Lin Gao Qiming

Chapter 357 Trip to Foshan ([-])

Speaking of this Lin Baihu, he was born with a good-looking talent, but he has a widow's disease.Ever since he inherited the family's family of one hundred households, he has a tendency to expand the team of concubines in his family. He has been devoting himself to searching for beautiful women. If it weren't for the limited financial resources of the official reputation, he would probably have bought a dozen or three concubines a long time ago. .Even so, when the time comes to marry a wife, the family's concubines and maidservants already have the Four King Kongs.Marrying another Mrs. Lin, Lin Ming said triumphantly, "This is called Five Blessings Holding Longevity."

At this moment, Lin Baihu was sitting on the patriarch's seat next to his wife, and the four concubines lined up in a half-moon shape at the back, looking like stars holding the moon.Lin Ming looked left and right, very pleased with himself.

While watching a play, suddenly a servant came to report: "Miss Li is here."

Lin Ming frowned: "Which Miss from the Li family?"

"Master Li's daughter of the Jiangning Hundred Households Institute..." He said and handed over the note written by Li Yongxun.

"Oh, it's her." Lin Ming was surprised: Li Yongxun is his wife's cousin. Since his wife married to Foshan, the two families didn't have much contact because of the long distance.Why did you rush to the door without even sending a letter in advance?

"Who sent her here?"

"According to the lady, it's two drug dealers—"

"Nonsense!" Lin Ming cursed in a low voice.

"Why is Mr. Xiang angry?" Mrs. Lin turned her head.

"Your sister from the Li family is here." Lin Ming handed over Li Yongxun's note, "A 15-year-old is acting so absurdly!"

"It's already here, it's useless to be angry." Mrs. Lin was also indifferent, "I'll pick her up." She said with a sweet smile, which brought out two deep dimples on her cheeks, and Lin Baihu immediately went numb halfway.

"Ok."

"There are also merchants who sent Qianqian here, and they have to hold a banquet to thank them. After all, it has traveled thousands of miles, so it can be regarded as delivered safely."

Lin Ming thought for a while: "That's good, anyway, everything in the kitchen is ready-made."

Mrs. Lin went out with two servant girls.Ask the steward who sent the message: "Where is Miss Biao now?"

"It's in the flower hall."

"Take her to my room."

When the sisters meet, they naturally talk about reunion after a long absence.Not long after, Li Yongxun said: "Sister, I'm dying of heat. Let me wash first and change clothes!"

"Okay, okay." Mrs. Lin said to the servant girl: "Go get some buckets of hot water, and then tell Mama Zhang to buy a new bathtub in the back street."

In a short while, hot and cold water and bathtubs were all set up.Mrs. Lin first closed the door, closed the window, and put down the bamboo curtains, and the room suddenly became dark.Mrs. Lin came up, pulled out the hairpin for her, untied her belt, took off her coat, and unwrapped the cloth strips wrapped around her chest layer by layer, revealing her bellyband that was sticking to the flesh.Madam Lin's slender fingers moved slightly, and she took off the silver chain hanging from the apron, and the soft and slippery satin apron slipped down.

Li Yongxun turned her back shyly, but Mrs. Lin supported her waist with both hands, and whispered in her ear: "Qianqian, your waist is much thinner."

"Sister is good or bad—" Li Yongxun twisted his waist, "Could it be that I used to have a bucket waist."

"No, I used to have a small waist, but," Mrs. Lin held up the two small buds on Qianqian's chest with her hands, "it's much bigger here..."

"Sister, you hate me so much, touch me!" Li Yongxun felt a numbness in his chest when she touched her hands, and quickly pushed her hand away, "I'm going to take a bath, sister just ask a maid to serve me."

"The servant girl has thick hands and thick feet." Mrs. Lin saw a slender figure with thin skin and white flesh through the dim light from the bamboo curtain, with jet-black hair hanging down her shoulders, her legs tightly twisted, holding A bellyband barely covered her chest.She smiled and said, "When you came to my sister's house when you were young, did you forget that my sister gave you a bath?" As she spoke, she walked over, took her hand, and whispered:

"Come on, my sister will help you take a bath."

Li Yongxun's nose wafted a burst of aroma from her sister's body, like musk deer or orchid, piercing her heart, she couldn't help but follow her.

After taking a pleasant bath, Mrs. Lin asked the servant girl to bring a brand new dressing box to help her redress and dress neatly. She also brought her own clean clothes to change for her. Then she opened the door and came out to see Lin Ming. .

Lin Ming had nothing to do with having a sister-in-law, since his wife was willing to take him in, let his wife take care of it.Besides, with such a pleasing and lively sister-in-law, life is more fun.When asked about the situation along the way, Li Yongxun naturally told the truth and lied nine times.It's all the truth without adding water, which is about the way to get on a boat outside Guangzhou to Foshan.Naturally, she stole her waist card, pretended to be a prostitute, and played "Ji Le San".

Lin Ming nodded and said: "It seems that these merchants are all upright gentlemen. In this way, I should thank them properly."

"That's right, at least we should prepare a post, so that we can show that we are well behaved."

"What madam said is true." Lin Ming could be said to be obedient to this wife, and immediately asked someone to prepare a post and sent it to the inn.

How can I thank you?He is absolutely not happy to give property. Although it is good to be a family member, the superior needs to be filial, the colleagues who pass by have to be entertained, and he has a wife and four concubines who need fine clothes and food, plus a bunch of young servants, servants and maids. It costs a lot to feed.The imperial court has limited salaries, especially in departments like Jinyiwei, where there are so many officials who send salary, there are more than 8 people who eat financial food.Pay is never punctual.Fortunately, he is a hundred households in the local area, and he is very lucrative, otherwise, I really don't know how to mess up these days.

If there is only one banquet, the etiquette is too weak, and relatives and friends will discuss it when they know about it.Mrs. Lin came up with an idea: "Anyway, you are going to invite them tomorrow. Since they are here to do business in Foshan Town, why don't you invite a few big local merchants to accompany you? Do them a little favor."

"Madam's words are very true." Lin Ming thought that this would be a matter of little effort, and it would not take any trouble or effort, and it would be passable in terms of human relations. "Just who are you going to invite?"

"Qianqian said: Mr. Liu is a doctor, and Mr. Yang is the shopkeeper of the pharmacy. Why don't you ask Yang Run, the shopkeeper who opened the shop, to accompany you? He is a leader in this field in Foshan."

"That's right, ma'am is thoughtful."

"Let me invite another Mr. Li Luoyou Li. He just arrived in Foshan a few days ago. He also sent a birthday gift today. His family was originally doing business outside the customs, and the business was very large. I heard that many precious medicinal materials came from outside the customs. .Although Mr. Li has been avoiding the customs for many years, he might still have some stock on hand..."

Li Luoyu and Lin Ming naturally recognized him, not only did he recognize him, but today he also accepted a "rich gift" other than the birthday gift with a smile, and the discussion became a matter.He smiled: "Ma'am, you think too much. It's up to them to plan the business. The husband is to invite people to get together. As for whether they can talk about it, that's their business." .”

"Yes, I was taught by my husband." Mrs. Lin smiled slightly, "Qianqian is here tonight, and our sisters have some private things to say, please trouble me and stay at Qingyun's place today."

"You have private conversations with your sisters all day long." Lin Ming said sullenly, "Do you sleep more with Qingyun, Bibo and the others every month, or is it because of your husband..."

"Okay, don't worry about it, Mr. Lin." Mrs. Lin's eyes were flowing, very charming, "But you never asked Mr. Xiang to stay alone? Besides, this is a concubine's cousin, and she is also half of her mother's family. She always has to take care of her." have to."

Lin Ming seemed to have some opinion on this, Madam Lin said in a low voice: "Tomorrow night, my concubine and Bibo will serve the husband together..."

Li Luoyou arrived in Foshan a few days ago. There were two foreigners with him. One was John Quark, an Englishman who had been doing business in Macau for many years. One is called Quark Poor; the other is Ma Yangchun, a Jesuit missionary from Germany.

Since the end of Tianqi, when he was ordered by his father to go to Guangzhou to take over the family's Yangzhuang business, Li Luoyou came to Foshan almost every two or three months to order porcelain, silk and medicinal materials.Export through the quark.poor channel.

The Li family is a wealthy businessman for generations, and they are people from Beizhili at the foot of Tianzi, so they have a bit of "official air" in their style. The group set off from Guangzhou and traveled along the river in three large boats.As soon as you dock at the pier, go directly to the semicolon of "Liaohai Tour" on Datong Street, Foshan.In order to receive the owner, the shopkeeper Cheng of the semicolon prepared everything ten days ago: as soon as the sedan chair arrived, Li Luoyou, his guest, and his wife and nephew named Gu Baocheng, who were in the big retreat when Guangning withdrew from the town. What was brought back from the chaos was also the only blood of the wife's family.Another master, who was helping to write and write, was brought into the living room, and the four clever servants specially prepared were busy pouring water and tea.While enjoying the service of the servants, Li Luoyou inquired about various local news.

After a while of chaos, each sat down.Li Luoyou ordered the two red-haired guests to be sent to the guest room to rest first, so that they could be taken care of.

Sao Ye, one of the personal servants he brought with him, held a hookah to fill him with cigarettes, and at the same time whispered: "Aunt Jiang has settled down, when will the master come in?"

"Are you here to play with her in Foshan?" Aunt Jiang was too ignorant in the words, "Tell her to kneel down and reflect, and wait until I come in."

As soon as he opened his mouth, he was punished, and there was no feeling of pity.The crowd stared with bated breath, not daring to answer.

"Yes." Sao Ye didn't dare to say much, so he had to go in to convey the order, secretly feeling sorry for the unfortunate Aunt Jiang.This kind of ruthless family law has intensified ever since Li Luo escaped back to the customs from a narrow escape.

"Master," shopkeeper Cheng from the semicolon came to ask for instructions, "How do you arrange dinner? Do you want to use the cook brought by the master to make fancier?" Because the Li family has dealt with Western businessmen all the year round, they always have a fancier cook and various condiment kitchen utensils at home. The ingredients were brought together this time.In addition to entertaining two foreign guests, I also plan to invite several customers to have dinner.

(End of this chapter)