44. Betrayal of the Lord
"This is, Yanxia Jin?"
Yanxia brocade is a specialty of Gannan, the biggest peculiarity of this brocade is that it is as beautiful as a dream, the color has not been bleached and dyed at all, and it is woven with natural colored silk.
Because the silkworms are not easy to survive, and this smoke and haze brocade is really beautiful, but everyone who sees it is as intoxicated as it is, so that the price has been high, and it is not an exaggeration to say that the price is better than gold.
Rao is Zhou Jing was born as an imperial businessman, and she was also a little dumbfounded at this time.
To carefully shake off the fabric, a few people only felt that Zhou Jing's hands seemed to fall a room of smoke, and what was even more incredible was that the two phoenix birds on the smoke were driving auspicious clouds, the golden phoenix feathers were luster, the small phoenix crown was noble and beautiful, and the dark eyes were extraordinary, because the window was open, the smoke brocade was shining with beautiful crepe lines in the breeze, and the phoenix seemed to come to life, dancing in the breeze......
"This embroidery must be from the hand of the Golden Needle Ge Clan!" Zhou Jing was already out of voice, and the next moment she grabbed Xihe's hand tightly, fearing that as soon as her hand was released, Xihe would run away, "Ahe, what do you want me to exchange for?" Don't worry, if I open my mouth, even if I can't do it, my brother will definitely be able to do it. β
Don't blame Zhou Jing for being so out of shape, it's really a big deal, if the cloth sent out by her family was really rejected by the three princes, not to mention how much silver taels she lost, it was that the status of the emperor and merchant could not be stable.
"Is it that if I have a problem and ask Ah Jing for a problem, and I don't have enough benefits, Ah Jing won't help me?" Xihe did not answer Zhou Jing's question head-on, but turned his head and asked.
"How so!" Zhou Jing was a little confused, but she still patted her chest very boldly and said, "Ah He has any difficulties, just tell me, we are good sisters, I don't want you to give any benefits." β
"Then you said you were going to give me something to change." Xihe had already taken the box containing the smoke brocade and stuffed it into Zhou Jing's hand, "If you are so polite to me again, I am really angry." β
Although according to Zhou Jing's statement, this Yanxia brocade with Ge's embroidery is afraid that it will not be worth 10,000 gold, but the most important thing in his family is silver, not to mention that Xihe always feels that the origin of this cloth is a little weird-
If you want to talk about this box, it's not the first time I've seen it.
As early as six years ago, when Xihe went to the treasury with his brother to look for something, he found it in one of the most inconspicuous corners. Even when he took it out and showed it to his mother happily, his mother was startled, and finally took it out of her hand in a hurry, and threw it back to the treasury before her father came back.
According to my own opinion, this so-called gold needle Ge's embroidery, which is worth 10,000 gold, is afraid that it will only end up being corrupted into ashes if it is left in his own home, so it is better to give it to Zhou Jing, and it still has some meaning......
It can be seen that Xihe is indeed sincere, plus this embroidery is really useful to the Zhou family, and Zhou Jing is not a hypocritical person, so she took a deep breath and reached out to hold the box and Xihe together:
"Okay, Ahhe, thank you, I'm no, our Zhou family owes you a favor......"
turned around and looked at Cheng Man, who was also shocked by the exquisite embroidery:
"Sister Man, I'm afraid I'll have to bother you to go to Beijing with me."
Because of the suspense of family affairs, early the next morning, Zhou Jing said goodbye to Xihe Yiyi, and there was another Cheng Xiu among the people who only went on the road together-
Cheng Xiu is going to Beijing to take the exam in the coming year, and he was going to go to the capital in advance, and the sisters and brothers have never been separated since they were young, even if Zhou Jing is also familiar with each other, Cheng Xiu is still not worried that Cheng Man will go so far away, and finally arranged for the family to follow together.
"You want to go to Qingfeng with me?" Watching the carriage and horses of several people gradually move away, Xihe turned to look at Shang Yan-
It's been so long, Shang Cheng must have gained a foothold in the capital, according to Xihe's meaning, it is naturally the safest to go to the capital with Zhou Jing and others, who would have thought that Shang Yan was unwilling to do so anyway, saying that he still wanted to learn more things from Xihe's side.
Shang Yan didn't expect Xihe to ask this question, she was stunned for a moment, and the next moment her face turned a little pale, and as soon as her legs were weak, she was about to kneel:
"Miss, it's none of my father's business, it's all my own decision-"
But Xihe held his hands and said gently:
"Ayan, don't be afraid, I can trust your father's character, since I dare to reuse him, I will not doubt him. It's you, I'm afraid you're making your father sad......"
"Does the young lady know everything?" Shang Yan's eyes suddenly turned red, but she no longer avoided Xihe's eyes, and her expression became more stubborn, "I know that there is no one in this world who loves me more than my father, and Miss's ability is not bad compared to the previous young master, and she will never do anything wrong." But I still don't believe ......"
Although she said this, Shang Yan's expression was obviously a little confused and a little struggling:
"Miss didn't know that before she met the young master, there was a very difficult time at home...... At that time, it was really poor, and there were still people who wanted to pay for debts every day...... No child wants to play with me, except for Zhou Qing......"
When the name Zhou Qing was spoken, Shang Yan was already choked up.
The Zhou Qing in Shang Yan's mouth, Xihe also knows it, is it the son of Zhou Minghou, the chief steward in charge of the Qingfeng business and the most powerful in the stewardship?
To say that among all the stewards, the first person to know that Brother Ah left and entrusted the family business to his sister was Zhou Minghou.
It's also that he took it for granted, thinking that this person could be valued by his brother, and he must be a loyal person, and he actually directly confessed to Zhou Ming when he first took power and had not yet gained a firm foothold.
thought that his openness and honesty would be able to exchange this person's loyalty as if he were his brother, but the truth was fundamentally opposite.
Or do you think that after all, she is a deep boudoir woman, how can she take over a huge family business? or he claims to be an old man under his brother, coupled with people's greed, the father and son of the Zhou family clearly did not take themselves seriously. If it weren't for the entanglement between his grandfather and Gu Chengshan of Qingfeng Zhizhou some time ago that involved Shang Cheng, he wouldn't have known that Qingfeng's situation had been so bad that Cheng dΓΉ-
Unlike other firms, the meaning of Qingfeng Firm's deposit is not to make money at all, but to spend money.
Because Qingfeng is located on the main road of water and land transportation, it is not an exaggeration to say that it is like a cloud, and the Qingfeng Restaurant under the leadership of Zhou Minghou is naturally prosperous.
But Brother Ah never asked Zhou Minghou to hand over a penny of profits.
There is no other reason, a business goods from all over the world almost have to pass through Qingfeng transit, so it has become the first priority to dredge all channels and ensure that their goods will never be left in trouble by all parties; The second brother thinks that no matter what class it is, if you want to make one thing bigger, you must pay attention to one thing, that is, to seize the opportunity.
Qingfeng is the most convenient location for information from all over the world, so Qingfeng has another task, that is, it is responsible for collecting relevant information brought by merchants from all over the world, and integrating the most valuable information to Anzhou, so as to facilitate the brother to make the right decision.
Since last year, I have felt that something is wrong - although Qingfeng still has carrier pigeons every few days, the news that can be transmitted is all trivial things that are short of the East and the West, but there is almost no value. Thanks to the experience he had with his brother before, he could barely cope with the situation in front of him, otherwise, he was afraid that his business would have been messed up long ago.
That's not all, but I know from Shang Cheng's mouth that even Qingfeng's relationship channels have all lost their effectiveness-
It was Shangcheng's family, and in order to dredge up the relationship last year, they spent five or six thousand taels of silver in Qingfeng. Not long ago, Zhou Minghou wrote to him to ask for 5,000 taels of silver, and later reported to himself that all the joints had been opened, but if his goods passed through Qingfeng, he would not suffer the slightest difficulty.
At this time, how can you not know that Zhou Minghou must be the ghost in the middle?
In this way, a silverfish naturally needs to be removed.
Shang Yan's thoughts, Xihe also understands, after all, the reason why Shang Cheng invited himself to Kyoto was not to cut off the relationship between Shang Yan and Zhou Qing-
The so-called knowing daughter Mo Ruo's father, Shang Yan's love is all tied to Zhou Qing, I'm afraid Shang Cheng is also aware of it, right? Even before, it was just that the Zhou family did not come to the door to ask for marriage, otherwise, the two families would have married their children and daughters.