The story of a noble girl

Chapter 40 Master Zhou

Lin Xiaoning smiled with a strong nasal voice: "I'll go after I wash my face, and ask Xiaobao to save some for me, don't finish eating."

When the construction of Taocun Road was in full swing and several houses were being built in full swing, something happened in the capital.

A Millennium Ganoderma Lucidum is now in the world!
It was the young master of Zhou Ji Jewelry, and he bought it for 10 taels of silver.It is said that buying this Ganoderma lucidum was in time. A bearded man who collected herbs came to Zhoucheng Medicine Store with Ganoderma lucidum in his pocket to sell.At that time, Master Zhou was on his way back to the capital, and when he was staying at the branch shop in Linzhou City, he fell in love with a beautiful woman.This woman is the daughter of an inconspicuous small businessman in Linzhou. Master Zhou asked someone to propose a marriage, and accepted her as the ninth concubine. After the engagement, a pair of men and women flirted with each other and fell in love with each other. The hangover does not return.

On the second day, Young Master Zhou happily ran to the pharmacy to buy hangover soup for the shy and charming beauty. Just in time, he met that silly bearded man who was selling Ganoderma lucidum in the pharmacy and bargained with the shopkeeper. On the man's chest, the ganoderma lucidum was in the bag.

Master Zhou returned to the capital with his beloved beauty and Ganoderma lucidum.

After entering the Zhou mansion, the sweetheart and beauty were settled, so he joyfully dedicated the precious jade he had scoured from that dilapidated place in Qingshui County and the ganoderma lucidum bought from Linzhou City last autumn to his own father, Mr. Zhou, the owner of Zhou Ji.

Ten months ago, there was a lot of trouble because of Master Zhou's romantic affair with Huamanlou's popular oiran Mudan in the capital.Master Zhou redeemed himself with a thousand gold and bought a foreign house, insisting on taking Peony as his concubine.The Zhou family is a rich family, Zhou Ji Jewelry has a century-old name, and it can afford to take in as many concubines as possible, but how can it allow prostitutes to enter the house, it will not ruin the family tradition.In a rage, Master Zhou sent his only legitimate son to a shop in Qingshui County.This shop was Zhou Ji's first shop a hundred years ago, and it has been preserved until now. All Zhou Ji's shops were opened from this shop in Qingshui County within a hundred years. It is the root of Zhou Ji and the painstaking efforts of the ancestors.

Mr. Zhou deliberately kept this wicked son away from the debauchery and drinking places in the capital, and sent an old butler and two skilled guards to watch over him, lest this unworthy son be in that poor area of ​​Qingshui County. If there is any more flirtatious incident, it would be really shameful to throw it to the ancestors.

If the old man and the old lady hadn't been thinking about this dishonorable thing all day long, they had to be brought back, and he would have wanted this wicked man to stay in Qingshui County for a while longer.Now that she came back, look, she brought back another concubine, but at least she was the daughter of a merchant, and her background was considered innocent, unlike that of Huamanlou, so she was allowed in.

Seeing the evil son offering jade and ganoderma lucidum, Mr. Zhou was very pleased!This unfulfilling son, how much painstaking effort he has spent in the past twenty years, the only son of the Zhou family, dozens of semicolons in Zhou Ji must be passed on to him, never knowing that money is not easy to come by.Getting together for a good time, accompanied by actors and beauties, and a group of playboys flattering and fawning all day long, it broke his heart.But now, his son can also share his worries. This precious jade only cost 2000 taels, which is really a treasure.And this Ganoderma lucidum has been rare for thousands of years. The medicinal materials of this age have always had a price but no market, but they were bumped into by this unsatisfactory scoundrel.Today, the Holy Majesty is not in good health. His sister-in-law is a concubine, who was picked into the palace by the empress of that year and now the empress dowager. The position in the palace is stable.Because of this relationship, the Zhou family became an imperial merchant, and it was so safe for the younger brother to be an official in another province. In the past three years, all the jewelry in the palace was provided by Zhou Ji.This year, I have to choose a jeweler again. This Ganoderma lucidum is dedicated to the Holy Majesty. If it can make the dragon body healthy, it will be a great achievement, and I can monopolize the jewelry in the palace for another three years.I didn't expect to send Niezi to Qingshui County this time so wisely, the ancestors bless you, really the ancestors bless you!
Master Zhou was overjoyed. He was not angry when he heard that Ganoderma lucidum was because of a coincidence that his son was buying hangover soup for the ninth concubine. Anyway, this woman is also from the Zhou family, and she brought good luck to the Zhou family.

After Young Master Zhou returned to the mansion, there were a lot of beautiful wives and beautiful family members, Yingying Yanyan surrounded him, feeling sorry for his husband to go to the poor place of Qingshui County to stay for ten months, all of them dressed up brilliantly, and tried their best to compete for favor .

Master Zhou was ordered by Mrs. Zhou to go to the residence of the main family, Wei Shi, at night. The Wei family and the Zhou family are both aristocratic families. They have been friends for several generations. Their marriage was arranged since they were young.

Wei Shi is the eldest daughter of the Wei family. She is bright and charming, well-educated and reasonable, and she feels a little wronged with the short, fat and lustful Young Master Zhou.Mrs. Zhou has always only suppressed the dirty backyard of the Zhou family's many concubines with rules and family laws, and only cared about the affairs in Wei's courtyard.But Webster's temper is mild, and he didn't react at all to Xianggong Guang taking a concubine, and he was used to it in his own family.I also turned a blind eye to the concubine's competition for favor. After all, the father-in-law and mother-in-law were there, and it was not her turn to be the master of the house. Besides, the parents-in-law loved her very much. As long as the concubine's room did not violate the rules, they always ignored it.It is said that there are many dirty things in the big family, but the house of the young master of the Zhou family can be regarded as a pure lotus.Also because of Webster's temperament, although Young Master Zhou was dissatisfied with his bedside romance, he respected him very much, and he loved Webster's son-in-law even more.

Master Zhou settled down for a few days, and then went to the teahouse with his valet to hang out with a group of friends.It's been ten months since I left the capital, so I have to catch up on the old days.

The best teahouse in the capital is undoubtedly the "Ziyige" teahouse. Those who can come here to drink tea are people from famous and aristocratic families in the capital, and all of them have extraordinary backgrounds.It is said that the price of a pot of tea in this building can be equivalent to what ordinary people spend for a year.

Young master Zhou entered the private room, there was a burst of shushes and greetings one after another.In a poor place like Qingshui County, if you can stay for ten months, you really become a monk.All the friends laughed and comforted and joked, and the private room was full of noise.

A young master in a blue brocade robe said: "Young Master Zhou, on the way home this time, you were so lucky to get a thousand-year-old Ganoderma lucidum. I really envy others."

Young Master Zhou's face was beaming with laughter: "It's a coincidence that we bumped into each other."

"I heard that you even found a piece of precious jade, a rare top-quality product?"

"Yeah, yeah, I also bumped into each other, it was a coincidence."

"I said, Young Master Zhou, why are you so lucky? There are so many semicolons in the Zhou family, and they will all belong to you in the end, and you can always encounter these good things. Our young masters are not as good as you."

Young Master Zhou laughed happily: "I'll invite everyone to have a big meal at the Drunken Old Man's Tower later. Tell me, did any rare things happen in the capital recently?"

"If you want to talk about rare things, isn't it the thousand-year-old Ganoderma lucidum that your family dedicated to the current saint? What rare things can there be?"

"Peony, I took time to visit her yesterday, the house is empty."

"Now she is married to a nephew of a collateral line of Prime Minister Wang and has become a concubine."

"What! This peony, promised to wait for me!"

"Young Master Zhou, marry as soon as you get married. In this world, opera singers and prostitutes are the most ruthless. They can't compare to our buddies who are so affectionate. She's just a girl, and she's pretty. I heard that you're coming back this time. Jing brought back an extremely beautiful woman, comparable to that of Peony, but there is such a thing."

Young master Zhou felt unhappy when he heard the news, and said sadly: "That woman is from a small merchant family. Although she is extremely beautiful, she can't compare to peony, qin, chess, calligraphy and painting."

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Ladies and gentlemen, Young Master Zhou of Zhou Ji Jewelry waved his fan and said: Although I am not good-looking, I have a lot of wives and concubines, and the backyard is clean, which is called good character!So even though I am lustful and cunning, I can bump into Baoyu and Ganoderma lucidum. In other words, it is good character to leave a ticket after reading the article, and I will definitely be like me, good luck will always be with me.

(End of this chapter)