The old lady is reborn

The Sixth Princess wanted to support the brother and sister and to seize the Wei family's property, so she had to investigate the 40-year-old Wei Changrong, the head of the Wei family at the time.

When Wei Changrong was young, he was sent out by his father at the age of eighteen to gain experience. He rode horses with a caravan carrying goods on the trade route. Later, he worked as a shopkeeper in a small shop in another place to expand the territory. During these days, Wei Changrong had a woman who let him down all his life.

When the caravans first arrived in the north, they had a place to stay, which was a relatively simple mule and horse inn, which later became a cart inn.

This kind of shop can accommodate a lot of livestock such as horses, donkeys, and mules, and provide fodder. People live in large bunk beds, with more than a dozen or even dozens of men in one room. Meals are also provided, simple cakes, steamed buns, pickles, and hot soup.

Wei Changrong is, after all, a rich young man with money in his pocket. Although he was trained by his father, he is not afraid of hardship as long as he can become familiar with various situations.

After all, the Wei family also has eight cavalry teams, four of which trade goods between the north and south, and four of which engage in border trade. Wei Changrong will be the head of the family in the future, so he must know what is going on with all the businesses under his control.

The edible biscuits were really hard to swallow, and the large bunk bed was filled with all kinds of smells, and there was also thunderous snoring.

A man lying next to Wei Changrong put one leg on him in the middle of the night. As soon as Wei Changrong moved his leg away, the man turned over and hugged Wei Changrong, muttering, "Good winter plum, give me a kiss."

This frightened Wei Changrong so much that he sat up, turned over and got off the big bunk bed. Looking at the man who was still calling "Wintersweet, Wintersweet", he couldn't help but get angry. He grabbed the clothes that the man had placed on the side of his head, grabbed the man's shoes through his hands and threw them into his arms.

The man hugged his shoes tightly in his sleep.

Wei Changrong put on his coat and went out. The air outside was much fresher, but he felt cold after standing for a while.

There was a night watchman in the inn. When he saw Wei Changrong standing in the yard, he asked him if he couldn't sleep and if he wanted a woman to keep him company. They said they had one in the inn and he could pay some money to have him stay in an extra room.

Wei Changrong waved his hands. Isn't that what the women here do? He was not very happy.

The waiter was about to leave when Wei Changrong stopped him and asked, "Are there any restaurants open at this time? I want a clean place to go just to eat something."

The waiter thought for a moment and pointed in a direction: "There is a beef noodle restaurant over there. It's clean and only sells noodles."

Wei Changrong thanked him and was about to leave, but after thinking for a moment he asked the waiter to borrow the lantern in his hand.

The waiter scratched his head and said, "If you were staying at a big inn, you would have a lantern. In our mule and horse inn, we only charge a few bucks for a large bunk bed..."

Wei Changrong had no choice but to pay for the lantern. He followed the clerk's instructions, turned the corner, found the light in the darkness, and walked towards it with one foot deep and one foot shallow.

For a long time afterwards, this bright light was his joy and expectation, but it was also the place he could never reach in his dreams countless times in the years to come, and the worry and regret hanging in his heart.

This noodle shop is open for business late at night, and its waiters are all strong men, so people are afraid to act rashly once they come in.

In addition to beef noodles, they also sell mutton soup, meat patties, and white patties. The taste is much better than that of the mule and horse shop, but it is also much more expensive.

In addition to customers like Wei Changrong who couldn't sleep and were looking for food in the middle of the night, this restaurant was mainly populated by caravans who were in a hurry and wanted to eat there.

This accommodation point is a node. To put it simply, it is like starting from a main town and walking one mile, three miles, four miles, or six miles a day will all stop here to rest.

But because everyone had to take care of mules, horses and goods, most of the shops open here were mule and horse shops. A caravan lived and stored their goods in one or two large open rooms.

But the mule and horse inn had no food to offer at that time, so many late-arriving caravans ate noodles, soup and cakes here, and then went to the familiar mule and horse inn to check in after eating.

As soon as Wei Changrong sat down and took the first bite of beef noodles, he felt that all the discomfort in his body was smoothed out. This was finally a proper meal he could eat.

The people from Zhenhai Escort Agency also came in at this time.

A pair of sisters, the heroic Liu Wan and the cute and sweet Liu Rong were surrounded by people from the Zhenhai Escort Agency and entered the noodle shop.

Wei Changrong was stunned by Liu Rong's beauty the first time he saw her. In such a place, on such a night, among a bunch of burly men, two young and beautiful women suddenly appeared.

Like a clear spring in the desert or a red flower on a cliff, his gaze was almost uncontrollable and could not be moved away. Her every frown and smile was touching.

That year, the nineteen-year-old Liu Guan had married He Hongqi, an outstanding young man in the escort agency. The young couple was in charge of the experienced escort team on the regular route. They had already handed over this escort, and they came here to meet another escort team from their own agency nearby.

My younger sister Liu Rong insisted on coming out to play with us, and since I thought it was a route we were familiar with, I decided to take her along.

But during this escort mission, sister Liu Rong met Wei Changrong.

After hearing that the people from the escort agency would stay here for a day, waiting for the arrival of another group of people from the escort agency and the two groups would merge and continue on their way, the Wei family caravan, which was originally scheduled to set off early the next morning, also stayed here for a day because of the insistence of the young master Wei Changrong.

Sister Liu Guan was busy with various chores and did not notice that Wei Changrong and his sister Liu Rong started talking.

From then on, the two places communicated via carrier pigeons, and every time the escort took this route, his sister Liu Rong would follow.

Although they only met a few times a year, the fifteen-year-old Liu Rong was in love and set her sights on Wei Changrong.

Wei Changrong also vowed to her that he would go to Zhenhai Escort Agency to propose marriage.

But the Wei family had already chosen a marriage for him at that time, the daughter of a large merchant in Jinyuan County, the eldest daughter of the Chang family. This was a marriage that would be of great benefit to both families.

Although Zhenhai Escort Agency is also a big escort agency, it is not as financially capable as the Jinyuan Chang Family and the Jinling Wei Family. Moreover, it is a bit like a mountain between two different industries.

Wei Changrong obeyed his parents' orders and married the eldest daughter of the Chang family, but at the same time he couldn't bear to leave the innocent, charming and devoted Liu Rong.

When the lie could not be fulfilled and he could not justify himself, he decided to hide the truth and make a big profit.

Wei Changrong changed his name to Wei Changrong, but luckily he only used his courtesy name when writing letters. Taking advantage of the opportunity given by his father to be the manager of an outlying county, he created a completely new identity for himself in Qiantang County near Jinling.

Money makes the world go round, let alone paying people to do things for you.

So there was "Wei Changrong", a native of Qiantang County, who had an ancestral store and ancestral home. He was the shopkeeper in his own store, and he had all the household registration books, birth dates, land deeds and commercial contracts.

"Wei Changrong" fulfilled Wei Changrong's promise, invited a matchmaker to propose marriage, and even found two people to pretend to be "Wei Changrong's" parents. However, this "parents" were not willing to live in the town, and said that after seeing Wei Changrong get married, they would move back to the countryside.

Wei Changrong planned to live in two homes in two counties for half a year in each. Although little Liurong had said that she would never be anyone's concubine and he had promised her to be together for the rest of her life, after the marriage was settled and they had a child, would she still not accept her fate?