Lu Ming

Chapter 426
Hangzhou Yushi Lane, Huang Mansion, a group of servant girls are busy packing their luggage.

Time went back to the day when the gunboat bombarded Xu's house.

After the Xu family's house in Shanghai was smashed to pieces by naval guns, the land deed alliance that had been so arrogant at the time was also declared to be disbanded.

These big landlords now sadly find that unless they expose the reactionary nature of Bandit Cao in the temple and push the court to suppress the bandits, otherwise, the efforts of local honest men and gentlemen alone will not be able to stop this worm who has infiltrated the system.

But how difficult is it to smear your opponent from the beginning?As far as Daming is now, with such a ghostly appearance that leaks from all directions, the imperial court will not touch this kind of warlord who holds military power and will rebel if he is in a hurry.

So the Land Deed Alliance disbanded in a miserable way—the gentry class is a very rubbish class. To deal with their own people, the Donglin Party and the like are really full of means, using everything to the extreme, seemingly the embodiment of justice, and the gods descended from the earth.

However, once they jumped out of that rotten circle and encountered foreign enemies, this group of people would immediately be out of action.Why?Because foreign enemies don't discuss the way of a gentleman with you, foreign enemies only comment on sword skills with you.

By this time, it is only a matter of time before the superstructure that relies on philosophers to rule the country collapses.

Cao thief took this route this time: without saying a word, he is going to fight you hard.This kind of countermeasure of wandering on the edge of the system made the gentry who were accustomed to oppressing others extremely uncomfortable, and they were at a loss everywhere.

After the alliance was disbanded, according to the final negotiation results, each family made up another box of land deeds, and sent someone to sell it to Mr. Xiong Daoxiong at a low price.

So far, the bloody case caused by a box of land deeds has finally come to an end.

The masters who have paid a terrible price are not interested in it now, and they will not be able to arouse the interest in continuing to fight Cao thief in a short time.

In this way, the radical master Huang Shaozhou, who has been advocating the swearing against Cao thief and fighting to the death, will sit down.Now that the army has been defeated like a mountain, no one is willing to fight against oppression with him.

So after visiting the alliance princes for the last time, getting some good news, and leaving behind a bunch of cruel words about "coming back in the future", Mr. Huang, who has become an opinion leader in this incident, had to leave Shanghai County sadly. , and returned to his home in Hangzhou.

Within two days after arriving home, Mr. Huang decided to go to Fujian to visit relatives and friends because he was "in a bad mood" and to relax by the way.

Huang Fu became flustered again.Because this time, Master Huang is going to take the eldest lady with him when he travels.

"It's a long way to go, Uncle, you must be careful about foot diseases, and you can't see the wind and cold."

In the Huang Mansion's warm pavilion with a charcoal stove, a young man with a white face and a brocade robe and a handsome figure was telling something to Master Huang who was half leaning on the imperial concubine's couch.

"Well, you have to be careful." Stretching his legs and feet, the rather rich Mr. Huang nodded yes.

At this moment, another young man who looked like a son also interjected in time and said, "Fujian is more damp and cold than Zhejiang. I don't think that Huang Shou and Huang Xi are capable of doing things. How about my nephew accompanying my uncle?" Let’s take a walk, it’s convenient to take care of it on the way.”

"Okay, okay, I accept the wishes of your juniors. I am only going here to relax my mind, and I don't want to show off. It is enough to have Huang Shou and Huang Xi." Master Huang spoke in time, stopping the filial piety performance of the two nephews : "Well, it's getting late, you all go back."

After saying a few words gently, after sending these relatives and children away, Master Huang shook his head with a helpless expression: "Help me back to my room."

Behind him, Huang Shou and Huang Xi, two close family members, hurried over to help the master and helped him back to the bedroom.

In the bedroom, the eldest wife of the Huang family, Huang Xie, was instructing the maid to pack all kinds of things into boxes.Seeing this scene, Master Huang who entered the door shook his head helplessly again: "Don't bring anything, are there any good things over there?"

The story of the Huangfu is a long one.

The Huang Xie family is the wife of the main house married from the Xie family, a rich family in Huzhou, and they are the same as the Huang family.The eldest lady is 37 years old this year, and she looks young, but according to the customs of the Ming Dynasty, a woman of this age can already call herself an "old woman".

Since Huang Xie married into Huang's house 20 years ago, she has abided by women's ethics, managed the inner house, and has a close relationship with Mr. Huang, which can be regarded as a harmonious relationship.

It's just that things like feelings, in the big families of the seventeenth century, must give way to etiquette-what's the use of good feelings for a woman who can't bear children?

In this era, if the husband and wife are infertile, the blame will definitely be pinned on the woman first.

Huang Xie was born in a rich family, and he is very clear about etiquette.So after discovering that she was "unable to raise children", she had no choice but to follow the rules, gritted her teeth, and took the initiative to marry the master with two bedrooms, three bedrooms, four bedrooms and five bedrooms.
As a result, after many years, when people found out that the five wives and concubines were still unable to give birth to a son and a half for Mr. Huang, a consensus was silently reached: it was the master's problem.

However, at this time, Mr. Huang is already in his 40s, so what's the use of a real hammer?The Huang family still has no descendants.

This is also the reason why the Huang family's relatives and nephews have become increasingly arrogant in recent years: after all, the master is going to adopt one of them to inherit the family business, it's just a matter of who he chooses.

And the various house fights caused by the Huang family are not enough for outsiders to understand.In a word, from the housewife to the housekeeper, to the housekeeper, they are more or less involved in the "seizure" dispute, making the inner house very restless.

Just when Huang Shaozhou and his wife were undecided, looking at these helpless children and wondering which one to adopt, suddenly one day, Fang Tangjing, who had gone to the south for business, came back!

After Fang Tangjing returned to the mansion, he not only brought a large number of fashionable toys, but also brought back a lot of foreign knowledge.

While the whole house was circling around those new goods, Fang Tangjing pulled the master into the small study with a look of excitement, muttering all day long, not knowing what they were talking about.

After that, Mr. Huang seemed to be a different person, and launched a series of show operations.

Not only did he vigorously adjust his family's business layout and shrink his money, but after that, he also went to Shanghai County to fight with others for a Zhuangzi that no one knew when he bought it, and it is said that he even filed a lawsuit. And return, Zhuangzi did not keep.

It is said that if you suffered a loss outside, you should at least rest for a while after you come back, right?However, Mr. Huang is not.He had just returned to Hangzhou for two days, and he was arguing that he was in a bad mood and was going to visit friends in Fujian to relax.
So the Huang Mansion became flustered again.

After Mr. Huang entered the bedroom, he saw his wife packing her luggage, and said helplessly, "Take less, is there anything good over there?"

When Huang Xie saw the old man entering the house, she hurried over to help her husband to sit down: "Poor family Fulu, who knows if there is a suitable family in that place, so don't worry if you bring more."

Hearing the words, Master Huang said contemptuously: "Hmph, didn't you snatch all the things that Fang son-in-law brought back?"

The eldest lady smiled when she heard the words: "Then listen to the master and bring less luggage."

Master Huang nodded, and his tone became tough: "Take it lightly and simply, and don't make a fuss along the way. There are many joints in the middle. No matter how difficult it is to make a fuss, you know it."

Seeing Fa's wife nodding, Master Huang thought for a while, and then asked in a discussing tone: "Otherwise, let's pick one of them and go on the road together. It's better than being caught off guard."

"No!"

The originally gentle and virtuous Mrs. Huang Xie, at this moment, her willow eyebrows were erected, her almond eyes were wide open, and she looked at her master uncompromisingly: "I am not yet forty this year, and my body has always been strong, so I must be able to bear children! "

Speaking of this, Huang Xie's eyes already had tears: "Master, my concubine married into Huang's family, did she ever have a little bit of immorality? But I don't know how many vicious words have been said behind my back these years. These concubines I have endured it. But now that I have hope, why is the eldest son not born of a concubine?"

At this moment, Mr. Huang had a splitting headache: the couple had already discussed this issue in private, but Huang Xie, who was usually generous and rational, refused to budge on this matter, leaving Mr. Huang helpless.

Seeing that his wife was about to resort to the ultimate move of crying and making troubles, after all, Mr. Huang, who was ashamed in his heart, finally made a final concession and stopped entangled in this matter: "That's all, it's you and me who will leave first .”

When Huang Xie heard this, he immediately changed his color: "I just can't swallow this breath. Please rest assured, master, if the genius doctor over there really rejects my concubine, it won't be too late to send a message back then."

"Oh, that's all I have to do."

After the preparatory work was completed, Master Huang, his wife, Fang Tangjing, his staff, and four male and female servants at home, a group of seven people boarded an awning boat parked at Hebutou outside the door.

After leaving the water gate of Hangzhou, the awning boat made many twists and turns, and finally stopped at the port of Shanghai, where Mr. Huang returned home not long ago, in the middle of the night.

After arriving at Shanghai Port, the group was quietly sent to a new lock ship parked at the port.

And parked next to this ship is that huge battleship: the Zhenman.

After Mr. Huang and his party stayed silently in the upper cabin of the cargo ship for a day, a large number of ships gathered in Shanghai Port finally set sail.

These ships were divided into two groups.The Northward Fleet took away most of the transport ships and a few fast warships.The Zhenman, together with two frigates, headed south back to the Taijiang military port.

And following the Zhenman, there were two new lock ships carrying immigrants, and Mr. Huang and his party were on one of the ships.

After the fleet sailed south from Shanghai Port, it didn't take long for the two new lock ships to be thrown away by the Zhenman.

The transport ship is definitely not as fast as the battleship. After the Zhenman formation started the gas power, black smoke rose, and the speed gradually increased, gradually drifting away, and swaggeringly disappeared on the sea.

The two new lock ships followed the route they had traveled many times honestly and embarked on a journey to Tainan.

Fortunately, it is winter now, and Mr. Huang and his party are riding with a favorable wind, so when they came to Taijiang, they only spent five days on the road. At this time, the northbound fleet led by Comrade Zhang Dongdong had not yet arrived in Tianjin. .

(End of this chapter)