Start with the humble bridegroom

Chapter 182 House and boat

Zhang Zhe and his wife would naturally take the Gu family with them when they left Jiangling, but the old lady's health did not allow it.

"I told my grandmother that the family is going to live in Wuling for a few days. The old lady meant to leave after the festival, but the doctor said that the old lady's body is very weak in winter, and she can only wait until after the beginning of spring. Husband, I, Da Zheng, and Will the war in Southern Wu affect Jiangling?"

"Da Zheng Ruosheng, everything is easy to talk about," Zhang Zhe pondered, "but if it fails, the emperor is here, and the Wu army will attack Jiangling."

Meng Xiaowan said helplessly: "I can't abandon my grandmother and go on my own, my husband must think of a way."

"I have inquired that there is a waterway in Tuhu Lake in the east of the city to go north. I thought we would buy a boat and prepare it on Tuhu Lake. If the war is unfavorable, the whole family will immediately go north to Xuyang. The old lady, please invite a doctor with a small population. Take care of it all the way. Up to now, it can only be like this."

Meng Xiaowan walked around the room and had an idea in her mind.

"Gu's residence is too far away from the east of the city. If something happens, I'm afraid I won't be able to make it to Tuhu for a while. I'm thinking of going to the east of the city to buy a yard. After a while, everyone will move there. If something happens, I'll get on the boat immediately. Husband thinks how?"

"That's great," Zhang Zhe didn't say anything, and divided tasks with his wife. He went to buy a boat to find a doctor, while Meng Xiaowan went to the east of the city to find a yard.As for the family affairs, they were all thrown to the third girl, Gu Shuyi.

The cousin and sister-in-law got busy for no reason, and even the list of things for the New Year was handed over to Gu Shuyi. If it weren't for the old lady who sometimes tried her best to help her, Gu Shuyi felt that she would make a mistake sooner or later.

On the 29th of the twelfth lunar month, Zhang Zhe and his wife were still wandering outside.

Gu Shuyi was checking and accepting the things bought by several servants, but a maid came in and said that there was a brother from the Jiang family visiting at the gate.The uncle of the Biao family was not there, so he asked the third girl how to reply.

The brother of the Jiang family?Gu Shuyi immediately thought of the person she met a few days ago.

"My cousin is not here, and it's not easy for me to receive outsiders. Please apologize for me. If he is in a hurry, please sit in the hall and send someone to look for his cousin. If he is not in a hurry, please leave a message. , my cousin will visit his house after the next year.”

The maid went away for a while and then came back with a smile.

"Brother Jiang said that he found out that his neighbor next door was going to move to the south of the city and was going to sell the house on the east side of the city, and he happened to know that our family was looking for a house in the east of the city from the uncle of the Biao family, so he came to tell us. It seems that the landlord is eager to sell, and someone has already come to inspect the house, so he hastily rushed over to report."

Gu Shuyi was startled, it turned out that he lived in Dongcheng.

"Go and invite Brother Meng to the living room, serve a pot of good tea, and then go to the gate and call a fast-footed boy, and let him go to the pier in the south of the city to find his cousin."

After the maid left, Gu Shuyi also felt that it was not the etiquette to treat guests by leaving that person alone in the hall, so she changed her clothes to meet guests and asked someone to set up a screen in the hall.

Jiang Shangyang never knew that he would be nosy one day. Although he and Zhang Xinzhi have gotten closer recently, he feels that they are nodding acquaintances.

But when he saw that the big neighbor was about to move out and was in a hurry to sell the house, he couldn't help but found the Gu family.

A few days ago, he went to Laotan Temple several times with his grandfather and father, but he never met Zhang Zhe's family.It was later learned from Zhang Zhe that their family did not go to see the snow at all.

Zhang Zhe was teasing younger brother Jiang that day, but he was not in a hurry to marry his sister to her. He hurried to the old sandalwood temple, belittling his sister's figure.

Brother Jiang had only had a few sips of tea in the hall when he saw two servant girls carrying a willow-leaf sparrow screen into the hall and set the screen in front of the main seat.In the aisle next to the main seat, footsteps sounded, and he only saw a pair of blue daughter's boots appearing under the screen.

"Neglected the honored guest."

This was the second time that little brother Jiang had heard Gu Shuyi's voice. He had only been in contact with it twice, but little brother Jiang felt that the voice was very familiar.

Not long after the servant sent to look for someone went out, he encountered Meng Xiaowan's sedan chair.

"The Chinese New Year will be the day after tomorrow, who is so anxious to sell the house?" Meng Xiaowan frowned instead of being happy immediately after receiving the news.

"I also know that it is not auspicious to rush to sell the house these days," said the homeowner, a middle-aged man in his 40s, with a look of helplessness on his face. But there is a batch of good goods to be dumped. I have been with them for many years. In previous years, it was easy to settle every six months. But this time, I don’t know why. We can only rush to buy this old yard.”

The price of the two Shanghao yards was [-] guan, which was nearly [-] guan cheaper, and Meng Xiaowan immediately took it.

"Bailu," Meng Xiaowan took over the yard, and then called Bailu, "I always feel that there is something wrong with those Southern Wu merchants. You can go to Geng Liang and ask him to follow him personally to see what the other party is?"

Zhang Zhe was not as lucky as Meng Xiaowan, almost all the ships in Jiangling were recruited secretly, and he encountered obstacles everywhere.

On New Year's Eve, the entire Gu Mansion was hung with red lanterns. Several girls in the mansion kept watch with Zhang Zhe and his wife until dawn the next day.Compared with the original time and space, the new year's festival here is so deserted that it is scary.

In the third year of junior high school, Zhang Zhe really found a ship that would not be conscripted.

This is a former painting boat.

This painting boat is much smaller than the light smoke boat, and the owner has a group of musicians and seven or eight women.But at the beginning of the year, the owner of the ship followed a scholar, and he became good.All the musicians and girls on the boat were sold off, leaving only four or five boat girls and a painting boat.

The scholar got an invitation from his classmate and was about to go to the heretics to meet the curtain. The owner of the ship became anxious to deal with the ship.

Ordinarily, as long as it is a boat, it is easy to sell it, but unfortunately this painting boat is an exception.

This kind of painting boat cannot withstand wind and waves at all, it can only travel in rivers and lakes, and when entering a big river, it can only travel slowly along the river bank.

Zhang Zhe spent a thousand pens to win this deal.

As the boat entered Tu Lake, Zhang Zhe and Meng Xiaowan began to desperately load things onto the boat.For food, medicine, manuscripts, and clothing, Gu's chariots and horses traveled between Tuhu and Gu's many times a day.

About to leave Jiangling, Zhang Zhe suddenly thought of Little Brother Jiang again.

"Brother Xin is so eager to return home?" Jiang Shangyang was surprised when he heard that Zhang Zhe was leaving in a few days, but he flatly refused Zhang Zhe's invitation to travel to Wuling.

"It's not that Cong Yun deliberately rejected brother Xin's kindness, it's just that the younger brother has only been together with his grandfather and grandmother these days, and now that the two elders are in Jiangling, I really can't leave. When the two elders leave, Cong Yun will definitely go to Wuling to visit and disturb .”

Looking at the happy look on Jiang Xiaodi's face, Zhang Zhe finally couldn't bear it.

"For the sake of the two elders, Brother Congyun should quickly arrange for the two elders to leave Jiangling early."

[Transitional chapter, relatively dull]

(End of this chapter)