It's hard to be a prodigal

The Jiang family's cargo ship lost control in Xunhai, hit a rock and sank, the young master of the Jiang family was on the merchant ship, buried in the bottom of the sea with his people and goods.

That one is the Jiang family's cornucopia of cash cows.

Since the sudden death of the head of the Jiang family, in just over ten years, the young master Jiang Zong supported the Jiang family business by himself, turning the Jiang family from an ordinary merchant into a well-known family of merchants in Jinzhou. People are clever and scheming, and they are born to do business.

When the news of the young master's death came back to Jinzhou, the sad news should have caused the Jiang family's compound to cry and cry, but they suppressed the news and did not report the salvage to the government, and simply handled the funeral, making people look strange.

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Just catching up with the underworld queuing up to reincarnate, all the ghosts were empty-handed, but Jiang Zong himself dragged a boat of luxurious jewels and ghosts, walking at the end of the line in a daze, looked up at the plaque, and on his head there were three words "unjust dead ghost" .

Pictures of life and death are vaguely displayed on the head of each innocent soul. Mihai's sunken ship is slowly submerged in the water. into their own hands.

His compatriot brother Jiang Heng was not spared either. The little nerd knelt in front of the government gate for three days, crying for Jiang Zong's grievances, holding Jiang Zong's spiritual tablet and telling everyone that his brother was murdered by others, begging the government to severely punish the murderer The brother's murderer was caught in the prison, and died of hatred not long after.

"Come on... I'm dead, show me this, don't you worry..." Jiang Zong impatiently clutched the rope in his hand, dragging a boat full of gold, silver and jewels. The ghost weapon of the tomb robber who is going to resell. The ghost weapon is a dead thing and can be brought into the palace of Hades.

The ghost guarding the prison gate checked the roster, and Jiang Zong was the only one left at the end. The ghost coughed and read his life in a business-like manner: "Jiang Zong, who is only interested in profit, acts frivolously and frivolously. Plan to die, bah. Cast a rotten fetus, and cast it as a foot-wiping cloth for the children and grandchildren of Dayantuo Village."

Jiang Zong: "..."

Gui Jun closed the roster, looked up, and saw Jiang Zong dragging a whole boat of shining gold, silver and jewels in his hand, he was stunned.

Jiang Zong took advantage of the loophole with just one look, and he politely handed the rope to Gui Jun: "Things outside of your body, things outside of your body, you accept it with a smile."

The ghost king couldn't evade it, so he raised his hand to accept it.

Jiang Zong took advantage of the heat and said, "I didn't commit any serious crimes in my life, so this foot-rubbing cloth..."

The ghost gentleman coughed: "You don't want to die with peace of mind, the resentment is too heavy, I promise you to go down and live again, be sure to let the resentment go before you come back."

Jiang Zong chuckled softly: "I beg your lord to give you some advice."

The ghost king got the bribe, and he was willing to mention a few more words: "In the previous life, you got rich, but in this life you will lose your fortune. Come on the other way around, understand, if you don't do this, if you are noticed by the higher-ups, you will still die tragically as before. The greater the difference in what you did in the previous life, the better your life will be, otherwise, you will suffer from bloodshed."

Jiang Zong narrowed his sly phoenix eyes: "Understood."

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He opened his eyes again, and there was a table of delicacies from mountains and seas in front of him, and the scent of a few slices of ham left on the steamed anchovies wafted into his nose. The banquet guests around them had been drinking for three rounds, noisy and noisy, Jiang Zong's eyes were hazy, and his mind was in a trance.

I remember that my mouth and nose were filled with salty sea water, and the biting cold sea water scraped against my body. It seemed that someone was desperately trying to save him, but his body was frozen stiff and he couldn't open his eyes.

He could only feel that he was being held tightly by a warm person, he was screaming in his ear, what he said, the voice seemed very familiar, Jiang Zong couldn't remember.

He gradually lost consciousness in the water, and fell into the dark abyss along with the gold, silver and jewels.

"Just... dreaming?" Jiang Zong's face flushed with drunkenness, he pressed his throbbing temples, closed his eyes, and spilled the wine cup at hand.

"Drunk?" There was a young man sitting next to him, his eyebrows and eyes similar to Jiang Zong's. The young man hurriedly poured a cup of tea into Jiang Zong's mouth, then helped Jiang Zong, who was still confused, and apologized to the guests at the same table. It's not right: "Second uncle and third uncle, my brother is drunk, and my nephew helped him to rest. If I'm sorry for a little while, please forgive me."

After hearing this, the second uncle rolled his eyes slightly, pretending to switch cups and ignoring him, and yelled casually: "Hey, let's go."

Hearing the familiar voice, Jiang Zong reluctantly opened his drunken eyes to take a look, and murmured: "Jiang Heng...? The longer he grows, the shorter he gets...how come he looks like a teenager... How many times will I teach you? , I'm almost thirty, you can't always let your brother and I cover... What book are you reading, don't read..."

Jiang Heng sighed: "This statement is wrong, my life has a limit and my knowledge has no limit..."

Jiang Heng is six years younger than him, and the two are siblings. After so many years of examinations, they have failed to achieve anything famous. Jiang Zong looks down on him, and Jiang Heng doesn't like to go to Jiang Zong's face to make trouble. cold.

Jiang Heng helped Jiang Zong to rest in the bedroom of the house, finally moved him to the bed, wiped his face and sobered up: "Jiang Zong, today is your 24th birthday party, but you forgot?"

Jiang Zong lazily put his arms around Jiang Heng, and sneered drunkenly: "It's you, your birthday party..."

Jiang Heng supported Jiang Zong's shoulders and said helplessly, "I will be eighteen at the end of the year, and I haven't reached the crown yet."

Not long after his father died, the elder brother was a rascal and couldn't support the wall. Now the two brothers lived on the family's surplus money. Jiang Heng was already worried that sooner or later he would be left alone, and the elder brother didn't care about things. Liao bubble.

The little money left by my father was forcibly distributed by my second and third uncles under the excuse of the funeral. Some of the land and shops remained, but they were very depressed because no one took care of them, and they were on the verge of closing. If you don't enter, you will be a bit stretched if you want to maintain food and clothing for a few more years, not to mention that the eldest brother spends money like water, he can only read books and knows nothing about business, and the money is not blown by the wind.

Jiang Zong opened his drunken eyes and carefully looked at the child in front of him, then suddenly withdrew his smile, and stared blankly at Jiang Heng's childish face.

Didn't Jiang Heng... hold his tablet and die in the official prison?

I, I'm actually not a tablet.

Jiang Zong threw Jiang Heng down, almost rolled and fell off the bed, and went to the bronze mirror to take a look at himself.

In the mirror is still a young man with lazy and handsome phoenix eyes, no different from himself when he was young and wild, and hadn't supported Jiang's family business with his own strength.

Fuck, really alive again.

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The servant girl outside the door communicated: "Young master, Le Lian, son of the Le family, wants to see you."

Before Jiang Zong could recover, he stared blankly at the silhouette of a figure standing outside the carved wooden door.

Le Lian in the previous life... was taller than now, and that stern appearance seemed to have appeared in front of Jiang Zong's eyes.

Jiang Heng knew that his brother was not getting along with the young master of the Le family, and there was a conflict in the street. In fact, when he thought about it carefully, it was Jiang Zong himself who had nothing to do and was yelling nonsense, and he didn't have the same knowledge as his elder brother.

But Le Liancheng sincerely came to his brother's birthday banquet to cause trouble, Jiang Heng knocked on the door and told the servant girl: "Brother is not feeling well, I'm sorry to see no guests."

The figure standing quietly outside the door trembled, hesitated for a while, then turned and left.

"Wait, let him in." Jiang Zong walked over suddenly and opened the wooden door.

Le Lian hadn't gone far, carrying a small burden on his back, and glanced back at Jiang Zong indifferently.

Jiang Zong suddenly lost his mind.Even Lelian is still a child now.

The young master of the Le family is the same age as Jiang Heng, this little evil star, he became Jiang Zong's number one enemy in his previous life, this kid also has a lot of business skills, and before he was 30 he became a wealthy businessman. There was a conflict in business, Jiang Zong originally planned to win him over, but he had no choice but to play tricks, and the conflict between the two became deeper and deeper.

Jiang Zong resorted to low-handed methods, punishing Le Lian severely, trying his best to hurt the enemy one thousand and self-defeating eight hundred. Old and dead.

Jiang Zong leaned against the door with his arms folded, raised his chin slightly, squinted his drunken narrow phoenix eyes and stared at Le Lian: "Looking for me?"

This is really jealousy when enemies meet.

Le Lian didn't look back, and said indifferently: "I'm leaving, and I won't be back for a few years."

There is such a thing in Jiang Zong's memory, at his 24th birthday party, Le Lian also came to say goodbye to him.I heard that they went to the north to do business, and it was true that they did not create trouble for Jiang Zong for a long time. After returning, the Le family gradually prospered, and they were on par with the Jiang family.

When Le Lian came to bid him farewell, Jiang Zong didn't care where he went, and said casually, "If you want to go, go, I'll take care of you."

In fact, Jiang Zong didn't understand until now that although the relationship between the two of them was not at the point of imminent tension, it was usually just a few words of friendship, and he never thought about what it meant for him to say goodbye on purpose.

But in this life, I have to do the opposite of what I used to do.

Jiang Heng frowned, and was thinking about how to drive people out without losing the gentleman's demeanor, so as not to disturb his brother's heart, but Jiang Zong smiled and said, "What are you going to do in that bitter cold place, stay here."

Le Lian's indifferent back trembled, he turned his head and looked at Jiang Zong with surprise in his eyes.

He never thought that he would be retained by anyone.He didn't even mention to anyone in the Lejia compound that he was leaving, he just wanted to come and tell Jiang Zong.

In his previous life, Le even did business in the north when he was young, and he didn't have much contact with Jiang Zong. When he returned to Jinzhou, he was already an indifferent man who only had interests in his eyes. Jiang Zong was amused by the unexpectedly pitiful little eyes: "Jiang Heng You go out first, and I'll have a word with Young Master Le."

Jiang Heng glanced at Jiang Zong worriedly, asked Young Master Le to go in, and closed the door behind him.

There were only the two of them left in the room, Jiang Zong lazily nestled on the beauty's couch, and looked at him with his chin: "Sneak into my birthday party just to talk about this?"

Le Lian was a little at a loss, with a stern face, he took out an earring from his cuff, the earring was exquisitely crafted, with a sapphire hanging on it, and handed it to Jiang Zong.

Jiang Zong frowned slightly. He has been in the pawnshop business for ten years, and his eyes have never made a mistake. The gemstone in Le Lian's hand is of good quality, and the craftsmanship is also paid attention to. It is also considered precious and worth it. Thousands of taels blurted out: "Are you pawning dead or alive? The stone is of average quality, and the workmanship is passable. I will pawn you 200 taels of silver with a monthly interest of three cents. Pass me the money on the table and issue a pawn ticket for you." .”

Jiang Zong thought that the kid didn't spend enough money on the road, and thought that he would be a wealthy businessman anyway, so it would be a good deal to extort a few more cents of interest.

Young Master Le's face froze, and he tightly clenched the gemstone earrings in his hand, but the stiff and stiff sentence "birthday gift" had already been blurted out like splashed water, and he couldn't take it back.

Jiang Zong, who was about to open the pawn ticket, was embarrassed in the air, and looked at Le Lian with his mouth slightly open.

Is this still an incompatible family in the previous life?

"Yo." Jiang Zong looked at Le Lian in a daze, and reached for the gemstone earrings in his hand. The young master pursed his lips and tightly clenched his hand, Jiang Zong simply wrapped his slender palm around Le Lian's hand and raised his hand. Eyes, "For me?"

The clenched fist was held by a warm and fair hand, Lelian's ears were hot, and a faint blush appeared on his cold cheeks.

Jiang Zong raised the corners of his mouth, Le Lian from his previous life avoided him, and often glanced at him like a toad in the gutter. Unexpectedly, he was quite innocent when he was a child.

He took the opportunity to say again: "You are still so young, don't go far away, stay in Jinzhou."

Le Lian hesitated a little, threw the gemstone earrings into Jiang Zong's palm, picked up his little baggage and walked out the door silently.

Jiang Zong got up suddenly, and before Le Lian went out, he pressed the door panel that had just opened a crack from behind him, propped his forearm on the door, tilted his head slightly and approached Le Lian's cheek: "You came to see me for more than that?"

A faint smell of alcohol sprayed in his nostrils, Jiang Zong's drunken face shone with candlelight.

"Are you drunk?" Le Lian shuddered, obviously resisting Jiang Zong sticking so close to him, but endured the discomfort and said, "I want to borrow 3 taels of silver from you, and I will pay back the principal with interest in ten years you."

Jiang Zong suddenly realized that in his previous life he came here to borrow money, but unfortunately he drove him away before he heard Wen'er, this was the only time Le Lian asked him for anything.

Le Lian in his previous life was also 33 years old, taller than now, and more people don't want to get close to him easily.When she was a child, Le Lian's cheeks were so tender, and she could still see the tiny fluff on her cheeks by the candlelight, as if she could squeeze out water.

"You know the rules of the Zongheng Bank, don't you? The monthly interest is three cents. After ten years, you will have to pay me back one hundred thousand interest. That's not counting your interest." Jiang Zong didn't want him to go to the north and cultivate himself into a business master. When he came back to fight against himself, he deliberately disgusted him and said, "If you kiss me, I will consider lending you the money without charging interest."

"What?" Le Lian's eyes widened suddenly, and it took him a long time to come back to his senses. He avoided Jiang Zong as if he had suffered a great humiliation, and walked away alone.

"Hey, fight with me." Jiang Zong knew Le Lian's reaction a long time ago. In his previous life, he was a fake aloof man and woman who couldn't get close. In this life, he is destined to be the same.I remember that in the past, when Le Lian was in his thirties, he only married one concubine. She was a maid from the Le family, and she didn't know how to match her up.

Le Lian was not taken seriously in Le Family, and he probably didn't have much cash in his hand. Thinking of borrowing money from himself, he must want to go to the north to develop. own opponent.

As soon as Le Lian left, Jiang Zong first asked the boy to go to the waterway outside the city to set up guards, so that Le Lian's cargo ship could not get out of Jinzhou City, and then looked at the earring in his hand with great interest: "What kind of idea did the little devil come up with? And give me a gift...it won't be poisonous."

In his previous life, he traveled all over the world and saw a lot of good things. He forgot that Jinzhou was still a small county in the past, and it didn't become a big business world. There are really not many sapphires of this quality.

Jiang Zong strolled up to the mirror frame and looked at himself again, and sighed that the small appearance of the jade tree is facing the wind, the corners of the eyes have not yet developed fine lines, and the burden of the head of the family has not yet suffered from weather and vicissitudes. He is still unable to support him at this time The prodigal son of the wall.

Then he threw the gemstone earring to the edge of the inkstone, poured himself a cup of tea, his face gradually became cold, and his eyes were not friendly.

He hated Lelian, hated him to the bone.