Li Duan's side is in despair.

Because of this map, he and Lin Jue didn’t go out much during this period of time. It was the family’s New Year’s ceremony, and Lin was also arranging it, but there were a few companies that had to be respected by his eldest son. Things are not going well.

They finally found out that there was a Master Qian in Hangzhou, who knew that Master Qian had already moved away and disappeared. He asked his father for help again. He invited a master from Rizhao. I don’t know if this master’s craftsmanship is not good or their luck is not good. When the painting was in the hands of this master, it was indeed divided into three parts, but the middle one. The map was destroyed for a short while during the separation.

If it's other maps, it's okay, but this is a map, a short section, in actual voyages, it is likely to be a little bit different, which is a thousand miles away, and there is no way to ensure safety.

Seeing that the Spring Festival was approaching, the Peng family sent someone to give the New Year gift.

Although the person who came was just a small manager of the Peng family, he was calm when he came, and the things he sent were very ordinary, but he still heard the urge from the small manager's words. Thinking deeply, it even revealed the meaning of "If your Li family is not good enough, it is because people want to rush to help the Peng family."

No wonder the Peng family was impatient.

It has been more than half a year since their family took the initiative to take over this matter.

After the Spring Festival, they had to send the painting to Peng's house anyway.

If they couldn't send the maps to Peng's house before that, their ability would be questioned.

They had to find another skilled master to repair the damaged map, not to mention, they had to restore the painting and send it to Peng's house.

Who to fix it has become a big problem.

Lin Jue hasn't left, seeing that the Chinese New Year is about to go. If he drags on, he will never have time to return to Fujian before the Spring Festival. Moreover, the matter of the map is much more complicated than he thought, and he can't help but become a little impetuous.

"Or, take this painting as a New Year's Eve and send it to Peng's house a year ago?" He gave Li Duan an idea, "Anyway, we got the painting in their hands as they wanted. The place... the fleet belongs to the Peng family. Maybe they have a way to know how to go? Could we still form a fleet? Since the bulk of the business belongs to the Peng family, no matter how much they lose, they will lose a lot. ."

This is too rascal.

And in this way, the Li family is not so important in the eyes of the Peng family.

Doing things with tigers and wolves is more ruthless than them, in order to stand up and gain the respect of these people.

Li Duan frowned into the word "Chuan".

Lin Jue said, "Why don't you go and give the New Year gift first? Staring like this every day, you can't see a flower. It's time to relax."

It can only be so.

Li Duan originally wanted to go to Pei's house first, but when he thought of Pei Yan's attitude towards their family, his heart became cold, and he decided to go to Tang Zhifu first.

After all, Tang Zhifu is a parent official and a foreigner. It is not wrong to respect the foreigners first and then respect the internal.

Li Duan pondered for a while and went to Tang Zhifu.

Zhifu Tang was whispering in the study with his confidant, "You can see clearly, are you really from the Wu Family in Huzhou?"

"Really from the Wu family in Huzhou." When the master mentioned the Wu family, his voice was a little quieter, "Moreover, it is the elder of the Wu family, who is in charge of the family."

Zhifu Tang scratched his head.

The prefect of Huzhou was his same year. The two are not far away from official positions, they are of the same rank, they have more common languages ​​than others, and they communicate closely. Others didn’t know, but he had heard from the prefect of Huzhou that the ancestor of the Wu family said that she was born in water transport. That’s true since the girl from the Wu family married to Jiang’s family and praised their family. The Wu family was once a lake bandit. It has only been three generations since the whitewashing. , Now it is common to kill someone. As for the prefect of Huzhou, they have wiped their **** several times.

The Wu family, but a big evil star.

How could they interact with Pei Yan?

He asked Master: "You said, should I go to Pei's house to pay Pei Xiaguang's early years?"

Zhifu Tang didn’t like Pei Yan very much either. He felt that compared with the old man Pei who was driving to Hexi, Pei Yan simply didn’t put him in the eyes of the prefect. He was always "Pei Yan" and "Lao Pei" behind the scenes. Shout. But now knowing that he actually had contact with the Wu Family in Huzhou, he didn't even dare to shout "Pei Yan" and "Lao Pei".

Since he is a confidant, he is the one who knows Tang Zhifu best. The master hurriedly said: "You must go and pay homage to Master Pei San for an early life! When Mr. Zuo was an official in Zhejiang, he once said that if you want to be a parent official, you must have a good relationship with the local squire family. Zuo No matter how powerful the adults are, they all say such things. Ordinary officials like us will naturally have to learn."

When Zhifu Tang heard what he wanted to hear, he nodded in satisfaction, and said: "Then it should not be too late, let me go early, lest Pei Xiaguang feel that I am arrogant. In fact, I am the closest to the people!"

It’s just that as soon as his words fell, a young man came in and said that Li Duan came to give him a New Year gift. Although he was a little impatient, Li Duan disrupted his arrangements, but the Li family’s New Year gift has never been thin. He still I was quite happy to meet Li Duan.

After a few words of greetings between Tang Zhifu and Li Duan, they served tea to see off the guests. Li Duan felt that Tang Zhifu was not enthusiastic about him in the usual way.

He couldn't help but feel a little strange. When he came out of the Yamen, he stopped the sedan chair at the corner of the Yamen, held the sedan curtain and waited for a while, and saw Tang Zhifu taking his master to Xiaomei Alley.

Li Duan felt fiercely uncomfortable.

Speaking of Pei Yan, he was only three or four years older than him, but the two of them seemed to be separated from each other. Others would never compare them at all, and even always regarded him as Pei Yan's junior. After all, it's just that the Pei family is stronger than the Li family.

This time, he had to find a way to board the big ship of Peng's family.

Li Duan sent someone to stare at Tang Zhifu.

An hour later, he knew that Tang Zhifu had eaten closed doors at Pei's house-Pei Yan did not see Tang Zhifu, but sent Pei Man to accompany Tang Zhifu for a cup of tea and then sent Tang Zhifu.

Li Duan looked at the still verdant square bamboo in front of his study. He was full of flavors and didn't know what it was like.

Pei Yan didn't intentionally miss Tang Zhifu, but it was a bit of a coincidence that Tang Zhifu came.

The Yu family's lacquerware shop reopened on the eighteenth of the twelfth lunar month, and the Yu family came to send posts to the Pei family.

Of course, Yu Bo and Yu Yuan did not dare to think that Pei Banquet would take care of such a thing, nor did they dare to think that this post would be delivered to Pei Yan’s desk. They only hoped that Pei’s family would send a small servant to send a congratulatory post for the opening. It can be placed in the most conspicuous place of the shop, and the merchants who come and go know that the shop is sheltered by Pei's family. Who knew that Yu Bo and Yu Yuan had just delivered the post to the steward who was in charge of their neighbors, and they ran into Hu Xing when they went out.

Hu Xing is really proud of the spring breeze these days.

Those who came to give the New Year gifts to Pei’s family were all the wealthy families in the south of the Yangtze River. Those who came to give gifts were those who were heads of the family or were in power. Most of the New Year gifts were given to the third master himself. It's for Pei's family.

Doesn't this mean that these people can give New Year gifts to Pei's family, all in the face of the third master, all because they have personal relationships with the third master!

He didn't listen to the words of the original chief executive, and didn't question the old man's decision, but it was really a correct choice.

Therefore, when he saw Yu Bo and his son, he immediately thought of Yu Wen and his daughter, as well as the bronze knocker placed on the bookshelf by the third master that he accidentally saw today when he went to ask the third master to show him.

Hu Xing carefully observed through his own time, and felt that the third master was a little quirky. For example, the newly made clothes, the third master obviously likes it very much, and it will take ten and a half days to wear them out, and some will even be put on the next season. Things like this appeared in his study within a few days after they were delivered, and they were still easily accessible, showing how satisfied the third master was with the gifts from the Yu family.

He is a person who serves the Third Master. Since the Yu Family is favored by the Third Master, he naturally also respects the Yu Family and values ​​the Yu Family.

"Oh, isn't this the great master of the Yu family?" He smiled and bowed forward, and said with concern and intimacy. "What's the matter with you here? Why don't you let the young man go and tell me? Are you like this? , It's too far-sighted!"

Both Yu Bo and Yu Yuan were a little dumbfounded.

The manager Hu of Pei's family often accompanies Yuyu Yang to get the pulse of the Chen family. If Manager Hu has friendship with Yu's family, then he also has friendship with Yu Wen. When did they become so familiar with Hu Xing? Especially Yu Bo, who just came back, didn't know what happened. He had something to come to Pei's house before, but he had to find a way to get to the stewards. Let alone a manager like Hu Xing.

He glanced at Yu Yuan.

Yu Yuan was also puzzled, but he knew a little bit more than his father, and then he guessed the reason.

He reminded his father in a low voice, "It's uncle", then smiled and stepped forward to Hu Xing in return, explaining his intentions, and then politely let Hu Xing go over and join in the fun.

Hu Xing immediately responded, talked to the Yu family and his son, and asked them to wait for a while, and said: "I'll help you ask the third master for a word before you leave, so that you won't run in vain."

Both Yu Bo and Yu Yuan were surprised.

Hu Xing didn’t care about them. He smiled and went to the concierge room on his own. He asked for an invitation from Yu’s family. , Handed the invitation to Pei Yan, and then respectfully said: "Yu's lacquerware shop is about to open. Master Yu and Master Yu will send you the invitation. Look, do you have anything to order? "

Yu family?

In Pei Yan's mind, Miss Yu's face that seriously frightened Lu Xin by pulling the Pei family's banner came to mind, and then thought of the bronze door beast ring that was worth two taels of silver.

He said coldly: "Do you still want me to tell you how to do this kind of thing? Of course it's the usual practice?"

It is the Pei family's practice to send the steward in charge of the matter a two-two tael of silver to give a red seal.

But Grandpa Pei’s custom is that distant relatives are not as good as close neighbors. Since Pei’s family has settled in Lin’an, they have to deal with these squires and neighbors. In addition to Fenghong, he will also come to them to send him posts. At that time, I would like to ask a few words to show my concern. If he can get the attention of his old man, I will personally come to congratulate him.

The Yu family is obviously the custom of Old Madam Pei!

If he hadn't called the Yu father and son, how could the Yu family know Pei Yan's decision in the first place?

Hu Xing applauded secretly for his wit in his heart.

"Okay! I'm going to talk to Master Yu." He walked away.

Pei Yan felt that his mood was a bit wrong, but Xiao Si said that Tao Qing had rushed over from Guangzhou, so he didn't think much about it for a while, and went to see Tao Qing.