"Okay." Jingyi agreed. He put down the napkin, said sorry, and got up to go upstairs to see if the doctor had finished examining Duch. Hui An also got up and came out with her. The two didn't go far, but they heard the third wife say: "If the master's business collapses this time, should we drink the northwest wind?" ”

"Mother, can you stop saying frustrating words? Why. Zhiluan immediately said He.

After a moment of silence, the fourth lady opened her mouth and said, "The third sister's heart is in her stomach." There are many deflated gangsters on the beach in Shanghai, how many of them are in the climate? The master has been in business for so many years, what scene has he never seen? ”

"Aunt Cui said very much. Besides, there is such a day, what are you worried about? It's me, can't I support a few of you? "Zhiluan collided with the third wife.

"How much money can you earn as a poor teacher?" The third lady screamed.

Zhiluan snorted and said, "I can't make a lot of money, mother, you have a lot of private money, right?" Let's take out all your private money to help my father first......"

Hui An tugged at Jingyi's sleeve, Jingyi looked at her, and she pointed upstairs.

Jingyi followed her upstairs, walked halfway, and asked, "But what happened to the bank?" ”

"I don't know the details. A while ago, there was some unfavorable news about Cheng's family. Isn't that the most fearful thing about being a bank? There are always strange people coming and going in the bank these days. Zhishen was worried that someone would make trouble, so he made preparations in advance. But those men did not move. He also arranged for someone to release the news. Every time he releases news, there must be corresponding unfavorable news to follow. It is said that no amount of fake news will shake Cheng's ...... now."

"What fake news?" Jingyi asked Da.

"It is said that a few years ago, because of Cheng's futures, bonds and other investments, there was a large deficit that has not been made up so far. The bonds are located in the northwest and northeast. The northwest is fine, and the northeast is unclear because of the situation, and as soon as the news comes out, people are panicking. There are constantly depositors who are starting to withdraw money, and the scale is getting bigger and bigger. At the moment, all the funds that can be used are being mobilized to the banks. Jingyi? Hui'an saw that Jingyi's face changed slightly and looked at her. Why, you've heard of it too? ”

Jingyi thought to herself that although Hui'an didn't care about the outside affairs, she was careful in the end, and what she relayed was very clear. She immediately understood the situation. Hui An thought it was fake news, and she was afraid that none of this was fake. Whether Cheng still has a deficit, she is not sure, but it is absolutely true that the bond market was manipulated and the investment was improper, resulting in a deficit. It's not just the Cheng family that is lost.

"Run?" Jing Yi spat out the word in her throat hoarsely.

Hui An nodded.

"Sister-in-law, you go up to see your mother first. I'm going to find Brother Jiu. After Jingyi finished speaking, she turned around and went downstairs.

Hui An was inexplicable, seeing that she was about to go downstairs and turn east......

Jingyi's heart was pounding, and she went to the door of Zhishen's study and knocked on the door.

Zhi Shen said wait a minute.

She stood down.

Although it was raining, at the end of this corridor was a large glass house, and you could see flowers blooming in it from afar. There is a golden osmanthus outside the window here, the flowers are all half-open, covered by the rain, and the fragrance is very deep.

She was scented by the scent and always felt uncomfortable.

A servant passed by and said that Miss Ten was early.

She said, "Close the window, it's going to rain." ”

The door to the study opened, and Zhishen let her in.

Jingyi was smoked by a puff of smoke when she entered the door, and she was even more uncomfortable, the door was open, and she looked cautious, and the words that came to her mouth became: "Isn't Brother Jiu still eating breakfast?" ”

Zhishen opened the window and asked her to sit, and when he saw her, he said, "Immediately." ”

Jingyi didn't sit down.

The large desk was littered with papers, the lamp was on, and everything in the room looked like a mess.

Jingyi couldn't help but think of Tao Xiang's very organized desk, she had almost never seen anything messy in front of him......

"Why are you here?" asked cautiously.

Jingyi turned her head to look at him.

The worry and inquiry in her eyes stunned Zhishen, and he said, "It's not something that can't be solved. You don't have to worry. ”

"I just want to ask, is this related to Muzhi?" Jingyi asked.

Cautious silence.

"Brother Jiu, tell me if it has anything to do with him?" Jingyi asked.

Zhishen breathed a sigh of relief and said, "It's not entirely certain yet. ”

Jingyi also knew that if Zhi Shen said this, it was equivalent to being 100% sure that Tao Xiang was manipulating the turmoil behind the scenes. She looked at Shen Shen as if she was stunned and said, "Why ......?"

"Jingyi, why, we know." Zhi Shen said.

"Will you be able to hold on?" Jingyi asked.

"I'll get through it by all means. Let him succeed, not only the Cheng family has suffered heavy losses. Zhi Shen said. He was calm, as if he was talking to Jingyi about something irrelevant.

Jingyi blinked, and Zhishen's face and voice seemed to be far away from her.

They didn't speak for a while.

There were people passing by in the courtyard in the distance, and there was a small voice saying that this one was cut off and that one was kept...... When he looked over, it was two gardeners pruning the golden cinnamon branches. He suddenly felt upset and wanted to say something, so he heard Jingyi say, "Brother Jiu, don't blame him for being ruthless. It's me, and I'm going to do it. ”

Zhishen looked at Jingyi and said, "I expected it, but I didn't expect him to use this method." I don't even know when he got in touch with the Green Gang. His father was in contact with Duwenda. The other party only met with his father. ”

Jingyi listened to the unfamiliar name. She didn't know anything about that. All I know is that these men who are related to her right now, fathers, brothers, and husbands, all have their own means for power and money. It probably never occurred to them to take care of her...... And she naively thought that she could help them resolve some contradictions.

Thinking about it now, they did not and will not change for her sake. In their eyes, she was at most a jewel in the scepter. It is the most dazzling one, but the most important thing is always the scepter, not a jewel for decoration.

"You've done a lot of wrong things, and now it seems like you've done at least one thing right, and that's coming back." Zhi Shen said.

Jing Yi looked at the mist on the top of the mountain opposite. Half of the mountain is not in the clouds, so you can't see it clearly.

"What does Brother Jiu mean, is it that I don't have to go back?" She asked. Her heart sank a little, and she turned her head to look at it. Zhishen is close at hand, but it is also the same as the green mountain, so that she can't see clearly.

"He didn't think about you at all. Killing the Cheng family is tantamount to forcing you into a desperate situation. If you don't go back, it should be expected for him. It's been so long since you've been back, has he ever cared about you? No. Then your husband and wife love is nothing more than that. Zhi Shen said.

Jingyi felt like she was being palmed, and her ears were buzzing.

Her ninth brother once beat her, but it was not as cruel as saying these few words to beat her like that.

"What about you, have you considered me?" She asked.

Cautious silence.

"It used to be Meng Yuan, and now it's Muzhi." Jing Yi was so angry that she trembled. There was a pain in her body, and she broke out in a cold sweat. Suddenly it was dark in front of her, and she had to hold on to the windowsill.

Seeing her face change color, Zhishen hurriedly helped her.

Jingyi pushed away the caution, and after a while, she sat on the chair.

"These are two different things. Dai Mengyuan cannot be compared with Tao Xiang. ”

"Is that so? Makino is a man with clear grievances. It is only natural to repay debts. In order to help the third brother, you procrastinated step by step. The third brother trapped him one by one - where is he so easily threatened and compromised? Today, he can kill the Cheng family, and you forced it. Father and you, didn't you find a way to counteract? It will never. ”

"If he insists on going his own way, it will be a dead fish." Zhishen was looked at by Jing Yi's shining black pupils and spit out these words.

"The fish is dead and the net is broken...... Brother Jiu, are you telling the truth? I think you should have been prepared if you wanted to subdue the shepherd. Why shouldn't you be so caught off guard, right? He was never a good man and a woman. I'm sure neither are you, Brother Nine. My father and my father-in-law have been friends for decades. What a heavy commitment he made when he asked me to fulfill the marriage contract? Today, I am already a member of the Tao family, and I prefer that my father will still keep his promise as he did back then. Jing Yi shook hands.

The ring was as cold as her hand.

"Of course my father will." Zhi Shen said immediately.

"That's for the best. I know that Brother Jiu can take charge now. Brother Jiu made a mistake, and the mistake has not been made up for so far. I believe it's not that you can't, it's not for. Jingyi looked cautious, "As a younger sister, and as Muzhi's wife, Brother Jiu, I hope you keep your promise." In the case of the run, even if Muzhi is at fault, the fault is not his, from the root, the cause lies in you. With the shepherd's benevolence, I believe there must be room for it. If he really kills the killer, you simply won't have time to organize so much money to deal with it. ”

Zhishen looked at Jingyi and asked, "Do you know what his margin is?" ”

Jingyi turned her face and said, "I don't know." But I don't think he'll get what he's supposed to take, and he won't kill them all. Maybe he's giving me time to go back. ”

"You know this is the case, and you want to go back?" asked cautiously.

"Brother Jiu, have you forgotten, how did I become the daughter-in-law of the Tao family? If I don't go back, can I do it? Now Cheng Jingyi has three words, and the front is embellished with a pottery character. I watched one thing happen after another, and I couldn't do anything about it. Am I still watching Mu Zhi become the mastermind behind the collapse of the Cheng family, and the Cheng family has become a laughing stock in the banking industry after all the wealth of the family is scattered, not to mention that you are all the culprits of the bankruptcy of those small enterprises and ordinary people? Do you not see the result, or are you just waiting for someone to break the deadlock? I can't do anything about it, so I have to pick a side. ”

"I will definitely pay the debt. But I won't lose this battle to Tao Xiang. Zhi Shen said.

"When will it be returned? Waiting for Tao Xiang to hand over the military power in the northwest and bow down to the vassals? Brother Jiu, if Tao Xiang is a little despicable today, are you shameless Brother Jiu? Jingyi asked coldly.

Zhishen stood there, not moving.

Jing Yi looked up at him, and there was a sneer on the corner of her mouth.

"Brother Jiu's ambition is not below the third brother, right? When he refused to even step into the bank, did Brother Jiu ever think that today, the *** for money and power has made you even ignore your flesh and blood? Don't say anything high-sounding. The Japanese are still far away! Third brother, he's just using this as an excuse now......"

"Little Ten!" Caution shouted.

Jingyi didn't finish her words.

She had angina.

is her beloved third brother, and the ninth brother who loves her. Even then, she understood that they did not love her, but she would never be as important as the ideals, truths, and beliefs they were seeking.

She has confirmed this time and time again.

"Brother Jiu, you have already lost." Jing Yi pressed against her chest, making the pain lessen. The pain was terrible, and the pain elsewhere in the body seemed to have been relieved. She inhaled softly, softening her ...... Zhishen's face was even more ugly, so she couldn't care about it. "My father said that the most important thing for a banker is credit. You don't hesitate to sacrifice credit for greater benefits in the future, and you just use credit as a weapon to teach you a lesson-won't you lose? Your losses cannot be measured in monetary terms. ”

Zhi Shen walked over and looked at Jingyi.

He said: "Little Shi, Tao Xiang is indeed ruthless. ”

Jingyi looked at him, smiled slightly, and said, "So what? It's my father's husband for me, isn't it? ”

Cautious and dumbfounded.

"In the eyes of others, you, the ninth brother, the third brother, and even the father, who is not a ruthless person?" Jing Yi looked at it cautiously, "Brother Jiu, I hope that you and the third brother will come true." ”

"Ninth Young Master!" Cheng Xi knocked on the door and ran in.

"What's the matter?" Zhishen turned around and asked.

Listening to his voice, Jing Yi felt strange, she watched from the sidelines - her ninth brother, the intimate ninth brother who grew up together, sometimes seemed to be her other hand and another self, but now he seemed to be unable to get out of the shadow of the ninth brother in her heart...... That shadow is too small, he doesn't grow; The ninth brother in reality has grown too fast.

"Ping An Bank and Changning Bank are both ......," Cheng Xi handed a stack of telegrams to Zhi Shen.

Zhishen took the telegram in his hand, looked at it, and his face became even more gloomy.

Jing Yi was very calm, turned her face away, and looked at the light rain outside. Zhishen did not avoid her, and made a few phone calls in front of her. What the other party should have said was not good news, so when he answered "I know" with a few questions, it sounded as if someone was slapping him in the face with a tin gloved hand.

Zhi Shen was silent for a while, and Cheng Xi asked softly, "Ninth Young Master, are you waiting over there......"

Jingyi turned her head, and Zhishen's face was really ugly. But at this time, he could still maintain his composure, and she was already very impressed. Her ninth brother is only about the same age as her, and in just a few years, he has been so calm...... She couldn't help but think, maybe Tao Xiang was like this when he was so old at Zhishen, right?

At the age of twenty, he commanded Ruoding in the Battle of Tiger Leaping Gorge and annihilated his enemies. What wit, what calmness, and decisiveness!

Seeing that Jing Yi looked at herself, she was about to say something to Cheng Xi, when she heard Jing Yi ask, "Are the Suo family and the Kong family also squeezed?" ”