The courtyard prepared by Xu Shixuan is very wide, divided into a front yard and a back yard. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 infoThe front yard is a little square, it should be a place to prepare for official business, and Commander Qin and Qianpin live here with those guards.

The backyard is much more interesting, although it is not like the mansion in the capital with a lake, but there are a lot of trees and flowers. Especially the red maple trees that have been planted for decades in front and back of the main courtyard, like a sea of red fire, which are particularly dazzling in this cold winter, and Chu Shuhuang likes it at a glance.

The rain in the south of Qingchuan is acceptable, but this Yun'an City is still relatively dry, and these green plants in the yard must be carefully managed by special people, and it will be a lot of money for many years.

It can be seen that Xu Shixuan also took a lot of effort to prepare this courtyard.

The shopkeeper in this shop is surnamed Peng, a middle-aged man about forty years old, who came to visit her on the second day of her stay.

Chu Shuhuang specially called Commander Qin and Qianpin in, and Shopkeeper Peng carefully returned to Qingchuan's situation and the business and inventory in the shop.

Among them, there is a very important piece of news, that is, the daughter of the shopkeeper Jia is the concubine of General Ning, the guard general of Qingchuan.

In this way, it is normal for Shopkeeper Jia to become the richest man, and the four of them talked in detail for an hour and a half before Qianpin sent Shopkeeper Peng out.

At the beginning, the person who was arranged by the eldest prince to come here to sell horses to Chu Shuhuang was called Xu Sheng, and he did not settle in Yun'an City, but in a small town near the checkpoint.

Two days later, he also quietly came to the other courtyard to pay a visit.

In addition to the business situation, Xu Sheng has also a very good understanding of the situation outside the customs in the past few years, and introduced it in detail.

There was only a group of horse bandits outside the pass in Qingchuan, but they were very powerful, about five or six hundred men and horses, and all the smuggling transactions were carried out with these horse bandits.

As Chu Shuhuang expected, the peak trading season has long passed. The foreigners had already exchanged all the things they had accumulated over the past year for what they needed, and even if they didn't get enough to survive the winter, it was because they had no goods to exchange.

If you go out at this time, the price will be about 30% lower than in the peak season.

If you want to bypass the horse bandits and trade directly with foreign tribes, Xu Sheng can introduce two families, and the price will be better than that of the horse bandits, but the amount of goods will be relatively small, and you will have to deal with the robbery of the horse bandits.

Chu Shuhuang didn't want to bring Xu Sheng's side in, and after understanding the situation, he asked people to send him out quietly first.

The situation of all parties has been summarized, and there are always trade-offs to weigh the pros and cons, but Xu Shixuan's attitude is still puzzling.

Although he served only as a guerrilla general in the army, he was very supportive of the commanders and soldiers in the army, and it can be said that he was handy and invincible.

So what else do you want to do with smuggling? Don't care about the money?

Did he have something to do with that shopkeeper?

But he is the second son of the Marquis of Jingyuan's Mansion, and if he wants to clean up a businessman, it's not a matter of moving his fingers?

After settling down in the courtyard, Chu Shuhuang asked people to prepare a carriage and wander around the streets of Qingchuan.

After all, it is a border place, and the size of the city alone is much worse than that of the capital, but in half an hour, it is basically finished.

Finally, I came to my own shop.

The name of the shop is to go from east to west, although it is the only shop opened by Chu Shuhuang in Qingchuan, but the shop is very large, and the goods from the south and the north are almost all famous products from all over the world.

There are also a lot of customers in the shop, and it is very lively to come and go.

Chu Shuhuang sat down on the second floor, sipping tea while looking at the pedestrians on the street.

Suddenly, there was a gentle knock on the door, and the shopkeeper Peng came in to ask for instructions, and a young lady came to the store, who was the beloved daughter of General Ning in Qingchuan.

It turned out that half a month ago, there was a batch of new silk in the shop this year, and after Miss Ning saw it, she liked it very much and picked a few back.

It's just that one of them broke down when it was cut, so Miss Ning wanted to ask the store to sell her another one. Shopkeeper Peng replied that the batch of materials had already been sold out, but Miss Ning didn't believe it, thinking that some would definitely be left out for emergencies, so she discussed hard and was willing to buy it at a high price.

Shopkeeper Peng didn't dare to call the shots, so he had to ask Chu Shuhuang.

Miss Ning's expectation was good, there were indeed some materials in that batch, but they were just smuggled out of the customs.

Although Xu Shixuan is the most noble son in Qingchuan, after all, his qualifications are too young, and now he is just training. Although Lao Jing is in the capital, the highest commander in the local army in Qingchuan is General Ning, and Miss Ning's identity is also very delicate.

However, she did not dictate, but discussed sincerely with the shopkeeper, and was even willing to pay a high price to buy.

Chu Shuhuang also liked it very much when he heard it, so give her a horse, and there is no need to increase the price, just follow the original price.

Shopkeeper Peng went down, and Chu Shuhuang stood behind the window, silently looking through the gap.

Miss Ning is fourteen or fifteen years old, wearing a narrow jacket of red satin with gold and butterflies on her upper body, a long skirt embroidered with dark flowers in water green, and a brocade and wool cloak on her outer body.

Her skin was not dull by the wind and sand of Qingchuan, it was fair and lush, bright and moving, as pitiful as the delicate buds.

After listening to the words of the shopkeeper Peng, he thanked him happily again and again.

The corners of Chu Shuhuang's mouth curled slightly when she saw it, she was really a hearty girl, probably influenced by her father, not as elegant as the daughter of a scholar.

After Miss Ning bought the materials, she took people away, but when she turned around, she seemed to glance at Chu Shuhuang's window.

Suddenly, a strange feeling surged in Chu Shuhuang's heart, and the good feeling just now was gone.

After thinking about it for a while, I didn't understand what was going on, and I didn't suffer a loss anyway, so I just threw it down and didn't think about it.

The next day, Chu Shuhuang was practicing calligraphy in the house, and Yun Ruo came in with a post, and it turned out that the shopkeeper Jia who met in Ling'an City came to visit.

Obviously, the shopkeeper Jia knew that she was the owner of the family.

Chu Shuhuang stared out the window, frowning slightly, she didn't think Xu Shixuan was innocent. Originally, she just wanted to hide behind the scenes, but with the visit of Shopkeeper Jia, her plan fell through.

Could it be that the Marquis of Jingyuan Mansion has really joined forces with the Marquis of Weiyuan, and what is the benefit to them in doing so?

But Chu Shuhuang didn't feel malice from Xu Shixuan's body, there was no ironclad evidence, she didn't want to think so badly of people.

asked Qianpin to come in, and Chu Shuhuang explained a few words and asked him to greet the shopkeeper Jia.

I never thought of doing my own business, since Shopkeeper Jia wanted to do business with her, then do it well, but this rule has to be decided by her.

Qianpin asked the shopkeeper Jia to invite the shopkeeper to the flower hall in the front yard, and after a few polite and distant greetings, he asked the shopkeeper Jia's intention. (To be continued.) )