Chapter 259: Back to the old business
"Chen family, don't cry, your man is back!" The neighbor's sister-in-law came to report the news, and two sons and a daughter ran to the door to pick up their father. threw himself into Ruiqian's arms: "Dad, go home and see grandma, grandma has cried and fainted several times." ”
Ruiqian hurriedly rushed into his mother's room and comforted: "Mother! I am back! Look at me, I'm your humble son! ”
"Qian'er? Is it really you? Didn't we meet in the Netherworld, right? ”
"Mother! As soon as Qian'er was arrested, the prince looked for the emperor, and then the emperor's personal guard went to the prison to take his son out, and the son did nothing and was not beaten at all. It was the prince who rescued his son. Mother, my son also met the emperor. ”
"Huh? Have you seen the emperor yet? No faux pas, right? ”
"How can it, when you see the emperor kowtowing and shouting long live, everyone knows the etiquette. The emperor is young and amiable. Rest assured, the matter is settled, and the cloth taken will have to be returned. ”
"That's good, that's good. I really can't imagine that all of a sudden, there is such a scared thing, and my mother doesn't want to live! Qian'er, my mother lives for you in this life, what are you doing without your mother? He began to cry again.
"I know, I know, mother, you have worked hard and been wronged for most of your life, and you haven't lived a good life. In the future, no one dared to make trouble, and the prince came forward. The emperor sent his personal guard to pick up his son personally, don't worry, your son will be fine in the future. ”
"Rest, you're scared enough, aren't you?"
"I was scared at first, but then I thought that I hadn't committed a crime, so why was I afraid of him?"
Ming Luan looked at her husband silently, listening to his kind words, and her heart was surrounded by inexplicable emotion. When I went to the kitchen to cook, my husband hugged me from behind: "I know you're going to be worried." ”
"It's better for you to come back than anything else, if our family is gone, you will be scattered."
"I'm blessed with a great life, and the two of us will grow old."
"Poor mouth, let me ask you, do you still dare to sell cloth for Lord Rui? If this kind of thing happens often, can our family still live? Otherwise, forget it, make less money and live a stable life. ”
"I know you're doing it for my good, but I can't stop it. I quietly told you that the emperor has listed me as an imperial businessman, and he also sealed me as a Zhengyang Sheren. Although it is not an official title, it is also an improved status, and the emperor also promised to give our cloth village a royal gold plaque, who else do you think would dare to come to the store to make trouble? The palace once sent personal soldiers to protect me, but the people from the Criminal Department came to arrest me in the middle of the night, and they didn't expect it. yes, but how can the criminal department arrest people if they sell a few pieces of cloth? Don't complain about the prince in your heart, everyone has something they can't think of. ”
"I didn't think about complaining about Lord Rui, let alone complaining about Cousin Yun. It's just that you were taken away, and the shock and blow to our family was too great. We are ordinary people, who can withstand it. ”
"I know, I know, but we're getting better now. The prince went into the palace overnight to find the emperor for my business, and also sent the personal guards around me to fish me out of prison, if you refuse the prince, how can you meet Sister Yun in the future? Besides, I'm afraid that the prince's cloth is not so ten or twenty horses, he sells the cloth to us first, and he doesn't even need a deposit, let's just make money, where can I find such a thing? Didn't I go out to buy goods in the past, and I was robbed by bandits? That's not dangerous? ”
"I also know that you opened the bow and didn't look back, but I was worried about you. Judging from this matter, Lord Rui is not an ordinary pampering of our sister Yun. ”
"That's, who is our sister Yun? is so beautiful and talented, and gave birth to three such good children to the prince. By the way, should I go to the house to express my gratitude? ”
"That's right, but what do you want to bring? It's a palace, and if you can't get something, you won't let people laugh at it? It's not a thing to have two paws empty. ”
"It's hard. Why don't you give my uncle and your aunt a little bit of the pickles made by my mother? That's the special flavor that my mother figured out herself. ”
"I think it's okay! Forget about the eggplant pepper, you can still get that sauce carp, right? ”
"Just take that, can we fight with the palace? It can only be the meaning. ”
"In the future, there will be two pieces of red and blue cloth for our mother."
"Oh, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, Madame is the right husband. Maybe there will be a better one in the future. ”
"We are not qualified to wear silk and satin, but it is still that kind of home-style fabric."
The prince went back to the house and changed his homely clothes and lay on the sofa in the living room, and Fu Jin gently fanned him beside him. The weather is getting hotter and hotter, and I ran to the palace in a hurry, and it must be on fire. But Young Master Ruiqian is doing things for the sake of the house, and he must do his best to rescue him if he has an accident.
"You said that this person has all kinds of things, and when he sees a piece of cloth from others, he has to take it as his own, not only do you want to take it for nothing, but you also want to give it all to yourself, and you have to charge the owner of the goods, what kind of person is this." The prince's heart is very unfair.
This is man's selfishness. If people's selfishness is too great, they will be insatiable, they will not care about the lives of others, and they will do many bad things. Fu Jin comforted the prince gently.
"You can do it, you can realize this. The Dharma and principles of Buddhism are not selfish. ”
"In fact, those who have lived for money all their lives are the most pitiful, and they can't take anything away when they die after a lifetime of work."
"Your understanding is not bad."
"Alas, I really neglected Young Master Chen's matter, I didn't expect that those cloths would be a little wider and not be able to be pulled out in people's eyes. This incident can be regarded as a wake-up call for us, and we will have to think about everything a few more steps in the future, and a negligence will go wrong. Fortunately, the emperor can still trust me so much, if he also hinders us, our affairs will be difficult. If the emperor's days are not much, we really have a plan to retreat. ”
At this time, someone pushed the door and came in, it was Master. The prince hurriedly got up and greeted the master with Fu Jin. With a smile on his face, Master Gan Lin took the fragrant tea handed over by Fu Jin's hands, and said to the prince: "You can't retreat yet, and you can't retreat, you can only do business in this environment." Young Master Ruiqian is actually a person in one of our methods, but he came down a little earlier, and they are all people who are destined for us, and they will connect with you in this life and help you. So don't be too guilty, and you have to open up the situation in Yulong Buzhuang. As a teacher, I think you are sometimes too cautious. Of course, it's better to be careful than careless, and don't be too deliberate. In fact, this time Young Master Ruiqian was in some trouble, and he also passed a pass. The reason for this trouble is not only that your cloth is too different from that of the Qing Dynasty, but also because the Queen Mother has noticed you. Your fabric was bought by someone from the Internal Affairs Office and shown to the Queen Mother, and then the Queen Mother sent someone to check on the situation of Young Master Ruiqian, and knew that he was Mrs. Yun's cousin, and she also knew that it was you who gave him the cloth to sell on his behalf. asked a eunuch in the Internal Affairs Office to instruct the squire of the Criminal Department to arrest Ruiqian and torture him, but he couldn't stand it and recruited him. ”
Fu Jin was a little anxious: "Master, we are making money for the emperor!" Could it be that they don't need our money? ”
"No, the queen mother is more anxious about the silver than the emperor, she can't wait to calm the war in the south for a while, and let her son's dragon chair sit firmly. But she thinks about the problem differently from you, you do this selfless dedication, she is from the perspective of the family, for fear that there will be someone next to his son who will compete with his son for the dragon chair. Huikong, you, Mrs. Yun, and Tian Liang have lived in a foreign land for a year, and there are already many exotic factors in your concepts and habits, and habits have become natural, and you don't feel it anymore. Even such a trivial thing as a lasagna will make her restless, and it is strange that she will have no idea if you sell high-quality cloth at a price acceptable to the common people of the Qing Dynasty. In the future, you will sell exotic cloth in other places, and she will think that all the wide-faced ones are yours. ”
"What else is going on with the disciple's business? We sell cloth to fill the treasury with silver, and she still monitors us, is it too unknowing? ”
"Didn't you say that you have to think about the problem from different angles, but you still have to conform to the social system of the Qing Dynasty, and you have to continue to sell your exotic fabrics. The problem is that if you want your business to be justified, you have to get past her. ”
"It's hard to do, she's so careful of us, she will dig a pit for us to jump at any time, she's in a high position, we ......"
"It's not that there is no solution, isn't it that there is nothing difficult in the world but people who are afraid of it? You have to take advantage of the contradiction between the emperor and the queen mother, and let the emperor restrain her. Actually, the idea of the Queen Mother, even if she is a family in the world, is not too wrong. It is also a good thing for the people to stabilize the society. But she always suspects that you still have the idea of competing for the dragon chair, which is still very bad for you. But eliminating this idea is not going to work in a day or two. This time, Young Master Ruiqian is in a situation, and it is right for you to go to the emperor in time. The emperor already suspects that the eunuch surnamed Fang has acted at the behest of the Queen Mother, and he will definitely take a counter-action against the Queen Mother, which is both beneficial and harmful to you. The emperor's inscription supports you with great fanfare, and your goods are easy to sell, but you are more careful with the Queen Mother. It's even more screwed up with you. You guys have to do something, this thing has to be done by Mrs. Splendid Beauty, understand? ”
Fu Jin nodded: "You mean to give her a little sweetness?" ”
"Yes, the Queen Mother's mind is not smaller than Wu Zetian, but she is also a woman, and women have the characteristics of women, and giving her a few pieces of fabric is regarded as paying for advertising."
"We were negligent in this."
"It's not that you're negligent, it's that you didn't expect that the people who benefited are still working against you. So it's very difficult for you to do things. As a teacher, I also told you, don't use your thoughts to measure the queen mother. Your ideological realm is much higher than hers, and you yourself don't know how far away you are from the people of the world. In that case, don't care what she says and does. Master Gan Lin smiled, sighed again and continued: "The teacher said to let Jinxiu Fujin give her a few pieces of fabric, it can't be so direct, a little detour, you still have to understand the specific how, and you can't say it too clearly as a teacher." ”
"The disciple must work hard to do it."
Master Gan Lin said a few more words and left.
Hearing that Ruiqian was arrested and sent to the criminal department, Mr. Chen's heart burned even though he did not faint. Rui Qian is his brother's only beloved son, and he is also the younger that his husband likes. Ruiqian was arrested, and he was extremely nervous. Hearing Yun'er say that Ruiqian was relieved when he came back, he was relieved to make sure that his nephew was not beaten and suffered.
Mr. knew that the prince would not sit idly by, let alone say that Ruiqian was doing things for the prince, that is, he didn't even know the prince back then, so he came to the rescue. The question is who is arrested and put in the prison of the Criminal Department, who is on the front line of life and death, and if it can be saved, it can be saved, and the key is that it is too late. This side is being rescued, and that side is killed, what should I do? Fortunately, the prince also has the biggest backstage emperor.
Chen Ruiqian was invited by the prince to come to the mansion for a banquet, and the prince Fujin wanted to shock him. Such a thing Ruiqian cannot refuse. After receiving the invitation, I changed into a decent dress and came to the banquet.
At the banquet, the prince apologized to Ruiqian repeatedly, and Ruiqian was so moved that he didn't know what to say. Rui Wang Ye is a prince Chitose who is above 10,000 people under one person, how can Rui Qian bear it if he apologizes to himself like this, he quickly knelt on the ground and begged the prince not to apologize anymore.
The prince had no choice but to give up. After confirming that Ruiqian would continue to sell cloth to the house, the prince asked Yun'er to prepare a few pieces of white and good cloth suitable for the common people of the Qing Dynasty to make clothes in the summer, which was the thin, blue-white chemical fiber cloth. Exotic people use it as a shirt, which looks particularly clean. There are also two moon-white silks, which are also made of underwear.
Yun'er gave Mingluan's cousin, Ruiqian's brother's mother Kong's family, her cousin's daughter Rong'er, their two sons, and Ruiqian himself were the materials for each person's two clothes, as well as jewelry for the old girl. There is also a large bag of sachets, small pieces of brocade and colored beads and other accessories for purses. left her cousin to have dinner at her mother's before Tian Liang sent her cousin away. The carriage was full, and there were several times on the way that Ruiqian wanted to laugh.
The shopkeeper of Yulong Buzhuang Chen was arrested by the Criminal Department, like a tornado, all the shops in the vicinity knew about it, and they were worried about Ruiqian's safety; There are those who speculate about the cause of the accident, and there are those who gloat. But no one thought that the shopkeeper Chen would be released back without spending the night in the prison of the Criminal Department. It is already a miracle that those who have been in the prison of the Criminal Department can come back alive, and there are no people who have all beards and tails, and there is no injury on their bodies. But Shopkeeper Chen didn't seem to have even a fingernail injury, and he still had a gentle smile on his face as usual. Greet your colleagues with all kinds of thoughts and thank them for their concern.
The day after Chen Ruiqian was arrested, that is, the day Tian Liang sent him back, the two pieces of cloth taken by the man in black were sent back by an official of the Criminal Department, along with a large bag of fruit and four brocades produced in the Qing Dynasty to apologize.
As soon as these people left, Chen Ruiqian announced that he was open for business. The moon-white silk and the chemical fiber cloth brought back from the palace were also placed on the counter. There was no personal soldier to maintain order, and the people who came to buy cloth took the initiative to stand in line. Rui Qian stood on a chair and explained to the guests the uses and taboos of silk and Zhenliang. Then the person who bought the cloth was called, and he was called to the store to get the cloth in line. That way, no one will be messing around anymore. Eight pro-soldiers guarded the team and did not let people with ulterior motives break up the group.