After Jiang returned to the Hou Mansion, the old lady waited for a few more days, and when she saw that she never took out the silver again, she was completely disappointed in this granddaughter-in-law, and asked Mama Song to go to the Weiguo Mansion to inform An Ruolan that the silver was ready.

On the side of the Weiguo Mansion, the Duchess of Weiguo quickly discussed with the uncles of the Wei family, as she said, the family just went through the motions. Not to mention Zhong Siye's well-known reputation in the business world, just because he opened up sea trade routes, countless people rushed to cooperate with him, and the Wei family was not stupid, so they naturally would not let go of this good opportunity.

After both sides were ready, An Ruolan went to Qianxunju to reply, Zhong Siye had already drawn up the contract, as soon as she came, she immediately sent someone to the Wei family to formally negotiate with the Wenxin Marquis Mansion to discuss the terms of the contract, as for the contract, it is still necessary for everyone to sit together to sign it.

An Ruolan saw that he had already prepared, and he was sure that the Wei Guo Mansion and the Wenxin Hou Mansion would cooperate, and couldn't help but be curious: "Father-in-law, how do you know that the Wei family and the Hou Mansion will definitely agree to cooperate?" ”

The Wei family still thinks that Wen Xinhou's financial resources are not strong, and there is a high probability that he will not cooperate.

Zhong Siye smiled confidently and said, "This is simple, who made your surname An, marry a husband and be rich and powerful." ”

The implication is that because of her, the Wei family and the Hou Mansion will agree to cooperate.

An Ruolan doesn't know what to say, is this a reason?

She thought about it carefully, and she understood a little in her heart, she knew that her father-in-law would let the Hou Mansion participate only if he saw her face, and the relatives of the Hou Mansion were willing to invest such a large sum of money in a business that she didn't know anything about, in the final analysis. It was the love of the elders for her that made this cooperation a success.

Thinking about it, I was very moved, and the original intention of inviting merit also faded.

An Ruolan did not participate in the rest of the matter, and asked He Ji to negotiate with the Wei family and the Hou Mansion themselves.

Zhong Siye got busy again. An Ruolan could only write to him from time to time to pay attention to his body.

At the end of March, news came from the Yang family in Jiangnan, saying that An Ruoyan gave birth to a baby boy weighing eight pounds, and the mother and child were safe.

It was Yang Runjun who personally came to deliver the news, although the wind and dust all the way, and the fatigue of the boat and car made him look a little haggard, but his eyes were bright and bright. It can be seen that I am very happy in my heart.

The cousin-in-law came all the way over, and Wei Xing and An Ruolan had to go back to the Hou Mansion, and the two of them met. Although it is not negotiable, it is harmonious.

Yang Yunjun also expressed his self-blame and regret for not being able to attend their wedding, saying: "Ruoyan has always wanted to come back to send her sixth sister off, and she has been talking since she heard that you were married. She was born two months earlier, and her health was not very good. I really don't worry about her going back and forth, and I'm afraid that she will come back alone, so I guard her at home every day, and she has been complaining about me for this, and so am I...... Alas......" he said with a long sigh of self-reproach.

An Ruolan secretly bumped into the guard with his elbow, and the guard understood and hurriedly comforted: "Fifth brother-in-law don't mind, we all know that you and the fifth sister have to be in love." Besides, we are grateful that you have sent so many valuable gifts. ”

See he's still smart. An Ruolan was very satisfied, and immediately echoed: "Yes, brother-in-law, I know that the fifth sister misses our sisters, and when we have some free time, we will go to visit her and her little nephew." ”

Yang Yunjun's face was a little more relaxed, and he smiled and waved his hand: "This is not necessary, when it is grandma's birthday, we will go to Beijing to pay tribute to grandma, and then everyone will get together again." ”

"That's very good." An Ruolan said with a smile.

As he spoke, An Ruojin and Zhou Yongxuan also came, as well as An Ruoke and her husband Dou Zhen, and after a while, An Ruodan and his wife also came, which was a bit unexpected by everyone.

Everyone is here to say goodbye, and the brothers-in-law are also taking the opportunity to get together.

With Zhou Yongxuan and a few companions to Yang Yanjun, An Ruolan's sisters didn't stay much, and went to the flower hall on the side to talk.

Wei Xing was still a little frightened, and when he saw that An Ruolan was reluctant to leave, he made Zhou Yongxuan laugh a few times.

In the flower hall, the four sisters sat around the table and talked, although An Ruodan had not dealt with the three of them before, but the three of them did not exclude her, and talked to her calmly.

Originally, the atmosphere was good, An Ruodan suddenly asked: "I heard that He Ji has negotiated a lot of business with Wei Guofu and our Hou Mansion, I don't know if this is true?" ”

She obviously asked An Ruolan when she said this.

An Ruolan held the teacup in her hand and said with a faint smile: "Where did Sister Dan hear about it?" ”

He Ji's cooperation with the Wei Family Marquis Mansion is a secret, and it is impossible for outsiders to know about it.

An Ruolan didn't guess, it must have been someone in the Hou Mansion who leaked the matter with a lax mouth, and as for who it was, she also had a spectrum in her heart.

An Ruodan's face stiffened, then pressed the corner of his lips and said with a dry smile: "I'm also hearsay." ”

An Ruoke swept her face with heavy makeup and the gorgeous dankou on her nails, her eyes flashed with disgust, and said, "How can this kind of hearsay be taken seriously, nine times out of ten it is spread nonsense." ”

An Ruojin also said: "Yes, even if it's true, it's not for us to ask." ”

The maintenance of An Ruolan by the two made An Ruodan's face look very bad, and she couldn't help but sneer in her heart, and said in her heart Will you continue to help An Ruolan speak for a while.

forced out a smile, she pretended to be casual and said: "Look at the words of the second sister and the fourth sister, I don't mean anything else, I just heard that the sixth sister helped to pull the line in the middle, and asked my grandmother to raise money to do business with He Ji with the whole house, so I asked curiously, I thought this is a good thing, if I can, I also want to take some silver and put it here to my grandmother, and we will stain it together." After all, no one knows that Zhong Siye has a unique and sharp vision, and he must have made money by following him. ”

As he spoke, he glanced at An Ruolan with ill intentions, and continued: "I'm also worried that outsiders are deliberately destroying our sisters' feelings with false rumors, and I don't want to take our sisters with me." ”

Hearing this, An Ruojin and An Ruoke both frowned, but they were not angry An Ruolan's concealment, but angry An Ruodan's trickery, and they could see An Ruodan's intentions.

An Ruodan smiled proudly, thinking that his goal had succeeded.

An Ruolan listened to the words in her mouth, and couldn't help but laugh in her heart. Is there a sisterhood between them? said it so nicely, it was nothing more than trying to provoke her relationship with the second sister and the fourth sister.

seemed to be smiling, An Ruolan said: "The third sister said that she was laughing. I mentioned to my grandmother that He Ji was looking for someone to work with, and as for the rest, I didn't even know what kind of business it was. If the third sister also wants to cooperate with He Ji, she might as well go to He Ji and ask. ”

What she said was half-true and half-false, An Ruojin and An Ruoke both believed it when they heard it, and said, "So that's what happened." What a great thing my word is? ”

An Ruojin said earnestly: "We are married daughters, and we can't interfere too much in the affairs of our mother's family, since my grandmother didn't sue us." We should assume that we don't know, otherwise there will always be some chewing on the root of the tongue and gossiping. ”

She said these admonished words as an older sister, which was very dignified. An Ruolan and An Ruoke should both be the same. An Ruodan didn't expect them to care at all, they were so angry that their eyes were crooked, but they had to say a word.

Immediately the three of them chatted about daily trivial matters, An Ruodan tried to bring the topic to cooperation several times, but was interrupted by the three of them, and could not find the opportunity, An Ruodan had to rest her mind and hope that her husband could succeed.

The other side. The five brothers-in-law also talked very happily, but they were just facing Zhou Yongxuan. Wei Xing and Dou Zhen, An Ruodan's husband Lin Ronghao are quite flattering Feng Chen, and he is a little contemptuous and contemptuous of Yang Yanjun, and his face of praising high and stepping on low is a little disgusting.

Like An Ruodan, Lin Ronghao mentioned the cooperation between He Ji and the Wei family.

Wei Xing also knew that the matter of cooperation was still a secret, and he was a little dissatisfied with Lin Ronghao's behavior of inquiring in private, but he didn't show it because it was a brother-in-law, but said: "The family's business has always been taken care of by my mother, and I don't know about this matter." ”

But although he put the relationship aside, Lin Ronghao was still stubborn, and even begged: "I also know that brother-in-law, you don't care about business, but for the sake of the sixth sister's face, you can help your brother-in-law say a few good words, and let your mother-in-law agree to cooperate with our Lin family, you can rest assured, although our Lin family is not as good as the Guogong Mansion, it is also good to speak in some counties and counties, and it will definitely not let the Weiguo Mansion suffer!" ”

Wei Xing is the worst at dealing with this kind of dead-faced person, and he was very disgusted by him for a while, and even Dou Zhen next to him showed disgust, and looked down on Lin Ronghao's virtue very much.

Seeing that Wei Xing was trying his best to forbear, in order to avoid the atmosphere becoming more and more stiff, Zhou Yongxuan said: "If the Lin family really wants to cooperate, you might as well go to He Ji to discuss with Zhong Siye, after all, it is He Ji who is in charge." It's rare for the fifth brother-in-law to come here, so let's not talk about these troubles. ”

Although they are all brothers-in-law, they are very clear in their hearts, like An Ruojin and An Ruolan, An Ruoke, An Ruoyan, and Zhou Yongxuan are naturally closer to Dou Zhen and Yang Yanjun, and An Ruolan is Zhou Yongxuan's cousin, and compared with Dou Zhen and Yang Yanjun, Wei Xing will be a little closer.

"Yes, don't say that Wei Xing doesn't care about the family business, just manage, and it's not up to the Wei family to have the final say in this matter." Dou Zhen also helped speak.

Hearing the displeasure in the words of the two, Lin Ronghao did not continue to entangle. He also saw that Zhou Yongxuan and Dou Zhen were biased towards the guard, and he was very angry, and he couldn't help but blame An Ruodan, thinking that it was because his wife was not close enough to An Ruolan's sisters that he would be ostracized.

An Ruodan is really wronged, not to mention that the Lin family is a small family, and it cannot be compared with the Zhou Jiawei family and the Dou family, even Lin Ronghao himself has no ability, he can only brag about the high and low, which serious son of such a person can take a fancy to him? Not to mention that Dou Zhen's heart is still high, and he can't get used to people like him.

In fact, from the names of everyone, you can see the attitude of several people towards Lin Ronghao, the same brother-in-law, the same is not from a big family, Zhou Yongxuan called Yang Yunjun's brother-in-law, but never called Lin Ronghao's brother-in-law, Dou Zhen and Wei Xing did not call him brother-in-law, only he was called a brother-in-law and brother-in-law.

Yang Yanjun hasn't spoken much, it's one thing to be unfamiliar, and Lin Ronghao's differential treatment is also a reason, but he didn't show it, he only secretly distinguished which one to have a deep friendship with and which one to have a shallow relationship.

Lin Ronghao was naturally reluctant to stiffen his relationship with a few powerful brothers-in-law, and after revealing the topic of business, he mentioned that he went out for a walk after dinner, and his eyebrows were squeezing his eyebrows, and his eyebrows were dancing, and his face that was quite good-looking looked extremely obscene.

Needless to say, everyone knows where he meant to go.

For a while, Dou Zhen looked down on this small household even more, and said coldly: "I still have important things to do tomorrow, and I need to go back to the house to rest early today." ”

Zhou Yongxuan also said to Wei Xing: "I have to get up early tomorrow to go to court, and it is inconvenient to go out at night." ”

Yang Yunjun doesn't have to say it, and Lin Ronghao won't call him.

Despite the disappointment, Lin Ronghao still laughed and praised the three of them.

I have to say that An Ruodan's two are also a perfect match.

An Ruolan's four sisters sat for a while, An Ruoyun brought other unmarried sisters over, everyone missed the second sister, the fourth sister and the sixth sister, so they came to talk to them.

Seeing that everyone was surrounding the three sisters one by one, An Ruodan ignored herself, and couldn't help but feel a fire in her heart, she got up and said hello and left, and didn't say where she was going.

Seeing that everyone ignored An Ruodan, An Ruojin and An Ruolan both felt strange, if it was usual, although these sisters didn't like An Ruodan, they wouldn't ignore her so much.

An Ruoyun explained: "It's not that we ignore her, it's that she gets too close to some unpleasant people by herself, which makes people disgusted for no reason." ”

Hearing this, An Ruojin became even more curious, and asked, "How do you say this?" ”

An Ruolan had guessed before that the second sister-in-law had told An Ruodan about the cooperation, but now that she heard An Ruoyun say this, she intuitively felt that something had happened while raising money, so she also asked: "Sister Dan and the second sister-in-law are close, do you have any misunderstanding about the second sister-in-law?" ”

"Not a misunderstanding." An Ruohuan, the youngest, shrugged her nose and snorted: "The second sister-in-law scolded the sixth sister for being a debt collector, I overheard it." She also went to the second brother to say bad things about her grandmother and the sixth sister, but fortunately, the second brother didn't listen to her pillow wind, not only didn't believe her, but also drove her back to her parents' house, she really deserved it! ”

Her mouth was very fast, An Ruoyun wanted to stop but couldn't, so she could only sneer at her.

Hearing this, An Ruolan was silent, she guessed that it was because of the matter of raising money, she knew that her second sister-in-law didn't like her a little, but she didn't expect to be so strict, and she also involved her grandmother.

Then she laughed angrily again. If Jiang just slandered and insulted her behind her back, she could not know, but she still ran to the second brother to say that her grandmother was not, and she couldn't forgive this.

An Ruojin patted the back of her hand and comforted: "Don't be like that kind of person." ”

persuaded in her mouth, and she was also angry in her heart, she didn't see that Jiang was such a person earlier, could it be because the second brother had earned a lot of silver over the years, which made her tail?

An Ruoke was still that hot-tempered, slapping the table and scolding: "What kind of thing is she?" If it weren't for the second brother's belief in Ruolan, even if she was out drinking, no matter how many concubines she had, she would not be cold to the main room, she thought she would be able to sit firmly in her position?! ”

Seeing that she was about to rush out to settle accounts with the Jiang family, An Ruolan comforted her in turn: "Second sister is right, there is no need to be like her, since she doesn't look down on me, don't want to use my name to enjoy those preferential treatments in the future." (To be continued......)