Mei Yuanshan looked at his niece fixedly, surprised, suspicious and a little funny, just as if Jiang Li was messing around. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

Jiang Li blinked, he didn't feel that he was messing around, and he looked serious. The corner of his eye swept around, a few girls in the pavilion, and there were still little girls with Mei Zixuan outside the pavilion, but the shadows of Mei Yingxue and Xiaoxiang were gone.

Mei Yingxue is a temperament that can't be idle for a while, which is very similar to Xiaoxiang. During this time, Mei Yingxue followed Jiang Li at any time, and gradually knew that Xiao Xiang knew kung fu. From time to time, I have to pull Xiaoxiang to show her hand in a place where there is no one, and I don't know where she pulled Xiaoxiang to say a few words at this time

Mei Yuanshan looked at it for a long time, and when he saw Jiang Li's serious face, he couldn't help but sigh and said, "You think it's so easy to run by sea?" Even if you have reliable people on hand to help you go to sea, and we help you contact freight overseas, there is a mess just for the family to deal with the imperial court, not to mention the accidents caused by mutual calculations on the rivers and lakes. ”

The focus is still on the latter, Mei Yuanshan has been working day and night for these things recently, and he is physically and mentally exhausted.

"These things are not something that your daughter's family can handle." Mei Yuanshan talked about these things and took himself as an example, "You don't know that I've been worrying about these things lately - my fleet is still detained by the government, and it is not certain when I will go to sea!" ”

Mei Yuanshan told the truth to Jiang. It turned out that just a month before coming, the government seized several commercial buildings of the Mei family. The Mei family's commercial building has been auctioning all kinds of citations. The government suddenly seized the commercial building and took away the account books of the commercial building for several years. The government arrested a group of officials who resold the vouchers, and the Mei family commercial building provided a venue for the auction of the vouchers, closed for a period of time, and it was inevitable that they would be fined a sum of silver.

This time, the government found out that it was a group of people from Qingzhou Qingfeng Village who bought pig iron and sulfur stone nitrate, and suspected that Mei Yuanshan and Qingfeng Village were secretly colluding and deliberately providing convenience for them. But that was just the government's speculation, and there was no evidence to prove that Mei Yuanshan had dealings with Qingfeng Village for a while. Therefore, the fine was several times more than usual, and it was 200,000 taels of silver!

The punishment is not counted, the government for the sake of prudence, even his ship to the sea has been checked, this investigation will inevitably delay the trade of Mei Yuanshan on the sea, because many goods have to be delivered on time, even if the Mei family breaks the contract, one more day of delay, the Mei family will lose the silver in vain.

Mei Yuanshan complained: "During this time, I ran to the government every day. In the past, I had a good relationship with the people in the government, but this time the court admitted the truth and sent the imperial envoy to supervise the execution, who would dare to give me a favor! The government only says that you will do things according to the rules, and you have to go through the motions, and they don't care how much silver you will lose if you delay. ”

After Mei Yuanshan finished speaking, he stared at Jiang Li again, "I and your cousin are busy with these things, how do you say that you are a little woman who has these things?" ”

Jiang Li listened in the blink of an eye, and suddenly asked, "Do you have any dealings with Qingfeng Village?" ”

"Where did I know the people from Qingfeng Village!" Mei Yuanshan said angrily.

Mei Zixuan said lightly: "In fact, the people who come to buy the quotations are very mysterious, and I also asked the shopkeeper in the commercial building afterwards, and they know a little bit of information about the guests." Among the guests who came were a few guests from Qingzhou, even if they were really from Qingfeng Village, they seemed to be just small minions, and they didn't buy much goods each time, and they definitely couldn't reach the big smuggling as the government said. ”

Mei Zixuan had a puzzled expression on his face, and said to his father: "Actually, a few days before the government searched the commercial building, I went to check the account books, and the most people who bought this kind of quotation were people in the city, and the amount was not large, but there were many people, and some of the shopkeepers happened to know each other. ”

Mei Yuanshan and his son looked at each other, and they couldn't notice anything wrong, so they put the topic aside and didn't think about it.

Mei Zixuan rearranged the chessboard and prepared to start a new game, "Cousin really wants to open a brocade workshop here?" ”

"Of course it's true." Jiang Li replied lightly. "It's not just in the south of the Yangtze River, maybe it will develop in Qingzhou in the future." As he spoke, he stared intently at the chessboard.

"What about going to Qingzhou, so you have a plan?" Mei Zixuan still didn't believe it.

Jiang Li replied calmly: "Of course." I even found a partner, and the contract was signed. According to the contract, he provided me with the best loom for weaving cloud brocade in Nanchen, and also sent craftsmen by the way, so that I could recruit a lot of people to learn brocade, and I would not worry that my workshop would not develop. "Mei Zixuan still thinks she's just talking?

Mei Zixuan was also very enthusiastic: "I don't know how long this ship will be detained by the government." But just this time is free, since my cousin is going to open a workshop, I will take advantage of this time to help you look around to see if there is a suitable location. ”

"Well, thank you······"

It's another day, the afternoon of Mei Mansion. Mrs. Mei walked into the study with the girl, the girl held a tray in her hand, and a bowl of hot soup on the tray was a bowl of steam, Mrs. Mei took it in her hand, handed it to Mei Yuanshan with both hands, watched him close the account book, took the bowl and drank the soup, and then said: "Don't worry too much, losing some silver is a small matter, your body is important." ”

Mei Yuanshan snorted, leaned his head on the back of the chair and closed his eyes to recuperate.

Mrs. Mei thought for a while, pursed her lips before saying, "Jiang Li went to her second and third uncle's house, and these days my younger brothers and sisters come to talk to me from time to time, and they all ask me about Jiang Li's situation, and they seem to be very concerned about her life's affairs." ”

"After all, they are all aunts, and they should be cared for. As my own uncle, I haven't even remembered it. Mei Yuanshan replied.

"Think about it," Mrs. Mei pulled a chair and sat down beside her husband, "There are several children in the second and third families who have not married, you said that the two younger siblings came to ask Jiang Li's situation, is it the idea of kissing and kissing?" ”

Mei Yuanshan frowned, "Maybe it's because you're too careful." The second and third children's family income has not been as good as before in the past two years, and there are those situations in their house, alas, what do you think! ”

Mrs. Mei observed her words and said cautiously: "It is precisely because their family's income is not as good as before that they will want to fight Jiang Li's idea more." You must know that my father and mother spoiled my fourth sister very much, and the dowry that accompanied her was a lot of money in the shop alone, but it was not less than your three brothers. Although you all have a share of the fleet, didn't the fourth sister get the only mine on the outskirts of Beijing? ”

Mrs. Mei looked at her husband's face with displeasure, and said tentatively: "Look, the second and third brothers' families are not as good as ours, not to mention their children, no matter their character, appearance and talent, none of them can show off to our family." Instead of letting their family compete for the lead, let's ask Jiang Li first to see if she is interested in Zixuan? ”

Mei Yuanshan opened his eyes.

Mrs. Mei continued: "Jiang Li is your niece, she has no parents now, just in time for our family to join her family, she looks like she is worthy of Zixuan, let's have a kiss and a kiss, this is called fat water does not flow into the field of outsiders." ”

Mrs. Mei said that seeing Mei Yuanshan, she still opened her eyes blankly, her elbows crutched, and she said angrily: "If you don't say anything, I'll go and ask Jiang Li?" ”

"Can't ask!" Mei Yuanshan made a serious face, "When you ask her, if she refuses in her heart, I'm afraid that she will be embarrassed to live in our house anymore, and when the time comes, we won't be able to keep anyone." ”

"That?"

"Let's see, see if there is any fate between them." Mei Yuanshan squinted.

Mrs. May sat for a while and left the study. After she left, Mei Zixuan turned out behind a pillar at the door of the study, and was about to enter the study, but after thinking about it, she took a few steps back and turned around.