Compete for the Song Dynasty

Wang Pang agreed to the old owner Zhu and persuaded Ruan Xing to close the brick kiln. Zhu Chaofeng said sarcastically: "The old man Ruan Xing is very stubborn. Even if the two families are about to get married, he won't give my father face. How could he agree to the son?" What about you?" While talking, he looked at Wang with suspicious eyes.

With no "hair" in his mouth, he can't do things well. With this young man in his twenties, he can shut down a brick kiln that has been in business for more than ten years. Of course Wang Pang knew what Zhu Chaofeng was thinking. He said with a smile: "I agree with the idea of ​​the old owner. This brick kiln uses good clay to burn solid bricks. It's a pity that the land of tens of acres is too bad. But it's still too late to stop the brick kiln. You can rest assured that I will handle this matter." .”

I wish the old owner great joy and said: "If the young master can finish this matter as soon as possible, his Ruan family can marry according to the agreed date, otherwise I think the marriage will be delayed."

Wang Pang said with a smile: "Men should be married when they are older, and girls should be married if they are older, and the happy event will be done accordingly."

Coming out of Zhujiazhuang, Wang Pang took Shi Qian to the direction of Shijie Village. Shi Qian looked back and saw that Zhu Chaofeng had already turned back to the mansion and said to Wang Pang: "My lord, I said why were you just yelling?" Don't do anything, the relationship between the two families is quite deep, so Ruan Ping stopped others, I think he was afraid that he would offend his uncle if he couldn't get a wife."

"You just know how to watch the fun, and the two families don't have any big complaints. If you follow the old owner Zhu, it's fine if the brick kiln quits, but Zhu Chaofeng wants to use the brick kiln to make money behind the old man's back."

"Then how are you sure that Ruan Xing will listen to you?"

Not yet sure about this, Wang Pang refused to agree to this matter. He briefly told Shi Qian how he started to build this brick kiln before, and Shi Qian's eyes lit up when he heard it: "My lord, I found that you are smarter than me." Too many, there are so many ways to make money, if I had known you sooner, would I have made a fortune too?"

"Earlier, how old are you just now, no matter how early you plan to be."

Shi Qian, who was asked by Wang Pang, was also amused. The two masters and servants had already come to Shijie Village after talking. There are small boats docked on the water moor behind the house. When I entered the village to inquire about Ruan Xing, some villagers pointed to a house in the village: that was the house of the Ruan family. In this fishing village, this house It is indeed more conspicuous, and it can be seen that it is a big family in the village.

He knocked on the courtyard door a few times, and when he opened the door, the seven or eight-year-old child heard that Wang Pang was looking for Ruan Xing, so he shouted to the courtyard: "Grandpa, a guest is coming." After speaking, he left Wang Pang and turned around and ran back In the courtyard, I squatted by the wall with a few younger children and played with mud.

Ruan Xing heard the call, asked who it was, then walked out from the main room, stood in the courtyard and saw the king, and was taken aback, then walked quickly to look at the king up and down.

"Why, don't you recognize me?" Wang Pang asked with a smile.

Ruan Xing grabbed Wang's side: "My lord, I'm not dreaming."

"of course not."

"Please, please." Ruan Xing said, letting Wang Pang to the main room, and shouted to the courtyard: "You guys stop playing, go and tell your mother that there is a distinguished guest at home."

"I haven't seen you in these years. Unexpectedly, brother Ruan is full of descendants."

Ruan Xing blushed excitedly and said with a smile: "We are not like princes, we are only busy doing big things, and the happiness of the poor means that we have many children and grandchildren. I have four sons alone, and eleven grandsons."

It's better not to have family planning. This is almost enough to make up a football team. Wang Pang sat down with a smile and asked, "Why don't you see the young masters?"

"Those who fish are fishing, and those who go out go out. My wife and I are the only ones at home. Looking at these grandchildren, there are daughters-in-law who help."

A woman came to bring tea and water, Ruan Xing said that this was his daughter-in-law, and asked Wang Pang to show respect, and then asked the family to buy wine and cook to entertain Wang Pang, the old man was busy Outside, Shi Qian asked in a low voice: "My lord, why doesn't this old man talk about the brick kiln? You don't think he is like the brick kiln that Zhu Chaofeng said can make a lot of money. There is not even a servant in this family. How can he be so rich?" How about congratulating the family."

Ruan Xing just entered the door, and when he heard Shi Qian's words, his face was slightly embarrassed.

Wang Pang saw it and said with a smile: "Brother Ruan doesn't know something. We just came from Zhujiazhuang and heard that the two families got married. It's a great thing. I don't know what the wedding date is."

"Just now I heard from my elder brother, Ruan Ping, that Zhu's family took away a son who wanted to buy bricks. Could it be that he is talking about the prince." Ruan Xing suddenly realized. [

"I passed by from now on. I didn't want to disturb Brother Ruan, but I saw that there seemed to be a dispute between the two families because of this brick kiln. I was also curious and followed there to have a look."

As he said that, Ruan Xing sighed: "My lord, you don't know that when this brick kiln was first opened, there were few people who used it, and it took a few years to slow it down, but we have been fishermen for generations, only there is no arable land on the water, The land is used by other people, and the labor is also used by other people. If you say that the brick kiln has indeed made some money, but the labor cost can't stand up to the continuous increase. In addition, the cost of transporting bricks was not so much in the past. Later, the government wants to adopt it. For travel expenses, it is said that our bricks are heavy and we collect more. If there is no way, we have to change animals to pull more each time, but the animals cannot carry them. The horses are too expensive and exhausted, and the rest is just enough to turn around. I also have a headache because of the old brick kiln, I don’t plan to wait for my old son’s marriage to be completed, and then send him to the capital to meet the prince, and end the matter of the brick kiln by the way.”

From Ruan Xing's words, Wang Pang realized the difficulty, he said with a smile: "Do you think I'm the one who cleared the accounts? Brother Ruan, don't worry, I just saw that although the brick kiln is good, it's harmful to one side, and I'm also to blame for this. I didn’t think carefully at the beginning, I wrote you a letter, and later I asked your son to go to the capital to get some silver taels from the account to make up for it, so the brick kiln will be closed.”

This was what Ruan Xing thought of, he quickly waved his hands: "How can this be possible? In these years, when the times were good, I also made some money. How can the prince make up for it?"

"It's two different things. What you earn is yours, and what you subsidize is to compensate for the loss of land over the years. You used to live in that Zhu's family. Wouldn't it be a good thing for the two villages to take care of each other after they are so close."

At first Ruan Xing backed down, but seeing Wang Pang's resoluteness, he thought it would be another matter if the prince had good intentions to go or not. In the evening, when Ruan Xing's four sons came back one after another, Wang Pang knew that Ruan Ping was Ruan Xing. The eldest son, Ruan Xing's youngest son Ruan Feng is going to marry Zhu Chaofeng's younger sister.

On the second day, Ruan Xing was busy settling the previous wages. He asked someone to dismantle the brick kiln, and asked Ruan Ping to lead people and the people who lived in Zhu's family to level the land together. In order to wish the old owner of the villa, he said that it was the prince's compensation to the village. Only then did Zhu Lao pretend to be Zhu and Zhu Chaofeng to know that the person who did this was not someone else, but the King of Zhennan in the capital. The idea of ​​continuing to work through the brick kiln.

The marriage of the two children was approaching, and Wang Pang couldn't hold back the two families to keep them together, so he stayed here for a few more days, and after inquiring about the Qinghe County where he was going, he found out that he was not in Yunzhou at all. "When.

Leaving Yunzhou and going west to Enzhou, Wang Pang also felt a little relieved. He had done so many things before, if he hadn't passed through Liangshanbo, he would have completely forgotten about Ruan Xing and the brick kiln. In a few years, even if there is such a conflict, Zhujiazhuang may not be able to find a good field for farming. What makes Wang Bang even more interesting is that this time at the Ruan's house, he saw those few scatterers. The children of "piss" and mud, there are three generals of the Ruan family, the second Ruan Jin, the fifth Ruan Tong and Ruan Xiaoqi, I am afraid that these little brats do not know themselves, and they will be written into the top four. In the famous book.

The two walked for a few more days, and they were about to reach Qinghe County for more than ten miles. The weather was not good and it was snowing heavily. Seeing that it was getting late, the master and servant went to the nearest inn to stay.

After settling in the room, he asked the clerk to deliver soup, pots and wine to order. Thinking that tomorrow he would go to Qinghe County to see his old friends whom he hadn't seen for many years, Wang Pang was somewhat excited. Mysteriously said: "My lord, just now someone asked me if I was from the capital, and I answered yes, and I heard from them later that it seemed that I was going to go to the gate of the yamen to say something."

The prince was also a little strange, feeling that he was being followed along the way, "Did you do something bad again?"

"No way, I follow you every day, can't you see it?"

"Why are you nervous about doing something bad?"

"I'm not nervous. I wonder if someone knows you want it, and they just have wine and food ready to welcome you."

"I only have a general direction to go out this time. I only told my wife and Mr. Chen about the specific possible places to go. I also planned to give Wu Ling a surprise. Back then..." After speaking, the shop assistant came to the room with wine and dishes.

The food and wine served was not ordered by Wang Pang, but a table full of good food and wine. Wang Pang stopped the waiter and asked: "Our master and servant, why did we eat so much? Is it a mistake? .”

The waiter smiled and said, "Wrong, wrong, you two have come a long way, you eat first, please forgive me from the small shop."

What is the reason for such hospitality, Wang Pang wondered in his heart, Shi Qian looked at the table full of wine and food but did not dare to move his chopsticks, thinking that this is not a black shop that robbed money.

Wang Pang also thought that he had been misled by Xiao Xiaosheng once, and he wouldn't be misled by Shui Hu again this time, so he asked, "This shop's surname is Sun."

The man was also surprised: "Guest officer, how did you know that?"

Wang Pang wondered whether Sun Erniang's human meat buns shop in Shilipo had also moved to the vicinity of Qinghe County. He was puzzled, and the waiter hurriedly said: "You can rest assured to eat yours, these are ordered by the county official. If you see master and servant coming from the capital, treat them with good wine and food." [

That said, Wang Pang felt relieved. Shi Qian ate a few mouthfuls cautiously. Feeling that something was wrong, he shook off his cheeks and began to eat and drink. During half the meal, he heard the sound of stairs outside, and someone came to the door and knocked. The door asked: "The one inside is the prince of the capital."

Hearing the familiar voice, Shi Qian opened the door and said in surprise, "Brother Dai, what's wrong with you."

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