Chapter 32: Offering Incense
"That's naturally excellent!" Xie Fugui listened to Mu Tianxiang's words, and agreed in every possible way, anyway, he didn't need to pay back the silver taels, as long as this matter had nothing to do with him, it would be good in every way.
"Since Dad said so, I guess you have no objection. Mu Tianxiang swept over everyone with a smile, and finally asked the shopkeeper Qin of Shixiangfang: "Tianxiang will bother the shopkeeper Qin to write a note, and write it according to the conditions just mentioned. ”
Mu Tianxiang instructed that even if there was someone who had already spent money and was unwilling to agree, he had to sign a contract.
After several people signed and drew the charge, Mu Tianxiang asked Jiang Bo to collect the note and hand it over to Pei Zongze: "The follow-up will be carefully watched by Brother Lao Pei." ”
After a good look, he glanced up at the people in the room, Mu Tianxiang said expressionlessly: "If other people don't have anything else, then let's do it today, I hope that after you go back, you can check the inventory in the shop, and I hope that you can remember your identity and don't have such a thing today." ”
Mu Tianxiang's words fell, and the shopkeeper Hu who was in charge of the Fulou on the side immediately got up and saluted her: "Miss, seeing that the day of worshipping the ancestors of the Fourth Dynasty in April is approaching, and the Lingshan Huguo Temple needs to replace the imperial incense, a few days ago, Master Huze has come to the door to ask for the blessing of the incense, but it just coincides with the big boss......
When Shopkeeper Hu thought of the big boss Mu Wanqiu, there was some regret in his words, but seeing that Mu Tianxiang was just waiting for him to speak, he restrained his feelings and asked, "I don't know if our Mu Mansion should accept it?"
Mu Tianxiang pondered for a while, and remembered that April 4 was the day when the founding emperor of the Jingsheng Dynasty laid down the country, but it was also the day when he died in battle.
As a sacred place for worshipping ancestors, the Huguo Temple is the commander who is fully responsible for the preparation of incense.
Therefore, Master Hui Ze, the abbot of Huguo Temple, will go down the mountain to finalize the selection of incense with the first-class Mufu master of the dynasty to make incense and match incense every year about a month before the emperor worships his ancestors.
In previous years, the royal incense and blessing incense were personally concocted by the mother Mu Mu in the late autumn, and after confirming the qualification, they were personally escorted to the temple by the temple and the imperial city guards.
It's just that now that there is such a thing in Mufu, the selection of incense has been delayed for more than half a month, and I am afraid that the Huguo Temple has also selected a spare incense.
Mu Tianxiang was about to speak, but when he saw that Xie Fugui and the others were still in the house, he immediately lowered his face and said: "Dad, these people, since they are the shops you introduced, and you are also asking for mercy, now it is better for you to invite them out of the mansion together, I think the shogunate is not suitable for entertaining relatives and friends for the time being." ”
The mother has not passed the first seven years, and the family is not happy to entertain guests.
"Don't get in the way, don't get in the way, just find someone to send it out. Xie Fugui was already a little annoyed by these people who had more than enough success and failure, and almost implicated himself, so he said something in his mouth, but he didn't plan to get up and leave.
"Dad, if it's okay, can you go back first?" Mu Tianxiang asked as he tapped his index finger on the table.
"I'll do it again and see if I can help. Xie Fugui responded with a smile.
"Dad, when my mother was here, did you interfere in the affairs of the shop?" Mu Tianxiang felt a little annoyed by Xie Fugui's ignorance, and asked with a cold face.
No matter how uninteresting Xie Fugui was now, he saw more than a dozen people in the room glaring at him together, although he was annoyed, but it was not easy to have a seizure, so he had to leave in a huff.
"Go and inquire whether the incense in the Huguo Temple has been selected, if it is your own incense is the best, no matter what, go and see what Master Huize means, please worship for me, and wait for tomorrow after the first seven days of my mother, I will personally go up the mountain to ask for a meeting, and I can also pray for my mother. ”
As soon as Xie Fugui left, Mu Tianxiang explained a few words to Shopkeeper Hu.
Once the imperial incense is purchased from a foreign house this year, it indicates that the relationship between the shogunate and the imperial family is out of touch, and it will inevitably affect the business of the shogunate in the future, so she can't give up this opportunity anyway.
"You're still too kind. When many shopkeepers said goodbye and left, Pei Zongze and her said some comforting words independently, and took Mu Tianxiang to send him out of the yard, he suddenly spoke.
"I originally wanted to report it directly to the official, but then I thought about it, it would be cheaper for those people, and I took my own silver taels for nothing. Mu Tianxiang knew that what he said was a matter of Fang Cai, so he smiled and looked up at Pei Zongze's eyes, with a trace of stubbornness.
Pei Zongze was stunned for a moment, and then laughed.
After laughing, he patted Mu Tianxiang's head, smiled a little helplessly, and was a little contemplative.
Sure enough, it was different.
The delicate and timid girl who was taken care of by him as his sister was no longer the villain who would only hide behind her mother and look at her shyly.
Now she has transformed into a family member who is as bold and strong as her mother, and can do whatever it takes to serve the shogunate.
Was it because of the death of her mother that she changed?
I hope she doesn't go down the same path as Qiu Niang and ruin her life.
Pei Zongze's eyes lowered as he looked at the person around him who surprised him, and thought with some concern. What Wanniang is determined to do, he is powerless to change, and he can't undo it.
But now Mu Tianxiang, he swore that he would treat her as his own sister, take good care of and protect her, and it was not in vain that his mother risked one person and two lives to save him.
It's just that later, when Pei Zongze found out that this so-called brother-sister relationship had quietly changed in his heart, he saw that his eldest sister was married to a wife since he was a child.
"Brother Pei, why, don't you call me Sister Xiang'er anymore?" Just as Pei Zongze was thinking about it, a faint soft and somewhat injured voice came into his ears.
looked down at Mu Tianxiang, only to find that she just spoke, but she didn't even look at him.
Mu Tianxiang told the truth, she didn't have much affection for what Pei Zongze called herself, but the other she in her heart was uneasy.
Just thinking that this might be Pei Zongze's first step to alienate herself, her heart began to panic a little.
This panic made her internal organs almost tightly screwed together, with indescribable pain.
This kind of pain probably comes from the original Mu Tianxiang, except for his mother, the only one who can be close is Pei Zongze.
If her mother is gone, if she can't even keep the big shopkeeper who takes care of the affairs of the shop, Mufu is doomed to lose in her hands.
But since Mufu gave her a place to live and did not let her lonely soul disappear, she still has the obligation to carry forward Mufu.
"Sister Xiang'er, have you forgotten jì, when there are many people, have I always been like this?"
Pei Zongze suddenly said something gentle like water with a smile, which made Mu Tianxiang, who was originally flustered and distressed, stunned when he heard it.
After a while, she seemed to be suddenly drained of the breath in her brain, and her body suddenly emptied, and when her consciousness was far away from herself, she only had time to raise a smile and say, "That's good!"