from the beginning, but someone who escaped. He was not very old at that time and was adopted by the locals in the Western Regions. Then he helped He ran a business at home. Later, even though the business was doing well and the scale was not small, he became famous because he suppressed his wife."

"Control your wife? How to restrain your wife?"

"His adoptive parents engaged him three times, and all three fiancées died before the day they got married."

"Ah?" Mrs. Ning was very surprised when she heard this story for the first time, and said, "Is someone targeting him, or..."

"Then no one knows." Ning Cheng shook her head gently, "The first fiancée accidentally frightened the horse while riding, fell off the horse, and died. The second fiancée was eating outside. , saw a fight at the next table, wanted to go over to break up the fight, but was accidentally injured, and died due to excessive blood loss. The third one..." He sighed softly, "It was even more ridiculous, he drowned while taking a bath. ”

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