40. Ignore it
Lu Wan was a little stunned by the question, her eyes grew slightly, and she spread her hands with a smile: "What you asked is really ...... Pingnan Wangfu is different from the Wang family, is it a powerful family? If the Wang family is not suitable, then the palace is even more inappropriate! If nothing else, it's not the right age. After a pause, Lu Wan muttered angrily, "Besides, King Pingnan is a military general, you are a civil official, and you have just been promoted, isn't it taboo for the two families to marry?" β
Lu Chenghui raised his eyebrows slightly, with a helpless smile in his eyes, put down the teacup, looked at Lu Wan, and taught in a gentle voice: "Your father is not old and confused, that's not your business!" King Pingnan only has such an only son, so he naturally has to choose a daughter-in-law. The people of the Wei family have been practicing martial arts since childhood, and they have been trained in the military camp at the age of fifteen or sixteen, and the age of marriage is naturally later than ordinary people, and King Pingnan was also married after twenty-five. Your grandfather met Wei Jian back then, and said that the boy was stoic, intuitive, and a malleable talent. β
"When did Grandpa see him?" Lu Wan blinked in surprise, really surprised, "How old was Wei Ji at that time?" Not even ten years old, right? β
Lu Chenghui smiled and nodded, looking at his daughter gently holding the teacup with a face full of amazement and sighing in surprise, but his thoughts gradually drifted away. The Wang family and the Wei family, on the one hand, are the nobles of the family who have inherited a hundred years of ability, and on the other hand, they are the founding nobles with deep power and heavy soldiers...... That's enough. After the old man left, the people of the Shen family were old and scattered, and the Lu family had an unstable foundation, even if he could protect his daughter for a while, he couldn't protect him for a lifetime after all. The old man handed over Ah Qing to him back then, but he lived up to the old man's high expectations, and his wife and daughter didn't protect him. Now that it was his turn, he suddenly understood what kind of mood the old man had in handing over A-Qing to him back then. He can protect his daughter for a while, but he can't protect her for a lifetime, not to mention that this girl is wild and bold, he has to find someone who can protect her!
"That's not appropriate, this person looks gloomy." Lu Wan muttered, thought about it, suddenly had more cunning in her eyes, propped her head to look at Lu Chenghui, and said tentatively, "Or, Dad will give me a big deal?" You see my temperament, I'm not a good person to serve my in-lawsβ"
"What kind of person do you think would be willing to join the Lu family?" Lu Chenghui glanced at Lu Wan disapprovingly, his voice was stern with a little helplessness, and he pointed to Lu Wan's brain, "Any man who has a little ability must be a little arrogant, and those who can enter the woman's family are either forced to be helpless or ask for something else." If you don't want to be constrained by others, why do you think that others will be willing? Ah Wan, you remember, the rules of this world are like this, you are a woman, there are some things you can think about, but you can't do it, you can give people a handle, some things can be done, but you can't say it, it's not yours to declare it. You have to know how to hide and show weakness when necessary. This root is a truth in business, you go back and think about it. β
Lu Wan blinked, the stunned in his eyes flashed, and then he smiled crookedly, looked at his father with admiration, and nodded hurriedly.
When Lu Wan came out of the study, it was already the end of the unitary hour, all the way back to Wangmei Courtyard, just entered the weeping flower gate, and saw the green branch running back from outside, panting and replied: "Girl, just now Fourth Brother Zhao came over and passed on the words of the shopkeeper Zheng, saying that the shopkeeper Zheng wants to see the girl again, and asks the girl when she will be free." β
When Lu Wan heard this, she had a rough idea in her heart, with a hint of a smile in her eyes, and nodded and instructed Lu Zhi: "Just Ming'er." You ask people to go to the Xu family and the Wang family, and ask Sister Xu and A Xiaoming'er if they are free, let's go to the street to see the excitement! β
Lu Zhi hurriedly agreed, and rushed out to find Zhao Xiaosi to pass the word.
Early the next morning, the carriage of the Lu family stopped at the mouth of the alley next to the Zuiyue Building, Lu Wan got off the carriage in the alley wearing a hat, led by a neatly dressed daughter-in-law, and quietly entered the courtyard at the back of the Zuiyue Building from the back corner door. Shopkeeper Zheng and Shopkeeper Yue of Zuiyue Building were already waiting at the gate of the courtyard, and when they caught a glimpse of Lu Wan entering the door, they hurriedly greeted him.
The shopkeeper Yue smiled diligently and invited people inside, while signaling the daughter-in-law who had led the way before to hurry up and serve tea.
"Don't be busy, I'll just sit in the side room and go out with someone in a while." Lu Wan stopped the shopkeeper Yue's words with a smile, shook her head at the daughter-in-law who followed behind, and motioned to Lu Zhi and the two mothers-in-law to wait for Xu Yao and Wang Xiao downstairs, and took Yumo and a few girls to the second floor.
As soon as he sat down, before Lu Wan could ask, he saw Zheng Xinghe bowing solemnly at the door, and begged with a sad face: "Girl, you have to get an idea for me about this!" The fourth master of the Wei family, Ning Siye, has been following me silently every day since the beginning of the new year, asking him what is going on, but he doesn't say anything, only says that it is their master's orders...... Hey, I've said all the good and bad things, and that Ning Siye didn't listen to it at all, so he followed inch by inch, cough cough, even the last thatched house...... He has to keep it, too! I really couldn't help it, so I came to ask the girl for an idea. β
Lu Wan listened to Zheng Xinghe's cry in surprise and amusement, raised her eyebrows, and asked with a smile: "That Ning Si, is the person who smashed silver at the yamen to buy a shop before?" β
"Isn't it!" Zheng Xinghe sighed angrily, and at the same time was a little weak, and at the same time he was a little weak, and he looked at Lu Wan's expression, his eyes moved, and he coughed with his hands, "That master came here yesterday, and he didn't buy anything, so he stared at the medicinal materials in the shop for a long time, and then didn't say a word, turned around and left." β
"Okay, okay, don't pretend to me!" Lu Wan pierced Zheng Xinghe angrily, and waved his hand helplessly, "I know what you think." South Vietnam is the territory of the Wei family, and we can do business there with the support of the Wei family. However, there must be good and bad in everything, let the Wei family intervene, then the business of Jingfeng Pharmaceutical Store is not something that you and I can count with a word. It's not a bad thing to dry that prince at this time. Go back and tell that Ning Si that you want to borrow the Dao of the Mystery Forest Mountain, you can. But we are businessmen, and we only talk about business and nothing else. If you want us to make profits, he has to come up with business chips first. β
Zheng Xinghe nodded yes with a smile and said yes, and hurriedly agreed, seeing that Lu Wan had no other instructions, Fang bowed his body and quit and withdrew, and ran down from the upstairs with the shopkeeper Yue who was still in the clouds, and gave a careful instruction, and then hurriedly returned to Jingfeng Pharmacy.
After a while, Wang Xiao and Xu Yao also arrived at Zuiyue Building, and found Lu Wan upstairs, and the three of them drank tea together, laughed and sat in a carriage, and went all the way to the newly opened porcelain shops on the street to see the excitement.
Because of the Chinese New Year, the streets are very lively, and groups of children from various families have laughed and laughed on the streets, and the already lively streets have become even more lively. Fortunately, the newly opened porcelain shops are not on the main street, the shops are also large, divided into several entrances, and there are also special places to receive female dependents, the layout is also very elegant, and the small things on display are also very interesting.
Wang Xiao excitedly pulled Xu Yao and Lu Wan and watched them one by one with great interest. It wasn't until almost noon that a few people went back to Zuiyue Tower from the street, went to the private room upstairs in the backyard for lunch, and agreed to go out on a cruise to see the lanterns together during the Lantern Festival, and then they dispersed.
Lu Wan watched the carriage of the Wang family and the Xu family leave, then got into the carriage, took a cup of hot tea and rested on the inner wall of the carriage, walked for about a quarter of an hour, and arrived in a secluded alley not far from the Lu Mansion, the carriage gradually stopped, the curtain of the carriage shook slightly, and his consciousness was still a little confused, only to hear Zhou Tai's voice outside: "That master followed all the way behind." β
Lu Wan was already a little sleepy, and she heard this in a daze, and she didn't react for a while: "Who?" β
Zhou Tai's voice froze, and he explained in a muffled voice: "The prince of the Wei family has been following behind, as if he wants to see you. β
As soon as Zhou Tai's words fell, Lu Wan suddenly woke up, and his drowsiness disappeared instantly, frowning and lifting the curtain of the car to look out, but he happened to meet the sight of the person in the alley.
"Why is this person like this-" Lu Wan glared at him, took a breath, threw down the curtain angrily, frowned and pursed his lips, he really didn't know what to say......
Should she be glad that he didn't do it directly this time, at least knowing that he had restrained tactfully? But this silent stalking of other people's little girls doesn't look like it's serious, right? Why can't he do something normal people do?
Lu Wan sighed weakly, and waved her hand at Zhou Tai depressedly and helplessly: "He, a big man, why is he following my little girl so swaggering in broad daylight?" You tell him, I don't care about the owner, if there is anything to ask him to go directly to Zheng Xinghe, it's useless to spend it with me. After that, he instructed the green branch, "Let's go first." β
Lu Zhi hurriedly agreed, and instructed the mother-in-law who was driving to hurry to Lu Mansion.
Zhou Tai looked at the carriage in amazement, stunned for a moment, glanced at the other end of the alley with a strange face, and then quickened his pace, his body swayed lightly, and he didn't see much movement, and in the blink of an eye, he jumped to the other end of the alley, arched his hand to the gloomy guard, and passed Lu Wan's words one by one.