Chapter 866: Chu Xia

After hearing Cheng Mengxing's words, Wang Lusheng's eyes lit up, but hesitated and looked at Cao Yong with some concerns.

Cao Yong is not a person who likes to deal with strangers, but he doesn't say anything about two more people on the same boat. After all, after starting to walk on the sea, the sea has strong winds and waves, so he has less effort to reach the deck. Besides, the boat was not hired by him.

Seeing that he was not unhappy, Wang Lusheng asked Guo Quanyou to take the manager to the Fan family's boat to ask for someone.

After being invited by Wang Lusheng, Fan Shishen thanked him with gratitude. With this kindness, he combined the fleets of the two places into one. He also brought a personal servant to the passenger ship.

After all, it will take more than a month to walk the sea route, and be able to be together with the Wang family fleet, it will be more appropriate on the road. Not to mention anything else, you can avoid things like being blackmailed like today.

Although the cabin he lived in was not larger than that of Cao Yong and Cheng Mengxing, it was also spacious and tight.

Although the second young master of the Fan family is not old, he has a good relationship. When he arrived on the boat here, he went to Wang Lusheng's cabin every day to ask for peace, but never disturbed Cao Cheng and the other one.

It’s not just the effect of peppermint oil, but also after sitting on a boat for a long time, I’ve gotten used to it, and Fan Shishen’s symptoms of seasickness are getting worse and worse.

On the vast ocean, life on the boat is not easy. You can only stroll on the deck in the early morning and evening. At other times, the sun is scorching, so you can only stay in the cabin.

Before boarding the boat, Cao Yong brought a lot of books about the customs and geography of the South China Sea. Because he has been concerned about rice seeds in the past two years, Cao Yong has also paid special attention to the agricultural records, but there are very few, and some are just mentioning a few words.

Cheng Mengxing was bored and borrowed a few books from Cao Yong. He read them all day and night, and he couldn't even feel tired from the journey. Whenever he saw Cao Yong, he would sigh a few words like "the world is so big".

Along the way, the weather changed, and there were several times when I almost went to a trek; another time, I met pirates. However, because there were many fleets here, and there were also under the banner of the Fan family in Guangzhou, the other party did not step forward, so they avoided it in two strokes.

Cao Yong and Cheng Mengxing were all in the cabin. When they received the news, there was only one shadow left in the pirate ship...

At the end of March, the boat arrived in Quanzhou, stopped for a day to replenish supplies before leaving.

In mid-April, the Wang family fleet finally arrived in Guangzhou.

Although Cao Yong was not seasick, he was tired from the road and lost several kilograms. When he stepped onto the dock, he couldn't help but sigh in his heart. He really never wanted to take a boat again.

Seeing Cheng Mengxing sighing, he was afraid that he was thinking about the same as Cao Yong.

The Wang family had a house in Guangzhou. Wang Lusheng asked his adopted son to take someone to unload the goods. He left with Fan Shishen and took Cao Yong and Cheng Mengxing to Wang's house.

In Guangzhou, because it is customs, you can often see yellow-haired and blue-eyed foreigners on the streets, as well as merchants wearing clothing from various countries in Southeast Asia.

Not to mention Cheng Mengxing, even Cao Yong couldn't help but take a look at him.

When he arrived at Wang's house, Wang Lusheng arranged for Cao Cheng and the other two to arrange a banquet to welcome them.

When Cao Yong was in the room, after taking a shower and changing his clean clothes, Wang Lusheng was already listening to the reply from the manager of the family.

He knew that in order to find someone, Cao Yong sent someone to the Ai Family Trading Company before he could speak.

The Ai family is actually the Ai Vero family, a Portuguese businessman in Macau and has a business in Guangzhou. If Chinese people cannot pronounce the surnames of foreigners clearly, the first pronunciation shall prevail.

"Master Cao, I just asked the Ai Family Trading Company at the dock that they had sent people to ask, "Their eldest daughter and eldest son-in-law's ship has not come back yet." Wang Lusheng said to Cao Yong.

Cao Yong was not surprised when he heard this.

Because long-distance voyages at this time are related to the monsoon.

In winter, the wind blows from north to south; in summer, the wind comes from south. Boats coming from the West arrive at Guangzhou Port one after May, after the summer monsoon blows.

Wei Xin and his wife Aida should have returned to Guangzhou last summer. Although they don’t know what they encountered on the road, as long as there is a ship back from Europa this year, they should be able to find out some news.

As the two were talking, a housekeeper came in and replied, "Master, there is a manager from Ai Family Trading Company outside who asks to see the master."

"Manager Zhang?" Wang Lusheng heard this and said, "The manager of Ai Family Trading Company has changed? Isn't the original manager named Bai?"

The housekeeper replied: "Master, this is the deputy manager. He came to Guangzhou in March. I heard that he came from Macau."

Cao Yong was listening, and his heart moved, saying, "Is it the accent of the capital?"

The housekeeper nodded and said, "When Mr. Cao said, this manager is a genuine Beijing movie."

"Master Cao knows this person?" Wang Lusheng asked.

"Master Qi, this may be Zhang Yi from my family. He came with Wei Xin a few years ago." Cao Yong replied.

After hearing this, Wang Lusheng hurriedly asked the housekeeper to invite him in.

The visitor was wearing a blue silk dress and short beards, and followed the butler in. If it weren't Zhang Yi, who would it be?

"I've seen the old man, the prince." Zhang Yi felt a little excited when he saw Cao Yong, and he bowed.

"Haha, it's really Manager Zhang, get up quickly." Wang Lusheng hurriedly helped him and said.

At that time, Zhang Yi was Cao Yongchang and followed him to serve in Shandong, so Wang Lusheng also knew him. After a few greetings, Wang Lusheng saw that their master and servant met again and had something to say, so he found a yuzi to go out and leave them to speak.

"Why did you transfer to Guangzhou? Is it the head of the Ai family?" Cao Yong looked at Zhang Yi and asked.

Zhang Yi shook his head and said, "It was Xiao's self who begged Mr. Ai to come to Guangzhou Commercial Bank. Before, he had letters to Xiao's every month, but this time he had not sent a letter for several months. Xiao's thought, the old man might not be worried about Mr. Wei, and might have to come over and take a look, but unexpectedly he guessed."

The Cao family had a business in Guangzhou before, and there were hundreds of thousands of dollars. Wei Xin came to Beijing last time and originally wanted Cao Yong to come and take over again.

However, Cao Yong asked Wei Xin to deal with it and invested in the Ai Family Fleet. Zhang Yi was ordered to go south to go to Macau and gave Wei Xin a foreign defender.

Although Cao Yong did not come for the hundreds of thousands of taels of silver this time, he was unwilling to let the Ai family take advantage of the situation.

"What does the Ai family say?" Cao Yong asked.

"The Ai family is mad and wants to use the ship that Mr. Wei rides to get the shares and remove Mr. Wei. The second girl of the Ai family refuses to do it and drags the matter down." Zhang Yi replied.

"Second Miss?" Cao Yong pondered for a moment and asked, "Is it the girl Aida's mother-in-law? Can she speak in the Aida family?"

"Ask the uncle, although Mr. Ai married several wives, he had all given birth to daughters. His brothers were not good at slapping them. He really had no choice but to push the second girl out. This time it was thanks to the second girl. Otherwise, even if Mr. Wei did not lose all his money, he would definitely suffer some secret losses." Zhang Yi said.

When Cao Yong heard this, he couldn't help but frown and said to Zhang Yi: "Foreigners are used to profit-oriented. His family is a pirate, and there is no morality at all. Xiyun and his son, have you come to Guangzhou with you this time? If you are still in Macau, please get someone to Guangzhou first."

"After coming, the Ai family is afraid that the young people would want to leave Macau, so they are a little long-winded." Zhang Yi replied: "But they don't know that the deeds, land deeds, notes, and several shopkeepers of the Guangzhou foreign company were all kept in the deeds of the accounting office. Even if they wanted to leave Mr. Wei, it would not be so easy."

After hearing this, Cao Yong said, "Guangzhou Foreign Company...is Aida's dowry?"

Zhang Yi nodded and replied with a smile: "Yes, I heard that Mr. Wei asked for it. He used tens of thousands of taels of silver as a betrothal gift, and used hundreds of thousands of taels of silver to enter the Ai family's fleet, which made the Ai family make a comeback. Not to mention a shop, even if he asked Mr. Ai to ask Mr. Ai for two daughters as concubines at that time, Mr. Ai would send it to him obediently."

Cao Yong laughed as he heard this.

I knew that Wei Xin was unwilling to suffer losses. Although the Ai family was mainly on the fleet, this Guangzhou foreign company was also an old sign for decades. Wei Xin took this and controlled the Ai family's business connections.

Whether you want to swallow the Ai family or set up a new business, you can get twice the result with half the effort and get better and better...

Capital City, Cao Mansion.

The weather is cold this year, and it has fallen twice in Beijing by the end of February, and it only starts to warm up in March. Now, after half of April, it is still a little cooler in the morning and evening, and you still have to wear thicker A.

The window screens in the inner courtyards were changed, which were light green and pink, which looked refreshing. However, the old and young people in the family dared to open the windows when the sun was enough at noon.

Although I lived a leisurely life in Changping Zhuangzi last year, this year because Cao Yong was not at home, Li's mother-in-law and daughter-in-law did not plan to leave the city to live.

Cao Ying and his son returned to Beijing in late March. Because Li had few families, he told Zhao Jia that he would take Cao Ying and his son to live there for a while, which made it a little more lively.

During this period, Chu Yu returned to his parents' home several times. The concubine was more relaxed and her illness gradually recovered. She began to have a marriage with Luo Hongxin.

On this day, when the funeral of the Grand Lady of the National Uncle Mansion was held, Li and Chu Yu went to see each other off.

The old lady is the legitimate wife of the late Minister of the Inner Guard Tong Guowei, and the mother of Empress Xiaoyi and the Nine Gate Admiral Longkodo. She has an extraordinary identity.

Although Kangxi did not go to worship his aunt and mother-in-law in person, he also attached great importance to his destiny and destiny. He was suitable for the two concubines and princes to worship him. When he was in a pretext, he ordered the prince, concubines, ministers and guards to send him off.

It can be said that he was extremely mourning and honored. Li and Chuyu's mother-in-law and daughter-in-law followed the female family and stayed with each other for half a day before the funeral was completed and they returned to the mansion.

Speaking of this lady of the Tong family, she is also a long-lived person.

Today's funeral is also considered a happy funeral.

Although the Cao family also had titles, the Tong family was an important official in the founding country and had two dynasties empresses, which were far from comparable to the Cao family who came from the Baoyi family. Therefore, the two families in Suli rarely had contacts.

The Li family mother-in-law and daughter-in-law passed by today, but it was just a full ritual, so there was nothing to be mourned about.

Changsheng studied with his nephews. Li was afraid that he would not be able to sit still and felt bored. He told Xiangcao that Wei Yaohui would learn together.

Because he woke up early in the morning and was a little tired, Li changed out of his big clothes and tilted for a while.

When Zhao Jia heard that she was back, she brought her wife to find Li to play cards.

After only two rounds here, a maid came to report that it was the Sixteenth Prince.

When Cao Yong was there, the sixteenth prince often came and went to Lanyuan to pay tribute to Li. Although he was a noble prince, he had a lot of contact with him, and Li also regarded him as his nephew in his heart.

In the past two months since Cao Yong went out, the Sixteenth Prince often sent people to greet him and sent some fresh fruits that were not available outside. Needless to say, these were all made by him "for personal gain" from the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

However, Cao Yong is not here now, so it is inappropriate to invite the Sixteenth Prince into the inner house. Li said a few words to Zhao Jia, changed into big clothes, and took Chu Yu to the living room of the front yard.

Zhao Jia put down the card in her hand and complained to her daughter: "It's rare good luck. If this is broken, I'm afraid the good luck will fly."

Cao Ying smiled and said, "My daughter saw the imperial calendar in the morning. Today, the God of Wealth is in the north, which is exactly the mother's position. It can be seen that today is destined to be the mother who wants money."

"Really?" Zhao Jia said with a little joy: "I can't blame you for being so easy, what do you want?"

Thinking of Li's wife's edict, his daughter-in-law was a gentle princess, and the people who interacted with each other were all clans and powerful people, so what was she? Zhao Jia suddenly felt boring.

He is also a widow, but who dares to neglect when others see Li? How many people know who Zhao Jia is?

"The Sixteenth Prince is too attentive, right? Brother Yong is not here, and there are also the fourth and fifth brothers. It's not his turn to worry about the mansion here." Zhao Jia said with a little resentment.

After hearing this, Cao Ying hurriedly said, "Who doesn't know that Master Sixteen and Brother Zheng have been in love for many years, and are also the uncle's nephew. It's strange that he is so alienated."

"What nephew? It's just a name. It's true that Concubine Wang is the cousin of the uncle Li family, but she has no blood relatives with your uncle." At this point, she curled her lips: "What is this world? In other words, your uncle's family is the direct inheritor of the Li family. Uncle Li's family in Suzhou is just a fake family, and now he has also been promoted. Like the Sun family, they are all snobs who cannot get on the table. What's the thing?"

She said it with great pleasure, but Cao Ying couldn't say anything, and there was a maid next to her watching.
To be continued...