The literary giants of the late Ming Dynasty began by copying books

Chapter 211 Beauty’s Grace

Li Dan monopolizes Fujian's maritime trade and has been squeezing out competitors and hooking up with foreign figures for this purpose. The Li Dan Group is now on good terms with the Portuguese, Spanish, and Japanese, and is also building relationships with the Dutch.

Historically, the Dutch invaded Penghu a few years later. Li Dan and Xu Xinsu secretly supported the Dutch colonists when the Ming Dynasty sent troops for profit, so they were arrested by the court.

But later Xu Xinsu led the Li Dan Group to defect to the imperial court, became the commander of the Navy in one fell swoop, and exterminated his former business partners as pirates.

From this, we can see the style of doing things of Li Dan Maritime Group - it focuses on profit-seeking, and anyone can betray it for the sake of profit.

Li Dan's reputation in Fujian is not good, just because they are too strong, so no one dares to provoke them, and even the court can only be polite to them.

Chen Di, Shen Yourong and others did not talk nonsense about Wang Wenlong and Li Guoxian because of their good relationship with Wang Wenlong. However, there were many dignitaries at the Uncovered Conference today. Many people saw Wang Wenlong and Li Guoxian getting close to each other, so it was inevitable that they would talk about each other. .

Some people are not as honest as Chen Di. When they see Li Guoxian and Wang Wenlong entering the room to eat together, they go back to the table and whisper: "The second girl of the Li family is eating at the same table with Wang Jianyang before we have even walked in. Lang One cup for me, one cup for me, so charming!"

These days, folk customs have gradually opened up, and the Li family is famous in Fuzhou. In addition, last year there was a rumor in Fuzhou that Li Guoxian was coveted by Wei Tianjue because of his beautiful appearance, so it naturally became a hot topic. Within a few days, the news spread to the streets. Many people know that the second young lady of the Li family has an ambiguous relationship with Wang Wenlong.

People like this kind of rosy news the most. In addition, there is a legend in the city that Second Sister Li is as beautiful as a fairy. Now such a rich and beautiful woman is following Wang Wenlong wholeheartedly.

This kind of beauty has made many people envious of Wang Wenlong.

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Wang Wenlong and Li Guoxian sat together at the table in the "Xunbao" newspaper office, waiting for the meal to begin.

Because there were women at the table, Wang Wenlong and others chose a single room on the inside, with the kitchen separated by a curtain.

At this day's open-air gathering, the food was extremely sumptuous. Grandma-in-law, one of the dozens of Trinity believers who worked there, came to cook. The meal was not ready yet, so she brought refreshments from the kitchen.

White sugar cakes, brown sugar cakes and other Fuzhou pastries were served on every table, and a plate was also placed on Wang Wenlong's table.

The woman serving the dishes glanced at Wang Wenlong with a smile. Wang Wenlong didn't take it seriously. After a while, he saw another woman bringing a plate to his table and said:

"Mr. Jianyang, please eat the gift cake."

The gift cake is a local super-sized moon cake in Fuzhou, which is added with winter melon sugar, peanuts, sesame seeds, sesame oil and a lot of sugar. It is eaten during every year and festival.

Wang Wenlong nodded and said with a smile: "Thank you."

When the old lady went in, Wang Wenlong was talking to Deng Zhimo. After a while, another old lady came over with a plate.

"Mr. Jianyang, ladies and gentlemen, please try this fried rice candy and the newly made sweet tea."

Wang Wenlong looked at the other people in the distance who only had a plate of red and white sugar dumplings on their tables, while his table was already full of three or four plates of snacks.

Everyone in the editorial department also noticed the problem and looked at the woman with curiosity.

Wang Wenlong asked: "Everyone only has one plate of rice dumplings, why do we have so many on the table?"

The woman replied: "The rice dumplings are from the church, and the other snacks are bought by us ourselves. We specially asked Duke Jianyang to taste them."

Wang Wenlong was quite surprised and asked: "How many mothers-in-laws do I know?"

The mother-in-law said with a smile: "Mr. Jianyang doesn't recognize us, but we recognize you."

Three or four women were washing dishes and making soup outside the door. They all heard the people talking in the house, and one woman opened the door curtain with a smile: "Yes, we are very happy that Duke Jianyang can eat some food from our house." .”

"Whatever food Duke Jianyang wants to eat later, we will serve him more."

"If Duke Jianyang hadn't asked the church to provide disaster relief, our family would have been begging for food."

Several women rushed to express their gratitude to Wang Wenlong. Wang Wenlong asked, "Do you all know me?"

The mothers-in-law replied with a smile: "If I don't know Duke Jianyang anymore, I'm afraid I have no conscience."

The people who came to help with the cooking today were all believers from poor families in the Trinity Church. They didn't have much money to donate, so they took the initiative to work in the temple in order to do meritorious deeds. These people also received the most favors from Wang Wenlong.

Many of them joined the church because the Trinity Church Disaster Relief Food Platform gave them money and seeds. After a little inquiry, they found out that the Trinity Church Disaster Relief Bank was established entirely under the leadership of Wang Wenlong. Trinity Church saved their lives, and they were extremely grateful for their devout faith. Wang Wenlong, who was the first to sing for disaster relief, naturally received the heartfelt gratitude of these mothers-in-law and grandmothers.

Nowadays, all the people who have been helped by Trinity Religion have good words to say about Wang Wenlong. Among the people of Fujian, Wang Wenlong's reputation is extremely good.

Wang Wenlong was also quite surprised when he heard this. He took the lead in disaster relief, recruited women to work in factories, and promoted melon and vegetable substitution. He received mixed reviews among scholars, and even provoked conservatives to attack him. However, he did not expect that he had already become a popular figure among the people of Fuzhou. Leave a great reputation.

Everyone in the "Xunbao" also participated in the disaster relief. At this time, listening to everyone's praise of Wang Wenlong, everyone's face was filled with pride.

Li Guoxian on the side couldn't help but smile. Wang Wenlong was praised and she felt very proud, as if her man had been recognized by others.

"Thank you very much, but I'll serve whatever is on the other tables. We can't even finish it if there's so much."

"Dong Jianyang, don't you want to be polite to us?"

"There are so many grown men, how can one of them not be able to eat them all?"

"Then wrap up the snacks later, and Duke Jianyang will take them home to eat."

"You must drink this sweet tea from Mr. Jianyang. There is honey in the tea, which I cut myself."

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The food was finally ready amidst the praises of everyone. The believers of Nanchan Temple brought the vegetarian dishes to the table and everyone started eating.

There were so many people at the table today that it was inevitably crowded. Li Guoxian sat next to Wang Wenlong, but when he turned around the corner of the table, Deng Zhimo was next to Li Guoxian. Deng Zhimo did not dare to touch Li Guoxian's body, so he could only squeeze towards Xi Langxian next to him as much as possible, which was quite awkward.

Li Guoxian really wanted to get close to Wang Wenlong, but he didn't know what to do, so he had no choice but to sit next to Wang Wenlong. Wang Wenlong couldn't touch the girl's face. He was embarrassed and pretended not to know, and asked everyone to use chopsticks together.

"Eat, eat."

Li Guoxian took a bite of tofu and thought it tasted quite good. He sincerely loved his lover and said hurriedly: "Brother Wang, please try this tofu."

She stood up to help Wang Wenlong pick up the food, but she was very attentive, but she had never served anyone before, and her movements were inevitably a bit too big. While Deng Zhimo was eating the food, he saw Li Guoxian's arm coming over, and the fragrance of his daughter hit him.

Deng Zhimo quickly looked at his nose and heart, and even Xi Langxian beside him lowered his head to eat rice.

Wang Wenlong felt that the atmosphere was a bit awkward and quickly said to Li Guoxian: "You can do it yourself. Why should we be polite when we are together every day?"

Li Guoxian also noticed something was wrong, his face turned redder, he shrank as if he had done something wrong, smiled awkwardly, regretted why he had made a fool of himself again, and refused to go away.

During the banquet, Chen Biao came over to toast several times. There were many people outside, so he went back to work. The banquet had just been finished. Everyone in the editorial department was still chatting and laughing, but Li Guoxian was still in the banquet, and the men were talking among themselves. I can't explain it either.

Li Guoxian looked at everyone's eyes, stood up with a red face and said, "I'm full, I'll get off the table first."

Deng Zhimo and others quickly said: "Go slowly, go slowly."

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief when Li Guoxian walked away.

Wang Wenlong was also sweating in his heart. It was indeed difficult to bring a woman to eat at the table these days. Didn't all the celebrities in the editorial department look pale?

In fact, it's not that they are afraid of women, but that in this era, men and women are very guarded. Li Guoxian is a good girl, and everyone is afraid of saying the wrong thing. If there is a famous prostitute sitting at the table, then everyone in the editorial department is afraid that there will be more pictures than before. Doubled.

As soon as Li Guoxian left, the atmosphere at the wine table quickly recovered. Xi Langxian, Xu Zhonglin, and Zhang Xie all talked about today's Dharma meeting. Wang Wenlong sat with them until mid-afternoon. There was another Dharma meeting at the Nanchan Temple in the evening. Everyone today They stayed in the Zen room and went to take a lunch break.

Wang Wenlong asked Wang Pingbao to rest. He returned to the house alone and was about to take a nap when there was a knock on the door. He stood up and opened the door, and Li Guoxian immediately threw himself into his arms.

Li Guoxian's warm and fragrant body was directly pressed against Wang Wenlong's chest.

Li Guoxian was aggrieved and said with a cry: "Brother Wang, please kill me... I don't want to be secretive anymore!"

(End of this chapter)