Do you know the long song of laughter?

Chapter 131 Night Talk
  "This..." The sailor hesitated when he heard this.

Regarding the Cao Gang and the Yan Gang, it is no secret to those who run boats.

But generally, few people dare to talk about this kind of topic.

He saw that Li An was dressed unusually and casually reminded him to see if he could get some reward money.

Seeing the sailor's dilemma, Li An took out another silver ingot from his arms and said, "I'm just bored and want to hear it. There's no one else here. Tell me, and this silver ingot will be yours."

The sailor was a little moved when he saw the silver in Li An's hand. He gritted his teeth and said, "Sir, I don't know much about the Salt Gang. I've only heard about it. Since you want to hear it, I'll tell you."

"The Salt Gang actually sells private salt. I heard that there is not just one group of people, but many. They sail at night and are very hidden. In the past, whether it was a passenger ship or a cargo ship, if you encountered anxious customers, the weather would be better at night. I know how to sail. There were several incidents later. I heard that I encountered people from the Salt Gang while sailing at night. From then on, no one dared to sail at night anymore."

After Li An listened, he didn't ask stupid questions about why the government didn't care.

An ordinary sailor knows this, which shows that the so-called Salt Gang is no longer a secret.

It was obvious that these people were in collusion with local officials.

Li An remembered that there was a passage in the original work. After Zhao Zongquan came to the throne, he wanted to thoroughly investigate the salt affairs, and everyone in the civil and military dynasties was willing to take over.

Zhao Zongquan had no choice but to send King Huan to go.

However, before the people set out, accidents happened one after another to the people Zhao Zongquan assigned to lead the troops to protect them.

In the end, it was Gu Tingye who took action to protect King Huan, so that a thorough investigation of the salt affairs could be carried out.

Even so, during the thorough investigation of the salt affairs, he suffered many assassinations.

You must know that he was the emperor's eldest son, but he was still assassinated, which shows how deep the water behind the salt affairs is.

The Yan Gang was so unscrupulous that there was no news about him in Bianjing for several years. It can be seen that many officials from the court to the local government were involved.

Ang Lee is obviously not able to participate in such a thing. Li An gave the sailor the money and sent him away.

Li An looked at the scenery on the bow for a while. He didn't know how long it had passed before he saw a pier in the distance.

"Sir, the ship is about to dock. For safety's sake, please go into the cabin!"

On the second floor deck, the sailor who was about to reef the sail saw that Li An was still at the bow of the ship and stood on it and shouted.

Li An nodded and took Shizhu back to the cabin.

After the ship docked, Li An felt bored in the cabin, so he called up the stone pillar and went to the second floor deck, wanting to go up and get some wind.

As soon as I got up there, I realized there was someone up there.

Minglan was admiring the moonlight. When she heard footsteps, she turned around, saw Li An, and gave a Wanfu salute: "I've met brother Ziqian."

"Miss Sixth can't sleep either." Li An returned the greeting with a smile.

"The weather is too hot, there are boats all around, and it's hard to open the windows, so I just come out to enjoy the breeze," Minglan said.

"Me too."

Li An stepped forward, a few steps away from Minglan, holding the railing with both hands, looking at the sky full of stars, and said with a smile: "The moonlight is pretty good tonight."

"By the way, let me thank you on behalf of my eldest sister." Minglan said.

"Thank me?"

Li An turned his head and looked at Minglan in confusion.

Under the moonlight, Minglan's appearance looked a little hazy, which made Li An startled.

Minglan's appearance is not very beautiful, not even comparable to Rulan Molan. In addition, she is only thirteen years old now, so she looks very young.

But she is the kind of person who becomes more and more interesting the more you look at her.

"Yes, the idea you gave to fifth sister last time was very useful. My eldest sister's life at her husband's house has been much better."

Last time Li An gave Ru Lan an idea, Ru Lan turned around and told her mother, Mrs. Wang. After Mrs. Wang heard this, she thought about it carefully and thought she could give it a try. She sent someone to Yuan's house the next day to tell Hua Lan.

When Hualan married into the Yuan family, the best thing for her was Yuan Wenshao's aunt who married into the Earl of Shoushan's Mansion.

Although Aunt Yuan couldn't stand Mrs. Yuan's treatment of Hua Lan, she was married after all and could only talk about her brother Zhongqin Bo.

Uncle Zhongqin told Mrs. Yuan several times, but it was of no use at all.

Mrs. Yuan only intensified her behavior.

Aunt Yuan couldn't do anything about it. When Hualan came to talk to her, she agreed without even thinking about it.

Within a few days, he bought several beautiful girls and sent them to the Yuan family to be concubines for Uncle Zhongqin.

Uncle Zhongqin got tired of it a long time ago because Mrs. Yuan was in charge and he didn't have many concubines.

Now that his sister gave him a concubine, he was so happy that he spent the whole day hanging out with the concubine.

Mrs. Yuan was busy cleaning up those concubines, so she didn't have the thought to ask Hua Lan to behave himself.

As Minglan was talking, she realized that Li An was looking at her, and turned her head away with a blush on her face.

"Cough cough."

Li Anqing coughed a few times to cover up his embarrassment and said, "I just said that casually. I didn't expect it to be useful."

Li An secretly cursed himself for being useless, but he quickly excused himself in his mind.

I have been a human being for two lifetimes, and I am mentally mature. Now I am fifteen years old, and I am in adolescence. It is normal to have random thoughts.

Minglan quickly calmed down and said in a melancholy tone: "But this method can only be useful temporarily."

It is okay for a sister to give concubines to her brother, but she cannot do so often.

Mrs. Yuan and Uncle Zhongqin would have some troubles over those concubines, but it wouldn't last long.

The most fundamental thing depends on Yuan Wenshao. If Yuan Wenshao and his eldest sister are of the same mind, life will not be difficult even if his mother-in-law makes things difficult for him.

Minglan couldn't help but think of herself. As she grew older, and with the teachings of Mrs. Sheng, she was no longer the little girl who took the risk to gamble and throw pots with others just to show off in front of her father.

Although she is only thirteen years old, she has already seen many things thoroughly.

Not long ago, she overheard Mrs. Wang thinking about Tathagata's future marriage.

Mo Lan leaned closer to Qi Heng and spoke to Yuan Ruo brother. She could guess what the purpose was.

She could also feel some of Qi Heng's feelings for her.

All of this made her very irritable.

In her opinion, none of her grandmother, Mrs. Wang, her younger sister, Miss Lin, including her married eldest sister, were happy.

It made her inevitably fearful of relationships and marriage.

Li An didn't know what Minglan was thinking. Hearing this, he said, "There is nothing we can do about it. Many things still have to be decided by your eldest sister."

To be honest, although Hualan was raised by Mrs. Sheng, she didn't learn much about methods.

In the original drama, Hua Lan suffered for many years and warmed Yuan Wenshao's heart.

Coupled with the fact that the Sheng family is no longer what it used to be, Hualan's life is slowly getting better.

Although this has something to do with Yuan Wenshao's stupidity and filial piety, if Hualan was more clever, he would naturally be able to turn Yuan Wenshao around early.

Minglan was silent for a while after hearing this, and said softly: "Do you have to rely on calculations to live a good life?"

(End of this chapter)