"Nope. ”

Xiao Yuan turned his head, met the promised gaze, the corners of his mouth curled slightly, and said in an extremely soothing tone: "After so many years, some clues have been found in this matter, but the truth is like the moon in the water, the deeper you investigate, the more you can't touch the shadow, and the more you disturb the matter." It's not time for a confrontation yet, so I'm not in a hurry. ”

I've been burdened with this heavy stuff since I was a child, and I've been desperate to know the truth for many years, but because of various restrictions, I can't check it all at once.

This kind of truth is right in front of you, but you can't get rid of the feeling of the veil, like ants devouring your heart.

And his heart has long been beaten like steel and cast iron.

Listening to Xiao Yuan say the words I won't be in a hurry, Xu Yu suddenly understood what he had done in the past and decided not to ask him about it anymore.

When he wanted to speak, he would naturally tell her.

The two of them lay like this until the second watch heard a very light footstep, and they looked at each other and sat up.

They are located a long way from the city.

Very few people pass by at night, and even if they had to take this road, they would have opened their voices and spoken boldly, rather than so cautiously slowing down.

Hearing the footsteps fading away, he promised to lie down again, folded his hands behind his head, crossed Erlang's legs, and put on a comfortable position.

The cool breeze at night came with the word ice market.

The person who was tiptoeing by just now is related to the ice market?

Xiao Yuan knew that Xu Yu had been running around for the past few days, so he picked her up and said, "Follow up." ”

They followed all the way to the Shengde Building on West Street.

Although it has reached the second watch, Bianjing in the scorching heat is noisy. West Street is full of people, very lively, Shengde Building is even more lively to the point that it is difficult to find.

Promise didn't expect these people to come here. Come to the restaurant under her name.

Follow them in, remember the box where a few people entered, and then find the shopkeeper and ask the shopkeeper to arrange the box next door for her.

The two went up to the second floor side by side, and on the stairs, Xiao Yuan whispered: "Liuniang, your family has a big business." I'll depend on you for my support. ”

He has a serious face, and if someone he doesn't know sees it, he will think that he is telling the truth. But Xu Yu had already figured out his habits, and he didn't bother to refute it, so he followed his words and said: "After joining the army, write a thousand-word letter to me every day and send it to me, and I will send it to you." Raise you. ”

After speaking, he gave Xiao Yuan a look. The two of them quickly entered the house and closed the door.

As soon as the two entered the house, they heard the crying of the box next to them.

In the next box, one of the three people who had just entered the room in a black brocade robe sat on the table, and the other two stood beside him.

A few people who had been waiting in the box for a long time, you look at me, I look at you, and finally they all looked at the older one of them.

The man naturally knew that everyone wanted him to speak, so he coughed and put down the folding fan in his hand. Leaned forward and licked the skin of his mouth. Said: "My lord, you want to save the little ones, those small traders who sell cold drinks have no business to do, we are going to starve! There were many people who fixed ice before, and the ice cellars were basically opened, and I originally thought that they would be sold out in the next few days and then open new cellars, but how did we expect those small traders to come and cancel their subscriptions one by one, we promised to return with the subscription earlier, and now we can only let them return." In the past few days, more than half of the ice in the ice cellar has melted, and now it is really cornered. ”

Ordinary people can't buy much ice in the sweltering heat, and their business mainly depends on small vendors who sell cold drinks.

If it was their own ice, they would lose it, but now they take the ice in the hands of the people above them to trade, and if they lose, they have to stick it themselves.

The people at the table frowned, looked at the few people seated, and looked impatient: "What are you yelling, it has been checked, the business of those traders has been snatched away by the three ice shops under Zhu Shang's hands, and it is also a helpless move to withdraw from the ice." ”

"My lord, in this way, it was because we sold ice at a low price and cut off their business before, so they made such a move?"

"Naturally, I think they have lost a lot before they came. The people at the table looked impatient and kept fanning the wind with their sleeves.

When someone saw that he was hot, he got up and went to open the window, but he was scolded back: "The wall has ears! Do you open the window to tell the people on the street what we say?"

The person who was about to open the window shuddered, muttered "the little ones don't dare, the little ones don't dare", and slipped back to their seats.

The first person to speak looked at this and that for a while, without stopping at all, and finally took a deep breath, pinched his sleeve and asked, "My lord, is there a way to save it now, I can't watch those cellars of ice disappear." ”

"What else, I'll introduce some people to come to you to buy ice to cool off the heat and minimize the loss. ”

At first, they didn't think about letting the officials buy ice here, for fear that they would find out where the ice came from and cause trouble, but now that no one seems to pay attention to it, they are not so cautious about it.

"It would be best if this was the case, and we would not be short of those vendors who sold cold drinks to buy ice, and it would be difficult for the adults and the general judges. ”

Everyone knows that those eunuchs consume the most ice in summer, and with those customers, there is no need to worry.

As soon as the words fell, Xu Promise heard a loud slap, followed by a stern reprimand: "How many times have you said it, you are not allowed to mention Lord Tongju outside, no matter who you meet, you must not say it, if your mouth is so big, this ice will not be given to you again next year." ”

"Adult, the small one is wrong. The person who was beaten covered his old face and secretly regretted it in his heart.

The person at the table shook his hand, stood with his hands in his hands, and said viciously to a few people in the room: "I never do business at a loss, since Zhu Shang dares to let me fall into such a situation, from tomorrow onwards, you will let people say that the ice for making those cold drinks is not clean, and several children have been killed in the past few days, and there is a young and strong young man whose body trembles after eating their ice drinks, and his words are not clear!"

"Your Excellency, you are so clever that if no one buys their cold drinks, the business of those petty traders will improve, and we need not worry about it. ”

Several people in the box praised one after another.

When he heard the promise, he got up and stood by the window, looking at the brightly lit street, his face expressionless.

The back exudes an air of loneliness and perseverance.

Xiao Yuan picked up the empty teacup and threw it at her.

Promise to reach out and catch it, and put it on the edge of the window.

Xiao Yuan asked, "What are you going to do?"

"Dealing with such fools can be solved by some force. Xu Promise played with the tea cup in his hand, and a hint of shrewdness flashed in his eyes.

As early as when there were problems with three of her ice shops, she went to check on the ones that were priced below the cost.

It was discovered that a few people from the Ministry of Industry had done tricks and transferred the ice cellar and ice storage of the Ministry of Industry to those businessmen.

If the ice stored in the previous year is not used this year, the ice cellar will be opened at the end of the summer, and the ice will be moved out and new ice will be stored, and so on.

As long as it is not a scorching heat that is rare in a century, most of these ice stores will not be used.

In this way, the talents of the Ministry of Industry came up with such a trick -

Recently, I've been busy at work, and then I'm lazy, and I haven't updated, but my heart wants to be more literate.

Whether you have a boyfriend or a girlfriend, I love you. (To be continued.) )