Old things in Nancheng

A woman enters her best years in her thirties, a girl grows up to be a little lolita, a small county develops into one of the richest cities in the country, and a sharp-edged boy gradually learns to restrain himself.

Yanguan County is no longer the Yanguan County it used to be. The city is twice as big, with many shops and dense population. There are businessmen from the south and the north, either passing by or doing business. The merchants from Guangzhou, as well as the Westerners with red hair and black eyes, are full of hope, including street vendors and coolies. They have the same pulse as this city, which is prosperity.

On the canal that has been widened by more than twice, a painting boat sails leisurely south.On the top floor of the painting boat, there was a table of delicious food, a young man in green shirt was drinking by himself, enjoying himself, beside her, there was a very beautiful young woman and two outstanding little girls.

"Father, when are we going to get there?" Bao'er grew up and knew that she would no longer be shy and play around, but she was a cheerful personality, and she was a little impatient with the long waterway.

These years, Lin Zhilan often took Bao'er and Yan'er out to play. The two little girls had very high vision, but that place was something they missed very much. It was really fun.

"Girl, hurry up." Wang Zimo was very patient with Bao'er, trying to coax her.

"Father, you've said it almost eight hundred times!" Bao'er said dissatisfied.

"Who asked my daughter-in-law to ask me eight hundred and one times! Go play with my sister, be good."

"It's boring on the boat, mother, tell me a story. Yesterday I saw two foreigners with yellow hair and blue eyes on the street, they looked like ghosts."

Eight-year-old children are at the time when they are most curious. Lin Zhilan has a headache when she asks why Bao'er does not move at all times. It is easy to deal with Wang Zimo, a hundred thousand why babies. Why baby, she feels a lot of pressure.

"Westerners are human beings, not ghosts, but the species is different from us. Didn't mother teach you foreign language, why didn't you talk to them yesterday?" Lin Zhilan poured a glass of wine for Wang Zimo and said softly.

"I don't want to talk to them! We are from Song Dynasty! How can we talk to barbarians!"

Little Bao'er already has a sense of national honor. It seems that except for the Jin people, everyone else is a barbarian in her eyes. This is also the value of the entire society.Yan'er is an excellent girl, but she can't stop nodding to Bao'er's point of view.

Come on, too lazy to argue with the child whose national self-esteem is bursting, Lin Zhilan asked Wang Zimo: "Okay, what are you taking us there for?"

"Play, didn't you like it very much last time, I have free time these two days, so I will naturally accompany you."

Lin Zhilan turned her head away and secretly smiled arrogantly. In the past few years, Wang Zimo concentrated on business and took care of her family. It was the most comfortable life she had lived in the Song Dynasty.

Yan'er was very helpless when he saw his second uncle and aunt turned on the love mode again, so he took the ignorant Bao'er to the bow of the boat to play.Yan'er had a good time in the Wang's house, happier than in the ancestral house, but, the second uncle and the second aunt are very old, and they always show affection at every turn, which makes it difficult for the juniors.

The 14-year-old Yan'er has already grown into a big girl, and she can also be a girl Huaichun, but her sweetheart is not in Yanguan County now, and the lovesickness is a bit sour for the young Yan'er.

"Look, you have driven the children away again." Lin Zhilan withdrew the hand held by Wang Zimo and complained.

"We are setting an example for them, don't you think Yan'er has something on his mind recently?" Wang Zimo said with a smile.

"Yan'er is fourteen, if you don't have anything on your mind, you don't have to worry!" Lin Zhilan knows the child's mind best, and only Wang Zimo is busy with outside affairs so he can't see it.

"What am I anxious about, I just can't bear it." Wang Zimo held Lin Zhilan's hand again, and reminded: "Children of this age should be watched carefully, and don't forget about Yan'er, otherwise I won't be able to explain to the second master and sister-in-law. "

"Don't worry, that's the child I brought up. I know better about my temper than you. But it's time to think about Yan'er. If you don't worry, I'll talk to my sister-in-law later, okay?"

"Oh? Yan'er has a sweetheart?" Wang Zimo realized later.

"The horoscope has not been written yet, don't worry about scaring the children, I will tell you when I see it in a few days."

"All these years, thanks to having you by my side."

"Okay, okay, it's been ten years in a blink of an eye, isn't it disgusting to say these words!"

"Ten years... Is it nasty? In another ten or 20 years, I will say..."

In the evening, the boat stopped at the junction of Yanguan County and Lin'an Mansion.Five years ago, this was a wasteland, and Jiang Shangpei sold it to Wang Zimo at a low price. Wang Zimo, together with the Jiang family and other Yanguan County clans, carried out large-scale construction on this site for three years, and built the first land in the Song Dynasty. A large entertainment center integrating catering, entertainment and leisure.

On the pier in the evening, there are forests of boats and voices of people. There are high-ranking officials and nobles from Lin'an Mansion, and merchants and rich families from the canal. This is the city that never sleeps, the golden cave, a paradise for men and a paradise for women.As long as you have money, you can enjoy the highest standard of service here. According to some high-ranking officials, the enjoyment here will make officials jealous.

After getting off the boat, a row of luxurious carriages are waiting on the pier. From the moment you set foot on the pier, the journey of enjoyment has already begun.

Lin Zhilan and the others got into the special carriage waiting for them. Wang Zimo rode a horse, followed by more than [-] guards in corsets, who looked different from ordinary thugs.

"My lord, how was your trip?" Zhang Bucai was getting old, but his skill of riding a horse and whipping his whip did not drop at all, and he was getting stronger and stronger.

"It's okay, my daughter is impatient, and I'm so annoyed." Old man, Wang Zimo spoke very casually.

"Miss Bao'er is still so lively and cute, and the old man has already been taken care of by others. I think the little lady will be happy to see her."

Wang Zimo was very satisfied with the carriages and horses traveling along the way, which showed that the business was booming, and their efforts over the years were not in vain.

When they arrived at the entrance of the entertainment, entertainment, and city gates, hundreds of guys in uniforms lined up neatly. Seeing Wang Zimo helping Lin Zhilan and others out of the carriage, the guys all bowed down, politely and without losing their temper: "I have seen you, Mr. , Met the lady, Miss Yan'er, Miss Bao'er!"

"Okay, it's time to do business, you all go back to work."

Wang Zimo nodded casually, and a beautiful woman led a few beautiful maidservants over, blessed her body, and said enchantingly: "I have seen the young master, I have seen the lady, the young lady, the fragrant soup is ready, and the technician has been waiting for a long time Ma'am, why don't you go take a bath first to get rid of fatigue."

"Lan'er, go and play, I'll look around and come find you later."

Lin Zhilan led the two girls, Shi Shiran, and the managers of various departments who had been waiting for a long time came to greet them one by one. Wang Zimo greeted them with a smile, then waved a folding fan and asked Lai San to accompany him, planning to go to the casino first.

Today's casinos are very different from the old ones. They are decorated according to the large and luxurious casinos of later generations. The inside is also made of chips. Casinos only accept gold and silver as collateral, but special people still have special treatment, antiques, jewelry, land deeds , Yanyin, can be exchanged for chips of equivalent value in the casino, but it depends on what level of VIP you are.

When Wang Zimo entered the gambling house, Lai San was very winking, and asked someone to bring hundreds of chips over for Wang Zimo to play. Wang Zimo handed it to Zheng Daming and others, and said, "Don't follow me today, go play, let's play." Just wait for Xiaoliang."

"Master, I actually really want to try my hand." Xiao Liang said with a bitter face.

"Play? Do you have the guts to play? Are you afraid that your Bixia will find you unhappy?"

Hey, Xiaoliang sighed, after Lin Zhilan decided to give Bixia to Xiaoliang three years ago, Xiaoliang felt that life was very difficult.The only blame is that Wang Zimo didn't take the lead. Bixia took every wife and young master, what can he do.

The old gambling methods include dice, Pai Gow, buy and sell, the new blackjack, Bai, Jia, Le, Suo, and Ha, all of which are popular in the casino. Those female dealers in uniform have given the casino a breath of fresh air. Although there are still red-eyed gamblers shouting and screaming, it is much better than the smog of the old gambling houses.

"My lord, the hall is full every day, and the private rooms on the second and third floors have an occupancy rate of [-]% every day." Lai San proudly said.

Wang Zimo waved the folding fan with one hand, rubbed the two chips with the other, and said while watching: "It should be, I have created such a platform for you, if you can't do it well, you should replace it earlier."

"My lord, look at what you said, which brother dares not be dedicated." Lai San flattered him. Today's Wang Zimo is no longer the former Wang Zimo. The whole fraternity will listen to her. If she asks for a replacement, who would dare to object? .

Wang Zimo glanced at Lai San inadvertently, and said lightly: "You are members of a fraternity. Since it is called a fraternity, everyone in the fraternity is their own brothers. They make a lot of money, have a big appetite, and don't look down. Yes. The hard-working brothers on the pier, the brothers in the dart transport, life is still a little bit hard, don’t forget that they are.”

When Lai San heard the words, white sweat came out on his back, he hurriedly bowed his waist and explained: "Master, it's really not that my brothers are messing around, it's just last time..."

"You don't have to tell me these things, I can see it myself, everyone carries the sedan chair, everyone is really happy." Wang Zimo waved his hand casually, and said, "Let's go upstairs."

Lai San hurriedly followed, and he did not forget to pull Xiaoliang, Xiaoliang gave Lai San a careful eye reminder, Lai San knew it in his heart.

"Master, this is the grandson of Master Qin." Lai San introduced at the door of a private room.

"He lost a lot." Wang Zimo frowned slightly. It's normal for Qin Hui's grandson to come to play, but it's not easy to offend.

"Almost every day, I won [-] guan some time ago, but I lost it back in the past two days."

"You went and said, let him win back what is on the table today."

"Master..."

"What's the hurry, take him back to Wenrou Township, let him spit out as much as he takes, why bother being unhappy with him at the gambling table."

Seeing Wang Zimo's back, Lai San secretly gave a thumbs up, look, this is called business, and harmony makes money!

"Master, Second Master Zhen, as you know, he has lost a lot."

At the door of another box, Wang Zimo stopped in his tracks.Looking from the window, the mighty Second Master Zhen, who used to fight with Prince Mo as an actor, now has red eyes and a thick neck.

"Let him lose more, and the Zhen family's old bottom will be emptied by him."

"Isn't that the same sentence, the land deeds of the Zhen family have been kept in the accounting room a lot, my lord, shall we still accept it?" Lai San wondered, after all, the Zhen family is a rich family in Yanguan County, and there is a way to look up but not to bow down. See, those land deeds are the ancestral fields of the Zhen family, they are hot potatoes.

"Why don't you accept it? Give it to the accountant of the Jiang family and let the Jiang family ask for it. If the Jiang family doesn't want to come, it will be deducted from the Jiang family's bonus. We agreed at the beginning."

After finishing the casino, I went to the food hall, commercial street, sports field, bathing place, and then turned around, and I arrived at Wenrou Township.The prostitutes in Yanguan County are all owned by fraternity associations. It is cheapest to set up a street of red-sleeve tricks in the entertainment, entertainment, and urban areas. The Xingchen girl who has been teaching for many years is extremely beautiful, good at rhythm, and can compose poems.

"Hey, why did you come here? Xingchen has been waiting for you for a long time."

Mama Yan is not the vulgar bustard, she has a good temperament, and she was often chased by others when she was in Lin'an Mansion, so she treated guests very politely.

"Long time no see. Mama Yan lead the way, I'm really hungry."

Ms. Yan was already used to Wang Zimo's lukewarmness. She led the way and walked unhurriedly. Wang Zimo followed slowly while inspecting Wenrou Township's business.

"Business is good, and the girls are in good condition." Wang Zimo said frankly.

"It's not all thanks to my master. The guests who come here are all generous and polite. Even those rough people will know what's good after being educated by us. Master, how about using steak?"

"It's up to you, I'm just here to listen to Miss Xingchen playing the piano and singing."

When we arrived at the terrace on the top floor, everything was already prepared. At the edge of the dining table, there was a stunning woman who looked extremely cold. ", and sat down at the table.