Chapter 3509 Extra Story 42

It was the first time I came to Longchi Wharf after many years. Everyone didn’t want to eat at home, so Qiqi went to the restaurant at the foot of the mountain to enjoy the night view of Longchi.

At night, the Longchi Wharf is brightly lit, and orange-red lanterns are hung in front of the shops. Merchants who come to Longchi Wharf to buy goods, marine merchants and crew who have just disembarked, and travelers passing through the Longchi Wharf, have not left for a while. All of them gathered at the market in Longchi.

And here there is no curfew, no city walls, as long as merchants and tourists are willing, they can have fun all night long.

Zhou Man and the others directly skipped their shop, went up to the third floor of a restaurant and sat by the window, looked at the people passing by below, looked in the direction they were walking, couldn't help but let out an exclamation, and pointed to the opposite side. Lou, who was very lively, asked, "Didn't that shop sell silk and satin before? Why is it so lively at night? There is still the sound of silk and bamboo."

Zhou Zhou Lang looked up, coughed, he hesitated, but met his sister's curious eyes, and suddenly remembered that she was also the one who went to Hualou and threw big ingots of gold, so he calmed down, "That's Hualou."

Bai Shan frowned, "How did the flower building open on this street? Didn't there used to be a lot of buildings on Housan Street?"

At the beginning, any business in any area was planned.

Zhou Zhou Lang said: "It's already messed up. Now whoever has the money to rent a good place can do whatever business he wants, the magistrate doesn't care much."

He said: "This flower house was opened by the Japanese, and the geisha there are all Japanese. Their dances are a little different. If you are interested, you can go and see."

Anyway, his sister will never suffer.

Zhou Man: "Fourth Brother, do you often go there?"

Zhou Zhoulang shook his head, "I don't like the smell on them, but if the businessmen who come and go insist on going, I will accompany them for a while. Their wine is not as good as ours. I still prefer to talk about things in restaurants."

He winked at Zhou Man, "And your fourth sister-in-law is so temperamental, do I dare to mess around?"

Regardless of how rich the old Zhou family is now, their family doesn't have the rules of taking concubines and messing around outside. In his mother's words, they can't even manage the family well, so don't think about doing anything outside.

Zhou Man became interested, and looked at Bai Shan: "I want to go and have a look."

Bai Shan: ...

He turned his head and asked Zhou Zhoulang, "Are there many people in the Wa Kingdom in Qingzhou? I remember that the governor Guo defeated the Wa Kingdom at sea a few years ago, and no one from the Wa Kingdom has come to pay tribute in the past few years."

Zhou Zhou Lang thought for a while and said: "Not much, just in the past two years, this flower building was only opened in the past two years, and they brought a lot of silver to buy land and buildings, but the county magistrate disliked them as Japanese people are unwilling to sell the land, the shops in Longchi are becoming more and more valuable, except for a few people who are in urgent need of money, no one is willing to sell them.”

"So in the end they only bought one place, and finally rented the left and right places with a lot of money, and they built the current flower building after they got through."

Bai Shan nodded slightly, took a look at the flower building, and directly rejected Zhou Man, "There's nothing to see, if you want to see it, we'll have a chance to go to Wa Kingdom later, and we'll take you to see it."

Bai Shan asked Zhou Zhou Lang, "Did you find a boat for us?"

Zhou Zhoulang hesitated for a moment, and said: "There is only a boat to Silla, and you can also go to Wa Kingdom. You go to Tianfang. Don't say I can't find the boat now, even if I find it, I won't allow you to go."

He asked, "Do you know where Tianfang is?"

Zhou Zhoulang also went out to sea a few times, but every time he came back from the sea, he was terrified, for fear that he would not be able to come back once he went.

The sea is much more dangerous than the land. You can still run if you encounter danger on land, but if you encounter danger in the sea, you have nowhere to run.

Bai Shan didn't argue, he glanced at Zhou Man and nodded, "Then go to Silla first."

Mingda's heart was surging when he heard it, and he couldn't help poking Bai Erlang.

Bai Erlang had been to Silla, but Mingda hadn't, so he immediately said, "We're going too."

Yin still didn't say anything, but looked up at Bai Shan.

They took a sea boat from Yangzhou to Qingzhou without any problems. From here to Silla is closer. If the boat is fast, it can be reached in one day and one night. If it is slow, it can be reached in two days, so he nodded without any opinion, but...

He looked at Mingda, "The princess wants to go, Chaozhong..."

Mingda said reservedly: "I'm not going there in the name of a princess, but just going out for a walk."

She paused and said, "I'll tell you, Your Majesty."

Bai Shan just nodded.

Seeing that they stopped talking about going to Tianfang, Zhou Zhoulang breathed a sigh of relief and laughed, "I'll ask Uncle Shi to follow you and be a guide for you."

He said: "Uncle Shi has a good word. He has been in charge of our family's maritime affairs at the pier these years. A lot of goods are going to Xinluo. He is familiar with the people there and learned their words. He followed me at ease."

Zhou Man asked: "The last letter said that his son has finally married a wife. How is the problem in his heart?"

"It's much better after taking your medicine, and his father hasn't let him worry about it these years, and his heartache has improved a lot."

Zhou Zhou Lang said with a smile: "He has always refused to marry, saying that he didn't want to drag the girl down. This time, it's a good thing. The wife gave birth to a fat boy a year after entering the house. Now Uncle Shi has fulfilled his wish and is trying to save more money. A little money will be given to my grandson to marry a wife in the future."

"Let him go to Silla with you, and he will be sure to call one."

Since moving to Qingzhou, the people around Uncle Shi have changed. People who are not familiar with the place here, no one takes them with them, and he has a heart, so he has never gambled again. He also knows that he is not very good at gambling. Self-control, so has been far away from the casino.

Whether it was in the county town or at the Longchi side, he would take a detour when he saw the casino, and Mrs. Shi would keep an eye on it when she got here, and the life of the Shi family gradually stabilized.

It's just that Shi Dalang's medicines cost a lot, even if Zhou Zhoulang paid a lot of money, it's hard for Shi's family to save money.

This is because Zhou Man has always cared about the friendship of the past, whether he came to give Shi Dalang an injection or prescribe medicine, no consultation fee was charged.

Later, Zheng Gu took over the medical office here, and everyone in the medical office knew that Shi's family and Zhou Man were old, and they all collected money according to her routine. They never charged money for acupuncture, and all the medicinal materials that could be avoided were waived.

But Shi Dalang has a heart disease. This disease needs to take medicine for a long time, and the medicine used is not cheap, so he has to relax his mind to stabilize his condition.

Uncle Shi also knew that no matter how difficult it was for the Shi family to return to the past, he always felt ashamed of his wife and children, so besides the work given by Zhou Zhoulang, he would occasionally think of other livelihoods.

For example, occasionally lead some caravans to earn some hard-earned money, or help some small caravans without accountants to make accounts, and you can also earn some.

Zhou Zhoulang also knew about his situation, and Uncle Shi's other character is not bad, but his loyalty can't go wrong, so he was never restricted to make extra money.