Ximenqing loves Wusong [Water Margin]

Although I was disgusted with him, I had nowhere to hide, so I had to go out to greet him, and said with cupped fists, "Hello, grandpa."

"Thanks to the high officials, I am very well. I know you are coming home. I came to see you specially. Look at this snack. It is precious. I brought it here to teach you. Try it with the lady in the house?"

He took the dim sum buns he handed over and weighed them. The four packs add up to about three taels in weight. One tael in the middle is wrapping paper, and the dim sum is about one tael. The other three taels are the rope wrapped around the outside.

I said: "Grandfather is a generous gift,? You are really spending money."

Old Gou Wen bared his teeth and smiled: "Is the official's words obvious? Which of the two of us is with whom?"

Let me sit in the room, and I taught the servants to make tea. Old dog Wen squinted his eyes and sniffed, and said, "Oh, this tea is very fragrant, but the official just brought it back this time? Coincidentally I just don’t have any tea at home, so just your tea,? I don’t want to pick it, just wrap it for a catty before I leave.”

I looked at him with my arms around my shoulders, why did I want to kick him out so much?

Yueniang saw that my complexion was not good, so she hurried forward and said: "Master, my grandfather came to look for you yesterday, maybe I have something important to say, you two sit down first. I will go to the kitchen to arrange meals .” He shook my wrist with his hand, and went out with the maid.

If we say that our Yueniang is from a great family, she is magnanimous.

In terms of her face, I can't make old dog Wen too ugly, so I tried my best not to lose face: "Grandpa, why are you looking for me?"

After drinking half a cup of tea, Old Dog Wen sighed leisurely: "Your Majesty, I am looking for you this time not for business, but for a private matter.

My family, Erlang, got angry with me once before and left home. Seeing that it was already the end of the year, I taught someone to send a message to him, and taught him to come back for the New Year.

But, guess how he replied to me?

Heh, I'm not afraid of the jokes of the officials when I say it, but he actually said... that he didn't recognize me, and that I kicked him out at the beginning, so why bother to talk nonsense now and slap himself in the face?

High officials, listen up!This is what my own son said, it really hurts my heart! "

Old Gou Wen was talking, and raised his hand to show his eyes.

I kept saying in my heart: Yes!You really deserve it!What you do is not human affairs, even your son does not recognize you, this is called retribution!

Old Dog Wen looked at my face and said: "Master, my family Erlang is usually the best with you, can you write a letter for me to persuade him to come back? After all, we are a family, and we will be separated after the Chinese New Year." , this is not auspicious!"

I said: "Grandfather? Second Young Master won't return even after you personally persuaded him. How can he come back after reading a letter from me? You are really flattering me."

Old Dog Wen waved his hands and said, "No, no, my Erlang has always respected important officials the most, and he will definitely listen to what you say."

"Forgive me, my lord. It's not that I, Ximen Qing, refuse to write this letter for you. It's the matter between your father and son. It's really hard for me to intervene."

Wen Laogou's tears came as soon as he said it, and he pulled my sleeve and said: "Your official said this, but you are still angry with me for what happened before? It wasn't that this official didn't want to protect you, but it was really because I didn't want to protect you." I can't help you.

Now I am begging to come to your door, not as a parent of a county, but as an ordinary father, high official, please write a letter for me, persuade my family Erlang, and teach him to come back Would you like to take a look at me? "

The county magistrate is at least 50 to [-] years old, and usually has a smooth and virtuous personality. At this time, Fang showed an old face, red and swollen with a wine bad nose, teary, and a gray beard. trembling.

I thought for a while: "Grandfather, I want to open an escort agency recently, but I'm not familiar with the relationship in the state capital? Look..."

Wen Mingwen hurriedly patted his chest and said, "Leave it to me! You just need to rest assured and boldly take care of me! The connections you want, I will run for you, and you can rest assured to sit at home and wait for the news." become!"

"Really?"

"It's true, it's true, it's absolutely true, look at this letter..."

"Yes, then I'll write a letter to Liangyu for you, urging him to come back to see you during the Chinese New Year, but I don't know if he sees the letter or not."

"He will definitely come back! The high official doesn't know, my Erlang has always admired you the most, and he will be very happy to receive the letter from the high official. You see, I have already prepared the ink."

As he spoke, he took out a pen, paper and ink pad from his sleeve, and immediately laid it on the grinder and urged me to write quickly.

I asked: "My grandfather said, how should I write the little one?"

Wen Laogou thought for a while while scratching his beard and said: "The high officials wrote like this: Erlang Wen, I have been away for a few months, and I miss you day and night for my brother. Now that the snowy moon has come and the twelfth lunar month is approaching, I am eager for you to return home Reunited with my brother, I miss you so much!"

I threw the pen away: "I can't write this thing."

"Senior officer, why is this?"

"Did I say grandpa? Did the two elders ever write letters like this? I still think so, don't you find it awkward?"

"What's so awkward? What's wrong with brothers thinking about each other?"

"Don't you just want your son to come back sooner? Just write, I'm about to die of illness, you kid, get out of here early, I won't see you later, do you think he dares not come back?"

"Tsk, sir, it's almost Chinese New Year, how can you curse me like that?"

"Then look!"

"That's all, let's just write like this:

That... It's been a few months since I left, Brother Yu misses it very much.Yesterday, when I visited the mansion, I saw that the grandfather looked rather unwell, and I thought he was really missing you.

Confucius said, parents are not traveling far.

My virtuous brother is a gentle gentleman who has learned the ways of Confucius and Mencius since he was a child. How can he abandon his father and only care about one person?

Hearing my brother's words, come back as soon as possible to reunite with your parents, and fulfill your filial piety, only then will you become righteous..."

I suppressed my goosebumps and wrote the letter, stamped my private seal and handed it to Old Dog Wen, and he left happily.

Within a few days, the family received a reply letter from Wen Liangyu, who said:

"Knowing that my elder brother misses me deeply, I feel so moved that I burst into tears.

Carry my brother's letter with me, read it in the cold winter and snowy moon, and feel warm physically and mentally.

The elder brother is virtuous, and the younger brother is filial piety and righteousness first, and the younger brother is ashamed.In a few days, I will be leaving for home, firstly to visit my parents, secondly to reunite with my elder brother..."

The letter was quite long, and the whole text was sloppy, and I couldn't understand some parts, but in short, it was just one sentence, Wen Liangyu wanted to come back to see his father for my sake.

After sending this letter to the yamen, Old Dog Wen was so happy that he danced with joy, approved all the procedures for me to open the Escort without saying a word, and even made a special trip to the state capital for me, and brought it back when he came back Circular instruments in several neighboring provinces.

And Yueniang also brought back the current documents of several other state capitals, and she taught her father to help me run away.

Opening an escort agency these days is not something that anyone can open if they want, let alone where you want to go.

Who doesn't know that this industry is a semi-criminal organization, and its subordinates must have a group of thugs, and they must also prepare a batch of controlled weapons, such as open guns, sharp knives, and the like!

It is too easy for the government to punish you. If you are charged with any crime, you will directly say that you want to rebel, not to mention confiscating all the goods, and want you to be exiled into the army.

Therefore, if you want to open an escort agency, you must first file a record with the government. You can only travel in the places that the government allows you to travel.

As soon as these documents arrive, our Escort's business scope extends from Cangzhou in the north to Beijing in the west, and even the business in the states and counties along the route can be run at will, and the business scope has increased exponentially.

As soon as the news got out, merchants from several nearby counties came to our door to deliver business.

It was almost the end of the year, and the merchants had a large amount of goods to turn around. In the normal times of the past, they would take a few family members along the official road and leave.

But in the past few years, the world has been too chaotic. Even the official roads have been robbed. Those who take goods lose half of their money on the road is luck.

But our Ximen Escort promises that all the goods are in good condition, but the charge is higher, which is 30.00% or even [-]% of the value of the goods.

Even so, the business was still blocked, and the list was overwhelmed before the sign was hung.

The first business was to send a batch of high-quality silks and satins to the capital for a cloth merchant. Brother Chai Jin has already transferred manpower, and they are all people who often walk the rivers and lakes. Who on the road said hello, these people all knew it by heart.

This journey was fast and smooth, and when the goods arrived, the money was settled, and this alone made a net profit of more than 1000 taels of silver.

A few more deals followed, all of which went smoothly.

The reputation of the Ximen Escort Bureau spread quickly, people from the nearby state capitals would send their things to Qinghe even if they had to detour for hundreds of miles, and they would help our Escort Bureau to send them out.

By the end of the twelfth lunar month, the Escort had earned more than 5000 taels of silver, all of which were stored in the account of the eldest brother. I sent a letter to him, asking him to make up for the deficit in the village. There was a famine.

Soon the elder brother wrote back and said that he didn't need my money, and hoped that I would come to take the money away soon, so that the brothers could take this opportunity to meet again.

The letter also said that General Wu Song had been raised for a while, and he was in good health. When he heard that Chai Jin was walking the darts, he volunteered to go. Offend him.

In fact, I really want to ask my elder brother, did Wu Er's stubborn ass not ask me a word?I left suddenly that day, and he didn't feel any guilt?A concern?

He said that day that he wanted to break up with me, was it true or false?Was he saving me on the school ground that day because he was worried about me, or because he was afraid that I would die in Chai Jin's house and cause trouble for others?

He raised the pen and put it down, put it down and raised it again, but in the end he didn't ask Wu Er a word.

Because I know my eldest brother's temper, even if Wu Er has a word to say about me, he will definitely say good things to me.

Since he didn't mention it, Wu Er never mentioned it.

So, the trip to Chaijiazhuang was pressed again and again, and my elder brother urged me several times in a row. I just said that I was too busy and didn't go because I would not take the initiative to see Wu Er again, even if it was to see Chai Jin. I can't do it either.

How do you say that?Two people need to walk a hundred steps together, and I have walked all the 99 steps, which represents sincerity, but this last step must be taken by you, which means dignity.