Xi Yunzhi has recently developed a new dish, which is to coat all kinds of fruits in flour, put them in a pot and fry them, and then dip them in sugar while they are hot.

Bu Qin has always been talking to Xiao Luo in the study these days, and when she talks about it, Xi Yunzhi occasionally goes to bring them food, and all she hears is something about the offensive and defensive layout, and she is not interested, so she puts down her things and leaves.

Xiao Luo is the son from the capital, it seems that he is the one who came to persuade her husband to go back to the capital, his identity must be either rich or noble, this Xi Yunzhi has never doubted, these can be glimpsed from the degree of Lu Xiu and Yang Xiao's stammering with him.

The husband told her that they would leave in a month, and Xi Yunzhi hadn't been to the store these days, and was packing up with Liu's mother and Ruyi Ruyue at home.

Although Ruyi Ruyue is young, she also knows that although the Bu family seems to have a small family, they are very good to them from the master to the young master to the lady, so these two girls are also willing to follow Xi Yunzhi to the capital.

Mother Liu can be said to be alone, and it makes no difference to her where she does things, not to mention, the Bu family is very generous to her subordinates, and she is naturally willing to follow.

Xi Yunzhi was lying on the desk to record the product, but Ruyi welcomed a person in from outside, Zhang Yanfeng rushed back, and before he touched his own door, he came directly to Xi Yunzhi.

Seeing that there was tea on the table, he drank it, Ruyi Ruyue knew that he was a friend of his wife, and he had long been accustomed to his casual behavior.

"I'm telling you, it's really good luck for people to be lucky, and heaven will help."

Xi Yunzhi put the brush holder on the inkstone, took out a handkerchief from his waist and wiped his hands, and said, "Really? Boss Zhang has been lucky recently, let's hear about it. ”

Zhang Yan glared at her, then pointed at her and said:

"It's not me, it's you, Boss Xi."

Xi Yunzhi raised his eyebrows: "Oh? I would like to hear about it. ”

Zhang Yan waved his hand to let Ruyi and Ruyue step down, and he sat on the Taishi chair next to Xi Yunzhi, approached her and said:

"Didn't you tell me to go to the Coastal Division in Shandong? I went, and the people looked for it, and those brothers were too face-saving, and after drinking a few times, they wanted to bow down to me, saying that they would strictly inquire about the boats we proposed, and how many days could they be delayed, but guess what? ”

Xi Yunzhi thought while listening, and saw that he was holding back his strength to sell Guanzi, so he asked as he wished: "What's the matter?" ”

"What's wrong?" Zhang Yan slapped the table excitedly: "On the boat of those grandsons, there is really a problem." Private salt! Those grandsons dared to use public boats to sell smuggled salt, do you think it should be! ”

Xi Yunzhi was a little confused: "Private salt? ”

She didn't even think of this question, but when she thought about it, it wasn't right. Those shopkeepers have been smuggling for several years, it is impossible for them to sell smuggled salt so stupidly, if they are really so stupid, then how can they go for so many years?

"It's private salt. When the brothers from the coastal division went to check, I also went in to take a look, and the small half of the warehouse under the cabin was covered with a piece of oilcloth paper and transported over in this way. ”

“……”

Xi Yunzhi was even more puzzled: "Only a small half warehouse of private salt? What about the rest of the goods? What's in it? ”

Zhang Yan recalled: "Others, just some very normal fabrics, silk or something, I didn't look at them one by one, they were all piled aside." ”

Xi Yunzhi felt even more strange, as long as a person with a normal brain couldn't put private salt and cloth in the same cabin, they weren't afraid that the cloth would be soaked in salt water and wouldn't be able to sell it? There must be something in it that she didn't know.

"Do you know where these goods came from and where they passed?"

Xi Yunzhi has a conjecture in his heart, which only needs to be verified.

Zhang Yan said like a few treasures:

"I knew you would ask, things are transported from southern Xinjiang, passing through Fuzhou, Guangxi, Guizhou, Nanning, and finally Shandong."

Xi Yunzhi thought about all these places, and Zhang Yan saw that she hadn't spoken for a long time, thinking that she was excited, so he said:

"What are you thinking, this matter is enough for the shopkeepers of the Xi family to have a headache, maybe they will be arrested and tortured, the Xi family has no shopkeepers, it is equivalent to being cut off, and it is not for you to fish and meat."

Xi Yunzhi retracted her gaze, and when she saw Zhang Yanmao trying to explain to her, she couldn't help but smile: "Okay, I know, you go back, pay attention to the movements of the Xi family in the store." ”

Zhang Yan felt that Xi Yunzhi's reaction was a little strange, but she also knew that even if she asked, she wouldn't tell him, so she simply didn't ask, anyway, she would do whatever she told her to do, her brain was always brighter than his, and she would never take him to the ditch.

Ruyi sent him out, he looked at the busyness of the house again, and when he walked to the courtyard gate, he asked Ruyi what was going on, and Ruyi told him that in a month, they would move to the capital.

Zhang Yan left the Bujia thoughtfully.

***

At night, Xi Yunzhi leaned on the soft couch to read the embroidery book, after Bu Qin came back from the study, she put down the embroidery book and greeted him, changed his clothes for him, Xi Yunzhi brought two plates of fruit, put them on the coffee table in the middle of the soft couch, and the two of them enjoyed the silence quietly.

Xi Yunzhi looked at a few pages of the embroidery book, then looked up at Bu Qin, and hesitated for a while before asking:

"Husband, do you know that something happened to the ships of the Xi family's shopkeepers."

Bu Qin's flipping hand paused for a moment, and then he looked up at her with an indifferent look: "Huh? Is it? ”

When Xi Yunzhi saw him like this, he closed the embroidery book in his hand, sat up straight, and said to him:

"Bags of smuggled salt appeared on their ships, bags and bags of smuggled salt."

Bu Qin still looked uninterested: "Well, is it? ”

Xi Yunzhi thought for a while, and said, "Yes." I heard that the smuggled salt was transported to the ship from Nanning Province......"

Bu Qin couldn't hold it this time, put down the military book in his hand, sat cross-legged opposite her in the same way as Xi Yunzhi, picked up a piece of apple and took a bite, but he hooked his lips and smiled at Xi Yunzhi:

"You know too much."

Xi Yunzhi shrugged disappreciatively: "I knew that it was your husband who secretly made the ghost, no matter how stupid those shopkeepers are, it is impossible for them to put smuggling salt on their own cargo ships." ”

Bu Qin nodded to Xi Yunzhi: "It's just a few cargo ships, they should be glad that what I let them put is only private salt, not explosives." ”

Xi Yunzhi saw that her husband had done something bad, and she had an arrogant attitude of biting others to thank him for not doing anything more evil, she didn't feel funny, and she couldn't help but think of another thing in her mind, this man was always behind her back, secretly doing something that moved her.

"I knew it was you who helped, and this matter is fine, my father's thing...... Okay, thank you. ”

Bu Tan's eyes darkened, and he frowned and asked, "I did this thing, your father...... I don't remember what I did? ”

Xi Yunzhi saw that he still didn't admit it, so he didn't want to hide it anymore, and directly said what he already knew:

"I boiled eggs for my father in Chinese New Year's Eve, do you know why I didn't serve him food after that?" Seeing that Bu Qin's refusal of the fruit became slow, Xi Yunzhi continued: "Because my father eats eggs not by peeling them, but like eating pickled duck eggs, knocking a hole in the head of the egg, and then picking and eating it with chopsticks, this habit has been with him for decades and cannot be changed. But on the morning of the first day of the new year, there were only some broken egg shells in the dishes I put away, and I knew that the person who ate the food I served a few days ago was definitely not my father. And those who will do those who comfort me, except for you, husband, it is impossible for anyone else to do it. ”

“……”

Bu Qin put all the fruits in his mouth, and after eating a few bites, he told Xi Yunzhi the truth:

"Your father now lives in Wang Er Mazi Lane in Xicheng, I went to look for him, but he didn't want to see me."

After hearing this, Xi Yunzhi silently lowered his head: "My father has a good face and a strong temper, my mother once said that he is a donkey, he is a donkey, and he refuses to wake up from the fact that my mother died." ”

“……”

Bu Qin grabbed Xi Yunzhi's hand and held it in the palm of her hand, now that she knew it, he had nothing to hide.

"Originally, I wanted to tell him to go to the capital with us, so as not to worry about you and the two places, but he ......"

“……”

Xi Yunzhi didn't speak, just looked down at the hands of the two of them, and was silent for a long time.

***

In the next few days, Luoyang City fell into a wave of rumors.

The Xi family overnight, as if being cocooned and stripped of the silk, dozens of shops have closed down one after another, and the former creditors from all walks of life are afraid that the Xi family will run away, so they squat in front of the Xi family every day to ask for debts, and when they see someone coming out, they will swarm up and surround the people.

All this is because several big shopkeepers of the Xi family actually smuggled goods behind the back of the main family, not to mention, they also had the audacity to smuggle smuggled salt, and regarded the law as nothing.

In just a few months, the Xi family suffered a catastrophe, first the fourth room fell out with the Zhizhou Mansion, and then the grandmother in charge of the fifth room was arrested, and their vitality was greatly injured, as if to prove to the people of Luoyang City that their Xi family is still a big tree that does not fall down in the wind and rain, and they have opened several shops in a row, and they are rich and rich, so that people dare not underestimate them.

Who would have thought that in just ten days, such a big thing happened, the Xi family could be regarded as losing their wife and soldiers this time, they invested huge manpower and material resources in order to defeat Xi Yunzhi's shop, but they didn't expect it to be this kind of result, the various punishments of the government can hollow out all the Xi family, and then, they have to deal with the debts accumulated in business for so many years, but they really don't even have a coffin.

The Xi family was desperate, so they had to start selling their real estate, they sold it there, Xi Yunzhi asked Zhang Yan to collect it in secret, not to mention dozens of shops in a row, and even the Xi family's ancestral house was scraped into her pocket.

The Xi family was forced to move out of their ancestral home, and the overstretched situation forced them to move to the impoverished Xicheng. For a while, it was extremely miserable.

The author has something to say: Hehe, the second update~~~ At this point in time, is there another one? Like, like!

ps: Thank you to Yao Fei Yujun who gave me mines and rocket artillery, thank you!