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Chapter Thirteen Seven Years of Apocalypse

The next day, Zhao Mingliang asked his friend to look at the store himself and hired a ox cart to go out of the city to return to his sister's house in Wuchang County. He entered Wuchang County at noon, but he didn't go to the grocery store to find his sister.

When Zhao Chunhua saw her second brother coming, she said, "Second brother, why are you here?"

Zhao Mingliang said, "It's nothing, let's see you and your nephew, go and go home if you have something to do."

After entering the house, Zhao Chunhua shouted: "Sanwazi, Goudan, come out and see who is coming."

Zhu Hongsan went out and saw a middle-aged man standing in the yard, of medium height, looking a little like his mother. Thinking that it was probably his second uncle, he hurried forward and bowed, "Hello, second uncle."

Zhao Mingliang smiled and said, "Hello, my nephew, I haven't seen him grow taller for a year." He turned around and saw Zhao Goudan and said, "Goudan is so tall and is about to catch up with me."

Zhao Mingliang whispered to his sister: "Why is Goudan at your house?"

Zhao Chunhua said, "Do you still need to ask? The eldest brother is too cowardly, and the eldest sister-in-law can't stand the bad guys in her eyes. I looked pitiful and picked us up."

Zhao Mingliang's face turned red because his nephew should have come to his uncle's house, and there is a girl who went to get married. But his situation was not much better than his elder brother. So he pretended not to hear what his sister meant. He quickly changed the topic and said, "That big girl, the snow sugar you asked me to buy has been sold, and today I will give you money."

Zhao Chunhua said happily: "It's so fast, it's all sold?"

"Yes, they were all sold. It was not so fast. I saw that the eldest sister was in a hurry to use the money, so I asked the manager of the Chu Palace and sold all the relationships to the Chu Palace. But the manager needs three thousand taels. Big sister, please see if you take 10,000 taels, I will take 2 thousand taels."

Zhao Chunhua did not doubt that he had: "Okay, let my second brother suffer."

Zhao Mingliang pointed out 10,000 taels of silver bills and put them on the table, saying, "Big sister, look, this is a bill of exchange from the Rixinglong Money House in Wuchang Prefecture. There is also a semicolon in your county town. You can withdraw cash by directly using it."

Zhao Chunhua took out another 2,000 taels and put them in front of her brother and said, "The second brother is tired, and the younger sister has no effort to make a fortune. Please buy some delicious food for a few nephews."

"How can this be?" Zhao Mingliang said no, but put the bill away with his hand. Zhu Hongsan curled his lips when he saw it on the side. He was really untamed.

Zhao Mingliang put away the silver and said, "Big sister, I wonder if there is any such snow sugar? The manager of the Chu Palace said that the King of Chu likes it very much, and said that there are still some other things to the Chu Palace in the future."

Zhao Chunhua had already discussed with her son and said, "That Folang Ji sold me a total of 130 kilograms, and 100 kilograms to Wuchang. I still have 30 kilograms. My second brother needs to take them all this time."

"I wonder when the Folangji merchant will come next?"

"Then I don't know. If they come again, I will notify you."

Seeing that the hope was lost, Zhao Mingliang was very disappointed and said, "Okay, the eldest sister will bring me the thirty kilograms, let's forget the money this time."

Zhao Chunhua said, "I originally wanted to keep the thirty kilograms for your nephew and nephew to eat. If you want them, just take them. Just give one thousand taels of silver."

Zhao Mingliang muttered when he heard his sister say this: Your son is a waste, you can't do anything, you can only eat and wait for death. Goudan is a fool, just eat some yellow sugar, it's better to make money for me than to eat snow sugar.

Zhao Mingliang pointed out 1,000 taels of silver and put it on the table, saying, "Since that's the case, I won't postpone it." Thirty kilograms of snow sugar are 300 taels. I bought twenty taels of silver in Wuchang City, which is 6,000 taels of silver. Zhao Mingliang made as much money as last time.

Zhao Mingliang has finished all the things he should do, and he has to prepare to go back to Wuchang Mansion. Zhao Chunhua said, "Second brother, it is not easy for you to come back once. Why don't you stay here tonight? Call your elder brother tonight, let's meet the three of you?"

Zhao Mingliang thought to go back to the city to make money, so he could care about other things. "No, I'm in a hurry to come out. No one takes care of the shops in the city. Let me wait next time, let my brother and you go to the city and I'll be the host."

Seeing that the second brother insisted on leaving, Zhao Chunhua didn't try to keep him. She watched Zhao Mingliang put the sugar in the car and left the alley. The three of them entered the yard.

Zhu Hongsan said: "Mom, do you believe it? My second uncle earns more than you."

"You can't do it. If your second uncle said everything, he would earn three thousand taels."

Zhu Hongsan smiled and said, "Did you notice that your second uncle dare not look at your eyes when he talks, that's why he is lying."

Zhao Chunhua laughed and scolded: "You are a little man and a big man, you dare to arrange your uncle. You are really looking for a fight."

Zhu Hongsan said: "Mom, should you change the big house when you have money?"

"There are a few mediocre people these days, but there is no suitable one. It is either too small or too big. It is better not to change it if it is too small. If it is too big, it will be illegal. If it is not possible, you can live here."

Zhu Hongsan didn't say anything, and he was a little anxious about why Zhang Xianzhong didn't come quickly. Only he could break this framework. The identity of the royal family was his own protective magic weapon. Without this identity, only ten thousand taels of silver could kill the mother and the mother. However, this identity was also a shackle. Zhu Hongsan was locked up and was a little angry.

No matter what Zhu Hongsan thought, life was still passing slowly as usual. Finally, the seventh year of the Apocalypse, Emperor Apocalypse finally ushered in his last year. The Ming Dynasty also ushered in the last seventeen years.

On August 15, 2018, the seventh year of Tianqi, Zhao Chunhua closed the shop early today. Because it was Mid-Autumn Festival, she had to go home to make delicious food for her son. In the end, the house was not changed. Zhao Chunhua thought about whether to wait until her son grew up before she could talk, and she would definitely be faced when she changed to a big house before getting married.

Zhao Chunhua returned home happily and watched her son playing with the big yellow dog in the yard (the little yellow dog used to be). Her son has grown taller, and now he is seven years old (the ancients are considered to be a vulgar year, but in fact he is only six years old). Her son is taller and almost as tall as his shoulders, and he will definitely grow into a handsome guy in the future.

When Zhu Hongsan saw his mother coming back, he stood up and said, "Mom, hurry up and cook, I'm starving to death."

Zhao Chunhua said: "Okay, let's cook now, where is your cousin?"

"I asked him to go home. My uncle will choose what he wants to reunite if he doesn't go home on the Mid-Autumn Festival."

Zhao Chunhua didn't know why her son was so thoughtful and could think of everything. Maybe God saw that his widow was pitiful and specially gave him a smart and sensible son.

Zhao Chunhua was about to cook, but suddenly heard the bells of the bells and drum towers in the county town ringing one by one. Zhao Chunhua said, "What are you ringing the bells right or not?" Hearing the bells ringing one after another, unlike the daily time report, twenty-seven times, and the bells stopped. Five minutes later, they started ringing again. Zhao Chunhua's face changed drastically. Zhu Hongsan saw his mother's face change and asked, "Mom, what's wrong?"

Zhao Chunhua shed tears: "Twenty-seven times, it was the emperor who broke down."

Zhu Hongsan thought: "It's broken? Oh, it's Tianqi who died. Since the beginning of the year, I have thought about when he will die, but I didn't expect it to last until August.

Zhao Chunhua went into the house to find a small filial piety uniform, put it on Zhu Hongsan and said, "Son, I will take you to the county government later. You will go to Wuchang Prefecture with the other two royal families in the city to keep mourning for the emperor. You must keep mourning for twenty-seven days in a row. You should go and don't make mistakes yourself. This is not a time to be clever. It's really fatal to make mistakes."

Zhu Hongsan replied, "I understand, don't worry, mom." He thought to himself: "Twenty-seven days, I've taken my life."

"Mom, aren't you going?"

"The female family members don't need to go. You have to stay at home for 27 days. Hurry up, you can eat some cakes at home and cushions. When your father was the emperor of Wanli, he lost more than ten pounds when he came back. Yes, get some money." After saying that, he put ten taels of silver in my pocket, and he was worried about putting another ten taels of silver ingots. "Son, don't worry about money when you go. Those castrated goods are so mean."

After saying that, he pulled Zhu Hongsan out and went to the county government office. On the way, he bought four mutton pies and four sugar pies to put in my bag. When he arrived at the county government office, he saw that there was already a family waiting there. An old man in his fifties led a young man in his twenty years.

The old man was dressed like a beggar, and the old man wore a shoe, barefoot, and he criticized this dirty filial piety dress of no color. Zhu Hongsan estimated that the filial piety dress might have been passed down from generation to generation. The young man was wearing it in a pretty complete way, but it was relatively complete.

A hole was exposed on his butt, and the half-pulled egg was exposed outside. The mourning clothes he wore were obviously small in size, probably the mourning clothes he made when Emperor Taichang died a few years ago. It was so awkward no matter how he looked.

Zhu Hongsan secretly lay in my mother's ear and asked, "Mom, who is that? Why is that like a beggar?"

Zhao Chunhua glanced at it and said, "It's just begging for food. They are from the Liao vassal states. The old one is Zhu Yan 62, and the younger one is Zhu Zun 61. After the Liao king was framed by Zhang Juzheng, his remote royal family was even more uncontrollable. He didn't let him go out of the city. He called Tiantian Bu Ling and Di Di, and he had no choice but to beg for food."

Zhu Hongsan almost laughed out loud: "These two men have good names. The old one is called Sixty-two young one is called Sixty-one."

Zhao Chunhua pinched her son and said, "Don't make fun of others. Your father and your grandfather were not much better than them at that time, and they could have a house to live in. If your father and mother were not going to beg for you, you bastard."

Seeing that my mother was in a bad mood, Zhu Hongsan didn't say anything. After a while, another family came. The leader was a big black man, and two big black man stood behind him. Zhu Hongsan pulled his sleeves and asked, "Who is this?"

Zhao Chunhua looked at it and said, "That was the royal family of the Xiangfan family. The one in front was named Zhu Yiyi and his son behind him. Stay away from them, they are not good people."

"Mom, why did that Zhu Yiyi have a name? Why did I use numbers?"

"His family is rich, and I am the leader of the business at the wharf outside the city. The two sons heard that they had connections with the bandits in the Yangtze River and were doing some killing and robbing goods."

Zhu Hongsan thought: "It turns out to be a gangster. It seems that the same surname Zhu You are good at making good at making good at making bad at making bad at making bad at making bad at making bad at making bad at making bad at making bad at making bad at making bad at making bad at making bad at making bad at making bad at making bad at making bad at making bad at making bad at making bad at making bad at making bad at making bad at making bad at making bad at making bad at making bad at making bad at making bad at making bad at making bad at making bad at

Seeing that everyone was coming, County Magistrate He came out wearing a plain robe and told him something. Zhu Hongsan was drowsy when he heard it. After that, the female family went home, and the male had to go to Wuchang Prefecture to mourn for twenty-seven days.
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