Great Song Super Scholar

Chapter 382 Difficult to speak

In the past two years, many things have happened to the Fan family. The first major event was the death of Fan Zhongyan. He has been seriously ill since he caught a cold last winter. Yue died of illness in his hometown, and the aftermath was handled very grandly. The emperor Zhao Zhen personally wrote the "Monument of Praising the Virtuous", and presented it to the Minister of the Ministry of War.

The second is that the father's concubine Caixiang gave birth to a son in the fall of the previous year, and his grandfather named him Fan Mingxiao. The Fan family has Mingren and Mingli, and the fourth uncle's son is named Fan Mingyi. Now the etiquette, benevolence and filial piety are complete .

Mingli's son is the first male of the third generation of the Fan family. Mingli gave his son the baby name Kun'er because he was born in Kunzhou.

After walking dozens of steps, Fan Ning came to the Kistler Museum. The Kistler Museum has not changed much from two years ago. The Kistler Museum is not a consumer store such as a restaurant or an inn. To open a branch store in the mining area, in addition to the main store in the capital, the Fan Family Kistler Museum has opened four branches in Wu County, Pingjiang Prefecture, Lingbi County, Suzhou, Min County, Fuzhou, and Nanyang County, Dengzhou, respectively, corresponding to Taihu Stone, Lingbi County, etc. Bishi, Shoushan Stone, Tianhuangshi and Nanyang Yushi, these four stores mainly focus on acquisitions, and the real sales are concentrated in the capital.

After nearly eight years of painstaking efforts by Fan Tiege, the Shi Zhen Kistler Museum has become the largest brand in the capital. The rich, wealthy businessmen, celebrities and elegant scholars in the capital will first think of the Shi Zhen Kistler Museum when they want to buy and appreciate strange stones.

When Fan Ning walked into the store, he immediately saw his second uncle Fan Tiege who was introducing Shoushan Stone to customers. Fan Tiege was basically the same as two years ago, still as fat as a big wax gourd.

Feeling that someone entered the store, Fan Tiege glanced instinctively, and found that it was Fan Ning. He was surprised and delighted at once, and hurriedly asked the waiter to continue receiving customers. He greeted him with a smile on his face, "A Ning, when did you come back?"

"Second Uncle, I just got off the boat."

"Go! Let's sit inside."

Fan Tiege pulled Fan Ning and went inside. Fan Ning found that there were several more yards inside, and the area was much larger, so he couldn't help being stunned.

Fan Tiege said triumphantly: "The houses of the two families behind have been bought, a total of five acres of land, and a total of 1 yuan was spent, [-] yuan per mu, cheap!"

Fan Ning was very surprised. The house he bought in the outer city was cheap, but this is the Daxiangguo Temple!Such a good location is only [-] yuan per mu, which is simply too cheap.

"Second Uncle, what's going on?"

Fan Tiege smiled, "These two families are ordinary people. The houses are worthless mud houses, and they are in a deep alley. It is very inconvenient to get in and out, so the price will not go up, but it will be different when we buy them. , After being demolished and rebuilt, it became a warehouse and a dormitory, and your second aunt and I have moved here, so it’s convenient to look at the store at night.”

Fan Tiege used the money earned by his two sons a few years ago to buy a small house in the inner city for each of them. Last year, the Kistler Museum paid dividends for the first time. The accumulated profit was [-] yuan, and he got [-] yuan. Dividends of money.

Through Zhu Yuanfeng's relationship, he bought a five-acre house in the outer city.

Although there are three houses in the capital, they are far away from the Kistler Museum, and it is hard to run back and forth. After buying the private house behind the Kistler Museum, he lived here directly.

Fan Ning was a little surprised, "Second Aunt is here too?"

"Yes! I'm probably cooking at this time."

Fan Tiege looked back strangely again, "Did those two brats come back with you?"

"Mingli is still in Kunzhou for the time being, he is reluctant to leave there, and he will stay for a while, but Mingli came back with me, and he went to Pingjiang mansion."

"Then did he bring the amber wood back?" Fan Tiege asked nervously.

Seeing that the second uncle didn't seem to care about Mingli staying in Kunzhou, Fan Ning breathed a sigh of relief and said with a smile: "He brought two thousand pieces of amber wood, and they will be delivered with the official ship in two days. The Jia and Gao families also brought a lot of amber wood, is amber wood very popular now?"

Fan Tiege nodded, "Amber wood is very popular for rich and powerful families to make furniture. If there are old people in the family, they still use amber wood for longevity materials. A pair of longevity materials needs at least seven or eight pieces of amber wood. Our store was out of stock last month. , After receiving more than 100 orders, there are no materials, and I am in a hurry."

"Then wait for another three or four days. If two thousand roots are not enough, I'll get another two or three thousand roots from the Zhu family. It's not a big problem."

"Of course, the more the better, I will eat as much as you can."

At this time, the second aunt Yu came in with tea, "A-Ning, didn't the two of my family come back with you?"

"Second Aunt, it will be a while before Mingli, but Mingren is back and has gone to Pingjiang Mansion."

"Is Akihito going back?"

The second aunt obviously asked a lot, and asked in detail, Fan Ning shook his head, "He will not go back to Kunzhou, and is going to Quanzhou to open a business."

"What are you going to do in Quanzhou?"

The second aunt was a little dissatisfied, "Isn't it good to come to the capital? There are more opportunities."

Fan Tiege smiled and said: "You don't understand. Quanzhou is the number one seaport in the Song Dynasty. There are a lot of business opportunities and a lot of money. I don't want them to go back to the capital. Once they come back, they will speculate in Yancha Yin, which will kill them. of."

"What do you, old ginger, know? Both sons are 23 years old. Do they want to marry wives and have children to pass on your family?"

Fan Ning sighed in his heart, and could only say: "Second Uncle and Second Aunt, stop arguing, I have something important to tell you."

"What's the matter?" Fan Tiege and his wife asked in unison.

"It's about Mingli"

Women are still sensitive, Second Aunt Yu immediately interjected: "Could it be that Ming Li married a wife in Kunzhou without telling us?"

Fan Ning smiled wryly, why did the second aunt react so quickly, he quickly said: "It's not about marrying a wife, it's about Mingli taking a concubine in Kunzhou."

Yu breathed a sigh of relief, taking a concubine is not a big problem, just marrying a wife is enough. The two children are 23 years old, and there must be women around them. Instead of messing around outside, it is better to find a stable woman.

Fan Tiege frowned, "Are the two of them qualified to take concubines?"

"Yes! They all have honorary officers of Flying Cavalry Captains. The Kunzhou government commended them for being the first to discover Jintian and applied to the court."

Yu said anxiously: "You old man, why do you ask these trivial things? Ah Ning, what is the background of the other party?"

"Second Aunt, the other party is from an innocent family, but a Japanese girl, only 17 years old."

Fan Ning dared not bring up the matter of the children, and had to wait for them to accept the Japanese concubine before slowly talking about the main points.

"Japanese woman!"

Yu frowned, she felt a little reluctant, can foreign women get along well?
Fan Ning quickly explained: "The other party speaks Chinese very well, it is impossible to tell that she is a Japanese woman, and she is very good-looking, very virtuous, and her living habits are the same as ours. Besides, if Mingli wants to marry an immigrant woman from Kunzhou If not, according to the regulations, he can't go back to Song Dynasty."

Yu said with a smile: "I'm not prejudiced, I'm just worried that I'm not used to it in all aspects. If there's a little lady like Aya, I'll like it."

Fan Ning rolled his eyes, Second Aunt must have taken a fancy to Aya!
Fan Ning smiled and said, "Second Aunt may not know, but in fact Aya is also a little Japanese lady."

Yu was very surprised, "No way! Aya will be a Japanese lady? I don't think she looks like that at all!"

"Didn't I tell my second aunt? You can't tell the difference by appearance. The Japanese girl Mingli married speaks the same language and has the same living habits. She is also virtuous and docile, and she can give birth to a son. Isn't she a very good daughter-in-law?"

"Wait a minute!"

Fan Tiege was extremely shrewd, and immediately recognized the implication in Fan Ning's words. He asked, "What does it mean to be able to have a son?"

Mrs. Yu also reacted, staring at Fan Ning with piercing eyes, "A Ning, what do you mean?"

Fan Ning was flustered by the sharp eyes of the old couple, and said with a dry laugh: "What I was about to say, congratulations to the two elders, happy grandson!"

"what!"

The two yelled at the same time, but their tone was very different, Fan Tiege's tone was full of anger, while Yu Shi's tone was full of surprise.

Fan Ning said helplessly, "Second Uncle, I brought back mother and son, and they are with Zhu Pei! Would you like to meet?"

"not see!"

Fan Tiege refused, but Yu jumped up and scolded: "You old man, we have a grandson, why are you putting on airs, that was not born by your son? You don't want it, I want it."

Fan Tiege knew in his heart that the concubine must have been married to his son after he was married to him. It reminded him of how this kind of thing happened to his son again when he was young, so how could he not be annoyed.

Yu Shi didn't care, she had been looking forward to her grandson for so many years, and she finally got it, as long as it was her son's seed, she wouldn't care if the other party was a Japanese woman or not.

She was so anxious that she pulled Fan Ning and said, "Ah Ning, quickly take Second Aunt to see his grandson."

Fan Ning looked at his second uncle in a bit of trouble, and Yu frowned, staring at her husband and scolding: "Damn old man, are you going to see your grandson?"

Fan Tiege snorted, "Just go, let's talk ugly first, if he doesn't look like a member of our Fan family, I won't recognize this grandson."

Yu curled her lips in disdain, "If my grandson has a glutinous rice ball face like yours, I'd rather not have it."

While arguing, the old couple followed Fanning out.

(End of this chapter)