The young man has lively eyebrows and is about sixteen or seventeen years old. He is wearing a sapphire blue Xiangyun left-hand skirt, a half-sleeved robe, a cape, and deerskin black-soled boots.
Although not very luxurious, the pair of extremely aqua white jade buckles tied around the waist already show off one's identity and make them stand out from the rest.
There are two mighty men standing behind him, which shows that his family loves and protects him.
The young man didn't have any arrogance at all. Even when he started joking a few words, he was extremely lovable.
He looked at Chen Ping, saw that Chen Ping had a close eye, and asked again with a smile.
"Am I right? Is this your first time coming to Jianzhou?"
Ye Chongwen, who was also familiar with the situation, replied with a smile and cupped his hands.
"Brother, you have such good eyesight! This is indeed our first time here, and we plan to come over to discuss business."
Seeing that he had guessed correctly, the young man nodded happily and picked up a handful of peanuts, "Why do you come here to discuss business? If you want to discuss business, you have to go to Qingzhou, where the excitement is."
When Chen Ping saw that he spoke simply, his thoughts changed.
"We want to do the sea fish business, so we came here to take a look. If there is good quality sea salt, we are going to take some back."
The young man asked curiously, "Are you a businessman?"
"Why, it doesn't look like it?" Chen Ping raised his eyebrows.
"It doesn't look like him, he does." The young master pointed at Ye Chongwen and blinked.
Ye Chongwen was happy but not angry, "You are calling me a philistine, right?"
"Haha, don't you dare!" The young man held up his hands and smiled, "Businessmen should be more enthusiastic. I think you are like him. He is more like a scholar."
"Then you have good taste. He is really a scholar." Ye Chongwen said with a smile.
Chen Ping explained casually, "I'm new here and don't know the folk customs, so it's hard to say anything."
"The folk customs here are all hung on the wall," the young man pointed at the paper fishing boats on the wall, and chuckled, "It might be more convenient if you are in the fish business. Not so with sea salt."
"Why," Chen Ping was surprised, "Is there something wrong with the salt field here?"
The young master shook his head, twirling his chopsticks with his fingers and said disapprovingly.
"What can go wrong in the salt field? But as for the government sea salt, you probably don't like the quality. The amount of privately dried sea salt is too small, so it's okay to buy it yourself."
Judging from his tone, I know quite a lot about the sea salt in Zangnan Town.
Chen Ping coughed and asked tentatively: "Does this brother know where to buy a lot of sea salt here?"
"I know, Xiaodong Village, less than sixty miles south along the seaside, has a wall dam made of shells, that's it. But whether you can buy it depends on your own ability." p>
The young man looked a little unruly, but he was very talkative. Chen Ping looked at him and he didn't look like a deep-minded person. He should be the son of a wealthy family nearby.
"Thanks for the advice, it will save us a lot of time!"
"Hey, it's the same thing if you ask the waiter about this," the young man waved his hand nonchalantly, then asked curiously, "Where are you going to buy these?"
"Qianzhou..."
Before he finished speaking, Ye Chongwen suddenly realized something and immediately shut up and said no more.
Unexpectedly, the young man had already reacted and suddenly became excited.
"From Qianzhou? Is that Qianzhou from Jiangxia Academy?"
"Yes," Chen Ping saw that he could no longer hide it, so he had to take over the conversation and asked, "Brother, do you know anyone in Jiangxia Academy?"
"Yes!" The young man stood up excitedly and sat directly between them, "You are also a scholar, so you must know that Qianzhou little double Yuan Chen Ping, right?"
The table became strangely quiet, Ye Chongwen's eyes changed slightly, and Zhao Jin stared at the young man without saying a word.
Chen Pingping didn't change his expression and said: "We can be regarded as classmates, casual acquaintances, but we have never known him deeply. Have you met him before?"
"I've never seen him before, but I was studying in Chongfu, Zhejiang Province, and his name is very familiar to me!"
"So that's it," Chen Ping breathed a sigh of relief, "Actually, we have only heard of his name."
Ye Chongwen rolled his eyes, and Zhao Jin was no longer so nervous.
The young man asked again: "I heard that Chen Ping can drive away locusts. Is it true?"
"It's true."
"Tsk, tsk, it's really awesome! By the way, I forgot to introduce myself. My surname is Su, and the word is "lin". I wonder how many of you have the same surname?"
"Menggui, my surname is Ye, Ye Chongwen." Ye Chongwen said.
"Xue Ren." Zhao Jin nodded.
Chen Ping moved a tea cup to the young man and inquired: "My surname is He, He Qingxuan. Zhejiang Chongfu is not close to here, how come Mr. Su is here?"
Su Lin shrugged, "I can't help it. My ancestral home is Zangnan Town. This time I came back to worship my ancestors. Didn't you come this far too?"
"In business, of course you have to work hard..."
The sky is getting darker and there are fewer and fewer people in the teahouse.
The stone road outside reflected the dim light of lanterns, and the sea breeze blew in and the temperature suddenly dropped.
After chatting for a while, Su Lin stood up to say goodbye, and also drank their tea.
Chen Ping thanked him repeatedly and stood up to see him at the door.
After waiting for the people to leave, for the sake of safety, Chen Ping suggested not to stay overnight in the town, but to go directly and find another place to spend the night.
……
Zangnan Town, the ancestral residence of Su Mansion.
The night is as dark as ink, the lanterns on the stone corridor cast double shadows, and the sea breeze makes people's cheeks dry and cracked.
Su Lin went out to play a little too much today, and it was already late when he got home. He wanted to sneak back to the room.
When I arrived at the garden, I was stopped by a cold and cold voice.
"Thankfully you still know how to come back. You know you are here to worship your ancestors, but those who don't know think you are here for fun."
Su Lin's body froze, his face fell instantly, he turned around and said coquettishly: "Sister."
Su Yiyi appeared behind him, holding a lantern in her hand, with slender eyebrows and delicate skin.
"You, you know how to hang out all day long."
Su Lin hurriedly explained: "It's boring here anyway. I don't even have any friends here, and I will be depressed all day long."
Su Yiyi sighed, so was she.
Recently, my mother and those clan members took turns fighting, and she really couldn't bear it anymore.
"What?" Su Lin saw her unhappy expression and asked nervously: "Isn't someone already asking you to propose marriage?"
Su Yiyi shook her head and sent him back to his room with a lantern.
"It's not that big of a deal yet. It's just that my mother mentioned it several times and I feel upset."
A woman can get married after her fifteenth birthday. Even if she doesn't get married, she still needs to make an engagement.
What's more, Su Yiyi is seventeen years old this year, so her family is even more concerned about her marriage.
Su Lin followed closely and asked: "Didn't Mom also choose a few children from the capital for you to choose from? My sister didn't take her fancy?"
"Them?" Su Yiyi snorted coldly, "Each one of them is either strong on the outside but weak on the other, or empty-headed and stupid. But they are just relying on their good family background. Do I have to curry favor with them?"
"That's right. Our Su family is not a small family. My sister is right to look down on them!" Su Lin rolled his eyes and asked with a smile, "Could it be that my sister has already taken a liking to them?" p>
Su Yiyi shook the lantern in her hand and raised her hand angrily to hit him.
"You, you, you, what are you talking about?"
"Hey, I didn't tell you!" Su Lin put his head up to give her a slap, and kept saying: "The one who gave you 'a cup of soulmate' is not the talented, young and promising person in your heart
People?"
This poem was attached to Chen Ping's reply to Su Yiyi more than a month ago.
The reason is that Su Yiyi wrote a lot in her letter about the scope of questions she learned about in major academies in Beijing.
The wind direction in the capital will almost determine the direction of the provincial examination in the coming year.
Therefore, Chen Ping believed that Su Yiyi could be regarded as a confidant in terms of national affairs and literary understanding, so he sent a verse of asparagus and this poem when he replied to the letter.
[Flowers fall in the wine market in the south of the Yangtze River in the spring, and when you return, you will ride with the dust of Beijing. A cup of wine will make you a close friend, why should you be an old friend all your life.]
Now when Su Yiyi heard her brother read this poem again, her heart couldn't help but feel a little dazed.
Seeing that she didn't answer, Su Lin said funnyly: "Sister, do you know who I saw today?"
Although Su Yiyi came back to her senses, the words came from her heart, "Who? Is it possible that you can still see Chen Ping?"
"I didn't see Chen Ping," Su Lin said with a proud smile, "but I saw Chen Ping's classmate!"
Su Yiyi stopped and turned around in surprise, "His classmate? Who?"
"He Qingxuan!"
The name sounded familiar. Su Yiyi thought about it and immediately remembered it.
Isn't He Qingxuan one of the best brothers around Chen Ping? She has heard Xie Zhiyuan mention this many times.
"Tell me, what's going on? What's He Qingxuan doing here? How many people are here? What's it like?"