Placid Chang'an

The next day, Su Cen was woken up before dawn. Qu Ling'er pulled his warm blanket with a cold hand. Su Cen frowned and said angrily, "What are you doing?"

Qu Ling'er was also helpless, and poked Su Cen's face with her hand: "Brother Su, someone is looking for you outside."

"Who will look for me early in the morning?" Su Cen wrapped the quilt impatiently: "Let Qi Lin drive people out."

Qu Ling'er raised her eyebrows: "Are you sure?"

Before Su Cen could reply, an angry shout came from outside the door: "Su, Zi, Xu, get out!"

"!"

Su Cen sat up from the bed in a jerk, and stared at Qu Ling'er after a while, wanting to cry, "Is there a back door to this house?"

The Su family mansion.

The person sitting in the chair picked up the teacup and skimmed off the foam, took a sip of tea unhurriedly, looked coldly at the kneeling person on the ground, put down the teacup and said, "Tell me."

The kneeling man raised his head and rolled his eyes: "Brother, listen to my explanation, I have difficulties..."

"Forget it, you'd better kneel," the person sitting waved his hands. He had heard this kind of rhetoric since he was a child, and his big ears were covered with calluses. Usually, this kid can talk wildly at the beginning, and there are reasons and reasons. Tide has an ending, which is more exciting than the storybook, but it can't be taken seriously.

Su Cen had no choice but to change his strategy, winked at others, and put on a pitiful look: "Brother, my knee hurts, you don't know that I have to kneel when I see you in a lowly position in the capital, and the bluestone slabs in Chang'an are frozen Poor me, I have a cold waist and leg pain at a young age, and it hurts like a needle prick after kneeling for a long time."

"Take it as a long memory when it hurts," Su Lan slapped the table, "You think you're capable, don't you? Why don't you stay in the capital and come to Yangzhou to do it? Come here, you'd rather stay in a hotel than go home, could it be Master Su thinks that now that he is an official in the court, this small Su family can't accommodate you anymore?"

"Brother, what are you talking about?" Su Cen frowned and said angrily, "I, Su Cen, will not change my name or surname. I was born as a member of the Su family and died as a ghost of the Su family."

"Really?" Su Lan glanced at him, "How did I hear that Mr. Li showed his limelight on the flower boat last night, and was favored by the oiran as the guest of honor?"

Su Cen: "..."

How does this guy know everything?

Since the bitter trick didn't work, Su Cen changed his strategy, "The reason why I changed my name to Yi is because I don't want to embarrass the Su family."

Su Lan raised her head while holding the teacup.

Su Cen sat down on her lap with a broken jar: "I was dismissed from office."

Su Lan took a mouthful of tea water and sprayed it three feet away.

Su Cen wiped the tea water from his face, and said without hesitation: "You know my temper, how can I not offend people in a place like the dragon's pool and tiger's den in the capital, and I was driven back without paying attention to a word. I can't stay in the capital After I went down, I didn’t dare to go back to Suzhou, so I had to go to you, big brother, but I was afraid that you would get angry, so I didn’t dare to come back. Do you feel good about me? What I have learned in this life is no match for powerful people. In other words, when I went all the way south and looked at the surging river, I remembered that my hard work all these years was in vain, if I hadn't thought of you and my parents, I would have wished to go with the river."

"You, you, you..." Su Lan pointed at Su Cen, her fingertips trembled a few times, and finally sighed heavily.

Su Cen raised his aggrieved eyes and blinked at Su Lan twice: "Brother, I'm hungry."

Su Lan looked stern on the surface, but when she turned her head, she still ordered the kitchen to prepare a table of dishes for Su Cen to wash away the dust.

The guest room in Tianxia Building has already been withdrawn, and Qi Lin and Qu Ling'er have moved into Su's residence together.Although Su Lan is not as knowledgeable as Su Cen, but she has been in business for a long time and is very accurate in recognizing people. At a glance, she can tell that these two people are not bad. Have a meal.

The two couldn't refuse, and respect is worse than obedience.

At the dinner table, Su Lan's expression was still unhappy, his sister-in-law Yue Wanqing gave him a neutral look, turned her head and kept bringing food to Su Cen, and after a while, a small mountain piled up in front of Su Cen.

The cook of the eldest brother's family was brought here from Yangzhou, and he has been serving Su Cen's meals since Su Cen can remember. The pitiful look in Lan's study.

Su Lan only thought that her younger brother was eating and sleeping in the open all the way, and couldn't help but feel distressed. She lowered her expression and asked, "Where is Ah Fu? Why didn't you come back with you?"

Su Cen raised his head from a piece of sweet and sour pork ribs, "I stayed in the capital, and the house in Chang'an still needs to be taken care of."

"Why don't you just sell it?" Su Lan was afraid that mentioning the capital would touch Su Cen's heart, so she comforted her, "If you don't want to go back to Suzhou, move to Yangzhou to live with me. If you don't become an official the size of a sesame seed, you won't be able to eat. .”

"That's right," Yue Wanqing said with a smile, "The family just lacks a accountant. I don't feel relieved when others come to Ah Lan. It would be best if you come back and help him."

How could the Su family's big business be short of Mr. Fang, Su Cen knew that he was worried that he would have nothing to do when he came back, and he couldn't solve the depression in his heart, so he found something for him to do.

Su Cen said: "It's not that I can't go back, there is still a possibility of recovery."

Su Lan frowned and said, "The person you offended was the current Prince Regent, who dares to revoke you?"

Su Cen's eyelids twitched, and as expected, Su Lan sighed and continued, "He's a big man, why does he still have the same knowledge as you youngsters? It's too small for a dignified prince..."

Su Cen watched Qi Lin's cold gaze from the opposite side sweep over him, and interrupted Su Lan in a hurry to avoid blood splashing on the spot: "Brother... so what, the lord is very good, I offended others first, don't blame me The prince will be angry."

"What did you say to him?"

Su Cen: "It's nothing more than a petty person who always has the same knowledge as the younger generation..."

Su Lan: "..."

After a meal, the atmosphere of the family finally became more lively. Su Cen finally said that he didn't want people to know that he was back. Su Lan only thought that he was saving face and didn't want to be judged by others, so she agreed. .

The matter of the salt merchant involved a lot. Since the eldest brother married the Yue family and came from Suzhou to take over the semicolon here, the Su family has also become a prominent figure in Yangzhou. He can't let the Su family become the target of public criticism before the case is clarified.

After dinner, Su Cen moved into the room that Su Lan had prepared for him. Naturally, it was the best principal room, with excellent lighting, and the bedding and embroidered couch were made of high-quality silk. The stove was turned on, and as soon as I entered the room, it was as warm as spring.

So it seems that being an accountant at home is not bad.

When Su Lan came over, Su Cen was looking at a pair of characters on the wall. They used Han Li, thick and deep, with a strict eye.The content is also quite satisfactory. The first couplet knows the pines and cypresses in winter, and the second couplet sees the truth in adversity.

Su Lan coughed lightly, and said: "This is a book written by a friend of mine. There is no place to hang it in the main hall, so I hang it here."

"Friend?" Su Cen looked at the signature, "Lan Fu? I haven't heard you mention this person?"

"I only met after I came to Yangzhou. Although he is not as good as you, but his knowledge is not bad." Su Lan handed Su Cen a stack of clothes. Come here... just forget it if you don't like it."

The material is the best material, but the color is really... hard to describe.

"It's okay." Su Cen took it over with a smile, and then asked, "How did you get to know Brother Lan Fu?"

"Speaking of which, he saved me." Su Lan sat down and said slowly, "Three years ago, there was a severe drought and the waterway was impassable. I transported tea from Suzhou to Yangzhou by land. I was robbed and almost lost my life. At that time, brother Lan Fu came back from the country test, if he hadn't risked his life to help me lure the bandits away, I would have almost died."

Su Cen frowned: "Why haven't you heard about this?"

Su Lan gave him a blank look, "Aren't you busy traveling around famous mountains and rivers at that time, and you still have time to talk to me?"

Su Cen skipped over this topic resentfully, and continued: "Brother Lanfu is the Uncle Wang He Xiao, right? I don't want to hide it from you. I have heard some stories about you and He Xiao during my visit to Yangzhou City these few days. With regard to Xiao, He Xiao is today thanks to your help, big brother, but big brother, have you ever thought about whether it was too much of a coincidence that He Xiao appeared in the first place?"

Su Lan shook her head, "I know what you want to say, and many people have told me so, but Brother Lan Fu is not such a person, you all misunderstood him. I know the situation that day best, those bandits were vicious, I would kill anyone I saw. At that time, I was afraid that I would be too eye-catching, so I specially changed into coarse cloth clothes. Brother Lan Fu has neither the ability to foretell nor his sharp eyes. He didn't save me because of my identity. "

"They all said that Brother Lanfu had achieved today's achievements through the name of the Su family, but I didn't actually help him. The marriage was only arranged because he saw that he and Miss Wang's family were in love. Over the years, he himself It is through painstaking efforts that such a structure has been achieved, and others may not be as good as him."

Su Cen suppressed his anger: "He raised the price of salt from 250 renminbi to [-] renminbi, causing the people in Yangzhou to have no salt to eat and flooding with private salt. What kind of achievement is this?"

Su Lan frowned and shook her head, "It's not that he maliciously drove up the price of salt, it's that private salt flooded first."

Su Cen was taken aback: "What?"

Su Lan said: "First of all, the private salt dealers colluded with the government. The official salt has no market, and Brother Lan Fu can only spend more money to ask the government to help fight the private salt. He is a salt merchant, and the money is only It can come out of the salt mine. The culprits are those officials sitting in the yamen. They just sit and ask for money, regardless of the life and death of the common people below. Half of Leary went in their pockets."

Su Cen couldn't help frowning. This is completely opposite to what Feng Yiming said. Feng Yiming said that He Xiao was the culprit of Yangzhou's salt affairs, but his eldest brother said that what He Xiao did was forced by the government. What is right and what is wrong? ?

Su Lan explained some trivial matters before getting up to leave. Su Cen sent the person outside the door. Before leaving, Su Lan suddenly asked, "Are you really dismissed?"

Su Cen was slightly taken aback, "What's wrong, big brother?"

Su Lan took a deep look at him, turned around and shook her head, "It's nothing, since you're back, take a good rest."