"This board?"

Standing on the dock, Ah Yao looked at the wooden planks stretched down from the boat, and a hint of suspicion flashed in her eyes. The plank in front of me was about two feet wide, stretching out a foot from the side of the pier and resting firmly on the shore.

It's not like she's never been on a boat before, and it stands to reason that there is a mechanism fixed to the boat and the ground at both ends, whether it's a gangway or a plank, and it won't shake when it's steady and light. The same is true of the wooden board in front of her, obviously her feet are still very stable when she intends to step on them, how to lift her feet The board suddenly warped.

Raise......

It seems that someone deliberately stepped on the boat. Who is it? Carefully remembering the person who was standing on the boat just now, then Ah Yao turned her head and looked at the young man in Xuanyi beside her suspiciously.

"Brother Jing?"

"Well," a touch of unnaturalness flashed on Lu Jingyuan's face: "The board is unstable, so I will order someone to change to the gangway." ”

The unnatural touch was too fast, so fast that it seemed to be her hallucination. Just as A-Yao began to hesitate, she heard a rather abrupt self-proclaim. This candidate? It seems that when Brother Jing gets along with her in private, he rarely calls himself like this. And the few times in my memory, one was when I asked about the rules of the Hou Mansion, and the other time was when I was given a tiger bone by the apprentice Daoming in Baicaotang.

There are also a few times, it seems to ...... It was when he was embarrassed.

No way? Brother Jing has a cold face all day long, a resolute personality, and acts decisively, will he still be embarrassed like this?

"The planks are also very good, I grew up in Qingcheng, and I don't take a boat on weekdays, so this little thing is fine."

A bold guess rose in his heart, and before he could react, A-Yao boarded the boat with the help of a wooden plank. Walking up to the boat in three or two steps, looking at the slightly upturned plank, she bent her knees and jumped up mischievously. As the toes lifted and landed, the other end of the plank was raised again, and Lu Jingyuan, who was about to follow the board, was defenseless and looked up at her in surprise.

And so it was.

Wrinkled his nose slightly, and while he was stunned, Ah Yao bent down to lift both sides of the plank, slid up slightly, and skillfully got the plank onto the boat.

"Let's settle down."

Since her rebirth, A-Yao has always been a little depressed. She felt that the reason why she was deceived by Shen Moci and Song Qinwen in her previous life was that she was too incompetent in the final analysis. Although it is wrong for the two of them to deceive people, if she can be smarter and more capable to support the Hu family's business, there is no hope of helping Daddy avenge herself.

Blaming herself in her heart but not wanting Daddy to worry, she brought herself a mask. On the surface, she is still the only daughter of the carefree Hu family under the favor of her father, but in fact, she is also anxious, anxious about how to change her previous life and reverse her fate, and she is also anxious to strengthen herself.

For this reason, she changed the lazy style of the previous thirteen years, got up early every day to enter the academy, racked her brains to sabotage Shen Moci's plan in her previous life, and then tried her best to contact the Hu family's business. The hard work paid off, and finally Shen Moci's true face was exposed, and she also worshipped two masters. Even yesterday, even the business management that had been pressing on her heart had an eyebrow, the Hu family accepted the Shen family's five shops, and she sorted out the people available in the shops.

Although the help of your uncle is indispensable, for her who knew nothing about business in her previous life, it is already the most successful step she has taken in her previous life. The heart that had been worried before finally settled, it turned out that managing the shop was not as difficult as imagined, as long as she worked hard, she could do it.

The most worried thing has an eyebrow, and the big stone in her heart is put down, and she begins to gradually liberate her nature.

Who is A-Yao? That's Hu Jiuling's only daughter who has been spoiled since she was a child, and the eldest lady who grew up in the golden jade pile, has enough confidence. was obedient in front of Lu Jingyuan before, but because he was depressed, he was not afraid of her at all. This will be relieved, knowing that she has been tricked, she subconsciously returns it.

"This is the ship that reported the name of the Hu family?"

Jianhu Wharf is divided into sections, with large merchants occupying one area and small merchants occupying one area, and each family's boat is fixed in which position. Even if some small businesses often vacate space for various reasons, this kind of thing is not the turn of the Hu family. A-Yao came today for the strange ship that suddenly appeared, and after entering the dock, the coachman drove the carriage directly to the area where the Hu family was located.

A-Yao was generally clear about the boats in her own house, and along the way, she checked with the people who often run the dock, and after confirming that it was correct, she noticed this black boat at the first glance when she entered the dock, not to mention how eye-catching this boat was among the ships that the Hu family cleaned up and exuded the bright color of logs. When I came earlier, I didn't need any homework, and I knew that it was this one when I glanced at it.

"I'll take a look first, Brother Jing, you come up slowly, be careful not to fall into the water, A-Yao doesn't know martial arts."

After saying that, Ah Yao turned around, pulled up the big boat and walked along the deck towards the center of the ship, not afraid of the unknown origin of the ship.

It's not that she's bold, it's because Brother Jing is here. Although Qingshuang's confession yesterday morning made her doubtful, and later became more and more suspicious at the conscription banquet, but the words he said before leaving after the banquet changed her mind.

"Silly girl, don't be cranky."

Just a few words, without any explanation or promise, made her feel inexplicably at ease.

From the sudden appearance of the Xuanyi boy at the foot of Dongshan to the present, he has never done anything to hurt him. And with him by her side, she seems to have been transferred, and good things come one after another. That's what she saw, she didn't get hurt in any way, and that's enough. As for the rest, she doesn't have the energy to care about it so much now.

She believes in Brother Jing.

Thinking of this, Ah Yao nodded silently, took a step forward, and suddenly stepped on the fine particles of her popliteal feet. Looking down, I don't know when the tips of the clean embroidered shoes were stained with black things, and she was surrounded by this black things.

"What is this?"

"It's black charcoal."

Ah Yao followed the prestige, "Brother Lu Ping? This...... It's Brother Jing's boat, and he brought so much black charcoal? ”

Lu Ping, who was in a dark blue robe, walked over, picked up the black and shiny charcoal on the ground, put his palm flat on it, and handed it to A-Yao.

"In order to prepare this big gift for the girl, Master Hou has not closed his eyes for two nights. Busy during the day...... Everything, take us to this in the evening. ”

"Prepare for me?"

No wonder it was so awkward just now, this was Ah Yao's first reaction. Her guess didn't seem to be wrong.

Of course, this kind of thinking only existed for a moment, a few days before the conscription banquet, Daddy was also coerced by Shen Jinshan because of raw silk, saying that it was raw silk, but in the final analysis, it was not because he couldn't get black charcoal. The painful lessons of her previous life are there, and no one understands the importance of black charcoal better than her.

"This ...... Brother Jing prepared it for me? ”

Lu Ping nodded: "That's right, three days ago, during the third watch, the little marquis took everyone to intercept the ship that was transporting charcoal from the state government to this side, and replaced the charcoal under the ship's cabin with stones. ”

Three days ago, it was not the day before the conscription banquet, it was early that morning that Shen Jinshan suddenly attacked, and forced the silkworm farmers to change the contract with black charcoal as a threat.

That day, Shen Jinshan forced him to come to the door, but Brother Jing was nowhere to be found. Thinking of this before, she thought that Brother Jing deliberately avoided it in order not to offend the Shen family. Unexpectedly, when he left, he did it.