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Chapter 427 Be a poor relative once

Last night, a group of people went to Baiyu Pool to take a bath, leaving her and Yan's mother in the inn. Now everyone is out again, but she left her master and servant. Xiaobei is so depressed. At this moment, even though Yangzhou is in a good mood in April, she is still very unhappy. Even though there are many Huaiyang restaurants on the roadside, she has no appetite at all. She lowered her head and kicked the stones on the ground to vent her anger. Yan's mother saw her a little aggrieved and finally sighed.

"The Wang family in Songmingshan was in the generation of Mr. Nanming's grandfather. Because of their prosperity and prosperity in business, the population grew, and they were divided into seven houses. Now the people living in Songmingshan are actually Wang Xiaoguanren, as well as Mr. Nanming and Mr. Zhongyan Zhongjia. The other five houses have moved to Yangzhou to make a living by the salt industry.

Originally, they were working together in business together, but Mr. Nanming's grandfather passed away and his father retired. The brothers and sisters all succeeded in the imperial examinations, so it was impossible to do business. So the power fell into Wang Daomin. He monopolized the power, and the other four families had to fight but were not united. Over time, the salt industry in Lianghuai was much worse than before."

This was what Yan's mother heard from Mrs. Su when she was in Huizhou. She got up early today and went out to investigate. It was another story: "What I said before was to discuss Zhenge Yanyin and Yu Yan's affairs ten days later. It was the Shanxi merchants and Jiangyou merchants who Wang Daomin came out to contact. Any Hui people were contemptuous and disdainful when they talked about it. After all, they had no ability to collude with outsiders, which was extremely unfavorable."

Although Yan's mother seemed to be just talking straightforwardly, Xiaobei heard it and certainly wouldn't just think so. She happily held Yan's mother's arm, and was about to act coquettishly as usual, but someone gently patted her on her head: "Be careful on the street, don't forget that you are a man now!"

Xiaobei quickly became honest. She didn't want to leave Wang Fulin. However, although Yangzhou is good, it's really meaningless to just wander with Yan's mother like this. In addition, she was born to be idle. Therefore, she really wanted to get some harvest and scare someone. She asked carefully and learned that Yan's mother was very efficient in getting up early. She touched the residence and family situation of the four-bedroom Wang family, and she was even happier.

"Then let's go to Wang Daomin to explore first?"

Regarding Yan's mother's proposal, Xiaobei shook his head: "Since Wang Daomin is in charge of the helm, Wang Fulin will definitely go to his place first. Besides, since this person is stubborn, what is my name now? How can I reach him? Mom, what are the current heads of the other four houses of the Wang family? What are their personalities?"

After years of reproduction, the five Wang family members who moved to Yangzhou had already formed large families, and their populations were more prosperous than the two houses in Songming Mountain. After all, Wang Daokun's grandfather Wang Xuanyi's branch, only Wang Liangbin was still alive in the next generation, and the next generation was Wang Daokun and Wang Daoguan brothers, and Wang Daohui's cousin. In addition, Wang Xuanyi's third brothers would be even thinner. If Wang Fulin had not accepted Jin Bao as his adopted son, then there would be only Wang Daoyun and Wang Fulin and his son.

As for Jin Bao and his brother who are so heartless, if they are counted according to blood ties, they are actually Wang Daomin's subordinates, just because their ancestors were a commoner and were left to farm in Songming Mountain. Over time, they no longer had any contact.

Not to mention that Wang Fulin didn't care about these mixed relationships before and didn't understand them at all, he has not fully figured out yet. He has only made an appointment to understand the leaders of several families, and that's all. After all, when he has not been idle for two years, he will be taken to prepare for the imperial examination once he is idle, so he has no time to do so. And this time he came to Yangzhou because he was just by the way. He planned to come over to see if Wang Daokun's explanation could be solved, but since it happened to be the right time. Mr. Cheng provided him with a lot of valuable information, he planned to give it a try.

The five-room tribe members have long been in harmony with each other. They don’t even need to be separated, but the focus of their current work is whether they can bring people over.

Therefore, he didn't bother to find Wang Daomin at all. In his opinion, this guy had been despised by the Hui merchants led by Mr. Cheng to death, and it was not worth exploring his brains on this guy who was destined to be defeated. Among the remaining four people, he pulled a few points and according to Wang Liangbin's narration, he pulled out a candidate.

Wang Daoman, the youngest uncle among the seven brothers of the Wang family who started their business, is now twenty years old. His father passed away in his early years and passed the exam for a scholar. Then he knew very well that he would no longer continue the imperial examination, but instead planned to get involved in the family business. However, although he was the same as Wang Daomin, he was only half the age of the other party, but he was unable to get involved in the salt industry at all. He had made several big mistakes in the year before. Although he did not lose a lot of money like Wang Fulin's father Wang Daoyun, the evaluation of his bad business spread wildly, and it is said that he could not raise his head in the Yue family.

At this moment, standing in front of this house, Wang Fulin compared the magnificent scene of Mr. Cheng's house before, and had to sigh that it was true that Wang was not as good as before. The stone sculptures on the front door hood of this Hui-style house were already broken. Not only that, the black tiles and white walls that should have been contrasted clearly have many traces of repair. The white walls seemed to have not been painted for several years, and looked a little down. There was no full-time gatekeeper in front of the door, only a little boy was sitting there teasing a lame dog. The scene seemed not like Yangzhou, but in the countryside of Huizhou.

Wang Fulin asked others to find a restaurant nearby to sit there. He silenced Su's clothes and asked for a meeting. He only said that he was from the Wang clan of Songmingshan and came here to pay homage to his uncle. His clothes were always mainly comfortable and not luxurious. The boy in front of the door looked at him and understood it. After he ran into the report, he whispered to remind him: "The master saw you in the study room, but you'd better stay less, otherwise the wife would definitely come over when she knew it. There would be nothing good to say at that time."

When Wang Fulin heard this, he knew that he was treating himself as a daqiufeng. He didn't explain, and smiled and thanked him, and then followed the boy in. Sure enough, just like the impression outside the house, the inside looked a little old and mottled. The curtain of the study room was a half-old bamboo curtain. In addition to the main seat, there was only a chair with a cloth-covered chair on it. As a junior, even though he was a few years apart, he still had to salute and call him uncle, but found that Wang Daoman described being thin and not very energetic.

Wang Daoman did not ask Wang Fulin which house and which Wang family came from, and did not respond much to the name Wang Fulin fabricated. After the greetings, he asked the clan in detail about the local customs such as New Year's Eve worship, spring plowing and autumn harvest. At the end, he smiled bitterly: "The ancestors have moved to Yangzhou for a long time, and I really want to move their family back, so the villagers in the village can take care of them."

"Who doesn't know that Yangzhou is a rich place in the world, and there are not many villagers in the country who envied my uncle for settling in Yangzhou." Wang Fulin saw the shadows on the curtain as if a figure was shaking, and deliberately spoke in the tone of the relatives of Qiufeng. As soon as he finished speaking, a sneer came from outside the door.

"That's true. All rural villagers envy Yangzhou's wealth. Only those who are unpromising will feel that mountain and wild rural residences are better than this Yangzhou's wealthy nest!"

As she said this, a young woman in a red pomegranate dress entered the room. She saw a golden hairpin on her head, a bright hairpin on her ears, and a necklace with a dazzling jade hanging around her neck. She looked like she was a treasure-like lady. She glanced at Wang Fulin with a arrogant look, and then curled her lips at Wang Daoman.

"If you have the time to receive these relatives from Songmingshan all day long, it is better to go to your fourth brother to say soft words and accept you again and take charge of business. Otherwise, you can't study or do business. What should you do if you can't do the food and drink expenses of this family? Where did you get the remaining money to help this? Zhouquan. Have you forgotten how much bonus money your fourth brother has sent to you this year? Four hundred taels. After placing the annual gifts everywhere, it's not enough to even put your teeth into pieces!"

As soon as these sarcastic words came out, Wang Daoman's face darkened, but his shoulders trembled violently, obviously very angry. However, the young woman didn't feel anything too much, and she glanced at Wang Fulin and turned away. When she fell off the bamboo curtain, she still sneered: "If you don't go beg for the fourth brother, then go and help my father with the help of the manager. There is a shopkeeper of a silk shop in my father's place just quit."

As soon as the person left, Wang Fulin saw Wang Daoman sitting there weakly. After a long time of laughter, she said, "It's her temper that makes her nephew laugh."

Most of the women Wang Fulin had met before were good friends of her husband. This was the first time he saw him. He was silent for a moment and asked, "I heard that my uncle has no children?"

This problem suddenly touched Wang Daoman's heartache. Although he knew that this should not be revealed in front of his relatives, his wife just said that he was really disappointed, and he couldn't help but murmured: "She disliked me for nothing and said that she would suffer even after giving birth to children, so she never refused... If she continued like this, she would separate her as she wanted!"

Wang Fulin remembers that even widows were pointed at and poked at remarriage these days. Unexpectedly, this young woman would have such a thought because she disliked her husband. Although she was persuaded to reconcile but not to leave, he was not interested in taking care of other people's family affairs. He stood up and went to the door. Seeing that no one eavesdropped on him anymore, he knew that the young woman had looked down on him and was unwilling to spend that energy. He smiled slightly and turned back to the desk.

"Uncle, my nephew just forgot to report my family. Shuangmunai is my nephew's nickname. It is Wang Fulin in Mingshan, Shimatsu, and my father's name is Daoyun."

Wang Daoyun's son? The one who was cheated and compensated countless times, was it the brothers Wang Daokun who helped fill the gap, and then returned to Songming Mountain in shame?

Wang Daoman looked at Wang Fulin in surprise, and suddenly thought of the old things about Huizhou mentioned when Wang Daoguan passed through Yangzhou last time. If he remembered correctly, Wang Daoyun was a scholar who was even more pedantic than him, but there was a son who made Wang Daokun and Wang Daoguan praise him. The famous son in Huizhou was the young boy in front of him?

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